The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 163 (Best of 2/16/21-2/19/21)

Episode Date: February 21, 2021

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laugh-stravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Blair, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? For once, it wasn't something so damning.

The top was just yellow velvet pillow so just do with that what you will i will um you're decorating you know i my apartment keeps becoming progressively brighter and brighter everywhere um it's starting to look like fucking lollipop land. I don't know. I'm really trying to like, I just, I'm like, I need to create my own bright world inside these walls,

you know? So that's what's going on. You got yellow tinted glasses. So all velvet pillows are going to be a little yellow for you right now. Save money. Just get white pillows. Put those glasses on. Cut the search down by a lot.

Whoa, this is why you have friends. Two geniuses. No, I tried doing that, and Her Majesty did a lot like when I was offering that as a solution for things. Oh, we'll just put on different colored glasses. Now it looks like how we want it. That's not the point. Okay, to you. I will say a little bit of a silver lining lately is that it's no longer getting dark at like five.

And so I find myself going outside every once in a while uh and the sky looks like a uh like a unicorn frap from uh i missed the starbucks just came out of nowhere for me i love it yeah you're supposed to freeze those when you buy them at the store wait really i saw some tiktok you know how tiktok be like oh this gonna fuck your head up and i was like yeah do your worst what and it was those glass frappuccino pre-made shits you buy at the store like you freeze them like just a little bit before it becomes full ice block a little bit and then you just spin it around and then you got a frap and i was like damn i'm i didn't even think about that

they didn't tell me that yeah anyway yeah yeah just brightening brightening your environment that's like one thing that's the next level up of like actually

doing something that like I can't get to. My desk is a complete disaster of old gum wrappers and books. If these desks could talk, Jack. That's okay. You're doing great.

I mean, you're hosting this goddamn podcast for the entire nation every day. I think you're really showing up hard. Who cares about a rapper on your desk? What's a little bitch rapper? The most color I have is a bottle of acetaminophen and some old yellow trident. Oh, man.

That acetaminophen, which, by the way, I don't think I've ever pronounced fully, looks really gorgeous in that bottle. I know, right? Yeah. It's a little blue and red. They had to up the game a little bit to evoke Tylenol with the Kirkland brand signature. Wait, that's how you say it?

What is it? Acetaminophen? I love Kirkland brand. I thought it was Ace Tammy Nofen. All right. Well, I was taught to break it up into manageable chunks. Ace Tammy nope. Hen.

I cannot even believe the amount the audience has been educated already in these first five minutes. Yeah, exactly. Wild. You're welcome. And that's a free education. The only reason I know that is A White Stripes song Where he sings

I seen a medicine You seen the medicine He rhymes Some kind of genius Some kind of genius What is something from your search history That is revealing about who you are My last search was

the truth about Dolly Parton's 11 siblings. Yeah. I'm obsessed with Dolly Parton. I love her. Wait, what were you going to say? My search terms come across like I have suffered some sort of head trauma. I'm like

Dolly Parton, 11 siblings has? Has? She can has 11 siblings? Your search is straight up like a clickbait headline. It's like Dateline NBC. Yeah, that's true. The way you read it, I thought you just straight up copied the text of a clickbait.

It is. Oh, okay. I thought you were just, that's just how you search shit i'm like this is the truth about dolly part i forgot but what happened what is is this no it's just she has i'm listening to her audiobook which is amazing she has one on audible which uh it goes through all of her songs she talks about and it's her talking she talks about the history behind all of her songs and if you just love dolly and, she just sounds like someone's sweet aunt that's like offering you sweet tea and giving you a hug. She's amazing.

Aside from all the things she did during this pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, she's just an amazing woman. But yeah, so she was talking about her pa and her siblings and she like kept rattling names off i'm like how many siblings does this woman have she's 11 what and it's it's it's wild and she's just done so much philanthropy with all of her money and also her husband people don't know that she's been married once to the same man since like the 60s but you never see him yeah she has she's figured that out she's figured out like that's the secret to so he's just a millionaire with her living it up in their mansion whenever she comes home he's there that's her her stay-at-home husband damn the photos of him are great there's barely any i know it's like three from the 80s two from the 70s and then like the last

one must have been from like 2004 uh he just stays off you know but it's really funny in the book you guys she's like everyone thinks i had an affair with such and such or everyone thinks i slept with so and so and i'm not saying anything but like you guys can think. So I'm like, girl, I think it's funny when people don't confer, like, it would be like, of course I did.

But she didn't say that. So I'm like, I wonder if he's chill. Like as long as he gets to be a multimillionaire with her, if he's like, sure, have a affair with, uh,

Burt Reynolds or whatever. People think that she had an affair with like multiple different men that she's worked with. But I mean, maybe she has. These are Carl's birthday wishes for me. As long as he gets to get some pictures. Yeah. Smell the sheets after.

Wow. Yeah, the pictures of him are dope. Especially from the 70s and 80s. And the later ones, too. Because you're like, this motherfucker must be cool as shit because he looks like a fan taking a photo and she's loving it. In a way, it makes you more curious, but that's the real power. People who don't share shit, they have it figured out because that's truly like the last thing you can keep to yourself is your privacy without like going full throttle into like the, look at me, take a photo of me over here. This is my, that shit. Yeah. Like it burns out and I think it only just magnifies her,

you know, the mystique around it all. Yeah. Yeah. Dolly, Dolly Parton's got secrets and that's what makes her cool secret husband secret tattoos although not as many as people think secret 11 sibling wow do you think people go out there lie that they're one of dolly parton's like nieces or nephews in the same way like people say they're related to bob marley because that's the one you always hear oh you know that's that's bob marley that's like the third cousin of Kaimani Marley because there's so many Marley kids I wonder how many like the if that's the same thing out in Appalachia I hear that with Disney because a lot of people have that last name or like they're more than you would think I guess right and so does that mean that they're all related to Walt Disney because that's not that's a pretty

unique right name is everyone that has a last name Disney related to Walt Disney? I don't know. Chime in. Let us know. Chime in. Let us know, Zay Kang with a last name Disney.

Yeah. Also, let us know in the Club 33. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? So my best friend just got engaged. So that's really exciting. But i've been trying to find her a book because she always told me that she was saving her back door till marriage and and i want to find a book anal for beginners so my search has been copious amounts of just

very serious straightforward how to have butt sex. But I want something light and funny. And it's been a time. Couldn't you just combine your talents, like take a very clear guide and then use your animation around it or like your drawings? I mean, that's the book that America needs. I mean, that's that's a bestseller right there, Kim. I hate to just give you a three billion dollar idea like that but i'm buying it hold on it's going to be four million okay yep i'm there i'm there top tier pun is everything like just super like medical like you're saying it's like either too like very straightforward

or so wacky it doesn't have any useful information yeah it's like what foods to eat um okay if you feel like you can uh you have to use like certain plugs to work yourself up to going to that it just it is very medical and not something i want to give her for her bridal shower. Right. Right. Right. Someone looks like a Merck medical manual or something. Exactly. I was looking for like the Spencer's version. There has to be one out there. Right. This is kind of like those moments where someone says, how'd you think of it, Kim? You're sitting on a butt sex book empire. What's the secret? You're like, I just, I was looking for something that wasn't there. So I made it.

It was a thoughtful gift that just made me millions. Exactly. I don't know what happened to that friend. I never gave her the book because I just got so rich. I sort of lost sight of everything, but I wish her well. Exactly. I mean, yeah, I feel like that's like a weird thing because especially in this country, there's such taboos around sex that it's like, we can't even make a jokey book, like something that's like a weird thing because especially in this country of such taboos around sex

that it's like we can't even make a jokey book like something that's fun it's either like so straightforward right or it's like otherwise it can't be too casual or whatever it's yeah i mean zeitgang of dial in does other countries have whimsical uh anal sex manuals let us know i would love a whimsical anal sex manual like the joy of sex i have that one and that one is pretty straightforward it's not so much scientific but it's like how to please your married partner like it won't even talk about just having sex for fun right right right you're married you're lawfully wed partner in front of god who you've kissed and agreed to be in holy matrimony with in front of god and everyone um this is this is just a chapter on

foreplay leave room for jesus you know right yeah yeah wash your hands use a a brush to clean under your fingernails for 17 minutes it's like what the fuck does the joy of sex uh talk about anal i did not huh see that's another problem yeah this is a this is a cultural blind spot that you need to come and fill in for us so to speak uh like we've had like seven puns already guys yeah right yeah yeah we don't even have to and we don't have to do you know michael scott type jokes or you can say that again we just know because we're adults talking about whimsical anal sex manuals thank you uh i i did want to ask what the dietary recommendations are for uh leading up

to uh go going anal all right well it's just good etiquette not to have anything spicy because going in going out you know it's spicy and spicy out yep we know that anything that you are uh delicately inclined to so personally cheese fondue as romantic as it is you cannot finish the date with um a bunch of molten cheese if you want chocolate fondue both ways it's great right yeah yeah but really stuff that um your body will respond enthusiastically to god keep it simple keep it simple and does it simple keep it straight maybe eat a dry hot dog bun yeah yeah avoid the fiber one for a day. Right. Just for your loved ones.

Put the vindaloo down. You know what I mean? You could have Indian another night. How early does the preparation start? Is it like days in advance or what are we talking? Usually day of. Like if you know you're getting some. Yeah.

This seems like a scene in a comedy where the person is clear. And how much earlier? What's the cut off you got do that just curious like from dietary perspective like uh because it seems like you would want to almost like the clean break of it all is kind of nice you know it's the shit you don't think about right honestly yes thank you comes out of nowhere and also you know make sure you got that tushy that bidet attachment yes always power wash that thing abuse yes uh my kids are obsessed oh my god uh my two-year-old who we are potty training uh accidentally turned on the tushy while he's sitting on the toilet and is traumatized he calls it the circle thing uh and then but now they're like obsessed with it

and they like if you turn the tushy on when nothing's sitting on it you're just getting a jet stream shooting out of the toilet uh and they're uh it's it's a constant battle and they also it's a toy now yeah yeah that makes sense yeah as long as it's not the water fountain right exactly yeah we use it as like a uh you know teeth cleaning implement uh water for everything yeah water pick i was actually thinking about this today like last year about this time everyone freaked out here about uh toilet paper but no one did in europe or anything. And I'm wondering if it's because we have not adopted. Yeah. The bidet.

I mean, look, I hate to do an ad on Mike, but I used to fucking, sometimes you look, everybody knows you could wipe for 30 days. It seems like it never ends. But with the bidet,

it's just, just in general, the, the paper uses is so much lower. Like it, for me, it's just drying off my but paper usage is so much lower like it for me is just drying off my butthole that's the paper yeah it's not wiping anymore it's just purely for drying how do i do what dry like it seems just damp and i don't want to put my pants on you know right oh yeah i take like what i do is i'll i i'll take a big like a judge of the

whitest piece of toilet paper folded over i can do and then i just kind of lay it on and try and get it to absorb everything what i also do is i sit for like three minutes too after and let that shit drip dry and then i'm on my phone anyway so like sometimes i forget and then the shit's already dry naturally. So you never know. Everyone's got different bidet techniques. Yeah. I rest atop the heating vent for a little while.

Yeah. Just let it get the hair dryer out. Get the hair dryer out. Yeah. Relax your butthole. That helps too. Yeah. Yeah.

Absolutely. One of my favorite podcasts las culturistas talks about this sometimes and they talk up the the value of poppers for for those purposes but um one thing that i thought was amazing about like rush limbaugh's obits like one of the ones i read was talking about how he like became a nationalist and like the, you know, monster that he was after traveling to Europe.

And sorry, my four year old is, has joined us in the studio. And do you want to say hi? Hi. Say hi. Hi, Kim.

Hi, Miles. Hi, Kim. Hi, Miles. Hey, don't fear the circle thing.

Embrace the circle thing. the circle the circle thing embrace it uh and he was talking about how uh bad the toilets were in europe he was like this is what you call a toilet over here and that's when i realized america's like years in advance it's like no dude it's just that they weren't built for 300 pound people like you who like uh and like who don't know how to use a bidet like he i don't know it was just wild that that it was such a like me centric everything i do is right version like outlook on the world that then sent our entire country down this path of just degradation. Anyways. Anti bidet propaganda. Yes.

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and we're back all right let's uh move on to covid news which is positive uh but there's like a silver lining of shit uh that i'd like to talk about um so india we're seeing uh cases as we talked about last week drop across the drop around the world. And people aren't quite sure why they're dropping because there's no single explanation that would make sense. There's not enough people who are vaccinated yet. Antibody testing, for instance, India is seeing one of the biggest drops, suggest only one in five people in India had the virus. So herd immunity on its own doesn't explain it. They're in general better at masking than the United States, but the drop is uniform across locations, even locations with poor mask adoption. So as I was reading up on this, and I think the question is open, and I think it's probably a combination of all these different things combining to draw the rate of transmission down. realized that like india is still even at the high point where they were measuring from

it was still like below one person per 100 000 um and and i started just kind of like digging through and it's like china same japan same and this is this is like just over the past few weeks uh but japan south korea their numbers per 100 000 are orders of magnitude away from what you're seeing in the united states uk germany italy spain um south and central american countries and you know this this has been like the wall street journal wrote about this back in october about like how this trend is you know happening but i i feel like we don't see it brought forward as like a like the asian societies that uh they looked at in the wall street journal like they interviewed people and they were like oh yeah like we're looking at you guys like a cautionary tale and every time

there's like a slight uptick we all mask up because what's happening in your countries is a disaster. But I feel like the other side of that, it's not being treated as like a this which like people are like there's the anti-asian racism that we're seeing like attacks on elderly uh asian americans and like these are nations that and like that people suspect that that's associated with the pandemic. And the story, not that there should ever be any sort of attacks on anyone, but the story should be that those countries are dramatically kicking our ass in terms of how they approach the virus, how they controlled the virus,

how they continue to control the virus um it's it's just kind of a story that i feel like is should be the main story uh and is getting underplayed because i think a lot of it is cultural stuff like you know people valuing the well-being of other people in other countries as opposed to in the united states where like the first or the biggest new social media trend is um anti-mask groups like people fighting for the right to not wear masks yeah and i think maybe even like the way it's reported is like they don't want americans to catch wind of how much better people are treated in other countries. Exactly.

Because you do that. You're like, well, let's also talk about like wage subsidies for places like Korea or Japan. Right. And how they immediately said, oh, well, we're going to have to take care of people's rents because if they got to stay inside, then they can't have the crush of trying to go out to make money. Then we can give them food whatever like that was like the beginnings of thinking about how to create relief and yeah i think that to me was like one of the few things i barely see reported about comparing what the what life has been like existing in the united states as a person who may have lost their job versus these

other countries because that would piss you the fuck off and you'd be like what is going on but that is i think that's another really underreported side of things it's more like huh what's going on over there rather than we might have a problem with toxic individualism that's literally killing the country these countries for centuries for e, have been on a philosophical plane about taking care of each other or duty to the community and things like that we'll compare and contrast how it's head scratching some things are like you wouldn't wear a mask like people why wouldn't people wear a mask i'm like yeah i don't know how to explain that to you yeah it's very difficult to explain and people like what the last time i complimented or or said japan was doing better than the united states um people were like it's actually not that great.

And there are definitely ups and downs in other countries just like the United States has had. It's just that their ups and downs are so much smaller than ours. The max of the India spike that they were talking about was like 400,000 people, which is a nation of, it's like three times the population of the United States. So it's just nothing compared to

what we're seeing in the United States. And I feel like the order of magnitude of the problem that we've had with this comparatively is just kind of being ignored by the media because I think people don't want to acknowledge it for the sake of capitalism the idea of wearing a mask as any loss of freedom like that's not even saying anything about what you can do or where you can go anything anything anything like that it's like the smallest thing and when i see these people like where they're making that they're like their movement anti-mask i mean it's such

a micro issue and the whole thing of freedoms to me it's it's yeah but the it's the what's funny the thing is you could never try and explain to that person like wouldn't you say that your outsized response to this is indicative of a lifetime of always being unhindered and always doing whatever the fuck you wanted to like relative to that is that what you think you're maybe pushing back you know what i mean it's hard you can't get someone to see that but for so long i mean so many of the the gripes or the consistent thing is just about like you're not gonna control me or make me think that this rather than like okay more than that do you give a fuck about other people i was just gonna say on a basic level of manners regardless of if you even fucking

believe in science the idea of ever thinking that me not wearing a mask could harm someone else regardless if i cared about health or self-harm like if there's a possibility science that i could do that i'm wearing a mask i think i wonder too if because right i'm trying to put myself in that position because if i did that then for me to consider that i would have to then extrapolate situations in which i might harm another person which then might trigger thoughts about mortality which i'm not ready to engage in at all or there's a there's like this there's something deeply uncomfortable about having to think about something like that so it's easier to just be distant like just be like nope kill

switch engage fuck a mask freedom because it's actually this other shit again those what they call thought killing uh cliches basically i guess that's wild to think of about it like that as like denying on a but think about how people's minds work you know no i mean we have friends yeah like we all have friends who will somehow they will completely avoid a specific topic of conversation no matter what you're like oh okay that was i look i don't need to know but i clearly that's not something you're ready to talk about and even though it's not a hot button issue that's what it it is. And I think for some, it's like that sort of same thing,

like this idea of mortality or that responsibility to others is like real for whatever reason is frying a bunch of people's circuits. And they're just resorting to like, nope, don't want to engage that. Don't even want to have a real discussion about that because it makes me so uncomfortable to even think about that, that I'm just going to resort to this like freedom argument that has no intellectual weight to it.

I think people have applied it a whole, like used it as the placement for their anger, made it for another enemy. For me, I'm like, oh, you'll hold hold a door for someone but you won't wear a mask you know what i mean it's like literally polite it's all just it spoils down to manners for me yeah you know yeah no it is i mean it's a broad cultural like values problem it's not that the people in the united states are inherently born more selfish. It's that the value set in the United States has trained them to think this way. I mean, this Brown University School of Public Health dean said, in the U.S. and Europe, we wanted to get our lives back, so we acted as if the virus was under control. In Asia, they were not in denial. They understood they can have their lives back if they follow certain precautions. And yeah, I mean, that's kind of a very straightforward way of looking at it. Another issue that there is in this Wall Street Journal article is that a lot of the spread in

Western Europe has been linked to young people. And that i think gets at something that's probably at the core as well as like that makes western countries and communities worse at dealing with this is the fact that other like eastern countries actually value uh their elders and are more like whereas in the west it's like the antithesis it's the antithesis it's the you know they i mean that's that's seen in no country for old men when he goes and visits his dad and he's like just in a trash strewn heap with like flies all over the place because nobody like he's like once you're no longer useful in america you just get kind of thrown to the curb like you're yeah like it's just all about usefulness to capitalism and then once you're old like we try not to think about you

because it's you're bumming us out with you're bumming how old you are yeah and that's really sad because it goes back to wait because the the thing is rather than embracing the wisdom that comes with age right the u.s culture is the, the pursuit of escaping mortality to escape aging, to escape these things, to forever be in this mindset of like, just man's fucking kid, man, just the youth.

Like, you know, there was like this, there's a book called like the death of the grownup that sort of like maps this like huge sort of cultural swing away from like being an adult couple, like from, and from like boomers and stuff stuff because rock stars became big and everyone's like i want to be a fucking rock star and then like these parents who are like i'm more of a friend than a parent like it all kind of

had this wave right of like changing our our viewpoints on what an adult even is and especially in u.s society and yeah we're looking at it now and again the idea of being safe that someone could die mortality fuck that and also our our youth culture is all based on like so much social media shit about being out doing shit not being at home not helping people uh your drip is so intense that the fucking you got gotta call a plumber you know like it's just it it's emphasized all the things that when you go into this you're like of course that's the direction it went in because that's just like the residual momentum we were going and especially for uh our consumer culture but yeah for kids especially what is something you think is

overrated all right i'm gonna get mad about this gift cards yes gift cards are so overrated you just think about it you're just giving me cash i can only spend at one place why not just venmo me you're literally you're literally giving me cash that i can only spend in one place and if i don't buy something worthy of or that's worth all of it then i just got like a dollar 52 on a gift card right i'm salty about it or the alternative happens where i buy something worth it and now i gotta pay 11 in tax or something and i'm like and i'm like just i don't understand why like the only way gift cards should work should be like this right you should you give me a gift card for $50, but it costs you like $45. Right.

Like there should be some, I know I understand someone will go and buy a, somebody would go and buy 150 gift cards and they would make all that extra money. I get it. If there's a way to solve that, I hope there is. But otherwise gift cards are so overrated. I don't see, it's not, it's just money. I can only spend one place. You're just limiting my money. rated i don't see it's not it's just money i can only spend one place you're just limiting my money it's peak like corporate brainwashing because it's like it's only a thing because we've allowed it to be a thing because it's like a social custom it's like oh a gift card well it has gift right there in the name so it's a fine thing to give people but it's just giving the corporation money it's making a donation to corporations because

i think they say like 50 of them don't get used so you're just giving money to the company and what it wasn't until like the what 20 some years ago when they actually had to be like oh right a gift card is legal tender like you can't be suddenly like oh it expired because a lot of places were pulling that shit in the 90s i was like but uh this blockbuster music is about to close and they're like it's it's expired son thank you i thought of this because you know when i was scheduling this thing i was like you know i have a amc gift card in my wallet and it's been there the whole damn pandemic and i'm like what am i supposed to do i'm not going back to amc for 14, what am I supposed to do? I'm not going back to AMC for 14 years. What am I supposed to do with this?

That shit might not exist by that point. Like an AMC gift card. Come on now. But also too, like it's cultural, like in Asian culture, like you give people

straight cash. Yeah. Like that's not a problem. That ain't no problem. That ain't no problem. Because you just know that's for the kids. That's for the kids.

That's no problem. Yeah. That ain't no problem. That ain't no problem. That's what I took after. You problem. I remember people would apologize. Oh, I noticed your birth, but all I could give you was this heavy ass envelope. You don't even have to give me a heavy ass envelope. You can cash at me.

Whatever. Yeah, exactly. You can coin base me. To the point where giving a gift card feels like disrespect because it's essentially the same thing as getting a cvs valentine's day gift you know what i mean like this last minute as fuck unless it's like something so specific and like interesting if you hit me with that best buy thing yeah just hit the cash app hit the cash app the one thing like if somebody knows that you want to

spend the money on something like and you feel like knows that you want to spend the money on something, like, and you feel like you need that excuse to spend the money on something, that can be one way that it's, like, worth it. Like, for instance, StockX should have gift cards, because then people would, I feel like, I don't know. I've had multiple times when I was like, I would actually buy a stock x gift card for somebody so that they had to spend the money on something that was going to be super fun for them i mean i

get that like my mother never does any like pampering stuff for herself right yeah so like like if i got her like a spa day gift card i get that because and ain't no immigrant mom gonna waste some shit right yeah exactly that's the only way you can get them to do it like are you gonna waste it they're like fuck you got me my mom has so much my mom has so much pride in being like i've had these shoes for 14 years there's three holes in them and i still wear them and i'm like why are you proud of that go get new shoes you're like why the bottoms of your feet are fucked up it's so funny to wear Please wear these new shoes. It's so funny that, like, Indians make such a point of coming to this country and then living like they did back in India. Like, I still have holes in my shoes and I walk every day. My mom's the same where she just talks shit about Americans.

I'm like, motherfucker, you got a passport now. Like, she's like, you know, that's what American people do. Like, doing all this. And I'm like, you're, okay, whatever. But, you know, do you. I get it. We still got to hold on. We still got to keep our sense of identity.

My mom uses the word American when she means white because it feels rude for her to say white people. Like she's really afraid of saying white people. So she'd be like, what, do you think I'm like these Americans? And I'm like, you mean white people, I think. I think you mean white people when you say that. No, no, no. I guess. She used to say, she used to say Justin's mom when she meant another white woman.

She would be like, I'd be like, that rules. Justin's mom? I'd be like, Justin's mom. That could be the invariant. A couple of Justin's mom? Justin's mom. That could be the imperative. A couple of Justin's moms over here, huh? She would be like, she would go, I'd be like, mom, I want to stay. Okay, so we have this arcade that used to be like open until midnight and you could pay 20 bucks and it could be like a club feel for a bunch of 15 year olds. And so I'd be like, she's like, we're picking you up at 10.

I'm like, mom, it starts at 930. I'm not getting picked up at 10. I'm like, mom, it starts at 930. I'm not getting picked up at 10. I need to at least get picked up at 12. And then she'd be like, what do I look like? Justin's mom. And I'm like, Justin. Oh, wait, there wasn't even the homie named Justin. No, it was just like, I look like Justin's mom.

I think Justin was like the name in her head for like, obviously a white guy. Wow. Wow. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Ryan and Justin. Yeah. What do I look like? Justin's mom? I wish I had Justin's mom.

Oh, I loved that. I really loved it. Oh, that's amazing. It's so funny. Now I look back on it and I'm like, oh, it's so cute. I love her. She was amazing. And back then I was like, I you justin uh i think i i think there was a point when i was like in fourth grade where i had

like at least three justins in my class uh yeah it was a real it was a real ohio white kid name uh for sure where in ohio jack dayton oh my best friends from dayton ohio will allen i don't know if you know but i haven't i moved out of there when i was 12 i mean dayton's only like what four million people yeah yeah we probably ran cross paths for sure really worried about your memory jack yeah hold Hold on, Will Allen, you done ringing a bell? I think Beth Stelling is from Dayton, Ohio. Yeah, there's a lot of great stuff, great culture, great people from Dayton, Ohio.

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as we were leaving the theater this dad and his kid who had been in the theater pulled up in front of us rolled down their window and screamed mortal combat and i was like so embarrassed for him fuck yeah uh but this trailer made me spend the morning driving around my neighborhood shouting Mortal Kombat. Random Pass was loud. Oh, do you need something? Mortal Kombat! What?

The trailer is fucking wild. The Red Band trailer. Yeah. The straight up. Oh, Jax has arms. His arms are bionic because they got frozen off and blown off that's one of my favorite creative kill uh tropes is when something someone freezes the human body part and then it shatters like crystal even though that can't be what happens right but

maybe i don't know well you can't if like liquid nitrogen yeah right liquid nitrogen but then like would your bones also just shatter as easily as your frozen i imagine that everything would have to get that cold right to get to that point huh yeah because i remember i did a video back in the day where like we were dipping shit in liquid nitrogen and breaking it and a lot of shit like oh really yeah yeah yeah yeah shit is shit don't don't fuck around with it i don't know how i got it they were this dude was behind toys r us i will put this vat of liquid nitrogen away uh i was just about to try that shit out but yeah but i'm trying to offload some of this shit so if you want some liquid nitro hit me up on twitter

no i'm okay i am a i'm not a girly girl but i've never got into like the real just sit back and let your mind watch an action movie type of thing but i did watch the trailer this morning and i just got intense nostalgia for going to a pizza place and playing the shit out of that game right it has a great... That smell of your hands stinking like tokens that have been touched by 10,000 little germy kids. Tokens and grease. And then fill in your soda cup

with all the different flavors of soda. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What y'all call that, suicide or swamp water? We called it suicide. We called it graveyard. Because it was more badass. Yeah.

Graveyard. Oh, see, I heard... I did suicide was what I heard on the West Coast. And then I remember going to like somewhere in New England or somewhere on the East Coast and kids called it swamp water. Swamp water. I like graveyard, though. Graveyard fucking hits. Hit me in graveyard.

It was the worst, the fucking worst thing you could drink, too. Especially with the orange soda in there. Oh, yeah. Because it was just distinctly orange at the back you got the Dr. Pepper then orange orange and it threw the colors off too because normally it's either brown or clear

and then you throw that orange in and now you're like please just your mom I remember my mom's like what are you I remember she yelled at me once for doing that shit because she was like, what are you doing? I remember she yelled at me once for doing that shit. Because she was like, that's disgusting. You just drank from that cup and you're hitting all the other things. Like, you got to think about other people.

And I was like, I'm sorry. That's still what Rick Carlisle, the coach of the Dallas Mavericks, orders when he goes to a restaurant. No. Yeah. Like in his 50s. And he's like, yeah, give me a graveyard or a suicide or whatever. That's awesome. That was being comfortable. he's like yeah give me a graveyard or a suicide or whatever he and that did not he's like a genius like literally like a self-taught like piano like a concert pianist like makes his golf clubs yeah he's like this the most interesting dude

but yeah not my dad but uh another basketball coach I know once went out to dinner with him and was blown away that he was like, yeah, can I get a suicide? And the waiter was like, huh? He was like, yeah, just mix all the different Sprite, Coke. And for your friend here, I'll have a Glenlivet Rock. Exactly. I've never had the balls to do that. And I kind of want to Yeah that's energy

When the restaurants open back up baby That dude is galaxy brand I've done Shirley Temple Oh yeah Shirley Temple is great That's fine I mean that's standard But hitting somebody with Because it's a weird request already And it doesn't have a uniform

There's not a ubiquitous term for it really like you can't just say it and everybody knows that you have to go through it be like graveyard is that is that like a gray hound no no no no no graveyard goose vodka yeah right no no no no um it's it's every soda you have in the fountain mixed together light ice light ice please Is that an alcoholic drink? No, no, no, no. Just go down the road. It's a public pool drink.

That's what it is. Yeah. Exactly. But yeah, the Mortal Kombat trailer, just a gift factory of inventive violence at one point, Sub-Zero makes somebody spout blood and then takes that blood and freezes it into a blood knife that he then

uses it's just wild a lot of dope stuff that's one I would want to see in theaters that's something I don't want to watch at home yeah no there's so many movies it's weird how I've instantly been like I can wait even though I thought I couldn't but I think it's because when i've instantly been like i can wait even though i thought i couldn't

but i think it's because when i'm left with the binary of the theater experience or at home with my speakers not that uh tough as they need to be yeah i'll just i'll just throw on some reruns or some shit yeah i want that blood knife like four feet long towering above oh yeah that's how you get the fierce exactly like i want to i want to have like a panic attack in the theater watching it because like i haven't been out in so long and then the violence in the film is too intense and i ate too many edibles and i'm just like they got to stop the movie uh i i'm really excited to get back to a movie theater i think i'm gonna movie theater or movie theater or a crowded to a movie theater. I think I'm going to. Movie theater or a crowded restaurant?

Oh, movie theater. Damn. I had a dream the other day of, like, you remember walking through a restaurant and be like, oh, I think my friends are in the back. Yeah. And you go like, walk through a crowd, and then you're like, oh, okay,

so I'm having a birthday party. I had a fucking dream about just finding my people at a restaurant. And I was like, yeah, that shit's tight. What is something you think is overrated, Blair? Wait, oh, yeah, I didn't do that one. Okay, I want to say, you know, what is overrated? Jack and Miles. Okay, yeah.

It's the word normalize. Oh, God. It's right word normalize. Oh, God. It's right up there with adulting now, folks. Makes my skin crawl. When I hear the word normalize, I just want to stop the day right there and go back to bed. Normalize. Nope. I'm done.

Good night. See you tomorrow. I hope to begin a new day then. Yeah. Super normalization, man. what are the headlines you read that are using overusing it just you know the internet is unmatched uh capacity to make you hate stuff um i i expend a lot of energy like trying not to be poisoned by that. It's cancer of like making you need your Kate stuff. But when you just like mindlessly absorb it over and over every day,

the ones I normalize, normalize, normalize, normalize. And I'm like, I can't read this fucking word one more time. If you're putting it in your tweets, it's garbage.

Hmm. Oh, so yeah, that's why I didn't like my tweet. Don't normalize white supremacy oh I didn't see that one we've just never had a live sub tweet I just want to do a A and B

call real quick now I'm fucking with you I was just gonna say if I saw that tweet definitely would have went with something else would have made another choice I think yeah just normalize this means like is whack don't make this thing acknowledge that this is bullshit

right rather than saying don't normalize it just say we all know this is horseshit and we need to be arms locked together in acknowledging this whatever topic industry is horseshit. Yeah, it's just you know how some internet words get you.

When I hear adulting, my body really feels ill. Turns to a child. Yeah. Yeah. You get one of those hats with the little propeller top on top. It just grows out of your head. I'm a kid. Now that I'm never getting invited back on this podcast. Oh, you're coming back no matter what.

The one thing I hear a lot, though, is like my one friend said he hates lean into. Oh, yeah. Lean in. That's the other one. Like that was the equivalent of him being like, you know what I hear? It's too damn much. I was like, oh, my God. Okay. Lean in damn much. I was like, oh my God, okay. Leaning in.

But sometimes I don't know how else to do it. Like if you're talking about a bit, you got to lean into a bit. I don't know any other way to make that expression. I guess overindulged. It's too wordy, too many syllables. Steer into the spin. That's another version of that.

Yeah, that's like Extra aviation Extra old white guy I just thought of a little Addendum Also Also overrated Loud cars and motorcycles

That's mostly what I spend my time on the internet Campaigning against These very troubled Men pay to make their So that's mostly what I spend my time on the internet campaigning against. Very troubled men pay to make their cars loud and then, you know, just make a whole show careening down the street. And I really, really don't like them. And I think they have little baby dongs. There's a there's a there's tension in my neighborhood with a loud exhaust at the moment. Someone's got, they have a remote start car and the pipes on here.

When I say these pipes are louder than at Wiz Khalifa's house because these shits, I get, they freak the fuck out of me. Because out of nowhere, it's like, and I'm like, oh, fuck. But, you know, I get it. Like, you know, people want to have their gearhead life. But at a certain point, I'm like, isn't there like a can't you put like a manner mode on where you're like, let me let me start this. Like, keep it low key to get out of my neighborhood where there might be sleeping people or babies and then turn it up or whatever. But it is what it is. I know. I hate being like an old man, like a 90 year old man about it,

but I guess, I don't know. I am one of the, unfortunately, a highly sensitive person. It really gets in my nervous system. Really nice. Is it traffic like by your place that gets you or just whenever you're,

is it just cause, or you, for you, you're all about tranquility, turn everything yellow, put the yellow sunglasses on, the vibes are yellow. You know what it is? I spend like an hour or two walking outside a day just for my health

and the pandemic being inside. And it will always be like right at the moment I'm on the phone with my grandma or something. And then like literally the whole call gets just blacked out by some fucking asshole who's like i gotta make up for the pain inside me yeah i wonder if he's also trying to catch your attention you know being like yeah check me out i guess that's never have a loud car i wear a giant mom visor for sun protection nice also you you and my wife should uh hang out she's

doing the same thing hang out and talk about uh sun protection and then waving waving her fist angrily at loud cars that pass by no you know I don't even do that I don't react at all I just silently die a little bit once I heard that the I forget which muscle car it was but one of them maybe all the like Mustang

and Charger and all those cars when I heard that they had like basically a little speaker in their muffler that was like creating the roar noise it totally made me look at that like it's just synthetic at this point because you just don't need like the cars are sophisticated enough that they don't need to do that anymore but they are like still just to like give whatever that urge is a place to play they're they're creating they're like playing a sound of an old motor

essentially yeah but then it'll play it into your speakers in the car though too to give you the sense that your car is that loud outwardly yeah it's just okay i am absolutely sickened yeah but i get it you know like at a certain point it's like i remember you know as a kid you i'd ride a bike you could hear a car behind you or something right you know yeah yeah totally and i think as it gets quieter because now in the advent of like hybrids and stuff and i ride my bike a lot more now like i get i uh hybrids sneak up on me pretty easily, but not to the point where it's everyone safe, but I'm always like,

oh, there's a difference sonically in the environment where I used to hear old-ass car. Yeah, it's more of a high-pitched whine of whatever's cooling the computer off is the thing you get. It's never a slow start, start though it's always violent like they are slam it on real hard like everyone look at me while i make you mad and you know yeah or people on like motorcycle i get sometimes on motorcycles like they'll rev to like get people's attention

because sometimes people are like but then there are other people who are just like especially when you're in an overpass which is a concrete sound chamber and someone's like i'm gonna turn it up in here and you're like please don't you're gonna fuck everything up and it's just too much too much yeah that is the thing that uh harleys i guess are one of the safest motorcycles because they're so loud and one of the big problems with motorcycles on the road is like drivers of cars just like don't register them because they're not like looking for that size vehicle and our brains are stupid computers that are like programmed for very few things and so people that's like so we need those speakers actually yeah hit them okay I'll admit I've never

heard that before and I just crossed the aisle to the other to understand a little bit more about my foes and um my foes my nemeses my enemies and now I know a little

bit more about their motorcycle culture trying to keep themselves safe. The truck still no excuse, but thank you for educating me a bit. Exactly. If you got a 2002 act legend or a 92 act legend with the wild ass

come on now. We understand. We understand what you're trying to do. But it's okay. nobody's judging you on how loud you can yell for your parents to come back yeah i was just thinking of like things they could add to the like in addition to the motor hum like something like an approving like uh you're doing great Yeah, from your dad. Fucking proud of you, man. I actually am proud of you. I really did go to get cigarettes, and things just kind of got complicated all the way there.

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