The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 145 (Best of 9/28/20-10/2/20)

Episode Date: October 4, 2020

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Let's get a little of ourselves. But before we get into that, we have to welcome our NBA draft expert, the hilarious and talented Sarah June. Wow, it's me. Hey, everybody.

I know everything about the NBA. And I have so many opinions. For example, one guy that was good is bad now and another guy that was bad, surprisingly better this year. Have you guys noticed that in the stands,

they're not real people? That's right. I just got that. They had Obama up there. Although, I don't know. How Gasol was in the building. I not real people that's right i just got that obama up there although i don't know how this all was in the building i thought it was a little irresponsible of obama to go to a game yeah right but it turns out without a mask without a mask too i saw no mask yeah no one had masks on the court no one had masks in the stands uh really really irresponsible i agree uh j do hope Jimmy Butler is okay

Yeah I do too That was wild He just started getting hurt Anyway let's turn it into a sports podcast Are we getting a lot of shit for that? No I'm just laughing I'm fighting my own internal monologues Of being like

You hate reality You hate reality Make with reality yeah make with the sports talk or some other nonsense about music or minivans and smoke just want my brain inside that bubble just put my brain in a bubble and bubble wrap uh sorry june what what's new with you i've stopped i've tried to stop asking people how they're doing, so I'm just going to ask what's new with you. Oh, that's good, because those conversations get bad quick. What's new? I have some great news.

You guys remember how I got quarantine chickens? Yes. Yeah. They laid their first egg yesterday. I don't know which one did it. I have my suspicions, but it was very miraculous and delicious. Wow. So you still don't know who laid the egg, but that's why you're asking for those jumper cables and that car battery.

So you can figure out, get to the bottom of this and be like, which one of you laid the egg? I have a lot of spare time, so I'm building. I did hold it up to each of them and yell, who did this? No answers. Nothing yet. What's the rules like is there like a tradition like with the first egg you frame it or you just eat that shit huh yeah i put it uh i mean i i ate it i framed it in my belly and you just gobbled it up while you were out there you just pick it right up off the ground i picked it up

i screamed who did this and then i swallowed it whole i'm fine i'm doing fine in quarantine I picked it up. I screamed, who did this? And then I swallowed it whole. I'm fine. I'm doing fine in quarantine. These chickens are healthy. I'm glad they're laying eggs. You know, it looked like there was a whole, you know, we have like a whole three act structure now to all of this. You do.

That's why I told you. Cause I really wanted to close that up for you. Give you guys some closure. My rooster did pass away unexpectedly, which is very sad. Thank you. The girls are doing fine without him, and now I wonder if they killed him, but I don't think that they did. More intrigue.

You got a whodunit on many levels. I like that. Yeah, I got a lot of different channels going. It's like I used to play The Sims, and now I have livestock. Now I just project stories onto my chickens. You are the mayor of Chicken City. I am.

Congratulations. I'm the king of Chicken Town, bitch. What do we think of... I keep seeing these things as women who kill. There's podcasts about it. There's TV shows. Where are you seeing this? Is your wife showing this to you?

No. No. Are you sure? Your wife is not like, Jack, look at this. Yeah, she's always leaving them on or like a book open to a certain page. No. Yeah, the book. Okay. So the poisoning book, yes. The Poisoner's Handbook. The Poisoner's Handbook that she

left. I'm sure it's fine. Women who kill their lame husbands who never see it coming yes women with two children who killed their husbands um your husband wants more sneakers how to poison him with plants that might be around your house tell your husband it's okay to chew on plants that are around the house. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine.

No, I didn't say poison berry. I said boysenberry. I do like the implication that I'm just randomly chewing on plants. She's like, yeah, yeah, sure. Go ahead. Go ahead. Uh-huh. Yeah. How to poison your dumb husband.

The dummies. Poisoning your dumb husband for dummies. For dummies. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false or vice versa? All right. So this was inspired by a conversation I had with my friend that completely unrelated to anything we've talked about so far. The myth that milk is bad for you.

Okay. I don't think it's true. I drink milk every day. I never get acne. Anecdotally, myth busted. Yeah, busted. Those are the facts. You drink milk every day?

Every day. What kind of milk? Whole milk with the cream top. Wait, what's cream? You do a half a half floater? It's like whole milk, but it comes with the cream on the top of it. Oh, fuck. It basically is like half and half.

Where are you picking that up? Where do you buy that? Just like straight out of a bucket on a farm? No, it's like they have it at Whole Foods and like Sprouts. The cream top? Yeah. Damn. It's like the Strauss.

It comes in a glass bottle. Oh, Strauss family creamery yeah you know because i i like fatty ass milk that's what i'm saying it's great that's the fucking i mean because it like in japan the milk the fat content over there is so much as a kid i grew up drinking like i feel like what tasted like half and half uh and not like and then i would come to like get my school lunch and it'd be like two percent i'm like what the fuck is this watered down horseshit just spitting milk well to the point where like i hated even like the low-fat milk that i would just get the two percent because it was closer to water and i would just pound them shits like like it was water

anyway all that to say is okay i got my eye on this cream top now it's good you gotta get it it's good yeah i drink it every day how do you how do you develop the like the habit like you know i always drank milk when i was a kid and you know when you're in school every kid drinks milk that's what they give you for lunch right so i would just drink those and those were always like kind of gross they're like carton milk it tastes like cardboard and it's two percent milk so it's a little you know watery um but at home we would just buy whole milk which is actually only like three percent milk fat it's like not even that much more yeah um and then i liked that and i just always have liked you know like a heavier creamier milk so then like a few years ago i think i think my mom maybe found it or i found it but but we found this milk that has the cream top on it.

And now I just get that. I'm loving that. Yeah, because I think I drink around, I'll drink 3.8% fat or even 4.2. Wait, where do you find that, though? That's in Japan. They have the shit on the carton, bro. It's just like 3.8, 4.0, 4.2. You got to get that. You want to fuck your heart up i mean go ahead we got it uh that but when you drink that how that was cereal oh that sounds good

i grew up eating cereal with skim milk we were like a big family that's the why why would you even drink milk if you're gonna drink skim milk milk? I know. It's so bad now. Like, going back to that, it sucks. It's just water. Why didn't we just fucking pour water on it? Yeah, it's just weird looking water. Yeah, it's like gray blue water. Why are we doing this?

Why did you do this to me? Oh, man. Yeah, it doesn't body good. You don't know what cereal is supposed to be if you've been eating skim milk and that is what it has as like on the nutritional information they're like yeah if you just put a cup of skim milk in here it's like why would i do that why why don't you just tell me what it would be like if i just poured the cereal down the fucking garbage disposal i remember one time a babysitter was like watching me for like a

weekend or something and we had to go to the grocery store i was like maybe five or six and like they're like oh what cereal do you like i was like this one's like what milk do you get and i was like oh shit all right here we go maybe i'll go half a half or something and just say that's what i put on my cereal and because i would always drink the little mini creamers at restaurants and my mom would be like, yo, stop fucking around. I was embarrassing my ass, looking like an idiot, taking shots at the table like that. You just call them Barbie milks. Anyway, so at the grocery store, I remember seeing buttermilk for the first time.

And in my mind, I go, oh, that's the fuck. That's the one, right? Is this buttermilk? Yes, please. That has to be. This shit was not right. And I completely regretted it. I didn't know. And then person who was like babysitting me also didn't know what it was like are you sure this is what you would put on the mic yeah yeah that's what we do that's what

we do that's what is it salted like buttermilk it's i think it's like way more cream isn't it yeah it's just absolutely it's like not supposed to be drinkable no you don't you don't really with it yeah yeah you're not supposed to be drinkable no you don't you don't really like cook with it yeah yeah you're not supposed to be drinking that shit uh because like people like make it on their own like to cook with uh and it was such a i had to but i had to do one of those things where you take the l like just power through it because i couldn't admit i was wrong yeah that was the ego yeah exactly yeah exactly when you're five that's the ego again it couldn't admit i'm like hey you know what you were right this is not the milk that i normally drink you were right this is something

strange but i was like no this is sour but it's good and thick it's like yogurt so i married a woman who is lactose intolerant we we have lactate i have lactate in like all my pockets we have lactate just laying around the house but like there's something about milk definitely like i'm more sensitive to what it does to my body like it i think i'm like at least like partially lactose intolerant um or maybe it's like when you gain sympathy weight or something and And I'm just sympathetically lactose intolerant. But sometimes it hurts. You don't get that at all, Irene? I really don't.

Yeah. Good. Nope. I power up. It truly, though. I do power up. I'm like, I got to drink my two glasses of milk and I'm ready to go. Two glasses.

Wow. It's funny for me being like black and Asian, I feel like at some point milk or dairy would do something to me because, but I don't know. We're just some cheese-eating milk-drinking fools on this side.

So, you know, different food does different things to different people. I think shrimp makes me fart, though. What were you talking about? What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I recently found out about sad lamps, so I searched what an actual sad lamp was. I believe it was seasonal as affect disorder lamp apparently it's like a lamp that you buy during the winter months it's like recreates

the color temperature of the sunlight it makes you less sad uh my first thought was that since we only have one and a half seasons in la it may not make that much sense for me to buy one it's pretty it's pretty pretty you know sunny outside but then again it has been overcast with that nice uh you know blade runner uh tone so like maybe i do actually need uh to invest into a sad lamp i wonder if there's a weather service uh that gives weather forecast based on like dystopian movie landscape because like i definitely had like had a Denis Villeneuve vibe for a week there.

I was like, that's a very classy vibe. It's not full original Blade Runner, but a lot of his movies that are set in the future have this grayish, orangish sky. It kind of looks like a movie poster.

Yeah, exactly. Listening to a lot of synth. Talking to Siri a lot, just trying to get into that post-apocalyptic cyberpunk mindset. Yeah. I used to have a little light therapy lamp, but it was when I lived somewhere where there was winter. And I don't know if it did

anything. Yeah, I'm trying to think back. When I went to undergrad, I lived in the mountains, and we definitely had winter for four to six months out of the year. And the only thing I remember is that I would have very cozy sleeps at night. I don't remember being sad. I just remember having very nice frost-induced comas I'd go into when I'd go to sleep at night.

It's nice. You're just like, oh, I just feel like I'm in the house from misery all the time. The coziest, most heartwarming movie. Just have someone looking after you, you know? Yeah, taking care of you. Yeah. Looking after all belongings in the house to make sure you don't move them even remotely out of position. She doesn't want you to get cold.

She wants you to stay in the house. Yeah. Like Ellen. She doesn't want you to get cold. She wants you to stay in the house. Yeah. Like Ellen. I mean, talk about a good, like,

if you're thinking of movie characters that were good with, like, COVID and staying inside, Misery is right up there. Yeah, she'll hobble you so you can't go outside. Perfect. Yeah, exactly. Just the excuse I need to take it easy for a couple seasons. The lady from Misery would for sure have Dr. Fauci panties that freaky boomer moms are getting.

You know what? I would say that. I think there's a 50-50 coin toss between that and her being full QAnon. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. I could see either of those

because her undying affection for the for the stephen king proxy and that uh is like very similar to the way that i feel like the q people feel about trump except for the fact that like she was not forgiving of his missteps she was like yeah i'm gonna take this into my own hands which would be great I mean talk about a girl boss hashtag girl boss Jamie are you able to talk at all speaking of QAnon are you able to talk at all about the story you're working on or is that a exclusive

it's still kind of in the early stages but it's basically just like yeah talking about public vehicles in our area have been seen with q anon stickers and it's just uh i'm in the process of figuring out uh who how you know all the w's all of all of those i i don't know it's fucking like i feel like everyone's um learning curve for q anon has really had to ramp up the past month or so where I figured out my aunt is like she's been posting bizarre shit and I was like oh it's QAnon stuff like she's like I remember she posted to

Facebook JP Morgan sunk the Titanic I'm like that's a mad lib but that's a QAnon thing oh wow yeah truly just conspiracy mad libs truly yeah What the fuck is happening with the Titanic right now? Because there's also, it's really having a moment right now. Because there's also stories about maybe it wasn't an iceberg. It was like some glitch that fucked with the navigation system or something. People need to relax. I love Titanic. The myth, the movie,

everything. But people need to chill. At this point, who does care? In many ways, how Kubrick faked the moon landing, you think Cameron faked the Titanic? That was a thing. That was a thing that was uh in the

early uh 2010s uh early teens of this decade uh there were a lot of young people on the internet who were just finding out that the titanic was based on a true story. They're like, wait, what? You love to see it. Oh, boy. Yeah, I love that. I found out recently that a singer I like is Titanic nepotism. Like, some of her ancestors, I mean, she's, like, from a rich family

because every successful person is, right? But she, yeah, she's, like, Titanic. Like, her family became really prominent when her, like, great, great, great, great uncle sunk on the Titanic. Oh, wow. Titanic nepotism. You can still ride that out. Yeah.

You know what? You know, cash those checks. Do what you can do. That's all a hustle. Like I respect the game. Right. Yeah. King Princess.

Great music. Titanic nepotism. King Princess is her name? Yeah. Wow. Hell yeah. I King Princess is her name? Yeah. Wow. Love to see it. Yeah. At least she's not trying to hide any sort of nepotism with her name.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true, you know, to be false or vice versa? Okay, this might be a little bit controversial. But a myth. America is a democracy. That is a myth. America was not designed to be a democracy, which is why it's not functioning as one. And I think it's why we're all falling apart at the seams. Because yeah, we, we, America was designed to be a constitutional republic. Right. And only certain people were supposed to have access to any kind of political or social power whatsoever because which makes sense when you have millions of slaves millions of indigenous people like clearly you have to design a system where

just you can be in charge otherwise otherwise it's anarchy you guys um but yeah that's that's what this is i'm on a kick about this right now america is not a democracy and you know if you wander over to like the heritage foundation they'll just straight up tell you that it's not and it's not supposed to be um yeah that's that's it yeah that's why it's not working we could try a democracy that'd be cool let's get a shot come on don't be so cynical it's working i think i mean you can try that in your anarchist uh your antichrist district yeah but uh we're over here we're not we're not messing with that uh oh yeah oh god what a yeah it's just such a mess i mean it's just and it also just lays bare you know like it really is like the ripple effects of what the

constitution actually was like it's not for all people that's all you know all like and people want to fucking circle jerk around the constitution be like yo read this shit you know i mean and think about how what the the whole plan the whole point of it is and yeah that's why we're here it's not like they started like all right we as americans know that there are weak people and us as those with people of means must take care of everyone because this is america land where we treat everyone fairly and equitably regardless of their race creed religion or status in society like but you know what i mean it's just like nah man hey you got land okay cool you got slaves okay cool you a man cool you white

okay great uh all right so we're gonna run shit i mean it's a page one rewrite in the sense that it's like control all control f like replace all but like do you do you need like it seems like it's salvageable if you just like make some very like broad like change white male landowner to you know i don't know like we've tried to do that yeah humans and make it human rights instead of, it just seems like that's that unspoken, uh, white maleness of, of that version of the, of the constitution is kind of,

they will fight to the death to keep that. But you know, like, look, whether it's the, you know, whatever the fuck that grand jury trial was for Brianna Taylor and whatever evidence,

what the fuck happened there jury trial was for brianna taylor and whatever evidence yeah what the fuck happened there right um and we are still trying to find out or you know all the people's rights who are infringed upon like america just always has this thing like their best thing is trying to figure out how to like carve up one life into being less than worth less than one life right all right so one person made three fifthths of one guy is this person. And then let me say this person. Okay, so 15 of them will equal one regular person. And that mentality sort of echoes still in that we see inhumane treatment of people constantly.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the system is working as designed, which is not working for most people. Yeah. No. Yeah. Shit. Well, all right.

That was brutal. I'm sorry. No, that's... But hey, I think honestly, this is part of the process. You have to kind of fully get your head around everything. I mean, I think for a certain group of people, you can look at America and say, yeah, we have to kind of fully get your head around every i mean i think for a certain group of people you can look at america and say yeah we have a lot of work to do there's some people who are gradually getting there like oh okay yeah it's kind of yucky and now some of you're like okay yeah maybe we have to do more but this is the thing like you also got to get

to that point where you can honestly look at it and be so bummed the fuck out about it that you can be moved to be on the right side or do something productive. Because yeah, I think getting cynical about it is like, I understand that feeling. But you know, this thing, this thing, you know, we have a shot if more people can sort of remind themselves like, yes, yes, that is exactly it. I mean, that's like the point of the Electoral College, right? That's the point of the electoral college, right? That's the point of the Senate is that you have to have significantly more people voting a certain way in order to make the process like slightly more democratic. So if more people are willing to show up and there are enough non-voters who are not abstaining for like personal morality reasons like there's enough

of us to like make a difference but i think that there's so many people still who are have enough privilege to be mostly unaffected right um so or they're just straight up like accelerationists too that's true it's like yeah no like it actually needs to like it needs to be trumped so people take the streets and like seize the means of production and we're talking about like flipping this whole thing over so it all depends on your road to like where how we get the equity but i think it's like hard too because some people just feel like okay vote then what right and it's like right because then you vote and then actually you're gonna have to stay engaged now that's kind of the whole point actually it's not vote and then like go back to sleep you have to keep the

pressure on otherwise we lose we immediately start losing any ground that we could potentially gain yeah and i think that we really saw that with obama and just like the hemorrhaging of like local seats right like democrats lost 1200 1600 state seats in like the state legislatures um it was it was a wild number and so yeah i think that we really have to be aware of like we gotta keep gotta keep your foot on the gas if you want to keep this train moving that's not trains don't have gas do they no i mean i don't know some of them trains don't have gas, do they? No. I mean, I don't know. Some of them. Diesel trains have gas. Open up that steam valve, you know? Not all steam locomotives these days.

Come on, you got electric, you got your diesel. Maglev. I am not a train engineer. I know way more about this shit now than I should. Okay, right. All the, yeah. I would just say, in terms of the cynicism thing, when you look at the things that we have that are good, that do, you know, help people lead their lives and that do function as safety nets for people who are less advantaged, like those require action and they've required, like when you read the history of you know just any history where good things have happened it's a bunch of you know actions taken by smart people who are motivated

so it's not like they we can't afford to be cynical because there's just like so much so much work to do and like by doing good work like small uh you make small incremental changes like that does add up over time but yeah and also it's like it's like it's like it's like you're used to like not driving a car and you're always being like used to being driven around on how like this government is functioning in the direction of the country like i vote for someone and like they take care of it i don't i can't really be engaged with it but unfortunately the people who've been driving it have been the same fucking people for the last fucking four decades basically and they're falling they've been falling asleep at the wheel as they drive crashing it into shit and they're like yo what the fuck is going on up there like as this car's

fucking up and now i think that's what we need is more people to actually look at how it's being driven and begin to see that like we actually have a role that more people have to be engaged in how this is moving versus a more passive thing of like every two years, I look at a list of how to check a box when I go to a polling place rather than actually thinking of like, okay, this is what a shared vision could be of education, of a financial system, of housing of uh mental health support all those things uh rather than just like i'll leave it up to the person with the letter next to their name that i i think i agree with it's just not we can't do that anymore we're also i'm seeing mentioned more and more we're also being ruled by a gerontocracy the right but just the oldest fucking people who out of any developed nation moral yeah whose moral center who's like just existential experiential center is from a different time like they've accumulated a bunch of experiences that are no longer relevant but because of the

system that we have in place it's just you know inertia is more important than who's actually going to be the best at leading and bringing new ideas that actually work and help people they should have a thing like where if you if you're a sitting like uh politician like at the federal level and someone tricks you with an email scam you lose your seat exactly yeah our our company does like has these like sneaky little uh they're not that sneaky to be honest but like people you know they try and do a phishing scam on you and if you fall for it it's not a real phishing scam but it's like it's like yo man like you gotta slip in you gotta pay more attention to this shit. They need to do that nationally for politics. Because like, oh, really?

You thought if you click this link here and enter your birth date and last four of your social, that you were going to see a video of Nancy Pelosi in a strip club? Sorry, Ron Johnson. You've got to go. And finally, what's a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false i guess um okay i'll do i'll do a i'll do a sad one okay here's something um that uh a myth that i i know to be false um the myth is that Brianna's Taylor's murderers have been arrested. And it's not true. It's actually false.

Actually, nothing happened to them. They got charged for shooting into another apartment. Yeah, but they're fine. Yeah. And even then it was like, okay, and we'll see what happens. I mean, I'm still curious what is still going on with Daniel Cameron and all of the grand jury, whatever happened there. Didn't he ask for an extra week or something to get his shit straight before he shares the grand jury testimony? Yeah, I mean, right now, there's a lot out now that shows he misled.

It was very misleading. Very, very misleading. To the point where there are even people in that grand jury who are like uh i need to like say something because this is like of public importance uh that people know what my you know experience was like and on that grand jury uh yeah i guess that's you know the myth is sort of like that you know even after we have people in kente cloth in the Capitol. Right. Yeah. It's weird how nothing changed after that.

I mean, we got a bill banning the photographs of dead bodies by first responders quicker than we had anything else. Like, yeah, I was really hoping that, um, lawsuit Vanessa Bryant sued the LA sheriff's department.

Um, and that, that went very quickly. Um, yeah. And I kind of wish it had lasted for a lot longer because there are a lot of other things that a citizen with time and money could sue them for. Right. We keep having these protests and they keep shooting people like just all across the state, you know.

Yeah, the L.A. Sheriff's Department is not backing down. They're still beating the shit out of protesters. department is is not backing down they're still beating the shit out of protesters i guess you know they're that's that's a myth is that the police have changed it all after um the the onslaught of of protests for the past may and just more aggressive july august september four months now like petulant toddlers with guns they're just like mad and it's just perpetuating and perpetuating an escalation hey that's why if you're in la you should there is a reason to give a fuck about the vote because there's a lot of local shit you could vote on that will help directly with that like oh absolutely yes and you could actually take a big

bite out of the sheriff's department budget and put that into direct community funding uh you know there are a lot of progressive candidates running for various district uh assembly and representative positions um like more you you know, more than, more than last election. So it's a very good time to check out your local races. Get local y'all get local, get local. Cause yeah,

the presidential one, I just don't know if that's really going anywhere. I don't see sequel potential in that. I mean, I don't know if we're going to really bring this IP back out and ring it out for another one. I don't see, I don't know. We'll see. Are they, they want out and ring it out for another one. I don't see. I don't know.

We'll see. They want to keep running this out. It's the same characters? You don't even have new characters? Yeah, like have a baby. Right. Well, yeah, you want the baby, but then you have to immediately forget about the baby

or like have the baby disappear. Right, right, right. Yeah, exactly. All right, guys. You know all about disappearing babies, don't you, Jack? Oh, man. Well, who's on You know all about disappearing babies, don't you, Jack? Oh, man. Well, who's on trial? I'm not on trial here.

You're a disappearing baby. I got to go. I just got an email from your wife. I just got an email from your wife about various herbal poisons. She keeps sending them to me, and I'm like, stop. Sending an email. Hey, get Jack to send these to you. We're not even friends.

All right. So I don't know how i feel about this story miles you added it to our brain bleach section but why don't why don't you tell the people the good i i mean it's it's just interesting news it's not like objectively good or bad i just like this because it's a head scratcher and immediately like sparks a thousand thoughts in a direction that has nothing to do with this country. So Barry Jenkins, the Academy Award winner behind Moonlight. And didn't he also win an adapted one for If Beale Street Could Talk? I think so.

Anyway, this man, he's out here. He's a cinema genius. So it was very interesting to see now that barry jenkins of moonlight fame has been tapped to direct the sequel to the live action lion king film so i'm like wait what the what what the what the one that had beyonce in it uh that they're doing a sequel with barry with Barry Jenkins at the helm so I didn't realize I mean I knew that the Lion King did well but it did over like a one and a half billion dollars so

you know Disney was like okay so sequel now I don't care what it's about and just put some other names on it so we can get this thing going we don't know anything about what this film is but this is where it gets interesting so keep in mind we have Barry Jenkins who just does amazing work dramatic filmmaking right but to bring this mind into the lion king uh this is from the deadline article they're keeping the log line under wraps but i'm

told that the story will further explore the mythology of the characters including mufasa's origin story moving the story forward while looking back conjures memories of the godfather part two set on the african plain with the continuation of the tradition of music that was a key part of the 94 animated classic that that that blah blah so so they're he's doing the godfather two of the lion king i mean okay wow so the i did not think the lion, I think we've talked about this on the show, I did not think the live-action Lion King was good, and I think it was bad for reasons that can't really be fixed if you're staying in the same universe

because the animals aren't good actors, even though you can make it look like they're talking, they're not good at emoting uh in a way that we can recognize because that's a dunstan from dunstan checks in you well thank you obviously there's the dunstan clause where dunstan checks in get dunstan gives one of the great performances of all time but thank you uh the lion king for whatever reason didn't translate you know jungle book had at least a human at the center. It worked a little bit better.

This might sound speciesist. And also it just was a shot for shot remake. So that is the one thing that Barry Jenkins could address. I'm sure his visual imagination set loose in that setting could be very

cool. I don't know, man. It's just a little bit dystopian that every great artist gets filtered through the Disney universe in some way now. I know. Is it going to get super heavy, though? You know what I mean? Where he's like, look, man, you need to talk about how Scar ended up like he did. You know what I mean? He was kind of going through some things he couldn't really share with Mufasa,

you know, because of the way the plane was set up back then. Yeah. I just don't, I just, I could see, I don't know, there's a version though that could be just so out there that I'd be like, yo, this is fucking wild because like now I'm attaching really dramatic stories to these animals, but it's Disney.

So I can't imagine there will be something that will you know boggle blow a child's mind out of the water by like casting their gaze upon it uh super producer anna jose does point out that there was a lion king sequel the animated version simba's pride but i'm assuming that is not what they are going to do no unfortunately because that would have been about Simba and Nala and whatever the reuniting her or something. It's just a lot of birth scenes, actually. That was my complaint. There wasn't enough birth.

Yeah. I swear to God, no bit. I thought that I looked at it really quickly. The prep for this show like early this morning and i thought it said a live action larry king and then i stopped looking at it and just the idea that he's so old and disgusting that like they would have to they'd have to animate him like in order for like he like he was an animal in the serengeti like he has the same humanity in him that a like a beast would have and i think that one and a half billion dollars for that wouldn't

be enough i think could you imagine what the larry king show would look like if they used practical effects like rather than cgi that would be unbelievable they turn him into that like octopus from uh that from that comic book. From Goonies? No, no. Remember he fought Spider-Man or something? Right. Oh, yeah.

I like that too. Live action Larry King. Wow. That would be something. I still like that combination of words. Live action Larry King live. I'm sorry I just put you in that position. i'm sorry i just put you in that position i'm sorry that jack o'brien who's a very very experienced and talented host

that i said something that made him close the segment with that wow that would be something i i put him in that? And how about that? Well, I'll be. I mean, that is, I'm trying to trademark my transitions. Well, I will be right back. Irene, what is something that you think is underrated? Underrated? Competence.

Just being competent in general. What inspired that? You know, nothing. Definitely not this podcast. Definitely not the debate. Definitely not the debate. What do you guys think about Chris Wallace? Because I heard a lot of people saying that was the worst moderation.

a lot of people saying like that was the worst uh like moderation i i don't know that like there was i don't know what a competent person was supposed to do when with regards to the the interrupting right like if you can't cut the mic what are you supposed to do unless i'm i don't know he could have been like angry dad on the road trip with the kids fighting in the back and be like i'll pull this fucking car over right now i don't give a fuck whose birthday yeah i think he should have been more strict and stern and angry about it yeah just gotten angry like you know what if you guys don't stop doing this debate the debate's over like we're just we're just gonna pull the car over yeah yeah we're just gonna end it and then talk about how you guys are being dumb for the last hour it was pretty wild

that like just how transparent the kid who like arguing child in the backseat of the car energy was when trump was like well him too right yeah when he told it wasn't me that was just bad boy he was bad boy too tell him what the heck i have to go to yellow light he should go to yellow light too that's not fair that's not fair oh this is bullshit mr wallace what you say nothing i'm sorry i'm sorry he should also be yellow light if i have to go to yellow light he should also have to go to yellow light what about i have to go to red light no it was i don't know i mean like yeah i guess the one thing i didn't like was when it was like it was clear that him and biden were like vibing together about how out of control the president was being i'm like have some air of

like impartiality a little bit right yeah i don, yeah, I don't know either, Vice President Biden. I mean, this guy, yeah, I guess he is. You know, sure. Because I know on the right, they are all just mad at Chris Wallace. So on the left, people are blaming him because these two old men don't know how to behave. And then on the right, they're like, oh, he was

against the president by asking him direct questions about things pertaining to his life and presidency yeah it also just sounded like he would be like begging trump to like stop talking he'd be like oh no you're gonna love this next question yeah that was so wild he's like he said that like multiple times he's like no no this one you're gonna love like yeah what it's like a it's like, no, this one you're going to love. Like, what? It's like an open mic comedian bombing. Like, how about this next one? Yeah, you're going to love this one.

You're going to love this one. No, I swear. This one really, though, you guys. Don't give me the light. You're going to love this, Mr. President. That or you're feeding a baby vegetables. And you're like, oh, you're going to like this one. Here comes the plane.

You're going to love this bite. So this next question's a plane. Open up the tunnel. It's going to fly. bike. So this next question's a plane. Open up the tunnel. It's going to fly. Don't spit it out. Don't spit it out. Don't just chew, chew, chew, chew, chew. Yep, chew, chew.

Here comes the train. Oh, man. This shit works really well, too, by the way. The train stuff. Oh, the plane, the train, whatever. The plane, the train. Transport. Get the calories into me mouth.

You know what I mean? Comes around the bend, going through tunnels. You can do all sorts of creative stuff do you remember being fed like that pretty vividly and i don't i have a vivid memory of it and i'm curious if maybe i was doing that this shit too late into life that i have these really strong memories of that shit i don't think i ever did that i never got a plane coming in don't think so yeah i mean that's what i'm talking about when i say it works it gets me to eat stuff really yeah like it makes food more delicious yeah uh yeah no i don't i actually don't remember that uh remember eating that i remember there was like a spoon that my older sister and i would fight over because it had a bee on it. And like that, when you got the bee spoon,

that was like the ring of power. And like that made food more delicious. That's something that I've tried to replicate and haven't been able to succeed with. You know what they should have done for the debates is use a talking stick. Yeah. If you're not holding the talking stick, you can't talk.

Or like the conch and like the lord of the flies yeah you know what i mean yeah oh for sure the i mean they're going to have to cut mics am i am i making it up that they did that at one time where they like he couldn't talk over people uh was that like maybe during a clinton debate or one of the uh original republican debates i feel like i've i remember mike's being turned off during a debate but maybe that was just i do know that the council for presidential debates is they're like okay we're gonna take another look at how we're running that thing because you can't just have people just straight screaming over the other one when they're like bringing up their ineptitude over something like a pandemic or you know take

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signals um and so they share the senses of touch and taste taste and even control one another's limbs or can control one another's limbs. Their names are Tatiana and Krista. And Tatiana sees out of both of Krista's eyes, can see out of both of Krista's eyes, and Krista can see out of one of Tatiana's eyes. And they can hear each other's thoughts, which is pretty dope. That's crazy. thoughts, which is pretty dope.

That's crazy. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. Whoa. Okay. Yeah. That's like, I'm like, okay. Yeah, right? Seeing out, that's gotta be a trip.

Yeah. I mean, it must not be because that's how you're used to experiencing life from the beginning, but to try and put myself in that space where like doing tricks and shit be like like a magician could probably not fuck with them because they could literally be like yo okay like they're just talking in their heads like all right this is what we're gonna do yeah so like this motherfucker he's gonna try and pull that card i don't know i don't know how it works but uh that's specifically what

they call it they call it talking in our heads so like they recognize that it's different enough that they like can describe it to people and be like yeah it's like we're having a conversation in our heads but y'all can't hear it um that's so wild how do they know like when they're looking out of their own eyes versus the like how do you switch back and forth with the eyes yeah that's a great question i don't i don't know yeah the there's a documentary about them this was just a uh today i learned on the front page of reddit and i think the documentary about them came out a couple years ago so there is a documentary you can check out but it's um yeah it's dope all right let's do a little brain bleach uh we have an official

ruling uh from ireland uh and it turns out that subway bread is not bread i didn't know this was up for debate let alone yeah it is okay and i was surprised too you know sodium and sugar are those ingredients that have massive effects on our health we've all seen we've all read the studies recently we all willing which willing to accept that you probably don't want to go od on the sodium and the sugar uh and i definitely have become more aware of this as my body turns more and more into an old decrepit skeleton uh but the amount of things like stands for old decrepit old decrepit yes before od skeleton um but the uh the amount of things like sugar also can like affect how things are categorized so subway they were fucking they're pushing the limits on the amount of

sugar in their bread that like the like a fucking like the supreme court of ireland was like hold on hold on hold on hold on you're trying to be exempt from like a vat like a value-added tax because you're saying this this is a staple food your bread is a staple food okay well let's do a quick breakdown really quick let's see how much sodium and sugar is in here if we're going to call this a staple food turns out there is so much fucking sugar in it that it cannot be considered a staple food. It, in fact, has five times as much sugar as permitted by Ireland-specific VAT tax code act from the 70s. So they're saying, no, this shit is actually a pastry, fam.

This is not bread. These are pastries that you're this to me sounds like the like the age-old the hot button southern issue which is can you put sugar in a biscuit or if you do put sugar in a biscuit does that make it technically cake i don't know that southern that makes some some people get really pissed if you put sugar in a biscuit recipe even just a tablespoon because oh in the biscuit oh got it got it i thought you meant like someone's like sugar like they got the baked biscuit they're like you know what i like to do get a little old butter and sugar on here oh i mean that's that's the classic that was my sandwich growing up

butter yeah yeah who did it yeah that was a very special treat. Oh, or what is that? Domino's cinnamon sugar? Oh, my God. But you can just mix up both? Woo, shit. No, I just, that was dessert. Anyway. If I got a butter and sugar sandwich, I would eat that now. Maybe I'll do it.

I'm an adult. I can do whatever I want. So if you put a little bit of sugar in your dough, your biscuit dough recipe, people will come at you and be like, no, you just made a cake. Yeah, some people are like weirdly, I guess not pedantic,antic but you know a little pedantic about it where they're like if you put sugar in it then it's a cake it's just a small cake it's a cupcake it's not a biscuit a real biscuit you know it's like right it's like you ask an italian how to make a red sauce and it's like well someone's gonna tell you there's a real way you know right right right and is there i don't

fucking know oh there is a real way to make a sauce, but it depends on the region of Italy that you're trying to make a sauce. Are we talking a ragu? Well, I would just like to say a true bolognese doesn't typically use as much tomato as one would think. In Bologna, they don't use as much tomato. In Bologna? Yeah.

So anyway, I digress. Where was I? But it's weird because before, Subway used to have yoga mat bread. Now they have pastry bread. I just, they can't get it right with their fucking bread. They should just try using bread. Have they tried bread instead of donuts and yoga mats?

That's stupid. Jack, you don't understand. Bread is a living product that deteriorates very quickly and what subway does is they make sandwiches and sandwich products that sit around all day in open air which is also how things deteriorate that's why their chicken looks like not a chicken you know what i mean that's why their their chicken looks like not a chicken. You know what I mean? Their chicken is a yoga mat. It's a yoga mat. Yes, you're right.

It's the old sponges that they use to clean. Once they're done using it for that, they just cut it up into chicken strips. Yeah, I think it's vegan. I think Subway's chicken is vegan. If it's not, they're missing an opportunity because it might as well be.

And then you can market it on that. There's no meat properties. The chicken was they tried to sue somebody, right? Because they said it was less than 50% chicken. And they're like, no. And they sued and lost. It was the salami. I don't know if you guys talked about this Danny Palumbo.

I know you had him on recently. Yeah, we did. But I don't know. I don't think we did. I don't know if you guys talked about this danny palumbo i know you had him on recently yeah we did but i don't know i don't think we i don't think he used to he used to talk about this on stage and and so i remember it very well um the something like the ham at subway is like 60 turkey and so in europe they wouldn't let them label it as ham because it's a combination meat product and like they're all their salami all their like charcuterie basically is not mostly is mostly not pork so they have trouble legally calling it pork yeah honey i've brought home some charcuterie from subway let me lay it out for you this is going to be a fine spread we're having this evening. What board do you put that charcuterie board

on? Is it just cardboard? Is that the only appropriate use? You put that shit on a hefty bag. Yeah, that's upsetting. Like a construction. That's what it is. A construction black construction trash bag. You put your Subway charcuterie board for that one.

I remember learning about the the tea about the all the meat being turkey from uh this person i was working on a campaign with like fucking years ago and she would be like you know we stopped you know like when you're like doing shit you got to get quick lunch i'm like oh let me get let's pull over here i want to get this subway real quick and she's like i'm gonna go next door i can't eat so i was like all right that's that's fine and she's like but if you want to go ahead but honestly i wouldn't and i was like all right asshole do you want to tell me something or you just want to be mad passive aggressive about it right so she did her thing i got my motherfucking tuna because you know what the

fuck i do and i will never be stopped i don't care if that tuna is fucking 30 rat i'm eating that shit so i come out i'm eating it and she's like what'd you get i'm like tuna and she's like oh okay and i was like and it's like a lot of people get the turkey or whatever and she's like you know the thing is all the everything is made of turkey did she look over her shoulder before yeah she did like she fucking did like she was like like it was uh what like dodson in jur Jurassic Park when he's meeting up with the DNA. He's like, we got Dodson here. Nobody cares.

I'm like, see, nobody gives a fuck if it's turkey. So, my employee is staring out the window at you, speaking into a mic. And I was like, why are you being all wild shady about it? She's like, because my family, we own two Quiznos franchises. So, that's how we know. So, this is Quiznos propaganda, man. That's when I was like, what the fuck? Don't share this with our listeners.

Even if it's true, my bottom line was like, I don't care. I don't go there because I think I'm eating the real thing. I go there because I want a tuna-like substance in between a pastry bread. Yeah, I want a lettuce and cream cheese sandwich. That's what I go in there for. That's what I get. Yeah, that want a lettuce and cream cheese sandwich. That's what I go in there for, and that's what I get. Yeah.

That is basically what we're working on. I've yet to buy the, you know, because I'm pretty sure Subways are still kind of using their stores as like markets that I need to buy like the actual commercial size thing of tuna that they use so I can have my own vat of Subway tuna at my house and completely just destroy my insides subways so i didn't even know they were doing that the oh yeah you could buy like a fucking 20 like a oh that's right i'm joking like a eight pound bag of bacon for like

25 bucks or something that's right that's right and and you get better value other places but you know yeah it will be the equivalent of buying a pack of bacon at the grocery store in terms of the bacon content but uh yeah it's mostly crock mostly sawdust not crocodile the the shoe the shoe crock all right that's gonna do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. Means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend and I will talk to you Monday.

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