The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 344 (Best of 10/21/24-10/25/24)

Episode Date: October 27, 2024

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These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh, yeah. So without further ado, here is the weekly Zeitgeist. Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat. Yes. Through trials and tribulations, the government tried to shut them down, but he's here.

Very funny comedian and writer who you have seen doing stand up in places like your TV. Yeah. The internet. Yeah. His new album ran through is now available to preorder on Apple and vinyl. Please welcome back to the show. The hilarious, the talented Alan Strickland. Will you?

Oh man. ASW. I'll start our weekend in the building. Oh, thanks for having me. What's up, you all? It's good to be back. Thanks for thanks for having me. And yeah, you know, just for the listeners, little backstory. I guess I rocked a few hard transformer. I was out my neighborhood powers out.

So we're yeah. So so we're on a hot spot. Yeah, oh it is, and I can tell. You should see it. You're not even seeing his posture. This man has his fingers locked behind his head leaning back, that's how easy he is about this. Yeah, I'm not worried. Meanwhile, I'm like my foot's shaking a hole in the ground

underneath the table. Cool as ice water over here. That's right. That's who he is in a catastrophe. He's just chilling, hands behind his leg, vibrating rapidly. Well, I probably caused it. Yeah. What do you think going too hard? What do you suspect did it when you say you're rocking too hard? It's because you got like a bit Bitcoin mining lab.

I got the Bitcoin guys downstairs. I've got my three. I got all my hair stuff. You have my hair team in there. They're in the master bathroom and they get in at around 5 45 every morning. I've got a routine. You know, Mark Wahlberg, how he like has that crazy. Yeah, he's up to like three. I've got that, but you know, Mark Wahlberg, how he like has that crazy routine where he's up to like three.

I've got that, but it's just for my hair. So it's like my hair's up then. You're tweaking it. It shows by the way. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You have great looking hair. It's very kind of you.

Yeah, there's a lot of, we're drawing a lot of power from a lot of different neighboring counties to Los Angeles. So it's just really, you know, we gotta figure this stuff out, guys. We gotta figure this stuff out. The grid, we gotta figure the grid out. Yeah, yeah, if anything for Alan's hair. And those aren't hair plugs, so that's Natty up top.

Yeah, yeah. Wow. No, the plugs wouldn't even work right now because the power's out. Am I right? Guys, that's comedy. That's comedy. That's the sort of comedy that you get on this upcoming album. Ran through, when's it drop Alan?

Yeah, it drops this Friday, October 25th. You could pre-order it now. We've got a lot of one-liners. We've got a lot of relatable bits. We've got some poignant yet hilarious takes on the celestial bodies that hang in the sky above. Maybe some trauma stuff, dating's weird, you know? Stuff like that.

We'll get into all of it, we wrap it all up nicely for ya. You're gonna like the way you laugh, I guarantee it. All right. And that plug was as organic as the ones in your scalp. I'll tell you what. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. What is something from your search history

that is revealing about who you are? On Saturday, as it will be forever known going forward, the day after I saw Miles. Oh, yeah. D-Day plus one. D-Day plus one. And they don't give plus ones for D-Day, I noticed. Whenever I go to Normandy, they just make you go solo. But I had to Google Patch Bike tube because I fucked up a day. I fucked up my Saturday in a way that I'm like, I don't know if I should be allowed to make a decision ever again. And I drove to new Brunswick, which is like 45 minutes away, uh, which is a

shit hole, but they have a great, beautiful bike path that goes along like the Raritan Delaware River. So drove my bike out there. Didn't realize a Rutgers game was going on home game. So I was driving into football traffic, like the game was right before. So already fucked myself. And then I get to the, I couldn't park. I finally park right across. It was right next to the stadium. And then two, like three miles into the ride, I hit a rock at a speed that was crazy and just blew my, just blew up my front tire. And I'm like, Oh, I don't know how to fix this.

And I was like trying to get an Uber to take me back to my car, but there were surge prices because of the wreck. So I was cheap. But there were surge prices because of the wreckage. Because of the football game. Yeah. So I was getting, so I was cheap. You bankrupted yourself taking a bike ride? Yeah, I bankrupted myself. So I ended up just sitting and looking up how to change a tire. And then I patched it.

I figured it out after like an hour and then it like popped again. So I had to walk three miles in like my tiny little outfit all the way back to my car through this weird party. Oh, you were in a little bike outfit. That's right. Yeah, I have seen those on social media. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was, it was one of the more revealing ones that I own. And you were wearing one that says St. John's on it. So you were really getting smoked too. I was really, yeah, I was wearing a Chris Mullen jersey and a St. John's bottoms, St. on the left ass cheek, Jones, J-A-W-N-S on the right. St. Jones. Wait, did you have a, so you had like a patch kit on you? I had patches and then I had to like, it's, so inside the tire,

there's a tube and a tire, so the tube is what you inflate if you have that type of tire. It's like a little, like a mini tire, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's what had the holes in it. So I covered the holes and I was able to like, oh, I fixed it. And then I did it. Apparently I hit that rock so hard it was not fixed. Yeah, it was a bad thing. I thought that was only children's bikes, but that's okay if you ride children's bikes. Oh, my bike has three wheels on it.

I'm sorry. I'm trying to- I use a tricycle. Yeah. Yeah. But it does feel like they need to start making bikes specifically to deal with the speed at which you ride that thing with those plumbers. Like, would it be safe to say that like bike companies should probably start, like,

change their approach when it comes to how you ride that thing? Thank you. So I've reached out to Ford every day for the past three years, trying to get them to make me a vice, a Ford bicycle. And they won't do it. So Chevy, and it has to be American made. If it's not, I'm not going to fucking ride it. You know this. So Mazda, your muffs, the other ones, I only, I can only name Mazda

as an international car. So Hummer. And I won't ask what kind of car you drive in your personal life. Cause I don't want to ruin the brand image, but yes, no, no, no, no, no, no. Wow. It is a Subaru Bronco. Yeah. It's a Subaru.

Yeah. Yeah. Subaru Silverado. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a Subaru S10. It's a Subaru S10. Yeah, yeah.

Subaru Silverado. Yeah. Yeah. It's a Subaru Silverado. It's a Silverado. It's a Silverado. Kim, what's something you think is underrated? State holidays, because today is Nevada Day.

Oh. And did you guys know Nevada has its own holiday? I didn't know. I had no idea. What do you do to celebrate? Do you gamble? Are the banks closed? Traditionally, you go to brothels, gamble,

pay tithings to the sins. That's like every state. Yeah. Well, when I moved to California, I was like, when's California Day? And California doesn't have a California Day, but Nevada Day does. Yeah. So, yeah, I thought California't have a California day, but Nevada day does. Yeah, I thought

California would have a California day because in Nevada, on Nevada day, it is like, like a federal holiday, all the banks are closed, DMVs closed, stuff like that. Yeah, so I was waiting for California day because you know, everyone wants an extra day off. It never fucking came. And I realized it was not every state has it, but not every state gets to feel special like California every day. That's what I'm saying. That's not every state needs one, you know?

Yeah, it needs a little punch up. To feel good about ourselves. Yeah. There's Vegas, but everyone knows Vegas. The rest of us need to feel special. Clark County's getting all the fucking attention. You know what I mean? They do. Isn't that the county that Vegas is in?

I think so. Yeah, I'm just going to say that as if I know. I'm pretty sure it is. Yep, it is. Yeah, I don't know why we don't have I mean, probably because we also respect a lot of other holidays that I'm sure other states wouldn't because, you know, like some places are like MLK Day, even though we're like, I think we should all, are we really not going to, okay. That seems kind of fucked up. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Indigenous Peoples Day went right over most people's heads here.

Yeah. Even though we're a really large community of that. Right. It probably depends on the governor and their outlook. They're like, it's still Columbus Day. We still like Italian Genocider Day. Okay. It's one of our favorites. Mamma mia. I did a genocide.

Shout out to Columbian exchange though, for without which the world might not have potatoes. What is something you think is overrated? I'm going to say Cali sober, which is what I've been sort of doing, which is where you only have weed. Yeah. I've been taking some time off of alcohol. It fucking sucks. I'm just like so stoned all the time. And like, kind of basically non-functional

the second the sun goes down, but I don't feel as bad in the morning, which is the one silver lining. But that's like turning me into a morning person, which I'm not. So I have the worst of all worlds, which is like wake up. I'm unwillingly waking up at the crack of dawn, but I am still like sleepy and out of it in the evening. I know, I don't as good as you're going to feel. Yeah. Yeah. I got, I guess I got to, I got to move into into like like New Mexico sober or whatever just do math but Just man. Yeah. Yeah

Yeah, then I'll be the whole process of waking up because you never get sleep Kelly sober is always interesting to me. I mean I do I am a firm believer that weed is better for you than alcohol Yeah, as far as just your body. That's largely why I started, but it has not been that great, if I'm being honest. But yeah, you're still just like, you know, like, I know we smoke a lot in California, but it's not as social. Yeah. As you can be, you know, because you still got to like go outside and, you know, you got to light up, you got to have the circle or you got somebody has to have the weed versus

like if they, I, I believe like Cali sober will become more social and more of a fun thing to be when we start opening up more weed cafes in California. Yeah. If we open up where you can actually like go to a place, smoke a little bit, eat, and like, you know, commune with people. I think it'll be like, uh, it'll be even more fun to be Cali sober. I think those, those places, cause I feel like when they started legalizing weed, like people tried those businesses. And here's my guess as to why that shit doesn't work, is it's much harder to get someone to

buy 10 joints in a night, whereas you can get someone to buy 10 shots. True. You can have one joint and immediately be like, I'm way too high right now. The last thing I want is anymore. I think the business the business model's tough. I mean, but like Amsterdam has it like with all the coffee shops. And so they figured so like it probably it isn't like a bar. I mean, they do have a few bars and I know tourists at those places up and shit like that.

Yeah, like I think like food has to be a big yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you have to make money some other way. You got to make the money from food and people just being able to sit down and smoke and eat and laugh and have games. You know what? You wanna open a business? We can do this, man.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, pitch. Miles' pitch is that they just need to do it at movie theaters, which absolutely. That would be- You just have movie theaters. Oh. Optional movie theaters, essentially. You know, there's- Oh my God. There's a weed bar and then you have movies.

And you basically, you just re-up for $10 every hour if you don't want to move from your seat. And then also, you got to be able to talk. You got to be able to fucking talk in the movie. Because I smoke and I go watch horror movies, because it makes it more fun for me because I'll be I am like I will become like the stereo Not in a disruptive way like he would be but I will become the stereotypical man. I don't go in there Oh shit, you know, I mean that way because I'm high and like so if I'm gonna be smoking and a movie you gotta

I want this to be fun for everybody like we gonna be giggling and talking and laughing. Yeah. And guess who's not going to give a shit about you talking during the movie. The other extremely stoned people. Everyone stoned. It costs $5 for every half hour to stay in the seat, stay as long as, or long, or as little as you want, but you're renting the chair. Movies are just playing.

You can order food on your phone. We cracked it. This would be great. We cracked, J'Kee's cracked it, yeah. I think people, I think the only, not downfall, but what will happen is you will start to get people who will try to fuck in the movie theater. Oh, yeah.

Cause it will put you in like a, nobody else is around. We're adding, yeah, we're adding businesses at an alarming rate, but I do think like an hour, like motel with like one of those love, like heart shaped hot tubs in it could be a good addition. That could be dope. Or put a little canopy over your two seats and just zip it up. That's too much. I don't like that. So many people are going to be jacking off.

Then after each person goes, you basically got to close the canopy again, fill it completely with bleach. Yeah, like a float pool. What are those, like sensory deprivation tanks? They just replace all the water inside. Listen, these are all details though. We're just fucking talking logistics. Also, I'm just incidentally mentioning a business that we should probably add a sensory deprivation tank. Just this is an adult entertainment complex,

but like not in the pornographic way, you know? Yeah. Adult entertainment. Oh my God. We might as well also add a sky zone for adults, like where adults can just get high and then jump on trampolines. I will say it is crazy that there is not just like a walk-up sensory deprivation tank on like the Las Vegas strip.

Just like a little, you know, like just like one of those like side businesses next to a casino or in the Morgan Weir casino malls, and you just be alone and it's quiet for 15 minutes or per 15 minutes. They are an absolute mess. Just imagining the amount of bacterial infections that people get at those things is... Yeah, I've done it once. Yeah, it's like I had a minor scrape on my leg and it like was burning because of all the chemicals in the water because probably legally there has to be because I think it's mostly salt. But yeah. Sensory deprivation.

It's you alone with the flora and fauna of every person that's ever been in that. Exactly. Just the biome of every. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the news. We'll be right back.

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crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Like I said, we are very, very close to election day. And you know, as the race gets closer, there's been a lot of early scapegoating draped in polling, you know, how will Arab voters vote? How will the Muslim communities of Michigan vote? Will they let Trump win? There's like that kind of like rhetoric, will they let Trump win? Why are black men abandoning Kamala? Was her plan not good enough

with the crypto and the other things? To that say, please direct your critiques at the significant voting block that is white America and ask why they aren't bothered. I think that's maybe a little bit of an easier question to ask. Those numbers tend to be bigger than the marginal sort of groups that you're using to sort of create this like, I don't know, pre-explanation in the event that Harris does not win. But as Jack has mentioned the business plot many times, but the more you look at how billionaires are using their influence to affect the race or just kind of get in the way of like the normal discourse. It's pretty clear that these people have no issue with the Trump presidency either. So I feel like is another worthy question

and something that is worthy of some journalistic analysis. the question and something that is worthy of some journalistic analysis. First is the LA Times, the the the main newspaper. Yes, the luck, the LA Times. They are owned by billionaire South African and musk friend Dr. Patrick Soon shung. And he vetoed earlier this week, the editorial boards plan to endorse Harris, which resulted in the resignation of the editorial's editor, Marielle Garza. Dr. Soon shong tried to explain this away as him. Like he's like, well, what I did was I proposed sort of like a, like, let's take

all the issues and analyze how they will affect Americans and give people sort of a nonpartisan analysis to help voters decide how they would like to vote. But it was quickly dismissed as bullshit as Mario Garza herself said, no, we were planning to endorse. He said no to that shit. And that's why I'm walking from this because these people are fucking meddling

and just something that's been very normal practice for the LA Times since about 2008. And I think this also goes along with like trend we have seen of the wealthy buying newspapers and gutting them in an attempt to kill local journalism, which is- Doesn't Bezos own the Washington Post or something like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He does too. He does too. He does too. And we've seen them also have some interesting- A lot of the headlines have become like, oh it's like pretty normal to pee in a Gatorade bottle and you're like what I know they're on tick-tock I like their tick-tock crew right the WAPO tick-tock

yeah oh yeah but again everything's a grain of salt because Bezos right yeah it's just a very like like again, we see that, whether you own a newspaper or sit in the C-suite of a conglomeration of a company that owns different TV news networks, there are ways to be like, nah, let's do this. Maybe let's not talk about this as we've seen.

All right. Yeah, clearly for this last year, especially as it relates to what's happened in Gaza and the ongoing genocide there. But then- All right, you've convinced me. I'm going to start a paper. I'm going to put out some papers. For the regular people. Come door to door to get my Pallavi paper, see?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So aside from that, and I think a lot of people, there are a lot of celebrities like, well, I never, I'm going to cancel my subscription to the LA Times. I mean, there's a way to get through that with ad blockers and stuff, but I'm not here to advocate for that. I mean, that's just, that's what Reddit's for. We would never copy and paste it into a Google doc. We would never do that. Never look for a cached version of the website that or use private browsing to

try and get in the other way. But then we have the fine folks at MSNBC. You know, they fucking love the horse race and being like, I don't know, Trump. I mean, it's kind of kooky, but let's you know, maybe he could. Maybe he could not. We just don't know. They've been finding very interesting people to platform like a recent recent segment from Alex Wagner to platform people like these black people in Pennsylvania that will be voting for Trump.

Now anyone who has heard Trump speak may have recognized that a lot of these quote unquote normal voters people had very similar talking points like that they were also repeating which I get to the repetition of it kind of like American people just like, yeah, she's not qualified or educated enough. You're like, are you really doing really, really? There's a lot to say about Harris as a candidate, but they're sort of using like the very Trumpy version. They're like this dumb slut bitch. Yeah. Whoa, whoa. Ma'am, excuse me. How are you saying? And I'm no feminist. There was a woman who said that. She's like, and I'm no feminist.

And I'm like, and that's fine. And I get that, that was very clear. But here's the thing. I'm not saying that, you know, like there's no way that there are black people that support Donald Trump, but this is just sort of how, I don't know if this is bad journalism or propaganda. When you looked at one of the people that was speaking,

like to this, like this quote unquote panel of like normal voters in Pennsylvania, one of the women speaking is literally a Republican candidate for office that is running this cycle. And they- Are you saying she's not a black woman? Is that what you're saying, Miles? Because she's a candidate?

No, I'm saying she's a partisan political operative. Are you saying she turned black after being a Republican? Is that what you're saying? Miles? Not at all. I'm saying this is some opportunistic shit. We've seen places like CNN do that when they have their quote unquote undecided voters and there are people who are like very much just Trump voters, but they're being like, I don't know, maybe we'll see.

It's just sort of like this lack. They're undecided and whether they're racist or sexist. Yeah. It depends on how much money they get. I don't want to look on my name. That's true. Which one they want to openly admit to being on national television. And I get that is a hard decision to make. I totally get that. There are also on Twitter, some people have alleged that another woman in the video

was part of a local Moms for Liberty group. So hardly just like normal people. Like the insurance? Liberty? Well, it's sort of like that regressive homophobic group that's like, we don't want kids knowing about anything that will get them to have, we're anti-empathy. Don't look at it. Don't look down. When you're in the shower, maintain eye contact with the shower head. It'll fall off.

Do not let it dribble out. Don't let the shower pressure be too high. Oh my God. Turn down the water pressure. So again, I'm not sure if this is just bad journalism or just straight up propaganda, but the segment was quite pointless. Like when you look at these sort of like

the underlying details. I have a question. Yes. Miles, as a black man, how do you represent your demographic? What do you mean? What's in what? What are you guys gonna do? What are black men? Oh, well, obviously right now Indian people, we're gonna sell ourselves out. Okay.

Yeah, yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Yes, black people. And look, I do have the opportunity to speak for Japanese people too, because we are a monolith. Yeah, we're yeah, yeah, yeah, we're known black and Japanese people always vote. I mean, you know, really Hachimura, Naomi Osaka, you know, we're out here. We're trying to make a difference. Although I don't think really can vote because he's not a

citizen. But as I have his jersey hanging behind me, but you know, we're gonna do the right thing. What we like to do is just continue to, I think the Kinte cloth thing in the Capitol Rotunda was big, was really big for us. It was huge. What a big moment. It was huge. It showed me that Nancy Pelosi's knees were,

like she's spry, she was able to take a knee unassisted and I was impressed with that. I was impressed with that physical ability. That's incredible. We were won over by when Trump spoke Hindi really poorly in that weird ad from years ago. Wait, what? There was an ad where Trump spoke Hindi

and it was like the worst pronunciation. Are you for real? I'm British, yeah. Oh my God, now I'm like- He was pandering or whatever. I think he just said like a few words, but it was really bad. He did that for Nevada in 2016.

Like in Reno, he's like, everyone says it's Nevada, but I know we all know it's Nevada. And Nevadans get so pissed off about that. Yeah, don't say Nevada. Come on now. I know better than that. Someone who has had to campaign for another person many years ago. Oh, wait, here's the ad. Abhikibar Trump Sarkar. Oh, hold on.

Hold on. Abhikibar Trump Sarkar. You guys are watching like the way his mouth is moving. It's like, Hindi was never meant to be spoken out of those lips. He's like, I've never seen somebody I don't see. I've never seen anyone speak any language with their mouth that wide open, unless you're looking at the words like a video game puzzle. It's like I'm a bar jump.

Wow. It looks like he's prepping for a blow job to give a boy. Yeah. Wow. I did not. Wow. Okay. It was for like the volley or something. I don't know. But it was and that won our vote and that's probably why Osha married Vance. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. Who knows? He's right. That's all that matters.

She's like, no, I really appreciate the effort he put in. Holy shit. And then so on Fox, there was like, there's just another moment, we shouldn't be surprised they have like Trump visited that barbershop in the Bronx, they edited the fuck out of that entire interaction to make it seem like he even knew how to listen to and answer questions. The unedited video is just another example of just how fucking out of it Trump is but that's nothing new to most people who are observing this election.

But yeah, I just think so much is also being ignored about how in terms of like the mainstream media and they wouldn't deign to criticize Harris in this moment, but like the moves that the Harris campaign themselves are making quite possibly will be their own undoing, like pivoting to the right on huge issues that matter to their supporters, like law enforcement reforms, if any, immigration, just being like, yeah, we're basically can go as hard on immigration as Trump, Gaza. I also like beyond strategy, I know we're like all caught up in like strategy and it's politics and it's capitalism and it's evil,

but it also just sucks that they don just sucks that they don't have any morals and they don't care about any. I know we know this and we've been knowing this and that's what this country was founded on. But in the spirit of Mudeng's innocence, I just wanna take a moment. And be like sad. Let's juxtapose that with Mudeng.

That people don't do things for the sheer reason that it's good to bite your sleep keeper. You know what I mean? Like, it's just sad. Yeah, no, totally. And I think it's clear to bite your teeth, you know what I mean? Like, it's just sad. Yeah, no, totally. And I think it's clear that they're like, well, we're not going to do any of that stuff that would be like, you know, actually beneficial to people, but detrimental to like our police industrial and military industrial states, that they will also like

they're like, so let's just pick off some exhausted white Republican voters and see if like that can be it because we're not going to do this other stuff that is just way too much. That's no. And I and again, like I said this before, if they think like doing the off brand version of the GOP is going to be effective, you got me might have another thing coming here because if these people want to see more suffering at the border and for like people of color, they have the candidate for that and they will go all in on that. They are telling you that as much why settle

for this watered down version if that's like that important of an issue to someone as a voter. So the logic is baffling. But go ahead. Oh my god. But yeah, like again, go ahead, pin this on progressives and people of color rather than the Democratic Party's insistence on maintaining this cruel and awful version of American democracy. Also, slight point, people keep like conflating all these different demographics, like Arabs aren't all Muslim, most of them are Christian. And like, they're like, it doesn't, I don't know, it feels like really stupid, the boxes they're putting people into. It's all being flattened in this weird way.

Yeah, anyways. That would mean people opening their worldview. We can't do that. Everyone has to be in their own little box. Oh my God, you look at those images of what's happening around the world. Oh my God, how do you do it? Anyway, I'm a Congress person and you're like,

what, you're not, oh fuck. Okay, well. You're a Congress person, you've never heard of Mudeng? Okay, sorry. I'm so sorry. Oh my God. How fucking, dear, do you know what's going on in Thailand right now?

Open your fucking eyes, my guy. Look at this greasy little. Look at the blush on her cheeks. She's beautiful. Mudeng, 2028. Yeah, fuck it, 20, hey, write it it in fuck it. She would be a better alternative Not this year. Not this year If you want hey look if you're your mood and 24 go ahead do your thing

All right, they're gonna be like birther people like was she bored. I Have it on good authority that this hippo is from Thailand and you're like you have it on good authority. Wow that's racist. Oh so all hippos are from Thailand? Pesto has to be her running mate. Yeah right. Pesto. Oh my god. Wait who's Pesto? The giant penguin. Miles. Miles. Oh my god Miles. Uninformed voter. Low information voter. I'm so sorry. Did you already vote without knowing about pesto? Yo, oh, oh, but wait, but I'm based off this code. Isn't that like a young penguin?

That's a baby penguin, Miles. He is a baby and he's standing next to his parents and he's a million times bigger than them. And he's just a little baby. Oh, this is the LeBron James of Penguins. Wow. That's what we're saying. That's Baby Pesto. Oh, I love Baby Pesto. He brings the muscle to Mudeng's cuteness.

She gets in there. Mudeng Pesto, 24. Oh, is he old enough to run for VP? Does he lack the experience? He hasn't even lost his baby down coat yet, or whatever that phase of molting is. He's our new progressive, actually progressive, John Fetterman. Okay, he's going to work a bunch of like- I've never seen him assault at a couch, so you know, he's got my vote.

He's got my vote. Yeah, he hasn't been compromised by different interest groups. I love that. I love that. Okay, so let's move on to this Netflix movie about the hottest fucking snowman you've ever laid your mortal eyes on. Speak for yourself. You've seen hotter? I've seen hotter snowmen. I've made hotter snowmen.

Okay. I like dad bod snowmans, thank you. Yeah, yeah, there you go. There you go. Yeah, exactly. What is this traditional version of hot work being sold? But so we all watch the trailer for this new Netflix movie. I've already forgot the name of it hot frosty Which is very odd. So Netflix is they're really brought to you by Arby's Frosty but it's melted in meats.

Yeah. I mean, Wendy's, you're missing out. I mean, y'all own that frosty shit. But I think, again, we've seen that obviously holiday movies are very popular. I'm very much into holiday movies myself. I love it. It's trash. It's like wallpaper, being not white and never having

Christmas like white people do. I like to live in their fantasy worlds in the form of these like terrible saccharine holiday films. So this movie, which we all subjected ourselves to watching the trailer too, so we could speak accurately on what this thing is off. We're journalists here. Okay. Thank you. This is a movie where Lacey Shea-Bear, who you might know from a lot of holiday channel or Hallmark channel, RomCom, she was in Party of Five, Mean Girls, et cetera,

she's playing a widower who brings a nude, ripped snowman to life with a magical scarf. Also, this snowman is in the town town square being like naked and like with abs. I'm like, like stores in school and just like, there he is. See, this is why moms for Liberty is right. I don't know. I don't know.

What if it was their version of Jesus? That would have been so much funnier. And it's like, I am Jesus. She's like, oh damn, I'm just trying to fuck homie. My bad. Can I get my scarf back so you can melt away? So apparently this guy's only had like a few days. Like he's only like, he was literally born yesterday

as he was brought to life by this magical scarf. He has a very limited time on earth quote before he starts to melt. They naturally obviously start dating and it features comedic actors like Craig Robinson and like Joe LaTrou- Joe LaTrou- Leo. So it's clear, like there is a level of self awareness to this comedy that is like absurd. But also, they also want to get the traditional holiday people up in

I don't think this is actually a Christmas movie. This is a movie about how hard it is to date in LA. Okay? I will take a man that melts in three days over some of my psychos out here. I will literally fuck a snowman. I can't find anyone else here. I don't care if my pussy freezes and falls off, okay? I got this carrot at- Better than some- I got this carrot.

I got this carrot from Sprouts and tell me it cannot be used. Oh my God. Also, Crichelle Stoss, Crichelle from Selling Sunset. Oh yeah, that was Crichelle. Good on you, Crichelle. Wasn't she with the dude from This Is Us? Yeah, and then he dumped her. Or dumped her. And then now she's dating G, and they're like a really popular Australian.

Or married to G, and they're a really popular Australian. But she also dated her Selling Sunset boss, and she still works with him. Yeah, one of the twins. And it's very strange, yes. I remember watching that when G was introduced, and one of the twins was just sort of like,

oh yeah, I'm chill with this. I'm fine, I don't cry. You're so broken as a person. Bed at night every, oh yeah, I'm chill with this. I'm fine. I don't cry. I'm so broken as a person. Bed at night every day, yeah. I love watching that show because despite all the money those two have, they are fucking broken people.

They're sad. Yeah, so we watched the trailer. I'm just, what are your thoughts on this? Because, oh, before I wanna, I just do wanna preface. This is part of Netflix's like holiday extravaganza where they're going to be releasing a new Christmas movie every Wednesday throughout the month of November. I'm gonna fucking cry. You're releasing all those movies. You couldn't even get me a single line in any of the I want to get a bad movie. So bad Netflix. I will not call it a bad movie. If you put me in it,

I will be I don't care. I'll be any I'll be the stereotype of an Indian person. I don't care. I was gonna say would you be in one that was like us totally fucked up take of like Indian Christmas kind of shit? I had to do that for my sixth grade choir. You think I wouldn't do that for Netflix? They never let me sing in anything and then they did a fucking Christmas around the world and I had to be one of the stars because they didn't have enough brown people in my fucking Utah elementary school.

So I had to teach them about Diwali and they never let me sing again because I was so bad. I was like, yeah, I'll wear a sari. I don't care, get me on screen, okay Netflix? I will dress this snowman up Okay? Sorry Sorry, okay An auntie to life would you be? Would you be in a holiday rom-com about a single Indian woman trying to find love on during the holidays called a sorry not sorry

I will write it. I don't Okay, and there I know what's gonna happen is I will be cast as the friend. I don't care Okay, and there I know what's gonna happen is I will be cast as the friend. I don't care Me in it I told you earlier in this episode I sell my people out, okay There is a price Right exactly By Hank Azaria Full-on brown face, you know it. Oh my god. Oh my god. What if we say this? And that's one of the movies they release. Yeah, Netflix right now.

Oh, they're like some other modern Indian person gets to be the best friend. I'm like, what the fuck? They're like, did you write that down? Did you leak the sorry, not sorry concept? Someone just quote these three people just said the entire film right now with the title, with the plot and the cast. We're fucking up. I don't know. I love holiday films. I don't know about y'all. But Kim, I will ask you as someone who as a

cartoonist illustrator, you have an imagination of things that are not typically coming to life coming to life having personalities. Do what what what's your critique on seeing the the huge nipples ripped snowman guy and his life and him coming to consciousness? Well, two thoughts. One is I did notice the lack of sentient butt plug representation. I felt that was needed.

But I would totally watch this, unironically, if this was done in old school claymation style. Wow. That would be the best. I miss that. Holy shit. It would be so perfect to have a hot... I have a good tear coming out of my cheek.

I'm just a hot frosty. I'm 105. Wouldn't it be so funny? He's like, I'm melting, kids. And as that happens, just a butt plug drops. Oh, shit. I'm melting kids and as that happens just a butt plug drops. Oh shit I had that in the whole time kids. And the winner picks it up a single tear rolls down her eye. It was about what's inside you all along children.

It's medically viable polyurethane. Yeah, I was like, it was, I look, I'll watch any holiday films. I'll probably watch this, obviously. There is like a thing where I'm kind of like, the hot- We do a hot frosty watch party. We, I think we should. That would be great.

Depending on how, I mean, by the time it comes out, I have a feeling we'll still be in the throes of debating the election and whether or not it's certifiable. So in that liminal space where we're on the edge of total collapse, this may be the one thing that soothes our nerves. In which case, yeah, maybe we should do that. Just to get together.

True escapism. Yeah, yeah, truly. Oh, wow. What's happening? I don't know. This fucking snowman is hot, though. So fucking hot. happening? I don't know this fucking snowman is so fucking hot. The other thing that is interesting too, is that Lacey

Schabar was named in an age discrimination lawsuit against Hallmark, which could explain the switch to Netflix because if I look I'm all about the like many days of Christmas shit they do on Hallmark, but there's a good damn near every day there's a new holiday movie. She her shit is all over like her faces in she stars in this shit. So I wonder if they did the thing where they're like, all right, she aged out. We're done with her.

She looks so young. She doesn't look anything different than Mean Girls. Yeah. Honestly. It said Hallmark did not want to cast old people like Holly Robinson-Pete and Lacey Shebert. Wait, from the article in Variety, it says Lacey's getting older and we have to find someone like her to replace her as she gets older. Hamilton Daly allegedly said, damn. Okay.

I like how women are always told, oh my God, don't be so competitive with younger women because you're always acting like they're trying to replace you. Meanwhile, men are like, yeah, we're replacing you. We're going to write an article, we're replacing you. Very much. We're going to write an article about what you're afraid of. Yeah. Holy. Then he told, apparently, this same guy told this casting director, Penny Perry, who's 79 years old, that constantly she was, quote, too long in the tooth.

I'm sorry. That quote is too- What the fuck does that mean? That quote is too long in the tooth for you to be casting aspersions on people. Also, if you use the phrase too long in the tooth, you're fucking too long in the tooth. Exactly. That's disqualifying. Exactly.

Who uses that? Okay, Boomer. Say her aura was off. Jesus. She doesn't fit the vibe. Yeah. What is the etymology? Like you're like a...

Too much? Like you got gum recession? I don't know. We can't have her because of her ginger-vitis, guys. Like, it's noticeable. Oh my god. You know how... Oh, I guess it is.

It alludes to a horse's gums receding with age. We're talking about livestock. Old horse face over here. Yeah, old horse mouth. Look at that. We can't cast it. Nobody wants to fuck this old horse mouth. All right, let's move on. Let's find something different.

Anyway, so this is all part of a very new, exciting time here. We will see where this goes. I'm glad they're finally snow men to fuck, I guess. We're going to go outside. We're going to see a bunch of snowmen and a bunch of holes in them. And we're going to be like, how did the men get a hole in it? I know. They're like, you need to worry about the men. There will be at least one carrot pun in that movie. Oh, yes. Around that.

Let's take some odds. Okay, there will be a carrot pun. There will have to be some kind of like, like, clearly, this guy's like, kind of an alien, because he's just become human. And like, where he doesn't realize, like, he can't get naked all the time, probably kind of thing. That seemed like that was sort of the case in the trailer where he's like, feels like there is like this theme of like women falling in love with dudes who just appear like in it was enchanted or like I guess I was the reversal of it. But it's I don't know, I feel like it is like our version of like when men go for like 19 year olds. We're like, no, no, we still want them to be an adult, but not ruined by the world. Exactly. We want some hope left in them.

We want them to not have met other men before they met us. Right. We want the patriarchy to not have insidiously ruined their personality. I mean, I think the one knock that goes against it looks like his two only friends are cops. So we'll see how that works out. That's true. We shall see. Okay, let's take a quick break and we'll come back to check in with an overall terrible

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getting into the content game. Yeah. Where they're basically going to create their own streaming service, where you can watch shows that we were speculating based on their YouTube channel, would be about cows that like do wacky shit, like Warner Brothers style. They have a cartoon series that has like surprisingly a lot of views where like cows get into wacky kind of Looney Tunes style adventures. And then there's also a show on their channel called Evergreen Hills, stories of Evergreen Hills that has very suspicious view count. But- Hey, come on, man. Why, just because it's faith-based?

There's a lot of Christians out there, man. A lot of Christians watching that. So the show's stories of every, so those are like two of the things that were announced, right? They're gonna do- Yeah, except I think the cow one, they now are cows that run a gay conversion therapy

sort of like business where they, they sort of victimize chickens or something. Yeah. Another one is about the power of Sundays, I believe. I don't know, I'm just spit balling here, but I think there's a less than zero chance that it could be something like that. Just checking the view counts of stories of Evergreen Hill on YouTube, this is not suspicious at all. We've got 218,214,141 million for another episode.

Oh, that one's really good. I watched that one actually, because I was like, is this thing just like fire? Is this like the best piece of content? It is a 10 minute long little animated morality tale about bullying. There's like a bunch of world building where like an old guy takes his young helper to like the spark tree and he's like the spark tree works like this. You can get the spark, but you must use it like just a bunch of rules and shit.

And there's just no reason I can conceive of that. Anybody would be watching this shit on purpose. But- Well, that's why I think that's what makes this kind of getting, it gets a little freaky, right? Because before, like, they're probably just finding some, like, Christian production companies that are just like, they're like, yeah, we like to make really boring shit. Will you buy it? They're like, they have, like, people behind the shows like Top Gear and the X Factor and like that game show on NBC, The Wall.

Like they're they're doing deals with like, like proper production companies to like take their shit to the next level. And also, let's not forget scripted podcasts, which we all know are work all the time. I've never seen one that work. The Wall. That's the game show the wall. Yeah No, no, I mean who knows yeah, make sure It sounds like someone had the idea trick later like what if we did cocoa melon for adults? Yeah That's exactly what it feels like it's like maybe a eyes writing it and like it's just turning out this stuff or something. It's very, it's a brave new world guys. Yeah.

Very brave, courageous new world. Exactly. So it does make me feel like I'm in a post-apocalyptic film as have a number of stories in the recent, in recent weeks. Like not just like, oh, theoretically, I see how this feels like we're in a weird post-apocalyptic movie, but like, we were talking about this LAPD dog, robot dog that they introduced and the video of them, like being introduced, like what one is like a shot from a news helicopter where like

the news reporter is like, there it is. Then you like, see it like walk Then you see it walk on the, it's straight up out of Robocop. Could literally be lifted from Robocop. And there's other news shots where it just walks by the news camera and they're like, wow, there goes a hero. Who rescued who?

Right. Yeah, exactly. And there's a news story like compares it to the size of a golden retriever instead of more threatening, like, you know, just the, they picked the friendliest dog possible. Yeah. Right. But anyways, uh, and then our writer, JM made the observation that like the footage of Elon Musk giving a giant oversized novelty check to someone who

registered to vote for Donald Trump. that like the footage of Elon Musk giving a giant oversized novelty check to someone who registered to vote for Donald Trump. Like that is something that is on TV in the background of Robocop. Like that, it's just like, there are these very specific moments that keep happening that feel like they are just shots from Robocop. Yeah. feel like they are just shots from Robocop. Yeah. But overall, theoretically, like this story about Chick-fil-A streaming has more of a demolition man,

idiocracy vibe. Yeah. I was about to say, idiocracy for sure. I just had, it's happening in life too. I was up in Oakland area. I went to fast food place. I went to the drive-through. They had one of those centuries.

Like you see them a lot in like downtown or parking lots. Like it's like a police stand. There's like a pole, there's silence on a camera. Yeah. And it was out there and like we're in line of the drive-through and the speaker just starts going, um, welcome to Carl's Jr. We are here for your safety. And I was just like, Oh my God, it's straight up idiocracy.

Like, like welcome to Costco. I love you. Like whatever. I was like, Oh my God. So wild. Yeah. It's a, it's, it's really, um, we're, we're really, it really is like a movie out there, dog, like we really, we really are like, it's like,

I'm like, did someone cast this? Like did someone write this? This is getting close. Yeah. Carl's Jr. was the thing from Idiocracy, right? I think it was Carl's Jr. too, or it might've been Jai, it might've been Jai and the B. Jai and the B.

Yeah, yeah. It might've been Jai and the B. But yeah, yeah. I'm going to put the J and the B. But I felt safe. Yeah. And you did feel safe because who's going to look after you better than J and the B. Welcome, or you can have it your way. Oh, it's Carl's Jr. It was Carl's Jr.

It was Carl's Jr. in Idiocracy, right? Yes. Yes. Yeah. In the, yeah. Okay. In Idiocracy, it has a couple of details that I had even forgotten.

I didn't realize that part of it was like everyone wears crocs. Yes. That's the thing that happens in Idiocracy. Yeah. The thing that Mike judges quote on it is just so funny because he's talking about the costumer's decision to have people in the film wearing crocs. He said, quote, and I said to her, but you actually bought these,

like you can order these shoes. What if by the time the movie comes out, these things are everywhere and it doesn't look like we're set in the future? And said, oh no, that's never going to happen. These shoes are too ugly. And sure enough, by the time it comes out two years later, everyone is wearing Crocs. So it already started coming true even faster than we made the movie really, which is wow.

Spot on. You know what's also funny in the idiocracy, the normal person just milling about like an extra whatever, that is who Trump is appealing to with the Arnold Palmer dick story. Right. Like that, like, oh my God, oh well. Well, it was a nice run. It was a nice run. I know. It's like, it's too. I think that's why, like, you know,

Brian, the editor, he was saying he watched it recently and he's like, it was a mistake. I can't. This like just hits weights in a way that is just he says, it's not funny anymore. It's disturbing how like this is this isn't even like it even like with the marketing stuff, it's like, oh, it's got more molecules and you're like, Whoa, more molecules. Yeah. Yeah.

And how we are with like electrolytes or even shit like, you know, this is, this is alkalized or whatever. You're like, okay. Yeah. I mean, they have the show, Owl, my balls, which is a pretty close corollary to many TV shows. They have a WWE character becoming president, which we've already crossed over there. In a sense, like Donald Trump was, like, the reason he made such an effective, like, public figure

being in a WWE storyline is because he has, in his entire career career just been a WWE character. Yeah. There there's like a lot of stuff about people not paying attention to their surroundings, like when Luke Wilson, like pod crashes through Dax Shepard's wall. And he like, doesn't even look up from his TV. They still, they still watch TV and idiocracy. So they aren't, it's actually better. Cause they aren't like walking around with the TV in their hand. Right. That's true.

There's less distraction, but still that was something that was seen as abnormal enough to put in satire at that time. Right. The people would just be like, what is this screen saying? That Carl's Jr., now I think of there is that part where the, like the Carl's junior claims the woman's kids. Yeah.

Yeah. They're like, Carl's junior believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's junior. And you're like, that feels it's like, like the Chick-fil-A summer camp for kids. When they're like, what, what is this? It's like, Oh, they're going to labor here, but we're going to call it a summer camp. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Okay. And people pay for it. Yeah. Yeah. But corporations are people as Mitt Romney said to us, you know, that was like the, we should have, we should have been more scared then, but we were like,

Mitt Romney's an idiot. Yeah. But he was right. Corporations are our people. And now we're at a point where they're the only people who have legal rights. Really? Right. Like there's only people who can actually get anything to change.

So what, what other, what children, there's like some depressing answers. There's like children of men is like the bleak answer. Running man is, have you guys seen running man? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Running man is great. And I think they the bleak answer. Running man is pretty, have you guys seen running man? Oh yeah. Running man is great. And I think they're rebaking it. Like I just saw something where- As a reality show.

I was like, oh, like I don't know something, but I think there's very running man vibes out there in the world right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, especially like the shots of like before they even get into the game. Right.

That's what children of men is like the, like very bleak, like the footage of just like world at large stuff with like, there's like a refugee crisis and. Oh, that's right. That's right. Like, you're getting trapped in cages and you know, the lack of children being born also you could tie to lower birth rates. Are plastic balls. Yeah.

Everything plasticized now. Yeah. That's so funny. We're like, it's probably children of men, but that's too bleak. So, idiocy. Well, it's also probably like Elon Musk's answer because he's like, the biggest problem facing us is underpopulation. Come fuck me. Right. Be one of my three million children.

Yeah. I like the safe entertaining combo of our falling apart world is probably demolition man mixed with the idiocracy. Yeah. I'm going Robocop idiocracy because demolition man also feels like it would be a conservatives answer where they're like, you can't say anything anymore. I can't even, I can't be racist at this museum. Yeah.

No, it turns out I can and just people will be mean to me online, but otherwise my life is normal. Yeah. Plane it safe. I mean, brand consolidation definitely happening, although it's more, it's not that like Taco Bell took over all the other restaurants, it's just like one company behind the scenes takes over all the other companies behind the scenes. And they're all just like one mammoth company that's like, you know, with

their a thousand faces. Alan, where do you land? Which one are we? What's the combo here for you? I mean, yeah, I think there's definitely theocracy vibes. I'm also thinking about water world a little bit, but I guess in like We're going to a water world where it's just the problem is Nestle owns all the water, right? Like yeah, and so that's why we have to drink our own pee or whatever, right? But he was able to convert it. It looked like, you know, OK. OK. Yeah. But we know, you know, that's what we'll have to do.

We'll have to use all the pee that's being stored in bottles at Amazon warehouses to convert into water for us. Yeah. For us. Yeah. The regular Lord. I mean, I think a lithium would be like a good answer, but like I would have to watch at least see them and like, I know that there's a lot of them. I haven't seen much. Now I like, yeah, I really need to. Because that's the one where like the wealthy just like escape to a small. Yeah. Suborbital space station. Suborbital space station. Yeah. Is that the one where they like, they can buy, they literally can buy time.

Or is that, um, that was all Justin Timberlake. That's about time. Okay. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Justin time. Justin Timberlake is just in time. Yeah.

Yeah. With like Amanda Seyfried, right? I think was the, was the cohost or co-star. Sucks. Did watch that one. I think it's called. In time or co-star event. That sucks. I did watch that one. I think it's called In Time. In Time is what it's called. Yeah.

Good concept though. Would it? Your time was on arm. Well, I think that's what's like, I think it just makes satire and sci-fi just, you just realize like there's a real art to it because like when you're really like good at sort at just thinking about how these things play out, whether in a satirical way or you're trying to create a cautionary tale about the future, they're putting a lot of ideas together that eventually end up being spot on.

I feel like in the early days, it was always been like, the Simpsons. And now people are like, Octavia Butler was right the whole time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Parable of the S time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Parable of the Sower gets a lot right, unfortunately. Yeah. I don't know. Zeit Gang, we'd love to hear pitches.

Don't just say the name of the movie though. Hit us up with some details that you think rhyme particularly well. Snowpiercer probably too. And there's so many things like that, the little elements of it anyway. We eat bugs. We're just, I mean, I guess we should say upfront that on this podcast, we eat bugs and drink our own piss. All right. Yeah. So snow piercer is funny because it's like,

man, I wish we had high speed rail like that. Oh man. Yeah. Like in California, you're like, oh, it's actually a good movie. Aspirational. Snowcers are aspirational. Post-partialist work. They're on time. Yeah. Mad Max is like, feels like where we're headed, but I don't feel like it's not that cool yet. You know, escape from LA escape from New York.

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