The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 258 (Best of 1/16/23-1/20/23)

Episode Date: January 22, 2023

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get your podcast presented by elf beauty founding partner of iheart women's sports hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the weekly zeitgeist uh these are some of our favorite segments from this week all edited together into one uh non-stop infotainment laughstravaganza. So without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. What is something from your search history? Oh, well, it's funny you mentioned reading a single New Yorker article and then having to tell everyone about it because I did the same thing, but it was a different New Yorker article than

the one you read, which meant I couldn't read the one that you linked me to because I'm not allowed. No more free articles. Yeah, I was locked out of the Murdoch story. Can't you just use a private browser window? That doesn't work. You have to do some other shit. They're onto us, Miles. You can't even do like reader mode or whatever oh maybe reader mode would work sometimes

i'm behind on the hacks uh i used to use 12 foot but that that doesn't work anymore but i did uh as a result of reading a single new york article um my last google search is kendall getty website there was an article article in the New Yorker about the Getty family, which is a super, super massive, very, very rich family, very big California family, a lot of foundations and places and philanthropy things named after them, particularly in the state. And the article is about how their money manager had been fired and then had filed, I think, like an improper termination lawsuit. And so as a result of the lawsuit, all of their tax avoidance strategies are being

discussed as part of the court record, which is really fun. And Kendall Getty is one of the Getty heiresses. She is a multimedia artist. And I really urge you guys to Google her and go to her website so you can look at her art sometimes I think that I don't know anything about art and I don't know if it's good or bad but it turns out I do know you have some sense yeah sometimes you go to a museum and you go I don't know I like this one I don't like this one I don't really know why I don't know what art is good and bad I just know what I like but then you see some art and you're like that's bad art you know i didn't have to go to art school to to know this art's bad was it was this the same getty that like had that inexplicable like spread like cover story done

about him in a magazine like in the last year and people were like what the fuck is going on they're like they're a getty yeah and then it was like oh that's why yeah the getty family has like a lot of heirs because j paul getty who was the one that made most of the money had like a ton of children by a ton of different mothers and so uh and he like cut a couple of them out of his will like it's very dramatic the the article gets into it it's it's very good so she's like shitty billionaire bob marley kind of like you're like yeah man of course you jay paul getty's grams everybody's fucking related to jay paul getty man yeah so like for example kendall getty's instagram bio includes the phrase bastard

princess because she is an illegitimate getty heir wow yeah what is game of thrones or some shit yeah also it's uh she's in the Democratic Socialists of America. It's a great article. Good for you, Kim Dowell. It's good. It's all about how money managers help their millennial clients invest in more ethically responsible portfolios. Right. Start one.

Point one. Really good. All the millennials have portfolios they're trying to diversify. It's the most exciting article about tax evasion that I've ever read. I'll say that. Right. There's a lot of that. That actually ends up being not really tax evasion, but like complicated financial crimes that are just by design so complicated that your eyes glaze over two sentences into the paragraph where they're describing it. It seems to be at the heart of this Murdoch empire. Yeah. It turns out that the whole money making money thing is like legal, but all of the lawyers

that know about it are like, we got to do this as much as we can before it becomes illegal. Because once people once people's eyes stop blazing over and they realize what we're doing they're gonna make it illegal yeah the overall shape of it is them stealing money from poor people like that that is what is happening but also just avoiding taxes like avoiding taxes for generations and generations by passing things down in these trusts and pretending that they don't live in california so they don't have to pay california property taxes even though they do live in california like you know it's it's succession shit for sure right yeah i mean they even have a fuck up named kendall that's who has artistic aspirations that's that rules they they made their money though in like a really smart way where they

just like had this brilliant idea that nobody thought oh no wait they just found a bunch of oil yeah yeah yeah became you used their influence from finding some oil to find all the oil it's called entrepreneurship jack thank you dude this one piece of art looks like a deer with like a human face on it my favorite is the one that's a video called happy birthday mr president which i'll just spoil it for you guys. It's a shadow play where you see the silhouette of a girl sucking a man's penis and then he kills her. Watch it. It's on Vimeo. Wow.

Oh, yo! This website is wild. What do you think that's implying? Like, that's deep. Well, it says that it wants to be a disruption of visual literacy. And I think that's what it is. This is, have you seen that show, Nathan Barley? It was a British comedy that came out in the early aughts. I've heard of it, but I've never watched it. It, like, presages all this kind of shit.

Where it's like, dude, check out the newest art. And, like, this one picture she did is literally like dude check out the newest art and like this one picture she did is literally she clipped out a scene where like jean-claude van damme is holding something but she like collaged it in with like a porno where like some collages and honestly they're not the worst like of all the art on the website this one's just a wild to look at i'm like why is jean-claude van damme doing this to this woman but it's just the juxtaposition of like the things like yep and this one's my two in my 2d medium uh but anyway it feels like this very like provocative for provocation's sake kind of art but it's really like a 14 year old it's really a 14 year old art speaks to me it speaks to me you're in a 14 year

old yeah oh yeah yeah yeah because like this i mean i remember when i was younger like i did not i could not understand art could not understand poetry because i just hadn't lived enough and wasn't in touch enough with like meaning of life so this i'm like yeah this shit where van damme has like a sword to this naked lady yeah i get that shit's wild that's the point speaks to me. Prop. Yo. Los Angeles is very home. Can you tell us something? What's something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Okay. There's a number of things. I thought about doing like father theme stuff. I feel like everybody doing that. But this is, this is, I mean, I guess it's kind of dad energy. The one thing, I mean, it was two things. One that I did real quick, which was like how to wash your like blinds, window shutters with like a power washer. Oh, wait, what?

Huh? Wait, your blinds like on the interior? The outside ones. No, the inside ones. You take them off and hang them up outside. Oh, okay. Got it. And wash them because the dust wasn't doing it.

But that's not the main thing that I was like really down the rabbit hole for that's just that image one thing i was down down the rabbit hole on was butterboards butterboards oh yeah on like a tiktok where people just do different spreads of kinds of butters and fan i was like okay i know i've brought up I feel like sometimes I don't be trying to but the thing is I'm very if y'all don't know this already about me I'm very curious I'm interested in everything you know what I'm saying everything for me is

amazing and interesting and a sociological study anthropological study so like a lot of times when I bring up white shit it's not to make fun of them you know i'm saying because i'm a sufian stevens fan you know i'm saying i wouldn't seen siguros you know i mean like i like white shit i love that stuff i love that you're like me wow that's like level 60 white people stuff you just bro i gotta i gotta like i got a varsity

level like white card you know i'm saying like I'm into this shit. But there are boundaries. And I was like, first of all, in my defense, I thought my wife made up the word charcuterie board. I was like, you made that up. That's not a word. I don't care what you say. I was like, it sounds like clitoris. You made that up. That word sounds like clitoris and cooter and coochie all wrapped in one together yeah yes you made

that word up i ain't know what i didn't know what that shit was until like a year ago so when i might have to pull your white card now you only heard about the charcuterie i was like there's limits right so then when i heard about this butter board i I was like, okay, first of all, I'm not really a big butter fan anyway. And then secondly, I'm just like, what's up with y'all and not liking to put food on plates? Like, I just don't understand what you got against plates. Like you be seeing like, you know, the TikToks with like spaghetti just on the table. Oh, I've missed. You know what I'm saying?

That's like a food fetish thing, I think. Like, miss me with this, man. What's wrong with plates? What's wrong with plates? I'm pro plate. I want to put that out there. I love plates. You're also watching The Wire, which is some of the blackest shit ever.

That's true. So, I mean, you know. I don't know if he's a good arbiter for this. I don't know if I'm in touch with that, like, level of middle America white, know if he's a good i don't know if i'm in touch with that like level of middle america white where they're like putting spaghetti like you know on a on an island and that's made of marble and like i mix all food on on here it's like that i is that weird yeah i'm not sure if it's a white person thing or if it's like it's a food fetish thing no it's a food we were talking about all those messy recipes or people just mashing shit together and people are like, why?

That's what TikTok is, too. You're somehow being fed other content you don't know about. But the butter board thing, I understand because that is like, that is a that's just, that's off the charcuterie board tree where they're like, you love to have, it's all about spreads, visual spreads. Yeah, so look, like, if you're, okay, so if we're in

like West Africa or like ethiopia culturally there is a big cauldron of food yeah you have your like injera or whatever or you eat from the same culture right so that's like cultural you understand i'm saying and so there's a history of that i totally understand there's etiquette they've been doing this for thousands of years so they know how to do this. Y'all just taking butter and smearing it on wood and putting various seasonings

in different parts of the butter and then just bread around the side. And we all posted just dip into this contest for it. That's what happened. Somebody came, one of the homies, who was a homie. This is a homie. I'm not dissing this. That's what happened. Somebody came, one of the homies, who was a homie, like this is a homie,

like I'm not dissing this. That's the homie. All her podcast was doing this butterboard contest. And I was like, I say this with no baggage and no pretense. The fuck is a butterboard? Like, like I'm honest.

I honestly want to know what the hell is this? It's this board culture. You know what I mean? It's all about spreads. I don't get what the hell is this board culture you know what i mean it's all about culture i think you know i think america we perfected it with like the seafood boil just spill the fucking shit on a table you know what i mean on the table and i get that you get that that's easy wrap your head around that's not mixing no no like and what are you know what i'm doing i'm taking my little pieces of crawfish and potato and I'm sliding it over to my plate. You understand? Over to my side. I don't throw your discards in the middle.

There's no contaminations. It's like you're sharing cereal. For you, it's the germs. It's the germs that I'm starting to pick up on. It's the germs that do it for me. That's why you made the reference of West African food. You'll take something like fufu, which is your starchy thing, and you put it in your stew,

and everybody does that communally. There's a way and a rhythm to it versus you used to see loose butter on wood and you're like are we just gonna all make out is that is that this is this is just spittle skittles just all in is it a lazy susan is it spinning and they're like putting the bread on? I need to see a butter board to understand. Wait, Matt, just picture like a cheese board, but instead of cheese on it, they put butter, like different kinds of butter. Yeah, but cheeses are like... Loose butter? No. Like melted butter?

Hold on, hold on. All right, let me explain it. Okay. Okay, I have to jump in. Because some people don't know. I'm so sorry. Becca, Becca, please jump in. So, Butterboard, like Miles said, on a charcuterie board, it is smashed and not melted, but spreadable. Think when you're putting butter on toast. They've put it all

across the board, and they sometimes put edible flowers, honey, things that you would put on your own little piece of bread at a restaurant. But I must chime in on the spaghetti thing. That is linked to fetish content. There's like a whole like pipeline of those. Oh, the mukbang people. Yeah. No, no, no. Not the mukbang people.

The people that are like that weird camera angle and the guy is always speaking to the girl and the recipes don't make sense. And you're like, why is she spreading all this pasta sauce over the spaghetti on a countertop? What are you describing? That sounds made up too. No! The fetish where the guy is doing bad recipes and scaring women? No, he's like POV camera.

Aiming at her, zooming in on her hands, which are perfectly manicured, yet she's getting her hands all messy to mix in spaghetti sauce with her bare hands with spaghetti noodles and meat and it's like we're so crazy it is weird you know here's the thing i'm okay with you like you know whatever for the most part if you whatever blood in your boner but like whenever it's just like adding

like food elements to it or like uh like elements that like stop it's like it's not just human how you got this to be sexual you know what i mean like i feel like there are there are moments that remind me of how happy i am i'm out the game yeah yeah oh you know what i'm saying because like i like and i'm not i'm not gonna kink shame nobody if that's your thing that's your thing i just know if i was in the dating game, you couldn't keep up. I couldn't keep up. I would be like, wait, you want me to do what? I want you to put your hands through this tub of country crock margarine. Squeeze the shit out of it.

You're like, oh, man. I take back all the game I was spitting. I take it all back. I was doing my best. Now I know. What is something you think is overrated? Deep dish pizza.

Which kind? Did you just ask what is that? No, which kind? Like, are you coming for somebody in LA? Are you coming for a pizzeria right now? Or are you just saying... No, I don't do that. I'm a nice... Who are you putting out of business today, Spires? You coming at Masa right now? I am not. I am not not i don't know it just seemed

like something that i've never enjoyed ergo it is overrated some people like it right first of all why do they call it pizza that thing's like a casserole maybe a pie stop calling it pizza i don't like that that's what i mean with topping yeah yeah i think well i think if you called it a casserole that doesn't sound more, but I think it would be more honest. It should be. Man, you ain't eaten more than two of these slices. Yeah, that's what it is. I've eaten half a Domino's deep dish.

For sure. How much masa can you eat at one go? That's a good point. Because masa, that art, like that's the, you know, Echo Park deep dish pizza in L.A. That shit is like a fucking brick. And when I eat it, I'm like, oh, my God. Like, I like to eat a lot of pizza is my thing with pizza. Like, I want to have numerous slices.

And I end up just gorging myself. Yeah, it's all about the fun ways you can toss it into your mouth. Yeah. Yeah. Miles is a real showman when it comes to eating pizza. Really? I chipped my teeth said i chipped my teeth i chipped my teeth because this pizza is so fucking dense it broke my mouth yeah but do you

now do you hold this for sicilian too like there there's a certain type of sicilian that i like like prime has a good i think they call it like a grandma piece yeah there's this place bleaker street in new york that has a really good one too that it's i think the crust is like focaccio-y like yeah it's more like that's more like like a real thick crust with a little bit of toppings right as opposed to just like stuff on stuff on stuff on stuff yeah yeah yeah i mean yeah it's it's definitely it's not a little bit of toppings but it's definitely not normal. The normal amount. Yeah. The cheese is not, you know, going to affect my digestion for the next three weeks, maybe just like a week and a half.

Yeah. I've noticed, though, a lot of Chicagoans now are trying to basically be like, stop thinking this is our pizza. You really in crust tavern style pizza. That's what the fuck our pizza is i learned this from jackie sneal who's a chicagoan and then i started seeing it more and more like on twitter and like comedians who are from there who are like i'm like yes we have deep dish but like you want this tavern pizza and i'm like okay the thin crust they go see but then detroiters would say that the tavern style is their pizza. The pizza fight is so

funny to me because I think everyone's working with different terms and definitions to begin with. We're all like, we don't know what we're talking about when we talk to each other. But isn't Detroit like in that old oil pan style pizza though too? Yeah, and that's tavern pizza. Is it? Or would other people say that I have it all wrong? See, Chicago, Justin,

get on mic right now. Yeah, so producer Justin is over here in the comments saying it's not Chicago pizza. It's more like a birthday cake where you only do the deep dish once, twice a year. Yeah. Deep dish is a celebratory thing. It's like when you have a bunch of people, Chicagoans, like true Chicagoans don't really fuck with deep dish. We're not ordering it weekly or whatever.

I don't ever remember using the term tavern style when I was younger. We always just used to call it thin crust pizza, but it's something you order at like, it's kind of like finger food where you're at a bar and the slices are really small and they're super greasy and they're kind of thin. And there's like a hundred of them and you just share them amongst a group of people and uh that's what i'm used to more often so yeah that's mostly what we were doing when we ordered pizza all right thank you nice we have x it was actually started by uh dominoes with their thin crust pizza that style that you were describing that's pretty good what is something that you think is underrated caitlin okay it's another

movie puss in boots the last word i heard it was really intense rocks and every person i say that too they're like really are you sure about that and i, I'm, I have a master's degree in screenwriting. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure. It's well done. It is well done. Did you see it? I saw the first 45 minutes and it became too scary for my, both my four year old and six year old.

When, when Goldilocks and the three bears get involved and they are just, their presence in the movie is like Anton's sugar in no country. Like it's just like, they are a force of nature that is coming. And I think it stressed my kids out a little too much. It is a little bit more adult than your average children's family movie. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. So it exists in the Shrek universe. It does. It's very Shrekian. You are a noted fan. Yeah, Shrekian. And yeah, I mean, the animation style is very similar to the animation in Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. So it's visually really cool.

The story is just like tight and solid and it has good themes and messaging and the characters are fun and and it's puss in boots what can i say my my kids did it left an impression i'll say that because we've had the conversation where they make me tell them all of the ways he died so it's a lot about mortality so he is on his the premises he is on his ninth final life miles and so he has to go to a retirement home and like just like back away because he can't be a cat of adventure when he only has one one life left to live but they do, very fun run-through of all the ways he's died, and that

blew my kids' fucking minds, man. And then they kept being like, okay, so what was the third way Puss in Boots died? What was the fifth? And they were disappointed that I didn't have this committed to memory immediately. So am I, Jack.

So am I. Do you have it you got it one of the ways he died was at the running of the bulls and then i had to explain to them like why people do that and then they were that there's no good explanation for that but you've even been to españa so you couldn't even you couldn't even leave like let me tell you a little bit about yeah i got i still couldn't yeah they didn't connect with them yeah because some people you know they want to feel alive by almost being dead right they're like what what do you mean anyways all right well i'm glad to know that that has entered the canon with you know i'm not i'm not saying it's on the level of paddington 2 or you know i'm not i'm not saying it's on the level of paddington 2 or you know some of the shrek movies but it's history will determine that but

it is good i always love a good caitlin duranté like this movie that's being slept on and thought of as a non-serious children's movie is actually needs its own criterion collection. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

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we do about our elected officials in washington it's nice to get the occasional reminder that we aren't wrong and that a bunch of malformed ego ego freaks do in fact make up the majority of congress but the latest goss is it's quite literally out of the capital bathrooms where reports are emerging of a friendship ending fight although no it's debatable between whether or not these two people are friends, but between Loewen... I said Loewen. Hold on, hold on. Let me get into my sleepover position

where I hold the phone to my ear and I kick my feet behind me. Hold on. Yeah, exactly. Hold on. Three-way the Corey line. The cord in your finger. Yeah, yeah. Here's some other reports that rhyme with Corey.

Story? Allegory? Anyway, shout out to to Simpsons reference. But this latest gossip, right? They're in the bathroom. It's Lauren Golgurt versus Majorly Tainted Fiend. And they had to face off. And look, the way this even works, again,

I'm not even sure these people even have a functional understanding of what a friendship is. But at the very least, they will not be sharing clan robes after this bust up i will i can say this so the showdown happened as the speakership vote kicked off and mccarthy was taking more l's than a drug dealer whose plug is in canarsie boom please please bomb drop that did i do that right new york hip-hop thank you so much that was so good you know i mean take the elder canards. Anyway, so Margie Taylor Greene confronted Lauren in the bathroom and the exchange goes as follows based on quotes from the people that reported this in the Daily Beast. First, Margie Taylor Greene comes up, apparently blows out of a bathroom stall like a fucking villain and is like, so quote, you were okay taking millions of dollars from McCarthy,

but you refuse to vote for him for speaker. Lauren. Lauren turns around. Don't be ugly. And then allegedly, according to the witnesses that were there, quote, ran out like a schoolgirl. Wait, there were other people in the bathroom. Yes. One was representative of Debbie Dingle from Massachusetts. Shout out. I mean, Michigan from Michigan. She's a Democrat. But when they asked her, like, yo, were you in there? from Massachusetts. Shout out. I mean, Michigan. From Michigan. She's a Democrat. But when they asked her, they're like, yo, were you in there? And she's like, look, what happens in the bathroom stays in the bathroom. She kept the G code. She said, that's where

we go to handle shit in the bathroom, like a public high school. Now ask me off the record. Now ask me off the record, she ran out like a little girl. She may have been the source for this story. But yeah, this is like like apparently this has been brewing for years which makes sense because they're both like the same version of like a guano brained racist who's like reality is formed by facebook shit posts but i think what the the problem was there could only be one you know like just completely out there right wing ethno nationalist spokesperson well you always hate the person who's most like you you know, like completely out there, right wing, ethno nationalist spokesperson.

Well, you always hate the person who's most like you, you know, right? Yeah. And on one side, you had tough Marge and then you had cutie gun gun in the form of low and Lauren Golgert. And I guess it makes sense that it came to to a head there. But a lot of people are still trying to figure out what the millions of dollars comment was because they're like hold on like was kevin mccarthy's pack sending lauren bobert money they couldn't quite it doesn't matter but it's just wild because the gop is now entering like the kids being banished from the cafeteria so they have to eat their lunch in the library now

phase yeah which if we all remember that is the first cancel culture when too much drama you get banished to when you like lose your social cachet like in high school and they're like you're like yo they don't eat with them now they eat with them now and you're like i think the first cancel culture is a time out yeah truly yeah i yeah. When you're little and you don't share, you get canceled. Yeah. For five minutes. MTG's line reads like

it was scripted ahead of time and practiced like just the way it... Oh, 100%. You were okay taking millions of dollars. So.

Right, exactly. Yeah. Door flies open to like, come on. This is true. And yet this is true. The thing that people say all the time in conversation. It's very gossip girl. Yeah, exactly. I love it. But ran out like a little school girl.

So it's getting it's getting ugly over there. But I would love to hear more reports of what goes on in the congressional bathrooms, males included. I would love to hear more reports of what goes on in the congressional bathrooms, males included. Yeah. Yeah. McConnell just did an absolute paint job in the congressional bathroom. Oh, man. They're like, dude, have you ever pissed next to Lindsey Graham at the urinal?

Dude, it like he like he's giving himself pep talks like his flows all week, dude. It's so awkward. And then I feel bad that I'm peeing all normal and then he gets all just down and out next to me see this is what people used to do before twitter is just be mean to each other in the bathroom right yeah and then write about it literally on the bathroom wall yeah and then everybody would be like did you hear what happened in the bathroom right did you hear what he has a weak stream that is one of the worst like when you're peeing next to a usually an older person and it's just evidently very painful that's like the that's like one of the first moments you have about

your mortality i think as a man entering the workforce because like i remember one of my first like big office jobs where like you interacted with like one of the higher ups who's like 75 and then you both are in the bathroom and like i'm over here be like and then my man's over here like fucking the green mile like tom hanks like yeah like it's look tom hanks is my heart goes out to them your conflict Sounds like a trap song. It's like... A lot of breath work happening. They've discovered Kundalini yoga through just having to piss all the time.

And it became... I remember this one job I had where... Got some kidney stones in there. You're like but yeah i just you look it's it's the passage of time and it comes for us all but anyway drama no prostate yeah hey good for you anyway guys get your prostate check yeah yeah all right let's talk about the murdochs we we checked into this i thought it was murdahl murdahl is what it looks like it should be pronounced. This is an example of this.

I was saying it wrong. The New Yorker in one of the opening paragraphs said Murdoch. And this will be the first time I've been pronouncing their names correctly. And I apologize. I should have put more respect on your name, the Murdochs. So this is a story that's been kind of had our attention in drips and drabs, going back to old people pissing, as the details kind of leaked out. But the, so the New Yorker went down because the trial of Alex Murdoch, the sort of patriarch

and main criminal defendant in this thing is about to start. So basically, they were just like running this town. They were the most powerful attorneys. They were connected to all of the most powerful judges. All of the law enforcement kind of answered to them. The thing that kicked it all off, their son got really drunk, which was kind of what he was known for, just always being hammered, got really drunk and crashed a boat into a bridge with a bunch of people on it. And it resulted in the death of a young girl. Was it Labor Day? That sounds like a Labor Day crime. I don't remember. It was like a few years back. It was 2018. Impossible to say,

sorry. Okay. What day it was. No, it's in the article. I just didn't write it down. So they hire an attorney for him by the name of Dick Harpootlian. And it turns out Dick Harpootlian is a powerful state senator, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in South Carolina. And I can't emphasize this enough. His name is Dick Harpootlian. And so he comes in. It's looking like he's going to shoot holes in the case and like get this dude off. And then suddenly that young man, the chronically drunk son of this, you know, huge, powerful family and his mom are murdered on the night of June 7th, 2021. Got that date. They're found dead outside the kennels on their 17-acre hunting estate.

And then three months later... That's, sorry, 1,700. 100. 1,700-acre hunting estate. Jack, they're not... That's, sorry, 1,700. 100. 1,700 acre. Jack, they're not poor. Sorry, sorry. I had to... I was not in my Murdoch mindset.

How can you hunt people on 17 acres, Jack? Exactly. People will be able to hear them scream. Oh, you only need to give them a 15-second head start? No, come on. That's just poor form. That's non-sporting. Three months later, Alex. So Alex was the one who found his son and wife and called 911. Three months later, he calls 911 again, telling the dispatcher he'd been

shot in the head by a stranger while changing a flat tire on his car. And then people quickly realized, like, an eyewitnessewitness like it looked really weird when i drove by like it looked like a setup quick quickly it becomes evident that he had someone like shoot him but nobody can even like find the wound so he like it might have just been that he like asked the local law enforcement to say he got shot. Oh, so he said he got... Wait, I remember this, right? Because then he was like, I'm on opioids, man. That's what's going on.

But he didn't actually even get shot in the head? He showed up in court two weeks later, and there was no evident wound on him. God! There are a lot of other body parts you could pretend to be shot in right yeah or just take a real one and be like yo i'll just just get in the muscle come on let's go uh but instead he did a fake head come on alex let's go and and so the his like ne'er-do-well cousin eddie yes who was supposedly the person who shot him according to alex like because he paid him to so alex basically went with the like hey man i'm on a lot of opioids like i need

i needed the money for opioids when the reporter asked harpootlian about the fact that alex showed up for a bond hearing with no sign of injury to his head two weeks after the incident. Harpootlian said, good hair. That was his explanation. So these people just like, don't give a fuck. What does that mean? So fucking brazen. I think he's just trying to be like,

he's got good hair, but he can't even tell. He has such a good head of hair that you couldn't see a bullet wound in his head. Oh my God. Yeah. There's something wrong with Harpootlian. Yeah. These people are drunk as fuck on power, man.

Incredibly powerful. The most powerful Harpootlian in the galaxy. Yeah. He's the most, like people say, he's the most powerful person in South Carolina. Damn. How do you get away with becoming that powerful and having the name Harpootlian? I don't know. It rings a bell.

Or maybe it helps. I like thinking that like... He's from the name Harpootlian, I don't know. It rings bells. Or maybe it helps. He's from the planet Harpootli. Which is so wild though that the most powerful Armenian American in this country isn't a Kardashian. It's this motherfucker Harpootlian who's like, yeah, man. I said my client got

shot in the head. He fucking did it, fool. And I'm still banging out here. So the two new cases crop up like now that people are like looking at this they start to assume that alex was involved in the murder of his son and his wife and in fact now he is accused of being the sole gunman in the murder of his son and wife and also two new cases have cropped up that were people who died on their property. Right. That it sucks.

It's really suspicious. Like there's this guy, Stephen Smith, who had been found dead in the middle of a road near their 1,700-acre hunting estate with a serious head injury.

Superficial appearances suggested he'd run out of gas, begun walking home, been accidentally hit by a vehicle, except there was no evidence of a hit and run or, like, any vehicle. There was no vehicle debris, skid marks. And then people are like, the rumor starts to spread that he was murdered by Paul and Buster, the oldest of the scions of this. Paul is the younger one who would eventually

be murdered. And but that is like the official state coroner comes back and is like, or no, wait, it's the official. It's what some official comes back and is like, he was hit by a car. Not nothing to see here. This is a normal collar. Leave it alone. And so no Murdochs were ever questioned in that one. But there's like some rumor that Smith was gay and his name was linked to Buster's in the gossip mill of former high school classmates. And so it was like done to cover up any homosexual activity by Buster. I can't believe there's a real Buster in this tale of familial financial drama. I know. It's wild. Then there was a housekeeper who died in the house and they used, basically, he then reached out to her sons and was like, hey, you could sue me for $500,000 and then I will collect the payment for you and pay you back and the sons were

like okay we're you know we don't have any money and we are about to be evicted from our our mobile home so they agreed to that never saw a penny and like as the local reporters were kind of going through all this shit they discovered that he had in fact collected the five hundred thousand dollars alex murdoch and just like took it and didn't pay the children of the housekeeper who died on their property and so that then leads to them being like and in fact that is really the only way this guy ever made money like that's all he did was his law firm basically was like really good at suing people for like that was kind of the main industry in that part of town because like all the factories had closed and you know just capitalism capitalism

capitalism all over the place like they had there was a bunch of farming that happened that just had no long term respect for the land. And it like leached it of all its minerals. And like so the place is just the only the only industry is this law firm suing people essentially. And then taking their settlement money. And then he would find ways to siphon off settlement money. It's a tale as old as time, Jack. Tom Girardi was doing... The Real Housewives taught us all about this recently with another guy who was like the...

He's like, oh man, these people blew up in a gas explosion in the Bay Area. I'm also going to keep the money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess this is just how these people get down. And they talk about how it is still a big industry in South Carolina. That's how the laws are set up, is that they will basically treat these settlement payments like cash payday loans.

And they basically take advantage of the fact that the people who are getting these settlements need the money. And they're like, here, we'll pay you 30 percent of that now. And then we get the rest, like as it comes out later on down the road. And that's on the books. That's not even like against the law. And what this guy, he can do whatever he wants because the Republicans are protecting him. Right. No, no, no, no, no. So we also get this interesting detail. Alex's attorney, still Harpootlian, as he's facing murder trial, is super well-connected. Harpootlian, a former chair of the state Democratic Party, has talked of playing golf with President Joe Biden. And his wife was recently made U.S. ambassador to Slovenia.

Who hasn't played golf with Joe Biden, Jack? Right. I'm serious. We've all played golf with Joe Biden. Yeah. He doesn't remember it, but I do. Yeah, but you can say it and he doesn't want to admit

that he doesn't remember, so he'll always say yes. He'll be like, oh, yeah, yeah. How you been? See, I told you. Wow. So Joe Biden, I mean, look, it's wild again no matter where you get

powerful like this it's the game's the same it's like yeah man there's rules for us but if you know enough people really you can do whatever the fuck you want i said alex got shot in the head bro he didn't anyway i'm still cooking out here like is this guy in trouble at all? Or is he actually still the attorney in this guy's because you said Alex Murdoch's trial is starting now or like he's starting in the 23rd of January and Harpootlian is his attorney. I was talking about like that there's something called factoring. That's the practice of like basically lending people money or like taking people's settlement payments or siphoning it off. And it's all just, you know, the most immoral use of money to make money, as you said earlier, Sara. Like that's just they use the fact that they have a ton of money to take advantage of people who aren't capable don't have like the massive staff to understand all the legalities and like business complexities that they're using to take away their money and it's that that is

the u.s economy like it's it's not isolated this is so we have way too many fucking fancy words for stealing from poor people exactly like yeah this part is really amazing factoring companies can offer cash up front to victims in exchange for part or all of their settlements at an average rate of 25 cents on the dollar. Yeah. In one case, judges allowed companies to buy a young woman's entire settlement in a series of deals culminating in the purchase of her remaining trench for about 10 cents on the dollar. The woman had suffered brain damage and a train collision at the age of 12, and the settlement was intended to support her for the rest of her life.

A retired judge dryly underscored the state's tolerance of such practices by saying, we're all entitled to make stupid mistakes. Okay. There's no such thing as predators. Only stupid idiots that make mistakes, huh? Right. All right, Your Honor. Thank you.

Yeah. Stupid idiots with their injury settlements and their home. Would you have a TBI when you're 12 years old? Come on. Who makes a deal like that? Where is the empathy? Why would you take out this home loan when you knew

you couldn't afford it? Because I need a home. You idiot. Who would give that to you? You. You encouraged me. You said this was the one to take. This is the way I was going to realize my dreams. You fucking targeted me. It's just a bunch of like people privileged people like golfing together and you know let letting each other do this shit right and when alex murdoch like we'll update you guys as the case unfolds but when he appeared for like the before the trial like there's a painting of

his grandfather in the back of the courthouse like it's i love the south yeah well i i don't even think it's just the south like i think this is not just the south but i think i think the south is one is is a one place in america where a lot of the generational like dynastic generations have stayed in one place you know also this also really makes me think of uh you know that the no one wants to work anymore thing and it's like yeah because we found out that the work that you were doing was just stealing from poor people so yeah no i don't really want to do that wait so hold on you got all of this from just stealing? Yeah, yeah, fuck that.

I'm not lying. Yeah, I'm not lying. Yeah. Like, what the fuck? Yeah, it's like you become a, I mean, who becomes a lawyer and then is like, well, can't wait to spend the rest of my life sucking the blood out of everybody around me. But the reporter is like still, they're like, I just can't get my mind around this person like killing their son it just seems so far-fetched because like he everything up to that point would have suggested that he was you know doing everything like using the machinations of his power to protect this kid and like it just seemed it but i feel like they're not taking into account like what addiction can do to your brain. And the fact that like on a broad scale, you know, you have these people who are making all this money and, you know, just completely immorally have no like no any social currency or like friends to to speak of they're just nothing yeah produce nothing and

then they are at the top and they're like and then you can buy all the drugs that give you the brain chemical that is produced by the human interaction that we're that we've replaced with these capitalist machinations and so like it actually makes perfect sense to me that this person who had replaced, who had like become drug addicted as at this point where they were just like nihilistically stealing from everyone and knew they couldn't be caught, that they would get to that point because that's, that's kind of what happens is just completely alter your brain chemicals to the point that you're kind of inhuman and that's like kind of the whole complete system that we've found is like you you have a system that completely siphons the humanity out of everything and then

your reward for that is like drugs that give you the brain chemicals that right. That you got to replace used to get from interacting with people. I'm like going bowling. It sounds like a perfect system to me. Yeah. Perfectly self-contained system. Sign us up. Yeah. It's regenerative.

Anyways, it's worth a read. We'll link off to it in the footnotes and we willes. And we will keep you guys updated as the trial unfolds. He's going to walk, Jack. We'll see over under on that. It's funny. The reporter's like, I was expecting it. Everyone was like, oh, he's this good old boy.

You drop him in any southern town. He'd just come off as just one of the guys. He'd be fine. And then he walks in and he's this tall tall guy who looks like he just like stepped off of a yacht and it's just like that that's who it is he's and he's in a courtroom again with a painting of his grandfather in the back of it you think he walks in and kisses his hand and then goes and then touches it to the painting goes that's my grandpa my grandpa probably what what love you gramps love you grandpa you, Grandpa. Love you, Papi.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And Dolly parton is trending as per use but this time a couple reasons she's expanding her partnership with duncan hines so in addition to the dolly parton cake mixes now there's cornbread biscuit and two brownie mixes nice Nice, nice, nice. I don't know. I guess I'm not familiar with the culinary aspects of Dolly Parton's legend. Are you, Catherine? What does Dolly Parton connote?

Like southern cooking? Yeah, I mean, that's got to be why they have it. Did you say two cornbreads? Or two brownies? Two brownies, actually. Did I hear that correctly? Was that two cornbreads? brownies actually did i hear that correctly was that two cornbreads indeed it was anyway yeah i don't think her her legacy really has much to do with food but putting her name on boxed mixes sounds like a smart idea for both parties because everyone

loves dolly oh my god they made i mean like look at the boxes. That's like Barbie branding. I know. It looks... They've animated her. The script is very Barbie-esque. It's a little infantilizing. She looks like Jen in the hologram. Jen in the hologram. Yes, she does. They're completely pink.

Yeah. Oh, sorry. Not two cornbreads. Cornbread and a biscuit. My bad. Cornbread, a biscuit, and two brownies. Ah, that's... In addition to the cake mixes that were already there.

I'm picturing everything being pink, and indeed the boxes are pink, but the brownies, they've decided to keep brownie-colored. Also, how different is this from other Duncan Hines mixes? Oh, please. You know what I mean? It's got to be the exact same thing, just with new packaging on it. But the reason why it's good for her, too, is because there's no downside, because box mixes are very, very good.

Yeah, they're unfuckable. If you if you go by the letter of the law, it is what capitalism has produced. Like we you know, the none of the, you know, transportation and all those things like great towns that we were promised. They fucked all that up. We now live siloed off in our homes, like talking to each other through computer screens. But the lab food, the food that they came up with in labs, nacho cheese, Doritos, the box mixes like that is that is the height of capitalism. That's why I still stand by, you know, one of the things that is going to be in the America, like peak American capitalism section of the museum, like 4000 years from now, if the earth still exists, is the Cheesecake Factory menu.

Because that was like, we did that. We did that. they really did not fuck around when it came to appropriating and turning sweet everything any anything that humanity had but we digress we digress her rock album yeah but it is true that our best scientific minds are in food labs yeah they're doing the best work there because those are the places that can afford to pay the best and yeah and that's the most those are the most pressing issues of our time, obviously. So in addition to this exciting new collaboration with Duncan Hines, Dolly announced more details about her upcoming rock record.

So we talked about the story that she was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, withdrew her name from the nominations because she didn't consider herself a rock act. They were eventually just like, yeah, sorry, we're doing this one way or another. You can show up or not. And she said at the time she was inspired to one day put out a hopefully great rock and roll album. And the details are starting to emerge. She got right to work on it. And it's like all, right to work on it. And it's like all it's her. She's treating it like a greatest hits album of rock music. She's going to be covering purple rain,

stairway to heaven and free bird among others. Hell yeah. She's like, those are good, but I have notes. That's a big swing. That's a big, yeah. You sure you want to go for a purple rain dolly?

I mean, I fuck with you, but let's not like, you know, we can can all we can all be great in our own ways but i am interested i mean part of me when i heard that i'm like what like what's the most rock dolly parton could sound you know and i feel like heart kind of vibes like yeah like i would love to hear her sing like crazy on you or something like that that would be fucking wild but again but a part of me is like fuck it let's let's see fucking free bird dolly parton's free bird yeah there's also going to be guests such as stevie

nicks john fogarty stephen tyler and paul mccartney oh that's it that's all she could get she's just having a nice time i think yeah this is just for her to you know fuck around a little in the studio with some pals right or is this her like also being like shit man i'm probably making the most money i ever had now like somehow now because all of these like deals and like collaborations she's doing i wonder if because she seems so charitable she's like fuck it man let. Let me ring out the fucking sponge that is my brand for every cent so I can go on and do some shit with it on the way out

and be more philanthropic. Maybe that's my... I love that. I love that idea. Let's go with that because it's so nice. Or she's like, nah, motherfuckers, I have a rocket and I'm the fuck out of here. I'm sorry, y'all. Yeah. It is like that.

I did have that question when we were talking about George Santos. Like, just the willingness to change your name, like, just use a different name with different people. Just not, just completely create your life. Like, if used for good, that could be interesting. And, like, I guess there are people who are, you know, equally inventive who do use it for good a la Dolly Parton. But it is she's also going to do a duet cover of I Can't Get No Satisfaction in case the previous three songs were not clear enough that it's just the most played songs on classic rock radio. So I do. I have to wonder, like, I want to hear the behind the scenes of her process for making this album. And was she just here? Like, she just like doesn't really fuck with rock music.

She's like, all right, bring me bring me the best ones, I guess. And then it's just going through. And she's like, OK, get the Watts Stax. We get the Stax band from that record. She's like, okay, get the Watt Stacks. Get the Stacks band from that record. I'm like, they're all dead. Oh, man. They could play, though. Who else? Who else do I remember? Jimi Hendrix.

What's he up to? More bad news. Yeah. I don't know more bad news. More bad news, Dolly. Sorry about that. Well, speaking of sorry. Sorry, Cruz. So we have some bad news, Dolly. Sorry about that. Well, speaking of sorry. Sorry, Cruz. So we have some bad news for Jeopardy. So there's a little controversy around Celebrity Jeopardy,

which our writer, J.M., called the T-ball of the game show world. Fair. It's still so, like, the Wolf Blitzer, andy richter episode have you guys seen that one or like seen the highlights of that andy richter is brilliant or you know just like net mowing the questions down one after another is like you know four times ahead of the next closest and wolf blitzer is revealed to be a full-fledged dummy like just no yes oh man he's a prompter reader no facts in that brain no facts not the first fact in the brain and missing like the easy ones with comically bad answers. It's really he and Mr. Not Mr.

Incredible. That's from the Pixar movie. But what's the guy from Shark Tank? Which one? Mr. Wonderful or Mr. You know what I mean? The guy who got scammed by Mr.

Wonderful. Yeah. He was also like just comically bad. And that's that's what I look for in Celebrity Jeopardy is like just these exposures of people who, you know, through marketing have elevated this Mass Live was like, there were Massachusetts related questions and no one could even answer those. This is the one that Patton Oswalt, Candace Parker, Tori DeVito episode. The episode that pissed people off, Patton Oswalt, Candace Parker, WNBA star, great NBA commentator, just basketball commentator in general. And then Tori DeVito fucked up an easy question about Field of Dreams. I guess it's easy.

Like, I think I knew it. Like, I guessed the right answer, but I wasn't, like, confident in my guess. Here, I'll do it for you guys. In Field of Dreams, a question is asked, is this heaven? No, it's this Midwestern state, also known as the corn state yeah what what is iowa got it now that being that is that is both correct and also the level of confidence i was taking into my answer like and the fact that people are treating this as news like that it spawned multiple articles each comprised of hundreds of words purely about how three celebrities

like missed one question is right. This is just the world we live in. Set off a thousand ships. Oh, can I just speaking of how easy these are? You know what? The other Massachusetts when they couldn't get. Answer me this. Brainiacs know that MIT stands for this Boston area school. That was the question. Wait, what does MIT stand for? Boston area school? Yeah. Wait. But that's the wording is weird. Like so it's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's just what there's a saying. I don't know. This is that's not good. Patent.

But that's just what they're just saying. I don't know. That's not good. Patton. Okay, how about this, Jack? In September 2022, about 50 migrants from Venezuela were surprised to find themselves on this Massachusetts resort island. Oh, it's either Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard. It's Martha's Vineyard.

There it is. What is Martha's Vineyard, Miles? And people were like, they can't get these at all. But I mean, those seem pretty easy. Yeah, they're pretty easy. Considering how hard normal Jeopardy questions are for someone like me who's constantly stoned. Like I said, the point of Celebrity Jeopardy is for us to be able to see in broad daylight that celebrities are dumb. You know, or at least they don't exist in the same reality as the rest of us. Anyways, so there's also another thing that should have gotten more controversy than that

in the same. So apparently it was like a Kevin Costner category, I guess. And so Indigenous Canadian actress and writer Devery Jacobs called out the show on Twitter for a question that had absolutely nothing to do with Kevin Costner, although I do think it was a reference to The Untouchables. ski traders from the United States. But as Jacobs pointed out, the RCMP was actually created to quote, control and assert sovereignty over indigenous people. Like that's a quote from the first prime minister of Canada that was like, we need a force on horseback that is there to control and assert sovereignty over indigenous people. Like the Brits are doing to the Irish. We want that, except for First Nations people. Yeah, so they were created by Canada's first prime minister,

John A. MacDonald, as a colonial army to assert sovereignty over indigenous people and their lands. And he says that he got the idea from the royal irish constable constabulary with the which the british created to keep the irish people under control but the mounties are just you know they have a long history in the u.n u.s pop culture of being sort of adorable and like like not cops you know adorable armed doofuses who aren't. Yeah. They're always given sort of a pass as like innocent.

Yeah. That's how we think of everything Canadian. Yeah. Right. They're like, there's no way they're like, wait, what? They're also a colonizer nation that displaced millions of indigenous people. Whoa. Guys, we got a lot in common it turns out but i mean like in my mind right like they've had such great pr to the point

that i'm like they're not even a real thing they just dress up and they like they it's dudley do right stuff but then you're like what was their initial job again what were they doing uh as the the force so their initial job was to displace and forcibly relocate indigenous people and eventually to tear children from their homes to put in residential schools which is a euphemism for like you know re-education yeah child prison basically yeah and then the reservations were basically prisons where you needed a pass to leave, were policed by Mounties. And the Mounties were just like a tool for systemic oppression that continues to this day. Mounties routinely target indigenous communities with violence and harassment.

And yeah, I mean, this myth has been perpetuated by pop culture. Like Hollywood made movies about heroic Mounties in the Canadian wilderness, which I was not familiar with. That was like early 20th century saving damsels in distress from villains with foreign sounding names. But yeah, I think by the time I was ingesting popular culture, it was like their funny red outfit,

their simple mindedness, but like always in a completely non-threatening way right right they were also part pinkerton they were there to disrupt labor strikes accuse immigrants of being bolshevik radicals so just chef's kiss yeah on t's it's so you always know there's trouble when when there's some euphemistic origin story for any kind of law enforcement. It's like, yeah, get those whiskey bandits, you know what I mean?

And you're like, no, it wasn't. I'm like, y'all were slave catchers. Shut the fuck up, and it turns into this other thing. And it's like, no, no, no, no, no. Serve and protect and brutalize the fuck out of you. Yeah. But the Mounties have those silly pants and the gloves that seem overly fancy fancy so if you just dress it up in goofiness no one's gonna notice exactly can you imagine like this fucking lapd starts going on like

culottes or like weird writing pants or something they're like huh huh huh look we're not killing people at a disturbing tick yep yeah in the cop movies now like they like i think it was 21 jump street or 22 like one of the jumps street they start out as like bike cops because you have to make them seem right isn't isn't that right like they start out as bike cops because they've been like busted down to that level or something yeah but yeah you have to make the cops seem silly that right that is going to be a wild new like direction for propaganda to take where they're just i mean all like made non-threatening and goofy well that's that's why I mean, with the rise of, you know, smartphones, that's always a steady stream of like, yo, that cop can pop and lock. Right.

A perp's limbs out of their sockets. Right. And you're like, oh, but also can get down. They used to be a B-boy. Check out those moves. Or like, and I hate that copaganda shit because it's always like, it's so funny because even when i watch i'm like oh shit look at oh wow you can see walk and then i'm like wait shut the fuck up this person put on

that uniform to brutalize poor people protect private property this is not somebody who gives a fuck about anybody that's right but it is it just does go it goes like it goes to show you like that image whenever it's doing something a little bit goofier than like violence then you're like i love it that cop can juggle and make cotton candy yeah in rollerblade cop that's gonna be like the new all cops are rolling around on rollerblades oh my god oh well look we'll wait and see because i mean these ideas may sound absurd right now but yeah we've seen anything look at monkeys they probably sounded absurd and are still absurd all these years later all right that's gonna do it for this week's weekly

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