The Daily Zeitgeist - Sen. Kevin McCallister, Ranch Filled Stocking 12.16.19

Episode Date: December 16, 2019

In episode 536, Jack and Miles are joined by Bechdel Cast co-host Caitlin Durante to discuss Cam'ron not believing in dinosaurs, Mitch McConnell claiming he will let Trump's lawyers dictate the impeachment trial, social media and television leading to depression and anxiety in teens, Pepsi Cafe, fast food holiday promotions, the Game of Thrones creators finding their new project, the Home Alone reboot, and more!FOOTNOTES: Our fourth annual #12DaysOfPodcasts starts tonight: Killa Cam stops by for a wide ranging, dynamic, hilarious, personal and pre-historic conversation. McConnell indicates he’ll let Trump’s lawyers dictate Trump’s impeachment trial Social media and television use — but not video games — predict depression and anxiety in teens Pepsi Will Help Americans Tackle That Afternoon Slump with New Pepsi Café Nothing Says Christmas Like … a KFC Fried-Chicken Fire? DUNKIN' DONUTS LAUNCHES LIMITED EDITION HOLIDAY MERCHANDISE ON ONLINE POP-UP SHOP Taco Bell's Scented 'Crunchwrapping Paper' Sold Out Immediately MCDONALD’S IS SELLING MERCHANDISE MADE FOR ITS BIGGEST FANS, JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Popeyes serving up ugly Christmas chicken sandwich sweater. How fast will it sell out? From KFC-scented firelogs to Taco Bell wrapping paper, why are this year's food-related holiday promotions so bonkers? The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Showrunners Have Found Their Next Project After Bailing On A ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy ‘Home Alone’ Reboot Taps ‘Jojo Rabbit’s’ Archie Yates, Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney (EXCLUSIVE) New ‘Home Alone’ Reboot Details: What We Know About the New Mischievous Main Character America's Favourite Child Soldier: 'Home Alone,' 25 Years Later WATCH: KAYTRANADA - Puff Lah (Audio) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, take a slurp of that shit and say officially off the top fuck the coke brothers and fuck fox news it's monday december 16th 2019 my name is jack o'brien aka oh jack sweaty bambo lambo oh jack sweaty bambo lambo jack sweaty is a fat bambo lama wear diapers on his back bamba lamba that is courtesy of trite gang uh and also i did that at a live show like a year ago but we never released our live shows you gotta come see us to hear the ak's we do there and i'm thrilled to be joined as Joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Insane in the membrane. Insane mouth brain. Yeah.

Remember that? Oh, do I remember that? Insane. When insane, got no brain. When insane, got no brain. When you got no brain, you probably not be able to live because your central nervous system would be useless. Okay, so go back to the drawing board. Be real.

But that one is from Hannah Soltis. And the beginning of that song was the drop for all, like, shitty morning radio things. What's the matter? I say, don't you know I'm loco, loco. And then it'd be like. Also, shout out to Nick Gutierrez, okay? Because your girl, Ale, she loves you. It's your birthday.

Huh. Yeah. Wow. We're doing requests like that now? Well, you know, somebody came to me. Speaking of Morning Zoo Radio. You know, when people reach out on behalf of their loved ones, a very touching thing happened with me and Her Majesty.

I understand the power of a significant other reaching out to those your partner may idolize. I'm not hating it. I'm just saying it reduces us to the level of Morning Zoo Radio. Well, that would be, I mean, they get paid more, so why not? Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented comedian and film expert, Caitlin Durante. Hi. Hi, Caitlin Durante. Hi. Hi, Caitlin.

I've got some more anagrams. Fuck yeah. Wait, you have more? Yeah. I always have more. Your fucking name is too malleable. How is it possible that your name is that perfect for anagrams? It's the best name in the world.

It's got to be, yeah. Okay. So everyone name your children Caitlin Durante. Yeah. Or Nineteen Dracula. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Most's very grammable. Or knighted Dracula. Most people say grammable meaning Instagram, but I'm talking about anagrammable.

You have a grammable name. Thank you. Here are today's. Here are today's anagrams for Caitlin Durante. Indict a real nut. Speaking of Boris Johnson. Holy shit. Seriously. Indict a real nut.

I mean, they're even topical. What the fuck? Yeah, one was just like, Epstein didn't kill himself? I'm like, how? No. Wait a second. All right. We will indict a real nut. Wait, do you have more?

I have one more. Oh my goodness. Pump your brakes, Jack. How dare you interrupt? I apologize. I apologize. And this one is Iranian Ted cult. No, I don't know if that means.

Like Iranians who are addicted to TED Talks? Or just Iranian people named Ted who all have joined a cult. I'm not sure. Open to interpretation. Yeah. And those are both courtesy of at Mostly Mutes Art. Mostly Mutes Art. Well, we are thrilled to have you here today. And those are both courtesy of at MostlyMutzart. MostlyMutzart.

Well, we are thrilled to have you here today. Zeitgang Amadeus Mutzart. Mutzart. MostlyMutzart. Is that because he's mostly or she's mostly a lingerer? I don't know the origins of their handle. You don't know the origins of all your followers' handles? What's wrong with you?

I'm sorry. Oh, boy. Well, shit, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about uh kill a cam kill look not feeling these dinosaurs does not believe in them i don't know you're very skeptical okay so cameron for people I don't know. Very skeptical. Okay. So Cameron, for people who don't remember, if you're not a big hip hop head, do you remember the song? Oh boy. Or yeah. Okay. From, from rock, from the rock dip set.

No. Anybody. Oh, I remember that. He was on a podcast. Oh, just this clip will warm your heart. Yeah. Cause I mean, for somebody with lyrics like his, I mean, the man who said, man, you Terry cloth.

That means you very soft. Gravy Mercedes add the cranberry sauce. Damn. Yeah, he might have some takes on dinosaurs. Yeah,

you can be really good at one thing. Hey, yo, lock my garage. Rock my massage. Fuck it. Bucket by Oshkosh Bogosh.

His lyrics are so ridiculous. We're going to talk about Mitch McConnell, the Cameron of the Senate. I don't know. No real relation between those two stories, but he's an asshole. Speaking of the Senate. Preparing America for a sham trial. Or actually, speaking of impeachment, another Cameron lyric. Get hell with the lights on.

Lights out. I used to drop Lewinsky off at the White House. Holla at me, Bill. He said, holla at me, Bill. Did he really? He was a half joke rapper before people really realized how funny he is. Yeah. We're going to look at the effect of screens on these kids.

On these teams. days uh yeah i'm gonna add s's to some words that don't have s's because i'm an old man i was telling miles like yesterday i was walking in and a worthers original just like appeared in my pocket it was weird i i think i'm just like getting it's like i was bit by a radioactive old person or you're like a dad version of dr manhattan right all you can do is summon worthers and you're just like where like i reach in there's three today and it just keeps oh god can i offer you one yeah okay baby yoga uh we're gonna to talk about Pepsi Cafe. These drink manufacturers stay trying to create a refreshing coffee beverage that they can can and deliver to the masses. We'll talk about that.

None of them have ever been successful. Good. Yeah, well, good. Yeah. Well, we're not taste testing it. We're just looking at the description and trying to figure out. I mean, can more like can as in like fire them. Wow.

Right. From their job. Thank you. We got the consultant in. Oh, man. I wonder if somebody in HR at either Campbell's Soup or Pepsi or Coca-Cola does that bit a lot. When they have to fire someone. I think it's time to can this whole department.

They're like, yeah, a lot of people's lives are going to be ruined. Yeah, but did you hear what I said? I said can anyway. You guys are fired. No severance pay. Don't even try and file for unemployment. We heard you were going to unionize. We're going to talk about the AI revolution because that is something we've

been hearing about for years. The AI is going to come in. The robots took over manufacturing. AI is about to take over all the other jobs. And it's already running these massive websites like Facebook and Twitter. And it turns out none of that's actually true necessarily. It's being overstated. And what it's doing is papering over the fact that these massive companies are exploiting the shit out of cheap labor. So we're going to talk about the exploitative practices of your Amazons, your Facebooks. We're going to talk about some fast food promotions for the holidays

there's so many branded things I mean I usually would like giggle at a lot of these things but when I look at them all like in a list I'm like where have we gone yeah what happened we went wrong somewhere along the way

Benioff and wife benny os and wife uh benny often wife you know that old comedy duo benny os and wife take my wife seriously oh man uh benny often wife have settled on their next project uh they tried game of thr. They tried the Civil War. They tried Star Wars. Now they have moved on to, well, we'll explain what it is. And then we're going to look at Home Alone,

the reboot, and also Home Alone, the orig, the holiday classic. Because there's some hidden conservative ideology in there we're going to talk about we missed that when we talked about it on the Bechtel or very overt depending on if you this a lot of this came out after John Hughes passed away where people

like you can tell he was wearing all of his conservatism on his sleeve John Hughes is like straight up like all the movies that happen in the John Hughes movie universe it's just it's a very. Poor people are dirty. Yeah, it's like a conservative. Lift yourself up, son.

Yeah, I mean, think about Ferris Bueller. Oh, I mean, the wet bandits or whatever they call themselves. You're Joe Pesci and you're Daniel Stern. They're being punished for trying to steal from the rich and redistribute the wealth. I see now. I actually did talk about that on the episode. And there's some interesting shit about how they drive around in a plumber van,

a beat up old plumber van. So they are former plumbers who lost their job and now have to steal from the rich who are exploiting them. And they're dirty because they're poor. Right, of course. It's like everything. Oh, pigeon lady?

Dirty as fuck. The old man with the shovel? Nasty and dirty. Yes. Because they're poor. Right. Of course. It's like everything. Oh, pigeon lady? Yeah. Dirty as fuck. Right. The old man with the shovel? Nasty and stinky. Yeah. You can tell that that guy's not a real cop because he has a gold tooth. Can't trust a person with a gold tooth.

What is something, Caitlin, from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I googled the phrase platonic fan fiction because i wanted to see we're all familiar with erotic fan like just yeah straight up hardcore shippery shipping yeah yeah but uh i was like is platonic fan fiction a thing because i want to start writing it yeah and i wanted to make sure that i had invented it i don't know if I did or not. The Google search didn't yield much in the way of information. There was a...

I think at this point it's safe to say that you have invented it. Okay, thank you so much. There was a work of fan fiction that was like a crime-solving detective novel with Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Oh, okay, that sounds platonic. Yeah, it's platonic they didn't make

love during the course of the book in any way right in any way that was overt yeah there are parts where they wake up in bed together smoking cigarettes one of them smoking a cigarette uh barack does smoke cigarettes throughout the book actually because they're just like i mean come on this guy's clearly smoking a pack a day behind the scenes. But yeah, so I think you did. Who do you ship platonically? Well, okay, so this all started when, not to brag or anything, but I did a show recently that Natalie Portman was in the audience.

What? Yeah. What? Yeah. What? What? So I was like, oh my gosh. What the fuck?

Where? I was like, Natalie Portman saw me make jokes and be funny. Yeah. What if she really wants to be my friend now? Right. Oh. Oh, no. So it's going to be fan fiction where you're friends with Natalie Portman?

I mean, that's just. It's called a stalker's fantasy. Right. Oh my goodness. What do you think? In your just, it's called a stalker's fantasy. Oh my goodness. What do you think in your mind? What do you, what are you Natalie up to? Oh,

we're just like going, we're just like going on a crusade to smash the patriarchy together. And then we're also going to co-star in several movies together. Right. Nice. You know, I see the two of you like lifting an Oscar together for a film that you wrote and executive produced.

You got Best Picture, you got Best Screenplay. You're the new Ben and Matt. You and Natalie. I mean, there needed to be a new one. Oh, gosh. It's been too long. Whose house do you go to first? Assuming this is like a Kill Bill scenario where you guys are the bride together, whose house do you go to first?

Moby's? Oh. Or Jonathan Oh, you're doing murders? Yeah, or just smashing. Oh, wow. Because before it started like just a friendship of two creative people and now we got the murder of Andrew. I'm not saying a murder. I'm just saying that you gotta let him know.

Sure. Yeah, we'll go to Moby's restaurant first. Yeah. Smash some plates. Yeah. Do a thing where she's like, God, this guy who owns this place. I forgot he owns it.

He thinks we dated. And then he's like, oh, hey, everything's on me. Hey, honey. Oh, boy. Wait, who's the author who she had an email exchange with that got published and people... Jonathan Safran Foer. And he was clearly in love with her.

I mean, everyone is, it turns out. Yeah, it turns out. Even platonically, romantically. That is interesting. We all love Natalie Portman. That's tough because can you smash the patriarchy when everyone just immediately falls in love with you the second you walk into the room?

I think that's our greatest weapon. Yeah, there you go. Okay. It's like you whisper in their ear and like, why don't you walk off a cliff? Yes, for you. For Natalie. I don't know what's going on.

Do it for Natalie. She said she wanted you to walk off a cliff sign this legal agreement and then jump off a cliff take a long walk off a cliff I'm not saying

we need to murder people to dismantle the picture no we know how feminists are we get it y'all just want to murder just want to murder men

Dr. Manhattan vaporize everyone's ball sacks dude I told you not to spoil Watchmen for me. It's like that scene in Robocop where he shoots a dude's dick. It's Dr. Manhattan vaporizing ball sacks. What is something you think is underrated? I think, I mean, speaking of the patriarchy, men crying.

I think men should cry much more and more openly. Just cry all the time. Cry once a day. I saw I recently saw Waves and they're like four different men like ball their eyes out in that movie. And I was it was so refreshing to see. Strong men also cry. Mr. Lebowski. Mr. Lebowski. Mr. Lebowski.

Strong men also cry. It's true. It is true. How often do you guys cry? Never. I'm just joking. I cry all the time. Dude, I will cry at a commercial. I cry at commercials

all the time now. I have cry at a commercial. I cry at commercials all the time now. Yeah. My version, I have a once a month emotional outburst where I'm touched by a story of white baby boomers. That's when I know I've gone off the rails. Oh, wow. Wait, what? There'll be some thing where I'll watch an old white boomer put on glasses that help

his color blindness or some shit. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, this motherfucker wouldn't care if I died, but I'm'm happy for him i cried a little bit like got teary-eyed this morning we're doing our look back at 2014 and uh 2015 a little later on today and for the holiday episodes little people behind the curtain and there was a viral video that i hadn't seen where a kid's going to his first day of school. And the news reporter is like, are you going to miss your mom? And he's like, no. And it's like all cute.

She's like, oh, you're not going to miss her? And then he just like starts crying. He just like dissolves into tears. And it's like, I'm going to miss her so much. I was definitely like. People just know him as a gif now. They don't realize the dimensions of that. Cause it's people use that as a reaction gift all the time. Right.

Cause he had like built up the facade that he was going to school and it wasn't going to bother him. Yeah. And then just completely dissolve. So what touched you? Because you related that to like one of your kids or something. Yeah. To one of my kids.

Oh, you didn't see yourself in that little boy. I probably saw myself a little bit in that little boy and just the impermanence of our relationships with our parents. Or at least the parental relationship, right? Yeah.

Yeah, I go on... There's always something that makes me cry. Or just some weird shit. Like I'll see something... Like something in a film will remind me of some other life thing. Or, like, relating it to something in the real world.

And I was like, everything's so fucking hard right now. And I'm watching, like, fucking Gremlins 2. Sure. Sometimes I just think about the plot of Paddington or Paddington 2, and then I start crying just thinking about it. Really? Is Paddington a sad movie? They're not sad movies per se, but there are sad moments within them.

Huh. Yeah. I gotta see those movies. Just very, you haven't seen them yet, Jack. Oh my God. Are they a G rated ish?

Like, are they appropriate for like a three year old? They are for children. Okay. Yeah. All right. I'm going to watch them this weekend. For a three-year-old, it might...

Might be too much? It might fucking haunt your kid. He'll like the bear, like the image of the bear, but the plot will be maybe a little bit over his head. Another viral video I hadn't appreciated at the time, 2014, 15, very dark time for me, was not watching many viral videos but I missed a bear family swimming in someone's backyard pool

oh I love that bears are the best they're so cool they're truly the coolest like bear families there's some great viral videos of bear parents with their bear baby and the bear baby's getting in a hammock

and like, can't like figure out like, because a hammock is a weird thing and they're just like falling and it's a lot of fun. They're so cute. Anyways, what is something you think is overrated? Okay. I know I say this with a cup of coffee in front of me, but I think caffeine is overrated. I think a lot of people have a dependency on it and they're like, I could never give it up. And they're like, da, da, da, da. But if you never become addicted to it, guess what? You don't need it.

That's true. So I have a very occasional cup now and then, usually when I come into this office. Yeah. But otherwise, I function perfectly well without any caffeine. Yeah. I don't know if I'm just generally a sleepy person, but I feel like I do need it.

Okay. You think that, but only because you have a dependency on it. I think I would need to sleep for a year straight to not have a dependency on it. You can hibernate like a bear. I would love to. I think I need to become... You just become a bear. I think You can hibernate like a bear. I would love to. I think I need to become... You just become a bear. I think my life goal is to become a bear.

Just hibernate and be confused by hammocks. Put your children in a state of suspended animation. Right. Because I don't want to miss a thing. Yeah. And then go into hibernation for seven years, whatever you got to do, and come back, and then unpause, here we go.

There it is. Dad doesn't have to drink coffee anymore. I don't even, I don't, I've never gotten the, like I say, I drink this cold brew, this Kirkland one, because it's the only one that gives me some semblance of a caffeine hit. Okay. But other than that, I've never, I've never known the need for caffeine. You drink it to fit in, Miles. I drink it so the other kids, when I'm with the other liberals at my liberal coffee shop, know

I'm not a plant who's just listening in on their conversations to do tweets about what's actually going on. What's that guy's name? Jacob Wool. Wait, that was actually happening? Yeah, there's this guy who claims he's like, at a liberal coffee shop, the libs are talking about this, about how triggered they are

by Trump. How scared they are of like Trump. Right. We're doing right. We're doing good. Yeah. He goes undercover in Lib coffee shops because us Libs cannot do without our coffee. What is the equivalent stimulant for MAGA red pill people? Red pills?

Actual? Red bull? Red bull. Like monster energy drink, I think. Yeah, maybe monster. Yeah. What is a myth? What's something people think is true, you know, that'd be false?

This is really stupid and not real, but I can never think of one for these. The Ethan Hawke Tesla movie that's coming out in 2020 is not a sequel to Ford versus Ferrari. Is it about Nikola Tesla? Yes. Which means it's a sequel to The Current Wars, which is a film that came out a few months ago. Which one?

The Current Wars. We had Nicholas Holt playing Nikola Tesla. We had Benedict Cumberbatch playing Edison. We had Michael Shannon. Oh, really? We had Benedict Cumberbatch playing Edison. We had Michael Shannon. Oh, Current to like DC versus DC. Yeah, Current. Yeah.

Was that good, The Current Wars? I actually liked it. I don't think anyone saw it. It's a wild, fascinating story. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't really know anything about it, so I learned a lot. Yeah, it was entertaining.

I rather enjoyed it. Do they just like blow up cows with it? They do kill a horse. A horse, right. Elephant too, right? Maybe. That didn't happen in the movie. So I only know.

How do you leave that out? Go to the big ticket. I ain't a horse. Right. They're like, yo, go see that movie. The elephant gets just fried up with the direct curse. I thought he killed an elephant. Maybe that is a myth.

Maybe Edison only killed horses. I don't know. We'll have to refer to the historical text, Drunk History, to see what actually happened. Pro Edison movie overall? Yeah. Is it really? Wait. Oh, it's Pro Edison.

Oh, okay. I understand the question. Honestly, I barely remember it except for the horse dying. What does that say about me? I don't remember where it lands exactly. Pro Edison or Con Edison? Hey. That's the joke I wish I had made.

That's why he pays. That's why he pays the big bucks. That's why I pay the bills. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds. Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game.

Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists, But the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist. I mean, my reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful. I'm Jamie Loftus.

Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest, a podcast about the fall of Atari and the disappearing Sword Quest prizes. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself in a way. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months.

These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground.

Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Substance use disorder and addiction is so isolating. And so as a black woman in recovery, hope must be loud. It grows louder when you ask for help and you're vulnerable.

It is the thread that lets you know that no matter what happens, you will be okay. When we learn the power of hope, recovery is possible. Find out how at startwithhope.com. Brought to you by the National Council for Mental Well-Being, Shatterproof, and the Ad Council. Hey, fam. I'm Simone Boyce. I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the daily podcast from Hello Sunshine that is guaranteed to light up your day.

Every weekday, we bring you conversations with the culture makers who inspire us. the daily podcast from Hello Sunshine that is guaranteed to light up your day. Every weekday, we bring you conversations with the culture makers who inspire us. Like our recent episode with Grammy award-winning rapper Eve on her new memoir and the moments that made her. It became a theme in my life, the underdog syndrome of being questioned, of the, would they say this to a man? No, they would not. Like, why? That was one of those moments where you're just like, oh, wow, it was a bit shocking,

but it didn't take any steam away or anything like that. If anything, it was more of the, okay, I'll show you, no worries. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game.

Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists, But the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist. I mean, my reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest, a podcast about the fall of Atari and the disappearing Sword Quest prizes. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself in a way.

Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks.

President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.

The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current, available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, fam. I'm Simone Boyce. I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the daily podcast from Hello Sunshine that is guaranteed to light up your day.

Every weekday, we bring you conversations with the culture makers who inspire us. Like our recent episode with Grammy Award-winning rapper Eve on her new memoir and the moments that made her. It became a theme in my life, the underdog syndrome of being questioned, of the, would they say this to a man? No, they would not. Like, why? That was one of those moments where you're just like, oh, wow.

It was a bit shocking, but it didn't take any steam away or anything like that. If anything, it was more of the, okay, I'll show you. No worries. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Substance use disorder and addiction is so isolating. And so as a Black woman in recovery,

hope must be loud. It grows louder when you ask for help and you're vulnerable. It is the thread that lets you know that no matter what happens, you will be okay. When we learn the power of hope, recovery is possible.

Find out how at startwithhope.com. Brought to you by the national council for mental well-being shatterproof and the ad council and we're back and we're talking about uh videos that make us cry super producer daniel was saying that uh olympic videos 10 times out of 10 make him cry and skrillex interview yeah caitlin you were saying when queer couples are able to like actually marry when now yeah these days have you seen the video of the uh two guys who both proposed were planning to propose to each other on the same night oh no that will make you double proposal double proposal knockout yeah dude both knockout. Oh, my God. Dude, both on bended knee? One gets on bended knee, and the other one is like,

I can't believe this is happening. And he's like, wait, so are you going to say yes? Like, what the fuck? And then he turns around and pulls out his own. And it's just the sweetest thing. Yeah, that definitely made me cry. Kill a cam. Let's talk about kill a cam. Yeah, he, look, as I said, I've talked about his lyrics.

This man, he's something else. And he was on this podcast called It's The Real. And there's this clip that was going around of him talking about he's a little bit weary. He's a little cynical when it comes to this whole dinosaur archaeology business. What's up with all these bones? Just listen to him talk about this. It's a little cynical when it comes to this whole dinosaur archaeology business. What's up with all these bones? Just listen to him talk about this. It's kind of amazing. I fight with people about dinosaurs and their existence

all the time. Wait, what? Yeah. As in you don't believe dinosaurs existed? I'm not believing or disbelieving. There's no proof. Because they throw these big bones, up in the museum and be like, yo, these are the people that were here before us. I mean, no, that is the proof.

You're looking for the proof. That is the proof. So these bones didn't. So was the evolution class your senior year? Strong enough to put up in museums and they didn't crumble or anything like that. I'm not I'm not necessarily going for that one. I'm not saying it didn't happen. You were absolutely saying it didn't happen.

I'm not going off museum facts. There are like 2,000 years of proof. I've been to every museum when I was young. I'm like, word. So they just found all these bones and glued them together. Yes. The real is... Shout out to the real that's my favorite celebrity interview i've heard in a long time especially to be like just to be like no that's exactly what you are saying it didn't

happen i'm not saying it did i'm not saying it didn't i'm just saying i don't believe it yeah like later on they're like are you a flat earther he was like oh hell no the earth is round okay i like i get it's weird it seems like the thing he's really it's dubious like he's dubious about is this idea that these million year old bones aren't just dusty little brittle things that are just falling apart so he doesn't understand how fossilization works right i think that's exactly it right or it Or it's like, I don't know. I don't know. It's having trouble. They put them all together.

Really? How do they find strong enough glue? Right. Right. Yeah, exactly. This is a scam. I would love a science podcast with Killikam, though. Just with archaeologists blowing his mind.

But this is the thing that's going to end up killing our species is the argument. I'm not saying it happened. I'm not saying it didn't happen with global warming. Right? Yeah. I'm not saying it's happening. I'm not saying it's not happening. I'm just saying, you know, there's lots of explanations.

Start the fucking start the global warming registry. Right. I've been saying this. If you don't believe it, sign the fuck up so we know where to kick everybody's ass to to the scorched parts. I'm not saying Russia didn't interfere. I'm not saying they did interfere. You're saying they didn't.

I'm just saying Ukraine, you don't know that Ukraine didn't. Were you watching everyone in the city of Ukraine during the entire 2016 election, I rest my case, Your Honor. Well, speaking of that old chestnut, the impeachment story. You're practicing for your sham trial? Go to the talking about impeaching this creep. Mitch McConnell is getting ready to, you know, he's in charge of the Senate. Is getting ready to, you know, he's in charge of the Senate.

He's going to have to have a trial of some sort after the president is impeached by the House. Which sort is it going to be? Is it going to be a real trial? No. So the president. So there's a bunch of different things. The world and the Democrats and over half of America would like to see actual witnesses brought forward that have some bearing. The Republicans as well, as they've said in the House. What, the process? We haven't.

Oh, so you're OK. Well, when you're in the driver's seat, I'm sure you'll have witnesses, too. Right. So they won't. And even the president wants to see witnesses brought forward he wants a long trial because he thinks he did nothing wrong because he doesn't understand how laws work where how his what his job is supposed to be even uh but mitch mcconnell it sounds like because there's like so much confusion as to how to conduct this sham trial.

It sounds like he just wants to head down, ram it through. Oh, 100%. There's no interest in having anything resembling any kind of trial. The things that Mitch McConnell was saying, for example, everything I do during this, I'm coordinating with the White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president's position and our position as to how to handle this to the extent that we can. So there will be no difference. So he's saying, I'm going to work alongside the White House to do whatever they like, whatever you like.

What kind of trial would you like? Whatever you like. A sham trial and i don't think there's going to be so everything that's going to happen is in coordination with the white house their lawyers and again the really the real big chunk where you realize uh where this is going i mean we always knew it was going to be a sham but he said there is no chance trump will be removed from office no chance not on my watch so you know all those process complaints that were coming out of the Republicans in the House during the two phases with the Intel Committee and the Judiciary Committee, I don't think they'll so suddenly be like, oh, yeah, process.

No, we just deploy that argument when we're on the other side of it because we're completely disingenuous and hypocritical. So 47.4% currently, according to polls, support the president being impeached and removed from office. 45.8% don't support that. And so he's like clear cut. We got to not remove him. There's no chance we're going to remove him. It all comes back to the Senate and like this weird, you know, the fact that there are two votes in Wyoming and two votes in California. Yeah. And two votes in Kentucky. Right. Like it doesn't it's a it's a fucked up system that doesn't make any sense.

Well, at this point, it's not even there's no semblance of a system that functions anymore because you have all the Republicans are they're completely all in for the president. I know there was a fantasy period where we're like, is it are they going to figure out like if he's going to completely toxify the party and they can no longer operate? But it seems like now, like we were saying, I think off mic, the Democrats problem is they use the break too much on shit. Yeah. Don't know about that. ah oh don't go too fast oh don't don't don't too much progress you don't put people off and the republicans just don't use the break at all yeah they're fucking they're flooring it they're like you know what we're hop in trump because we'll we'll till the wheels come off we'll fucking ride this shit out yeah and this is makes it clear and i think that's what's so frightening to especially with mike huckabee even trying to say that the 22nd amendment like might not apply to trump and he

deserves a third term and shit when you have these kinds of goons in there i can imagine where they would begin arguing whether or not the 22nd amendment in the constitution is valid or applicable because they know that's how they keep this guy in. But again, this is why we all need to really keep our focus on the election because aside from our semblance of a legal system, I don't really see that functioning as well. So turnout is the first dimension. And then who knows after that if they choose to invalidate the votes of the people, if that's where we're going with this.

And as the House democrats have pointed out what this essentially means what the republicans are essentially saying is we want him to be able to cheat at another election so that this next election you know keep your fucking eyes peeled people are going to have to uh try and get somebody elected against somebody who's openly cheating yeah so and also when you have a senate uh majority leader and mitch mcconnell who will refuses to do bring up any bills on election security to a vote right to actually you know bolster our election security will be cool it's a very fucked up very specific type of kleptocracy where it's like they have stolen the reins of power and are just you know cheating and doing whatever they possibly can to

stay in power yeah uh let's talk about screens yeah this is a it's interesting uh study uh in This is an interesting study in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Oh, boy. I respect them. I mean, Kill a Cam's not going to like it one bit. Kill a Cam, nah. If it's science, no thanks. Science, nah. Don't try-ance.

So what they did was they looked at around 3,700 kids that they were serving annually between 7th and 10th grade. And they wanted to, they're like, they wanted the kids to self-report time they spent in front of a digital screen. So, you know, and specifically stuff that's like, how much time are you doing looking at social media or television or video games or computers? And what it shows is that social media use and television use and computer use predicted more severe symptoms of anxiety. Like they had a higher than average frequency or people had. Sorry, they found that the students who had a higher than average frequency of social media use, TV watching and computer use predicted more severe symptoms of anxiety.

computer use predicted more severe symptoms of anxiety. And also in a separate study with the same data, they're saying that the higher than average frequency of social media and television viewing predicted more severe symptoms of depression over that same time period. Video games, they were, that wasn't quite there. Like in terms of like a contributor,

what they're suspecting is that they found out that 70% of the teens that they were surveying in this said that they played video games with a friend or online. So video games have increasingly, with online play, become more of a social activity than back when we was doing it, blowing on the cartridge by ourselves, reading Nintendo Power, trying to beat the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves game. It was hard. That was a game? Yeah. The Kevin Costner movie? They gamified it?

Yes. Wow. They gamified everything back then. Yeah. I remember the Christmas I got that in 64. I spent like a week in my basement just trying to beat Mario. Yeah. And then I was like actually depressed after that.

I was like, oh, that was like a dark moment in my life. And that's when I basically stopped playing video games wow you had that kind of self-control where you're like you know what young jack yeah it's not for you yeah i think i don't care if a rumble pack just came out i'm not picking it up so yeah i mean i think that's i think that's exactly it i mean the the social media the technology that is separating us is like that's we're not meant to be separate. We're not meant to be individuals like as a species. Well, that and also the thing. But I think where this study is going to pivot to is now the content.

Right. Because now they've said, OK, video games, regardless, aren't necessarily a contributing factor. OK, so what are these people now seeing on social media, TV, and on the computer that is contributing to that? And I'm sure it's plenty of the influencer mirage, barrage you get on your fucking phone and living comparatively as a teen by fucking up your self-esteem because you're like, this person's 17 and has nine Ferraris or whatever the fuck. Or Fords.

Yeah. Thank you. Did you like Ford versus Ferrari? I haven't even seen it yet. 94, I could only afford this accord. Yeah. You need to just write a rap musical today because you're... That was a Kanye line.

This one's for Melissa Ford, 94. I could only afford this accord. Yeah, and I think it really is – it's the comparative lifestyle because I think that's really what a lot of our self-esteem and self-worth issues come out of that are at least super ramped up in this age of all this lifestyle content we see, the things that we're holding up and elevating as the best or top or whatever,

and also combined with what our financial possibilities are, makes a fucking weird-ass place to live in, especially if you're a kid. God damn. Children. Yeah, easily influenced, still impressionable. They're like, well, this person has 9 million likes and has a six-pack.

Right. What the fuck am I supposed to do? Yeah. You know what I mean? And I think it's weird because you really do have this odd quantifiable way of like measuring shit now. Yeah. It's like the young people today have higher anxiety, higher depression than ever before.

It's absolutely the social media, the commodification of things that like all of the negative aspects of interacting with our peers have been like just put into a capsule and like put onto these social media things. And like they replace other forms of interacting with our peers. Well, I think in a lot of the people who are behind the study were saying like, you know, we get it prior to this. Most parents are thinking like illegal drug use or safe sex and things like that are things that they need to be really talking about with their kids versus what who are you following on there what are you looking at how does this shit make you feel because that's they're realizing this is a huge contributor to the sort of mental welfare of a lot of these younger people. Yeah. And they're doing less drugs and having safer sex than any generation before.

There's another study that's saying something about like men or I think it was men who have like commitment fears and things like that tended to have more safe sex. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Because I think maybe because the ultimate commitment would be like having a child. Having a child. I could have that all fucked up. But I'm like, yeah, that could have been me.

I used to wear three condoms at once. Could have been me. Doesn't work. That's what that song is about. Not to say that I impregnated somebody. They're like, that's actually scientifically not a real thing you can do. What? Like wearing two condoms at once.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Don't do that. Don't double up on the condoms. I'm like, well, it makes sense. Just because they said that menace to society does not mean you should. Yeah, you can't double bag it. Right.

Let's talk about Pepsi Cafe. Yeah, what a- Yummy. It's a new cafe opening up from Pepsi. Yeah. Half coffee. Half cafe. Half cafe.

So it's half Pepsi, half coffee. Cafe. Twice the caffeine of regular Pepsi. Did they not hear my overrated? Come on, guys. Do you remember Pepsi Kona? It came out in the mid-90s. I remember when that came out and I was like, oh, maybe. I mean, I wasn't really drinking caffeine, but I tried it because I had a little pocket money.

I went to 7-Eleven. And it was god-awful. Yeah. They had Pepsi Black or something like that. Or Coke Black. Coke Black, maybe. Yeah, yeah. Because Coke has one, I think, right now, too.

Not good. Yeah. There are people who absolutely ride hard for this, who it just fits their taste buds for whatever reason. To mix Coca-Cola and coffee. Yeah. who like it just like fits their taste buds for whatever reason to mix coffee or coca-cola and coffee yeah and all those people work at pepsi and coke because they have been pushing so hard on this shit right they're all they every day they literally drink the kool-aid but i've had social media interactions with people who are like no you got to try this man i know you're

into caffeine like this stuff's so good like i i bought up all the supply like you know whoa yeah yeah i mean you have two flavors i think one is just coffee and the other is vanilla uh my thing is like would you put like cream in this right right which means you're putting cream in pepsi and that's disgusting i don't know part of me thinks like when i look at it, I'm like, it's coffee in my mind. Right. I'm going to cream that up a little bit. Cream it up. Could you imagine being like carbonated soda and then you're like, can I get a little half

and half for this? No. One of my favorite little recipes, this is what I thought was like the equivalent of being a cook when I was a kid, was every holiday for my family's holiday party, I would make holiday punch, which is half Sprite, half orange juice, and a carton of vanilla ice cream. Oh. Which is good.

That sounds like one of those orange creamsicles. Yeah, it is kind of like that. Holiday punch. Yeah, but it's just adding cream to soda. Ice cream to soda. And orange juice. Yeah, very strange. Was it good? I thought it was the best thing I'd ever tasted.

And your family, how many years consecutively did you make this concoction? Probably like three or four. Oh, damn. When are you going to come through and bless the studio with some holiday punch? Dayton, Ohio. Felt the power, felt the pop of my holiday punch four years in a row. Wait, so what are the amounts? One two liter of Sprite?

Yeah. One what? I think it was two, actually, in a giant punch bowl. And then- Orange juice from Concentrate? I was definitely a bigger fan. No, just straight up orange juice. Straight up, okay.

I was definitely a bigger fan than anybody else. straight up orange juice. Straight up, okay. I was definitely a bigger fan than anybody else. Well, yeah, it's your own creation. I remember when I was a kid, I would make sauces to accompany a thing my mom or dad would make. I actually got it from a cookbook. We had some of those. Have you ever seen those Reddit threads? We did this on Cracked where we looked back at- 70s cookbooks.

70s cookbooks. This was from a 70s cookbook that had like jello mold with fish and banana. Oh, yeah. Shit like that. You know, like just the grossest. Like white people from the 60s and 70s cookbooks were a complete disaster. Someone I know had like Gatorade salad or something they made. Gatorade orange chicken where you use orange Gatorade from the bubble episode.

I forget. I have to ask my homegirl. She was telling me it was some bizarro holiday dish involving Gatorade. And I was like, how? And she's like, my family lives in Virginia. Come on. Shout out to Virginia. Yeah, I'm not saying I'm just trying to remember what it is.

Hey, look, if you have, also, Zyke Gang, hit me up with bizarro holiday dishes that are unique to your family. Southern cooking can be a lot of fun. One of my friends makes hash brown salad or hash brown pie or something like that. It's just buttered hash browns with cheese. Can't argue with that. It is so fucking good.

Shout out to the South. Shout out to cardiologists. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds, Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised $150,000 in prizes to four finalists.

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It is the thread that lets you know that no matter what happens, you will be okay. When we learn the power of hope, recovery is possible. Find out how at StartWithHope.com. Brought to you by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Shatterproof, and the Ad Council. Hey, fam. I'm Simone Boyce. I'm Danielle Robay. And we're the hosts of The Bright Side, the daily podcast from Hello Sunshine

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Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists. But the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist. My reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest, a podcast about the fall of Atari and the disappearing Sword Quest prizes. We'll

follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself in a way. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months.

These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The

other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. more, the story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current, available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you up your day. Every weekday, we bring you conversations with the culture makers who inspire us.

Like our recent episode with Grammy award-winning rapper Eve on her new memoir and the moments that made her. It became a theme in my life, the underdog syndrome of being questioned, of the,

would they say this to a man? No, they would not. Like why? That was one of those moments where you're just like, oh wow. It was a bit shocking, but it didn't take any steam away or anything like that. If anything, it was more of the, okay, I'll show you. No worries. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Substance use disorder and addiction is so isolating. And so as a Black woman in recovery, hope must be loud. It grows louder when you ask for help and you're vulnerable. It is the thread that lets you know that no matter what happens, you will be okay.

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Worms and space. So now they've gone to the masses and you can get this shit. Also, I've seen a few reviews that are mixed. Some people say it vaguely smells like it some people smell people say smells a lot like fried chicken others say it doesn't smell like anything at all okay so i'm curious those are not the like the worst case scenario for this is that it just makes your house smell like you just ate a bucket of fried chicken or like a shitty version of that yeah yeah i mean like that making a car smell like fast food is not a thing you want.

No, you know. Yeah. That's why I eat fast food over a trash can in the parking lot of the fast food restaurant. Or you just roll all your windows down and you got it. Just blasting on the highway. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

And then Jamie Loftus would be happy because Dunkin' Donuts is in on this too. Oh, sure. With peppermint scented wrapping paper. A lot of wrapping papers. I don't associate Dunkin' Donuts with anything peppermint. No. Do they have a peppermint something?

Not anything that's like notable. Minty fresh Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah. That's not, I associate them with coffee and glazed donuts and cops and maybe uh what in boston what's the thing called uh culotta culotta yeah culottas uh and then also but here's okay look as i was saying i didn't like their dunkin dunkin donuts wrapping paper taco bell but taco

bell on the other hand scented wrapping paper that smells like a Crunchwrap Supreme. What? And all the, like, the wrapping paper is different. It's like macro shots of, like, the ground quote-unquote beef or the tortilla or the lettuce and tomato. That is not what I would have thought of highlighting, but it still looks good. It was an exclusive for Canada, and that shit sold out like immediately. Right. I,

I actually really like my favorite thing about this is the tortilla print wrapping paper because it, because you know, you, you wrap your taco bell food in tortilla. So might as well wrap your gifts in it as well. That actually makes the most sense out of anything. It's tortilla wrapping paper.

I love it. Yeah, I guess the people of Canada really respect the brand of Taco Bell. Yeah. And their reviews were people, they were glowing reviews. The actual paper was incredibly detailed and felt very premium.

The graphics were all very crisp, and this didn't look cheap at all. Is this just Canada being polite? Yeah, maybe. They're just like, actually, it sucks, but... Yeah, in my mind, even though as I write this down, it says it's wonderful, it's like this is a fucking hellfire of a wrapping paper.

McDonald's is trying to get in on this. They have an online store with McDonald's ornaments and a $65 holiday sweater. Does McDonald's have that brand loyalty? I feel like everybody views McDonald's as and a $65 holiday sweater. Does McDonald's have that brand loyalty? I feel like everybody views McDonald's as a means to an end. Not anymore, right? There's no love affair with

people don't fucking go to bat for McDonald's like me with Taco Bell or things like that. Where did they go wrong? They used to have all those songs and stuff. Sing some of them. I don't know. My sister knew it when I was They used to have all those like I think it's the ubiquity songs and stuff the like Flay When I was like four there's a flail fish track, yeah, there was no it was like you named all these different like things It was like one of those uh hands

Oh, yeah, I know. Yeah, it was oh, I don't remember either. Yeah, but it was Big Mac filet-o-fish data I just had a Big Mac meal. I was like, I hadn't eaten dinner all day. I was at like a bunch of different things where I couldn't eat. Stopped and had a Big Mac meal. That shit was so good. Like everything was like so hot. Oh, yeah, yeah. The fries were so hot.

Yeah, I don't remember the last time I ate McDonald's in restaurant. Oh, I didn't eat it in restaurant. There's always like a 15 minute delay between me getting it and then actually eating it. Like I said, I ate it over a trash can in the parking lot. Yeah, I mean, I think it's because it's just too big of a brand. Like it's not

like niche enough where people are like, yeah, I know everybody talks about McDonald's. Yeah, I guess it makes sense that it was the 80s when everything was just like, people are just like, capitalism, shoot it into my veins. Trust this moon-faced guy that was clearly conceived on a Coke binge. Right. Yeah.

Yeah, because we were still competing with the Soviet Union. And so we were like, in your face, we have McDonald's, assholes. This moon rides a jet ski. Yeah. I had that toy from the Happy Meal yeah and also Popeyes

a jet ski they gave that out there was like one guy riding a jet ski yeah he's on a fucking wave runner or some shit I remember that was like one of my bath toys

I'd be like yeah get it man that and I remember they did like interchangeable like DC promotion where like the Tasmanian Devil

was Flash and I feel like daffy duck was batman um and then also popeyes they're in on it they're doing an ugly chicken sandwich sweater sold out in hours smells like the chicken sandwich uh no just smells like i think lead okay yeah from the the hurried manufacturing process with no oversight right and then everyone like white castle has ugly sweaters. Red Lobster has like a fucking Cheddar Bay Biscuit ugly sweater. Oreo has like a- Oh, I would buy that now.

Yeah, the Red Lobster one really jumps out to me. When was the last time you've been to a Red Lobster? I haven't been to Red Lobster. It's been years. I'm verifiably 11 years. It's definitely been years for me. Those Cheddar Bay Biscuits. I know, I need to go back.

The sweater has little crawdads. Or no, those are lobsters, I guess. Yes. They're just sized to be the same size as shrimp, but then there's the Cheddar Bay Biscuits. And there is a little pouch on the front that they have in the picture demonstrating it used to store Cheddar Bay Biscuits.

And here's a pouch for your loose Cheddar Bay biscuits. Yes. Red Lobster. I mean, I'll get it. I feel like I want to go back to Red Lobster. Let's all go. I still want to go to Buca di Beppo with you and Jamie and wear my tuxedo.

If that's still happening, please let me know. I'm around. That's the giant martini glass with a calamari. Yeah, but you got to get the big size because as I've been shamed many times when I complain it didn't come with a martini glass, they're like, oh, that's actually like the larger size. And I'm like, well, can you bring me the, how about we do this over and you bring it in a martini glass. Also ranch filled stockings from Hidden Valley. Yes. And they're not like plastic or anything.

It's just like cloth stockings with ranch just dripping out. Yeah, you'll be very disappointed. It stinks. It's so gross. Yeah, by the time you get it. If it's been in any kind of sunlight, forget it. Just put it straight in the trash. Filled with 52 fluid ounces of ranch dressing.

Right. So that'll get you through Christmas morning at least. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll get Blair Socky through an afternoon. They put ranch on everything in Pittsburgh. Yeah, it's $35. But I mean, look, it's like a plastic bladder shaped like a stocking. Yeah.

Boom, boom. Wait, are you from Pittsburgh? From very close. Yeah, western Pennsylvania. Right, right. Yeah, yinz. You know about that? You're a yinzer? Yeah, Western Pennsylvania. Right, right. Yeah, Yinz. You know about that? You're a Yinzer?

Yeah, I'm a Yinzer. Hey, going up there? Hey, Yinz going up there. Come on. Benioff and Weiss. Yeah. Back in the news. Benioff and Weiss.

Benioff and Weiss. Please welcome Benioff and Weiss. That sounded like a duo that would be in Miss Maisel or something. Right, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so they've been looking for projects since they've utterly humiliated themselves. I feel like they've been drowning in projects. Well, yeah, but that's...

Okay, well, they tried it with like, what if the South won the Civil War? Wouldn't that be a pretty cool story to tell? And everyone's like, no. Right. How about not? The Star Wars thing happened, and Kathleen Kennedy of Lucasfilm was like, these guys get it. They understand complex characters and mythology.

That's why we feel like they're perfect to work on these three movies or whatever. And then suddenly, they just peaced out. That deal was no longer. I don't know what happened. And now- Kathleen Kennedy said it was because they had an overall with Netflix that they signed for like $200 million. And she was just like, they aren't focused enough.

Oh, well, yeah, I, I guess they were probably trying to do too much too soon. Um, and so now they're doing something around the work of HP Lovecraft. Uh,

and what they know, the only quote that we have, that's sort of referencing it from, according to this source, it says the film, filmmakers are keeping it close to the vest, but I'm told the movie asks a horrifying question. What if H.P. Lovecraft wasn't making

it up? What if the monsters he created are real? Also, the movie will be set in 1920 within the Cthulhu mythos. That's all I got. That's all I got. Alright, so, couple things. First of all, what if monsters

are real is not... Yeah, that's the premise of all, what if monsters are real is not Yeah, that's the premise of all horror movies So you haven't really blown our mind with that Imagine Godzilla where it's like, it's destroying the city and you go, man, that motherfucker ain't real and you know the damage is gone and you're talking to somebody who's just like

exaggerating about something Right, uh Horror movies set in the 1920s. I find horror movies set in the past not as scary, personally. I think they're making a mistake. Because you can't put yourself in their places? Yeah, and also because if it killed a lot of people

back then, we would have known about it by now. Wait, so you use real life logic to talk yourself out of being scared in a film that's purely fictitious? Yep. Big time. You like whisper into somebody who's not even watching it with you like, you know that?

Didn't happen. King Kong? Never happened. See, I do that with... We would have heard about it by now. I just imagine them on set and I'm like, imagine the director being like, cut, and then the person who just got murdered stands up and they're like teehee what a funny scene that was that's how I'm not scared wasn't that a joke oh in your mind you say like even though they were drawn and quartered right I will be like that was all VFX and afterwards they had a yummy mocha

in their trailer yeah like the AD called lunch and then everyone yeah boom yeah i uh well that's good that's good to know i'm not i don't know i just know that hp lovecraft in connection with cthulhu yes but that's all i know i couldn't really say much more about his work right i know he died youngish yeah i think he uh had like syphilis some sort of mental stuff going on. Let's talk about Home Alone, H.P. Lovecraft's greatest invention. So in case you didn't notice, Disney owns basically everything now.

And after the Fox sale, they also own the Christmas classic Home Alone. So, of course, they're planning on rebooting it. They're rebooting it with two very funny people. Yeah. Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney. So, sure. As the adults.

As the adults. Wish they were the kids Home Alone. Ellie Kemper as the child who's Home Alone. With Rob Delaney being like a sticky bandit. Right. Sticky bandit. That's new. That's from Home Alone 2.

Oh, they're the sticky bandit. Yeah, they rebrand. Well, did they really? Just because of that one time he dipped his hand into a Salvation Army donation bucket. Daniel Stern, he's trying to make sticky bandits happen. Right. And it doesn't work. Yeah, exactly.

Archie Yates, who played Jojo's friend in Jojo Rabbit. But he's not the main kid. He will be the child. But they're saying he's not. Like, it's different this time. What's different is that the child is now against these two neighbor adults. So this is the thing. So it's more like a reboot of Neighbors for children?

Yeah, so they say for this one, it's a slightly different direction by having a husband and wife go to war with a young boy named Max after he steals from them. Okay. So I don't know whose side we're on exactly. Well, definitely Max's. I guess. Not me.

But he's a thief? are like yeah go get yours thief yeah was it just so anyway this is what brings us to the you know the ethos that john hughes had sort of imbued in the originals yeah uh like how this would be a little bit weird considering like what the first home alone films are always trying to tell the audience or our writer jm was saying imagine if they rebooted Die Hard where John McClane took a bunch of hostages, which is fair. Yeah, that does change things.

Also kind of believable. Yeah, right. Well, that's what they think is happening, right? The FBI? Yeah. Yeah, right. McClane. The skeptical FBI agents in that movie are great but yeah this i

think like we were saying one of his really close friends pj o'rourke was basically saying like yeah he's a he's he was a lifelong republican and if you look he's like if you want to if you choose to actually see what the messages are it's very clear it's all about self-sufficiency freedom and responsibility yeah is what these home alone it's like a libertarian tale 100 yeah because the police are completely incompetent or don't exist in this world where he has left home alone it's just him versus robbers with a intermediary uh elderly, kind of homeless guy. Yeah. Well, when you sort of do beat by beat, right? Like there's a Vice article about this too,

saying that the first part starts with, quote, a rebellion against over-regulation. Essentially, the parents are big government, and Kevin is just a free sovereign citizen, man, just trying to be self-determined, do as he needs to. He doesn't need the nanny state, the granny state to fucking tell him what to do. Right. And I think that's why then he shows like his sort of evolution of being completely like taking the breaks off,

eating fucking ice cream for breakfast, brunch and dinner. Oh, yeah. He becomes very self-sufficient. He like orders his own. He goes grocery shopping. Exactly. He like orders his own. He goes grocery shopping. Exactly. He, like, does his dishes. He does the laundry.

He's like, yeah. He's like, I don't need anyone else. I can pick myself up by my own bootstraps and get this done. And when he goes grocery shopping, a policeman tries to arrest him. He has to, like, escape from the fucking cops and from a cashier who's like, what's going on

at home, kid? Wait, does that happen? Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember? He like slides through a cop's legs on a skating rink. Oh, right. Oh, because he stole a toothbrush.

Yeah. Yeah. Because he's scared. I mean, he's like scared of something. Oh, he sees the old guy. Old people are scary is also a message. And poor people too. But yeah, they basically say it was populism for children.

But then there's also the incompetence of the government social services and the scene where the police department and, or where the mom calls the police department and the family crisis hotline, and everyone keeps hanging up on her. She's like, my son's home alone. Yeah, right. Yeah, right, lady.

It's Christmas. We're busy. And then they send over a cop to knock on the door, and he's like, no one answers. He's like, no one's home. These people are idiots when he leaves. And the wet bandits so the the villains are uh they're out of work plumbers yeah right which i mean one of them

i mean mario and luigi am i right one of them's like a short right stockier guy and one's a tall daniel stern yeah no yeah like they're using their skills of knowing, like they're flood specialists or whatever. That's what their van says. It says plumbing flood specialists. They're out of work. So they go back and try and steal

from the rich people who employed them and then presumably unemployed them. And it's very strange. it's like dystopian none of the people are around like everybody has gone on vacation so it's like a ghost town yeah it's a ghost of like the wealthy a wealthy person's ghost town right uh and i don't know yeah well just that like but that third act where it's basically like, I will now protect my property against any invader. With a gun.

With a gun. He has a BB gun. Yeah. Very pro gun. Yeah. Yeah. This is my house and I'm going to protect it. Right.

Dun, dun, dun, dun. Yeah. I don't know. The thing though, too, just about like the depiction of like the lady, the pigeon lady or the old man or like all the people like they portray these sort of poor people as being like you know it's not that bad because like i can listen to a concert for free or right play with these pigeons and it's like don't worry about me you know eventually right the pigeon lady stays the pigeon like she

it's not like she gets any help. Back on her feet? No. Right. She just stays homeless and is happy because she gets to watch a concert in the park. And then just be like, oh, my bad here. Here's a fucking Christmas ornament. Right.

I don't know if you can eat that. Maybe help her out with your stolen credit card. Yay. No. Well, then also, too, his uncle, Frank, who you can tell they also like there's like class signifiers with his uncle. All right. He's a little disheveled. He's got the uncle Frank.

You fuck up. Exactly. Yeah. So, you know, I mean, that taught me. Yeah. If anything, there's a whole scene where Kevin just dresses down Uncle Frank and is like, when are you going to get your shit together, Frank? Yeah. You fucking mooch.

You fucking loser. And he's always like fucking with people who are like, you know, minimum wage workers. Like he fucks with the pizza delivery person. He fucks with the cop. He fucks with the store clerk. Because it's funny to fuck with those people. He fucks with the Santa Claus.

The store Santa Claus is like a drunk right right yeah i don't know so that's why like when you look at what this next one is gonna be it's not like i don't know like they're it's gonna be a socialist text yeah i don't know what it is i but i it's so interesting how that move like that aesthetic is just the John Hughes aesthetic is pure is like exactly what I associate with the 80s. And it perfectly reflects like what Reagan administration like wanted us to associate with the 80s. Right. It's like wild that that the politics and the aesthetic lined up that much. Yeah, it's like, yeah, look, a lot of people were thrown out on the street because of these economic policies,

but like they're there. Look, they get to watch free concerts and they're dirty. So yeah. And that's how you know that it will trickle down eventually. Well, Caitlin, it's been a pleasure as always.

Thanks for having me. Where can people find you and follow you? You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Caitlin Durante. Speak, call back to the erotic fanfic that I mentioned earlier. Platonic or erotic? Well, I'm writing both. Oh, fantastic. Plurotic.

Exactly. If you want to catch some of my Christmas-themed erotic fanfic that I'm performing on a show in LA on December 17th at the Lyric Hyperion. Please do that. Details for that are on my website, caitlyndurante.com and listen to the Bechdel cast where we recently covered

Home Alone. Hell yeah. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh yes. Here it is. This comes from at caleb says things and uh it is sorry but if amelia bedelia was my maid her ass would have been unemployed the first time i saw or the first time i said draw me a bath and she handed me a crayon picture in the bathtub it would have been over for her. Yeah, fuck Amelia.

What the fuck is her deal? Deal ya. Miles, where can people find you, follow you? Hey, shout out to the Dealias catalog. Yeah. Oh, for me, Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey. Also, a new podcast, 420 Day Fiance with Sophie Alexandra

talking about our favorite show, 90 Day Fiance. If you need some trash reality balm to soothe your wounds, this is it. Some tweets that I like. First of all, shout out to everybody who put me on to the tweet about the dude who spilled baked beans on himself watching Cars 2, which was alluded to in the previous favorite tweet of the day from last week. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I didn't realize it had gone viral in 2017, but I wasn't on Twitter then.

And then also my tweet I like is from Dana Donnelly, at Dana Donnelly. It says, to be honest, I think if I was a parent, I would rather watch my kid do porn than improv. Oh my God. Oh no. This is how I'm seeing though, this generational shift in comedy though,

where like a lot of these younger comedians just have this, they're like, yo dude, improv ain't it anymore. Like that ain't the route anymore. Look at these kids. Look at these kids.

Look at these kids though. Love where it's going. Love where this stuff's going. Some tweets I've been enjoying. We'll just go with Colin Crawford who tweeted huge cheers for Epstein during this year's Academy Awards in Memoriam

and Michael Swaim who tweeted sometimes when I microwave five taquitos they all stick together and to cool them off I blow into the tops and pretend I'm Pan and do a little taquito jig shout out to Michael Swaim one of the funniest people in the world. You can find me.

I want some taquitos. Find me on Twitter. Is that your impression of me? No, that's from The Simpsons. Oh. Yeah, where they're on the boat and someone says like, oh, damn the torpedoes.

And he's like, what? Someone goes, where are our tuxedos? And then the last one goes, I want some taquitos. All right. I love The Simpsons. And they're like, because the legend goes, I want some taquitos. All right. I love The Simpsons. And they're like, because the sea captain, he like totally crashed the boat.

And they're like, how did you not see that? He goes, yar, two glass eyes. And he takes his pipe and goes, clink, clink. I guess it's glass eyes. I do remember that. That's so visceral. Did Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse, was he just playing that character from The Simpsons?

I need to watch it because I didn't realize. Oh, man, you do, but he is. Is he? I'm answering my own question. Is he captain? Oh, yeah. Answer me this. Do you have any spare change?

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This is off the new album from Kay Trenada, who's one of my favorite producers and artists. This new album's called Bubba. But this little track right here, it's Monday. You've got to get your shoulders loose. this new album's called Bubba, but this little track right here, it's Monday, you gotta get your shoulders loose, we just got a few more days to work before we can just die underneath gravity blankets and a lot of hot chocolate,

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