The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 142 (Best of 9/8/20-9/11/20)

Episode Date: September 13, 2020

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Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together one non-stop infotainment laugh extravaganza uh yeah so without further ado here is the weekly zeitgeist miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious the talented matt lee what up so glad to be here just glad to have you oh it just you know and on such a beautiful day a beautiful september 11th day you know the smoke in the air it's gray smoke is still in the air is the word pronounced acrid a cred it's acrid yeah okay i was thinking of this because i said it i think out loud on a

show and someone's like i think he's saying it wrong i realize how many like mispronunciations i got from teachers in elementary school like oh yeah vocab test being like and this is a cred okay you go around saying this someone's like what the fuck do you say i'm like shut up miss lau wasn't lying well elementary school teachers are are definitely the least the least smart teacher that's why that's why they go into elementary school that's not to say that they're not great teachers i mean but i like i went to school uh for just a hot second to get a multiple subject teaching credential so i could teach elementary school because i'm stupid as

shit and i did not want to like be challenged by like some really smart middle schooler or high schooler so i was like i'll go to elementary school and i you know i'll be the smartest person probably you know on campus like everyone will be like damn he's so smart you can smell he can he can spell all of the numbers you know yeah like but yeah this is my president g in it exactly they don't know that what is something from your search history uh if i'm you guys want honesty it's 2020. I think the age of Aquarius. We're entering it or it's just around the corner. My search history, honestly, it's not even such a search as it is me just going straight to the bar

and typing in tubepornstars.com if I'm honest. Tube porn stars? What's that? Tube porn stars. Just a porn site. Why that one? That seems very obscure. You know what?

Is there something different about it? Here's what makes me... Here's where I... Kind of off-brand porn guy. Where my brain goes, look, I need off-brand. I need people you haven't heard of. I need people you haven't seen on Entourage. I need people you haven't heard of.

I need people you haven't seen on Entourage. I don't know, because I started thinking, why do I go to that site? And I realized it. Have you ever talked to friends who go, hey, what porn sites do you go to? Maybe you guys are like, look, we don't talk about porn this in depth. Jack barred me from talking to him about it. Because I get way too in depth. I'm into it. So I say, what porn sites you go to looking for for different porn sites and honestly to see how they're laid out i love good web design um and so yeah i don't know why someone

threw that one at me and i and i went to it and it just seems like it's you know really compact and organized like the ui the ui is great yeah great ux ui design i mean yeah yeah yeah a lot of times they'll just throw a bunch of things at you so many thumbnails but uh but outside of that boringness a genuine search history is uh like camping gear because my family was intending to go camping so that's not as fun that's that's been like the one thing though that has been on fire in terms of sales is outdoor whoa yeah and literally on fire literally yeah yeah the outdoors but yeah it's like i know so many people have bought bought tents and shit that they don't they aren't gonna use but bought them like early on be like yeah you know what like maybe more of an outdoor lifestyle is what i need and then it's's in the box still. We bought so much.

We were supposed to go this weekend. We bought so much. We set it all up. We made sure everything worked. And then we got an email that we can't go to the campsite. So we've bagged it. And we're just going to have it. But the great thing about camping equipment

is that you kind of can just use that equipment forever. Because that's the one industry where they're like, oh, you don't have the latest thing? You've never needed the latest thing right in camping you can do whatever gets you by i have a sleeping bag i have a sleeping bag that i use from 1995 and it's just as bad it's just yeah i've had it since i was a fucking child and i've just never been able to like bring myself to buy a sleeping bag like i've gone camping, too, and they're like, it's cold. And I'm like, I'm pretty sure my Camp 5 Sports Chalet brand igloo, whatever the fuck, is fine for Northern California. It wasn't.

But you know what? That's why I wore a full fucking sweatsuit in it, and I was okay. But yeah, when you look at the price of shit, you're like, nah, I'm fine. Got myself in towels. Danielle, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? rice and shit. You're like, nah, I'm fine. Right. Myself in towels. Uh, Danielle, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I looked up blue chew.

Um, blue chew is a, it is a, a dick pill product for, uh, for keeping, keeping your dick hard. And they advertise on a lot of wrestling programs,

like a lot of wrestling podcasts. And I have a friend who told me the story about how one night he took some blue chew. And it is a delightful story. It is not mine. I hope to get him on my wrestling podcast to talk about it. But yeah, a friend of mine took some blue chew. And so I looked up exactly what blue chew is and how blue chew works and i'm still not sure but uh according according to jim ross uh it'll

make your dick so hard like a cat could scratch it so that's so hard like a cat could scratch it like one of those cat posts yeah yeah now i got it in my head as someone with many cat scratch posts around my home the implications of that are devastating um it's incredibly upsetting uh wrestlers have very lively very lively uh talk but yeah if you listen to in particular the Jim Ross podcast he will talk for too many minutes about what Blue Chew has done for him and his dick and too many

minutes is one minute is too many but he will go in for like five minutes just talking about how great Blue Chew is so that he can sex ladies yeah cool uh is is it chew like uh gum chew like a soft chewable thing or chew like just chewable in the like flintstones vitamin sense do we know um let's find out i believe um oh gosh now i'm on their official site they should

just pay me i'm like maybe there's some listeners that are like no hold on did someone say a cat could scratch it yeah did you just say a cat could i believe it's oh it looks like it almost looks like smarties okay it almost looks like a smarty yeah interesting interesting so I wonder what they're getting some for my family yeah of course you need to uh that's yeah I'm curious what it what it tastes like is it flavored like blue raspberry are we thinking yeah it's interesting we'll have to uh taste test some blue chew at some point yeah you should absolutely do that on the air and then stay on air for however long it takes for yeah to not be in your system anymore yeah it's like that radio broadcast where they had a water chugging

contest and someone died it was the week for a week. Yes, yes, yes. Oh, that's... You know, the things people do for content. Radio is scary. Radio kills people a lot, I feel like. Radio is very scary, yeah. Because it's like unregulated to a large degree. Kind of miss it. What's a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false or vice versa you know i've i don't know if people still ascribe to the myth that if you eat before swimming like you'll get cramps or something like that just having this conversation over the weekend i don't i don't know if that myth is really well personally i know that it's not true because i've done it but right i think it's a myth that might still it might still it might still persist out there i mean it's an old school myth like i think it's probably put out there by big pool like you know i think we were we were talking about this jack didn't we say it was basically big mom was trying to big mom big adults yeah because it'd be like yo come on

chill the fuck out for like 30 minutes before i have to watch you drown in the pool like fucking wait exactly i think that's what it was because the one scientific thing was that just sort of the the digestive process would draw more blood to your stomach and like intestines and then that may cause someone to be lightheaded but like in no way saying that it is a danger to get in there. We don't make kids stand still after they eat for like a half hour. It's all big old guy swimming laps in the pool during adult swimming. Oh, yeah, like an uncle just being like, no, 30 minutes. I'm trying to see how long I can go without taking a breath, kids.

Last time I did two lengths, but you must wait 30 minutes. What is a myth, finally? What is something people think is true, you know, to be false or vice versa? I don't know if I've used this one before, too, but it always comes up that the people that you see online that are like often retweeted or the people that you see on YouTube or the people that you hear on podcasts have money. Yeah. I was once at the train station, a train station in LA, and there was a security guard there. And he recognized me from my work on like Scream Junkies and whatever. And he was like, well, what are you doing riding the train? I was like, well, I ride, I take the train. Right. And then, which is like not really a thing. Moving from one place to another? right and then which is like moving from one place to another yeah just going from one place to another place and um craziness and uh and which to be fair train culture like it's not the same as

it is in a chicago or in a um or in a uh new york or even in san francisco but he was like oh i would have thought that you would like i just assumed that you would be driving like a fancy car and i was like i don't we're not all PewDiePie, my dude. Most of us are very happy that we can cobble together one of 10 jobs to make one rent. That's like a, it's so interesting. I feel like that conversation has been going on for a long time, but it just never quite catches on that. It's like, there are so many different versions of like being a podcaster or even just like making stuff that mostly lives online where i forget when this was like maybe

five or six years ago there was um someone who worked i believe for buzzfeed there was like a wave of employees who had to get who were like really you know internet famous on buzzfeed but then had to have like second jobs and people were giving them shit for it when it's like they're like you're famous why why are you working at a restaurant it's like why would you be consider where this blame should be you know levied but just i don't know yeah that conversation has been so imperfect. It's like, Oh, that's crazy. So you are responsible for all of this content that people really love. And yet the money's not coming down to you. What an interesting conversation to have. You know what I mean?

But then, but then it winds up being, no, you're a loser. And that's why you have to work at Trader Joe's instead of being like, how come they take your stuff and then give you like 50 bucks per appearance you know what i mean right i don't know i don't know what buzzfeed yeah i blame you i don't know what buzzfeed is is charging or what's going on and granted this whole industry is dying it's very exciting as far as like the internet as far as like the being on youtube and talking about stuff stuff um i know a lot of people will ask like hey like i want to do what you do and it's like oh what i do isn't going to be around in two

years you got to find something else right yeah that door is closing quickly yeah you're like no no you don't understand i got in just in time no i did i always say like i try to keep that ladder down but the industry has pulled that ladder up behind me i am the last one to get in and be like you can make money just fucking cracking jokes about movies like it was it i i was the last one and i apologize it's like that scene in titanic where there's like the guy slipping under the watertight door that's us sorry slipping under the watertight door. That's us.

Sorry. Sorry, everybody else. You know, it's not worth it. It's fine. Just go on TikTok. Make a new dance. We'll be fine. I promise not to go on TikTok.

Don't do the Benadryl challenge. Oh, God. Are people still doing the benadryl challenge oh god are people still doing the benadryl challenge a child died from the benadryl challenge on from tiktok i don't know how like maybe she saw it on tiktok maybe it's you know so a lot of times whatever the latest technology buzzword is will get blamed for uh things that were happening anyways but so maybe it's just the benadryl challenge has been a thing and benadryl abuse has been a thing and somebody saw it on tiktok and is blaming tiktok but her aunt and uncle uh who i always got to trust an aunt and uncle uh are saying that it was a t-based Benadryl challenge.

What is the Benadryl challenge? That is very upsetting. Because diphenhydramine for me is just like, I can't sleep, I have anxiety, and it's a chemical cousin of a lot of anxiety meds. Right. So do you just take a crap ton of Benadryl? I think that's it.

And then see how long you can stay awake. All right, guys, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do.

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They're just dreams. Dream Sequence is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse Television, iHeartRadio, and Realm. Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds. Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised 150 grand in prizes to four finalists.

But the prizes disappeared. And what started as a video game promotion became one of the most controversial moments in 80s pop culture. I just don't believe they exist. My reaction, shock and awe. That sword was amazing. It was so beautiful. I'm Jamie Loftus. Join me this spring for The Legend of Sword Quest,

a podcast about the fall of Atari and the disappearing Sword Quest prizes. We'll follow the quest for lost treasure across four decades. It's almost like a metaphor for the industry and Atari itself in a way. Listen to The Legend of Sword Quest on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks.

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like how he was homies with like bob dylan and the allman brothers the whole time and people were just constantly like rolling through and playing like live shows on the white house lawn and it was apparently just a very fun time was jimmy carter secretly a really rad president and we just don't hear about it because he was like you know uh only a one-term and president and relatively ineffective yeah i think basically he was he was secretly like did the least evil, was not like about it when it came to like starting wars indiscriminately. Yeah. And he just kind of hit at the wrong time as the country was shifting towards fascism. He was like he was he was too soft for his time.

Yeah. Too cool for his time. Let's put it that way. I mean, he threw up the first solar panels on the White House. did uh reagan took them shits right off yeah boy oh my god so one one myth uh or kind of urban legend that i've been hearing for years was that willie nelson once smoked a joint on top of the white house while he was visiting the white house which seems like okay i could see it maybe like happening at a party like he just like snuck away so there's this new documentary about him being like this thoroughly like christian religious like i

think he was a teetotaler like didn't drink even though his brother was a public alcoholic like like a like they would book him as like a drunk funny person to have on various radio shows or various uh late night tv shows and he would just like show up drunk uh during jimmy carter's presidency and then eventually was like oh i'm an alcoholic. This isn't funny. So in this new documentary about his presidency, Carter explains that Willie Nelson says that his companion that shared the pot with him was one of the servants at the White House. That is not exactly true. It was actually one of my sons. Oh, hell yeah that rules and so uh the documentarian

finds chip carter jimmy carter's son at the time who was just like a teenager who like had good taste in music it was like this fucking rules man like dylan's always hanging out like one of the one of the allman brothers like had dinner with them and then like played a concert for like three people uh in the white house like so anyways he was listening in as willie nelson was doing a show like for people in the white house and then this is what he says the The date was September 13th, 1980. So Sunday will be the 40 year anniversary. Carter was in the thick of his reelection campaign against Ronald Reagan.

That didn't go well in Iran. 52 American hostages had endured more than a year of captivity. Nelson was in the middle of a set at the White House, recalls Chip. In the break, I said, let's go upstairs. We just kept going up till we got to the roof where we leaned against the flagpole at the White House, recalls Chip. In the break, I said, let's go upstairs. We just kept going up till we got to the roof where we leaned against the flagpole at the top of the place and lit one up. If you know Washington, the White House is the hub of the spokes, the way it was designed. Most of the avenues run into the White House. You could sit up and could see all the traffic coming right at you. It was a nice place up there.

So yeah, they just turned the roof of the White House into a fun place to get high. And now Don Jr. just does his coke farts up there. Oh my God, man. Don, if you're going to keep farting, man, you got to take that upstairs, man. That's so rad, man. I feel like there should be a book called We Were Four Years in Power by Tommy Chom.

I feel like there should be a book called We Were Four Years in Power by Tommy Chom. Right. For four years, dude, the White House fucking ruled. It's fucking red, man. Gravity bong rips in the Lincoln bedroom. Exactly. Sick. I mean, the people that played.

Yeah. This is like, man, Charles Mingus. I'm already like, okay, you got some good jazz vibes with the Staples singers, Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan, Loretta Lynn, Sarah Vaughn, Cecil Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Cher. I like the line, Crosby, Stills, and Nash once dropped by the place unannounced. It was like that where fucking David Crosby's ass was like, Hey, man. Hey, is Carter here? like that where fucking david crosby's ass was like hey man hey is carter here

no he's dealing with the iran hostage situation all right they said carter made time for them he was like i'll call you back i told i'll call you back he's like i told homani i really respect you just one second okay just six minutes okay minutes. Okay guys, three, four. It's getting to the point. It's like, what the fuck? His house in Georgia had the most expensive sound system, uh, of like back when that was like a thing.

I mean, it's still a thing, but like the, the way they describe it is pretty funny. Cause it's all like, you know, wired and old school shit, but they

uh he really focused on the sound system he yeah he was an audiophile man yeah for him he would have been criticizing the sound quality of podcasts today if you were a younger person that's why he doesn't listen to him i think he gave that quote he's like it just it's missing something is what he says yeah if it was on vinyl i'd listen to podcasts if they were on vinyl yeah the first hipster president that fucking rules there's also a way to view it as like he was kind of a byway between the radicalism of the 60s and early 70s and the yuppieism of the 80s since it was like during Nixon and Ford the power was against

the people and then he turned the White House into what the article calls a people's park but that ends up being the strategy capitalism uses to infiltrate is just kind of co-op yeah exactly

like becoming part of the thing bill clinton plays the saxophone and then passes like a monstrous crime bill right meaningless like you know you get meaningless culture points uh without uh any substantial material change to people's lives yeah that's why i like any good american i try not to look too deep into anything presidents do because it looks like it's all just a big bummer okay it is it is definitely electoral politics is a big bummer dude it's big but i will say hey at least uh carter didn't sign a crime bill. You know what I mean? Like not doing terrible shit at this point, I consider to be almost like, it's not just a win.

Like that's what angels do. Angels go into power and then they just don't do anything bad. And I'm like, you deserve to get a sainthood for this. Yeah. Don't indiscriminately kill people. How does he do it?

Well, guys, I want to take you inside the home, one of the many homes of Ellen DeGeneres. So this person who used to be on our staff, who is remaining anonymous because they don't want to be sued. Because her life could be in danger. Right. anonymous because they don't want to because her life could be in danger right so i'll just read from you the this interview they did with the daily mail who you know we've not the greatest source but uh still still interesting daily fail they said ellen was a hero of mine i thought she

was an amazing person but before i took the, people were warning me not to take it. I was told she had very high turnover and that I should stay under the radar as much as possible, avoid as much direct contact with Ellen as possible. Working there was described as being more like a boot camp. So that's what she hears heading in. I do love that turnover, like that we talk about like a toxic work environment, the result of a toxic work environment and people quitting all the time. Sounds like just a fun pastry. Then she says, when I interviewed with Ellen and Portia, I felt much better about the job. They were both charming, funny and perfectly lovely. I was a little bit nervous, but it was well paid.

So that's, you know So that's not surprising. We have seen that side of Ellen for her entire public career. The harsh reality of the, quote, degenerate regime soon became clear after she started. The staff is confronted each morning with a laundry list of passive aggressive notes listing what the entertainer didn't like about the previous day. Oh, no. The thing that I'm most struck by in this interview is the level of energy that has to be expended by Ellen to put this much negativity out there.

So violations included a chef using a guest toilet, so basically the help, a maid forgetting to put a piece of trash in the recycling. Ellen is terribly obsessive, and if anything's out of order in her environment, she gets upset. There might be 20 to 30 things every day. We're talking about the finest,

finest details here, a salt shaker out of place or a light switch left on, uh, a salt shaker out of place really is giving me a misery like Kathy Bates and misery vibes where it's just like that thing is slightly tilted to the wrong in the wrong direction. What part of that? I just remember how she just messed up james khan's legs because i think i saw like when i was way too young i think i saw when i was like five like in the 80s and i was like i don't know about this y'all was there

a moment was that like when he's trying to escape or some shit i think when he's trying to escape he knocks over a chess piece uh and then puts it back but he puts it back the wrong way the wrong direction i love that shit and that's what gets his uh legs that's my favorite villain thing of like when the person thinks they're smart but they have every detail like pre-wrapped out they're like that that labels slightly askew yeah um The staff was getting better and better and making fewer mistakes, but she couldn't help herself, so she would lay traps.

She would actually leave matchsticks around the house, behind cupboard doors, cushions, or books, to see if the staff was cleaning and moving things. One day, the staff found around eight of them all in weird places. The rest of the day became a race to find them all before she got home and fired someone. Oh, my God. around eight of them all in weird places the rest of the day became a race to find them all before she got home and fired someone oh my god jesus that's really fucking just it's like shows that

you have such a fucked up relationship with people who are in your employ you know or like that you're like well if i pay you i can i can do whatever the fuck i want because i'm giving you money and that means psychological trauma through these matchstick fucking traps i mean you've got her staff at work saying these same kind of having her having these same kind of control issues and now it's at home too like what was this thing about the porsche twice if you need us to get out yeah right oh i think she fired people for not liking the consistency of the latte foam the um because the machine was dirty or some shit yeah she wanted the coffee maker deep cleaned every day after complaining that there was too much or too little froth on her latte um which doesn't really relate like those things don't relate that's the milk steamer ellen uh also yo your barista's lying to you yeah like what you have some assistant or pa do that

at work or something that just shows you how disconnected she is from the latte making process that her staff lies to her like oh yeah okay we'll deep we'll deep clean the coffee machine then yes then you should deep clean every time the latte foam was a mess and it's like i don't even know how that fucking latte foam's made when someone came to the house for example to repair an appliance she wouldn't hold back it could be something as simple as the compressor on the refrigerator making too much noise that is that's a detail that i'm just like okay this person's telling the truth because like you can't make that up that's absolutely like there's something that just rings so true about that she's like the compressor one of the top security firms in

hollywood terminated their contract with her some of the criticisms that this source heard were that ellen didn't like the way they walked i'm not even kidding they literally didn't like the way they walked she literally didn't like the way they walked also how they opened and closed doors what like opening closing i get because that's like a thing i grew up my grandma don't slam that fucking door or something like too loud with that door closing but opening like stomp around the house or anything yeah exactly making too but what are people entering like fucking kramer and seinfeld like that's how they're right like this is all stuff that i have seen like people who are really on bad terms with their roommate like i've heard them like start to complain like call them like

this person's like a thunderfoot they everywhere they they just like stomp around and it's like you know that's clearly because you're just like annoyed by this person that's not they don't have especially uh large powerful footfalls like they're just um what one detail from the article that i wanted to point out though is that ashton kutcher is apparently one of the people who has tweeted in her defense. She and her team have only treated me and my team with respect and kindness. She never pandered to celebrity, which I always saw as refreshing honesty. I just wanted to note that via listening to way too many hours of podcasts, I heard an anecdote about Ashton Kutcher from somebody who is like a successful writer director in hollywood but one of their early jobs was working for ashton kutcher's um

viral video site uh they they made that uh viral video in which the girl has diarrhea in the hot tub um that is a staged prank video made by ashton kutcher's team uh but anyways this writer director got fired by ashton kutcher's like main right hand person and asked why he had been fired and the entourage member said uh ashton hates your face bro oh that's right ashton kutcher did create Punk'd. I forgot about that. Yeah. Wow. Oh, and then super producer Anna Hosni in the chat says,

Ashton Kutcher also told Demi Moore that he didn't think alcoholism is a thing in order to get her to lose her sobriety and drink with them. That's right. I remember you talking about that in that book. Wow. So, you know, I think that's the thing. Like, when you're living on that planet, it's hard for you to see that it's any different than how you are. You're like, I don't know. Like, from all the rich people I know, like, that's the thing. Like when you're living on that planet, it's hard for you to see that it's any different than how you are.

You're like, I don't know. Like from all the rich people I know, like I was pretty chill. I don't pay it to celebrities. I mean, I'm a celebrity. I don't know anybody with an income that's less than four million dollars a year, but I'd imagine she would treat those people OK as well. Yeah, totally. Yeah, totally. Anyways, like, these details are just, like, I don't have any, like, not that I really doubted the complaints before, but these details are just, like, too, like, dead on for me to, like, think that any of this is made up. I would love, though, that this is just, like, the best coordinated smear campaign best coordinated smear like everyone's like yo these details are just too good to be fake and she's

like i'm telling you i'm kind it's a coordinated attack against me i'm just curious about the psychology where you get that i what is it because she's so rich that she feels omnipotent and therefore everything should be in her control or is it that like is it from lack prior to this that now the pendulum's just gone completely the other way and knocking walls down it's like i didn't have anything now i will have everything i want like i'm just i'm trying to figure out like how i could you know if i worked for ellen like how i can maneuver that space how you could win yeah power corrupts right yeah yeah but like i'm assuming this is all like pre-pandemic right yeah i mean the stories of her have been long or you know anecdotal tales since the early odds from

what i could tell yeah um yeah i i don't know how it happens or you know whether we're just hearing from she's especially uh dedicated about about how about treating people like the the discipline to write a list every day that has like 20 to 30 fuck-ups from the previous day uh that you know like that takes such energy oh Oh, yeah. And that helps you feel superior too. And you don't have to look at your own inferiority complex if you spend your time looking for the deficiencies outside of yourself. Right. There's something, you know, that control baby, you know.

And you know, Jack, and I apologize, I will get that coffee maker deep clean for you. I know the latte foam was a little off, but I'm telling you that's not where it comes from, but I will clean the machine nonetheless uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session, 24 hours. BPM 110, 120. She's terrified. Should we

wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams.

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recent episode with dancer, actor, host of Dancing with the Stars, and now novelist, Julianne Hough. I feel really whole. I feel like the last few years, I've really unraveled a lot, which is part of what this book is about. And I really feel so content, which is a word that used to scare the crap out of me. And I love that word now. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and we're back and halloween is coming up uh it'll be it'll be here before we realize it guys uh and we're all gonna just be staying home listening to the monster mash apparently i got no issue with this i'm gonna be yeah i'm gonna be honest i mean you both for both of y'all being parents what how are you gonna make it feel you just be like look dude i i bought all that candy from their

supermarket that's just yours go on go off look you can have my car for the night um i think we're gonna i said this to my wife today uh i said uh you know i think we do the costume let's do it up i was like let's all do it up i was like but also you know kind of behind her back let's set up a little path that she can walk so it's kind of like you know a haunted house on the property uh as i was telling you I have two tenants in the back who I know are equally youthful. They would also be like, yeah, let's make it this badass thing for this one kid. And then you go, hey, remember, we didn't just do nothing. I mean, I could go on forever about this. But having a kid and having to adjust to pandemic style stuff i will say just having one

kid we give her so much attention we try to fill that void of things so while yes halloween you want to get with your friends and do all these things we look at her and we go hey we don't know when halloween is back but there is a chance it's maybe just this one time we got to do this other thing but what if this other thing is also really fun and we watch movies and shit like that house louine you know what i mean exactly you get it exactly you get it dude but jack your kids got costumes and stuff are they just gonna walk around the house what are you gonna do nah cancel it cancel it you know we're gonna burn the costumes and a pyre in the back you know there's also the route of like you know know, kids don't have calendars. They don't fucking know what Halloween is. Every time

they come... What are you talking about? Halloween? Nah. Just gaslight them into thinking they made that up. Halloween? Oh my god. That's so far from now. That was like yesterday we had Halloween. Okay, then Copernicus, tell me what day it is.

I'm sorry, then why don't you tell me what it is? Daddy, I'm so sorry. Get your sundial out. Yeah. Daddy, I'm sorry. Do you want another drink? Yes! Get me another drink.

That day when the sky was orange, that was Halloween. You just missed it, dude. Yeah, you slept right through it. Ugh. Yeah, I told you to wake up. Yeah, but this is la specific you know garcetti our wonderful mayor who can't do a single thing right uh but this thing he just he's out here saying look look there's no parties we can't do halloween the official restrictions are this in la no door-to-door trick-or-treating so they're saying yeah there's no way people are crowding the streets.

You don't know what the fuck's going on. We can't do that. No trunk-or-treating either. I didn't know that was a thing. He knows all the little alleyways. Yeah. I mean, that would be a little weird where everybody pops their trunk and it's just like a free-for-all.

I would be like, that's a... Interesting that you would cancel the one event where everyone will definitely be in a mask right right yeah uh then there's like saying no parties obviously because the people are the la already has a terrible not even outdoors so try that shit no carnivals festivals live entertainment haunted houses uh they haven't said like what the violation like what happens if you violate um but they're saying the things that they are okay with online parties prayer prayer circle praying for the salvation of the city this is honestly an attack on on fucking satan is what it is because everyone's still allowed to go to church. You can do all these things.

But here it is, the devil's Christmas and no one is allowed to get together and fucking hang out and exchange candy and wear masks and have... Also, it's a testament to how hard Garcetti usually goes on Halloween.

The fact that he's like... No car parades that he's like No Car parades No one's doing that We do it in my neighborhood every year and I love it No orgies where you and your friends Dress up as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles None of those Jesus Christ

No group master splintering What? You need master splintering. What? Yeah, you need to put the cards back closer to the chest. You're kind of showing a little too much. Hey, Jerry Falwell Jr., come on, man. Let everybody know what's going on. No way. The thing that he's like this,

thing of the car parades. I like how this article goes on. For example, a car parade with people dressing in costume or decorating their vehicles and driving by socially distanced judges that's so specific that is too specific that is that is a party planner got involved there or somebody like that i actually did this for easter with my kids to like we drove around in a car that has cursing at people going to church. Yeah. It's not going to help. It won't help.

You're all going to die. If he's back, then where is he? If he's back, then where is he? We're not already in hell, huh? You don't know. This could be purgatory. But it is weird. It's a strange thing where the kids are like, I can't see anything.

I can't see the other cars. Um, so it would be better if you were the judge or if the kids got to judge the cars. Yeah. Uh, I think it would be cool as like, you had like groups of adults who just did like flash mobs in a street and the kids come out and they're like, okay, that group of drunk guys wasn't the funniest or the best, they were scary i don't know like a way to be like you know some entertainers get out there and you're like watch from your windows but i say that like as if i would ever want to do that or i would even be excited to see that

these things he said we can't do i'm like yeah that's great i don't give a shit and you know what i don't want other people doing it either but the halloween movie nights at a drive-in theater i feel like is probably the most like seemingly safe thing that still feels like a thing yeah uh but you know i still haven't gone to a drive-in have you guys i have not no i would i'm not against it like i said i'm very lazy but i would do that i think that's cool we just have to drive kind of further out, though, like down in the San Gabriel Valley or deeper valley places. Yeah. Maybe just buy one of those inflatable screens or something.

Just get a projector. Inflatable screens? Yeah, like those big inflatable screens. I don't know. Look, I'm just thinking. SkyMall? You doing some SkyMall purchases? Hamacher Schlemmer, boy.

Is that how you say it? Hamacher Schlemmer, boy. Is that how you say it? Hamacher Schlemmer? What's the emphasis on that? I think it's choose your own adventure on where the emphasis goes. I heard they were in really bad shape. Who's that? Hamacher Schlemmer? Hamacher Schlemmer, whatever.

Hamacher Schlemmer is how I pronounce it. The wrestler? Yeah. Why? What happened? It's my finishing move. Yeah. Haymaker Slammer.

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