The Daily Zeitgeist - The 4-Day WeekTrend Update 11/27: Fox News, Goop, 25y/o Albums, Macy's Parade, Anna Indiana

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

In this edition of The 4-Day WeekTrend Update, Jack and Miles discuss their respective Thanksgivings, Fox News really running out of stuff to get outraged about this holiday season, Goop's holiday gift guide, the top albums that came out 25 years ago, the brief interruption of the Macy's T-giving Day parade, the new song from "AI singer/songwriter" Anna Indiana and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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get your podcast presented by capital one founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this week trending episode of a production of iheart radio i think i'm coming a little hot let me turn down my levels. I am Jack O'Brien. That is Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. We are back from our holiday. Yeah. Four-day weekend. Oh, what

a time. What a time. Four-day week trend. I prefer the week trend. Turning your house into the venue for Thanksgiving. Pros and cons. But I think the pros outweigh the cons to to be honest, because I like the fact that I'm at home and I don't have to think about going home because I'm already there. And then people are like, oh, my God, thank you so much for hosting. I'm like, yeah, man, do the dishes. You win.

But I guess if you don't like a lot of ruckus and stuff that can be something but you know i'm i'm at that age now where the pitter patter of little feet and screaming over who gets to play mario kart next is like music to my ears yeah man that's we we had the in-laws in and my mother-in-law kept apologizing for like taking over the kitchen and i was just like okay like i'll try to forgive you yeah yeah you're like that is like that is so not on my radar that you're blowing my mind with this apology right now whoa i didn't even think to even consider something like that well no you you will be forgiven yeah but oh and seeing people on social media be like talking about their travel and like flights and stuff like that oh just just

gave me anxiety for them dude like i'm so glad i'm not coming back from somewhere right now i pardon me i'm not gonna lie i was watching that shit like schadenfreude of porn like i was just like oh my god that looked like it hurt that line looks like about 14 years long good luck to you all but yeah and hey bless y'all who are out there you know braving the fucking lines and everything like that because it's crowded it was crowded it was crowded out there all right well we're gonna get into some news in a little bit first we like to open this uh week trending episode by letting you get to know us a little bit better and telling you some things that we've learned that we find to be underrated overrated miles you want to kick us off what's something you think is underrated

underrated uh first up just actually no the only thing I have to, well, actually, no. First underrated that is a nothing burger, but I just got to say, is the fact that they sell Arby's horsey sauce at the store. Oh my gosh. This was such a welcome surprise as somebody who is horsey sauce addicted. as somebody who is horsey sauce addicted, uh, to see it in a big squeeze bottle. I was like, okay,

now I just got to get a bunch of curly for fries or something. And I can recreate a big Montana at home for myself. Uh, but the true underrated for me was actually giving your Thanksgiving leftovers new life. You know, obviously you'll do that. Like I did that late Thursday night.

Like people are sleeping. Like, you know what? One more plate before I go to bed. And then the next day you probably do a little Thanksgiving, like, you know, breakfast plate or a sandwich. But then you kind of like start losing momentum. So turning that shit into something else, like some, you know, fucking next level cruise ship chef is truly where it's at. So I turned my leftover mashed potatoes into cheesy potato pancakes. Wow.

So I took that, mixed it with some like cheese and green onion and some egg, flour, get that nice consistency and then just fucking grill them, you know, fry them up in the frying pan. Boom. Got that. And then you could put your leftover gravy on there, which like I said, I had of leftover gravy and the gravy is like the syrup yeah yeah on top on top and then maybe a little dollop of sour cream or whatever you want to go there see i was just picturing when i saw you write this i was picturing just like throw the mashed potatoes in the

like like on the pan but you're you're adding various ingredients yeah because you don't want to break apart and so you need to like you need a little bit of a binding agent so you don't just get like these tragic potato pancakes that her majesty attempted actually the day before uh and then also then i took the turkey carcass and the bones and made a fucking stock i was simmering this stock for like six hours okay just a light simmer getting all that six hour simmer oh yeah that just that juicy delicious out i made a turkey lentil noodle soup so good um so yeah lentils are so underrated i love some fucking lentils man also lentils underrated the fucking are they they're got they're a legume right yeah what else could they be yeah i mean whatever beans are that's yeah yeah yeah them i don't know why like because they're

like discs i'm like i can't that's this is some kind of space age legume that i know not of yeah Yeah. I, uh, yeah, I've got a ham, ham and, uh, bean soup. Oh, a simmering as we speak. Oh yeah. Um, yeah,

yeah. Uh, cause we went, we went honey baked for, for a main meat, uh, but to save myself hours in the kitchen and move those hours over to waiting in line to pick up the honey bake. Yeah.

At least you can be on your phone and there's no way you fuck it up for by not paying attention during that stretch. Yeah, I had a very real food coma situation like Thanksgiving. We ate around four. That which was like I had to i had to fight to get it up that early my wife uh was like what are you talking about why would we eat early we we eat at like 6 30 why would we eat any earlier than that thanksgiving i'm like this is we eat ourselves into a food coma and then there's another meal after but i i ate so little during the day and then so much all at once during the meal that i couldn't get off the couch for

a second yeah second helping i made that mistake too i didn't eat at all while i was preparing food then when dinner came i ate the biggest plate and I ate it like I was a firefighter and the fucking sirens are going off because we had to get to a call. Then I just was fucking laid out after. It was bad. Yeah, it was bad. I felt bad. But I cooked enough of the meal

that I didn't feel bad that I didn't help with the dishes. Ah, there you go. Anyways, my underrated is the degree to which netflix has basically won the streaming wars at this point um i was i was reading an article over the weekend uh about life on our planet that documentary that i've been watching with my kids um it's like what if nature documentary but dinosaurs and i was like why are they writing this now this documentary came out last year right but that was actually

a different documentary those prehistoric planet it was narrated by david attenborough um but it basically like doesn't exist because it came out on apple plus and so even though like that got better reviews than the new netflix documentary um came out a year before is narrated by like david attenborough who like they talk about in this article they're like david attenborough documentaries are like the reason that all this exists and but they don't even mention that other series once in this article in the new yorker yeah and it's it's just like everything once a thing like once a old show or like a concept hits netflix that's when it actually becomes real it feels like and like we we kind of noticed this back when during the pandemic we were paying more attention to the streaming numbers.

Like the top 10 is by default, whatever is trending on Netflix. And then occasionally like a blockbuster, like big, a big show from another streamer would go up the charts, but it would always just like kind of fall back out of the top 10 pretty quick. And meanwhile,

like suits is like charlie after he drinks the fizzy lifting drink it just like cannot come down it's just stuck at the top of the charts like right uh yeah so i don't know and then like other networks are now admitting defeat and like licensing their content to netflix again back to them they're like hey we're not gonna renew that netflix deal because we're starting our own streamer and then like yeah please take ballers please sir please sir take take ballers from us um they've got yeah hbo so like i i'm just predicting now that you're gonna start seeing shows like Insecure

I feel like is going to be a big one but like because that one's they're licensing that to Netflix the Pacific I don't know like they've got Band of Brothers and the Pacific they really are licensing they're really licensing Ballers back to

Netflix that's going to be everywhere and also six feet under their licensing to netflix which i feel i feel like six feet under is gonna have a real second life blow the fuck up that's gonna blow up the move with band of brothers and the pacific because that that old spielberg hanks world war ii humper team is coming back with their new one about like the pilots of world war ii right so i i see what they're like it's all about ubiquity man get them talking about it because netflix really is like

it's like it's like the it's like the streaming equivalent of like having rabbit ears antenna on your tv like most people have that shit or have access to seeing it it's when you start adding all this other shit like apple plus like if you if you're not in the apple ecosystem i can hardly believe that you have a reason to pay for apple plus yeah you know what i mean like if you don't have apple tv or you if you if you rock android or whatever you might not be as moved by the offerings but the the shows look like like huge things and i feel the same way i'm like oh okay this probably looks like a ton of money but in my mind i'm like it's apple plus therefore is it good i don't know right yeah like that nathan fielder show that came out a couple weeks

ago oh yeah the curse the curse like i feel like you know people i know are talking about it and seeing it but i don't have show time right i don't have show time like when when it hits netflix i feel like or if it hits netflix i guess we'll have like a second round where the rest of the population like yeah he's like you guys seen this nathan fielder guy this guy is really interesting weird it's like he's awkward but it's like but he knows what he's doing when he's right it's really i don't understand it's really interesting yeah um but for now i guess we'll have to put up with uh ballers yeah but i mean i think to your point it shows you how like you have reached true ubiquity and domination when someone is putting

out an attenborough narrated nature documentary and people are like huh yeah exactly it is like even the like the new york doesn't even like mention it i don't think in the whole article they're just like oh they don't mention prehistoric planet no they don't mention prehistoric planet it's all about the making of the netflix documentary and this guy who like studied who like used to work for david attenborough but like they don't even mention that this is like a year after a critically acclaimed one from attenborough and the bbc um yeah it's pretty wild so uh yeah i don't know better hey work on your marketing apple i guess that's all we can say tim apple come on man yeah i feel like we've got we're there's just a new rhythm to how media works where movies to a lesser degree but definitely like streaming stuff

like comes out but then it really comes out when it hits Netflix. And that might be seven years or like 20 years after it first came out in the first place. But that's when people are like, Oh my God. If those like royalties are good, that must feel so good though. If you're like,

dude, this thing I, I absolutely took a shit on years ago. I didn't think it was going anywhere. It's like, it's now I can now do things with my life from all the revenues I've generated from being on this one show. Exactly.

What's a, what's something you think is overrated? Overrated. Look, I was talking about how I was at Disneyland briefly touched on it on the, what was that? Today's episode. What episode?

I don't know. Whenever we recorded that it was wednesday i think oh no yeah with crofted yeah yeah yeah yeah you talked about it on tomorrow's episode talked about on tomorrow's episode so just a bit of time travel that does occur there but as i was just kind of thinking back there like everything when you go there i and i know you were i think you were yeah world or did you go to land and I know you were, I think, were you at World or did you go to Land? You went to Land, right? World. Okay. We went to World.

Is everything on the app there, too? It's a lot of time, like, spent looking at your phone. Yo, I'm sorry. That shit is terrible. The app itself works fine, for the most part. Like, it's stable, like, whatever. The UI, great. Blah, blah, blah.

the ui great blah blah blah um it's more that like the app being a huge central part of the experience is what i think is really deeply overrated like even down to ordering your food at what used to be like some places you can get in line other places like pick do your mobile order say you want to pick up i get that it makes things easier but there are times when i was so confused like i would i would try to like walk up to like a seated restaurant like you got to check the app right i'm like but you're right here motherfucker at the fucking metro d stand with all of the information right there what if i what if what if your fucking app has drained my battery so fucking bad i'm having to plug that shit in in a bathroom right now to try and get my shit going again like dude it's such a fucking and anyway so as i was there like i felt like tommy lee jones

in no country for old men like everything was at based like they laughed at you if you're like is there another way to ask for this um and i get again definite advantages like like there's it'll cut down on certain time if you plan it well but if you're not that savvy like it kind of makes things a little bit like it gives the advantage to people who know how to use the app whether that's like knowing like what line to be in or what place to get your reservations to or whatever it just feels like a very uh it i don't know it was just a lot and it was a lot like take so much of my attention and to be on my phone like that i was truly just like missing the feeling of having a crumpled up map in my pocket like just being in the moment and being in the like physical place you are instead of like being having to like keep bringing

up your phone yeah exactly yeah just churns through your battery life like it's it really does and i just felt like like you know i was navigating like the new york streets like as a as a like a tourist for the first time on google maps like turn here where where's the thing is it on the app um so yeah shout out to that and also another sort of disneyland adjacent overrated people wearing their fucking political phrase t-shirts y'all the effect of your shirt is not quite what you think it is and because i saw so much like i get it man disneyland is the fucking like nexus central like focal point of america um and i went in probably the busiest time of year and it was just so wild like it's like i you know like when you're i this happens with like liberals

too but with people who watch fox especially like yeah probably aren't near anybody who thinks differently than them is like they watch fox and they spent their whole time like fighting an invisible made-up liberal person in their head that's like when i meet a straw man yeah like i'm gonna be wearing my let's go brandon shirt with my gun hat or whatever and like people were just there like walking around just like really like huh huh look at this shirt that has a handgun on it says you can't you can't reason with evil, but you can prepare for it. With my Mickey Mouse ears on. And I'm like, sir, you got Mickey Mouse ears on, and you are, okay, that's fine.

It's just, I get it. This is where we go to let people know how we do this. Yeah. For my overrated, I think I'm overrated. I had overrated how long we've known about dinosaurs because like so i did read the article you know there's this new netflix documentary you gotta see that uh has this amazing advance where it brings dinosaurs into a nature documentary it's crazy um but i don't know they were just like going in one section of the article

they're going through like the history of paleontology and how i like i assumed kids were always just obsessed with dinosaurs and i guess it really started in the 80s like that that was the first generation to be obsessed with dinosaurs. And like, so they talk about how as recently as the 1700s, they're like finding dinosaur bones and thought they were scrotums of giant humans. They named one of the animals scrotum humanum, the scrotum of a giant human like creature.

And then like decades after that this guy found it was like i think it's a big i think it's a big lizard actually um is it because like they're looking at like the ball joint or something yeah like on like a femur and like they're like i kind of see it actually like when you look at a giant bone like if you just picture what a bone is one round part yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. The ball joint on the femur, you're like, dude, that's a big old scrotum.

Must be a guy with big balls, right? And then is there some other person who knows basic anatomy? Like, well, it's connected to like a long bone. Yeah, that one goes up inside you, I think. That part goes inside you. No, no no no no that's the dick okay well wait how weird is your dick man so strange this guy you think the balls and the dick are on a straight line i wonder is this guy william but wait oh who was the guy who i wonder who the guy was who was

insisting it was a scrotum like very interesting just world view or like you're you're so patriarchy brain that everything is a dick or balls to you right yeah that's and nobody like you're so patriarchy brain and also like everybody else is so everyone everyone's just like, yeah, that's, uh, it was Richard Brooks, an English physician. Oh, Dick Brooks. Yeah.

Yeah. He, uh, uh, Dick Brooks, an English physician reconsidered a detailed drawing of the fossil and gave it a specific name that matched what he believed it was scrotum humanum, the scrotum of a giant human like creature.

Um, but then like like i don't know so then the 1800s was the first time they really got the idea that there are a lot of extinct creatures like they didn't because there's like something kind of difficult existentially to be like oh we're just like the latest you know like that whole thing of like humans time on the planet is like a brief blink compared to truly the history of the planet but um i didn't like they mentioned this netflix documentary that 99 of all species that have ever lived are now extinct 99 99 oh my god well i guess when you consider it like there's like a ton of bugs and stuff yeah i never even heard of so it's all good yeah but it's and they also mentioned that

the dominant species rarely survives the major extinctions which bad news for makes that news for these guys yeah because we with our thick skin that can withstand temperatures above barely 100 degrees yes yeah yeah yeah um but yeah i don't know the world didn't really get excited about dinosaurs until the 1980s like their paleontologists started getting excited about it and like putting things in museums in like the. Um, and like for a long time that T-Rex, that famous like T-Rex skeleton was the only, uh, dinosaur skeleton that like was on display.

But yeah, like they, they didn't come up with the, um, asteroid extinction, like theory until the 1980s. And I don't know, it's just like,

it's this huge idea that changes completely how you see the world right and you know very recently relatively recently people were finding big bones and being like man that looks like giant balls and it's yeah that's a dick yeah that's a dick. Yeah, that's a dick. I don't know. I don't know, doctor. Yeah. But, exactly. An English physician. Can you imagine being that guy's patient? But, like, just these big pieces of existential perspectives that we digest, and, like, immediately

it changes how we view the world world and we kind of take it for granted that there's always been this like fascinating idea out there that like these massive giant creatures like ruled the planet and then got murked and same thing could happen to us i'm just like if we're, it'll just be interesting, you know, to think about how, like what the next giant pieces of like perspective will be that we don't have yet. I'm assuming they'll be coming from like,

you know, looking up instead of digging down. Yeah. Keep your eyes to the skies. That's right. See what happens. And then people will be like people be like nah dude this is a dick like what more like clearly a ufo nah nah nah that's like some military dick dude that's like military sperms or something, dude. Okay, sure, sure, sure. Yeah.

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And we're back and uh fox news yeah it's always good to check in with what they've been up to you want to find out how your friends were how their holiday was yeah what was your holiday holiday fox news yeah i just a quick one because i i'm still kind of my mind is blown i think like look it was probably a long weekend at fox and they didn't know what to get angry about on sunday or today and here we go we have a guy called charlie hurt and he's big hurt over the fact that vp kamala harris and her tweet to celebrate the holiday had a gas stove in the background when they're trying to take them from us. And here we go. It's so funny that people they saw that, you know, her tweet.

They saw her stove. They rightly heckled and mocked her and made fun of her and ridiculed her. heckled and mocked her and made fun of her and ridiculed her and then all of the democrats got freaked out and went on and and jumped online and said oh no wait a minute they don't want to take away the gas stoves that's misinformation no they do want to take away the gas stoves and in fact they are taking away the gas why do you think they want to do it where they control things just want to say they are in fact not taking the gas stove and they in fact are don they want to do it? Any of the places where they control things. Just want to say, they are in fact not taking the gas stove. And they in fact don't want to take away your fucking gas stoves. But again, keep going.

And I like a little bit of Joe. But tell us why. This is the sick ass setup from the anchor at the desk. Why? Is that why? Why do they want to ban gas stoves? I think because they hate us. They hate humans.

They hate joyfulness. They hate pies. Anyway, so that's how they started their week off. They hate joy. He even took a second. Because this shit, that conspiracy theory, I don't even know what the fuck you want to call this at this point. This talking point is so fucking tired

that even he was like, why? What were you want to call this at this point this talking point is so fucking tired that even he was like why uh what we used to say they hate humans and pie we are dealing with an intergalactic droid race that hates fucking joy that's true that's i mean yeah they nailed us they hate your freedoms uh well over here on my preferred news outlet where i get most of my information okay do a little little share okay i was on fox you were looking at goop i was looking at goop and uh they just dropped their gift guide and miles there are some pretty pretty interesting ideas in here um we got a 24 karat gold vibrator for the low price of 15 000 okay um what the fuck is it made of out is just the whole thing is like a gold bar that yeah it actually like falls apart in your hands because it's so just pure soft gold it's actually a huge health hazard um yeah you didn't yeah don't don't don't get that in you know comes in a case like a fancy pen um and

yeah they dick dude there's so many weird things on here like uh like one is just like a fucking platter for fruit that's like $400 to be like put your persimmons on a pedestal or a perch for your peaches they use alliteration that's because they're good at their job another one there's an antique

escargot pick holder and it's basically it's shaped like a tiny erect penis with a giant scrotum speaking of giant scrotum yeah it seems to be the theme of the day i think um you may be right if you said nah that's a scrotum this one i think we're right because i like the it's supposed to be a snail shell but the head of the snail is definitely a little penis. Looks like a full on dick.

Yeah. The head of the snail looks like the head of a penis. Yes. For sure. I don't know the scientific term for that part down there, but it was that. Yes. Also, I don't know, is that you eat escargot with picks? I thought you needed to like scoop. little fork i mean okay i i think or maybe yeah like i mean to get it out of the shell i mean jack i

haven't been i haven't been to paris in so long forgive me for for for misremembering we definitely need the little shell holder like thing that holds the shell and then use like a tiny fork to pull out the little snail or it could just be for your martinis yeah you need the fork holder that's a little dick the other thing that's like wow is like a $200 fucking sword that's just made for sabering a champagne bottle like this

is truly you simply must Miles treat yourself treat the ones you love do you know someone who's so haunted by their own wealth that they know not how to enjoy anything except to just lavish themselves with the most overpriced useless items?

Here's your gift guide. I keep running into these. We mentioned it back when we were talking about Harlan Crowe and there was that profile from the guy who lived in Harlan Crowe's, uh, town and like used to run by his house. And he talked about how Harlan Crowe is just unburdening him himself of his

wealth. Right. And like, there was another article that we're researching about, you know, just real estate and like what private equity is doing to like people's ability to own homes or even like live without roommates. Right.

You know, people are living with roommates later and later in life. Cause yeah. And like when you look into real estate articles about how people are investing, like what, why this is happening and it's like you know companies and like private investors are buying up houses that they don't live in and just you know using them

as investment properties um like the the description of that is like there's all this money sloshing around after the uh recession and covet and it's like yeah because they like they just hoovered up all the money at the top this is like sloshing around like people don't even know what to do i mean they might be able to like use some of that to like help people but nah nah buy this fifteen thousand dollar hole vibrator yeah there's also an article in the new york times opinion last week that was about how the wealthy are historically and exceptionally like greedy and not giving back to society in any way like at this time which right on the one hand it's like yeah we kind of knew that but i don't know it was that used to kind of be like how a lot of shit got built in the u.s too there'd be like yeah aha yes oh an

entire hospital for you to because i feel bad that i shot all those laborers who asked for for who asked for a living wage uh well you know the pinkertons they they know how to hold it down for you but yes yeah i get yeah my now it, that's all we see reflected back to us at every level. It's like, nobody wants it. Or they do this thing where it's like, I give back, I pay my taxes. No, you don't. Yes, they don't. And they've been investing in lawyers who make sure that they don't have to pay taxes.

Like that's been, lawyers and politicians, like they've't have to pay taxes like that that's been lawyers and politicians like oh yeah a multi-decade like as long as i've been alive they have been moving the goal line so that they don't have to pay taxes like they used to and that's where this historic inequality is coming from and that's why uh we we get products like from the goop gift guide um stay at turtle island in fiji that sounds um for the price of thirty nine thousand five hundred dollars now i know what you're thinking that does sound reasonable until until you realize that it's a minimum three night stay and that's thirty 500 per night get absolutely fucked is it is it just like an are you just going to an entire island or something is that is that what this

thing yeah so you get a three-night stay turtle island in fiji and it's just you i i guess so i mean i i don't know like i don't know what what is required if it's just you or if it's all like human furniture like the whole place all of your furnishing you're like sleeping on servants yeah and like sitting on servants you brush your teeth with someone else's teeth that's what's cool about turtle island for 40 grand a night yeah that's like and given the the way shit costs that's a fucking i mean i feel like a toyota corolla now costs forty thousand dollars because the price is so fucked up that's the minimum like 120 000 of uh for for a stay at a hotel um i'm trying to mix

it just it it makes sense when you realize that they their biggest problem is like they have too much money sloshing around yeah you know god what am i what else am i gonna spend it on they won't let me collect nazi memorabilia anymore what can i do how much is it's 40 grand a night okay great i'll stay here for like fucking six months yeah wow wow get rid of some of this i mean yeah it is like the list is always i mean like i do like the list merely for the fact that it gives such an interesting insight into like what you do when you have such obscene disposable income yeah like i don't you know what i mean like i'm like oh yeah i know what a i know what a good blanket costs like a hundred bucks or something like if you like want like a fucking

lit ass blanket and then they're like no this one's three thousand fucking dollars yeah yeah and you're like what i feel like we perfected the couch cushion do we need like hey man you got it you can always go meta with like some hyper priced item but yeah there's a 425 dollar blanket there's one and this is on a gift guide a residence for at the well bay harbor islands for four million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars so yeah buy someone a home for the holidays yeah okay well i get it it's you've you've you've successfully outraged me goop again yeah you've done it you can also buy a two thousand dollar gong oh an 820 copper fondue pot now i'm back now we're

um but yeah it's the sort of thing that we need to like re-wake up to like and see again with fresh eyes as often as possible um and i feel like yeah thank you to the goop guide for for helping us do that um yeah thank you thank you keeping our eye on the prize my 200 champagne saber so you can quote party like it's 1799 yeah things were great for me back then right when we were just screaming about biracial monstrosity children and the fact that dinosaur bones are scrotums yes 1799 yes that's right back we go all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

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You don't? I don't like being reminded. Well, okay. So The Root put out, out they're like just a reminder here are like some of the top fucking albums that are turning 25 years old this year and 1998 was apparently 25 years ago i'm pretty sure to me feels like five years ago. I'm just going to, this is a trickling, just a light sampling of the albums that are turning 25 this year, or have already. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Aquemini.

It's Dark and Hell's Hot. Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. Both DMX put out two albums in 1998. Two classics. Juveniles, 400 Degrees, the first Blackstar album, Hard Knock Life Vol. 2, Jay-Z, A Tribe Called Quest.

For some reason, that's the only one that actually feels that old to me, Hard Knock Life Vol. 2. Does the love movement by A Tribe Called Quest feel older, younger to you? No, that feels younger to me. Hard Knock Life Vol. 2 is very specifically younger to you uh no that feels younger to me okay like dude hard rock life volume two is it's like very specifically placed in a place in time for me in high school and also it just

feels like it stays kind of in rotation in a way that like always reminds me of the fact that it's old you know right right right um love moving by tribe called quest the he got game original soundtrack come on now capital punishment big pun for the rizzo's bobby digital i'm like when i look at just the list and that's not even like you know there was like mop came like there's mop album that year gangstar there's a ton of fantastic albums but when i look at this list i just feel like i'm looking at my case logic cd binder thing yeah i'm like yep there's there's my miseducation there's my dmx album there's my equemini that's next to atlians and there's my i got that new juvie the 400 degrees i also got jt money back then it's like all these albums but

i don't know i honestly for whatever reason me, it does not feel that long ago. I wonder if it's because I am still a mental juvenile and my fashion tastes have also not evolved past 1998. So in that sense, I'm like, what are you talking about, baby? 1998 was yesteryear. That was just two days ago. It was very recent. Yeah.

Yeah. The miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Nequlem and i that fucks me up miseducation is a good i've been playing that for the guy's child yeah just because like babies like to be sung to like i don't know like i mean i'm not saying that i get mystery they like being sung to even if you're crap at it but that's like one of the albums where like i will lauren hill songs i can really get all emote and really give the baby the performance that he deserves so yeah i've been playing that pretty regularly nice um all right just checking around for some things that happened over the weekend

we got the macy's parade being interrupted by pro-peace protesters and there is some wild imagery of like protesters you know blocking the parade route and then like getting forced out of the way so they could let a giant ronald mcdonald through like while while like children are on the sideline be like boo what are you doing no more death no more needless child death boo Boo. Make way for Ronnie. Right. To be fair, the people protesting the current genocide were getting in the way of the balloons used to celebrate a holiday predicated on an entirely different genocide. That's true.

We're trying to focus on this other one. Please. Yes. We're trying to erase the memory of this other thing now. Now bring on SpongeBob. 34 people were arrested by the NYPD as a result of the protest. But yeah, it gave us some really good

visual metaphors of like, you know, peaceful protesters being arrested for speaking out against a humanitarian catastrophe to make way for um the sinclair oil dinosaur yeah speaking of dinosaurs yeah back in a big way but i don't know like this is all i mean like between that then there was the the three palestinian students were shot in vermont Vermont. Some guy just shot these three students. No one passed away, luckily. They're trying to figure out if it was a hate crime

or whatever. A ton of stuff happened. Then we had the hostage swaps happen. It sounds like right now people are like wondering can the the white house put enough pressure to maybe prolong this to make just just to get a little bit more something lasting uh rather than just like this couple day pause um so yeah there's there's just a lot a lot was a lot was happening in the realm of, you know, Palestine-Israel talks. And just even how, like, it's manifesting now, like, you know, like in our own country now. We're seeing all kinds of hate crimes go up.

And yeah, it's not great. yeah not great over on um over on fox the hosts criticized the nasty protesters uh because this event was supposed to be about people giving thanks and another guy questioned what do they want even which is very frustrating as they're wearing free palestine shirts chanting we need a ceasefire and not another nickel not another dime dime, no more money for Israel's crimes. Um, like what, what could they, what,

but what are they saying? What's I don't understand the words coming out of your mouth. Like, what are you even trying to say right now? I mean, that's yeah, I would do that too. If I didn't want my viewers to know what they were there for,

like, I don't even know what they're saying. You're shrieking right now. I can't understand you don't even know what they're saying like you're shrieking right now i can't understand you like i think they're podcasters they may have shouted out some kind of offer code for 20 off your first meal i don't know what they want it's very confusing please bring in spongebob yes thank you did you watch the parade I didn't. I watched a replay of it or like, I don't know. I think I was able to like on demand something just to have on the background. And it's just like, I felt so bad for the musical performers because it's fully lip synced. Like

there's no room for fucking any real human performance. Yeah. And they had like the roots band and like Jimmy Fallon do a thing and like poor quest love how do you remember like in airheads the movie airheads were like they're like like they wanted to perform live before like they went to prison or whatever no i didn't i never saw airheads you know with brendan fraser and steve buscemi and adam sandler they're like sandman i know it was like a adam sandler movie when i was like craving adam sandler movies and i for whatever reason was just like nah that one doesn't look right to me that doesn't look like a real sandler it's so funny i don't know i don't know how well it ages but there's like a part where like they're like like you know they take over this radio station to get

their like band popping or whatever and they demand doing a live show and when they actually set up the live show so like release the hostages or whatever, they, like, realize the whole set has to be, like, dubbed, and they're like, what? We're not doing no lip syncing? And, like, they, like, throw their arms up while, like, the song is happening to, like, protest the fact that it was a lip sync to, like, they were playing with a track, and anyway, the way, like, Questlove was on drums reminded me of him slowly being like, man, I ain't even fucking playing. What if I just fake play to be a dickhead because we can't do anything? But yeah, it's hard when you watch real musicians up there being like,

here, I'm playing an instrument that isn't even present in the audio you're hearing right now. By the way, Sclair oil dinosaur balloon not historically accurate we discovered uh from a listener who i think when we had dr grant on she was speculating that she thought like a lot of the fossil fuels came from dinosaurs but the fossil fuels are mostly plankton yeah not as exciting a logo yeah so not not as exciting a logo and here comes the sinclair plankton float yeah exactly but although those things are gnarly up close you ever look plankton up close yeah they look like fucking gross pieces of shit

fuck with no plankton dude i would look like i got baleen in my mouth bro yeah i ain't fucking combing the sea to eat that crap and finally uh we did you catch any of uh anna indiana no this is a ai singer songwriter who dropped a track on the world betrayed by this town that is uh yet another example of like when i like we should just look at this when everyone's like ai is already here and going to take our jobs um maybe that's true but this uh looks like shit and sounds like shit and completely lacks any modicum of humanity like the thing that art is supposed to have sitting at my favorite cafe sipping my tea yeah man fuck out of here anna indiana the fuck is wrong with you yeah sitting at my favorite cafe drinking tea. Oh my God.

What then? Like there's like some faux like agit prop in there where she's like, talks about feeling betrayed by this town and wanting to tear it all down. Oh, which I don't know. Yeah. Sorry. Could be like the Terminator future coming through a little bit but some people were like oh

of course the ai is woke woke mob yeah i'm sorry anna indiana but it's definitely enough for me dog you know just you tried it's so like even the animation is really the animation is so wild because she just like makes unblinking eye contact with the camera the whole time with this weird half smile on her face. Yeah, and the body shape too. It's clearly doing this thing where they had a still image, but they just animate the head.

Don't even make the shoulders or torso move like a human would. It's fixed and the head is just like, hi, I'm Anna Indiana and I hate this town here's how you make napalm with a little bit of styrofoam follow me kids um like y'all the i think to andrew t i remember like when we first started talking about this and andrew t was on the thing that always stuck with me about him like just being like man fuck these ais and like

their ability to create stuff is like they have no fucking taste like there's no like there's it's not drawing from anything that would give you something that like resonates i get when like they can make another artist say some shit like that evokes a ton of stuff for you just listening to it whereas like i don't know who in indiana is and this sounds like a teddy ruxpin that got damaged in a storm or something yeah exactly yeah like having having one artist's voice covering another artist's song is like enough that there's like something kind of at least temporarily fascinating to listen to there but this one is yeah when you try and go fully original it's hold on I hear it again dude who's done everyone

dreams shattered hopes and silent screams wow yo this is those lyrics are of somebody who tried to have a career and didn't make it and they're like fuck it if i can't have this track then maybe anna indiana has yeah yeah i feel i feel like that's the this is being puppeted like some you know middle aged guy so dark behind this you know like there is the lyrics have this like you know Steve Bannon when he couldn't be funny

or actually an entertainment industry kind of anger behind it yeah it's just my LA riots musical didn't take off cause this town's full of fucking broken dreams oh man yeah well anyways we can't wait to see what she does with the rest of her career yeah an artistic revelation hopefully the artist can render the other half of her face

um too so when she turns it's not just becomes like a weird shadow but hey yeah uh we're rooting for you anna to for your motherboard to melt down or whatever we do to wish ai is a demise jam was pointing out that her name sounds like a mad magazine parody of hannah montana oh my god yeah the work yeah it's truly we've got hannah montana at home honey yeah but it's like like anna indiana is like it's that's because like it already the last name has the word anna in it yeah i guess what could they are there other names like that if they're trying to do that same kind of naming convention like state last name with a fun right uh becky new york you know i mean

something classy like becky new jersey uh like tia california or i don't know look y'all it's it's that's why hannah montana works y'all yeah you know what i mean just leave it alone some things you don't have to perfect yeah like disney you have the disney channel that's basically ai um that shit has felt like it was written by ai like all along a little bit so which one the disney channel just like when i like hear about what it because i never like really watched it growing up but then like what i would hear about it from a distance and be like what is this feels so strange and distant this is like an adult looking at children culture and being like

stupid oh that's oh okay cool you think that's smart? No, I'm smarter than that, five-year-old. You put on a magic jersey and now you're Marshall Falk? Okay, okay. All right. Those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday morning. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass episode of the show, which, hold on to your butts um you already heard that you already know it's a croft and joint y'all and he's got youtubes to recommend uh until then be kind to each other

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