The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 109 (Best of 1/21/20-1/24/20)

Episode Date: January 26, 2020

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and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel.

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You mix homesteading with guns and church. Voila! You got straight away. They try to save everybody. Listen to Spiraled on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainainment laugh-stravaganza. So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. I am Miles Gray, a.k.a. Brew.

Drinking Kirkland cold brew. Making my heart race to a million beats, yeah. Like Jack's diet mountain dew and weed. Gets you high from THC. Making Jack's hands go to a million thingies. Like they always do. I get high so high just to make hot takes. And it's all about all I can do.

Every time I drink a glinkle brew. Here we go. Second verse. All right. Cut to Wolfman. Hey, whoa. He's shredding on bass. What about him? Watch out. He's taking. Okay. All right, cut to Wolfman. Hey, whoa, he's shredding on base. What about him?

Watch out, he's taking. Okay, shout out to Hannah Soltis. Asshole just Hannah for that. Oh, Kneaders inspired, AKA. Remember Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters? Just me? All right. What's something that's underrated?

Underrated? We were kind of talking about this before the podcast, but our ass, because I have the collective ass that we share. Our ass? Yeah. Our ass? He's talking about the sex toy we share.

Yeah. Yeah. I'll get it this weekend. Like a human being's ass. Because I have like back pain. The gluteus minimus and maximus? Both. Wow.

The gluteal muscles? I have back pain, and that helps with back pain. Where if you strengthen your ass, it will actually compensate for like things that you would do with your back. Does that make sense? I just know, look, it's all connected. Yeah. Hamstrings.

Yes. They're shortening by a second. You have tiny hamstrings. That's Miles' mantra. What? It's all connected. It's all connected, baby. Oh my God.

It's true though. Like I feel like when I get any amount of cash, I am going to get one of those trainers that just spot treats my ass. And it's going to be incredible. Yes. Is that what you're doing? Are you doing a lot of YouTube videos? It's been a good year. It's been a really good year.

Have you been really? Are you doing a lot of hip thrusts? I'm doing, I do hip thrusts. I've been doing like squats. Right. And then there's this other exercise where we were watching, my girlfriend and I were watching my friend Justin Woolman's magic show the other day. And I was doing my physical therapy while watching it.

And she took a hidden video of me doing these dainty squats without me knowing. And it's going to ruin me and my brand. No. But yeah. You throw a band on there? I'll throw on a green band, the weaker of the two bands, or three bands at first. A green band. And then I throw on the yellow at the end.

Wow. Yeah. Yeah, green means fucking go, baby. Yeah. When it comes to my ass. We got a Sean T. Insanity workout over here. Yeah. I know.

I got some of those Instagram ass bands. I don't put them to too much use. I just, is that like where you're in a squat and you kind of move laterally side to side?

Yeah. And then there's the donkey kicks with them. Whoa. And then the fire hydrants. Yeah.

What's a fire hydrant? Side line clams or clamshells or something is another one. Oh, yeah. And then it's like a thigh mastermaster without having the Thighmaster there. Exactly.

Yes, yes, yes. Let me just get a Thighmaster. Oh, yeah. I should just put that in my one bedroom apartment. I honestly feel like, look, here's the secret. Get some sketcher shape ups and a Thighmaster, and your butt's going to be looking like Jen Shelter's in no time. I like that.

What happened to Jen Shelter? Is she still kicking around? She's still out. She's donkey kicking around. Donkey kicking her shit to the bank, bro. I like that. What happened to Jen Seltzer? Is she still kicking around? She's still out. She's donkey kicking around. Donkey kicking her shit to the bank, bro. Yeah. Still. I mean, I don't know if she,

based on her lifestyle that she shows on her Instagram, for people who don't know, Jen Seltzer is like, was known as like the first like ass Instagram account. God, that was crazy. And gave us things like selttering,

like how to pose your body to give your maximum Bubble look to your booty Right As we know I have a case of mum bum No No don't say that What's that mean?

Also that's fucking rude I don't know Like a woman who's a mom Like an old lady Oh so you gotta just do Your glute activation Exactly I need to activate my glutes

Yeah I'm quad dom baby You're quad dom? Yeah I'm more into fin dom Oh my god What do you like Yeah. I'm quad dom, baby. You're quad dom? Yeah. I'm more into fin dom. Oh, my God. What are you like, that woman on a top in the GoldenEye movie where she's like killing the dude with her legs?

Like, ah. I do think that if I wanted to, I could squeeze the life out of a living man with my legs. How great would that feel? I'm down to see. Look, I, well, I'm not going to say because that would put me in legal jeopardy. Sure. But I've tested the limits of what my thighs could do. Really?

Yeah. And why? Like gas canisters, oil drums, anything. Just see what I could put a dent in with my thigh strength. I, wow. Oil drums. I would have, you know, never guessed that about you. City garbage cans, those plastic ones.

Oh, yeah. Is there any other kind? That's true. It depends on what city. If you're in Burbank, they have little ones. Sometimes I'll drive down the 101 and just see you with your legs wrapped around one of those thick cones. And a bunch of cops with their guns pointed at you. Let it go.

Gary, you'll never get me to stop, copper. What he's doing is not technically a crime, but he has to stop. We'll give you a hernia. What do you think? Do you think you could bust, I'm trying to think of what, like a watermelon I feel like anybody could probably do.

That's why Gallagher was a fucking hack. It wasn't his joke, so anyone could fucking break that fruit. With a hammer? Yeah, with a hammer, you cheating bastard. Oh my God. Yeah, break out those legs, gal. He's definitely not quad dom.

No, no, no, no. I think I could pop a human head right off the body with my quads. Wow. Nice. Okay, so, Zeitgang, if you deal with cadavers and you have a loose one, if you have an extra. I don't know. I'm not sure that I would mentally and emotionally be prepared to interact

with a cadaver, but, you know. Okay, let's think like really uh like you know and like what's available what's realistic what's too young what's too old this metal garbage can right here do you think you could you could probably put a dent in that right okay so then let's what's above that um what's above metal garbage can in the pecking order of things that you could squeeze with your thighs. I feel like watermelon's low. Right.

Like a cantaloupe is low. That's done. Really? Of course. Look, I'm going off of what you said. You're like, I could end a human life with my thigh strength. I know. I came out of the gate pretty hard, but like I'm not really sure.

Don't backpedal now. Yeah, yeah. You're right. You're right. I got to retain my bravado from my leg, lethal leg. How cool would it be to do that to a shark? It's going for your legs and then you pull a fast one on that finned little fuck. Yeah, wow.

Choke it out. Wow, you're an anti-shark, huh? I'm not pro-shark. Have you ever seen one? Mr. Wonderful is a real piece of shit. I'm sorry, what? Have you ever seen a shark in real life? I have once.

Not while I was in the water, but I saw a nefarious fin. full it's a real piece of shit i'm sorry what have you ever seen a shark um i have one not while i was in the water but i saw yeah i saw like a nefarious fin it's still a nefarious fin god that's the worst fucking feeling i mean i grew up surfing and so like oh god you know it's crazy though like whenever i've ever seen a shark it was like from the shore so i'm like did i just not when they were next to me because and i always i don't know how they always come up on my account. They all know. But there's always the videos on my Instagram of a surfer right next to a shark. And now I'm like, thank God I don't surf anymore.

It's too scary. Is that why you stopped? That's not why I stopped. Right. No. It's because she killed a shark. It was mostly because of the leg murder. And it was actually a protected

species. Yeah. And it was a felony. They can protect themselves. No one listens to this, right? No, no, no. No one from Fish and Wildlife. Is that the government? No, it's Fish and Game. Fish and Game. Yeah. Yep. I got my license. That'd be a sick podcast.

Welcome back to Fish and Game. But it's like pickup artists who also like fishing and stuff? My brother's so into fishing he reads this fishing newspaper called Western Outdoor News. Oh. Yeah. Wait, but he's also like an OC dude and he's into fishing? Yeah, like they're all really into

fishing and like diving and stuff. Oh. Yeah. But not you? No. Just destroying things with your quads. I'm more of a quad dom. Quad destruction. Quad not you. Oh, no. Just destroying things with your quads. I'm more of a quad dom. Quad destruction. Quad dom lady. Quad dom is so funny. Dude, quad.

What is something you think is underrated? I'm going Korean spas. Korean spas. Coming up in the Wii spa? Ever been? Oh, yeah. So I go once a year to Wii spa on New Year's Eve because I feel like it's a good sort of start the new year and get the body scrub. And I think like Americans in general just are like, you know, tall, pasty white guys like me are a little bit like uncomfortable with nudity in general.

Oh, sure. And I come from like a very sort of staid Protestant back, Southern Protestant background. Right. Nudity was something that I didn't rarely experience even with myself. So I feel like, yeah, going to a Korean spa once a year and getting the full body scrub is... I do that too. Then I don't have to bathe the rest of the year. That's how it works.

Get it all off in one go. It's also a good moment where your ego sort of detaches and you're just like, you know what? I'm just, this is my body and it's just going to get screwed. Yeah. It was funny growing up being American and Japanese, like going to, cause in Japan you go to a bath house or hot springs. Everybody is full, fully naked. Yeah. But it's weird how like my governance chip like would change depending on the, what hemisphere I was in. When I'm in Japan I'm like, yeah,

I get butt naked cause that's what you have to do here at the shower place. Then I'm cut to teenage Miles in a locker room using every manner of shadow and towel to cover his genitals. Like, no, man. Shadow and towel. Yo, that was a very... That's an elaborate set of using shadow puppets. What's that?

It's like, that was a crow that flew by. Did you see his dick? No, but I did see this amazing lobster. There's a flying squirrel with a spatula. But yeah, going to those spas will definitely get you, when you realize too, especially being in a place where it's normal for everyone else, I think it's much easier to be like, oh yeah, fuck it.

Yeah, there's one in LA that's Wii Spa, which is kind of the most popular, I think. And then last year I went to one that I much easier to be like, oh yeah, fuck it. Yeah. There's one in LA that's Wee Spa, which is kind of the most popular, I think. And then last year I went to one that I would consider to be like more Korean, if there could be one that was like, kind of like, okay, this isn't the super popular one. And that one was funny because when I went to get the body scrub, usually at Wee Spa, they give you like sort of a, a small towel to cover yourself. This guy was just like, nah, man, up on the table. Yeah.

And it truly, I mean, it just kind of felt like he was like, nah, man, up on the table. Yeah. And it truly, I mean, it just kind of felt like he was a, uh, he was like a guy on an assembly line who was kind of like, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to take, take this, this, uh, I'm not going to remember this. I'm just going to be sanding off your skin. Maybe they'll remember. Maybe this is how I go down. All right. Thanks, man. That's it. You're gonna have. Maybe they'll remember me. Maybe they'll remember. Maybe this is how I go down in history. All right, thanks, man. That's it. You're going to have to get off. And you're like, remember me.

Sarah McLachlan slowly swells. Looking into each other's eyes in that one moment. Well, he also came up to me in the spot. You get a number. And they call your number. And you go into the- Like a car wash. Yeah, it really is like a car wash.

That one had no partition. The table was just out in the middle of the room. And the guy who came to give me the body scrub came up to me and said 24 and i said yeah and he was completely nude and had just been using the spa and then was like all right follow me and i was like okay and then he threw on some shorts and started working but i kind of like that the the guy at the car wash is is also getting his car washed yeah yeah it's 24 the nickname you go by? Yeah, 24. John Bauer. Yeah. Huge Bauer head.

Check into any restaurant, hotel, or Korean spa under the name Jack Bauer. Absolutely. Always looking for the terrorists. How long do you spend usually? That's one kind of notable thing about Korean spas is you can spend days there. Yeah. I like to go for the whole time or four like, or like, you know, four hours or something where, you know, do the spa, put on the weird shorts and the pajamas, go up to the Jim Joel Bang, which is the like the

nap room. Yeah. Right. Get a juice, read a comic book. I like the whole thing. So when you say you go on New Year's Eve, how does that affect your celebrations? So is your way to go into the new year? Like like are you in the spa when the clock hits midnight? No, I'll go during the day. Although this year I was kind of like, that might be kind

of cool to just be chilling in the spa. Just getting fully exfoliated. Yeah, totally. Three, two, one. Will you remember me on the New Year? Let's talk about Prince Harry Megxit The whole deal It's done Prince Harry has gone from Prince Harry

To some dude Harry Some fucking guy named Harry Weirdly he chose the last name Bustamante He's just like Just a normal Joe He's like if I could have any name Bustamante Jablonski Yeah that's me Oh I love it Normal Joe. He's like, if I could have any name.

Jablonski. Yeah, that's me. Oh, I love it. So they caught him. I think he did his last official duty serving as officially Prince Harry, and now just Harry, and flew commercial to Victoria, British Columbia, to meet up with his wife and child and dogs. I'm worried for his immune system because like a hothouse flower, you know,

like just putting that dude out amongst the germs on a commercial flight, even in like first class. He's human coronavirus. Right. Well, they have a photo of him exiting the plane and he's wearing a full hazmat suit. So he must have known how dirty it is. That was an S&M rubber suit. Yeah.

You're getting mixed up again. Oh, you're right. Okay. I thought the ball gag was a respirator. He does look a little bit amused by the whole, like by living like a person. He looks like somebody who escaped a living situation that was causing undue stress on his personal life. Right.

Sort of like, yeah, I got the fuck out of there. This is pretty cool. I'm just hairy now. Yeah. I'm sure hairy now. Yeah. I'm sure they're living it up. Shout out to Victoria, British Columbia. Just a beautiful,

beautiful place. So, you know, I will see my twin someday. Just want to let you know, Harry, if you're listening, start off with the CBD

and like low THC levels and then start working more THC and then you'll be ready to party with me. Yeah, man. If he's living in BC, he's going to be like in drum circles and making God's eyes in, man. If he's living in BC, he's going to be in drum circles

and making God's eyes in no time. With his balding hair, he has one weird dreadlock. Oh, no. I'm just seeing him fully falling apart. He's like, oh, Prince Harry died months ago. Call me Siddhartha. Hey, Siddhartha Bustamante is pretty cool. Sid Arthur Bustamante.

Hanging out with them this weekend and celebrating the vernal equinox. But yeah, Godspeed to him. Good for them. And you guys were born on the same day, which is why you call yourselves twins. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah.

But I think, I just look, I just want to, there is something I think is kind of cool about this. Yeah. Am I the only one? Am I the only one on their side? I think it's cool. You guys rooting for the rules? That's the reason why this has been the premise of movies for decades.

Like Fish Out of Water, like really... I just don't want to be a prince. Yeah, exactly. I want to be a regular bloke. Or the president's daughter goes to live like a normal person with a secret agent. It's every rom-com and Christmas film. There are like nine Christmas films about an undercover princess. That's right.

Just trying to live it up in Chicago. He's a Netflix film waiting to happen. Yeah. Although, I don't know. I think I'm kind of pro-royalty. I feel like- There you go. Thank you.

I'm a dynastic royal supporter. You're here to monarchy. Yeah. This is a real division between the two countries. That's right. Americans are like, yeah, of course. Come on. Yeah, you hate your family?

Go live on your own. Get the fuck away from them. I forgot who I was joking with, but one of my friends said, us getting to Trump, now we know what the British feel like when they got King Ralph. Yeah, I feel like that's, I think. Has anybody looked to King Ralph for like pointers? I feel like we need to.

I feel like we have a super forgotten little piece of pop culture that was strangely, strangely prescient. I just heard a King Ralph reference recently on a TV show, and I was like, who wrote this script? Like, what are we doing evoking the memory? Yeah, I mean, that was John Goodman, right? That's right. Where he becomes the king.

Yeah. And like has like an official, like a, isn't that like a bowling alley? That's right. Where he becomes the king. Yeah. And has an official, isn't that like a bowling alley? That's like, oh no, you don't bowl here. Now you know how we feel, suckers. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life.

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This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI

in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current, available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, everyone. I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm Amber Ruffin, a better Lacey Lamar. Boo. Okay, everybody, we have exciting news to share.

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you get your podcasts. And we're back. Robots are maybe going to decide what movies get made at warner brothers i think robots already are deciding what movies are getting made at warner yeah basically there yeah they're uh they're teaming up with a a company called synolytic which is an ai startup okay and essentially they will help studios sort through pitches and predict what will be profitable and what changes they could make to make existing projects more profitable. This is what happens when you just refuse to allow any diversity in decision-making processes.

Right. All white men are like, well, clearly we've been doing something wrong. Should we ask the browns no no no robots we'll get a robot right clearly if we're at the end of our ladder in our creative industry we will go get a robot yeah like literally they were talking about with the example of robert downey jr when he first started doing iron man he was like someone who had just fallen off he had recently been in jail he hadn't been been working. He was an addict. Right. And the robots would not have chosen him to be Tony Stark.

No, exactly. And I think that's a point that our writer, J.M., was making too. It's like there are so many flaws to this kind of thinking. I mean, just to give you an example, right? Cinelidic also told people to actually make that Playmobil movie, which bombed epically. Cinelidic told them to do that? They said that was a winner. Okay. So that shows you, okay.

Yeah, so you want to double down on them. Right. It seems like they've got good instincts. They're like, I don't know, man. Jerome's been putting out really great ideas, and a lot of his smaller projects are doing, no, we're not listening to Jerome. Go get the R2-D2.

Fire up the app. Right. It's like, what the fuck are they doing? And I think, you know, so what it'll do is put things like, you know, you could switch out like actors too. So you could say potentially, okay, maybe I want to make this movie with Jennifer Lawrence. But what would it look like if I put in maybe Emma Watson? Like what happens then? Right.

So, I mean, like any AI thing, thing it's just it's built on existing data so it doesn't take into account progress right you know i mean it's yeah it's it's basically using what has happened to predict the future and for something like this and are shifting like media appetites and as you know uh hopefully the uptick of diversity representation and media continues it's not going to be able to account for that. Right. At all. And also, like, it doesn't account for the fact that Hollywood has manufactured

a lot of our modern-day A-list celebrities because it doesn't happen like it used to. Like, yeah, it was manufactured in the past, but now I feel like because people have social media and they have their own ways of, like, reaching out to people, Hollywood's really had to push people on us for us to take to them. Right. So I feel like that doesn't account for fatigue with people right even if they are really famous or have like a lot of star meter points or followers right right like it's that is absolutely

asinine right i mean and like i can only imagine what it'll do to continue the like lack of like uh you know female directors or female written scripts and things like that it's because again it's just it's only taking into account the history like the misogynistic history of the industry to make decisions um and i think like when you look also to like movies like shawshank redemption that shit did not do well and i wonder what the ai thing would have thought then right but it's in its after its release became one of the biggest films. Yeah, and it's getting fed into the algorithm as a loser, probably. Right?

Yeah, right, right, right. That's the data that you don't want a loser like the Shawshank Redemption. And I don't think art has ever functioned that way. No, you can only predict things to a certain extent. I think, if anything, it could be that it's probably better at predicting what won't do well. Right. And even then there's obviously flaws in that more than a tool that would help lazy ass development executives read a fucking script, maybe go out in the world and get an idea of what people are into. Right.

Because I think that's all. That's what it just seems so lazy. Right. Because I think that's all – that's what it just seems so lazy. Right. Like you're saying, lazy, like rather than changing what the look of development departments look like. Yeah, or getting like an accurate representation of the entire country. Because sometimes I used to think like network executives were really stupid. But then I also realized that like they have to be a little bit behind because that's where most of the country is. Sure. Like LA moves much quicker. york moves much quicker so the things that we you know uh are on or talking about or even the language that we use is not necessarily caught up to the general

populace so i understand why they they're old and a little out of touch and it kind of helps us reach everybody sure but to a certain extent it's like you guys are out of touch just hire people who are in touch right hey but i mean i guess if this takes their jobs then so be it's like you guys are out of touch. Just hire people who are in touch. Right. Hey, but I mean, I guess if this takes their jobs, then so be it, right? Like at a certain point, like you think- It'll probably do their job better than them. Yeah. I mean, based on the kind of shit you see now, I mean, I guess it'll help them. You show up into your office, you just hear beep boop, beep bop, and all your shit's at

the door. You're like, what the fuck? Sorry, Craig. We had to let you go. Sorry you had to find out like this. It's just a laptop in a room. Please relieve us of your badge. You get fired by the laptop.

They're like, okay, Terry will now escort you off the property. Please do not make a scene. Terry, I programmed you. I'm sorry i didn't want you to find out like this uh but i just there was some shit on twitter that was trending that said like r.i.p mr peanut uh and i was like okay fine all right that's it and next up uh wait why is the news cycle always so doom and legumes? Oh my. Get him out. Oh my God. Oh my God, Blair's crying blood.

Never in my life. So people are like, what the fuck is going on? Apparently they have a Super Bowl commercial out that seals the fate of the beloved one percenter who wears a top hat and monocle. Yeah. Why is he rich, by the way? Does he own the company?

I don't know. There's definitely there's a probably a very dark backstory. The fucking nepotism. It's not like a commercial is a sequel to the Joker. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. OK.

So it's this is a statement from the planter's brand manager. It says, it's with heavy hearts that we confirm Mr. Peanut has passed away at 104 years old. He will be remembered as the legume who always brought people together for nutty adventures and a good time. We encourage fans to tune in to Mr. Peanut's funeral during the third quarter of the Super Bowl to celebrate his life. Oh, right. Let's just capitalize on people's deaths. What a classy company. So you're more upset that they are going to, even in death, they have no respect for Mr. Peanut. No, I'm saying that their whole message, anti-capitalist message, is inherently capitalist.

So they're fucking shady bitches. Do you care? It's so weird. I don't know. I'm trying to think of a world. Exploitation. Thank you. Of a fictional cartoon. I mean, it's happening all the time. Look around us. You know what I mean? Look around us.

Look around. Wake up. Open your eyes. Uh-oh. Y'all on the same page. That's Blair and Blake for you. Welcome back to Blair and Blake. How do you make this worth looking at? I don't know anybody who is like, oh, that's kind of an interesting idea. Although I feel like most Super Bowl ads, you're like, oh, okay. It's sobbing mother draped over that casket.

Okay. Just the fucking tears coming out of that nut. And then the son, probably has a lot of kids, right? Something like that. Oh, and this one, he is married to a legume also, not a human woman.

Oh, then I'm out. I don't know. I'm just thinking. I'm just thinking out loud. Hey, we're spitballing here. So if he's married to a human, I would imagine Mr. Peanut looks like a guy who's been fucking divorced like eight times.

If he's 104 years old, I expect like an Anna Nicole Smith type wife around him. I don't like these trends, these marketing trends that happen. Talk into your mic, Blair. Oh. I don't like these marketing trends that happen. They get so corny, then it's just ubiquitous in like one second like when everyone was doing that lizzo thing 100 like literally every company would like unrolled their lizzo lyric campaign

right right right and you're like shut up nothing makes me want to buy your shit less during the fourth quarter they cremate chester the Cheetah. Oh, my God. Can you imagine? It's just like a funeral fire. But the Monopoly man's behind it all. It's for Flaming Hot Cheetos. Oh, boy. Hello. Yo, boy. I just tried Flaming Hot Cheetos for the first time.

Oh, what were you just saying? Have you ever had them? I've never had them. Wait. Hold on. What the fuck is going on here? You have never had Flaming Hot Cheetos? Miles, if I can't come here and be honest and forthright, where can I?

You can, but I still have my right to be shocked and in awe over this revelation. My goodness. Now, no judgment, but how did you grow up in California and you never had Flaming Hot Cheetos? You know, I've always been a really hard, regular Cheeto gal. I fucking ride hard for the rich. hard regular cheeto gal i fucking ride hard for the rich and i gotta tell you even though i like my shit real spicy it was not what i was hoping for when i tried it what did you hope was it too spicy no it just i think the ones i had the reason the disparity that we're coming upon right now is please use as academic language as possible in describing this. I really love this.

Uh-huh. Please address this disparity immediately. Expeditiously. That we. I think what happened was I accidentally descended upon a Flamin' Hot Cheeto Puff, and the consistency without the just incredible crunch took me completely out of it. And while I could recognize that there was value in the flavor, I wasn't even in the same galaxy as a fucking Cheeto.

Wow. That's too much air. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It tastes like I was having some sort of just weak ass, weak, weak, just derivative of a Cheeto. What the fuck are they doing over there?

Also, Blake, do you like spicy food? Yeah, but not that much. It's the kind of spicy, though, that's weird. That I can handle. Even people with boring pots, because it's so hot, you can't stop eating it. It's one of the things, you'll keep eating it because the pause lets the burn. Just to throw a substance on top of the things, you'll keep eating it because the pause Just to throw a substance

on top of the burn. Yeah, yeah. Like a blanket. I do like the slight pain in my flavor. Yeah. No pain, no gain. Right.

You know what I mean? That's true. God. Goddamn. Let's talk about James Corden. Speaking of, none of that, I guess. Butt plug.

So people are surprised that James Corden doesn't drive the car during carpool karaoke. There were images on Twitter, right? Years ago when One Direction was still together, there was a tweet that was viral. Someone was like, oh, my God, I just caught the Corden carpool karaoke with One Direction, and it was on the ground. He was driving it. Someone recently caught him with Justin Bieber, and they saw that it was on the ground he was driving it. Someone recently caught him with Justin Bieber and they saw that it was on a trailer. I don't know what the proper production term is,

but it's on a trailer so James doesn't have to drive and he can just focus on the performance aspect. Wouldn't it be illegal to let him drive while he was performing? Like with a camera in his face? I mean, it depends, right? I don't think it's illegal. I don't know if it's illegal. I think it's not smart.

Especially when you have people like Mariah Carey or someone in the car. It's like, you're not going to fucking crash with her in there. Earlier, we were having this conversation and you said people like Michelle Obama in the car. This time, you've gone Mariah Carey. Our most precious jewel as a culture. Recently, this picture went out. People on Twitter the car this time you've gone mariah carey yeah our most precious yes exactly we love me yeah but

i think and so recently this picture went out and people on twitter were like they acted like the fucking sky was falling one person goes just found out james corden doesn't drive in carpool karaoke the car just gets towed absolute joke absolute joke is amazing. Another person is like, wait, so James Corden doesn't even drive in carpool karaoke? What the fuck? It's like, what? It's so interesting to me that their vision of carpool karaoke was so contingent on the fact that he was driving. Right. You know, they're not even in the carpool lane.

Right. That might even fuck you up even more. And they aren't going anywhere where it would be a carpool you know fellas i just think you're not understanding like because this isn't our demographic this isn't to hit us right but this is all some people have is this carpool right yeah you know they've won grammys off of this carpool karaoke right so yeah this is very important to some people what if you found out the bible wasn't real have you thought about that yeah yeah so that's what we're talking about guys and i'm not i'm not saying the bible isn't

real you guys know i take that fucking shit to the heart all right literal the inerrant word of god folks yeah yeah it's just it's you know i think it's like anything living here the uh movie magic is not something that we experience we're like yep there that's how you do it you yeah fucking everyone shoots everything on the same back lots here like every show is on the warner brothers lot once you learn what the warner brothers back lot looks like you you will have the wool pulled out off from over your eyes. I don't know how that metaphor works, but. Right. Yeah. It's, you see it everywhere.

Miniatures are everywhere. Everyone wears wigs, as we've talked about on this show before. Yeah. Everyone wears wigs because people are like, wait, what? But they don't, it's like, yeah, because they have to keep the hairstyles consistent. Right. Because you don't know what a person's, what they're doing in their personal life, an actor or actress. So, you know, they wear wigs.

Yeah. Also, my favorite one is a small man played a little Mikey in Look Who's Talking. When the first one, the baby's wandering around New York City, that was a little man named Mishu Mazaros. That happens a lot, actually. They use little people a lot as stand-ins for children.

And they also use contortionists a lot for horror movie shit, like the Exorcism movie where that girl crab walks down the stairs backwards. That's just a contortionist doing that. Ah, that wasn't someone possessed by Satan. Yeah, I know. But I assume it was, I don't know. There are certain things that I just assume are some sort of camera trick or something. That same guy also was in the elf suit who was the baby.

Is that true? Yeah. Fucking genius. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? So a myth is when you get a hospital bill, it's not finite. When you get a bill from a hospital that's a suggestion like an open-ended yes it truly is like i've been doing a lot of research

on this because a woman got on twitter and commented about how she got a bill from the hospital and she called them back and asked for an itemized bill and then they took a bunch of charges off and then i went on a deep dive on this just to see like if this was true i talked to a lot of people who go to the hospital quite often because they have chronic conditions i got online i googled a lot of different sites that are talking about money saving and y'all the hospital is scamming those bills are not real they charge 25 for a band-aid oh yeah like i'm not even playing if you call the hospital when you get a bill in the mail because they'll just send you a bill and not even playing if you call the hospital when you get a bill in

the mail because they'll just send you a bill and be like hey sis you came in we gave you a xanax for your panic attack that'll be 1900 and if you call them back they'll be like oh okay so we're gonna take off the walk into your room fee yeah uh we're gonna take off the light fee right okay so we'll call it an even 40 right like we're, we're going to take off the Band-Aid fee. Like, I've seen people reduce. And even that, you can get Xanax for less than 40 bucks on the street. Literally. All right. You can't do that no more, though.

Those were the good old days. Yeah. All right, what do you have on you? Just tell us, what do you have on you? We'll work it out. That is such, yeah, I mean, I think that is another prime example of what the stakes are, right? Yeah. Like, when you talk about the election, that, yeah, this is also how our healthcare system is operating.

Why is that a thing? Like, and people are paying it because most of the time we have insurance, but that's obviously not the case for a lot of our population. But if you do have insurance, you're just putting your insurance card down. They're billing the insurance people just a random amount. And then they,

maybe they bill you if there's some overhead, but if you don't call and ask, they are literally in there just adding whatever the fuck they want. It's crazy. So guys, if you go to the hospital, if your kids go to the hospital, when you get that bill, go ahead and hit up Cedarside and be like, hey sis, print me the itemized.

And they will send you the real amount. And they're like, oh, damn. Okay. Can you give us some time? No, you just hit print. Just hit print right now. No, no, well, I have to look at some stuff first. What you want to look at?

Well, there's different items. I have to figure out. Ma'am, I see you deleting vigorously. Hey, knock around and take your fucking wallet. Honestly, I would respect the hospital for it. If, like, the security guard, when you leave, just pulled out a gun and was like, hey. I'm sorry, I'm going to have to run your shit. The security guard wearing black Air Forces?

I'm like, I was wondering why he was wearing black Air Forces. You should never walk if they're wearing black Air Forces. As Desus and Mero say, a man wearing black Air Forces has nothing to lose. Nothing. Okay. He will rob you. All right. We're going to take another quick break.

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It's right here in black and white in print. A lion. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies, when civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that.

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Weigh in on. This trend on TikTok. Yeah, it's like the new Tide Pod Challenge sort of. At first, I didn't, you know, because last time there was like people who were just like eating shit whole. Right. And like that was just a way to fuck with like older people

and be like, they're eating cereal boxes, these kids. Right. This one I was, I'm dubious, still a little bit. Right. But it started apparently on tiktok where someone was pointing out there's like this article that the headline is testicles have taste buds that can detect sweet flavors and they're vital for fertility the article goes on to say like it's sensitive to like even the amino acids that give the umami flavor hold on like soy

sauce article real yes okay the article is the deal it's about it's about a study of mice that they were trying to figure out like how how it factored into fertility right now even before this i i just read it and i'm like okay i looked at a few videos motherfuckers were dabbing their nut sacks and soy sauce and shit i was like all right well people are doing on tiktok yes but not like on camera they'd be like oh i'm doing it one I was like, alright, well people are doing it. On TikTok? Yes, but not like on camera. They'd be like, oh, I'm doing it. One dude was like, oh. He was like smacking his lips as he was fingering his taint with soy sauce. I was like, oh.

And first of all... He's looking very disturbed. As well she should. As anyone with a nut sack would know off the rip if your ball sack could taste anything. You would know if you wash your butt we would know the one part of my body that i can for certain i would never be like oh for real i just haven't

experienced anything sweet enough yeah exactly right right right there's peanut butter on here i've been tasting that shit right um so why did you have peanut butter on there that's just that's just a hypothetical right now uh-huh the other thing is that that's why I was like, okay. And also, my man, what you're doing is you're putting soy sauce on your scrotum. It doesn't say taste buds on your scrotum. So even then I'm like, are these motherfuckers serious? And I guess some people are. And then it's funny.

I think modern science, popular mechanics, one of of these are popular science had a whole article basically like we have taste receptors all over our body like in our intestines our nasals our fucking hearts the bladder fuck but it's they're not there because they're not receiving the same inputs like you are in your taste buds in your mouth if they're used for completely different purposes and they just sort of broke it down they're like this is not the same shit but it's just funny to me like that people were applying this logic of like because there was and there was another article that sort of reaffirmed that there are taste receptors on the testicles and people just use that to be like well dude it's science give me the kikoman fucking sauce packet

and let's get busy right this stuff reminds me of all the things you try the first time you're having sex with someone when you're in love with them. Like, you know, you're only 17, 18, 19, where you try out all the different things. Right.

They do have, like, gel that you're supposed to put on your penis, right? Do you remember this tasty gel? They have, like, stuff you... Like flavored gel? Like flavored gel, yeah. Oh, okay.

Or, like, edible underwear. You guys messed around with this stuff, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where you're like, oh, well... Candy bra. Oh, okay. Or like edible underwear. You guys messed around with this stuff, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where you're like, oh, well. Candy bra. Yeah, and you're like, well, this is stupid. Also, when you go to the sex shop and get that, that's just like 90 years old. And you're like, bro, you got to rotate this merchandise.

Yeah, that's what this stuff reminds you of. People who just don't understand their bodies yet. I think it's half just stupid. Like just the idea of saying like you can taste with your ball, your balls was enough to be like, okay, that's why I'm like, I don't know if it's really people doing it because they are believing that it's happening versus like, I'm just going to do this. I'm just going to get in on this viral activity.

Jack, if you were to dip your balls in a condiment, what would that condiment be? That's a great question. Cause I've already got mine right now. Okay. Miles, what would, what the the condiment be for your balls? For mine? Yeah.

Probably spinach artichoke dip. Okay. That's interesting. Because that's such a textural thing. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, look, I love a good spin dip. Right. We're assuming that there is some manner of taste going on.

You're saying if we taste through our balls or if we just – Are you asking what we dunk our balls in for fun? If you had to choose right now, what would you dip your balls in? Spinach artichoke from CPK. From CPK. That's a good spinach artichoke dip. I would have to go with ranch. I know you were going to say that.

I'm not even a ranch guy or anything like that. The thing is you don't know that about me, Miles. You don't know that. You don't know me. Yeah, I'm morbidly obese. I'm a even a ranch guy or anything like that. But the thing is, you don't know that about me, Miles. You don't know that. You don't know me. Yeah, I'm morbidly obese. I'm a ranch balls. You probably think I'm drinking ranch soup all the time, okay? Not all of us are built like a god, Miles.

Exactly. But no, I think for the color and because ranch just feels cool to me. Doritos, cool ranch. Yeah. Shout out to them. That's how fucking stupid I am. For some reason. That's probably it. Just because of the dumb Doritos, Cool Ranch That's how fucking stupid I am For some reason That's probably it Just because of the dumb Doritos snack

But I would like to just pull back Look down, the color The contrast, Jack Your condiment of ball dipping choices I was trying to think of something with alcohol in it So that it had that sort of coolness But there's not like, is there an effervescent beverage

that could be considered a condiment? Because I would also maybe enjoy that feeling. No, but we could pivot just to that. Like a gin and tonic. Yeah, or just champagne. Yeah. Or what's it called? That hot new one that all the kids are drinking.

White Claw? Yeah. Yeah. I could see you. It even goes with your vibe too. Just a nice summer day White Claw Bob dipping. I could see you. It even goes with your vibe too. Just a nice summer day White Claw ball dipping. White linen shirt, jeans, family

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