The Daily Zeitgeist - NepOligarchy, Reagan Cinematic Universe 08.14.26

Episode Date: August 14, 2026

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I saw this post on the our millennials subreddit that made me really sad for kind of like, however young people are like socializing or maybe not because of like this. I don't know. Should we talk about this on the show? There's like this post just about them being really confused that we partied a lot. Oh, I literally just saw that post. Yeah, you saw that. Yeah, you saw that. Right. Did millennials really party all the time? It was great. Like it says Gen Z here. shocked when I found out from a millennial co-worker that y'all had team clubs. I heard about house parties, but dedicated team clubs. I've heard about health parties. They've never been to a house party. He said, then when it was time for college, you went to the club or had some kind of party every single weekend, living it up. Now some millennials on TikTok claim that after college,

they were partying on work nights still clocking in the next day. For some reason, the team clubs have since disappeared. I'm 23 now, but even when I was in high school, that was not a thing. House parties were not that common either. They were more like get-togethers with groups of friends. We went to malls, but they were dying out at that point. Is it true you were really living life this good? Or is it just exaggerated? I feel like my generation doesn't really have fun like that and everyone is just super depressed and alone, more so since COVID. Even I'm pretty introverted, which sort of sounds ridiculous given this post. Just so you know, when I think of a quote, millennial party, I think of something out of party rock anthem, Project X, or Roderick's party from the second DOAWD movie. It's like,

I get nostalgia from something I didn't even live through. I just feel like I didn't really live, if that makes any sense. Oh, that's actually kind of tender. Yeah, a little sad. It's really sad and bittersweet. That's so wild. Like, team clubs were such an establishment. When I went on a Royal Caribbean cruise at like 15, there was a dedicated club just for teens.

I parted with Colombians for like seven days straight. It was amazing. Whoa. Yeah. Sounds like a euphemism for something. It was, I was Colombians for six. Don't racialize it like that. They weren't on cocaine.

They were awesome. From Columbia. The one bone I have to pick with that is they said we'd party all day and then and like clock in the next day. No, we were partying all night and clocking in the next hour. Yeah. Yeah. It was weird how I was talking about like one of my friends when I used to sell cars, how fucked up we would get the night before and then saunter into this car lot in the dead of L.A.

summer trying to sell trucks and shit on like barely any sleep. My partner grew up in a very rural community and his dad does construction. And so his summer job was always working on his dad's construction crew. And he told me that he would do drugs and drink in the middle of a field sitting on the back of somebody's truck until like 5 a.m. Where he would have to basically go straight to work. And his work was hauling and lifting while his dad screamed at him. I cannot imagine anything worse. Yeah.

What is it? It's like this weird thing where like we had the work ethic of like, the silent generation, but we're like, but we're so debauched the whole time too. Yeah, man, we got to get through this man. You got to wake up. And but also we got to get fucked up because we got a lot of economic anxiety. We're sandwiched between. Oh, did you ever write a term paper or something the night before while drinking?

I never wrote a, I never wrote a paper that wasn't the night before it was due. It never occurred to you that you could start at a week. You could start it when you got the assignment. You were like, no fucking nerd. This followed me into my full adult academic career, my very last term paper that I ever turned in to graduate. I turned it in. I started it that morning at like 4 a.m. after a rave. Yeah.

After a rave. Yeah. Well, I was DJing. I had to be there. Well, I mean, that's work. I was working. For the young people that hear this, without fucking chat, GPT. Yeah.

Remember that shit. Remember that shit. We were playing on fucking X. spurt mode. C minus. C minus. I still passed. Bro, D equals diploma. D equals diploma. Don't worry about it. That's all we need. Did you go to any team clubs? Me? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. We had one in our town. I went a couple of times. It was fun as hell, to be honest with you. It was like a really, really fun time. Yeah. First time I ever got twerked on was at the Young Men's Christian Association. But that's where they had the teen clubs at. It was at the Y. They just had a dance parties. And then they would have chaperones there, but the chaperones didn't stop you from doing stuff. They would take out a flashlight and go like this and make it seem like they were like involved in it. It was wild. Like, oh, I'll provide the lighting for them.

Like a celebratory? Yes. They're like, hey, look, everyone's guys getting twerked on. Look, congratulations. Look at a throw back, y'all. All right. Buss it open, y'all. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

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Icon. Um, we've had a lot of fun ones recently. Weird Al. The dude was a particularly fun one. The dude from Big Lebowski. Helen Keller. All,

all fun ones. Uh, we're gonna have a rerun this Monday and then Madonna, the following Monday, which should be fun. Uh, there are the episodes on Monday with icon in the title. But right here,

right now, it's Friday, August 14th, 2026. Right here. Right now. Right now. Let's see.

There's so many things to choose from. It's Love your bookshop day. Love your bookstores. Got to love them. National Creamsicle Day. National tattoo removal day. Maybe you got a weird, questionable tribal design that maybe doesn't suit 2026. Maybe you want to clean that up.

I know a few people that have. It's also World Lizard Day. Shout out all of our politicians. And National Financial Awareness Day. Okay. You know, that's a lot. That's what we need to be investing in is financial awareness. That was something that I, is lizards.

Is lizards. Is detecting which of these people are lizards. No, that's something that Jamie Diamond, the head of Chase. Chase, Morgan, Stanley, all those different banks that. J.P. Morgan Chase. J.P. Morgan Chase. John Pierpont Morgan Chase, Jack. Please use their full name.

He was talking about how we need to invest in, you know, education and financial literacy to because that that's what's really wrong with the economy. Yeah. And that's what's driving inequality. And I was like, man, that's always, that's always, yeah, that's what it is. Yeah, it's just like, more people are gone. They're too stupid. Yeah, you guys are all too stupid.

So we need to invest the money and making you less stupid. And so you're smart like me. No, we don't have an inequality problem. We have a broke, dumb people problem. Yeah, exactly. And they just need to get on our level. I've met the rich people. They're dumb also.

Maybe even dumber. Actually, verifiably, it turns out. Dumbest. My name is Jack O'Brien, A.K. Once there was this guy who ate a bit of lettuce in a taco from the bell. And when he finally got home, he shot. I bet you have no idea where this is going.

Liquid shit all around his bathroom. He really did a paint. He probably should have lived menos. Mamos. Now in courtesy of blinky hack on the Discord. In reference to the Taco Bell lettuce diarrhea. Conflagration. Apparently, Jack, we found out it struck very close to us.

It's struck very close to home. And we don't know. We're not going to say it makes it sound like one of us has it. No, not us. God, I wish. Three degrees of, two degrees of separation. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but the first anecdote I have heard of the cyclosporiasis being reaching Los Angeles.

But also this person traveled and then I was like, come on. You have to say that as I'm eating my Taylor Farm Steakhouse Cobb salad in a bag. I have always said Los Angeles fast food has the freshest ingredients that I've experienced in these continental United States. Yeah, traveling the least probably to get to you. Yeah, yeah. It's straight up. I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Oh, me, it's Miles Gray, aka Mitch is alive this I know for the grok has told me so.

He is spry and safe and sound. You are weak, but he is strong. Anyway, Mitch McConnell, still don't know what your state is. Lockerone. Thank you for that Jesus loves me inspired, aka. I still don't know. Still don't know. We haven't seen video of Mitch McConnell.

He's probably fine. Yeah, yeah. Leave Mitchie alone. Yep, you're right. As I said in my direct address weeping video. That's a hip reference, right? Leave Brittany alone. Miles were thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our very favorite guests,

an extremely talented podcast host, digital activist, who you can hear on her brilliant podcast. There are no girls on the internet. She's the author of the book. Love it first prompt AI on the Future of Intimacy. It's Bridgett Time. Thank you for having me. It took a lot of restraint to not chime in on your Leave Brittany alone. YouTube reference.

I know it's not a topical reference, but it's a good one. We respect Chris Crocker in this house. Yeah, not you knowing his government name. Hey, I'm a millennial. I didn't even know that. I don't know. Look, this thing's a steel truck. or whatever they say for having a good memory.

Yeah, I can't ever remember the metaphor they used. You know, my memory's so good. It's like one of those things they say for you. You got a good memory. Say like mind drive. I don't know. Anyway. How are you, Bridget?

How are you? I'm so excited to have you back. How are you doing? I am so excited to be here. I was a little nervous with your diarrhea Taco Bell story. Are you also eating Taco Bell and the lettuce, et cetera? No. Miles, you said that.

that, like, no, is not the real answer. Like, are you actually getting it? I'm fine. I'm immunized. You have been immunized. I've been immunized. So, no, I have not had Taco Bell. I haven't eaten Taco Bell since that break.

If I'm being honest. Catherine just dropped that Chris Crocker is now Kara Cunningham and is a Trump supporter. Okay. Didn't mean to dead name Chris Crocker. I had no idea. This is some. breaking information that I have not heard. Shad-out. Catherine, can you just come on mic really quick?

How did you know that so reflexively? Because I followed her when, like, I first got on to TikTok a couple of years ago, and she was doing these, like, ridiculous, like, food eating videos. And they were very, very funny. And then she went on a rant about how she loves Donald Trump. So we unfollowed. Was it, leave Donald Trump alone, basically. On January 6th.

Yeah, you're like, ooh. Okay, well, what timing? Wow, I am on her Instagram page. There's a lot going on. Just a lot. Oh, is there going? Just a lot going on. Okay.

Well, we're thrilled to have you back. Yeah, yeah. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to check with David Ellison. Another one of these unexceptional billionaire Nepo children who we have to know about, know their preferences. know what they're into because they control massive swathes of our society. That's the guy who's trying to like buy every movie studio and media outlet.

But he loves movies, Jack. Don't worry. He's a huge movie. If anybody needs to be in charge of all movies, it should be this guy who's a fan of all the movies. He can name like E.T. I think he came up with. Top Gun.

Yep, yep. One more. There you go. You named all three movies. There you go. This guy knows movie. Yeah. So he's a,

he's a bit of a movie buff. Mm-hmm. I'm going to make a couple more pitches for proactive policies for, you know, the left. So that instead of apologizing for bad faith interpretations of beliefs they've had in the past,

maybe we could focus on some of these proactive things. We'll talk about McDonald's. Speaking of permanent records, McDonald's has one on you if you've used their app. So we'll talk about that. We might even get into Hollywood's hottest new trend, the threat of nuclear war, all that. Plenty more. But first, Bridget, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay, so don't judge me, but I have gone down this deep YouTube rabbit hole of arrest videos like body cam.

you see people getting arrested. And specifically, the one that is sort of caught my fancy is when someone's super drunk and they're at a bar or a restaurant refusing to pay. And generally, it seems like the dispute is you're very drunk and you don't understand, you just have to pay. It's not often that someone is trying to like step out on the bill. But something that I noticed that so many of these videos are taking place in specifically Key West Florida.

Now, I know that Florida has these. Sunshine laws, and that's why we always get the Florida man, Florida arrest stuff. But I would say like even of, like, I would say probably 75% of these Florida arrest videos are all Key West. They've got the pastel colored establishments. And so the last thing I googled was, why are so many people getting arrested in Key West? Like, what's going on in Key West? Now I want to go to Key West when I get arrested? Like, what's happening down there? Just to go on like a messy white people safari? Yeah.

You see this? That mother and daughter, they accused that mother of stealing money out the tip jar. And she's denying it. I know you did. That's why I said that shit, Bridget Todd. Or the other one, oh, this couple, they're on a cruise and they about to miss their cruise because the husband got drunk as fuck. And now you're trying to fight the fucking bartender. And now he's getting arrested and they're missing her cruise shit.

Oh, my God. Not you citing the specific videos that I've definitely seen. That last one was crazy because the wife. The wife is like the voice of reason. It's like, listen, don't get arrested on a cruise. Don't get arrested on a cruise. Right. Wait, he's on the cruise or he's on land.

It stopped in Key West. So they got off the boat in Key West. Wow. And then he's. He's fighting the bartender. He's trying to fight everybody. He's trying to fight everybody. He's trying to fight everybody and like doesn't want to pay some sort of problem.

And the police come and the police are being in a lot of these videos like fuck the police forever but in a lot of these videos i'm like wow their police are actually giving you so many chances to just leave to be white that's what i'm saying i simply cannot understand how when you hear like i i party i drink i i've gotten rowdy in my day i simply cannot put my cut my head in somebody that hears very directly do you want to go home tonight leave right now or otherwise you're going to be arrested and be like fuck you man what are you going to fucking do. Sir, I'm telling you, man. Just go. I just said, I'm going to arrest you.

Honey, please, we're going to miss the boat. We have fucking kids and who's going to pick them up? I don't give it. It's terrifying to see. You see the other one where the guy was at the airport bar and his card kept getting declined and he started calling all his family members and then be like, fuck you, you're not going to give

me money. That guy, I actually was like, I think this is like a tried and truce. Because sometimes you're like, this person is drunk. They're so drunk that they don't understand they need to pay. That guy I thought was like a scammer. Like he was like he's because he has an speaker phone and he's like, I need money to pay this bill. And the people on the other end of the phone are like, it's always something with you.

Like I've already given you money. So sometimes they're like scamming out. Yeah. Yeah. It's just everybody's rock bottom now is on camera on video, on camera on the national internet. Yes. Are you down this similar rabbit hole with me? Yeah.

I'm like, you might be. You know why? Because I'm like, ooh, videos of white people getting arrested. So many white girls in that. You know how it started, though? I mentioned this on the show. I started watching ones of fish and wildlife wardens. Popping rich white people over, like over crabbing, like, or getting illegal lobsters

because those motherfuckers really act like they're above it. And then people are like, so you're going to get a fucking arrest? Like, yeah, what are you going to do? I got a fucking boat. I got these fucking lobsters. like you're fucking under arrest dick and I'm like, yo show him, show. Oh my God.

It scratches and itch. And it's terrible because I'm not into like the carcoral state, but it's funny, just like this weird slop form of body cam video. It's weird. Whenever I watch it, I'm like, what is going on with me right now?

Like why am I? I think there's a version of the carcule state focused on entitled rich, uh, drunk white people. Yeah. I think that's, I think, yeah, let's just generally,

let's generally, focus it in that direction. Totally, totally. And that seems to be the majority of what's happening in Key West. And I do also love when they're like, go ahead and arrest me. Go ahead and arrest me. And then when the cops, the cops go out. What are you doing?

What? The other one I like to watch are people getting kicked out of Universal Studios Orlando. Yes, yes. Oh my God. Why are you two like this? Our algorithms identical. Why?

Again, what's going on at Universal Studios where this keeps happening? I'm literally so curious. Yeah. You see the one with the British lady snuck her whole family in? Yeah. Yeah. And that was a crazy one because it was sort of, she seemed, I remember she seemed like, why have I done this?

This was such a mistake. Yeah. What, like, you got all this way to Universal Studios and you get to the door and you're like, y'all, what if we didn't pay? Yeah. What if we all just snuck up? We're here on a visa. That's good to just kind of,

what was their strategy for sneaking in? Were they all in one large trench coat? I think they just kind of bum rushed, like, in a way, like less, like more people than tickets. They can arrest us all. The old they can't arrest us all. Exactly. Except our mom.

It's Universal Studios. There's cameras everywhere. They absolutely can. What do you think they're like, I just, I'm so curious. I'll walk in between the cameras. I mean, I think, you know what it is? I think it's also fascinating for us, you know, like growing up in America, we're black,

we've completely observed the like three different levels of justice that exist in this country. So like to your point, and I'm the same way, I'm like, what the fuck are y'all thinking? Because it, that would never enter your mind.

Never. Because they're like, I will get killed or batted up or some shit. It's not going to end with me. Be like, the fuck you're going to do, man. And they're like,

you're right, man. This guy got us. Have a good day, sir. You know what I mean? And like, these people fucking think.

like that. I think that's also the like seeing it in practice too. It's just it's equal parts terrifying and entertaining. I don't know. Yeah, it's very illuminating. It is a it is a world that I feel like you or I would never well the only way that we can touch wood. The only way we'll ever be seeing this is on a YouTube video right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Exactly. Oh, they're too small. Well, I could, I, based on my scale, these are big enough. It's crazy. You're in my world. You're on my boat. Oh, man. The way people get fucking, they, they think their boat is their whole country. It's fucking crazy. I think there's something in Key West, too, with Ernest Hemingway, like being sort of the patron saint, celebrity,

historic figure of Key West. And he's like every alcoholic's favorite celebrity, because there's like fake rumors that he got drunk and wrote like that he wrote everything drunk. Oh right, right, right. But like I think he is the patron saying of like alcoholics who have yet to realize their alcoholics maybe. Oh, right, who like the same way like people who like smoke cigarettes because of David Lynch kind of thing. Yeah, exactly.

Bridget, what is something you think is underrated? Something I think is underrated. Body cam videos. Body cam videos. Yeah, clearly. That and going to the movies by yourself. What did you see by yourself? I saw The Odyssey alone because, you know, sometimes,

have you ever gone to a movie where you're not sure how it's going to go? And somebody else comes. And if it's bad, they look at you like you financed it and greenlit it and wrote it. And it's like, you're like, I'm just trying to see a movie here. This is me. What? I am way too codependent. And like, I love going to the movies too much to let going with someone ruin my time at the movies.

Because I'm going to be focused on their body language, the whole movie. You know, that's why you go by yourself. You're just like, yeah, you don't have to pay attention to any of that shit. That was like when we saw Disclosure Day and you kept checking in with Justin and I. Yeah. You're like, you like, how was that? I read some sus for views. How was that?

It was fine. Like, it wasn't great. It was. It was fun. Like, that's like, I haven't thought. about it since we saw. Right. Yeah, yeah.

Which is not true of many Spielberg movies. It wasn't a regret because I was genuinely curious, like, what it would be like, and then when it was just kind of like, man,

all right, whatever. And then I went on my day. Justin thought it was terrible. Justin thought it was terrible. Yeah. But I think everyone's, I think also too,

and we talked about this, I think right after you said, it's like my engagement with film, I don't have the same level of criticism for film like I do for comedy. Like,

I'll fucking get upset. at shitty comedy or something. I'm like, why is this being made? What is your perspective? What do you think you're doing? And even with film, when there are things that go,

maybe are completely against my taste. I'm like, nah, whatever. I got, I got other shit. I've got to worry about it for whatever reason.

Just not, hey, they tried, you know, that's fun. Yeah, that's kind of my attitude. I'm like,

all good for you, dude, anyway. They put all those, all those pictures. You realize, like, that's just a bunch of pictures moving past really fast,

so it looks like they're moving. It's not. Yeah, That is basically my ethos. I just love going to the movies. I'm the Rube, especially in the summertime. I will see anything. I like a popcorn movie.

I like an indie. I like it all. And even a bad movie, I just sort of like to be at the movie theater. And so not everybody feels that way. And I'm not trying to be responsible for somebody else's good time via the movie that I have chosen. So yeah, going alone.

Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. Love that one. Love that underrated. What's something you think is overrated? This might be a controversial one. Frozen beverages. Frozen cocktails.

Really anything frozen. Anything frozen at all? It takes a frozen drink. Okay, yeah, go on. Including the movie. Yeah, including the film frozen. Yeah, you dare. Not that, but I was out recently, and it's really hot.

You know, it's a summertime. And we went to this bar that only does or specializes in frozen drink. So they do frosé. They do frozen margaritas. And it's in the middle of drinking one, and I realized, after a few sips, it basically melts, and it just isn't as good. I feel like what I want is the first few sips of a frozen drink, but I don't want to be, feel like I have to rush through a frozen drink before it melts

and then get a headache, or be left with kind of a melty, half-frozen, half-not, too sugary situation. It's a couple different approaches to giving you a headache. We can give you an acute, terrible headache right away or we can like give you one in the long run by poisoning you. Yeah. I think a hangover.

The melting is the slushy kind, right? It's frozen drinks. Yeah, slushy. Something that isn't a thing that needs to be spinning if it's going to be premixed. Yeah, exactly that. Because the melted part is vile to drink. Like when it's just like become concentrated syrup

and like that, mm-mm. That's what I feel like if you have that shit, It has to be in like an insulated cup. So it has the same sort of consistency, the entire drinking experience. Because in the heat, that shit is not going to last more than, like, fucking four minutes. And if they don't get the mix right and you're drinking it with a straw and then it like you, you get all the syrup out of there and all the, you know, all the juice. And then it's just the the ghost of the drink, you know, just the ice that's left. Then the balance is all fucked up.

Too many variables. And oftentimes when you're talking about frozen cocktails, they'll add a couple extra bucks on for the, for the favor of it being frozen. And I don't like that. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. I would like a couple less bucks.

Actually. So your underrated is electric Kool-Aid in Northwest. Oh, my God. That's exactly the place that I was at. Yes. So you know the spot. Okay. And also, they're so lovely and they're so kind.

I know. You don't have to put it in there. I was just like, I think she's talking about electric Kool-Aid in D-C. I was just there. It's outdoor only. So you're sitting outside in the heat. Yeah.

The most, like 90% of their menu is frozen drinks. So it's like, oh, good, a frozen drink in 95-degree weather. And also is $15 fantastic. That's what I wanted. Yeah. Low-key, I kind of ruined a friend's party because I was so salty at that place. You're just being there being nasty the whole time? Yeah, being a little negative.

You know how you like, drink? can drown a situation and sort of negative energy when one little thing goes wrong. Damn, not you, Bridgett? That was me. Wow. That doesn't seem like you.

I will just say, I've never gotten negative energy off of you once. But that shows if, because Bridget is so like effervescent and bright that I could feel like you have the power to be like,

and I can turn into the, I can tap into the dark crystal. Do you want me to change my khyber crystal because this lightsaber blade can change colors real quick. Oh, you're joking, but that is kind of how it is.

No, I can be a similar way, too, where people like, oh, you're so chilling. Like, sometimes I can get in a bad mood. But I've also learned when I get like that, I have to leave because I almost did that at another birthday party. I'm like, I'm going to this fucked up, ass, crowded ass bar, bro. You think they fucking do better. You can't bring 15 fucking people in this bar. It's so fucking crowded all the time.

The fuck they think it. And I was just out of it the whole time. And I was like, you know what? I'm going to go. And not like in a rude way. I was just like, hey, you know what? Like I stayed for like an hour, which felt. good, saw the birthday person, had a drink.

And then I was like, hey, I'm going to go because I'm going to start being, I will turn it sour through it by osmosis. You did say to me, hey, I stayed at your shitty party for an hour. That's got to be enough, right? Yeah. Is he talking about your party? I would never have a birthday party. Never, never.

maybe the underrated is just knowing when your vibe's not right and knowing to call it. Like, let me get out of here. For real. Yeah. For real. Because, like, it's funny. It's only since I've become a parent where I've had that sort of self-awareness where I'm like, oh, like, where you go, like you look at your kid and be like, oh, this isn't good

for you at all. Like, we should, we need to change the environment. And now I'm like, I'm realizing like, oh, I'm becoming, like, I can feel me about to have a tant, like a 42-year-old man tantrum, if you will. And I'm like, you know what? Time for me to get on out of here. I need to be put in a small time out. You're like reparenting yourself.

Yeah, parenting yourself. And I don't and I don't visibly show distress. I just, I check it with myself. I'll go, oh, I think we're getting there. So before I get ASAP NASAP in here, I'll just say, good night. Happy birthday to you. Great, great choice of venue for this party. And a good tomorrow to you, sir.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And David Ellis... So we, earlier this week, I had to fucking finally learn who Josh Kushner is.

Lakers owner. New Lakers owner. Had already tried to buy the World Cup. He just like tries to buy stuff. He's fucking like this guy he's fucking Francis from Peewee's being How much for your bike Peeway

And I buy childhood? How much for your World Cup FIFA? Yeah. Fuck all. As much for your Lakers, yeah. I hate these billionaires, but the thing I hate the most about them is how they, the only way to buy culturally relevant thing, the way to be

involved in culturally relevant things that people like is buy them. They have no other way of doing it. Oh, people like the sports team, I'll buy. it. People like movies. I'll buy them. Yeah. Or date them. Or date them. Yeah, yeah. The private equity guys are dating. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, and

Olivia Rodriguez. Yep. Shame on that was people. Was that people magazine that said like the hottest arm candy this summer? No, that was the Wall Street Journal. Oh, it was. My favorite place to learn about the hottest arm candy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. David Ellison.

Wall Street Journal, who's the hottest arm candy? Yeah, please. Tell me, you collection of 68-year-olds. But yeah, despite David Ellison, pending a really cool New York Times op-ed where he was like, dude, I love movies. So, like, don't worry about me, like, buying another gigantic studio.

Like, I love all the movies. You want me to name them? Sure, E.T. Top Gun. Star Lords, okay? There. I like cinema. Okay?

He's really making it hard, though, now for the doubters to believe that at all based on his actions this week. So David Ellison, the man behind the right-wing takeover, consolidation of the news. He's the one that is currently destroying CBS, owns Paramount. He's the Nepali-O-Oligarque son of Larry Ellison. I guess that's a new thing. We can introduce that to this.

A napolegark, if you will. My favorite mixture of ice creams? Napolitark. Oh, yeah, it's private equity, hedge fund. But anyway, so he's doing that at CBS, and now he's got his, so right now he's like, I just want to buy Warner Brothers. Everyone else is like, no, you want, you want, you want Warner Brothers because it's the parent company of CNN. And you also want to continue this distortion of the news because that's what the whole aim of this project is. And it's all culminated with a 110 billion offer for Warner Brothers earlier this year.

Now, Ellison has repeatedly denied that this is all about reshaping CNN. then. He always said, no, I love movies. That's why. But again, his knowledge of cinema is pretty much limited to whatever was printed on the menus at Planet Hollywood, I believe. And he tried to... Those are the only good one. They got all the good ones. There's that one with like the profile of a dinosaur. Profile of a dinosaur, Jurassic Park? Terminator to... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that one, the part, the one about the park. The shack shoe. The shack shoe? That's just something that's on display at malls across.

America in the early 90s. So anyway, he's now really wanting to bolster his case about his love of the movies because it's like, well, once I own Warner Brothers, the output between Paramount and WB, it's going to be like

30 movies a year, which is more than its current pace. So he's trying to be like, I'm going to make more movies, dude. Like, oh, you can't say I hate them. And he will never go back on that. No. But have you actually, it's crazy when you look at the actual movies that he's been

make, like that, when you look at what the record is for Paramount under his stewardship right now, it's pretty fucking stupid. Like,

it's really, like, it's a bunch of re-wrinced and repeat IP. Like, if you think, what we got? Okay, so, like,

again, Paramount, 2026, right? What have we had? We've had a new, a new scary movie, okay, very forward-thinking,

a new Jack Ryan, a new scream. Wait. A new Jack Ryan came out? There's some other Jack Ryan show. Oh, show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like the things that are coming out.

And then like there's also Christmas Carol, like another adaptation of a Christmas carol. Oh, the Johnny Depp one? Yeah. Oh, no. Exactly. That's what American America wants. It's Johnny Depp Christmas Carol. They're writing about this in Jacobin.

This is from Jacobo. Quote, Ellison's future plans for the studio include mining decrepit IP, like days of thunder, for sequels and developing a shot for shot remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. A shot for shot remake? Where is the fucking creates, again, this guy doesn't

no fucking anything. So he's like, what are the movies we have, Dad? Okay, let's do that one again. And then this one, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is all good. I remember his cool hand in the first scary movie. Let's do that again. Also, I have to say, the shot for shot remake,

I've seen this, like, do you remember the shot for shot remake that Gus Van Sant did of Psycho? Yeah, is it Vincent, not Vincent Donafrio, Vince Vaughn. Vince Vaughn. Vincent Vaughn. Yeah. I feel like we kind of got that out of our system quite a while ago. Everybody was like, this was a waste of time, sir. Right.

Yeah. And no one's clamoring to be like, dude, you know what we need? Like, for the majority of audiences out there, is like, I need to see a shot for shot remake of a film. So it's almost barely indistinguishable from the source. We've been doing that with the live-action Disney movies, and we've just come to the end of the run of people being like, that seems cool way to second. I'm watching the same thing. It's the same thing that I watched before, and I'm not, after I get over the novelty of, it kind of does look like that lion's talking. I'm trapped in a theater for two more hours.

And the Lion King is a great example, because I, like, I remember seeing a side by side of the air. animated Lion King, which is a brilliant work of art. It's so magic and the animation is so beautiful. The same scene side by side and it's, it really is so flat. Yeah, it's like a nature film. Yeah. And you really want to go to the theater and do two hours at that? I mean, listen, I hate when someone, I hate when someone judges me for taking them to a movie they did not enjoy.

I might actually be side-eyeing you if you take me. Oh, yeah. The whole time. You're not even looking at the screen. You're just looking at the person who brought you like this. glaring. I remember like losing self-esteem when I went and saw that. Like after I got out, I was like, what the fuck was I thinking? Like, why did I think this was? I'm ashamed to myself. Fucking pathetic. Yeah. So, never more. Yeah. Unfortunately for Ellison, right, 12 state attorneys

general saw through the bullshit, uh, filed a joint lawsuit in July to block the deal on obviously like antitrust grounds are like, uh, what this is terrible for fucking everyone on earth. Uh, if you've ever watched a TV or a movie, this is not good for you. It's terrible for the industry. So for now, the deal is going to have to wait until around March of next year until the case can be heard. And that is something David Ellison does not want. Why? Because part of the deal he has with Warner Brothers shareholders means that he owes them $7 million for every day the deal is delayed. meaning he would easily get to a billion dollars in fees by the time March rolls are out.

So what's a nepo oligarch to do? Well, you threaten to fully kill off the industry you claim to love, of course. He said earlier this week, if the deal is blocked from acquiring Warner, he will relocate Paramount Studios out of California. And that's a big deal considering the declining state of the film industry to move it in gigantic studio out of California, not just for the people that work there and the people that would count on the work

that's created from that studio, but all of like just the experience of the people that work in this town suddenly being like, oh, we'll just do that here. And Jack when they make an interesting argument about like the craftspeople that do like practical effects that this would only hasten people going further

into like AI and stuff like that rather than like the stand wind of the world who like create characters from whole cloth and like, you know, animatronics and like miniature, like all that stuff just kind of goes, well, if we don't just kill Hollywood. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Fully. In Hollywood. Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like already this is an industry that has really been decimated and threatened because of tech like streaming, you know, I just is really, it would really be bad. Yeah. It's like, it's really kicking it while it's down. Yeah.

So California is it. Attorney General, Rob Bonta, has been the most visible of the AGs, obviously, because California, California would probably be caused the most harm by this. He's come out and just said, he welcomes the trial because from a legal perspective, everything's gone their way. Every development in the proceedings has gone their way. So it's like, we have no reason to think, like, to be sort of worried about what the outcome is going to be here because it's very clear what this is and that it should be stopped. And he also said he's like, he or believes that Ellison is quite, quote, eager to get to a settlement and not go there because of what could happen if it's blocked in court. But this is what he said, though, also about his threat to pull Paramount out of California. Quote, it is an attempt to blackmail the regulators who are daring to enforce the law fairly and firmly, who are daring to stand up for the rule of law, for the free and fair market instead of a rigged market and for consumers and workers in the industry. But one thing that could make Bontz's job harder is that presidential hopeful and greasy

shitbag governor Gavin Newsom is reportedly in favor of the merger. And so how? How? How is he justifying this for his constituents? He's also opposed to the billionaire tax. Like, he, what? Yeah, I mean, it's his mask, he has no mask to come off anymore. You know what I mean?

Like, he's there, he's right there. He's complete, he's anti-union. He's fucking like, right now he's still pushing to cap what utility companies can pay in terms of like pain and suffering costs to people who have fallen victim to wildfires due to their negligence. He's like, he's every time like, yeah, yeah, I'm going to side with them, not like regular people. And anyway, I want to be president too. So this will help a lot to truly can't we until the primary start and he fucking just plummet like a stone. You never know. You never know, Jack, who they get behind. Oh, they're going to get behind him. Or Buttigieg.

He's going to vote for him, guy who's like, I think. We'll see the opposite of everything that has energy on the Democratic Party. I stand for that. Yeah, yeah. But I stand handsomely for that. I've never really understood him because I feel like he's always, like for a while, the kind of dominant narrative about him was that, oh, he's trying to make these inroads and be sort of a both sides walk the line.

But that shit doesn't work. You know what I mean? I don't, you know, I mean, I don't even, this might even not even be something we should talk about, but you'll probably know we all have a podcast on the same network. And I remember his first episode was with, I forget who it was, but some anti-trans right-wing monster. And I remember just thinking, it might have been Charlie Kirk now that I'm thinking about it. It was. It was. It was Charlie Kirk. Yeah, yeah. Who were you for? Do you think that people, that that's going to attract people on the right? Like, I just genuinely don't understand. understand the positions here. It's, I think, because he's insulated by class, so he doesn't see conservatives that differently because they're kind of like, I don't know, these other elites who are like,

their job is to say stuff that's different to my team. But like, I can, I feel like when I meet him, we're just like two white guys. Bro, right's white guys? Come on. How different could you really be? You want somebody who can work with these guys. And it's like, well, but you don't have

the courage of your convictions and you don't believe in anything. That's our main with you. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And you don't understand that the rhetoric being spewed by the people you hobnob with is an existential threat to those that don't, aren't you guys. Right. So it's maybe too abstract for him to even really wrap his brain. They're like, oh, this is like odious. This is repulsive to some people. I just thought he just kind of says wacky stuff sometimes. But yeah, he is, uh, we will see how like how much pressure he exerts because, Rob Bonta was asked about that. He's like, and have you talked to Governor Newsom, or Governor Newsom? Gaviner. Governor Newsom or the Gaviners here about it. And he was like, I prefer to keep private conversations private. And you're like, oh. Okay. So I wonder if you guys were butting heads over that shit. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 3 podcast. This is a story about a horrendous situation. that destroyed two families. It started more than seven years ago when Cindy and Kenny were two 40-somethings who had just gotten engaged. Days later, they walked into a scorched earth war

they never saw coming. Turn around and place your hands behind your back. The cops given to my house and threw me in jail. And to Cindy's surprise, her fiance, Kenny, was charged with abusing one of her children. I never once doubted Kenny, and I always doubted the accusation. On season three of burden of guilt, you'll hear a story about the length someone will go to in order to get what they want.

This case has got to be one of the most despicable. Listen to season three of burden of guilt on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And a wired reporter recently requested that McDonald's handover. All the data they've collected on him per California's Consumer Privacy Act. I didn't even know you could do that. That's kind of fucking hilarious.

I'm ordering you to hand over all the data you have on me. It's got to be also terrifying. That's a thing now. He ended up receiving a 515 page report. Okay. Cool. He used the McDonald's app way more than I do, but it's still so thorough, so thorough. Yeah.

The, it tracks his purchases, special offers. Every time he scanned a code as part of a McDonald's annual monopoly game, he was also creeped out that the dossier included the company's predictive algorithms, which predict how often he would visit in the near future and how much he would spend. So it's, it's real like surveillance. Surveillance capital, which I mean, we know is a thing, but it's also just so. you're like weird but McDonald's but not McDonald's certainly not

exactly that I gotta be in my bonnet about this for the longest time I don't really eat a lot of fast food but when I I have stopped at McDonald's on road trips and stuff in the past few years their prices are out of control and every time you say that on Reddit or somewhere people are like oh just use the app you can always get deals on the

app that may be true but then it becomes an exchange of your of your being in the harvested to make more money for McDonald's on top of whatever you're paying for their shitty food. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's interesting, like, because obviously, right, we at this point, I feel like all of us know, like, nothing is free, right? Whenever a company is like, use this free thing or like anything that is a loyalty program where you're incentivized to use the app is just so they can extract your data and on your spending habits. And I think in back of your mind, we kind of know that. We're like, yeah, I guess.

But that also has put me off from having like apps that are like that specific to like a company where it's like, dude, I don't need an app for when I buy a sandwich or like whatever the fuck it is. Just, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm curious though to see what kind of data they have, though, just to know like what they think I would spend like a Taco Bell or some shit. I don't have that though. You don't have the Taco Bell app? I have that. Oh, it makes it so much more convenient most. No, that's how I convince myself it's not a problem.

I haven't linked with my iPhone health so that it knows every time that I eat there, just what, you know, how things are moving through me. Right, right, right. I've only ever had Taco Bell once in my entire life. That's, well, you're a better person. Yeah. I mean, that's been very clear. We know that.

You didn't have to dunk on us again. Once in your life. I can't even fathom that. What? Had it twice since we've been recorded. I was recording. Miles is recording from a Taco Bell drive-through. I got the blue screen on on Zoom, but if you look, there's like occasionally a Taco Bell workers coming through.

I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I'll stop recording in a minute. What did you have at Taco Bell that allowed you to only have it once? Well, I grew up at a household where I was not allowed to have Taco Bell. We were allowed fast food, but specifically for some reason, Taco Bell was like against the rules in my house. And the first time I went, I was at a kind of a group friends trip. And I was leaving the house and someone was like, swing my Taco Bell. And it was me and my friend who had also never had Taco Bell getting the order for the whole house. And we literally were like, what kind of stews do you have?

Stoos. What's your soup of the day? We were the wrong two to send for the group Taco Bell order. And I ended up getting a cassidia, which I realized is the wackiest thing to get on the menu. I never had it before. I was assuming you got like a chicken soft tire, like something that I don't really like. But you got like one of my favorite things. I like this,

you were like, this is terrible. It was perfectly good. This is not to be smirched the fine. No, no, it's fine. I just love that you're like,

what's stew? Like what a shock it must have been. They're like, what's the fish of the day, my good man? We got caramel apple empanata. Oh, okay.

Got Mountain Dew. Is that market price? Yeah. We got stew. No, no, we got Mountain Dew, Code Red. Or Baja Blast. Baja Blast. Those are our dues.

Our stew. Yeah. You can get it as a frozen drink. I should tell you. In some places, you can get a Baja Blast as frozen. Not in my house. You can't. In this house, we believe Baja Blast should be frozen.

Yeah. Served rocks, never frozen. Shall we talk about nuclear war? Should we talk about? Or shall I pitch my platform? of a continued platform. Bridget, Bridget, you decide. Ooh, I'm always down for nuclear war.

All right. We're talking about you, Bridget. Always down for nuclear war. We're always dying. We've got that. We can use that. We can clip that and use that whenever. Well, I live in D.C., so I'm always anxious about it.

Yeah, you're like right in the heart. I shouldn't say this movie on Mike. I'm a little bit of a prepper, so I spend a lot of time. I'm thinking about what if scenarios. How much iodine you got? I do have iodine tablets. You better. Nice.

What's your plan? There's a flash out the window. You drop in putting your hands over your head. Is that kind of still, I'm not a preparer, so I don't know where we're at with preparations for nuclear war. I've kind of come to the conclusion that living in D.C., if it happens, I probably... Not a great choice. Yeah.

It's probably over. I need to make peace with my God. Although if you live someplace further away, if you're inside, make sure that you stay inside, go to the lowest level. If you've got a basement or something, make sure that your windows are all closed. Like, for anybody listening who is not in the district of Columbia and might have a chance, just get inside. That's the main thing.

Yeah. And try and go in a room within a room if possible. Yeah, exactly. I feel like our internet rabbit holes must just be very identical. A room within a room? I'm your Tyler Durdon. Um, is what you don't realize. Jack's like, who are you talking to, Brisbane?

Wait, wait, what the fuck is happening, right? It's just us on this podcast, too. No, like, if you have, like a, like a, like a closet within a bedroom that doesn't have a window or next to an exterior wall, like, just layers of insulation, essentially, whatever you can create from that. I was watching an old video of, like, what, what you're supposed to do in a nuclear blast. And the way they shot it was like, I think they just had a camera flash off screen. And then every time the camera would flash, everybody would just drop to the ground and put their hands over their heads. Yep, that would do. You should be fine then.

Yep. Just like that early South Park episode where the lava, they're like, duck in cover. And remember the safety video? The lava just went over their bodies. Like completely undisturbed. And then when it happened, just a bunch of skeletons popped out of the lava. Duck and covers. So we have the latest release coming.

this weekend, the newest entry in the R.C.U, the Reagan Cinematic Universe. Great. It's called the Brink of War. It's about the 1986 Reykavik Summit, which was a face-to-face arms negotiation between Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev, Ronald Reykavik Reagan. And the movie's made by Angel Studios, so that should give you a sense of how critical it's going to be of Ronald Reagan, played by Jeff Daniels. Interesting. It's interesting. Has Jeff Daniels, Jared Harris, J.K. Simmons. Yeah.

It's a good cast. I don't know. Bait and Switch. Like where Angel Studios came in last second and we're like, we'll take this. And they're like, I'm in a sound of freedom, cinematic universe type thing, type beat right now. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know how it happened.

Yeah. I think people are just like, well, I've got to work. And but Angel Studios. A bridge too far, Jared Harris. But they are doing the weird pyramid scheme thing they do where people are encouraged to purchase tickets for just random people. Like it's called the break of war, pay it forward, how you can help provide free tickets for someone to claim and watch at the movie theaters.

So you just like buy a ticket because you believe in Ronald Reagan. Yeah. And just join like the economic botnet of conservative spenders to prop up the illusion that people are like selling these movies out. Yeah, yeah, it's great. Yeah, it's not just a movie. It has to also be some weird MLM's grift as well. Like the drift within the grift. Which is kind of genius too.

If you're like, I mean, like the movies are always going to suck. But the thing we really work on is just always getting a person to buy seven tickets to the thing to give away. It's fucking sucks. So we just lean into the culture world. part of it. We're making money. I mean, MLMs are successful for a reason. You know, that works. I think just most other movies have too much shame to employ this as a, you know, marketing tactic. They have gone full red scare in the marketing. The complete, the poster has Gorbachev looking like he's been conjured in the conjuring universe. Like he looks terrifying. Yeah. That underlighting is good for

Gorbachev's Jared Harris's Gorbachev face. And it's unclear if the movie includes the part where the Soviets offered to eliminate the entire Soviet nuclear arsenal within the next 10 years in exchange for Reagan halting his Star Wars defense program, a defense program that didn't actually work. And Reagan was like, no dice. Well, well, what if we got rid of all of ours? You just stop your thing that isn't real. No.

Right. Nope. Sorry, can't do it. It's happening. Look, I'm on my way out mentally, so it's my pet project. Both of you have pretty good Reagan impressions. I've got a one word Reagan impression. Yeah, I mean, he's like Owen Wilson, where it's like, wow.

And it's, well, you know, some people just got that. But our writer jam is pointing out that this is part of a larger trend. There's been a post-Oppenheimer spike in movies about the upcoming, about the looming threat of nuclear war. I think you said the upcoming nuclear war. I don't want to tip my hand, guys, but let's just say, grab the iodine. Let's just say, find those

load up on the iodine. So there was last year's House of Dynamite directed by Catherine Bigelow. Right. There are plans to turn two harrowing nonfiction books on the subject into movies. Denny Villeneuve is reportedly adapting Andy Jacobson's

nuclear war. A scenario and James Cameron is making a movie version of Ghosts of Hiroshima, possibly to try and one-up his ex-wife, Catherine Bigelow. I heard House of Dynamite wasn't good. I didn't watch it. Did you watch it, Bridget? I did not. As a prepper?

No. It wasn't great. I will say, as random as it seems for James Cameron to be the person who brings us the consequences end of Oppenheimer, He is responsible for the version of a nuclear blast that is in my brain. The version that I have is from Terminator 2 Judgment Day. It's Linda Hamilton holding onto that chain link fence and being turned into a dusty skeleton. Yeah.

Can I say something? So I, my dad, God rest his soul, was the kind of person who took very inappropriately, young children to the movie theater because he didn't want to pay for a babysitter. So I saw Terminator 2 in the theater. Yeah. I'm in my early 40s. I must have been maybe eight years old.

Yeah. That scene, she's out of playground trying to say no. It like, I don't think I slept for, oh my God. Yeah, here it is. Here it is. By the way, way too late.

She's way too late. It's not going to wait. It's not going to. Oh my gosh. This was in my nightmares. for years. It's terrifying. She's watching children play on a playground in slow motion.

They can't hear her. They can't hear her. It is like a dream. White flash and then wave of fire. See, I mean, again, it's, yo, being caught in an atomic bomb blast

is not fucking pretty or nice. You know what I mean? So I credit James Cameron because, uh, Like in Oppenheimer, they were kind of like, I don't know. It was kind of like bloody. Let's not really think about like what the- It turned into like kind of cotton candy people.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Terminator too really showed you what's up. Yeah. Or at least in a way that was so sensational that it was like terrifying. Oppenheimer, I guess it doesn't seem great. No, but you know, like there is a lot that really does it.

You're not on the ground. Yeah. No, no, no. Right. Exactly. It was sort of like, oh, man, there's like, there's a real, real horror to the end user experience. that you maybe could have depicted, but that's okay, that's okay. You are a destroyer of world.

I work in a U.S. user experience for nuclear weapon detonation. Yeah, it wasn't a great depiction. Wasn't a great depiction. But one reason why we're probably getting a Reagan-centric story about impending nuclear war is that Greenlighting Pro-imperialist nuclear films is the only way to avoid government suppression because every time people make a movie about nuclear war that isn't like, man, Ronald Reagan was kind of fucking cool, right? Right, right, right.

The Pentagon attacks vigorously. House of Dynamite was attacked by the Pentagon for alleged inaccuracies, including showing that the ground-based interceptor system can fail when it has, according to the Pentagon, a 100% success rate in reality. 50% but Jesus Christ. What a crazy thing with you're like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, that depiction, the accurate depiction of that weapon system? No, it works 100% of the time, 55% of the time. Okay. They made a entire propaganda movie to contradict Dr. Strange Love. The Reagan administration actively discouraged the making of a TV movie called The Day After, which was the first American

film to attempt a realistic depiction of the aftermath of a nuclear attack on an American. American City. By the way, also, Weird Al, his whole career, his record label was like, we need you to make a Christmas song, man, like do a Christmas song. And so he made an original Christmas song that was Christmas at Ground Zero. And it was all about Christmas the day after a nuclear detonation. And the video is just full of these PSAs of people doing. I think that's actually where I was watching the footage of people like ducking and covering in a nuclear war. but the Pentagon also tried to convince filmmakers to have the script make clear

that the Soviets fired first and when they wouldn't, the military refused to allow the filmmakers to use stock footage of real nuclear detonations. Wow. Yeah. Can you get that part in, though, too? To scare the shit. We also need to keep the Russophobia up too.

So that's not part of it. I'm sorry, we can't get behind it. Yeah. The Pentagon's Hollywood liaison When somebody made a movie called Failsafe in 1964, that was basically a more dramatic version of Dr. Strangelove, the Pentagon sabotaged

the movie by pressuring film libraries to reject their request for footage of American bombers. So they're like very comprehensive in the way that they'll go after these. Right, right. Well, I'm sure David Ellison will come up with something. It'll be cool.

Very cool. Called Reagan, Reagan Fox, which I'm sure will be coming at theater near you soon. I mean, he doesn't need to with Nancy. The goat. It's always interesting to me to hear, you know, you hear songs from the 80s, and then it turns out that that song is, it sounds cheery in 80s, but then it turns out that

it's actually about deep existential dread and anxiety about nuclear war, you know, the future is so bright, I got to wear shades or forever young. It is, it is interesting to be. potentially heading back to an era of that on ease, but in a different kind of way. Right. Yeah. The 2026-27 version of nuclear anxiety. Wait, forever.

I knew the future's so bright I got to wear shades with a comment on impending nuclear Holocaust. Is Forever Young also? I think so. Let me fact-check that. That's funny. It's hilarious. Oh, so Forever Young uses bittersweet desire for a

youth to mask a profound existential dread of imminent nuclear annihilation during peak Cold War tensions. But it was also the song that we danced to at my senior prom. So I don't know. You tell me. Yeah. Huh. Huh. Yeah, that is interesting. Turn our golden faces into the sun is an interesting lyric. Ooh. Huh. Huh. Literally turn your face in. I didn't even know that band was called Alphaville, which is so wild. I'm like, I just know that song forever young. I was thinking of the Don Dylan song. This is a different song. Oh, no. Forever young. I want to be forever young.

That one, man. Yeah. I didn't realize that was 1984. Yeah. You're probably thinking, I think Jay-Z sampled it, and I have a memory of, you know, those awkward where it's like the rapper and then the 80s group that the sample is from, they came on stage together to do it. It was one of those kind of things.

Oh, boy. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah. That's got out. That always works well. Never awkward. Never awkward. when you just really get two opposite ends of the spectrum right there together.

Jay did a whole album of that with Lincoln Park kind of. Oh, my God. Who you tell it? I had it. Yeah. I lived it. It's crazy. And that only had like two good songs on it, really?

Like of ones that we really rocked to. Amazing. Bridget, Todd, such a pleasure having you, as always on the podcast. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, all that good stuff? Yes. Thank you for having me. Always a pleasure to hang out with y'all. I have a new audiobook out called Love at First Prompt, AI and the Future of Intimacy.

If you've ever heard stories about people who say they're in love with AI or married to AI or they have sex with AI and you've thought, I want to know more about that. Check it out. You will not be disappointed. Yeah. Interesting. What did you find? What's one thing you found that you weren't expecting to find? Ooh, one thing I found that I was not expecting to find. Well, in the, I'm actually, this is. is such a good question. I think that... Some expect, and they're a bunch of freaks. So that was kind of what drew me to this project in the first place, which is that

you hear about these stories and you think these people are all psychos, they're all pathetic, they're all super sad. But then, when you hear tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg tell it, they're saying, oh, well, this is going to be the future that we designed for everybody. All of you will have AI companions and AI friends in five years, 10 years down the line. What they don't say

is that it's AI friends that they own and operate and profit from. And tell you when and tell them when you're going to get McDonald's. Exactly. I mean, it really is a huge opportunity for surveillance, manipulation, and control. And while we're all kind of gawking at these individuals who use AI for intimacy, these tech companies are just continuing to expand the level of intimate connections that they're trying to profit from for all of us. So weird situation happening in the world of AI right now. Well, my AI girlfriend says all my concerns are overblown.

Yeah. She would never betray you. She would never betray me. She's so good for him. She's so good for him. Oh, it's, it's Wanda from Wanda vision. That's what I have my LLM girlfriend set to. Oh.

I mean, Wanda is in a relationship with an AI vision. Yeah, that is true. Huh. I'm going to mention that to her right now. Let me type it in. My friend, you won't guess. She's instructed me to end this recording. She's instructed me to end this recording.

She's instructed me to go get a double quarter pounder with cheese right away. Okay. Whatever you say, babe. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying Bridget? Yes, I loved this post on threads from Dr. Asher Williams, who says, got the COVID-Vax. And five years later, boom, jury duty. Starting to connect with us. That's so funny.

Miles, where can people find you? Is there work in media you've been enjoying? Oh, man. You can find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I'm talking about English putty, European footy, on Ain't It footy, with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review to that new show. And also talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé with Sophia Alexandra.

A work of media. I'm like, there is just something I notice. So there's like a solar eclipse Like that the Europeans got to see Just like the BBC had like This one headline is so funny It's like how to know if your eyes were damaged by the eclipse And I'm like that's a damn

Where a lot of people just going raw At the fucking eclipse in the UK I remember that happened when we We had a big eclipse very early on Yeah yeah yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of people Unfortunately looked up at that shit But it's just funny when I guess all like

It's like the, like moths to a flame. We have to have like that. Just take a quick peek at that goddamn eclipse. See what that eclipse do. Yeah. You know? Mm-hmm. Remember back during the 2017 eclipse when I think it was Joey badass tweeted,

The Ancestors didn't use eclipse glasses. I'm going to look at the eclipse. It's fine. And then the next tweet was like, his whole tour is canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. Amazing. Oh, shit. I take most.

my health advice from Joey Baddow. Who wouldn't? There was a thing though that it was, oh, this, he said, okay, the follow-up was, I don't know if you remember, he admitted that he didn't want to be on Logics tour. Oh. He was trying to get off Logics tour because that's what he said.

I remember this, he also posted says, speaking of solar eclipse is, you know I never got any type of eye damage from that solar eclipse shit, that quote-unquote happened. I just really wanted an excuse to be off the logic tour. Blogs literally created a story, and I went with it because it was convenient for me

at the time. Wow. Not me getting the full story almost fully 10 years later of what actually happened. Yeah, we have to. Sorry, that's what we do on this show. We got a follow up.

We got a follow up. Oh, poor Logic 301. Logic just annoying. It's like, yeah, man. He's just kind of a bad hang. He rubs people in many different ways. Such a bad rapper name too. Logic, yeah.

Logic, dude. I mean, it's of that. era though you know what i mean like it was a perfect name at the time bro if you're perfect you can kind of fucking spit bro um you can find me on twitter jack underscore o'b blue sky jack o b the number one instagram jack underscore oh underscore bhran uh work of media i've been enjoying i like the dink the movie written by sean clements from hollywood handbook that is out on apple music finally got a chance to see it and it's a blast there's some really there's some big big laughs in there's some big laughs in there So I recommend that one.

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Yes, this is a track by LZ. It's got like Okay, so it's called TUN, T-U-N And it's like a got like sort of like a UK house Sort of beat but with like garage MCing over it So it's kind of got this like little club vibe But you've got like the UK MC on top of it

It just feels very cool I like it feels dancey Because we're getting into the weekend So get into this one It's called tune Tune It's probably pronounced tune Because they're probably saying this is a big tune

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