The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 144 (Best of 9/21/20-9/25/20)

Episode Date: September 27, 2020

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These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. We are thrilled to be joined. This is always a treat uh i know you and i both look forward to any time we have in our third seat the hilarious the talented guy montgomery hey uh good morning to one and all i just like to give a huge shout out to 90s Hip Hop and also iTunes. All right. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't have an AKA. I'm Guy. AKA. All right. I'm Guy. There you go.

All right. AKA, I'm Guy. How'd your parents come up with that name, Guy? There was never any doubt, really. I think they sort of, it was a judgment call. I came out and they looked at me and they said, well, we know we're going to call him. And it's really worked for me. People go crazy for it.

They love it. Guy Montgomery? You kidding me? What a name. You're serious? Was that a stage name, man? No, this is it it this is how i roll morning and night hey man mark get over here this fella is called guy

and gal is a woman version right gal yeah that's yeah gal godot her and i we have a an annual conference where we sort of recover all sorts of ground, but largely what jokes we've come across at the expense of our first names. Yeah. Oh, man. Do you get a lot of – did you have a lot of trouble in elementary school? Were there a lot of – One time, actually, we had – above our lockers, we had our names written, and one of the more thuggish young children

at this Anglican all boys uniformed school, they put a hat on the U and they changed my name, you know, and this was not done in good spirits. This was not done, you know, they weren't calling me Gay Montgomery because of my perpetually positive spirit. They were trying to put the boot in. And so, yeah, I guess I have had my share of hardship in this respect. And yet you're still here.

I think it's a testament to your resolve. That sort of buoyed me. And I thought, do you know what? I'm going to really own the name Guy Montgomery. Yeah. Miles, did you ever get any sort of shit for your name? Like, your name is sort of inevitably a very cool name. Well, when people tried to, I don't know.

I had a toxic mouth as a kid, so when people tried to fuck with me, I would just clap back with the most like asymmetric um disproportionate response metric warfare yeah like it was like oh you want to tease my lunch like i'm gonna say something awful about your family and then get in trouble because you're crying and the teacher's like you know those words in that sequence miles and i'm like i don't know i'm just insecure and the only child in my mouth is all i have so uh yeah your lunch is honor oh yeah especially like you know having like you know japanese food and like you know kids have like lunchables and shit like you know you gotta sometimes you know early on establish that you're the wrong one to fucking tease and i think kids

kids don't realize that they're the ones getting fucked with the Lunchables. Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, with hindsight, a lot of these fellas would have killed for a little Japanese, you know. A little onigiri, a bento box, you know, a sandwich that was made by hand rather than, I get it, you know, when you're a parent, you're like, fuck it, here, just throw that box in the bag and eat that, now go. Yeah. When you cut those kids open, you can see rings of sodium just like inside their DNA

from every time they had Lunchables. I'm always surprised by that when I cut American children open. Isn't that strange? Like, wow, I can see how many Lunchables you had. It almost makes me forget myself and the fact that I really got to stop cutting these kids. Cut these damned kids open. I hope you will accept these roses we are giving to you. Our guest today, Miss Arden Marine.

Thank you. Welcome. What a joy. Hi, Miles. Hi, Lacey. You know, I'm super fans of both of you and I like you both together. So I'm just going to throw that out there. I'm a fan.

I mean, look, the last time the three of us were together, we had fun. Fundamentally changed the Bachelor podcast landscape. If you guys haven't listened to my podcast, a good way to start in. And it's actually like a one-off. Lacey and Miles, because they both were not viewers of The Bachelor. And during the, guys, spoiler alert, 2020 is a little different than usual right now. And so they did, you know, The Bachelor until they figured out how to lock hairless people

looking for love into a hotel in the desert and try not to give each other COVID. But so they were doing like standalone episodes of old seasons. And Miles and Lacey came and did, they were a huge hit on the book which who did you guys break down who was your bachelor uh i just remember steve we just kept talking about steve harvey oh okay and how i'm steve harvey's little secret you're steve harvey's little secret yeah so the first ever Bachelor That's what it is, it's the first season of The Bachelor With that horny guy That was so horny

He had the horny He was the horniest Bachelor And his suit reminded us of Steve Harvey He had a plastic sheet With like Yeah, he was gonna murder that girl Or have sex with her, we didn't know He was wearing like Matrix-style suits.

Yes, that was something. Well, anyway. I want to do an AKA. Can I do an AKA? Yes. Oh, please. Yes, go off. So for your listeners, a week from tomorrow, I have a book coming out.

It's called Little Miss Little Compton. It's really fun. It's funny. There's a lot of heart. It's good for this. The garbage fire that's 2020. But okay, here's my AKA about that okay it's not that good it's pretty bad lower the bar of your expectations oh no no we're raising it it's getting shot through the memoir and you're too bland baby you give little miss little compton a bad name because it takes place in rhode island and rhode island likes nothing more than a classic rock

station and a keyer car under the water slides little compton is where you're from in rhode island huh yeah that's what's the was there what's like the the history of the town like was there a competing town called comptonpton and it was a diminutive thing? Truly, apparently there was a town. It was founded in the 1600s. Of course. It feels like it is still in the 1600s. I think there was a town in England called Little Compton.

It has a general store and no stoplights. There's no restaurants. Did you know that stealing mail is a federal crime? I found out when I was 17, yes. Were you stealing mail? Look, we don't... Hold on. So basically somebody in our town

was like stealing a lot of mail and like nobody could figure out who the culprit was and they found out that it was this woman had like a local pet crow like a bird named poe the crow that was flying around and stealing everybody's mail and they literally like the man came in and like put the crow under house arrest and then it became like an indoor crow so so when i tell you that this town is somewhat isolated, they'd never heard of the real Compton. Nevermind the album. It wasn't until the movie Straight Outta Compton came out and like every town in America started making like Straight Outta Nashville shirts, like Straight

Outta Houston. All of a sudden they couldn't believe their good fortune. Like little Compton got so excited. They couldn't believe it. They had no clue that there was another Compton out there. How diverse is Little Compton? Well, they've got lobstermen and fishermen. They have white men with beards of all varieties. You know what? No, it's not diverse at all.

I would say, you know, it's like super white people and then a lot of like portuguese immigrants got it got it yeah and italian italian portuguese and then like super white people uh what is something you think is overrated oh i wrote down two of them wow one is more frivolous and one is a little no i'll do the okay I'll do the more serious one um I personally think doing things really young and being advanced is overrated I was in I wasn't like Doogie Howser or anything I was just your average kind of like accelerated kid I was you know in AP classes I was taking so I was taking some college classes in high school, some high school classes in eighth grade. And it just felt like extra pressure. I feel like if you have the ability to do those subjects, you eventually will get to them. What is the rush? And then also,

I wrote for the LA Times when I was 18, which was like a real big feather in my cap. I started writing when I was in high school. And for the longest time, I was like the youngest person in any situation I was in. And so much of my identity was kind of shaped around this idea of like being the, I'm so young to be doing X, Y, Z. But the problem with that, yeah. Again, I don't mean, I don't want to paint myself out as like, I didn't graduate Harvard at 14.

I also didn't go to Harvard. But I wasn't like one of those people. But I was, you know, younger than everyone. Yeah, you were the Cameron Crowe of the LA Times. Yes. There you go, there you go. But the problem with that is it doesn't last. And then uh you know

eventually all of a sudden you're the same age as everyone and then all of a sudden everyone's younger than you and it can mess you up so i just think that whole thing is overrated because it sets you up to then have trouble transitioning into like just being of average age right yeah having adult mediocrity yeah yeah sort of like yeah my wife uh was a like musical prodigy when she was young and i think it like totally turned her off of music like she she was like playing carnegie hall when she was like seven and wow the whole trick was like she look how young she is. The whole trick? What do you mean? It was like a flea circus? Yeah, a flea circus.

She wasn't playing. It was a computer doing all the work. No, that's not. She was an amazing musician. It was actually a chicken playing a piano behind her. Right. That's the real gag and they didn't even show the chicken. But I remember her friends from high school when

they like met me they were like you haven't seen her play like the piano or the violin because she just like kind of got burnt out early right i think that also happens right and also i feel like that one relates to people right now who feel like their life is stalled because of the pandemic which i think is everyone and also if you have kids doing remote learning and all that and these concerns about like what's going to happen they're off track um it'll be okay yeah they'll figure it out yeah yeah i think you have young children too right i do yeah i have a three and a half year old and a one and a half year old yeah i have a four and two and you-half-year-old and a one-and-a-half-year-old. Yeah, I have a four and a two. You have four and two?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, so they're like the same ages. It is tough. One of the best things I heard early on was when we were worried about our older boy being potty trained and one of these child experts was like, yeah, you know what? I don't know too many kids who got to high school and still were not potty trained. You'll be fine. I was like yeah you know what i don't know too many kids who like got to high school and still were not potty trained you'll be fine i was like okay that's yeah that's a longer time frame i feel better now what what high school yeah have you did you not get it by then i mean college definitely i actually went backwards in college because i was drinking so much i just well to

allison's point i think doing things so early is a little overrated i'm still i'm still on my potty journey right right but you have pull-ups and that's i've always been impressed by that that you yeah well they're fucking sick as fuck because they have like i got them in like designer prints now right yeah yeah uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll be 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.

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uh not murder uh and the other two would not be charged it's you know it's what we thought it was going to be, which is woefully inadequate. The cop who was charged is being charged with wanton endangerment, I think, or something along those lines. Yeah, no, it's wanton endangerment. Yeah, a five-year maximum sentence. This is a cop who was known to try to give very drunk women rides home from bars and sexually assault them and not not try.

He actually was accused of that and was subsequently fired from the force. So the because he didn't have the like blue wall of, know silence protecting him anymore i think they felt like they could like do a good faith gesture that people would accept at like putting this making this guy uh actually like face some charge but um there's also this letter this this email, 2 a.m. email from one of the other officers, John Mattingly, who it just makes you. He sent this email to his fellow Louisville police officers. Just be petulant in response to people asking them to, you know, be responsible for the, you know, violence that they are enacting on on people and responsible for the fact that they go into situations with their guns drawn and are not taking that responsibility seriously. They it's like kids being caught doing something and choosing to just like go full tilt like uh temper tantrum um we're just seeing you know like uh de facto white supremacy and shit like that just reassert itself you know in the beginning

of the uprisings i was talking talking about how it's a living organism. And while there was a lot of momentum during a lot of the demonstrations that there will always be a response because it's this, you know, phenomenon in the country that just has to sustain its existence. And it's just reasserting itself by saying, yes, these people can completely botch

a warrant and murder an innocent woman and two people will just fucking walk away and another guy will just get a really fancy charge of being which essentially just sounds like that was wanton endangerment rather than you

straight up murdered an innocent person and it's i don't know i don't know what to say uh i'm not i'm not surprised the second the they were saying that the louisville police department and the city was going into a state of emergency before this announcement i think everybody knew uh what was going to happen. The same thing, which is in the pursuit for justice, we're not really getting it, but we get other little tokens here and there. Somebody might be on a magazine cover or some company hires two more people of color or something like that. But it's never the hard work to really have a reckoning with how awful this system is set up and how people

seeking justice. There's an entire segment of the country that seeks justice and just can never get it. And that's also a really unsustainable path we're going down as well because it completely erodes the trust that people have in each other, in their communities, in their leaders. And we'll begin to create suspicion among people like you don't know who you're interacting with and what the outcome is going to be because you also know you're operating in a world where the legal system will not protect you in fact it will prey upon you so yeah this is just total total bullshit uh but it's the same thing over and over and i think that's why people really need to see that incremental changes are not going to resolve any of this. This incrementalism still allows, you know, organisms, organizations like the Louisville Police Department and other police departments across the country to operate in the same way because we're not actually putting our foot down and saying, these are the things we can no longer do these are this is the way we need to

ferret out the bad apples if you want to go with that theory but no one is taking the problem seriously it's just it's yeah it's it's shitty the hankinson uh sexual assault stuff just made me go down a rabbit hole of how big a problem this is with police and uh there's a 2014 report that explains you know driving while female uh as a it's basically you know cops will pull women over for alleged traffic violations as a pretext to sexually harass or abuse them and uh it's just so fucking dark yeah i mean i think people just need to realize that a lot has to happen and it has to happen urgently like you know shout out to people who can kind of just forget that this is an ongoing problem because there aren't people in the streets uh tearing shit down but it's it hasn't

stopped and it's not going to stop so please don't use the people in the streets as an indication of how engaged you need to be about this issue it's ongoing it's non-stop and the less attention that is paid to it the longer it's going to exist and be able to essentially thrive i decided so i found that tremendously articulate uh miles i i um i don't really have anything to add but um it's yeah it's well guy what do you what do you have to say for yourself down there in new zealand i would i would say watching it from here it looks like it looks like a page one rewrite to me boys yeah right starting yeah we're tossing it out uh delete the celtex file if that's what you use to write your scripts uh but yeah it's yeah i mean it really is it's just it's it's you know one of the many

consistent illnesses in this country uh societal ills that we just fail to address because we haven't reached a tipping point where the victims look enough like the people in power to do something so general mills has this new promotion that they're doing where uh i'll just read from the announcement general mills is bringing back the taste and shapes that ruled your saturday mornings in the 80s cocoa puffs is bringing more chocolate so basically like they're saying we're going back to the original recipe they're doing like a a new coke back to coca-cola classic on coco puffs cookie crisp uh tricks and golden grams and on golden grams they're like honey is back which so they weren't corn syrup is out right so apparently they changed the recipes on these products without telling people i don't think

people realized that they you know they they didn't do the dominoes thing where they were like sorry our food sucked for so long. Please accept this new food. And I don't know. It's just interesting to me to think, like, are there other products? Like McDonald's famously changed the recipe on their French fries. Like they fry it in a different type of oil now. Oh, yeah. It's not.

Well, you used to have beef tallow. Beef tallow. Yeah. Yeah. So now it's, I think, more of a vegetable oil. And there's a lot of people who claim that it's much worse. And I don't know. There's also the type of banana we eat today are completely different from the types that made bananas popular in the first place. Bananas popular in the first place in the 40s and 50s. Bananas were supposedly a more sturdy and tasty version called the Big Mike. And then something called Panama disease came through and wiped all those out. That was banana COVID.

Yeah, exactly. And they had to replace it with what we have now, which is the Cavendish banana, uh, which is an apple colonizer. Yeah. That's like a apple ass name. The Cavendish. Like that sounds like a, yeah,

that ain't it. That's like Macintosh. That's come on. There is. The banana industry should go like excavate some, um, big Mike seed and bring it back and brand it in the same way the cereal company has because i it sounds like we've never had a banana the way we're supposed to have a banana

i think that i this doing a little bit of research on this made me think that bananas are a real growth industry because first of all bananas are the most popular food in America. They're the food that is eaten more than any other food in the country, I think, just by mass. But also, we only have the one type, whereas with apples and everything else, with grapes, we have all these different types that you can use, and then bananas is just one type of banana. Here's your cavendish.

Yeah. Eat your cavendish yeah eat your cavendish i think sir uh i feel like very specifically i know you think pepsi hits differently jack now but i think caffeine free diet pepsi in the gold can that shit doesn't hit the same that shit doesn't hit the same not since the doesn't hit the same. Not since the night, not since the nineties. Shout out to my friend's grandma, a wonderful Scottish. She got you onto that. Yes. Nana. She was a,

she was smoker cigarettes and drink her caffeine free diet Pepsi. And like, I was like, what the fuck is, what is she on about? Cause I didn't have soda in my house. So I would drink it and it was fucking, I don't know if it was a gold can,

but I still remember having it like maybe two years ago and it just was fucking it was not right there was something slightly off and it could just be that my taste buds are completely different but i like to think i'm a i'm a diet diet caffeine free pepsi truther pepsi or coke is pepsi in the gold can too pepsi was in the gold can as well they may have changed the brand yeah diet caffeine pepsi was in the gold yeah yeah i i was saying that i feel like pepsi was in the gold can as well they may have changed the brand yeah diet caffeine pepsi was in the gold yeah yeah i i was saying that i feel like pepsi used to be more delicious but that also might be me just like as a kid wanting a massive like amount of sugar just dumped into my because that's like the thing with pepsi is like sweeter which is why it wins the taste tests if you're just

having like a sip of it, it's better. But if you're trying to drink a whole can, if you're not a kid who's just like, take my tea. Give me all the sugar. This whole segment sounds like we're in the year 2040 where none of this shit exists anymore. And we're just like, yeah, man, remember Pepsi in the gold can. Oh, bananas, brother. Oh, the vibes. Oh, boy. anymore and we're just like yeah man remember pepsi and the gold can oh bananas brother oh boy i didn't know that pepsi was sweeter i i think of myself as someone who prefers well i prefer a clear diet soda like a sierra mist or diet seven up or diet sprite that's actually what i reach for and the reason is because I had

clear braces back when those were all the rage. And the braces themselves were porcelain, but the rubber bands would get stained from Diet Coke. So that is, I used to prefer Diet Coke, but I switched at that point to the clear ones. And then my love of those has stayed this whole time. But back in the day when we left the house, I had a restaurant or something. I would always order a Diet Coke. And they'd say, is Diet Pepsi OK? And it was.

But I prefer Diet Coke. So I was unaware that Pepsi is sweeter. Now I know. I will say, no, I'll just have a regular Pepsi if it's between Diet Pepsi. If I ask for a Diet Coke and they're like, no, is Diet Pepsi okay? I'll just have a regular Pepsi. I do not like Diet Pepsi.

You'll be like, well, I'm calling the police now. May I speak to your manager? Do you think for these cereals, going back to their retro version, was like their nuclear option they're like in case of emergency break glass because you're right by doing it they're admitting that they were using these kind of bullshit ingredients all along and they hadn't told us right yeah i think i think maybe or it's just a miscalculated going back to trying to play on people's nostalgia. It's part of this thing they're doing where they're doing a drive-through event at the Rose Bowl hosted by A.C. Slater. Mario!

Yeah, where they're going to watch Saturday saturday morning cartoons and like give out bowls of old school cereal um oh wow it's interesting if you think who they're targeting like they're not targeting the sugary cereal kids right with this it's us yeah well it's because junk food is like king in the pandemic now yeah we were talking uh, JM, was pointing out all these pandemic-specific ad campaigns like Coke and Pepsi both launched specialty cans to celebrate and thank healthcare workers. How about you donate some fucking money? Right. Fuck a stupid can. They'd really like some PPE.

Yeah. right yeah stupid can you know they'd really like some ppe yeah and also sugary beverages are like a major cause of obesity in america and obesity is like a major risk factor for covid i think it's 48 people who are obese are 48 more likely to die from covid so it's just kind of a weird look on their part well you know you got you gotta you gotta make money too you know that's like that's the thing which is so funny that part of it's like sort of like feel good but then it's like like it's feel good we can make some money and we don't look like total shit for like sucking up all the world's water right let's just do that heinz called their workers keeping amer America's ketchup supply flowing everyday heroes and the

tagline on the ad was we got you America and meanwhile they were called out by workers for poor factory conditions after the pandemic started and they were still encouraging people to come into work while sick. It's such a weird

response it just feels really exploitative to me. Yeah, right. Exactly. 100%. I mean, every company had the same exact response when the pandemic started. Because you couldn't distinguish one ad from the other. It was all the same B-roll from a stock footage house of like people being at home with their kids and then you know just piano music was really hey in these times in these now more than ever and now more than

it's like everything when you guys email someone like what do you say because i will i would say like hope you're you know well parentheses as well as well as well as can be expected i don't even know what to say anymore yeah i just don't email people that's my smarter i just disappeared off the grid i don't know i think i sign off with a pleasantry because i feel like starting off it's like we get it dude every every everything fucking sucks uh yeah right like i was joking yesterday with uh our guest before we were like when we started recording i was like how are you caitlin and then we were both like ah what the fuck i even fucking asked that who gives a shit i was more like you're breathing yeah heart good yeah great let's we'll keep it there like we'll focus on the things that are like great. But yeah, it's such a difficult question because, you know, there was that even that study that said how much of an effect this the pandemic and media coverage has had on like the American psyche and people's sense of well-being and how it's gotten like so many people in a depressive state.

so many people in a depressive state. It's, yeah. So like, we're even robbed of being able to like, we're all just like emo teens where we'd rather be like, hey, fuck, whatever. I didn't ask to be born, especially not now. Exactly. Burger King, by the way,

encouraged people to be couch potatriots. Fuck off. And stay home of the whopper uh so wow some companies got it right is what i'm saying okay couch potatriots actually makes me smile a tiny bit i mean it like i feel like it's kind of clever but but fuck them anyway i'm not yeah i'm not look i'm not, yeah, I'm not, look, I'm not going to lie. I snickered. I was like, all right, you're a petatriot. But in this context, you're like, oh God, it's so fucking like, and then I feel bad. I'm like, yeah, that, that made me laugh at the thing that killed 200,000 people. Right. Because I think that's sort of the bottom line is too, which is weird.

Is that even like when you have big you know burger king sombreros that keep people six feet apart or whatever that are like fun to look at and are easy like social media fodder like it's still like born out of that it's all set with this terribly dark backdrop yeah um and it's just sort of like yeah I guess this is like the little weird, dark shred of happiness that it's very, it's very dystopian. The giant social distancing Burger King crown sombreros is really dark. There's like a dose. He's cooler. That's six feet apart.

They notice they like seize on to the one detail that's like easy to get your mind around. And that is, of course, the thing that like turns out to not necessarily be uh right true the oreo did a thing where it's like eat your oreos without using your hands because that's a that's a way to because hands are dirty i guess uh but obviously eating things like off the table is probably not like a more sanitary way of doing it. There's also some really fucked up stuff, uh, with baby formula companies and the way that they are advertising as like a

more healthy way of feeding your baby during the pandemic. Like there was a, in Vietnam, one company Photoshopped a face mask onto a baby and also uh photoshopped the baby giving a thumbs up to it's a discerning baby who is uh cares about safety right yeah another vietnamese company advertised its formula not with a picture of a baby but with a giant photo of the director general of the World Health Organization. Because they're like, this is...

Again, there's a long history of companies that produce formula trying to convince people that formula is the healthier, more sanitary option than breast milk, even though doctors and experts claim that's not the case. So I don't really understand what they're suggesting. Are they suggesting that breastfeeding your baby could pass them COVID? Or just the skin-to-skin contact is unsafe? Yeah, it's like gross or something. I don't know. It seems weird. I don't understand. I mean, if it was like someone else breastfeeding your baby i could understand okay maybe not right now but if you're the one breastfeeding your baby right yeah i don't know it just seems like it's of a piece with this wider genre of formula

companies that make formula doing shady stuff to imply that this is actually the clean healthy way of doing right yeah it's yeah great i think just like this is like association just by association it's better it's like yeah yeah at a certain point you're like oh wow this breast milk container has like a sick ass lambo on it maybe my kid will be like successful and drive a lambriano it's like you just make someone feel good so you're like yeah fuck it i know one probably doesn't have anything to do with the other, but yeah, you did it. There was also Pepsi slapped its logo on a sign for a COVID-19 testing site in a Walmart parking lot.

I think that was my favorite example. It was eventually taken down after complaints of the, yeah, quote, dystopian hell that it evoked. The COVID-19 19 testing right now what is a myth what some of the people think is true you know to be false or vice versa oh okay i know something that people don't necessarily know. And that is, you know, I love to come and drop in the Disney myths and things. And did y'all know that Disney had a lingerie store at Disneyland? What?

When it first opened, it had a place that had, it was a lingerie shop with bras and underwear and corsets, like back in 1955. Wow. And they even had a mechanical like sorcerer character that was the wizard of bras and it only lasted for which is like super awkward too um lasted until they realized it was walt disney in that character in that costume being like okay why don't you try it on for me moving like a robot and it's like allow me to measure your cup size well that's what it did do and like there were there were 3d yeah it helped you like pick out your butt there were 3d also you know when you go to like the penny arcade and you can go and you can look in you

put a penny and you can like see a little like film yeah um there were 3d like animations in this bra shop where one of the animations the woman was dressed and then you look and you turn and then she's like in the, it's like what you would look like under with the lingerie. So this was what was happening back in the fifties when it first opened up. Yeah. But let's not forget the fifties really close to the sixties. So yeah,

it was just like little right on the cuffs of the sixties peeking out like little bits of horniness. So it only lasted for six months um but that is a cool disneyland slash myth that is true actually it's true that they did have a lingerie shop what was like the thinking of right that's what i was just i was gonna say like when there's an idea that's that ill-conceived or like ahead of its time i guess like what how did it come about did they think of the pun wizard of bras first and we're like that's or it's like jam or 4d patriarchal chess where

you're like the man is going to have to bring his family here and spend money therefore he will ask the wife to in turn buy this lingerie for sex no i think it's for what i think it was like okay well what is something that we can have for the women that are here like they can go shopping while their kid is at the penny arcade like that type of thing i think but then they realize yeah it's kind of awkward for like grown-ass women to be in there uh yeah what were the bras were like mickey on the like nipples like i'm super fascinated were they like disney designed they had pasties that was just the mickey head oh that would be impressive um i mean it wouldn't be that hard it's just three circles

this is my costume that's gonna be my wizard of bras wizard of bras patron of the wizard of bras shop they should bring it back in my opinion yeah no i mean now that's what i'm saying ahead of its time like now it'd be fine right like that would just be like a cute thing they couldn't even the moms couldn't even handle when they like the when they like change anything in there there's always a whole petition so i feel like if they added that people one million moms would freak out. Have you seen how people handle the fucking merchandise

in a gift store at Disneyland? Like, I'm not touching anything I'm putting on my body, like, in that fucking place. It's like, like Tasmanian devil shit. People are like, trying shit on, sweaty,

and then like, nah, not this one, and they leave, and you're like, what the, okay, well, I guess I will try this bra and panty set on.

People are like, hiding Coco guitars up their butt for the black market. It's crazy. Those cells. So like all of that stuff, there's like a whole underground network. That's another myth. That's true. There's a whole underground network of Disney,

uh, of people that snatch all the Disney merch when it comes out, drop it, flip it and resell it for hundreds more. Yeah. I follow somebody on Twitter who, just for that insight, because I'm like, you're a person in your 30s, and there's all this shit going on. After the Breonna Taylor shit comes out, it's like, you're talking about the reopening of Disneyland right now. What a reality.

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for generations to come what do we do do we fucking take to the streets and like harass our leaders and then we're like do garita um i don't i don't know what people are hoping to hear from me other than I fully support this. Yeah, don't come for our takes on the Supreme Court, please. Just come for our takes on movies on Netflix, the occasional political hot take, but also all in Mountain Dew. Oh, yeah. And we're still working our way through Cobra Kai and The Last Airbender. So we'll get to that,

that'll, that'll be the rewatch for this week. But, um, yeah. So as far as the doogarita, I have not sampled it. Uh,

I do not drink, but, uh, I might need to go get a Virgie, little Virgie doogarita, um, and see, see how,

how it sits. I don't know if that would just be Mountain Dew with ice, but I don't know. I think so. They do have a lime in there. Alrighty, you pull it up to the Red Lobster Bar and you're like, hey, let me get a Virgin Dugarita.

And the guy behind the bar is like, what? Seriously? Alright, here. Do you want it in the glass? I can do that. All right, here's Mountain Dew in the margarita glass. Could you put a cherry in it, please, sir? Well, it says there are, in addition to Mountain Dew,

and what I'm guessing is tequila, there are apparently a few other special ingredients. So maybe it's like Mountain Dew plus I don't know simple syrup taking it all the way back y'all yeah a little dexedrine to get get things going does the whole thing with like I didn't know what kind of bar does mount uh red lobster have that full bar i had no idea i've never like i definitely associate certain chain restaurants like uh outback with having a bar uh but i don't think i feel like it maybe does well like olive garden has a full bar usually and i feel like red lobster and olive garden are very much

they're cut of the same yeah yeah it's weird because most of the time i haven't been to red lobster in a minute but when i was going i would typically wasn't like had the income where i would buy alcohol when i ate out so i would never even think to look at an alcohol meeting i'm like look man i'm here for fucking lobster fest some biscuits and i'm out because i sold like an eighth on the way in here to finance this but like so i'm curious now like his part like when i look at i'm like where is the confirmation that there's alcohol in this even right yeah i mean i think it would be kind of false advertising like it's not even a yeah yeah, to call it a do-garita. It's a fucking soda.

It sounds too much like dungarees, do-garita, personally. It's also, they have it rocks. They don't have it like blended or like the icy blended version. Let me get a Cadillac do-garita then. Let me get a Cadillac Dugarita then. Yeah, and it's also the picture that they've put out as part of the announcement is very Lime forward. So maybe it's a type of Mountain Dew. I think Volt is supposed to be Berry forward, I think.

I forget what all the different ones are. Baja Blast. Berry forward. I know Baja Blast is Baja forward. forward i think i forget i forget like what all the different ones are baja blast and forward i know baja blast is baja forward uh but what i don't like this one seems like they might have like put a lime uh accent within with the mountain doing fen fen maybe it's just like a tamarindo rimmed glass with mountain dew tequila and lime juice. Yeah. Just keep it moving. And then in kind of inverse of this situation,

our writer Jay McNabb pointed out Taco Bell is trying to use booze to class up their restaurants and is offering Taco Bell branded wine in Canada. They're debuting a custom wine called Jalapeno Noir to pair with its Toasted Cheesy Chalupa, which the Toasted Cheesy Chalupa looks amazing. I'm about it.

They got rid of the Mexican pizza. I know. We didn't talk about this on the show because we were discussing this. 2020 happened and the priorities of the show changed a bit but right um i do want to say r.i.p to the mexican pizza you know what they like i don't think there's like that that can't be a popular decision i don't know many people go to taco bell and don't at least fuck with a mexican pizza once in a while like that's It's delicious.

Whatever the pizza dough, which is basically a fried to shit tortilla that's so greasy you can't even believe. I love it. But it's not like it has ingredients that would be more expensive than... It's all part of the same thing, right? Part of me is getting... I just feel like an old like a taco bell truther or something if there was something like that like it ain't the same and you know the people behind it they got they got this other agenda to get you to eat healthy it's not to live moss it's actually to live menos well shit so to recap i i thumbs up the Dugarita and will be trying a version one at some point in the not too distant future.

Caitlin. Also, to recap, RBG is dead. The Supreme Court is still in flux. The entire democracy hangs in the balance. Right wing media is destroying everything. And also that other stuff. And also Dugarita sounds too much like Dungarees. Thank you. That has been it. Caitlin, we're good. Goodbye. destroying everything and also that other stuff and also dugorita sounds too much like dungaree also thank you that is if anyone has a connect a red lobster that can give us a little more

insight look we're not going to call any names out but like help us out here we want to know yeah let us know secret you know we know it's like gang strong we know we're pervasive we're out there we want ingredients and finally what is myth? What's something people think is true, you know, to be false or vice versa? The Oxford Dictionary defines myth as, I'm just joshing you. Now, do you boys know what a Gorgon is? I've definitely heard that word before. I remember the Gorgonites from the movie Small Soldiers. Wow. You'll be alarmed to know that they were not the original Gorgons. Ah, damn it.

I know. Before Shakespeare was calling a woman shrews, Greek fellas were calling a woman Gorgons, specifically the Gorgon sisters. I'm talking Stethno, Uriel, and, of course, Medusa. Oh, the famous. Yeah, these three dames, they all had venomous snakes for hair. Pretty freaky stuff.

Yeah, yeah. And anyway, so there were these three sisters, and this guy, Perseus, son of Zeus, and also a regular woman named Danae, was like, God damn it. I do not like those Gorgon sisters. And I especially don't like Medusa. And Medusa was the only one that was mortal, I think,

of the Gorgon sisters. Anyway, it sounds harsh, but it was kind of fair because not only did magis have snakes for here but if you looked in her eyes well she'd bloody well turn you to stone what i know i can't deal with this it sounds like absolute utter bullshit wow but i know a lot of people like i i don't pay that much attention to facebook but sometimes my aunts and uncles will forward a meme that's all about that assumes medusa will turn you to stone if you look around that's right i didn't i don't understand if you got snakes for here

why are you got why are you bothering with this other you know surely you want people to be able to look at you to go, whoa. Holy shit. That's so unusual. But Medusa, obviously she is embarrassed or something. Put on a hat. Right. Or put on a ponytail.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Can you imagine all the snake heads in the back and it's just like this really awful thing at the back and it's like, ah. No one has ever really looked at this from the snake's perspective. Yeah. These snakes must snake's perspective. Yeah. These snakes must have been furious. Tethered to a head?

Right. What do they eat? Herdandruff? Presumably, yeah. Horrible. And then she started shampooing with a tea tree shampoo. So they didn't even, all of the bloody detritus of her scalp was gone. They didn't have any nutrients. Anyway. I mean, think about the malting and how much flaking there would be. Perseus.

Yeah. He was always like a. Xander is just molted snake skins. Wow. That's kind of baller. Anyway, Perseus was like, look, I don't like this. I don't like this at all. And then he was telling, I don't know, probably his dad or something.

And Athena was nearby and Athena was like, wow, if you've really got into a problem with Medusa and you want to kill her, you got to make sure you don't look in her eyes. And so Perseus, he approached her. I actually don't know what specific thing Medusa did to antagonize him to this point.

I think he just didn't like her energy. But instead of looking at her in the eyes, and everyone in Greece at the time thought this was so brilliant, but it seems so obvious. He used a shield with a mirror on it to find her. So he wasn't looking directly at her. And he chopped off her head. And that's true.

That's not a myth. A lot of people think that's a myth, but that actually happened. that's true and then don't they use the head that's not a myth a lot of people think that's a myth but that actually happened that's true the head became a tool didn't it well yeah he'd you know i'm just thinking because now i'm like realistically being like i played god of war i remember you just pull a gorgon head out of nowhere turn people to stone i'm like just keep that head on your hip oh really well it retained its power even after it was chopped off yeah it was weird but you know what i don't give a fuck you know you know it's just me and kratos doing our thing so it's weird that it would retain its power after uh it's it no longer retains any life but you it does not have its power if you look at it through a mirror

yeah also if the if it retains its power, presumably the snakes are still charging. You got that on your belt. You're introducing all sorts of problems. Ugh, yeah. People don't think these things through. A lot of people think that's not true. Turns out actual historical fact. I'd like to cordially

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