The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 291 (Best of 9/11/23-9/15/23)

Episode Date: September 17, 2023

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Well, Miles, we're sure to be joined in our third seat by the original super producer she's the host of ethnically ambiguous the producer of many of the great shows on this network including this one it is super producer anna hosnia hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi her favorite catchphrase hi hi hi hi hi hi, hi. Mm-hmm. Hi, hi. Her famous catchphrase. Hi, hi, hi. Hi, hi, hi. Hi, Brandon. I think we should be just transparent up front here. A little transparency.

In the moments before this episode was scheduled to record, we did have a special expert guest booked with a very particular set of skills. Mm-hmm. And they canceled like 15 minutes before family emergency. We're not going to say who it is. Just, you know, send a good energy their way. It is Liam Neeson, but we're going to give him the benefit of the doubt. Yeah. But usually that's no problem because our show is based on the news. We have the news stories

and we just get a guest guest special guest guest to come in today we had a doc full of questions for liam neeson in particular yeah so we were like what what we do what are we going to do super producer on a hose na steps into the fray bravely and is like i need to tell you about what I've been watching on streaming. That is what we were going to do today. And also, yeah. Also been steadily being like golden bachelor.

When are we talking? When are we talking about golden bachelor? Yes. And we said, you know what? Let's swap one expert out for another. Yeah. It's funny when you said that just now,

and you said super producer. And then my name, I felt like a, like a like a chest pain. Anyway, I don't know. It probably isn't related. I'm not even joking. Sometimes I just sometimes someone says my name and my heart stops because the idea that I now have to respond to something is just too overwhelming. Spotlights on you.

Spotlights on you. You ready? So this is life, huh? Yeah, it is. So this is life. How are you doing? You still getting out there? Whacking the tennis balls around?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely, definitely, definitely. Did the Coco Gauff title, were you watching? Yes, I was watching. Legendary. Legend. Coco Gauff. I have a question for you. title victory were you watching yes i was watching legendary legend i have a question for you yeah my esteemed partner said i said she's a legend and he said but she's not dead yet and i said i'm sorry what and he said you have to be dead to be considered

a legend now i don't know where this opinion came from out of him because he doesn't really say much so i'm like is that true i don't think so no you you respond with this legends never die yeah oh yeah i responded with i'm sorry are you stupid just joking i'm not that crazy but i uh i just was like really sort of taken by this opinion of his no you don't have to be dead to be a legend that's what i thought i was like i literally say everything is a legend yeah exactly it does feel like the sort of thing that if you called like a great comedian who was like in their 60s a legend they would be like screw you that that makes me feel old that makes me sound old you know what i mean like that that sort of thing so i i could see that but i know it's there's nothing that that says you have to

be dead to be a legend and of course legends never die that's my yeah exactly and also if we mean in the more like colloquial way that aussies use it like Where it's like, oh, fucking legion. Legion. You're just tight as fuck. So yeah, we rock with you. What is something from your search history? Well, a lot of it's medical. It's a lot like, do I

have a tumor? MRIs and cancer? How many pounds are in a stone? I recently looked up. That's 14 pounds. 14, yeah. I don't know why in America you go to your doctor and get weighed and they put it in stones. They do?

I don't understand that. They do. Wait, your doctor put it in stones? Yeah, maybe it's a woman thing. But you get on this scale and they put it in stone, so you have no idea. I don't know whether women have just ran from the room. I don't understand what's happening. So I had to Google how many pounds in a stone, which turns out to be 14.

How many stones is it then, love? Yeah. Sorry. On 15 stone, isn't it? 15. Wait, but so that is so weird because I just, that to me is such a like British weight, like measurement metric for weight. That is really okay. I guess I don't, I probably don't know anything where doctors like, yeah, a lot of the scales just have both on there maybe.

But like they're writing it down. I don't know how they write it down, but you have no idea. You're like, okay, I don't know what that is, but sure. Right. Huh. So, uh, they have both in it i'm gonna keep doing this so i google a lot of medical stuff yeah yeah yeah which is weird stone always sounds very primitive to me and dumb like uh they just like said how much a stone

weighs like they found one stone and we're like you weigh this many but then i realized that we use feet which is like even dumber like right right just our length is like yeah that's how many like how many feets that like somebody if you've stacked people's feet steps next to each other so but isn't it like because it's all because it's like the king's foot or whatever yeah is that long so then that's how it's like well this god person's foot is this big so that's how we measure things and did your height change when one king died and a new one was born oh i don't know like i'm seven three now that the baby king has taken over. Now that Prince Henry has ascended. Well, for a long time, you shrink as you get older. And I went for physical, and they're like, you shrunk by an inch.

And I'm like, I'm so young to shrink by an inch. And then I told my mother, and she's like, you've never been that height. You've always got your height. You've always been that height. And I was like, oh, okay. You've never been that height and i was like oh okay you've never been that you've never been such a wild thing this thing you say you've never been that height so yeah let it go yeah yeah don't worry just like has this like flashback of you standing on your tippy toes at the doctor's office like when you're growing up i guess she always knew i was lying yeah Yeah, right. To myself.

To know the origin of the stone, it's because they needed a, like they were exporting, England was exporting so much raw wool that they needed to create a standard. So the royal statute fixed a stone of wool at 14 pounds. And then a sack of wool had to be 26 stones. So it's all because of the wool export.

Well, that transfers to weight. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. It's a big sack of wool, by the way. To humans. Yeah.

Yeah. What something you think is overrated? Overrated? Capitalism. We know it. Everybody knows it. Not on this podcast. We are tired of living

in this system. We're huge fans, but okay. Tell us what's wrong with capitalism, I guess. I don't know. Just the way, I guess, it exploits human beings, animals, nature is destroying the planet.

It's grinding us all, crushing us all. Completely anti-democratic unequal now listen do i have a solution not quite not exactly i'm halfway there i'll tell i will tell you what's over any move away from it is i think a solution i think it's more like is it capitalism uh yes then don't do that giving me hip skin cancer presumably for my iphone 12 absolutely you gotta do what i did you gotta skip from the 10 10 straight to the 14 you gotta get on your ex's family plan wow and and ingratiate yourself to her parents and just stay there wow what a move 10 to 14 i mean i'm about to go 12 to 15, but maybe I should wait.

That's, three years feels like a long time to wait. And I was kind of taking pride in the fact that I've waited so long to upgrade. And it turns out the only thing that that has got me is excess radiation. Okay, counterpoint, stay with it longer, longer more radiation what powers might you accrue exactly what cool things might happen yeah just a lot of unwanted body hair like on your hip like from where your pocket is probably i got a real tuft of hair here this won't go away or in

my case just like a perfect rectangle of no hair. Oh, right, right, right. Because everything else is hairy. But just, yeah. Weird. What's wrong with you? That's where you'll get your matching tattoo. It glows a little bit. I know.

I am wondering on the tattoo thing, is 43 too old to get your first tattoo? No, not at all. That's the perfect time, actually. You've lived so much life. You know what you like. Your body's in the second half, quite frankly. Like, you're committing, but not for so long. time, actually. You've lived so much life. You know what you like. Your body's in the second half, quite frankly. Like, you're committing, but not for so long.

Yeah, yeah. Perfect time. And it'll look... Exactly, less... It'll look good in, like, 20 years still, you know? Right. Like, versus, like, a lot of tattoos you get when you're young, and then you start being like, I gotta kind of maintain some of these, or they just end up looking like...

Old sailor energy. Yeah, exactly. What's... I think what's exciting about that is you could go really big and bold for your first tattoo. I mean, I started at 18. I was getting little tiny stuff, piecing it together,

you know, little stickery type of stuff. You could just go, I'm going full sleeve. I'm getting the chest tattooed. Whatever. Yeah. Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck, Phoenix back tat.

Phoenix back tat. Have you seen that, Deanne? I don't think I have. Ben Affleck has the wildest Phoenix back tattoo. Here, I'll bring it up. Have you ever seen the cover or the movie poster for the film Red Dragon? Oh, my goodness. I was about to say, I couldn't imagine that it would be good.

And it isn't. But it's not terrible. I couldn't imagine that it would be good. And it isn't. But it's not terrible. I mean, it's not great. Absolutely. But it is better than I thought it might be. It looks like it's cracking a little bit in places for some reason. Yeah. Oh, I think they could be like that.

Is that part of the design? I think there must be some. Yeah, because it seems like consistently going through. But hey, look, he's a phoenix rising from the ashes. Listen, I'm body positive. And I will say there's something about that tattoo that really accentuates the muffin top. Yeah. It does.

Towards the end. It's a beautiful thing. Also, does making fun of people's tattoos count as being not body positive? Listen, I think at the end of the day all tattoos and i have a bunch actually look kind of stupid like they're all kind of bad there's really no such thing as like a great tattoo they're still fun to get i think and it's like a fun way to decorate your body but i think yeah i think we got to make fun of tattoos we gotta make fun of our own tattoos yeah yeah yeah not to say that they're bad but let's have fun we'd look we put a bunch of needles

yeah i'm gonna show you my most recent tattoo i got this in my 40s you guys it looks like it came it looks like i'm a huge fan of jam bands and i got it in the 90s when i was like 19 i i just let the artist do what he wanted and then i was like like, I don't love it. It's brand new. It's brand new. Damn, Deanne. This mushroom here. Oh, wow. There you go.

Mushrooms are definitely having a moment. Mushrooms are having a moment for sure. Mushrooms are all right. But there's so many more, let's say, beautiful mushrooms than this jam band space age. I love it. Black light poster. Yeah. Black light poster.

Thank you. And it's like, is this my personality? Not really. But people are going to think so now. Yeah. Whatever. You have to adopt a mushroomy kind of vibe. Yeah.

Yeah. I got to start doing more mushrooms. You got that psilocybin on you? I mean, to be fair, I have weaned myself off antidepressants. That is my mental health care plan is to just do mushrooms like every three months in the woods. There you go. Yeah. Yeah.

There are benefits. There are proven benefits. So you're not you're not far off. You're not far off. You guys micro dosing you macro dosing. I do it all. Yeah. I do it all.

Micro to macro, but mostly micro because that's been the I've I've I. Yeah, it it's been like wonderful but even like for like socially on the weekends like where i used to maybe like want to drink a ton or like do shit like that i've i found just a little bit of psilocybin gets me vibing oh i like that idea i've never i have never experienced it in that way. Yeah. Yeah. Like not before beer. Never fear. Little psilocybin gets you vibe in. You know, there you go. But you don't go quite you go a little bit over, you know, like what a micro dose would be. And but not enough to go like, you know, asking like, is this forever? Yeah. Yeah. I did not get to it for this is is this forever place but last time that i did mushrooms

like a month or so ago i definitely found myself wrapped in my hammock in the woods weeping but in a cleansing way like an inside shower love it and then kind of emerged from the hammock as if from a womb reborn yeah into the world which is great that's one of the one of the things that capitalism doesn't afford us is like that that we're probably missing most as people is just like a good cry wrapped in the woods i feel like yeah probably before everyone was keeping track of your time and stuff like that people were were spending, you know, 20% of their time just weeping. Just get the shit out. What are you saying?

Should I start a wellness retreat in the woods? I think so. I'm doing it. I'm charging $999. Yeah, exactly. Absolutely. Just capitalism just immediately eats everything. Right, right, right.

And they're like, I trust the end. They got the mushroom tattoo. Oh, no, I am committed to the mushroom tattoo. Oh, no. I am committed to the lifestyle now. Yeah. Look, you could easily grift with that tattoo for sure over someone who's a little overly trusting. Oh, man. I don't even remember.

Have we done underrated yet? No. Oh, we have not. That's how good this overrated and underrated and search history has been. I forget where we are. What is something that you think is underrated and search history has been, I forget where we are. What is something that you think is underrated, Matt? Oh, I'll tell you. Miss Rachel.

Okay. Is that the name of the horse lady? That's the name of the horse lady. That I named. So big. They're as big as I wanted them. No. As big as I wanted. Dude, you're about to pivot so hard by explaining

yeah big pivot miss rachel is a kids youtuber she makes content for like babies and toddlers in which she like sings songs and she's in front of a green screen and it's animated and she's, you know, live action. And she's, you know, she's singing things like what's in the box. What could it be? Do you want to take something out with me? Pulls out a toy, explains the toy, does the sign language for like the color does, you know, teaches babies, like some sign language and some words and shows how to say the words like mama you know and like repeating and repeating and my daughter fucking loves it it's so crazy it's like she we put it on and she

has the biggest smile on her face and i'm like i don't know who this miss rachel is in real life but i hope she's making so much money off of this. I'm sure she is. Like, what kind of views is she getting on YouTube? Dude, millions. Yeah. Millions. The kid YouTube, like, YouTube content for kids, like, that's monetized is...

Insane. It's... The amounts are absurd sometimes. Right. And you look at how quickly, like, a video goes up in one day and it has 3 million views. It's because... And I realize the reason is because you just play that video over and over and over. quickly like a video goes up in one day it's like has three million views it's because and i realize the reason is because you just play that video over and over and over because it's the one that

makes them shut the fuck okay she does have a master's in music education from myu so okay that's that makes me feel good that it's not just because there is some children's entertainment on youtube that is purely guess and check like we we put a thousand ai generated videos up here most of them are disturbing and look like the inside of someone's brain as they are like having a bad acid trip that kills them and but like one out of a hundred like kids really fuck with and we just learn from that and keep making more and more disturbing cocomelon or whatever the fuck right yeah so it's good that there is somebody on youtube who is like i studied education right someone who's not like just gaming the algorithm with AI.

Because as much as I love AI, because you can make the boobs as big as you want, I don't want my children to make the boobs as big as they want. That's right. Because I guarantee you that Karina, she wants the boobs way because she wants the milk. Yeah, those feed. Yeah, that's called

by it's called evolution what is it called uh evolutionary psychology that's what i was gonna say yeah so we learn everything yeah i was gonna say those words it is nice though like when you're like oh thank god this person isn't just a failed improviser right you decided to pivot to kids i know because you think about like blue peas yeah you're just seeing the sadness behind every single time they sing patty cake yeah patty cake patty cake baker's man yeah i never made a backup plan plan yeah no she's she is like wonderful and uh you just get like this uh you know this like camp counselor energy that i remember back when i was like you know a little bit older of a kid i used to just cringe at this you know like these adults who sang these songs. Right. We're like, Hey, yeah, yeah, exactly. Hey,

Lou, I'm happy. But then you see like them doing it for a baby and you see the way the baby reacts and you're like, you know what? You do have a place in this world and it is fucking important. And thank you for doing this. Have you ever turned your back for a second and the YouTube algorithm starts feeding your baby a 9-11 truther video. You could actually, with AI, on the Twin Towers, you can make the boobs as big as you want.

Well, that's good. Dude, her biggest video has 491 million views, and it only came out a year ago. Jesus Christ. Well, 100 million of those views are me so right yeah no so far we have not let the youtube algorithm uh run uh of course she can only last about like i think 40 minutes before she is just like you know she wants yeah yeah yeah totally bored or start getting aggro yeah yeah yeah i like it was weird how happy i was when my my kids started like having the attention span to be entertained by

an ipad during the length of a flight because yeah that is that changes everything yes I mean, it's already changed our lives. And it's so funny how quickly we went from united front of like, we're not gonna just plot them in front of a screen. You know, we're not, you know, we don't want an iPad babysitter. We're gonna try, we're gonna read it books. It's so funny how quickly we're just like turn on miss rachel she's crying please save us rachel there's something very difficult about seeing your child unhappy and knowing that a thing that you have a thing you can can pick up a very light thing. It doesn't weigh 100 pounds. A very light thing and press a couple buttons and your child will be happy. I know. Put their brain on pause. I know.

I know. It's hard to resist. They got our ass with these little Skinner boxes. Yeah. Skinner boxes. All right. If you say it cute, it's not as disturbing it is let's let's take a quick break and come back and talk about bone face y'all yeah bomb bomb

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the thing that most billionaire business owners are always thinking. I think the problem that we've had is that we've, you know, we have, people decided they didn't really want to work so much anymore through COVID and that has had a massive issue on productivity. You know, tradies have definitely pulled back on productivity.

You know, they have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years. And we need to see that change. We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50% in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. I mean, there's been a systematic change

where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them as opposed to the other way around. So it's a dynamic that has to change. So he goes on to say, we got to kill that. We got to kill that attitude. Like, I'm sorry. Wow. What?

I was wondering earlier, you said something about tradies. And I was like, what does that mean? Yeah, trades people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He seems cool. And like, he's in touch and just looking out for the common man.

Yeah. What a monster. Holy shit. I mean, but this is the kind of thing we've seen this way of thinking play out for the common man. Yeah. What a monster. Holy shit. I mean, but this is the kind of thing we've seen this way of thinking play out in our own economy, like with the Federal Reserve, as they try to, quote, tackle inflation, which is really diluting worker power. And Fed chair and private equity mogul Jerome Powell gave this very euphemistic description of how they intend to tackle inflation. When he said, basically over the past few weeks, he said, fixing inflation will require a sustained period of below trend growth and some softening of labor market conditions. And as he put it, quote, by reducing hiring demand, that would give us a chance to get inflation down, get wages down and then get inflation down.

So he means people need to get kicked in the teeth in the labor market. So they'll take lower wages because the thinking here is that higher interest rates mean companies can borrow less and send to still make profits. They have to lay people off, as we've seen this happen over the course of the year. still make profits. They have to lay people off as we've seen this happen over the course of the year. And if more people are unemployed, then they can pay lower wages and then presumably lower the cost of their goods. Allegedly, that's the concept that they they they point to. But all of the research shows that the wages are not driving inflation, despite every billionaire wanting to kind of keep this narrative going. It's like, we got to pay these people so much now that I don't know what to do except price gouge the customer.

It's everybody knows it's supply chain issues. It's a rising energy costs, a fucking housing crisis and profit hoarding by corporations. That's what it is. Yeah. So we're just sort of caught in this like very, like they're really trying to to say these things out loud He's now, that guy who just spoke, Tim Gerner

He's like, ah, sorry about that Didn't mean to, kind of a hot take from me Oh really, he apologized for saying, wow It's a very, it's like kind of, yeah, I don't know And also, the thing about him, he's also a millennial The avocado toast guy So he was just about him, he's also a millennial, the avocado toast guy. So he was just trying to be like, as a millennial that's figured it out to my fellow millennies, lay off the avocado toast, will you? Yeah.

I did not expect him to be Australian. I've seen the headlines. I've never heard him speak before. I didn't know exactly who he was. Australians generally are the most laid back, chill people and i've been there a bunch their avocado toast is super expensive but that's because in part they are actually paying like cafe workers make like 25 an hour you don't tip over there it's just not part of the system because for the most part people are making a living wage this guy he's he's the antithesis

of everything i know about australians that's all that's he's he's the antithesis of everything i know about australians that's all that's right yeah he's the least chill aussie i know i don't know why he can't just be vibing with some psilocybin yeah i'm with psilocybe bro let everybody have enough i wonder what kind of revelation he would have on a mushroom trip though i i feel like he is i know a lot there's like a lot of silicon valley people and people like that who do take yeah psychedelics and i think that they do show the limitation of that because it can be just like bent to whatever is of interest in your interests yeah i don't think it can cure psychopathy or whatever's going on with that guy. Yeah. Whatever the fuck. Just abject greed.

Yeah. The, the, the story and ones like it always frustrate me because I will be like, it really seems like the reason prices are going up is because they're raising prices. And that feels bad because they're not raising people's wages to go with the prices. And then when they have to talk about the fact that they're raising the prices on the things we have to buy, but not paying us anymore, when they talk about that, they say that it's actually we have it too good.

And when I say that, like every once in a while, like somebody will be come in like in the discord or something. They'll be like, actually, I'm an economist. And your understanding of this is ass backwards. And it's actually market forces that are like forcing this shit. Like and I just I don't know, like maybe concentrate power and wealth in the hands of like a very few. And we have this thing where like now all of the economic indicators are telling us like things are good, guys. We should be happy. But nobody's happy because things aren't actually good for anyone except them right so it's it's just very frustrating it feels like it's like

an attack on like the very like i don't know they've done this thing like what like capitalism is overrated in the sense that it's like not a good way to run the world but i think it's underrated in how just like persistent and all-encompassing and brilliant it is and like this is just an one of those ways that it like invades language it attacks meaning you know it attacks our ability to create meaning and even fucking like talk about what is happening around us right in a way that is really frustrating and deflating and i think is the real reason that it's like so hard to get any sort of revolution like going is because it's just so fucking complicated. And capitalism, you know, we can work hard. Capitalism works harder.

But, you know, I am so glad you brought up revolution. I didn't want to have to say it. Don't want to. I don't want to have to say it needs to be violent, but I will say it's all these people seem to respond to. I don't know that it has to be so complicated. What freaks me out, and I'm taking this conversation completely sideways, but what freaks me out is how capitalism has kind of eaten our modes of communication

or how, I don't even is these are new ideas and I'm saying them out loud for the first time I'm just feeling empowered on this podcast where you know we're all we're all hooked into the internet and we're not in control of that that can that can be censored and taken away from us at any time I really think yeah we got to get out there we got to be we got to get in the communities we got to be talking to each other coming up with alternate modes of communication and we do actually have to get out there. We got to be, we got to get in the communities. We got to be talking to each other, coming up with alternate modes of communication. And we do actually have to get this revolution going. And we need to scare the fuck out of these people,

but they're just going to be like, then I'll just go deeper into the core of the earth in my bunker and hide. Absolutely. No, they all have bunkers in New Zealand. Yeah, exactly. But like, this is just like this perspective of the ruling class,

like market forces are not right like this idea that like workers should be grateful that they're paid sub subsistence wages while they get to fuck off to a tropical island no that doesn't fucking square with me and not a single one of these mutant fuck jobs would ever dare say that maybe they are the ones should take a hit to their fucking wages never do you think you're a million times better and like smarter than us because you have a million times more money than any any of us have you have oh i'm sorry you million times you know how to assemble this fucking automobile right go ahead asshole get on the fucking line yeah you're gonna fuck up and hurt yourself

because you know what the fuck you're doing because you've you know laughed your way up to the top because of the class that you come from or the place you were able to climb to and i think that's what's really like i think that's what's really fucked up is that there's this continuation if you're just watching like cnn or some shit where they're never going to be like i mean maybe one maybe one like like side commentator might be like well why don't ceos make less like why why are we not asking someone who makes 25 million dollars a year can they they'll say that but they'll treat it like it's a childish complaint yeah no exactly and because the whole because what they're saying is the whole game is that you should aspire to get to that point.

You don't want to stay at this low point because that's for that's like that's the worst. And we're not interested in making the lives better for people who have to work like wage jobs or whatever. And it's just the yeah. And I think that's the part that a lot of people, they just feel that inherent unfairness of it all. And then you get people like Larry Summers who just like second that from like a tropical island. And he's like, yeah, yeah. It's like the workers need to like pipe down. Like this is wild.

Yeah. Kevin McCarthy. That's right. That doesn't sound right. Are we sure that's right? That's his name, Kevin McCarthy. All right. Let's go with that.

Kevin McCarthy has announced that the House will open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite the fact that their hearings and investigations haven't really turned up any evidence against him directly. I'm going to go take a nap. Yeah. It makes me tired. Well, we kept talking about how they would do things like we got a whistleblower. OK, but they're too scared to testify. any tired well we kept talking about how they would do things like we got a whistleblower okay but they're too scared to testify and then people like is there a whistleblower they're like i don't honestly i'm not even sure there's a whistleblower you're like what are you doing with define whistle

yeah yeah i mean i know somebody who was willing to say some bad stuff about joe byron but uh other than that i don't know i'm like he's also doing it without taking a house vote which before he was like i'll take a house vote and we'll see what happens you know the polling in a lot of battleground states has says most people are like you know 56 percent like an impeachment would be just a stunt like a partisan political stunt like no one's like looking for this but i think the other big thing about this is he doesn't even have the support of his own party. It's like a lot of Republicans are even worried about how like the whole hack of it all is going to look. And especially when their logic is we need to open

an impeachment inquiry so we can find out more stuff and then we'll be able to uncover something to impeach him for rather than we have evidence that we need to pursue that is leading us here. They're like, I don't know, man, we just need to go. Fine. We're going fishing, baby. But we're doing it with subpoena power. And they aren't starting with real evidence. And even the head of the Oversight Committee, he even admitted that every subpoena he has issued like to banks or other government agencies

they've they've cooperated 100 given the information and he's like yeah i don't know it's just like i've been denied access to anything i still can't find it i'm out of moves here man hey man you know the term hoover flags where your pockets are inside out that's us, man. It got nothing. That's amazing. It seems to be based on the logic that they like,

well, the last time they did an impeachment thing, they found stuff. So there's probably stuff here. It was like, yeah, well, they found stuff because like they,

they did an investigation and there was like a lot of shit there. There was a lot of smoke and fire. And the time before that, like, you know, I, I guess maybe, maybe they're hoping for like a Clintonian situation where it's just like

embarrassing. They drag some shit out. That's like embarrassing. Right. And like create stuff, like find stuff as they're looking. Isn't that kind of what happened with Clinton? Like at first it wasn't about Lewinsky.

It was about something some some other shit i don't know i'm a political expert yeah i think it was because he lied to conger like lied in depositions or something but it was really about monica ultimately but the thing is like i i don't know it's like we listen to the crazies now like growing up my mother was always like don't listen to that person they're crazy here and now It's like we listen to the crazies now. Like growing up, my mother was always like, don't listen to that person. They're crazy here. And now it's like out yeah but we're gonna do it because he's gonna get mad if we don't and then i don't know how to stand up to him so we're caught in this fucking spiral till november so we'll see where it ends up but yeah it's just like there's there's just starting off with nothing and asking for more power to to to just manufacture something. And I'm, yeah, but,

and I am here for it and I'm popcorn eating me. I am ready. Spill the tea here. Republic. Yama, yama, yama. This.

Yeah. I don't know. Like the whole thing makes me tired because it's like, it feels pointless, but also like there's, there is a lot at stake with Biden's reputation and he seems really fragile. Does it like, does it feel like there's been more people being like,

he seems old, like in the, in the mainstream media lately, or am I making that up? I think that it's just a tactic because the election is coming up. So now we're like, he's super old that's in my opinion and i also think like the whole uh hunter biden stuff like every family can

knows has a family member who's messed up yeah i don't think that like most americans are like oh he has a son who's a mess like We all have somebody in our family. And he still loves him? Yeah. What? It appeals to this minority of men who are like, I don't love my kid because he's a screw-up. He's like, but this guy does. He's soft.

I hate him. Like, what? But yeah, I mean, there is like, you know, I feel like since the earlier this year, it's like about once or twice a month you're gonna see some version of who could replace joe biden like and it's even written by like like democratic outlet you know like left-leaning outlets yeah you're trying to because i think there is the thing where i'm sure the dnc looks at the polling and a lot of Democrats are like, I mean, like Biden,

like that's like the energy of a lot of democratic voters are like, I don't know. Does that gotta be him? And I think now they're kind of like, ah, shit. Like, are we fucking up by like,

by just like riding with this guy to the end? But I don't know. I mean, like it, it's one of those things where despite, I think a lot of Democrats maybe saying I wouldn't vote for him. It's like this thing where when push comes to shove, they're like, fuck it.

I'm like, what the fuck else are you going to do? I would literally vote for him if he was dead. Like, I don't care. Like, I just don't want the fucking fascist in office. Like, yeah, like truly, if that happened, like, yeah, I'd vote for him if he was dead. Can I vote for like a 3D projection of him? Yeah, totally.

A tuna fish sandwich. I mean, I don't care. Yeah. Subway tuna. Yeah, subway tuna. I'd vote for subway tuna. Write-in candidate, our new president, subway tuna somehow. point about like there being a push from various sides to uh right make it seem like he's aging rapidly as the election approaches there was that hawaii story where i'm sure that this isn't the

only time that people have been reporting shit like this but there's the thing where people were like biden fell asleep on stage and that was actually like officially debunked because like the footage that they used to spread that story was like a closeup of footage that was, I guess they like blurred it intentionally. And when you looked at the high definition footage of the exact same moment, he's like got his eyes open and he's like blinking and just like kind of has his head down he's like nodding so being solemn it's there's definitely a push happening to i i personally like don't think he's the best possible candidate we are in the situation that

we're in like there's the hill article that was like the five democratic alternatives and it's just fucking kamala harris vice president kamala harris california governor gavin newsom those seem to be the only ones that i hear being taken seriously because she is will be the president if he dies. And he looks like a president in a movie, I think. Is that kind of the main thing? With his slicked back hair. That slicks back real nice. Real nice. That little slicked back real nice.

Pete Buttigieg, who lost the election last time and has not done anything good since then you know right except for like excuse the bad behavior of airlines yeah he's like had a bad few years since not being able to beat joe biden in the election like that that feels like the case with a lot of these right like that harris like was like lost the election to yeah wasn't a great primary and has not had a good run since then same with budaj so the the only ones that are like new untested are newsome michigan governor gretchen whitmer and aoc they have on here because she would be old enough in 2024. I think Whitmer is probably your best bet there.

I've heard good stuff about her. The most different, like kind of, I mean, a lot of like, yeah, a lot of Democrats like have been sharing a lot of the stuff that she's been doing in Michigan. It's just like,

it's just, I think the thing is that the DNC, they're kind of processing this information in like a weird way because what the i think the polls what they're not articulating is that people want a different type of candidate like all of these come out of the same sort of like ice tray of candidates just in different shapes but we're looking for a lot of people like are seeking something different where someone is speaking to what is happening to people in a way that actually seems authentic and believable because all these people are just super polished, like political operatives. They're not like the kind of people who like can like light up a room and like make every person feel like they're seen and heard.

And like in a way that like you know donald trump completely abandoned like normal political speak and people like whoa that's different yeah not to say that that's better i feel like aoc kind of has that a little bit sometimes yeah no she does she does but i have a i mean i can't imagine the establishment circling around her yeah no no they would tear her to shreds yeah like i just don't know times yeah the second she'd be like i don't i think we need to end qualified immunity for the police it's like well there goes all your union fucking endorsements yeah like yeah and that's all it's like a fucking balancing act of how to keep certain people in you know your coalition but also trying to present something that's a little bit forward

thinking and that's just i think an impossible feat for them right now. Yeah. I view it as like two separate things. There's like the, you know, what I think is good for the country and what I think like the country, like what ideas the country should be moving towards. And then there's the like sporting event of keeping the Nazis out of office.

That is this one. And so on that one, I'm like i don't know is whitmer how's whitmer's arm she lefty she like keep you off balance like what are we looking at here like what how are what are the saber metrics people say about her right so from that like that's kind of how i'm going to this election is i'm just like, fuck it. You know, let's, but yeah, the whole thing makes me. Yeah. Because we're in dire need of something really remarkably different and

revolutionary, but all of these fall flat. I mean, I sort of feel like, you know, there's perfect. And then there's what we have to deal with. And I think five is what we have to deal with right now.

And it's like, when you're fighting like real evil, you have to suck it up and do what's the best alternative at the time to fight that evil. Why is he got to be so old, though? He can't help it. He's grown to be that old. Why can't we help him? Because he was born 80 years ago, Jack. Why?

That's why he's that old. Because his parents had sex 80 years ago, Jack. Why? That's why he's that old. Because his parents had sex 80 years ago. That's all. That's the only reason why. Now I'm distracted thinking about Joe Biden's parents having sex during the Great Depression. Oh, God. But yeah, I mean, like Newsom has said that he wouldn't run against Kamala. But I think he's just being diplomatic because they've always kind of been in this competition.

Like they entered the political scene at the same time with him becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor and her becoming San Francisco's D.A. and the state's first black district attorney in 2005. And they've always kind of helped each other. But then there's also like when Barbara Boxer retired and that seat opened up gavin newsom wanted that senate seat too but deferred to kamala and then ran for governor so i think part of him despite what he says has always been keeping an eye on the national stage that's why he keeps fucking you know trying to debate ron desantis so yeah i don't i don't challenge her unless you want me to unless you want me to but yeah literally one person asks me to yeah in which case i'll be like i've been called yeah he's

doing the thing of like reluctant guy where he's like no man i've told all the donors we're getting behind joe like it just is what it is folks we're moving on he's like i wouldn't run against and then all it's going to take is like the slight you know vibe shift and he's like yeah i mean i should have been president this whole time yeah yeah so you know i run the what is it like the fifth largest economy basically if california was true fuck boy energy where he's like i couldn't i really shouldn't but winking i couldn't unless you really want me to yeah oh totally oh do you really want me to? I shouldn't, though. We really shouldn't. We really shouldn't. I'm married.

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text it's hard i am reading script through text it's the making it just hit seven weeks in a row crossing the three billion minute mark it's it's a genuine phenomenon that nobody wants to talk about because they're scared. Are we? Well, let's be real. That show would not really have a resurgence if it wasn't for once again, our people's princess, Megan Markell. Sorry. Hate to say it. Yeah.

How and she what she was on it for most of the seasons, right? Except for like the last. Yeah, she was on it for the majority of the show, I think. Right, right, right. She got written off later on to go do her duties. As the people's princess, obviously. Her duties to suffer under a racist fucking monarchy. As every person dreams of eventually.

Yeah. Will it come for me but again this is one of those things where because streaming is like such a weird business model like nobody pays nobody really pays attention to the the fact that this is like the most popular thing on tv right other than the nfl like right just everybody's watching this. The show Suits is entering the bloodstream of America at unprecedented rates. And people are just like, yeah, whatever suits. I feel like in this was the 90s and that many people were watching Suits. There would be, you know, they'd be on the cover. They Megan Markle and the lawyer with a photographic memory who didn't go to Harvard but is pretending to go to Harvard.

Mike! His name is Mike! Okay, Mike. Okay, so is Rebecca a fan of Suits? I'm a fan, okay? Help us understand. I succumbed to the viral TikToks of people watching Suits because it is now on Netflix. I succumbed to the algorithm saying top 10 shows in the country right now, Suits, even though it was on a million years ago. I was someone who used to

watch Suits. You're on Suits rewatch mode. I'm on Suits rewatch mode, okay? I watched it on cable television when it was out airing every night. It is fun, okay? It is a fun, good time. If you're like me who likes to watch disassociative television aka television that is not current because you cannot be tasked with the weight of keeping up with something it's just great it's a great ketamine of television it just takes you out of your body and makes you feel like you can just sit there yeah it's i watched it all last week as i deep clean my apartment it's fun to see the shenanigans the team gets into. It's very weird to see Meghan Markle now that we know her as the People's Princess Meghan Markle in like such a very silly evening television show with like a love interest.

That's like, oh, my God, you're better than Mike. And her hair is poorly done because they didn't know what to do with it. It's rough. Wait, they get into nanigans on this? They get into some shenanigans? Absolutely. Ana, did you know this before you came out with your hard anti-suits stance? You don't actually have to speak to me during this

segment. I'll just sort of be here, but just don't worry about me. Becca, we appreciate you coming in to speak on behalf of... I needed to. There's like millions. Speak on my people's princess,

Meghan Markle, aka the best paralegal to ever cross. Rachel Zane. Rachel Zane, yes. Rachel Zane. The people's paralegal. Because, like, okay, from reading a little bit about it

and watching trailers for the first couple seasons, the thing that I gleaned from it is that, like, I'm trying to understand why people are watching it. And I know that based on the sheer numbers jack you're like something is happening but is it that there's something about the show or it just says to us right now that people are like i just need to fucking get away from it all and suits is somehow being the most potent vehicle

for something like that yeah i feel like a big part of it is netflix was really promoting it they're like we now have suits you want to re-watch that shit that you haven't seen in four years and everyone was just kind of like you know what all of netflix originals kind of suck right now right i absolutely will watch suits and i think there is an allure to it of like oh did they scrub that from the internet it just felt like it was kind of scrubbed because she was becoming the princess like we couldn't watch any of her former work or like the royal family there was a conspiracy on behalf of the royal family to keep it from us exactly like she because she was being when she was in the royal family you know rebranded as this person who is you know solely out there doing

humanitarian work you know fighting for you know people's rights, all that stuff. They're like, we can't have her making out on television. You know, because she'd be having some raunchy scenes. Yeah. That's not dignifying as we were princesses. Some guy who didn't go to Harvard Law School and pretends to. Who is not Prince Harry. Yeah. So in many ways,

we are all Meghan Markle because we were being kept from our true love by the royal family in this case our true love is suits and absolutely amazing well thank you i just don't i still don't get it i still don't get it though like i get that like are you the mean guy from big yeah wow timely reference uh but like it just feels like i get that it's not challenging plot lines or dialogue and i think maybe there is like sort of that like if you have a secret or you have like there's an imposter syndrome element to it that's like relatable but like at the end of the day i'm like people really just i feel like people just have this shit on in the background.

They do. I guess more is it are people. Yeah, right. So you're not being like, yo, we got to watch it and we got to go through every little moment. So it's basically audio visual wallpaper. Yes, absolutely. And you can chime in and you're like, oh, my God, Teehee, that was a fun joke. Or you're like, oh, my God, I get my girl really is going to make with this guy right now. And all I can think about is that she's married to prince harry and now while i'm watching this show was she ever really gonna know like oh my god i'm marrying prince harry eventually like you're just watching oh wow this is such a time capsule yeah in american television okay the acting it would take

to be on a show pretending to be rachel zane without just breaking into laughter and saying, fuck it all, I'm going to marry Prince Harry is pretty. That's crazy. and work is driving a lot of unhappiness that like we end up gravitating towards the office and suits and these like workplace shows, but maybe it's just like revisiting the, you know, the, the scene of the crime of like the thing that robbed us of our humanity to like,

see it made right by this person who's like actually the best lawyer, even though he didn't go to the best schools. Right. Cause with the office, I thought it he didn't go to the best schools. Right. Because with The Office, I thought it was something to do with the time it came out and people were getting nostalgic for that. But this shit only came out four years ago. And it's not even like,

like I know people who are, you know, like in-laws who are like, are you watching Suits? And I'm like, wait, you're on this wave too? Yeah. All right. All right. The mystery continues.

We should get back to super producer on a hose. Need a stream. Are you there? Anna? Yes. Thank you, Becca. Thank you,

Becca. But this is, this is not America's streaming corner. This is on a hose. Need a streaming corner where she's going to tell you. Well, so what, what should we be streaming?

Everybody is streaming suits. What should they be? What's the television they need to be put there, put their eyes on? So, you know, there's a lot of great shows that are actually ending this year, which is sad. It's sort of an end of an era, but I just

want to give some shout outs to what we do in the shadows. Okay, we finally find out if Guillermo is going to become a vampire or not, you know. We'll find out. Anything could happen yeah anyway i just love saying that how to with john wilson ended yeah sure so good man devastating honestly that show could have gone on for 86 more seasons i

like in season three it becomes very sort of like break the fourth wall like him filming himself at the emmys and stuff right right it just gets so good he goes to burning man really great episode on that i like how when he went to the his the own emmy party for hbo he wasn't on the list it's like i have a show on the fucking network they're like sorry josh wilson we don't have to he's's like the early episode about the penis enhancement guy is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. The foreskin rejuvenation? Yeah, foreskin rejuvenation. Yeah.

He's always short. There are some incredible episodes. You know, I really enjoyed the one where he ends up at a sort of Avatar convention. I thought that one was so beautiful at the end. It's just like, you know, I don't personally fuck with Avatar due to the aggressively racist undertones,

but I like that these people were able to find something that took them out of the abyss. Yeah. If you're looking for my co- them out of the abyss. To like make community. Yeah. If you're looking for my co-sign of the episode,

I'm going to give it to How To With John Wilson. It's like its own genre of media. Like it's totally its own thing. But for sure, EP by Nathan Fielder.

Yeah. But like he has such an incredibly unique narrative voice. Yeah, I can't wait to see what he does next. Yeah. What else we got? What else are we saying bye to?

Physical is ending, which is a very sort of surreal but fun, dark show about suffering from eating disorders and body dysmorphia. I thought it was very entertaining. Rose Byrne. Byrne was very entertaining. Rose Byrne. Byrne? Byrne. Byrne, yeah. Byrne? I don't know.

So good. She's so good. I think she has such range. Range? Yeah. I don't know. You guys don't agree? Oh, yeah.

I mean, from comedy to, you know. Do you guys not agree? I agree with that take. why is she making a slashing she's a legend from australia i really uh i i mean i i've loved her for a while from her days on damages god god damages was great damages is what you should be watching not suits sorry to say it um and then also you know her and seth rogan in platonic holy shit they are so funny together from their neighbor's days to this platonic guys you haven't watched platonic i gotta say apple tv really stepped up and put out some fucking content this year from platonic to shrinking even the after

party season two was really funny shout out paul what's his name paul walter hauser hauser walter let me just start like quickly paul walter hauser you got two last names that both sound like last names i will never know which one goes first but everyone in that was really great shout out to that anyway go look at apple tv great contentinking was very funny. I was impressed. Nice. Harrison Ford does comedy.

He does. I mean, it's like one of those things, too. Chances are you probably get it for free with there's so many things you realize you get for free just from like being a member of some other thing now. Like it's I'm surprised. I feel like I don't have to pay for streaming anymore because I'm like, oh, you have this insurance. Will you get Netflix? Well, you get Netflix. Yeah, it's true. Oh, you have 12 sandwiches on your subway card?

Oh, you get Hulu now. For a year, ad-free. Anytime you buy any Apple product, they give you a year of Apple TV free. It is a little thirsty. Where they're like, here, man, six months, bro. You want that? It's like, no, just needed a case for my iPhone.

Okay. Check it out though. Well, anyway, so that's physicals ending. Reservation Dogs is ending. God, sad. Such a great show. This is the third season now?

Third season. Yeah. They unfortunately canceled Single Drunk Female after only two seasons, even though that show was so good. I really loved it. Shout out to former guest Madison Shepard who plays one of the funniest characters on that show.

Amazing. The. What is it? What's the person that you have to check in with after you, like, go to jail? P.O. Pearl. Not Pearl because she wasn't a Pearl officer. So maybe like maybe probation officer, more probation officer because this person wasn't on parole

she just got drunk relax um anyway uh also the great is ending uh which is unfortunate also a great show the other two i may never forget the other two regardless of all the drama behind the scenes that show was next level that final season of the other two was a beat in television filmmaking jack did you come around to it i did yeah jack did you remember the first couple we had knives out for it for jack when he's like i don't know about this one but again are you out of your goddamn mind that's the greatest episode of television for some reason like because we were like binging it going from season like whatever the penultimate season was to the last season there's like a tonal shift that like fucked me up a little bit but i did end up coming but the tone just was like hey you like the other two well this is the other two times six thousand

like we are going full pure chaos no point where you don't know what's real and what's not i did like it was so good i did love it um apparently south side is ending which i haven't heard this but i saw it online and that devastates me because it's so funny yeah and also they canceled z-way after two seasons which is big mistake big huge mistake yeah but other things to watch that are still going on real quick i'll do a quick one is this fool on hulu oh my god frankie kianis don't miss it it's so good apparently incredible ahsoka new disney plus star wars star wars show follows two women of color so get in on it okay also ahsoka, new Disney Plus Star Wars Star Wars show follows two women of color. So get in on it.

OK, also Ahsoka, legendary character. Of course, we have to give love to only murders in the building, baby. They came for Martin Short. They came for Martin Short, honey. My people rose up. The lights were like, absolutely not. Y'all came out of the fucking portals to defend that man. I saw an incredible tweet the other day.

I want to shout out from at YC. When they say white people have no culture, I remember the day they mounted up for Martin Short. And I just thought that was really funny. We both shouted that tweet out and shouted you out for sending it to us on yesterday's episode. Oh, I definitely don't listen. And okay, yeah, shout out Only Mars and Building. Great show. And then

of course, I have to give really quick some love to some reality TV. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season four, I believe, has started. I have not watched a single minute of this. And you showed me a trailer for the upcoming season and it gave me a panic attack.

That wasn't a trailer, honey. That was an opening. That was a show. That's how the show opens. That's how the show started. Yeah. It's wild. They were like,

oh, you wanted reality TV? This is theater. You're like, oh, wow. This is Shakespearean. They bring in kids, like a child choir singing underneath it. That's the whole show

is they're like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, show. Is that like, and you're like, what is happening? What are these women are arguing about cheese? You know, you're like, what's going on? But I got to say, the nonsensical Bible quotes that don't go together, like everything about this show is pure camp. And I really recommend it.

If you want to watch a reality show, but you just don't know where to start and you want to get into some true nonsense start watching real housewives of salt lake city because they are no one is doing it like them they have no sense of what is happening in the outside world right because everything revolves around them and it is hilarious and they're all going to jail it's so funny these women in salt lake city yeah yeah they like a bit of fraud turns out they love fraud they love to accuse each other of being in the mafia they just genuinely have have they there's no shame in their game and that's what makes good tv but yeah i think the real reality show that even i've been anticipating ever since you said it was happening yeah go on what

do you believe in love after love i don't remember the lyrics but do you believe yes yes yes yes we're talking about the golden bachelor turn sort of singing it lyric by lyric oh no there's no way i could do the vocoder version of uh share right there and i don't know how to control this. I don't, it's hard. It's like you can. Well, I don't need you anymore. I don't need you anymore. There you go. There you go.

He's got to do that little windpipe action. But yeah, the Golden Bachelor is coming out and this is like taking exploitation to the next level,

but this is exactly the kind of exploitation I needed to see because we have a 70-year-old widower who is is now looking at how many contestants does he have? How many eligible bachelorettes is there? I believe there's 20 women vying for this man's heart. Yeah.

But like the difference being with. 22, excuse me, 22 senior women. Of course. being with excuse me 22 senior women of course but the difference here being that we've moved on from like dude anybody over 32 is gonna make us puke to saying this is uh this is purely a group of contestants between 60 and mid-70s ish for this 70 year old man whose name is spelled like jerry but pronounced gary to yeah experience the whole bachelor process with yeah so it's spelled J-E-R-R-Y. No, it's spelled G-E-R-R-Y but pronounced Gary.

What? Does that read as Gary or Jerry to you? That's definitely Jerry. That's Jerry. Right? I mean, who knows? Again, that's for him to figure out but okay i mean anna you watch enough bachelor to know that like i think the thing you always

worry about with contestants on it with like the youthful contestants is like they know there's like this bachelor to spawn con pipeline that you've definitely put me on to ever since i've come on to will you accept this rose but it like with this, these are truly like women in their 60s and 70s who are like, I'm ready to be in love again. And there's like a weight to it that just feels, I don't know, the stakes feel much higher. So they've been promoting this like senior bachelor for a while being like, oh, we're trying to get a seat. You know, they do this. Right. Maybe we'll do it. Yeah.

They've been like, sign up now for the senior bachelor for like two or three years now. We've all been like, yeah, right. Well, believe it when we see it. You keep teasing us, but you won't give us anything. So they finally did. They brought out Jerry. But I think it actually took them a very long time to find the perfect lead in Gary Jerry, which I think him being a widower is key. Because one, you don't have an ex-wife being like,

fucking Jerry, Gary, whatever the fuck his name is. Well, that would be a mess. That would be an episode. That's the escalation. Like, instead of going to meet with a family, you were going to meet with the ex-wife. Oh, boy. You're still paying alimony.

Yeah. Yeah. It's real tough. But yeah, like I think, yeah, the widower aspect definitely gives it a little bit of oomph for sure. Yeah, it gives some oomph. It gives, you know, it makes Gary Jerry a sympathetic character. He clearly didn't cheat on his wife or like, you know, I don't know know start some situation that's negative that the ex-wife can come out and complain about or the daughters can't be like he left mom or whatever so it's kind of perfect because he's like

i'm sad oh even though his wife died six years ago there is sort of an energy that he might not be ready but you know i hate that's not my problem i'm here to watch tv that's what i'm saying exploitation to the level i'm here for because i'm not even sure gary is like when he talks about how his wife passed away it broke my heart just like that entire studio audience did when they were hearing his story for the first time about like they were retiring together and they picked out this perfect lake house and then like within days of like getting this house she just like succumbed to like a terrible bacterial infection oh my god and passed on my and she was the love of his life like child or high school sweethearts been together you know a thousand years how old they are and but you don't know he's got 22 eligible senior women, all 60 plus.

There's a great trailer where they're dancing to shares. Do you believe in love after love? I don't even know what the life after love is. And let me tell you, they are they are dancing like a like a big pharma. I just discovered a medication that's going to help me with my, you know, dot, dot, dot. And they are living their best lives. They all love pickleball. I haven't seen somebody put on hosiery since the 80s.

And they have like a scene where she's like rolling it up her leg. I'm like, that's a visual trope I have not seen in a while. Yeah, it was something. And I think, yeah, this is exactly this is kind of what you want to see are people who are actually motivated to try and find someone rather than can I stay on camera the longest, which I feel like that's most of these people seem so far out of the range of being poisoned by social media that they are going to come in with, you know, a genuine desire to meet somebody. And look, their fun facts are incredible. Like one of the women, Christina's, her first concert was the Beatles in 1964.

Like, you know, Edith is building an ADU in her backyard and she's the project manager. Like one lady's like, I love Christmas. And you're like, of course you do. Right. Because people are just going to teach Americans how to live better because they're all retired and they just have amazing things to do with their free time. Well, they're like, Sandra is very proud of her high credit score. Wait, that's Sandra?

Of course, Sandra is. Yeah, Sandra. That was a 75-year-old woman who was looking ageless? Wow. They got a woman who's a former aerobics champion. That's not a thing anymore. The fuck is an aerobics champion? Leslie?

Anna, what's everybody's favorite hobby, though? Pickleball. They all love pickleball. They all fucking said they play pickleball, which is so wild. Also, guess what? Marina, not two master's degrees. She's got three master's degrees. Why? Why, Marina? Because I can't. You don't, not two master's degrees. She's got three master's degrees. Why?

Why, Marina? Because I can't. You don't need to have any master's degrees. And what do you do with that? I'm a professional pickleball player. And they're all like, I love Bruce Springsteen. And you're like, of course you do. It's incredible.

They're like, I watch Judge Judy. Honestly, you really, it doesn't get better than this. It's like I've never related to people on The Bachelor more. Yeah. The pickleball thing is interesting because they all are like... And I love to play pickleball. They cut it together, everybody talking about pickleball.

And then one of them does a flirty thing where they're like, I'm bringing a pickleball. He can... We'll see if he can handle it. See if he likes my pickleball. That's Marina with the three master's degrees. But a pickleball he can we'll see if you can handle it see if you like my pickleball that's more like the three masters yeah but a pickleball is just like a wiffle ball it's not like a sexy it's such a weird like flirt they're 70 i know jack pickleball is code it's it's code for senior orgies here's what theresa taught herself all about the stock market.

Like, it is, this is next level, baby. We are here. We're the golden era of The Bachelor. Literally. They're all like, hey, do you know about 401ks? And Gary Jerry's like, oh, bro, I never felt so

heated. You know, like, they're just like Gary Jerry really looks like he is She's like, roll it off. I never felt so heated. You know, like, they're just like... Gay Jerry really looks like he is just what a bachelor would age into. Like, he looks so stereotypically like a bachelor. Right, right, right. There is something strange happening with whatever his self-tanner solution is. But overall, I'm here for it. The fact that they've gone with a golden rose

as the kind of central symbol of this makes me uneasy. That feels like it's as likely to be a murder weapon as anything. It's pretty floppy. A metal rose? No, it looks pretty floppy. It's just aesthetics, bro. Relax.

I saw him pick it up. It was floppy. It's just aesthetics, bro. Relax. I saw him pick it up. It was floppy. It's going to be the new clue. Well, I will say real quick. There's some mysterious things about Gary Jerry's wife's past. No. Oh, no. Jack, you better fucking watch it, dude.

Don't come for Gary Jerry, Larry. There was really great. Well he he was on the bachelor finale like after the final rose and all these all the new bachelors were like giving him advice they were just saying like all this stuff i don't know the way they were talking you could just tell gary jerry had no idea what was going on. Like he genuinely was just like, I don't know what any of this means. Like he just has no sense. I think they're really trying to media train him to be like,

kind of like hip and cool, but like his energy is like, ha ha. Yeah. It's just so, it's so norm core. You know, I think that's, that's what's kind of refreshing is that he doesn't have like,

he doesn't seem the best on camera but he does seem like he's genuinely interested in having his skin look darker well they're like everyone's gonna slide into your dms and he was like oh no what oh god what are their dms what well do you remember the promo they're like his dms have postage on it and his thirst traps are in a leather bound album. And you're like, okay, we get it. Like,

don't, don't fuck us up with your bad copy. Right. Just let Gary do his thing. Uh, traps. Are these to catch a lobster? Here's the thing though.

How many people from this cast are going to get found out? Because whenever there's a season of the bachelor bachelorette people always find a way to be like this person was actually the former grand wizard of the kkk oh and they're like oops sorry it's true now here's the thing gary is from indiana so we do have to kind of be like gary jerry we're gonna have to see who you've been donating to for the last like 20 years yeah because uh i i'm just i'm i feel like we're gonna some some people are gonna slip through the cracks and i feel like inevitably other loafer is gonna drop yeah exactly when's the other foam shoe gonna drop yeah that's true oh boy what do you what do you think the chances are is it pretty much

guaranteed every season and are you watching enough to know if every season they are like y'all fucked up again a lot of them more recently as like the internet has become you know easier to find everyone's goddamn everything that they've ever done like i know exactly how much you donated to trump and when you know know, like. You can find that out. Yeah, it's called opensecrets.org. Yeah. I'm just checking to see if anyone is from Palm Beach, Florida. Oh, man. Most of them seem from pretty progressive hubs.

So let's fingers crossed. I also do want to give a shout out to Matt James, our first black bachelor. His mom, Patty, is one of the women. Oh, wow. Oh, really? Yeah. Shit. Okay, well, I feel like everybody's going to find love. That's going to be interesting, though. The family episodes will be interesting with

young kids. Young men being like, what's your fucking problem, Gary? What's your deal, Gary? Why do you spell your name Jerry, but you spell it Gary? God, we have to get our moms on this. It could go either way, Gary, because it's G-E-R-R-Y. So I keep forgetting which one I thought it was when I first saw it

and which one it actually is, because it's neither. It would be Gary, if anything, but he's really fucked us with this name. Spell pronunciation. Impressive. Impressive stuff from The Golden Bachelor. airy, if anything, but he's really fucked us with this name. Spell pronunciation. Impressive. Impressive stuff from the Golden Bachelor. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show.

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