The Daily Zeitgeist - McScaldings, The Unsinkable Mel Gibson 09.21.2023

Episode Date: September 21, 2023

In episode 1551, Jack and Miles are joined by writer/actor Aizzah Fatima, to discuss... Republicans hating unions, Neuralink looking for human victims (Whoops... Did I say victims? I meant test subjects), the new John Wick TV show, and McDonald's getting sued for serving coffee too hot... again, and much more! 1.Nikki Haley and Tim Scott reminding everyone that the Right hates unions 2. Neuralink looking for human test subjects 3. Cool, there’s a John Wick TV sho– Oh wait, it stars Mel Gibson 4. McDonald's still making their coffee too hot LISTEN: Simulation Swarm - Big Thief (Slowed, Reverb)  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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podcasts just listen okay or lacy gets it do it hello the internet and welcome to season 305 episode 4 of their daily zeitgeist day production of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and it's thursday sept 21st, 2023. Yeah. Yeah. You know what that is. You know what it means. Do you know what it means? Of course I know what it means. Do you?

Yeah. It means it's National Pecan Cookie Day. It's also National Chai Day and National New York Day. Okay. We got it all. So shout out to everybody. National New York Day. Yeah.

You ready for that? To celebrate empire state i'm ready i'm in my triple threat position uh i'm in an athletic stance and i'm ready for new york day to kick off great town great town new york there yeah yeah you can make it anyway that's the the saying. Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. What you got? You got to put a little cream cheese. What you got? You got to put a little onion. What you got?

You got to put a little caper. You put the little lots. Now you got to choose the bagel. Realize now you want a little butter. Maybe some fresh slice of cucumber. Miss me with sweet bagels. It's a blunder. The worst bagel of all, you wonder.

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that felt like it was never going to end once I started doing it for me and presumably for you I am thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray Miles Gray aka boom boom boom boom you i am thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray miles gray aka bone bone bone bone bone face bone face bone tell me what you're gonna do when there ain't no more white

pride tell me what you're gonna do when you're kicked out of blood tribe i'm sorry this is from tribe uh that was yeah heading down to a. Or would you say south side for a party? Head south thinking there's a party. That's what it is. And you know what? Boneface headed south to Florida thinking it was a party, only to find out that he was kicked out of his little neo-Nazi gang.

So just a quick reference to that. What you got now smiles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very talented actress writer comedian whose movie american-ish is set for release in october please welcome the hilarious aiza fatima oh my goodness hello thank you so much for having me. Thank you for being here. Now that we got the pleasantries out of the way, how are you? Are you in New York?

I'm in New York and it's New York Day. It's New York Day. And chai is my thing. I make a chai thing that's like the best chai you'll ever drink. Literally, I did not know it was Chai Appreciationai appreciation day yeah congratulations on this day of celebration for you do you like pecan do you like pecan cookies do you like pecans pecans i make an amazing pecan pie i grew up in mississippi you guys it's like in the blood so that's like my thing i make a pecan every every thanksgiving i host usually i host and when i do it there's a pecan pie on my table.

What's the secret? Just a lot of butter and sugar? It's like a tub of butter in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And caramel syrup. You know, you have to make it with caramel. People make it with weird shit. I'm like, what is that?

Yeah, no, no. Put the chemical syrups on. That's where we get those good flavors, right? Yes. The Mississippi way. All right. Do you get back to Mississippi much? You know what?

My parents moved to Dallas, Texas after we all grew up. And so now it's like I don't really go there anymore. So that's like Dallas has become my home, even though I've never lived there. That's where my family is. Yeah. Yeah. Got it. What part of Mississippi did you grow up in?

What part of Mississippi? It's a small college town. Kind of progressive, really, for Mississippi. It's called Starkville. It's where Mississippi State University is. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Now I want to try a pecan pie. And I want to try your chai. You have to. And I want to go to New York. Come to New York next time. Yeah, yeah. Next time I'm home. Next time you're in New York, just hit me up.

We'll do it. Yeah, just randomly. I'm like hey you remember remember what you said i don't care if it's a bad time for you i don't have it it's yeah just show up on thanksgiving with a napkin already tucked in my collar i'm like so what have you ever had derby pie the pie variant yeah i make kentucky derby pie that's another thing i've just been doing it my whole like since childhood my best friend's mom's recipe i think yeah yeah what's derby pie

it's just pecan pie with chocolate chips in my experience oh great which say less but people like it better than the pecan pie sometimes i feel like but i don't know i prefer the pecan pie yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i could i could mean like chocolate's fine but i was fine with it even without the chocolate so i see how yeah yeah i'm good anyway as long as it has that i'm of the opinion most things can be plussed up by adding chocolate like you just sprinkle some chocolate chips on a cheeseburger um i'm in wow it's also the derby pie requires much more butter. Really? Yeah, Kentucky. Wait, how?

Yeah, Kentucky. The other recipe that my mom picked up in Kentucky is hash brown casserole. And you will not be surprised to know that that is mostly butter. Yep. What is it? Butter tastes good, you guys. Oh, yeah. I mean, i'm not cheese half rounds butter uh like just translucent everything in the room becomes translucent sharing the air with uh

half brown casserole yeah an oil cloud takes over yeah um all right well aiza we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first a, a couple of the things we're talking about. We're going to look at how both parties are responding to the autoworkers of America being on strike. A real opportunity for both of them that they seem to be squandering, just fumbling. But speaking of butter, they are butter fingering this thing um we're going to talk about elon musk uh a job we're going to talk about a job opportunity for anybody who's in the market um he's he's offering uh to implant his brain chip into human brains um and the the perks are great we're gonna talk there's there's a john wick tv show and the casting is questionable um and then we're gonna talk about

mcdonald's flesh burning coffee um it's because this is back again um and actually it turns out has never left um right and it's just uh you know anytime any any story that like you remember from your childhood where we're we're siding with the corporate the big corporation against like a greedy person um it might be worth a second look so we're gonna take a second look at that idea that like, people are just scamming McDonald's. It's not fair. Poor McDonald's. And what's actually happening with McDonald's coffee.

All of that. Plenty more. But first, Isa, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? It's all over. If you just Google my name uh dirty packy lingerie which is a comedy one-woman show that i first performed in 2011 and you know islamophobia still a thing so it's still hot and i continue to perform it all over the world and it's 2023

so right yeah omar is still on the air so we know it's it's well and truly alive for sure yeah and you perform that yeah like the fringe too as well right yeah uh it was yeah so the yeah it was at the Edinburgh fringe uh shortly after it started here in New York and then we're a friend and then it's been to like weird ass places like I performed it at Turkmenistan which is a crazy ass dictatorship i was like where what is that like i had to look up on the map and it was it's crazy town and uh i took it to pakistan and then a bunch of times in europe and the uk right where was what what uh place gave you the most unexpected like great audience oh this is so weird but it turmenistan. Yeah. It's like, yeah, I just, there was some like national treasure actor dude who was in the audience one night and he said he didn't, he came up with a translator after the performance and he said he doesn't speak any English, but he was crying and he's like, I understood everything you said.

And it was just really heartwarming and popped in my mind when you asked me who, and I think that's the power of art and storytelling, right? For sure. It's good. Yeah. Especially when. Yeah. When it overcomes language barriers like that for. Yeah.

As an artist, I've had a similar experience. I remember going to a festival where I was performing in Italy and I was watching someone else perform in Italian and it was spectacular and I got it. And. Right. I don't speak the language at all so I think it's like that's yeah that's the power of art that's cool what is uh what's something you think is overrated you know what I think is overrated is celebrity worship culture in America

it is terrible what is that but we gave up on God so we need new guys to live your own life though right it's like really, I don't know. I don't get it. What aspect? I mean, what spurred this? What did you observe? And you're like, we're doing this again, huh? We're bowing and prostrate at the feet of the Kardashians?

It's actually just a tiny bit personal, too. But we'll get into it later. But yeah, I mean, I don't want to get into specifics because I don't want to name names. But it's, for instance, it's like I'm an artist, right? And I'm very much an independent artist. And I do sometimes work in mainstream things. But a lot of my art that I create is very much independently done. So I have friends who are like, oh, my God, I can't come see your show.

Because this weekend I'm going to see Adele and I paid $1,000 for my ticket. I love Adele. I love Adele. But I'm like, bitch, Adele does not need a thousand dollars for my ticket I love Adele I love Adele but I'm like bitch Adele does not need your thousand dollars I need you to pay twenty dollars and bring five of your friends and come see my show so it's like that kind of thing and like right now I'm dealing with this again I have a future film coming out and we just got told by the people we're working on the marketing end of they're like oh well there's like two really big films coming out that weekend guys

so it's like October 6th right come see yours and I'm like great like we need like more of this like you know glitzy like whatever yeah yeah wait does the American ish come out October 6th is that what I read yeah so and we talked about we talked about the congestion of the calendar the film calendar because taylor swift's movie comes out the 13th and that caused like a ripple effect with every other studio be like all right that scary movie we had we can't do it on friday the 13th anymore because that's when taylor swift is re-entering the atmosphere the second scariest date 10 6 23 so yeah so that's another thing like i'm dealing with my film right now i lost theaters

and screens because taylor swift is one of them and then there's another really huge bollywood film that's coming out i'm like god damn it that's also an audience south asian right so is it unique to america would you say the like celebrity worship is it more fervent in america than other places that you've been we do it's so weird in america too like why are we obsessed with the queen and like the you know the royalty in the uk it's so weird like people are having these parties to like watch marriages over i'm like what is happening yeah yeah it's like weird in america but you know i think the whole everybody does it everywhere right the whole world yeah are people just getting so caught up because they share the same birthday as one of the royals i think that's really just weird behavior for sure

you know uh miles is the same birthday as harry you don't gotta bring it up harry's the same birthday as miles thank you thank you so much thank you so much but yeah no and i think like but it is everywhere too like i look you know i'm japanese too and i look in japan we have like it's called idol culture like we literally call these celebrities fucking idols you know and it's just this you know i think why everywhere is so much responsibility on these poor little people too i don't know maybe some of them also just want to make art guys. They just want to make, just let them, you know what I mean? Yeah.

I feel like they, they don't mind it though. They like, they don't, it's like a trap. I think there's a trap where they like what they want it and pursue it with a, the single mindedness of captain Ahab. But then like,

once they get it, they're like, Oh, my life is over. I don't have have a life anymore. Right. Or like, I can't go to the store. Or every person I interact with, I have to worry that they're trying to get something from me because of the status.

But hey, it comes with a lot of money to rest your sad little head on. Usually when you ask them, they're like, yeah, but I would not trade it for anything. No, no, no. Go back to being like you no no no no no no um what is uh what's something you think is underrated all right here's what i think is really underrated that i have discovered recently do you guys know what zathar is i don't think i do okay it's like a very specific spice that exists in the Middle East usually. So I was familiar with za'atar, but then recently a friend of mine went to Palestine to this village that her family is from.

And there's a lady in the village who's like, I don't know, old lady who makes it with her own hands. And she's like, what do you want, Isa, from Palestine? And I'm like, I don't know, whatever, bring me something. So she brought me a giant bag of za'atar. And I have been sprinkling this shit on top of everything. goes on top of like avocado toast on top of fried eggs regular eggs i just put it this morning afternoon for my lunch on like uh tomato mozzarella cheese and pesto and then za'atar it's so good i feel like z-a-h-t-e-r no z-a apostrophe a-t-a-r i think zot there it's pronounced um so good it is it just goes with everything yeah according to me there was a i remember for a while i remember like

trader joe's tried to like hop in the mix there and i was like are we is this is this the correct form of it that we're we're indulging in here but? But yeah, I mean, I feel like Trader Joe's also did like chocolate hummus or something at one point, which is just disgusting. Yeah. Jack, didn't you try it? And he said,

yeah, and it was good. Um, yeah, yeah. I'm also the person who puts chocolate chips in my hamburgers. So, you know,

uh, I'll eat, I'll eat chocolate. Everything for the record. He puts Reese's peanut butter. Yeah. Um, I can't, I can't. There's like a cookie dough hummus it's not like it's just the main the base ingredient is chickpeas and yeah don't do that don't do it don't do i know there's so much

sugar like there's so much sugar and that is mainly what i'm in it for is like all the sugar and chocolate chips the hummus is merely a delivery vehicle for the sugar yeah yeah yeah yeah there's just something i cannot just separate the two i'm like that should not have chocolate near it and it's savory not agreed yeah like a berry fest nah you put a little bit of that on some uh pretzels and you got a little chocolatey salty mixture um all right so zother uh people need to check it out z-a-a-t-a-r yeah check it out put it on your from like the palestinian woman in her little village somehow figure it out people because that's like the best author i've ever had honestly it's so good so right right right yeah jack really you're like are you looking at like where to buy it right now that's your eyes darting across the screen yeah um yeah but without the chocolate

please we could get that pretty good i mean there's there's good there's decent markets out here that uh that keep it so you will we'll we'll talk about that if you're in a big city i'm sure you'll be able to find it oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um all right let's take a quick break and we'll come right back and talk about some news we'll be right back mtv's official challenge podcast is back for another season. That's right. The challenge is about to embark on its monumental 40th season, y'all. And we are coming along for the ride. Woohoo!

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you know, increasingly powerful moment for labor where yet another union, major union is striking in the United States. And both parties appear to just be ignoring it or giving like very loose, like lip service type, Hey, we love an American worker over here, but not really, you know, proposing anything concrete that would actually support unions. No. And right now it's like a race of will Trump or Joe Biden make it to the picket line first? They're like, who is going to do who's going to get that photo op? Because that's really what it is. I'm not sure if the policies are going to back up what their actions are but they're like who's gonna do it and right now the republicans they're definitely seeing this as a way to try and like talk about how like make this thing about like they're gonna make ship all the ev vehicle manufacturing to china which is not true um and

then also talking then also to be able to be like and joe byron is just getting all like his pro-union stuff is getting out of control um and you know we just we've seen this sort of strategy play out because i mean right now we have to remember that you know politicians they're they're creatures of capital who have no consciousness so they're merely a sentient pile of political takes uh that are some are paid for by the Koch brothers. Case in point, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, who are both running for the nomination in the presidential primary. Nikki Haley recently told Neil Cavuto that these these auto workers are just they're just being greedy as heck with this really bad, bad line. But, hey, here we go. Nikki Haley talking to Neil Cavuto about this dang auto strike well I think that's uh it tells you that when you have the most pro-union president and he touts

that he is um emboldening the unions this is what you get and I'll tell you who pays for it is the taxpayers you know here from what I understand the union is asking for a 40 percent raise um you know the companies have come back with a 20% raise. I think any of the taxpayers would love to have a 20% raise and think that's great. They keep doing this thing where they talk about it's like, well, what about the taxpayers? Right. It's like, yeah, but this is very specific to this union. And also, how are they paying?

Again, their argument is like the prices are just going to go up and that's who pays for it that's always a republican argument right yeah they're always trying yeah they're always trying to like pay people against each other and just be like yeah this is like you're gonna pay for it so don't vote for this right and also like like leaving out really important facts like they offered a 20 percent raise that would be like over four years and also they're not willing to like budge on like how inflation's already eaten into the wage gains they've had from past negotiations so it's like yeah this is not they're not being like saying like i want double my money and i don't deserve it it's like these people are asking for the bare minimum like a fraction of what they actually owed

for their labor um but anyway it's wild to like just that her the the talking point that uh biden is the most pro-union president like that that feels like something that she would only think is like a diss because she only hangs out with like auto executives like you know like she only hangs out with people who are in the c-suite of fortune 500 companies and like therefore thinks uh i mean this guy he likes unions he's pro worker and you'll leave this loser and it's like you're about to try and run against him and you think this is good for you in a democratic election it has huge like that wouldn't be me that's disgusting being co-union but if you listen to her own words from earlier this summer that's exactly the reality

that she operates in which is like unions are fucking disgusting this is her talking to some group of wealthy donors but you know the other thing that we did that was really important was i didn't want any company to come to South Carolina when she was governor. I would not. Wow. Never wanted a unionized company. I didn't want them to taint our water at all. Taint our water.

Taint our water at all. Wow. Fired up, baby. Fired up. Fired all the way up. That's amazing. Also interesting, just to point out again, I think it goes without saying,

automakers have been making money hand over fist the last few years, just obscene profits. And also, guess whose pay actually did go up 40%? The fucking CEOs. Of course. Yeah, yeah. But again, here she is caping for them and being like, this is what you

get man people just advocating for themselves really disgusting um so yeah what a grim fucking take from haley um and then we shouldn't be surprised though because tim scott is also from south carolina and uh let me just play this little bit of uh of a soundbite for the other primary candidate from South Carolina, because this take, I don't know if it's worse, but here, I'll just, I'll let y'all decide. I think Ronald Reagan gave us a great example when federal employees decided there was a strike. He said, you strike, you're fired. Simple concept to me. We can use that once again, absolutely. The second thing I would do, though, is very important. This is it.

The second thing isn't important. The first part was are you going, yeah, Reagan showed us something really cool. You strike and you're fired. So simple concept to me. And, you know, just a side note, it is illegal to fire private sector workers for merely, you know, exercising their rights to strike. Yeah.

But unless Reagan's the president, in which case you can do it. Well, they were federal workers. So. Right. And then he also I remember was like, yeah, man, I'll help you guys out, like on the campaign trail and then utterly turned his back on them so you know it's this is kind of the state of things and meanwhile you have democrats like not sure what to do here when clearly you think of like macomb county michigan and how vital that's been in the past few elections and you know maybe it's good to side with the auto workers or workers in general. But like, as you were saying, Jack, earlier this week, it like forces them to like, if they're going to fully embrace worker rights, that means they have to do it at the expense of the corporate donors.

And that's just like, that's just a bridge too far. It's like the needle they can't thread because, I mean, we can't bite the hand that feeds. We can make noises at the workers that have them say like yeah yeah yeah this feels good but like you know we're still we're yet to figure out who's going to make it to michigan first right now it's like uh trump is going to be going to michigan in the next week yeah he's going to do a rally at in detroit the night of the next debate Republican. That's going to be his counter-programming to the Republican debate. I feel like none of this really

matters because Trump is going to be the nominee. I still don't see a future where he's not the nominee. Nobody has described a coherent path for him not to be like even if he's in prison it feels like he's going to be the nominee um yeah so it's really just like what what is he gonna do about this and is he going to take that opportunity to actually like you know say the right things obviously we we saw his presidency the first time around he certainly didn't do any of the right things and just completely abandoned labor and the working people that you know elected him to be president so yeah we know he's not gonna do the right thing

but it does feel like a huge opportunity for either side from an electoral standpoint to you know take a whack at like this these people need help and nobody is helping them and like you guys actually have the power to do something about it because you're like you know at the heads of your parties yeah right and say this is the agenda like anyone's willing to do it well yeah i think it's also really not totally clear that this is actually going to impact republicans in a negative way like like you're saying trump was like yeah man i'll raise the minimum wage he didn't uh and there are a lot of empty promises and his percentage like his support from working class voters as defined by pollsters, which are people who don't have a

college degree, he only lost one percentage point. He went from 51% in 2016 to 50% in 2020. And then meanwhile, his share of non-white working class voters rose from 20% in 2016 to 26% in 2020. So it's, there's, there's like, and I, and there's like sociologists have been like, you know, like trying to figure out like, how is it that in these places that has such strong union cultures that you still have these voters who break away and like, yeah, I'm voting for the anti-labor person. so like in such an aggressive way that like union halls and the way that union members used to interact is like gone like where they aren't like their sort of worldview isn't uh reinforced by being around other union members or being near like a union hall and things like that and now it's a sort of like yeah i'm in a union but i'm also like i socialize with these other people and now that's kind of more my my identity more so than being a union member so you know we shall

see how it all shakes out but it's uh i think they're also probably reacting to the fact that the democrats aren't exactly a pro-union pro-labor party at this point you know in general like the amount of support for unions has just gone down across the board. So there's like really no one coming to the rescue aside from, you know, maybe these like union leaders and things like that. So it's becoming, you know, just a situation where there's a lot of like they're shedding a lot of voters in like the wrong directions, but still aren't just doing this easy thing, which is like, I don't know, maybe speak directly to like their quality of life rather than trying to get people to be like did you see we're having a soft landing from the recession that almost happened and people like i'm sorry i can't i have to work three jobs i don't have time to watch the news to hear about how good the economy is going under biden because i have to work three jobs unfortunately right yeah my reality is very different than what's on cnbc so listen these voters aren't like there's so much of this like

the mexicans are rapists you know they're like more like build the wall they don't know their own rights they don't have you know also the life circumstances that they're in sometimes you guys mentioned this like you know three jobs or whatever there's not enough time to kind of have introspection and think about the things they need and the union work and how really voting for somebody like trump is affecting them in the long run yeah and i think that's the republican party's you know strong suit that's what they do yeah misinformation and hate and then, you know, to get what they want. Right. It's interesting how everything kind of moved toward the left.

Once every, during the shutdown, when people were no longer forced, being forced to work, like all waking hours, people were like, wait a second. What the fuck?

And then they went back to work and we're like, nevermind. Nevermind. Build the wall, build the wall, build it. I had, this is such a weird experience during right before the election. I remember I was in a cab here in New York City with this guy, white guy.

And he's like, I'm a third generation taxi driver in New York City. And I'm like, oh, that's amazing. OK, great. And then I'm like, oh, we were talking about the elections. And he's like, yeah, yeah. He goes, literally, he goes, who's that guy who wants to build the wall i'm gonna vote for him like wow his words i was like damn that's what is that that's so wild when you're like you don't even know i'm like what is happening right now sorry i don't have don't have time for politics i just like the idea of a big old wall

because because walls are cool. Yeah. Wait, what's it meant to keep out? I just thought we were trying to do something to do like a new wonder of the world. Yeah. Building the wall, man. That is funny. I do wonder if that's what Trump had in mind.

Because remember, he had that riff on Tucker Carlson about the wonders of the world. He was like, I don't know. Maybe they should build another wonder of the world. One, he was like, I don't know. Like maybe they should, maybe they should build another wonder of the world. One while so big name all over it. Yeah. Of course it would be just like that. If we just let him build just a big,

the great wall of America, as Brian put it, uh, like I feel like maybe he'd just shut the fuck up and go, go off somewhere. Probably used to go to the fucking Great Mall of America. Yeah. Kick it with that.

The Great Mall of America already exists, Miles. Well, that's what I'm saying. Just bask in that. Folks, you can see it from space. If we just let him write Trump across the Mojave Desert, would right would can't we just do like off like a gigantic light array across like a light array that you could see from space you could just see his name from outer space right maybe maybe we'd be good and all you do is you it's like it's like speed where they were showing dennis hopper that like video footage on the loop to have you think everything

was under control you just do it once you capture it and you're like oh yeah on a loop to have you think everything was under control you just do it once you capture it and you're like oh yeah you want me to pull up the space feed donald here it is yeah yo dude it's still popping there you go my man somebody needs to pitch him this idea you guys will he trade that in for running for another election will he do it i don't know it's it's all because he's like i can't go to jail so if. So if that's not on the table, I'm sorry. I can't agree. And the version in his head would have to be, they were begging me to let them put my name on the Mojave Desert.

I guess if you just did that kind of third grade psychology and you begged Donald Trump to do those certain things, you're like, you gotta do this, please. He's like, yeah, the power's on my side. Well, speaking of job recovery, Elon Musk is now hiring, looking for some human volunteers for his brain chip,

looking for people with either quadriplegia caused by spinal injury or ALS to get the implant, with the goal being to grant people the ability to control a computer cursor or a keyboard using their thoughts alone um which would be very cool but also yeah the musk of it all no i said it would be cool but the musk of it all the musk of it all um yeah i mean so there's a couple mitigating factors uh first of, it remains to be seen how many people will rush out to volunteer for this study, considering that the company reportedly killed roughly 1,500 animals during testing to this point,

with some pigs being euthanized, allegedly, because the device was implanted in the wrong position. Hmm. euthanized allegedly because the device was implanted in the wrong position which that feels somewhat haphazard i think all they have is that one video of the monkey that was playing pong with its mind still it's like that one shining example of like look what it does dude this monkey played pong without a controller just using its mind and then we had to euthanize it 15 minutes later because it was in the wrong place. Because it beat Elon at Pong and he doesn't allow that sort of thing. But yeah, at least participants in the incredibly risky study will be paid nothing.

Oh. Nice. Yeah. What do you mean by that? How do you know for sure? Okay, so you will be compensated for study related costs such as travel expenses to and from the study site i like how specific it is like it's basically like we'll pay shipping for your corpse so we

can do this fucking experiment on you because how's that how's that yeah uh which is wild because he is the world's richest person um but he just you know i feel like he is this is all part of his goal for himself to you know to try and turn himself into robocop so he can fly to mars and uh you, repopulate half a planet with his seed. I like that we brought it back to Detroit with RoboCop. Yeah, yeah. There you go. Always, always Detroit. Yeah.

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you get your podcasts and we're back and uh there's a new john wick spinoff tv show on peacock it's called the continental from the world of John Wick. For people who love John Wick, really want to know about the inner workings of that hotel. I actually don't know how much are they going to get real into the minutia of back of house

and what it takes to run a hotel that's kind to contract killers. I've only seen the first I've seen like one and a half John Wicks. Oh, really? That's like the hang. Remember, because when y'all went all together, had a dang baby at home. Oh, that's right.

I couldn't bring a newborn to John Wick. So, you know, that kind of fucked my night up. Honestly, you totally could have. And the baby would have followed everything perfectly but yeah i don't know i i find the reviews for these movies to be somewhat out of proportion to the quality of the movies like i think that whatever is resonating about john wick like we're going through something and like these will be movies that we look back on and we're like, huh. We really fucking loved those

things, huh? There was a TV show? Yeah. But anyways, the reviews for the show are I guess it's a prequel about the character played by Ian McShane in the movies. The reviews are mostly okay

but it does seem something one detail keeps coming up and that's the fact that it features mel gibson oh sick dude a little bit of stunt casting mel gibson i yeah i feel like there are a few of they're just looking at doing a cursory search of like entertainment sites some mentioned like mel gibson explicitly as part of the review in the headline and then others were kind of like whatever but definitely there a lot of reviewers were like what the fuck is this yeah some people are kind of bothered um because i mean this is a franchise built largely on keanu reeves being like very nice unproblematic and also really fun to watch killing people um and now that universe like hinges on mel gibson which just feels like a weird fit. He apparently plays some crime boss who at one

point viciously murders a gay man, which is cool. So why was he cast? This is the part that really bugs me out is when they ask the producers, yeah, fucking why? Yeah.

Albert Hughes from the Hughes Brothers who made menace to society like dead movie that completely changed my life when i was like 12 i was like oh my god this is the coolest fucking thing ever right um he defended the casting of gibson by claiming the personal stuff is not my business to talk about this i love it when hollywood has this amnesia when it comes to certain people they're like oh we don't yeah he's an abuser and like whatever molested children but that's his personal thing it's i mean i'm not talking about moby giggs so i'm just talking in general right in hollywood also like when it's a guy they're so forgiving too but if it's a woman forgiving it's like oh that sludge

so she was raped by an executive she's a whore right like or they'd be like wow janet jackson's janet jackson's nipple was out she's out of here it's like i'm sorry right she's canceled that's it done yeah there's like oh it's so crazy to me yeah this then this quote is really something where he says uh i cast mel based on his past work that i grew up on and i think he fit the role perfectly i think once fans see it they'll understand why the personal stuff is not my business to talk about i'm like personal this guy was using the n word in jack i think as you said in ways that like you had never even imagined or heard before like some of the most disturbing shit i've ever heard like the the words he was using the context he was using them also just the sounds like the guttural sounds he was making

there's like the clips where he's like yeah it's just like fucking terrifying it's like a racist how could you ever look at like from a an industry that is very quick to be like i don't know like once you know this thing about them or once i've seen them play this in this movie like they're still like very hesitant to cast a gay actor as like a straight man in a movie and right like there are closeted leading actors like to prove it like to this day that like hollywood executives are they can't get around like certain aspects of people's reality like real life personality but then they have really short-term memories for some things like right you know yeah and also like i'm like the the stuff with mel gibson was all very public but yes that's fine it's not like you're prying to be like do you have a take on him being like a vile racist

anti-semite is there anything about that like because he's come out and like these are his words um and i'm like man albert like just fucking say you're a mel gibson fan boy and you're just not bothered by the heinous shit that this guy says because you're fulfilling some like sad ass like wish you've had since you were a kid that's what that sounds like yeah and he's also been famous and a successful director since he was a kid. Like they directed menace to society when they were like fucking like teenage. They were, they were so young when they made that. So, um, you know, it's, uh, not, not to excuse anything, but just as context that this statement reminded me of, I was like, Oh yeah, you are, um, you've been famous since before cell phones were a thing.

Um, right. Right. And, but yeah, it's just, I don't know. Every time Mel Gibson gets put in a movie or in anything, I'm just like, it's, it's just really revealing about like what the powers that be in Hollywood, like what they secretly in the privacy of their own hearts think is okay versus what bothers them you know because they are bothered by they're like yeah you just you know am i gonna believe this guy's an action hero when i've seen him like on the red carpet

with his husband you know what i mean right right right then with mel gibson they're you know for some reason that doesn't bother them. And that's not something they would ever come out and say, but they say it with their actions and with their casting decisions. Right, right, right. Yeah. I thought it was like for a while, it was just one of those things. I was like, oh, yeah, maybe he is gone for a while. And then it was like one thing after the next and next thing you know, it's like people are just having to write about mel gibson again and some people are like you know uh point to the fact that he's just been scandalized

since the beginning or at least in the last 15 years and then others are just acting like yeah and mel gibson's back in this is pretty cool huh okay i'm like remember this guy from lethal weapon yeah i'm like no i remember him from the terrible calls to his daughter. Yeah. That I can't shake from my memory. Oh, was that? That was Alec Baldwin. Who was he?

Was that his ex-wife then? Yeah. The calls to his, the Mel Gibson calls were calls to his, I think wife fiance who was young enough to be his daughter but not to his daughter uh calling someone a rude little pig when they were like five years old was Alec Baldwin

see I forget and also someone else who's just like and he turned out dad of the year um yeah but as somebody who has you know like you said you've been in lawn or you've been in like some mainstream stuff like what i've been in shit you've been in shit man what uh like how the shit for long enough just do it for long enough you'll end up doing shit that's that's how it works i I think. Yeah. And be extremely talented like yourself.

When you see a story like this, what does it make you think about? I think it's like, look, we all know it, right? It's the old boys club. This is what Hollywood is. And they just kind of... You know, these old executives, they want to see themselves on screen.

So this guy, whatever, he's a fan of, you know, Mel Gibson's. It's great. So he's like, yeah, well, I want to put him up on the screen. And that looks it's like, you know, for me and a lot of my friends, it's like people of color, women. It's just like so complicated because, again, you just said it. It's like we're talking about people being gay, you know, and then they can't be a superhero. But for us, it's like, oh, you're a brown woman. Then, OK, you'll just you'll play battered and abused. And that's all you can be. You know, and I mean, there's a bit of a shift. It's nice. It's nice to just play a doctor on law and order. And that has nothing to do with my ethnicity for a change. But it's taken me like

I've been doing this for 1213 years. I've been in this industry. You know, it's taken that long for us to get to this point. It's 2023. It's nice, but, you know, a lot more needs to happen. Yeah. We keep telling these same stories. Like, why do we need to do a prequel to John Wick? It's fine. John Wick is cool.

I'm like, but can we also tell other kinds of stories? Here's the thing is that the movies made a lot of money. And then that doesn't require me to think too critically about the things we make because then i can use the logic my industry that's all of hollywood right it's like what's made me money let's just do it again you know yeah forever there was like this myth that was being perpetuated like people films with people of color don't do well black films don't do well films with female leads don't do well and then none of it is true right it's all been proven guys denzel washington's my favorite

actor okay i am not saying not to do the equalizer because i don't like denzel washington what i'm saying is nobody will go to see this movie because other people are racist and therefore we should do a 15th movie starring someone named Chris. That's the only type of action movie that people will see. And then they turn out to be wrong.

Always. They're fucking so dumb. Even with McKinsey, the capitalist specialist and analysts who come in they're like y'all you'll make more fucking money if you just include more people in the fucking everything we're telling you this as the people who are like this is how you fucking turn the cash machine on well they won't believe like they they won't believe you until like a bunch of people who went to har Harvard and have consultant on a business card come in and tell you the thing that anybody who's witnessed the rise of Fast and the Furious for the past 30 years could have fucking told you, you know?

Right. But yeah. The common sense stuff. Yeah. Yeah. But what does Pete Buttigieg's college roommate have to say about it? That's what I need to know. Yeah.

Who knows? Who knows? All right? That's what I need to know. Yeah. Who knows? Who knows? All right. Let's talk some flesh burning coffee because it's happened again. McDonald's is getting sued after an 85 year old suffered first and second degree burns from coffee ordered in a San Francisco drive through. The woman had to go to the emergency room after mcdonald's staff refused to help her was left with a slew of medical expenses scarring

and this story should be familiar to everyone who was around in the 90s because there was famously a lawsuit over a hot mcdon. It became a national punchline, and all the jokes were in the direction of, you believe these people, they're surprised coffee's hot, and they spill coffee on themselves, and they get a million dollars with this stuff? Are you kidding me? There was a lot of bad stand-up around,

like, caping from,'s like this 79 year old you never had coffee before yeah yeah that that was one of the things that i don't think i realized the so the person in that lawsuit and by the way it was bad stand-up and it was like a monoculture where like one of the most watched things every night was jay leno doing bad stand-up you know right right right uh just like saying these fucking terrible jokes but so the the person in that lawsuit was a 79 year old woman who just wanted mcdonald's to help pay her medical bills after she was hospitalized for eight days and required skin graft surgery as a result of the super hot coffee

scam scam when i want to know where this was where did she get burned uh wasn't on her legs just in her lap okay i got yeah like her stomach and leg interesting so she off so this is the crazy thing she offered to settle with mcdonald's for twenty thousand dollars she was like please just like for my bill i want is for you to cover what it costs to get skin graft surgery in this country something i required because you serve your coffee way too fucking hot and they decided mcdonald's was like we're gonna this. This is an unfair injustice to big corporations everywhere. And America at that time, because we were going through something,

uh, was like, yeah, leave McDonald's alone. Essentially. Right. Um, we've always been going through something.

So let's be, we're always going through something. It's just, it takes some time to like, you know, take a little while to look back and be like oh right we just loved corporations yeah that was before we had a some the beginning of any semblance of class consciousness too we yeah we had it for a while and then the 80s and 90s happened and it just fucking completely evaporated. Anyways, the jury awarded her more than $2.7 million.

The judgment was ultimately reduced to $640,000. Far less than the Toby Keith song, which I don't know if you guys remember this. I didn't remember it because I don't listen to Toby Keith. I got it tatted but he had a song

with the lyrics, plasma getting bigger, Jesus getting smaller, spill a cup of coffee, make a million dollars. So, bars. Love it. But yeah, just about how America's going to hell in a hand basket. So, McDonald's

was happy to take the case to trial because the publicity actually helped them thanks to their sm take the case to trial because the publicity actually helped them thanks to their smear campaign intended to deflate the public backlash and in the public eye the victim was viewed as a scammer trying to make money off of a spill that was totally her fault uh because after all coffee is supposed to be hot right the coffee is excessively hot. That's what the jury found. So it's around 180 to 190 degrees. That is how hot McDonald's serves their coffee. The optimal drinking temperature for hot beverages is around 140 to 150 degrees.

But McDonald's was in the middle of a promotion saying that their coffee would still be hot by the time you got to your desk at work. So they're like, pick up the coffee on your way to work. It's still going to be hot when you get there. That was an actual ad campaign. Um, they were serving it way too hot.

They got sued a number of times. This, the, the one that got publicized was one of 700 lawsuits related to the temperature of mcdonald's coffee damn mcdonald's wow come on and it never went away they were just this is a thing that corporations do like this is the thing that that they found car companies will do where they're like yeah we know this car is going to kill probably like 200 to 300 people because of this like manufacturing

defect but it's actually like what we're going to lose in the lawsuits is actually less than what we're going to lose if we do a total like product recall to fix the defect so like corporate yeah that's every corporation right well look at the food we eat and look at all the shit that's in it that's killing people like there's carcinogens, literally, in things like products like Coke or whatever else, this name one. And corporations don't care. They know it's going to be killing people. They're just like, yeah, we're just going to sell it. They're just good.

They're good at saving money. I think we swallowed that a long time ago and need to spin it back up and reevaluate it. That assumption that they are just going to kill us in order to make more money like that is that's like absolutely good right peak bad guy shit like that's not that's unacceptable as a way like especially as we've gotten more and more in towards like down the road of letting these be the ultimate decision makers like that these are the people that the president is so afraid of that he won't even like side with unions even

though it would be like unquestionably an electoral uh politics win because he just can't because these are the people who actually make decisions but yeah like so for instance with the mcdonald's thing not only did we like totally side with them when they burnt a like grandmother um and like refused to pay for her medical bills uh they have continued to have like predictable burnings happen from their coffee because they have not changed they are still serving their coffee at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit instead of lowering the temperature. And the other thing, even though they no longer have the still hot when you get to work ad campaign, it makes it like their coffee, I guess, stays a little fresher when it's that

hot. And so they don't have to make pots of coffee throughout the day. and so they don't have to make pots of coffee throughout the day so keeping their coffee like scalding hot like dangerously hot when it's served you actually saves them a million dollars a day so that is why they do it because it keeps them from having to re-brew the coffee like every couple hours so they can just like keep the super hot coffee all day basically and you get less fresh coffee um that can badly burn you and send you to the hospital but it doesn't and the the trade-off is that mcdonald's gets to save a million dollars a day and we are tacitly approving of that basically this is insane you know what i also feel like i've been

lied to by mcdonald's right now because so i don't drink coffee but i do drink tea and there's a mcdonald's by me and sometimes i swing in and i just like grab a tea and go and they refuse to put the tea bag and the no they'll put the milk in and the water in but they refuse to put the tea bag in and i asked them one time i was like well why didn't you just put it in and mix it all up and they're like oh no no we don't do that because it's a safety issue because you know we don't want to touch we want you to open the lid and do it so basically it's on us to open yeah it's this whole explanation i got and now i'm like i feel like they're just lying what's up mcdonald's you won't change the temperature of your coffee but you won't put the tea bag in in the tea. Like, what's up?

Yeah. Yeah, it seems like they're like, no, that shit burns people. We don't fuck with that. That's on you. All yours. Oh, yeah, you drink that? Nah, I miss me with that. Nah.

Yeah. It is wild. But again, like you're saying, they know it's like, well, we can absorb hundreds of people burning the shit out of themselves with the coffee because at the end of the day the payout's gonna be less than the money we save every fucking day yeah it's like we could we could do about 15 of these a day and we're still good as long as we keep that shit because the boiling point of fucking water is like 212 degrees and you're serving it at 190 like come the fuck on yeah yeah like the i guess proper brewing temperature is between 195 and 205 but then you like usually the coffee then sits for a little bit and goes down to a

temperature that is safe to drink and handle um and like what trying to drink coffee at that temperature you can't taste anything like no i could drink i could drink pee that was 190 degrees and i wouldn't know you tried and i tell you it's sterile jack it's sterile jack and it's true i'm tired it's tired of saying it's a sterile covid cure but here we are back here we are of our lord 2023 uh well isa such a pleasure having you on the show where can people find you follow you uh watch your movie all that good stuff uh yeah i'm on uh all the socials the film is on all the socials as well so the film is just just american-ish film um it's also on our website, Americanishfilm.com. You can go there and see all of our

upcoming theatrical release stuff that's happening. And you can just find me at Aiza Fatima. And we actually in New York have a stand-up show coming up called Muslim Girls DTF. Nice. But it stands for Discuss Their Faith. Wink, wink.

It's part of New York Comedy part of that's what i assumed why what else yeah you did that's right what else would you think why are you winking is there something in your eye something wrong nothing at all did i say something yeah so that's going to be a part of new york comedy uh festival this year on november 4th at city winery in new york and then maybe we'll take it on the road and come to another other cities as well. And the movie is going to be on demand, too. Yeah. At some point as well. It actually is.

And I can't share that information at the moment, but I will be able to get out. We'll announce it soon. Yeah. OK, let the ink dry real quick. And I know that theatrically it's New York, Arizona and California. Did I read that correctly? For American issue, yes. It's coming theatrically in those three states for now.

There you go. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? So there's a writer who I know, his name is Sabir Pirzada. He just recently posted this on his Instagram and I ordered the book, but I haven't, he was a writer on Moon Knight, arguably one of the better, I feel like it's, it's one of my favorite, um, shows in that genre.

Um, he posted a link to a book that a bunch of Hollywood writers on strike have created. It's like a picture book. It's called elves and the shoe makers. And if you buy these books, all of the proceeds, a hundred percent of them go to artists currently on strike.

Oh, dope. Okay. Yeah. And they have an Instagram and you can find them there. Nice. Okay. Now I'm going to get that. Elves in the Shoemaker. Okay. There you go. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? You can find

me pretty much everywhere at Miles of Grey if you're able to input something like that into the social media platform uh and also find jack and i on our basketball podcast miles and jack got mad you can also find me on the true crime show uh the good thief or we're on the search for the greek robin hood who was actually kidnapping millionaires and redistributing the wealth to the people that kind of needed it well but also including himself too we're not gonna lie. And also he needed it too,

but also the farmer that he stole the tractor from to do a bank robbery. He got some cash too. You know what I mean? And a note that says, sorry, I had to use your tractor. I filled it up with gas. I'll share some cash,

no hard feelings. And also find me on four 20 day fiance talking about 90 day fiance with Sophia Alexandra. Let's see a tweet. Why did he need a tractor to do a bank robbery? 90-day fiance with Sophia Alexandra. Let's see, a tweet. Why did he need a tractor to do a bank robbery? Everybody's wondering this. Those are so slow. They're the slowest

vehicles on the highway. Slowest, biggest. Just to be an obstruction in a road so you can make your speedy getaway. It's not like you're like, this is my getaway tractor. Right. Oh, okay.

Got it. Got it. All right. Sometimes you need the horsepower to move some things, you know, let's just tune into the show. Tune into the show. And a tweet I like is from Eliza Skinner at Eliza Skinner tweeted. The thing about the Hollywood strikes that I don't see anyone covering is the blatant

disregard and total lack of respect that the AMPTP has for the audience, their customers. They're committed to making them pay more and more for a lower quality product. This thread goes on. They don't care what the audience wants, and they don't care about making better content for them. They only care about making cheaper content. For instance, room size. These companies have learned that you can make a sitcom with fewer writers so that's what they want to do uh and it goes on for more like a little a little bit more but it's it's truly a thing that i think a lot of people aren't are missing even consumers themselves is that this whole thing is i'm also trying to dumb down like what we're just calling it content it's not art it's not television it's not art. It's not television. It's not cinema. It's fucking content to serve ads in front of or just to siphon up subscriptions. Yeah. So anyway, I think that is something that we can talk about more. if Elon Musk decides to make me pay for Twitter at Jack underscore O underscore Brian. Some tweets that I've been enjoying.

Harrison Weimarob tweeted, two truths and a lie. Oh, you mean a regular conversation? Cold Healing tweeted, it's cute how they call a roogala rocket in Europe because they never figured out how to go to space and that word was open and then drill tweeted gaming

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as a song that we think you might enjoy hey miles yeah i mean i do just want to remind everybody yesterday's was absolute masterclass oh my god it was a banger we've been listening to it non-stop so I just want to give a nod to that one the one about jerking man non-stop

endless just a lot of London slang that you're going to have to probably some people might laugh at you uh as you say it's so good song is like a techno mixed with rap song there it is uh but do you have a new one i mean i've got a new one it's it's look you can't you can't just have non-stop neck breakers on here else we're going to be held liable for any kind of neck injury. Okay. We're just blowing off the doors.

We're talking about today, man. Get sued for a million dollars. Yeah, but guess what? We'll fight it. We'll fight that. Okay. So what I want to do is something I've been listening to a lot of slowed down music on YouTube because that's just like on TikTok. You just see a lot of like just tracks that you're so familiar with.

Like, how about if we did a half-paste with the most haunting reverb? This is a version of Big Thief's track, Simulation Swarm, but it's the slowed-down reverb version, and that guitar solo, it kind of hits like Jolene at half-speed

because I really like this track in general. I love the lead singer and her song right yeah anyway it's all good it's all good so this is simulations now you fuck with slow reverb you know uh her majesty put kind of gives you know puts those uh caucasian artists in front of me you know what i mean and i'm like yo what the fuck is this rhythms yeah but that guitar solo is fucking wild. Yeah, it really is. To the point where I was just on a YouTube rabbit

hole trying to see if people could even rip the solo the same way that I think Adrian is the name of the singer of Big Thief. How they play. So, anyway, check this out. But just search Simulation Swarm, Reverb, Slow Down, YouTube. Check this out. It's haunted. Yeah. Alright, well we will

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