The Daily Zeitgeist - RIP Driving Tests, Trolls vs Pogues 5.11.20

Episode Date: May 11, 2020

In episode 627, Jack, Miles, and Jamie are joined by comedian and Scam Goddess Laci Mosley to discuss the republicans coming for the Green New Deal, Georgia giving out driver licenses to teens without a road test, and then a pop culture round up about Outer Banks, Extraction, and Trolls World Tour, and more!FOOTNOTES: G.O.P. Coronavirus Message: Economic Crisis Is a Green New Deal Preview Nearly 20,000 teens in Georgia have received their driver's licenses without a road test Why Does ‘Trolls World Tour’ Relitigate Rock-Critic Debates? Justin Timberlake’s Return To R&B And Funk Is Depressingly Predictable Trolls World Tour Is A Poptimist Nightmare  AMC Theatres Refuses to Show Universal Movies After ‘Trolls World Tour’ VOD Release, Universal and Theater Owners Respond AMC Theatres Refuses to Play Universal Films in Wake of 'Trolls: World Tour' Regal Cinemas warns Universal over Trolls World Tour skipping theaters AMC’s Blacklist Of Universal Is A Risky Bluff Or A Major Mistake WATCH: Flying Lotus - Massive Attack (vibeangel mix1) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bridge. That goes on for a while, but I think we're going to leave it right there. Thank you to Rich Jefferson. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's a quarantine. It's a terrible thing to do It's COVID-19 Just more terrible things on the news And that is Electric Light Orchestra

I love yellow What's yellow? That's a little bit of yellow And thank you to Christy Yamaguchi And Christy Mimdona for picking that up Obviously we're talking about yellow yellow that's a little bit of yellow uh and thank you to christy yamaguchi main christy meme donut for picking that up uh obviously we're talking about yellow and then round so thank you for that one and that is by that's living thing by yellow i gotta apologize to christy i'm a gucci man because there's a rat a song by the hair metal band rat that he keeps uh sending my way that i

just i just don't don't know the song man i can't pull it off if just don't know the song, man. I can't pull it off if I don't know the song. I tried to listen to it. It's not getting in your bones? It's not getting in my bones, man. I'm sorry. I apologize. Hair metal is bad music. And I was into it at the time. I was into it

when I was eight, but I can't do it anymore. I'm sorry. What's my uncle supposed to do? Who's that? That is anymore. I'm sorry. What's my uncle supposed to do? Yeah. Who's that? That is the person I'm thrilled to be joined by, our other co-host, Jamie Lopez! AKA, what the fuck?

Okay, as of, I can't sing this morning. I'm too upset. As of not an hour ago as we record this. A project has been greenlit at HBO Max called Santa Incorporated. What? Starring Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen. And yeah, you know it's a

what if Santa but woman type of thing. And I'm just fucking fuming all these quarantine green-lighted projects sound terrible would i write on the show of course i would but right now i'm fucking insulted santa okay the one thing that someone did point out to me even though i'm my current stance on Santa Incorporated on HBO Max Anti But Someone pointed out to me That perhaps HBO Max is simply On the Monsters Incorporated track

Which means the next movie Is Santa University Oh my I'm just saying The minds, the luminaries behind Santa Incorporated have to just watch their fucking back, okay? Whatever.

I can't see you in a cave this morning. I'm on strike. They're laying the groundwork to offer you a job. They're doing the prequel work to offer you. I have to assume it's a long haul or it's the most egregious theft of this generation. I mean, I feel like we could get an effective Twitter campaign

where it's like, you're going to put this together and not consult with Jamie Loftus. And somehow as a bit, they're like, Jamie Loftus is actually... Yeah. I'm consulting on Santa.

You're going to end up writing for this show, if not show running it. Mark my words right now. Anybody who hears Santa University becomes immediately... They're blown away. I can't wait. I can't wait for someone to pull up me yelling about

Santa Incorporated and then cancel me. Yeah, to cancel you. Well, guys, it's a very special episode because we've got another one of the very faces on Mount Zypemore. She is the skim goddess. She is Lacey Mobley!

What is up, y'all? The skim goddess. I would also like to be the skim goddess. Have you been listening to a lot of Pudcast or something? Yeah, the Pudcast. Pudcast? I love Pudcast. That's actually very good. I love to be on Pudcast. Lacey, how are you doing in quarantine? I mean, as good as anybody can be doing. have a routine now every day when the sun goes down or gets cooler i go out and i take a walk um sometimes

i get on the phone with friends uh yesterday i was on the phone with a girlfriend on my airpods and this homeless man started he just started yelling he's like you fucking black bitch you bitch you bitch he's like screaming at me right and i'm walking past why was i just like walking past like la la my friend's like oh my god who's screaming at you i was like oh girl i live in hollywood you know how it'd be she was like can you cross the street she was like can you cross the street why are you not afraid i was like eh. It's just nice to hear somebody talking to you these days. It feels nice to be seen. Right? He knew I was black.

You know, he got you. I was saying... You felt seen? I was saying in a past episode how often everyone just says hi now. It's almost like you live in fucking Whoville or some shit like hey how are you whoa good day good day have a good evening i'm like okay oh i miss i miss being

yelled at in the city that sounds nice yeah it was maybe we should just make a podcast like that like an asmr experience called getting yelled at in Yorkers and shit. Get out of my fucking way. Yeah. Hey, yo, blue shirt. Hey, yo, blue shirt. Oh, I could fall asleep to that. I could fall asleep to that. Hey, yo, blue shirt. Oh, my God.

I was fucking in. Right. You know, they say cat called. They say wolf whistled. But there's not a lot of rooster stuff. And there should be, apparently, because we learned some disturbing information on Twitter. Based on Sarajoon's appearance on Friday, yeah, she was talking about how she has like seven hens,

one rooster, and a hensman? A hens, I don't know. Or she has chicks. Chicken? Chicks. But she doesn't know which one's roosters, what her rooster breakdown is. The genders have not come out.

The rooster is apparently the alien of farm animals. You just need to keep it away because otherwise it's going to just destroy everything in its path. It's like a sex horny predator. Very scary stuff.

A sex horny predator. Very scary stuff. A sex horny predator. Yeah, as they're called. A lot of bad words strung together. A sex horny predator. Interesting. I thought that they were just like alarm clocks. So when they're screaming, they're just horny. They're like...

That's just them. That's like them letting the rest of the farm know that they're... Ready to go. Yeah, that they're horny. They're like, hey everyone, I have an erection. That's fun. That's fun. Sara sent me a bunch of

videos of the chicks yesterday. They're so cute. They're so beautiful. Is she going to eat them? They're friends. No, she's eating their eggs. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, free eggs. I will ensure their legacy does not live on in the future. Lacey, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to tell our listeners what we're talking about. Today, we're going to talk about some Green New Deal bashing that's going on with the GOP. We're going to talk about Georgia not requiring people to take a road driver's test anymore. And then we're going to talk about three pieces of pop culture that we reviewed for you guys. Outer Banks.

People are going to hate me. Jamie is going to talk about Extraction. Is that what it's called? Yup. Did you not watch it? What? I can't hear you. I can't hear i can't hear she did it's not the matrix for god's sake i'm gonna talk about trolls world tour uh which i watched as well as a jm mcnabber writer but first lacy we like to ask our guest what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? So today it's the 2020 census. I have been looking into the questions for the 2020 census because I believe I got scammed or was like in the process of getting scammed.

I tweeted about this because so what happened was this woman called me like two, three days ago and her English was a little broken. And she was like, oh, this is from the census. Like, we haven't gotten your form yet. And I was like, oh, I was going to do it online. And she's like, well, if you want to just answer these questions now, then we can just do the census. So I was like, OK, like that seems simple enough. You know, they used to come to your door. So I'm like, OK, oh, that's fine.. You know, they used to come to your door. So I'm like, okay, they can call.

That's fine. She knew where I lived, or at least the building. And then I didn't give her, like, any important information. But she was asking, like, okay, what's your race? What's your age? All this stuff. I was like, okay. Then she was like, what's your birthday?

And I was like, July 4th. And she was like, what year? And I was like, what year? 1776, man. Now keep it moving right so then i had to start googling because i was like wait a minute am i being scammed and then no so this is when i really started googling she texts me yesterday no she texted her that's a line and she sent me i'm gonna see if y'all can see this on zoom but she sent me, I'm going to see if y'all can see this on Zoom, but she sent me a picture of her badge. Mm-hmm.

Okay. Oh, God, no. That's some scam shit. That's, yeah. That's too desperate to prove. Right. Why are you sending me your badge photo? What is this?

You didn't ask for it, right? She said, hi, resident. And then she put my address, so I blocked that out. And then she said, this is Donna from this U.S. Census Bureau survey. Please help. Please call. Thanks. Stay safe. Please response. address so i blocked that out and then she said this is donna from this uss bureau survey please help please call thanks stay safe please response i was like oh okay please help please call please wait so why don't you why don't you flip it off so what i did was i texted her back and i was like don't call me anymore i filled it out online uh thank you she goes this is health survey. It's done by phone only. Thus, not 2020 census people count. This is health survey about how are your current health,

about residents' health, and about children's health and not community. Please call Donna to support. It is statistic research. Your input is very important. Like, it keeps going on. Wow. Wow.

I'm like, I'm like, I read the whole thing. Not even a good scam. It's so desperate's so desperate trying to get your girl social well she was asking a lot of questions i think she's trying to break me down yeah but that's a minor league scam that only works on people above the age of 70 i feel like because right sending someone a picture of your badge that's that's that's called old people evidence that doesn't that's not evidence to me that's evidence's called old people evidence that doesn't that's not evidence to me that's evidence to a old person who when they see that they go well i mean they wouldn't have that they wouldn't be able to take that picture unless they didn't have it right they couldn't send me a picture they didn't explain to your parents or older people i see

this shit all the time you're like no no no think a step further that could have gone on the end i could pull up a photo right now make you a badge. And I can make it look like you have one. They're like, really? Why would they do that? You can take a picture with the internet? Why would? But then the next question is always, why would they do that? Yeah.

Because motherfuckers are desperate. And this is how people get theirs right now. And you just have to figure you got to be quick. Yeah, guys, keep your eyes peeled for these new scams. Because I was like, this is terrible. I love the about face. I'm like, yeah, this is from the Census Bureau. Come on now.

Now, hold on. I said this is a health survey. It's not to do with the census. It's not the census. Lacey, what is something you think is underrated? Underrated. Hold on. I gotcha. Underrated fresh flowers.

I understand that this may be a dalliance that you can't afford to spend money on. They're all outside. Snatch you some flowers from outside. Rob your neighbor garden. They don't need that shit especially right now they can't go outside to see it uh or if you can get some in the grocery store i live alone so i just wanted to have like another living thing in my house but only temporary nothing to give it roots so you could continue to you're just sort of like i'll re-up next week they are dying right now they

are currently dying so i am kind of like maybe i should get a plant yeah right i still don't think i can handle a plant something about a plant is very i respect someone who can really keep a plant alive because i'm like if it's not making noise when it's hungry i will not remember to feed it maybe it's a plant that talks i need to talk i need a fucking like a little shop of horrors yeah yeah yeah hey water over here i need me that's why i'm good at dogs dogs are like i'll shit on the floor if you don't do it like all right i'll do it i think it needs something yeah shout out to my friend chris who has uh his you know watching his young children at home. And I just get texts about like, he's like, yeah, my daughter took a dump on the deck this morning and used my board shorts to smear it all over the place.

I love kids. And I was like, damn, there's moments when I'm like, I feel so good to not have children right now. But also all the power and strength to everybody with a young child right now. I see what's happening. The thing about flowers, I just wanted to add, the florist i grew up going to in uh north hollywood they were raided by the dea on wednesday last wednesday this is the flower this is the florist i grew up getting every fucking corsage for every fucking dance i went to every like last minute mother's day bouquet every like sorry i fucked up uh bouquet everything every flower birds i've ever

made was at this florist they shut down the fucking intersection to two street lengths and had like militarized like tank vehicles at this forest and it turns out they were like there was some kind of drug distribution thing going on out of there it was it was shocking i was shook to my core to know that my neighborhood florist had somehow become an accessory to a federal truck race i feel like that's like a rite of passage you know there was like a diner in my area heidi's and then one day something i like we weren't there when it happened but they were like oh heidi's they it made sense because they would be like, here's our menu, an egg, and like, but it was a good egg, and we would go, and it turned

out it was a drug front. You were their only legitimate customers? It was like semi-popular. Like, they made like, it was a classic like two eggs in a strip of bacon place. It was simple, but it was like cheap and fun. I'm talking about this but well

not just weird because this florist it didn't i know like isaac i there were a few drug friends that i knew as a kid i'm like that's not a real business this was a they fucking they put work in on these flowers i'm just really just i'm just really disappointed what if there was someone there who like didn't even realize they're just like i'm passionate about flowers and then one day they just lose their job. I know. And they're like, that's what you guys were doing back there? No.

Yeah. They're like, I was wondering why. We had state of the art everything. I'm only selling like three corsages during prom season. Got that one kid who comes in here. You're all over their books import uh plant importing business so it's not the i guess it's not the last got a lot of rolls rose bulbs coming in what is something you think is overrated lazy overrated um i'm sorry celebs lazy overrated um i'm sorry celebs

hot take i'm just like tired and i feel i feel the growing fatigue on twitter and everywhere else for just like nobody wants to see in your palatial mansion no one wants to hear how sad you are on your golf cart on the way to your tennis court like josh gad you gotta just read the room bro like call your other celebrity friends celebrities out there call your celebrity friends and then y'all can bitch about how you don't have any uh house managers right now and you know where are you supposed to get your organic kombucha but like don't do it on your page and don't do no more celebrity gofundmes if i see a gofundMe is for a regular person, I get it. But celebs, I'm like, if you are starting to GoFundMe, just put all your money into it and show up and shut up.

Right. Oh, like on another person's behalf is what you're saying. Yeah. It's like, come on, let's get this person $3,000. It's like, no, you get them $3,000. Yeah, I think. Put in a dub. Didn't Pharrell get yelled at for

something like that he like signal boosted someone's uh gofundme and they're like pharrell you have 150 million dollars why don't you just like do it yeah it's it's just you know at a certain point like i think it's important if what i mean you know for all of us you know as we enter you know just stratospheric celebrity and stardom in months from now. But like, you know, shows you like at a certain level of success, you just lose your tether to what the rest of the world is like truly like. And it's funny, even when, you know, like you see people who are like, you grew up not like this. But yet at a certain point, like when you live a certain way for a long time and the people you interact with are living in a very similar socioeconomic reality, like that shit just becomes like sort of abstract. And like in a way, like they're victims of their own like bubble where they literally can't read the room because the only room they see has Versace wallpaper.

The closest they get to the people is imagining the people in John Lennon's song when they sing that to all of us. That's them literally imagining the people? Because they're like, we don't know what they look like. Imagine all the people. Wow. Whoa. Think about it. And finally, Lacey, what is a myth?

What's something people think is true that you know to be false? Well, masks protect you. You're not wearing your mask for you. You're wearing your mask for everyone else. If you're contagious, it's actually, I was reading this on WHO and on the CDC. If you're contagious, even if you're asymptomatic, wearing a mask can help from someone else getting sick. So you're wearing your mask for other people because it doesn't really prevent you from

getting sick. It just stops like the spread. Right. And I'm really getting tired of seeing joggers without masks. Like, yes, it's so annoying to me. I get it. You can't breathe when you're jogging in a mask i when i jog i just pull it down when i'm not around people but don't touch my face and then

i push it back up when i see people like stop breathing all over me jump rope get a jump rope and i mean yeah i have a i have like a sort of like face wrap thing that i wear so i'm not pulling like a surgical mask up and down to cover myself when I run. But I just run. There's like, you know, there are a lot of like highly trafficked areas where I live, where people will do their running and shit. And I just try and avoid that completely because I'm just like, I'll run in the middle of a street like away from everybody.

And obviously, like when anyone's close by, put the mask on, because when you look at those like renderings of like what your exhalations look like especially when you're yeah running running that's like you are you're you're putting you're turning up your breathing to one you're using all the parts of your lungs like it's all getting out there right it's like galaxy brain don't jog that's how i've been that's how I've been dealing with this very relatable problem is I just don't jog. I do Jane Fonda in my living room. Do Jane Fonda. Get a jump rope.

Do something that you can do in your house. Don't be. Yeah, just burpees. Shit. Burpees. You want to fucking die? Just say how long you can do that shit for. Just do burpees shit burpees you want to fucking die just say how long you can do that just do burpees for hours you have all the time in the world no i don't mind i get it that people some people want to jog but i'm just like you turn you cranking your lungs up to the max

yeah and then you're going outside you breathing all over everybody like that's cool the trails in los angeles opened up on right? Right. Like the hiking trails are opening back up. Oh, don't. We can go to Runyon. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You can go. Everybody's going to get sick.

I'm not going anywhere near those fucking places. Like, absolutely not. I need a sunset selfie. I don't know what y'all talking about. I'm ready. With the mask off. I'm not getting mask-ny. All right.

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I think we're going to just let Jamie's review of extraction really breathe. Please, yes. But first, let's talk about, you know, the Republicans are trying out a bunch of shit because they have really, they got to figure something out. They're trying to manufacture a political angle, a political reality out of nothing because there's really not much about reality

that is going in their direction these days. And so one thing they've glommed on to is the Green New Deal. Yeah. Well, I think, you know, because a lot of people with the decrease in driving and carbon emissions around the world are like holy shit man like it's like more conceptually that wow it's clear that there

is a way to cut down carbon this probably does extreme way yeah i mean and now a lot of people are talking about the economy and what that means and again never mind this pandemic though the fucking main event this is the pre-card pandemic, the fucking main event. This is the pre-card fight before the fucking main event on pay-per-view, which is fucking climate change versus Earth. And the odds are fucked. So we're trying to do everything we can. I think a lot of especially Democrats are trying to say, hey, OK, we have an economy problem, like a viable wages problem. Let's try.

Like, we're looking at a climate crisis. There's more and more talk about, look, we've got the evidence here. Let's put this to work. Let's talk about ways we can have a greener economy and help the climate. But since the GOP is a white supremacist death cult, they are already testing out attacks on this kind of legislation because I think the argument is just boiling down to Democrats are like, hey, man, the benefits of a green new deal are pretty apparent. I mean, look at the air right now. Let's protect our earth. Like everyone can win if we do this. And Republicans tactic is just going to be. But it's not money for the rich, though, a.k.a. Well, I mean, we don't have that money right now. The economy. Right. And you're starting to see these attacks.

Yeah. These attacks on like even the concept of greening our economy. Yeah. And America is literally like if you gave your friends money and because they said they really needed it. And then a week later, you see your friend driving like the new Maserati with a fur coat. It's like America's always broke. Always broke when it comes to something that we need. But then if there's a war or if we need to bail out the rich, all of a sudden they're in a Maserati, but they can't pay you your money back. America can have a trillion dollar war as a treat. This is 2019 Gucci guns. As a dollar war as a treat. This is 2019 Gucci guns.

As a treat. As a treat. The taxpayers can find the money to have a war. These are last season's Louis Vuitton tanks. We are poor. This is pre-Virgil Louis Vuitton. I don't want to say this. It doesn't even drive that good.

This is Marc Jacobs Louis Vuitton. I? I mean, I'm... I don't want to say this. I mean, it doesn't even drive that good. This is Marc Jacobs' Louis Vuitton, okay? I don't want to admit that. But I think when looking at the quotes that you see, people are saying, like, if you like the pandemic lockdown, you're going to love the Green New Deal. That's what someone in the Washington Examiner said. That's a take on that.

There's another one that... Like, there's another opinion piece where someone is saying, think a pandemic is the perfect opportunity to kill millions of more jobs wait to get a load of the green new deal then there's like this is what a carbon constrained world looks like that's what michael mckenna said who's like a trump deputy for energy but tying this to like that now they're gonna try and put this in your mind that all this shit right now staying at home this is how the democrats want to fucking

cut down emissions or whatever the fuck right right yeah i mean it's not rational it doesn't make any sense and it just like ignores all the job like it just ignores everything about the green new deal that right no is that it would create a ton of jobs like yeah and make our planet more viable which just doesn't seem to be something that republicans care about it's also yeah it's like oh do you want to like live long enough to worry about jobs 10 years from now it's a good idea like it i don't know the tax cuts that they did like just we're in so much debt now because of those massive tax cuts they did for massive corporations and they're going to complain about the green new deal like and we never see that

trickle down we never get it back it's just a bunch of stock buybacks no don't you remember that that one company gave their people like thousand dollar bonuses or something like the right after the tax cut yeah um yeah it's just straight up robbery and they're just like not even trying to come up with well yeah because there's justifications well there's still a class of people who we might not even directly work for who are still exploiting our labor by siphoning off all this shit we kick up in taxes. And it's just like, you know, again,

the class war is abstract yet. So clear at times when you're like, yeah, they're fucking drinking our milkshake and we will have from all the way over there. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

on the subject of, uh, why we shouldn't want to go back to driving, let's talk about the roads and who is out there on them.

This is great news for me. Yeah. Why? Do you not drive much? I don't have a driver's license. I've never passed the test. Oh, well then this is great news this is a big day listen Jack I know you see me drive but that doesn't mean

that I had a license when I did it okay riding dirty I was back when I had my 01 Corolla I pull up my 01 Corolla and not have a license it was kind of my thing that was a fun summer pull up to the scene with my license missing so the georgia department of driver services or their dmv uh you know a lot of bureaucratic institutions have just

like tremendous backlogs of like applications and paperwork and legal cases liquor licenses whatever just because shit's not moving right now no one's out there but so to deal with their backlog of people yeah thanks to the green new deal there's a lot of teenagers that had their permits and they're like yo i'm trying to get this fucking license i want to take my driver's test let me get in there on wednesday last wednesday the state's Department of Driver Services said that they had upgraded 19,483 teen permits to full-on licenses. Without a test. Without a test. They just waived the test.

I love it. And I hate it, too. That goes from needing your parent in the seat next to you, slamming their foot on an imaginary brake because they're terrified and think you're driving too fast, to just being able to drive on your own just whatever the fuck you want. You know what? Some people don't test well, okay?

Says the woman in Mensa. Those driving tests are culturally biased. Here's the thing. Sometimes when someone says don't hit the curb, I hear something a little different, and I never pass the test. I don't know.

This is a great idea. Y'all know I slipped through the cracks, right? No, really? No, what do you mean? I scammed my license. I never took a driver's test. I'm not even joking. I've never taken a driver's test. No. How did you get your license? I know you twoammed my license. I've never took a driver's test. I'm not even joking. I've never taken a driver's test.

No. How did you get your license? I know you two have a license. I know, and I drive terribly. Wait, how did you get a... Okay, well, hey, we don't have to make it hot for you on here. The pride with which you just said that was... And I drive terribly.

Okay, listen. Every day I get home, I'll be like, thank the Lord. We made it again because it'd be touch and go on the road for me. But no, I went to driver's ed school, but my sister went to driver's ed school and she did have to take a driver's license test. At the end of driver's ed school, my driver's ed teacher was like, you really need to practice more. And then I got my license. Wow. Oh, my got my license. Wow. Oh my God.

Good for you. So I sympathize with these 19,000 kids. I hope that they'll be all right. They're mostly doing rural driving. I have like such a boomers, like college debt being canceled take on this. I'm like, hell no. I had to fail that shit fucking twice.

I had to go to like two spooky DMVs that were not near my house because those are like the DMVs in LA you do. The easy ones. And that was what was the awful worst shit. I failed in Glendale. I'm never going to pass. They're like, they give these shits out. I didn't learn how to parallel park until I moved to LA.

Then I was like, I guess I have to do this. Yeah, yeah. Okay. I don't even hit people's cars anymore. Major. I guess the licensing process is not the dragnet that we're

making it out to be because I also basically failed but because the woman giving me the test was my teammate's aunt I just got through. You got nepotismed. I got nepotism i got nepotism nice um i like that i like that yeah she gave me an 80 she gave me the worst score you could possibly give somebody without failing them and like she she would have failed me if she

didn't feel bad for me i like that the. The personality angle. You get in there and give a little sadness. And Jack, you cute. You was probably working some little cuteness too. I was crying the whole time. Just weeping openly. I was trying to get out of a ticket. Very pathetic.

Really turned up the patheticness. Oh man, I remember when I failed mine, I punched the dashboard of the car, and my dad almost fucking body slammed me in the DMV parking lot. He's like, that's your fault. Like, basically, it's that teacher, and I hit the thing.

I'm fucking 17 or 18 or whatever, wilding out. And, yeah, anyway. Very angsty. I wasn't in a good place. Yeah, see, I have a lot of stress around the driver's test. My blood pressure is going up. My watch is telling me to take a few breaths, breathes now. Yeah.

Anyways, take a... This is what I want. Okay. Drive a couple clicks more conservative if you live in the Georgia area, guys. Yes. Be safe out there. All right, guys.

It's time for our pop culture roundup so we we looked at a couple things that were in the netflix top 10 we looked at uh the movies that were uh hitting at the box office at the home box office not hbo but the video on demand box office. And so, Miles, you looked at a show that was totally foreign to me. I kept seeing it at number one in the Netflix top ten, The Outer Banks. Yeah. I looked at that, too. Okay. Did you watch it, too?

Yes. Okay. When y'all said that y'all were doing movies and TV shows, I didn't read that part, but I've just already watched The Outer Banks. Oh, fantastic. So what is this? What is this show? So I guess I'll limit my review to the first episode and a half just to give people an idea of what they are offering people.

My first thing is for, this is for younger people. Might not be, it's definitely like if I was a teenager, I feel like I would love this film or this series. I mean, not that it's good or whatever, but it's definitely geared for a certain age. So it's about this group of kids

who live in the Outer Banks in North Carolina. And it's very much from the get-go framed as like this class-based place where there's like the pogues, which are them, the little fish and

the kooks who are the rich people uh and there's no there's no pogue on pogue macking uh was a line that was in the pilot that was very confusing to me i was like okay so there's only like upward social mobility hookups like you don't have intimate relationships with people within your own class it was interesting so the characters. That sounds like a show about teenagers written by an old person. That's my next point. So the main characters. Pogonacking?

Yeah. It was like, I was almost, it sounded like, it was like the same thing where like, I feel, what was the one with Zendaya, the HBO one? Oh, Euphoria. Oh, Euphoria. Euphoria, where like it had vibes of like older horny people were writing for young people well yeah that's all that's a full-on nepotism project that's like

someone's son oh how was the guy older though like that it had that feeling he was like in his late 30s yeah okay that's what i mean but not like show me their dicks right in a row yeah right oh yeah yeah it becomes more sinister when you imagine a 40-year-old man just being like, all right, then we get a shot of dicks, dicks, dicks, dicks, dicks, dicks. Yemma, yemma, yemma. You're like, somebody was coming in like, is this too many dicks? Never too many dicks. More.

Hey, ask that PA if he wants to get bumped up. Okay, so the characters are just... There's JJ, who's like a wild-ass surfer. There's Kiara, who comes from money, but she's a crunchy hippie who likes to slum it with the pogues. There's Pope, who's like the black friend who is very smart, hyper-intelligent. Who has a big future.

They remind us all the time. I know they're front-load it's weird like you can tell a lot of what's happening in the pilot and then there's john booker outlage or john b but not the r&b singer they call him john b and his dad disappeared nine months ago he does not look distraught at all and is basically orphaned in this he's orphaned in a fishing shack where his uncle is supposed to be his guardian but he's not there there there are minors but they somehow have an endless supply of alcohol it was like so this is where i'm like okay this is the wish fulfillment part for a teen we're like i'm watching like this is fucking nonsense uh but it's just like this whole thing

we're like oh man it sucks to be look at the kooks over there until one day they stumble upon like a shipwreck and they start getting involved in like what starting to look like some fantastic shipwreck lost treasure angle and there's a hunt for it um but one scene there's one i just take umbridge with this very one specific scene in the pilot where the the pogues are having a beach kegger and some kooks show up. Namely, this character named Sarah who is clearly John B.'s love interest and her shitty boyfriend now

who's this guy Topper who's basically Tucker Carlson. Not Topper. His name is Topper? His name is fucking Topper. That's like a cartoon seal. He's not the protagonist? No.

They're like, what is the douchiest rich name we can come up with? Yeah, it really is. Topper? Moneybag shit. He's a one percenter so what do we call him right and so they pull up to this party he's talking shit to the pogues and then he gets on a one-on-one with john b a fight and like on the beach but his homies are not backing him up and i was like bro if topper got near i would duff i don't give a fuck like Like, I'm jumping in.

Like, fuck Topper, fuck Honor. Topper was drowning homeboy low-key. Like, he was really drowning him in public. It was like, you just gonna do a murder right here at the party? His friends, yeah, his friends are looking at each other. They're like, what, oh no. Like, what should we do? I'm like, motherfucker, kick this dude in the head.

He's drowning a boy. The pogues don't jump in? The pogues don't jump in? The Pogues don't jump in? They say all this shit like never leave a Pogue behind. Yo, where's the fucking Pogue backup? So suddenly, okay, later, like earlier in the scene where they realize there's a scheme, they've come upon a safe with cash and a gun and JJ's wild ass just takes this gun. And then rather than like just kicking this dude topper in the head or like pulling him off

maybe like a normal person topper just pulls the strap out in the middle of this beach party starts licking shots in the air this is straight up 80s movie villain shit. Yeah. The teenage bully is like all the things. He's rich. His name's Topper. Yeah. He's a fucking asshole. He loves Topper's girl. He beats up poor people.

He's hooking up with your girlfriend. And then he starts licking shots in the air for no fucking reason. No, no, no. JJ does that. No, no. So the poor person does the shots. Oh. Oh. So it's empowering. So it's like, no. JJ does that. So the paw, the poor person does the shots. Oh, oh, oh. So it's empowering.

So imagine a fight on the beach. You see somebody strangling you on the beach. Topper's choking homie out in the water and drowning him in public. And then his other homie pulls up, and instead of pushing Topper off from the murder, he just gets his gun out and is like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and is like, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's like, okay, okay.

Anyway, so I will say it's like, it's a ride. I don't think it's good. I don't think anything is realistic. But I think what they've done is they've created a hook point and they've layered a lost sort of mystery thing on top of just like cd teen bullshit where it's like not really trying to be i mean based off this the pilot i'm i'm imagining it wants to be some kind of like examination of class in this area but they

don't really juxtapose it like they don't put the rich people and poor people together but in that party scene and then like a couple other times throughout the show but it doesn't it's a show that once it's like if you had gumbo or soup or something netflix was just like let's make a sexy show for teens okay what do we need rich poor hot i don't know a gun cash a boat two boats netflix does make all their their shit with Venn diagrams of shows that they've seen, like metrics that say they're popular. So I'm just trying to picture what the boardroom scene was that led to this. I'm thinking there was Mud, because that was an indie movie that was unexpectedly popular. There's probably some Dawson's Creek in there.

O.C. Karate Kid. Some O.C. Karate Kid. Some O.C. Yeah, like all those things mixed together. Do you think in Reddit... And everyone's hot. Everyone's so hot. Everyone's just nasty hot.

That's gotta be... Oh, including John B. The main character, John B., he looks like a young, hot Walton Goggins. He's so beautiful. I'm interested. If you look at him and you're going to laugh hearing what I said, you're going to be like, this kind of does look like Walton Goggins.

But Walton Goggins I don't think of as a particularly hot dude. You're wrong, Jack. You're just wrong. Yeah. You didn't think Uncle Baby Billy? You weren't gushing over Uncle Baby Billy? He did not make me gush. Writing for shows like that must be so much fun

because I just imagine there being a bingo thing in there with the names of ridiculous items and plot developments. And they're like, all right, all right. Sunk in treasure? Boat. And then they're like, all right, we can get a boat in there. Good. Anyway, so yeah, if you have plenty of time, check it out.

Why not? I mean, I don't know if I'll keep watching. I'm going to watch the shit out of that. Aside from maybe closure behind what this sunken treasure thing is, but I'll give it two thumbs down. Okay. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back with Extraction and Trolls World Tour.

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So Jamie went in on extraction. What is extraction, Jamie? Okay, so here's what happened. Extraction Jamie. Here's, okay, so here's what happened. I had plans to watch Extraction. And, but then, you know, life got in the way. I was, I was, my finger was hovering over okay.

And then I got, basically I had to, I had to work all night doing something else. But here's what I know about extraction because I did. I like this. Here's what I can tell you about extraction based on my research. here's what I can tell you about extraction based on my research uh it's basically like Australian Jack Ryan to the point where Chris Hemsworth's character's name is Tyler Rake which is essentially the same name as Jack that's just like a poorly rendered Jack Ryan. You're going to get Tyler Rake. Tyler Rake is the real great value Jack Ryan. Tyler Rake sounds like, yeah, he sounds like the fifth in line to inherit the Jack Ryan title

if he like falls off a roof like in the Santa Claus. So anyways, Tyler Rake does, he's like a mercenary. They let him have his Australian accent and basically it's I didn't that's all I can say

my understanding of the movie is that Chris Hemsworth is Jack Ryan but he can't say that he has to say he's Tyler Rake. He's in, and then a kid gets kidnapped. He's the son of India's biggest drug lord. He gets kidnapped for various drug reasons.

He smokes weed in one of the scenes that I paused on. What? Yeah, he's not like the other kids and that he and chris hemsworth become friends chris hemsworth is trying to extraction the kid from the bad guys and then at the end he does i don't know i was reading the summary for this movie and i'm like i'm honestly glad that I didn't watch it. It seems exhausting. He tries to do extraction and

succeeds. And extraction too is already in the works. Oh, wow. So it might be popping. This sounds like a costume I could get at the 99 cent store. One of those shows that like Bright, the Will Smith movie.

I call movies shows now, by the way. That's how old I am. Bright was like notoriously bad. Yeah. Yeah, it was notoriously bad. And it was like watched by 200 million people. It was watched by so many people. And I've been hearing the same thing about extraction,

like just random numbers that it's like being watched. It been watched by 50 of the population on earth uh so that can't be true that it's one of those movies that you can tell like okay if half the planet has seen this movie not one person if you're like okay but what was it about? They would be like, uh, uh. I don't know. It was on. His name is Tyler Rae. The title says it all. Yeah, he's trying to extraction. I think it's a little, I don't think it's wise of Netflix to take some numbers right now and be like, oh, yeah, this was popping. Because, like, we're at home with nothing else to do.

Like, I don't know if Extraction 2 is is gonna get them kind of streams no right it's like yeah this is but but it's like as the marvel stunt core it just like reeks of like marvel cast off projects because the russo's produced it chris hemsworth is in it and it's directed by the stunt coordinator for the marvel cinematic universe and you're just like this was some kind of arrangement kind of movie of like, okay, if you show Scarlett Johansson how to kick for 50 years, you can one day direct a really shitty Netflix movie, and this is that movie. In conclusion, I didn't watch it.

To me, this sounds like a perfect hangover movie, which is usually just any film that is on TNT on Sunday at 11 a.m. where it's like I'm not gonna actually watch it but it's on and I think that's probably why they have like it's probably a lot of passive viewing where it's like I don't know fine fucking bang bang's going off because it there's not like you need to follow a story like you know when you hit play on a film like that it's like this is bad guy this is good guy and then he's gonna extraction him

he's gonna extraction you know that he's gonna be extraction by the end his name is Rake and his whole thing is like extractioning people like I can't say Rake's extraction leaves from your from your yard that's deep that's deep i think in the

first draft of the script his character was called xavier tractor they're like it doesn't have a good mouthfeel got me good um lazy it's funny that you mentioned netflix taking the wrong message from the success of this movie uh because we're all stuck at home because universal and the entire film industry might be doing the same thing with our next pop culture uh deep dive which is Trolls World Tour. Universal is the studio behind it. Universal I also in researching this found out that Universal Music is the studio behind Justin

Timberlake's career. Hence Justin Timberlake being one of the voice actors in this. Yeah and that's where like Can't Stop the Feeling the first Trolls movie hit. Got this feeling in my body yeah and that's where like can't stop it wasn't can't stop the feeling the first yeah yes yes i like that my son's favorite song of all time uh like to this day non-stop that song is so i've heard that song more than any other song in the history of my life. My friend Boston is in that music video. Oh, really?

Yeah, he's the guy that works at the store. He's an albino man, and he's dancing. Oh. That's funny. I remember when my sister was a small child, and Shark Tales was on every day, honey. I know when the fish swim left. I know when the fish swim right i know when the fish swim right because

i've seen that movie so many times so i imagine it's still shocking to me how much they made a fish look like renee zellweger uh in in shark tail honestly that might be because renee started making herself look like a fish like i just met in the middle but so basically what happened universal released trolls world tour on vod and it like was probably the most successful movie ever on video on demand and they're like yeah we're gonna do this again with other movies because uh even after quarantine, people like to watch movies at home. And AMC, the theater chain that is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, they just went the fuck off when this happened. They were busting shots back at Universal.

Speaking of yacht, yacht, yacht, they issued a statement that they said, therefore, effective immediately, AMC will no longer play any Universal movies in any of our theaters in the United States.

Damn. Europe or the Middle East. Pull the fuck up is what they said. They broke up with Universal. They said, fine, I don't even want to be with you yeah or my cousin in europe or my cousin in the middle east i feel like it is a

little while i mean obviously universal's got like money to burn but i think it's a while for them to get cocky for one quarantine success where they are coming off of cats and dr doolittle like they're not actually doing that great. And they also have a bunch of movies coming up that completely rely on people seeing them in the theater. Fast and the Furious 9. They have a bunch of huge movies coming up. They probably are going to have a big next couple years,

but they're totally relying on having big premieres, big theater opening weekends. Fast and Furious 9, Jurassic World, Dominion, and Minions 2. First of all, AMC is not going to just hold those. And also the new Bond movie, Universal, is the international distributor of that in North America, I think. That's cocky of AMC to be like we don't need the minions right yeah yeah like you need the minions you're gonna want some minions yeah you're

gonna want that i'm sure it's just a flex like they'll get behind it but universal are really worried about streaming and like if it could take them out permanently although how you gonna watch cars flip upside down and hoochies on your computer you got a much faster like that's not gonna be as like we're in a very specific period where people are stuck at home with their kids and time is like standing still and you just need to give your children something to do like this is not a sign of things to come or how we're going to behave when we're out of quarantine is it are you able to buy the movie yet or is it a lot of the money just from repeat rentals of just like oh i need my kid to be quiet for two hours again and the rental expired i guess it's a rental it's a rental thing two-day

rental for 20 it is expensive as fuck yeah okay so then yeah that's a fluke yeah so i did watch troll's world tour with my children uh they what's their really liked it okay uh they loved it like they were quiet for most of it but then at at the end, when the credits were playing, they got up and danced a lot for like the whole song. It was pretty funny. I have footage if anybody wants to see it. I do think that so the movie could. Wait, hold on, Jack. Can you describe the dancing?

I'm sorry. We're still like a jumping kind of dance. It's a lot of jumping dance it's a lot of jumping damn okay that game everyone cares about the dancing and the cute kids nobody cares about my intellectual takedown of tours trolls world tour all right fine all right what do you know what do you have to say about this this is just like my marriage uh all right so the movie i feel like could easily have been soviet era propaganda to depict like a horrifying vision of what the end point of american capitalism would look like because so the creatures are all like very ugly but then they're all like

they're all just focused on being happy all the time and smiling and covering everything with bright glitter. So if you didn't see the first Trolls, if you're one of the two or three people who didn't see the first Trolls. Yeah. The first movie is about trolls being slaughtered by another race for whom the trolls it turns out are antidepressants. Like if you

eat trolls they make you happy. It's very strange. That's really dark. Psychologically dark. I hadn't seen the first troll. God damn. I'm up to watch the first troll. That's deep shit. Jack's kids were dancing like, eat the rich.

But I mean, the ones who are eating them are the rich. Yeah, right. Because they're bigger, and they're baking them into pies. It's fucking dark as hell. What? Anyways, so they're like, okay, so yada, yada. These two saved the world. It's Anna Kendrick and just troll troll Burlake.

So they, it turns out, are only the queen and right hand dude of the pop kingdom of trolls. It's also a musical that has hit songs in it. They just take hit songs from the pop culture songbook and like put the like just jam them into the movie. Right. That they own. Yeah, that they own. Exactly. So it turns out they are only the heads of the pop kingdom.

And there's also a funk kingdom, a country western kingdom, a classical music kingdom, an EDM kingdom, and one other that I'm forgetting. It kind of sounds like Nightmare Before Christmas. There's a town for every holiday kind of vibe. Yes, very much so. Wait, what's the

EDM town? That's the first one we see. It's just a giant. It seems like it's a giant. They're doing cartoon drugs. The trolls got all this Vicks Vaporub on their face. It's just like a giant electronic music festival. It's just a bunch of people dancing.

There's one DJ and his collaborator, his right-hand person is a anthropomorphic button that he presses when it's like time to drop the beat oh very stupid and like it's like somebody watched a 30 second video about electronic music and was like okay that is all i need to know got it got it got it um Got it. Got it. Was there a flower crown at least? Tell me there's one troll in the audience with a flower crown. There's no flower crown. What?

No flower crown. They didn't do anything. JNCOs? They had JNCO jeans on? Hula hoop troll? Nobody throwing cakes into the audience troll? Was there like that kid from high school who was the drum major in the band and knew how to really work that baton or mace and then started doing ecstasy and then made a glow stick version of that and started doing light shows at raves like this kid in my high school?

No call the ambulance. No like troll saying someone needs to call the ambulance and then finding out that the drugs they had didn't even work and that they're just placeboing. Yeah. If it didn't have any of that, it's not real EDM. It's not. No random couple having a fight where they're probably breaking up right at the EDM show. Because if you've been to any rave, there's always a couple that's breaking up at the rave. Yes.

Oh, of course. I don't even like Animal Collective. Then fucking go then. Fuck. Okay, I'm sorry. We digress. So we show up at the rave, and then there's these big backpack spaceships that arrive. It's the rock trolls, and they're basically trying to steal all the other trolls' music and put it all under one god of rock, basically.

The rock trolls are the bad ones. They travel in a backpack. They travel in a Jansport. Exactly. It's weird. It's like there's a surface level of everything is made of cloth and glitter. It's almost like they're trying to make it seem like it's stop motion, but it

clearly is all computer animated. Anyways, halfway through, you find out that the protagonists, the pop trolls, in the beginning, all the other trolls hate them because they appropriated

all the other trolls' music. It's like, the other trolls music and it's like wait a second is this movie gonna have like a an actually like you know coherent uh critique of pop culture and like pop appropriation and then they just pave over it at the end with a like pop song that again appropriates all the different kinds of music and like just they make like these horrible surface level nods to like bastardized versions of funk country and rock um wow and yeah it's kind of significant though that the rock trolls are coming to steal everything because I think rock is very famously, I mean, there's a misconception that rock and roll is always like,

people think of it as white music when the people who started rock and roll are Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner. Those are the people who created rock and roll, or most people will credit with being the fathers of rock. Yeah, they totally ignore that. They come through to be like, fuck you, that's what rock does. We come through to fucking take everybody's shit. And I don't know, as a music person, I'm like, huh, okay, who's writing this?

Were they trying to say something with Trolls World Tour? They're like, we steal their music, but don't defend them. Right, exactly. It reminds me of Jurassic World in that this like all these surface level critiques of like spawn con and like you know commercialism but then ultimately the whole thing is an exercise in commercialism right and it's also the critique is that pop culture appropriates and destroys everything and then it ends with pop appropriating everything but being like friendly about it so it's like hard for the other people to get mad about it it just like it's actually a really good metaphor for how the last 30 years of pop culture and pop

music happened and like they just make friends with jay-, and Jay-Z becomes a part of pop culture, so it's not seen as evil appropriation. It's just they bring everybody slowly into the fold of mainstream culture. Interesting. But it's still a bullshit... I don't know. We have Justin Timberlake instead of actual artists. We have the Epcot version of R&B music. We're like, this is a bad thing. Right.

But we're going to do it anyway. We know it's bad, but we would like to keep doing it. That's always a weird thing. I feel like it's a lot of animated movies do it now where they're making these like they're trying to make a message out of it for parents that doesn't really work. And then kids just don't know the difference. It's just like just make a movie for kids then. If you can't make a good point to adults, then just don't try. Like a five-year-old isn't going to give a shit if there's not enough, you know, commentary on the history of rock music.

Yeah. Right. They have Ozzy Osbourne is like the king of the rock universe. And, uh, it's, and he ultimately is like, it's okay.

Everybody's cool. And it's is like, it's okay, everybody's cool. And it's just like that's appropriate because he went from biting the heads off bats to being the dad in the Osbournes and just doing movies like this. This is like Shrek culture. Shrek started that shit of hitting adults over the head with references that kids didn't understand,

and it just hasn't gone away. Yeah, it's a movie about gentrification that sides with gentrification. Right. Yeehaw. Yeah. Well, it embodies that sort of thing of what you're talking about with Jay-Z,

which is a sort of appropriation recontextualized as invitation to something. You know what I mean? So if you blur the line so much, you don't know what absorbed what. But if you frame it as like, no, this is a seat for Sean at the table, rather than like, we have taken everything we need now. We have taken the table. And now that we've extracted everything,

you can now bring your hollow body to the table. Extraction. It's weird that like rap or hip hop doesn't get its own land it's all like subsumed under funk for some reason and they like make a brief reference they're like why isn't there

a hip hop land but then there's like a yodeling land and like all this other shit it just there's no like fucking freestyle they make reference they make reference to the fact they're like your map must be outdated there's no hip-hop land on it so they're they imply the existence of a hip-hop land and there are like chance the rapper and anderson pock are both like in the movie as like voices but they're

they're associated with funk land and it's just like wait you're leaving out the most popular type of music of the last 30 years like by far stupid yeah maybe because they don't want it to be the most popular music maybe they're like maybe we can convince children that hip hop never existed. I get those two. Like, yeah, you'd have to have like a very sanitized version. Because if you're being real, like you can't play half this shit for kids. Right. Well, you just do raps.

They used to do fun little raps for kids. Yeah, I think if you did it, like, would it be Will Smith? Yeah. But like, I'd also be like, yo, put that that fucking that fucking Playboy Cardi on for these kids I don't know what Cardi do like real quick I feel like put on Magnolia put some Brockhampton on so they the young the youth know the youth them I feel like Chance is about as close as you get to like wholesome like wholesome trolls rapper right like yeah he gets to be a lovable scamp, even though he does write music about being addicted

to Zans and women and shit, but for some reason, he can also go on Sesame Street. He's just like... Didn't he host Punk'd or something? You're just like, he's wholesome. He needs to start dropping acid again. What's the verdict, Jack, on Troll's World Tour?

If you have kids, is it worth springing the 20s? Five stars. Great movie. Did it pass the Bechdel test? I don't know, actually. Okay, you hate women. Interesting. Yeah, that's interesting.

Just throwing that out there. I don't see gender Jamie uh oh here we go it is also just like so bizarre like there's so many levels there's just like so many like levels of jadedness to like

franchises like this cause it's like you almost forget that it's based on a toy property from the 1980s that has nothing to do with fucking anything but like they're getting a check too like Russ gets a fucking check from Trolls World Tour it's just yeah it's so many

levels of jaded but it sounds you know it actually is from the 50s really really I mean I've been it's a Danish thing I've been in this damn Beanie Babies hole and so I think I'm just salty towards other toy franchises. Yeah, you're like, fuck these collectibles. I'm like, these fucking trolls.

We never got a Beanie movie, did we? We never did. It was a mistake. Oh, shit. Yeah, very Beanie movie. A Beanie movie that tells metaphorically the story of the dark time bubble? Of TIE Warner? The Beans are a metaphor, Jack. The Beans are a metaphor. Without them of the Thai water bubble. The beans are a metaphor, Jack.

The beans are a metaphor. Without them, there is no baby. You need the beans to make the baby. Well, Lacey, all of you, but Lacey, we'll start with it's been a pleasure having you. Where can people find you and follow you?

Oh, it's always a pleasure to be here. You guys can find me at diva laci diva lacy on all platforms and i have a podcast too called scam goddess if you like scams and is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying oh yes let me pull up a tweet i guess this is from a few days ago but uh april uh this is from j jared j g arid i can't read that um but he said april but he says on twitter april did not want nothing to do with covid 19 i've never seen a month pack up their things so quickly and dip i feel like April went by really fast whereas March was here for so long March was the longest

three years of my life Jamie it's been a pleasure having you where can people find you and follow you you can find me at home watching Extraction this weekend for sure this is Monday I watched it six times and I loved it extraction this weekend for sure yeah uh there this is monday this is monday this is monday i

watched it six times and i loved it uh no i you can find me on twitter at jamie loftus help on instagram at jamie christ superstar listen to the bechtel cast uh and a tweet i like is from at bara godzilla uh it's an attached there's a commercial attached to it she's posting about uh or they're posting about a a game it says i'm losing my mind there's no way you're going to be able to predict what this ad is trying to sell you uh and it is an ad that is all it's just like at the beginning it's like uh in 2019 less than 10 of patents were by women and then it's a whole like women are in stem and it's like teenagers being like chemicals chemicals chemicals and you're you're like all right where is this going where were we you know it looks like it's

about to be some scary petroleum company it's like shiel shell again but at the end it's a two minute long commercial and then at the end the girl opens up present and it's monopoly it's an ad for monopoly but it's called ms but ms monopoly it's girl it's girl boss monopoly i can't fucking believe what shit. What if we put the Monopoly box in a dress? They're like, what? It's like Ms. Pat. You're like, it's the same fucking game except meaner. Oh, it's a fun commercial. You should watch it.

Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me, follow me on Twitter, Instagram, PlayStation Network, Miles of Grey, g-r-a-y uh and also my other podcast 420 day fiance talking about 90 day fiance which is one of my favorite shows uh but a tweet i like uh there's a couple one is from uh miel uh at miel work hard play hard weep hard, eat hard.

I'm feeling that too right now. And also, this is another one from Slough Witch. It's a screen grab from a subreddit called Ask Reddit, where people just kind of put up, you know, musing, saying, what's going on? What's happening here? Tell us. You have a question?

Ask Reddit, and maybe we'll all come back with our answers. So this has an NSFW tag. It says, sex ed teachers of Reddit, what is the most awkward slash cringeworthy question you've had to answer in your class? And one of the replies in this thread, it says right from this person, a username, Aneldia Mama. It says says not a sex ed teacher but a seventh grade classroom teacher I had one boy ask me mr. dot dot dot you know boobs right as he cupped his hands in front of his chest I nodded he responds I'm sorry I'm sorry I know this is a bad word he said but I any other way to say it. Are boobs full of cum? What? Oh my God. That's funny. What did he say?

What was the answer? There's just no answer. He just left it there. I don't know what you say. I think you probably get in trouble for answering that. I know. The answer is sand. I know the answer. All right.

Water Toupee tweeted, Uptown mouse, she's been living in her Swiss cheese house. Not at all. Dana Shorts tweeted, My laptop fan suddenly wears up. Me, what is it, girl? Shh, shh. It's okay, you up me. What is it, girl? Shh, it's okay here.

I'm here, girl. Uh, Bing Cosby tweeted Charles Hussein entertainment cheese. Uh, and, uh, this one couldn't be more in my lane.

It's from Johnny normality. It is for sale. Bahadu. Never blasted. No. Yeah. One Bahadu. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

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Just thinking of raves and EDM world made me think of, like, just going to live shows that were sort of EDM adjacent or just big music shows, electronic music. And I was going through, you know, some old likes on SoundCloud and there's a track by Flying Lotus. That's also like a mashup with a Massive Attack track. I don't know. I don't think this is on Spotify. So you might have to go to SoundCloud for this one, but it's Flying Lotus, Massive Attack, Vibe Angel. Sorry. Vibe Angel Mix 1.

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