The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 104 (Best of 12/2/19-12/6/19)

Episode Date: December 8, 2019

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So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I just looked up. Let's see here. I wanted to know Jack Nicholson's age when he filmed The Shining. Do you guys have any idea? 40? Close.

43. That's exactly right. 43. Wow. Is that just a good guess? I think so. Or did you literally use some kind of math? No, I didn't do any math.

And I looked up right to Tom Hanks when he did Forrest Gump, and he was, I believe he was 42. So these guys did some of their best work in their 40s. And I looked up right to Tom Hanks when he did Forrest Gump, and he was, I believe he was 42. Ah. So these guys did some of their best work in their 40s. Yeah. You guys have nothing to be afraid of, okay? Right. You have our whole life ahead of us. And I was looking that up because I saw Dr. Sleep.

Did you guys see Dr. Sleep? No, not yet. If you are a king head, go see Dr. Sleep. Oh, really? Yeah. Whoever wrote it, the writer managed to meld the movie and the book together to make a pretty impressive sequel, if you're a King head. If you're not, you might not be as jazzed, but every Stephen King fan I've talked to, love Dr. Sleep. That's why I checked out his age, 43 years old, and he looks

great, sexy as ever. What a hairline. Those 70s hairlines are still sexy now if you meet a man who has that hairline, but they're just not hyped up as much. Nicholas Cage has that hairlines are still sexy now if you meet a man who has that hairline but they're just not hyped up as much Nicolas Cage has that hairline but I'm talking about sexiness guys and Nicolas Cage is also like yeah like he has all sorts of hair implants and

shit but like when he used to have that hairline and then Hollywood ruined him and was like no you must have a strong hairline. But yeah, I feel like they're not allowing that sort of hairline in movies anymore. You either get hair plugs or shave your head clean like Bruce Willis. We got to bring bald back, Steve. Bring it back.

Well, not bald. It's just a deep, deep V. Yeah. Way deep in there. Yeah, where you're sl. Yeah. The back halo. I mean, think about Bill Murray, about all that stuff. And these are sexy men. Yeah, they're not conventionally attractive, per se.

But raw sexuality rarely is, okay? I'm talking about oozing off. Let's slam down in the bedroom. Let's see what you got. Battle-bot style. Let's see what you got. Battle-bot style. Like in Alexander, you remember when Colin Farrell was just with Rosario Dawson, like

they were literally almost punching each other? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's the kind of sex I'm talking about. Man, you know, it's funny. Wait, what was that in? In the movie Alexander. Oh, in Alexander. That was a terrible, the movie bombed.

Bad, bad movie. And also, it's funny. I was so fucked up when I saw that film, like on Xanax or some shit. I only remember three parts. It's that part and this other part where Val Kilmer is talking about a horse and he goes, his mind is broken. About a horse? Yeah, that couldn't be tamed.

I have so many funny memories about being effed up in the theater. I remember I was drunk and I saw Troy. And I was just so drunk at some point. We took Tallboys in. I just went and sat in the lobby. It was the last drunk at some point like we took Tallboys in I just like went and sat in the lobby it was like the last showing at the Covina AMC

and then the people came up to me and they were like hey we're gonna get rid of these hot dogs unless you wanna buy them for 99 cents and I was like

this is the best night of my life don't remember the movie slam three movie hot dogs for three dollars yes please another one Frailty

that movie I fell as fully I was awake for the first credits, woke up at the very end. Wait, what is Frailty? It was like Bill Paxton. Filmed in Covina. Oh. Yes.

Holy shit. It's very odd that you're saying that. My mom lives right by where they filmed that, in Covina, Frailty. Yeah. It's kind of like these weird, it's a smaller thriller. Got it. But it's actually very good. Yeah.

Is there like multiple personality things? Someone has – someone you're trying to figure out if they really have psychic abilities. Oh, okay. Got it. It's like a – someone's a prophet. Got it. Got it. Yeah.

I think it was right around the time like – I remember very vividly Ocean Spray started making white cranberry peach juice. I remember very vividly Ocean Spray started making white cranberry peach juice. And me and my friends mixed that with a bunch of vodka in the back of his trailblazer. And we fucking went to that movie. I was fucked up, man. I was fucking what? This is fucking 2001 this shit came out? Or 2002?

So I was 18. Yeah. And I'm fucking slept. Is that the Chevy Blazer back before they gave it a nickname? No, it was the new body style. Shout out to Chris. It was his black trailblazer. But yeah, it wasn't the old school blazer.

What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Love is the most important part of a relationship. Okay. What's the most important part? I think there's a bunch of things, but I think love is maybe 25%. It's not even that big of a deal. Have you been in love more than once?

I don't know, actually. Maybe like one and a half. Yeah, well, I don't feel like you even want to talk about it. And you're married, too, so you can't be talking like that. You're like, yeah, as soon as I saw my wife for the first time, I counted that one and a half. But I've been in several relationships, and I know people who are just looking for love.

But, you know, I think how people communicate, how you argue, the same values you have, what you want to spend your money on. There's a bunch of other things that play such an important part. And I just think I know too many people who, when they find love, they'll, like, try to hold on to it at all costs. And it's, like, not that big of a deal. Yeah.

You'd be surprised how quickly you can find love. Yes. Around. But like you say, it's really those other things. Like, sure, of course, that love is there. But are y'all acting as a team? Yeah. That is the one thing.

Because too many people are too caught up, especially when they argue in someone has to be the good guy and someone's the bad guy. And we will now begin to litigate who is the bad person between the two of us because it's a binary. And if you are the bad person, then I can flex on you and be like, well, you were bad that time versus like, what's is there a problem? OK, do we need to fix it? Are we still sort of have this egoic attachment to being like, but I was right and you were wrong? Because if things happen, you can approach it as a partnership and be like, okay, yeah, I fucked up.

I'm like actually sorry. We should do that differently. And it doesn't have to be like, but you're bad. Well, you brought up an important point right there. That's one of the things I've learned in romantic relationships is if you're with a good person and you should only date good people, people that really love you and, you know, aren't using you for free meals. Yeah.

If you're with someone who is a good person and they love you, nobody that loves you ever really does anything to hurt you on purpose. So you have to start from that place where, is if this person did something to hurt me, they didn't do it on purpose, and so say, hey, this hurts me, or when you when you do this this bothers me and it makes me feel this way and uh then they usually go oh okay i'm sorry i didn't realize that yeah and then you just move on right versus like that was so fucked up i don't know why the fuck you would do that how dare you i'm sorry i took a dump i mean that's, honestly, I would almost say a person's argument style is more important than love because, yeah, people can be very vicious and mean or they carry patterns that they saw in their childhood incorrectly to that thing.

And, you know, you're going to just bump into problems more. So, yeah, I do think people talk about finding love. into problems more so yeah i do think people talk about finding love i think it's kind of a false narrative and it's been sold a wholesale bill of gold's like sold to us as something that's super important find someone you have fun with find someone like i said you want to spend your money on the same thing and find someone you communicate with and uh i think and you know that's why i'm a huge fan of arranged marriages. Says the poly guy. Yeah.

I was going to say that if love is a feeling, I definitely, when I was a kid, had that heartsick feeling more than I ever did as an adult. That sort of, oh my God, I'm completely destroyed over this shit. And I feel like that was because I wasn't a complete person. Like I hadn't fully like lived my life. And so, yeah, there was just like more tied up in that.

I wasn't like ready for it. I cried over a girl who broke up with me and we only held hands. Right. Yeah. Oh yeah. You know what I mean? That's how, when you realize how fucked up the stakes are,

you're like, I don't know. What the fuck is this? My brother, you're fucking 11 years old. Why would she do that all right so bill barr got his report he had been working on this he'd been traveling around the world talking to people interviewing people uh probably going to various libraries yeah

looking in the card catalog it was like like the Da Vinci Code. Right. But with a walrus-faced asshole named Bill Barr. So, yeah, he asked the inspector general. He said, I need you to investigate how the FBI came to begin this investigation of Russian meddling in 2016. Carter Page, what happened with these FISA warrants. Right. 16, you know, Carter Page with what happened with these FISA warrants, what was really going on with Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, these FBI agents who had the temerity to say that they thought Trump shouldn't be president while being in the FBI, because I think he was really hoping that someone would come back with the report basically saying, well,

I guess if in your mind, if you are like this Republican fantasy politician who has complete disregard for facts and objectivity, you would hope that the inspector general would come back with a report that said, oh, yeah, there's all these biased FBI Hillary loving agents who are against the president. The Steele dossier was the entire basis of our legal system. And Obama wired everything, tapped everything and obama listened to it all and was being so spooky at trump tower but the problem is this inspector general he is known as like being a stickler and being very as many people uh doj uh past and present officials said he's known for being nitpicky a little bit. Like when even like when Eric Holder was attorney general. It's kind of what you would want an inspector general, right? Like somebody who's a stickler for details.

Looking under rocks. Exactly. Especially when you say, hi, can you investigate my house and tell me what's going on? Is my house in order? Are people behaving correctly? Yeah. You kind of need those people to be like, yeah, I go by the letter of the law here. Ah, that home inspector. such a stickler for details.

Yeah. It's so annoying. Okay. There's a hole in the roof. Fine. But like you can put cardboard and trash bags. It works. Right.

And so now he's come back. Oh, and I was saying with Eric Holder, like typically attorneys general will be like, yo, come on. Like they'll be like, this person went too hard. William Barr's like, nah, I don't like what this guy said. Because what came back from the inspector general is that there was nothing untoward going on. Right.

Everything happened to the letter of the law. All these other conspiracy theories that they've been running around with, like, really don't hold any weight. There were there is that one moment we talked about a few weeks ago when they did find that there was in the process of getting a surveillance warrant, people were cutting corners and got sloppy, and the right was hanging on to that. But it was not really anything that they're saying, oh, this is actually massive, massive misconduct by anyone. Just a minor act of laziness.

Exactly. And so because his whole reason for living has been to defend Trump and shield him and make anything he says true, even if it is just patently false. He's basically said, this is from the Washington Post, what his reaction to seeing this report was. Attorney General William P. Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department's inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report that the FBI had enough information in July of 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the Trump campaign. Yeah, that is sort of the whole finding, right? Yeah.

That's the whole thing. Well, the whole thing was George Papadopoulos was saying out loud to an Australian ambassador or official that, dude, these Russians, I heard the Russians are going to do, they're going to do some hackery with Hillary Clinton. Some person then goes to Australian officials. They tell American law enforcement, they're like, someone seems to think this is happening if you want to look into it. All pretty straightforward.

Then he goes on to say why he doesn't really like what Horowitz, who was the inspector general, his conclusion. He says that he's privately contended that Horowitz does not have enough information to reach the conclusion the FBI had enough details in hand to justify opening a probe. So he doesn't have enough information about them having enough information to justify it. That's why this is wrong. Because actually, even though I told him that he needs to look into this and he probably has all the information, it turns out based on his conclusion that he actually doesn't have enough information

because that's different than what I need it to be. It's just very, very alarming, as it should be, because William Barr has been going to places like Italy or London to talk to other allies. London, that is alarming. For an Irishman. No, I'm just kidding. But going there and trying to get other people, other intelligence agencies to say, oh yeah, maybe there was something wrong. They're all like, no, man, we've all been hearing the same thing. We've all been looking at how Russia has become more emboldened and more and more aggressive since 2014. It all tracks.

We have nothing to the contrary to say. And I think this is where we have to think about what is his next move. Because when he got the Mueller report that said there's all these accounts of obstruction. There's clearly some kind of conspiracy going on. Were it not for all the lying of Paul Manafort and others involved, I may know actually how dark this thing is. Right. William Barr came out and tried to get in front of it and just basically lied and was like, yeah, it's all good. This thing's pretty chill. Nothing to see here.

Very good. I wouldn't call it a lie. I would call it selective summarization. Yes. Okay. He summarized three of the 400 pages yes and just focused in on that right exactly so i mean who knows what he's gonna do with this if he's gonna go on and say ah this one very narrow part i'm gonna completely blow

out of context to try and keep this sounds like he didn't even have like the spec that he could blow out into a huge deal uh no because he is going back to them being like, just give me a fucking crumb. Just give me something. Do you know what the most, just to give an Irish, not an Irish perspective, I can only speak for myself, but like as an outsider looking in at America and the media and how it's fascinating to watch that it doesn't seem to be the truth,

but it's the most compelling narrative and how you present it on air. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like, and literally the talking heads, who's the better talking head? Who can hold the audience? Because when I came here, I didn't know about the two sides of the media or whatever.

Like, I didn't know. Right, right, right. So I'm just flicking through. And it's shocking to see how believable, if you immerse yourself in one side, how believable it can be. Yeah. Right, right, right. You know, I'd be very slow to label anyone on either side anything, because this is the most incredible propaganda I've ever seen.

Right. And it's endlessly funded. Yeah. It's unreal. Yeah. Yeah, because it makes its own money. It's propaganda that people pay funded. Yeah. It's unreal. Yeah, because it makes its own money. It's propaganda that people pay for. Yeah. It's shocking.

It's entertainment disguised as news. It's just like this fever dream to whip people into a frenzy. Unreal. Unreal. And you know, the great thing about investigations, right, depending on which side you're on, just like investigations in general, you want them to be happening to government all the time

what's very interesting to watch right now is that no one i have a feeling no one's gonna go to jail yeah because these are the lawmakers right right yeah so no like it'd be nice to for the right people to be held accountable but it's becoming very very clear that no one seems to go to jail if they're in power. Once you get to a certain level, yeah. Like lower level, you could be made a sacrificial lamb as a gesture to people to say that, yeah, the rule of law works in some cases. But yeah, I think, I mean,

and this is why we're like in this other phase, which has become even more sort of alarming is like this legal nihilism that people have. It's like, okay, like what are the fucking laws? Because even there are people breaking them and there seems to be no consequences or people completely outright disobeying subpoenas or using stupid little counter suits to kind of just delay their ability to be held accountable. It's made people very very disheartened yeah but i think that's why at the very least like just keep doing whatever you can because the second that i think you know the the foot comes off the gas a bit oh yeah well you got

it you got you know you got to fight for what you believe you know and uh it's just shocking to me to watch just people uh say say growing up in Ireland, so at night, on the news, weekly, monthly, or maybe just it felt like that as a kid. Someone was either getting shot in the knees or a barracks being blown up or some explosive device going off, you know, less than 100 miles or 100 and whatever miles away. And now that's where it can go, you know. And I saw that in Ireland.

And then I saw in Liberia, West Africa with the United Nations, I was doing peacekeeping over there. I saw the extremes where you got child soldiers, people cutting off arms, long sleeve, short sleeve option was your only option, you know, for these. And these child soldiers, just like, I don't think people know the capacity humans have for evil because if they did they wouldn't be the rhetoric people are using now and how

they're talking about their adversaries right it leads down it's a slow it's a slow um erosion of the fabric of society that you don't you have to be very careful with how you speak about what you perceive to be your enemy, because you don't need race or gender to be at war with someone. I saw tribes in Africa, you know, attacking each other. I've seen it in Ireland, Catholics and Protestants. I would just, I would really like America to consider that rather than trying to find the differences, just really do reach across the aisle because you do not want the deterioration that is available in any country to happen here. You guys have something special here.

No one's done this. No one's got 350 million people from all over the universe to live in relative, with a lot of problems, harmony. Like this is not, this is potentially, I don't want to be too dramatic. Right. But, you know, you just, the old phrase, powder keg, don't push, don't start lighting matches around, you know, where there's a lot of tension. Because over 10 years, the slow erosion,

you won't even see it creeping, guys. Yeah. And be very, just lead with love as they say you know yeah that's my honest opinion yeah like and it and it is fun it's it's fun you know to rile up the the far side but um long term guys uh not you guys but in general long time long term the propaganda machines have to be very careful what they do because once you polarize two groups it's very hard for them to see each other as human yeah no and i think that's the increasingly the sort of dehumanizing rhetoric that comes out of like the president or people like this there's this new

thing of like not a new thing but as the president's actions become more and more obviously corrupt and people are holding him accountable the rhetoric is also changing to now people who are asking for accountability or subhuman, they're scum, they're whatever. And that's, that's really, yeah.

And this is a thing that a lot of people are talking about in this country too, because as this keeps going and going and going, you know, it's the logical end that it plays out to is not, is not one of not, not a good time. And we have a very short term collective memory, right? Like luckily if you have history in the schools,

there's a real good chance that people, you know, if history has been taught well in a country or at least somewhat honest, you know, not here. I didn't want to say, but you know, that could be by design. Oh, it is. In Ireland, somehow that's one thing that I think we do quite well, which is teach history. And that allows people to have a relatively good perspective on how things will shape up if you go down a certain road. Now, did that, we still had a civil war.

But you don't want to be doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. But, yeah, I don't think in your schools you're teaching people that the Civil War was about a difference in economic systems. Right. Like where people – like here, like in some places, the history of the American Civil War is completely obscured and like the sort of uh facets about race or removed or slavery are minimized and it's like yeah you know one group was kind of doing their thing and then there's a disagreement and anyway let's move on i think i think as well because sorry i think it hurts so much to look at how bad we've been in the past that it's it's it hurts so you don't want to look at it you want to kind of glaze over it. But you've got to sit with it, right? Well, yeah. And I think an American history is all about sanitizing how bad things we've done have been,

how poorly we've treated each other, how poorly we've treated other countries, how we've completely decimated other cultures, other economies. It's mostly about like eye bleach. It's like our history. It's like, let's just – Yeah. It's like our history. It's like, let's just, yeah, it's hard to, I mean like it wasn't until college I was getting a real understanding,

like understanding of American history or no high school. I did have a really great teacher and it was like suggesting to read like a people's history of the United States. And you'd be like, Oh my God, what the fuck is going on? Yeah. But most of the time we're just taught like,

man, America is so chill and everything we've done has just been so great for other people. Well, that's one question I get a lot

just before you move on because I think you'll like this. It's basically, a lot of people want to know like, what do people think of America

outside America? Right. And I think, thank God, the branding is good. The branding is good. You guys live- the brand is strong America

yeah because you know a lot of people see this as a refuge for people from all different you know ethnicities now you

of course you have the problems but the reality is guys America is it's not it's foreign policy it's it's 350 million beautiful individual people walking the earth trying to do stuff

the foreign policy questionable I think. Most people would agree on both sides of the aisle. Fucked. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

And on both sides of the aisle for sure. Yeah. That's interesting to hear from somebody who lived through civil war and like a violent conflict kind of within the nation they grew up in to hear that that's something that you're concerned about. Because that's something that when you talk to people who spend a lot of time in countries that are devolved into civil war, they say that a lot of the signs are popping up in America, and people in America are like, yeah, but I mean, it can't happen here. And it might not be what you're picturing in your mind.

No, it is shocking because it was – I wasn't directly affected by it. But it rocked the country so much we couldn't even call it what it was, which was probably some sort of civil war. We called it the Troubles. Right. And it was 100 miles away. There's people, you know, bombs going off and all that, or 150 miles away. And to me, it was 100 miles away. There's people, you know, bombs going off and all that, or 150 miles away. And to me, it was another world. But it was in the subconscious, it was just like, wow.

When you're a kid, you understand there's no reason for fighting. First time you see war on TV, I remember crying. Because I understood the depth of it. And then over time, you have to distance yourself from that emotion because it's too much. I didn't live through a civil war, just for the record. But there was civil unrest in the north of Ireland and it really permeated the culture

and really got into a lot of kids' brains early on in Ireland. So I think as a result of the pain maybe the people went through before in the previous generation, now there's a better understanding of how we want to avoid that everywhere. Right, right, right. Yeah. All right, we're going to take a quick break.

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And we're back. There's a study about which pickup lines work best for women that are hitting on men. Yeah. And I, for one, am curious, Miles. Yeah. Oh, man.

You know, the brave people in Halifax, Canada. Yes. Decided, I didn't even realize this was a question, of what pickup lines for men are the most effective? They got Halifax up in Halifax. I mean, wow-y. Sound the air rate alarm uh there's okay so the way they did it apparently they found that there's they were testing three pickup line styles direct flippant and innocuous and what they did in this highly scientific study and i say this with a lot of sarcasm, is that they got 130 heterosexual

adult males to basically said yes every single time. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm like, a fucking pickup. Like, honestly, to me, the premise is weird. It's like, is this necessary? Has a man said no? Exactly. Has a man ever said no?

No, exactly, to any kind of positive attention. So that truth again? Yeah. So it says they were asked to evaluate a series of 12 photographs of women accompanied by a pickup line. And then so when they looked at it, they asked the participant to rate the perceived attractiveness of the woman, the perceived promiscuity of the woman, and the perceived effectiveness of the pickup line. Really what they found was direct was the most effective. So an example, direct pickup line is stuff like, you want to have a drink together?

You have really nice eyes. Can I have your number? You're cute. All those in a row? Yep, very smooth. I find that works too. You're cute. And stare at the chest apparently is what.

You got a place to stay? You got money for a ring? Dude. Because I got a... straight in for the kill. And then an example of flippant pickup lines is, shall we talk or continue flirting from a distance? I always see you here. You must be the bar's best customer.

Since you're alone and I'm alone, why don't we sit together? Dude, that makes me want to be single forever. I'm easy. Are you? That was obviously there as a control, I think. I think that is actually an example of scientists writing comedy being not a successful way to start a conversation. Right. Look at their sample size, 130.

They didn't exactly go into extensive research. Very narrow, yeah. That's why I said it's highly scientific. It's more as into extensive research. Very narrow, yeah. That's what I said. I'm highly scientific. Let's do this more as a conversation starter. Of course, yeah. And then innocuous, can you recommend a good drink?

I've seen you before. Do you work here? I mean, really, what they did find is direct were the most successful. Flippant was second most successful. Innocuous were least likely to be judged as effective. But they did say no matter the pickup line,

when they rated the attractiveness high, didn't matter what they said. Yeah. It was just like, yes, please. I don't know. Thank you. Yeah, we're very visual creatures, aren't we? Yeah.

It's hard not to. Do you ever, you're walking down, it's like, it's hard not to look at something. You're like, are we allowed to admit that? It's hard not to look at something. Well, you have eyes. Yeah, it's so hard. How do you not look at anything?

It's so hard. It's like a woman, for me, is the most compelling thing. Now, obviously- You want to write songs and sonnets? Yeah, I mean, that's what we do, right? Yeah. Yeah, we create, and then we try and get on stage, and we try and be funny,

and then hopefully find a wife when you're in there. But like, and then I guess it's the same, the opposite way. It's just, yeah, man, beauty. Beauty is so hard to ignore. Just this idea, though, that there's a need for this study, like there are women or I guess it just seems odd to me because the way our society is set up, sort of just like this patriarchy where the man pursues the woman

and that sort of thing, people are just inundated with this sort of messaging. It sounds like a thing that like a lonely man would need this study it's like hey direct is the best thing guys you know don't be all like hey did you see that fist fight outside that was so wild like i don't know like i think these two women are fighting over a dude anyway hi my name is miles that's like literally some pickup artist type shit oh really yes you? Yes, you talk rather than pulling up direct like, yo, I think you're beautiful, ma. Have this drink with me.

Like six inches from the face. Yeah, exactly. There's like more about just sort of being a little bit more obscure about sort of just a general conversation starter by pointing to another event. And then they go, oh, no, I didn't see that and that's more organic and then you're like,

anyway, what's up? I'm lonely. I mean, I'm Miles. Do you ever notice as well when you want to talk, when you really, really, really want to talk to somebody, like you know that this is the one.

You can't do it. Something in your brain, something in your brain literally sabotages you. Yeah. You can't speak, you can't you can't speak you can't think you start opening

all the doors the fridge door every door right just everything's like and then the conversation just it just

it's like your genes know that you are not supposed to mate with that beautiful person you're not good enough get out of here you fry your circuits you're like

I am horny I don't know I have to go fuck but it's like it's your sabotage from the inside out

your genetics don't want you to win dude they don't think you're good enough the second date I ever went on with my wife

she was like I kind of realized that you know I was in love with her but she like you know but I was in love with her, but she like, you know, I,

but so it was the second day. It would be really weird. I love you. Right. But she, she still talks about it because she was like, yeah, there was that one date when you like, couldn't talk and you were all sweaty.

Yeah. The worst thing, the compound, you know, when you know that they're seeing it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, dude, most fucking perceptive creatures on the planet.

Yeah. And you start sweating. Like, are you sweating? No. Oh, my God. You're sweating. Yeah. And it's getting on me.

And it gets worse and worse. Under my arms. There's no way out, right? Right. The only thing I think you can do to kind of, is a preemptive strike, which is, it's like before you go into an interview, go for a run so your endorphins are up. Start like bench pressing something so there's a little testosterone in there.

I don't know. Maybe stand wide legged with your arms above your head in some like power pose. And then you walk in and go, hey, do you live around here? You know what I mean? They're like, no. So manly. Yeah.

Also, why are you holding those weights above your head? Why are you chewing raw meat? Like steaks on your shoulders. Hey, these are my new shoulder pads. You like them? They're dripping blood. They're ribeyes. I like your eyes, but you like mine. Ribeyes.

And then you flex. You like beef you're like no I'm vegan get the fuck away from me god damn it you're right but that is weird

how the universe keeps us in line isn't it oh yeah like it's like it knows that you're hey dude this one's not for you so you know what I'm gonna do

I'm literally going to make you deaf and mute and you're not gonna be able to hear what she's saying and you're not gonna be able to formulate it in your brain right and you know what

it's like you're talking with a concussion the hear what she's saying and you're not going to be able to formulate it in your brain. And you know what? It's like you're talking with a concussion the whole time. Yeah, exactly. Like, am I seeing stars? Question for the audience is like, does that happen on the other side? Do girls get that? Do they get the same feeling? I'm sure.

Like anything, we're human, right? If we like something, the possible threat of losing something, right, causes us anxiety or not to get the thing we want i'm sure on some of the thing i'm more interested in is this idea of being hit on uh because i've only been maybe like a direct pickup line i remember someone said that to me when i was djing a party in high school what'd they say this like girl i was in high school as djing a party she comes up to me she goes goes, you're cute. What's your number? Really? And I was like, I fucking, I panicked.

I was like, I don't know. I don't have a phone. I walked away. And then I was like, yo, give her my number. I'm so uncomfortable. I'm lacking all confidence. Indirectly. She was so direct.

I fried my insecure, hormonal teen circuits. I just was unprepared. And I just sort of went into myself uh but again did that did that carry you for the week though because when i if i get a compliment like if somebody says something nice to me like that i'm attracted to i'm terrible it blows my mind it'll keep me going for a week dude i'm like running extra miles i'm donating more i yeah i don't know i'm terrible with the receipt just as a personality like if i'm ever gonna come i'm like i always mitigate right it's like and that's the thing i'm trying to do less

of because i think that sort of betrays my own ability to sort of see myself as being worthy of a compliment right you know let's get psychological real quick uh let me get on my couch you'll be my therapist francis because you know i want to feel like i am worthy of these compliments right but inside i don't want to feel like I'm flexing on people or something like that. I don't know. Chelsea Peretti had a great quote in her podcast about how guys, you'll compliment a guy's shirt and that's all they'll wear for like the rest of the year. That is so true to me. That is true.

Oh, yeah. Do you know the power a compliment has? Yeah. Man, you can... And also, you know, it doesn't have to be even a lie. Yeah. You know, like we're talking as if it's a manipulation. You can literally say to something, someone, just a nice compliment, like, hey, you know

what? You're just, you're a great person. I really felt like we connected today. I'd love to... I wish you the best. Yeah. Yeah. That, just that

little serotonin hit that cortisol spike in the brain or whatever I don't know and they just they walk the planet a little better and then that trickles out like little reverse tributaries into the world yeah like just because you said something nice that person walks the earth

feeling a little better making people feel better all day yeah go give a compliment compliment challenge go do it but not to me not to me

because I suck not me don't not me I'm a piece of shit that was lucky I smell terrible my granny said

the best advice is just say thank you and smile absolutely yeah absolutely and that really helped because it's so simple but it's like

you don't think of it because you're just too much in a panic about where to put that really helped because it's so simple but it's like you don't think of it because you're just too much in a panic about where to put that energy. Yeah, that's true. What's something that's overrated? Overrated.

Alright, I don't want to be controversial or anything but we have gone way too far with oat milk.

Are you fucking kidding me? Wow. What are we going to milk next? Wood chips? Here we go. Jesus fucking Christ. Adam Carolla has checked in. Oh, my God.

Wood chips? Dry wall? This shit tastes like a broom closet. How am I supposed to know up from down or the rest of my day when I'm drinking liquid broom closet? Why do you not like oat milk? I think oat milk has been one of the tastiest ones to come out so far. It's all thick and shit. Everyone is all aboard the oat milk train.

I still drink regular milk. And there's all these little chunks of oats. I need to. I'm regular milk. There's no chunks of oats in it. No, there are. They're little chunks. I'm like, why is it so chunky?

They're thick. I'm saying it's a thick milk. It's the best thing I've ever had, and everyone's riding so hard for it. And I'm like, why is it so chunky? It's thick. I'm saying it's a thick milk. It's the best thing I've ever had. And everyone's riding so hard for it. And I'm like, you're sick. It's true. It's gross. What milk is best milk in the land of sake?

I want everyone to be happy. Of course. I'm asking about you though. I go, I go back and forth between a regular milk and an almond. If you think too hard, if you actually think about regular milk at all it's putrid and disgusting just ideologically but um almond i feel like do i actually like almond or was it something i trained myself to like that's for me i understand because you think about the

dairy process and what that looks like that's why i only drink milk directly from the cow's udders that's the only way i can from the cow's udders. I love that about you. Yeah, that's the only way I can guarantee freshness. Yeah, I mean, that's a lot of integrity to go through that every day. Well, let's just say I've been kicked out a lot of petting zoos. Wow. You've also been kicked a lot in the face by your cows. In the face, yeah.

I've had a lot of terrible head injuries from direct blows to my skull. Yeah, I actually thought that was against the law, but who am I? I don't know, you know? I still watch porn on Google. On Google, like Google Video Player? Like, what? Look, if those two broke girls can keep a horse or whatever, I don't see why you can't keep a cow. Wait, who?

You know, that show. Two broke girls? There's a horse in it? You have cable? You're incredible. Damn, why are I 1% here? Wait, that show, Two Broke Girls, is about a horse? There's a horse in it.

And also, it's not on cable, you guys. What are you talking about? You sought it out? No. No, it's free on a plane sometimes. Oh, okay, okay. You sought it on a plane. Oh, wait.

Because one of the broke girls is like an heiress or like a wealthy person. Isn't that the conceit? I don't know the plot of it. That's the show with Kat Dennings. I just saw that there literally was a horse in it so it's based on a simple life they found a horse i said i said out loud when i was watching it on the plane or flipping through or whatever i was like hey there's a horse in it and the woman sitting next to me said uh yeah i said it's uh wow it's a horse episode she goes, the horse is always on the show. And that's all I know.

She's like, the horse is a permanent fixture of the show. And I was like, isn't this New York? Good to know. And she could not explain it. You happen to be sitting next to a Two Broke Girls enthusiast historian during the first time that you saw Two Broke Girls? That's amazing. Dude, have you ever sat next to anyone

that likes the Big Bang Theory? That's all the people that fly on planes. That's literally who you sit next to. Have you ever sat next to anybody on a plane that isn't watching one of those things? When someone speaks to me on a plane, I am truly shocked. I am like, what?

People think I have a face. You just talk to your neighbor at once. Do you get chatted up a lot yeah people are like she's ready to hear about my life i used to i used to get that a lot on planes and now i don't know what it is i think i i've never had a conversation you fixed your face 10 years yeah i think so on my last flight i was reading and had fucking eerie. I don't know. Shit. Yeah, racism sometimes works in my favor.

Yeah, exactly. Right. Then I'm like, hmm. Ha ha. Don't want to talk to you anyway. I don't like to be rude, but I usually will give a closed-lipped smile. Like that. Like Mitch McConnell?

To let him know you're not playing. I'm like, no. Look, I'm nice. I want the best for you, but I am also a gremlin. And I'm just trying to sit in my seat. And do not feed me when it's late and don't get me wet. All right, we're going to take another quick break. We will be right back.

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Listen to MTV's official Challenge podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. and we're back it was only a matter of time you guys till mcdonald's came out of their uh scientists scientific lab kitchen uh with a chicken sandwich oh yeah uh they i think earlier this year we're talking about how franchise owners at McDonald's were like, we're getting fucking killed by Chick-fil-A and this chicken sandwich. We got nothing. People fucking hate rat meat burgers. We need the chicken. And now, this is only in a very limited number of markets.

So if you're in Knoxville, Tenneke, or Houston, Texas, and you're psyching, let us know. I actually want to know. They have the Southern-style buttermilk crispy chicken sandwich. Man, they really – it's everything. It's hint of dill. They've got a pickle on it. They buttered the bun. They know what they're doing.

They know what they're doing. They're trying to come after that Chick-fil-A market, and I need to know how bad or good it is. I mean, so they're going to do this locally. I'll be interested to see if it's one of those things like with Popeyes where they roll it out locally because they can't afford

to make the sandwich as good as it needs to be on a massive scale. I don't know. I'm trying to remember the last time McDonald's made something that was new and I was like, hey, you know what? I do remember when they made something clever.

They had such a weird hard line stance at times that they always cave in on. They go, we've had this menu for 50 years and we'll never have salads. People want salads? Here's 15 salads. Okay, in a cup though. It's a McSalad shaker. McSalad shaker. What?

And then they finally caved in. Just think of it as a milkshake. It's like, no, fool. It's a salad. It's an McSalad shaker. McSalad shaker? Just think of it as a milkshake. No, fool. A bunch of old iceberg in a plastic cup? With apples, and when they put that salad on the menu, they became America's largest purchaser of apples.

Oh, like their little harvest-y salad? Yeah, they basically created a double the apple industry. I'd love to see the meeting when the guy came in, or I assume it's a guy, the CEO of McDonald's comes in and like, all right, we're doing it. They've complained long enough.

We're going to make breakfast all the time. Sick of having people, their entire YouTube streams of comics, just laying into the fact that we don't serve breakfast all day. So we're doing it. And then everyone went, this could, our forefathers wanted us to keep the same menu. Yeah.

And then they changed it. Breakfast should be eaten in the morning. If there's like McDonald's constitution originalists. They just shredded it. They just ripped it up. We're new and hip now. You're an expansionist. And no one cared.

People, there were maybe a couple of tweets are like, thanks, but it wasn't like People I fucking I started levitating When they brought

In all day breakfast I felt great too I felt like This is phenomenal I've ceased to eat Like the daytime food there I'll eat the fries The fries

And the occasional nuggies Chicky nuggies Don't eat the burgers really Unless I'm feeling Really wacky and high but usually i'm just eating a bunch of sausage mcmuffins with egg okay yeah i don't think you're alone in that and then when they doubled it up boy r.i.p miles's arteries doubled up what when you could put like two sausage patties, it was like a behemoth style stacker.

Right. Yeah. They also are, I saw a billboard that showed that they're selling breakfast sandwiches with chicken on it. No, that's a new thing with fried chicken, chicken breasts. Oh gosh, it just feels a little wrong to put an egg on the chicken. It's just, you know, let's give chickens a little break.

Yeah. They, and they even like drew attention to the fact that it was like, they're like, well, you already get, yeah, it's like a chicken.

There's no egg, no egg. And they, but they, the advertisement I saw for it was like, here's a yoke of an idea or something like, or like this breakfast sandwich is no yolk. And it was like chicken without the egg,

but with the breakfast sandwich bread part. And yeah. The biscuit. The biscuit. Muffin. It's funny, though. The McGriddle. Even though I'm like, oh, that's cool.

One of my favorite Japanese dishes is called Oyako Donburi. And oya means parent and ko means child, like the kanji thing. So it's literally parent and child rice bowl and it's eggs and chicken. So I'm like, what the fuck am I talking about? Like, we have a dish that's like, man, fuck this whole family rice bowl. I want to make sure they came from the same bloodline. Exactly. Let's get to the real important issue.

The one that had Blair's mind working 300 miles a minute. What happened to Josh Brolin's asshole? Oh my God. Yes. So at the end of last week, there was a post of this woman who was like named Metaphysical Megan. I'm sorry. This made me so mad.

Yeah. In so many ways. A self-described healer, teacher and embodied mermaid who her post went viral. Cause she was basically, uh, out here spreading her asshole out to the sun. This saying that we need to get sunlight,

UV exposure into our UV radiation into our assholes. She brought the fucking Taoists into it. She's like, it's an ancient Taoist practice. Yep. Bitch, you don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, well, again, it's saying, according to them, it could strengthen your organs, increase creativity.

Libido. Yeah, regulate your circadian rhythms. I mean, who wouldn't, after reading that, be like, shit, maybe. It's what everybody says about crystals and shit like that it's the same put them on your asshole but no like all of the things that they do for you all right circadian rhythms this in itself is not wrong it's talking about it at all that is wrong about what if you want to sun your asshole, absolutely go off Slay Queen.

But just do not talk about it to even one person. Live your life. Here's the thing. Don't do it because you actually will get a horrible asshole burn like Josh Brolin. He posted a picture, I think of this woman's post, and basically said, try this perineum sunning that I've been hearing about. And my suggestion is do not do it as long as I did. My pucker hole is crazy burned and I was going to spend the day shopping with my family.

And instead I'm icing and using aloe and burn creams because of the severity of the paint. I don't know who the fuck thought of this stupid shit, but fuck you nonetheless. Seriously. of the paint. I don't know who the fuck thought of this stupid shit, but fuck you nonetheless, seriously. Wait, I love how he was like, so now this sensitive part of my body that has never seen the light of day. One time in my life. Yeah. I should probably just sit out there and cook it.

I mean, his circadian rhythms and libido must have been fucked if he was like, I don't give a fuck. He's like, my asshole's burned, but I'm ready to go. But I'm ready to put a bunch of aloe on my asshole. Let me lay some pipe. I don't know. I'll try it. But I think you only need maybe two minutes at most

of exposed asshole suntime. See, this is how it starts. I'm not saying it's going to be good. I'm just saying I need a reason to sun my asshole. And I'll say it's because I'm doing an experiment. These people, my God. Oh, you're posting about sunning their asshole. God, keep some shit private.

Is there a way to even escalate from there? I don't know. I feel like sunning your asshole, I don't know how you get more laughable. Why are people always listening to random white bitches telling them what to do about really sensitive body she has dreadlocks and she's in joshua tree i'm saying like gwen fucking goop well i think gwyneth has that thing where people don't realize that between genetics and a lot of money her life is the way it is because of that not because she was rubbing her asshole with crystals no but she'd be like put some jade eggs in your pussy and then all the doctors are like no she's like

okay steam your pussy they're like no okay i'm just saying i'm just saying why are people out here being like you know who i should listen to the fucking gynecologist yeah like just uh just this random white woman with no degrees. She calls herself a mermaid. If you ever call yourself a mermaid. Sorry, Valerie Tossie, I love you. Embodied mermaid. I dislike you. Wait, who did you just apologize to?

My friend Valerie. I follow a lot of this shit on Instagram. Do you really? What's an embodied mermaid? I don't know. I don't follow any mermaids. Oh, okay. I do follow a lot of, like, healers and stuff.

If you call yourself a mermaid or, like, if you're a self-described, like, babe, boss babe, I'm out. I try to curate my Instagram feed for all positivity. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a lot of, like, therapist accounts and healers and, like, stuff like that. Hey, well, I commend that because- Dogs work way better.

For you? I'm allergic to dogs, Sophia. Jesus Christ, I just had to bring it up. You can follow an account without touching the dogs. I'm pretty sure you can still get sick like that. Boop my nose is what I follow. That's a dog account? Oh, wow. Your smile was so

big when I said that's a dog account. I follow a lot of dog accounts. Because their faces are right in the camera because you're like, boop my nose. Oh, said that's a dog I follow a lot of dog accounts because their faces are right in the camera because you're like boop my nose and that's how they get that double tap on there yeah I am smiling really big I can't help it I'm like this is a good account

alright that's gonna do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist please like and review the show if you like the show means the world to miles he needs your validation folks Zeitgeist, please like and review the show if you like the show. Means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks.

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