The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 107 (Best of 1/6/20-1/10/20)

Episode Date: January 12, 2020

The weekly round up of the best moments from DZ's Season 115 (1/6/20-1/10/20.) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...ion.

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Starting point is 00:02:16 These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. What is something you think is underrated? Roommates. Everybody's always complaining about their roommates, but my roommates help me with my dog. But they're very sweet. It's also good to have roommates that are not in comedy when you're
Starting point is 00:02:48 yes yes absolutely oh you guys have other lives and aren't narcissistic yay yeah i i feel like having roommates who aren't necessarily like part of your same scene or like your friends that's something i never did but like i've now known people well your kids both have podcasts yeah so on this network yeah it just hasn't dropped yet or they're we're trying to get their language skills up to the one year old is really struggling i totally agree with you though yeah it's back. I like living with people who also like have like a limited grasp on what you do and vice versa. You're like,
Starting point is 00:03:30 Oh, this is nice. It's like being back at home with parents who are like, what? Oh, that you use that in your little comedy. Yeah. Or they like give you ideas cause they're not just talking about comedy the whole time.
Starting point is 00:03:41 So they're like, Oh, I read this article about this other thing. It's not just on Twitter or like, Oh, did you know this thing was invented by this? So they're like, oh, I read this article about this other thing that's not just on Twitter. Or like, oh, did you know this thing was invented by this? And you're like, what? There's a level of sincerity you can't access in your day-to-day life.
Starting point is 00:03:54 It's great. It's dope. That is great. Yeah. Well, speaking of all sorts of orgasms, Jamie, you saw Cats. I did. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:03 Oh, OK. So wait, Pallallavi have you seen cats I saw the original cats on broad fucking way broad fucking way when I was a child what's up did you love it
Starting point is 00:04:18 okay honestly the only thing I remember was like during intermission they had the like the main king cat guy I don't remember any of it for now but like they had the main guy just sit up on stage and you could like cat yeah and you could like walk around him and take a picture and he just like sat still right so was there a part of the thing that like the cats come into the audience do they do that in broadway on um i don't remember them being near me but they were like all over the place. Oh. Yeah. Because I'd seen two local productions of it, which is, I don't know. I would love to see a production of Cats that was like by competent performers, because
Starting point is 00:04:55 I've seen two local ones, and they were incredible, but for probably not the right reasons. I thought you were going to say that one performance by Cats for Cats. I would like to see. Cats cats let's see where cats is okay so i okay so cats is i think i think the new rocky horror in terms of everyone has been saying yeah people will watch it at midnight it's so horrific to look at but i i i loved it so much it's so good it's so horny there There's no, one of the great things about it is that there's no way to spoil it for anyone. You can just talk about cats freely
Starting point is 00:05:30 because the plot is nothing. It's just cat after cat after cat coming out being like, I'm the cat that does this thing. And then Idris Elba shows up and turns them into dust. And that also kind of has nothing to do with the plot, but Idris Elba is the villainous cat, right?
Starting point is 00:05:43 And he's giving it 110%. God only knows how long it'll take for him to bounce back from this. Because he was supposed to be James Bond, and now he's this cat, right? Do you think he's still just permanently this cat? I don't know. People committed to the cat at varying levels. and i i found who is the least committed the least oh that's a good question the least committed i would say would probably have been taylor swift and she was still pretty i didn't even know she was in it she's in it they clearly
Starting point is 00:06:19 had her for two days but she was in it she plays like idris elba's like femme fatale cat harley quinn basically okay basically joker yeah but she they they like wrote a song for her there's all these great cursed images of her and andrew lloyd weber sitting down together i'm like what could they be talking about but she's everything she like, I love DeVita. So she's in it, and the things that they do to the cat's bodies are very bizarre. Some cats have very voluptuous human features, and others are just cats.
Starting point is 00:06:57 And then what's her name? Unzipped her fur? I saw that. Rebel Wilson. So that scene, I think, is the one that people have seen who haven't even seen the movie. Yeah, that's where that was. Rebel Wilson unzips scene, I think, is the one that people have seen who haven't even seen the movie. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:05 Where Rebel Wilson unzips her fur and there's more fur. But hot pants. The roaches are also in that scene. Rebel Wilson, I would say, is one of my least favorite cats. It's not a her thing. It's just a hard part of the movie. And is she eating roaches in that scene? She's eating roaches.
Starting point is 00:07:23 And then they zoom in on the roaches and the roaches are kind of like dancers circus dancers and they have top hats and they have human faces and we don't like it no real cats eat roaches no no that's not well i mean they eat rodents but it's not like yeah i've definitely don't. They don't? Yeah. I don't know. Like my dogs have eaten roaches before, like just because they saw a big bug and it seemed like something fun to eat. I feel like it's more like accidental than a like cat thing.
Starting point is 00:07:56 Right. Exactly. But this like, the scene that I saw, it seemed like it was, you know, they had a hunting method to like knock it off. The whole thing is, I think Ian McKellen committed hardest to being a cat in the traditional sense. He's really swishing around. He's switching around.
Starting point is 00:08:13 He's going, wow. There was one time where he basically looks to cameras like, wow. You're like, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. My favorite cat was Jason Derulo cat. Okay. He was unbelievable. unbelievable committed harder than i've ever seen and and also on the cat's press tour he was like this is genius this is the best fucking thing that's ever happened and he was mad he was upset that they edited out his bald
Starting point is 00:08:39 because jason derulo is really into his baldge. Yeah, loves his dick. Yeah, which I know for sure because I text, no, because I went to- He won't stop DMing me. I went to Madame Tussauds recently. Oh. And they have a wax Jason Derulo and the package is like- Impressive.
Starting point is 00:08:59 Yeah, yeah. Like it was clearly a part of the contract. Children go there. Children go there. It's markedly bigger. They're at package level too. Yeah, like it was clearly a part of the contract. Children go there. Children go there. It's markedly bigger. They're at package level too. Yeah, exactly. The children are, it was alarming how.
Starting point is 00:09:12 So there was, it started with his Instagram post where he was wearing underwear and he was just like had his big thing hanging out to the side. I love that story so much because he he said, because it got taken down. He fought back. He clapped back.
Starting point is 00:09:29 And said, where's my bulge pic? And then he also said that that picture was candid, which if you saw it, was clearly taken by Annie Leibovitz Jr. It was like, not a candid picture. Oh, Jason DeRue.
Starting point is 00:09:48 Now, there is some controversy from cats uh about whether ian mckellen's character eats his uh boyfriend cat's asshole or not um well i i don't know yeah i i i don't i'll have to see it a third time to tell you for sure did you see it twice? And hands. And hands. Did you really? Yes. A lot of people I know saw it twice. Oh, that's amazing. It's really fun.
Starting point is 00:10:11 Because it's confusing the first time, I think. Yeah, and then the second time, you just kind of go to this other, I don't know. I saw it in a big group the first time and a smaller group the second time. Don't go alone. Definitely don't go alone. And don't go to an afternoon screening.
Starting point is 00:10:25 It's meant to be in a group full of people that are like vibrating at night. And bring your cat. Jennifer Hudson is, I mean, it's like, this isn't fair to her, but she still delivers.
Starting point is 00:10:38 Right. She sings memories, right? She sings it like four times, but then you can tell. She sings like a verse every 20 minutes and then at the end you get the jennifer like that like it's it gets really but she like gives you a taste so many times and then she plays the cat that like so in the show there she's the cat that like no one likes and you're like why but whatever they just don't like her right and so like the main
Starting point is 00:11:04 cat keeps going out and being like hi and then jennifer hudson sings three words of memory and she's wearing this huge coat and then she gets on her hands and knees and crawls away and it's they do this long shot multiple times of jennifer hudson crawling away in this long jacket you're like some of the cats wear jackets also others don't. Huh. Idris Elba's wearing clothes the whole movie until at the end he suddenly isn't and it's like,
Starting point is 00:11:30 put the clothes back on. Oh, right. Because he's like ripped. But he's a cat. He's like human ripped, but a cat. They're like James Bond training on a cat. Right.
Starting point is 00:11:40 And then they gave Taylor Swift these like gigantic cat titties that are human titties that are also not her. But just two of them, right? Yeah, just two of them. Right, just human titties. When there's, there should have been six. Well, right.
Starting point is 00:11:53 Cats have six titties. Have you ever picked up a pregnant cat or like a breastfeeding cat? Have I? No. It feels so fucking weird. You're like, ah! My 12-year-old dog, now you try and pick him up, and part of him doesn't come up with you.
Starting point is 00:12:10 It's just like he's all jiggly all over the place. I feel like that's the closest I've come. The closest you've come. Yes. But the best cat in the movie for me is Skimbleshanks the Railroad Cat. Played by? Some guy. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:12:28 Stephen McRae. Stephen McRae. He looks like a legit dancer. Look at that. Yeah, there's a few cats that are professional dancers, and that's why you don't know who they are. And then there's James Corden, and you're like, no, thank you. He's in a carpool karaoke bit. James Corden is giving it like a weird amount of,
Starting point is 00:12:45 like he's good. And then he also like clearly let him riff and then they didn't cut it out. Like, I'm like, don't let James Corden riff. What are you doing? And then they didn't cut it out. Can you imagine? I get like letting him do it.
Starting point is 00:12:56 I'm like, he's not going to shut up if you don't let him do it. But like, I just like, and then they didn't cut it out. Like when you say riff, like adding like, he's riffing out like when you say riff like adding like he's riffing on like the idea of cats or he's like doing
Starting point is 00:13:08 jokes he's doing like he thinks he's in a Judd Apatow movie like he's just like he's improvising whatever whatever I like you know he can I like him in the car I just don't like when he gets out of the car get back in your car stay in the car is his background like musical theater
Starting point is 00:13:25 or something yeah and he's also like the most despised person in britain people don't like him i don't know what the reasons are they think we're idiots for liking him oh really it's like it's kind of like ricky gervais where like they they were almost like like like the uk hated them so much that they just came to America and started bothering us. Wait, the UK hates Ricky Gervais? Yeah. Everyone.
Starting point is 00:13:48 I mean, everyone hates Ricky Gervais. What? He's my favorite. What the fuck? I actually really love the British office, but he is. But that was 20 years ago.
Starting point is 00:13:56 Yeah, that was a while ago. Did you see that Ricky Gervais tweet about Joker? No. What did he say? He like, oh wait, it was like so earnest and you're like yikes sweetie uh it was demi
Starting point is 00:14:10 did you ebay tweeted it oh yeah i did see this actually it was just like ricky gervais being like wow performance of the century oh yeah of the decade me love it so much. Right. Just like, oh yes, he's at film and performance of the year prayer emoji hands. He tweeted at the Joker movie Twitter account too.
Starting point is 00:14:30 Oh, okay. Embarrassing for everybody. I feel like with cats, going back to cats. Yes, please. Do you actually think
Starting point is 00:14:38 it's going to ruin Idris Elba's career? Because I feel like there's so many cats in there that you can't distribute. No, he'll be fine. He'll absolutely be fine yeah like it's okay i think the dancer cats we're saying we'll never see them again on screen we'll have to go to the you know french ballet to see them right jennifer hudson's gonna be in the aretha franklin movie oh yeah like literally
Starting point is 00:15:01 everyone's gonna be fine there's too many there's too many cats to target so the director Tom Hoover will not be fine he his life is over but I his life is over his family has
Starting point is 00:15:13 dropped him I respect the shit out of what he did though isn't it amazing because it's like such a risk it's he created something
Starting point is 00:15:22 that now like exists in the firmament of people may fund me for calling so many movies iconic in my look back at the decade and our look back at the decade but i do feel like this has become iconic like it's a cultural thing that everybody is drawing on that is in like the cultural mind firmament now i like that you don't have to be good for that to happen. You just have to be weird enough and like, I don't know. Here, remember this uncanny
Starting point is 00:15:50 valley of cats. He's going to have to make indies until he dies, but I'm glad he did this. I mean, he started with The King's Speech, which I was always mad at that movie for beating Social Network. Saw it twice in theaters.'t. I was always mad at that movie for beating social network.
Starting point is 00:16:05 Saw it twice in theaters. Yeah. I was mad at it because Jamie saw it twice in theaters and thought that was more than it deserved. But it was just like a blah movie. And then he made Les Mis, which I thought was like blah and bad. So like for him to go in this direction. He made The Danish Girl, which also has not aged very well.
Starting point is 00:16:24 Oh, yeah. And then he made, I mean, of those four, Cats, which also has not aged very well. Oh, yeah. And then he made, I mean, of those four, Cats, I think, is by far the strongest. And History will remember. He looks like he should have been in King's Speech.
Starting point is 00:16:35 Right. It's like, this is me. And it's like, it took so much, it's all so expensive looking. They had the practical effects makeup and then they put CGI on top of the practical effects makeup and so it's very
Starting point is 00:16:47 unnerving but it's good. And they also like somebody was like I forget who it was. They tweeted it but they were like I figured it out. It's because they didn't give them cat noses. They were like human noses. Oh that makes so much sense. And then she like photoshopped and gave them like cat noses and somebody else made them more cat like and it looked so
Starting point is 00:17:04 much better. I feel like they look more cat like and it looked so much better. I feel like they look more cat like on stage than they do in the movie. Yeah, it is just like Rebel Wilson's face. That makes sense. It's like they should,
Starting point is 00:17:12 we should have done the thing that they did with like Sega or Sonic. With Sonic, yeah. We just pressured people. That is an interesting new trend where people are like
Starting point is 00:17:21 betting like $150 million on these giant CG products but like for some reason they're not like focused group testing the yeah we're just like stepping back right like give it a night sleep on it guys like show it to your wife or whatever yeah you're like oh what the fuck is that yeah i do like do like that everybody pressured for the Sonic thing to be better because it was so much better after. They're like, your art isn't the art we want. Right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:51 This is for us. He shouldn't have weird teeth like that. Yeah. Weird human teeth. Well, all right. Well, this is something. This is obviously a developing story we'll be returning to over time.
Starting point is 00:18:02 You really, if you haven't seen it, see it with a loved one who is on the fence of whether they want to see it, and then they will be fully on board. Yeah. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? I hate this part of you guys' show. I don't participate ever, and I refuse to participate
Starting point is 00:18:18 in this part of your show. It's so goofy. Alright. Cool. You always say that. The things behind the scenes you don't realize before. It's like, I couldn't come up with something. So fuck this thing. I mean,
Starting point is 00:18:30 it's half that. And half the reality is like, I don't care. If I don't care about something, I'm going to be like, couldn't think of it. Yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:18:35 No, that's fair. You're not a myth buster out here. No, but you ever watch myth busters? No. Why? You ever,
Starting point is 00:18:40 you ever listen to a Buster Rhymes album? Yeah, I'm trying to, I'm trying to guide you back to the myth. You know who loves myth busting? Mensa. According to Jamie Loftus' new website. See, exactly.
Starting point is 00:18:52 I find myself in opposition, or new podcast, and I find myself in opposition to anything Mensa is in favor of. So maybe we'll replace this. Thank you. See? It also is the one that people like the least. True feminism. I do like that.
Starting point is 00:19:04 True feminism, ally in the building. But get rid of that. It also is the one. True feminism. True feminism. I do like that. True feminism. Ally in the building. Yeah. But get rid of that. It's silly. Because also there's some myths that exist that like bring people comfort. Yeah. So busting them is like an obnoxious well actually attempt at life.
Starting point is 00:19:17 Most of the time it's an overrated, wrapped in the form of a myth. Right. It's typically the construction I always see, or pseudoscience. Yes. And then we had to cut that shit out. We're like, okay, we don't need takes on medicines. That's funny. All right.
Starting point is 00:19:35 I'll tell you what does work is ear candling. Ear candling? Uh-oh. It works. Here we go. I have migraines. Prepare your mentions. I have really bad migraines.
Starting point is 00:19:43 I used to. I don't have them anymore because i ear candle because of your candle it really helps it's disgusting so you're on on the side of your head with a candle sticking out of your ear yes it's so weird i didn't and you got to understand i'm not like a holistic i don't believe in none of that shit i like western medicine i love ibuprofen before bed um i i just don't give a i. I like eat shit. And, um, my sister one day was like, cause she know I got migraines and she was like, you should try this. And I, of course it's not going to work for everybody.
Starting point is 00:20:10 Right. But it worked for me and I was truly shocked. See, look, and just in true form, a myth in the form of pseudoscience. But it's not a myth though. Some people, it works for some people and it doesn't. I guess it all depends. Yeah. Right.
Starting point is 00:20:22 I think some people, yeah, it's like anything, right? If shit, I think smoking bullets, yeah, it's like anything, right? If shit, I think smoking blunts relieves my, my mind and mine. It makes me, it makes mine worse. Really? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:32 I don't think it's a nicotine. No, no. I'm just saying, I don't smoking just smoking weed for me. I have to like, make sure that I'm perfectly healthy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:39 I was with some friends over the break and I didn't realize this one person. I know they like any bit of caffeine sets off their migrants to the point where they're like, I can't eat chocolate. I can't have MSG. I was like. But that's every human body is different. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. All right. We're going to take a quick break.
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Starting point is 00:25:19 with this one. Five star Uber drivers and five star Lyft drivers. This comes with, there are so many drivers out there who are great, five stars. I get it. It's a great hustle. I respect the hustle.
Starting point is 00:25:33 But I've just had way too many experiences getting into a car with somebody who turns out to be an insane, like, nut job racist or, like, misogynist who's trying to get me to talk, like, just slimy shit about the girls on the sidewalk and stuff. And their rating is like 4.98. Yeah. So I just like, I think there's maybe an epidemic of people being too scared to give an Uber
Starting point is 00:25:56 driver a realistic rating. Cause on one hand, like you don't want to knock someone's ability to like, to like, you don't want to fuck up their rating. Right. But I think some drivers are kind of shapeshifters depending on their passengers because you'll read the thing.
Starting point is 00:26:09 It's like, they were so helpful. And it's like, I'm sure the slick ones know, don't start talking some shit about a woman's ass on the street to when you have women in the car. Right. Right. You got a dude in there and then you can be like, let me loosen the tie a little bit. Right. Right.
Starting point is 00:26:22 So yeah, they're not seeing it. I had one just crazy experience where I got out, and it was like, there was this woman I could tell she was, like, maybe having a night. Like, I got in. She took, like, a couple minutes too long kind of finishing her text before we started going. And I was like, oh, that's chill. Do your thing.
Starting point is 00:26:38 And then she turned up the radio super loud. It was like Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Love, which was really funny. And I was like, okay, Sandra, Whole Lotta Love, which was really funny. And I was like, okay, Sandra, you rock. I don't know what impression you're trying to give. And she starts speeding down
Starting point is 00:26:53 these speed bumps down my street, hitting them hard. Where I'm like, hey, you're ruining your car right now. I don't know what you're doing. That's on you. And then after just maybe five minutes of that, we get out. She turns down the radio and she looks back at me right now. That's on you. And then after, after, you know, just maybe like,
Starting point is 00:27:05 like five minutes of that, we get out, she turns down the radio and she looks back at me in the rear view mirror and she goes, can I ask you something? Why are all guys such assholes? Why are you all assholes? And I was just like,
Starting point is 00:27:19 damn, yeah, we, we can be pretty bad. Well, hold on. Let me, before I answer, am I a five star asshole? Oh, yeah, we can be pretty bad. Well, hold on. Before I answer, am I a five-star asshole?
Starting point is 00:27:28 Right. That might affect if I give you five stars. There's a way to have that conversation. I've had that conversation. Like, yeah, guys are dicks. Let's talk about it. But the more we got into it, the more it was just like, oh, no, you are the wrong one here. And she was also driving like, do you remember in Vanilla Sky when Cameron Diaz is doing that like that crazy death ride? Like that's truly like my conversation wasn't coming from a place of empathy.
Starting point is 00:27:52 It was coming from calm this person down so they don't crash. And her rating was again like 4.9 or some shit. I don't know. And I'm the asshole because I puke. I always reflectively go five. Yeah. Yeah, I always do too. And that's, and I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:28:09 Unless you get some. There is a part of that that I think is the good guy move. Like, yes, let's support this. Let's make sure they whatever. I think it's so easy to give a five-star ride. Let's give them all five stars. But if you give somebody a five-star ride and they're a little bit crazy, you're passing that hot potato on to somebody who's going to get it and it's going to fucking explode on them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Or you just have to say, Hey, my man, I got to warn you, man, we're drifting into a four star ride here. Right. And I don't want to fucking, I'm not trying to try to take the fucking money out your pocket.
Starting point is 00:28:33 Right. But this is becoming a quickly. I mean, I'm going to be honest. This might be a two star ride to go four stars. I would have to believe that they should not be doing this job for the safety of themselves or others. So that's your four star.
Starting point is 00:28:47 And 80% of B plus or B minus on a test means you should not be driving this car. So that is what happens. Somebody takes 100 rides. They're all like nothing. They're all eventless. They're all five star. Then you take a ride and it's like pretty bad and they get a four star and it affects their rating like nothing. Right.
Starting point is 00:29:05 I think maybe more nuanced rating. I can't just say based on everything I've experienced on this ride that I can just distill it down to one metric. Yeah. I can do five stars for conversation. I can do five stars for driving. I can do three stars for the farting. Right. Yeah, yeah, that's fair.
Starting point is 00:29:23 What's the wildest Uber experience you've ever had? I've had a time, bro. I had a dude who was from Uzbekistan, and he was complaining that you couldn't punch women in the United States. Oh, word. Jesus Christ. Yeah, he was describing punching someone. Like his friend, he said, yeah, my friend is in jail
Starting point is 00:29:43 because he was gesturing punching. Right. Like he punched. He's like, you're a woman. Throw closed hands through someone's face. And now he's jail. And I'm like, right. And he's like, nah, nah, not like that at home.
Starting point is 00:29:56 Right. And I was like, okay, thank you. The other one, usually I get like mostly ignorant people with terrible takes on social issues. Yeah. Usually I get mostly ignorant people with terrible takes on social issues. I remember when Pride was happening, this French guy, he was driving me and Her Majesty through West Hollywood. And all the streets were, there was a bunch of closures because the parade was happening. He goes, I don't understand this.
Starting point is 00:30:21 They have to have a parade? There's no straight people parade? Yeah, there it is. And I said, I'm pretty sure every parade that exists is for that. It's a straight person parade. Just like when people, I remember in high school constantly having to educate white classmates on why there's a BET. There's no BET. And I'm like, it's called every other network. Right, yes.
Starting point is 00:30:38 It already is. So that's what it's, do you understand that? Yeah. Imbalance? Okay, never mind. LA, you get a lot of actors. A lot of actors. Like coked up actors.
Starting point is 00:30:48 I've had a couple of those that are wild. Or like I get ones too, old players, like old black dudes in their fifties who are telling me, they're like, Hey bro, they just telling me about all their like women problems. Yeah. And it's a hilarious, cause I'm like, you have not matured at all emotionally. Right. You're in your fifth, you have grandchildren.
Starting point is 00:31:07 Yeah. And you're talking about, you're referring to like when your girlfriend is like, this hoe is not, you know, she wants to get all in my shit. Cause I'm coming home late. I'm just playing basketball.
Starting point is 00:31:17 Right. I'm like, okay, but nevermind. I'm, thank you so much. This conversation has been entertaining. Let's talk about Megxit.
Starting point is 00:31:27 As Super Producer Sophie is calling it, that is Harry and Meghan quitting their job? Dude, Megxit is when Taco Bell got rid of the Mexi-melt. Right. Yeah, that was. Did they bring it back, though? No, you got it. Look, I can tell people on Twitter all the time, you have to order a cheesy roll-up, add beef, add pico. Got it.
Starting point is 00:31:48 Okay. And you're good. Okay, guys. Okay. So apparently they're not just British-y socialites, which is what I thought the royal family was. They are employees of the state, sir. Oh, they're workers. They make those appearances at the queen's behest, and the queen controls all their money, which is wild.
Starting point is 00:32:13 But they have a lot of money. They are funded by taxpayers. They basically mentioned that or made allusion to that in their divorce papers or whatever, like their letter explaining why they're leaving. Oh, their Dear Queen Elizabeth letter? Yes. They're saying part of their goal is to establish independent wealth. people in England are saying that that's kind of bullshit because they're, they're still going to have like a million dollar a year, uh, protection,
Starting point is 00:32:49 like social security type thing. Well, look, I mean, or not social security, a secret service type thing. Oh, got it.
Starting point is 00:32:56 Got it. I mean, look, Megan should just get, start acting again, you know, fire it up. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:01 You can be making more money than your man. You can, you can, you can support your waste role of a husband. Yeah also move out here like i keep saying so i can hang with harry i'm saying we need to launch the equivalent of encino man for harry learning what it's like to be a human being in society and but specifically the san fernando valley yes and megan is the polyauly Shore character. It's weird.
Starting point is 00:33:27 I should tell Harry, I'm like, hey, man, before we entered our physical bodies, we were just souls in the universe. And you happen to end up in that body, and I ended up in this one. Who knows? You could have been me. Oh, right. Because you guys were born the same day. Same day.
Starting point is 00:33:40 Exact same day. So think about that. Hello, Harry. Yeah. Hello, me. A couple of things. So the. Exact same day. So think about that. Hello, Harry. Yeah. Hello, me. A couple of things. So the standard. Soul brother.
Starting point is 00:33:51 Oh, no. Soul bro. He's like, that makes me rather uncomfortable. So people, the comments on Instagram are shockingly mean to Megan and saying she's like a black widow who's. Oh, my God. Really? Oh, I don't know if the word's black widow who's... Oh my God. Really? Oh, I don't know if the word's black widow, but like that seems to be just the idea that
Starting point is 00:34:10 she like kills families. I wouldn't be surprised because even in like the tabloids, it's like her exotic DNA. Oh yeah. And then there's another one. She's like straight out of almost Compton. Yes. And I was like, fuck up out my face. That was the headline like after their engagement was announced.
Starting point is 00:34:25 Yeah. Those are real? Yeah, those are real. 100% like this. So she's been just endlessly shit upon for being different, not adapting to royal culture, wanting privacy, for being- Not white. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:40 Not white person from America. Like there's genuinely racist, like openly racist stuff on social media and then like codedly or, you know, implicitly racist stuff in the mainstream media. So that's worth keeping in mind why she wants out of being being hounded by journalists. She was speeding away from the paparazzi when her car crashed and was dealing with all sorts of shit. I'm not as mad at them as the Royal Watchers are in England.
Starting point is 00:35:18 Yeah, that all makes sense. Cool. I don't know why we still give a shit. are we their royalty it's an absurd antiquated notion that we pay attention to them that's part of it's like we perpetuate it by going what are they up to yeah and then we if we all just went like who gives a shit they don't do anything yeah they uh suggested that Megan's avocado consumption is responsible for mass murder. That's a real thing.
Starting point is 00:35:49 Oh, you can't fight that. Her charity cookbook was portrayed as somehow helping terrorists. Oh, also, you know, it's a fun fact, the exotic DNA line comes from Boris Johnson's sister, who works at the Daily Mail. Yeah. That's who wrote that. Well, his background is being a conservative journalist. And overall, just a piece of shit, I think. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:06 I just think of, A rose you never used your thorns, The ones you loved abandoned you. From The Office, when David Brent sings the whole song about Then rushing through the Paris night, They hounded you lost. Anyway. Oh, that's Goodbye, English Rose. Good night, my sweet princess. what david brett sings at the
Starting point is 00:36:28 i think what is it the uh training episode the training episode is one of my favorite and then he starts singing about aliens coming down and all kinds of shit man one of the great episodes of tv of all time super producer anna hosnia wanted me to to emphasize that, in her opinion, Harry still has PTSD from watching his mother be literally murdered by his grandmother, which is a conspiracy theory some people subscribe to. What kind of fucking spicy xenophobic shit was Queen Elizabeth saying to him? Oh, yeah. Like in the beginnings?
Starting point is 00:37:02 Because you know grandmothers? Oh, yeah. Like in the beginnings, because you know grandmothers? Oh, yeah. They take the break off if they really need to get through to you. Like they will damage your whole soul with some shit. She's like- Like you're saying I'm hairy and you're her.
Starting point is 00:37:17 Right. And I'm like, she's just lovely. She's charming. She's so excited to meet you. I find her hair to be a bit rough. Yeah. What, grandma? What the fuck are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:37:32 I mean, again, I'm not surprised from someone who's literally the queen of England and your grandma if she had some old school takes on biracial. Because I mean, what? She was with Dodi Fayed before. That's who could have been her stepdad. You know what I mean? Yeah. And Mohammed Al-Fayed, he put up so much money trying to figure out what the fuck happened yeah princess michael of kent wore an overtly racist brooch uh to brooch my good man uh yeah wait what was it brooch brooch uh it was
Starting point is 00:37:57 a like blackface thing like a what the yo get the fuck out of here man uh and also i i said that the mainstream media was less overtly racist but a bbc host compared the couple's newborn baby to a chimpanzee on uh twitter so good group over there yeah i don't know if this has been said before what's her problem but i and i'm going out i'm going to say something very brave. I think we should cancel the British monarchy. Yeah. Sorry. Said it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:29 They're canceled. I don't think that's that controversial a take, I think. And I haven't even read history. You're not into colonialism, man? No, man. Give it a chance. Oh, my favorite form of architecture. Imperialism?
Starting point is 00:38:45 Into that? Oh, yeah. Well, my favorite form of architecture. Imperialism? You into that? Oh, yeah. Well, that's why I live here. Really quickly, I just want to tell this story about New York State Assemblyman Brian Kolb. As I alluded to earlier, he drove his state-issued SUV drunkenly into a ditch. And this is where it gets funny. When the tow truck driver arrives, not the police, tow truck driver arrives first. He comes off top.
Starting point is 00:39:08 According to Scovel, who is the tow truck driver, Kolb stood up, put his hands up and said, my wife was driving. He then said, you know how women drive. Scovel said, I did not see anyone else around the vehicle. Kolb allegedly told him. His wife wasn't there no Colb allegedly told him that his wife was quote up in the house uh I don't know what that means so anyway when the house when the police deputy uh got there yeah he blew a 0.16 breathalyzer uh so you know know, they were like, okay, it was your wife. Then he resigned on Friday. He was just like, okay,
Starting point is 00:39:50 I kind of fucked that up. The idea that you could go, I don't know, man. That's an interesting energy where you're like, he'll get it. I'll hold up my hands and go, my wife was driving. You know how women drive. Where is your wife, sir? Up in the house. Up in the house.
Starting point is 00:40:05 We're in a field. We were in a ditch, my man. She crashed the car and was like, I'm going to the house. You should see her, man. She's like Dr. Manhattan. You know what women are like. She zapped herself to the house. She's a coward, you know.
Starting point is 00:40:20 She's really taking responsibility for this. Arrest her. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know, arrest the system. He's still happily married? I know, yeah. His wife's about to resign.
Starting point is 00:40:29 Yeah, right. I'm pretty sure we've spoke about this pizza ATM before, but the news popped up about it again. And I'm trying to really figure out if I think the pizza ATM is a good idea. I know, like, there's the Sprinkles Cupcakeinkles cupcake ATM that you see like at the Grove and shit. I've seen that. At the Americana. Yeah, at the Americana, whatever. It doesn't make sense.
Starting point is 00:40:50 Explain a pizza ATM. Pizza ATM. Pizza ATM. It's been on college campuses most recently at the University of North Florida. But basically for 10 bucks, you put your money in and five minutes later, a pizza comes out. Okay. Now, but however the shit is like
Starting point is 00:41:06 the size of like a fucking room it's like a what? or I don't know it's actually I mean it's like a the size of a brick oven?
Starting point is 00:41:13 well I don't know it's a big ass machine it's a machine attached to a brick oven but the whole thing is like whoever like operates the machine you have to make your dough
Starting point is 00:41:21 you have to assemble all the pizzas in advance put them like in the different refrigeration compartments. And then when it's actually punched in and ordered, then that uncooked pizza goes to its heating thing. And then it pops out the hot pizza. There's better ways. I just don't know.
Starting point is 00:41:36 I mean, I guess it's fun, right? Can I see a picture of this? Yeah. Apparently, the word on campuses is, campuseses, that they love it. Now, I don't know, because to me, Little Caesars is also a pizza ATM. They got hot readies. And it's ready. Six or five bucks.
Starting point is 00:41:55 You don't have to touch a button. I feel like, I don't know. I mean, like, a lot of colleges, I feel like, have a tendency of acquiring really expensive shit to justify charging more people for college. And then they're like, look, they love it. Yeah, like computers. I had a ton of stuff at college that I'm like, I don't want this shit. Like what?
Starting point is 00:42:13 What was something you had that was like a waste of money? They would really push. Oh, so much. They would just push random products on you. Like they were pushing the naked juices. They would push those at my college and they would like put them permanently. Oh, you got free naked juices. Yeah, quote unquote.
Starting point is 00:42:25 But then you would just spend through your meal plan faster. And then you would have to put more money on it. I don't know. Everything related to colleges is insane. I mean, so much. They have like, colleges have like all these like entertainment shows that nobody goes to. I know because I performed there. They like spend so much money.
Starting point is 00:42:49 All of the RAs get a little budget to buy snacks and stuff for their meetings that nobody comes up to, and they have bowls and bowls of pretzel bites and M&Ms and things like that. They're like, why did you take them all out of the bag? You could have saved some of these. I don't know, they look better. I know, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:43:03 The bowls look good. It looks good, right? They're in an atmosphere. Yeah, there's so much. I mean. I don't know. They look good. It looks good, right? Yeah, there's so much. I mean, I don't know, man. I feel like if I was in college and this was a thing, I would probably get it. But now, I'm just looking at it. I'm like, that sounds disgusting. Is it 24 hours?
Starting point is 00:43:19 Is it like the good thing that you would get a pizza at like 3 in the morning? Yeah, until that shit's sold out, though. Is it like a microwave heating in there you think? It's actually pretty small considering like it's making a bunch of pizza. It's probably some kind of convection of it. Like how many pizzas can it make before you have to re-up it?
Starting point is 00:43:35 Before some guy has to come and refill his handmade pizza. And like is there like a pepperoni option? You know what I mean? Or is it just straight cheese? There's options I think. But again this is where I'm like, it sounds like fun. but i don't know if like if i put my mind myself in the mindset of me being like 19 and hungover as fuck i part of me would just eat a bunch of shit from 7-eleven i was like i would just go to 7-eleven where the pizza is also hot and ready and what if you're in your no but the thing is thing you know you put this in like you put this
Starting point is 00:44:03 in like the residence halls and the dorms. You just stroll out of bed and go get a freaking pizza. Yeah, or just deliver one. You don't have to leave. And yes, there are some places that are open up late, but a lot of places, a lot of colleges, they're in the middle of nowhere. So all their cafeterias close at 11. I love late night college town food, though.
Starting point is 00:44:24 Yeah. When I'm in a college town, I'm like, where do they go? Where do they go? Do you do insomnia cookies? No. I would let myself do that once a semester. That's like cookies they deliver to your dorm. What?
Starting point is 00:44:35 They just deliver hot cookies to your dorm. It's called insomnia cookies. Where was this? In Boston? It was in Boston. I think it's around, though. Yeah, they have it in New York. They have Diddy Reese in New York.
Starting point is 00:44:44 Yeah, it's good. They have it in New York. Yeah, I would just New York. They have Diddy Reese in New York. Yeah, it's good. They have a New York. Yeah, I would just get, I remember like my friend went to U of O. We'd go to Doco. Just like these nasty ass calzones. I'll get the most meat bomb zone. They call them zones.
Starting point is 00:44:56 You know what I mean? There's, oh, like apostrophe zone. Yeah, cool. Most meat bomb zone, bruh. Anyway, shout out to College Campus Foods. Also, shout out to Oscar Meyer who is hiring hot doggers. And I didn't know what a hot dogger was. Wait, what is that?
Starting point is 00:45:11 I'm interested. You get to basically drive the, you drive an Oscar Mayer weenie mobile around for, it's like a one year gig. Full time. It's a job. Longer than I wanted it to be. It's a full time job for one year. Okay.
Starting point is 00:45:24 And basically what you do is you're part company spokesperson. So like if there's any kind of event, they'd be like, Hey Jamie, you got to take the wiener mobile down to the Cal state Long Beach campus real quick to do an event. That's amazing. It's on you.
Starting point is 00:45:37 I do media appearances. You do charity events. You do brand promotions, a quote, meet M E 80 and greets. Handing out wiener whistles. Wiener whistles. And then also, this is where it gets a little bit involved.
Starting point is 00:45:53 Pitching coverage ideas. This is where it gets involved. Pitching coverage ideas to local news outlets. It's content. Wow. I mean, I feel like where the wiener mobile goes, the news follows. I worked at a promotional hot dog truck for a while, but it wasn't Oscar Myers. Wait, what do you mean you worked at a promotional hot dog truck for a while, but it wasn't Oscar Myers. I got fired. In college, I worked for
Starting point is 00:46:08 the StubHub had a hot dog truck for a while, and they would just park outside of basketball games and give away free hot dogs. I'd be like, have a free hot dog. Have you heard of StubHub? And they'd be like, no. They're like, fuck you! And you're like, okay. And then one day I tweeted, fuck this hot dog stand, and then I got fired.
Starting point is 00:46:30 Damn. But the Wienermobile that makes sense the wienermobile has also you would respect okay so wait let me get this right if i'm interviewing you i'd say interesting um jamie i've asked around because you know everyone in the free promotional hot dog industry talks and i'm talking to my friend craig at stubh. It was seven years ago. Okay. So you know the incident. Sorry. No, continue. No, it sounds like you do. You said, fuck this hot dog. It was seven years ago. Yeah. So, and you know, how am I to trust you with the Oscar Mayer brand? I wasn't, I didn't have any, I didn't know what my mental health issues were seven years ago. I was a kid. I didn't really... And also, I would say that the stuff... No disrespect to your colleague, but lacks the prestige that the Wienermobile
Starting point is 00:47:09 brings, which I would never in my life... I'm a brand gal. I see a Wienermobile, I follow it. Well, you know what? Hold on. Let me get on the phone. Hey, Oscar? Yeah, that's me. We found her. But apparently, there's like 12 open spots for this. Yeah, that's me. We found her. But apparently there's like 12 open spots for this.
Starting point is 00:47:27 Yeah, that's me. Yeah, that's me. I'm sorry. Excuse me, what did I say about you calling me Oscar? It's Mr. Meyer. I'm sorry. Mr. Meyer. What's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Starting point is 00:47:42 As you know, I normally don't have much. Lately... Right, right. Not using Google. Off the grid. Although I was... Go to the library like a human. Yeah, well...
Starting point is 00:47:51 Looks up the information there. Yeah, and I... Using a card catalog system. Yeah, it's a lot of VPNs and borrowing other people's social security numbers, going to the library, getting the information, making sure it's not traceable in any way to me. Nice.
Starting point is 00:48:06 But recently, I've been doing English to Spanish. I've been speaking a lot of Spanish. And so my Spanish goes pretty smoothly. And then I get to a word I don't know, and I don't know how to go around it. So I'm just moving along. And then I go, uh, uh. And then I look it up. And then, so the other day I was speaking
Starting point is 00:48:25 and a guy goes hey man are you also from Guatemala I was hanging out with a friend of mine damn look at your pronunciation that somebody was like
Starting point is 00:48:32 are you from Guatemala yeah and I think he was just he was busting my chops and I was like yeah I'm from Atitlan right there and you didn't know
Starting point is 00:48:40 the word for no how do I answer this? No, God, is that right? Last year when I was in the hospital, I was in Puerto Rico, and a nurse came in, and a couple times this happened, and they would go, Jesus? And I'd go, no. But I'd be like, all right, I'm doing it. Is it because it wasn't a reference to your long Jesus-like hair? I had the hair, and then I had a little more maybe facial hair than currently.
Starting point is 00:49:07 But I'm not tamed. And you had linen underpants on with a six-pack? I mean, I didn't like the bed, so I was kind of up on the wall. Right, right. Just kind of strapped in. Yeah. Did a little workout. I grabbed these two pegs as far as I could.
Starting point is 00:49:19 Come get me if you need anything. I'll be hanging from these pegs. My shoulder's doing butterflies. It's great. It's really good for your shoulders. What was the word you had to look up, though, just for the record? It's just anything. It's usually like the verb for something and then the tense that it's in.
Starting point is 00:49:33 Right. Conjugations, baby. Yeah. So if I'm like, oh, how do I say, do you need? Can I? Necesitas? But then I'll be like, wait, how do I say I'm going to look or something like that? Boy, buscar.
Starting point is 00:49:48 Buscar. Look for. Si. You would have known that if you watched Buscando Amor. Searching for love? Is that right? El Telemundo, baby. Si.
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Starting point is 00:54:15 Yeah? I haven't written any checks. Oh, really? Yeah. Like today? In 2020. I've written like five. I'm just out here.
Starting point is 00:54:24 I pay for everything with checks Just tear them off Doesn't matter how much it's for It just sucks Some places don't take them though I haven't written Had to write the date I think on anything Yet but I have heard people Complaining about
Starting point is 00:54:40 Forgetting to change it to 2020 What do you mean? Like from 2019. And then there are some forms that have 201 blank on them. So I mean, that's a problem. But that was like this thing, right? That was going around around New Year's. I remember getting, I was on some chain email from a random aunt or uncle being like, got
Starting point is 00:55:02 to write 2020 all the way out in your checks because you never know. Someone could change the date from 1-1-20 to 1-1-2021 and then they could cash it in later. It's all like based off this idea that because it's 20, now you can alter the years and things like that. But I mean, while I understand the logic of it, like many of the people who are like in the
Starting point is 00:55:26 consumer protection like scam watch industry are like this really i mean there's a lot worse things to be worried about than this because a as you know checks aren't being used as often as they should be yeah right uh and also it should be yeah and also people should be using more checks damn it um and then that like number tampering on a check is even more uncommon it's like very uncommon right like people are doing that but i think because you catch it immediately right yeah and i think also right that it would be i think the second someone contests it they'll be like you know right it's not what this was um and also i think the but a lot of the experts are saying it reminds them of this Y2K thing
Starting point is 00:56:08 because the changing of the decade and the number change is fuel. It just makes enough sense to get people all a flutter over it. New number anxiety. Yeah. That's too much change for our brain. Is it an age-dependent thing, or is it something we're going to outgrow as a society Where we just stop saying Wow can you believe how it's getting dark so quickly
Starting point is 00:56:30 Oh man can you believe it's already a new year I can tell you that I have started saying that So I don't I don't know if that Now hear me out I said it on this show And people were like actually because of The way The planet is tilted this year out people who I said it on this show and people were like actually because of like the way uh
Starting point is 00:56:46 the planet is tilted this year actually I don't think it was that I think it was just like where we were in the period when we sprung back it was getting darker a little bit earlier than it was in the past you mean fall back yeah whatever spring forward yeah spring back I respect I spring back I respect the equinoxes. Yeah. Especially the gyms. You do. You always have.
Starting point is 00:57:08 Because they give to Donald Trump. Yeah. Wasn't it equinox that was given to Donald Trump? And everyone was like, I'm done with equinox. It's Ross, the owner of the Dolphins. And he also is a major investor in equinox. And then I think SoulCycle. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:21 Oh, right. SoulCycle was out of business. Yeah. And how did that go? Are all the SoulCycles out of business? Oh, yeah. Now they're all gone. Tumbleweeds.
Starting point is 00:57:28 Crossed an arid landscape of lonely bikes with the faint sounds of EDM pumping in the background. You know what's cool is to see a tumbleweed in the wild? Like actually see one. Yo, I saw one up in the hills that was so fucking big yeah people were enormous having to navigate it yeah and i was like this isn't a fucking tumbleweed i looked i'm like oh fuck it's just like all sticks and twig yeah shout out tumbleweeds i saw i saw one on the highway that ways had registered as a object in the road. Oh, really? Yeah, people were like, steer clear of this tumbleweed. It's almost like seeing a coyote chasing a roadrunner.
Starting point is 00:58:10 I didn't think that that was a real thing. A tumbleweed? Yeah, I knew it was, but my brain is like... Still like, whoa! I expect to see that as much as I expect to see quicksand, which is not a real thing. I think the first time I saw tumbleweeds was in the desert somewhere when I was maybe 14,
Starting point is 00:58:28 and I tripped out. I was like, yo, fucking tumbleweeds, man. Like the cartoons. I'm from Nevada, so I saw tons of them. All your friends growing up were tumbleweeds, right? Many. Well, that's how we got places. We would do the log spinning thing.
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