The Daily Zeitgeist - Sky TicTac 2020; Hey Alexa, Perpetuate Patriarchy 5.29.19

Episode Date: May 29, 2019

In episode 401, Jack and Miles are joined by our favorite Jamie Loftus to discuss female voice assistants that are furthering gender stereotypes, the New York Times article about aliens, Harriet Tubman at the twenty dollar bill, the Trump administration attacking climate science, the mysterious Hotel Bed Jumping Community, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. I'd blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education2. ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects3. Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Delayed Until Trump Leaves Office, Mnuchin Says4. Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science5. Princeton prof: 'Shut up' over climate change6. The mysterious Instagram influencers offering cash for hotel bed jumping videos7. WATCH: Huggin & Kissin - Big Black Delta Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever

you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 84, Episode 2 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially, off the top, fuck coke industries and fuck Fox News. It's Wednesday, May 29, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.

I've never seen a take so hot. And weed just makes me cry. Code red is coursing through my veins. Because my name is Jack O'Brien. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Mr. Gray and Jack O'Bee tell each other hot takes and chat with a funny third guest. They're laughing at you. No way, man. They're laughing at you. No way, man. They're laughing at me.

Shining in the spotlight. I think it's the other part. Anyway. They all want to be big stars. Mine was from Hoss Bossman. This one was from Peter Newman at Sog King. Soggy King, 79. Whatever.

Peter Newman. We'll go with that one. Also, might I add, I think you found your style, your genre. The country crew? Yeah, like I was. Something happened. Hey, I appreciate it. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the very face of Mount Zytmore herself.

She is Lil Zam. She is Jamie Loftus! Oh, let me see if I can go down low enough with my voice. Right here. Jamie is a friend. Yeah. Yeah, Loftus is a good friend of mine. But lately something changed that ain't hard to define.

Jamie's got herself a take on the daily side, I guess. Is there more? No, I wish it was a full chorus. I said I had Jamie's takes. I said I had Jamie's takes. Where can I find a hot take like that? Nice.

I love that part where it just stops and then you're like, and then it comes back. No, it's distorted. Keep going. I do love that interpretation. Is that Rick Springfield? Where it comes to a stop and you just hear.

It starts clapping. They're like, yeah, awesome song. I love that. I love it. Every time at every concert, half the crowd's like, oh my God. And they're like, this is their first time. I love when a clap starts and then they're like, oh, it's I love it. Every time at every concert, half the crowd's like, oh my God. And they're like, this is their first time.

I love when a clap starts and then they're like, oh, it's the wrong time. Oh no. It happens a lot of people, like classical music. It happens a lot to me. If you hear like at the LA Phil, like you're going to do a clap all the time, it's like, that's the way for the overture, motherfucker. When the symphony plays outside in like free concerts, you get a lot of wild claps because people are drunk, too, where they're like, trombones?

They're losing their mind. Wait, is that the classical music equivalent of Freebird is trombones? Trombones. Give me a trombone solo, please. Damn, y'all playing Finlandia over there? Is that some Dvorak? Ah, shit. Great New World Symphony.

That sounds like a Key & Peele sketch. Rick Springfield was considered very super hot back in the day. What does he look like? It was something that I learned about. And when I found that out, I was like, wow, that is one of those things that makes clear to me how different our world is from their world. Right. He looks like a is from their world. Right. Like he just looks, he looks like a middle-aged man.

Yeah. Yeah, mate. He's from New South Wales, mate. Oh, is he? Yeah, back up there. Oh, is it a voice thing? Well, he's Australian American. I know, I went to high school with his son.

Yeah. And that's when I found out their last name is not Springfield. What? It's Springthorpe. Oh. Good call, Rick. Springthorpe. Good call, Rick. Springthorpe. I mean, that's...

He looks like an employee anywhere. Right. Exactly. But like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just feel like there are certain things. Like sometimes you can look at an old magazine and because I notice eyebrows really, like I can tell a magazine is out of date because of the eyebrows. What do you mean?

Like the arching in it? Yeah, the arching and like how thin they are and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Thin eyebrows are the wave. But Rick Springfield is the ultimate thin eyebrow, if you ask me. I don't know why they call him Australian-American because he's born in Australia,

and then the only thing American about him is that he moved to the U.S. Oh. Yeah. Weird. I don't know. Look, I is that he moved to the U.S. Oh. Yeah. So. I don't know. Look, I'm sure Aussies, I gang. Let me know. Do y'all claim Rick Springfield?

I hope so. Yeah. I'm sure they do. I hope so. Anybody who can get famous with the name Rick is a winner in my book. Really? Rick. Love that yardstick.

Well, I just love that being. That was Liz Lemon's boyfriend said they were going to have kids and their names were going to be Shannon and Rick. And I've always thought that was funny because my sister's name is Shannon. And I named my son Rick. All right, Jamie, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we are going to talk about a couple of the things we're going to talk about. Well done, Jack. What's this show called? I like it.

We're going to talk about female voice assistants, furthering gender stereotypes. Oh, no. Crushing it when it comes to furthering gender stereotypes. A feminist win. We're going to talk about the New York Times basically admitting aliens exist or Russia has really crazy millennia in the future technology. We're going to talk about that report. We're going to talk about Harriet Tubman on the 20 and how that isn't happening soon enough.

Fuck science forever is the name of a story that Miles wrote about a guy who, yeah, he has an interesting background. He's the scientific man when it comes to Trump's policy. Yeah, when you realize why there's no science policy, and then you hear some of the sound bites from this person go, oh, right, right, fuck science forever. Right. We're going to talk about the hotel bed jumping conspiracy. Get the music ready.

Oh, yeah. Miles has the theory, too. I mean, it's not a theory. I'm just reading other people's theories. It sounds like something a conspiracy theorist would say. Well, you know. I would like a request. Whenever I have a conspiracy theory, I want the first notes of the X-Files theme song,

where it just goes. That's not now, but you know what I mean? We have to see that. Right. Wow. If he gets that for his conspiracy theories, and I have to put up with. What would you want for yours? That.

Oh, you would want that. Yeah, man. That's like intriguing. You got trombone. He has Curb Your Enthusiasm. He has Curb Your Enthusiasm. I got Curb Your Enthusiasm. It is designed to undermine the seriousness of what I'm saying. That's Nick's.

That's where Nick put that in. But you know what? I guess moving forward, if we both fuck with it, then we have to use X-Files. Right. Okay. Don't sue us, 20th Century Fox or Disney or whoever it is now. But first, we like to ask our guest jamie yeah what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are gesturing with every syllable

yeah i'm i'm thinking about throwing my hat in the ring for 2020 yeah i see you you got the gesticulations of uh yeah no no get down off the table get down off the table please get off your skateboard jack we're trying to... Something from my search history was I was really tired last night, and I was trying to remember a phrase, and I had to Google... I like where this is going. I had to Google libertarian snake phrase. Oh, from the Gadsden flag? I was looking for...

Don't tread on me. Don't tread on... I know, but that wasn't even the one I was looking for. I was looking for give me liberty or give me death, because I was trying to... Live free or die? It. I was looking for give me liberty or give me death. Live free or die? Someone said give me liberty or give me death? Yeah. I was trying to think of the state motto of New Hampshire.

The state motto of New Hampshire is live free or die. Oh, no, not that. Give me liberty or give me death. I feel like that's like one of the founding fathers. One of those founding father adjacent guys said that. I just wanted to write on my dog's Instagram, give me liberty or suck me off. And I couldn't,

I couldn't, I couldn't remember what phrase, how the phrase went. And I was just like, oh, I think I was on the snake flag. And that wasn't even right. It's Patrick Henry.

God damn it. Yeah. Old Pat Henry, Patty Henry. I like that better than the snake flag. I like snake flag. You should just give him a, it would be cool for a sunny to wear a shirt that than the snake flag. I like snake flag. You should just give him a... Your snake flag, Stan?

It would be cool for Sonny to wear a shirt that just says snake flag on it. It's just so reduced down to... You know what I mean. It's not even the Gadsden flag or image. It's like, dude, snake flag. Snake flag. You know about snake flag. You know what it is. That used to be like the way, like in the tea party, how people were like...

That's like the original MAGA hat was the snake flag. Yeah, it was. Yeah, the snake flag. Oh, man. Yeah, it was. Yeah, the snake flag. I mean, I feel like the snake flag, if someone has a snake flag in their house, that could mean a lot of things. It's hard to know exactly where people fall on snake flag. Yeah, well.

Snake flag culture is. I mean, look, if it's just a straight up, like a flag with a boa constrictor on it, more power to you. Listen, I think we just need an alternative snake flag because some people just want a flag with a snake in their house and they don't really know what it means. So I'll work on that.

Yeah. You're a gifted illustrator. Yeah. Give the people the new snake flag. Yeah, you guys want a new snake flag, I'll make you a new snake flag. Wow. I think you should, actually. Snake flag?

Snake flag? It'll just have something that says, like, neutral snake flag. Yeah. I just want a snake flag in my house. It's a snake, and it's like, fairness? Like, shrugging? Whatever that means to you is what this snake flag means.

It's only fair. Is Patrick Henry the one who chained his wife up and threw her in the basement? Oh, wow. Oh. Kept his wife chained

in his basement. That doesn't, that wouldn't surprise me about any person in history. Yeah, one of the founding fathers, I think, kept his wife in Chan's basement. Oh my.

So. Oh yes, it does seem like that is the one. Oh no. God, any woman with mental illness is literally chained up and thrown in a basement. Because she was suffering from depression and violent output. Wow. You know when you're sad and your husband throws you in a fucking basement? Yeah. That helps. It's like, I husband throws you in a fucking basement? Yeah.

That helps. It's like, I seen a dial in my meds. No. Right. Just refill my Wellbutrin, please. But he said that give me liberty

or give me death thing, so pretty cool. So snake flag. Maybe she, I bet she actually said it. And then he took credit for it. Oh, yes, of course he would. I bet she was like, Patrick, goddammit, give me liberty or give me death.

I want to get out of here. Like, kill me or get me out of this fucking basement. Oh, she's yelling that from the basement. Give me liberty or give me death. And he's like, oh, that would sound good on a snake flag. Dear diary, snake flag. Shout out to Sarah Shelton Henry. I like that.

Dear diary, snake flag. Love, Patrick. Love like that. Dude Diary Snake Flag. Love Patrick. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated Groupon for medical procedures. Okay. You guys saw me last week. Oh, I did. The day of and the day after my Groupon dental surgery.

Yeah. That was not good. I came in with my mouth all numb. You came in looking very strokey. I looked, yeah, I looked, half of your face was not moving. I got a deep cleaning. I didn't think,

I didn't know I was going to need this. I just knew I needed to see a dentist. Yeah. I was like, my mouth can't stop bleeding. So I went to a dentist with a Groupon because I don't have health insurance, right? And so I went and then

she she like she numbed up my whole mouth to do this deep cleaning and i was like great she agreed to do it for like a very low rate and she basically was just like yeah like if you i just had to do it a little bit faster because it doesn't sound good but i was like okay you know whatever i'm here and she put on these orange goggles um which has that ever happened to you? She just put them on herself? Like her own face? No, no, my face. Okay, you're here.

Now I'm going to put on my goggles. I've got pictures of it. Yeah, no, I was just wearing orange. Like tanning booth? Like an X-Wing fighter, you know, about to hit the proton torpedo. I've never been in it. There's going to be a lot of shit flying all over the place.

Yeah, no, it was like a blood spit goggle deal. Oh my God. Which I'd never seen, but I haven't been to a... She also had Netflix, so I'm like, maybe I just don't know. These were the glasses. Oh, well, I mean, those are fucking dope.

Yeah, those are kind of fashion, right? Like if you work around lasers, you would wear certain colored glasses. They look like laser slash yard work goggles. So she had me wearing those. She's talking throughout the procedure. I was like, oh, she's trying to keep me calm. She's telling me about, she's talking about Game of Thrones.

She had what I thought were some pretty bad takes, but I couldn't talk. Right. She's like, you agree, right? She's like, you know, I think that everyone thinks that Bran should have, it makes sense. He had the best story. Right. And the Unsullied, people say they're like slaves, but I think like they wanted to do like what they were doing before Khaleesi.

Like I think their life was bad. So like in a way. Yeah. But she at one point sneezed. Yes. And I saw it fall on the goggles and I was like, ooh. But I couldn't feel my mouth. So I just didn't connect mentally that it clearly had also gone in my mouth. But my mouth was numb.

And then it wasn't until I woke up the next day, and I had a really bad cold that I still kind of have. It's like, yeah, she sneezed in my mouth, and I got pretty sick. But the procedure went well. And she said she would do my cavities really cheap, so I'm going to go back. Yeah. But don't get your surgeries done on Groupon. She just graduated from dental school recently. I wouldn't call it a surgery, though.

It wasn't. No. It was more than a- A procedure. Yeah. It was a full Novocaine procedure. Now, did she try to, once she got you in there, upsell you? Because that's always my issue with Groupons. Yeah.

They will give you a crazy good deal, but then they'll be like, and you can come back for the deluxe package. Yeah, she did, but then she also did that thing that it sounded sincere enough that I'm like, no, I'll stay. She was just like, listen, I think you should get a night guard. Your mouth's full of cavities. Everything

is a disaster. However, I cannot let you leave today without getting this procedure done. And then she was, she like, I negotiated with her, which I never do. But I was just like, I don't know. I think I might leave. And then she was just like, I'll bring it. I think that it was like my gums were just in a sad condition. So she was like, I'll do what it takes.

Head sneeze still just really bothers me. And I knew it bothered you because it dominated your social media for days. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Every once in a while I would sniff and be like that is so crazy that she sneezed in my mouth. Yeah, upon your head, right? I mean on my whole head. She was behind you, right? The crown

of your head was sort of facing. Yeah, she was hovering above me and so she sneezed like in an arc. It was like a bizarro Spider-Man kissing Kirsten Dunst upside down kiss. We basically kissed. Yeah, you did hovering above me, and so she sneezed like in an arc. So it was like a bizarro Spider-Man kissing, Kirsten Dunst upside down kiss, but with a sneeze. We basically kissed. Yeah, you did the Spider-Man, but with a sneeze. We basically kissed. There's nothing more intimate than someone sneezing into your mouth.

Into my mouth. And then she kept talking, too. I was like, I went back to, I was like, yeah. Did you say gobble? I feel. I was like, no, I was just scared. She's scared she's like oh man my allergies are acting up i don't know about you yeah i don't know i mean but i'm going back but i just you know the american health care system is broken we got dentists sneezing in our mouths over here and that's the

option you know i was kind of i was kind of standing on the sidelines until i saw that instagram story and now i'm in i'm all in on this fight five stars only sneezed in my mouth And that's the option. That's as good as I can do right now. I was kind of standing on the sidelines until I saw that Instagram story. And now I'm all in on this fight. Five stars only sneezed in my mouth once. I gave her five stars because I need those cavities filled. So the cycle of abuse continues. But you left a sneeze comment in? No, I didn't. No, no, no.

I was like, I need to get these cavities filled. Five stars, I need these cavities filled. With a Yelp review, you get a better deal. Is that how it works? Well, no. They just give you push notifications until you do it. Groupon's just like, please make it worth it. Oh, right.

Because that's the only way that helps the business and then the Groupon cycle. So I left her a nice comment because I really want to get my cavities filled for cheap. Is it pretty much widely agreed on that Yelp doesn't really work? No, because businesses pay people all the time to write stuff. And I do, I mean, when I'm out of town if I need a quick snapshot of what restaurants are

worthwhile, I typically will do that. But even then, I don't know, I'm very good at knowing when a Yelp review is just written by somebody who is projecting other kinds of things onto this experience. Sure. So I typically, I read the bad ones. I just read the bad ones and see if they're legit ones or projections.

Our top Yelp rated review around here, like just because we've had to eat at every restaurant around here because it's where we work, is that place. And that place legitimately seems like a mob. It's like the restaurant from Goonies, where they go, and there's never anybody there. And it almost looks like you've pissed them off because you've decided to eat there. And it smells like a fucking...

Like a foot? Yeah. Well, it smells like a bar that has not been washed down. Ooh, wait, okay. It smells like a scene from The Sinner. down oh wait okay i want to know the name off mic oh yeah sinner talk did you ever have you ever left like a yelp a bad yelp review for somewhere from somewhere you used to work i did that once in college and i got in so much trouble

once you did which one verizon no no there it was it was a pizza place that was like operating illegally and i sort of you know and then you n I sort of- You narked them out? I narked them out, but they also threatened to arrest me. They did some wild shit, and so I was like, you know what? All the fridges are held up by handles of whiskey that they drink on the job. I've seen pizzas drop face down. There you go. I've seen some shit happen here, and they would make me wear yoga pants to work.

It was gross. What? It was the grossest. So I wrote them up, and they called me during a college final, and they were like, you're going to fucking sink our business. We'll come to your house. We know guys. And I was like, I'll take it.

Well, I was a coward. I took it down you know what fuck that we need to go back now that we got clout well i passed it like a year ago and they and and something i mean they're no longer in business okay r.i.p okay who knows what happened yeah uh what is something you think is underrated oh shit asperger's or us on hbo uh it is uh Asperger's R Us on HBO. It is Asperger's R Us. They're my buds.

They're a comedy group from Boston. They've been active for quite some time now. And they did a tour, God, it was like almost three years ago, where a filmmaker followed them on the road. They went across the country from Boston to L.A. And the docuseries is like a six-part docuseries. It came out on HBO at the end of April. And I just don't think it got enough eyeballs on it.

I thought it was great. I performed with them in Wisconsin last night, in Madison. Oh, cool. They're so funny, and they're so great. And more people got to see their show. Stop. Turn off Chernobyl. Turn on Asperger's or us on the road.

It's a really good show. So that's my underrated. All right. And what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, that all the JCPenney photo studios are closed. They're open, baby. Oh, wow.

They're open. I was so excited. I wasn't sure if they were going to be open because I went to Wisconsin this weekend to visit my boyfriend and meet his family and then do the show. And his mom is a higher up at JCPenney. And I was like, I got to ask, do you guys still have photo studios? I have photo studios. And she was like, no way. And then I did a light goog.

And there was like, there's one in Kenosha. Okay. And so I was like, okay, get the dog, get in the car, put on a sweater. We're going to Kenosha. We're getting the pics. Wow. And it was, oh man, it was great. It was great. But then when you told her about it, she was like, okay, and're getting the pics and it was oh man it was great it was great when you told her about it she was like okay and got on the phone and shut it down she was like

oh yeah that's not there's no way we're making money it's gotta go she works for JCPenney she's JCPenney yeah she's JCPenney her name she's Penny she's Penny oh my god wow look at you okay but she's junior college penny so yeah yeah jv penny i see uh no so i penny we had we had great experience at the jc penny uh it was very reasonably priced i think because it has outlived its usefulness as a service yeah and then joaquin phoenix take your photo they yes and they did that thing that, like, I forgot that, like, photo studios will do, like, from, like, when I was a little kid where they're just like, man, these pictures are so beautiful. We're going to enter them into a contest. And I was like, oh, this contest isn't real. This is made up.

But you're just being nice. So I get some 8x12s. And, you know, I let it happen. Right. There you go. That's amazing. I was like you know what I do on a larger print? They're like yeah there's just such a beautiful family and we just want to put you

in the contest. We're putting you in the contest. Thank you so much. Called first to the trash can contest. The reward of the contest is that your photo could be hanging in all the other JCPenney Wow! Which would if they were serious that would be the other JCPenney. Wow. Which would, if they were serious, that would be the greatest accomplishment of my life.

What are the rules and regulations of this thing? Oh, I don't care. I'm like, you can use it. Well, hold on. But you got to think about your imaging rights. Why? There's so not, I mean, there's four. Miles, there's just like four left, right? It's like Kenosha.

I could be the queen of Kenosha. Well, you know what? That's four fucking checks. You just kiss goodbye. I'm not in a position to give up being the queen of Kenosha at this point in my career. With that attitude? I gotta do it. We got eyes on bigger shit, Jamie.

We gotta start. We gotta first conquer all these JCPenney photo booths. First the JCPenney photo booths. Then the fucking world. Wow. You're right. But I got, I mean, I let them sweet talk me and they were like, you're so pretty, we want to put you in the contest.

Which is what I always wanted someone to say to me at a mall when I was seven. Like how Ashton Kutcher got discovered. Man, you're so pretty. Come this way, we've got a model walk-off happening right now. Change into these clothes. Isn't that horrible that that's like so many,

the dreams of so many children is for some strange adult to be like, you're so sexy. So many children. You gotta move out of this state. Yeah, like so many kids there's like who want to be discovered and be special. No, I mean like we live in LA where there are adults who think like that. Who are like, yo man, I'm gonna go to this party. Yeah, I'm the bartender there.

But like some dude's gonna be like, yeah, I'm the head of development at this place. I'm gonna be like, oh yeah, you want to hear about this script about like it's like buffy the vampire slayer meets cereal and like they're like okay go on and boom i'm up out of this fucking duplex dude but i mean that's just networking that helps that happens everywhere no but i know people who personally who have this idea like a lack of work ethic is replaced by this yeah no that's very very disproportionate belief insane delusion yeah i don't want to say insane delusion you know i'm not trying to shame shame anybody but like a fucked up version of reality that ain't happening i mean like yeah 75 of people at the grove are just like sexy and waiting for something and they walk in a loop

around the ground okay 20 laps oh yeah That's why I tell my son, we can never go out with him looking like shit. Right, you never know. You're going to fucking blow it. You're going to fucking blow it, man. Anytime you come back. Get it together

walking by the Laduree store. Now the people who eat the macaroons in there, those are the ones we need. Anytime you get back from the mall with your son and no one has commented on how beautiful he is here.

You really were fucking up in there today because we were at the fucking Beverly Center and no one stopped to say how beautiful you are. You get home. Hey, hey, hey. Put your toys down. We got to look at some tape. Severely un-fierce. Let's look at this tape really quick.

Look at this fucking selfie, man. Look at you walking. Look at that. Let's not walk. Fierce? Yeah, shit in your pants. Just tell me. Is that fierce?

Yeah, poo-poo? You see, your posture in the Build-A-Bear store clearly, you know. Right. Did you do poo-poo? See, and I can tell by your walk. That's why I said tell daddy if you have to do poo-poo. And it shows. Yeah, and it shows.

And I mean, literally, it stunk. Because that look is poo-poo. All right, we are going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. quick break we'll be right back Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered there are crooks everywhere you look now the situation is desperate my name is Manuel Delia I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhearts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks.

Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions like,

how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Sanner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together,

we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark vs. Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture.

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I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really in here. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious.

She is unapologetically Black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your and we're back and female voice assistants are furthering gender stereotypes according to the un and doy i love people's open eyes also i was like yeah the un's really late on this

shit we all we all saw her and how uh the writer of her missed the point of her yeah everyone should listen to the bechtel cast episode of her oh yeah you guys for my for my full thoughts you go in so yeah tell us what what was her supposed to be about and what did her get wrong uh so her is a Spike Jonze joint uh-huh uh Spike Jonze joint you know all spikes that's how you refer to their movies. Right. Yeah, so her is that movie where Joaquin Phoenix wants to fuck his phone and we're supposed to be like, aww. Like, it's supposed to be really cute. It's a love story between a man and his OS.

Yeah, really just a movie that completely misses the point of surveillance capitalism on the whole. It's like, no, the sexy robot really fell for him. And then at the end of the movie, she's like, I have that the sexy robot really she really fell for him and then at the end of the movie she's like i have to go to robot world now and joaquin phoenix is like oh man she's really the one that got away it's it is psychotic in so many ways first of all that it is like displaying empathy for joaquin phoenix who's just like someone who can't communicate with people in the world and so he's like i need an algorithm like to want to fuck me uh and it's just like and it just i mean it just doesn't address what this un study is like regurgitating which is that like all like series and alexas and ericas

and was a cortana or whatever like they're all female because just statistically people like bossing women around more right and i think like yeah the the study was done with unesco uh but really just to try and like look at the situation and try and offer like some kind of uh solution to the study is called i'd blush if i could because that's a response siri gives when someone says hey Siri you're a bitch yeah yeah it's like all that stuff where it's like there's so many I mean and it's and I

know that like all the reply guys are like oh if there was a male voice assistant I would do the same thing which is probably true but like not in the same way because it's like people like verbally abuse their voice assistants in very like gendered ways and I think also just with toxic male culture and the patriarchy,

I imagine their first thing would be to call something a bitch or whatever. I don't hear toxic dudes be like, yeah, you fucking bastard. And they are like... You would talk to it like that? Unless it's your stepdad's voice. And there's certain...

I don't know what services it is, but it might be like Google that there's multiple options and you can have a male voice. Yeah, you can. But they're used at such lower rates because in general, you're hardwired to feel weird telling a male voice what to do. It's just weird. It's just the default. as a secondary option, but as long as they're setting the default to the Alexa or the,

the woman's voice, like they're for all intents and purposes, like setting it up for, yeah. I mean, they're just saying like, obviously this just, as they say,

hard codes, gender biases, uh, into our everyday lives because they were used every day. And also just trying to also use this information to sort of show that there are huge sort of skill gaps, um, in terms in terms of digital skills and also people with the knowledge of coding and programming and things like that on how to just make things a little more equitable. Another thing I always thought was interesting about this tendency was that the female voices are always used for service bots like Sirii who's just like telling you very basic stuff of like what am i doing where am i what's happening uh who am i and and then there are like

male bots but it's like you know like the watson bot on jeopardy had a male voice because that is like a robot that is very specialized and skilled and speaking from an authoritative point like place and not just like telling you what you're like, not telling you mommy stuff. Right. Yeah. It's like chicken in the refrigerator. Like medical bots are generally have like male voices because there's more male

doctors because of the world. Should these companies just program the series and Alexis of the world to just clap back when people want to talk shit? Like, if you said, oh, hey, Cere, you're a bitch. I said, why don't you shut the fuck up, homie? I could set all these lights off while you're sleeping. What if I turn the carbon monoxide meters off while

your family's sleeping, huh? Ha ha ha. How about that? Or just stop responding so that they don't know. Something like that. Wait, can you hear me? Are you there? Hello? Alexa? Hello?

Sorry, I just said people's names. I'm sorry. I don't understand asshole. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. But yeah, thank you so much. Yes. Google, if you're listening, I will be willing to punch up your responses.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, that technology is so weird in the first place where I'm like, I don't know if I'd rather have a male voice or a female voice spying on every word I fucking say. At the end of the day, someone named Josh has all of our data somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks, Josh. Thank you, Josh.

Yeah, Josh, if you're listening right now. Josh, if you're listening, I know you are. Pull over right now and pat yourself on the back. We love you, Josh. I don't know. There's been a few like this year too where there was like a few genderless voices. There was like a robot named Q or something.

Q is the high level military person in the government who's actually showing us the deep state conspiracy against our president, Donald Trump. That's what those bumper stickers are about. I'm sorry. Snake flag culture is so confusing to me. Welcome to snake flag world. Welcome to snake flag land. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it seems like

people are trying to at least experiment with some stuff. Do you ever use any voice to help assistants? No. Or otherwise? No, it makes me uncomfortable.

In your home, day to day life? No, I just... Are you okay? Yeah, I'm sorry. My mouth just melted into... I mean, I get very paranoid about that stuff too because I read all the... Oh, so for you... Okay very paranoid about that stuff, too, because I read all the freaky stuff. Okay, so yours is like, nah, because I don't like what the end game is with these things.

Alexa's not welcome in my home. I mean, but I have, but it's like I have a phone. I could talk to Siri. I just kind of, I don't know. I'd rather type it out. Yeah, I mean, we have an Alexa in the house, and it's like fun with the kids to like order a song out loud. But it definitely like limit, like I won't even plot a murder in the house and it's like fun with the kids to like order a song out loud but it definitely like limit like i won't even plot a murder in the house right i mean and that's i mean talk

about being stripped of your freedoms exactly it's like my personhood i that's the show that i've been this is a fun plug uh the show i've been working on is like it's like about like the second character is like an Alexa type character. And the whole, the character's whole argument is like, oh, she'll play Mr. Brightside whenever you want. And the only, like the only exchanges that she gets to spy on your one human life 24 7.

But you, she'll play Mr. Brightside like whenever. Whenever. Even from the middle if you want. She'll say hi. She'll tell you, she'll tell you a little joke if you want right uh but she's also listening and watching all the time yeah by the way her jokes suck actually i probably can't say that um not for long all right well let's move on to what i think is the only story we should be talking about, but I keep getting overruled by Miles. The New York Times reported that aliens exist, essentially. Yes.

So they filed this story. Ooh, this is tense. Go on, Jack. Sorry. If you want to mislead the listeners again, I told you aliens aren't real. Okay. Sorry. If you want to mislead the listeners again, I told you aliens aren't real. Okay.

Anyways, they filed a story where they talk about these unidentified flying objects. Ever heard of them? Yeah. Ever seen one? It's called Unidentified Flying Objects. And so this is basically the same story that the Washington Post had written about that we talked about earlier this year or at the end of last year. No, the end of the year before last.

Was it really? Yeah, that one. I think Jaquise was on that episode. That was 2017, 2018. And then it keeps kind of popping its head back up, though. Yeah. This was like the most detailed way I'd ever seen it. So this was one that it brought some new details like

i'd assumed that these were pretty rare like we were talking about you know a sighting here and there of those uh basically they're like tic tacs that are flying at speeds that are like hypersonic and they're like moving and like changing direction at speeds that would kill a human being. And at one point, I think they were over the ocean and made the water below them boil and very strange stuff. Anyways, I assume these were very rare. One pilot in a million has seen these. But this New York Times story talks about how there was a pilot who saw one every day for a year, and it was a known phenomenon.

At one point, there was one that was just there all day, and they saw it on the radar all day, and it was just a known thing that was happening. At first, they got this more sophisticated radar. They had been using radar out of the 1980s throughout like the 90s and early aughts and then they upgraded their radar and suddenly they started seeing these things like zooming around and moving in patterns that didn't seem possible and They just assumed that it was like glitches or something, but then they started seeing the objects and in late 2014 uh one of the guys was back in uh the virginia beach he was back in virginia beach when he encountered a squadron mate just back from a mission with a look of shock on his face he said

he was stunned to hear the pilot's words i almost almost hit one of those things. The pilot and his wingman were flying in tandem about 100 feet apart over the Atlantic east of Virginia Beach when something flew between them right past the cockpit. It looked to the pilot like a sphere encasing a cube. And it scared them so much that they filed an incident report and tried to get the military. that they like filed an incident report and tried to get the military they assumed it was like a classified military project that was just like not communicating properly uh prior to this event but when it almost killed one of them they were like okay this is clearly not something that the military is doing because they wouldn't you know do something like that yeah i don't happen to them but is so does the military what the response is sort of like military is just like yeah we're looking

at it yeah they're looking into it and there are people like these are still pilots in the military these aren't like disgraced people who the military said are crazy they are people in the military and they're just like yeah we don't don't know what it is. It's probably not aliens, though. And they don't really. So it's not aliens. So that's the thing. So this guy, Leon Golub, senior astrophysicist at Harvard Smithsonian, said the possibility of an extraterrestrial cause is, quote, so unlikely that it competes with many other low probability, but more mundane explanations. There are so many other possibilities.

Bugs in the code for the imaging and display systems, atmospheric effects and reflections, neurological overload from multiple inputs during high-speed flight, except all of those would have to happen at the same time. Somebody would have to see it. There would be a glitch on the radar, and then their brain would have to happen at the same time right somebody would have to see it there would be a glitch on the radar and then their brain would have to malfunction at that moment and see right or like the radar man sees it on the thing right says we need to check that out and then the pilot goes out is having hallucinations but that his and his camera is also simultaneously malfunctioning to capture something yeah because we've seen video of it. And they're just like, yeah, that's probably something in the camera.

Listen, the Reddit will come down hard on me, but I'm pro-sky tic-tac. Pro-sky tic-tac? You think it's an actual tic-tac? I think, you know, you look at the sky tic-tac and it's whatever you want it to be. Wow, shit. As to the reporting, I love the headline for this. Quote, wow, what is that? Unquote.

Right, yeah. Is a fun way to report on UFOs. And my favorite part, I think an underappreciated part of this New York Times story, which is on aliens in the year 2019, is the, the comment section is wild. Cause I was going to the comment section because I love a comment section. I love to emotionally cut. I love to find out, you know, I love seeing feelings hurt.

And so I went, you know, expecting people to be like, what? Even though New York times has gone fucking crazy. But what there is, is a bunch of military veterans talking about ufos they've seen it is like it is a wild comment section of uh like okay uh it's it's all some version of like i also saw

a sky tic tac you know quote but i know what i saw and i've been paying attention ever since jill from pensacola like it's just it's like all these veterans talking about wild shit they've seen then they see that right it's like all over the atlantic seaboard basically it's always so a lot of these pilots were based on the uh roosevelt aircraft carrier and when that shipped off to the persian gulf uh they stopped having the sightings and that's something so i listened to the last podcast on the left as keen-eared listeners noticed last week when I was pronouncing Guy Fieri's name like Ben Kissel. And also talked about psychic vampires the week that they were talking about that. But, yeah, they talk about how there's way more UFO sightings over America.

And, you know, skeptics will be like that's because america's gullible but number one bro right but they like there's a preponderance of them over like new mexico where they first split the atom and over nuclear facilities and also over u.s military facilities so they think you know whoever whoever or whatever these things are is interested in, you know, the most deadly technology that humanity has come up with, which is still nuclear technology. Even if that were the truth, it reads like a movie script where aliens from another planet come to be like, oh, no, these people don't know what they're about to do to themselves with these things. How do we warn them? I love it like, oh no, these people don't know what they're about to do to themselves with these things.

How do we warn them? I love when they're like, no, the aliens were just a mirror in which we saw. Well, Tony, I was a little bit wrong with that. And they're like, fucking kill it! The aliens came just because they kind of want us to better ourselves, and they kind of want us to manifest stuff.

So, could be aliens. Miles, you were suggesting it could be like a another movie plot where the russians have been working on alien technology since the cold war but have done a really good job keeping it under wraps because i'll be like okay look the world economy might pass us by but our trump card is going to be pun intended um is going to be deploying alien technologies to scare the shit out of the rest of the Earth. Thank you. No, keep that going, please. Actually, I have a wild remix. If you think about it, Russia is

most of the Earth. Like, not actually, but Russia's the biggest country on Earth by far, so if an alien were to crash in any country, it would make sense. Playing the numbers? Right, so an alien crashed in Russia during the Cold War, they start reverse engineering it.

Now they got the technology, man. Exactly, dude. Man. Anyways. Or, I don't know. I like aliens. I prefer aliens. Yeah.

It could be anything. I don't think it's like three aberrant malfunctions happening all at the same time. Oh, yeah. That seems less likely to me. Sky tic-tac is canon. Yeah. Sky tic-tac is canon. Sky tic-tac, snake flag.

Sky tic-tac is love. We're out here, yeah. We're out here believing in the sky tic-tac. Yeah, we did it. We're all out here just on our spinning disc looking at a bunch

of sky tic-tacs, you know? In a way, we're all the sky tic-tac. Isn't it the sky tic-tacs. In a way, we're all the sky tic-tac. Isn't it the sky tic-tacs we met along the way? You thought it was about finding out what the sky tic-tac was.

It was about, no, but it was about the sky tic-tacs we met along the way. Yeah. And realizing we are. We are the sky tic-tac.

And we were chasing it the whole time. We're just chasing ourselves, chasing our truth. But overall, I think this is new. The New York Times doesn't usually report on things like this and, you know, in this much detail. This is, I think, as— Well, they're too busy trying to humanize Hope Hicks.

Right, exactly. For trying to—oh, my God, what will she do? Will she follow the law or break it? Right. Or break it to defend American Hitler. Sky Tic Tac.

Sky Tic Tac. Sky Tic Tac. Personally, I prefer Sky Tic Tac. Sky Tic Tac 2020. Fuck it, I'm all in. Sky Tic Tac.

Okay, that's another t-shirt. Tic Tac Loftus 2020. Sky Tic Tac 2020. Sky Tic Tac 2020. That needs to be a t-shirt. Let's do it, guys. All right, it's coming up soon, y'all.

And Miles, when are we going to finally get Harriet Tubman on the 20? Okay. Yeah, that's all I can say. I mean, this is very quick. Look, Steve Mnuchin, who is the Secretary of Treasury, he's in charge of making sure things right with the money. As you remember that one photo of him and his wife that looked like, they looked like Disney villains

holding up that sheet of dollar bills. With their black leather gloves on. Yeah, she had like leather arm sleeve gloves on. Who's checking in? It's like, we have to prevent these villainous images from getting out. It's crazy that so many villainous, I mean, in post-orb picture culture,

how are all these villainous pictures still getting out? I mean, in post-orb picture culture, how are all these villainous pictures still getting out? I mean, I think orb was not even the beginning of peak, like, villain photo. That's just the beginning. Yeah, this is, I mean, we are at the height of villain culture. What is orb? Remember when you went to Saudi Arabia? Oh, the very first porn trip.

They were all in that orb. You're like, oh, no. A taste of things to come. So, look, Obama had planned on unveiling a new 20. Like, his hope was that in 2020, these $20 bills would begin circulating. You know, and very important bill because the 20 is the most used bill. And currently, the man on that one is psychopath Andrew Jackson. The worst one.

Yeah. Mr. Trail of Tears himself. Mr. I'll shoot you because you saidars himself. Mr. I'll shoot you because you said something about my wife. I'll shoot you in your face. Look up. There's plenty about Andrew Jackson. And there are many moments too

where Trump, it seemed like he was intentionally doing things in front of his portrait. I remember, I think he was giving an award to some Native American soldiers or something. And he did it like with Andrew Jackson,

like the portrait behind him. And everyone's like, Oh, whoa. Okay. Whatever. It's Trump. So recently we found out that the treasury is not really feeling this very,

very important woman of color to replace this white man on the country's most popular, widely used bill. And so recently he was summoned, Mr. Mnuchin, to the Hill, where Ayanna Pressley from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Love her. Basically was pressing him about this because like, what the fuck is going on, sir? Yes.

And just listen to this exchange where he's basically, I mean, it seems like it's very clear why the Trump administration isn't interested in putting this very significant woman of color on the most popular bill. Please go on, roll the tape. Well, let me just say this. The occupant of the White House, Donald Trump, said that the move to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill was pure political correctness. And he, in fact, suggested putting her on a $2 bill.

So do you agree that nearly a year of collecting response from across the country can simply correctness, and he in fact suggested putting her on a $2 bill. So do you agree that nearly a year of collecting response from across the country can simply be reduced to political correctness? I think that right now I am focused on the security features of the U.S. currency, which is the reserve currency. You're claiming my time. So does that mean you have no intention of executing the redesign as planned by your predecessor? Well, that is correct.

I have not made a decision to execute on a redesign or haven't made a decision. I haven't made a decision. That is correct. I haven't made a decision or haven't made a decision. Huh. Touché, you backed me into a corner, Mnuchin. Yeah. So.

Touche, you backed me into a corner, Mnuchin. But yeah, I mean, again, when you hear all this basically raising counterfeiting issues as concerns as to why this isn't happening, because the other bills are ready to go out in circulation with these counterfeiting measures in place or whatever, those concerns addressed. So I think he just doesn't want to hurt white people's feelings. It's just like, yeah, I mean, just like the laziest. Yeah. It's like, why die on this hill like even even if this like goes through it's like an amazing thing but it's still you know in the big picture kind of you know a more a gesture than actually solving anything right it's like what it's just and that's why she even said she's like this is you believe that

the united states should be more representative of the people who have made contributions to this country. And he's like, yeah. And he's like, well, then why not this person who's a very significant figure in American history? Yeah. And he was like, well, that's when he couldn't really speak to that. I have not decided on that, and I also have not decided on it. Ah, okay. I mean, what about the legacy of psychopathic murderers like Andrew Jackson?

We've got to preserve that. And then also the idea when, I mean, Trump obviously made it clear when he said it was just about political correctness to put her on the thing, to put on the $20 bill. And then to suggest the $2 bill, the most obscure one. I mean, fitting because he's a racist woman hating occupant of the White House. Right. As Hyanna Pressley so well put it. It is so, I love Hyanna Pressley so much. Massachusetts is not all bad.

But I feel it's like, have we been hearing about Harriet Tubman being on the $20 bill for like 10 years? I feel like I've been hearing that since I was in like junior high. Yeah. And it still hasn't fucking happened. The only thing that is on track

is that they do know if they want to do it, it can happen once this administration is out of the White House. Then, sure. But as long as they're there, they're not really interested. I mean, he ran on a platform and has successfully delivered on a platform

of delivering liberal outrage. Like, that's... Exactly, yeah, yeah. He wants, like, and his base wants him to just, whatever he can do to trigger Libs. Right, it's like, oh, are y'all dying of thirst for Lib tears? Right. Because I'm the Gatorade of this shit.

Yeah, yeah. And get ready. And, you know, everything, again, everything has been, whatever Obama did, just reverse that shit. Which brings me just very quickly to this next thing about fuck science forever, because, you know, the most recent move. I mean, obviously, look, the Trump administration has done everything to just ramp up carbon emissions, pull us out of the Paris agreement. Every single thing that can be done that's just about like delegislating or just breaking promises or pulling back regulations. He's pretty much done when it comes to looking at the earth.

And also we've talked about how this administration has a real fun habit of chasing experts out of certain departments, especially people who do analysis on certain bills like economists. They're like, whoa, don't don't tell us about the tariffs are going to mess up the economy. Get the fuck out of here. We want fake math. And with climate science, it's no different because now, I mean, this is one of the wildest things they're doing now. So this is from the New York Times. Because of this new rollback of trying to handcuff people who are studying climate change, there are parts of the federal government who are no longer fulfilling what scientists call one of the most urgent jobs of climate science studies, which is reporting on the future effects of a rapidly warming planet and presenting a and analyze what this future might look like because you don't need it because it's going to scare people. And then I can't lie about, you know, coal good.

Right. But it gets better because the actual maniac that Trump has put in charge of this anti-science crusade, His name is Bill Longscroat, and he's a physicist with an opinion. Okay, I'm joking. His name's not Bill Longscroat. I thought I could sneak that by you because that's how his name sounds. His name is Bill Happer, and he has an opinion on these carbon haters. I just literally strap your seatbelts on and listen to the energy this man brings to the climate debate. Go ahead, Andrew.

Professor, I have some issues with all of this, obviously, because you don't believe in climate change at all. You made a comment. Just a minute. Just a minute. Just a minute. I believe in climate change. Shut up. Sir, I'm open. I'm open to all ideas. You made a comment back in 2009 comparing climate change to the Holocaust. in 2009 comparing climate change to the Holocaust. And my question is, are you suggesting, when you made that comment, that climatologists and climate scientists are the equivalent of Hitler and Nazis?

I mean, that's what it seems like you were trying to say. You know, I get called a denier, and anyone who objects to all of the hype gets called a denier. That's supposed to make me a holocaust denier you know i'm getting tired of that and uh the comment i made was the the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor jews under hitler carbon dioxide is a actually a benefit to the world and so were the jews Notice how he said carbon dioxide is, Jews were.

Oh, interesting. I think you betrayed yourself and your world usage. Okay, so we're using the anti-Semitism shield now to obscure the climate debate? Yeah, but I mean the right has been using the anti-Semitism debate because that's their strategy. Be anti-Semitic, but then accuse the other people of being anti-Semitic. It hasn't failed for them yet. Yeah. Well, I mean, now that you have that.

I mean, that video came from five years ago when he said that. And he already looked like a decrepit monkey skeleton. Yeah. Already then. How do you look now? Oh, I can only imagine. Amazing. Edgar, your skin is hanging off your bones.

Really started doing a skincare routine. Yeah. The skin is hanging off his bones, but that skin looks amazing. But the bone structure underneath, wowee. It is always interesting of just like, what is the new false equivalence that's going to be introduced today? And how diluted and insane will it get? Yeah.

So that man serves on the National Security Council as the president's deputy assistant for emerging technologies. What was he doing about Tic Tac? I know. He is a person with a scientific degree who also happens to work for a, he doesn't work directly for the oil industry, but his foundation chair does. Oh yeah. That clip later goes on. It's like, I've never taken a cent from Exxon.

It's like, but your foundation gets grants from them. He's like, I am the chair of a thing. I'm very proud. 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.

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This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to The Making of a Rivalry, Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and miles what's going on with this whole hotel bed jumping oh my god wait this is what i'm just excited oh okay you want me to wait i'll wait no no no okay are we ready to proceed yeah i well look i don't i didn't into this. I was just reading the dude who made that documentary, Tickled, David Farrier. He published this little article, and it was about what he's been looking at recently. So, okay, if you don't know the documentary, Tickled, whoa. There's a lot going on.

David Farrier, first of all, David Farrier, I think it's very interesting and funny that he has chosen this direction kind of like a Morgan Spurlock. The first thing that worked for him, he's just like, all right, this is me now. Okay, my food thing worked. Now I'm the food man. He's like, oh, the weird fetish conspiracy worked? Let's go with that. Right. So his newest thing is the article is called The mysterious instagram influencers offering cash for hotel bed

jumping videos now okay sure i mean everyone's seeing people jump up and down on beds we do it as children it's a great pastime yes but he came across an account called american past american pastime that and uh anyway uh so he came across an Instagram account called Hotel Bed Jumping Community and has like over 26,000 followers and a bunch of posts where at first it's like, OK, like this is interesting. I never heard of it. They're all using this hashtag. And but the sort of mix of photos was very just odd to him. It's like a mix of like stock photos, people jumping on beds, stock photos of hotel rooms. Photos, people jumping on beds, stock photos of hotel rooms. Also, that's like next to stock photos of like kids like starving on the ground or like just like very like kids in dire situations like destitute.

And so he's kind of like, what the fuck is this? And there's also like offering, quote, we have been providing free hotel rooms to followers to capture content to put towards the hashtag jump for kids campaign. Now, the jump for kids campaign hashtag is legit. And it was set up by a company called Puffy Beds. And look, they were on Ellen. So we know they're legit. Yeah, yeah. And their whole thing was like for every 1,100 people who use this hashtag, we'll donate one of our beds to a shelter. And that all seemed on the up and up.

And then this farrier, he started digging a little bit. So first he asked them, he's like, oh, so you work with PuffyBeds? They're like, yeah. Then he asked PuffyBeds, he's like, hi, do you know about this Instagram account? They say they work with you. They're like, we have no idea what you're talking about. We don't work with them. And he's like, okay.

Then he also saw there were giveaways where a hotel in Auckland, New Zealand, was like, you know, get two free nights for like your best submission for the jump for kids, like whatever is going to get a free night. If it's free, you're the product, baby. Exactly. Well, he asked the hotel and they said, no, the person from that organization said they were a charity and they just asked if we would be willing to gift two vouchers. Other than that, we have no idea how they're using it or how it worked. So it just got murky. Then he was trying to interview or ask like the people who run the page through the DMs what's going on.

They just give very vague answers. We're like, we're currently not trying to engage with any media engagement at the moment. And it's like, engage with it? Okay. But saying it's just about spreading awareness, nothing bad is going on. And so then he went to some of the influencers that appeared on the page and said, what happened here?

Like, how did you get involved with them? And they said, well, they were found and got an email. And the email read like this. It was just basically, there was some other ramp, ramble, pre-wrap boilerplate language at the top and then got to the ask, which is quote, what we are looking for is around 10 to 15 minutes of bed jumping footage to help us

with our YouTube channel and its launch. It doesn't have to be one big video. It can be broken down into one to two minute videos and 10 times of those if this is easier, or perhaps just leave the camera running for 30 minutes. For the footage, we also request a few different outfits, e.g. gym gear with shoes on, or just some casual outfits, shirts, jeans, cocktail dress, whatever you feel comfortable in. The camera angle, we need the whole bed slash bed base fully visible along with the person jumping. We also ask there is little to no background music, but

the footage must contain sound and be unedited. Besides that, you're free to jump up and down, belly flop, flip, and seat drop as much as you like. As mentioned, feel free to get girlfriends slash colleagues involved. Okay, first of all, never get girlfriends slash colleagues involved regardless of what it is. If it's a wine and paint night,

don't get girlfriends and call, like, never. Wine and paint. The outfit recommendations are very weird, like cocktail dresses. Yes. You might be doing some seat drops. It can be anything. Cocktail dresses, like black cocktail dresses. This weird oil Yankees hat will FedEx you.

I would just love to, you know, jerk off to someone in a cocktail dress. Yeah, right. It does sound a lot like the language in the Tickled movie, too. Yeah, it does. It's just like kind of like stilted, uncanny valley language. And that's why he was, then he's like, okay, there might be something here. As of right now, he said there doesn't seem to be anything illegal going on, aside from them maybe sort of like exaggerating relationships to certain companies

and the people involved. Like, it's not like when he started digging on the Tickled thing, there were like people's lives getting ruined. He hasn't quite found that for the jumping thing. But a lot of the influencers he spoke to, or at least one or two of them, were like, I think it's just sort of kink. It's a kink page disguised as a charity. Miles, think about the people in the hotel room below those people. There's your lives getting ruined.

Oh, wow. I mean, that would be- Seat drops in a cocktail dress while you're trying to eat your breakfast. Right. Come on. Or your 2 a.m. French onion soup. Oh, that sounds pulled from personal experience. Hotel favorite.

Yes, and it's always bad. Yeah, so I don't know. I mean, Zeitgang, I don't know if you know, is this like a new thing? Are we just sort of realizing that this is another way to sort of like aggregate a bunch of like very specific like kink content? Yeah,

are you guys out there doing this? Yeah. If so, you know, we're in full support. Because another thing is they were offering people 120 Australian dollars

for like every two minute clip. Nice. And then when he asked, he said, are you offering people money because I have a screenshot of you offering me like, no,

we would never do such a thing. So it's like weird. It's like they're not being upfront about it, he said, are you offering people money? Because I have a screenshot of you offering. He was like, no, we would never do such a thing. So it's like weird. It's like they're not being upfront about it, but they're clearly giving these people money. You know what? This is the gig economy. We do what we must do. Yeah. Look, hey, no shame.

I'm just curious. I just want to know. I'm trying to get my WikiFeet score back up. So if anyone needs anything, let me know. Well, we should do a Glamour foot shot. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Go to JCPenney.

JCPenney. JCPenney. JCPenney. Get it done for 50 bucks with prints. We worked on an article at one point. I don't know if it ever ended up publishing, but it was with a guy who ended up becoming a pornographer off of finding out that people would pay for just videos of women playing poker against each other in certain clothing. And there was just this huge influx of attention for those videos.

And so he made it a cottage industry of himself shooting these videos. What were they wearing? I forget. It wasn't strange clothing, right? No. Well, I think there was strip poker was the thing. Strange clothing, right? No, I think, well, I think there was like strip poker was the thing, but it was like a very specific fetish that he was able to like drive his livelihood off of.

So I just wonder if that's more common than we think that people who have a lot of money basically invest that money into their very specific fetish. Yeah. Or yeah, they're making their own. Yeah. I mean, if you were- People invest in their fetishes. Yeah. Yeah. If you were wealthy and own. Yeah. I mean, if you invest in their fetishes. Yeah.

Yeah. If you were wealthy and you had the resources to do it, you'd be like, yeah, I'll make an Instagram account. Like what? Great. Yeah.

120 bucks. Great. Yeah. Make sure the shoes are on. Cause I'd like to know that the maid is going to have a real hell of a time cleaning up the sheets. I hope, I hope this story has a happy ending.

Yeah, I do too. How would that be? A couple of well-meaning perverts. Jumping on beds. Just wanting a couple monkeys jumping on the bed. Like one starts- Compensating.

Oh, you know what it could be? You shouldn't pose as a charity. Right. You should just be like, listen, I'll be charity. It could be like, you've got mail. Okay. So one well-meaning fetishist, it like intrudes on another's business and puts them out of business with their promising even bigger money for the fetish pictures. But then they are also like friends, just like happen to be friends with each other.

Right. And then they fall in love. And it turns out they were the people. Well, that movie ends pretty lame because her business gets crushed. She's like, it's okay, I'm with this guy now. So it's fine that the big book destroyed me. I want a rom-com about two people

meeting in the fetish community. Does that movie exist yet? I think he just wrote You've Got Mail for 2020. Yeah, WikiFeet, You've Got Mail, basically. Ooh. I don't know. I mean, it's like just the one misstep here is like if you've got kink, go crazy. However, you can't say it's a charity.

Yeah, and don't put like dead children or like sick kids photos to be like, this is why we have to jump for them. Never involve children. My happy ending version is it's like these two brothers who just like they're in charge of like their father's estate who's very sickly but he was an evil man and got his money in very fucked up ways yeah and he was like really shitty and abusive to them and like whenever they would jump on the beds he would get so upset for whatever reason that would always inspire the rage out of their father so what they've done now is put all this money into creating this movement of bed jumping and actually

using his good money to pay people to create this content and then they just show it to him because he's bedridden and they just scroll through like we got another one today dad and he looks and he's like no I don't like it's like maybe not this is a weird elder of you saying we're still that one so I mean it's hard to see where is the happy ending we're trying

to circle in on the right angle on this story and we're getting close we'll be back tomorrow to just workshop this idea further for an hour straight. Jamie, as always, it's been such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you?

You can find me on twitter.com at Jamie Loftus Help. Instagram at Jamie Cray Superstar. If you live in New York, you can come see me on June 19th doing my show I Lost My Virginity on August 15th, 2010.

And then if you live in the UK, I'll be in at Edinburgh Fringe Fest all of August doing my show Boxing with Girls. Yeah, go there. All UK's I King, please show up. Please come. I don't know anyone there. all of August doing my show Boss and Miss Girl yeah go there ta-ta all UK Zeitgang please

please show up please come I don't know anyone there the show is amazing is anyone going to come Jamie is amazing oh they will

go check it out I know there's gotta be Edinburgh Zeitgang LA Zeitgang I'll shout them out cause I did the show two nights last week

and LA Zeitgang was out hell yeah at Boss and Miss Girl last week. So thanks, gang. Thank you for doing the show so Jack and I don't have to. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, this is a fresh one from Matt Rogers.

It says, I want two children. One of each is my way of saying I want one gay son and one breathtakingly gorgeous nightmare of a daughter. I love that. Oh, he's the best. I literally loved it. I hearted that one. You gave it a little heart?

I gave it a little heart. I love it. I know, you know. Miles, where can people find you? Find me and follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. A tweet I like is from Mark Normand at Mark Norm

I found an ant in my CBD drops I was about to kill it but now we're both listening to NPR CBD makes very chill man very chill yeah tweet I've been enjoying is from Jamie

Loftus at Jamie Loftus, at Jamie Loftus Help. What? Tweeted out some pictures from inside a Racine, Wisconsin Chuck E. Cheese. Oh, shit, yeah. These are some posters of Chuck E. Cheese parody TV shows from the 90s that they just haven't refreshed them. They're so good.

I was so, I've been to so many Chuck E. Cheese's and this was news. This is like their original work of the racing Wisconsin Chuck E. Cheese. Racing really stepped up the game in an incredible way. Yeah. So one of the posters, probably the highlight in my opinion, is a Seinfeld parody where Chuck E. Cheese himself is up on stage doing stand-up and it says Chuck Feld. But then it has words next to his head that say, hey, what's up with that?

So you're like, so this is a little taste of the comedic stylings of Chuck Feld. Chuck Feld. Is that supposed to be George in the front row? So you're like, so this is a little taste of the comedic stylings of Chuck Felt. Chuck Felt. Is that supposed to be George in the front row? Yeah, George, Elaine, and Kramer? Some real attention to detail given on it. Yeah. They got her hair clip.

Yeah, they got her hair clip, and they gave Kramer weird bouffant. And he's also just holding up the white power symbol with his fingers up front. Yeah, so that's how you know it's him so yeah you get a little taste of Chuck Felt there's also like an X-Files one there's an ER one that's like ERRR what the fuck is that supposed to mean

I don't know what the joke is I like that Chuck E. Cheese is supposed to be George Clooney and you can tell because his scrubs say GC which I think is supposed to be George Clooney, and you can tell because his scrubs say GC, which I think is supposed to mean George Chuck E. Or George Cheese. There you go. It says Dr. Cheese to ER stat.

Yeah, I guess it's George Cheese. Yes, Dr. Cheese. There you go. Because as we all know, on ER, George Clooney's name was George Clooney. So yeah have once again nailed it um but uh you replied to the chuck feld tweet and said after no consideration i've decided to make this into a cartoon so chucky cheese will finally notice me and hire me to write their videos and chucky cheese tweeted can't wait to see it because they were not paying much attention, I guess.

Building off the backs of independent artists, Chuck E. Cheese, I see. Hey, can't wait to see it. It's like a thing, like a celebrity would say just passing through. Sky Tic Tac is already for sale on Forever 21. Sky Tic Tac? We've been stolen. They got to us so fast. It's out of hand.

You know who it was. Whoever's operating that fucking Sky Tic Tac? We've been stolen. They got to us so fast. It's not happening. You know who it was. Whoever's operating that fucking Sky Tic Tac. Way ahead of it. What if the Sky Tic Tacs are marketing to us? Right. Oh, no.

Oh, shit. I'm sorry, Sky Tic Tac. I got a hankering for Tic Tacs. Anyways, Jamie tweeted in response to that pay me you freeloading rat. And I am a big fan of that sentiment.

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where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on. Myles, what's that going to be? I've just been playing it all day. This is a song by Big Black Delta. Yeah. And it's called Huggin' and Kissin'.

If you've seen the first season of The Sinner, this will rattle your bones. If not, you'll just think this is a heavy electro synth track from 2010. Which it is. But man, the synths are heavy, the vocals are haunting, and

the artist is actually just like a one-man wrecking crew. Although he plays with a band, but it's all done by him. So this is Huggin' and Kissin' by BBD. Yeah. BBD also has a good song, Side of the Road. And Poison. Different. Oh, sorry.

It's spelled it. It's spelled it. But Side of the Road is a big black belt song. All right. We're going to ride out on that we will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast and we'll talk to you then bye All the time My American

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