The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 124 (Best of 5/4/20-5/8/20)

Episode Date: May 10, 2020

The weekly round up of the best moments from DZ's Season 132 (5/4/20-5/8/20.) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...on.

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Starting point is 00:01:55 emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you stream 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 infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah,, without further
Starting point is 00:02:25 ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our fourth seat by first-time guest, the hilarious Ben Sheehan. I am so thrilled that this started off with Papa Rich Parodies
Starting point is 00:02:42 and I can only imagine that puddle of mud is really disappointed to have been left out of this. They'll get there. They'll get there. I don't know. I don't know that. No, you're right. We don't know. Ben, how are you doing? We're doing okay. You know, going on week, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:02:57 seven, eight of quarantine. Yeah, what are we? Sick of everything we're eating pretty much is I think where everyone is. Yeah. I don't count. Is it eight? Is it seven?
Starting point is 00:03:09 It's probably close. Let's see. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Yep. Start your dance routine. We are. Start your dance routine, because it's five, six. We're going full out on this core now.
Starting point is 00:03:27 That's, yeah, I would have had no idea. That's good to know, though. Are you just eating kind of the same thing? Is that why you're saying you're kind of getting into the, like, boredom of the food? What's going on? You said that first. I know.
Starting point is 00:03:41 Well, look, I'm saying that, you know, I may have a limited range of things that I can make. And you're going to the same store over and over. You're kind of falling to your routine. And I think it's on me. It's really, really, this is me talking to myself. It's my responsibility to either expand the grocery stores or to expand my slate of things to make.
Starting point is 00:04:03 What do you, I mean, give me an idea. What's your thing what are you making over and over that is also i'm i'm i'm saying i'm making this but really this my my girlfriend is a very very skilled chef and she makes way better food than i do so this is this is me talking to myself and my shortcomings i'm reminded of every day um really big on uh you know the uh uh the right mix of additions to a smoothie. You've got your frozen fruit, but it's like adding a little bit of ginger, adding a little bit of honey, adding a little bit of the right powder,
Starting point is 00:04:32 something to kind of spice it up a little bit. This is like some high-level stuff. I don't even fuck with smoothies, but more power to you. A powder? I can't even imagine. Like what, maca powder? A little. Is that the green one? I can't even imagine. Like what, maca powder? A little. Is that the green one?
Starting point is 00:04:48 I don't know. It's just some shit people I know who live in Topanga Canyon talk about. We got some. Miles calls it maca, but it's maca. We got some random mushroom powder in the mail and that. I don't really. I mean, not just sort of
Starting point is 00:05:03 a regular dietary supplement powder and I'm not entirely sure it does anything, but you know, we're experimenting with it. We're seeing where it goes. Yeah. Experimenting with mushrooms. It's a great time to do that during Quar. And are you publicly dating Jackie?
Starting point is 00:05:18 I am publicly dating Jackie. So we can mention that is past guest. You can mention that. Double J. It's a fan favorite. First actually got me hand washing much better the last time she was on the show because I think her myth was about hand washing,
Starting point is 00:05:31 about how long you actually... Yeah, that's right. And that was months before. So in a way, I owe her my life. I mean, maybe she started this whole thing just so that she could... Be right about it. Get her to be right about that.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Wouldn't put it past her. Jackie Michelle. Sophia, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay, so if you at all follow me on social media, you may know that I am trying to raise an army of crows in my yard. So I've been Googling a lot about the crows. Crow army! Crow army! um so i've been googling a lot about the crows i'm liking english soccer right yeah so i had to scream i'm trying to really just uh
Starting point is 00:06:13 i mean they have the intelligence of three-year-olds they recognize faces so i'm just trying to get them on my side now and what are you doing to like i'm feeding them and i'm trying to say things that they might like to hear. Like, who's a pretty bird? I don't know if they enjoy that, but that's what I've settled into. Who's an intelligent creature? No, because I'm like, they're so plain. They probably need to hear it.
Starting point is 00:06:38 Oh, wow. And I'm trying to learn how to tell them apart. I think I can only tell them apart a little bit. I mean, I don't know. I think there's three of them. They can tell us apart. So who's got the intelligence of a three-year-old now? They can.
Starting point is 00:06:54 Well, not me, clearly. I mean, unless you, like, tranquilize them and paint one of their toenails or something. Yeah, I know, right? It's going to be hard. Yeah. Or talons, whatever you'd call that, a claw. I think Charles is the big one.
Starting point is 00:07:09 Crow petty. Yeah, they're super smart, and they hold lifelong grudges and shit. Oh, yeah, that's why I'd like for them to become my army now. Yeah. Before it is too late. What's your long-term goal?
Starting point is 00:07:24 What do you see yourself doing in your dreams you wield this you know unmatched crow power i just kind of roam the neighborhood with my murder and are they flying behind you like calise do you do they hop along next to you on the ground i picture some of them on my shoulders and then the others like hop from tree to tree as i walk whoa that's the dream you guys is there one like and then you have one who's like the scout up ahead who's just kind of checking everything out up you're making sure everything's good in case yeah yeah yeah you gotta have scouts obviously everyone has to have an important job you know i want my crows to feel like they're all
Starting point is 00:08:05 doing something it's a good i am fully insane yeah um anyway someone told me that uh they like it if you leave them shiny things which i already knew that they stole shiny things but i didn't know if like they would take them if you just left them so then i took some tinsel and i made hearts out of it because i'm again very lonely and oh my god they did not take them so obviously that makes me love them more so they're just playing hard to get that sounds like a crow yeah classic i've had a a larger crow presence in my backyard which is leading me to the question, are crows taking over our yards or are these advanced scouts from your crow army
Starting point is 00:08:55 and you're going to invade my backyard? Obviously, we are scouting everybody's yards, but it's just for your own protection. I mean, I'm not saying we're going to invade you. I mean, that's jumping to conclusion. It's just for your own protection. I mean, I'm not saying we're going to invade you. I mean, that's jumping to conclusion. It's just a neighborhood watch situation. Yeah. They've just shown up to protect your oil reserves.
Starting point is 00:09:12 Yeah, whatever. Wherever they may be, your yard or anybody else's. What is something you think is underrated? Yeah, okay. So cutting your own bangs is underrated because i did a great job and um has there been a lot of trial and error though no no you make the one mistake one time where you do this instead of cutting vertically you cut horizontally one time and you look horrible and then you never do it again and then you just do this and then you're chill oh that's
Starting point is 00:09:46 a trick i didn't realize that vertical cut you keep the scissors straight up and down because if you go across it's going to be a it's going to be a lloyd christmas jack hold on jack pull your bangs down a little bit yeah yeah let us see how that's looking oh he hit him he hit him horizontally didn't you oh i didn't know that's how you did that hey wow hey you know we're all learning here jack's out here looking like he's married to a property brother god damn wait is she married to a property brother or they're like dating fully right they're married oh they're married they're definitely one of those right? They're married. Oh, they're married. They're married. This is definitely one of those facts that I've learned multiple times
Starting point is 00:10:30 and it just won't enter my brain. It refuses. I know what you mean. When something's so shocking, you forget it after you learn it. And then the next time you're just as shocked. Yeah. Oh, wait. They're not married.
Starting point is 00:10:42 I lied. Jamie. rocked yeah oh wait they're not married i lied they're jamie i don't know whether or not to be giddy about that i remembered that fact about them i was like i don't think they're married i don't think it's like that they're partnered it deserves giddiness uh to be fair though jamie you've been shipping them since the early 2010s. You've been shipping Deschanel and the Property Brothers. The logical conclusion of Zooey Deschanel is for her to do the lamest thing with her life
Starting point is 00:11:12 that she could do, which is marry a Property Brother. It makes so much sense. But which one is she dating? The Property Brothers are a dark one. The ugly one? The left one. She's dating the weird looking one. Thank you for recognizing the weird looking one. Yeah, I figured.
Starting point is 00:11:25 Is that the left one or the right one? Thank you for recognizing the one is not. Yeah. The Property Brothers are not the same. I actually don't know what they look like. And I refuse to learn. I just know if it's left or right, bro. Whoa, fun fact.
Starting point is 00:11:34 Both of their shows entered the collective consciousness in the year of our Lord 2011. New Girl and Property Brothers. New Girl and Property Bros. That's probably how they met. That's impossible. they met. Impossible. In America's psyche. There's a new Property Brothers show that my aunt recommended to me
Starting point is 00:11:54 that is called... The premise is that celebrities choose their friends who are not as rich as them and the Property Brothers show up and renovate a celebrity's friend's house it's a very it's so tenuous but i watched an episode where it's viola davis oh isn't it is it something like repaying the kindness of the people from their past or something is
Starting point is 00:12:18 yeah but it's like they're celebrities their friends friends are mostly fine. Like they don't. Right. But so they go to Viola Davis's friend, like college friend's house. And then they do what the Property Brothers do. They just like torch the house of personality. And then it's a blindingly white like hellscape. And Viola Davis is like, thank you. You're like. And favor repaid uh yeah they just she ruined her college roommate's
Starting point is 00:12:50 house you're welcome i would love yeah i would love if like the intro segments clearly the friend is like on like hard times and it's clear the celebrity friend has no interest in helping them at all. And it's like a very simple way they could like- Just crossing it off a list. Yeah. This episode was really dark because it was like, I guess that her friend's husband had passed away. Oh no.
Starting point is 00:13:15 And they added like a record player that was built into the wall that had his signature written on it. And Viola Davis was like, look. And her friend was like, like it was just so morbid and weird. I don't know. I love making that decision for someone
Starting point is 00:13:34 that they want to stare at their dead spouse's signature for the rest of their life. It's like, no, you don't get to move on. I've decided that for you. Goodbye. It's going, no, you don't get to move on. I've decided that for you. Goodbye. It's going to be built into the fucking foundation of this house, this record player. This home is now built on sadness.
Starting point is 00:13:53 And don't worry, we took care of that creepy jar for you that was in the way. Those are his remains. Oh, fuck. Well, I don't know I would recommend this show well we replaced
Starting point is 00:14:08 it with a cookie jar and that's just yummy oh well open it open it look lonely
Starting point is 00:14:14 so long why does it play that song when I open it I don't know it's the final thought we heard that was your favorite song
Starting point is 00:14:22 with your dead husband they turn it like it's so every Property House Brothers is the same blindingly like white crypt. It's horrifying. Dude, that's literally my overrated, you guys. That's my overrated and you're stealing it. It's boring celebrity houses like Kylie, Kanye, etc. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. it's true it's they their houses suck and we're seeing
Starting point is 00:14:49 so much more of them now because of uh the quarantine but yeah they're just all they all look like they could be the same house like oh yeah i feel like it's it's uh a person with no tastes idea of what taste is you know what i mean it's like uh it's like those people that thought crash was like a really good movie and deserve that oscar it's like you have to be that kind of dumb person to think that that movie is smart and right it made you feel good that you got it but like it's not a smart idea that was for like fully designed home that was yeah crashes for upper middle class white people to be like feel feel deep for like two seconds but it was
Starting point is 00:15:32 if you think about it though we are all connected oh man yeah god i mean so and that guy was racist what about sandra bullock and her housekeeper is her best friend how much did you die during that segment oh boy i fully put the film out of my mind i bravely have not seen it oh i saw it years later because i like don't watch it now you'll vomit it's the worst thing it's so bad like you should have medical supervision watching that now like with our eyes now you have to see it i i'm kind of curious i do want to see it you know the orange couch was the like feature of all fun tech offices like what is the feature of all like modern celebrity homes i feel like there's okay gotta have thin-necked vases you can't put anything into that are white or gray um maybe black but that's like if you're a rebel
Starting point is 00:16:26 and it's in your like black room you know what i mean but that probably is a room you'll never your goth room yeah i gotta have it and then for sure i would say couches that are white and carpets that are white for no reason and that makes it pretty clear that they cannot be living human lives there well yeah it just it has to feel like the most high stress environment for someone who has a job right that's what it's like being one of those homes you're like everything is too clean in here there's no way i could live like this i don't have the time to up maintain the whiteness and like sanctity of this everything like oh it's fine you just bleach everything i'm like oh you bleach everything or your staff does like what's going on here yeah i can't whenever
Starting point is 00:17:10 i see that i feel just i'm gonna dirty everything yeah who can i mean it just yeah it does seem like you're like oh i can afford to for this to not become dirty like right, it's like a weird flex. Yeah, absolutely. You'd rather pay people to clean a house over and over and over again than just live in a house that looks really nice and cozy that people might have to clean a little less.
Starting point is 00:17:38 It's really relaxing, though. You know, it reminds me of we went to Crete once and this is kind of like what we're replicating. I would rather be Britney Spears and burn my home gym down. Yeah, my gym down. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:50 Blah, blah, blah. You know how that kind of thing happens. I mean, you know, like one thing to that. I said I burned it down, Mom. I don't know. Just get me a new gym. Yada, yada, yada. And then I murdered that whole family.
Starting point is 00:18:02 And she says that she did it six months ago. I love it. Right. I can't stop. And she says that she did it six months ago. I love it. Right. I can't stop. And she's still out of breath explaining it. She's like, I'm going to have to address it. But I also like the detail. She's like, I only have two things to work out with now.
Starting point is 00:18:19 I'm like, I don't need that detail. I need the details of the fire. That was the best celebrity news I've heard in months. Oh, it was great. She's incredible. What is something you think is overrated? Sourdough starter kits. Grow up.
Starting point is 00:18:36 Oh. Enough. Grow up. Enough said. Have you baked a loaf, though? Have you baked one? Have you baked a loaf, though? Have you baked one?
Starting point is 00:18:51 I'll know that I've really gone off into another world if I even learn what a starter dough, sour dough. If I know what it looks like, I'm on the wrong track in my life. I don't want to know what it looks like. I don't want to know how it works. I don't like seeing Jake Gyllenhaal doing it. I don't want to know. I don't want to know how it works i don't like seeing jill and hall doing it i don't want to know i don't want to eat it i just i got all like worked up about it yesterday but yeah i don't want to know anything about the sourdough i saw jake gyllenhaal doing it in a youtube clip
Starting point is 00:19:15 and it made me upset yeah it's weird how like we're even finding quarantine activities that were somehow like relegating to like basicness where it's like right now, if you're basic, you're making banana bread and sourdough. Okay. But it's also like everyone's just sort of like we're trying to do something. But we still like even though we're all in our houses, we're still trying to create like a hierarchy of activities still to be like actually bread. Smoking weed. trying to create a like a hierarchy of activities still to be like actually bread smoking weed it's like also don't listen to a word i say because i'm like yeah i'm doing a friendly competition with my cat my dog to see who shits on my stuff list so take that if i start making food people can eat i'm on the wrong track i need to take a look at my life if i haven't 3d printed pvc armor for my pets uh then something's really going wrong well i'm less bothered by like bread of people
Starting point is 00:20:13 like that are like right it's like mainly celebrity bread i don't know something about the celebrity bread celeb bread does celeb bread i'm just it just rubs me the wrong way i don't know what it is i was talking about it with my dad on the phone yesterday and then he he went on like a different tangent that also made no sense where he was like well my father used to deliver 500 loaves of wonder bread a day and if everyone started making their own bread he'd be screwed. But that's a moot point because he's dead. Right. That's a good point.
Starting point is 00:20:47 There are no... And also, I don't think we're even close to becoming a society where people are homemaking their own bread. I don't think we've put Wonder Bread out of business. Dude, America is built on defanging people and taking away the skills that make them less reliant on consumption. It's built that way don't worry nobody's nobody's gonna try and learn how to make white bread all of a sudden but my my grandfather ate a loaf of white bread a day no yeah in his chair and then he died
Starting point is 00:21:17 at 64 do you think the two could be connected wait he would eat an no are you are you serious he would eat an entire loaf of like. That was his food for the day? No, there was other food as well. He's a pretty big guy. He died when I was very little, but that's the family lore, was that he worked for Wonder Bread and at the dog track, and at between jobs, he would eat a loaf of bread. Wow.
Starting point is 00:21:41 And eat a dog. And then eat a dog after that job. Eat a greyhound. Yeah, with a bunch of bedding stubs. of bread. Wow. And eat a dog. And then eat a dog after that show. Eat a greyhound. With a bunch of bedding stubs. Yeah. I do wonder if some of this self-sufficiency, making stuff from home is part of America's
Starting point is 00:21:56 collective unconscious realizing fuck capitalism. Maybe. I don't know. That could be nice. I was going to say that you said that it's not bad to make food people can eat. But if you change the punctuation and you're making food people, that gets weird. That's usually a sign that you've been inside too long.
Starting point is 00:22:21 I think bread offers people a thing. If you're not normally creative it gives you the same satisfaction any creative person has in that you you're working on something and there's an outcome fairly quickly that you can assess and it gives you feedback and then you can begin iterating like on your loaf you're like oh okay so i gotta do this it's like i think it's just it helps people feel like you're fucking making some shit. Because I know I've had that urge too. I'm even like, fucking give me a Lego set or some shit.
Starting point is 00:22:49 You're always iterating on your loaf. I've always said that about you. Yeah, exactly. Iterating on loaves, the new EP from Miles Gray. All right, guys, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. In a galaxy far, far away. No, babe, that's taken.
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Starting point is 00:24:39 you have to listen to us i mean you can still watch us but you gotta listen like if you're watching us you have to tell us like if you're out the window, you have to say, hey, I'm watching you outside of the window. Just just you know what? Listen to the Amber and Lacey Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. When you think of Mexican culture, you think of avocado, mariachi, delicious cuisine, and of course, lucha libre. It doesn't get more Mexican than this. Lucha libre is known globally because it is much more than just a sport and much more than just entertainment. Lucha libre is a type of storytelling.
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Starting point is 00:26:11 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. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County rebels with the image of... It's right here in black and white in the prints of a lion. An individual that came to the school
Starting point is 00:26:32 saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch is a leader. You choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to be the losing team? I just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools,
Starting point is 00:26:50 these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot. You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And speaking of the name Bernard, the Musk and Grimes child
Starting point is 00:27:14 will probably need to have an actual name, it turns out. We still haven't gotten a pronunciation of their current name, right? Yeah. I mean, all we know is X and then the A-E or the L. Okay, so as we look at it, it's the X, that A-E shit, then fucking A through 12. A-12. That's the name as we read each character.
Starting point is 00:27:44 A through 12. I like that pronunciation, Miles. I like A through12. That's the name as we read each character. A-12. I like that pronunciation, Miles. I like A-12. I'm going to hit him with that just to make it as absurd as possible. That's kind of nice. Grimes kind of broke it down. Just so you know, it's not a bunch of bullshit, okay? It means a lot to me in Elon Ruby Pockets Musk.
Starting point is 00:28:01 X stands for the unknown variable, while A-E is the elven spelling of I, love and or artificial intelligence. Yes, Chinese. A-12 equals the precursor to SR-17, our favorite aircraft. No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but nonviolent.
Starting point is 00:28:22 Great in battle, but nonviolent? What the fuck does that mean? And A equals archangel but non-violent. Great in battle, but non-violent? What the fuck does that mean? And A equals Archangel. Uh-huh. Just name your baby Archangel. Why don't you shut the fuck up? Yeah, I mean, yeah. But based on that naming convention,
Starting point is 00:28:36 that's just a bunch of shit that they like. That's all that is. It's more of a list than a name. It's not how names work. And it reads that way. According to this naming convention, my first child shall be known as IDAHH0304OG. Okay?
Starting point is 00:28:52 Now, IDAHH, from my favorite DMX album, It's Dark and Hell's Hot, 0304 for the Arsenal Invincibles season of 2003-2004, and OG, my favorite strain of Kush. Okay? So that's what my child's name is. Please, please leave us alone. They're going to get so upset when they go to the souvenir store
Starting point is 00:29:14 and there's no little license plate with their name on it. There's no little California license plate that says IDAH 03040G. Miles, why would you do that? I would love to leave them alone. I don't want to think about them ever again like you know the they're acting like like leave us alone it's like yeah we don't want to talk to you like sorry i'll spend all my money like uh stocking gift stores at
Starting point is 00:29:38 amusement parks with the name x a e a through. So when they take their kid there, it's like, fuck, it's not mine no more. It's just like, you idiot. We had them all except that one. I like Baby Grusk. I think that was a great name, Baby Grusk. But according to the law in Los Angeles, or California, presumably presumably that's where
Starting point is 00:30:06 the baby was born they can only incorporate like letters from the english alphabet no numbers or special characters so this just seems like so it's just gonna be x x a a why i just um you know if you name your kid x anything anything you're just gonna call your kid x so you name your kid X anything, anything, you're just going to call your kid X. So just name your kid X. Yeah. Right. X gone. Give it to you. Speaking of, it's dark.
Starting point is 00:30:30 Dark man X. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's actually. And then there then there was X. OK, this is like this is the perfect name. This is the perfect name for a for the child of two big nerds because nerds also think that a list of things they like
Starting point is 00:30:48 is an identity. I'm so absolutely sick of these losers. When I read the words our favorite aircraft, I puked. Our favorite aircraft. Our favorite aircraft. Our favorite aircraft. Our favorite aircraft.
Starting point is 00:31:08 Well, that's how I know I'm not in love, because Her Majesty and I don't have a shared favorite aircraft. Yeah. Yeah. You guys are a fake-ass couple. Yeah, exactly. This could have been you, Miles. Could have been us, but I'm playing.
Starting point is 00:31:22 I'm playing with these real names. Oh, I'm so exhausted with with with this couple do you think i like when i like that they did a fake reverse etymology of of their child's name where it was like a ai is artificial intelligence but then they noticed that it's also like the the word for love in chinese i think what uh i is japanese and then they were like yeah we did that on purpose that's on purpose oh it's japanese yeah so they were like yeah we meant we were doing that it's like a double meaning yeah so that's also what it means right but like you could look at an actual name and and like do all sorts of shit.
Starting point is 00:32:08 And then this is the 13th letter in the alphabet and 13 stands for, you can do that same shit if you want to. That's why numerology rules. An actual name that you can say out loud. You don't need to give your child a unpronounceable name. It's just gonna be so annoying, even to them, very quickly. Yeah, it's like this kid will annoying like even to them like very quickly yeah it's like
Starting point is 00:32:25 this kid will not if this kid likes it they're even worse than their parents if this kid this is what's gonna happen they're gonna they're gonna try and get that child's name like legally changed to that and they're gonna say no and they're gonna be like well then fuck that we don't want a kid oh yeah well then that's i um i do like that uh oh my god jesus do like that. Oh my god. I'm just sick of them. The new game in the mid-apartment drama is more interesting to me. Oh, it is. Should we talk about that?
Starting point is 00:32:55 We talked about it a little bit the other day. I don't think that there's any updates other than they're still messy as fuck and it's kind of funny. I just like for ukulele goths is my favorite term I learned. I think I gotta get into that whole aesthetic now. Yeah, ukulele goths, mime makeup. Vaguely circusy stuff.
Starting point is 00:33:16 Maybe a harmonica. Steampunk culture gone awry. Yeah, yeah. Black tutus and striped tights. Something about your heart being ripped out of your body by a marionette. There's just going to be some really shitty music videos. Puppet metaphors.
Starting point is 00:33:35 Oh, God, yeah. They're dolls, you know? They're just dolls. In a way. We're all dolls. We are all our dolls. We are all dolls. We're all our dolls.
Starting point is 00:33:44 Actually, we're all dolls. Oh are all our dolls. We are all dolls. We're all our dolls. Actually, we're all dolls. Oh, and our hearts are pretty fragile. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? I'm going to take it back to what I just said about what audiences want. There's this conventional wisdom in Hollywood about a lot of things. It's all convention and no wisdom so a few examples like when I was coming up in the film industry you'd be told like
Starting point is 00:34:10 female driven action movies don't work I can't make a successful female driven action movie and like I remember thinking like that doesn't really make any sense to me uh why wouldn't they and you'd be told something like well men won men won't go see women-driven action movies, but women will go see male-driven action movies, so you should never make a female-driven action movie. And it's like, I don't know, Titanic was kind of a female-driven action movie. That did pretty well. Really, all of James Cameron's movies are sort of fundamentally female-driven action movies,
Starting point is 00:34:41 and he has made most of the biggest movies of all time. Yeah. So, like, that's a big one. The other big one that frustrates me personally as a black person is, oh, well, you can't sell black movies abroad. Like, there's an audience in the U.S., but, like, you know, people outside of the U.S. don't want to see black people on screen. Yeah, those Sony emails were shocking. Yeah. The whole thing about the equalizer and equalizer 2 was like black doesn't travel guys i i don't want to be the one to say it because i'm denzel's my favorite actor of all time i was just like shut the fuck up man right but but the wild part about it is when you really think about it
Starting point is 00:35:21 right like okay let's just say that people believe that for whatever reason right but then you step back and you're like okay so wait a minute you want me to believe that hip-hop is the most important cultural force worldwide over the last 40 years anywhere you go you can hear hip-hop literally anywhere uh people root for black athletes on their local teams no matter where they are in the world but somehow when it comes to movies they're not interested oh and also denzel will smith all these guys have been like crushing it internationally for years and like even coming to america did like 300 million dollars foreign so like there's this weird sort of uh racism and then like the wildest part about it was so the most recent excuse people use is like look yeah things are getting better like in europe and elsewhere but like china is a real problem like
Starting point is 00:36:08 china's super racist chinese people don't want to see black people and i was in shanghai two years ago and i was walking back to my hotel late at night and right above the hotel there's an ad for the new iphone and it features a black model like the photo is a black woman. I just remember thinking, oh, so Apple thinks they can sell their products with black faces, but somehow movie people don't think they can sell their products with black faces. And I realized that it was this weird double racism. It's folks in the business
Starting point is 00:36:36 who are neither black nor Asian saying, it's not us that's racist. It's them that's racist. And it's like, look, yes, there's anti-blackness everywhere like let's be clear and it comes from at its root white supremacy but like they're getting that from the culture that we export right like there's this amazing video of like man on the street interviews in korea after black panther came out and one of the interviewees is like yeah i mean
Starting point is 00:37:03 it was amazing like we've never seen black people on screen this way. They're usually like, you know, hip hop stars are criminals. And I'm like, they're not seeing that on Korean television or like the local news. They're seeing it from other Hollywood movies. And that's the assumption that they make about,
Starting point is 00:37:19 about sort of what black people are and sort of are limited by. So it's just, uh, yeah, it's a, again, it's a frustration. There's like a moral and ethical issue there but i'm also just kind of like i'm trying to get this money by making movies and there's money to be had on these movies because
Starting point is 00:37:35 people want to see them like black panther didn't make a billion dollars because no one wants to see black people in movies right right so like maybe be less racist and sexist and we can all make more money seems like a good plan yeah yeah yeah right those like conversations never take into account either like what you were just saying of like how like when you do see black characters or you see women or you see like really anyone on screen written poorly and written to stereotypes like that is a turnoff for a lot of viewers or they're like oh you know like but then when you actually write a character or give a writer with some lived experience and not just uh someone that is like a whatever like a white guy who's been working in Hollywood for 500 years, usually it works.
Starting point is 00:38:27 And if there's the marketing money put behind it too, which is another thing that just doesn't even come up in those conversations of like, well, are you investing in this movie at all? Or are you just dooming it to fail by assuming it couldn't possibly succeed? Yeah, it's wild. I mean, on that question, I've asked that question a bunch. So how much marketing money did you put behind it? And they're they're like well we didn't because it's not possible to succeed
Starting point is 00:38:48 I'm like you don't you don't see the circular logic here like I'm not the smartest person in the world but I'm pretty sure that's flawed logic yeah guys real quick should we talk about the Florida guy who got busted camping on... It's just a fun story. I like it. Because a 42-year-old man named Richard McGuire, he was arrested last week. Dick McGuire. Because they caught him
Starting point is 00:39:16 basically camping on this old Disney World island on the property of Disney World, Discovery Island, that used to be a wild animal attraction and all this other stuff. people basically there were allegations of animal abuse and things like that and the park had other developments like Animal Kingdom they're like all right we can just shutter this whole 11 acre island so this guy apparently just got like uh the great idea when they found him he said when he was arrested he told the deputies he said he
Starting point is 00:39:43 had entered the island to go camping on Monday or Tuesday and planned on staying there for about a week. And he was just like, just said, I didn't know that like, you know, what the deal was just looks like a tropical paradise. I like it. Because it was like, you know,
Starting point is 00:39:56 they'd put all this like flora and fauna there to make it look like as tropical as possible because it was an attraction. Now it's just completely overgrown. And it wasn't until like a couple disney employees like spotted him like walking around on the island from like a boat or something they're like wait what the fuck i think some guy is camping like on the property so they had to use boats fucking uh like on foot i think a fucking helicopter at one point
Starting point is 00:40:21 and they were like blaring over pa systems like yo come out like you're trespassing and the guy just came out and apparently said sorry dude i didn't he claims did not see or hear them due to being asleep in one of the buildings on the island okay this is great this is like eminem style lose yourself one life one opportunity this opportunity comes once in a lifetime okay do not miss your chance to blow. Probably had some of mom's spaghetti on his shirt. You also say 42, like that's shocking. But have you seen the people who are too into Disney?
Starting point is 00:40:54 They're all 42. They're all like, the whole Disney YouTube community is 42. It's a thing that happens to us whites. At the age of 42. We go on a Mormon-like journey where we must just take a year off to be obsessed with Disney. Did you ever go to Discovery Island?
Starting point is 00:41:13 I've never been to World, so I'm completely ignorant of all of the fantastic things that live there. I was not aware that existed. I didn't know that that was a thing. And I watched those rollercoaster YouTube channels. saw with your new form of edging um discovery island was once called treasure island it was opened in 1979 been closed since 99 oh wow wow and like there's a they've been keeping it up enough for somebody to camp there no there's a youtube video of a dude
Starting point is 00:41:44 who went there recently, clearly just trespassed one of those urban explorer type YouTube channels, and it full on looks like a place that has not been operating for 20 years. Some of the fixtures are not
Starting point is 00:41:59 fully rotten, but it's completely overgrown. Love it. Good for him. Yeah. Love it. Good for him. Something to aspire to, gang. Fun. Fun. Looks like fun, and hopefully you don't get shot while doing it.
Starting point is 00:42:16 Sorry, June. What is a myth? What's something you know to be false that people think is true or vice versa. I know. And I have known for some time that, um, open plan offices are actually really bad. Yeah. Maybe rocking the boat a little bit here with my hot take, but,
Starting point is 00:42:37 uh, open plan offices are the worst fucking thing to happen to offices since offices were invented. Um, open plan offices are distracting for everybody. They do not enhance creativity. All they do is make it so you have to yell all the time because everybody is talking and you have to yell over them.
Starting point is 00:42:53 And now I have been proven right by the coronavirus because it turns out that a lot of companies are trying to redesign their open plan offices because open plan offices extremely conducive to spreading diseases yeah yeah so now places are trying to get like flexibility basically sneeze guards around every cubicle you know raising a half wall to a higher wall transparently almost like a room but not quite's the thing. I don't want to like, yeah, it's like, I don't want to like trigger Gen X. I know that Gen X put a lot of effort into hating cubicles, but like I fuck with cubicles. I've never had a problem with them. I like having my own little space.
Starting point is 00:43:38 It's called soundproofing also. Like the point of the cubicle is like you can't really hear people that well. Right. Because there's like natural baffling in the panels of the cubicle is like you can't really hear people that well. Right. Like it's like natural baffling in the panels of your cubicle. And I mean, this is maybe a more but like, you know, I don't like having a co-worker having such. I don't like knowing what's going on in the tabs near me because I'm always going to look. Yeah, exactly. I'm always looking over at other people's tabs.
Starting point is 00:44:04 And then they're always looking at you. And then they're always looking at other people's tabs and then they're always looking at you and then they're always looking at your tabs and no one wants to know what's and i just want to look at earrings no that i'm not gonna buy right well that's the fun thing about is like don't rush me okay oh yeah well i think that's those are all the you know the the office it's funny because the office used to be the pinnacle of doing it. You're like, I got an office. You know what I mean? I have my own fucking door and shit.
Starting point is 00:44:32 And then there was this swing where it's like, that's for grandpa. Let's make it like kindergarten, but with desks and way more stress. What if the kids went in the cubbies? So wait, they want just like clear sneeze guards so that you're like in a little glass.
Starting point is 00:44:53 Gotta be able to see each other, Jamie. Gotta be able to see your screen. See, it doesn't solve the tab issue. See, we need opaque guards. I'm not advocating for transparent sneeze guards. Tab tabs through a sneeze guard is a nightmare that would make you feel i think even more of like a prisoner that you already dealing with the tab thing and people can see into your tab now you're in this like
Starting point is 00:45:16 plexiglass menagerie it's all yeah seeing the tabs makes me brings out an ugly side of me because then i just like i'd like like, I started texting my friend being like, this fucking, they're, oh, they're just on ebay.com and then like, I'm also on ebay.com
Starting point is 00:45:32 but I'm just like, this fucking slacker. This MF is checking Twitter. Yeah. Right, right, right, exactly. I am tweeting this. it's like, they're looking for Drusilla
Starting point is 00:45:43 from Buffy merch. Like, what the fuck? Why Drusilla? I don't want anyone to know what's going on on my eBay. Yeah, I think your desktop should be private. I think it's a man's right to have nobody look at his desktop while he's browsing. That's another Zoom anxiety, too, of like people are sharing their desktops on zoom and i like every time i would never i would never you're just like every time i get in a situation
Starting point is 00:46:11 where somebody has to share screens with me i put all of my shit that's on my desktop into a new folder and i title it epstein theories so it just looks like there's nothing on my desktop. It's totally clean except for this one little folder. Make multiple Epstein Theory V1, Epstein Theory V2, Epstein Theories V4, V5, V6. Epstein Theories 2020. In a general sense, people who share their screen with you on Zoom have no inner life and nothing to fear. Or a work computer that's separate from right yeah
Starting point is 00:46:46 the only time i've done a screen share is for work uh other times i think like zoom it's weird i don't like to use zoom all the time to like interact sometimes i use google hangouts like with certain friend groups just to feel like it's like zoom's become my home too where it's like uh-oh can't have my work and my pleasure blur into one app now yeah you have to delineate somehow between things that are the same yeah all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some bullshit how do you feel about biscuits hi i'm akilahilah Hughes, 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.
Starting point is 00:47:37 I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels with the image of the biscuits. It's right here in black and white in the prints of 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. On the segregation academies, when civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools,
Starting point is 00:48:07 these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot. You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In a galaxy far, far away. No, babe, that's taken. We're in our own world, remember?
Starting point is 00:48:30 Right. In our own world, we're two space cadets. And totally normal humans. Sure, totally normal humans. Embark on a journey across the stars, discovering the wonders of the universe one episode at a time. We'll talk about life, love, laughter, and why you should never argue with your co-pilot.
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Starting point is 00:49:17 Most of the time. Hello, everyone. I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm Amber Ruffin, a better Lacey Lamar. Boo. Okay, everybody, we have exciting news to share. We're back with season two of the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. You thought you had fun last season? Well, you were right. And you should tune in today for new fun segments like Sister Court and listening to Lacey's steamy DMs.
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Starting point is 00:51:31 to get everybody's read so he's hot one are you asking me if i would fuck dr fauci is he yeah i don't think he's hot is he i don't think anybody really thinks he's hot. I think everybody is, you know. I think that everyone is really projecting onto Dr. Fauci. Just because somebody is saving your life doesn't mean that you need to want to fuck them. Well, speak for yourself. Speak for yourself. Speak.
Starting point is 00:51:56 Yeah, so there are three Maryland-based microbiologists who created a group chat to, and this is a quote, gush over Fauci in private, and then they created a Twitter. First of all, the phrase gush over, is that,
Starting point is 00:52:19 I've used that phrase since I was a kid to be like, oh, they're really gushing over that thing. Does that just mean, does that come from the idea that people are like coming about a thing? No. No. No.
Starting point is 00:52:32 Oh my God, that would be horrible. It's more just that it's flowing. That would be horrible. However, I will say, I think of, yeah, like gush over is like when you talk about someone a lot. Oh, I know. Yeah. But an oldfashioned thing to do
Starting point is 00:52:46 is when somebody um kind of like exclaims to call it ejaculating um and i used to like as a kid i would read a lot of like kind of like turn of the century like kids books and and when somebody like exclaimed something they would say like wow he ejaculated um it is and i never thought i didn't know that it meant anything else and right my mom at one point i think saw it in one of my books and she was like sneakily was like sorry what does ejaculating mean and i was like it means when somebody's like talking loud and she was like okay sorry what does it mean dude when i do like nuts whoa what the fuck are you what are those fucking boxcar children getting up to were there like words when you were a kid that you just like straight up you just for a very long time just were using it totally wrong
Starting point is 00:53:42 there is i didn't know what i thought pedophile meant bad teacher because of an episode because of an episode of degrassi that i saw wait what episode of degrassi there was a teach there was some episode where emma on degrassi goes like more like mr pedophile and me and my cousin called another teacher mr pedophile because we thought that that meant like he's just a shitty teacher and we got in trouble at camp mr flanagan was not a pedophile he was simply a bad teacher i remember reading on the internet as a child that a pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. And I didn't know what orgasm was, but I kind of vaguely knew that it was bad. And so I asked my mom what it meant.
Starting point is 00:54:33 And she wouldn't tell me. Whoa. Then it's like you're super going to find out and get bad info. But that's the weird thing is like, I don't know if I did. I could have just Googled what is an orgasm, but I didn't. I guess I didn't really think of the, it was, it was at a time where I thought of the internet as a very different place, not just a place where you could type in a question and get an answer, but one where you had to go to like a Yahoo music page in order to watch
Starting point is 00:54:58 your favorite music videos on their weird flash player. It was a simpler time. Yeah. on their weird flash player. It's a simpler time. Yeah. Well, guys, Dr. Fauci has been giving people 30-minute lung pig orgasms for a long time. There was a 1991 romance novel by a writer named Sally Quinn.
Starting point is 00:55:18 And according to Quinn, she was seated next to Fauci at a DC dinner event and fell in love with him he was like so charming and she saw what these three microbiologists who created the Fauci fan club saw because she then made him the hero of her novel uh which was which was, I think, uh, a big success. It was called happy endings. And yeah, she was like,
Starting point is 00:55:49 the subject matter is weird. Yeah. So the subject matter. So he, before he was, uh, our guy who was just, you know,
Starting point is 00:55:58 having to endure the, the bullshit of the Trump administration during this pandemic, he was the guy who was having to endure the bullshit of the trump administration during this pandemic he was the guy who was having to endure the bullshit of the reagan administration during the aids crisis um he like abandoned his career uh to study hiv aids in 1981 because he just like had an intuition that this was going to get out of control. And he was like the main kind of person for HIV AIDS in the Reagan administration. But because the Reagan administration was so backwards and conservative and homophobic,
Starting point is 00:56:37 they like, he became kind of associated with a really like shitty HIV, uh, policy and became, there were like chance outside of the white house of fuck you Fauci. Um, but then he like won the protesters over by just being who he is, like a kind of listening to them and caring about human life. Oh yeah. That's wild.
Starting point is 00:57:03 Um, caring about human, but this, but the story of the novel is that he is the czar of HIV AIDS and is treating the president who secretly has AIDS while having an affair with the former first lady. Oh, no. Oh, the scientist is having an affair
Starting point is 00:57:30 with the former first lady, not the president. Gotcha. Yeah. I don't know. It's pretty steamy stuff. It's so funny how in the thing, there were some pretty interesting uh
Starting point is 00:57:47 like jm who wrote the piece like had some excerpts of some of the reviews that were pretty seemed pretty scathing uh but also like the hearing about just the dynamic of the doctor it's like he resisted because he was married and jewish and she is neither. It's like, what? What? Hello? Okay. And then the doctor character would say lines like, you are like a tumor in my brain, which is getting larger and larger each day. That's hot. So you can see why he was seen as irresistible.
Starting point is 00:58:20 I want to know, why is the New York Times reviewing this romance novel? I think it's because the woman, because she used to write for the Washington Post. The author, Sally Quinn, was like a respected Washington Post journalist. That's funny. And then she wrote this romance novel. Whoa. You know, people are writing fanfic in quarantine.
Starting point is 00:58:46 I mean, who are we? Right. No, I mean, this is fine. Yeah, no, people have been writing fanfic for a long time. It's very funny to me that the New York Times has this, like, this is from the New York Times review of the book when it came out. You know, all the characters are made from the stuff of yesterday's Hollywood. Allison and Sadie
Starting point is 00:59:05 are so interchangeably gorgeous and accomplished and their men, Des and Michael Lanzer, are so charismatic and macho that they seem to speak with a single voice.
Starting point is 00:59:12 I'm like, yeah, have you never read a fucking romance novel? They're all the same. Like, why are you complaining? Oh,
Starting point is 00:59:19 I love it. I mean, that way to legitimize this, this art. Yeah, there was also, Yeah, it's great art. There was a thing. There's a line about one of the reviewers was pointing to an interview she gave in the 70s.
Starting point is 00:59:34 It says, by reputation. Did you read that part? No. About how Quinn is flippancy incarnate. On paper, such repartee can look arched and contrived. With wit, as with charm, you usually had to be there. And then they go on about some of these, like, sex scenes. And then they say this from someone who once answered the hand-wringing of other women journalists with,
Starting point is 00:59:58 Being blonde doesn't hurt. And that was something that apparently, I was, like, looking into that in the 70s. People were asking, like, you know, about being a journalist. And she was like, you know, you can take advantage of asking like you know about being a journalist and she was like you know you can take advantage of like a situation maybe they're more comfortable with you maybe there's flirtation insinuation and then like you said and also being blonde doesn't hurt and apparently a lot of the women who are like there at this talk were like that's like the most backwards thing like we're all here trying to like learn some shit and that was the answer you gave so So it's interesting to see that quote.
Starting point is 01:00:26 I guess it must have been infamous, because that was 18 years before the book came out. Yeah, I think this book was a big deal at the time. I see. That makes sense. And it also makes it so much funnier that it was so viciously panned. This is hot. This is some really hot tea right now this is hot 1991 tea but here's the thing like clearly fauci's got the cavorca for a certain type of personality like sure sure there's i mean there i don't know what that's what i'm trying to figure out what is it purely is it the hope that he
Starting point is 01:00:59 offers and that's what it is the juxtaposition of this absolute ignoramus in chief and then like someone, a learned person just next to it. And it's like, that's so fucking hot right now. Like, yeah, I think so, especially because like it's the same thing that's happening with Cuomo is people are like, wow, I love Cuomo. He's so amazing. And it's like he's actually doing a really bad job, but he's still doing way better than Trump. So, right. You know, people people think he's it's like, wow, he's so reassuring right now. It's like, yeah, compared to Trump, the like man with dementia who doesn't give a fuck about anyone else or like can't conceptualize who he is or what he's doing. Like, yeah, anybody looks hot next to him.
Starting point is 01:01:39 It's like, you know, you bring someone who looks worse than you to the bar to make you look good that's it's basic science guys so fauci on tinder it's him and trump in his profile yeah it's him next to trump and he's he's he's pointing at trump like can you fucking believe this guy and you're like oh my god like the photo is of me you are looking for me you are swiping for me there's also the the thing of like on paper he is really like the the perfect romance novel lead he's a doctor um he seems to like give a shit about people you know he's very smart and you know by by quinn's uh yeah he's athletic he's like um the guy who's the star
Starting point is 01:02:18 of the uh dr robert langdon the star of uh the fucking da vci Code and Dan Brown books. He's a puzzle expert though. That guy. He's the best at word jumbles. Yeah, he's like a puzzle expert, but he's also like a swimmer. And actually his students call him the dolphin because he's always swimming laughs. This is canon.
Starting point is 01:02:41 This is canon Dr. Robert Langdon. Those books are incredible. The Origins book is really good. Yeah, because they really go into like, wow, all his girl students have crushes on him. And I'm like, okay, yeah. It's like, you could cast Fauci as this. Right.
Starting point is 01:02:57 The shape of his core reminded us of a Roman statue. Yeah. Jamie, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Okay, so this is also a food-related thing. A myth is that if you make the food smaller on purpose, you'll eat less of the food. I've been experimenting with this.
Starting point is 01:03:23 We've been experimenting with this in the home. So my boyfriend's been making cookies, like basic, you know, nothing wild, but just cookies. And then we had a brilliant idea while we were trying to stop our animals from shitting on our stuff. We were like, maybe we'd eat less cookies if we made the cookies really small.
Starting point is 01:03:45 And then it turns out you just eat the same amount of cookies and you feel worse because you feel like you ate 12 cookies. Ate more cookies. Yeah. Turns out our stomachs just don't resolve to numerical values. I had three teeny ones. Stomach, hello. Feel like it's expanded. I really went into it with some Polly Pocket logic of of like this is just as good as a regular doll it but it's very small but you get
Starting point is 01:04:10 the same amount of joy from it i tried to apply that logic to cookies and it didn't work have you tried anything else or cookies you're one and done you're like all right tried it don't need we're done there well well the nice thing about the cookie the small cookies is that i that they're fun and i like them. So we're going to keep them small, but we're not going to try to regulate the amount. What are we, like quarter size? What are we talking about? Like little Famous Amos?
Starting point is 01:04:33 I'll grab one during the break. They're pretty small. Some of them are cookie crisp size? Or how small are we talking? Not quite that small. I would say about not longer than a thumb. Pretty small cookies okay and you're taking these from like the prefab uh cookie dough that you buy the store and just like cutting
Starting point is 01:04:53 making it into little smaller balls yeah make little little tiny cookies hell yeah put them in the cookie jar see how long they last. Yeah. Do they cook quicker? Do they bake fast? They cook a lot. Well, yeah, that's another problem, is you can get a lot of cookies much faster. Because they do cook faster. You said that with such glee in your eye.
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