The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 195 (Best of 9/27/21-10/1/21)

Episode Date: October 3, 2021

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It's bigger than a flag or mascot. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. Yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Please welcome the brilliant, the talented Katie Golding! It's-a me, Katie! Hey, what's up?

Wait, you're in Italy right now, correct? Yeah, yeah. Moved to Italy. Yeah, you're really feeling it right now i'm i was gonna ask you how are the people of i i mean i'm guessing you were referencing the tumultuous decision of having chris pratt uh be mario yeah the streets are wild here yeah it's chaos more than the euro cup when they won yeah society has crumbled the fabric has has torn. People are flipping cars. They are, you know, using breadsticks to break into stores. And yeah, I could list a bunch of other offensive Italian stereotypes as well. But I do not want to get deported. How's it been? How's it from going from cali to italy good good it's uh i mean actually nobody cares about the mario movie here that was a joke not a single person cares because

he's japanese everyone i don't think anyone has even heard of chris pratt here yeah i mean the people are lovely and it's a it's a it's a great time here and they also take covid very seriously vaccination rates are higher than the u.s wow people are respectfully wear masks in stores and if their mask falls below their nose and you tell them they will lift it up without you know know, attacking you. So, yeah, it's pretty nice. Wow. OK, I like that. And of course, that's a mark of a great country.

They got good mask adoption, vaccine acceptance, and they don't know who Chris Pratt is. Right. I think that's actually that's the common denominator, right? You look at countries that have really good health care, really take pandemic seriously. They all don't know who Chris Pratt is. Right. Exactly. That has to be the Chris Pratt's name cannot move the needle at all.

And you're in somewhere you want to be. Chris Pratt. And then is Luigi still Bob Hoskins or who'd they go with for Luigi? Luigi was Mario was John Leguizamo. Remember? Oh, OK. Bob Hoskins. The live action. OK. Got it. Who'd they go with for Luigi? was John Leguizamo. Remember? Bob Hoskins was Mario.

Okay, got it. Who'd they go with for Luigi? I don't know. Sorry, I was trying to pronounce Luigi in an inappropriate Italian dialect. Oh, Charlie Day as Luigi. Oh, that's good. They nailed that one.

I like that. There you go. And then Seth Rogen is Donkey Kong. And Keegan-Michael Key is Toad. So they just, they nailed a bunch of them. And then for Mario, we're just like, I don't know, one of the Chris's. Hey, and you got Sebastian Maniscalco as Spike. All right.

Oh, hell yeah. Fellow label mate, Sebastian Man. Sebastian is holding it down. He's going to drop some zucchini, fried zucchini jokes. Oh, my God. I still think about that VMAs he hosted that did not make any sense at all. It's all I think about. Yeah. Yeah.

There's a great tweet from Jess Tom on Twitter who looks at the cast of, you know, the Mario movie. Chris Pratt is Mario. Anna Taylor-Joy is Peach. Charlie Day is Luigi. Jack Black is Bowser. And this person wrote, this is whitewashing of Japanese characters doing a racist impression of Italians. Nailed it. Kind of a, yeah, a lot of levels to that racism.

Yeah. Chelsea, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? Oh, this is a fun one. So we're coming, our show's coming back in October. So we wanted to start on a Halloween note. And so do you guys know, I'm sure you know a little bit about extreme haunted houses yes okay just let broadly let people know what an extreme haunted yes i will so because i that's for we love haunted houses around here that's only for the real heads like a love a haunted

house you have a haunted house but you hate a jump scare yeah it's really surprising yeah i go when i walk to a haunted house it's like my adrenaline's so up like i act like i just walked into prison the first day and i'm like what's up and i'm like that didn't do shit let's go what's the next one i know that's gonna move it did pretty soon they're all hiding from you yeah yeah and it's like no one wants to do it with me they're like dude like you don't have you sound you actually seem really uncomfortable in here i'm like no man i'm good man what's the next one it's most comfortable i've ever been because i know that's somebody under that sheet i went through a haunted house

last let's see it was right before the pandemic so the halloween before and uh we i went with my girlfriend who's very scared of haunted houses and of course it was just her and i you know when you have a group you've kind of got this like layer of protection but if it's just two people like they're they're on you and uh she had to exit the haunted house into like the special cast area where injured people go to sit on hay bales and wait for you know someone to take them out uh and I finished it and then I came back out and then there was a second haunted house and i decided to go through alone because i'd paid and i wanted this was a clown themed one i wasn't going to not go i decided not to go through alone because i thought i would creep out the actual workers

inside like this fucked up person going through yeah going through alone um but uh that's what's really horrifying i glom i glommed on to some high schoolers and i was like can i go through they were very nice you gotta be in the front yeah they were and i was like great uh i can go they don't really uh they don't really phase me too much but an extreme haunted house i would not do um and the premise of those is that they can do shit like you sign a waiver. They can waterboard you. They can shove disgusting shit in your mouth. They can, you know, assault you, put bags over your head, drag you into another room.

You know, you might leave with bruises, bloodied. You know, they can put your head in a cage and put like a fucking spider in there. You know, it's like very extreme you know super fun like it does border on what appears to be some kind of fetish scenario um but it's like very uh they you know people who are into them will say that it's not the case uh but it's hard to sort of divorce some of the images that you see the real money but the real money that they make yeah the real the real money that they make really yeah the real the real money that they make on those is from the uh you know rich guys masturbating behind a

two-way mirror watching all of those things yeah you know jack apparently mckamey manor uh takes their video and projects that over into las vegas where people are paying money to decide what happens to these people. Okay. But this is fucking bullshit. Of course, this isn't true. Like a crowd source thing? Yeah, like there are rich, you know, mysterious, shrouded elitists in Las Vegas who are, you know, kind of like a snuff film type crowd who are paying money to kind of decide or watch

you know what happens to these these people but it's not true you know what what's so the coolest part about these haunted houses is that the waiver is total bullshit the you know you can't have a waiver that says you can die in this haunted house you know yeah and it's like and you can sign it but that does not protect these people from legal consequences it's just not it's not true so so much what i'm trying to do right now and what we do on the show is kind of separate fact from fiction right and it does seem that a lot of these haunted houses are a lot of smoke and mirrors and that a lot of what is making money for these folks are their video walkthroughs on YouTube. They get millions and millions and millions of watches because they

McKamey Manor is free. You just have to bring a donation of dog food. And so, you know, you has this mystique of like the guy who runs at Russ McKamey and all the people who work there, they're not being paid, which adds this other layer, right? Where it's like, they have to want to do this shit, but it's all kind of like, it's, it's just like, there are these fake documentaries that are made and put up. There's these fake testimonials. It seems it's so hard to pick out fact from fiction. I'm going deep into like these interviews with his fucking ex-wife and like these really janky little YouTube accounts that are like exposing the manor. And it's so full of outrage because so many people are so outraged, right? There's a

whole petition to get it taken down. It may be possible that the petition was created by McKamey Manor, you know, so it's sort of this like amazing, like Blair Witchian tactics to make this place. And, you know, they say there's like a 20 or 40,000 person waiting list, which is also not true. You know, so it's really a fun kind of project to take these haunted houses and dissect just what is a hoax. Because there's also an example of somebody, I can't remember who it was, some internet famous TikTok or something personality

who went and filmed their experience. And it was basically just like crawling around with a blindfold on in a backyard with someone yelling, you know, horrible things at you. And that was really, and you're blindfolded and being sprayed with water. You don't really know where you are. That's terrifying.

But you know, it's not the same thing as what we're seeing in the videos um so that's really uh that's a my search history has been lately this is the um the this one started in san diego right yep mccain yeah okay so i remember in the early years of it like i remember seeing like the videos they would put out because i remember like back when stumble upon was a huge plug-in for people's browsers like just show me some random shit remember that i haven't thought of stumble upon in a decade yo that shit used to take me all over the fucking internet and i remember coming across a video of it and it was truly like you had never seen anything like it like people were just like vomiting yeah choking and you're like oh shit and you're like and it's like the most extreme haunted house i didn't realize that it had still been evolving past like that sort of initial i don't know yeah they'll be like you know veterans of war that are just weeping for their

mothers and shit in the videos like the whole like the whole thing. All those videos are like, dude, it made this Navy SEAL poop himself. Yeah, exactly. And it's so hard to pick apart what's real and what's not, which is really fun. The Blackout Experiments is another, is a documentary from 2016 that's really good about a bunch of people kind of grappling with their relationship and addiction to these places, which is a great example of also sort of not being able to figure out how much of the documentary is manufactured. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. There's all sorts of ways that we manufacture ways to get like contact with other people. I feel like this might be one where people like, instead of living in tight-knit communities where you like hold hands when you pray or whatever you people used to do uh now they like go to have people jump out and like tackle them just to feel a human touch did you did you see that

story about the a guy who like at a haunted house over the weekend? He stabbed a little boy in the foot on accident? No. Well, I guess I'll have to work that in. He somehow had a knife, and then I guess something happened, and this person ended up hitting this kid in the foot with his knife. So was he working there, or was he going through it? I believe it's one of the the characters oh yeah you can't have a real knife yeah and i think

what they said he was scraping the knife on the ground and playing around them and my son sent ahead i'm not afraid your knife is fake so the man was like oh it's real trust me it's real and that's when he started poking it at his feet multiple times until he stabbed him and this is for real this is definitely true yeah it's like a daily mail okay all right yeah it's being i mean unless the report is on propaganda because you know part of it is to like get people so interested and think like now they're gonna go because that whole nathan for you episode was about the challenge was creating a haunted house so scary that you get sued was like a point in order to generate interest and so it could be along those lines but it is along those lines I bet yeah this person was given a prop yeah he

thought was a prop and it was a really real bladed it's a fantastic example too of how shit gets repeated because like you go to the Wikipedia page or any news outlet and it just repeats what Russ McKamey says it says there's a 40 000 person waiting list and blah blah and it's all just like you could just say something right it's a good example of that and it just people have tried to sue him because it's too scary i don't even know if it's like because everybody who comes out of it on the real walkout videos is like that was a lot of fun that was crazy you know they're not like i'm gonna sue you i'm i have ptsd because i was assaulted you know which is essentially like emergency like foil blankets

exactly yeah people that end up like an action movie yes yep like rose dawson at the end of titanic right what is something that you think is overrated diana so many things really i i would say sheet masks if you know what i'm talking about like a skincare product the sheet masks that are in those little pouches yeah rip it and you pull it out and you kind of lay it on your face and you look like a weirdo i hate them i think they're like trending way too much i think they're not useful they drip all over you they're not useful. They drip all over you. They're not fun to wear. I don't understand them.

Just put them in a bottle and do your face and let it slowly tighten over time. That's what I like to do. We've talked before on this show about those masks. I have pitched them as a great mask for a stalker slasher movie because they are truly terrifying. I've definitely been frightened by them just walking into my bedroom and

my wife turns around and looks yeah, like it really does work as a horrifying like if somebody walked in with one of those on it would it would really yeah it reminds me i vividly am reminded of like that scene in the cable guy where they go to medieval times and jim carrey puts all the chicken skin on his face and he's like silence of the

lambs that or the other one which is what's that movie the brendan fraser baseball movie with albert brooks where he's the pitcher uh the phenom or something yeah uh and in that one there's like a scene where he puts a torch yeah the rookie that he actually like he puts a tortilla on his face and that also reminds me of it so i don't know or the scout it's the scout the scout yeah there we go that old albert einstein tortillas that's what they kind of because they're just kind of hanging off they don't mold to your face and they look weird when one year our theater company for a parade did depression era halloween costumes which if you want to go on a weird google image search they're literally like burlap sacks with holes in

them so they look so terrifying. And then like a few months later, they were all on a plane doing one of those white face masks and did a little selfie. And I was like, you look exactly good to warn that for Halloween. So that's exactly like a freshman era, Halloween terrifying costume right now. Yeah.

Historical Halloween costumes just across the border. Very frightening. But yeah, depression era in particular. Yeah. the board are very frightening but yeah depression era in particular is holy yeah yeah they they remind me of um they're sort of the skincare equivalent of the michael myers mask which is like you know there's lots of like drama theory around you know you have the the like happy mask the sad mask and then like the neutral mask and the neutral mask allows you to like project whatever is inside you like onto that mask

which is why keanu reeves is so successful is because he is a human neutral mask but yeah the yeah it's just blankness that you can put project whatever horror is existing here online but you can turn it up because they print designs on them now for more fun you know what I mean like I've seen some where it'll be like a frog face

or like a kabuki mask or some shit when I was in Japan there's like all kinds of graphic ones I think just to bring a little bit of fun to the face mask game yeah that makes it sound worse yeah maybe I don't know I love this I like the feeling kabuki mask turnaround and that would be more more comfortable I don't know yeah I don't think there's any way to get used to it I think the thing I identified the most of what you said was when it drips like because like you know they're supposed to be hype you know very hydrated but then i remember the last time i put one on this was kept going down my neck and i was like i hated that feeling and it feels awful yes and then i

don't know my a lot of my skincare concerns are around my jawline and they you know like i said they don't mold to your face i feel like i'm just like it's just hanging off and i'm just unhappy i don't feel like i face. I feel like it's just hanging off and I'm just unhappy. I don't feel like I'm taking care of myself at all. What is something you think is underrated, Sean? Boiled eggs, guys. Oh, fuck yeah. I had two for breakfast.

You don't need to fry them. You don't need to devil them. You just need some hot water and maybe a bit of salt some chili sauce or something yeah wow just i got nothing else just well thanks just really think about ejaculating how are you uh how are you applying it just on the on the smooth outside the the chili sauce i mean you take a bite you fill the hole what do you do i'll slice it right down the middle i'll dissect it okay wow and then i'll put some yeah some chili in there maybe a thin slice of onion oh shit wow and then you got a little bit of effort going into that i like that yeah and then you never go soft boiled yeah only if i'm in rush so it's more out of necessity uh okay yeah yeah i i like a lot of

soft boiled eggs and i i'm kind of on a similar diet as you i i usually eat like two boiled eggs two soft boiled eggs in the morning okay with a little bit of kewpie mayonnaise japanese mayonnaise and a little little bit of a teardrop of soy sauce. Wow. Okay. Okay. Yeah. That's how I get down. Okay. Okay. I'm going to try this tomorrow. Yeah.

How are you guys transport? Do you transport in, in shell or do you transport like you crack it and then put it? Here's the thing. I think we're people. I feel like I agree that the boiled egg is stinky, so I don't want to force that on other people necessarily. So I just try to force that on other people necessarily. So I just try to eat it almost like a vitamin. Like I like that I can boil it and I can eat it so quickly.

And that's my breakfast. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I do. I take a small bite off the top and create a chasm. And then I,

I get my little mayonnaise and soy sauce in there. Then I eat the rest, the rest of the fucking egg in one bite. Yeah. Yeah. It's easier that way. It really is. So good.

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And we're back. And we're back. And it just feels silly to me every time we have somebody who's zooming in from, in this case, Italy or, you know, I mean, from Japan. And our show is so dumb. It's just like, wow, you got the miracles of modern technology. And then we're like, thank you for wasting an hour with us. Thank you. Yeah, I just wanted to up front. Thank you.

Thank you, Katie. No, no, I love being on. This is great. It's also like it feels really good. I know this sounds weird, but it does feel really good to talk to Americans because it is it is a culture shock. I do love the people here. They're very wonderful. But it is a culture shock. I do love the people here. They're very wonderful. But it is definitely culture shock. I mean, even amongst people who do speak English,

it's still like, well, you know, I can be talking about like, man, you know, they're taking horse medicine in the US. And my friend's like, I'm sorry. A horse? A horse needs medicine? Right. Like, I was explaining that to an Italian friend of mine, and I was trying to speak in Italian, and she was giving me this look of like, I don't think you said that right in Italian, and then I explained it again in English,

and she's like, no, you said it right in Italian. I just don't understand what you're saying. How someone could be so incoherent with their decision-making. You're right. I guess we are especially good reminder of America and how stupid our show is a lot of the time. All right, let's talk about cyber ninjas.

Speaking of stupid American things, that is what a group that uh decided to like put their own forensic analysis together despite having no expertise in the area uh they named themselves the the cyber ninjas oh that's a nom de plume like they chose that did they yeah that wasn't given to them as far as i know yeah and they said their six month long recount was the quote most comprehensive and complex election audit ever conducted i think we all took that to me and they were gonna like dig into the literal ones and zeros of any vote cast, like, or any counting software to try and argue that there was fraud. They're still kind of doing that,

but they did put together a report that basically had their ultimate conclusion, and that accidentally got leaked. And what did they find, Miles? Oh, well, the the cyber ninjas even though they were breaking open machines and things and trying to look inside and swearing there was uh you know fraud in there turns out according to their analysis joe biden actually won by a larger margin than maricopa county had reported he won by 360 more votes than the maricopa county tally

did but essentially it just affirmed the same thing which was that there was no fraud joe biden won by that much not that it was a razor thin margin but joe biden won they there was nothing there um even when they asked one of the people who was like involved with it like to check the veracity of like this leaked memo they're like no yep it's true uh there's there was no seems like there were no signs of widespread fraud fraudulent votes being cast and it's like wow i'm i know in a way i'm like how could you articulate such a demonic statement out loud if you're a cyber ninja to say that joe biden uh did in fact receive more votes however however because they can't it can't just be hey man we went through it turns out joe biden won y'all let's keep this thing moving

cyber ninjas out ggs everyone exactly they said we've got something. They essentially are saying that they're alleging that they have uncovered anomalies. So stay tuned is what they're saying now for the fifth phase of this fucking rift. You know, Donald Trump was like so, so like happy, but also like there was too much media smearing about this. This is huge news that they found all this fraud but the thing is like they didn't even they're still not saying that even though trump was saying like they found fraud they're very clear like there was no fraud there we found anomalous voting patterns okay okay and what's that i mean that's pretty damning though considering probably their auditing was stuff like that b kind of looks like a t right for titan which probably stands for trump right

right the for doe titan that's that's pretty like anomalous seems like it's going to be yeah right you think this person voted for Trump for Biden? Come on. They would clearly vote for Trump. Like, let's go to their house. Essentially, it means everywhere.

Like we knew there was, there were anomalies in the sense that people expected Arizona to stay Republican. And it did not like that is an anomaly. If you look at like all the numbers across the history of, you know. OK, come on, don't put them on trial so quickly. Let them take one L at a time.

Yeah. Jesus Christ. Anomaly just that's a fancy word for a head scratcher. Yeah. Huh. And we found some head scratchers and the dandruff coming from that. Yeah. Stay tuned, folks. We're scratching hard.

Almost as if there was a historically bad president in office that they were voting against or something. Well, you know, they're still promising like lawsuits and more subpoenas and all this other stuff to keep it going. But, you know, in the end, it's just as all people who are not just rabid racists knew, like this has nothing to do with voter fraud. rabid racists knew like this has nothing to do with voter fraud this was just a fucking charade to help keep the you know maga faithful on board with this like just this scam and the longer they continue to be like we're still looking we're still looking and things aren't necessarily like unequivocal from them then it still gives them you know all the other people who are in on this shit to keep pushing the same nonsense and at the cost of just tearing the fabric of the country in thrice yeah is that is that how you'd say that anyway probably not yeah well you know why not it's monday so another thing to keep an

eye on though is a really really fucking spooky trend because there are these freaky motherfuckers running for the office of secretary of state in a lot of battleground states and the secretary of state i mean it's the title can be different from you know from state to state but essentially they're the they're that's the office that like manages elections like if you wanted to fuck an election like remember brad raffensperger from georgia secretary of state there he was a republican but he was still like unwilling to go along with trump's game to find votes that were not there imagine if he were just imagine that then we have something really much more dangerous and different than what happened even though he's

still kind of you know hemming and hawing about joe biden but when you look at some of the people that are running for these offices like these these state offices, many of them are basically just completely have their heads in Maga World. According to Reuters, they interviewed nine. They interviewed 15 declared Republican candidates for secretary of state in battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada. states like Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, they found that nine of the 15 of these people, you know, they're just not, they're not clear on what they think happened on the election. 10 of the 15 have either declared the 2020 election was stolen or called by their state's results to be invalidated or further investigated. So they, these are people who are saying like, if this were to happen again, if I was in office that time, I would have willingly rat fucked the shit out of that election.

Only two of the nine candidates that they spoke to said that Biden won the election. So this is the fucking this is the other phase of what's happening here is they real like the reason we didn't get away with it the first time is because they don't have enough stooges in those decision-making positions to make the dominoes fall in the order that they needed to. They are clearly now moving for that. It is like butt-clenching how close we really got to just a coup. Because if people think like, oh, well, wouldn't propriety just like being proper and going along with rules just kind of keep people from doing this? Well, didn't Pence look into every possible option to like not ratify the election? And he he reached out to people like, can I could I do this? Like, could I not?

Quayle. Yeah. Dan Quayle. Dan Quayle is like, no, dude. What? What do you mean? We were a Dan Quayle piece of good advice from fucking ceasing to exist. Oh, God. That is dizzying.

Could have sent the whole country in another direction. Or potatoe, rather. Yeah, that is not what you want to hear yeah exactly and i think that's why it's you know while it's easy to look at these like rallies that are happening we touched on that like last week about yeah they had some j6 justice for the political dissident prisoners type shit that's not where they're that's not where the threat is the threat is them realizing you know again it's like,

hate to bring up a Jurassic Park, but when the raptors were testing the perimeter fences, you know, that's what this last election was. And they realized it's like anything. There weren't enough people in on this scheme for it to fall the way it needs to. And now they are very focused on electing people into those positions. So when the opportunity comes again, they're ready. But it's like those raptors are testing the electric fences while wearing shirts that are like, I'm going to go eat some humans after I break through this electric fence. They're wearing shirts that saying I am testing the perimeter fence to begin to figure out how to escape.

To begin to figure out how to escape. But don't worry, guys, because Chris Pratt, Nancy Pelosi, made friends with the raptors and taught them how to work with humans. So that's all you need to know. So, yeah, the next storming of the Capitol will be Chris Pratt on a motorcycle with a fucking just a herd of raptors. All right. motorcycle with a fucking just a herd of raptors all right let's talk briefly about another group of fat cats who have had it too good for too long and i'm talking of course about the people who volunteer to be on school boards come on like they you know they dedicate their time to help

educate our children and now they're gonna complain that they've been subjected to being you know abused and treated like absolute shit by right-wing political activists come on i've had enough well where's the line what's next you know we've seen the scenes at these board meetings they look you just you can't even like if you were if you had it on mute there you're like oh my god like was there a network of sexual predators like just like running amok in this like school system but no they're like they're teaching our kids critical race theory which again is for graduate students and law students. So complex. You couldn't even begin to fucking teach a child critical race theory, even with like the most rudimentary graphs and pictures. But again,

we've seen this, whether it was critical race theory or masks, you know, there were medical professionals who've had their tires slashed for merely like restating the obvious facts at a school board meeting around masks or vaccines. Teachers have been subjected to coordinated harassment campaigns for believing in teaching history. And we're also, and we talked about earlier, extremists are trying to infiltrate the school boards themselves to try and alter the curriculum, like, to whatever they see fit. So things are chaotic. And this group that the National School Boards Association, who like represent like thousands of school board members, they're like asking the president to like, we need protection here. Like this heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes. center, like give them resources to understand like how to like do proper threat assessment or examine what they say, quote, examine appropriate enforceable actions against these

crimes and acts of violence. It just seems like there's so many avenues for these people to harass them that they're just like this. We're not equipped for this. Like we need someone to intervene. I think the most absurd part of it is that a lot of the people who are harassing these teachers from the right seem to be the same people that proposed as a solution to mass shootings at schools that these teachers be given guns. Yeah. Right. And so like, just for their own safety,

I mean, the safety of these idiotic monsters, they should probably choose one of those things. Like either I'm going to keep harassing and antagonizing these teachers or I want to arm them. But for your own safety, maybe not both. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. If they were just like, OK, we are going to go with your suggestion to arm the teachers, but only at PTA meetings. Yeah, right. Yeah.

Yeah. Only with that energy. Yeah. Yeah. Temporary gun license. Yeah. Right. Or they're just like or they're like, yeah, well, we can do like, you know, trial by combat.

But like, we'll just get like the mountain to represent the school boards. And yeah, throw whoever you want at them. Parents. How about you, Rick? With the flannel shirt tucked into your jeans. You want to fight the mountain over critical race theory? No? Okay.

Next up, masks. Anybody else? No? Good? Don't want to get your eyes ripped out by the mountain? But I think, you know, this is just kind of that thing where it's hard to know, like, how can you solve this problem? Because it just feels like this is just part of like the continuing convulsions of this

like amorphous culture war that is existing, that if it's not critical race theory, it's going to be masks. And if it's not that it's going to be trans kids. And if it's not that it's going to be this other thing that there's just, there's always going to find, they're always going to find a way to keep doing this. So I, I don't understand. I mean, I think maybe that's why they're asking like some kind of law enforcement part of this, because maybe jail might dissuade some of these

parents that are just like so hopped up on their privilege that maybe it's not, you know, maybe it's not a thing that you can just slash someone's tires. I mean, I think it's a bit of a snake eating its own tail thing, because I think that the solution is how you educate kids. If you want adults that aren't idiotic and violent and hostile in these ignorant ways, it's going to start in school. And yeah, that's, I guess, part of why this battle is so important. But it also, I guess, would require patience for some of those results to be seen like maybe we can hope that in in 30 years if things go well there won't be teachers trying or parents trying to fight teachers right yeah it's yeah i think and that's why i think

conservatives see just as they see the same path there. Right. It's like it's through the schools. It's like Steve Bannon said, it's through the school boards. And they know that just there's been this like baseline of what American education is. And they realize it's churning out more people who would probably not vote for Republicans. And they're just like, fuck. OK, then like we need to like we need to start deprogramming people as swiftly as possible to try and get them on board with our more autocratic, fascist way of looking at governance.

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couldn't be less organic or, you know, I feel like most of the shoes I've ever owned are still not close to biodegrading. But here we have another option that I think, yeah, for the fans out there, specifically even fans of Jordan. So someone has decided to buy his used underwear at auction. They paid $2,784. Amongst 19 bids. Yeah. And it's a pair of boxers. So that makes it a little less disturbing to me.

I guess. I would have valued them personally at like 2500 like is what i would have been willing i would have had them uh a thousand times more expensive well think of how many different pairs of shoes he wore on the court that became available this is one i mean if you're talking about exclusivity this is a great purchase one of one underwear yeah i like that the company that was uh putting the auction on said that their boxers have evidence of quote definite use but what they mean to say is that there are like loose threads a dry cleaning tag like it had clearly been in the rotation of this man, not to say like, and you can see his shit stains for two,

for two K. Right. But this is like, when I look at this, it really does like raise the question. Like I get, again, I'm,

I'm a fan of all kinds of shit. And there, there is memorabilia that I dream of owning someday, but it's typically very directly tied to the work of the person or the contributions of the person that i admire like if it's jordan i get sneakers i get jerseys and i even fuck it even a half smoked cigar like you know that's still part of his like identity and you're like oh shit this is like jordan smoked this but the underwear is so nondescript and yeah it's and like look and if also like if you're kind of freaky like do you really want them clean right like yeah we we had uh at cracked we interviewed a woman who made

her living selling her used underwear on a reddit i forget what the what the board was called but and yeah it was it was almost always much more valuable if it had any signs of use. Signs of definite use. Yeah, signs of definite use. Who would be the go-to? Oh man, everyone knows those underwear. Maybe Flava Flav or something like that.

Mark Wahlberg. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. Even then, or I get it. Like, if it's someone who's, like, posing in their underwear, then underwear makes sense. But then, to me, it just seems like, I get it. Like, fuck it. If you're a fan, like, you'll buy anything.

But it would just be hard for me to look at it and be like, yes, Michael Jordan is here. You wouldn't frame him up? Because I'm looking at his underwear. Get him under glass, have people over, and like, well, we have time. He is a Haines spokesman. Just make up fake memorabilia you have. Yeah. You're like, oh, yeah, that's Frederick Douglass' sock that I got.

Who's going to say something? Nobody. Well, going back to the replicas, too. I mean, when there's so many documentaries about people faking art faking wine faking out ultra wealthy people you end up being on the side of the forger of like the thing you like is the price tag you don't really value the skill it took to make that bag or the the those bags are churned out at such a rate there's no craftsmanship anymore and so like the underwear whatever you're putting up there you're you need like the signed thing that says, this was real.

This was this person's thing. But I could also fake that. There's no real way. Unless you had a DNA testing kit in your home, you could have people come over and be like, drop it in. See whose DNA shows up. And they'd be like, it's Jordan. Oh, shit. That's like the only real way.

Right. I feel like I came up with the mark walberg answer too quickly uh that it was impressively rapid i might as well acknowledge i have bid on a pair of uh marky mark's funky bunch underpants uh funky bunch stuff underwear they're funky they do bunch up uh they do have signs of use but yeah i don't know mean, like I think what for anyone you're a huge fan of what how far away from the like prime memorabilia that you would want to have. Could you see yourself getting not to say like not to say that you'll spend X amount of dollars. But at what point does something become less special to you as it relates to the object of your fandom? become less special to you as it relates to the object of your fandom i think i'm a bad person to weigh in on this because i really don't get i as a kid you know like jordan gretzky jerry rice joe

montana these if i had seen them but as i got older it feels like almost every hero you ever meet is just a person piece of shit they're like yeah excuse me i need to use the restroom real quick like that fuck that's disappointing i just don't imagine them doing anything but like elevating or levitating or something so you see them and it's just hard for me now to be a fan and has been i think for like since i was probably like 16 or 17 i just the idea of buying someone's thing i don't it just stopped being appealing in any way. And so I apologize. I'm not great to wait on. No, no, no.

We're all different on this earth. I know Jack and I are fan-brained. I'm fan-brained. I'm trying to think of what I would care about. To have at that like museum level, like would be a showcase in. Yeah. I want Jay Dilla's MPC fucking production unit.

Right. He made donuts on like, I would love, I would have that shit. I'm like, look at that shit. Like donuts on this shit. The band Phoenix bought the,

uh, bought the mixing table that made thriller and they paid a absurd amount of money for it but it's one that i was like okay like that makes sense to me you like could use that for your like profession like the music that made the album thriller traveled through this like that is fucking dope yeah and i think that's the i think it for me it has to be very specific like the second it's like this is jay dilla's hat that he wore and i'm like well that's cool right but like for me like i still i still think about things like that like oh that would be so cool to just interact with

unless it's like you know the hat worn by marky Mark, let's say, during that photo shoot. Because then you can smell what his sweat smelled like at that time. What a terrible person to be. You can smell the Dracar that he was wearing at that time, I'm guessing. You can smell the blood from that man he beat up in Boston long ago. Yeah. Oh, come on. Don't bring that up.

That bums Jack out. That's what he always says when I bring that up. He goes, come on, don't bum me out. And he apologized to that guy. Or he issued an apology that that guy probably heard. I'm right over here. I'm in the front row. Anyway, I'd like to speak this out there. Hey, where's my underwear?

I'm going to go kick it with the Pope. Still one of my favorite things the Catholic Church has ever done. Send the Pope to America and have his emcee for his Pope event be Marky Mark. Wow.

Hell yeah, dog. It was in Philly. This is John Paul? No, no, no. The new Cool Pope. Oh, recently? Yeah, yeah. When Cool Pope came to America, which is a novel I'm working on.

Yeah, he stopped along the east coast uh you know he went to new york i think he did yankee stadium and then when he was in philly marky mark was the guy which is weird because he's not like boston would have made more sense i think but you know and was was he just like out there? He's like, what's up, Philly? I hope you're ready to fucking turn up. We got the one and only Bishop of Rome, vicar of Jesus Christ, successor of the Prince of Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church,

Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants, the Pope the Pope he doesn't even know his name yeah knows all those other descriptors

yeah he's a good Catholic to that point where he's like I don't know that shit got drilled into my head of the Pope's many titles but then I Pope look at that fucking hat you guys I don't know. That shit got drilled into my head of the Pope's many titles. But then I just, I don't know, the Pope. Look at that fucking hat, you guys. Look at that.

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