The Daily Zeitgeist - Pruitt = Costanza, A Huge Movie Only Kids Know About 6.7.18

Episode Date: June 8, 2018

In episode 164, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Teresa Lee to discuss the Brisbane poo jogger, Scott Pruitt abusing his mess hall privileges at the White House, another mystery illness striking more diplomats but this time in China, Trump and John Bolton's lack of preparation for the North Korea meeting, PotCoin's support of Dennis Rodman, 76ers's president Bryan Colangelo's resignation, the new teen movie on Netflix called 'The Kissing Booth, 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 34, Episode 4 of their Daily Zeitgeist. For June 7th, 2018, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Potatoes O'Brien, and I am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Over a taste of your miles, I'm on a gray.

You're toxic, I'm sleeping under. And then this other part will come through, but I'm just gonna do the last part. I'm addicted a gray. You're toxic. I'm sleeping under. And then this other part will come through, but I'm just going to do the last part. I'm addicted to you. Don't you know that you're a king? Thank you to At Rock City Rach for that, a.k.a. You know, I'm just, you know, surprised. So I've been doing, like, you know, some iconic tunes. Did Raining Men.

Did some ABBA. Today we're doing Britney. You know, hit me with some, hit me with more AKAs. I'm really, I'm in the mood to sing, as usual. All the club jams. All the jams. I like the fact that you always do me the favor of acting surprised when I do Potatoes O'Brien.

You're like, oh, that's a good one. Okay. Never heard that. Yeah, never heard that one before. That's cool. Was that the first time you said that? Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I just came up with that on the spot. So we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the funniest stand-ups out there and one of the funniest writers and great podcast host. And she's a returning guest. She is Teresa Lee. Hello. It's me, Teresa Lee. But why does she cry?

Oh, there. Oh, yes. Wow. That's your friend, Brittany. Yeah, no. I got you. I'm there. I heard you. Wow. That's your Brittany. Yeah, no. I got you. I'm there. I heard you.

How are you? That sounded like you. Are you a singer? Do you have singing in your background? Oh, I have a twin sister who's a singer. Oh, okay. I did choir growing up, but I'm very off tune. I can't hold a tune.

Wait, really? Wouldn't you feel like you're physiologically, you're identical, right? We don't know. They never told us. I've mistaken your sister for you. Oh, this is true. We look identical. Out in the world.

Yeah, I don't know if our vocal cords are identical. Right. Our faces are pretty identical. That's an odd thing to watch two of you sing. One person just a markedly better singer than the other. She's like trained. She went to Berkeley School of Music. Oh, she did?

Yeah, so she's honed those tunes. But she can't do a tight five at an open mic, though, can she? I don't know. Don't let her try. Maybe she'll do it. Right, even better. Hey, like Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born, I was impressed. Okay.

So, Teresa, we're going to ask you a bunch of questions. But before we get to that, we like to give our listeners a little preview, pre-cap of what we're going to be talking about. There's a little preview, pre-cap of what we're going to be talking about. We've got some breaking news from Down Under that we will talk about when we get to it. We have a new theory on just who Scott Pruitt might be. There is more news on the mystery illness that is striking the eardrums of diplomats. Now in China, it is no longer just located in the Havana area, so it is spreading around the communist world.

We'll talk about whether I still think that's mass hysteria or not. We're going to talk about why we're fucked when it comes to this North Korean summit and the resignation of Brian Colangelo. And we're going to talk about the movie that is taking the teens by storm, you guys, a little movie called The Kissing Booth. So nice sound effects. All right. Those are free. Thanks for dropping that in. And I did actually kiss Jack.

But first up, we like to ask our guest, of course, Teresa, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Oh, well, it was just election day and I was looking up how to get more information about political, I guess, lobby groups. I don't know, because I get these mailers and I got this mailer that seemed very vague. It said like leaders for equal rights. And then it was like, here's who we think you should vote for. But then it had vaguely like a sort of off color rainbow flag, like the colors are all a little off. And then it had the lambda symbol, so I was like, okay, this kind of like implies that

it's LGBTQIA or something. But then I looked up the group and I couldn't find any information. There was an address on it and an FPPC ID, but I looked that up, couldn't find any information. So I think it was created just for a candidate to endorse themselves. It could be a dark money group. Yeah. Maybe. I don't think it was necessarily bad because I looked up all the candidates and I couldn't

find anything terrible about them, but it definitely did seem like sketchy that I couldn't find anything about this supposed group endorsing all the candidates. It was called Leaders for Equal Rights. And when I searched that, it just kind of shows me a bunch of like general history about equal rights. I know about Equality California. That's like a big one. This one just was so vague. It kind of sketched me out. And then I was like, oh, no, like, I don't like that they're trying to trick me. Yeah. Well, you know, the 501c4 is the tried and true way to just obscure where the money's coming from. And then by law, they don't have to disclose where where the money's coming from and then by law they don't

have to disclose where those yeah it's easy to have like these flowery names like you know californians for working families just look up the coke brothers all their foundations just have the most vague positive words just associated with them and we now know that like patriotism is now a bad word but like the patriot fund or something yeah the patriot act patriot fund it's going to be uh some manner of libertarian group but uh yeah if anybody knows what's going on with the leaders for equal rights yeah that's what it's called and when i googled the address it um it's in burbank like there's an address that has to be listed on it but then i just got some local businesses i think like a vacuum store or something so it definitely didn't seem

like a it was a long-standing group that has been there i think they changed their name for the purpose of this but yeah no it sounds totally on the up and up a group you can't find anything it also didn't say that it was for lgbt that's what sketched me out. And then it said, vote for people who support us. But it didn't say who we were. And then I was like, well, what does Equality California do? And it went to their site. It very clearly says we support politicians

that support LGBTQIA rights. So I was like, okay, they're clear about their mission. Right. Yeah, that's why it's important for all people when you watch political ads or get mailers and stuff, always look because they do have to say who is paying for it to at least do some due diligence there because, A, it may be a little bit hard to figure out where the money is coming from, but it'll also be clear if there's no website, there's no real like IRL sort of grassroots movement around it.

Yeah. Well, the extreme opposite of that was, I don't know if you guys saw this in the pamphlet of information, but there's, I think it's Proposition 71. There's like no opposition except for one guy that said Gary Wesley. He's had to say pros and cons. And under the con argument, it was just like, Gary. And it had his Yahoo email. Didn't have any information.

I guess it's just one guy was like, I'm just going to oppose this proposition. It's going to hurt my eye line. Not a fan. Yeah. That's a good way of making friends, maybe. Like, nobody's opposing this. Well, I will. Please email me.

I want friends. Please email me. Gary at Yahoo. I'm lonely. All right, Zeit gang, we're giving you guys some real homework. We want to know what the deal is with this political action group

or whatever it is. Or Gary. Yeah, or Gary. Either one. Yeah, or Gary. Either one. Yeah, Gary, shout us out. All right, Teresa, what is something that you think is overrated? Okay, I think that MoviePass is overrated.

Not because I don't think it works, I just haven't gotten it yet and I'm tired of everybody I know having it and I don't like signing up for things so I haven't done it yet. Oh my God, you don't have movie pass yet? I don't and I keep getting shamed for it and I am sick of being shamed.

Thank you. Oh, because like is your friend group like going to so many movies now? Because it's like the payment isn't a barrier anymore and they're like, oh, you're going to pay regular. People go to movies and whatever. I want to hang out with people. They want to see movies because they have movie pass,

which is fine. We live in LA. I'm supporting our business. But I just want to be able to live in the past and not be shamed for it. Yeah. Payment is the opposite of the barrier. It's now gym logic where you're like,

I got to get as many uses of this because, or else it's not worth it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is it? Is it still a 10? How much is it right now? A month? It's like 10. An unsustainable amount of amount of money right they're trying to get you hooked right drug dealer style oh man i mean shit even if you go to what like two a month it already pays for itself right

or like one i know less than the cost of a ticket now i think you know what is the anxiety of having something auto deduct from my account that i don't like I just feel like I'm like what if I lose all my money and then it's negative 10 do you have any of your bills on auto pay I do and it gives me a lot of anxiety but yeah so I'm like I'd rather just make the choice every time I see a movie that I'm choosing a full price yes I know if you look at all the money that could have been saved you'll be like uh yeah maybe I know it's bad logic, but you know what? It's my logic. Hey, you know what?

March to your own beat. If everybody's on that movie pass, you don't have to be, you know? I feel like more and more that is a financial model for businesses is just getting people to subscribe to things and then forget they're subscribed to that thing. Oh, 100%. I still pay for like Office 365 update.. Microsoft's always hitting me for $9. And part of me can't let go because I'm like, I may need Microsoft Word again. And I do, even though I could probably get a copy as part of working. But yeah, I don't know. Some things I just can't let go of. And they got me. Yeah. Well, it's just you make it so that you're getting paid for people's laziness. Nobody's going to unsubscribe. They looked at the magazine model and they were like, what if the whole economy was that? Yeah.

Like the old Columbia house model. Right. With like CDs and tapes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is something that you think is underrated? Oh, I've been obsessed with the whole Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande relationship. What? Wait, they're together?

I don't think people are talking about it enough. I saw a thing on Twitter. I thought it was a joke. Oh, they got matching tattoos. Pete Davidson got a tattoo of Ariana Bunny ears on his ear. Oh, like behind his ear, one of those? And they dressed up as Harry Potter characters and posted it on Instagram.

And he posted it. And she commented, I think something like, let me slither in. And then she was like, ha, ha, ha, I'm going to delete my comment. That's gross. But it was like, she was like, but it's like really. Let me slither in your Hufflepuff. Well, it may have been something else. I got to find it.

I think it was less gross than that, but it's definitely. Oh, well, I like that. But it was definitely kind of like flirty. And then she was like, I'm going to delete my account. Ha ha. And I'm just like, oh,

you guys are cute. I like you guys. How old is Pete Davidson? I think by those two rituals that they did, they're millennial married now. They dressed up as Harry Potter characters and got matching tattoos. Yeah.

Matching tattoos. Matching tattoos. What did she say? Oh, she said, you trying to slither in. Oh, so it was her. He wrote, the chamber of secrets has been open. she say? Oh, she said, you trying to slither in. Oh, so it was her. He wrote, the Chamber of Secrets has been open.

And she commented, you trying to slither in. Oh, they're the same age. Get down. Yeah. He's very young. I know. I always think he's much older. I forget how young he is.

Yeah, he does look older than her. She also tries to look like she's 12. That's true. Yes, yes. That is definitely. And you'll only see the left side of her face. I'm all for this relationship. I'm all for hot divas dating comedians

because it opens the door for us comedians to do hot divas. Yeah, just divas, whoever. Yeah, so maybe one day. Maybe one day, Ariana, when you move on from Pete, holler at me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There you go. And Celine Dion, when you move on from whoever. Oh, yes, yeah. There you go. And Celine Dion when you move on. Oh, yes. Whoever. Celine. Get on a kayak to those children. I would get on a helicopter.

Man, watch that. After Hurricane Katrina, she is so upset at the lack of response by the government for those people. Yeah. Yeah, no, that is the iconic moment post-Katrina is Celine Dion. Get on the kayak. Getting on TV and talking about that. You clearly are paying more attention to Celine Dion than most people.

Like, yeah, and remember that Katrina moment? Remember that? Who could? Well, no, that's from my old co-worker, Rom, who always put me on to the latest Celine Dion news. Dope. And I'll go with Shania. Shania seems like a real catch.

Oh, wow. Because she's a maga? Because she's a maga? Because she's a drug dealer? Yeah, she's a drug dealer. No, she just said, you know, she's Canadian, and it would be fun. Well, after all that backlash, she was like, okay, my bad, you know, look, I'm just saying,

it wasn't that I agreed. Look, still come to my concert that you all bought tickets for. At least I will give her credit for that. Well, she has a lot of country fans, so she probably thought it was a strategic move and then she was like, oh, I don't want to deal with this.

She's probably just in a bubble. Yeah, bubble of country fans. All rich people are out of touch. She has also been the subject of a couple really good comedic bits.

The Broad City one and I Heart Huckabees. So there you go. Finally, Teresa, what is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? Oh, this is

something that before I recently celebrated. I didn't do anything, so I didn't really celebrate, but I passed the three-year anniversary of moving to LA. Oh, there you go. Yeah, and I was just thinking right before I moved here, I had visited and thought about moving here because I lived in New York. Everybody said, I met with like a mentor and he said, don't move here unless you have something concrete set up.

Like build a bridge, make sure it's concrete. Because a lot of times people just move here and then just try to do stuff. But I think that's a myth. People keep saying you got to move when you get something. But if you want to move, if you feel an intuition to move, you just do it. I mean there's stuff to do here. Whatever is meant to happen will move when you get something. But if you want to move, if you feel an intuition to move, you just do it. I mean, there's stuff to do here. Whatever's meant to happen will happen to you. Yeah, and there's tons of jobs here, especially if you're in entertainment.

I think that's a big thing with comedians. They'll be like, oh, I really want to move to L.A., but I'm going to wait until I get hired on something before I move. I've got to get my sitcom. Yeah, people don't want to hire you if you live across the country. I feel like a lot of advice about L.A. is outdated. It's fake. It's from the 90s and shit or from movies yeah yeah or like you could just pull up in your convertible look at all the palm trees with your sunglasses and be like i'm here and then i mean i

do that every day that's me you don't have a sunroof or convertible but uh yeah i think you know i think it's important just to follow your intuition like you say like if something is pulling you it's it's probably for a reason, unless you're completely deluded about your situation. But again, because you could be the person, maybe you are meant to come and fall flat on your face for you to realize that the thing that maybe you wanted wasn't quite the thing you wanted.

You can recalibrate your desires or whatever your goals. But then other people somehow can just pull it together seemingly out of nowhere. I don't know. You're shaking your head over there, Dad. What are you thinking? No, no. I'm just thinking that I think that's good advice. You don't want to be one of those people who is like middle age and being like, man, I

could have been the world's greatest actor. And you should come out and be disabused of that illusion if you want to. Or maybe you will become the greatest. Ruin your dreams. Also, a lot of people think it's always a one-way street, but the truth is you can always go back. And I think there's just this fear of feeling like you failed because you went backwards.

But nothing's backwards. The fact that time is moving forward means you're moving forward. So whatever you do tomorrow is moving forward. Yeah, especially moving and having that experience, like seeing a different part of the world is going to be, there's going to be growth there. I'm just trying to get all my friends to move to LA.

Yeah, exactly. You too. Just say, come on, you don't need a job. Everything, the water's warm. All right, guys, we have breaking international news that we want to get to. Brisbane, as I've been told, you're supposed to pronounce it, has caught a serial criminal, the Poojogger.

And he has been outed as corporate high flyer, Andrew Douglas Macintosh. It's like one of those spy movies or, you know, where the bad guy turns out to be, you know, the mayor. This guy was like a big time dude in Brisbane. I guess, yeah, he worked for the retirement home company Aveo, or they do some kind of retirement village stuff. But what's great is that people in this area, this Green Slopes apartment complex, they were just getting sick and tired of this.

Clearly, somebody's just taking a shit on the path. They were sick of his shit yeah a couple residents teamed up uh you know harriet the spy style and like deployed all kinds of little technology like at first they were using a like a night vision camera with motion sensors it's like meant for like nature photography of like elusive nocturnal creatures to first kind of get some uh you know to build a timeline and get some blurry images to feel like, okay, we're starting to see when this is happening and the direction the person is moving. And then from there, just did some process of elimination. And then one of the dudes just was there with his camera waiting for the moment because

he knew the spot and got his picture. And this photo of this man being caught in the act is, it's like what dreams are made of in terms of catching people poo-handed. Yes. It's really something. Also, if you zoom out, the picture in the New York Post is a wide version, and the poo is watery.

It's like a pile of... It's a puddle. Yeah, it's not even emoji poop. It's like soft, wet poo. Yeah, yeah. It's like soft, wet poop. Yeah, yeah. It's disgusting. His facial expression, too, is kind of like, what of it? I would recommend everybody look at the zoomed-in version

and just trust that Teresa has done the work for you in describing that because the zoomed-out version is ugly. What was the quote that you said when the guy cut the picture? Yeah, in the article it says, so the photographer goes, there's a red light which goes on before the camera's flash goes off. And he saw that and looked at me as the photograph was taken. Then he just said, hello. Hello.

That's why he's staring at the camera. There's somebody there. Yeah, me, and I'm taking a picture of you. Literally, the cliche, caught with your pants down, needs to be retired because this dude is just the most caught anyone's ever been. He's just looking over to the side. What's with the poo jogging, though? So this is a thing that is happening.

In the very early days of the Daily Zeitgeist, we reported a story from a Colorado neighborhood where a specific family was having somebody shit in their yard like every day. Yeah. And they finally, you know, got the person on camera and it was a woman. I don't think they ever caught her though. It was just a, you know, a woman dressed in jogging gear. Well, the jogging loosens the bowels. It's true. Because it's like when you look, because I just Googled poop while jogging, and the first article was like, why does running make you poop?

Yeah. No, because, I mean, it's a lot of bouncing up and down. The contents of your stomach are going to get kind of pushed down, especially when you're new to it. It's like making a milkshake. They're just jogging. Yeah. Or carrying a milkshake in a paper bag.

Yeah. And, yeah, especially when you're first training for a marathon, they even have a name for it. It's called the trots. And yeah, you... Yeah, because there's countless articles from like running magazines or publications that are just like, yo, avoid the mid-run poops or whatever.

Yeah. Do you think this is... Maybe he's training. Training for a marathon. That's still not okay. Or a poop. I don't care. I don't give a shit.

You do not do it. Run a sidewalk. But I guess there's two versions, right? Someone is just a sloppy, disgusting person with no regard for anyone else and is just pooping because they have to run. And they're just so... Because they have the runs. They don't know what to do.

But they always keep the toilet paper on them, clearly as this man did. Or it's like a really evil person who is getting off on taking a shit out there in the streets. Or sick. They have a weird kink that made them like to poop where people can see it

and leave it there for whatever reason. Could there be a world where he is so embarrassed about pooping indoors that he has to go outdoors? Oh, wow. I'm just trying to put him in a bucket. Could there be a world where he is so embarrassed about pooping indoors that he has to go outdoors? Oh. Wow. I actually like that,

that he's been shamed about defecating since he was a child or something. Something went off in his brain and he feels bad about it. He can only poop. Because we were talking, I think, in the office

that we all know different people with really strange pooping rituals. I know somebody who has never pooped and not taken a shower immediately after. So obviously he always has to poop. And I know someone who has to keep the shower on while they poop. I know someone who puts a towel over their lap as they poop. I know someone who gets butt naked.

Yeah, my brother used to take off all his clothes before he pooped. Not even jewelry. Oh, wow. Like he would take his earrings out and like anything. That's a lot. Yeah. That's a lot of work. Or he would take out his one dangle earring.

He'd wear a cross dangle earring. Hanging on the hook behind the door. I remember high school, though, because he used to do that, we stole his clothes from underneath. Because he would put it over the stall. How did you find that out? Because we just knew. Because we were like, yo, why is your fucking school uniform draped over the fucking thing? He's like, yo, I've got to be fucking thing he's like oh you did it in public too

yeah and you know we're evil kids so sorry bruh I won't name your name and then there's also it was Chad

yeah well obviously it was Chad like do you think there's a group of these people who like it's like a community like the way furries are

where they talk to each other or do you think it's like a lone wolf kind of no I think it's of go poop on your own? I think there's definitely an R public pooping. Oh, like a subreddit? Subreddit.

Yeah, maybe R trots. And they sort of share where the best poop places are. Oh, yeah. Or like how do you get clean right after real quick? I don't have a lot of time. I don't know. Yeah. And now for my recurring segment, would andy rooney say about this he'd be like it's this damn on-demand culture everybody thinks that they can just do it wherever they want uh all right that rest in power rest in power andy rooney my man uh all right we're gonna take a

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There's new news on the Scott Pruitt front. Yes. So we talked yesterday about all these bizarre expenditures. He bought a used mattress from Trump Hotel. I was just trying to find one. We don't know if he got one. Yeah, was getting his assistant, someone who worked for him in a professional capacity, spending tax dollars on having somebody try and track down

a used mattress from a Trump Hotel, spent over $1,000 on silver pens from a jewelry store. So like not even good pens. Because he's not a broke boy using those G2 pilots. Yeah. Or Uniball vision pen. And also used his connections to try and get his wife a Chick-fil-A. And don't forget his $43,000 phone booth too.

Right. That's like spy proof because he thinks, and not to mention, I mean, we can go on how he has to fly first class because he's afraid that the regular people will hold him accountable for his earth fucking. Yeah. But then, so there's this new- Well, he tried to buy a Chick-fil-A, like a whole store. Yeah, a franchise. For his wife.

He wanted his wife to become a franchisee of Chick-fil-A. But he finessed it because he was like, I want to talk to y'all about a business opportunity with my wife. The opportunity is you're going to hook her up with a franchise. Okay. And they never got very far so there's a new detail that he had to be reprimanded uh by white house staff for over using the mess hall yeah so yeah this has just like kind of flipped things in a direction where i think scott pruitt might just secretly be george costanza right like he's just yeah he's george

costanza working for the Yankees. Miles, you were saying that you think you know where that mattress went. The mattress is because he will probably put that shit under his desk so he can sleep. Because you know the man is, like we were saying, like when you're anti-government and working in government, you basically go to work and don't do shit because you're like, well, I'm not going to fucking enforce shit. Yeah. Yeah.

So it's the perfect thing. But when you realize sort of like what this restaurant is it's like this isn't just like the cafeteria at the white house like there's a very specific like dining room that's only accessible to like a small group of white house officials um and it's ran by like uh members of the u.s navy and it's next to the situation room in the west wing and the i think the appeal is that they serve really high-quality food, but very, very low prices, just so people, if you're like, you need a good meal or maybe you just need to entertain someone quickly in the White House, you can just take them there

rather than leaving campus or whatever. But it's a privilege that you don't want to abuse. Yeah, it's a thing that they had to remind him. They're like, yes, it is not for daily use, my guy. And apparently he already racked up a $400 bill in one month, which to me doesn't seem like that much. It's probably worth a lot more though, right? That's a single lunch for me, bro.

I know, I know, Mr. Foie Gras and caviar. But yeah, there's things he was over-partaking in were beer-braised brisket tacos, chocolate freedom, a molten lava cake crafted with imported French chocolate. Are we still doing this dumb fucking don't use the F word? France? I like that they call it freedom, but then it's imported. Chocolate freedom. Oh, I didn't even notice that.

That's amazing. What would it be normally? I don't know. But I mean, like, because I remember the Freedom Fries thing is what happened because, you know, France was like, don't unilaterally just invade a country. Oh, fuck you. So we can call these fries Freedom Fries. But at least the fries are made in, you know, I don't know. They're made in America. The U.S. of A.

But if they're specifically calling it chocolate freedom, but then importing the chocolate from France, that's kind of just- It's so stupid. And it's like this leftover Bush era dumb nationalism thing. It feels like a lot of this is that sort of, well, we can't have fancy, fancy food here. So beer braised brisket tacos. That sounds bomb as fuck. No, it sounds really good.

But I feel like they have to undercut everything with beer, Miller Lite braised brisket tacos. There's no like brie en croûte in there for people. Right, exactly, which I'm sure it was with Obama, you know? Yeah. Am I right? All right, guys, let's talk about diplomats in China. Dipset! So now we have two different places, maybe three, if you listen to our early reports on the

Havana mystery illness that is striking down diplomats. Basically, the way this happens is they hear a strange sound, and then they start feeling like woozy in the following days. And their symptoms are like the symptoms of getting a concussion, except they're not physically concussed. So it's sort of my theory all along has been that it's mass hysteria. Aliens. Thank you. Thank you very much. Totally undermine me, Nick. Thank you. And I don't know, I just reading about a bunch of examples of mass hysteria in U.S. history, a lot of times it's stuff that you would think couldn't be imagined by people.

Like the Beatles. Right, exactly. Are these victims all female? Because obviously they're hysterical. Ah, yes, thank you. Good point. But no. My first question. Yeah, first question. Are they ladies? What were they wearing?

Right. So now this is starting to seem like- But these are people that are working in the consulate that were getting these pains or whatever? Because in Cuba, it was in a hotel, right? It was all over the place. It was people thinking that it happened to them at their house and then in a hotel. And then it never happened, I don't think, in the consulate. I think it was always at their home or something. What are doctors saying?

I don't think in the consulate. I think it was always like at their home or something. What are doctors saying? Some doctors have said that they see brain trauma and other doctors say that they don't really see anything and that the symptoms that people are reporting are consistent with the symptoms of aging. It's like my hearing is not as good and my head hurts a little bit when I wake up. It's like connecting the dots of things that aren't related and being like, this is all one thing. And I forgot what you call asshole paper. Toilet paper? Oh, yeah.

I keep pooping in public. But so I don't know. floated a theory that it is some sort of surveillance technology that, you know, various communist governments have developed, and it has a side effect that is unintended, maybe. Right, they didn't go through a lot of testing with it, a lot of quality control with the technology. They're like, actually, although you can hear them, you're frying their brains. You can hear their thoughts. Actually, although you can hear them, you're frying their brains.

You can hear their thoughts. On the downside, they will hear an ear-splitting sound and in three years will no longer be able to hear. So I don't know. It is interesting. And there is – so one of the reasons I thought it was mass hysteria is if you look back in the 60s in a Moscow consulate, there was a similar outbreak of people thinking they heard a weird sound and that they were using microwaves to like fuck with them. And then I'm pretty sure they found that to be nothing and that microwaves cannot go through walls in the way that they were speculating they were going through walls. I like how some doctors are like,

yeah, it could be brain trauma. And other doctors are like, shut the fuck up, you're getting old, basically. Or less likely to believe that there's something darker happening. And it seems to me that the doctors who have less on the line and are more independent from the government

are the ones who are more likely to be like, yeah, this doesn't really seem like there's anything there. Oh, so the ones who are like, there could be some fuckery or more, right, to kind of push some kind of weird narrative. What's happening in our consulates? Right. And, you know, this is in keeping with the Trump administration desire for everything to be conflict oriented and, you know, fuck Obama because he had good relations with.

If you want to be told nothing is wrong with you when you're in pain, talk to my mother, who's also a doctor for everything, who just said, you're whining. Don't take Tylenol. You don't need that. You're going to get hooked. I'm not. I'm hooked on Tylenol.

I also think because doctors have to, like, I feel like even if there is something going on, if there's not enough evidence, because they're very science-based. If there's not enough evidence to say that they're all linked, they won't say it. Right, yeah, yeah. But I feel like that happens with- Scientists hate to speculate.

Well, that happened with birth control. There's certain birth control pills that were causing brain clots and stuff because a friend of mine had that happen to her and the doctor basically was like, well, we can't say it's linked to this because there's not enough evidence to say it's linked to it, but you're not the first person who's come in

who's been on this birth control with these exact symptoms. So maybe just stop taking it. But they can't, sometimes I think the evidence is out there, they can't say what it is. Well, that's the thing about science is, you know, we like to prove things

because we like to treat things as fact. But we have to wait till after. Like huge clinical trials. Yeah, somebody dies or something or whatever. So, I mean, one of the reasons I think it's bullshit is also because when you ask scientists who know how sound waves work, they're like, sound can't do what you're saying it did. Right. might be bullshit is that a lot of the things that they're saying that the sound beams are doing that are affecting their brains are like coming through walls basically because scientists have said that it would have to be like this enormous machine to create sound waves that would actually

damage somebody's ear even and they're in a room where there's nothing else besides them in the room. And, you know, they go and examine the room where they said these things are happening, and there's just physically nothing there. And, you know, it's basically been described as physically impossible by a lot of scientists. We'll see. Maybe it's all just a publicity stunt for the next X-Men movie. Ooh. Viral marketing. They're like, I subjected the next X-Men movie. Ooh. Viral marketing.

They're like, I subjected myself to brain-damaging sound waves for the new Fox movie. Now, speaking of commies, Miles, we have a sit-down with the North Koreans coming up. Those pinkos. And there are some things that I'm starting to be worried about besides the idea that President Trump will be attacked by sound. Yeah. Well, look, so this could potentially decide what the relations are between North Korea and America for like, I don't know, a generation, let's say.

Let's put that as our baseline. So Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, he's in D.C. right now. He's at the White House talking to Trump about trade in North Korea. And, you know, when they both sat down and take some questions from the press, obviously one of the big questions is because Japan and South Korea also have a very vested interest in how these talks go. They were asking, hey, Mr. President, how is the preparation going for your big summit with Kim Jong-un that could potentially help bring peace to the Korean Peninsula? And this was his response when they asked him how prepared he was. I think I'm very well prepared. I don't think I

have to prepare very much. It's about attitude. It's about willingness to get things done. But I think I've been preparing for this summit for a long time, as has the other side. I think they've been preparing for a long time also. So this isn't a question of preparation. It's a question of whether or not people want it to happen. And we'll know that very quickly. He's treating it like when you ask athletes before going into a big game,

they're just like, yeah, we work hard. We've been practicing. Yeah, we're going to play a good game. Yeah. But even him, he's being arrogant. He's like, yeah, we work hard. We've been practicing. Yeah, we're going to play a good game. But even him, he's being arrogant. He's like, nah, I'm good. I feel like I'm ready for this one. I'm very well prepared. I've been preparing my whole life for a moment like this. Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this. He's coming in with the idea, like it's

an athlete being like, well, you just can't think about it too much. It's like, no, that is not how these things work. It's stressing him the fuck out to think about it. You should have like a hundred different possibilities of how the conversation could go. You should prepare for this like it is a fucking, you're playing chess. This fucking guy said it's all about attitude. My guy, no, it is not about attitude because we've heard about what your attitude is when

you try to negotiate with people. This is like, it's not like an improv scene. You can't just go in. Right. It's all about intent. First thought, best thought. Can I take a suggestion? Okay.

Okay, and like really come in on a 10, but it's really all about intent. Yeah. First thought, best thought, because we know what his first thought is because so back during, I think it was the Reagan administration, it might've been first George H.W. Bush.

He really wanted to get named like to some high-level diplomatic part of the president's cabinet as the main negotiator with Russia. And that was a really important position at the time because the Cold War was still going on. And they were like, ah, that's hilarious, man. So anyways, Trump saw the guy who got the job at a party later on. And the guy tells the story that Trump went up to him and he was like, yeah, you know, I should have gotten that job. But, you know, asked him how it's going. He's like, you know what I would have done if I had gotten the job?

I would have sat down across from them, looked them in the eye and said. Oh, right. What was it? Wasn't it make sure they're real comfortable? Yeah, yeah. Sit down with them. Make sure they're real comfortable too? Yeah, yeah. Sit down with them. Make sure they're real comfortable. Real comfortable chairs.

Like the way the guy describes it, it's like definitely in Trump jazz. And then I would have said, fuck you and walked out of the room. So, hey, it's all about attitude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have an attitude of gratitude when you go in there, Mr. Trump. That was his plan for solving the Cold War. Well, you know, it's just really disheartening because this is a very complex issue. And we already know that there

are already competing definitions of what denuclearization means in terms of what the U.S. wants, in terms of what North Korea wants. And when you add to that, you have a president who, I guess, for whatever reason, feels so prepared he doesn't have to look into anything uh and pair that with the fact that john bolton who is the national security advisor uh he has not even called one cabinet level meeting to prepare for this summit so i'm not sure if like they really just are like no we got this because in the past i mean rudy giuliani i think this week was like oh kim jong-un is on his hands and knees begging for this summit. If they really think that's the attitude and they're just going to go in and roll him over, which every expert is like, no, that's not going to fucking happen. Or they already know they're going to go in there to just blow the fucking thing up and just act like, oh, well, we tried and now we got to fucking we have to take some kind of military action against it.

Because we know John Bolton is not here for diplomacy. Like you mean that, yeah, they want to throw it just so they have an excuse. Right. And just antagonize. Fan the flames. Right. Or just, or they're going to be so rigid in their negotiating tactic that we don't need to prepare because we're going to go in there and say, hand over all of your, you know,

your nuclear weapons and begin dismantling your program or we're not, we're the fuck out of here. Right. But there's been plenty of like back and forth with Pompeo. and begin dismantling your program, or we're the fuck out of here. But there's been plenty of back and forth with Pompeo. I mean, they have to be getting some kind of information that it's not going to be this easy. Right. So that's just really a little disconcerting. I don't understand why he thinks he doesn't have to prepare.

Clearly, John Bolton doesn't think they have to prepare if they just think there's some kind of foregone conclusion. He's treating it like when you get a group project in class and he's like the one guy who doesn't do anything and then just shows up on the last day. On the presentation day. Yeah, but then everybody is like, oh, we're not going to give you credit. And then he's like, well, then I'm destroying this whole thing. Yeah. Then I'm going to say y'all cheated.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the way that the people around the president treat the president is as a volatile toddler. Like I was reading an article yesterday that was about he and Hannity's relationship. Was this in Volatile Toddler magazine? Yes, Volatile Toddler magazine, which IBC, and Fox News to just Fox News because he was making their lives miserable because he would start off every day hearing bad shit about himself. And the way they got him to do that- By hearing facts. Yeah, by hearing facts. And so the way they got him to do that was by just repeatedly

complimenting Fox News and saying that MSNBC couldn't be trusted until he started saying that and then being like, good idea, man. That's a really good idea. So they're like treating him, you know, it's very transparent. And so it doesn't really surprise me that he isn't being overly prepared by the people around him. I just don't know how they plan on puppeteering him through this meeting. Right. I guess,'t know how they plan on puppeteering him through this meeting. Right. I guess is Pompeo going to be there? Yeah, of course. Yeah. Pompeo has to be there. Right. So maybe Pompeo will just do all the speaking and they'll find a way to make it so that that doesn't hurt Trump's ego. Yeah. Pompeo really goes in and closes a deal and then they let Trump

in after everything's been done. And he's like, OK, so we got it done. Just to be like, look, when you come in. Can I do the thing? Fuck you. Just say fuck you. Kim Jong-un won't be in there. But just come in the room and say fuck you. And then we'll be good. Just get another Asian guy because he can't tell the difference.

Right, exactly. They might actually do that. Be like, okay, great. And then meanwhile, the actual summit is happening. He's talking to like a Korean pop star. Right. He's like, fuck you. Also, your hair looks great.

Your swag is on 100. And then just slightly related to the North Korea story, actually very related to the North Korea story. I think a lot of our hopes are riding on the possibility that Dennis Rodman is going to be involved in the negotiations in some way. 100%. And apparently there negotiations in some way. 100%. And apparently there has been some complications. So there's a company called Potcoin, which is a cryptocurrency that is meant to help people in the cannabis industry basically give them access to banking services that a lot of federal laws forbid them from, forbid them from using like most financial institutions. So, uh, pot coin is this cryptocurrency that is like basically

going to be paying for Dennis Rodman's trip to Singapore, uh, where he will act as peacemaker in chief. Um, and you know, he's been seen like wearing these shirts before and he's clearly has a relationship with pot coin, uh, around here. we've been thinking, I don't know if that might affect his entry into Singapore or whatever, because they are, you know, pretty strict with drugs. But at the end of the day, there's been a lot more writing about the possibility of Dennis Rodman going. And it's just really just funny to have to hear like high level people who have worked in like diplomacy just like talk about the situation. This is a quote from an Asia expert for the Center for National Interest. He says, if the administration has any inkling that Dennis Robin is thinking of turning the Singapore summit into some sort of freak reality show,

they need to privately reach out and ask him politely to ask him to take his talents elsewhere. The simple fact is that this summit could decide the fate of the U.S.-North Korea relations for a generation, and turning this meeting to some sort of publicity stunt would be a real shame. But for Potcoin, I mean, come on. Potcoin? They need that. Yeah. They deserve it.

I mean, and then also I think some of his reps, when people ask, like, oh, what is Dennis Rodman going there for? Like, is he going to be at the table? Like, clearly, no. But they've described his reason for going as, quote, moral support to President Trump and Kim Jong-un. Right. So.

And so he's doing the celebrity thing where, like, they have their brand, like, plastered all over the place. Right. Like, he has pot coin hats and, like, pot coin jackets. He's got a. I mean, oh, God. Can you imagine if somehow he does. No. Like, gets in the pictures.

If he does, I'm. I don't know what I'm going to do. He gets Kim Jong-un to put on a pot coin t-shirt for the picture that defines the next generation. Yeah, like a prop joint. Right. Well, they're kind of getting what they want because even if he doesn't go, they're getting all this publicity now. And all these news articles debating it are mentioning pot coins. Well, yeah, 100%.

When ads know they don't want to pay for the Super Bowl and they get banned on purpose. I feel like it's like even if he doesn't, he's probably not going to be able to wear a t-shirt in the pictures but the fact that we're even talking about it now, we're visualizing it and they're getting that publicity. And you're literally in the Washington Post

and everybody says now. I mean, I don't know. I'm kind of out of the crypto game. Super producer Anna Hosnia, have you heard of Potcoin? Yeah, that's only because I just look at all the silly ones that come out, like Dogcoin and stuff like that. And Christcoin. So Dogcoin is because people

is that for like black market dog trading? No, it's because people love dogs. Oh, okay. It's branding the currency, guys. Dogjacent. Yeah, and I Just like- It's branding the currency, guys. Dog Jason. Yeah. And I don't play the cryptocurrency markets. You know, one, you buy one Bitcoin and everyone thinks-

Yeah. One Bitcoin. One Bitcoin. They only know. She is winking so hard right now. What's ChristCoin? ChristCoin is one that's like connected to your salvation. Yeah, because God is all about making money.

Well, that's why it inspired many people to just come up with their cryptocurrency. I mean, I understand why there would need to be some kind of other way for people who are in the cannabis industry to have access to financial institutions. Wait, this is so smart. ChristCoin is using faith,

so it's sort of like, do you have faith in our cryptocurrency? Yeah, they're getting ripped off. Yeah, but it's like, put your faith in Christ, but also in the market value of our coin. What you don't think

Jesus can make you rich? Oh, wow. Then this coin is not for you. Yeah. If there's one thing my boy JC is about, it's getting that cheddar, bro. All right, let's take

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So for people who aren't up on this story, Brian Colangelo was the GM of the Philadelphia 76ers. He was associated by the ringer to some burner accounts. They reached out to the 76ers for comment on whether Colangelo was associated with just one of the accounts. And the only people at the 76ers organization, according to the person they contacted who knew about this request for comment was Colangelo and the person they called. And that night all five accounts got shut down. Oh, that's weird.

Yeah. They were like, uh-huh. And these were fake Twitter accounts that he was allegedly using to just sort of like trash. Trash the guy who had the job before him, trash the coach, trash other players that like he,

like the best player on the 76ers or second best Joel Embiid. And released info too, right? Wasn't he releasing like medical information? And he also released confidential medical information about a player they were trying to trade. Defending the size of his collars as well. Most importantly, he was defending the size of his collar.

I've seen it referred to as collar gate. That is the best tweet, was somebody was making fun of the size of his collars. They were like, this guy loves collars. And one of these burner accounts responded, that's a normal collar. Find another angle, which is still- Not him. Not him at all. So yesterday afternoon, I had a mild nervous breakdown because Miles pointed out a story on an NBC affiliate in Philadelphia that said that the Sixers, their finding was that Colangelo didn't know about the accounts.

They believed him. They believed him. And somehow, you know, so the story allegedly is that his wife was the one who was running these accounts that were just wildly criticizing. Really? All right. He threw his wife under the bus? That's one way to look at it. That's one way to look at it.

So I can totally see doing this. My dad is a basketball coach. doing this for like i my dad is a basketball coach i have like been furious at media like before who are like criticizing him i've wanted to do some of the things that these accounts did i just wouldn't because i recognize how stupid it is right but so i can kind of sympathize if it really was his wife the details that make me skeptical that it was his wife are that the accounts were shut down the same night. So that means that Colangelo, upon finding out about these five burner accounts he didn't know about, immediately put it together that it was his wife or his son, and then had her shut them down.

The other detail that somebody pointed out is in the report, the law firm that did the analysis said they couldn't check the wife's phone because she had restored her iPhone to factory settings. And all of the posts from the most damaging account were posted from an Android. So a little Twitter sleuthing there done by the Internet. a little Twitter sleuthing there done by the internet. So anyways, I think what happened is they said, they came to an agreement. They would say he was innocent and didn't know about the accounts, which is where that report came from yesterday.

This morning, Colangelo resigned. So therefore, you know, the 76ers presumably don't have to pay him the rest of his contract whereas they would have if they fired him and now his name is somewhat cleared and he'll probably get another

NBA GM job in a couple years once all this blows over well good for him it's good to see white men aren't having trouble landing on their feet even when you're doing messy ass shit like making fake ass Twitters and It's good to see white men aren't having trouble landing on their feet. Right. Even when you're doing messy-ass shit like making fake-ass Twitters and talking shit.

Cool. Yeah. He wrote a whole statement that just threw her under the bus. I'm looking at it right now. He just released a statement? It's a screenshot of a PDF from his iPhone. It says, okay. Well, I'm grateful that the independent investigation conducted by the 76ers has confirmed that I had

no knowledge of or involvement in the Twitter activity conducted by my wife. I vigorously dispute the allegation that my conduct was in any way reckless. At no point did I ever purposefully or directly share any sensitive non-public club-related information with her. She goes on, okay, her actions were a seriously misguided

effort to publicly defend and support me and while I recognize how inappropriate these actions were, she acted independently and without my knowledge or consent.

Further, the content she shared was filled with inaccuracies or conjecture which in no way represent my own views or opinions. While this was obviously

a mistake, we are a family and we will work through this together. But he basically just says I'm not responsible and also like how inappropriate it was of her.

Oh, man, my wife really fucked up, huh? Doesn't even stand by her, like, I love my wife, and I, you know, whatever. It's just straight up like, I had no idea. I didn't even tell her these secrets. She just somehow snooped and found it. Man, ladies always be... She's such a down-ass wife, you know?

She's holding me down with the fake Twitter accounts. It's crazy to be like, and as the investigation concluded, clearly it was my wife. Yeah. Wow, where's her statement? Yeah. Oh, he ends it with, basketball has always been a core part of my life since childhood. I love the game and all those who play and coach it.

Blah, blah, blah. I want to thank everyone. I love the game and everyone who participates. And I love my wife, kinda. Bitches be defending their husbands on Twitter. I know. You can't, you know, she's emotional, right? We talked about hysteria earlier.

That's clearly what was going on here. So you think, do you think she's ride or die? Or this is bust throw? I don't think she even cares. She's probably like, sure. What do you want me to say? Oh, okay, sure. Okay, whatever.

Great, thanks. Can you take out the trash? The collar thing is my one piece of evidence that suggests that it was not her because no wife would be like, yeah, his collar looks good when he's wearing giant flare collars. No, she probably was a troll that insulted the collar.

Right, that's more likely. She probably created it. She's like, oh, I had fake Twitters, but they were to flame him. I have a friend who was in a relationship and he was sort of the breadwinner and

he and his girlfriend got pulled over and she took the fall for the weed that was in the car. And I don't know. I think sometimes people are like, oh, well, I don't want to hurt his career, so I'll just take the blame for it. Because the sentence is only 78%

of what it is. I'm not questioning her desire to do it. I'm just trying to get to the bottom of it. Is she just, she was really incensed by all the negative stuff about her husband and was like, you know what? I'm gonna clap back on my man's behalf. Or is she a victim of this man's fuckery? I don't know, man.

And we'll never know. And we'll never know. You'll never know. But yeah, I could see it being a combination. What does she do? Is she in sports? I don't think so, no. She is a Russian bot.

Her last name is Botini. Oh, there we go. So maybe she's the Italian bot. Algorithm and blues. Are we going to check in with the teens, Jack? Yeah, we should check in with the teens in our weekly Teen Watch. Teen Watch. Hey, fellow teens.

So there's a blockbuster movie that a lot of people around here had never heard of starting last week, I guess. So it became a big thing on Netflix. It is a rom-com called The Kissing Booth. And Netflix doesn't release their data. But when you look at Google Trends, that's usually a good indication. That usually lines up with how well the shows do based on how Netflix treats shows and treats movies.

This is their biggest breakout hit since Bright because there's no God. But we knew that. Yeah, we knew Bright was a huge hit. And this is their biggest hit since that. And it seems like it's just a really straightforward early 90s sexist teen comedy type thing. That the kids are loving. Why are they loving? Well, the plot is basically,

it centers around a teen girl and her male best friend. Say no more, I'm hooked. Right, exactly. In. And her best friend. And her best friend's older, hotter brother. Whoa. And then the main character, the teen girl,

and the older brother of her best friend, they become a couple after making out at the titular kissing booth uh which are there still fucking kissing booths were there ever i've never ever seen a kissing booth i think i saw one when i was six years old but it was like it was like pecs on the cheek people were not children or adults is there any sort of like what are the rules here it feels really creepy yeah i don't know how you have a kissing booth that is does not come into some kind of weird problematic area. Yeah, what if your parent wants to support your little business?

But it would be weird if they got in line. Well, look, clearly the writers of it are not concerned with the reality of how a kissing booth works and the legal mechanics of that. But, yeah, so then through the course of their relationship, the whole thing is kind of centered around she wants to hide from her best friend that she's with the older brother because her best friend is basically possessive like not even like really in love with her he's not in love with her he has another love interest right he for some reason wants to control who she's with which is like weird and creepy but it's just treated as like sort of a natural. Yeah. Because it's not even like a regular love triangle where it's like, oh, these two people are interested in this one person. And or, you know, or this one person is these other two. It's like there's this couple and then there's this friend who's just a possessive asshole.

It's a love rhombus. Yeah. Wouldn't he be excited if they actually. Well, I guess they're not going to get married because they're in high school. But like, I don't know. I'd be like, oh, my best friend could be my actual sister. That's cool. Yeah. Well, this isn't the, well, cause this is a, oh, and a weird universe that this takes place in. And like, yeah, the older brother who she's with, he's even like always trying to

keep her away from other guys. Right. Well, other guys are constantly groping her. And instead of being like, wow, that guy's a creep, they say that she was asking for it because she was wearing a short skirt. Like, that literally happens. The love interest, the older brother, later apologizes to the girl's dad instead of her for being a jerk. Because it's fucking 1650?

Apparently. So I don't know. Is this like some weird like retrograde like backslide into early like dowry politics or something?

I don't know. I mean, I like how there's one line where one of the characters goes, hey, when did you get the boobs? Hey, when did you get the boobs?

Yeah. And then like the younger brother like answers for her real quickly. It's like, yo, what the, the body monitor and shit. It was June 2nd. Yeah quickly it's like yo what the he knows the body

monitor and shit it was june 2nd yeah it's june 2nd i remember it because it was the fall after uh summer from eighth grade uh yeah and but i guess it makes sense because it was written by a 15 year old girl right so that actually puts a new perspective on it because it's like yeah guys that age are fucking awful and like that's kind of what she knows at that point you're existing in a patriarchy like that and i don't know how many self-aware 15 year olds or i certainly wasn't uh to then be like oh and then as you write something out you don't realize how much of that shit is infused in your own creative output totally everything's kind of just fantasy it's not it's not creepy because it well

i hope i don't know if she's had sex yet but a lot of people at that age haven't yet so everything's kind of just fantasy it's not it's not creepy because it well i hope i don't know if she's had sex yet but a lot of people at that age haven't yet so everything's right just this fantasy version yeah and it's not like a real like oh that person's being a creep right but yeah it was published on wattpad at first and then later as a book and now homegirl she's 22 now she got a little book deal oh really yeah oh I thought she got, oh, now 22. Awesome. Yeah, she has landed a major publishing deal. Wow. But the creepy overlay of the story also makes sense because after she wrote as a 15-year-old, it was adapted to the screen and directed by a,

you guessed it, 68-year-old man. Oh, no. A, if there's one thing that directed, I get this, man. I remember kissing booths in the 60s. Right. I'm the perfect guy. When you look at that guy's IMDb, he directed a bunch of other kids kind of stuff. Yeah.

Teen Beach movie, An American Girl, Grace stirs up success. Uh-huh. American Girl, Grace stirs up success. So, you know, this guy, Vince Marcello, he's, I guess that's like his bag is doing like young teen girl stuff. Yeah. Also a weird look. Did he also do the Rebecca Black video? I don't know.

I mean, this makes a case of why that movie Blockers, that's actually. That's because I enjoyed it though. Yeah, like at least, like like a not shitty overtly problematic film about this kind of era in a young person's life without getting into all the male gaze-y wacky shit

the first one hey look at that what that's the first movie of this genre that doesn't do that no which is why it's so refreshing

too when you watch it and it's a female director and like someone who a director is not falling into the same pitfalls of like the just cliche shit

that's in all these movies Her Majesty my girlfriend saw the film and she just hated it oh really yeah I mean

like on Sundays we try and watch like one garbage fire of a movie you know weekly just to kind of like decompress I like

as soon as the movie started I just fell asleep I liked it what blockers no not blockers I'm sorry we're talking about kissing doodads I like as soon as the movie started I just fell asleep Blocker no not blockers. I'm sorry. I'm talking. We're talking. Oh, we're talking about Theater yeah, that was I was gonna say that was underrated. That's how plugged into the zeitgeist. Yeah, don't pull my blockers card Teen Films he's always up on it, and I'm always wearing my spinny Pad or whatever that thing is with the propeller on it. And I'm always wearing my spinny top hat or whatever that thing is

with the propeller on top. Yep. Skateboards into the office every day. She said like the next day she just went on a rant at work. Yeah, it reminds me of like

Suzanne Meyers. Stephanie. Stephanie Meyers. You guys, I know Twilight so well. I know exactly what the author's name is. No,

but yeah, it's got that sort of like, you know, it's this weird version of reality where it's like the man saves her but also like sees her as an individual but only her, like I don't, it's like that sort of like, you know, it's this weird version of reality where it's like the man saves her, but also like sees her as an individual, but only her. Like, I don't know.

It's like weird. Yeah, right. That's not how the world is. You can't have that. This one is just two, a bunch of men fighting over control over this woman's body, I guess. I don't know. Do they like, in the description it says she loses her virginity. I just like imagine it also has to be through a kissing booth.

Behind a virginity booth. Yeah, virginity. It just imagine it also has to be through a kissing booth. Behind a virginity booth? Yeah, virginity. It just escalates. Behind a curtain? Yeah. I think that's called a glory hole. Oh, yeah, that's true. Teresa, it's been a pleasure having you as always.

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This is River Tiber with a track called Barcelona. And it's off the album Indigo. It's just a good man. Nice little vocal harmonies in there. The rhythm section is good. It's just, you know, it ticks a lot of boxes for me, as you can tell by my musical taste. So, yeah, check this out.

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