The Daily Zeitgeist - Thoughts And Prayers Take 700, Olympic Bloodsport 2.15.18

Episode Date: February 16, 2018

In episode 86, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Matt Ingebretson to discuss a lawsuit against Taylor Swift, Supreme Court judges sarcastic rulings, the mass shooting at a Florida school, google trends, Olympic coverage, & more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's your boy, Zeitgang. I'm a gray as coke fart. And that's just one I came up with on the fly. Although, Chapman Rice, you are a legend in the AKA game. I'm going to have to say that right now because I think you hit me with another one this morning. Shout outs to you, Chapman. I hope you do more than just hit us with the fire AKs. But if you do, hey, bless you, too.

It seems like they just pour out of her. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's going on. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the very funny performer from corporate, Matt Ingerbritsen. Thank you. Hi. Hey, man. How are you?

Oh, I feel great. Good. We've had nearly everyone on from corporate yeah we were just asking how's the limelight yeah do you highly recommend the limelight yeah any of you listeners um are interested in the limelight give it a shot i think you'll really have a good time in the limelight yeah what was it you look very comfortable what was the moment you realized this is the limelight it was spiritual i just walked into the limelight and I was like, this is where I belong. Right.

Just the first moment. Yeah. You looked at yourself in the mirror and you're like, god damn, I look good today. Oh, I look good. Yeah. This is the limelight, baby. Good lighting follows you around. Do you have, you said you're from Texas, right?

Yeah, yeah. Do you have any people, like, obscure-o people from your past being like, yo, dude. Everybody. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And how do you you every single person how do you deal with that thankfully you have the shield of facebook so it's just like i have i didn't see it yeah i do i hate that's the thing i hate most about facebook messages is people see

when you've read a message who is that helping who is that for to keep people accountable see i know people like you i'm i'm assuming you're like me where I'll read something and then I get sidetracked or procrastinate or something or just feel like, okay, thank you. Right. And then people are like, oh, I messaged you and I know you read. You'll leave me on read? Okay. I feel like Facebook's entire motto is, what, you have something to hide? Yeah.

Yeah, right. What's wrong? What's going on? What are your secrets? Right. Matt, what's something from your search history that is revealing about you? I just last night searched Kylo Ren shirtless. Yeah.

Yeah, you did. Because in the most recent episode of Corporate, which is a TV show I have on Comedy Central, this is a plug, I'm shirtless in it. And somebody on the internet, this comedian John Ozele, pointed out that i have the same body as oh well ren with a few less muscles but i have it on my instagram if you look at my instagram at mad ingebrits and that's another plug um oh wow let me see no you do have the that wasn't intentional that is no oh my god that is identical almost oh my god man look at you looking like kylo Ren over here. Not bad. Jono was on our show very early on.

He was like guest five or six or something like that. Nice guy. Yeah. Matt, what's something you think is underrated? Well, when it was brought to me, it was underrated. It might now be receiving the correct amount of praise, but Paddington 2, I saw Paddington 2. Have you guys heard about Paddington 2 i saw paddington 2 yes have you guys heard about paddington we've heard about the the movement that is the paddington films because you're not the first person to

come in here and extol the virtues i know i think has it been an underrated before was it caitlin dorante maybe yeah i said it yeah i had the same reaction when somebody was like dude you gotta see paddington 2 i was like what the fuck get the fuck out of my get the fuck out of my limelight yeah um get out of my trailer yeah do not deserve this glow a few people told me to go see it so i did and i mean it's dumb but it's i wept i cried at the end it's like uh it's like a very well done version of that type of movie right right that's what i hear it's is it sort of like grizzly man and that's the other bear movie that i've seen that has received this much critical acclaim. It's deeply tragic, yes. So he's just a big bear-sized teddy bear type deal?

He's an actual bear, I believe. Is he? I didn't see Paddington 1, so I don't actually know. You don't know his origins? He came from the jungles of Peru or something. Right. And then they bring him back to the UK. But I think he's an actual bear.

He finds a bunch of coca plants. And starts farting everywhere. Yeah, that's how the guy found him. It's like limitless for bears. Matt, what is something that you think is overrated? This is a little abstract, but I think having cool taste is overrated. Yeah. And this is related to liking Paddington, too.

I think that too many people, especially in Los Angeles or wherever, are obsessed with having the most obscure, interesting taste. And what it creates is a shame culture where you feel ashamed of things that you might get joy from that aren't cool. And I think we should get over that. Do you have an example of something else you've felt shame about liking um well this one is now a little complicated because our new public persona but taylor swift for a long time was someone that i really enjoyed her music her album 1989 now it's she's like kind of maybe not the best person or whatever is going on with her but i I felt a lot of shame for liking Taylor Swift for a while. What do you think of the song Shake It Off?

I like it. Magic. I do too. I like it a lot. I've taken a lot of shit for really standing up for that song. Yeah. It's great. It's a great song.

You've got to stand for what you believe in, Jack. I do. You know the reason why we haven't seen Jack shirtless? Because he has all the lyrics tattooed on his chest. Right. Along with the big eagle for some reason. So we're trying to take a sample of what people are thinking and talking about right now. And the way we like to open up is by asking our guest, what is a myth?

What is something that people think is true that is not? Okay. A myth is that, and they've done studies on this, that most people or many people, especially who are not rich, don't think of themselves as poor. They think of themselves as not yet rich. And so the myth is that you will someday magically be rich either by like getting striking gold or in some way or another. But the reality is you most likely will not do that and you should live extremely frugally your life is going nowhere and yeah it's not even that it's more just that like it's it's too easy to like imagine just a boatload of money showing up at

your house someday right even though it sounds crazy like on some level psychologically people think of themselves not as poor but it's not yet rich and and therefore make dumb decisions with their money yeah i had a good friend ryan uh in college who said that his career aspiration was finding a big bag of money uh after we graduated and uh but then like it became clear because he kept saying that for years yeah like that was kind of it was like kind of a joke but like that was sort of his plan what if he did that would be so incredible he's in prison now he just stole a big ass bag of money yeah no ryan's doing great okay uh he he changed his career aspiration yeah i do think that that's a big part of the american ethos and also a big part of why people will let big organizations treat them like shit for a long, long time because –

Yes. It's coming. My time is coming. Yeah, my time is coming. I'm going to work my way up and it's just around the corner. Yeah, lift yourself up by the bootstraps, just start dealing some drugs and then you can get rich. That's funny because even as a high school student, there's that thing in that thing in my head i was like dude i'm gonna be fucking rich of course

when i get out of here and i was like promising kids in my class shit like preempt i was like yo kristen yeah i'm like at 40 you know i'm gonna be doing way better than you right so if you you know you you talk about how fit and everything you are, if you're in better shape than me, I'm going to buy you a Hummer. Right. I literally said that shit at like 16. And now you know Chris, you owe Kristen a Hummer. Right. And she's charging you interest.

You're in debt. Actually, I'm renting from her. Right. So she's my landlord. But again, she doesn't throw that in my face. She doesn't remind me of some of the things I might be on. That's very true. It's true.

Like, yeah, I guess that really is part of the dream is like because we glamorize. Yeah. Just not even because the middle class doesn't even really exist anymore that we don't even like look up to that. It's like, well, you're either poor or you're fucking 1%. Yes. So which one do you want to be? Right. And we talked on yesterday's show, but I'll keep saying it, that America, how much you end up making in your life is way more determined

by how much your father made in his life than other countries it's not a particularly easy place to like strike it big they've even done studies with like zip codes your zip code makes a huge difference and especially in America

even though this is considered the land of opportunity it's all branding. And ironically, someone won the Powerball yesterday too. $560 million. Nice. And rightfully so. This woman, I think it's a woman, she's trying to stay anonymous.

Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah, because you see all the documentaries of how when you become mega rich, that shit can be pretty painful. And we've all seen Lost too. Look what happened to homeboy. And Lost? Yeah. What happened? He won the lottery playing the numbers, the Lost numbers,

and all this bad shit happened to him. Oh, that's right. Yeah. 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. Oh, damn. Oh, someone asked me on Twitter if I know Mike Jones' phone number, 2-8-1-3-3-0-8-0-0-4. Hit Mike Jones up on the low because Mike Jones is about to blow.

So shout-outs to one person on Twitter. Miles just has sporadic conversations with individual people. Yeah, I use this to reach out. Christine Igusa. Yeah, I'm sorry, man. I'm going to get you that Hummer, too. So let's get into the stories of the day. And I don't know if you knew that Taylor Swift was our first story of the day.

I did not, yeah. But yeah, so Miles, take us into this story. So you guys, you talked about Shake It Off. And we all know that I think the player is going to play, play, play, play, play. And the hater is going to hate. That's why I said Shake It Off. And some of the people who wrote a 3LW song called Players Gonna Play, they tried to sue Taylor Swift saying, you stole that line from us.

So you owe us all the monies. Now, these people just got a decision, I think, yesterday. The judge basically threw the case out because he was like, this is not even original enough to be covered. So this is one of the decisions. I'm going to read the decision that the judge made. to be covering. So this is one of the decisions. I'm going to read the decision that the judge made.

In the early 2000s, popular culture was adequately suffused with the concepts of players and haters to render the phrases play is going to play or haters going to hate standing on their own. No more creative than

runner's going to run, drummer's going to drum, or swimmer's going to swim. The concept of actors acting in accordance with their essential nature is not at all creative. It is banal. The allegedly infringed lyrics are short phrases The concept of actors acting in accordance with their essential nature is not at all creative. It is banal.

The allegedly infringed lyrics are short phrases that lack the modicum of originality and creativity required for copyright protection. Mic drop. I love that it's also just a fuck you to her lyrics. It's like, you're not original. Everyone got blown out of the thing. He's like, well, guess what? Y'all are all fucking done. You suck at music.

Yeah. And the swimmer's gonna swim, swim, swim, swim. Oh, watch out now. That would've been great if it just like went off

on like a 20 minute tangent. The song was just like, litigate, litigate, litigate, litigate, litigate. Yeah.

Super producer Nick Stumpf pointed out that if that lawsuit had won, then Chappelle would have had a good lawsuit for his song I Wanna Piss On You, which contains the lyrics, haters want to hate, lovers want to love. I don't even want none of the above. I want to piss on you.

Piss on you. So, yeah, that was before any of that shit. So, but this is actually one of my favorite underrated things about judges. I have a list of those. And what number is this yeah this is number three on my list of underrated things about judges uh is i feel like some of them are just uh you know frustrated insult comics they just like because they they are so fucking sarcastic in their uh sometimes. So the Supreme Court back at Cracked, we did a story on the five most sarcastic Supreme Court decisions. And I wanted to read you guys a couple excerpts from some actual Supreme Court decisions.

So Antonin Scalia before he died on top of a prostitute probably at a hunting lodge, but that's not official. But there was that case where a dude wanted to play professional golf and he had like a weird hip thing that made it so he couldn't walk the course and he wanted to ride around in a cart. I remember this. And they were like, no, the rules of golf are that you have to walk the course. So it went all the way to the Supreme court,

at which point, uh, justice Scalia said, we justices must confront what is indeed an awesome responsibility. It has been rendered the solemn duty of the Supreme court of the United States to decide what is golf. I am sure that the framers of the Constitution fully expected that sooner or later the paths of golf and government along the links would once again cross and that the judges of this

august court would someday have to wrestle with the age old jurisprudential question for which their years of study in law have so well prepared them. Is someone riding around a golf course from shot to shot really a golfer? It goes over a – at first it's like, ah, that's kind of funny. But then it goes into mean. He's just really laying it on fucking thick. I hate that he's funny, though. Right, yeah.

It is annoying. So you might like this one better because this is justice ruth bader ginsburg the queen of media uh so she was judging on a a high school in the midwest wanted to give all of their students drug tests but they're not allowed to do that unless they're signing up for something in which like drug use could be a danger uh so like you can drug test athletes because then it gives them an unfair advantage and they could hurt the other athletes uh and they this school was like yeah we're gonna test our band leaders and they're like basically everybody who signed up for a extracurricular and this student was like yo i'm

in band yo we're all fucking high right and like we're kind of the point of band right exactly that's why i did it because my friends who played football they had all the energy to do it i was like yo i can be smacked in the stands just play my trumpet so ruth vader ginsburg responded like was basically get the fuck out of here to this high school and she said notwithstanding nightmarish images of out-of-control tubas disturbing the peace and colliding in quiet to musk in the town, the great majority of students the school district seeks to test in truth are engaged in activities that are not safety sensitive to an unusual degree.

Good for Ruth. Yeah. And then, once again, king Sting, Antonin Scalia. So somebody brought a case saying that the description of a criminal, like four people had seen his face, but they disagreed on how tall he was. The lawyers said that because they disagreed on how tall he was, they should be able to throw the case out because they didn't have the right physical description of his body. And facial features are only like one part of the body. So it came to the Supreme Court to decide whether facial features were enough to identify somebody. And Scalia wrote facial features are the primary means by which human beings recognize one another that is why bank robbers wear stockings over their faces instead of floor-length capes over their shoulders it is why the lone ranger wears a mask instead of a poncho

and is why a criminal defense lawyer seeks to destroy the identifying witness by asking you admit that you saw only the killer's face will be left out of the courtroom. Damn. Dick. That's pretty good. Although we've learned that eyewitness testimony. Right. Is fucking terrible.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But when you've got like a cocky, sarcastic takedown of the lawyer. I love it. Yeah. All right. We're going to go to a quick break and we'll be right back after that.

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school shooting worse than Columbine in Florida. And we wanted to cover some of the coverage, some of the reaction to the shooting, because it's, I don't know, it's kind of become surreal almost like at this point, the way that the media responds in the same ways. I don't know. It seems kind of clear to me like what the problem is, but they managed to, you know, write 80 stories about a mass shooting. Yeah.

It's weird because we see it so much. Like, we're even predicting the coverage now. It's like, okay, on Fox, they're going to say, oh, wow, we're talking about gun control suddenly. And then on, like, MSNBC or CNN, it's going to be about maybe gun control, but also, like, really personal stories about the victims and people who survived and things like that. And, like, I don't know. Even since we've started doing the show, how many shootings there have been, some we haven't even reported because to an extent we've kind of normalized these things as a country. Right.

Which is really fucked up. And then now I just feel like the coverage and our attitudes are like, are they going to shift now? Like, can we then sort of make this more about how we are going to solve this problem than sort of like begin finger pointing? Because that happened immediately. Right. It's just finger pointing rather than how do we move forward? How do we make sure this doesn't happen again? Yeah.

One thing specifically about the coverage that I think is interesting is there are these experts who like on social contagion and violence. They're like forensic experts who study like the aftermath of these sorts of shootings. And they're desperately begging every time there's a mass shooting. They're begging and like putting out these petitions that are signed by thousands of experts to not show the shooter's picture and not say their name. You can say everything, all the biographical details. You can give all the details, but just don't make their face. Right, don't make them into antiheroes. Don't make them into antiheroes, exactly.

Yeah, the problem with the coverage is that the coverage is monetized. And so the American culture doesn't have the self-control to not want to know those details. There's just something fucked up where it's like you kind of want to know what he looks like. Even if you know that's wrong and news organizations know that. And so it's like, who will be the bigger man here? And it's like nobody is being the big man. There was a sheriff in Oregon who basically was like, look, I don't want to say the guy's name. I don't want to show his picture.

It was a school shooting just similar to this one. And the Washington Post, of all people, were like, no, like we we need to tell people what they want to know. This is censorship. streaker at a professional athletic event goes off feed goes off don't give them any air they turn away because otherwise you know they don't want to encourage these people who are clearly like doing a stupid thing just to get their face in front of like millions of people they just you know know that that that showing them would encourage it and granted like i i've watched games where i'm like damn i want to see the streaker like especially when it goes on for a while like oh shit he fucking just juked that security guard yeah exactly like watching streakers run around and evade security guards is one of the most fun things you can see at a live sporting liberating it's good television right but they actually

resist showing it because it's the responsible thing to do and it like avoids creating chaos and the mainstream media at large just can't like this is a huge event this is like a super bowl for yes mass media yes so that's one thing that i think could help but but the thing too is like i mean there are now you know news organizations that make money through subscription a little more on the internet but it's all click-based money and so there's just a huge incentive to get the most clicks and it's just watering down journalism it's not who has the best journalism it's like who gets the most attention yeah who can package this in a way that make it's the clicks? Yeah, you're right. But so, yeah, when you look around, I mean, Fox, Laura Ingram on her show,

she, after starting the show talking about the shooting, took six minutes, a whole six minutes out of her show to talk about how safe the AR-15 is, the weapon that was used. It's crazy because Chris Murphy immediately on the floor is like, we need to do something. Like, when are we going to do something about, you know, gun control reform? And then she goes, I don't know. I mean, look, the AR-15.

Let's just play this clip so you can hear. This is what's happening on Fox News in the aftermath of this shooting. Let's look at the AR-15, what makes it so popular and overwhelmingly what makes it so safe. It's all over the country because it's a really good self-defense weapon. I would have one in my home for home defense. Thousands of people have them in their home because it shoots very straight. You can carry more ammunition in it, and it's actually safer because you're going to have less like the less you're going to have a lower.

You have to pardon me. I'm teaching a course in Hebrew right now, so I'm all over the place. You have a less likelihood of sporadic fire or hitting innocent people if you're using it for home defense, because it shoots really straight. So it's actually a very safe weapon. It's easier to shoot than a pistol. It's got more points of contact for stability, but in the hands of the wrong person. And again, where was the parents? Where was the home life of this child? There's so much more involved here than the way this guy Chris is so far out of left base.

Aaron, there are some things we've learned. His mother died last year. He was adopted. His parents, Linda and Roger Cruz, he's followed, apparently, according to Trace Gallagher, the Iraqi fighters online and the Syrian resistance. Now, maybe he was just following them, I guess, because he was curious. Red flags. We don't know more, but there's something, something, something going on there.

So we'll learn more about that. There's something, something, something going on there. So they managed in one thing to avoid talking about gun control by saying, well, it's the parents' fault. And it could also be ISIS's fault. Right. But not the gun, because it's the safest gun ever. Because what, I guess. It shoots straight.

If in their right hands, it's the safest thing. Right. But not the gun, because it's the safest gun ever. Because what I guess it shoots straight in the right hands. It eager to associate him with ISIS and radical Islamic groups. Yeah. And it turns out he trained with white nationalist groups. Wow. So, yeah, he went to one training. I mean, right. But the guy did confirm from the Florida Republic, which is a white civil rights group that, yes, that is that how they frame. When are people going to fight for our civil rights? I say, but it's the guns like there's unless you just don't believe in statistics. There's no way to argue that it's not the guns. Yeah, they plot like number of mass shootings on a graph with number of guns owned in the country, and it like exactly correlates. Whereas

if you look at things like mental health, which is what the media likes to point to, mental health spending, mental health problems, all mental health indicators are equal in like countries like, you know, Australia, the UK, Denmark, like all these other countries, France, you know, all these advanced countries are pretty similar to each other when it comes to all the mental health indicators. The only place that the US stands out is gun ownership and mass shootings. And the only other country that is close to us with regards to gun ownership is also like has a lot of mass shootings. So it is. What do you guys think about?

Because there's such fatigue around. It's like this happens every time. And then the same statistics are stated every time. Right. And it's like, I don't know. It's true. Yeah. I mean, like we're even getting caught in the trap of the same trying to like walk this logical path towards.

Yeah. Well, with all these things, knowing all this, then yes, we need to address guns. Yeah. But it really doesn't mean a fucking thing if the legislators that are elected don't put forward bills and vote on them to actually enact any kind of change. Yes. Right. I think the only answer is to continue to say the same thing over and over again because that's uh yeah or just hold these people accountable to who are making the laws though too like it's easy for them to you know hide under

the fray that's going on because we everyone's so outraged and talks about all the whether it's gun control whatever it's like but what about the people who actually have the power to do something yeah well and the dark morbid thing that'll eventually happen and not, I'm not, is that a legislator's kid will get shot in a mass shooting and then suddenly they'll give a shit about this, you know? Well, cause when you even look at like Florida, for example, if you really want to do something, then I think we have to think about who we are electing into office because the Republicans in the judiciary committee in the Florida house of Representatives, they have like a stranglehold.

Like the numbers are clearly laid out that pro-gun right Republicans dominate the state legislature and they are passing bills left and right. Like they just passed one last week that basically said that a person who has like a concealed carry permit doesn't violate the law if the firearm is quote temporarily and openly displayed so what they were trying to do is protect people who had concealed carry laws that like if someone saw it and called the police on them they would be written up because like you're not doing this right so they built a law to protect people to sloppily carry a concealed weapon that is like just basically an nra wish list piece of legislation

and you look at how easy it is to even procure a firearm in that state. You have to be 21 to buy a handgun. But this kid wasn't. So the only thing they could sell him was a fucking AR-15. Right. That's what a gun store owner says. I believe the reason he used an AR-15 is because he is under 21 and you cannot purchase a firearm other than a long gun legally. and you cannot purchase a firearm other than a long gun legally.

So he went, and it's like a liquor store refusing to sell you beer but offering you crystal meth instead because he went and he couldn't get a handgun, but he got an AR-15, which is the gun that has been used in all these mass shootings. And this was somebody who openly said he wanted to be a professional mass shooter um which makes it even crazier because it seemed preventable in so many ways yeah because even the kids who were being interviewed were saying when he got kicked out people were joking about how like yo he might come back or watch you like joking like oh he might shoot up the place. And the students even sort of, they sensed that.

And again, this was something, this is a thing that is preventable on many levels. So if you want to take it the mental health route, then let's do that. Let's have a real conversation about mental illness in this country and bring it out in the open. So it's not so stigmatized for people to even think like, oh, I don't want to out myself as someone who has a mental health issue because I don't want to embarrass myself or shame myself. You know, one of the initial Trump budgets that he put out last year slashed like mental health care. And that is the thing we spend the most on in this country.

Even before like cardiac health is mental health is by far the largest piece of spending that health care providers make. I don't know, man. Anything having to do with changing the conversation of mental health just seems like it's fully. Yeah. But I'm saying if you want to do that, do that as part of the thing, but also really shore that up. Like, cause what happens is it's a mental health thing and they just say that to avoid

doing anything. And like, it's treated like, well, let's throw our hands up at the air. It's a mental. Well, look, then come at it from every angle, from a gun control aspect, from a mental health aspect. If there really is that much to be done, because, yeah, you can tell, like, even with on CNN, they interviewed a kid who went to the high school who got out of the shooting. And he said, oh, what do you want to say? And he was like, look, I'm just a kid. Like, we need the adults to, like, make laws that will actually prevent this yeah and if that's even being seen from the viewpoint of a

kid i don't know why we still are allowing people to sort of like weasel their way out of it's really embarrassing yeah right i feel embarrassed about this issue because it's so obvious it's difficult what needs to happen is like monumental change right like disarming america that's intense there's like so many guns in america it will be that's impossible it will be a decades long process but like you have to that's the issue too is like they're the legislators who begin this process won't be alive by the time it's solved so there's like not an incentive to like take action i think right yeah i'm reading this book better angels uh of Our Nature, that I'm required to raise once every episode.

This is a very relevant book. Yeah, but it's about the fact that, you know, civilization has brought down the rate of violent crime and murder among the human race from like for every 100,000 people alive every year back like in the caveman days and, you know, in biblical times. If you he just goes through the Bible and like outlines how fucking horrifying and violent life was that they depict. But he shows that, you know, violent crime and violent deaths have gone down to like a minuscule level. And violent deaths have gone down to like a minuscule level. And it's just been people basically, you know, being brought under the rule of governments who they are willing to, you know, cede some control to. have let their government take away their guns. The only difference between America and these other countries is just that Americans, they basically formed a government when they weren't quite ready to give up their guns. And so they still have these massive numbers of guns. And also guns back then were like not AR-15s. Right.

They took a long time to load. Yeah. Right. guns back then were like not ar-15s right they took a long time to load yeah right and i mean the inventor of the gun has come out or his family i guess has come out and said he specifically would not have wanted this gun at all to be in civilian hands and the idea that it would be would just be like shocking to him like uh you know this was initially invented to be america's answer to the ak-47 in battle uh but then a gun manufacturer by the name of cult got their hands on it and they rebranded it as the sporter yeah as like a fun toy and now you can get it in pink for your lady friend for Valentine's Day. So, you know, only to protect your home, you know.

Yeah, in case Viacom come through. You want to be, yeah, exactly. You want to be stylish while you're protecting your children. I feel like the collective sound of America right now is just, oh. Right. Yeah. Yep. The other thing, too, is I don't know if it was this shooting specifically or the fact that it's just been happening so much that now like it really is exhausting but like

this time the whole like thoughts and prayers thing really felt like rang so hollow yeah like really rang like it just seemed like saying stop saying that yeah it like i don't know why it was this time like it wasn't before every other time, but it almost feels like, yo, that thing has been worn out completely. That is no longer a diversion tactic. Yeah, there was a video game that I think was on the Adult Swim website where you were a politician during a mass shooting, and you were fighting the mass shootings with thoughts and prayers and like firing thoughts and prayers at the different shooting victims and stuff and like the people still died but like you won the game by firing thoughts and prayers at them and i i agree i think that's progress that now a politician when they say our thoughts and prayers go out that it

like tastes bad in their mouth a little bit boilerplate responses are like that's at least uh some sort of progress because they're not they didn't think about it and because it just happened last week there's no time to like have new thoughts and prayers it's just like right yeah yeah exactly and that's sad that that's our incremental progress right now right yeah and one less thing for them to distract with yeah i don't know The crazy thing, like one of the immediate things that those forensic psychologists say not to do is to focus on statistics and like the number killed because that's like, I don't know, it's like a fucking high score or something. It's like a video game. Right. were making progress in and like making the reverse of progress in uh the fact that this was 17 and that that was two more than columbine like columbine when it happened seemed was apocalyptic yeah and now this is just another mass shooting and it right kind of puts it in

perspective like that this problem is getting worse it's just fucking sad man like kids actually are growing up with a fear of being killed in their schools because they see shit like this yeah i mean like when columbine happened i think it was in eighth grade so that was like a one-off it was horrific but luckily like i was able to get through high school and college relatively without this being such a normal thing that like it factored into my ability to feel safe in a place and like i feel like that's slowly even being stripped away from kids like the school is not even fucking safe place for you crazy yeah um and one other thing from that book i'm reading that uh i found interesting is that he does really trace like some of the uh you know drop in violent death uh of the past 300 years to the popularization of novels because

novels like put you in other people's heads and like that practice of like kind of practicing empathy on a regular basis like really changed the way the human mind worked like he outlines the fact that uh like one of the most popular pastimes five six hundred years ago in europe was to watch a cat dropped into a fire and watch the cat like shriek as it was burned to death and people would watch that and laugh that was their idea of comedy and he's like how did we change from that species to like the species we are today. And one of the big things is the printing press. And so as that relates to this, it's just like things that don't immediately seem clear might affect this in the long run. So I mean, like whether it's making art about it, or, you know, talking to somebody about it, or I do think that like, you know, we're not always perfectly clear on what's going to help. But I think despair is probably not the appropriate emotion just because, you know, just things as simple as like writing novels can change the way the entire species thinks. Just generally showing love to each other, though, too. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Because if you're getting bullied, it's easy to be like, yo, look at that fucking asshole. Like he's crazy, blah, blah. And then you're only exacerbating this person's situation. Right. And, you know, in general, I think even as a country, if most Americans even felt like, I think we even lack the feeling that we're cared for. Right.

Even by like, you can just tell what the people's situations with healthcare or their, their financials and things like that. Right. I don't know, man, we need to embrace love. It sounds so sort of hippy-dippy, but being able to look at somebody who might actually be in pain and not just disregard that as like, ah, that guy's a fucking freak or whatever. Right. And knowing like, yo, everything is so connected.

Anyway, it's just, yeah. And I think, too, that if you feel despair, an easy first step to both help yourself and the whole situation is like, be nice to the people around you. Yeah. Or do something good for those people, which might not help the gun problem, but it's like, well, that's all you can do on some level. At the very least, you can feel like I'm actively contributing to an environment that is positive

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He got fired. I'm sorry, man. She's 17, man. You know what I mean? I look at that. And then afterwards, I don't know if that's fired. I'm sorry, man. She's 17, man. You know what I mean? I look at that. And then afterwards, I don't know if that's cool. I mean, he's like, yeah, I mean, she's adorable. And then it's like, what the fuck?

Yo. Pecan pie. Go take that somewhere else. His Twitter bio says he's a husband and father. So I don't know. So he needs to take a look at that. But yeah, so that's good because that was our plan all along. We would cover that.

He would get fired, and we'll bring him on as our culture editor. So things are working out. So we did a quick search through Google Trends, what's trending at the moment. One of the things that's trending is Happy Meal Cheeseburger because McDonald's has removed the cheeseburger from their Happy Meal menu or they plan on it. Phasing it out. So children rush out and buy all the cheeseburgers that you can. That's an essential part of the American experience. Right.

Is to open up your cardboard box and eat your fake weird little meat bite. Yeah. Right. What are they doing it because of like health reasons? I guess so. They've slowly been, yeah, dialing it back. Because first, like they took like fries were optional. They put in apple slices and they changed the drink to like a healthier thing.

Because I think most parents are now actually being like, you know, everyone's sort of globally more health conscious. So like if you're a parent with your shit together, you'd be like, actually, bro, you probably shouldn't be eating that bullshit. bullshit yeah you didn't grow up when i grew up when that was called dinner yeah where we would just eat french fries until our mouths stung from like there we go to taste like you were just dragging your mouth on like now i have an enlarged heart yeah but my like my son just the shit that we feed him is so healthy that he prefers vegetables over bread. It's insane.

Wait, what? What's the most healthy high-octane health? I love that brag, by the way. Bro, we feed my son such healthy shit. It's so gross. Hey, up top. Over here, bro. All right. No, hold on. Over here, bro. All right.

No, hold on. I want to know because one day I might have children. His favorite food is avocados. Like we just crammed with avocados. What is he? What's his generation called? Generation, I don't know. Generation, we're so sorry that you have to live in this place.

Generation going to see some really crazy shit happen in their lifetime. Generation, yeah. The zombie apocalypse could happen. Oh, no. Yeah. Oh really crazy shit happen in their lifetime. Yeah, the zombie apocalypse is going to happen. Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, no. Smashing Pumpkins is a band I don't care about, but Miles, this is trending. Yeah, well, they're going to go back on tour.

Okay. But without Darcy, who was my dream woman growing up. My perfect lover was a blend of James Eha and Darcy from Smashing Pumpkins. I think that would have been the hottest human being alive. But yeah, they're touring without Darcy, which whatever. I mean, everyone remembers her as being the very fair-skinned, not charismatic bassist. Yeah, and they're doing it without her.

But it's weird because Billy Corgan, his politics are fucked. So I don't know. I mean, some people people you're probably big enough fan to to check it out but i know he's like a big uh alex jones dude like he was on alex he was on info wars a couple times he's talking about like social justice it's like uh it's like yeah it's like it's weaponized censorship right so he's got some he's got an interesting worldview now i don't know what happened yeah i. I think Super Producer Anna Hosnia. Despite all my rage.

Right. The rage was there. We knew it all along. Yeah, Super Producer Anna Hosnia was saying that she thinks it's just like once you go completely bald, it's just like from there you just have to go to the right. Yeah. You're just like, I am a bald white man this is and he does not look good like we're rocking it nah but i guess look you know billy you're trying to make sense you're probably very frustrated because what the other thing was

he was like he called some shit fake news back in 2014 yo man or false narrative because he made a shit album and like the reviews were terrible and he's like i just feel like they were just pushing a false narrative and the review is probably pre-written like he's also just an egomaniac who clearly can't take criticism because he's like no one would ever say a billy corgan written album was bad right it's like oh wow the right wing pop culture like machine is so weird it's dilbert uh bill Billy Corgan, and Steven Seagal. Like a random name generator from like 90s pop culture. Eatin' Wendy's with your new balances on. Yeah.

And Dockers. Cool. Yeah. Sound like a cool bunch, man. Hey, you want to- What a fun party. You want to listen to Melancholy and Infinite Sadness? Michael Stipe from REM.E.M.

No. No. Oh, man. What's the frequency, Kenneth? I love R.E.M. But it's weird because I really – I mean, Smashing Pumpkins I was really into as a kid. But it's like one of those things I didn't really like take with me into adulthood. But I still look back on some of those albums.

I'm like, oh, those were fun songs. Yeah. But all right. Well, good for you, Smashing Pumpkins. Yeah. And then we just wanted to do a quick update on the Olympics, you guys. I tuned in for some Michaela Schifrin last night. You talked about her yesterday?

Yeah, we talked about her yesterday. She's like this super robot of sports. Oh, yeah, yeah. She's just like done nothing but train her whole life uh to be the best at uh the slalom and she's the best at slalom she's really good at it uh she's very like cute and uh telegenic but like everyone was like oh she came across so smart and well but like she just can only speak in like skiing lingo. And it's just like I am sports robot. I have one dimension.

It is ski. Which you kind of need, man, for sports like that. Like I don't blame you because your whole life is dedicated to a singular thing. Right. Like it reminds me of young Tiger Woods. And then the second his like whole brand became about anything other than like yeah i really struck the ball well today like he completely fell apart like he couldn't he couldn't sustain oh you're saying his when his rhetoric switched up like means that indicated right when he became like a wrestling heel his

focus couldn't take it um but anyways so she is back think, tonight for the regular slalom, which is her main event. But she won yesterday. Yeah. No, she won giant slalom. GS. GS, bro. And her GS game was on fire. On fleek.

She used the phrase GS like 11 times in a single sentence in the thing. I was just like, okay, is that a gastrointestinal thing? intracontestinal thing or but uh yeah so i i tuned him for that and there was apparently an event that i didn't know existed that's basically snowboard motocross where they like go over all these moguls and they're racing and like you can run into each other and this dude broke his fucking neck it was like the most violent sport i've ever seen uh he broke his neck like on a jump or something yeah no just like this sport is like them racing and running into each other and shit and like so it's like like road rash yeah road rash exactly but uh you got a chain so like people like fall almost every time and uh

in this race like three of them fell and two of them finished the race and they just like didn't mention that the third guy never finished and apparently he broke his neck but oh not not like paralyzed broke his neck uh so no parts of his neck right hold on i got the clip right here i'm just gonna watch it so we can all just react to it he's flying is that him oh oh oh oh yeah that'll do it. So that's wild. He just sort of landed on his back, but that impact. Yeah. Sorry about those vertebrae, my man. The Olympics are insane because it's like you spend your whole life doing this. Right.

You might get to go to the Olympics once, and then hopefully, and then this guy broke his neck. Right. It's crazy. Yeah. It is so fucking crazy. Is there just a class of people who are just broken like spiritually broken olympians yes absolutely like molly's game kind of approached that because like her backstory is that she was a very competitive skier and then fucked her i think

neck up or had a horrible injury and that's how she even got into the whole poker thing oh yeah yeah like that sort of like powered that whole thing that was that failure kind of gave her another focus so i mean i hope that's we might have to do a deep dive like what's there's i'd be i'd be interested in that because they're psychologically fucked either way because either they go there and lose and it's like what did i do this for right or they go there and win and then their life never reaches that high again and they are then damaged people as a result or they're like my PE coach, uh, in junior high who was like, okay,

I did the, uh, the U S uh, trials for high jump. Okay. Uh, okay. I'm just gonna tell you guys to run the mile.

He was like a haunted high jumper with my PE coach. That's tough. Yeah. Did you do the flop? Was he pre-flop? The Fosworth flop? Yes, he did flop.

I mean, I don't think anybody was just going belly over anymore. That's a fascinating story. Yeah. I mean, I don't think anybody was just going belly over anymore. That's a fascinating story. Yeah. I mean, he changed the rules. But so that sport, women also have a race coming up, the gold medal race for that. And this young woman named Lindsay Jacob Ellis is like one of the most famous winter Olympians for – she was way out in the lead in one of these races and she just ate shit. She,

so like on the very last jump, she like kind of did a trick, like grabbed her board, just like to be kind of hot shit, even though all she needed to do was just like, there are no style points, no style points. She was just in a race and she fell on the landing and ended up coming in second.

And she's, you know, that really got to her. The next Olympics, she was out in first or maybe it was the one like two Olympics later. She's out in first by a mile. And this time she didn't like do a trick or anything. But you could just tell it was like it was in her head and she just fell. or anything, but you could just tell it was in her head, and she just fell. She fell like I would if I suddenly was

transported into her body and was like, I don't know how to fucking snowboard! She just fell. So she got the yips or what? Yeah, I think she's got the yips. And she is going for gold again tonight, so I am watching the shit out of that. I am going to see Black Panther.

Oh, right. I might go to that as well. Do you think it's going to sell out? This is not interesting for the podcast. No, let's have this discussion. So producer Anna Hosnia is telling us that she can get you in if you tweet at her. Slide her a Benji right now. Slide in her DMs is what she is requesting. For that RSVP code.

Yes. And finally, just a fun story. So speaking of Tiger Woods, his ex, Lindsey Vaughn, who has not raced yet. She is basically the ski robot of yester Olympics. And she's still good. She's still, you know, favored to win a medal. But she yesterday tweeted out, oh,'s valentine's day i forgot all about it because i'm at the hashtag olympics uh we're familiar and i'm single anyone else out there

single and want to be my valentine hashtag worth a shot so uh she apparently with the shrug responses yeah yeah so i admire it but just basically the most high publicity thirst trap in existence, like, yet. I mean, it was pretty out there. Or at least it's the thing that teaches our parents' generation what a thirst trap is because they're paying attention to the Olympics, you know? But it's not, like, the most traditional form of thirst trapping. Right. She didn't, like, put a picture out there. But, I mean, I guess when you're saying, hi, I'm single. It's Valentine's Day. Basically saying, anybody horny?

Right. And then she got 5.6 thousand replies on that. 5.6 thousand. That's wonderful. 5.6, which is 5,600. I don't know what I'm saying. Because I'm looking at the Twitter nomenclature. Anyway.

That's how we say that number now. Well, my math teacher would be very ashamed. I missed the first part of that story, by the way, because I was texting my friend to buy Black Panther tickets. Nice. Oh, dope. Who's your friend? Joey. Okay, cool. Is, because I was texting my friend to buy Black Panther tickets. Nice. Oh, dope. Who was your friend? Joey.

Okay, cool. Was he going to get them? I'm waiting to hear back. Okay. Well, let me catch up speed. She was basically saying she didn't realize it was Valentine's Day. So she tweeted out, hey, I'm alone. I'm single.

Anybody down? At the Olympics, a place that's famous for burning through millions of condoms in the Olympic Village. God bless them for doing that, by the way. Yeah. Dream come true. Seriously. So maybe we're underestimating how much fun being an Olympic athlete is. And they're not damaged.

They're just like, let me tell you about the 80 Olympics. I fucked the whole bobsled team. Oh, man. Calgary. Woo! Still haven bobsled team. Calgary. Still haven't healed, man. Alright. Well, this was a lot of fun, Matt. Where can people find you and follow you?

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fine print but tell me this how the hell i'm going to pay the rent i gotta live the landlords and now i tiptoe tiptoe in and out the crib to find a way to get dough can't make another record because i can't flow damn right but i could tell you a little story. And that shit go. I would go. It go. It's a punchline. I don't know. Let's put the child that can have his own vibe Somebody can choose to play, somebody can choose to smooth the guard The style that I use is the style that's mine

Somebody can choose to play, somebody can choose to smooth the guard Let's put the child that can have his own vibe Somebody can choose to play, somebody can choose to smooth the guard The style that I use is the style that's mine Somebody can choose to play, somebody can choose to smooth the guard Let's put the child that can have his own vibe Somebody can choose to play, somebody can choose to smooth the guard The style that I use is the style that's mine Somebody can choose to play, somebody can choose to smooth the guard Thank you. Thank you. The The The The The

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The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was assassinated.

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