The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 156 (Best of 12/14/20-12/18/20)

Episode Date: December 20, 2020

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zeitgeist we are thrilled to be joined by a real dick yeah uh real real jerk who uh we're not going to take it from probably the most hated guest we've had. New Zealand shit. He is the hilarious, the talented, the legendary Guy Montgomery. Yay. Honored to be here as a man on the ground. Just checking in heaven. What's it like? Making sure my mad lads are doing okay the mad lads i cannot but i just

cannot believe how just as a you know binary looking at the u.s and new zealand how different things are going because the latest the news story i woke up to or yesterday this morning was that yeah new zealand's economy has bounced back in the third quarter surges out of recession in v-shaped recovery like it's all happening it's all come everything's coming up kiwi right now that's right and i i would like to accept a huge amount of responsibility for that injecting what limited disposable income i have into your local cafes occasional flights to different cities you domestic tourism, if you will. Yeah, yeah.

It is life as usual in New Zealand. And I will say I'm honoured and flattered that you guys are checking in with our news. So really, has America bothered to keep their finger on the thrumming pulse of the happenings of Aotearoa New Zealand and then now you guys are schooled up and you know this is maybe a first in um uh transnational relations but I I barely know what's going on over there fellas I gotta tell you the amount of um american like pretty much since your election remember that really efficient little piece of democracy you guys exercised over there but since the outcome of that there's just

been like it's like the entire nation has just been slowly turning the dial down on the us on the us to the point that like if I skim read the local newspapers or generally the news, it's really odd. I hadn't actually thought about it. But I think part of it is that Trump's not been given the oxygen he once was. It's sort of like this low-level thrumming anxiety, even from down here, has just been shown the door. Yeah, I think it's a

combination of being too much of a bummer to tell people about like yeah you know that that thing that dumpster fire still somehow the flames are getting bigger i thought yeah how um that was yeah that was the analogy i thought during your election it was like amer America was voting between a massive kerosene fire and a bucket of water. And you guys voted for the bucket of water. But it's not a big enough bucket. But yeah, I'm tapped into New Zealand for sure. Is this a return to what things were like before the Trump administration?

Or is this even quiet for uh new zealand's honestly the way that the way that we are the way that people consume news and information now i cannot cast my mind back that far for a relevant comparison the before times it it feels um like i haven't spoken to people in america for or actually you know been on a Zoom call with people in America for a while. And it is because it's hard to not sound like a total ass when talking about life in New Zealand. But it's just like you're just doing your business. You're out and about. You're doing your business.

And you don't have the same volume of time in which you're just looking at a computer for new information about what's happening. And so I feel less informed. And honestly, fellas, feels really good. Feels really good. Fuck you, man. Do we look a little more dead behind the eyes than the people you've been interacting with on a daily basis over there?

Yeah, the energy is a little different. Oh, damn. interacting with on a daily basis over there yeah the energy is a little different but it's it's it's it's great to be here and you know like it's it's a it's a process but surely you've got to be you've got to feel as though you're turning some some sort of corner the numbers are not and you're going into winter yeah but we're turning the corner in the wrong direction i know but it's like know, you've got the knowledge. This must be the worst corner. And then you think, well, once we're around this corner, surely there's a much more mild corner to come.

Yeah, and then we realize we're in a maze of just fucking brutality. We're like, wait, it's just all corners, and each one worse than the last. And then you wake up the next morning and you're uh jack nicholson from uh from the shining just frozen solid uh exactly yeah well guy we you are giving us life uh we appreciate you uh giving us a little beam of sunshine from wellington is my new washington yes you know they'll be they'll be overwhelmed to hear that I know I know it took me it took took me a while for to build the courage to say that on mic but I

did yeah what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are um I searched recently uh for uh pregnant woman hormones um which that is something that my wife is going through right now. Okay. So we're due in April. So I just wanted to search that and see what kind of things go on with that. If it's a normal thing, how to deal with it. But the stuff that's in google is not very helpful it's just like be funny be caring it's just like all right well

you know i try to do that like right before i start there's some hacks i can do yeah like do you have any direct line connections to improve the mood yeah right so you did the crude dude google search version of what to expect when you're expecting. When you're like, pregnant woman hormones? What do you got, Google? How do I deal with my wife's hormones? I don't get it.

I'm just a simple man. I don't know what to do yet. We're five months out. I guess I'll acknowledge what's going on here. Here we go. I guess I should have ordered a book or something, but I don't know. Yeah. And also congrats, man, on your first kid. Yeah, congratulations.

Thank you. Yeah, yeah. First kid. Wow. Was that a thing, a planned pregnancy within quarantine? I knew people who were looking at it like, well, this is a sustained period where I might be able to be around for a long time. So should we have a child?

Did that enter the thing or was this something that you were just always happening? Or did pandemic have anything to do with it? Well, we, I mean, definitely the pandemic had a factor in the timing of it for sure. Because we did plan because we were like, I'm usually out touring and on the road like a lot of weekends of the month. And right now I've been home more than I ever have and I probably will be going into you know the new year and stuff like that more than usual and we were like okay I'll be here more like this is one of those things where if I was on the road all the time like that's just that's kind of hard for her while

she's pregnant and experiencing that you know what I? So we kind of figured if we did it when we did it and that it would be beneficial for us both and be the most helpful for her along the way. So that way I'm not just gone and then she's just dealing with everything while being pregnant. So yeah. Right.

But she's been great through the process, even though I'm Googling hormones and stuff. It's more just like, it's a foreign thing to me because we're both pretty even keel people. So it's just like an adjustment,

like, oh, okay, this is like part of it. This is like a thing. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. And it's good to just know what to expect

throughout the... I should have got that book. I should have what what to expect throughout i should have got that book i should have got what to expect when you're expecting gets real uncomfortable for uh for women towards the end of the yeah that's what i've been reading and hearing about sleeping gets difficult um yeah get that body pillow i mean. I do highly recommend the body pillow for sure. I'll look into it. Yeah. Me too. I'm a side sleeper.

And I learned that tip from my homegirl that was pregnant. Yeah. Yeah. She was like, you might want to try a body pillow. Because I remember it was like, hey, what's that thing? She's like, it's because I'm pregnant. And it helps me sleep more comfortably because my body is all growing in different directions. I was like, huh?

I was like, you think that'll work for me? Yeah. You're like, are you done with that thing? Or can I buy that all? Yeah, exactly. The second the child was born, I'm like, hey, man, I'm coming to get that body pillow really quick. Yeah.

She's like, you don't want to say hi to the child? No, no, no, no. Cute kid. Give me the pillow. During this pregnancy, are your families based in la or do you have as your are your families like on completely other parts of the country because i know that's another thing a lot of people have been sorting through yeah so her family's in northern california uh it's about five six hour drive away so if they need to come into town it's not crazy but it's still you know a bit

but uh my family's back in kansas so that's a either a very very long drive it's still a bit. But my family's back in Kansas. So that's either a very, very long drive. It's like a 25-hour drive or it's a flight home. So yeah, we're going to try once the baby's born to stagger their visits and stuff. Hopefully this stuff with COVID has chilled out a little bit and everybody's a little bit more healthy and, you know, we got four or five months away, so we'll see. I'm hopeful. We'll see. And I like that. We just need to tell COVID to chill out.

Take a chill pill, COVID. Come on, bro. What the fuck? We get it, okay? We get it. Our country's trash. Point made. Now you're just rubbing it in at this point. You're a sore loser at this point. Yeah. Oh, God.

What is something you think is overrated, Nick? Billionaires donating money. I think they get so much credit, and nobody ever donates more than they have increased their wealth. I just saw that story today about Mackenzie, what's her face? Bezos, ex-Bezos. Yeah. So she had given $6 billion this year to charity and they were like, isn't this incredible? And in Forbes, she was listed in July as having $30 billion. And then in September,

this is this year, then in september she had 60 68 billion dollars oh um and then so she gave away four billion in that time it's like thank you and she said her goal was to give away half of her money which is hilarious for a person with 68 billion dollars to say that she only wants to give away half of it and also how can you say that and then give away such a smaller percentage of what you made what half of what half of your okay future earnings let me just not time in the day to give away all this money nick you got four billion dollars laying around that's what i thought so you know what it is a lot of money and she does this for literally no work she owns four percent of amazon and just that she gets in this time she's gotten

um a billion dollars every three days i mean she i would say she probably did it for more work in terms of more work than jeff bezos because she had to be married to that motherfucker for that many years. But I do like these. Shouldn't have to be. I don't know. At a certain point, you're kind of like, let me look at the clock, man. If I run this out a few more years, I can get half this bitch. Literally everyone else in the world didn't marry him.

So I'm not giving any credit. We all managed to do that but the two things that they love doing is uh getting credit for giving away their money and sheltering the fuck out of their money from gut from the government from any like having to pay taxes which is where it should actually be going. Like, yeah, the government will gladly take half of your money. They take half of a lot of people's money and who can't afford to fucking like put it in a tax shelter off of offshore or whatever.

So at the very least, I submit to the Zeit gang, let's stop using Amazon. Boycott Amazon. Nick Turner said it, and when they kill me, you look back to this episode of TDZ. Amazon's really the worst. It's bad. I started boycotting last year, and it's incredibly difficult.

Yeah. I got in trouble for boycotting this year and having to pay like $30 shipping on something. But you know what? We'll probably stop doing the Audible ads too then. Now Audible on the other hand. Yeah, I love the Washington Post too. Look, it's not all terrible.

Anyways, we do want to get to Kirk Cameron real quick because he's part of the, you know, let's do something for the holidays and own the libs situation. Yeah, why? You know, why? Why do this? The Growing Pains guy that I only remember is the growing pains guy.

He is attempting relevance yet again. But this time it's specifically to troll Governor Gavin Newsom. Now, look, well, I love to troll the fuck out of like Gavin Newsom. Also, you know, please let me have Kamala Harris's Senate seat or Dianne Feinstein's Gavin Newsom. Let's talk. This is a very specific take that they're going down, this battle with him that they want to do, which is about, you know, why are they stopping, you know, the congregations of people just because there's a pandemic that's transmitted through the air and enclosed spaces and could lead to death? I don't understand why they would ask us to do that. Nay, why would they make this a law or say that we have to do this?

So this dude has been doing some outdoor caroling, just like full on, meet me at a parking lot. I'm going to set up some PAs and we'll just yell into each other's mouths in the cold. And he did the, like, he's, I think the second one happened recently in Thousandaks at the oaks mall parking lot and they were just the photos were like yo this is interesting like no masks and and and singing um sure uh the police were called and which they just came up didn't give any citations they were just sort of like you guys should wear masks and they were like boo and then they left so uh this is

all again so camera or kurt cameron can troll the governor and like like not even giving a fuck about these people like sure he's gonna bait these people in with the promises of like hey get your holiday jollies off with everybody and like we can sing like you know fa la la la and all that shit but really he's just doing that behind the scenes he's like oh yeah man this is just to say fuck yeah this isn't about jesus yeah right oh yeah i will wear a mask and i will be 70 feet away looking through binoculars that's how her camera was experiencing yeah but try and explain bananas without agreeing with kirk uh cameron's. Have you ever seen that video of him being like, oh, you don't think God exists?

And then he holds up a banana and is like, explain this. And it's like, huh? Oh, what happened to him? Wait, so the logic being like, wait, what does that mean? It's too perfect of a creation for man to have created it even though like

basically all fruits that we uh consume these days have just been genetically modified and like by man yeah by man like bananas were the size of your pinky finger before humanity started just like breeding all the biggest ones together like and now we don't even have like bananas that like our L our elders used to eat. Yeah. Like we've got like, we have like one banana on earth now. Thanks.

Kirk. Cara. Thanks God or God, Santo or Monsanto or whatever the fuck you are. Shout out to that one banana doing all that work though. Great, great food. well i mean do you think kurt cameron smoked weed no that feels like a but but that you're right that is

like look at this banana like i feel like he smoked weed once and saw god he talked to a guy who smoked weed once i feel like right right he's coming from. Oh, yeah, yeah. He met a white dude, a white pastor with dreadlocks who's like a trippy Christian pastor. And he was just like, I don't know if you thought about a banana, Kirk. It seems like chaos on the outside and it doesn't make sense. But when you peel it, it has the vital essences of things we need like potassium and vitamins and the fibers we need for our bodies, sort of like Christ's love and salvation. and vitamins and the fibers we need for our bodies, sort of like Christ's love and salvation. From the outside, it may look like this one thing,

but you really have to engage with it to understand its nourishment, Kirk. God. All right. I'm sold. I'm sold. That was good. I'm in, actually. I'm going to be at the Oaks Mall. It's so easy to make up that bullshit.

You'll see me at Hillsong. Catch me at Hillsong. That was actually good. Yeah. I'll be at Hillsong with Justin Bieber this Sunday, wearing my head-to-toe Supreme and off-white am i yeah white outfit yeah oh yeah because that dude was he said god was like making him cheat on his wife or some shit tempted him and he he fell down on the job yeah those cool glasses all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today.

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the cops come all to find out this guy is just a air conditioning repair technician nothing more he is just a man who lived in a like a like a mobile home park or something where this guy was tailing him and they decided this was the guy who had a bunch of ballots in his van which is why they tried to get him when he was in his work van only to find the normal things that a fucking ac repair tech would have in their van and when the cops came they were like yo what the fuck are you doing and the this guy aguirre told the the officer that arrives like look man you can be on the right side of history or the wrong side man but i'm telling you this guy's blah blah blah blah and they're like okay sir like you're under arrest like what the fuck is this this is like

false imprisonment like all kinds of shit you're coming with us and the thing that you're talking about jack the quarter million dollars yes this guy was fucking funded to do this work to the tune of over 260 000 he got a 211 000 payment the day after this confrontation took place just directly wired into his account like what the everyone's like what the fuck is this money uh it turns out he's saying i'm working for the Liberty Center. And this is a thing that's funded by this guy, Steve Holtz, who's a huge mega donor to the GOP. And he was basically, you know, how before the election, we were talking about how there were one hundred and twenty seven thousand ballots in Harris County that were like the Republicans are trying to sue to get invalidated because they have this drive through vote center. He was he was funding that legal battle amongst many others. He was going all out to try and, you know, fuck the election up and also find evidence of fraud. This was his big thing.

The Liberty Center's Facebook group was all about we're going to find this fraud. They were asking people on their website being like, yo, please give us money. We have all these investigations going. They cost like $200,000, a very specific number per investigation. We need this money. And this is where we're at. And, you know, apparently this man, Aguirre, was telling law enforcement at every level. He asked the attorney general of the state, like the heads of police departments, thexas rangers saying this guy's got ballots man i'm watching him you gotta help me out with this and they're all like please stop calling here like you can't just call in a fake crime and expect us to fucking go do something about it and he was pleading with them which kind of brings me to an interesting point

which is what happens when you if you're in law enforcement and someone is so insistent that a crime is occurring and them saying that they are also investigating, like at what point is their responsibility to try and figure out, wait, hold on. Are you just going to harass somebody who's not doing a fucking thing because you're hopped up on like Newsmax and OAN conspiracy bullshit? So yes, that is a weird thing. And I'd hope this is not the new normal, but it feels like some shit as we get closer to January 20th and these people on the full Trump Mago World train are like, oh man, he's really going to pull a switcheroo on him on January 19th.

Like, come on, bro. Dad went to get cigarettes and is not coming back. It's truly wild how much just you know republican donors are able to manipulate the reality of of people who are in the thrall of of that party like this reminds me for some reason uh of the whole tea party movement and just uh you know five ten years on reading what was actually going on with the tea party movement being you know billionaires funding the whole thing and like doing grassroots organizing to get these people to do their bidding it's also this is the charities that they are donating to right this is when is when they say, I donated $5 billion.

It's to QAnon. To Liberty. Yeah. The Liberty Center. Yeah. Liberty's had such a bad run, just like from a PR perspective, the word Liberty. Yeah. Fuck.

I mean, even the WNBA team. That star meter is down. Yeah. Ever since Rebecca Lobo left. I mean, the Liberty ain't been right i'll tell you that i know um but yeah i don't know you know where this goes how this evolves but it's truly like this weird like you know these mega donors they get off on just being like i think i can get a bunch of like poor useful stooges to like so chaos and i can kind of be like yeah watch me do that shit with money

or other people's money rather than like substantively trying to actually like win an election like you know get more people out there to try and uh do some you know door knocking or whatever it's like nah nah i'm gonna get a guy who is a cop to basically act like a fucking steven seagal character and maybe he'll manufacture some evidence of fraud and i don't care but fuck it like let's just do that that's fun well sit back and do that with my money america just needs the very the slightest of pushes to uh become violent like you know um right wing ideologues like the that's you're just helping them do what they already want to do in this right and a lot of experts are saying this whole rejection of the election results

is basically like they're just saying oh this is what they're doing is they're accelerating radicalization of the party by doing oh absolutely yeah it's not just like oh wow they're they're not giving up it's like no no like even whether or not they know it or if it's intentional is like the fact that the party line is now saying we're against reality is that one of the you know is a huge step towards fully radicalizing everything and it's not like trumpism it's more just like gop is just going like mask off with it because the trumpism narrative is kind of like more than like i think he was just the dude at the concert the first dude at the concert to smoke a blunt inside when the security is like hey no smoking inside and everyone's like oh we can smoke in here okay yeah right because i was

on that shit anyway too that's basically what's happening it's not that trump is anything new it's like he's just he sparked up before everybody else did. And everybody else knew what time it was. Yeah, it was remarkable after even after Mitch McConnell acknowledged Biden as president elect, there's still 220 senators and congressmen, congresspeople, excuse me, Republican who have yet to acknowledge it. wonder what would people be doing if there wasn't like just these people whose lives are spent doing q anon proud boy bullshit like what if that was not there and no one had tricked them in going off to a fun party once where it turned into ruin their life like uh it's just such a fucking waste of time and energy and lives like it's just a waste of lives yep right a ruiner of family relationships and yeah there's when there's so much unseen damage being done it's hard i get it just as a sports fan right like one of my teams arsenal is fucking up right now they are comically bad but like rather than read the posts that are like analyzing why

it's so bad even though they're objective analyses of like what's going wrong i'd rather read the article where the the staff at the club are saying yeah we're actually we expected all of this turbulence right now and it's all part of the plan because you gotta we gotta get through this to reach the next evolution like it's the it's like an equivalent where it's like i don't want the objective or like just make me feel good or like less bad about the thing that i'm so attached to being bullshit right or at least on some like very humanistic you know like that's just our need to never feel like we're fully losing or you know because we we have this like sort of binary of winning or losing in our minds especially with politics that it just turns into this thing where it's like, well, I ain't fucking losing.

So if I'm not losing, then I'm choosing to follow Q. Truck nuts are not the only thing that's in short supply. Brexit has people across the pond, as the media cliche goes, people in England are concerned about, you know, they're going to have shortages. Yeah. Because they want to break up with the EU. They want to fuck around. And now they're like, well, we still need to, they still need to sort out a trade deal. Because they're like, okay, maybe politically we're not aligned, but like trade's a huge thing.

And like, we need stuff from y'all. Andall and we're an island, so what's going on? Right now, that has not been figured out. And if there's a straight up no deal Brexit on that, it could lead to shortages, price hikes on certain things. But it kind of really underlines just how much of the global economy and how much we rely on other countries for certain imports and things like that. Because if they don't have a deal in place with the EU, they're going to have to revert to world trade organization norms where there's certain tariffs on things, and that could really change things for people in the UK. Okay, so if they don't figure out a deal, these are some of the things that people in the UK will have a lot of trouble, not a lot of trouble getting, but they're going

to have to pay more. Yeah, it could be a little pricey. For example, pizza dough is made from wheat varieties that they have to get from other places. Avocados and bananas, most of that shit is imported. So that's another thing that millennials are not happy millennials will starve to death i mean let's be real if there is no avocado toast or diamond industries for them to ruin dude and so you're messing with my pizza now this is getting serious exactly uh what about ham uh you can't get ham uh if you're in the uk because a lot of the good ham like the loins and things like that are coming from across the, like from the EU.

Broccoli, tomatoes. That's another thing. Like, you know, apparently the UK only produces a fifth of the tomatoes that they actually sell within the country. Tomatoes.

Sorry, tomatoes. Tomatoes. Come on, UK, Zygang. You say potato, I say tomato.

Right. I think that's I say tomato. Right. I think that's how it goes. Potato, how do you say it? Oh, also potato. Yeah. That's an elevator. So they also, wine will be tough to get, but the things that they can get, so don't worry, you get plenty of mutton, because that's all being grown in the UK.

Hell yeah, dude. All about that mutton life, dude. Yeah, peas, carrots, and beets. Don't worry, UK, you're good. You got plenty of those. They have this listed like it's a combination or that beetroot. Peas, carrots, and beetroot. Those are core staples.

Is that just more popular in the UK? I mean, beets are kind of having a... I mean, they're Renaissance. Like those are core staples of, is that just more popular in the UK then? I mean, beets are kind of having a, I mean, their renaissance kind of happened. Juice stands are popping in the UK right now. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I think maybe because it's probably one of the things that they have a ton of.

That's why they're just pointing out. It's like, look, we're good in the UK when it comes to beets, carrots, and peas or bread. They say toast and chips. Don't worry about that because we got enough potatoes. You know, we can have scotch whiskey. So we need to worry about wine. But the sad thing is cod for fish and chips. Yeah.

Well, yeah. Unfortunately, with cod for fish and chips, that's coming from Norway and Iceland. So that's going to be a bit of a hit. Yeah. For lobster. They got that. That's coming from Norway and Iceland. So that's going to be a bit of a hit. Yeah. Lobster. They got that. They have toast and chips, lobster and chips, which as far as I know, aren't like the only thing I've ever heard of is fish and chips or cod and chips.

So it feels like they're trying to start something here with toast and chips. Yeah. It seems weird. Don't worry. You can get this thing we just made up. Yeah. We totally have lots of it. It's not a problem. Plenty of that where that came from. Don't worry, you can get this thing we just made up We totally have lots of it It's not a problem

Plenty of where that came from Don't worry, you won't want the fish and chips anymore That's a thing of the past We do have Well We have peanut butter and chips And Lots of new things

They're exciting, you got to try it. Eh, I think I'm just going to go to Nando's. Thanks anyway. Oh, yeah. But lobster, I mean, I didn't realize they have an abundance, as they say in this Daily Mail article, of crab, prawns, and lobster. So you're good on the arthropods. Yeah.

Living that good life, I guess. Yeah. I guess they'll be fine after all. This would be enough to change my politics. I have traditionally been pro-Brexit, but yeah. Yeah, I know. Which one did it for you? Was it the ham or pizza?

Pizza. Yeah. Dude, of course. You don't mess with my pizza, okay? You've always said that. As long as I've known you for the past hour. You don't do that, all right? That's crossing the line where I'm from.

That's right. I have miles. You were talking about having a little bit of a history with St. Louis. I lived in Columbia for the first three years of my marriage. Wow. Many, many miles from any airport. So spent a lot of time driving in Missouri. Why were you there for three years of school?

My wife was going through medical school. Ah, yes. Columbia's not bad. Columbia's a nice little college town. It is the definition of college. It totally is. Yeah. We were within earshot of the uh

football stadium so you could just like ambiently get the uh the vibes that i never had uh in my college time because we didn't have like a big college football team but yeah yeah um decent basketball that's nice yeah yeah decent wait what's the college is that mizzou mizzou yes yeah yeah yeah my cousin went there yeah didn't know that was in columbia great journalism school high school brad pitt went there didn't he brad i believe that's correct i believe that is on the uh on the sign when you're entering the university brad pitt went here it's a statue of him like eating an apple eating nachos because he's always eating so good at eating man that guy wait does he eat is he photographed eating a lot uh he's just in his movies oh yeah i guess you're right any oceans film fight clubs like you can all i can always

picture a moment where he's eating or taking a bite of something. Yeah, he's got to work that chiseled jaw. You want to see it in action. Yeah, really draws attention to the chiseled jaw line. I noticed it in Oceans, and then I went back and like, in Eat Joe Black, Freudian slip, but Meet Joe Black, there's a thing where he tries peanut butter for the first time. I feel like there are certain people who just have things written into their contract that they have to do. And eating is like, you know, show off the goods.

And Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks pees. He likes to pee. We do. We do like to talk about that. Oh my gosh, he does. Yeah. John Cusack likes to be stuck in the rain.

Yeah, there's all sorts of some people say yeah like tom hanks just had a career in acting just for easy access to doing p scenes yeah large crews yeah one way or another if he hadn't broken into hollywood he was gonna get into the uh porn game because have you guys heard about that podcast where he fired a guy on um on the set of a band of brothers because he had dead eyes. And this guy goes back to – the podcast is called Dead Eyes. I just started listening to it. It's hilarious.

This guy – it was like listed as like a podcast of the year. And I just heard the first episode the other night, but it's called Dead Eyes. And this guy was like got his first acting gig in Band of Brothers. And he's American. He was over in London studying theater and acting. He's american he was over in london studying uh theater and and acting he was really struggling to get a job over there and like out of nowhere band of brothers starts casting and it's like he has a chance as an american to get get a role and he gets it and then they take it he calls everyone he knows he's so excited it's a speaking

role like it's not he has like 10 lines but it, but it's huge. And then he gets a call from the casting director that says you have to re-audition because Tom thinks you have dead eyes. And they're not – he wasn't supposed to find out he had dead eyes. That was a note from like the assistant that told him that. And he goes in and he has to re-audition. And then he gets fired by Tom Hanks for having dead eyes. So he's going back and like investigating it and finding out like what happened. And yeah.

And it's, it's, it's really fascinating. That's a whole new level of rejection because like, that's, that's you're being rejected by America's dead. Like you're, it's one thing to get rejected by your own dad,

but by the entire country, the world's dead. Yeah. I don't know if I'm like what i'm feeling right now whether it's like wait tom hanks is capable of bad or also am i putting myself in dead eyes position i'm like what but i can't help my eyes i mean right how can i undead them like did he come in wild extra for the re-audition was like oh my god sergeant baker uh captain winters we got it we have to take that hill.

That was the curious part. I was confused as to why he didn't talk about his re-audition and how he tried to make his eyes more lively. I would think that that would be something you would move him more, but he didn't mention that. And then I Googled him, which when I was going through my Google searches for you guys, I saw his name and I go, who is that? And then I was like, oh oh i googled to see if he had dead eyes and he kind of does like i see it in the pictures they're a little bit sociopathic a little bit like just like looking through you which is not a bad thing he's actually a really great actor comedic actor and uh he's like a ucb guy and really accomplished but um he he in fact i did see what tom was talking about but i

i i do think that maybe tom has a bad side you know like i mean yeah on the other hand we could have never guessed yes connor ratliff is is it okay i mean tom hanks is a producer on that show and it's like on the one hand it's not great that it got back to him because that's very personally insulting and something that he can do nothing about it would sound like uh but that is kind of his job is if somebody is miscast or like doesn't isn't like reading on the screen like i i kind of don't begrudge tom hanks the ability to fire people for having dead eyes especially because it's a funny thing as we as we've discussed i've always said that actually uh tom hanks can yeah uh but he might have had that specifically stuck in his head because he was coming off of polar express

where uh the mocap is specifically known for like giving tom hanks the deadest eyes that any movie character has ever had well he said he walked back you might have to go on the show seriously that i mean that's a really good point he said he walked into the re-audition and um he and tom's in there and he didn't recognize him he looked like shit he said he was like he looked terrible and he has just gotten done filming cast away and so he lost all this weight and you know he didn't know what he was all skinny and like just like looked homeless for. And it just like – have you guys ever found out something about yourself that you weren't supposed to know like that?

Like I try not to hear – I'm not one of those people that wants to know what people really think about me. I would like to live in the world where – like I talk shit about people. So I assume people talk shit about people so i assume ever people talk shit about me and it's like it's their right i don't it's that whole phrase of like it's none of your business what other people think about you i try to like i would i wouldn't be one of those people that's like if you could be invisible for the day what would you do yeah and i wouldn't like go to hear people talking about me ever yeah not necessarily no not a good idea but people like that it's like a thing where like you're not i mean like when you're susceptible to that like it shows that you're very like you can't live from your inside out you know like you're living from the outside in

everything that's happening outside of you is actually determining your internal space rather than coming from a place like yeah i don't know yeah maybe my mouth is crooked which is the thing i've heard uh and i'm like but i don't give a fuck that's just that's what it, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, maybe my mouth is crooked, which is the thing I've heard. And I'm like, but I don't give a fuck. That's just, that's what it is. And I don't care. But at the end of the day, like I can't see my own fucking mouth.

So who gives a shit? Yeah, that's a good point. You can't. We're not meant to see our reflections like ever. I was just going to say, Miles has a great mouth. Not crooked at all. As somebody who has a crooked smile. Pull up our performance review that you wrote up of me line one bro he wrote bro your mouth dog it just says bro your mouth dog

yeah like when i've done the roasts you know like that's when you are subject to those things that you're like, oh, I didn't even know that about myself. But people just – the writer's room for those, they just sit and stare at a picture of you all day and take it apart and say like the worst things possible. And it's really led me to be deeply insecure about things that I didn't, I already have insecurities and then they find new things. And, um, yeah, like one, and one that comes back to haunt me all the time is like,

people said I look like Owen Wilson, which is, I kind of did like, I get it. And the way you guys just laughed just confirmed it. That was, it's just, I know it's absurd.

But guess what? Nikki and I got to pull up a photo and really give it a gander. Like we totally like, yeah totally, like, yeah. We, oh, yeah. I got to work on an impression of him. That would be killer. But he's, like, a feminine-looking man, so I'll take it. For sure.

But that one's come back to haunt me a lot, and I definitely did see it. And I was, like, oh, you know, I got to, I, like like booked an appointment with a plastic surgeon-y person after the roast to like go fix some stuff. It was wild. I spent so much money on different dumb stuff just to like – and then they'll make fun of you for looking plastic. So it's like you can't win. But I did have dead eyes for a while um when i i got like botox that really does kill your eye like that's that's talk about dead eyes right and now it's all gone it's like it's with covid you can't have any more touch-ups so i feel so good like having my face

just like being able to move again and back to normal because i've yeah did you feel like uh there was any diminished uh feeling like emotions i've read that that's something that happens where when your face is frozen you're less able to even feel the emotions because it's a two-way street did you did you notice that no you know i already have a hard time feeling my feelings. So I think that I was already just like, it was probably just felt pretty good on top of that. Yeah. But I did cry. I was on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire right before the pandemic, like right when it happened that week. It was like one of the last things that filmed before everything shut down.

And I had a lot of Botox in my face and I cried on that show. Like, it's so weird that I don't cry. But when the camera was in front of me and it was a real cry, it wasn't for the camera. Like I accidentally said the wrong answer and like I locked in the wrong answer. You know, it was between two things. And I was like, it's not this. I know it's not this. And then I said, you know, B, final answer.

And it was what I was saying was not it. So everyone knew like I had just fucked up and I go no and I'm screaming and I cry because it's like it was just because I just didn't take my time and I had just gotten done telling Jimmy Kimmel the

host that I really want to be patient and think and and I was just so disappointed in myself. So I started crying. And it looks like I'm fake crying because my face can't move. It's just like a tear falling out of a frozen face. And that's when I was like, you've got to get that stuff out of you

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like not memes like but i felt like at the very beginning of lockdown i was definitely seeing these like videos and images of people creating like picnic benches for squirrels that they would put on trees or fences and like just be like oh my god look the squirrel's eating at this table i made and it's eating sunflower seeds and people just getting giddy by being like i made a cool restaurant for a squirrel um oh okay that's kind of cute this isn't am i i'm really the only one that was tapped into the world i was like this does not ring any kind of bells for me you were what what's your algorithm i don't know man i think it's like it's it's it like modulates between like european soccer nba weed like hip-hop beats and then like moments that'll make you cry because you skipped therapy this week um but this one is the

trend so as they're saying they really tried to dial like dial in where the origin of this trend was they said the trend seemed to have started in march quote when rick kalinowski an unemployed plumber in brynmar pennsylvania posted a series of pictures of a squirrel feeder in the facebook group all about squirrels in one widely shared picture a squirrel sits at the table attached to a fence and grasps peanuts in its little hands um now just a quick history about squirrels which i didn't know i just thought they were things we have lived with a long time apparently like we got very close to like eradicating squirrels from cities uh because people were just like oh these are crop pests or like they're game like they're not for fucking hopping around our neighborhoods

and things like that. But they had a nice rehabilitation in the mid-1800s in places like Philly and Boston. They began reintroducing squirrels to the urban environments to, quote, beautify and enliven the urban landscape at a time when American cities were growing in geographic extent, population density and cultural diversity. And then once the urban park came along, it was Frederick Law Olmsted bestowed upon us.

Yeah. I mean, we all know. I mean, we all have the tattoo. Yeah. The world is basically once like we have more parks parks they really began finding their place in like trees and in suburbs and in cities so now cut to like us living vicariously through these tiny animals this sounds like something that my my like aunt would post to facebook and be like now this is true bipartisanship there are some things we can all agree on and it's that a

squirrel on a table makes me laugh and look at him him eating today. My best customer, Thelonious Chipmunk, which I think is a name of a famous squirrel. This is much kinder to the squirrel than some of the YouTube squirrel clicks I've gone after, which are people who are unhappy with squirrels taking right bird their bird seed oh yeah no this is a yeah and there are some true hilarious depending on you know mean um obstacle course aficionados that have like really taken it to squirrels because as anyone from the midwest like myself knows they will get that bird seed right no matter what they will find a way they will get the bird seed well going going off this i want to make a quick uh youtube recommendation there's a channel i learned

about recently called james blackwood the raccoon whisperer he's a guy that lives in nova nova scotia and it's just truly thousands of videos of him feeding raccoons peanut butter sandwiches every single night. The raccoons are gigantic, and they love him, and he has them on a schedule. Wow. And it's just, if you want to see a retiree feed like 30 raccoons. Isn't this how Grizzly Man died? There's a channel. Yeah, right.

Exactly. 30 raccoons? Isn't this how Grizzly Man died? There's a channel. Yeah, right. It's so, it's, the raccoons are so, because they have fingers and hands and it's cute. And, oh, so that's,

yeah. There's a whole, he has 400,000 subscribers. Is Werner Herzog going to narrate that too? It's like with the raccoon man. He came to their hunger ultimately. uploads twice a day it's just like and all the videos are called like mobbed by raccoons tuesday november 3rd 2020 this guy is a content machine i know yeah we think we release a lot, he's going twice a day, no days off with the raccoon content.

I will say this. Like, people are, I mean, it's nice to see people, like, be productive in their time off. At least, like, they're being like, I'm dedicating my time to at least feed some animals rather than, like, poisoning the raccoons or fucking squirrels and shit like that. But I posted one of the pictures from this article. People are making, like, full-on charcuterie boards for squirrels and that's where i'm like look i get it if it's a hobby and helps pass the time like i'm not gonna judge you but like i'm looking at that i'm like yo i'm too greedy with my food to ever put a platter out for an animal who won't give a fuck about the presentation i mean honestly

for at that point i feel like that's people doing it more for content than for the animals, which is annoying. They're like, oh, isn't this funny? And you're like, I guess, whatever. More like shark. You're no raccoon whisperer. More like charcuterie. Ooh. That has to be a fucking Instagram page, I'm sure.

It's like showing the best of people. I didn't want to step on Jamie's raccoon mention. Oh, sorry. Don't interrupt me when I'm talking about the raccoon whisperer. But yeah, I mean, credit to all these people. Look, just because we

can't dine out doesn't mean we can't create that experience for our squirrel friends. True. Guy, I'm actually curious, what would you say the national consensus in New Zealand is around UFOs, aliens, as compared to what you've experienced in America? We struggle to do anything on the same scale as you guys.

That's such a nice way of putting it. We don't have a Roswell. This time last year, actually, I visited Roswell in New Mexico. This time last year, actually, I visited Roswell, New Mexico. And it was like, you know, they sort of like, ah, people said they saw something that got heavily debunked here 60 years ago. Why don't we brand our entire town around it? But here it's like, it's probably just, there's nothing in the mainstream. You know, you talk to a few people who are hobbyists, who sort of very like low-level fringe conspiracy theorists who get excited, but it's not really a feature of discourse.

Right. What about over there? We're all in, baby. I will say, I dabble a little bit, and there's some wild sightings off the coast of Australia in the southern hemisphere.

It's almost like an exit strategy for you guys. I need this to be true. It has to. It's the only fucking explanation. Well, just an update that John john o brennan uh very

close to having my same name was uh c but the o is a middle initial um he was cia director under obama uh so a completely you know evil and manipulative monster uh but someone with the highest security clearance like he probably knows who killed kennedy and all the where all the bodies are buried all that good stuff uh but the surprising thing here is not just that he's like open to the possibility that ufos are the result of intelligent life but also like how mysterious and completely wide open the whole thing seems to him like there's at one point he says uh life besides what's in the states meaning like that other it seems to imply that other uh countries might be aware of different life forms that we're not aware of. And then he says that there might be life defined in many different ways and something

that we don't yet understand that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitute a different form of life. So it's like he's opening the door to i don't i don't know if it's robots or what like fucking ted talk at burning man just fucking tell me what it is this is a cia director it's a fucking but he just sounds like a third grade classroom he legit sounds like us when we first saw those videos he's like you know i think we should be open to everything those videos are fucking wild man right right right essentially he's like i don't know when people talk about it is there other life besides what's in the states in the world the globe life

is defined in many different ways i think it's a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there's no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe what that might be is subject to a lot of different views but i think some of the phenomena we're going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might in fact be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don't yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life okay okay you cryptic fuck as if being the head of the cia wasn't enough you're like it might be could it wouldn't it be hilarious if like we were just so wrong scientifically that like something like oh yeah water's aliens and we're like what they're like yeah what the fuck do you think like

that's the whole reason shit's popping here is because of water. That shit is aliens. That's the aliens. The water. Drinking aliens? Yeah. My body is 80% alien? Alien, yeah.

Yeah. I don't know. Like, I mean, the way he's speaking, it's almost like his mind's been fucked. Like, he's totally had his mind blown. Like, someone who's like just has like the calm of like seeing like zooming out to a point where you're like honestly man like clothes don't even fucking matter dude after this shit it's real higher plane of consciousness sort of galaxy brain stuff right yeah it's like hearing anyone who is a very specific expert at a thing

try and explain it to you in layman's terms. And you're like, you can see that their brain is working overtime to try and articulate it in a way that's accessible. But what comes out is just sort of- It just completely fails. Yeah, like there's no forward penetration. It just keeps going out to the sides.

A word salad where the crouton is the word phenomenon. You just use the word phenomenon like 30 times. Punctuating every couple bites of that phenomenon crunch. You know what I mean? If you took the phenomenon out, it would just be a wit miss. The CIA did, you know, during the Cold War, have a habit of dosing each other with LSD

for, you know, as a bit kind of, and also because they thought it might be a way to control people's minds. I call it mind control. Yeah. But yeah, maybe he's dabbled. It sounds a little bit like somebody who's, like you said, had their third eye opened a little bit. Right.

It's a guy who came back from a shroom trip for the first time. Yeah. But like really just even decided to like look at a problem with this set, like with this vocabulary of just being like, you know, when someone goes like, I don't know, it's weird. Like some people call it pain.

And I realized if you zoom out a bit, it's a sensation. And then from there we fork off to say whether or not that sensation is pleasure or pain so i take a view even further back that that's sensation not pain and this guy's like you know this first line that he says i think it's important for analysts to to do uh the important thing for analysts to do is not go uh into this type of challenge either discounting certain types of possibilities or believing in advance that it is likely X, Y, or Z.

Okay. That's such a good articulation of hallucinogens. It's just a person pushing zoom out on their perspective of life. And some people, they just get their finger caught on the zoom out button until they can't get their finger caught. They're like, get your command minus key.

No, the text is too small now if anyone wants to i think one thing we're learning here is that if anyone wants to immobilize john o brennan or render him moot for like seven months they just have to introduce him to the joe rogan podcast because this motherfucker would love the joe rogan or he's like too hard for rogan he goes on there he goes dude you're full of shit dude you don't even fucking know you're out here with your fucking navy seals who run marathons you're fucking stupid man what's this podcast even you fuck i can't be here man i can't even fucking be here right now with the shit i know like oh my god i talked to this journalist uh who i want to he's like a historian journalist who i want to develop a a podcast with and ahead

of our call he had like clearly just like tried listening to podcasts a couple times for the first time and that was his exact vibe he's like joe listen to jo Rogan. What the fuck is that? Like, he was just so unimpressed. I was like, yeah, well, we wouldn't do that necessarily. He's like, what the fuck is that, man? That's the future. Whoa. Exactly. Wow.

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