The Daily Zeitgeist - The WALL-E Chair Is Here, Also WW3 1.6.20

Episode Date: January 6, 2020

In episode 542, Jack and special guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian and Facial Recognition Comedy co-host Pallavi Gunalan to discuss Cats, what is going on with Iran with super producer Anna Hossnieh, Kohls x Under Armour trending, Mark Zuckerberg shopping at Costco, the new updated Segway, and more!FOOTNOTES: 'Cats' Visual Woes Began Early On In Production U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian Forces Timeline: How tensions escalated with Iran since Trump withdrew US from nuclear deal Timeline: How the Iran crisis unfolded after Qassem Soleimani's murder FLASHBACK: Trump Predicted Obama Would Attack Iran To Get Re-Elected “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate...So the only way he figures he’s going to get reelected, and as sure as you’re sitting there, is to start a war with Iran.” Bernie on Iran 6 months ago MARK ZUCKERBERG BARGAIN HUNTING ... Shopping At Costco?!? Segway’s newest self-balancing vehicle is an egg-shaped wheelchair TICKETS FOR DAILY ZEITGEIST AT SF SKETCHFEST WATCH: Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (Freedom Fry Cover) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Locatora Radio. Listen to Señora Sex Ed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 115, episode one of Dirt Daily Zeit zeitgeist a production of i heart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness and say officially off the top fuck the coke brothers wow and their coke industries and fuck fox news dangerous it's monday january 6th 2020 are we gonna say 2020 or 2020, Jamie? What do you think? I'm going to say 2020. 2020. Did you see that Barbara?

Yeah. This is 2020. This is 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Hayesite Gang, your daddy's home. He's not going to leave you all alone. Thinking about the Stumpster Fire. Oh, I'm Jack O'Brien

That is courtesy of Milk Swagger And I'm thrilled to be joined by my special guest co-host Jamie Lofton And we all say Oh, well, I never was there ever A freak would get so clever as Magical Little Zamboni If you haven't seen Cats

Oh, I really liked that song That's from Cats I've never heard it You've got to It's wild to me that you have not seen it yet I know I think four people have seen it I'm ashamed

No, it actually did better than you would expect for being what is It made back like 12% of its market. And we love that for cats. I do. And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Pala Viganalan. Hi. What's up?

Nothing. What's up with you guys? Thrilled to have you. We're thrilled to be back. Thrilled to be here. Thriving. Thriving. Thriving. Living my best life.

How was your holiday? How was your New Year? It was fun. I was in New York, and then I flew back on Christmas. Wow. Lots of people in the airport, which I was not expecting. Wow. It's pretty cheap to fly that day, right?

It was cheaper. That's why I did it. But also, a lot of dressed up dogs. They're all flying to and from home. Special occasion dogs. Just by themselves? Worth it. Unsupervised dogs.

To and from. The airport shuts down. Hey, I don't know. It's a dog daycare now. It's a dog park. Tell me you wouldn't watch a Disney Plus movie called Unsupervised Dogs. Oh, hell yeah. I would watch it.

I would watch that podcast. Isn't that what a lady in the tramp lady in the tramp is sort of the live action lady in the tramp i've watched the first 20 minutes twice i watched i watched most of it and my and sunny was like transfixed he was like barking at the cg dogs because something wasn't quite right what problematic thing do you think he was screaming at the screen sunny was saying was like why aren't they cussing? Just wish that the Tessa Thompson dog was swearing.

Do you think that dogs get mad that they have stereotypes about different breeds? I wonder. I don't know. I think anytime Sonny barks at a dog I'm like he's calling her a bitch and he's not wrong but he's not right. Hey let me smell that butthole. Let me smell that hole.

Speaking of cats. Let me smell holes. All right. Well, we're going to actually talk a little bit about cats. And probably we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. Cats, obviously. We're going to talk about the situation with Iran.

What is happening. we're at war maybe going to be who knows uh we are going to talk about the most perfectly timed viral campaign at the end of last week uh by coals and under armor um we're going to talk about Democratic primary. We're going to talk about Marky Zuckerberg at Costco, where he's totally normal and totally at ease. Segway is back, and she's more dystopian than ever. All of that and plenty more. But first, we like to ask our guest, Pallavi, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I just searched.

I had a tweet about communion, so I searched to make sure I knew what communion was. Like the wafers? Yeah. And? And it's exactly what I thought it was. Yeah. Because my tweet was me finding out what communion is,

and it's... Them crackers. tweet was me finding out what communion is and it's crackers I was like make sure you're not ignorant while being ignorant that's right they're the least crispy

crackers but they do melt in the mouth not in the hand do you guys like I don't know do you find it like I kind of want to watch him like wash his hands before he like feeds everybody crackers uh that's part of the catholic ritual oh it is i think i think yeah there's like i've seen a couple times very ritual hand washing where you like pour a little bit of cold water over their hand they're like i want like a good thing happy birthday twice

i want to see that because i've seen a couple times and I was like, I don't know. Yeah. We'll know about this one. Catholic communion is like the most sinister shit you could witness. It's freaky. I don't know. It also feels like he's just doing his dishes because like he, after the wine thing, he has to clean that out and then you have to watch him like fold his dish towel and then

you're like, he's lonely. to watch him like fold his dish towel and then you're like he's lonely i like always find like watching catholic rituals both sinister and weirdly comforting because you're just like did you grow up catholic a little bit we grew up like a lot of different stuff i like did did we did catholicism for a little bit and then we switched over to protestant and then we were wiccans for five minutes then we quit but your family was wiccans my mom then we were Wiccans for five minutes, and then we quit. Wait, your whole family was Wiccans? My mom and I were Wiccans. Oh, hell yeah. My mom got a lot of books, and then we went rogue for a very short amount of time, maybe a few months.

Did anything prompt this? Yeah, my mom's best friend is Wiccan. Oh, okay. The Pope of Wicca. She's the all-female reboot of the Wiccan. Oh, okay. The Pope of Wicca. She's the... Slapping hands out of the way. All female reboot of the Wiccan Pope. And so we were Wiccans for a second, and then we were just like, you know what, let's just

sleep on the weekend. I have an uncle who always changes religion. He's always searching for something. I kind of like that. Started out Hindu, and then I think it's... Yeah, so he started out Hindu, and then like found a guru and then he was like Buddhist for a while. And then he was like really into like Reiki. Like he was constantly.

And then the last time I went back, he was like, we need to talk about neural pathways. And I'm like, we don't, uncle. I don't think you understand what's going on. I feel like that is, everyone has like a certain uncle who's searching yeah searching uncle i have an uncle who's always trying to invent something he tried to invent a hand sanitizer that's like in but it's a bracelet he i think he like took his like my cousin's like college money and was like hand sanitizer bracelets are the future we're like i don't think it is anyways he's looking he's searching yeah he's

buying the book searching for a job for his son now i hope your uncle finds what he's like i also hope that uncle shout out uh what is something you think is overrated um oh i was what i talked to you about i actually wrote this down before we talked about it dog diapers i think they're they're so bad the poop gets everywhere yeah so people who have kids imagine if your baby's ass was hairy it would be impossible to clean and also like if your baby was a lot faster right yeah running around yeah and there is just shit like trailing behind yeah it's a it's a nightmare it's because every time i tell them that my dog has accidents they're like use dog diapers and i'm like you don't have a dog right yeah yeah you don't know what you're talking about i think they're okay for pee yeah they're okay for pee but you never know when the poop's gonna come out

do not use them for poop they're so bad but. But they're so cute. They're very cute. Yeah, they are really cute. Aesthetically. Dog butts are very cute. Dog asses rule. Yeah, dog butts are very cute. Just walking them, watching them scurry around. They look like teddy bears. Yeah, watch the way it moves.

Oh, man. I love to see it. Look at that thing. Look at that thing move. That's all they're thinking when they go to sniff, right? Yeah, exactly. Look at that thing. It's the same thing we're thinking.

No one can resist i get it no dogs i get it i get the obsession uh what is something you think is underrated uh roommates everybody's always complaining about their roommates but again my roommates help me with my dog oh um but they're very sweet and they're also it's also good to have roommates that are not in comedy yes yes absolutely oh you guys have other lives and aren't narcissistic. Yay! Yeah, I feel like having roommates who aren't necessarily part of

your same scene or your friends, that's something I never did, but I've now known people who have done that. Well, your kids both have podcasts. They are on this network. Yeah. It just hasn't dropped yet.

We're trying to get their language skills up to par. The one-year-old is really struggling. I totally agree with you, though. Yeah. It's like living with people who also have a limited grasp on what you do and vice versa. You're like, oh, this is nice. It's like being back at home. Yeah. Like with parents who are like, oh that you use that in your little comedy yeah or they like give you ideas because they're not just talking about comedy the whole time so they're

like oh i read this article about this other thing that's not just on twitter or like oh did you know this thing was invented by this and you're like what there's a level of sincerity you can't access in your your day-to-day life it's great it's that is great yeah uh what is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false this one i always uh have a hard time with but uh today because i was looking it up uh female orgasms no i'm kidding um but but i was i am i do like a web series called Dirty Science. And for the next episode, I'm going to talk about female orgasms. And the female orgasm was right now, it's not associated with like ovulation or anything.

But in other species and perhaps in the past, it might have been. Like it might have been the reason that women were like like you orgasm and then it like coaxes you to ovulate oh yeah so it might have been like a part of the the progress of like having a baby oh okay but now it's not what up just for funsies now it's just for funsies. I heard that 207 senators went to SCOTUS and said women can't legally cum anymore. Yeah, it's against the rules. Oh, boy. Well, speaking of all sorts of orgasms, Jamie, you saw cats.

I did. Yeah. Oh, okay. So, wait, Pallavi, have you seen cats? I saw the original cats on Broadfuckingway. What? Broadfuckingway. Broadfucking Way. What? Broad Fucking Way. Broad Fucking Way. Oh, hey.

When I was a child. What's up? Did you love it? Okay, honestly, the only thing I remember was during intermission, they had the main king cat guy. I don't remember any of it from now. But they had the main guy just sit up on stage. It's a genie bench cat, yeah.

And you could walk around him and take a picture and he just like sat still right so was there a part of the thing that like the cats come into the audience do they do that in broadway on um i don't remember them being near me but they were like all over the place oh yeah i because i'd seen two local productions of it which is i i seeing like it i don't i don't know I would love to see a production of cats that was like by competent performers because I've seen two local ones and they were incredible but for probably not the right reasons I thought you were gonna say that one a performance by cats for cats I would like to see cats let's see where cats is okay so I okay so cats is, I think, the new Rocky horror in terms of everyone has been saying.

Oh, yeah. People will watch it at midnight. It's so horrific to look at, but I loved it so much. It's so good. It's so horny. There's no, one of the great things about it is that there's no way to spoil it for anyone. You can just talk about Cats freely because the plot is nothing. It's just cat after cat after cat

coming out being like, I'm the cat that does this thing. And then Idris Elba shows up and turns them into dust. And that also kind of has nothing to do with the plot. But Idris Elba is the villainous cat, right? And he's giving it 110%. God only knows how long it'll take him

for him to bounce back from this. Because he was supposed to be James Bond and now he's this cat, right? But anyway anyway do you think he's still just permanently this cat i i'm i don't know he really he people committed to the cats at varying levels right and i i found who is the least committed the least oh that's a good question the least committed i would say would probably have been taylor swift and she was still pretty i didn't even know she was in it she's in it they clearly had her for two days but she was in it she plays like idris elba's like femme fatale cat harley quinn basically okay basically joker yeah but she they they Quinn. Basically. Okay. Basically Joker. Yeah.

But she, they, they like wrote a song for her. There's all these great cursed images of her and Andrew Lloyd Webber sitting down together. I'm like, what could they be talking about? But she's like, she's like,

I love to Vita. But so she's in it and they like the things that they do to the cat's bodies are very bizarre. Like some cats have very voluptuous human features and others are just cats um and then like uh what's her name like unzipped her fur i saw that rebel wilson so that scene i think is the one that people have seen who haven't even seen them yeah where wilson unzips her fur and there's more roaches but hot pants the roaches are also in that scene rebel wilson i

would say is one of my least favorite cats it's not a her thing it's just it's just a hard a hard part of the movie and is she eating roaches she's eating roaches and then they zoom in on the roaches and the roaches are kind of like dancers circus dancers and they have top hats, and they have human faces, and we don't like it. Do real cats eat roaches? No. Well, I mean, they eat rodents, but it's not like... They definitely don't.

They don't? I don't know. My dogs have eaten roaches before just because they saw a big bug, and it seemed like something fun to eat i feel like it's more like accidental than a like cat thing right exactly but this like the scene that i saw it seemed like it was uh you know they had a hunting method yeah to like knock it off the the whole thing is i think ian mckellen committed hardest to being a cat in the traditional sense

he's really swishing around. He's switching around. He's going, wow. There was one time where he basically looks to cameras like, wow. You're like, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. My favorite cat was Jason Derulo cat. Okay. He was unbelievable, committed, harder than I've ever seen.

And also on the cat's press tour, he was like, this is genius. This is the best fucking thing that's ever happened. And he was mad. He was upset that they edited out his bulge. His package. Yeah, because Jason Derulo is really into his bulge.

Yeah, loves his dick. Yeah, which I know for sure because I text, no, because I went to- He won't stop DMing me. I went to Madame Tussauds recently and they have a wax Jason Derulo and the package is like

impressive yeah like it was clearly a part of the contract children go there children go there they're at package level too yeah exactly it was alarming so there was it started

with his instagram post where he was wearing underwear and his he was just like had his big thing hanging out to the side i love his i love that story so much because he like said he got taken down he fought back he he clapped back yeah and said where's my bulge pic and then he also said that that picture was uh candid right which if you saw it was clearly taken by like it looked like a fashion annie leibovitz jr like not a candid picture oh jason derulo um now there there is some controversy from cats uh about whether ian mckellen's character eats his uh boyfriend cat's asshole or not um well i i don't know yeah i i i don't i'll have to see it a third time to tell you for sure did you see it twice and hands and hands a lot of people i know saw it twice

oh that's amazing it's really fun it's confusing the first time, I think. Yeah, and then the second time, you just kind of go to this other, I don't know. I saw it in a big group the first time and a smaller group the second time. Don't go alone. Definitely don't go alone. And don't go to an afternoon screening. It's meant to be in a group full of people that are vibrating at night. And bringing your cat.

Jennifer Hudson is, I mean, this isn't fair to her. of people that are like vibrating at night and bring your cat jennifer hudson uh is i mean it's like this isn't fair to her but she still delivers right she sings memories right she sings it like four times but then you can tell she sings like a verse every 20 minutes and then at the end you get the jennifer like that like it's it gets really but she like gives you a taste so many times and then she plays the cat that like so in the show she's the cat that like no one likes and you're like why but whatever they just don't like

her and so like the main cat keeps going out and being like hi and then Jennifer Hudson sings three words of memory and she's wearing this huge coat and then she gets on her hands and knees and crawls away and it's they do this long shot multiple times of jennifer hudson crawling away in this long jacket you're like some of the cats wear jackets also others don't huh edra's elbows wearing clothes the whole movie until the end at the end he suddenly isn't

and it's like put the clothes back on oh right because he's like ripped but he's like human ripped but yeah they're like james bond training on a cat right and then they gave taylor swift these like gigantic cat titties that are human titties that are also two of them right yeah just two of them right just? Just two of them. Right, just human titties. When there's... There should have been six. Well, right. Cats have six titties. Have you ever picked up a pregnant cat or like a breastfeeding cat?

Have I? No. It feels so fucking weird. You're like... My 12-year-old dog, like now you try and pick him up and like part of him like doesn't come up with you.

It's just like he's like all jiggly all over the place yeah i feel like that's the closest i've come but um the closest you've come yes um but my my the best cat in the movie for me is skimble shanks the railroad cat um played by uh some guy oh really steven mccray steven mccray he looks like a legit dancer look at that he is yeah there's a few cats that are like professional dancers and that's why you don't know who they are and then there's like James Corden and you're like no thank you He's like in a carpool

Is he unnerving? James Corden is giving it like a weird amount of, like he's good and then they also like clearly let him riff and then they didn't cut it out like don't let James Corden riff what are you doing cut it out can you imagine i get like letting him do it i'm like he's not gonna shut up if you don't let him do it but like i just like and then they didn't cut it out like adding like he's riffing on like the idea of cats or he's like doing jokes he's doing like he thinks he's in a judd apatow movie like he's just like he's improvising whatever whatever i like you know he can i

like him in the car i just don't like when he gets out of the car oh that's my thing get back in your car stay in the car is his background like musical theater or something yeah and he's also like the most despised person in britain people don't like him i don't know what the reasons are they think we're idiots for liking him oh really it's like it's kind of like ricky gervais where like they they were almost like like like the uk hated them so much that they just came to america and started bothering us wait the uk hates ricky gervais yeah everyone i mean everyone hates ricky gervais what is my favorite what the fuck I actually really love the British office but he yes but that was 20 years ago yeah that was a while did you see that

Ricky Gervais tweet about Joker no he like oh wait it was like so earnest and you're like yikes Demi Adjayebe tweeted it oh yeah i did see this actually it was just like ricky gervais being like wow performance of the century oh yeah of the decade me love is so much just like oh yes he's at film and performance of the year prayer emoji hands and he tweeted at the joker movie twitter account too okay embarrassing for everybody this i feel like with um with cats going back to cats yes um do you actually think it's going to ruin and just elbows like career because i feel like there's so many cats in there that you can't distribute no he'll be fine he'll absolutely be fine yeah like okay i think the dancer cats

we're saying we'll never see them again on screen. We'll have to go to the French ballet to see them. Jennifer Hudson's going to be in the Aretha Franklin movie. She'll be great. She's going to be great in that. Literally everyone's going to be fine. There's too many cats to target. Tom Hoover. The director.

Tom Hoover will not be fine. His life is over. His life is over. His family has left him i respect the shit out of what he did though because it's like such a risk it's he created something that now like exists in the firmament of people may fund me for calling so many movies iconic in my look back at the decade and our look back at the decade but i do feel like this has become iconic like it's a cultural thing that everybody is drawing on that is in like the cultural mind firmament now i like that you don't have to be good for that to happen you just have

to like be weird enough and like i don't know like there's here remember this uncanny valley of cats right he's gonna have to make indies until he dies but I'm glad he did this right me too I mean like he started with the king speech

which I have a voice I don't I was always mad at that movie for beating social network saw it twice in theaters yeah

I was mad at it because Jamie saw it twice in theaters and thought that was more than it deserved. But it was just like a blah movie. And then he made Les Mis, which I thought was like blah and bad.

So like for him to go in this direction. He made The Danish Girl, which also has not aged very well. Oh, yeah. And then he made, I mean, of those four, Cats, I think, is by far the strongest. And history will remember. he looks like he should have been in king's speech right like it's like this is me can you and it's like it took so much it's all so expensive looking they had the practical effects makeup and then they put cgi on top of the practical effects makeup and so it's very unnerving but it's good and they also

like somebody was like i figured i forget who it was they tweeted it but they were like I figured it out it's because they didn't give them cat noses. They were like human noses. Oh that makes so much sense.

And then she like photoshopped and gave them like cat noses and somebody else made them more cat like and it looked so much better. I feel like they look more cat like on stage

than they do in the movie. Yeah because it is just like Rebel Wilson's face. That makes sense. It's like they should we should have done the thing that they did with like Sega or Sonic. With Sonic, yeah. We just pressured people.

That is an interesting new trend where people are like betting like $150 million on these giant CG products, but like for some reason they're not like focused group testing the images of them. Or just like stepping back for like a second. Like give it a night, sleep on it guys.

Show it to your wife or whatever. You're like, oh, what the fuck is that? I do like that everybody pressured for the Sonic thing to be better because it was so much better after. They're like, your art isn't the art we want. Right, yeah.

He shouldn't have weird teeth like that yeah weird human teeth um well all right well that this is something this is obviously a developing story we'll be returning to over time you really if you haven't seen it see it see it with a loved one who is like on the fence of whether they want to see it and then they will be fully on board yeah i saw bombshell over the break whatever oh i wanted to know about that well it just it was it was all the performances were good but it was like written and directed by two straight white guys and so they were just like um this is feminism right and you're like no uh so that was whatever little women liked it cats

i mean by far whoo i loved it so much really well which like you love three which will stick with me cats but I really did like little women too okay little women too in case you haven't read Little Women. Someone yelled at me for spoiling Little Women. I was like, this... Shut up. I saw a tweet recently that was like, there's a cut scene at the end of Little Women

where Beth Sands shoots out of the grave. Sam Jackson drops in. He's like, we need you. Can you look that up, whose tweet that is, so we can cite them? It's a great tweet. That was really funny. But yeah, that's good too.

Everyone should see it. Yeah. I loved Uncut Gems. Oh, I haven't seen it yet. I saw Knives Out. I didn't see Knives Out. Oh my God. I've seen Knives Out three times.

It was so good. Dan is losing his mind over your shoulder. It rules. It's so perfect. It's the perfect movie. It rules. It's another one of these movies that that's like an original it's not part of like existing ip and it's doing really well at the box office so maybe that will be

the trend of the 20s maybe we'll stop making nothing but sequels i'm gonna go see little women too there's some beth's revenge i'm see it, I think, one more time because Rian Johnson did like a director's commentary. Oh, really? That you can like bring to the movie theater with you and listen while you watch it. Oh, weird. So I think I'm going to go do that. It's like a museum. Yeah.

He was one of my favorite interviews on, I think it was the Girls in Hoodies podcast, which we now have the on Grantland. We now have the descendant of that with all the women from that show called Night Call on our network. But they interviewed Rian Johnson. He was so interesting to listen to. He's such a smart, like just interesting person. Like his thinking about movies is really interesting. Big fan. I like liked it so much. And I was like, why aren't movies, like this seems simple, it's just a good script

and then good performances and like being self-aware. Like why are not all movies this? And it's like also, I don't know, I feel like it made me think about how rare it is to like be able to tell that everyone who's performing is enjoying themselves. And then maybe think of other movies I'd seen recently where I'm like, they did a good job, but I don't think that they were like performing is enjoying themselves. And if you think of other movies I'd seen recently where I'm like, they did a good job,

but I don't think that they were stoked to be there. Everyone in Knives Out seemed like they were so happy to be in that movie. Yeah, it was great. Well, you'll be disappointed to know that the studio has quietly rolled back all their campaigns to have Cats nominated for Academy Awards.

Mistake. Truly, I think that them taking the Taylor Swift song out of the original song consideration is a mistake. Yes. Well, I, over the break, saw The Family Stone, which is a very old Christmas movie that, I don't know, was fine. And I saw The Grinch, the new Grinch on Netflix. Cumberbatch Grinch.

35 times. I saw the Netflix documentary Don't Fuck With Cats. Oh my God, I saw that on Christmas Eve. What is it? Oh my God. Oh my God.

You don't want to watch it. I'm getting a no, no, no, no. You need to watch it. I don't want to watch it. Okay, I'm getting mixed messages here. It makes you very uncomfortable. The whole time, you're never comfortable

and you're just like, why is this happening? And I kept having to look away. like because i was so almost started crying all right actually before we uh get into the details of the plot from this documentary spoiler alert guys if you want to watch this documentary which has lots of twists and turns uh you know fast forward a couple minutes three three minutes what do you think how long do we talk about three three three four minutes it's been haunting me for a lifetime though yeah all right but it's about this like guy who put up these videos of him torturing cats oh no and then a facebook group was formed

to find him and the methods that they use are good so So like, yeah, smart, but like unethical. And like, yeah. So, oh yeah. Very. And it was, it was just like vigilante people like searching for him.

And then vigilantism is scary. Yeah. And then he ends up like, I don't know if I, like, it's not a spoiler cause it's already happened in real life. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. No, but he like kills someone. He kills a person because it was escalating his videos. And then he was, he was a, he was a person because it was escalating, his videos. Oh, shit. He was this Canadian guy, and he sent the body parts to the Canadian- Justin Trudeau? Yeah.

And these people were tracking him, and the police weren't listening to them. It's a wild- I think that the documentary maybe gave a little bit too much credit to the internet vigilantes, but it was a really interesting story. Internet vigilanteism is... I feel like you shouldn't encourage it too much. No, yeah. It reminded me of the marathon bombing.

Yeah, the Boston Marathon bombing was really scary. That's what, like, because I was in there. I was like, oh, yeah, that's definitely the dude. Like, I wasn't writing that, but I was, like, following it closely and, like, trusting Reddit and, like, ready for I was and like ready for them to like take out this guy who it totally wasn't we were in our basement apartment like in Boston yeah like they found him and they hadn't and there was like a sort of story about that in don't fuck with cats where they thought they had found him and they ended up kind of

targeting this like person who was struggling with depression yes who ended up um taking their own life it was bad oh yeah so uh and then elsa at the end i hated the end the end was like the last ending the end she like they were like we don't know if we encouraged him but because he joined the group like the guy oh yeah he joined the group and he gave them clues like and that's why they were like on his that's the only reason that they like got but like and so they were like we don't know if we encouraged him because he wanted the attention right and then at the end like so she's telling her story right and then she's looking at a person off camera and then at the end she turns and makes eye contact with a camera and she's like she basically gives you a lecture of whether or not you should even be watching this documentary

and it's like you're in the fucking documentary at the end she's like so i don't know if we i'm like but it's so shocking because she looks into the camera for the first time it's like the peloton ad where you're like what the fuck you know it's kind of funny it ends very similar to cats oh my god because at the end of cats the movie judy dench breaks the fourth wall and is like, now that you've seen Cats, how are you? She sings this long, it's in the musical, but she sings this whole song

about like, you should be nice to your cat. Ask them what their name is. Like it's, she breaks the, much like Don't Fuck With Cats. It's just a woman

out of nowhere breaking the fourth wall and making you feel not good. I feel like the toxoplasmosis parasite is a lot stronger than we thought. It's everywhere. We're all infected.

We're like, what is happening? Seriously. A lot of cats content. Wholesome movie that is very good. Klaus on Netflix. K-L-A-U-S. It's like an original, and it's like the origin story of Santa Claus, but it's all like, it's so good.

Is it a documentary? No, it's an animated. It's another internet, it's so good. Is it a documentary? No, it's an animated. It's another internet vigilante thing. They hunt down Santa Claus and murder him. No, it's like a, it's an animated like children's movie, but it's like so. Where the first Santa Claus came from? Yeah. But it's like, it's just so good.

And it comes up with like clever ways of his origin story. Like another way it could be, you know? It's not like real, but yeah. Cool. It's like Batman Begins for Santa Claus. Yeah, it's so good though. And the animation is amazing. This time next year, we'll be talking about Santa University

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wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And yeah, as Jamie just pointed out, we talked for a half hour without bringing up the fact that World War III may be starting. Yay! We're going to bring in super producer Ana Hosnier uh who's been following this

story more closely than i have uh and yeah your family is from iran uh what's up anna happy 2020 buddy um yeah you know um i mean if you've been on the internet, maybe you've seen the World War III is coming, which, I mean, World War III, I don't know, that's kind of a weird thing to say. um kill assassinate assassinate uh kasem soleimani who is the um well he was the uh military leader of the iranian revolutionary guard which the u.s has the u.s and other countries like saudi arabia have designated them as a terrorist group so they killed him in a drone strike at the baghdad airport in ira Honestly, I was classically LA Anna. I was at Whole Foods when I got the news alert.

Sipping some green juice. There was a moment while I was standing in the hot food area where I think I saw the news alert and then I think I stood in place in complete panic. Not like, in complete, like, panic.

Like, not, like, panic, but just, like, oh, my God. For about 10 minutes, because a woman, like, pushed me aside. It was like, excuse me, I need to get to my mac and cheese. Right. And to me, I was like, goodbye, lady. Like, it was just so, I can't really, it just, to give some context. You went Sarah Connor on her, and to give some context don't you realize we're all dead i was like yeah enjoy your mac and cheese bitch because that's it right but um to give some context this man soleimani while known as a very evil man to us and most iranians um oh really

well yeah i mean if you live within the country some people support the regime some people don't And to us and most Iranians. Oh, really? Well, yeah. I mean, if you live within the country, some people support the regime. Some people don't. Got it. As it goes. But he's known for being a very hardline leader. He was loved by the supreme leader, Khomeini. Maybe you know who that is, but he is the literal supreme leader of Iran and one of the most terrifying people on Earth.

There are pictures and video of him kind of consoling the family and like, you know, with a photograph of him next to him. Yeah, let's just say this man was like the number two in Iran in a sense. Not literally like he wasn't like, oh oh i'm one step below the supreme leader but he basically wasn't how he was treated with respect and his his opinions how like his feelings on things were they were taken very seriously so he could go to the supreme leader and be like i want to do this and the supreme leader would be like hey you know what so my money i trust you and that's kind of the right intense situation we're in is we killed basically. It's like if you kill someone's best friend and that person is very dangerous and is going to react.

Definitely going to react because he's like, yo, you killed my best friend. And another way it's like we showed up and we killed pompeo right and we would all be like damn that was too bad well our loss like it's not gonna go down that way it's actually okay we've made a a big old gaffe right is to explain so what was the lead up to so at the end of december um there's a lot of like tension in iraq right now iran has a lot of influence in iraq which um iraq doesn't necessarily like because they're trying to run their own country and they're trying to come back from the saddam hussein days like there's and you know there was isis had taken control like there's so much going on in iraq i feel like has been trying to get back

on their feet and it's not really been possible because of all the kind of proxy wars going on within the country yeah um so a u.s civilian contractor was killed and several troops were injured in a rocket attack in kirkuk and um the militia group that goes by kateb hezbollah was blamed and if you kind of know hezbollah has been said to be an Iranian proxy group. There's a lot. It's hard to understand who is getting from what, but a lot of these. And Kirkuk is in Iraq. Yes, Kirkuk is in Iraq. Sorry. And a U.S. civilian contractor.

So it wasn't a U.S. troop or a U.S. soldier. No, it was probably someone who was like a BlackRock type. Yeah. Being like, hey, I could get you these weapons for a good price. And then December 29th, U.S. planes, they bombed three sites in Iraq. Iraq, sorry. One of them, Al-Qaim, and then two sites in Syria, and 25 people were killed. And the sites are all tied to that Hezbollah proxy group.

And those 25 people, were there any civilians, or are they all hezbollah i'm not sure okay to be honest with you it's if it was hezbollah like it's very hard to find out the numbers because they're not those distinctions are like so foggy it's like how do you know like that somebody is part of the militia or somebody who was like a family member of the militia or you know yeah and then december 31st um militia-backed protesters uh attacked the u.s embassy in bathdad and that is said to have been planned by soleimani which is where on january 2nd uh the iranian military leader soleimani and five others they're killed in a u.s drone strike at the bathdad airport uh the u.s officials have called it a defensive action. Now, this is the thing.

Pompeo said this was because an imminent attack was going to take place. Apparently, they have intelligence of this. But then the Pentagon came out and said it was meant to deter future Iranian aggression. That's two different things. So we don't know what's real or what happened. Shooting someone who has a gun aimed at you or being like, that guy seems dangerous. I'm going to shoot him based on my judgment. Now, I have another question. Sure, go ahead.

So what happened with the embassy siege? Did anybody die? Yeah, I think there were. I don't know the exact number. Not U.S. ambassadors, though. No, a lot of people got out. I don't think anybody died, actually. i don't know the exact not u.s ambassadors though uh no a lot of people got out i don't think anybody died actually no i think it was death well there was like an official like announcement from the white house saying that people like americans in iran should leave oh yeah they got out this morning yeah it was getting dangerous and uh but they eventually were able to get control of the situation.

There was some speculation that the Iraqi government allowed it to take place because of Iranian influence. And so it's basically, like Anna said, it's this proxy war that's going on for like struggling for influence uh and you know iraqi leaders are not thrilled to have either of those people there like pushing them around and so it's just a very complicated situation where different people are doing the bidding of either iran or the u.s and it just seems to me like this is a very provocative assassination that's taken place that it just seems like it's a next or a higher level than any military action that the U.S. has taken anywhere in a long time. Like it just seems like it's very provocative and also easily could spark something much larger. Yeah. You know, yeah. I mean, I think that's what people are reacting to well yes and it's kind of it's a wild thing because this has

been leading up like we have been leading up to this trump has been causing problems with iran since he pulled out of the nuclear deal and um there's this clip we have from bernie sanders that i think kind of nails the perfect amount of like, are you fucking kidding me? Like if you if you attack another country, that's an act of war. And you want to play it? Was President Trump's decision this week to call off that strike the right one? See, it's like somebody setting a fire to a basket full of paper and then putting it out. He helped create the crisis and then he stopped the attacks. The idea that we're looking at a president of the United States who, number one,

thinks that a war with Iran is something that might be good for this country. He was just doing a limited strike. Oh, just a limited strike. Oh, well, I'm sorry. I just didn't know that it's okay to simply attack another country with bombs. Just a limited strike. That, just a limited strike. Oh, well, I'm sorry. I just didn't know that it's okay to simply attack another country with bombs. Just a limited strike. That's an act of warfare. Yes, exactly. And that was recorded six months ago

before this, when we were still dealing with drone strikes where they shot down a U.S. drone over the Strait of Hormuz. This has been going on for a while, and you just can't go and kill a top military general and then think nothing's gonna happen how she like was talking she was like it's just limited though and i'm like do you know that people like are dying yeah it's so

removed like from our our like lives that people like don't understand like how exactly what we're talking about earlier like we aren't given the truth about who's dying and why things are done it's like so underreported here that you have to like really really really look for what's yeah and i i don't i i it's hard to say like again like they don't give us any information we don't know if the u.s has an exit plan we just know they've deployed over 3 500 additional troops in the middle east because iran vowed exact severe revenge on the u.s paratroopers too which i didn't know is that still uh i don't know but everything still troopers are back yeah even like uh jamie said they told the americans to leave they were like you gotta get out now you're literally you have a, what is it called when

there's like a thing? A target. A target. Sorry, useless. You have a target on your back because Iran is looking for you. They want to either one capture probably Americans to use as like a political bargaining tool which, hey, guess what? No one's bargaining with Iran. So you have to get out of there

for your own safety. I heard Iran said it is what it is. Yeah, they were were like sorry bro um it's sorry cnbc had a headline and for an op ed that was america just took out um a man many consider the world's number one bad guy like the propaganda machine is already starting that piece is written by a warmonger i read that piece it is do not believe i mean it is the facts are there but the way it's written is like oh well now all these all these iranians can finally look forward to this great new life without this like man overlooking them and then and it's just like this that's not how it works it was terrifying because this is from 16 hours ago and they're

already spinning it oh yeah of course it's insane i mean it's and it's like i mean how many wars are we gonna have to live through in our like lives but it's i i feel like it's kind of unbelievable that they expect people to still fall for that of like yeah we were uh alive for the last war and like y'all said that too and no one's gonna fuck that up i don't know but i think the danger is that people do believe's gonna fuck that up i don't know i think but i think the danger is that people do believe it like like when you people don't uh i think there's like an issue with people being able to like critically think and pick between media and like i i think maybe like we we know and we are aware but it's like it that's the terrifying part is that they do have influence and they're like already deploying it i thought yeah something i found like very i mean all of this is is terrifying but just um when the news kind of broke it didn't

seem like anyone in the white house or elsewhere had like a lot of information or like warning that this was going to happen like trump did the fucking low quality jpeG of the American flag. But it was like I tried to look for, you know, like sources of like just to contextualize it a little better. And most people who like report on the Middle East were like, we don't fucking know what is going on. Yeah. It took him until the following day, the 3rd of January to say we terminated him, which very very cool and then we took action to stop a war not to start a war um what but also they think pentagon says they're not going to have a press briefing the pentagon right hi major right you guys just drop a bomb less than 24 hours ago to assassinate a man and you're not going to have a press briefing this is the danger of having a modern president where you

know so much of the you know breaks and uh protections that are put in place are norms and he doesn't he doesn't like you know honor any norms so you know he just does stuff by his gut and we're left to sit back and wonder uh you know what why I mean, I think that's the big question a lot of people are speculating about now. One of the things I had given Trump credit for, and this is a redefinition of lowering the bar, but despite being a completely ego-driven narcissist bordering on solipsism with the functional intellect of an insecure 12-year-old, he has managed not to end the world through the first three years of his presidency. And that all may have changed now. And the most generous interpretation, I think, is that when you

have somebody like that with no morals and no convictions, they are always going to be around the generals and the military industrial complex. And there's just going to be this gravitational pull to try and pull them towards starting a war. That's just how... The scariest thing about Trump getting elected to me was this anecdote about the Cuban Missile Crisis when JFK and RFK were the only people in the room who opposed actions that would have ended the world. But they were like, no, we're fuck the military leaders like they just want to start a war and like they had to have backbone and like leadership qualities to stop that from happening and uh we just don't have that sort of person now so that's the most generous interpretation now there are some other interpretations going around like some people have pulled out this quote uh from trump during the ob administration, where he repeatedly predicted that Obama would

attack Iran to help him get reelected. And we even have a video. Let's hear what the president had to say. Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. We have a real problem in the White House. So I believe that he will attack Iran sometime prior to the election because he thinks that's the only way he can get elected. Isn't it pathetic? Yes.

Yeah. Well done. I feel like he doesn't understand, like, you don't just attack Iran. You just don't do it. Yeah, nobody. It's a bad idea to go to war with Iran. You know what's so arrogant? Yeah.

It's so arrogant to think that you're, like, the world's police. Right. Yeah. I saw some articles or, you know, know yeah I think there were opinion pieces from people who are like more you know the the center left even who were saying like nobody fears us in the Middle East anymore and that's a problem and it's like is it is that a problem that like we and also they do because we keep fucking things up. Right. It's the incompetency. Also, the last time a president was impeached,

I will read you a New York Times headline from that. Impeachment vote in house delayed as Clinton launches Iraq airstrike, citing military need to move swiftly. So there might just be a presidential playbook where they're like, if impeached, launch airstrike in Iraq. Yeah. So I mean, just to end this, what a war with Iran would look like. Just to be clear, Iran's not going to come bomb the US. If you're afraid that we are going to go to a world war three on our mainland

that's not going to happen so don't fear but the middle east will become so deeply destabilized a lot of people will die over there um and iran can attack u.s military targets in the middle east like in the region and of course i think proxy wars will step up and go even beyond proxy wars where iran will be the people being like, oh, it's us. Right. You know, it's us. And guess what? We're probably all going to get hacked.

Right. Because Iranians, very smart. They know how to hack. Right. And they also. They can ruin our infrastructure in a lot of ways. They are allied with Russia. So, I mean, that's the other big fear I think people have.

Well,ussia is dying to take control the middle east and that is just yeah i think this could yeah i could give them give them what what right what they wanted oh my god the long con yeah uh and palavi you're totally right about just like the i don't know just the media being weaponized to kind of get people on board and convince other. I mean, even the way that some presidential candidates have been tweeting about it are like a little bit, I don't know, wishy washy of like, well, he wasn't a great guy. So it's not horrible, but also it, you know, like terrorist is trending at 800,000 tweets or whatever. It's like that's just how they're painting him without talking about the repercussions of everything.

Yeah. Right. Well, also trending right now is something that I think is on everybody's mind. Yeah. And that is Kohl's and Under Armour

have teamed up for a collaboration, a sweepstakes. So as everyone was worried that the world was about to come to an end, the top six things trending on Twitter were about the, you know, the story we just talked about, US airstrike and assassination of Iran's top military leader. Yeah.

So, and then the number one or two thing trending at any given time on that day was cole's x under armor i mean i'll always remember being in the whole foods when i learned about the cole's x under armor team and this lady was like my mac and cheese and I was like not your mac and cheese now don't you understand they're finally teamed up well you know there's so much news to talk about but we're not going to have time to get to all of it so it'll still be there

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And there's all sorts of other important things happening. Mark Zuckerberg was spotted at Costco. Oh, my God. Pretending to be human. Headcanon, he was there with Priscilla. His wife. Is that your impression of guys with wives? This is my wife.

A Bechtelcast in joke on not that show. But they went together in Silicon, they went in hell. They went to costco closest to hell right and they're looking at flat screens first of all so don't make no mistake they're still rich right um but my theory is that like mark was being naughty naughty in their big scary mansion and priscilla was like you know what we got to bring you back down to earth i've heard of this place it's called costco and she as a punishment he had to walk among the people he looks he's looking at the flat screens uh in this photograph with a with a look of almost like bemusement like oh look at that that's cute there's like a little little flat screen there

do you think he was just walking around costco like oh yeah oh look at what. That's cute. There's like a little flat screen there. Do you think he was just walking around Costco like, aw? Yeah. Aw. The poor. Look at what they do. He was walking around going hot or not. Listening to the- It's like, let me rank.

Let me create a website to rank all these things. He's like listening to the music in Costco like, is this Despacito? He still hasn't heard Despacito. I can't find it anywhere. Facebook needs an audio. That's how Mark is trying to relate to the kids. He's walking around like, what's Despacito all about? Oh, boy.

Mark, I mean, he's a supervillain, but he went to Costco. So we have no choice but to stand, Jack. Yes. No choice but to stand. That is our 2020 motto. That's why Sam's Club is the club of the people. Dude, I've never been to a Sam's Club. That's all we had in Utah.

Or that's the only one that my family went to in Utah. It's like a Hardee's Carl's Jr. thing. I think they're owned by the same company. We had a Costco, but my parents refused to like, they thought the membership prices weren't fair. So we went to the ice cream stand outside the Costco, which is very reasonable. The pizza's good too.

Yes. Pizza's like good snacks. Giant. Giant pizza with like way too much cheese on it. But then you get like shafted at the door. You can't do anything. Yeah. But then you can't get in to get the chickens,

which are the whole. Somebody was telling me about some article they read where the costs benefit for Costco to sell those chickens. Because the rotisserie chickens at Costco are famously some of the best anywhere. Oh, really? They only cost $4.99. So what's going on? They put it at the very back of the thing so you have to go buy all the stuff in order to get there. So even though they're losing money

on the rotisserie chickens, they make it back just getting you in the door. Smart design. If I ever lived in a space that was larger than two feet by two feet i would get a costco membership but unfortunately i don't have space for items or if i ever like lived with people that would love me and like if i ever like had love i ever found love then i'd go to costco i would like to i like the ritual like of costco like i want i I want Costco for myself someday but I'm not there yet when Kanye said gotta use ID

to even gotta use ID to get inside a Sam's Club he was talking about burying his soul to his the love of his life that's what he was

talking about I want to get into like an argument at a Costco that's what I want Costco parking lot it's the new Ikea exactly

Costco parking lot is pretty intense is that have you gotten into Ikea. Costco parking lot is pretty intense. Have you gotten into it in the Costco parking lot? I have not, but I can see myself doing that in one of my weaker moments. That would be a really fun. Okay. I bet if I spent a couple of weekends walking around either in Ikea or a Costco parking lot, the things you could overhear would be life-changing. Like the gripes you would hear between people would be so good. That's a podcast.

We should- There, I'm dropping everything. There, fuck everything else. I'm gonna walk in a circle around the Burbank Ikea for six weeks. But yeah, because people are pushing around shopping carts that are the size of cars and people are also like fighting for parking spots.

You can't bring a car you like into that parking lot. You have to bring like your bumper car. Your spare. My spare. You have to use the cart as a car and Flintstone your way out of there. People should drive their Segway eggs in there. How many flat screens do you think Mark Zuckerberg bought? He's just looking at them like they're

so adorable. But I feel like he's like looking at it at like the screen technology and it's like this is trash. I'm sure. He's like what would be cooler than a million screens? A billion screens. His like eyes have better screen technology. He's like updated. He's a cyborg

now. Right. Well and also he probably has people come and perform TV shows for him in person. Silicon Valley. It's just T.J. Miller in his apartment. I'm like reenacting it. That's T.J. Miller's second act. He's Mark Zuckerberg's dude. I said apartment about Mark Zuckerberg and no one caught that he lives in a fucking mansion. He for sure lives in,

I wonder what his house looks like. He has an entire block of houses. He bought a mansion and then bought all the neighboring houses so nobody could see his mansion. So imagine like growing up in this like weird post-apocalyptic like block where like there's just abandoned houses like surrounding you like his that would be so strange star just did that basically yeah yeah i just i don't know who that is makeup artist yes i got really depressed and i watched all those rival

videos of them fighting with each other like really char Charles and Jeffree Star and somebody else. The other lady. Jeffree Charles or, whoa. Jeffree Star is a strange person. But like him, like Shane Dawson is his little like Igor now. And so they just did like a big house tour of Jeffree Star's new house. And it's like a Marvel villain.

It's so scary. And Shane Dawson was the one who had to tweet about not fucking his cat yes okay great all these very sinister youtuber yeah that shane got dawson that was my highlight of the decade shane dawson was like i didn't have sex with my cat how many times do i have to say this i didn't have sex with my cat i know i said i had sex with my cat but i didn't i took it back but then when you when you look at it it seems like he had sex with his cat and also i didn't know who shane dawson was before that tweet right that's a hell of a way to put yourself on the map my brother and i have this horrible ritual where we watch all of shane dawson's videos together they're they're it's some of the worst content you could ever make so What does he do? So basically his deal is he makes so much money off of YouTube.

And you can tell that he, like, because the longer people watch your YouTube videos, the more money you make. So he makes absurdly long videos about nothing. And it's like he'll do these, like, expose documentaries. He's done one on one of the Paul brothers. He did one on jeffrey star and it's just these like 10 hour long documentaries really make yeah and they're mostly about him and his husband and but then also you go to jeffrey like and it it's it's the most obnoxious thing he edits it himself and it shows like it's it's really it's really nasty it's a

really nasty corner of the internet. And it's populated almost solely by children, which is also weird. But he's one of the most popular YouTubers. Every one of his horrible videos has like 10 million views. Anyways, check out his documentary, Don't Fuck Cats. Not to be confused with Don't Fuck With Cats. Not to be confused with cats. It's called Don't Fuck Cats Parentheses.

I would never. One more story I think we need to talk about before we go because I think this is going to shape the way we look in the future and the future looks in the future. Just in time for 2020.

Segway is back. The Segweg. The Segweg. Holy shit. It's an egg. It's a Segway. It's a Segweg. It's the chair from WALL-E.

It's literally the chair from WALL-E. Okay, I'm thrilled about the new Segway. DJ Danil told me that I didn't know that Segway makes birds and limes. So they're actually, we've been laughing at them and making arrested development jokes about them. But in the meantime, she's been thriving, you know,

like Segway is killing it. And they just introduced this egg chair that it's basically, they're like, okay, standing is over. We're all sitting now. You're sitting in the chair from WALL-E and you control it with a little joystick. Although they're trying to develop technology that you can just kind of lean. But it doesn't work like a regular Segway.

You have to drive it like a little video game. It goes up to 24 miles an hour. It's called the S-Pod, even though it should be called the segweg yes um and thank you i was this whole time see the media brands things the way they want to absurd and they're not even good at it it's like when they had the sequel to now you see me called now you see me too instead of now you don't you're like this is a very clear mistake uh what is wrong with you but it's called the s pod and segue also admitted for some reason that it was inspired by the gyrosphere from jurassic world which is really embarrassing for them okay i was getting major um like grandparent uh up the stairs chair vibe where you just like

you're like sit in this well it looks like a kind of futuristic jazzy scooter yeah like it's a jazzy scooter except it's on two big wheels instead of four little ones i mean it just has like i mean it's it i'm sure that it will be helpful for many people. Yes, absolutely. But in terms of a major consumer product, it is dystopian adjacent. Yes. We're all going to be giant, billowy, pillowy, soft-bodied, wally people. And if we were annoyed with the scooters being in our way before like this is gonna be so annoying i mean the scooters became such a like that i still think the scooter is like one of the funniest things

i've just like a person a human douchebag can do is just go like right out of a room on what a segway scooter every friend of mine that I've talked to has gotten into an accident on a scooter. I've been hit by them several times. I don't know how they survived the fact that the guy who bought Segway in 2010 bought it and promptly drove it off a cliff and died. Wait, what? He didn't buy a Segway. He owned the company. name was jimmy heselden he was a british multi-millionaire uh he bought segway in january uh and then drove one of

them off the company's uh drove one of the company's two-wheeled scooters off a cliff and into a river and died okay to be fair that's 62 that should be an adam McKay movie, right? Like, sounds like an Adam McKay movie I want to watch. That's wild. Yes. But they're apparently doing well with their lines. Well, his legacy lives on through this segway. I mean, I remember when they released, when they unveiled the segway in the first place,

like there was a lot of mainstream media buzz. Like there's going to be a innovation that's revealed tomorrow. That is going to change the future. And it didn't, but they kind of did with the limes and the birds. Yeah. They changed that guy's future. Right.

Well, guys, what a start to 2020 yikes it's been a pleasure having you where can people find you um i'm at paula vegan all in p-a-l-l-a-v-i-g-u-n-a-l-a-n and that's my website my instagram my twitter and. All right. And is there a tweet or some work of social media that you've been enjoying? Yes. My friend Caitlin Weyerhaeuser had a tweet at Uncle Kate. They said, I love going up to women who are clearly with their boyfriend slash husband in public and asking, I'm sorry, is this man bothering you? Because nine times out of 10, she say you know what actually yes and that's a completely legal way to make strangers fight right uh jamie is there a tweet you've been

enjoying and where can people find you follow you okay uh so i you can uh follow me on twitter at jamie loved his help and Instagram at Jamie Christ Superstar. You can listen to My Year in Mensa. It came out two days ago. It's the whole Mensa thing. It's done. I'm done. You can listen to it.

It's four parts. It's done. Boom. A tweet. Well, listen, I'm just going to need a second. Yeah. Well, listen. Well, listen, Jack, I've never prepared for this part.

Do you have one? I do. You do? Oh, my God. I didn't know we were being silent just for me. No, you go. You go. You go.

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A couple of tweets I've been enjoying from Pixelated Boat. In the last decade, colon, I met my future wife. I got my legs stuck in two separate toilets. I got married. I sued the toilet maker for $14 million. My wife left me for a guy who wasn't stuck in two toilets. I lost the toilet money gambling online.

Legs still stuck in toilets. Blake Wexler tweeted something that I completely identify with. He tweeted, 10 or 15 times since visiting my parents, I've meant to turn on a light, but instead hit the garbage disposal switch. And let me tell you, it does not get any less startling. And then TheVolatileMermaid at OhNoSheTweetent tweeted, Future history class. Teacher, how did World War III start?

Anyone? Yes, Khaleesi. Kid. It's teacher. III start anyone Yes Khaleesi kid It's teacher no I meant Khaleesi M her hand was up First it started because President Trump was jealous that President Obama was more popular Teacher correct holster's Gun

David gout To hell Tweeted energy I'm channeling In 2020 it's just a screen cap of somebody else's Twitter, Eras, E-R-R-A-S, who tweeted, this edible is taking forever. And then immediately after, Sega PlayStation. I'm going to cite, I was going through some best tweets of the decade lists. And I'm going to cite maybe tweets of the decade lists.

And I'm going to cite maybe one of my favorite tweets of all time. I like to RT it every once in a while. Piers Morgan tweeted it on September 2nd, 2012. It reads only, I want to die. Did he really? Yeah, he's never deleted it. People retweet it all the time. Real Piers Morgan tweeted in 2012, I want to die, period.

Oh my God. Just a cry for help that has not stopped crying. There are so many good ones. All Cory Booker's creepy as coffee is my girlfriend tweets. There are a lot of good tweets in the 2000s. The website should be deleted. But, you know, Paris Morgan once said, I want to die, period. Yes.

And the tweet that Jamie referenced earlier was from one of my favorite writers, Anna Dresden, SNL writer, former Cracked writer. At Anna Dresden, she tweeted, got to stick around for the little women post-credit scene. And then in parentheses, Beth's hand shoots out of the grave. A man in a lab coat looks up. It's Jeffrey Wright. He takes off his glasses. She's ready. An extra hands him an AK.

Let's just hope she's on our side. Blackout. Yes, I had liked that. All right. Well, 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.

Footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on. Super producer, Ana Hosnier, do you have a song for us to ride out on? Yes anna hosnier do you have a song yes yes so i heard this recently it's a cover of clint eastwood by the gorillas but it's by this uh group called freedom fry and it's really cool because they do even like the dell the funky homo sapien part it's just so great it's really well done and i enjoy it and it's very like low key. Right.

Like font. Same vibe. And a call back to those halcyon days when we called french fries freedom fries. That's right. You remember that? Hey guys, stop calling them french fries. They're freedom fries. Yeah. Yippee.

Just kidding. I met my wife. We both called them freedom fries. It's 2020. It's the same McDonald's. If you're still eating carbs, you're out of your goddamn mind. Just joking. Find another way to insult the French.

All right. Well, that's going to do it for this first episode of 2020. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Saturday, January 25th, 8pm at the Gateway Theater in San Francisco.

We are going to be doing a live show. I think we have confirmed guests. I'm going to be in town then. Are you really? Yeah, I'm doing our sketch fest too. I'm going to be so fun. Yeah, so you guys check it out. Tickets are going incredibly fast.

Okay. I don't know if that's true. Ours are going at a normal pace. I do not have access to the numbers, but I'm sure that happens, because come on, get out there. All right, that's going to do it for today. We will be back tomorrow.

Miles will be back tomorrow, and we will talk to you guys then then because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to you then. Bye. Bye. Talk to you then. Hey, we'll talk to you. Hey, okay, Jack.

Stuck on. Hey. Hey. Hey, man. I'll talk to you. I want to die. Just kidding. You're like three inches tall.

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