The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 138 (Best of 8/10/20-8/14/20)

Episode Date: August 16, 2020

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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 infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Let's talk about important stuff uh planners marketing department is still doing that baby peanut shit uh and i think just as uh the daily zeitgeist we want to ask them to stop yeah just so that'll end just off the strength of uh this second rate

it is our official it is our official position that you should stop that shit it's weird uh and i don't like it the place of the baby the baby's 21 now okay because and they're then the baby fucking wait wait hold on the baby's voting for kanye wait now we're talking about the baby peanut from the baby peanut right and the but the last commercial ended with the old man dying and then there being the birth of a new baby peanut right and the but the last commercial ended with the old man dying and then there being the birth of a new baby peanut that was dirt that was baby was like hey it's me again because uh reincarnation is real and uh not not your uh judeo-christian conception of the afterlife is bullshit oh shit okay that's yeah that was the subtext how down or peanut sales for these motherfuckers to like like nobody asked for this right nobody asked

i just the the world of marketing is the the strangest evil most evil like just i want to be like please somebody find the footage of the pitch for this of the pitch for uh just some of these ideas are so bad any pepsi nuts though regular like i like peanuts i like almonds i like nuts they're great yeah but like i don't know who's like the consumer that they're activating cab drivers um elephant handlers uh people people people who are waiting in hospital waiting rooms bored baseball fans but yeah just like you know what that's a fucking penis i'm gonna eat these shits man yeah i'm gonna show these things in my garage yeah but i mean they're kind of they're like salty protein pellets for the capitalist yeah no i'm not saying they're bad of they're like salty protein pellets for the capitalist yeah no i'm not saying they're bad i'm just like thinking of like how like who are those like real

you know like because i feel like my grandparents had like the one wild ass like barrel of peanuts that lasted damn near my entire like educational career right like that's like a one-time handle but like it's like i feel like i who who among us are the regular purchasers who are like yes planters no matter what you have my money my support now you know what gets me though bro is the people who eat sunflower seeds like yo first of all motherfucker if you are eating sunflower seeds in public especially on public transport and i see you get up and in your seat is like a pile of sunflower seed shells bro like i'm gonna call you the fuck out that shit is human bird food you y'all need to stop

eat a fucking sandwich eat like a steak like an action or if you're you know why but i likes it's like it's like the wing the wings of seeds where it's a little more interactive you know i'm just not like going for like you know if you if you like that weak shit then eat the fucking boneless nuggets okay get your shelled sunflower seeds i'll put a little work in but the thing is i'll never eat sunflower seeds like casually like it's always on a road trip or i'm like camping or i'm like outside where i know i can just be like just like spinning them shits out everywhere but yeah i don't know i think that's like because i remember spending the longest time as a kid i used to just eat the whole shit because i didn't have the whole seed yeah that shit is still inside you right oh i don't how

did you not get ulcers man i don't know man but you know uh my shits haven't been right for at least 14 years so the whole thing with that is like i just didn't have the like the technique to shell a p you know like because you would see someone like i just didn't have the like the technique to shell a p you know like because you would see someone like an adult eat a sunflower seed like what the like put that shit in it like yeah like watch that all shelled yeah see you next year and then take off you're like whoa so it's like little specks of and i'm like i'm like still to this day like when i get frustrated i just i revert to like cave brain so like right if i'm like i remember putting curtains in i couldn't get the drill like the drill bit right i'm like fuck it i'm like

just like smashing it so like with the sunflower seeds is the same reaction i was like i'm like how do i get that shit out of my fuck it i'm eating the whole goddamn thing shit no it's a fine technique man you know you ever stub your toe on an inanimate object and then hit it and beat the shit out of it fuck you man I'm on my fourth bed this week

or I'll do the thing where I'll be like I'll stub my toe and I'll just look at it okay next time I see you it's fucking ugly bro so if I see you in these streets it's all a sight and then her majesty my partner she'll be like why is the bed frame on fire in the alley

I'm like oh no you didn't do that I think the bed found out the bed found out what fucking time it was fuck around and find out right my four year old has grown out of that phase already. Like, he used to hit things when, like, he would bang his knee on it or something, and

now he's just, like, kind of laughs it off, and I have not. We could all learn from him. I know. I have yet to grow out of that. Is he giving lessons? Does he do one-hour therapy sessions? I mean, he meditates for three hours every morning, so he's... Right.

And he's levitating and shit, too, but keepitates for three hours every morning so he's right and he's levitating his shit too but keep that yeah he's pretty good what is something you think is overrated samantha overrated um i have decided houseplants and people who are obsessed i know it's quarantine i know there's a lot of stuff that we need to do but i don't understand this need for houseplants and why you have to have a jungle in your house while you're surrounded by your sadness, your depth of darkness, and your ferns. Why do plants make you sad, Samantha?

What is going on? Maybe because, honestly, maybe because I'm really jealous and mine always die and it doesn't matter. They all die. And I'm pretty sure they're suicidal or something because I'm like they're trying to get the thigh on it's the draining bad that i learned i was not draining like half the time they're like well where's the water going i don't know let's put the water the plant and i'm like yeah people like it's just sitting there at the

bottom like it'll then it's not it's not properly it'll be over water i'm like oh shit that's why people will be watering their plants in the sink. I'm like, that's stupid. Why do you leave your plants in the sink? Yeah, so there's a lot of- Hold on one second. I need to bring my closest plant over so I can show it off to you. Do you need to hug on it?

Is he going to go and hug it? He's about to card in like an award-winning Jerusalem tulip. Yo, that's not even- That's like the garnish they put on a bouquet that you put in like a plastic pitcher from shaky's pizza no really though did you just take a stick from your yard and put it in a i know it's no shade that's your kids right your kids did that right what no this is me this is so dirty uh so dead i think this must be the remnants of, there must have been something else in here.

Oh, yeah. That's also how unobservant I am, is that that's been there for the past three weeks and I haven't done anything about it. Well, that's the thing. Maybe it's because I'm dead inside and therefore having living things around me reminds me how dead inside I am.

But yeah, I feel like that's overrated. Sam, just embrace the change, you know, because it's the failure of the plants dying that that you fear you know just embrace that just go into with some that's the thing succulents helped really restore my faith and being able to three succulents how many oh yeah i know people keep giving me plants yeah all right well why plant gang help her out i'm gonna get yelled at for this, aren't I? How'd you turn into succulents? Yeah, do you overwater them shits?

Now, this is one thing that I have to say. People who move to California start getting cocky about being able to keep plants alive and how great they are. Everywhere else in the country, plants don't grow despite themselves. In California, you like drop a seed and a plant like a tree will be there tomorrow california is just the easiest place to grow

something so i'll maybe extend the uh wow okay but wait i just saw your plant and aren't you in california what no that's uh hold on my zoom my zoom connection is dropping out. I gotta go. Indoor plants are different, okay? The indoors in California are very inhospitable to life. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, I was looking into, my kids are really into the Muppets right now. And specifically, they've been watching like

the new muppet babies and there's no muppet babies there's a new muppet babies oh you're not talking about scott gardner's tiny puppets oh i love tiny puppets no with cremits i think it's like a disney plus thing okay just a side. Dude, the Scott Gardner animation, Tiny Fuppets, is the funniest thing because it's the most blatant ripoff of Muppet Babies, but the thrust of it is that it's not a ripoff. And they fight tooth and nail. At one point, the creator of the show comes on to set the record straight.

But it's like, how could it be? This frog is called Kremit. It's really good. People need to check it out scott garner is a genius uh but so what what you were looking around at uh muppet baby stuff i was specifically looking to see if there was any kind of continuity to the muppets that would make sense because we also watched like the first muppet movie which is about how they all met when they were not babies uh when they're full full grown what fuck yeah so i was trying to reconcile that as like is there any kind of explanation so i i did google it uh this sounds like an episode of after hours by the way where you recreate the whole background um well people

have that's the thing i looked it up and they were like a lot of people have have dug deep into this like i found one there was like a really long essay on medium called the muppet babies cannot and should not be treated as muppet canon oh wow interesting i thought like the best explanation I found was someone posted on Reddit basically suggesting that the first movie and the TV show where you see the behind the scenes, that's the real Muppets. And then the movies in between and the Muppet Babies are all things that the Muppets have acted in. Right, because the Muppets get meta a lot of the time, right? Exactly, yeah. acted in right because the muppets get meta a lot of the time right like exactly yeah so so by that token like the muppet babies was like them selling out in the 80s you know right cartoon yeah i mean it makes sense like and there's so many like 80s pop culture references

throughout so it makes sense that they're just like trying to cash in on uh george lucas and steven spielberg style things yeah so it does it does make sense you know if if you do a bit of work which i did because we're in the middle of a pandemic and that's what we got to do uh what what's up with uh what's going on with nanny and the new uh muppet babies nanny is there it's the same deal you only see her legs but she's voiced by jenny slate oh wow okay so this might be a new generation of nanny maybe yeah huh uh is she still rocking these striped uh leggings she is yeah and you don't see her and you don't get any you know inkling as to why she don't use this ruin in the time it's like dude all right nanny get out bro how did you pick what did you

picture nanny looking like as a kid did you have a i was pictured like a blonde woman kind of looked a little bit like a grown-up penny from inspector gadget i think i actually it's weird i intentionally avoided trying to think of what nanny looked like because i was having trouble like i was like well if these people look like this and if they do a star wars episode and they look like this then what does this person like i don't even want to go there i would just take it as shindong the same way just like you know what whatever you're in the way because it's about the muppets and thank you nanny for everything you do but please get back to fozzie bear and you know i'm the same with podcasts's about the Muppets and thank you, Nanny for everything you do, but please get back to Fozzie bear. And you know,

I'm the same with podcasts. I don't want to know what, what you people look like. Oh yeah. No one does. And when they do for light, for listeners who have not looked us up, do not just, just keep it,

make it pleasurable for you. Just, just enjoy the voices. Cause our grizzlers. So by the tats. Yeah. By the neck tats that I bring to the table. And, you know, I kind of rushed into getting those four Audi rings as a neck tattoo, but, you know, I think it looks cool.

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That's literally what it is to make a choice between two things. Which thing is less bad? And I'm sorry, like, if you didn't understand from the last election till now that actually the two evils were pretty pretty different then i don't know what to tell you and like look no one's getting what they want it's fucking politics just be an adult right i think yeah i mean i think the i feel the criticisms are valid but i understand too like if it's there's no like point and then also also just saying like, well, I'm going to remove myself from this thing and

allow like just the fascist party to just get a full head of steam going into the next four years. I think that's like, that's, that's pretty reckless. Cause that's the, one of the only ways that we can stay of that off very narrowly in the context of this election. But also like, I think the frustration is just generally for people like to your point, the idea that no one can get what they want i think should be really upsetting to people because there are so many people seeking equality and to just have this idea that nobody's gonna get what

they want is a just such a it's a it's it's hard to like stomach that and i think that's the thing no i just mean it in a large way. Not not like we can't perfect candidate for each person. That's all I mean. I don't mean it in like, oh, no, we can't get what we want in terms of like workers rights or rights for black people. Like, of course, I think that that is non-negotiable and that we will get that. Like, I think that we tend toward progress in the long run. But if we haven't noticed how much worse things became from Trump being in office, then like, I don't know what we're doing.

And also it discounts and shits on a lot of people. Like Kamala Harris wasn't somebody that I was that interested in. You know, I don't really care if someone makes someone cry on television. Like, I like that she did that. Like, that's great that Brett Kavanaugh was crying. But I'm not going to elect somebody for that. And she's a cop, and that is my problem. And that's a lot of people's problem.

But to me... Yeah, so that's at a point where you're like, all right, end it all, just pack it up. But I didn't want to tweet any shitty and like sarcastic stuff because uh i also saw a woman post a tweet about like a 93 year old black woman that she was canvassing on the phone with um was crying when she found out that harris was the vp and she was talking about picking cotton and shit and like having the fucking wish that she could tell her grandmother that this is something that's happening. And I don't think

we should take everything away from the people to whom it means something by just being so shitty and callous. You can definitely tweet an argument and be like, this is what I don't like about this. But to do the thing where you just completely negate and shit on the entire thing, that's a disservice. The reason Republicans have fucking been able to get their agenda across, because they would rather swallow the giant shit that is Trump than abandon their party.

And it's not honorable, but that is how they've gotten more shit done. Yeah. No, for sure. I mean, the Republicans are an insurgency. They're like a smaller portion of the population. They're more willing to just all take their marching orders and get behind it,

and that is definitely an advantage that they have. It's just like anytime I get angry about this kind of shit, I'm like, okay, that's more time I need to be putting into local politics. That's more time I need to be putting into like candidates that can make a big difference in like where I live instead of hoping that everything in the world is going to get changed when I elect the president. Right.

I think you're going to find more people in line with whatever your political ideologies are, the more local you get like at the federal level like it's just it's just hard to do that so that's why you get these candidates who's like it's like the architect of mass incarceration plus california's top cop is the ticket and then but but that's just what it is because you don't get there being like super hard line with your ideals or else you typically those people fall into activism and not politics and i think that's what you're seeing now is more on

the local level people moving from different spaces into politics and i think that's why we see more of these candidates like at least from congress like from the house of representatives down you see a lot more people that are like oh shit like this is somebody who's really kind of like on that wave uh so i hope that definitely keeps going because yeah that's the trend i think that is good because i think people if the frustration isn't directed into like putting action into your local pot like local politics local government then that frustration is really useless and like that is what the other quote-unquote side wants like it'd be great for fascists if we stopped engaging in the election process yeah and everything right uh and finally sam what is a myth what's something people think is true

you know to be false or vice versa see this is what i've been thinking on this because uh last time i came in i wasn't quite prepared uh but i think one of the things that again god i'm such a sad sack i'm just i'm just always a sad sack uh that the whole idea that if you have the means that adoption is a great answer for you and it should be a family who adopts a kid and i think that's a complete myth and not adoption is not for you and it should be a family who adopts a kid and i think that's a complete myth and not adoption is not for everyone and especially adoption is not necessarily for rich people so stop it stop it all right and also the term rehoming for young children is awful right awful just want to go with that but i've been thinking on this quite a bit i don't i guess you can tell

because we've been talking a little bit about adoption and that's been in our episodes on my podcast, but I'm like, hmm, I think we just need to go ahead and let people know, please stop talking about loving Jesus and how you're going to save these kids. Just stop it. Just stop it. Oh, interesting. Okay. So, because I'm completely ignorant to the adoption scene, the game, what that's like. I mean, the last few stories I've read have been in relation to like really awful stories to your point of people would like, we have these big hearts. And yes, this child may be a murderer from Ukraine.

I don't know. And I will say that when I abandon them to justify this. But like, so, I mean, like, educate me because I'm completely ignorant to the myth you're even sort of dispelling. Right. So this whole idea that the reason, well, as you know, it's still a big topic about religious rights and organizations, foster care organizations and adoption agencies being able

to deny LGBTQ plus couples from adopting, saying that to truly have a good family and upbringing, it needs to be a nuclear family essentially a christian family male woman you know having that and having the means and that's that's it that's kind of the whole that's all you can do that and you can pay the you know thirty thousand dollars to bring a child over go for it i mean just like anecdotally i'm like my friends with the gay parents is doing way better than the nuclear families. So well adjusted. Right? So, yeah. That's the conversation that I've had with many people that, honestly, the LGBTQ+, because

they understand trauma, they are probably a little more, and this is not necessarily researched. This is not something that I have looked into. But as a social worker that's been in that industry, they're probably more able to handle trauma as versus to a family who wants the perfect looking family. And I know the YouTube couple, the stuffers, I don't know if you know any about this, adopted a kid, an autistic kid from China. I want to say China. I'll have to go back and look at that. And realize, oh my God, it's hard. It's hard having an adopted child from a different country who also has autism.

And it's not necessarily difficult because he is difficult, but because they don't understand how to handle or cope. And so they made a lot of money, a lot of money through their YouTube channel with talking about how philanthropic this was and how amazing of a couple they are and doing all of these things for this kid. And then he just disappeared. And everybody was like, what happened to this child? And by the way, they had their own biological children as well.

And everybody kept asking, where is this kid? Where has the kid gone to? And they came back with a statement. We had to re-home Huxley was his name. Oh, re-home. We had to re-home Huxley because we name. Oh, re-home. We had to re-home Huxley because we were not able to deal with his issues. And it became a huge thing.

They called it issues? Yeah. They were like, we had an early atypical child that we were wholly unprepared, like because of him, you know, we didn't know what the fuck was going on with that. So, you know, we had to re-home.

It's just very selfish. It is such a whole big thing. They made a lot of money. They made a lot of money. They made a lot of sponsorships. And then they had to come back with that. Yeah. So as of June, they were investigated. And finally, I think people have forgotten about it, essentially.

Because the truth of the matter is, when it comes down to adoption, which is really gross, I honestly discourage a lot of people. I, as an adopted child, of course, am very grateful, but also can tell you the struggles that I've had to deal with growing up. And even now as an adult, trying to struggle through some of my identity stuff and what it feels like as an interracial family. And I say interracial, I'm the different race of the rest of my family. And what that looks like, especially today, and the idea of I grew up in a southern home with a white family so go from there um but what it looks like when you really need to look at the fact that this is not going to be a hallmark story uh this child's going to be grateful to you and you understand what comes along with it right so it's a it's a thing and i'm actually very discouraging to people

that i'm like you really need to understand these are the things that's going to happen to you. And that's the best case scenario. They're like, but I was just watching This Is Us. And, you know, I found a wayward teenager. And we just cried and hugged each other and we're okay now. And it was weird. Yeah, at first they were breaking shit. I feel like also something like that.

And it's that buildup of the white savior. And you're like, no, this is why this is so wrong. It's just enough to have a big house and you're good. And two people as a couple. Great. Right. Yeah. Heterosexual couple.

Yeah. The means argument that people have, though, is really like, it's something. Because again, some of the most fucked up people I know come from means. You know what I mean? Because the philosophy of the parents was, man, the fuck you need, man? I got all this money and shit. What you hungry here? Here's like 300 bucks.

I'll be back on Sunday night. And it's like Friday morning. You know what I mean? And it's just like and then we will go there and party because it's like, the parents love like you know all this cash like we can just order pizza all day there's no parents here smoking my weed right and then they're missing you know that real like parental upbringing that they miss and then i realized through my therapy that i was actually ending i was raising some of these kids right some of my relationships ended up being me raising some of these kids because the parents were like hey man you're the smart kid like help him out

and I take that on literally and then I'm like holy shit man like the dad made me raise his son the fuck and that kid ends up in your phone as spider muffins or mushroom or sigh dad's disappointed

that's too rough just on I, dad's disappointed. That's too real. Just on election, like prognosticating, there's like 538 open their pick and they have Biden winning at the exact same percentage that Clinton, they had Clinton winning on the night before the 2016. 71%, which if you have a free throw shooter going to the line at the end of the game shooting 71%, you feel like shit.

No, you want Mark Price pulling up to the free throw line. Right, you want 90s, and that's just not going to happen. Who was the best free throw shooter back then? Back then, probably Price. Okay. Yeah. I mean, Steve Nash was one of the greats. Curry, I think, is the best of all time.

You know that thing about free throws that's fascinating is that it's a lot more accurate if you do it with two hands from between your legs. But because it doesn't look masculine, basketball players won't do it. Right. Isn't it like the record holders that had to do it, because we even call it

grand style. Exactly. It's to be like... Look at us. Problematic. You know what I mean? Shooting better is gross. It's women's work, not just women's work. Old women's work. We need someone to fully disrupt the game with like, yo, that shooting technique is fucked up, but

they cannot miss. And it's all the rage. I mean, that's what happened if he was brave enough this would be his next thing Rick Barry shot from between his legs granny style 89.3 percent career free throw shooting topped

out at 94.7 in the 78 79 season he got Wilt Chamberlain to start shooting that way between his legs. For one season, his free throw shooting percentage went up 30 percentage points.

He became a solid free throw shooter, which made him the most unstoppable person in the history of basketball. Then, yeah, he thought he looked whack, so he changed back to shooting horribly. And he's like, and I have sex 900 times a day. I mean, that was compensating for the free throw.

I was just going to say that. Oh, they won't talk shit about my free throws. Why? I'm like, quick, suck my dick. Quick. Validate me. All right. We're just talking about the election. Damn. validate me um all right just talking about the election damn

yeah we needed a break wow look at us look at us 71% there's also the guy who I was feeling like I'm just trying to you know this is not stuff that I put any stock in this is just a temporary

uh way for me to get to sleep at night because i don't drink anymore uh the like looking at these polls and being like okay well maybe like biden will win uh there's also the guy who who's predicted every single presidential election from 81 when he started putting this thing together forward, he's correctly predicted them all, including Trump winning. He has Biden winning. But then when you look at his methodology, it's like based on him saying that Trump isn't charismatic, which is like a totally subjective distinction. And I don't know. This is the thing. You got to vote, man.

That's all we can keep saying in regards to this election specifically. That's all you have to act like the guy is trying to steal the election, which he is. So therefore, please act accordingly.

As we get closer and closer, see what else has to be done yeah all right guys let's take one more break and we'll be right back 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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So my brother and I have been looking at new cars a lot lately. And we always believed that if you got a red car, that your insurance would go up and you're more likely to be pulled over. Nah, that's a myth. That's not a real thing. Apparently, white cars get pulled over the most, which I was like, why? We don't know why. That just happens. But get a red car and enjoy your life is what i'm saying wow i had no idea i definitely had heard that before i also heard red cars just actually go faster is that true scientifically scientifically always yeah it's just like the fire trucks any any red vehicle

is going at least 20 miles over the speed limit the one i remember of that one was that like red cars got in more accidents huh oh i doubt that's true too and so that was like a thing where people talk about it and i think people just were like well it's associated with more reckless behavior uh but i don't know they're they're this is like this is like that shit that like people talk about in the early 90s and like ends up being like an accepted fact for like 30 years and they're like we should have looked it up we should have just looked that one up google camera sounds like big white car paint is behind this one big white or the man yeah uh and zygang if you work for Dr. Pepper,

we also want to know what's going on with y'all. It is actually hard to find. I had trouble. I went to a 7-Eleven, and Dr. Pepper is like one of the... I actually like Dr. Pepper in context. It all started when I started having Montreal smoked meat that a Zygang member gave me outside of the show uh and i started sipping it with that and they don't have

it well you normally it's a cherry cola i was i was looking up like how you respect the montreal smoked meat sandwich it's really supposed to be a cherry coke or like a janky cheap cherry soda uh but so i like i've been i've been getting into my dr pepper that's like my one little uh like soda indulgence that i do uh and i was surprised i getting into my dr pepper that's like my one little uh like soda indulgence that i do uh and i was surprised i was the guy was saying it's like oh yeah like it comes in and out he's like they're having problems and i was like sure maybe like 7-eleven's having problems but then there was like this tweet of dr pepper being like look we get it man we're going through some shit right now it's probably because dr pepper is trying to work on a vaccine yeah

yes yes so the thing that they have it says having trouble finding your favorite dr pepper product we're doing everything we can to get it back into your hands that means working with our distribution partners to keep shelves stocked nationwide while ensuring the safety of our employees we appreciate your patience and encourage you to contact your local retailer directly for the most up-to-date availability of Dr. Pepper products. They won't give a comment on this either. To elaborate. Dr. Pepper is like a huge cult thing. I didn't realize that, but there's all these famous people who would just only drink... I think John Lennon would only drink Dr. Pepper. Forrest Gump.

Yeah, Forrest Gump liked him some Dr. Pepper. Hillary Clinton, big Dr. Pepper head. Dr. J. I don't know if that's true. Anthony Kiedis. Uh-huh. Okay. I see what you're doing.

Isn't Sergeant Pepper's idea was from dr pepper is that true no come on man we're riffing here baby wait sergeant uh no but john lennon really liked dr pepper yeah he apparently really loved dr pepper but i i love that idea that that's kind of the first time i had heard that of like a food that people are like okay you need to pair this with a diet mountain dew or like something like you know a soft drink pairing like you always hear about it in wines but that's dope i do i do like have very specific sodas for specific occasions. I do like a cherry Coke

when I'm at the movie theater. Oh my God, man! With the popcorn. So good. You too? Oh yeah, you know it. Oh, wow. Honey, this one's eating my popcorn.

Men in black joke. Yeah, yeah. Which isn't a joke. It's just a weird punchline. that i'll take yeah you don't know what it what the setup was are you a dr pepper clan jam uh i've had it i like it i i you know i'm not a big fan no i wouldn't i wouldn't know i wouldn't know what to pair it with i feel too intimidated right exactly and you know you go to the fancy restaurant like the waiter like tastes the dr pepper for you right well if you're having game i suggest dr pepper

as somebody who doesn't drink though it is real like you feel uh less than when they're like oh well this pair you know my wife yeah they talk about pairings for my wife and i'm like i'll have a diet coke yeah can i get one of them dc's man yeah could you make it extra cold i like it with the this is a this is a south vide pheasant uh will that pair good with tab i'll have that that sounds good that would be dope if if waiters were like oh you know what's really good with this oh non-alcohol coke heavy yeah right exactly jolt yeah we need a better name for like a more adult sounding name for soft drink remember when like when harry potter was popular and they made like more adult covers so people didn't feel stupid reading it if they were adults on the subway that's what they we needed a soft drink that sounds like a more grown-up thing that you can order at a restaurant.

I think soft drink is fine. But how are you going to get more professional and adult than a Dr. Jam? President Pepper? Professor. Professor Pepper. Just Pepper MD. Let's get Dr. Pepper tenure and we'll talk. We need to find out his first name,

and then we'll just call him Reginald Pepper, MD, or something. His full name is Dean Cain Pepper. JM, what is something you think is overrated? For overrated, I put down Kevin Costner. Overrated? Sorry. Overrated. I thought you said Kevin Costner was overrated.

Did you think I said underrated? No, no. Kevin Costner, the actor, is underrated. Sorry. Overrated. I thought you said Kevin Costner was overrated. Did you think I said underrated? No, no. Kevin Costner, the actor, is underrated, right? Well, think about it. You said it's overrated? There's a lot of good Kevin Costner movies. This episode is over, J.M. No, I'm just joking. Go ahead. There's a lot of good Kevin Costner movies. I'm not going to say that Kevin Costner movies are bad. I love a lot of Kevin kevin costner movies i'm not gonna say that kevin costner movies are bad i love a lot of kevin costner movies but i struggle to think of like a kevin costner movie where he was forced to emote or do anything other than maybe throw on a pair of glasses and like like furrow his brow yeah like he's not a good actor he's and i think he just he just kind of got great like he's on a show now that's super popular i don't want to do this right now i don't want to do oh is he what's

the show yellowstone and it's fucking bro it's the number one fucking drama on cable man yeah it's got lost in it i think movie star and actor are two completely separate uh like skill sets i think he is a great movie star he's the best example of somebody who has all of one and none of the other like he right is not an actor in the least bit he just knows exactly like where to be and how to look and everything and like that's that's why there's like these really handsome dudes who become good directors because they become movie stars without being really good actors at all they just like know everything like they're just aware of everything like what like like uh you know the the kind of dude that like women just loved back then like he just had that vibe of like

that's what the star is and then he just had to merely appear in like the context of being like star guy and it was like good enough man robin hood don't care if you can't act great bodyguard sure does he have like a suit on and he'll just like get do scary stuff great i mean i did like wyatt erp but i don't know if i liked him in it this is what i'm saying yeah oh you know what though i can't water world i don't know if I liked him in it. This is what I'm saying. Oh, you know what though? Waterworld, don't even talk about it. Waterworld is untouchable, fantastic. He spoke Portugreek in it. That was some range.

And he had gills. Thank you. Rest in my case. But I still think like Waterworld, he could have been bonked on the head as an Iowa farmer and woken up in Waterworld. No, but it's more than that. It's more than that.

It's more than that. Wait, I'm sorry. Do you know Iowa farmers who have gills behind their ears, Jan? No, I'm saying if all of Waterworld was a dream sequence that the guy in Field of Dreams was having, it would make as much sense in terms of the performance. But he acted the hell out of those ear gills, bro.

Oh, yeah. I mean, you could tell he had ear gills from the start. I feel bad. He did convincingly trick his own pee. That was it. But he converted it to potable water. But yeah, he really does. He has no...

I remember as a kid seeing him win best director and best picture for D with wolves and i got angry and i was seven and i don't know why i was like man fuck this guy i don't know why i have no fucking idea why but i i have a very visceral like this very strong memory of watching that happen and being like really dissatisfied with it. A lot of those handsome dudes who become really good directors make movies that don't really hold up. And I feel like Costner, Ben Affleck, some of those, Mel Gibson.

When you go back and watch Braveheart, it's pretty rough going a lot of the time. It was up against Godfather 3 and it beat Godfather 3. You beat Francis Ford. Have you seen Godfather 3? Yes, dude. That shit's the sickest one. And to see Kevin Costner win over Godfather fucking 3, that's horse shit

and y'all know it. That's the sickest one is my favorite. It's not the best one, but it's so tight. That helicopter scene is so sick. That's great. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.

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