The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 353 (Best of 1/6/2025-1/10/2025)

Episode Date: January 12, 2025

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into one nonstop infotainment laugh stravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our favorite guests, a very talented writer, stand-up comedian, co-host of one of the great film podcasts, the Bechdel cast. Absolutely. They also happen to have a master's degree in film. They also happen to have the most anagrammable name in the English language.

What? So if you've been given their name in a jumble of Scrabble tiles, you may know them as Lauren D. Titanic or nine tit Dracula or Latin dancer UTI, but to us, they will always be Caitlin Durante. Caitlin Durante. Yeah. And my dad is, as we were discussing previously, Jimmy Durante. Yeah. The child that knows karate. my dad is, as we were discussing previously, Jimmy Durrani. Yeah. The child that knows karate in something going on with that snow.

Or maybe it was the hat because, yeah, wow. Maybe it was the mass hallucinations of the children who thought he came to life. You know what children will like the comedy stylings of Jimmy Durant for years to come. Oh, man. Oh, yeah. That is the most, I think that's the Frosty the Snowman song I would play the most on like the kid friendly Christmas playlist I was playing in the house. It's like, I can't really sing. Yeah, but it's charming. Yeah.

And speaking of charming, Caitlin, how are you doing? Oh gosh. I am doing period. I'm doing. You are doing. I'm doing. You're in the act of doing aren't we all? Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. How are you doing? Oh my God. I'm, uh, I'm actually still salty that Jack stole the hot sauce from me at the white elephant party. Oh my gosh. Actually, he stole it. Well, no, Ian stole it from me and then Jack stole it from me and then mocked the hot ones. And I've been meaning to ask you, Jack, since that very contentious moment at our holiday

white elephant gift party, how's the hot sauce? Oh man, I just threw that shit out when I got... Way too spicy for me. No way I could have handled that. Oh man, I just threw that shit out when I got... Oh, God. Way too spicy for me. No way I could have handled that. You know how I... I think mayo is too spicy, Miles. Come on.

It was like a three on the Scoville scale, and Jack was like, oh, purely a power move. Just looking at it burns my retinas. Catch up the spiciest thing I'll allow in my body. Ah, ah, ah, ah, spicy, spicy. Ooh, ooh. Wait, Durrani, what did you walk away with at the White Elephant?

I ended up with a bottle of Jameson, bottle of Jamo, okay. And some coffee grounds. Oh, a little Irish whiskey starter pack brought by yours truly. Irish coffee starter pack. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Well, there was also a $25 Taco Bell.

It was actually 30, wasn't it? Didn't you do it for 50 years? $30 Taco Bell gift card. Yeah. I went $5 over the limit because I'm a big spender like that. But there was a- Because you run to the studio? Part of the big spender like that. But there was a... Part of the 1% of your genes.

There was a theme between my presence, which was diarrhea. Things that will make you shit your pants. Diarrhea-inducing gifts. You want to see it. We love it, don't we, folks? We do. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Okay, so here are the three most recent things

that I've Googled. One is, are 50 mile per hour winds deadly? Second, are 100 mile per hour winds deadly? The answer to that for 50 is not really. The answer for 100 is yes. Wow. And the third thing that I've searched is, sad pictures of Garfield.

Because you know, I was trying to find a post about Garfield and sometimes you just gotta find a sad picture of Garfield. That genuinely does tell me a lot about how your mind works because I'm gonna let you know right now, my third search would have been to 75 mile an hour winds. Yeah. No, I mean, I got my answer.

I was like, oh, 100 mile an hour winds are deadly. Okay, I mean, I got my answer. I was like, oh, a hundred mile an hour winds are deadly. Okay, cool. Are we seeing a hundred right now? I think it's supposed to be 50 to a hundred potentially. It's a big range Los Angeles Weather Service. That's a, Jesus. What is happening? I didn't even realize this was a thing.

I mean, we are recording this while in a tornado right now, for sure. Yeah. Just in the vortex. Twist, for sure. Yeah. Just in the vortex. Twisters. Twist house going by our windows. This is the twister from Twisters

sleeping off the Golden Globes, right folks? Am I right? I didn't watch all of the Golden Globes, so I don't think I got that reference, but. Oh, I didn't watch any of it, nor did I watch Twisters. I just assume Twister isn't it. You just assume that one best actor. Yeah, right?

Yeah, probably. I mean, maybe I also didn't watch the Golden Globes, so one root of. Twister, the Twister, the Twister? It was not, it was nominated for the best cinematic theatrical experience or whatever the one was that, I think Wicked ended up winning that. I mean, it was called Twisters, so there was more than one Twister in this movie.

So some of them might be really good. Yeah, the main Twisters. The main Twister. Got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you guys watch it? The weird Twister. No.

No, I genuinely hear that it's very fun. It's a lot of fun. People keep getting sucked off into the sky as Miles likes to point out out loud while he was watching it to Her Majesty. Sad pictures of Garfield. Maybe Garfield's sad because also ineligible for the Oscars according to this article. Not enough diversity in the Garfield movie. He should have, look, I mean, look, best animated feature at least should have been like something that was nominated for it was great Oh, yeah

Are you a huge you're that's right? You're huge Joey's Joey's dr. Garfield. Yeah, I'm Dr. Garfield. Yeah Garfield yeah, I'm genuinely wearing like a Garfield cardigan right now. Oh my god Yo Listeners you're getting fucked by not having this. By not having video. Yeah. So that is a beautiful cardigan with a big old Garfield on one of the sides. Miles, we tell the people what we think's underrated, what we think's overrated. What you got?

You got anything you think is underrated? Underrated a few things. I think like you, with many observations hit us and we kept them for this moment. I will start off with the convenience of watching movies that are out in theaters on your couch. It's a slippery slope, y'all. I love going to the movies, I always will. But the ease at which you can summon a new movie

and watch it on the couch almost had me thinking, why do I bother going to the theater? But then you wanna go and rent that shit on the couch almost had me thinking, why do I bother going to the theater? But then you want to go and rent that shit on your couch. And I still can't grab my head around renting of a temporary stream from like a Apple TV or whatever for $20. It's like somehow, I can't even fathom that. It's cheaper than actually going to the movies.

I'm like, no, no, no. $20 to rent. I go, Brian, is this on the server? Yeah. Plus you always get mad that I'm laughing at inappropriate moments when I'm taking the video of the movie that I watch and then send to you. I mean, thank you for sending me that Nosferatu screen cap. But did you just film that off your TV there or in the theater? But yeah, that's one. I'm just going to get through all of these. The next one,

L.A. weather and how I perceive winter. We all know I am obsessed with the cold and not and basically getting my whole shit frost bit. OK, reference to Jack getting his whole shit bit by my shark. Yeah. But yeah, all I could talk about this break with people who weren't from L.A. was what is your winter like in the land where you come from? And then I went to Colorado. The thing basically what I noticed was a lot of places that get snow weren't getting snow as like sort of around the typical time. Thanks climate change.

I was also reading about how snow days are like becoming less and less of a frequent occurrence. And now that's a problem. I never knew about that. I didn't even know that was a fucking thing. But when I know that from movies, which has shaped my entire idea of what winter is, because I thought basically when December hits everywhere is a winter wonderland. Turns out that's not true. Earth has different patterns. But anyway, I just I just have to say I was just I went to skate on a frozen lake and that shit was so whimsical I hadn't skated in a minute wait where were you I went to Colorado for a couple days oh shout out Ian, shout out Kelly you know shout out the whole crew out there and we skated on a frozen lake that shit was so fun but then I was also talking to

someone else who's from the East Coast and like I used to do this all the time but the lakes don't freeze over with the same frequency they did as a kid and like the kids in my town like my town growing up don't kind of know the same way we used to do winter and then I had like this like weird blade runner moment where I'm like just like shedding a tear for like everything and everyone I'd been through it got kind of kind of kind of grim as I skated on this lake. I thought a lot about climate change. Lakes are out here gobbling people up. Yeah, yeah, they are. I'm just saying, like, maybe maybe it would help with the climate catastrophe if we had ways to dramatize it.

No snow days and lakes are gobbling people up who try and. And I think I think it also makes it a little bit different because like I'm so used to the one note climate that I'm not realizing how wacky the variations. I mean, I obviously know that intellectually that Earth death is happening in real time, but there's something about living in L.A. where you're just kind of like, oh, it's not as cold in December. And then you go a little bit further up, like where there's usually like Big Bear, where their ski season is like getting destroyed like year after year

because of the lack of snowfall. Yeah. All that to say, my next underrated beef tallow. Get in, folks. I made a roasted a lot of holiday meat, rendered the fat, and I've used it to make frozen hash browns tastier. OK. Grill cheese sandos from hell. Wow. Because they're so fucking beef fatty. OK, the way I grill them and the vibe of steak and eggs with just eggs

and using the beef tallow to fry the eggs anyway. You're rendering the fat just by like cooking a steak on a grill on a no. Like if I made like a I made a prime rib roast like for Christmas and so all the fat trimming and leftover fat from that meal I just cut up into small pieces and just put that on low heat all the fat just to get all that fat out then you strain it and now you have just the essence of beef flavor that you can use to do anything with. So anyway, I think I'm raising a couple of miles is in the, uh, in the sense of like, really I took, I drove, uh, just me and my boys went up to a Sequoia national park.

I was really excited about the big trees. I was like, damn, look how big those trees are. Those trees are huge. And they were kids. And she was guys get a load of these trees. They were into that, but like really what they were, they just like there was a a field with snow in it. And they just like when lost wanted to play in the snow the whole time and just like pick up chunks of ice and hit, hit piles of snow with sticks. The guys child, every time we saw snow, he go, Santa? That's Santa? It's Santa? Because a couple of the weird Santa things that we saw

always have these very winter depictions and he and me, it was like, Santa? I'm like, nah, son, that's just snow. That's snow. We know not of snow where we come from. All right, my underrated, leg day. So. Dude, this is crazy. This is a weird run, but I guess I listened to the flagrant ones hosted by a friend of

the show, Carl Tartt, a friend of the show, Hayes Davenport, the third host who we should have on at some point, but have not. Yeah, Sean Clements. So Sean Clements was talking about this tennis movie he wrote and that just wrapped that he was shooting. And they had as like a tennis consultant, the number one tennis coach in America, like in pros there to consult. And he was like, is really where he's like, great guy. But he kept talking about men's legs. and he was like is really where he's like great guy but he kept talking about men's legs and he was just obsessed with legs and like it and

they like had a professional tennis player come in and they were like talking about how the coaches about all about legs and the professional tennis players like guys let me stop you right there I would love to join and make fun of him but like I'm also obsessed with men's legs. And apparently, like just having real some plump strong down there is what actually makes you a great tennis player, which isn't what I would I would assume you just go out there looking like Popeye big arms, tiny, tiny legs and just whacking that thing around.

But apparently it's all about like so it got me checking, checking some legs. And then I went and saw Nosferatu. And I really enjoyed Nosferatu. Bobby eggs, I think has officially, Robert Eggers, has officially entered the canon of like directors who like just will open them like enough people will go see the movie like whatever whatever he does it's like a weird vampire origin story but it feels like you're

hermetically sealed in like a different time like it just feels so completely engrossing. Hermeticallyically or hermetically? Hermetically. Hermetically is from inside Herman's head. My favorite. Oh, yep, I was gonna say, yeah, hermetically sealed. Shout out Yardley Smith.

Yes, but anyways, it's real horny. This is real horny, dark vampire origin story. A lot of people went and saw it. It was like, I'm not that into this shit, but I'm gonna go see it and really enjoyed it. The Dracula, Count Orlok, is, there's this one shot of him, and I feel like they were on the verge

of launching a sex symbol with this Count Orlok guy, and then they show him, and he is walking around on some flats like after I get done with some chicken wing flats like they are just bare bones just bare bones down there just like skin over bones. What this picture you put in for reference it is fucking you're so is this dude walking around like this the whole movie or just like towards so alright Here's the problem is this spoilers or no? Yeah, it's kind of spoilers, so I can't tell you exactly Do a spoiler-free

We're looking at but he is revealed at the very end to you know you get to see the whole body Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it. He's he's not working with much down there. He's been he's been floating around too much, like just two inches off the ground. I guess that's what would happen to you if you, you know, if you're just a walk. Yeah. If you're just in a spikely tracking shot anytime you want to move around. Yeah. Right. That's I feel like that. That's that's where you end up.

His legs are just so tiny. So anyways, that was, you know, I think ultimately Nosferatu is a good movie and a cautionary tale about like the vampiric nature of like capitalism and sex. And but the cautionary tale I took away is Don't Don't Skip Leg Day. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's those are my two big ones And you've been working your legs out. Yeah, I started doing legs started lifting legs Yeah, I started doing legs. So doing started using my legs the first time

You go too hard. You're like, oh man, I tore my hamstring. Yeah Be go easy go easy on those legs Jack. That's right. Take care of them. I do my best What is something Blake that you think is overrated? So I think overrated as a practice Is street cleaning like residential street cleaning in cities? Okay, where i've never first of all i've never seen street cleaning happen and I go outside and look and like wow Look how clean this fucking street is Like they don't, nothing gets cleaned. And if you don't know what it is, like basically it's alternate street cleaning.

So if you're in a city, they like, uh, you're not allowed to park on a side of the street from X time to X time, because, uh, allegedly a, a sweeper truck comes by and cleans the street and you get ticketed if you leave your car there. So I don't have a, like a garage or a parking spot. So like I move my car. And this also happened when I lived in LA too. Oh yeah.

But it just seems to me like a shitty way to, for the city to get revenue with no benefit to people whatsoever in street cleaning. So there is an interesting, where I saw in Brooklyn, there's this weird community thing that like neighborhoods will do where they'll double stack their cars on one side of the street.

So say like the right side is being cleaned, street cleaning, cars from the right side will just park next to the cars and trap them in on the left side of the street. But like, I guess people know each other and have each other's numbers where if they have to leave, it's a pretty elaborate system that I would imagine doesn't work. Yeah. That just stressed me out so much. My heart rate shot through the roof just hearing about that arrangement. I do kind of genuinely believe that it's a little bit like velociraptor rules for the

non-ticketable side of the street on alternate side parking. Like yeah, fucking double park the entire street. Like I feel like, and I know this can't be true, but I genuinely feel like the fucking like traffic cops, the whatever the fuck people giving tickets. It's like they can only see the side of the street where people were like, you're not supposed to be parked. And it's lawless on the other side. Well, I guess there's nothing going on here. Yeah.

All right, this is crazy. Brian, the editor has come through and described a situation that doesn't make any sense to me. Brian, the editor lives in Mexico City, in quotes. Where they- Soon to be America City, just get ready. Yeah, whatever. Thank you.

But they employ people who need money, okay weird, and give them a high vis vest and broom, and then they just actually clean the streets every day. So like where do you get the big machine that comes through and blows shit in your face if you happen to be there? Because I have seen the streets. It just sort of turns it. Yeah it does. It just turns it out of the way into a different direction. Because it makes it makes it's like, what if you only had a broom and no dust pan? Yeah, exactly. It's exactly what we created.

A three hundred thousand dollar machine that was a broom with no dust pan. And there's some water, I think, mixed in a little bit where like a trash or it sits down. Yeah. It's a vortex of change, but a not elimination is the key. The leaves are moved, but they are there. Right. So many things could be fixed with just like, we're going to

invent 400 jobs based on like talking to people in the city, like jobs that they think should exist and, uh, we're going to pay them well. Yeah. Yeah. One utility for those street cleaning things. Uh, I don't know if this is actually as true anymore in the era of 3d printing, but if you're looking to create DIY lock picks, the bristles from a, uh, street cleaning thing are some of the best in the biz as far as lock picking tools.

How the fuck do you know that? And a walrus's mustache as well. I want to add that in. But only at certain times of the month. You have to get it at certain times of the month. Right after they molt. Yeah, it's they molt. Yes, the moment right before they molt. So you can't get it unless you can make friends with a walrus right before they molt off

the lockpick thing. Editor Brian has in chat started on a path of proclamations that I'm worried are going to become legally actionable. So I'll just say he's he agrees so well. How the fuck you guys know that? That's amazing. All right. You guys are much cooler than me. Also the street cleaning thing. I wasn't talking about you, Blake, the street cleaning thing is tie in with I think what we're going to talk about with regards to the police because it's like, how do we have just every, what,

if the only tool you had was a hammer and you had to make, do every job with the blunt end of a hammer, a bunch of hammers that actually shoot really little hammers via concussive force. And that's all you can do with them. They're not really designed for hammering anything. By the way, we don't have people who go out and clean the street. We have one really fast, heavy machine that goes around. And if you get in the fucking way, you have to deal with the cops. Asshole. Okay.

A weird way to keep the streets clean. That's our society. I guess the streets we're taking out the trash. No, we just like literally mean we want the streets to be. Oh, no, not literally trash. That trash stays. Yes. We call it a metaphor, asshole. As Biden said, we count on police to be our teachers, our psychiatrists,

our librarians, our ourians, our wives, we saw our wives, we don't need to defund the police. We need to fund them more. That was his argument. Giving them more fun. Anyway, let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about the wildfires. 2025 is bound to be a fascinating year. It's going to be filled with money challenges and opportunities. I'm Joel. And I am Matt. And we're the hosts of How to Money. We want to be with you every step of the way in your financial journey this year, offering the information and insights you need to thrive financially. Yeah, whether you find yourself up to your eyeballs in student loan

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I'm going to give him space to talk about it when he gets back, but sending a lot of love and good energy to him and his family. But you know, we're our super producer Justin is out because you know, his area has been without power for 48 hours. Just a lot of people dealing with a lot of shit. I've got somebody who's a good friend of mine who was evacuated who's staying with us right now. Andrew, it sounds like you've got some of that coming your way. And yeah, it's not one of those, like, I know a guy who has a friend who like this have impacted.

It's like everybody's like one degree of separation away from people who are losing homes. And, you know, to the extent that there is any kind of silver lining to this, well, I don't know. And I'm also going to say something that I'm not even totally sure is true, but I think this is the first like climate, major climate disaster that has affected large numbers of middle and upper middle-class white people. Yeah. Um, I think that's true. I mean, maybe there's some shit in the UK that is, but, or, you know, in the far east, Australia, in like Germany and shit, you know, this, this is certainly like,

I don't know what sort of like change in political will this could possibly bring, but it is sort of that where it's like, you know, you can't hide from this. Like, you know, as much as it's a result of us like, you know, exploiting the global south and people of color and poor people everywhere. It's like, yeah, but it's it's we're changing shit and it's it's there's no protection from this really. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I think that's right. Not that that feels good, but that's the truth. Right. It feels like we're in a you know, the scale seems biblical. Like I feel like it needs to be biblical for like people to get their heads around what is happening and like the the amount of change that needs to happen. But yeah, hopefully this is cutting across enough borders that there's political will

to do something beyond the guy being like, Hey, does anybody know any private firefighters that could come through and save my house Andrew rained on that parade for me because I thought there were cool like, you know Yeah, we're firefighters coming about this during that and look I'm not saying I know for sure that there are not But it's just a thing where it's like it's not from what I read about like the private fire services that exist, it's not like a Uber for firefighters. It's more like a service that you have worked with for years. Yeah. It's not a last second. You can't cram it as the fire is closing in on your home.

You can't be like, yo. Oh yeah. I guess there's, there's right. There are planes that you can hire, but the general firefighting, I think is like part of like, you know, a service that you've had, I've heard it described as like, a lot of it was honestly landscaping advice, like it's just like, you know, you're you're you're maintaining a house that can be saved in the event of a fire rather than just like black water, but for firefighters. rather than just like black water, but for firefighters. Right. Yeah. That is a movie starring Mark Wahlberg that is going to be made because of this tragedy. That is one outcome that I can foresee is like,

a person facing down wildfire season and they're like, we got to call in the Fizz or whatever. He's just shit face drunk in like Quincy, Massachusetts, turns on the news, sees fire. And then he's at Logan airport on a jet blue flight to LA. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know where Mark Wahlberg was this week, but Victor, super producer Victor points out that if he was here, it wouldn't have gone down the way it was. Yeah.

That's the shame of it. For fucking sure. sure. He would have punched that fire right out. Yeah, but yeah, which is not to say that there's not like resources to be marshalled, but like the best way to spend, you know, this money is on things like taxes and an appropriate city budget that funds the Los Angeles fire department or whatever fire department you're in. Yes. Like it or not, we're all on some level in this together. Yes.

I do just want to like firefighters. I think they come into the national spotlight every once in a while. And when they do, it's not like the cops where we're just like, wait, why the fuck do we have these guys? I mean, like, these guys are fucking terrible. Like it's you kind of get reminded why everybody wants to fuck them and and why. Like if you have to give a movie character a heroic job, you go with firefighter. Like to give this guy a calendar.

Yeah, yeah. I don't care what he looks like. Turn him into jack off material. But there was, I don't care what he looks like. Turn them into jack off material. But there was I don't know, like I'm probably in the midst of, you know, of just this story. But there was the equivalent of an MBA highlight where a fire helicopter just dropped a swimming pool of water on a fire that was spreading out of the Hollywood Hills. It was literally like everybody it's, you know,

fairly close to where we live and like all our neighbors were like, holy shit, like here comes the one that's gonna end this. Yeah. I don't think this single-handedly stopped it, but like a helicopter dropped a swimming pool of water on a fire and it just fucking went out. Yeah. It was like swish from way downtown. I was like, holy shit. Without getting too dark. I saw, I don't know, blue sky, I guess.

The comment right underneath it was like, you know, various things that you could yell when you, when you make a great shot at basketball and someone was like, you know that pilot was yelling, Kobe, and then people pointing out. That's not a good thing. Helicopter pilot to be screaming. I'm zooming in on the photo of the helicopter pilot. Oh my God, that's Mark Wahlberg.

That's Mark Wahlberg flying that bird. You know he wouldn't tell anybody if he did. He's just like a humble guy. But the helicopter is just a fancy drone. So I just want to say that as a Jersey person, I saw a helicopter and I wanted to shoot it. The fuck is that thing doing up there? I started spinning at it.

I was spinning at the sky. New Jersey people would be freaked out by LA man. Just the Lord. It's the hell we're all aliens. So I've been kind of like glued to this coverage. Uh, you know, our kids are out of school. Uh, so we're just, you know, I had a friend who had school yesterday, which is awesome. It. God. Yeah. But, you know, glued to the fire. But I see fire maps when I close my eyes now. Yeah. The varying colors, which Andrew, you were pointing out

before. I do have a note for the listen. I understand the fire watch app. Wonderful service. People have been really enjoying it. Watch duty. Watch. I will say their UI, bright red, fire, makes sense. Dark magenta-ish or dark pink, let's say. Fire warning. Yellow, fire, whatever the equivalent of tornado watches.

It's like, be ready to be evacuated. But then they just have a, you're in a dry, fire-prone area and that's like a different shade of pink, which is very alarming. And you look at the map. Yeah, because you're like, yeah, I guess the other ones orange. The point is the gradations of danger go from red, dark pink, yellow, and then least dangerous is light pink, which I is bad UI part on a personal level We all agree that it should be Like yellow orange red and some like gradient in there right like that. That's my pitch They're doing a nice

Inherent yeah, they are doing a great job also like my eight-year-old is like addicted to that app now like he He's like scrolling it and like obsessed. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how. One of the, it's different where in LA we had like an earthquake kit in our place. Cause I love for the listeners, I lived in LA for 10 years.

And it's one of the only, it's the only place I've ever lived where I had an emergency kit basically. Like a go bag. Yeah. basically. Like a go bag. Yeah. Yeah. Like a go bag, which isn't necessarily, you know, like there are obviously situations in other places where you could need that. But I remember having like earthquake water, like we would always have like a case of water

somewhere and then we would get thirsty on our way out and grab the water. So we just wouldn't have any water. Yeah. It was replenishing. Is this, is this something that you like, do you guys have earthquake kits? Like I know like some of you have packed up. I was talking to before.

Yeah. Mine's not freshened up since the last time. I probably put in the big work to do it in 2020. Like I think my cube of water cannot possibly be good. I will say before that I did have an earthquake kit that was based on gallons of water and being hung over in my late 20s, early 30s. The fact that I drank my earthquake water

really says something about America, I think. Because I was too hung over. Yeah. But yeah, I got the cube that's allegedly non toxic, but there's just no way the cube's been there for like four years. It can't be good. Earthquake diet Coke. Yeah, I've got a 12 pack of diet Coke for Lukewarm diet Coke from the early nineties.

Um, what is the cube is like a separate, it's not just like a two gallon thing of arrow. Oh, I mean, it's it's shit. It's like a water container that someone recommended that's like, OK. BPA, it's like a square thick. You know what? Yeah, yeah. It's a square, right? You can see a square. Everyone can see a square. OK, now what?

It's like a square. A few squares came at you. Can't can't. Now you've lost. I'm going to tell you about spheres afterwards and you're going to flip out. Wait, so you're talking about like a third dimension. That's, I'm not, you know what? That doesn't make sense. A lot of people would say that. Yeah.

So I was watching this press conference yesterday and it just really drove home. The thing we were talking about, uh, about the police, like it, the police are coming into this in a couple of ways. One because people noticed that the firefighting budget was cut a small amount last year you know like people who are defensive or you know hate the Republicans are like the Republicans are making this seem like they slashed the entire budget it was you know a 2% budget cut. Fine. They also massively increased the police budget as crime is going down and the danger of fire is going up. And it's not specific politicians' fault.

It's the entire American apparatus that does this. But I was watching this press conference yesterday. It was the Pasadena fire chief and then police chief. And just the rhythm of this press conference was so wild. Like they first half, it's the fire chief is just this weird little guy just answering difficult questions. Like here's why it's bred here. The challenges we faced here are where like we could have done better here. Here's what's still going on. Like ending his answers with like, did that answer your question? And like seemed genuinely curious about whether it had,

like not a genius, nothing particularly noteworthy, just a person doing the job that they have at a difficult time when people like that job done. Not a public speaker in any way. Right. Then they give the next part of the press conference to the police chief and he like opens up like bragging about individual people that they had evacuated from their homes.

Like just having to like just flex on everybody. And then started talking about, and he's like, and now we're moving into the problem solving situation where we're gonna deal with anybody who's looting and like start seeding this like looting story. By the way, could a better funded fire department have done the evacuations? Yeah.

Who's to say? There's no way to know. The thing with like, we're watching the argument for defund the police. Like literally, even if you're the most like conservative, non-maniac possible who thinks we need some kind of police, like most of the money that goes to the police is the least efficient way to do those job descriptions. Like the non-fucking law enforcement allegedly side of things.

We're like, what the fuck are you talking about? You got in, like the cops having five times more budget or more than the fire department, but talking on a retail level about helping individuals versus people trying to help communities. Exactly. There's several orders of magnitude in both the wrong direction. Yes. So this is just a bad investment, you fucking business dickheads.

Yeah. Explain that. Exactly. Well, the police, there are teachers, there are doctors, and there are firemen. Police are our firemen. Yes, exactly. There are doctors, there are wives, there are firemen. Police are our firemen. Yes, exactly. There are doctors, there are wives, there are firemen. It's just the most expensive, least effective version of all those things.

Yeah. Why would you want that? And then the second half of the police part was just the most inscrutable, essentially the verbal equivalent of firing his gun in the air with the like inscrutable police speak about the possibility of looters where they're just like, uh, and we just got one message for you. Don't even try it. We're now shifting into the safety operation where we will be on the lookout for looters. Make no mistake. We will act decisively and with definitive kinetic means in the eventuality that we, you know, just like throwing all those fucking bullshit police words

Any individual perpetrating such criminal activity will be the fullest extent of the law. Exactly. Shit. Not to invoke, you know, previous week's biggest story, but the biggest theft that will be occurring in Southern California will be on behalf of insurance companies who have already stolen tons of money and will not be paying out on things that they owe. That is my prediction. My prediction is that they are going to be going bankrupt and it's going to be up to the government to pay people's. Yeah. Which I don't know.

People will simply not be made whole on the things they are absolutely owed, which I feel like is likely anyway. And if you're thinking about theft, Californians and the globe, just remember the theft already happened. That's right. And it's a bunch of guys in boardrooms two nights into many homes across the city being evacuated and the police are reporting they've encountered three instances of looting, I think. And by the way, they give themselves a very wide latitude when determining something is looting. So someone picked a quarter up off the ground. And yeah, so they were looting the ground. Yes. We saw they're looting our city.

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for best picture is Madam Web. Which Joey, it sounds like here. It's a fun movie. Yeah. It's also the best of those Spider-Man movies that got put out this year. No, it's just, I mean like. What were the other ones? Craven and Venom 3. Craven and Venom 3.

Oh, Venom 3, okay. I guess Craven is the quote unquote best, but Madame Web is the best. Yeah, well, I think that Madame Web, it's just like what's so fun about Madame Web is it's basically watching people take the biggest possible swings on screen and just like whiffing it every single time.

Like it's just like a, like get, get together with your friends and watch it on like a Saturday night. It's like a fun watch. I really liked it. I really liked watching it. I had a lot of fun. I, there's some bizarre CG in it

that is like truly delightful. You're just like- The ADR is insane. The thing that is so care, having now worked in a little bit of television, I'm just like, how is this allowed? Like, how did this get approved to be like put in theaters, just in terms of pieces of the craft?

I'm just like, this is wild to me. The star of Madam Web to me was the Pepsi can. There's a floating, that's so amazing. Several scenes of a Pepsi can that, um, that Matt is trying to open. Pepsi can was that like she had it, but like never drank out of it. What was the deal with the Pepsi can? I think I just like saw that meme without volume on it. So I don't know what it is.

So she's at, um, a baby shower for a character. It's a baby shower for Peter Parker, but for probably Sony legal reasons, they can't say Peter Parker. There's literally a point in this sequence where they say like, Oh, what's the baby's name? And then she goes to say Peter and then a car honks. You can't hear Peter. No. Yeah, yeah, this is all real.

This really is. It's like Honk Parker? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%. It's like Austin Powers didn't realize he didn't have the rights to Spider-Man but still has to produce a movie. Yeah, yeah, totally, totally, totally. Yeah, so this Pepsi can, it's at, you know,

Car Honk Parker's baby shower, and the lead in the movie is carrying this Pepsi can, it's at Car Honk Parker's Baby Shower, and the lead in the movie is carrying this Pepsi can around and definitely presenting it like clearly they have some brand deal with Pepsi. But at no point does she open it, and she goes to try to open it several times, but then she'll get interrupted by like in her conversation. And it's like several scenes of this. It's like she goes from the kitchen to the outside to like another area holding this Pepsi can, displaying it like it's a commercial, going to like act like she's about to open it and then stopping because she like gets distracted by a bird or something

like that. The will they won't they of our modern cinematic landscape. I feel like it's genuinely they just caught Dakota Johnson trying to figure out what a can of Pepsi was. And that's what it was. So something I also really appreciate is that in the movie, they established that Spider-Man's outfit is inspired by this outfit from like a unnamed indigenous tribe in I believe like South America

or something like that. So by saying that, you're basically saying that Spider-Man is culturally appropriating this tribe. That's right. You're like retroactively making Spider-Man racist, which is great. At least they didn't do the Back to the Future thing where the indigenous tribe was copying off of Spider-Man. Because that's how Back to the Future worked, where Marty McFly, white teenage Marty McFly,

goes back in time and gives Chuck Berry the idea for rock and roll. Oh, right. Yes, yes, yes, yes. So that's probably what happened. So maybe, yeah. But that is the famous quote of like the guy who was there before my mom died and when she was studying spiders in.

Oh my God. So wonderful. Yeah. Anyways, none of these are the reasons that it won't be winning a best picture. Because in order to be included, you need to meet Hollywood's inclusion and representation standards, which are, they've been criticized for being like, very loose and things that you could just accidentally do while still like not having enough inclusion

and representation in your film. But these, Madame Webb and 116 other feature films that were released this year did not meet the rules, did not meet the standard, including Bad Boys Ride or Die, the Mean Girls musical, and sadly the Garfield movie. No! Boo!

Is this list of rules for quote diversity inclusion, sadly the Garfield movie. Is this a list of rules for quote diversity inclusion, like Hollywood diversity inclusion, as in they're just saying this needs to have people of color or it's so these are the four categories. And you have to meet two out of the four standards on screen representation, themes and narratives, creative leadership and project team. So that's behind the scenes, presumably industry access and opportunities and audience development.

I just felt that made so could this podcast be nominated for best picture? I don't know. It's a great question. Well, yeah, obviously. Yeah. Don't worry about the rules for anything that's's, you know, as perfect as this. I mean, I mean, not to be the Madam Web apologist that I clearly am, but I actually don't see how it does it. I mean, assuming that Hollywood, like most American industries, counts white women as, you know, a group in the diversity requirement.

I'm just like, is Madam Webb not all of these things? My guess is it's probably behind the scenes is probably pretty straight white dude, but that's just kind of my guess. Yeah, but I'm just saying the creative, I mean the lead, I'm assuming Dakota Dotson was an EP on this. Like, am I wrong?

Like, it just feels like it's there. Seems like it probably passes the Bechdel test. Right. So it depends on they're mostly talking about spiders. So, yeah, depending on what kind of spiders they're talking about. I think it's a spider man. Oh, shit. It does feel like maybe what's happening is they will go through the exercise of like making a movie eligible if they think it has any award chances.

Yeah. Because like another one that didn't make it this year, Harold and the Purple Crown. So it's Boy Kills World. Is that a sequel to Boy Meets World? I don't know that one. world. Is that a sequel to boy meets world? What feels world is the, um, uh, it's the, the count Orlok first person one with John Benjamin as the voice in like a, uh, a shootery type of thing that I did not see. Okay. Um, I think it's just like, they like probably hire a spent,

spend like a million dollars to hire McKinsey to like, if they think it has a chance at like making, I'm shocked and nominated. Sony couldn't argue that Madam Webb does these things. And I'm also shocked that I'm going to say just off the top of my head, illumination couldn't argue that guard, the Garfield movie didn't also do these things. Yeah.

Look, people color orange is a color, I'm just saying. That's right, that's right. Cats, Odie, whatever the fuck Odie is. There's like, that movie probably, I feel like, I don't know this for a fact, but I feel like there's probably a scene in that movie where Garfield's girlfriend Arlene

and a female security guard talk about lasagna for more than four lines. So like, you know, I think this probably passes the Bechdel test. The Bechdel test is not one of the standards, by the way. That was just me. We're just throwing this out there. Yeah, we're just throwing it out there.

Put us in charge, Hollywood. We'll let everybody in. All right. And finally, sex bots are going a little bit viral right now thanks to this article from the Sun back in 2016 that somebody went back and screen capped It was tweeted out revealed women will be having more sex with robots than men by 2025 this article came out June 30th, as accompanied by a picture of a like robot from.

Yeah, it's I robot. Yeah, I robot. Yeah, the I robot robot just like laying there, looking off pensively as a naked woman, like nuzzles his chest. Yeah, the robot is thinking about the price of microchips right now. It's a fucking weird day at the Photoshop minds. I know, right? Jesus Christ. Yeah, I want you to Photoshop a woman having sex with a robot, and the robot does have

emotions and is not into this. You know what? Probably the weirder part is the graphic designer having to pretend to mock something up rather than pulling from their vast pre-existing files. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Because it is kind of hot. The picture is kind of hot. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It is kind of hot.

The picture's kind of hot. Yeah, let me get right to work. It'll take a couple of days. Yeah, like flip into a personal stash robots. Sex file. I also love that in this article, the word robots is in all caps, so it's like they're yelling it at you.

Yeah. More sex with robots than men by 2025. Yeah, this person's got an axe to grind with robots. Not to be not to be that guy, but probably even before 2025, when you realize this, this article is implying inferring that women will be having sex with androids. Yeah, you know, humanoid robots, sex bots. I think that probably the definition of robot probably goes down to including

a decent number of existing commercial products that are out on the market now in terms of sex heaven. That's why. Everyone lock up your Roombas. Can it look that hot and pensive while you nuzzle its chest, because that's the that's. I'm just saying if you draw a frowny face on a vibrator, you kind of think this is a robot. Sad face vibrator. But yeah, I don't know.

So people started sharing this when January first hit. And, you know, people crowned 2025 the year of robot fucking the headline. And this is going to surprise people because this of robot fucking the headline. And this is going to surprise people cause this article is from the sun, which is one of the finest news outlets in the UK. Is the sun one of the Murdoch ones? Yeah. The sun is one of the one, one of the Murdoch ones that I was shocked of the Murdoch ones. Yeah. Really bad. Like also like nude pictures of women in it.

Like there's just a page that's like, Oh, and this is the, so you got your sports section and you got your world news section. You got your a Playboy like magazine that we just become a magazine. You know, it's basically just, you know, a broad sheet Reddit. Yeah, exactly. That's right. So it cites one futurologist, Dr. Ian Pearson, who said that there was probably going to be an era of robot fucking that starts in 2025 and that humans won't be overtaken by sex robots until likely 2050.

And he's pissed that this is going viral. He's like, I never said that. I said that, like he specifically says in his abstract that like, it'll probably seem weird at first and like nobody's going to be doing it, uh, by 2025 until it becomes delightful. Oh God. I, does no one do, we're just not questioning anyone who calls themselves a fucking futurologist. Has any one of those fools ever been right about anything that you're going to say, has any of those fools ever been to the future? Yeah, exactly.

Or are they from there? Yeah, yeah. All these fuckers are doing is, across a broad spectrum of people, parroting sci-fi tropes, and then they each put a different year, so that retroactively one of them will get the right year, and then they can say the field of futurology is correct.

It's like fortune teller grift. Well, I mean, yeah, well, that's that's like 100 percent it is. It's like it's like the click bait is Asian of the news is like it's not even focused on like, is this person an expert or not? It's just is this a clickable headline? And it's like, yeah, yeah. Does this person have any sort of real background in this? Or are they just like making up bullshit?

And people are like, well, that's spicy. You know, like it's spicy. It's annoying. Yeah. Yeah. You're fan sourcing the news now. Yeah. I really like that. It's all fan fiction at this point.

I can't get over the New Jersey drones thing going as viral as it did. But it just seemed like people were like, I don't know, man. It's kind of boring right now. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So the company that is the closest to making the sex robot.

So first of all, you're going to be shocked to learn that the actual sex robot industry in 2025 is more of a buy dudes for dudes type of thing. Like a lot of straight men with disposable income Like a lot of straight men with disposable income. And it's like a very insular community where they all probably have like weird shorthand. Like you could probably go spend a fascinating afternoon like in a subreddit about like, you know, sex doll enthusiasts and just like learning all the lingo. And the jargon is where they really shot.

Jargon has gotta be so fucking weird. If you're listening to this right now, treat yourself. That's right. Go to that subreddit and just take a day. The highest and, or like the closest to a, you know, Android level sex robot can't even stand up because the only robotic bit is her head. Yes, it's a it's a woman.

As our writer, J.M. McNabb said, it kind of looks like a collaboration between Maxim magazine and Disney World's Hall of Presidents, like that's kind of the energy that you're getting from it's just all very, yeah, not a lot of diversity. It's just a bunch of 50 to 60 year old white guys being like, if you could fuck a Barbie doll. I mean, that's like the classic Silicon Valley thing, which is, you're just seeing in the most extreme version,

which is like creating a product at a fake market that doesn't exist. And it was like, yeah, there's no need for this. Yeah. creating a product at a fake market that doesn't exist. They're just like, yeah, there's no need for this. Yeah. There's, I hate these people so much. But it's also like creating a product that's like actively making the world worse, you know?

Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. How can I make the world worse, fool the venture capitalists until they have, their pot committed, so they have to back my cockamamie idea. I mean, it's, you know, that's the Uber Lyft. Yeah, for sure. Waymo business model. And it's like, oh, good. Yeah. Just like you're in for several million dollars. Let's go. You can't no backing

out now. Brian, the editor just shared the link to our sex dolls. And yeah, it looks like you could spend a lot of time in here just being weirded out. All right. Clicking. Clicking now. Yeah. Our sex dolls, the official subreddit of the Daily Zac guys. Here's a good grade fine. Brian the editor. Everyone click and then everyone pick their one favorite FAQ. Brian found my favorite one for me. Yeah, please read this.

The rules, the very first rule is no dolls that represent a child, which is fucking bleak as hell. But that has to be the very first rule. I will just say my favorite question from this and I am realizing as I click this, I am absolutely signed in under my own Reddit account. Are these dolls, sex dolls legal? Okay, whatever. The second half of this question is, will this doll pass customs? Which tells me, uh, this is, this is also really good. Uh, how can you dispose of dolls discreetly? And the first sentence of the answer, you should be able to cut it into smaller pieces.

If you have a wrench or other tools to disassemble the skeleton underneath as well, it might just be easier to put it out for sale. Put it out for sale, like in a fucking yard sale or a giveaway on dollforum.com. Used sex doll is, God damn, what a weird interaction that must be to show up at somebody's house and buy their used sex doll, like hear them refer to it. But like it's a person.

Yeah. Oh, this is I'm loving being signed in on my account here. This is great. I would you should you just oppose of the sex doll discreetly at all? I feel like proud of disposing. I feel you should absolutely sit it on the curb next to your trash can with a little sign around invariably her neck saying free.

Yeah, just like, just friend its thumbs so it looks like it's like a psychic. How do you clean the orifice after use is one of the questions. So these are all things that we can go check out, you know, whenever we want. This is, listen, if there was any justice in the world, we will to read about this in the sun. Right. Thank you.

We have to go to our sex dolls. Yeah. The sun got to too excited. We're going to be able to fuck dolls soon. Yeah. But also this this idea like like the scary headline of women will be having more sex with robots You know obviously from a right-wing mag is probably troubling Yeah, that's the scary thing like Yeah, all the actual facts are about no woman is remotely interested in this there's no market for this

The only market is again, you know, probably the same 200 white guys that you can identify. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly. So they spoke to a non-futurist. By the way, the futurist, the futurist they talked to was like, I never said that. That's crazy. Like you just obviously took what I was saying out of context. But they asked somebody who has more of a expertise on this and said that it's a complex issue with a number of different considerations, but sex robots probably may never really be a thing. Even if they're produced, they will remain a niche product

and mostly used for companionship with sex almost secondary to that, which we're already seeing, like AIs being used to help people's loneliness. And like the way we interact with actual people is not face to face and in person. So like, why spend all the money on, you know, these things cost an incredible amount of money. $10,000. Yeah, I got to say, rsxdolls There's a 87,000 members of the subreddit 13 online

now. So shout out to those 13 dudes. That is more than I would have thought though. 87,000. And maybe it's people doing it for the wolves, but yeah. Okay. Closing that and back to regular sex dolls talk. I think we're going gonna hang out here for a little bit. All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist, please like and review the show if you like the show. Means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks.

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