The Daily Zeitgeist - On Drugs On CNN, Time’s Up For Sex Crims 1.2.18

Episode Date: January 3, 2018

In episode 55, Jack & Miles are joined by our favorite Jamie Loftus to discuss Menghazi crims of Vice, Dave Chappelle's Netflix specials, the Times Up Initiative, New Year's eve broadcasts & producer Anna comes on to discuss Iran protests, & more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat today by the great Jamie Loftus. Hi. Auteur behind Santa University. Yes. I just wanted to give a shout out to everyone who listened to Santa University. It was truly a life changing. The Hollywood Foreign Press also caught wind of it. And we'll have some exciting news to reveal probably later this week.

Yeah, we were already talking. There might be a little bit of upset for some, but it's just people who haven't heard anything. But guys, I would keep my eyes on the Golden Globes. I would. Eyes on the Globes. Jamie, what's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are as a human? Ooh, search history. Here's four recent ones.

Hate speech definition. All right. Because 2018 is off to a rousing start. Guillermo del Toro house. Oh, interesting. He's got two houses in the L.A. area full of cool stuff. Really? He just has little museums all around.

So I was trying to get some hot pics of his house. Check them out. Are they just like hordes? He has a house for the horde? Or he lives in them and he also just has it stocked up? He doesn't live in the houses. He treats them like these oddity libraries. But no one goes there. I think he just goes just stocked up. He doesn't live in the house. He treats them like these like oddity libraries. But no one goes there.

I think he just goes there to hang out. It's just his private museum. It's like his man cave. It's like full of all these old like universal monster movie stuff. It like looks really cool. It sounds weird and a little bit perverted. And maybe it is. But I think as of right now, it seems pretty dope.

Look up the pics. Yeah. It's on the level. You saw Shape of Water and you liked it a lot but I think as of right now, it seems pretty dope. Look up the pics. Yeah. It's on the level. You saw Shape of Water and you liked it a lot. I did. It reminded me of my, which brings me to my third history lifespan of a leech domesticated. There's a difference? Yes.

Farm raised and wild leeches? So I recently got leeches. I got leeched for the show I do on Super Deluxe. I know. And everyone was so, people were asking like, yo, why is her like lip is a mess, like still bleeding? It was. I think it's just works that way.

I was. Oh, you bleed for it. So another fun fact, when we recorded Santa University, I was still losing a lot of blood. I had a diaper strapped to the front of me while we were recording Santa University. Jesus. So you are a true warrior because you didn't mention this blood diaper one bit. And you power through that reading like it was any other day. I was also bleeding while I wrote San Diego University, which I think really shows

I was losing a lot of blood bleeding because you did a leech thing for Super Deluxe. What was the leech thing? So the leech thing is that it's like this old kind of ancient practice where leeches can, in theory, they suck out toxins out of your blood and remove blood clots. It works like a blood thinner. And then they spit in leech stuff. I think government secrets. Leeches. Yeah. The leech state.

It's a little bit of a black mirror, if you will. yeah the leech state it's it's it's a little bit of a of a black mirror if you will but the leech we will so no one told me that uh after you are leeched because i was leeched in my i had two leeches in my belly button three leeches on my face one leech on my tongue and no one tells you that you bleed for 18 hours just freely really afterwards my face had clotted by the time we recorded santa university thankfully yeah uh but yeah i still had a diaper strapped to my front because my uh my belly button was really i was losing a lot of blood that day wow and when you say this i'm just picturing you because you weren't sure how to address this blood thing so you just straight up bought a diaper and like duct taped the shit to your stomach.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not like any proper gauze or anything. You're just like, fuck it. I'm going to put a diaper on the front. The leech lady was like, I was like, what should I? She's like, you're going to need a diaper. Really? Yeah.

She was like, you got to get a pack of diapers. Diapers are actually super useful in just everyday stuff. They do everything. Do you use them as like paper towels? everything. Do you use them as paper towels? Yeah. I've used them as paper towels. I've just put them on my back so I don't sweat through my shirt. No way.

Hell yeah. Yeah, because I had my son's A diaper in my car, and I was just like, yo, I'm sweating through my shirt. And my grandfather was a basketball coach, and he was a real sweaty dude, and he was tired of ruining his suits. So he would like put diapers under his arms. And one time he was freaking out on the refs, and like foam just started coming out of the sleeves of his suit because he sweat so much that the diaper dissolved. That is how sweaty my bloodline is. Oh, my God, dude. I'm good.

Oh, there's so many diaper secrets coming out. Oh, yeah. Hit us on Twitter with some more diaper hacks because I'm sure, aside from the obvious things of being so absorbent, there are many other uses for diapers. Yeah. So the lifespan of a domestic because okay so the reason now the leeches are my pets because the leech lady was i was like well what are you going to do with the leeches and she's like well they can only survive on your blood so if you don't take them with you i'm gonna throw them in a vat and they'll dissolve oh my god i

was like well the stakes rose very quickly and so i was was like, well, I'll take the leeches. And so now I need to go. They can live up to 10 years, but they can only feed on my blood. They can't feed on anyone else's blood. So like once you blood them, I don't know. I bet that's what she said. She was like, you have to like it's someone else's blood. It won't work.

So leeches can live off of a single feeding for like a year. And then usually they'll just die but i can keep them alive with my diaper blood oh if i want he's gonna wring out that diaper that sounds like you i really and that well then i saw the shape of water and it was you know uh women falling in love with the sea urchin and i was, it's basically me and my leeches. It's your life. Also, all adult leeches are women. And so I just feel like sisterhood.

Yeah. I got to feed them. They're your dragons. They're my little dragons. You are the Khaleesi of leeches. You're the Khaleesi of leeches. Khaleesi. Hey!

Jinx. We're already in sync, you guys. All right. What's something you think is overrated? Ooh, overrated. Okay. I have two overrated. So first, HQ trivia, which-

All right. Yeah, what the fuck is going on with this thing? I've been- You were saying the same thing. It was like we were observing people play. I don't want to download it because I feel like I would get into it. I would fucking lose my mind because I love trivia. Yeah.

I was saying off mic, my my friend we were at disneyland trying to enjoy the happiest place on earth suddenly she whips out her phone's like oh my god hq is live and that was my first interaction with a human being who just somehow like their phone summoned all of their attention like that so it's what it's like a it's just a live trivia game like it goes live and you play with like everyone who has there's like a certain number of people who are playing it all across the country. And like it's New Year's Eve because I was at a New Year's Eve party. And it just at one point it just stopped because HQ went live.

It just went silent. It just went. No, someone went. And it just started. And it's crazy because everyone who has HQ gets in a very tight group, but they don't talk to each other because there's not enough time to talk to each other because you only have 10 seconds to answer a question. Right. But they all get close to you. And I'm like, I know.

No. And there was a party happening. I think it's crazy visually. Like, it looks like some Hunger Games shit. Yeah. It's dystopia. Yeah. There's a guy who comes on. He's like, hey, it's whatever.

And I recognize that guy, too. He used to have a stand up show in New York. Really? That he would run. Yeah. And he tells you when it starts, like 10 questions, and you have to answer them. And if you get all of them right, you split the pot with however many other people got all of them right. You get like $5.

That's crazy. That's what's crazy. Oh, man, I thought it was like real money. So while Jamie was going to new year's parties, I was watching all the new year's coverage on my TV, uh, quietly at home. Cause you're dedicated to the zeitgeist.

Exactly. Sweating through a diaper. Strapped on like 18 diapers. My third diaper of the afternoon. Uh, and they had the, uh, HQ host come on and he was like, yeah, we've given away.

Like I had heard of this, you know, months ago from the Jensen Karp podcast. Get up on this. He was saying it's like the next big thing. And it feels very Black Mirror to me. But he was like, and we've given away upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was like, that's not a lot. Like for a thing that's like dominating national attention, giving away a couple hundred thousand dollars at this point doesn't seem like enough. What's the revenue scheme?

Like, I don't know. Like the fact that they have an entire like horde of humans on a leash that they can just like yank on any time. That's what I was like. Is it like a data collection thing? I don't. It's probably a data collection. There's no advertising yet. I think there might be like sponsored questions. Right's part of my theory right is there like they're like what

was jd power and associates pick for best sedan of 2017 the honda accord what percentage of money on your car insurance can you say but i i don't know it's it's made by the guys who made vine who failed at monetizing something once and then it's like we'll see if they do it this time. But it's just very disturbing how people – like both how it looks is crazy and how people act about it is also crazy. Right. That's a crazy visual of just like everybody at the party stopping. Yeah. Like, yeah.

I guess I'll download it just to know what, what's your response to this? Okay. Now I'm going to do it. I just want to be able to thoroughly talk shit. You know what I mean? Like the only way to really talk shit is to live through something. So that's true.

You know, it's investigative journalism. It's, it's muck raking is up to St. Claire used to call it. And maybe you'll get $5 in Christ coin or some other cryptocurrency. Jamie, what's something that's underrated? Santa University.

Yeah. Thank God. If you haven't listened to Santa University, you've got to listen to Santa. For people who are listening for the first time to the Daily Zeitgeist, what is Santa University? Santa University is my now partially completed five-hour long screenplay that follows a college that consists of 40,000 Santas where 39,999 Santas have to die before the end of the year. We did a hot preview of it, and no matter how rated it is, it's still underrated.

Yeah. People should just go back and they will see our reading of Santa University. And also shout out to the Psy sight gang who came through with fan art. They were songs. Zoya Drew did some fan art of Goth Santa and Arms Where His Eyes Should Be Santa. Arms Where His Eyes Should Be Santa was one of my favorite parts of your screenplay, your masterwork. Thank you so much.

Also, Zoya. Zoya drew. Zoya drew. Totally nailed. Really? Exactly as I envisioned. Arms where he should have eyes, Santa. And then who was the dude who made the track?

We should shout him out. Oh, yeah. Oh, Esteban. Yes. Esteban. Oh, yeah. Esteban. Galvez.

Did a Will Smith style rap song. Yeah, and he actually kind of sounded like Will Smith. Shout out to you. It was great. When I first read it, I was like, what does this mean? And then I heard it, and I'm like, oh, yeah. It's like that lazy Will Smith flow. The way that Will Smith made a song for Men in Black and

Wild Wild West. It's time to go to Santa College. Shout out to Esteban. And shout out to Santa University. All right, we're going to try to get into the format right now of the show. It's going to be a bunch of quick things. Strap on your diapers. Strap on your diapers.

Strap your diapers to your sweaty backs because we're trying to take a sample of the ideas that are out there changing the world. We talk about pop culture, the news. We're just trying to take a temperature of the global shared consciousness of the human species. Miles, as you know, I run a little hot. What is our global shared consciousness's temperature? I'm fucking crying. Oh my God. It's a new year. We are starting off. I think we're starting normal. All right. We start from zero. It's a clean slate. We are starting off. I think we're starting normal. Let's start from zero.

It's a clean slate. We're at 98.6 degrees. Jamie, we also like to start out by asking our guest for a myth, something that the global shared consciousness believes to be true that is not true. Okay, so I have a myth. So I did a science experiment yesterday. Okay. Okay. did a science experiment yesterday. Okay. Okay. In a lab?

In the lab called the WWW. Okay. I set my first thirst trap of all time. And my myth is that thirst traps are A, effective, and B, not the most stressful thing to ever happen. Thirst trap is where you put an enticing photograph of yourself to try and attract. The thirst. The thirst. People with the desert thirst that cannot be quenched.

Right. I did it. I did research. I did not include that in my search history. But I looked up. There is a wiki how on how to set a thirst trap. Okay. Wow.

The people who respond to thirst traps first of all just really just you know bosses uh former like people from high school uh you know just uh and and so i my people you worked for were like hey yeah cool picture yeah like a former boss playboy what no one mysteriously no one from i mean they have a very high standard for thirst traps i don't think i can set a playboy grade thirst trap but i followed the wiki how exactly um to make it a controlled experiment uh and you know i i think that and then i had like a full-blown panic attack for like three hours because i was just like who are these people this is horrifying uh and i don't i you know if you have set a thirst trap and feel that it was the right thing to do i would love to hear why i think that thirst traps are a goofy myth uh

intended for you know and this is just an experiment in horny science and you and this thirst trap is posted on instagram or twitter on instagram dot com is it a dot com the the application instagram is where the thirst trap was set let's see what the metrics on it are okay so this this thirst trap for people don't realize uh this is you in a mirror is that is this in a mirror i did what the thirst trap thing said which was like make a fun caption and i, which was like, make a fun caption. And I was like, okay, I can make a fun caption. There's a theme.

There's a lot of mirrors involved. It's a bit of a black mirror, if you will. You have a diaper strapped on. It looks like to your stomach. I'm basically covered in diapers. That's also how the thirst trap works. Very attractive. You're not just wearing a diaper. You're also covered in diapers trap works. Very attractive. You're not just wearing a diaper.

You're also covered in diapers. I'm barely visible. But I set the thirst trap just to see what would happen. And kind of expectedly, my hypothesis was it would be very stressful and nothing good would come of it. And so far, that has been the exact result. Thirst traps as a fun way to spend your time, myth. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, I've always heard of them as like things people do in moments of weakness and then are not thrilled with in the end. Just trying to move forward what Dr. Kinsey called horny science. The horny sciences. The horny sciences. He did call it that. All right. We are going to get into just the stuff people are talking about right now. Black Mirror seems to be on everybody's mind because they just dropped season four.

Miles has watched a single episode. I haven't watched any of the new ones. It's interesting. It's got a good cast. Jesse Plemons is in it. Jimmy Simpson. Westworld. This season, I'll say, at least based off the first episode,

it wasn't like one of those ones where you're like, wow, that's a really clever concept. This one was just more, like, terrifying. So here's my thing with Black Mirror. It's very hit and miss. Like, some episodes are incredible. Some episodes are credible. No, or just not as good as others. And it's an anthology series, so, like so you don't have to watch them in any order.

So I always watch it by just looking at what other people think are the best episodes and working my way down that way. So that's a hack if you're not caught up on Black Mirror. I would just say from personal experience, do not watch episode one, season one, while like on a date night with a significant other. Good call. But that's a great episode.

Great episode that it takes a very specific type of person to like or a very specific type of person dislikes because my wife was not into it. She was like, why would you make me watch this? I don't know the Netflix algorithm. I said it was good. I think that that episode has aged scary well

though. Oh yeah, for sure. People are also talking about a gentleman named Logan Paul who I wasn't totally familiar with him. He's apparently Jake Paul's younger, older brother. The children freaking love him. They love him.

They do. The Logang is out there, as they call it. He posts a 15-minute episode of television, as he called it, in his apology every day. He posts 15 minutes of him doing, I guess, what is considered – Just being a baller, dude. Just being a straight baller. You know, getting that fucking YT dough, baby. That adds sense, bro.

And he – one of his recent episodes, he was traveling to Japan with his friends, and he went to what he described as like a haunted forest, which is actually just like a really tragic place where people tend to commit suicide in Japan and happened to come across the body of somebody who had recently committed suicide and showed it and was like, what's the matter, bro? You never seen dead body uh like standing he's also wearing like a toy story hat yeah for some reason what are those things called from toys or they're like yeah those green assholes are called the ones that the the minions are ripping off so yeah very respectful and uh yeah and he's whack as fuck like he's that whole crew is just like lame to me but yeah i think a in the beginning he was acting like yo this is some real shit i'm about to show you guys so like it's like he was like live streaming and like was like oh god this thing happened he like edited this video posted it and now like everyone is like no right what

are you doing bro like this is so disrespectful. This is so fucked up. Which makes the apology so disingenuous. He knew exactly what he was doing. It was like, point. Yeah, 48 hours ago, you edited it and uploaded it, and we're like, yo, this is so real. I'll probably get banned, but fuck it, here we go. Yeah, so he's a YouTube celebrity who uploaded a video of a dead person to YouTube

and is now a very disrespectful video. And now people are like calling for YouTube to like demonetize his videos, PewDiePie style. And who knows? We'll see. But it's dark shit, man. It is. Everything's like feeling like Black Mirror while people are talking about Black Mirror. Like that seems like a Black Mirror.

That could be a Black Mirror. That is a Black Mirror. Let's write that down. Yeah, let like a black mirror. That could be a black mirror. That is a black mirror. Let's write that down. Yeah, let's write that down. That's a BM right there. Brooke, are you listening? Shout out to the Chapo Trap House guys who talk about, they're like, what if your mom was a mobile?

That could be a black mirror. Oh, man, it's fucking mental, yeah. What if an iPhone was your doctor or something? It killed you as well because the radio waves give you brain cancer as well, right? It's a really good bit. I think it's Felix from Chapo Trap House. All right. We are running out of time for this segment,

so we're going to go to a quick break and we'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhearts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. and she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. wherever you get your podcasts. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists, but the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments

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Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president.

One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of this right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.

The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. And we're back. So we have quite a bit of Benghazi to catch up on. It's kind of a low-profile couple weeks of Benghazi since we last talked to you. The vice president takes leave. Yeah, that's right. So I typed, like somebody said, that the president of Media was like being replaced or taking leave. And I Googled vice president, like expecting to fill in who the president of Vice Media was. But no, I told you I told me about Mike Pence.

Not that one. He is not. Although I'm sure he's he's in a real. Feel free to take leave. Any fucking mother would enjoy expense. Any fucking time. Mother would enjoy that. Right. Yeah.

But, yeah, apparently Vice was a shitty, fratty, like, bro-down. No. Which is disappointing when I found that out. There's media on Vice that I like a lot. But – I remember when you were like, millennials are like the coolest generation. Yeah. Yeah. I've been getting a lot. But I remember when you're like millennials are like the coolest generation. Yeah. Yeah.

I've been getting a lot of shit for that. Meanwhile, advice. Like the millennial haven. It's like a fucking cesspit. Meanwhile, advice. Right. Meanwhile, advice. Hamilton Morris.

Errol Morris's son makes one of the most obnoxious television shows ever to be made. Who is? Hamilton Morris. Hamilton's Pharmacopoeia? Yeah. Yeah. He is. shows ever to be made who is hamilton morris hamilton's pharmacopoeia ham yeah yeah he's he's i am kind of obsessed with him uh in that he his voiceover narration could not be slower and also he's always like marijuana it's like okay calm down okay richard attenborough whichever one that is um by the way when I said millennials were a good generation, I was not saying all millennials

were great. I know, I know, I know. Of course I know, yes. But yeah. I knew when you said that, though, I was like, ooh, I know many people will take you literally. Yeah, and somebody was like, you don't come after baby boomers, bro. Like, ask Crooked Media what happened to them? Because apparently John Lovett, the one of the hosts of Pots of America, like talked about baby boomers being a shitty generation and like got just obliterated. And as mentions, but well, we don't have hobbled on out until we have that size audience.

Feel free to talk as spicy as you want. I've only gotten like three comments from people. Feral Audio, which purveyors of many fine podcasts, their founder, a dude named Dustin, was apparently problematic. A dude named Dustin? Problematic? Cannot believe. He's dissolved the network and stepped down. And yeah.

That's sad. Yeah, it is sad. Because a lot of good plays. Doughboys is on there. Yeah, and he was always in the background of Doughboys. Doughboys is one of my favorite podcasts. And he was always in the background. Doughboys is one of my favorite podcasts, and he was always in the background, and it just puts a taint Eve, and he said some shit that was just awful out of context.

I haven't watched the whole special, so we'll watch it and get back to you on that. Some people in the office have seen it in context and say it made even less sense in context, so we'll keep an eye on that. in context, so we'll keep an eye on that. And Jan Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone, was accused of offering a freelance writer a job in exchange for sex in 2005, and now BuzzFeed is reporting that another person is coming out and saying similar things about him in 1983. Wow. That's not good. My dad shot for Rolling Stone when when he was in high school.

Yeah. Back in the day. Yeah. The weird place. Your dad's an incredible photographer. Thank you. And I didn't just toss that up to induce that comment. But thank you so much.

But like, where can we find his work? Oh, no, I'm not going to give him any free time unless he starts sponsoring the show. In better news, there is a movement, Time's Up, where a bunch of the most powerful women in Hollywood have come together and are putting together like a legal defense fund to help less privileged women protect themselves from sexual misconduct. Very exciting. Yeah, it's really cool. And like, yeah, try and discourage people from using NDAs to like stifle victims and silence them. Right. Yeah. From using NDAs to like stifle victims and silence them.

Right. Yeah. Depriving companies that sort of ignore sexual misconduct of talent, essentially. So hopefully. Read the whole story. Very exciting. Yeah. The Times just wrote about it. And another development.

As of Monday, yesterday, weed is now legal in California. Hell yeah, bro. Sick. Sickest day of my life. I'm going to have to become a weed cop now. Right. This is my black mirror. So I have not partaken in many a year.

Wow. I'm so cool. Officer O'Brien. Right. So, but I am curious, like, how this will affect, like, will this change how you acquire and consume marijuana? No. No. I mean, I think already, like, right, like in California, we've already been operating in this, like, gray area of, like, really easyobtain medical marijuana licenses. Essentially, if you really wanted to go to a dispensary, you could just Skype a doctor on your cell phone and tell him you can't sleep. He's like, I hurt.

Yeah. And some of the guys are in their own beds. I don't know if you've seen someone ever Skype call a weed doctor to get their card. Some of these guys are so fucking lazy. It's amazing. Oh, I love it. But yeah, that you can just go and you can still get like the top shelf medical weed at the place with just a card. But like I guess now, you know, some places like with all the state and local tax supply, like you can be paying like 45% tax on like this legal weed.

So a lot of like people are like, yo, just get the card. You're not going to pay the taxes to avoid the taxes. So a lot of people are like, yo, just get the card. You're not going to pay the taxes to avoid the taxes. I think also if you just – like most people know somebody to get weed. I don't know how much it's going to change, but I think it will – as they figure out all the regulations and make it easier for people to just pop in. Right. I think then – yeah, I think people will probably go to the store to get their legal weed.

Right. maybe to go to the store to get their legal weed. But you're saying that my experience with weed in college, where it was just like, whoever could get you a bag of like really shitty, like seeds and stems was not indicative of what it's like to buy weed now. And no, cause I mean like, even like weed is so cheap right now too in California because like it's because of like the medical marijuana industry and things

like that it's not as crazy as it used to be in terms of like what the most expensive weed is now and i think yeah for this i think it's this is good for people who are like have a lot of money and not any cool friends that then now they can just go to the weed store and pay like a markup on weed uh but i think the biggest thing too is like the amount of of uh tax revenue that it will bring in i think that's the most exciting thing because uh you know we are that we are now the largest legal weed market in the country i'm excited to see the stupid cheesy like weed advertising i've already been enjoying like the the very like pouty model weed billboards of like there's like one outside of 7-eleven i frequent obviously where it's like these pouty hot kids not like kids but like you know cool teens and it says

like it's legal now relax and i was like um why are these teenagers so pouty and hot i love it it's great um yeah is it going to be – is it going to replace alcohol in terms of like advertising and like lame old people? Like the way they treat wine? Is it going to be – God, I'd love to see those print ads. It's like everyone's just like on their face on a couch. It's like, dude, check out the new OG Kush. I'm not good at weed. You're not good at Kush. I'm not good at weed.

You're not good at weed? I'm not good at weed. I try. I can smoke, but with like every time I do edibles, I fully I'm just like, I'm going to run into traffic. This is it. Oh, wow. I had weed nachos not too long ago.

Sounds like peak stoner. And I'm 99%. I peed myself that night. 99%. I was like, this is actually I'm I 99% I peed myself that night. 99%. I was like, this is actually, I needed a diaper. Well, just shift your stomach diaper. You've got one on you always. I had enough diapers.

There was no excuse. You were just so high you didn't even know how to work it. You're like, I don't know. Strap it to my back. All right. So as we mentioned, I had a very cool New Year's where I watched a lot of New Year's Eve coverage. It's frustrating. Like on the West Coast, you can't see the ball drop live except for like a feed online.

It was the only place I found it. Oh, weird. Oh, because they really want to keep you locked into it. Yeah, so they have like a feed that that says live on it and it's actually like three hours earlier right east coast it's really there's nothing that is that why can't we get let's get our own yeah exactly uh so this was my frustration but apparently so cnn apparently had the like hottest uh new Year's party going down. Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen were chilling. And it was apparently really edgy and offended a lot of conservatives and parents who were watching with their kids.

Because of the two of them or just other shit? Well, so the two of them – there was a lot of drug shit going on. There was a lot of drug shit going on. So there was a segment that is getting the bulk of the attention where they threw to a reporter who was live in Colorado celebrating New Year's Eve at a puff and paint party where people smoke weed and paint. God, there's nothing worse than a paint night. Nothing. Fucking animals. Nothing. I don't even know what a paint night is, but.

I'll scream about it later. Okay. But, and she like had marijuana earrings on and like lit somebody's gas mask bomb and was seen holding a marijuana cigarette. No. A jazzy cig? A jazzy cig. And because of that, my child has now turned into a marijuana cigarette? No. A jazzy cig? A jazzy cig. And because of that, my child has now turned into a marijuana pipe.

Right. Which I think people are overreacting to. There was a weird moment, though, where Andy Cohen – here, let's listen to it. I think we have a clip. Well, it's about 11 degrees here in Times Square, but it feels like 10 or 9, I'd say. I agree. Yeah, I'd say 10 or 9. How's this heat? The heat is, I mean...

Is it surging? This part of me feels very hot. The rest of me feels very cold, so I feel very unbalanced. You sound like you're on heroin or something. What is that? How does that even sound like? I don't know. Isn't it like waves of heat or something like that? Oh, that's what you're referencing. I don't know anything about it it like waves of heat or something like that? Oh, that's what you're referencing. I don't know. I don't know anything about it. What?

Good save. I don't know anything about heroin. I don't know. I just speak knowledgeably about what it's like to be on heroin. And then put you on the spotlight, right? And you're like, dude, what? Nah, I don't know anything about that. Don't make Anderson Cooper. Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen, who's the former executive who then became like an on air personality. And yeah, he was he was apparently super rough like the whole time.

He just like and I noticed that actually in a couple of the broadcasts that I watch that people were it was so cold. People like couldn't think straight. Right. We're just like having trouble. cast that I watch, uh, that people were, it was so cold. People like couldn't think straight. Right. Right. We're just like having trouble. Like the Fox production was a disaster. Like obviously Steve Harvey is always the best, but, um, but everything else, it was just a mess.

Uh, yeah, but, but I don't, I don't know that I can kind of see where some conservatives are coming from. Uh, if, if they focused on the heroin comment, the weed things, I don't know. I can kind of see where some conservatives are coming from if they focused on the heroin comment. Yeah. The weed things. I don't know. I mean, sure. You don't.

I guess. Yeah. Because we've never they've been really like strict about showing people straight up smoking weed on TV. So like doing like a hard cut to someone doing a gas mask bong on a CNN thing, I think would be jarring for some people. I can see how if you were like a very like strict parent who wanted to shelter kids yeah and then you're like suddenly they're like what's that you're like i actually i think that if you were like watching with your kids like that would be what would stand out more than andy cohen's weird heroin comment yeah that was just

like a random thing that someone like pointed out on reddit and i'm like wow what a fucking funny so fun because it's like yeah of course andy collins tried heroin but also it's like you could feel like i'm sure the two of them like have partied together and they're probably just sort of like look bro when we do this like you can't just be saying crazy shit like you do when we're not being broadcast on tv talking about me being like people on heroin. Right. Yeah. So speaking of New Year's, guys, Killer Transition, we wanted to talk a little bit about New Year's resolutions, or at least I did, because I've been sort of surprised by how many of my friends and also like people I follow on Twitter are talking about resolutions and like making a clean break with the past. And some people have mentioned like having success with the past year's resolution.

And it's just like never been a significant milestone in my life. Like I don't know anyone who has made significant life changes because the calendar changed. But like how are you guys with new year's resolutions i don't generally do them i do new year's as like a reflection time yeah uh like maybe some re-evaluating but i i it just it doesn't feel like there's much of a point for me anyways i know i won't stick to it so i don't do it anymore i was like chilling on my back for most of the break just trying to reset my brain for the new year right that like the last thing i was gonna do from my peak laziness would be like you know i'm gonna do

tomorrow i'm gonna fucking lift all these weights and run for like nine miles straight there's like it just i don't know i just have trouble like using a day to do it and i and i was saying before i was like i need to hit some kind of bottom before i can really start changing my personal like yeah where you like, wake up in a gutter somewhere and you're like, Oh shit. With a bunch of leeches on you. Listen,

I, yeah, my new year's resolution was diaper leeches and it worked out great. I don't know. I mean, I think that like, we were talking about this off mic earlier where like some people's new year's resolutions are actually, uh,

really inconvenient and annoying and frustrating to everyone around them. Yes. Like, try stand-up for the first time. I hosted an open mic on New Year's Day, which I cannot recommend to anyone. There was a lot of guys where they didn't say as much because I would not speak to them. But there was a lot of people who were trying stand-up out. There were a lot of people I didn't recognize. And there's more people trying to do the mic than normal, like an influx of people.

Way more, yeah. We had, I think, 40-ish people there, all dudes except for two, and five of which who were very, very aggressive doing just just like every manner of bad. Any phobia. Any phobia. Problematic phobia was represented in their material. Can you imagine that these people did not like women? There was a lot of transphobia. It was just really, really bad.

So I would try to light them, which you do at the open mic to get someone to get off the stage. And lighting is? So you just like flash your phone at them to let them know they have one minute left. Okay, thank you. And if you're lighting them a lot, it's like, hey, get off now. You're upsetting people. So we were doing that and there was a small tribe of men who got upset that I was doing this, even though it's me and my co-hosts we can do

whatever we want right uh and they uh started yelling at us while we were trying to host right because based on their appeal they're not the problem no fucking women we were censoring them right right censoring uh you can't it hates it's hate speech which is hence the google definition of hate speech and the amazing thing is thankfully no one's god-given right to do stand-up comedy right fucking god uh but there was like they and and these new year's resolutioners as i will call them uh like tried to talk to us afterwards they're like we want to you know they wanted to confront us they waited outside the theater for 45 minutes and you know just like there there are so few safe spaces in the world that any man who wants

to try a stand-up comedy right now i would say really just don't like yeah uh you're not gonna win with your fucking problematic material right now and and then one of my friends like say i'm so funny like in our private text chains. No, dude, seriously? When I fucking make fun of it, every woman I've ever met is fucking hysterical. But they did. They got so mad that when me and my co-hosts just didn't want to talk to them afterwards, one, I scurried up a ladder to get away from one of them. And then after I had left in an Uber, one of them knocked over a traffic sign. So incensed were they that they were ripped off of 30 seconds of screaming about their thoughts on me.

So New Year's resolution, I'm not – 2018, not good for New Year's resolution or so far. And I feel like people are bad at knowing themselves enough to be like, all right, this is what I need to work on. Like there was a study by Cornell University and the University of Chicago that like looked at what people's New Year's resolutions were. And there was like 31 percent were exercise, 10 percent were eat healthy. But learn something was zero percent. Help others was zero percent. And there's there's actually like a psychological study that found that one of the biggest misconceptions we have about ourselves is that we're not as nice to other people as we think we are. And I feel like that's when you're putting yourself in charge of what your new

year's resolution is, you're going to end up with some shit like, God, I've always wanted to try stand up. And like, that's, that's what's going to change. That's not what you,

that's not going to make your year better. Right? No, it's not gonna make anyone's year better. We actually have our project managers, Sophie Lichterman gives her family members resolutions for them to work on. Which sounds super aggressive on the surface because you're like, this is how you need to change this. But I think that's actually a way better process for figuring out what to actually work on.

Well, at least when it's coming from family, right? Because it's not like you just calling up a friend that you haven't talked to him like, hey, bro, I got some resolutions for you. Hey, could you not look like shit this year? Thank you so much. Yeah. And they were like very specific resolutions, like be more present during conversations. They weren't things like and Miles, you were talking about how a lot of the resolutions we set for ourself are like just enormous things to get more exercise. Right. They're big. And like, people don't realize that your habits, like there are psychologists and scientists who have been

studying our behavior, like how we have these cues that trigger certain habits that we have. And it's not as easy as going, you know what, it's January 1st. So therefore I'm going to do this. Like I'm going to do this. Like I'm going to exercise more. Like there are real steps you have to take. There's a great book called the power of habit that really goes into like how you can actually scientifically begin altering your, your, like your behavior in ways that your brain will actually respond to. So like the very top line stuff, just to help you guys out, like this is how you're really going to follow through to change your habits is first you have to pick a small action right like getting x more exercise is not small eating

healthier is not small like those are very like wide sweeping things like and they'll be hard to change like sort of immediately because it's january 1st so try and just make it a little bit more doable so if it's like you know if i want to get more exercise like maybe add 20 minutes to my walk when i walk my dog or or if i maybe I'll walk to work or something like that. Something that's doable. Or just take the stairs. That's what I do. That's the only way I get my exercise to get up in the building.

The second one is then you have to attach a new action to a previous habit. So we have cues, right? Like you might come home and that triggers your habit of sit on the couch, turn on the TV or like sit on the couch and get really high and watch Netflix and then, and then complain about something on Twitter, whatever that is. So you got to replace those cues. Like, Oh, when I come home, what's my new habit. So if you have a new cue, if it's like, you already go for a walk with your dog. Now you can just, you can already just tack that onto an existing habit. Okay. Let me just extend that walk 20 minutes. Right. That's easier to do. And like, you have to think kind of really small. And then finally, you have to do it like easy enough that you can do it for the first week, because they say that if you practice a new habit from like your existing cues or stimuli, stimuli, uh, from like

three to seven times, it will like begin to actually stick on its own. So yeah, like it's very actually easy, but you like, don't be so ambitious. Like you can actually probably be healthier, but if you take it on in small steps, so check out the power of habit, because it is actually a really great book. And if you're, if you're really serious about like really understanding,

like why you can't sort of fulfill some of these resolutions, try the scientific approach. Yeah. And ask someone who loves you, what, what you, what they think you should work on. I like the workshopping your resolution.

Yeah, because that'll weed out. We call that the Lichterman process. Right. But like one of the most popular episodes we ever did on the Cracked Podcast was about like how little we know ourselves and like that's why therapy exists. But like we have

less of an idea of what we look like than a stranger walking down the street for the most part because everybody like has all their hang-ups in their mind like they've been thinking about this and like you know focusing on different things that they see as flaws way more than like a stranger who's seeing them for the first time so like and i think that's true of just generally like people existing and how we think of ourselves. Like, I don't, I don't think anybody's going to ask their wife, like, what should I work on this year?

And she's going to be like, you need to try stand up. You're so funny. Right. Unless you're watching that, that Miss Maisel show. It's actually pretty good too. That is a good show. Yeah. I enjoyed it.

Uh, yeah. You got to chase a young woman up a ladder day one. Day one, aggressively. That's going to be number one. Because you get their attention in this town. Because you've activated your self-victimization mechanism so effectively. My small action will be wake up, strap on my diaper before I go. Right, right, right.

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You are a Bachelor expert. That is correct. That is not what we're going to talk to you about. But worth mentioning. Worth mentioning. Just to set this segment up uh i wanted to sort of get a primer from you on the iranian protests and just like how do you feel about them uh what what's going on over there okay so currently what's happening in iran

there's um protests that are coming up mostly from uh poor communities within iran right and a lot of it it's based off domestic issues so right now there's a very high unemployment rate the cost of living has like skyrocketed like the cost of eggs has risen like 40 percent in the last year so people are just like what is going on yeah um and people truly believe that the government is way too focused on what's going on in syria and palestine and not what's actually going on in the country and what the people are dealing with like every day they're at this point taking away money from welfare programs and then giving this money to like religious groups or like the mullahs and

the religious clerics who you know are kind of the people that run the country on the back end you know right a lot of you know ruhani is the president but the supreme leader is the person who makes the ultimate decisions so there's a lot of supreme leader snoke snoke no supreme leader snow is that andy circus uh yes yeah so the current supreme leader is ali hominy not to be confused with the original supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini. We weren't going to confuse him. So he's currently the person who, if Rouhani wants to pass a law, it technically has to go through the supreme leader. The supreme leader is going to be like, hey, is it up to my religious standards? And they're calling for the death of both of them, right?

Yeah, but that's the thing is, the weird thing is like Iranians, when they start to overreact, they automatically jump to death. It's not like impeach. Yeah. Kill this motherfucker. Death to our president. Slow down, slow down, slow down. Because same thing, like when it happened, they'd be like death to America whenever we. Oh, yeah.

To the great Satan. I remember that. Basically, when Trump came into power, there was a lot of death to America, which is like, that's that's a lot of work. You know, you don't have time. You got to really get to worry about how much the price of the eggs are. Priorities. Yeah. So and, you know, when the sanctions were lifted because of this nuclear deal, the Iranian public were like, oh, perfect.

This is going to make it easier. Sanctions are lifted. More things can come into our country. We can things will get cheaper. Interact more with the outside world. Right. You know, like textbooks are coming into the universities and the students are actually like able to like do the research they want and learn things and discover things and like basically brain drain into the U.S. in the end. But that's mostly on Iranians.

They're just trying to like learn all the stuff and then come to America. And so that didn't really do anything. And Rouhani is like ruhani's like oh well you know the problem is that like everyone's corrupt so there is a chance for this to go down but all the money is basically being taken by like just people that work in the government and there's all this mismanagement and there's there's blatant corruption but i have to say alleged corruption because my family does live in iran and if i ever go to iran I'm not trying to get arrested and used as like a political bargaining tool, which is not a great idea for me to be talking on this podcast. But anyway, yeah.

So that is the basis of what a lot of it is. And a lot of women's rights issues, like these women are out here fighting. Like it's kind of, it's actually really amazing because these women can be put in solitary confinement and spend the rest of their lives and never see their family.

They could get public lashings, like literally hung up on the streets and lash for the public to come see. Right. That's the level of intensity of trouble you can get into. So I think it's very important, like what they're doing

and how they're like putting themselves out there and fighting for what they believe in because technically they live under a regime yeah so i mean because it was a rohani like seen as sort of like a reformer to like to kind of like bring in like usher in a slightly new era in iran he's like the liberal as liberal as right right right you know islamic Republic president. They were like, he's on Twitter. That blew people's minds. They were like, this dude can tweet. And a lot of the top officials were educated in America and they went back to Iran.

So like Javad Zarif, the foreign minister, educated America. That's why he's always out here on Twitter. His clapback game is real. Yes. Yes. If you say if anyone like nikki haley or anyone says anything about iran this guy is literally sitting there like 240 characters waiting he's got drafts on drafts on drafts to be like all right that's that

so yeah that's a bit of an you know that's what's going on well yeah it's interesting because he's like you said it started with all these sort of grievances about the economy and what the day-to-day life was. And then slowly it started in these very conservative parts of Iran, which are – I think it was the Ayatollah who was trying to say that these were fake protests or people trying to divide the people. But then it spread so quickly. And then the messages really started changing to be about so much more. And you're starting to see people there are really – they're not really waiting for this like very small slow incremental change it seems like the iranian people really want to like be participate in the world more freely and just have like a more modern country it's interesting because they don't want the shah to come back

because they don't want that world of like we're basically run by america but at the same time they don't want this aggressive like religious cleric looking over them and being like no right you can't have that and no i won't answer your questions because i'm literally a supreme leader which is like yeah okay yeah that's like some disney universe like i said i don't know if this will actually lead to change because it it is a regime and they can silence people and in my experience experience, when I've been in Iran and watched the news there, oh, it is just delusional, the shit they're putting out there. Like you are literally watching like just propaganda and just fake news. Like you are. They are the kings of fake news over there because they are just putting they all say there's a protest going on and then they'll play the same clip over and over again.

And then they'll tell you the protest is like, it's a march for like happiness. And you're just like, what? These people are screaming. They're like, no, they're screaming good things. They're stoked. Yeah. And then you're like, okay. Because I've had actual, like, I've watched and I've been like, what?

What? What? This is confusing. Then my cousins literally go, oh, no, this is all fake. This is Iranian news station. You're not going to see the truth. Right. And then I was like where am i so trump is openly advocating for the protesters which seems like a surprisingly cool thing for trump to do yeah but i also think he's just trying to rile up the

situation because it goes against the iranian government i don't know i don't think he's on anyone's side i think he's just trying to fuel a fire as long as you're not protesting him right yeah he's for it he's like yeah not me yeah i love it yeah but i mean like last week they were like death to trump you know that's quick because i think what two people were killed already right like we're shot okay oh 20 it's because yeah they're saying that they are attacking the thing is they won't explain how they die they just say they're dead right that The thing is, they won't explain how they die. They just say they're dead. Right. That's the weird thing.

They will never reveal how the deaths happened. A minute ago, somebody tweeted, 12 News tweeted, six days of Iran protests, 20 dead, 450 arrested. Wow. Yeah. Well, and also, it can't be very helpful for someone that the country openly hates to be like, love what you're doing over there. Like, that's just not. Yeah. Deflating.

Yeah. And hey, you weren't here earlier. We were talking about weed. And I know I know you like that. No, I couldn't help but notice you're high right now. No, but I got super high before coming to talk about Iran. Jack is holding a pee cup. Yeah, take it to the bathroom and come back real quick.

Jamie, I need you to monitor her. There's no flurry. I wouldn't be surprised if you just took your mask off and you were the supreme leader. Damn it, Snoke. Jack just snapped and said test her diaper ring it out um but you have a stake in a weed farm right so i wanted to want to hear from somebody on the inside like what are your hopes and dreams for for the new law and uh how are you thinking about the sort of oh it is so complicated

like they are well we only have one minute okay well really quickly it goes county by county and they come out with all these permits and you have to meet all these permits and it gets very restrictive so like the amount you can grow and you have to literally report back all this stuff and i'm not deep into the actual business side of it. Like I just have friends who do it. And I was like, Hey, here's some money, but it's very complicated. And it's, it's a, you have to get every permit under the sun that they want you to get. Like they're going to make it very difficult for you to grow weed legally and then distribute it legally. Right. So you, you gotta want it. I've talked before about my history teacher who is constantly dipping during class and probably also drunk, who said that the reason alcohol is legal and weed isn't is because the government can tax alcohol and you can't make any like drinkable alcohol at home, but you can grow weed at home. So they don't want other people like privately making money off of it. But if they put all these regulations in place, then that sort of boxes out the city come and look at your farm and go around like test your water and do this and test that and test your – like they're going to make it like a whole thing.

So you're going to have to have a lot of money in order to maintain your farms and your systems. Yeah, because they say like to be compliant, like all those compliance fees end up totaling up to so much money that, yeah, it will be very discouraging for like sort of smaller operations. It's like, damn, like all these hoops to jump through and fees to pay. It's going to be like a startup. You got to go find your investor. You got to go find someone who's going to back you. It's going to be literally that system of a business. And it's, it's, I'm exhausted.

What a day. Bachelor, you're on weed. Well, we'll get into the bachelor later, but Bachelor later But we want some time to sort of decompress And do a lot of research into that Can't just dive right into The Bachelor Alright, that's going to do it for today This was a fun episode, you guys It's good to be back

It's so good to be back So much diaper talk Jamie Yeah It's been a goddamn pleasure as always having you. Always the best. Where can people find you? You can find me on twitter.com at hamburger phone.

You can find me on the application Instagram at Jamie Christ superstar. Uh, and, and I'm on the super deluxe show upgraded every week. Nice. Yeah. You write for the micro blogging site, Twitter as well. I do sometimes, you know, and I try to keep it to well i i do sometimes you know and i try to keep it to a low character but you know sometimes i have things to say you just go off i'm composing a novella on twitter.com the micro blogging website and a question will we be seeing any

more of santa university sunny okay oh yes also you missed a very important announcement earlier so eyes on the globes folks keep your eyes on the golden globes keep your eyes on the something might something may happen in the comedy musical category it yeah there's there's earlier. So, eyes on the globes, folks. Keep your eyes on the golden globes. Keep your eyes on the globes. Something may happen in the comedy musical category. Yeah, there's going to be a shake-up. Allegedly. Allegedly there's going to be a major shake-up if we can get ready. I personally have

a gown, you know. Miles will be going to the golden globes. So, for the daily news. For Santa Universe. We're not maids. I will be outside of the Golden Globes. In a ball gown. Catch me in a tuxedo. Miles, where can people follow you?

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