The Daily Zeitgeist - Netflix Is Slipping, Facebook Flirts With The Right 7.19.18

Episode Date: July 19, 2018

In episode 193, Jack and Miles are joined by Jammerz Podcast hosts Wendi Starling and Megan Rice to discuss Reddit google bombing the word idiot with Trump's picture, Netflix stock going down, Mark Zuckerberg continuing to protect the right, diplomatic immunity when it comes to the Russia situation, GOP refusing to spend money on election security even though intelligence says we're in a pre-9/11 moment, conservatives reacting to Sacha Baron Cohen's new show, google trends, the new Chinese LOTR, and more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 40, episode 4 of The Daily Zeitgeist! For July 19th, 2018, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. DJ Jaxxy Jeff, courtesy of AtTico, and I am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! One Miles Gray, you're gonna want me for your boy. Thank you to... Oh, is that Screwed there at the end? Yeah, I had to Chop and Screw that one.

Chop and Screw that one? At Death Star Hip Hop for that one fine day, you know, aka one fine day, actually one of my favorite rom-coms. I went to the Burbank AMC 14 when it was still around. See that? With the homegirls, Kristen Igusa and Megan Huntley. Shout out. I bought them a bunch ofs, Kristen Igusa and Megan Huntley. Shout out. I bought them a bunch of Diet Coke, and they never reciprocated.

The kind is they didn't buy me a drink when we saw the Baz Luhrmann, Romeo and Juliet, but that's besides the point. Wait, what is One Fine Day? Who's in that one? George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer. What? I was just making sure everybody in the room knew. Oh, okay.

For our listeners. Wow. Because they're young. You lived in New York, and you don't know One Fine Day? Our guests are outraged right now. Speaking of which, we are thrilled to be joined in our third and fourth seat by the hosts of the hilarious self-help podcast, Jammers, on the Starburns Network. Please welcome Wendy Starling and Megan Rice.

Hey. You're checked in. How are you? We are, well, very angry. I was doing fine and I'm very upset and would like to leave. I apologize.

I am offended. One fine day. Come on. Oh, I thought by his scream at the beginning. Usually that's my favorite part of the podcast. Oh no, I was into that.

To the uninitiated. Yeah, when they go, what the fuck show are we on? This guy's screaming in German. No, I just, yeah, the wrong show. Yeah, the George Clooney thing I was, I mean, come on now. Yeah, when they go, what the fuck show are we on? This guy's screaming in German. No, I just, yeah, the long show. Yeah, the George Clooney thing I was, I mean, come on now. Yeah, I know.

Isn't that the movie where he got hit by a motorcycle in Italy? Is that what I'm thinking? No. Yes. Wait, which one's that? He just got hit by a motorcycle in Italy. Oh, he did? He just got into a motorcycle accident. Yeah.

He was going like 60. Oh, he should have died, but he's George Clooney, so the studios would not allow that to happen. Yeah, right. Or the deep state. Same thing. Same thing. Deep state. Or the studios.

It was weird. He just smiled and bobbled his head at fate. He was carried away by a bunch of lizards. They took center of the earth. All right. We're going to get to know you guys a little bit better in a moment, but first we like to tell our listeners what they're in store for. We are going to be talking about what happens when you Google search the phrase idiot right

now on Google image search. We're going to talk about Miles' concern for Netflix and their stock price. We're going to talk about Mark Zuckerberg, aka Nark Zuckerberg, and just where he's coming from these days, what his concerns are as the head of the most powerful thing on earth. We're going to talk about the fact that Trump is considering sending a bunch of American people and Christopher Steele to be interrogated by Russians, which he thinks should go fine. We are going to talk about some intelligence that is suggesting we are in a pre-9-11 moment right now. You might remember the pre-9-11 moment as the summer of the shark when Time Magazine reported had a shark on the

cover because there was a shark attack or like one person died from a shark attack and they were like summer of the shark. Wait, really? This is what we have to worry about yeah the summer of 2001 was coined the summer of the shark by time magazine because there was a fatal shark attack that was what everybody now is that before or after 9-11 happened because it seems like the timing on that's going to be very irresponsible it was before okay uh we're also going to talk about some conservative responses to Sasha Baron Cohen's newest project, Who is America? We're going to do a pop culture slash Google trend skim. We haven't done one of those in a while. And if we have time, we're going to talk about China's Lord of the Rings, which turns out not quite as successful as America's Lord of the Rings.

as America's Lord of the Rings. But first up, guys, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being or human beings? Oh. I know. Oh, I'll tell you. I'll tell you.

How revealing do you want us to get? I can start, and this is going to make me look like a much better person than I am. Okay. The last thing that I searched and I still have on my Safari is the website for the Doe Fund. So look at me. Doe.org.

That's very responsible of you. I don't know what the Doe Fund is. The Doe Fund is it's a New York based charity. We know. And New York is the best country in the world. And I live in New York and the Doe Fund, it's started in like 1985, but they if you live in New York, and the Doe Fund, it started in like 1985,

but they, if you live in New York, they're the blue trash cans all over the place, and they specifically, it's a charity that helps people who are incarcerated or addicted to drugs,

homeless, HIV, AIDS, just the people that are on the fringe of society, and it's an organization that helps to rehabilitate them and give them jobs with the community, and that's, yeah.

What do you put in the blue trash cans? Money. Oh, money. All of the community. Nice. And that's, yeah. What do you put in the blue trash cans? Money. Oh, money. All of your money. Money. My bad. Yeah, no, it's a great organization.

See, that made me look, I was real nervous about that. I was like, ha, I'm going to have to lie. This is great because I was going to lie, but now I feel like, what's the point? Because I need to balance this out. Right. So we don't look like really smart and helpful people. My last Google search was dogs farting and scaring themselves. Oh.

Yeah. You win. Really? You win. Just bouncing everything out? We are from the same planet. Oh, my God. And we actually have footage of that on our Instagram story.

Oh, yeah, she recorded me. I was having a blast. We were supposed to be prepping for a barbecue. Yeah. And I was watching videos of dogs farting and being scared. Amazing. What better way to prep for a barbecue, but I was watching videos of dogs farting and being scared. Amazing. What better way to prep for a barbecue? How have they not figured it out?

I still don't understand. My dog, when he farts, acts like a bomb has gone off. Well, you don't know what his tongue feels like when that fart goes off. It may well feel like a bomb. What is something you guys think is overrated? I'll sound like a real old... I think Instagram stories are super overrated. I don't understand them

and I don't get why they're more popular than just like regular Instagram. I don't get it. They disappear. That's why I think, because it's like limited time only. Yeah, but see, I'm an elderly woman. So I'm like, but don't you want to save it

for when you watch it again? Posterity. Posterity. Oh, I'll show you how to save it. Before I post my stories, I immediately save it. It's because I can watch you watching dogs fart forever. You can watch it again. Posterity. Posterity. Oh, I'll show you how to save it. Before I post my stories, I immediately save it. It's because I can watch you watching dogs fart forever. Right, right. Everyone else can watch it for a short amount of time, but that's going to be on my phone

for the rest of my life. Oh, thank God. I think people just like, when I find myself using, although most of the people who put stories up should not be because they're just nonsense. It's like nothing at all. I think it's just one of those things where you can just get sucked into mindless scrolling, essentially, and that's all it is. That's what I was going to say, mindless, because it keeps going

so you just sit there and it goes to the next person's and the next person's and then you're dead. And then it's 50 years later and you've never met your grandchildren. And you're still sitting on that same toilet. You should meet your grandchildren. There's still more stories.

Gotta get to the end. What is something you guys think is underrated? Underrated? I'm gonna go with the bacon maple donut. Oh, wow. Yeah, I think it's underrated. Because first, when I got one, I've had one. I try one in every city I go to.

And I'm going to California Donuts later today. That's my reward because I exercised for five minutes. No, I think, and people, they're like, oh, it's good, but it's probably one of my favorite things I've ever eaten. Yeah. And then the trick is if you rip it, like you get the maple bar. Here's the trick.

Oh, Jesus. Wait, here's the trick. There's a process. Yeah, there's a process. I like this. I like this. If you do it, because the problem, I figured out the way to do it.

It's really phenomenal. It's like the best sandwich you'll ever eat. I like this. If you do it, because the problem, I figured out the way to do it. It's really phenomenal. It's like the best sandwich you'll ever eat. Is it always a bar? Does it always come in a bar? I like the bar because what I do is I rip it in half

and then I flip the top part with the frosting and the bacon over and smash it down so that it's in the middle like a sandwich. Like an inside out boy kind of thing?

Yeah, and it's fucking delicious. I don't know if I can cuss on this, but it's fucking delicious. No, you can, but only in regards to baked goods. Yeah, because people were like, oh, this is, no, it's a good donut. But it's my favorite thing and I'm obsessed with it.

Are they pieces of bacon? Well, the California donut one, and that's kind of the, when I used to live here, you would always get this. They do full strips. Full strips. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's a treat. That would concern me because I would, is it really super crispy?

Like you bite through it and it's just. No, it's like a just no it's like a medium it's like a medium it's not overly soaked in the maple bacon got it it's like a perfect it's really the perfect way why are you pulling a face over well no I'd just be worried about like chewy bacon strips and then like it's like coming out of the donut yeah yeah just it's just a raw piece of bacon yeah on top of it so it's raw bacon I mean, that's what everybody's saying. Does Voodoo Donuts have one like that? I'm sure they do.

They have to. Yeah. Let's all go to Universal after this. I know. There are so many crazy ingredients on donuts where everything's trying

to make the new breakfast, but I think that's the best standard. I think that's as far as it should go. Yeah. So full stop of donuts. How do you feel about cronuts?

Well, it depends how much bacon's in a cronut. Oh, so for you, it's bacon. It's really, it's just the vehicle to eat it. It's a complete meal. It's healthy because there's protein. Protein balances the sugar of the maple. And flour in the donut has some fiber, I'm sure of it.

Please don't Google it or comment. We like lying to ourselves. Don't at me. Don't at me. Please don't at me. What is a myth, finally? What is something people think is true that you guys know to be false? So this is going to be very cheesy and not to be serious, but like a little bit serious.

We have a self-help show. Yeah. And mostly we screw around and are very fun, but this is a serious one. I personally think that willpower is a myth, and I believe that it's decision making. Oh. That's very lame and like mom. Unpack this for us. Yeah, can you give us an example? Well no, because especially in our show

like Megan and I, we started the podcast because we've been best friends for a long time and we're always like okay for reals we're going to stop eating cheese and stop eating maple bacon donuts. We're going to go to the, you know, I think everybody is like okay I'm really going to turn it around this time. Right. Tomorrow. Yeah. This time tomorrow. Right. And like if I turn it around this time. Right. Tomorrow. Yeah. This time tomorrow.

Right. And by turn it around, I mean the top of the donut into the middle. Into a sandwich. There's got to be a way to make this the best thing I've ever eaten. Turn it around. And even when I used to be a personal trainer before I did comedy, I just learned that a lot of people with trying to lose weight or quit smoking or quit drinking or do anything, quit eating sugar, they're like, oh, man, you just have such good self-control.

I just don't have the willpower. And I'm like, no, no, no, I don't have willpower. I just – if I want to make a change, I go like, okay, I'm making this decision. Right. It's more like a binary choice or something. Right. And so for me, like, you know, and to be like, okay, I don't want to go to the gym. It's like I'd rather, you know, lay around and eat ice cream.

And I'm like, okay, but I need to do this thing. Or like with working on a project, there's something, but that's something that I've been like forcing myself to do is I create better habits and it sucks and it's very boring, but I just try to make a better decision. Yeah. And I think sometimes good decisions can be like, can kind of feed on themselves a little bit. So it's not like, okay, I've made my one good decision for the day

and I'm exhausted. Backslide. Now time to get drunk and smoke a pack of cigarettes. Right. Which is still fine. Right. That's how you get rid of all the toxins from the donut. The cigarettes.

That's right. Pack it in. Megan, what about you? Oh, waiting 30 minutes to swim after you eat. Yeah. That's bullshit. That's a total myth. I've eaten plenty of pizza while swimming

in pools. And I'm still alive today. That's amazing. That was made up by Big Lifeguard? Yeah, Big Lifeguard. I think it was Big Mom. I think Big Mom. I think it's Big Adult Swim, yeah. It's big.

The adults want to get in and have a little fun and it's just people who want kids out of the pool because the idea was if you're if you eat then the digestion is pulling all the blood away from your limbs into your stomach therefore your like limbs would just go numb and you drown it was cramping i was because you might get a stomach cramp i read a version that it was the blood flow goes away from your extremities. See, if it was true, there'd be one reason. Yeah. There'd only be one reason.

And there would be dead bodies in every pool because nobody follows that. Every kid would be dead. Yeah. And we're like, oh, good, an upbeat myth. And everyone's dead in a pool. Okay, so now what's going on with Trump? So the news, am I right?

So Reddit has done their work and they have essentially Google bombed Google image search so that when you search the word idiot right now, it retrieves a sea of Trump faces looking stupid. Wow. And also that woman who called Piers Morgan an idiot last week because he kept implying that she should have protested Obama if she was going to protest Trump. And she was like, I did. I'm a communist.

You fucking idiot. She was amazing. You cock. If you're wondering who that other person is. But mostly it's just Trump faces. Yeah, the first five. All right. This is what the power of, see, then they say there aren't activists out here.

Changing Google. Doing the work we need. Yeah, right. How many people have to do, like, what's the numbers on that to get that to happen? I have no idea. A lot? Yeah. It is, in fact, the front page of the internet. I guess they have the whole internet.

They got the whole internet together to do it. I'm impressed. Good teamwork. It depends on what sub it was on. Some subs are just in the business of change. They love to be able to game the Google search algorithm and be like, do this. So this dog with an apple on its head comes up

when you search LP or whatever. I would like a Reddit group to go in. I'm not even on there. But now I want to be like, here's another challenge. Let's work to eliminate every picture of Trump off the internet because I think he's one of those people that I think will probably get off on like... He'd be more upset about that than his face popping up

when you type the word idiot. That would fuck with his confidence and fuck with him more if everyone just like stopped. Be like, okay, well, he's an asshole and he'll be out and now who are we going to get in there instead? He's like a baby throwing a tantrum. If you ignore the crying baby, it's going to stop crying. Like, we have to work to...

This isn't working anymore. He's clearly like an asshole and a bad guy and we have to like get him out of there. I think that the energy used into being like, let's get him in the front where it shows up when it says idiot is like, can that be used towards like, I don't know, getting people to sign petitions and getting people registered to vote. Well, it's just so passive because it's like, just upvote this and it'll help. So I guess with a move of your finger.

Although with a move of your finger, you could call a senator. Right. So then you got to use your voice and talk's a lot easier. Although with a move of your finger, you could call a senator. Right? So, thanks a lot, that too. Not to bum you. But then you've got to use your voice and talk to a person. You know what? Fuck it. Maybe I'll just make pre-recorded shit.

I'm going to be that fucking lazy. Just go to his website, click two fucking buttons, and then I'll do a myriad of voices. Yeah. That's a great idea. You were doing a really great Australian accent before we started recording. Thank you. Do it. But they probably won't take it seriously.

Yeah, they're going to be like, nah. They're going to be like, this fucking Australian guy who gives a shit about him. Oh, yeah. He's like, oh, that's right. Yeah, do all these foreign accents. They're just like, delete, delete. We'll get a few. We'll get a few.

We'll get a few in there. Miles, let's talk about Netflix. Oh, I'm so worried about them. I don't know about y'all. Explain to us why. Well, I own a lot of Netflix stock. Some might say I'm the majority shareholder. Right.

And by some, I mean me when I'm really high and I'm trying to brag to people at Chili's. But no, what's really happening is they just announced that they fell short of their subscriber growth goals for the second quarter of this year. So they projected that they would add 6.2 million people. That's great. I mean, 6.2 is a lot of people. In America? I think just overall their business. Who doesn't already have Netflix that has the internet?

Well, it's because it's expanding to other countries now. You know what I mean? So now everyone's starting to get that bug. And they fell short by a million, which isn't disastrous. I mean, that's a huge number, but not that disastrous considering they've fallen short before. But when you're a publicly traded company and you fall short of your goals, that tends to have effect on your stock. And it fell 14%. Now, I don't know.

I just feel like this new, I don't know if it's because people have reached peak Netflix and they're just like, yeah, everyone who's going to have it has it already. Or if it's because there's too much content that people are just like, I don't even know what's on there. I just feel like there's so much new stuff now. I can't keep up with what's on Netflix. And I'm constantly just like, I'm sort of overwhelmed by how much more original content they have. Yeah. I just feel like there's so much new stuff now I can't keep up with what's on Netflix and I'm constantly just sort of overwhelmed by how much more

original content they have. Well, the thing is, they probably have more people watching it, but everyone's just sharing the same password. So it's like, that shouldn't be who starts a new account. It should be how many people are actually watching it. So they need to put cameras in our televisions and our laptops. They're already there. I know, but they need to be

watching that footage. They need to start watching us more. What's wrong with you, Netflix? I purposely clean off my little camera on my laptop and I dress up real fancy when I watch scary movies. I hope someone's watching. I always put lipstick on before I check my email. Yeah, just in case. Me too.

That's because I like to make my own compromise, basically. So my own compromising material. I'm ahead of it. I'm ahead of it. I'm like, yeah, I know ahead of it. I'm like yeah I know. I know what I was doing. And that's a good

example for kids. Netflix they set a really high goal they didn't reach it. Low bar. Low bar. Well that's the thing. I feel like there's

a built in glitch in the world of capitalism where all companies need to show growth even if like they're at a good size already. This is like a good size for our company.

They're always like okay what's the next thing we need to do. And it's like, that's not your lane. How do we get babies jobs so then they can pay for it? Exactly. It's just, I don't know. Sometimes you should just be happy with where you're at.

And the fact that adding five million is like, wow, look at these losers. Yeah. You know, that just seems... Well, they deficit spend like crazy, which I've never sort of been like, what is going on? Because, you know, Shonda Rhimes and like Ryan Murphy just signed like exclusive deals. Like Shondaland is just only going to make content for Netflix. And they're saying that deal is like a hundred million dollars.

Yeah. Right. You know what I mean? And from, you know, industry bros I've talked to, a lot of people are saying like they're just trying to get so big that it's like an inevitability that Google or Apple is just like, okay, we'll buy you now because you've just become so huge that we'll just buy you. Oh, that they can't. Yeah. And there will only be four companies in like five years from now.

So that makes total sense. Apple, Google, Taco Bell, and Raytheon. Well, Apple and Facebook are both trying to launch their, and I guess Google with YouTube are trying to launch their like content wings and not having a whole lot of success. I feel like they came too late. Yeah. Well, that's why you just acquire everything. Well, exactly.

Yeah, it's just one company. Welcome to the United States of Apples on book. Jesus Christ. Yeah. But, I mean, it's part of the same like Apple and Google. How do we show growth? By buying every other company. Yeah. But I mean, it's part of the same, like Apple and Google, how do we show growth? By buying every other company. Right.

And then it's just four massive companies competing in the future wars for Applezone. I mean, pretty soon, Applezone. Off I-10, the Cabazon exit. Come to Applezone. Yeah. That's a deep cut joke for people who drive in the deserts of California. They have discounted Ray-Bans. I swear to God they're rich.

The Appleson outlets? Oh. The Donna Karan one? My mom loves it. It's also interesting because we've never really seen a company go from being like prestige entertainment to then now they're going into like network entertainment like Shonda Rhimes and like

Ryan Murphy it's usually the other way around right like HBO has never been like all right and now we're releasing two and a half men right HBO brings you uh two broke girls I just I don't know is this sustainable this whole thing like have you have any of you gotten tired of the amount of Netflix-exclusive things that are out there? Or do you watch Netflix much to even care? Yeah, I mean, I don't have cable. I think most people have Hulu and Netflix. Right. And then other times I'm like, well, The Office is on here and other weird shit.

I'm like, I'll regress and go back in time to watch it rather than, like, new stuff. I almost never watch the new stuff. And it's so much fucking new stuff. What's a show on Netflix that you watch over and over that you- Forensic Files. Oh, wow.

Is that on Netflix? It is. See, I just moved into my first apartment with the television in the last eight years of my life and I have a TV

and it comes with cable so I'm just like, oh, I'm very excited. But I watch a lot of CNBC and Real Nerd. CNBC, wow. See, that's how you can tell New York's a great city is because people I know so many people who live in New York who are just like yeah I

don't have tv or ever watch it because there's so much shit to do in New York City yeah it's yeah but the Netflix thing I started watching Mad Men and I really like it Mad Men is a great show John Hamm is so check out TLC Dr. Pimple Popper. Uh-oh. No, shit is crazy. That's on Netflix? Yes. Too much. No, it's not on Netflix. It's on TLC.

Thank you. Regular TLC. I want something just for those of us with TVs. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, fuck you. I just watched an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for the first time. Oh, God. And I can't believe this is a thing.

Like, it answers the question, what if one of your dad's conservative friends were able to force one of your comedy heroes into a long, awkward conversation? It's like he, Seinfeld, like, has all these, like, takes. Like, he's very conservative now. And he, like, brings up the fact that, like, colleges are the only place where you can't say offensive things. And they're the center of thought control, very Ben Shapiro shit. And Zach Galifianakis is just like, uh-huh. And then Zach Galifianakis complains about how people are always sticking cameras in his face. And he's like, why do you worry about it?

It's no big deal. Just giving all the very dad core takes on everything. It's just like, you should be happy. It's great. You work in Hollywood. And that episode kind of pays off because it ends with that episode of between two ferns where Zach Elfnack is, is able to say all the things that are actually true about Seinfeld.

But, uh, what's funny when a guy who's like a Porsche addict is talking to a dude who's been driving the same Subaru for like years. And he's like, Oh, it's Hollywood. There's literally a Porsche addict is talking to a dude who's been driving the same Subaru for like years and he's like, oh, it's Hollywood. There's literally a part where he, so he picks Zach Galifianakis

up at his house and then. In a VW thing. Right, in a VW thing. I saw it. You saw it. That was a phenomenal episode. I was uncomfortable

the whole time. Yes. And at the end, I was clapping. And then he, later, Zach Galifianakis talks about how they're

like in the process of moving. And he was like, yeah, I was going to bring up like your house isn't very impressive. And I was surprised. Yeah. Fucking says that. Yeah. He says that. He was like, oh, disappointed.

Oh, you can curse. Yeah. Yeah. He was like, I was a little disappointed. What a prick. Yeah. What does that mean? Like, I guess because he feels everyone has to conform to his idea of like once you make

it. He was like, you're very famous. I mean, I was expecting a bigger. Yeah. It's just like how. You don't have a gatekeeper? Right. Where's your garage house?

It's just like how he's been talking to his billionaire Hollywood friends forever. That made my tummy hurt. And it's just so strange. That was weird. And then even he asked him about the thing with the house. That was crazy. He's like, yeah, I was going to say, it's not very impressive. I mean, you're a big star.

And he's like, well, OK, whatever. And then he was like, so you think Hangover, if you had never done the singles, the first one would be like a classic? Yeah. Just was like talking shit. Off the rip. Yeah. Well, that was during Between Two Ferns, which I feel like he was allowed to come back.

Oh, that's right. He said it there. That was funny. But still. I feel nauseous. That made me feel nauseous. It's so gross. It bums me out like in so many ways these days.

Just a reminder, he picked up a girl in Central Park when Seinfeld was on the air and he was in his mid-30s. He picked up a high school student and went on dates with her. And his big thing now- Well, what's the big deal? His big thing now is audiences are too PC because they don't laugh at his joke about how when we scroll through our phones, we look like a gay French king. He's like, just because I say gay, like they all tighten up.

And it's like, no, it's because like that joke doesn't really make like you could just say like a French king because he's like doing like this thing, you know, like swiping with one finger. But it's just like it. It's an unnecessary detail to the joke that just makes it like, okay, do you have a problem with gay people? Like I think anybody responds to it that way. It's just – but he has chosen that to be like, okay, so clearly everyone else has changed. It's not that I've gotten less funny. Just lazier. It's not a joke.

You're just being like, oh, you could just distill that joke down to be like, aren't gay people weird with their hands? Right. We act like them sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And also them. Right.

Yeah, exactly. We act like them. Yeah. That's, ugh. Thanks, Jerry. I'm stormy. This is what Seinfeld's talking about. Thought control, guys.

Watch out for it. You can tell it's a straight king because he flexes his bicep and he swipes like this. Right. Like his pussy. Yeah. I don't know if I can say that. And his fucking sleeve explodes when his bicep and he swipes like this. Like his pussy. I don't know if I can say that. And his fucking sleeve explodes when his bicep just shoots out. But anyways, this is a show that was on Crackle.

I got credit for it back when I was at Cracked because people were like, oh, Cracked? I love the comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. And I was like, uh-huh. It was like my dad's friends and stuff. I was just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they do love it. That's what I do. But Netflix needs to get all the content.

Yeah. You know. And now they have what? I feel like pretty soon we got to have a stand-up special on Netflix. Right? Everybody has to. Oh, yeah, yeah. Non-comedians are going to have it.

Yeah. Just everyone in America gets a stand-up special. It's like Edith, you know, that lady from down the street with the cool succulents. Yeah. Wow. Okay. At the same time, they do put out good stuff. down the street with a cool succulents. Yeah, like, wow, okay. At the same time,

they do put out good stuff. It's like, if 80% of it isn't great, there's still like 20%. That is good. That's amazing. I'm fine with them

paying too much for stand-up specials because, you know, I just like the bullshit holiday romantic movies that come out that they just hit

like 40 Christmas movies at once. I love that dumb shit. All right. Mar Vista Productions. No. Presents. They get a shout out.

Yeah. Because everyone knows as I was watching I was like I had this thing during the holidays I was like we're going to watch

a Christmas movie every day get in the zone and then every the title card every time was like Mar Vista Productions and you're like damn they made all of these dumb ass movies.

What do you think Lifetime's going to do? I was just going to say, is that like a knockoff of the Lifetime original movie? They must work in tandem with them. Every movie is starring Dean Cain. Right, exactly. What was the worst best holiday movie that you watched? Oh, what was the one that was the prince where the woman went to go talk to the purple prince. I think it was called.

Purple Reina Christmas Prince. Purple Reina Christmas Prince. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017, was murdered.

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Boo. Okay, everybody, we have exciting news to share. We're back with season two of the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber Show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. You thought you had fun last season? Well, you were right. And you should tune in today for new fun segments like Sister Court and listening to Lacey's steamy DMs.

We've got new and exciting guests like Michael Beach. That's my husband. Daphne Spring, Daniel Thrasher, Peppermint, Morgan Jay, and more. You gotta watch us. No, you mean you have to listen to us. I mean, you can still watch us, but you gotta listen. I'm your host, Dr. Pepper. heart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back uh miles just said something very smart what the democratization of content creation what i'm saying man it's sometimes you know, when everyone has access to it, there can be a lot of shit out there. Anyway. Instagram stories.

Put that on my tombstone. We just made one and it was great. With pepperoni. So Miles, explain what's going on with Zuck. Well, he's, you know, there's a lot of people being like, hey, why are sites like Infowars and The Daily Caller on Facebook if you're

really serious about getting rid of fake news and shit on Facebook and contributing to the misinformation that people experience? He had an interview with Kara Swisher from Recode. And this sort of quote just stuck out to me. Because a lot of people were like, yo, you know, the InfoWars deals and shit like calling school shootings false flag things and calling gunshot victims like crisis actors or whatever. How can that rock on the site? And then so as the conversation goes on, he talks a little bit more and says, this is a quote. So I'm Jewish, and there's a set of people who deny that the Holocaust happened. I find that deeply offensive.

But at the end of the day, I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong. It's hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent. Interesting legal argument. Yeah, and that's what I was like, my man. What are you saying? People deny the Holocaust very intentionally. There are people who are like, I don't know.

I mean, are you even Kanye West hanging out and just like sharing info with each other? No, it was just very, and Kara Swisher pushed back and was like, I don't think Holocaust deniers are intention, like unintentionally getting that wrong.

Like that's clearly a rhetoric of a certain hate group. To even talk about intent is a really weird look for him because he has multiple uh platforms so facebook in uh sri lanka i think yeah was causing like giant mobs to like over being muslim myanmar too myanmar and now whatsapp is causing there's been like uh sir producer anahosni i was talking about how there were like multiple i think there's two dozen people who've been killed because of these viral videos that are being passed around on WhatsApp. And because it's completely without context, they're like editing something from a PSA about

kidnapping. And they're saying, see, this person is actually kidnapping kids in India. And these angry mobs have started like killing people. Now, who knows if it's being done intentionally or not, but that is on you, man. Those are your platforms, and the only person who's going to be able to stop those things from getting passed around and actually literally causing angry mobs to kill people is you. So stop worrying about fucking intent, homie.

I didn't know that. We watched a lot. I get it again. We watched CNBC and dogs farting. So that's insane that that's really happening it's just a really lame excuse for him to

I know he came out today and was like I was not trying to defend Holocaust deniers at all he was like I'm just trying to clarify our stance whatever blah blah blah but my guy I'm just trying to make as much money as possible and pacify everybody and I think the issue here is that whatever blah blah blah but my guy well i'm just trying to make as much money as possible and pass by everybody yeah right and i think the issue here is that the conservative media has got to him

like basically because you know there's a whole thing when diamond and silk those two problematic black women who are just like all trump stands and like they're saying facebook is censoring us and our fans can't see our videos they They're like, like media pages on Facebook across the board were getting like lower interaction. And there was no proof that they were being censored. But again, it's like forced Facebook to like apologize to them or other like, you know, very far right, like media pages that are on Facebook. Because on the right, they're sort of crying like we're being victims of censorship, even though what they're pushing is straight up BS propaganda or at the very least that walks a fine line between, you know, just total misinformation.

And then Democrats are they're coming at him, too, because they're like, yo, you need to get this stuff off of here. Like, this is terrible. It's already contributing to an already tense environment in this country. And so he's like in this weird spot because both parties to have the power to begin regulating Facebook too. So there's also been this big push of, uh, Facebook reaching out to more conservatives and being like, Hey, like, you know, we're, we're good, man. So don't criticize us Twitter as well. Yeah. And it's bullshit because at the end of the day, you just, they fear this criticism that they're censoring people or whatever. But if you're dealing in hatred and just vitriolic nonsense, then I don't think you have a real leg to stand on in an argument

about why your media or your content is being wiped off. No. Well, on Facebook, there's something that, beyond this that started happening a while ago, there's a comic in New York, Marsha Belsky. I don't know if you guys have followed this at all. She has tons and tons of documentation of this. She'll go on Facebook and be like, men are scum.

And be like, you're off, that's hate speech. But men can put all kinds of terrible stuff about women. This is a pattern that Facebook does where they censor women saying anything negative about men. But men can say all this stuff. And they're like, well, it's not actual hate speech. Marsha Belsky, find her on social media. It's crazy.

But they, like, he very much, like, you can see him pick and choose and it's a weird thing because I understand, like, oh, free speech and this is a platform where we share things.

Right. But we would, it's idiotic for us to pretend like they're not sitting there working algorithms to make certain things pop up more. Right. I got a text the other day.

I barely go on Facebook. It was with Megan. I barely look at it. I got a text the other day. I barely go on Facebook. It was with Megan. I barely look at it. I don't have the app on my phone. I got a text message to my phone, the message app, and it said, hey, wish so-and-so a happy birthday. Facebook is texting me because I don't check it.

It's texting me to go, hey, your sister put a comment on a photo. Get back on here. Come on. Hey, come on, man. Don't you miss this, man? They absolutely have control over what people say and it's disgusting. Well, no,

then people say that their censorship rules are just sort of to protect like white men because even people who put stuff like, oh, white people are racist. They're like,

whoa, whoa, whoa, white people? Hold on. White men, though, you know, they need the most protecting. They really do. We're very delicate,

you guys. Leave us alone. Guys, I'm starting to GoFundMe for Jack. I've been told I'm a Hufflepuff. I think even if they're not intentionally saying we must protect white men, I think entrenched power hierarchies just naturally, if you're just letting things happen the way that they just naturally do, the more powerful people and the more traditionally powerful voices and the,

you know, voices from like, you know, the Republicans are a bunch of white men. So like their voices are going to get through more than other people's voices. Because it's like we were talking about that, like sometimes being moderate is actually taking a very strong political position. Because being moderate is basically helping out the status quo. And sometimes the status quo is really fucked up. Well, especially when we've been dragged this far right. Right. You know what I mean?

Exactly. Yeah. It's really, I think it's the Overton window. I think I'm getting that phrase right. Overton window. I think I'm getting that phrase right. By complaining and by putting criticisms of anything that is center out there as being like far left wing, they're moving everything to the far right. So he's in a tough spot, you know? Yeah.

That's all we're saying is leave Mark alone, cut him some slack. And also the other Mark, Mark Duplass, guys, come on. I mean, a lot of rich, out-of-touch white dudes. What did he do? Love it. He can't expect them to not stick both their feet in their mouth at the same time. White guys got it wrong. He was saying, like, you guys should really, I mean, to my fellow liberals,

like, Ben Shapiro isn't as bad as you think. Like, he helped me out when he really didn't have to. This guy's intentions are good. Ben Shapiro is... What? Wait, but why is... What? Why is he talking about that at all? Because he was probably at a party with him one time.

And he's like, I love Wild Wild Country. People don't understand me. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's... That's so weird. Evil genius is amazing.

Gotta look out for their own, you know? I don't know. It's interesting when you get up, when you have that much money, it's like Seinfeld. When you're like, you're trying to make it, especially as an artist, you're like, we're living on the edge.

And then you see these people and they're like, hey, guys, relax. Ben is really rich. Hey, liberals, relax. Have you been to Ben's house? He has two pools. It's not at all like Zach Galifianakis'. It's actually impressive. Let's talk about diplomatic immunity.

Or the lack of it, right? um let's talk about diplomatic community or the lack of it right yeah so you know there are things trickling out at least from the russian side of things from you know trump and putin had their little two-hour freestyle session uh with only interpreters but nothing was on whack so we don't know what's happening and on the russian media they're coming out and clearly trolling the u.s being like oh there were some really great personal agreements, verbal agreements that the two leaders came to without like specifically saying stuff. And one of the things that we found out yesterday is like apparently Trump was considering letting the Russians have a chat with people like former Russian ambassador Michael McFaul or Christopher Steele, who made the Steele dossier or Bill Browder, who we all know from the Magnitsky Act. So essentially, it was sort of like, hey, we'll let Robert Mueller come here and talk to these Russians that were indicted,

and then maybe you can send some of these people from America that we've made up crimes that they were involved in to smear them. And Trump was like, yeah, well, let me think on that. Didn't he say it was a good deal? He said has some interesting ideas was that the one that I think I think could have been yeah yeah I mean yeah that he only makes good deals guys I know it was an incredible offer was he talking about that the Russian thing or but like the Honda he's like no the Civic you guys it's an incredible no it's Honda days right now. They'll even put a bow. They'll pull a bow on the top if you buy it. Yeah, it's just one of those really, that to me really kind of shook me as I was reading it.

I was like, wait, you're going to sell out Americans to the Kremlin because they've concocted some weird story about how they've, well, these Americans that I have beef with also committed crimes in Russia, so maybe you should let me talk to them like no what right like and also to i mean luckily michael mcfall is somewhat protected because of diplomatic immunity like that was something that was sussed out on the vienna conference of diplomatic relations i think back in the 60s but like the state department has come out and just said like what russia is requesting is absolutely absurd and nonsensical. And, you know, the intelligence community is like, no way. There are a lot of people in Congress.

I think mostly Democrats were like, no. So Michael McFaul is the former Russian ambassador. Yes. And the other people that are talking about Christopher Steele, obviously, we know from the Steele dossier. And then Bill Browder is the guy who created the Magnitsky Act. He, like, lobbied, yeah, to get the Magnitsky Act to impose sanctions on Russia. So that guy's clearly a thorn in Putin's side. It's his least favorite thing in the world. So as we've talked about, Putin is the richest or second richest person in the world, but he holds the money and people

around him. And the Magnitsky Act basically freezes his assets in America. And it's trying to spread that idea around the globe so that people, you know, so that Putin doesn't can't safely go wherever he wants once he, you know, is out of office and has all the money in the world. You mean just, yeah, like his his physical existence ceases. Right. That's when he will be out of office. existence ceases. That's when he will be out of office. And so even though on its surface, it seemed absurd and the State Department called it absurd when Sarah Sanders was pressed about it in her briefing yesterday, her press conference yesterday. She was like, yeah, the president's looking at that, considering that. Right. So this is one of the things, one of the incredibly insane things that the president at his press conference with Putin said that they haven't backed away from. They haven't said, no, I meant to say would not, or said, no, I was answering a different

question. I said, wait, what? And guys, as we're recording this now, Nick Stump gets in my ear and says, actually, they just, they're reversing that now and saying, oh, we were never thinking about that. But I guess Chuck Schumer- Sarah Sanders was misinformed, probably. She's a that. Right. But I guess Chuck Schumer. Sarah Sanders was misinformed probably. She's a liar.

She's a liar actually. So don't believe her. Whatever she says is a lie. I guess Chuck Schumer is now in the Senate trying to get votes on a bill to be like, yo, absolutely not. We'll not send Michael McFaul or any American to the Kremlin for questioning. Cool. For poisoning.

Yeah, exactly. A chat just basically means like we're going to pull your fingernails off with pliers and then just stomp on your body. I don't know. So we'll see what that happens. Yeah, friendly chat. That's a friendly Russian chat. So while we have this ingenious four-dimension chess-playing leader in charge of America, our actual intelligence, people who are actually paying attention to shit, are saying that we're not in good shape as it relates to cybersecurity and that we're basically in a, quote, pre-9-11 moment, that they use the phrase like red lights blinking.

Right. Yeah. Flash. Yeah. Just like, what was it? The Phoenix memo? Yeah. From pre-9-11?

So, yeah. The intelligence people who it's their business to protect the country are saying, hey, the Russians are still at it. They've turned the fuckery knob to fucking 14 now. They've got past 10. They broke it. And they're still actively trying to, whether it's through misinformation campaigns or probing weaknesses in election systems, they're still have very much an interest to corrupt our electoral process. have very much an interest to corrupt our electoral process. And with that said, Democrats have been, they're trying to add like additional grants and spending bills to give states more money to secure elections because they're saying, hey, all of our intelligence people are saying

we are at a critical juncture and our election systems are in jeopardy. So let's give them more money. The House GOP, what do you think they said? Nah, fam, please relax. We're okay. They have money already. It's okay. And that makes sense because clearly any sort of election meddling favors the GOP. So they're fine with that. But to be fair, these things are funded and there is money for election security. But at this point, the Democrats are like, I think we should augment that because we're hearing it's a pre-9-11 moment. Yeah, but I think not even election security, but as far as like cyber attacks and not to be like deep throat over here. But I have a friend and I cannot say who this person is because this is like top secret information. He works in cybersecurity in a really high up position.

secret information he works in cyber security in a really high up position and it is like he's like oh no everybody is freaked out because that's going to be the next attack they think is like and i'm like well what he goes think about it if if we woke up and one day woke up and nobody in america had access to money you couldn't get to the banks there would be there would be riots in the street yeah and that's something that he's like so and it's crazy because the gop if you were like you guys want more money for guns and tanks? They'd be like, hell yeah, let's ride, cowboy. But we're like, can we pay these people to go in and just make sure nobody can break into all of our shit and hack our entire ecosystem that's online? Because we're all so in our phones and everything's digital.

And that's going to be the next thing. But yeah, it's super scary. and that's going to be the next thing. But yeah, it's super scary. And as they say in this pre-9-11, they're describing it like this. They're saying, yeah, they've looked at things from energy facilities to grids to banking. It's not just election stuff.

They're trying everything. Yeah, power grids. Why don't we just go fucking paper ballots on this shit? That's the easiest thing. Just be like, yo, paper. We do them in LA. We don't use those electronic things, so I feel like go analog. on this shit. Yeah. That's like the easiest thing. Just be like, yo, paper. Right. We do them in LA. Right. You know,

we don't use those electronic things, so I feel like go analog. Paper ballots, cash in your mattress. Yeah. Problem solved. Live in the woods. Live in the woods.

Excuse me while I go withdraw all my money from all my bank accounts. All your bank accounts? Hello, money bags. Well, he has three beds. I've got to move a lot of money around. I have some Russian friends.

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when Sacha Baron Cohen was trying to interview him in character and was basically like, oh, you're Borat, man. So Sacha Baron Cohen just left and that was the whole story and they were like,

Baron Cohen, humiliated. They just really need this for some reason. They have a desperate, down to their core, they need this guy not to get the last word on them. And also, so in important news, if you saw the Sacha Baron Cohen story about where he was getting people to agree with the idea of giving guns to three-year-olds.

Kindergartens. Kindergartens. Kindergartens. Kindergartens. He interviewed a guy who was like a big gun advocate, and that guy has come out and said that he knew halfway through the interview that it was some sort of Borat-style mockumentary, but he stuck around to make sure he was right. And by the end, he claims his worst fears were confirmed,

and this is the best line, they had both played each other. Oh, wow. How did he play? Where is the deception? He's like, well, I knew and that's how I got over on him. And I just, I made a fool of myself for him. As a joke. I was doing

a joke too. Oh, sorry guys. You know, I know I'm like a Republican gun person now, but I used to be in an improv troupe. Excuse me for yes and no. I was trying to have a good conversation. And I like how the Breitbart thing, they were like, they're like, see, he knew it was boring.

The fact that he called him out, it's like, what is that? A brag? Just like, see, sometimes people with guns have a TV too. Wait, I went to the movies once. Y'all think you're so smart? Tables turned. Citizens humiliate Sacha Baron Cohen

during gun store prank. Video, get the fuck out of here, Borat. Wow. Owned. Pwned. Wow. You done done it. He's probably going to have to retire. I mean, how does he come back from this? The problem is, there's a fucking other episode Sunday.

And then the next week he's going to be like, yeah, we knew when we were lynching that baby doll that I was actually playing a joke on him because I love black people. That's why it's funny. I would never kill him. Also, my niece has a half black son who. Right. Who we refuse to talk to. But that's a different story. That's because she stole something from my mother. Maybe y'all liberal snowflakes are unfamiliar with irony. Yeah, exactly.

Oh, wow. Also, I watched the video on Breitbart where they own Sacha Baron Cohen. And it ends with the gun store owner being like, if Showtime wants to see what real America is about, they should come to us, because we're pitching a reality show about our gun store. Oh, hey! Shut up! It was amazing that it got on the news, but it was clearly like, the local news knew

this was going to be the video that paid for their, I don't know, online department. But you know what, shout out to California, because even the conservative gun store owners still understand the industry. And they're like, hey man, if you could look, I got a couple pitches. It was Virginia, actually. Oh, really? I got a screenplay. Oh, wait, who was the California

gun store thing? Oh, I thought it was Virginia. Maybe it was California. See, this goes back to what Megan said. This is a problem with Instagram stories. Everyone's got it, so everyone thinks they're a goddamn movie star. Even in Virginia. Right. In... Gross. Yeah, it was in Riverside. Oh, it was in Riverside? And that's in Virginia? It was in Virginia. Right. Ugh, gross. Yeah, it was in Riverside. Oh, it was in Riverside?

Yeah. And that's in Virginia? It was like Virginia. That's the Virginia of California. Come on, bro. You don't fuck with Riverside, dude? Sorry. Genocide, homicide, suicide, Riverside. That was an actual shirt, right?

That's a t-shirt I've seen before. It is an actual shirt. I'm sure you could still get it at a Hot Topic or the like. Oh my gosh, yeah. But they were like, I actually have a pilot presentation. It's not just a Bible. I've got it all. They have the title.

The show has a title. I forget what it is. But they were like, yeah, our show, blank, blank, which we're pitching around. That's beautiful. He's on the scene. It's a working title. Gun Store. It's called Gun Store.

All right. Let's do a little Google Gun store. Yeah. It's called Gun Store. All right. Let's do a little Google Trends skim slash pop culture check in. Miles, you and I are both watching Sharp Objects. Are you guys watching Sharp Objects? On HBO? I'm not. Pretty good. Pretty good.

I'd say first two episodes, very good. Same crew behind Big Little Lies. And again, for me, the editing is so good. And the music, too. Just in general. Loving it. Is that the one? Who is it?

What's her name? Amy Adams. Amy Adams. Yeah, that one. Yes. Yeah. And I haven't read the book, so I'm just fully not knowing what's going on. Well, why would you when there's a TV show?

I know. What are you, a nerd? Yeah. I started doing that with Game of Thrones. I was like, maybe I'll do it. And then I was like, nah. Because, you know, I can't read either. Right. That's the other problem.

It takes up a lot of time with us having to read the stories two miles. Jack, go back. Now, who's that guy with the white beard again? And he's doing it all through Snapchat. So it takes a very long time. Jack's like, I really gotta, it's my kid's birthday. Jack, you promised me another

chapter. I need to go non-night. But yeah, I haven't been this on board with the first two episodes of a series in a long time. And Super Producer Ana Hosnia did read the book and she says it pays off. So all good things. Yeah, it feels a little like Big Little Lies crossed with

the first season of True Detective to me. It has that sort of gothic southern vibe to it. I mean, yeah, I think the aesthetic is what makes it feel Big Little Lies. And again, the editing, man. Yeah. So well edited. Amongst everything else,

but it's one of those few shows where I look at the editing and I'm like, this is taking it to the next level. Yeah. Oh. Check it out.

Now we'll not go outside on this beautiful day we'll sit in my apartment and just watch this show. I highly recommend it. And the author of Sharp Objects is the same author

who wrote Gone Girl. Right. Which for you literary heads out there book heads as I call you. For you litter heads. Litter heads. Litter heads.

Nerds. All you like literate people. Freaks, as I call you. For you litter heads. Litter heads, yeah. Litter heads. Nerds. All y'all literate people. Freaks. Oh, I can read. Miles and I have both seen movies in the theater. Yes. Miles, you saw? I saw Sorry to Bother You last night.

Yeah. Woo! I want to see that so bad. So good. I've been so excited for that movie. This whole black surrealism wave is blowing my mind. And it's just fantastic. The film, you know, it straddles the surreal and absurd.

And sometimes it's so surreal that it's so real sometimes. And it's just amazing. You know, Boots Riley, great script, great direction. Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, everybody's doing great. And also Tune Yards, whose track we played yesterday on the outro, that group scored the film. So even the music is really good.

Boots Riley said he didn't want to do traditional scoring. He wanted something that felt a little bit different. And yeah, I can't recommend Sorry to Bother You enough. Especially if it's in a city where it's playing. Go see it. Yeah. And I saw an even more important movie, Ocean's 8, last weekend, which is still in theaters. So, you know.

Did you like it? Yeah, it was fun. It was, you know, the best Oceans movie since Oceans 11, I'd say. Nice. Really? The cast is great. is great. There's a weirdly like anti journalism scene that just like stuck

out to me where Helena Bonham Carter is being confronted by Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett and she's like wait are you guys cops? And they're like no. And she's like are you guys something else? And they're like no. She's like are you guys journalists? And they're like no!

No! And it's like wait what? Why is that like a bad Ocean's 8 is a bunch of women right? And they're like, no, no. And it's like, wait, what? Why is that a bad? Ocean's 8 is a bunch of women, right? Because they're the real enemy. Yeah, Ocean's 8 is like Sandra Bullock in the Danny Ocean. No, we're pretty. We don't create. What do we look like, a bunch of litter heads to you?

Look at my nails. You think I have this manicure and I'm typing all day? Fuck no. Please. And what is that about? Are they trying to just steal a bunch of tampons from a gym? I haven't seen it. That's what I thought going in.

I mean, you're right on. Because their husbands pay for everything. Right, exactly. Where do they have time to do that? Right. Yeah. But other than that, really, really fun movie. We also did a quick Google trend skim and there are car sized fish called goliath grouper that are I think

8 feet long and like 800 pounds I think I just put too many 8's in there I'm probably fucking the numbers up and Sandra Bullock done hacked your mind no but there's just this video that people should check out where a guy has

hooked a 3 foot shark and is bringing it into his boat. And just a giant like thing from a fucking myth, a giant like thing that looks like a goldfish doesn't have teeth, just comes up and swallows the fucking shark in one bite. It's the scariest thing. I don't know why it's scarier. That can't be real. We got I want to watch it. I want to watch it. I'll pull it out.

Are you sure you weren't just watching the trailer to the Meg? It's not the Meg because the Meg makes sense because it's a big scary shark. This is a big scary grouper and apparently Goliath grouper are a thing. They are a protected

species in the Everglades so you can't kill them, which you should be able to in my humble opinion. Okay, we're watching this. I'm going to the lake. We can watch it. When are you going to the lake? Next month. Well, never. Well, if it's the size of a car, you can

ride it like a horse. And die. A little shark and this other thing. Oh my gosh. 500 pound grouper. Took it. Just sucked it in. Like a piece of pasta. I hate it.

So do a lot of people. It's nice to hang out with you guys. I'll be dead in a month. They say they are the size of a small car. Oh my God. Now I wonder if that grouper, what would be interesting to follow is now if he eats a three foot shark, does he have to lay still somewhere, or does he just keep going?

Just keeps moving. Right. And he also, later that day, for some reason, they were able to just follow this grouper around, and it ate a stingray. So they're just out here just swallowing fucking everything. Alright, asshole grouper. I know. Have they ever eaten a people? A people? A single people?

I think it would need to be a baby, but we should give it a shot. That's a people. That's a tiny people. Hey, volunteer your child. We'll do it safe. We'll put them in a harness. No, no, no. We do know that they do have an appetite for baby.

Miles, let's talk about Lord of the Rings, China style. Yo. Okay. First of all, we've all seen in the last few years, China clearly has a gravitational pull on our film industry, whether it's people in the Avengers movie using phones we've never seen before, like the Vivo phone that Tony Stark's using. It's not available in the U.S. or Skyscraper.

And it's not even a good phone. No, it's like an awful phone. People in China are like, oh, that's our worst phone. It's like the track, but isn't it like the track phone where it's just super cheap and everybody can get it? Yeah, it's like an awful phone in china are like oh that's like our worst phone it's like the track but isn't it like the track phone where it's just like super cheap and everybody yeah yeah it's like a burner tony stark is using a burner like a net uh what's it called burner he's a drug dealer yeah yeah and like he's like skyscraper takes place in hong kong like you know there have been things like in transformer films where you see like chinese companies emblazoned like in the like the background of shots or whatever. So clearly, you know, there's a huge market,

and films like Transformers literally need China to stay profitable because they did awful here, but then they can make some of their money overseas. Well, anyway, recently they just put out their version of Lord of the Rings, which apparently is like the most expensive film that they've made ever. I think it was like $112 million was the budget? Yeah, $112 million. It's called Asura, and it's the most expensive Chinese film ever,

and it uses Chinese mythology and culture to kind of create a Lord of the Rings narrative. And when you look at some of the stills, they're also clearly just ripping off Khaleesi hairstyles and stuff. There's a Khaleesi. There is a little magical sidekick creature that evokes Mac and me more than any other. Oh, wow. Yeah, I saw that picture and was so excited for how shitty that looked.

It looks like a piece of candy corn grew a tooth out of its head or something. Yeah. It's weird. It's so weird looking. It's very unsettling. It looks cheap. Also, I can't believe the $112 million. How much of that went to creating that little guy?

Because I don't think any. I think what happened was 95% of that money went to the costume designer who did a bunch of Coke and Molly and then was like, yeah, shit, I got like $7. Oh, shit. Is there a Michaels around here? Alright, fucking paper mache big head, put this horn on top.

Good, good, good, good. I wonder if that part of the Hollywood culture immediately translates over to China because China's not a big drug culture. They kill people for doing drugs. But if the second they start making movies, they're like, all right, we're going to need loads of cocaine in here. I've heard tell of this pure Colombian

that apparently gets the creative juices flowing. Back up the trucks. So anyway, this movie was supposed to kick off like a fucking trilogy. They were like, this is it. Here we go. And my goodness, it fucking was a total bust. They made like the first weekend $7.4 million. 7.4 million dollars and like it got a basically 3.1 out of 10 rating on like uh like a chinese equivalent of like sort of rotten tomatoes kind of thing and the user reviews or gave it 3.1 out

of 10 then like the producers came out and they're like these are just people trying to smear the movie like it's actually really good but apparently something was not good because they pulled the fucking movie like just days after the release uh and we're like we're really sorry to people who didn't get to see it you know we feel really bad for you not just this like massive financial l that we took but you know we'll see uh how that works honestly that might work like in the long run it's the same reason that people like snapchat and the stories because it disappears they put it in there like if we take it away it'll get like you know to create this like interesting you know, it'll create this like, you know, like this cult thing.

Then they're going to just re-release it again for another like two days. Or it's like, remember that hidden movie that was only on for five days? Now it's on Blu-ray. Right. You can buy it. You can own this shit.

Like that's the Disney classics thing. They would only like release it for like a month and you would be able to get Cinderella on VHS for a month. Yeah. That's smart. You get Cinderella on VHS for a month. Yeah. That's smart. Cinderella on VHS, huh? What?

No, I don't have that. You have that. I just noticed it in your collection. I just remember how those boxes like back in the day were like real plushy. Yeah. I was like, why are they all soft? And then you would like throw it at your friend. Yeah.

I don't know. Was that just me? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Nevermind. Wait, with or without the tape inside of it? Oh, with. How are you going to get that velocity it at your friend. Yeah. I don't know. Was that just me? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Nevermind. Wait, with or without the tape inside of it?

Oh, with. How are you gonna get that velocity? You need that weight to whip Aladdin at your friend. Well guys, it's been so much fun having you here. Where can people find you and follow you on social media and tell us about your podcast? Well,

I do not have Twitter. I don't fuck with Twitter. There you go. But you're on the Well, I do not have Twitter. I don't fuck with Twitter. There you are. But you're on the gram? I am on the gram. I'm at handsome party butt. Yeah, you are. That's a good compliment my friend's son gave me once.

Oh, really? Yes. Wait, just as one line? You're like, you are handsome party butt. No, he came up to me and said, you got a handsome party butt. And I was like, thank you. That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

Finally, someone recognizes this. And then also yeah, at Jammers. Yeah, on Instagram and Twitter, our podcast is at JammersPod. And it's Jammers with a Z. And then my social media, I'm on Twitter at Wendy Starling.

It's Wendy with an I at the end. And on Instagram at WendyBird82. And if you're in New York, I run a monthly show there called Glamour Puss. It's Wendy with an I at the end and on Instagram at WendyBird82. And if you're in New York, I run a monthly show there called Glamour Puss. It's a live show that I do at Zinc Bar. And it is a very fun stand-up show. And we bring variety acts in that we find on Craigslist. So it's like crazy people. Oh, wow.

It's the most fun. I do it with Christina Hutchinson. And it's the most fun. So if you're in New York, check it out. OK. OK. You guys are great with the fun nonsense words. Glamour Puss is awesome.

Do you guys have a tweet that you've been enjoying that you wouldn't mind sharing with our listeners? Again, I do not have Twitter. So anything that Donald Trump did not tweet, that's my favorite one. Okay, so this is my new favorite tweet, and I've read this out loud to myself three times in the last day.

So this is from Dylan at D-Y-L-A-N C-3-E's and she tweeted, my drunk ass boyfriend just asked me, who's the handsomest man in the world? And I said, uh, you. And he goes, false. It's fucking

Ryan Reynolds. That has made me laugh that is a good drunk that's a great that's a nice honest drunk man I know

that's wonderful Miles where do people find you? oh I'm on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray and the tweet I like was this onion one

because I was in a real nihilistic mood yesterday it says FBI uncovers Al Qaeda plot to just sit back and enjoy collapse of United States

that's my favorite onion title ever the photo is like FBI uncovers Al Qaeda plot to just sit back and enjoy collapse of United States. That's my favorite onion title ever. The photo is like an Al Qaeda member like chilling on a couch watching TV like laid back. This shit's fucked up. The arm over the head. Classic. A tweet I've been enjoying. John Ross Bowie tweeted,

I met TJ Miller once five years ago, and I pretended I'd never heard of him and made him say his name three times, and that remains the funniest thing I've ever done. The Silicon Valley cast has been in the news lately. I'm sorry, what's your name? I'm sorry again? I'm sorry again? Oh, God, what a power move, too. Are you a comedian?

What do you do? You're a writer? CJ what? Okay. You can find me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes

and our footnotes. Footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we write out on Miles. What's that going to be? I'm just kind of still in like an 80s vibe mood. And I was just thinking of an album I was really listening to about 11 years ago by New Young Pony Club from their album called Fantastic Playroom. And there's this track called The Get Go that I really like.

It just, it feels neutral. It reminds me of a time when things were simpler and I had an LG phone. So, remember this. This is The Get Go by New Young Pony Club. All right.

We're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to you guys then. Bye. Oh Oh Oh See you next time. Messing with the four, we each gave, they couldn't blow See them how they shiver and shake, the merry-go-round of fate The party forces awake, and then they're never pleased Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Pushing on the stereo mind box that says no

Time for white nights and black suits to go home Time for white nights and black suits to go home Missing all the mouthfuls, I can hope so Flicking off the stereotypes and the nefariotypes The candy sheriffs of hype, we'll go, go, go Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah Bye. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, The get-go Potion in the eyes

That lays off the old routine Messing with the foe The e-game they could throw See them how they shimmy and shake The merry-go-round and fake The party forces awake Winning the never-bees The merry-go-round is fake The party force is awake No, no, no, never peace No, no, no, never peace Thank you. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, The Game Goers The Game Goers

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