The Daily Zeitgeist - Swalwell Gets It, Just Buy The DVDs 7.10.19

Episode Date: July 10, 2019

In episode 429, Jack and Miles are joined by Coming Out podcast co-host Lauren Flans to discuss Eric Stalwell dropping out of the 2020 presidential race, Elizabeth Warren out-raises Bernie Sanders, Trump's comments about Jeffrey Epstein and Alex Acosta, another white terrorist committing a murderous hate crime, the new Stream Warz, the Look Who's Talking reboot, Stranger Things and all that smoking they're doing, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Eric Swalwell Becomes First Dem To Drop Out Of 2020 Race2. Elizabeth Warren Triples Her First-Quarter Haul, Outraises Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris3. Trump Now Claims ‘I Was Not a Fan’ of Jeffrey Epstein, and ‘Feels Bad’ for Sec. Acosta4. Deadly Peoria stabbing suspect, just released from prison, says he was threatened by teen’s rap music5. ‘Friends’ to Leave Netflix for WarnerMedia’s HBO Max Streaming Service in 20206. ‘Look Who’s Talking’ Reboot In the Works For Some Reason7. Netflix Adopts Smoking Policy Following Damning Report, ‘Stranger Things’ a Top Offender8. WHILE YOU WERE STREAMING: SMOKING ON DEMAND9. Netflix Vows to Curb Onscreen Smoking Amid 'Stranger Things' Criticism10. Netflix Beefs Up Its Content and Ratings Warnings11. WATCH: PFM - Impressioni di Settembre Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 90, Episode 3 of Dear 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, July 11th, 2019? No, July 10th, 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.

I bring O'Brien Jack. The special guests don't know how to act. I got the hot takes that some others lack. Just so you know, I used to work at Cracked. Take him to the bridge. That is a second attempt at the sexy back, aka. I'm still playing the instrumental. It is from somebody whose name I forgot to copy over, so we are going to shout him out at the end of the episode. I am thrilled to be joined, as always,

by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Okay, imagine the instrumental from Big Pun's deep cover playing. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And then you go, Miles in the middle of little Italy, little did he know that he riddled the podcast with anecdotes of six-book paninis. That's a bit of creative license on that masterful rhyme, which is actually dead in the middle of little Italy, Little did we know that we riddled some middle man who didn't do Italy. Yeah, because I'm still on this Italy wave. Yeah.

And I can't be shaken. Did you make that up yourself? Sorry? Did you come up with that, AK? No. Shout out to at year zero, YR0, David, for that one. All right. A true hip hop fan.

Who probably caught that in my comeback, AK. I took snippets of, I was literally in the middle of Italy. If you remember that fire verse. From your flow. When I spit bars. My AK was courtesy of Paul Garaventa. Sounds like a good

paisan. Oh, yeah. Regazzo. Yes. Regazzi. I believe all of this is offensive. Mi amici. My description of an Italian. Yeah, who says Italian? I think it's... What are you, like an old Irish cop?

Yeah, I think that's what it is. I come from a long line of old Irish cops. From New York, yeah. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the very funny host of the podcast coming out with Lauren and Nicole, Lauren Flans. Hi. Hi.

Hey. How's it going? It's good. This was, the top of your show was so virtuosic already. Yes, so much. Yeah. What are your AKs? I don't know how to act.

What's your AKs? You don't know how to act? That's a great question. No, whoever sent that in was right. I was taken aback. I don't think I have any. Any nicknames? No.

It was always Flans. It was always just my last name. That's a pretty good. It's a catchy last name, so it was unavoidable. Yeah. See, I was never called by my last. Were you ever called O'Brien? By coaches and teachers and my dad.

Even my own coaches. When everyone else had a last name,, I was still Miles for whatever reason. Well, it's a cool name. Yeah. No, I wish I was Flans. You are a Miles. You embody Miles. You can have it.

You can have Flans. The multitudes. Yes. Yeah. The Miles. The Miles. The Miles that we've all walked. Names that end with S I think are funner to say.

You know what I mean? Like Flans feels like it's's almost like a present tense verb. Yeah. No? I don't know. I'll see myself out. I do think it has something to do with how much you embody your name. I was always Jack, and I think I was, for some reason,

people felt like I embodied that name. And also, it wasn't a very common name in my generation, whereas now it's like everybody's named Jack. Is it back now? Yeah, it's back. Wait, so did you, oh, it skipped a generation basically? Yeah, well, the greatest generation, everyone was named Jack. Right.

And then I was like one of very few Jacks that I met growing up who were my age, and now everybody's named Jack or Jackson. Yeah. Or Jackie. Or Liam. Yeah. Those are the, those are the male names that are acceptable right now.

Actually, when I was in Italy, I did meet a wonderful couple from Australia. Oh yeah? Yeah. And the Blark's name was Jackar. Jacko? Yeah.

That's awesome. And his hay fever got a bit out of control there in Tuscany. He didn't bring his pills. Yeah. And I luckily, like, that's allergies, bring his pills. Yeah. And I luckily, like. That's allergies, right? Yeah. I was like, she was like, hay fever.

I'm like, I think that's fucking allergies. And then I was like, give him a Zyrtec. Oh. And then I was like, man, we go to Zyrtec. He was like, oh, yeah, man, that would be killer. Wait, you were talking to them in an Australian accent? Yeah. That's offensive.

Well, I gave him a Zyrtec and he was cool with it. Okay. But at first he was was cool with it. Okay. At first he was not fucking, he was like, mate. No, I was not talking to him in an Australian accent. Was his name really Jacko? His name was Jack, but he was like, yeah, or Jackar. Right. And then his wife, who was a Pilates instructor,

very nice woman. We started talking about Pilates for a long time. Okay. She kept calling him Jacko and everyone was like, oh, Jacko. Yeah. Yeah, Jackar. You know what I love that British people do is how every nickname they just it just has a Z

like Azza yeah so like Jeremy is Jez and Gary is Gaz or Gazza yeah yeah got Jazza over here yeah it's just like a very easy like they don't have to think about nicknames that's probably what it is I'm hoping for certain I missed a joke yesterday

when I was just thinking what I do when I listen back to the episodes of jokes I could have done and you said do you ever scream out loud over a song

for your kids and you were talking about how they're like explicit parts and I should have said Jack found out Wu-Tang is not actually for the children

so thank you that's called throwback regrets those joke regrets. That's pretty good, man. You should just listen to every episode. Can we cut that in?

Perfect. Jack found out Wu-Tang is good for the children. I'm like, y'all, listen back to episodes. You may find one or two lines in the whole episode that's re-entered. They are making mostly clean versions of albums now, which is nice. We listened to Beyonce's Homecoming live and they just bleeped the curse words out.

Oh, really? Yeah. You should play your kid. Does Immortal Technique have any clean versions? I don't know. Okay. I think it has to be like

kind of a big album for them to take. Oh, if you had a backpack on and smoked weed, you had Immortal Technique. All right, Lorne, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we are going to take our listeners through a couple of things we're talking about. The stream wars continue this time.

Friends is being taken from the young people. We are going to say a fond farewell to Eric Swalwell. We're going to talk about dollar raising figures raising kids uh we're gonna talk about the latest entrance into the democratic primary they're still coming out of the woodwork uh we're gonna talk about alex acosta a good labor secretary who has that shady basic pardoning of epstein in his past. We're going to talk about how the mainstream media needs to call white terrorism what it is. We're going to talk about a... Yeah, edition number 3482.

We're going to talk about the least necessary reboot possible. I don't know. Maybe. Or the most. I don't know. I'm on the fence. We'll talk about it. Very necessary.

We're going to talk about Nicki Minaj pulling out of the Jetta World Fest in Saudi Arabia and how Stranger Things is in trouble for all that smoking. Oh, God. But first, Lauren Flans. Which one would you rather I call you? Let's go with Lauren. I'm trying this adult thing. This adult thing?

A Flans. Let's go with lauren okay i'm trying this adult thing this adult thing it plans uh what is something from your search history lauren that is revealing about who you are um this is i i went through a couple and i think this most encapsulates me as a human being uh does baby bell cheese go bad um i am constantly googling the answer is no no the answer is no I was so excited oh really what's the shelf life it's like

it's basically like that wax stuff right it can kind of keep forever and I found like one person who's like listen I would have to be in a hot car in direct sunlight

for five days before I could make you even a little queasy and I was like that's fucking great yeah how do you know that also do you eat a lot of

baby bell cheese no I I have like you're like nope never had it no I just I just like to do no I have a for the first time I have like a job where there's like a fridge that's stocked it only took me like decades um and baby bell cheese is in there and so like I'll constantly kind of take it and then I'll end up not going straight home and so I had these baby bell cheese is in there. And so like I'll constantly kind of take it and then I'll end up not going straight home. And so I had these baby bell cheeses and I was like, these have been, and I am a very nervous food person. And just like in general,

I'm not gonna pretend I'm not anxious. Yeah, I Google, I've also Googled like, what side is your appendix on? Like a bunch of times. Like that's a common situation, right? You do that trick where you put your thumb on your belly button and then like your other finger on your hip.

That's what my mom told me. That could be some old wives tale. It was about something about your thumb in your belly button and then your middle finger toward your hip bone or something and in between betwixt those. Is it your right hand? I don't know.

That's where it falls apart because I heard it. It's like a thing you hear when you're like five years old. Because my mom had her appendix removed. And I was like, as a kid, I was like, what happened? Did you get stabbed? Right. She's like, no, my appendix removed. I'm like, what is that?

And again, I think I'm taking old memories and not remembering them correctly. But, you know, that's what they come to the show for. Now your mom got in a knife fight. I believe that too. And she would play it off like, no, I had my appendix removed. Right, five times. Yeah, five times. In rapid succession.

They're like, your appendix is all up in your back, dude? Like four times? Yeah, your mom's a badass. But yeah, eat those baby bell cheeses you got lying around. Yeah, I'm getting to a point in my life where I'm starting to trust food less that doesn't go bad because it's clearly been sprayed with some manner of chemical that is not natural. We had this. Did we talk about the Dhanash in the office that we had? Oh, what we call that legendary Danish.

The Dhanash. Not Dhanash D'Souza. Yeah. We called it Dhanash too. danish in the in the office that we had oh what we call the that legendary danish not danish yeah uh we called it danish too uh danish there was a yes there was a danish that was brought in by another production into the office and this cheese danish i'm not joking stayed fresh like without being like it was in like a flappy box like not sealed off with the air just cardboard lid on top that shit stayed moist for no joke 17 days oh yeah and we were and we kept eating pieces that we were like it's so good it's still going i would do that yeah you know what but then we're like this has to be so preservative laden right yeah exactly because then we had another danesh danish that came through that did, I think, was made in like more or less chemically circumstances. And it became stale very quickly.

Yes. Yeah, that's the better food product. You want stuff to have a shelf life. Sure. Yeah. I think, yeah. And then it's all you have to know is like, okay, it has a shelf life because it's being put through all kinds of processes. Right.

Yeah. it's being put through all kinds of processes right now yeah that's why uh organic fruits and vegetables go bad like with within hours or like if you buy bread at trader joe's right that's that thing yeah just go steal a meat moldy and lime you better eat that on the way home all right it's like yeah okay so there's 20 slices i There's got to be a happy medium. I need 10. Okay, I'll eat 10 sandwiches tonight. Right, exactly. Let's keep it going. What is something you think is overrated? Okay, I'm going to get in trouble for this because it's very, A, it's very in vogue right now. And two, in the queer community, in the queer female community, you have to believe in this.

I think astrology is extremely, extremely overrated. Get out. No, just kidding. What are you, Leo? I'm not. You thought you knew. No, I'm just, that's sort of the response that people get. Right. Okay, well, what are you? What's your sign?

Who are you? Why are you? What's your rising sign? Yeah, I know. Is it because are you, is your thing because there's a sort of disproportionate amount of emphasis put on star signs and how that could affect who you should be with? It's like, Oh, you can't be with this sign because that's toxic to you.

Yeah. That's a big part of it. And also for me, I have a real thing. Cause like, I should just be like, no, believe what you believe.

Like, that's cool. But I have such a thing about people. I'm like, no work on yourselves, work on your, no, believe what you believe. That's cool. But I have such a thing about people. I'm like, no, work on yourselves. Work on your flaws and your weaknesses. Don't just be like, I'm such an Aries. I feel like people do, and that's fucked up.

It's like I'm an Aries, and I'm stubborn, and I'd see someone who can deal with that. It's rather than like, I am deeply selfish and narcissistic. It's stubborn. And I will refuse to focus on anyone but myself. If someone asks me to do anything

counter to this pattern I've been living, then I will meet you with astrological force. Yeah. Astronomical. I went on like a, Astrological.

Like a first, like a first date. Like it was a setup once with this girl and I'm going to change the star sign because like, I don't want like a million to protect those involved.

And also I don't want a million of the, of people like tweeting and being like, actually, so I'm going to make up a star sign. But like, she came like, like 10 minutes late, like whatever that it's LA that happens all the time.

Leo. She's like, I'll use Leo. But she comes in and she's like, Oh my God, I'm sorry. I'm like such a Leo. And I was like,

no, you're late. Cause like, you're not invested. That's fine. Like, you don't'm sorry. I'm such a Leo. I was like, no, you're late because you're not invested in this. Because you're going to have your shit together. That's fine. You don't know me. You don't owe me shit.

But she's going to go to every day at 10 minutes late and be like, Leo. And it's like, come on. Admit that you don't care. I love that. It's a real thing about astrology. Yeah. I think definitely in the realm, I there it's fun to look at but the second you again i think the second you start being like because we've had we've had guests who

are like if you're this sign you can't date this sign that's fucked up that's a little too rigid for me i don't i don't like absolutes where everyone is just fits into these categories uh but it's fun to look at because there are a lot of things that i do like realize and like for whatever reason this happens just probably my confirmation bias. But yeah, I think when you're going that far to say like, I can't date these people or using it as a tool to not be self-aware or introspective in any way is the height of the fucking dumb shit. What was the really impressive sign thing that happened where somebody was like, oh, you must be. Maybe this was the week you were out. But somebody called somebody's sign off the jump and it was wild.

Really? Anyways, we refer back to our old podcast a lot. Oh, no, please. A good joke for that actually would have been. What is something you think is underrated? I'm going to go real specific on this one. The movie Battle of the Sexes. Okay. Which is the one where Emma Stone plays Billie Jean King and Stoner Al plays the guy she.

Yeah. Bobby. Bobby. Riggs? Is that right? Yeah. That's right. Yeah.

It's a really good movie. Yeah. I really liked it. I own it on DVD. Nice. I saw it on a plane and I was like, I think I like this movie. Yeah. And then I found it on a plane, and I was like, I think I like this movie. Yeah. And then I found out that it had been edited.

They cut the quote-unquote sex scene, which isn't even a sex scene. What was the sex scene? Because I saw it on a plane as well. It's because it's two women, and they're kissing, and whatever airline I was on is like, no. Meanwhile, I was watching Escape at Dannemora on the plane, and they had just like the wild fucking prison sex scenes in there. Yeah, sometimes they don't edit stuff. Yeah.

And that's the best. And I'm fine with it. The weird part is when the passenger next to you looks at your shit and starts looking at you like, I'm like, looking at me like I'm getting off to watching some prison sex scene. And I'm like, this is just the scene, okay? Right. Why don't you fucking mind your, why don't you keep watching the map?

I love that. Was the sex scene from Escape from Dan Mora, was it a straight sex scene or? It was a scrape. Scrape sex scene. It was a scrape sex scene. Which is probably why they're like, well, that's fine. Right.

I think it also, yeah, I think it maybe also depends on the airline. I don't know. I went down a rabbit hole after I found out about that. You were flying on a Christian airline. I was flying Christ Air. And the pilot is Rooney Glyphburg, Tony Hawk Rose Gator. And God is the co-pilot.

Yay! Ooh! Where God is the actual co-pilot. But there is that movie about the MPAA, this film is not yet rated, where they talk about how the one thing that the MPAA cannot abide is seeing female pleasure on screen. Yeah, that's a thing, right?

And so a woman-on-woman sex scene makes them flip out. But a rape scene or a man having really aggressive sex with a woman, they're like, yeah, that's the way sex is done. Yeah, because sex is all angry and shit and nerve-wracking. I don't like to see it. If you do it like, yeah, that's the way sex is done. Yeah, because sex is all angry and shit and nerve wracking. I don't like to see. If you do it right, yeah. Because I've never seen a woman have orgasm in real life with me. So I won't allow that to be in films because I suddenly rose to this position. Right.

Cool. Guys, check out that movie. Just not on a plane. I am curious, though, like what airlines, what their like sort of calculus is. Virgin American definitely wouldn't edit out the scene. No, they're calculus is. Virgin American definitely wouldn't edit out the scene. Are they wild like that? They're about artistic.

The bathroom thing? I was just saying, they try and make it seem like a club when you walk on. The lighting is all weird and it's playing very soft techno music. They're no more though, right? Virgin America, they got merged or bought up by Alaskan.

It was a big story where they made the indentation in the sink so it was like, you guys can have sex in our bathrooms easier. No, they did not. I swear to God. Gross. If you Google Virgin Airline, I don't know, sex bathroom or something, that was a selling point.

They're like, hey, we made our bathrooms more comfortable. Sounds like they're just overcompensating for their name. They're like, no, we're not virgins. You're a virgin. We have sex in our bathroom all the time. It has the vibe of a virgin's garage bedroom.

Where it's like purple light, like fucking felt posters where a UFO is like sucking up a pyramid. Right. With Bob Marley on it for whatever fucking. I don't know why Bob Marley has anything to do with the fucking pyramids on a felt black light poster. But that was just me in my garage bedroom. Lauren, what is a myth?

What's something people think is true and you know to be false? This came up the other day. The thing where people think if you're jewish and you get a tattoo you can't be buried in a jewish cemetery not true motherfucker it's not true get all the tattoos you want is that shit is that like a strict is where did that come from it came from uh and this i had to look up like this i didn't actually know but it's like certain cemeteries that are like they can make their own rules oh and. Oh, and if they're very orthodox. Yeah, so some of them would be like, no, that's like you changed your body and the body's image of God or whatever.

But it's not like a Jewish law, which everybody thinks it is. We have like, oh, can't get buried in a Jewish cemetery. It's like what people always say. That's the only thing stopping all of us Jews from getting sleeves. And now like, yeah. Yeah, what are you going to get? I'm not. I would never. I'm the person who Googles if food is expired. You're talking. I thought, like, go get them. Yeah, what are you going to get? I'm not. I would never.

I'm the person who Googles if food is expired. Oh, wow, all that shit you're talking. I thought you were about that tat light. I mean, like, the cool Jews. Okay, if you were going to get, obviously you wouldn't. But if you did, put yourself in that mind space. It's so nerdy. The one thing I was maybe getting, this is the lamest thing ever.

No, I love it already. Jesus Christ is my one and only Lord. Because that might hurt your ability. Jews for Jesus. I don't know, man. I feel like we're an open religion. That's what my one and only Lord. Because that might hurt your ability. I don't know, man. I feel like we're an open religion. That's what I was going to say. Christ was a Jew, too. He was an organizer, really.

I was going to get, this is again the cheesiest thing ever. I was going to get the word gray tattooed because I'm a very black and white person. And I try really hard to move more towards the middle. Thank you so much.

She's the last fan. Miles Gray. Okay, that's the real reason. Thank you so much. She didn't want to come in too hot. Wait, Lauren? I thought we went to court about this. Hold on, Jack.

I have a restraining order against you. No, no, no, it's Flans. You're thinking of someone different. Oh, good. All right. Close, close. But that person would always leave flan on my doorstep. Multiple flans.

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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 it's time to say a fond farewell to the only guy who made me angry during the debates like at a visceral not really clear why i hate him so much level uh eric's wal-wal uh yeah i don't know what it was about his face and the way he would just kept like trying to you know come in big with like his like talking points and his pass the torch.

It's not like I'm protective of Joe Biden, but I was just like, shut the fuck up, Eric Swalwell. He's got like a weird, like he'd be Matt Damon's cousin kind of look. He looks just like someone who tweeted Jerry O'Connell. Oh,

yeah. Yeah, there you go. It's uncanny. Except his eyes are a little more wider set than Jerry's. I mean, he's the poor man's Jerry O'Connell for being. Right. Oh, for sure. But yeah, you know, He had pictures. He was uncanny. Except his eyes are a little more wider set than Jerry's. I mean, he's the poor man's. Yeah. I don't know.

For a bit. Oh, for sure. But yeah, you know, bye, Felicia. Thank you so much for participating in this game with 900 players already. And credit to him. I think he's the first person to actually be like, let me look around real quick. Right. Okay, this ain't it.

I'm done. Right. He was never even getting like a percentage point he was pulling at zero percent and after the debates uh i think he was probably pulling at this is actively hurting your ability to go outside without massive facial reconstructive surgery they're like what's the point where am i pulling at uh okay so they're mad what a judge is that five. Swalwell. The fuck is this guy doing here?

I don't know. Like I heard other people have the same reaction to me that they were just like, he's just taking up, taking up space up there, taking up space and like being real loud about it. Yeah. Well, I think, you know,

he definitely caught a wave by being like one of the other, like there was Adam Schiff and then there was Eric Swalwell, like in terms of that House Intel committee. So like he would always be the one being like the stuff I'm seeing, you know, when Russia Mueller shit was at fever pitch, he was always being asked for interviews and stuff like that. And I think maybe that gassed him up a little too bad. He's like, hey, I'm like the resistance guy. I didn't even know that was where he came from. I didn't either.

Never heard of that guy. That's really, yeah. Big Schiff fan. Don't know who the other guy came from. I didn't either, really. Never heard of that guy. That's really, yeah, where he- Big Schiff fan. Don't know who the other guy is. No, doesn't need to. I mean, look, he died as he lived, in total obscurity and of little impact. Oh, shit, he's also dead? This is a huge story.

You guys bury the lead. Yeah. Whoops. How we usually start our eulogies out is talking about how much we hated the face of the person who passed away. The deceased. Let's talk about who is outracing who in the Democratic primary. Yeah.

Because Elizabeth Warren came with it. Yeah. She tripled her last haul, I think. It was like a little over $6 million. She raised $19.1 million from over 384,000 people, making $683,000 small dollar donations. Has anybody talked about what the turning point was for her? Because it seems like...

No, it was before the debates. What do you mean? She suddenly started skyrocketing in polls, and she had been doing the same thing all along. She was just like, here are my policies, here are my policies. I think it was the college debt forgiveness like forgiveness when she came with that policy. But it was like the 30th great policy that I heard from her. I was like, oh, OK.

Yeah. I don't know. It's hard to know when everyone else starts like showing up on their radar because obviously we got our ear to the fucking street. Right. But yeah, I think maybe also to like she was very vocal about impeachment very early on, too. Yeah. I think she's done many things that were hitting different parts of the left spectrum.

But yeah, so that's more than Bernie. And that's a lot. Yeah, a lot of people were like, well, I don't know, man. It's hard to do it without taking that fucking corpo money. And look where she's at. So Buttigieg had the top quarter, right? Yeah, he was 24 million. 24.

And Biden was 21. And they're taking big corporate donations. Yeah, exactly. And so this is like, and I think this shows you the power of both Bernie and Elizabeth Warren in terms of like, they're really like they have people out here willing to support their campaigns. And I think there is something that does resonate with people when you have these candidates who are like, I do not want anyone with an interest in what my policies are going to be. I don't want to be beholden to anyone. And I'm not going to because that's the fucking problem right cut to now motherfucking uh tom steyer pulling up into the race oh yeah the fucking billionaire and again that's like the like this and elizabeth

elizabeth warren and bernie are both like the thing you know doing we don't need a fucking billionaire right because their mere existence is an affront to working people. Right. Did that guy just announce, like, today? Yeah, on Tuesday. Is it because it's like one nondescript white dude dropped out and there is like a fucking He's like, there's room for another nondescript white dude. It's a zero-sum game, though.

He's like, one has to go for me to enter. It's crazy. So I had read an article, like, last year about this. So he was the dude who was like impeach Trump. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And punch him. Impeach Trump. And he built this like massive group.

It's the biggest voter list in politics. It's like bigger than the NRA. Millions bigger than any group that's better known or has been around longer. millions bigger than any group that's better known or has been around longer uh and it's like eight million people who've signed on to be a part of his group and i don't know the atlantic made it sound very scary like they're like very formidable i guess well i mean he's been you know credit to him although he's a billionaire and i don't think he should be running there's no place running like of all the useless billionaires running, he's one of the few that's like,

yeah, I've been putting my money into the right things. I'm typically on the right side of a given topic or issue. He puts money into taxing billionaires or ballot proposals in California that were like, should we let companies dodge taxes? He's like, hell no, And put like $30 million of his own money to get that campaign. Is he basically just like bizarro world, like good Trump? Like he has no political experience

but he's like a good billionaire? I feel like he's compensating for the fact that he knows he's a fucking billionaire. He has to say he knows how bad that looks so he's like, but I'm the one who knows how to say the right stuff. But what's fucking crazy is like, if you really want to be a good billionaire then like pick the candidate you like and fucking back them like why do you have to be right and I think also too like the and the candidates worth

backing at this point wouldn't take his money at that level so I feel like why don't you start funding some of these fucking senate races yes yeah yeah Just fucking take a dump of money dump on all these challengers. That's what they said. They contrasted him and Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg was the top donator of money to like Democratic senators in the 2018 midterms. And this dude had him beat by like six million dollars. But it was because he was spending all his money on his own action committee to like build this committee up because yeah he he thinks he's you know he's the protagonist of this narrative yeah well he's got i mean he's got a lot of college campuses organized there's

he has a presence in swing states so i mean like he has a bit of a infrastructure game but again this isn't someone who is a millionaire hedge fund person right i don't care what the fuck you're saying it's like no no you act you fundamentally like you may understand what these things are but i don't trust for someone who made their money like that to really be like yeah man i i gotta i gotta bring myself down right because he's like well i'll give away half i'll give away half my money right it's like half even the half you're left with is still too much offensive to other people so unless he wants to be like look bro i'm giving it all away i'm living in this fuck i bought a condo an eagle rock right and i'm just doing this shit real solo you know man of the people just from from a political analyst perspective,

one of the dudes at FiveThirtyEight keeps saying he thinks there's... Perry Bacon Jr. is his name. He keeps saying he thinks... Come on. He thinks there's room for a man who's not a socialist candidate to break through. That's not like he's saying that he thinks that's his preference. He's just saying that when you poll voters, there's a lot of voters who are like, Hillary lost because she's a woman. We need a not a woman.

That doesn't matter. Right. I think that kind of logic being applied is so stupid. Yeah. I don't care if you're afraid of what is going to happen because we have a lot to be afraid of right now. Right. And then getting caught up in that. But again, most people are, you know,

you do hear a lot of people be like, well, I don't know if I fully want to get behind like Warren or whatever, Sanders, whoever, because I feel like Biden probably has the best chance of winning. And I don't want like people, I know people who aren't going to vote for these other candidates. So I'm worried. It's like, dude, that's what the fucking primary is for.

Right. It's what the debates are for. Yeah, the whole electability thing. That's one of the primary concerns for people is how electable they are. And it's like, you don't know. Just judge. Don't do a fucking meta-analysis of the race. Just judge who you think would be the best president, and we'll get the best candidate.

the race just judge who you think would be the best president and we'll get the best candidate yeah i i'm just saying that like that might be the sort of analysis that encourages this old yet another old white dude to enter the races he's like there's room for right a man who not socialist he's like okay biden has bad race stuff and just generally totally out of the touch right i'm a younger out of touch guy. Right. Who's totally self-funded. Right. He said he's going to spend $100 million.

Why would you want to be president? Why wouldn't you just want to- Because of your fucking ego. Oh, it just sounds like a nightmare. Yeah. I don't get this guy. That's the thing that people say that there's no such thing as a mentally healthy person who wants to be president. I do.

I do believe that. I feel like Elizabeth Warren is like the closest we would get to someone who's just like a genuinely good person. That like Herman Cain is actually the most sound person. I don't think so. All right. Let's talk about Alex Acosta. Yeah. He's.

The fallout continues. The fallout continues from the Jeffrey Epstein arraignment, I guess. Just sweetheart deal. Like non-charge. Right. But this latest round of charges is drawing attention to. Right. His original, what he got away with before.

Yeah. It was just interesting because after, i don't know half the people just read about it like as if this stuff hadn't been in like the fucking news for a while or just who jeffrey epstein is yeah uh out here um like now it was like oh i think you should resign you should resign so that's been like the the thing everyone's like okay well should he resign asking it for everyone's take every you know most uh sane people were like absolutely he needs to fucking resign yeah but if you are a republican then you're like oh child sex is v chill and i don't know and that should be his decision with god and trump and i don't want to

weigh in on that but it's like but then people like no no but what do you think of someone who would be so lenient like you know honestly these appointees they serve at the pleasure of the president right and i think that's a matter for them to decide and everyone has so such a fucking snake about it uh it's great uh but you know the president you know had the emir of qatar over to announce a big deal with boeing they're buying a lot of planes from boeing it's gonna be great um and in between inhaling his farts, the press got around to asking questions like, A, are you fucking serious about Epstein? What was that quote?

And do you think Acosta should resign? Trump was like, look, I was never really a fan of Jeffrey Epstein, despite that quote of him saying, like, he's a really fun guy. Yeah, and like a thousand folks. He likes young women. And then was saying, like when about a cost is decision

he's like look if you look at anybody 10 to 15 years ago they're not making decisions that you know you'd be like oh these are smart you know people make some people make bad decisions but that's 10 or 15 years ago so i don't know you know and i'll be looking at this very carefully his favorite fucking phrase whenever he says we're gonna be this very carefully. His favorite fucking phrase, whenever he says, we're going to be looking very carefully at this, it means I'm tossing it into the fucking dustbin and I don't give a fuck. But his whole argument is sort of like, I feel bad for Alex Acosta. I don't know Jeffrey Epstein. And also, look at unemployment numbers.

He's killing it as labor secretary. No empathy in the direction of these victims whatsoever because he's the president and sexual assault is not real to him won't someone think of the powerful attorney who let the children be abused alex acosta either looks like ted cruz who had been fucking around with the ring of power for too long yeah or a mix of ted cruz with the actor who played gerbils in inglorious bastards oh wow oh yeah i see that a little bit i can pull this up because i was really trying to Or a mix of Ted Cruz with the actor who played Goebbels in Inglourious Bastards. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah.

I see that a little bit. I can pull this up because I was really trying to figure out. That's the guy who played Goebbels in Inglourious Bastards. Yeah. That's Alex Acosta mixed with Ted Cruz. Good luck in that, Sarah. But I like Ted Cruz with The Ring of Power. From the other side of the aisle, did you see Christine Pelosi's tweet?

No. Jesus. No, no, no. What was it see Christine Pelosi's tweet? No. Jesus. No, no, no. What was it? Christine Pelosi tweeted, This Epstein case is horrific and the young women deserve justice. It is quite likely that some of our faves are implicated, but we must follow the facts and let the chips fall where they may, whether on Republicans or Democrats.

Hashtag we said enough. Hashtag me too. Some of our faves too some of our faves who's our faves that's a great question yeah faves okay I mean Bill Clinton

I know it's so weird our faves it's a Spotify playlist exactly he's not your BFF well my fave right now is Lil Nas X. Right. So is he involved? I don't think so.

I guess that means Bill Clinton. Right. I think that's probably what she's pointing to, but in the weirdest, like most cheerful way possible. Oh my God,

this sucks so bad, but some of our faves might be involved. It's like a preschool teacher trying to explain to the students how like sometimes like when people

do bad things, it doesn't matter if they're in our family, if we love them or not. Right. Bad people do bad things, and we have to know that for what it is. Yeah. But just remember, guys, one of your faves. Some fucking Game of Thrones. Yeah.

Right? Like, guys, big mood, but some of our faves. Some of our faves may go bye-bye. Yeah. Eat, eat, eat eat eat uh shit uh let's are you okay yeah let's just sometimes i have to do that just to reset in the middle of this news cycle let's talk about the mainstream media because another white terrorist carried out a murder and it was just called a stabbing yeah over the weekend as many people saw um this 17 year old named elijah el-ameen was basically stabbed and had his throat slit yep by a white man who quote said he felt unsafe because he had been attacked by people

who listened to rap music in the past and he also said by people who listened to rap music in the past. And he also said that people who listen to rap music are a threat to him and the community. The suspect said he felt threatened by the music, not the teen himself. So he needed to be, quote, proactive rather than reactive, end quote. Now, proactive seems to be the phrase a lot of journalists are overlooking when describing this killing as anything other than a racially motivated hate crime or far right wing terrorism with their agenda of sort of like purifying the country or taking it back. no matter how you want to look at this, this person was proactively engaging in his own form of ethnic cleansing. Right. Of his own form of ridding this country of, quote, people who listen to rap music.

Right. I'm curious, if he saw a white kid listening to rap music, would he have slit this person's throat? Absolutely not. You know what I mean? No. And a lot of people, like so many of the takes, like every time this happens, everyone's like,

imagine the roles are reversed. Right. Is it a black person? Yeah. Slitting the takes, like every time this happens, everyone's like, imagine the roles are reversed. Right. Is it a black person slitting the throat of a white teenager? Oh, my God. Whatever. This would be the front page of Fox News for the next three weeks. Yeah. And the fact is literally the second time this exact scenario has happened.

Right. Right. It's like. People are. Yeah. Fucking insane. Now it's becoming a trope. Right.

Right. And also becoming like a thing where it's easy to be like was it a mental health thing right it always becomes a mental health thing when it's a white person killing people racially motivated yeah uh it becomes well he was uh hearing voices and it's like well you know yeah well he was released from prison on tuesday apparently and the murder happened on saturday and some people are like well we don't know if uh if he needed mental health services but other places were very quick to point out like he was never described as being mentally ill right or anything like according to his paperwork in prison but again i don't really trust a prison to be a the great assessor of people's mental health

but again this is a situation where the media does not want to confront the ugliness in this country where a child was killed simply for liking a genre of music or was killed because of his presence as a person of color. Not because he was an actual threat of any kind to the people around him in any physical way. It's this idea that the mere presence of a black body in front of white people is a threat to or is a perceived threat to them yep so this is the kind of shit that uh we see over and over again and another reason why when i'm like very uh suspicious of people like kamala harris like backing bills that are increasing the responsibility of police to not use violence or to use body cameras or to, she supported three strikes laws. There are things like that. When you look at that as a person of color, you're like, this is a person

who's not seeing what is happening all the time. Right. And it's easy to just take the stance of the status quo and be like, oh, well, the three strikes law are there to prevent. It's like, no, it disproportionately affects people of color and puts them in prison for life for all kinds of shit. Or that she's like, oh, you know, I'm down with weed. My family's from Jamaica. Cut to her locking up so many people of color on marijuana charges.

I don't, I feel like the stories just get more and more tragic. Like this shit is just, he would have been 18 in like two weeks. Yeah, he's a child the person who murdered him was a man like that 27 years old definitely some shit that would not fly uh where the roles reversed uh and i also think the media the mainstream media needs to acknowledge their role in shit like this i mean especially the fox news of the world well i mean they'll never fucking acknowledge but i mean, the whole...

You know, it's not just Fox News. It's also local news. It's all news that is disproportionately more likely to report a crime if it's committed by a person of color than if it's committed by a white person. Like, they are misrepresenting what actually happens in the world to make white people scared of people of color like they because they know it you know that's what people will tune in for and you know

that this is the consequence of that and you know the mainstream media needs to be made to face up to that shit and if you really like if you want to be on some ally shit ask yourself if you see a person of color if you feel at all threatened by them. Right. And how you deal with that stress. Are you doing that because you have been fed a steady diet from the media where black people are predators? And you don't know. I don't know.

Right. They got their systems loud. Right. They're smoking weed in the parking lot. I don't know what that means. Like, really even check your own, how you see people or even how other people do. There are times I have to check people who are like, oh, I don't know. Like, like, uh, do that, that area seems shady or something like, oh, because why? Right.

Like really fucking, I, and because this is the kind of mentality that starts off very small and then feeds into the sort of like reactions that police have when they have interactions with black people, because they're sort of, they go into this autopilot of like, well, I've been fed a diet where this, your presence equals a threat to my existence yeah so i will act accordingly and his whole i mean the whole premise is bullshit because this was this also was this a gas station yeah yeah so if that were true if it was like i'm afraid then you fucking get back on the highway like what this man wanted to do. And that's like the Trump thing. And he wanted to be a vigilante because it's like.

I want to be proactive rather than react. Yeah. Was his words. And that, but that the whole, then your whole argument falls apart. It's like, oh,

you were afraid. So you want, it's like. So you had to, no, it's like, let's be real. You were looking to kill a person of color.

You found your target who was probably smaller than you, whatever you thought. Okay. This is easy. And you carried out a murder that you've been planning on doing yeah it's it's it's really clear and you're blaming it on fear because it's like as a woman and like as a tiny woman like i get scared a lot of the time and i get the fuck out of there like there's so there's no part of this dude that actually felt threatened or scared like he it's like you said he went out being like no i'm gonna

do a murder yeah and that's a hundred percent and i think to to even create the wiggle room and how you report it i think is so fucked up and disingenuous and yeah i mean if and if he really was scared why don't you just do what most white people do and just call the cops right for no reason yeah uh this black person's listening to rap music i'm sure they're like yeah we get it we get this call a lot. Right. All right. We're going to take a quick break.

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And we are traveling further down the path towards a world where streaming services are just different channels that we have to pay for. And we've been suckered into paying a la carte for each one of the channels that we watch. I remember being like, man, cable's too much, paying $65 a month. Right. And you're like, do you have three things? You're almost there. Right.

Yeah, basically. So Warner has announced that in 2020, Friends will no longer be available on netflix uh since it will be moving to its new home on hbo max uh which yeah it sounds like a mash-up of hbo and cinemax uh i don't know if that was their plan in naming it that uh probably not rumor could be that they will have cinemax content on there well, because they own both of them. Yeah, but they're very clear. Like in most of the press releases does not mention Cinemax in any way.

Well, that's because they don't have any proprietary content. I haven't heard about Cinemax. I have to be honest. I didn't know it was still. Yeah. It still exists. I guess all they have are like those like sort of B adult movies. Yeah, that's all anyone ever thinks of.

The only like real tent they have exclusive to the Cinemax. They had a series. Oh, they did The Nick, right? Okay. Wasn't that them? Okay, I've heard of that. Steven Soderbergh. And then they also had a show that was basically like an 80s action movie of a TV show.

Strike Back? No, I think it was called like Renegade or something. Hunted? Relics? Not here that. Cinemax. I'm impressed they're still going. It's funny when you go through like you Google Cinemax series like Warrior, Jet, Banshee,

Strike Back. Banshee, that's the one. Oh, I enjoyed their billboards. Yeah, yeah, they had good billboards. Never saw it. Relics, Quarry, then co-ed confidential zane sex chronicles the best sex ever gangs of london lingerie life on top black tie nights erotic confessions passion cove wait is gangs of london uh an adult movie yeah, a lot of group scenes. So this is actually,

now that I've talked shit about the direction that everything's traveling, this is one of the first streaming services that I was like, yeah, I would pay for that. Really? Yeah. HBO Max? Yeah.

Because I said Gangs of London? Yeah. And college co-eds? Yep. Okay, good. Oh, you're saying Cinemax, not HBO Max. No, no, no. HBO Max I would because it has Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

It has Friends. It has... Pretty Little Liars. All HBO content. So you just don't have to have HBO. Well, no, they don't know for sure. It will, like, it says what level of HBO. They say HBO content, but when people ask like, so does that mean you'll get rid of HBO Go?

And they're like, well... It's like, but then why have both if I get that? That's where it's going to get so fucking weird because there's already HBO Go. And isn't there HBO Now? Like, aren't there already two fucking HBO Now is just you can stream whatever's happening on HBO. Right. Without having it as part of a cable. I thought HBO Go, you have your cable package, right?

And then you can access HBO Go. HBO Now, you can just pay for a la carte with nothing in it. Right. This is a lot. But also on-demand. Right, right. But it's the same shit. But HBO Max is going to have a slate of originals

and programming from Warner Brothers, New Line, DC Entertainment, CNN, TNT, TBS, TruTV, the C.W. Turner classic movies movies which is where they got me uh cartoon network i love westerns guys uh cartoon network adult swim crunchy roll rooster teeth and looney tunes you just watched patten on a loop yeah yeah exactly that's uh so i don't know it does seem like i get the appeal sure it's funny because when I look at all those, I'm like no show I watch resides on any of those. Like for me, I feel like I could live off of HBO Go,

Netflix, and like some form of thing that accesses regular TV channels. Yeah. Like to get into this whole thing where they're starting to be like carve up the IP to be like, well, we own this one. Right. So if you want the office, you got to come do this one. And if you like if you want the office you gotta come do this one and if you like friends you gotta go

do this one how about you buy the fucking dvds yeah that okay thank you for saying that because i didn't want to be like old-fashioned but like that shit with like friends and like right you create buy it and then press play and then this is you did it but this is what jack and i were talking about earlier we're like i wonder if the thought of merely physically opening up a DVD case, firing up a DVD player, inserting it is like already nine. No, it's too laborious. Oh, Jesus. That's what it is to me.

For you? And also that I just want it on my phone. I want to be able to access it whenever. I never watch anything on my phone. How often do you watch stuff on your phone? Anytime I travel Oh yeah that's right I think I only started doing it

because I remember on a trip or something you had downloaded a bunch of stuff and you were like have you started seeing this thing? I'm like what? I've never done that Maybe that's the game changer Hey guys it's the wave of the future These phones, I'll tell you what,

not only can you make phone calls on them. You can take photos. Well, let's talk about some other entertainment. Do we have anything else on that? I guess the office is leaving, but the office

is going to an NBC focused one that is not, like, didn't have anything else that I really wanted to see. I can't think of what. I mean, probably NBC shows. Like SNL, probably 30 Rock eventually. Right. And then it's like, but then do you want, then Disney now controls an inordinate amount of fucking intellectual property. I mean, that's just going to, like, they should just give you the Disney package with

your citizenship card, because you have to have it now that they own all entertainment. Like, it's just like, shit. Yeah, they give it to you along with your... They should just get a portion of our tax money and just like... Right. Because, yeah, Disney now just owns all

our entertainment. It's called living in Burbank. Yeah. Or Anaheim. Having a three-year-old and a one-year-old, there's no way you can exist without. For sure, yeah. Because they're like, well, who's that? Why is everybody dressed as that dude for Halloween? Why does he have that dude on his shirt?

I don't know what that is. What is this, Dad? Right. It's like a Flightening McQueen, man. Why haven't you told me about math yet? Right. It's too expensive. What is this, Dad? It's Flattening McQueen, man. Why haven't you told me about math yet? It's too expensive. Math is too expensive. Here, count these rocks again.

Well, speaking of needless entertainment, let's talk about a reboot we all need. In the tradition of remaking the Jungle Book, remaking The Lion King, because now we can make it look like animals talk.

Yep. Look who's talking now, Miles. Look who's talking, baby. That's right. Look who's talking. Look who's talking. Those damn babies. Those damn reboots.

Oh, wow. Yeah. I don't know. It's weird. My first reaction is like, what the fuck do we need that for? Oh, no. However, I really liked the original. Did you? Yeah. I don't know. It's weird. My first reaction is like, what the fuck do we need that for? Oh, no. However, I really liked the original. Did you?

Yeah. As a kid, I thought that shit was amazing. It's fun. I didn't, why did we? Bruce Willis is breaking those fucking Southwest dolls and shit. Right. He's like all this cool Arizona Anasazi art or some shit. I remember as a kid, he was breaking this shit.

And I was like, this baby's out of control. In Elliot Gould's office. Wasn't it Elliot Gould? I don't know. You know a lot about. I saw that in the theater when it came out. And that's the last time I saw it. So that was a long time ago.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen it, I think, on TV. Yeah. Why do we need? Yeah, I'm going to go against this reboot. I'm going to, I feel safe saying we don't need this. Yeah. I mean, it seems like it would be easy.

Oh, no, George Segal. That's who it was. Oh, same dip, though. No. Maybe. I mean, same ballpark. Don Johnson seemed like the same guy to me. But, I mean, shout out to Abe Vigoda, the god.

The god. Yeah, it's. But, but i mean it is being brought to us by the writer and director of the wedding ringer what was that oh that's the um kevin hart one right oh is it i thought it was oh yeah isn't it kevin hart i'm like josh gad i think if i know what that dude's name is if i'm right i'm about to be impressed with myself. Yeah, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco, Sweeting. Why did I know that? Oh, she's Sweeting now? Who's Kaley Cuoco married to?

I don't even really know. I thought she got divorced. Did she get remarried? That would be great. I'd see all their movies. Yeah, I don't know why this person has a knack for it. I know Amy Heckerling did the original one. Yeah, that doesn't make me be like, oh, wait,

it's behind the right of the ring. Oh, thank God. Amy Heckerling and this, the wedding ringer, dude. Right. Yeah, I forget. I think the way they wrote that first one was they just had like footage of the baby like doing silly stuff and then they're like, what if he said this? What if he said that? Is that really how they did it?

I think so. Reverse engineered it. Just get some baby action scenes. We'll fill out the rest. Yeah. Just get a room full of comedy writers. What I do know is one of the former Guinness Book of World Records smallest men in the world was the stunt double for the baby in the scene where he walks out into Manhattan traffic. His name is Mishu.

Okay. Okay. That's amazing. And he was the smallest man in the world. I remember being like, oh. Did he grow or did he pass away? No, no. He passed away.

I think kind of recently. I want to say recently. That's why they're making the reboot. They're like, well. Did he grow or did he pass away? No, no, he passed away. I think kind of recently. I want to say recently. That's why they're making the reboot. They're like, well. Enough time has passed. There's a new king. Oh, the quote from this director is actually really amazing

because it's like talking to him about what his plans are for the reboot. This is the quote. Like figuring the word, the quote starts off, like, comma, like figuring out how to raise these kids with all the mistakes that happen, adding the voices that are key to facial expressions.

It just really seems like a fun idea. Everyone can relate to babies. The challenge is, that was a really good movie. Travolta and Kirstie Alley had great chemistry, and Amy Heckerling wrote a great script. We're in the early stages of figuring out what the story is for the modern version. No, this is bad. They're early stages like it seems like the idea occurred to you at the beginning of that paragraph.

Because he's like, huh, figuring out how to raise kids with all the mistakes. Okay, that's something. Add in the voices that are key to facial expressions. Okay, maybe something here. But yeah, those are the first three thoughts that occur to you when thinking about this reboot. Oh my god, he was also Alf.

Me high, me shoot. Oh, okay. I'm just sorry, I had to look him up. Oh, you meant that guy who gave the quote? He died in 2016, past 2016. Damn. So he lived a damn good life. He was 2'9". I'd rather an Alf reboot, quite frankly. 2'9". I felt like... R.I.P. King. Don't worry. It'll come. I'm sure. Although

I'm team let's not do reboots anymore. I don't want any of it. How about this? Why don't we empower a new generation of creatives? That's what fucking kills me. And fuck, like, you just think motherfuckers stop thinking of shit? Right. It's deeply depressing. I always just think of, like,

there's someone in, like, a basement who can't afford to get their own, and they're like, I finish my screenplay I always just think of like, there's someone in like a basement who can't afford to get their own, and they're like, I finished my screenplay. And then they like open their computer and there's like eight million more reboots just got greenlit. And that person fucking They're like, I'm actually doing a spec script

for Ace Ventura 3. I'm hoping that I'll really get my feet in the door. Oh man. Although I did just finally see Into the Spider-Verse. I still haven't seen it. Oh, you simply must. I'm a horrible human being. Have you been to Florence, Italy?

Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, fantastic. Then you already know. Why? Is that where it takes place? No, I was just going to say, if you haven't been there or seen Spider-Man, you simply must. It's streaming now, right?

Yeah, it's on Netflix. Okay, great. Well, there you go. It's great. Now I can see it. And it's so creative, and it is obviously Netflix it's great and it's so creative and it is obviously a reboot and we're only what

11 months late, 9 months late to the party 10 months late to the party I'm sure a lot of people are just now seeing it because it's just on Netflix well I've been constantly told to see it since it came out and I've been like I'll get to it and then I finally took one of those airplane flights where you get to it.

One of those airplane flights? One of those plane planes. I've heard all the girl-girl sex scenes. There's a gnarly one between you. Oh, my God. Well, let's talk while we're talking about Netflix. It's time to acknowledge that they're not beholden to the same rules as other like they don't do MPAA shit or I guess they just enter like just joined the MPAA but they like don't follow the same rules

as movies that have to come out in theaters and that includes you know swear words and violence and all that shit, but it really includes tobacco use. Their shows have way more smoking than modern Hollywood movies. Like all Netflix stuff does? Yeah. Oh, hey. Like Stranger Things is the biggest offender, but Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt had it. Orange is the New Black had it. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt had it. Orange is the New Black had it.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt? I can't. Oh okay I feel like there's like one character that smokes in that. But he smokes 292 times. Fair. Oh that. Fair. And I think Stranger Things is the one where it's like the grizzled cool cop does it and

so it's like kind of I mean you just don't want to let kids know that it makes you look cool. I know. But the way they should do is be like, nah, it makes you look cool for a second. Then you're going to look old as fuck. Right. Yeah. That shit.

You have to. I'm sorry. Stranger Things, like you have to have it in that show. That show, its whole ethos is like authentic 80s. And it gets so much cred for how authentic it is. that's just what it was right yeah everybody did smoke um i gotta dive into this season is there cocaine use no then it's not the 80s but you're following mostly little kids around so i feel like they're doing a lot of coke and the kids should have hung out with miles in the 80s yeah when i was four yeah were you running like coke parties well my parents used to shave my head and put cocaine on the top

of my head and i would walk around the parties and people do a little you were involved off a little soft spot yeah yeah that's the best thing to do cocaine off of yo what's that called again i don't know i was just gonna because i just uh, shout out to my homegirl who just had her baby, and she was like, you want to touch the baby's soft spot? Oh, it's wild. And I was like, hell yeah. You can see its pulse there. I thought you weren't supposed to touch it.

Well, not like. If you dig your finger in, you'll make his left leg twitch, then his right leg. No, I'm just joking. The fontanelle. You can tell me anything about babies, and I believe you. No, that's so funny, because that was a joke I made. Yeah.

When they're like, you feel it? I was like, no, look, he's dancing. I can play him like a... Got her leg kicking. But so people with more exposure to... Do not touch baby soft spots. Tobacco, yes, please, please. The official stance of the show.

Don't fuck around with the font now. Yeah, that is very important that you take... If you learn one thing from the Daily Zeitgeist... Okay, cool, cool, cool. It is not a bowling ball with a piece of tape on the finger hole. Nor is it a controlling device that you can use to control them like a remote control car. It's not like a Ben John Malkovich situation.

It's not. Okay, all right. So the Surgeon General did a study, and people with exposure to tobacco in movies are twice as likely to begin smoking compared to those with less exposure. So Netflix has responded to this and said, nobody will be smoking or our movies, PG-13 or below, will be smoking an e-cigarette free, dot, dot, dot, except for reasons of historical and factual accuracy.

Yeah, see, there it accuracy. There it is. There it is. Well, it's accurate. Yeah. So, I mean, it is accurate. And it does, I do feel like with Stranger Things, like a whole big chunk of that show is that it like, it feels like a movie that you just like pulled off of VHS

and like put in that was made in the 80s. Like it's not just, it's not just set in the 80s. Exactly. It feels like it was like made in the 80s like it's not just set in the 80s it feels like it was like made in the 80s like the special effects are made to look like they were made in the 80s and if you go back and watch like Ghostbusters Dan Aykroyd's just walking

around with a cigarette in his mouth in one scene for no reason he's just like well we're in a library better light up a cigarette you know how we do did you ever what was in one scene for no reason. He's just like, well, we're in a library, better light up a cigarette. You know how we do. Did you ever, what was the first depiction of smoking you saw that you thought it was cool?

Because I can remember one, Raph. Oh, the one that comes to mind right now, but this is definitely not the first. Or like one that Pulp Fiction made it look cool. That dude from Dead Presidents who smoked through his mouth and then inhaled it

through his nose those dope French inhale yeah and then Bruce Willis in Die Hard smoking a cigarette

I always think of John Travolta in Broken Arrow for some reason oh really there's a way he smoked a cigarette like the way he got

his fucking fingers around I was like yo he's finessing that I don't know what the fuck he's doing with that and then I remember the first time I smoked a cigarette I had the picture of John Travolta in Broken Arrow in my mind fucking fingers around I was like yo he's finessing that fuck I don't know what the fuck he's doing with that yeah and then I remember

the first time I smoked a cigarette I had the picture of John Travolta and Broken Arrow on my mind right that would make him so happy to hear

I bet no one's ever said that yeah right hey man you're the reason I'm all fucking just so you know wacky I think definitely

like Slash was the first thing I saw cause he would just like shred guitar solos with a fucking cigarette, a lit cigarette dangling out of his mouth. Yeah, that was pretty cool. Anyways, kids.

Do you have any memories like that? No, I was just saying. But you know what's interesting is that I've never been a smoker. So maybe that's like if I did have a memory of something that was super cool, maybe I'm a smoker. What kept you from ever smoking? did have a memory of something that was super cool what kept you from ever smoking?

I think my parents did, my mom specifically did a real good job about scaring me about drugs and anything like that which is why I now fucking google does babybel cheese go bad that's the downside of being afraid of everything it will give you weird dreams

cheese before bed, certain cheeses before bed will give you fucked up dreams. Sounds like a challenge. Yeah. Sounds like propaganda from Big Tobacco. Yeah. Whereas tobacco will calm your healthy nerves. You'll have cool ass fantasies.

Have a menfall before bed. You'll dream you're flying. But I did like nice smoke when I drank or whatever in college. And the truth is I fucking hate the, it is so. Harsh. Yes. So I could only smoke Parlaments or like silk cuts. Wow.

The European ones. So it was so unpleasant to me that it just didn't stick really long. Good for you. It's gross. Yeah, it is gross. Meanwhile, I got mind cucked by John Travolta. Right. Yeah, really?

Fuck. And it's such a weird movie. Yeah, I was mind cucked by John Travolta. Right. Yeah, really? Yeah. And it's such a weird movie. Yeah, I was going to say. It was John Woo. I think it was like one of his first films in the US. Was Christian Slater the other person? Yeah, and Samantha Mathis and Howie Long. Damn.

And Howie Long. And some other dude, I remember, gets a fucking maglite across his throat. He just like murks the dude. And I was like, yo, I want a maglite. What's a maglite? The fucking big ass uh metal flashlight that the cops carry oh yeah and it kills him yeah he this dude's just mouthing off yeah this is in my mind he's mouthing off so he deserves to die um and like john travolta just

fucking hits just he's oh i thought you meant he shined it at him no no no no no he just took no it's just a blunt force trauma to the dude's windpipe. Boom. And he's like, and I was like, yo, smoke a cigarette. It's just so weird to think of John Travolta being cool. Now I think of him in like hairspray. He's so cool in Pulp Fiction, but I had that same thought when I was like, wow, that's so weird that he was cool like that recently because he's so strange now also Zeitgang hit us up with what your images of cool tobacco use

are that stuck in your mind because I can't be the only person who just goes I'm sure people have their own versions like my grandpa working on a lawnmower well we can also be fairly certain that Netflix doesn't give a shit about that study that they said they were going to look at and respond to.

Because last spring, the same watchdog group issued an almost identical report. And Netflix claimed they were, quote, interested to find out more about the study. So they, yeah. Looking at it very carefully. Yeah, no. Yeah, exactly. We're going to look at this very carefully. The same PR team as our president.

So the report came out in March. Stranger Things season three didn't start production until the end of April. And they just filled that shit with cigarettes. It's a troll move. Yeah. And like in one scene, Finn Wolfhard is smoking eight cigarettes at once. They're in his nostrils. That scene was excessive.

Everything else, I'm on board. He called himself Smoke Holio. Yeah. Smoke Holio. That character got cut. He's doing the Dennis Leary thing where he smokes around his head. Isn't that, wait, that's Dennis Leary? No, well, Dennis Leary stole

Bill, oh, that is the Dice Man. Bill Hicks also did something with cigarettes on stage that Dennis Leary stole Bill. Oh, that is the Dice Man. Bill Hicks also did something with cigarettes on stage that Dennis Leary basically stole. Lauren, it has been such a pleasure having you here on The Daily Zeitgeist. It's been a pleasure being here. Where can people find you, follow you, listen to you? Sure. On Twitter, I'm at Lauren Flans, and my podcast is at Coming Out Pod across all the platforms. Yeah, you.

And guys, straight people listen to us too. What? I want to put that out there. Why do they listen? That doesn't make sense. If I am straight, can I also listen? You sure can, bud. Thanks for setting me up like that.

I like how that's always like a thing very mindful slash scared podcast listeners are. It's like, I am not this demographic. Is it bad if I listen? No, the reason, when we started, we very consciously wanted to have a sense of humor about ourselves. Because we know a lot of woke queer stuff can be a little preachy sometimes. So we have a sense of humor.

I'm always shocked at the number of straight listeners we do have. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We're excited. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? A lot of the ones I've been really into are all of the women's, the U.S. women's soccer team, obviously. Good stuff going on there.

But there was one about penguins. I'm going to find this penguin tweet. Penguins. Penguins. Maybe it one about penguins i'm gonna find this penguin tweet penguins hanging maybe it was about panging penguins um that is a reference to what's his name benedict cumberbatch and his complete inability to say the word penguin oh also do people ever ask you like who your show is for like what the demographic is people ask me that i think it's like businessmen are like oh what's your demo like who do you go i don't know people who like dope shit right exactly no but my i mean my podcast is called coming out with lauren and nicole so i feel like it's pretty yeah i mean you get it sorry i'm scrolling past all of my women's soccer likes. Here we go.

This is Anna Drezin tweeted this. Yeah, big fan. I think penguins are spot on. I have no notes for penguins. Flawless, effortless, design, story, humor, forward motion, cohesiveness, a triumph of a bird. No, I'm sorry, a triumph of bird. That's a better wording. Triumph of bird.

She wrote for me very briefly at Cracked. Oh, nice. And she is one of the most lovely and talented people I've ever met in my life. I don't know her personally, but I enjoy her on Twitter. And I love a good penguin tweet. Hell yeah. Who doesn't? There was a tweet.

I'll have to find it. But somebody was wondering if they go all the way down that color like an eraser. Penguins. Anyways, I nailed it. Miles, where can people find you? I'm still trying to figure out what you just said. You can find me and follow me on Twitter and Instagram. Some tweets I like.

One is from the Tig Notaro account, but she has other comedians using it. And this one is from Steph McCann. So it's from the Tignotaro handle, but the comedian who wrote it is Steph McCann, at Steph underscore MCCA. And the tweet was, Can't believe I got kicked out of another bachelorette party for drinking one glass of wine and screaming, Which one of you designed these tank tops? What on earth is this font?

Because I don't know. As someone who sees a lot of bachelorette parties, I feel like there's always some fucking like bride tribe, which is like whack as fuck. Keep that tribe shit away. Or like matrimony squad. There's always some weird. Matrimony squad.

And it's always in gold. Yep. It's always gold on white. That's completely true. Come on now. It is always gold on white. We have a full. Come on now. It is always gold on white. We have a full spectrum of colors. Didn't Teresa Lee wear one of her t-shirts?

Yeah. Bathing suits to it and rot it off her body. For charity. And then another one is from Mary Sasson, at Mary Sasson, S-A-S-S-O-N. It says, single man's bathroom checklist. Quote, bath mat that's been damp for five years. Oh, God.

Single ply toilet paper roll with one square sitting on the toilet paper holder no hand soap crumpled article of clothing on the floor dried shaving cream and hair coating the sink it was just fucking haunting yeah i've been so many bathrooms like that the bath mat that's been damp for five years just shook me to my core. I used to have one of those. Then I grew up. Then I'd ride it off. Got a better one.

Some tweets I've been enjoying. After the earthquake many days ago, now Andy Richter tweeted, Guys, unfortunately I have to cancel tomorrow's grand opening of my glass dildo shop. I saw that one. Brandon Scott Wolf, indie darling, tweeted, this Spider-Man Far From Home review really throws two kids under the bus. It's just this review from, I think, I'm guessing it was like IMDB. Oh, I saw that.

Okay. It says, we really enjoyed this movie. We have a hard time choosing movies that appeal to my husband and I, our 17-year-old son, parentheses, who's kind of geeky, and our 15-year-old daughter who desperately wants to be 20 and cool. This movie had something for everyone. A lot of action, some romance, and very relatable, well-developed characters. Shots fired.

The brief aside to shit all over your kids. You know, but that's a parent who's not getting there. They're like, they don't love me. They're like little assholes. Right. And so then they want to clap back. That's the audience for the Look Who's Talking reboot. Yeah.

Yeah. Just that woman. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We'll link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,

as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what's that going to be today? Oh, this is from artist Premiata Forneria Marconi. And it's called Impressioni di Settembre. Where did you hear this song, Miles? In this Uber ride. On the streets of Italy? Actually, you know what's funny?

There is no Uber in it. Oh, really? That is funny. Yeah, but their unions are too fucking lit. They have taxis. Or as we call them, taxis. But this is a track actually I was just it was funny like

this was like in a random playlist it happens to be Italian artist but it sounded like a like 70s version of like Tame Impala

kind of thing it's kind of like a sort of just psych rocky thing from the 70s and it happens to be Italian yes

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