The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 417 (Best of 2/2/26-2/6/26)

Episode Date: February 8, 2026

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Ooh, I'm going to say, there's a lot. Um, there are so many things in my search history, but I'm obsessed with, okay, Okay, we're going to go with this one. So there's a new story about, there's this famous gay cruise called the Atlantis Gay Cruise, and nine men got busted for basically turning the gay cruise into a drug smuggling ring, like ring. Wow. Oh, like using the movement of the boat to like traffic shit?

Something, something crazy is going down where it's like, of course there's drugs on board. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm dropping you in the chat. But apparently it went too far. And now there's like nine men in custody for like bringing grams and grams of multiple crazy drugs. Because these gay men, they can't just have a cocktail. They have to do G and X and T. Pink cocaine.

You got to do it all. You got to. You got a. Two C. It's all out there. So I'm obsessed. And then what's even better? Well, this is the bad part.

Because everyone knows everyone in gay. So now what's happening is gay people being like, oh, I know him. Oh, I know him. They're like not Adam Jones. This is my current obsession right now, something going down on the gay Atlantis cruise. And I'm of two minds.

I'm like, on the one hand, I'm like, let them do their drugs. Diceke Nakano, you should know Japanese culture is so afraid of people holding drugs. You was out there caught with the GHB, the GBL, the ketamine, the fucking X. Wow, they really just like a...

Isn't that insane? Everything. Yeah. So that's my other message to gay men. Y'all, calm down. Have a, have a drink and sit, enjoy the pool side. You want to take so many drugs you don't remember the trip? Right.

I'd rather not sleep for the next six days and also not remember anything. That's cool. I mean, I, look, I'm not, look, I understand. Like, you know, there's like the Chris Rock bit where he said, not saying OJ didn't do it, but I understand. You understand this. Yeah, I look. This pattern of a substance?

Because you're on a party boat, right? Drugs are going to be 700 times more expensive in the closed environment of a cruise ship. So if you're opportunistic, you're like, bro, I'll pay for this seven more cruises with this one bag I brought on. That's actually true. I do like entrepreneurials. Because also I'm like looking, I'm like, does anybody get possession with intent to distribute? It looked like just possession. So nobody was bringing that big.

Anyway, I'm just trying to peep game from this advocate article that you just sent me on. I'm like, okay. Yeah, no. What are they thinking here? I think that's smart. I think they're there trying to make, you know, they're just coming up probably. Everyone needs a side hustle these days. Remember when you could just have one job and afford a home?

Right, exactly. Right. And not possible. Right. And they're like, look, I put this trip on Klarna. I'm using Klarna payments to pay for this. I'm already upside down on this. So, yeah, I'm going to bring a couple bags of fucking mall.

Marna, I know. Man, probably doing TikToks on the side. So this is the GHBiB. Yeah, yeah. So come get high with me. But like a makeup influencer who puts their hand behind it. So you can see, like, okay, so here's the pink cocaine. You can tell for my hand for reference.

Let me know in the chat. I'll put my cabin number or hit me up, 700 bucks. I'm probably going to do this wrong. Oh, I'm such a. Dork. But let's see. I don't know what I'm doing. Whoa.

Wow. Yeah. So this is, yeah. I mean, that'll. But I want to know, like, how deep does this go?

Because, like, do they just all, were they just messy? Were they just messy and they got caught with, like, you know, powdered sugar all over their faces? Right. Right.

Right. Or was it, like, did someone, like, get Intel that there was going to be drugs here? It sounds like, they just fucked up and the dogs busted them immediately. Yeah. Yeah.

They just had too much. too much on him. It wasn't like, oh, shit. He found the gram in my pocket. It was like, oh, shit. He found his duffel bag. It said the officers were screening bags at Terminal A with trained detection dogs when several suitcases were flagged.

It was as easy as being like, y'all. Come on. You had them in there loose. I would love to be there because I also bet the gay men and we're like, oh, come on. Oh, come on. It's a gay cruise. That old thing.

Are you serious? You're, okay. No, you can have them. Yeah, fine. Like, if you want them, fine. Is that what this is about? Honestly, I forgot they were in there. Polivey, what's something you think is underrated?

Underrated, I think, is physical media. I've been really into physical media. Jackie's and I went to Amoeba yesterday. It was so fucking nice to just be in an amoeba. You know what I mean? To see posters, to hold on to think. I feel like so much stuff has become digital. and like online and you constantly,

it's like so like monetized and fast and everything. I'm just like, remember touching records? Yeah, sure. Remember books? Remember little pins and stuff? Yeah. Yeah.

It has in retrospect, like really fucked up how I appreciate music. It really has. Yeah. Like I used to, like I went in there and I was like, okay, like I used to listen to records with my dad. Even when I like had CDs,

I was like so proud of my CD. collection and I like really cared about the music and part of it is when you're younger you have like more time to like discover things and everything is like new and stuff but I'm like damn like I used to really appreciate the arts like when I was when I was a kid it like really shaped my perspective and now there's so much coming at you you don't have time to like cultivate it. It used to be a damn album guy. Yeah. I don't listen to the radio.

I listen to albums straight through and then I think about the narrative that they're telling. And now I'm just like, Apple makes it into a radio station for me of the songs that I like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to like discover more shit. Like, I will listen to albums, like, straight through, like, if it's Kendrick's or Beyonce, it's like a big, like, you know, like, spectacle of an album. I'll, like, listen to it. But I used to listen to so much, like, so much variety. And I used to be, like, so hyped on discovering new shit on my own. And, like, I'm just like, damn, I miss sound in that way. Yeah.

I mean, like having an album like that, it just like, to your point with streaming, you can just feel like, what's that one song I like? And you won't even know that it's on an album. Yeah. And then like versus like the old days is like you popped it in and I would just sit down, track one. And then, you know, there'd be some skips. But you still had, you still went through the thing of like,

okay, let me give each song at least. It takes some time. This is my album for this week. I'm listening to this all week. Yeah, and like the discovery of like finding layers in it. And like the, I think part of the joy of physical media was like, you can't get everything. So you are forced to really enjoy the few things that you have. And you have to like decide and pick.

Like, Jack He's was like trying to pick out which albums he wanted. And he's like, oh, I love this one, but I want this one. You know, and there's like a joy in that too of like trying to think of like what you value and like, you know, how much you value it. I, speaking of just like going to places that used to, like stores that used to exist and donate more, I went to Korea Town Plaza yesterday because my friend is like a real foodie and he's like, I've got like these five dishes that are like amazing at the food court in Korea Town Plaza. We went there. But it really like you go into the malls in Korea Town and it really feels like you're stepping back into another time.

Like they still have stores in. there that like don't exist and I'm like how is this working how like what kind of stores like they have like entire stores of like physical media for k-pop and various like music stores and stuff like that they'll just have like jeans stores that are just jeans but like it just feels like I'm in a mall in the 80s that like doesn't exist anywhere I love that really feels like you're like walking into a time warp and I like I want to know the the economics of like how is it just the rent is good or what how do they make it work because it's fucking awesome like some communities feel like more old school like and it and it's more like communal experience shopping because like I know in like in India when you like go

buy a sari it's like a whole thing like you have to go feel all the materials and test everything they display everything for you and you go like in a group with your family, you know, it's like a big thing, kind of like how malls were like a hangout for kids in their teens and like in our generation. But like, so I think like there's probably pockets of it throughout. There's like a social thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyways. And like a trust in like touching the jeans that you're going to buy and being like, yeah, these fit. Yeah. There's people there, you know? There's people shopping. What is something you think is overrated? Goal sitting.

Stop doing it. We're not setting goals this year. We're not setting goals this year? Say that again, Miles? I said we're not setting goals this year. Yeah. I mean, I don't do it myself. You've done the right thing.

Yeah, yeah. What do you mean by a goal setting? Well, the way I like to approach New Year's resolution season is pick some themes for the year. Like, pick a couple of words of something you want to focus up. I just, I worry about this generation coming up at the moment. I think they're very focused on money and they've got very rigid advice for how people should be living their lives. It's like, carry, you know, make your financial goals.

Do this. Buy a house at this age. Da-da-da. Just fucking, I think people are under-indexing, vibing it. Sometimes vibing it is completely fine and good, actually. Because you can kind of allow more possibilities to unfold in your life. And I just think everyone's got such a bono for goal setting and, like, constant self-improvement.

And just calm down. Just let's take things as they come a little bit here. And you are by definition where you're setting goals, working with old information. I like that. Nice one check. We're in a world that is constantly changing and updating. And you got to update those expectations.

But if you're just like, my goal for this year was this. And I'm definitely going to do that. You got to improvise a little bit. Exactly. And I just, I wanted to represent the other side because I think every, there's so much people, forces telling you to do goal setting and you have to do goal setting. Goal setting is what's going to set your life up. I don't know, man.

Try vibing it for a little bit. Try walking outside smelling roses, connecting with humans and, you know, just see things will work out with a good attitude. I definitely noticed that becoming apparent. Like, because there's, I feel like, because there's so much information, people think you have to use every bit of information to inform how you live your life. And I feel like child rearing books are like a real like bad influence a lot of the time. Because I remember when my kid was first born, we're like, what's the book say?

Did you log how many shits he took? How many ounces of milk did. And I'm like, bro, we've been doing this for fucking millions of years without this. And I'm like, then I had to be like, it was stressing me and Her Majesty out. We're like, I feel like we're smart enough to know when our child is, hungry when our child is tired not get too caught up and like logging everything and saying well these are the wake windows that it needs to be for this time and that was so liberating and we became such better parents and we trusted our human instincts to be like I know when a child is in

need or what it needs the other information is useful I'll use that to kind of dial in my vibe scope but viving out is I think very important because I think we're so 100% with you on the Everything feels so out of control too that I also understand the impulse to be like, does someone just have like a set of steps I can do to fucking have a job or go up in my career? And I think that's definitely something I see a lot more in younger people. And I think just because of my age, I've had the benefit of still being in a world where like you could kind of vibe stuff out. But I also totally understand like feeling like everything is so fucked up. You're like, is there some kind of list of shit I need to do?

because none of the old shit works anymore. But in the end, trust the vibes, you know, deep down, trust them. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like we're generally getting in the habit of like giving over personal autonomy to other things, you know, whether if you like, ask Google to tell you the information and or, you know, chat, TEPT, what's that for lunch? But yeah, it's, I think that is probably not a, not a great thing to do, especially with the important things like parenting.

You know, Miles, the thing you were saying about. like we've been doing this parenting thing for so long. That's why I follow the paleo-birding parenting method where you... Alicia Silverstone, I think so. Yeah, you raise your kids like they did in the Stone Ages, but also you chew up their food for them like a bird. Premasticated food, yes. Premasticated.

Let's use the clinical term. It sounds gross. Some will say, yes, that's a different method, but the book is so good. You've got to read Ms. Silverstone's book. You got to check it out. You've got to check it out. Without further ado, should we open up the gates of the lore of the show? Yeah, I think so.

And we're not, we're going to, there are some core pieces of lore that we're going to get to. They just kept coming up over and over again. Yeah. Some of them were expected. Some of them I hadn't really thought about in years. But we also got some memories that I had, like, didn't make the, I think they came up once and then got dropped. but I think they're good candidates for lore. Yeah.

So we've got, when Miles mistook the Christmas pushpin for a sexy lady on the Christmas burlesque? Was that this year? See, this is the thing that gets me. I'm like, yeah, that was just a couple months ago. But it could have been five Christmases ago. I have no idea.

Maybe it was two years ago. Yeah. But I do remember, yeah, it was last year. I thought that thing was fucking thick. The dummy thick pushpin. Yeah. It was just a pushpin on a, map of burlesque shows, like Christmas theme burlesque shows, and you were horny for it.

I don't know why. I just saw like an hourglass shape. I think it was like those scenes like where like a cartoon animal starving and they see like a mirage. And then they're like, that thing's a ham. Yeah. Oh, and then Victor said, Miles was extremely sick too. Yeah, that happens at the end of the year. That's an annual tradition to me getting ill.

My body gives up. But yeah, we all. I will just say it too hard. Yeah, I have a depraved mind. I thought that pushpin was dumb thick. So it is what it is. We also have a, I, this was something I figured out on the air was that as a kid, I never, I never dove into a pool for like the majority of my life.

And then you guys got to hear me be like, I did my first dive into a pool, guys. I was like, I was like, it's so fun. Why? Why didn't I do that as a kid? And I realized that I just like had a fear of going upside down because I also wouldn't do like flips on trampolines or somersaults. So just me being a person who can't go

upside down is fun. That one was courtesy of Portland Zite gang. The pushpin one was from an anonymous comment. Yeah, wasn't me. Don't worry. It wasn't me. Miles doing a bit on Mickey shooting someone when they did

the like Mickey horror movie. Oh, that's right. Yeah, look at you. You're all wet now. You're all wet now. I don't even, when I read that, I'm like, yeah, definitely said that shit. But I can't, I didn't realize was that because of Steamboat Willie going into the public domain? Yeah, and then coming up with like violent ways to re-contextualize Steamboat Willie.

Could be. Yeah. Could also be something totally different. But I do remember laughing so hard at, ha-ha, look, you're all wet. Yeah. I was courtesy of Paul Fay, Glasgow. Oh, right. Shout out the Glaswegian Zite gang.

Yeah, yeah. We love y'all. And this is one that really feels like it, I don't know how this didn't become part of lore. This is from ancient crone, Christina, who said Miles repeatedly told his story of catching his dog's shit in his hand, midterred while in an airport to avoid the shame and public scrutiny of others and as an ode to his Japanese culture of not inconveniencing anyone else. 100%. I could not be that person who had the dog full. I feel like this needs to be lore. It can be, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, multiple people have definitely brought up. Yeah. Because then people have also brought up the story of your old dog, too, with bad, bad poo, bad poo experience that I think you had. Did I tell that story on this show where we went when I was shopping for my wife's engagement ring? And he went into the ring store and took a wild messy shit. No, wait, I didn't know that. I think you had another dog traveling with dog messy story.

Oh, yeah, yeah. That's the one I'm talking about. My dog's shit everywhere, wait. So you bought, wait, when you bought an engagement ring, when I bought an engagement ring, I brought my dog with me because I didn't have a dog sitter. And he took the nastiest shit in this engagement ring store. And it was, it was not. They weren't like, you know, they're very nice when you're buying. Yeah, because obviously you're buying a fucking ring.

They're like, hey, would you like some water? They were like, get the fuck out. They were so mad at me. I just can't control my dog. Yeah, you come in for, just somehow you go in for your engagement ring and then the dog you bring just shits all over the floor. What a, uh,

you hate to see it. But also I would love to see it. Because it wasn't me. It wasn't me. All right. And these are things that border on lower or vocal stem. These just come up all over and over again. Astro pointed out,

it's what it is or it's what it's. It's what it's. We found ourselves, for some reason, during the course of recording this podcast about news, we found ourselves saying it is what it is quite a bit. And then we just thought it's funny to use the contraction for that one. Tighten it up. It's cleaner. Actually, Justin Timberlake came in to consult on the show.

It said, by the way, it's what it's. It's cleaner. Also, we simply don't know. Yeah, that was another one. We simply don't know. I feel that really hit the peak during the Mueller stuff. Mueller elections. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's going to happen? We simply don't know. Because the Superduser, Justin, have a lot of work to do in the background on these shows. So they come out three days after we record them. So there's a lot of stuff that we don't know. We're just guessing. He's got so much shit to work through from us.

We just got to call our shots. Yeah. The other one, I feel like let us go is another one I saw too for let's go. Oh, yeah. Instead of let's go. Let us go. Yeah, I feel like, yeah. And these are things that break their way into my day-to-day vocabulary and are only appreciated by you on this podcast.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. When I say, let us go. No, no. Doesn't connect with the kids. I tried doing that. They don't care. Twisters and people getting sucked off into the sky. Another favorite.

This is one of my favorite things that you've ever said on the show, Miles. You came back from screening the movie Twisters with Hermage, and you were laser-focused. Dude, I came in with a mission. You were like, oh, I got my underrated. Monday morning. I had already seen Twisters. I've never been more jealous of a take. That should have been my case.

There's no other, because the first movie was missing that. This one, they were getting, I have no other way to describe it, just straight sucked off into the sky. Yes. And I'm saying sucked off because of the change in pressure with air. They created a vacuum in which they were sucked off. Yeah, sucked off into the sky. It was something you didn't really see. The first Twister movie,

was like getting hit with a lot of debris and cows and shit. Yeah, they were being cowards. But this one, they were like, guys, we got a new innovation in cinema. And it is the characters being sucked off into the sky. Yeah. This was one that I was so glad to see Get Some Love, the Rocky quote. An obscure quote from Rocky 5, Rocky 6, Rocky Balboa. It's like later era Rocky, not Canon Rocky at all.

But you got stuck on this one. moment where it's so stupid i just remember watching the movie and being so mad because he's talking in court and they're like bro you can't fight and he has like this one thing where he remembers wait hold on you know don't i got some rights he's he's already accepted the judge's decision and he's walking out having been like legally yeah you can't you can't fight bro and then he turns around last second and gives that. Hey, don't I got right? Don't I got some rights? You said that every episode for yeah, it's so stupid. That was Thursday, Rachel and Tacoma, Washington. Yeah, it's just a fun, it's a, just the idea that you got like, as if you had like a coupon on you and you forgot to give it

at the transaction. Wait, don't I got, wait, don't I got some rights? Like, something is fundamentally important to your fucking freedom as a human being, like your human rights. You're like, oh, that's That's right. Legal defense as afterthought. Yeah. All right. I can't do it. All right,

Your Honor. Thanks a lot. Wait, don't I got rights? Andrew Bubb from the Discord reminded us of Christmas hams, which that still comes up. Christmas hams is another one.

Yeah. Like Christmas hams, we still reference anyone who's got jacked arms, those are straight up Christmas hams. Yeah, because he was into men like men's arm. It's the most macho shit.

Strong men. And it's kind of in the same family for me as when Trump would talk about, like, big, brave general is coming up to me. Tears in their eyes. Right, right, right. A lot of people talked about big brave generals coming up, tears in their eyes. I didn't see a lot of people pointing out that he was also horny for those Christmas hams. No, no, because some people are cowards. Let's see.

Cousie and Amy in deep red, Aston, Pennsylvania brought up the Miss Piggy Karate chop, which is, currently a vocal stem from the Miss Piggy iconograph episode. Sorry, Justin. Chop the whole mic. Aaron Hatch brought up how you do that.

How you do that is definitely been up there. How you do that? For the, yeah, the Trump computer. How does Barron so good at computers? How is Barron so? Robert also said Carvel voice. Yeah.

Yeah. Love a bit of Carville voice. He hadn't been talking to. He hasn't been saying nothing recently. Yeah, he's saying, just wait still, laid like a dead possum for the fascist alligator to bite you. And then you wake up and you say, surprise, but it's too late. Surprise, mother.

Surprise. I do, just the had you do that, because we were listening to on the trends yesterday, we were listening to an old Trump quote, oh, right, the mom, I want a vape. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're coming home and they're saying, Ma, I want to vape. I definitely belong to this category.

I fucking forgot that one. So honestly, that was such a good pull. I forget who. Let me just search really quick because that was. Yeah, hold up. That's from the before people were giving their names. That's anon. That isn't a non.

Yep. Yep. But guess what? You did, just so you know, you submitted it on January 22nd at 12.01, if that jars anyone's better. We love you for it. We love you for it, folks. But also just the contrast between his speech when he's talking about Ma I want a Vap versus him telling the story about Baron being able to turn on and off his laptop

and being like, how you did it? Yeah. Is a marked devolution of the human mind. But yeah, the clip where the Ma I Want to Vap, just at the beginning, he's like trying, he's just doing this whole campaign about vapes and being, you know, marketed towards kids. If you remember, he got a lot of pushback because they're like, don't fucking come for my vapes. And he's like, oh, you know, we'll tweak that a little bit. But this is the full clip of him talking about it.

We have a problem in our country. It's a new problem. It's a problem of nobody really thought about too much a few years ago. And it's called vaping, especially vaping as it pertains to innocent children. as it pertains to. Yeah, yeah, as it pertinent. This is when he was still using just being very verbose. Miles, my eyes aren't too good.

Is that Bill Shakespeare over there? And they're coming home and they're saying, Mom, I want a vape. All right. Mom, I want a vape. That is how kids get in trouble. They come home and they tell their mom, mom, I want a vape. I remember.

I came home and I was like, Ma, I want to twist my first L. I don't need a razor blade for this Garcia Vega. Ma, I'm using my thumbnails. She didn't know. And then finally, just last vocal stem that, and there are so many more, but these are the ones that you guys shouted out that really resonated is, I want to fight me, da, which is a Matt Lieb quote that I try and shout out every time

it happens, but it's, it has invaithes. me, my brain, my seven-year-old now says it. Oh, yeah, great. Yeah, like to see him try it. Tell you what. I'm training him. You better watch out. A lot of people reference my Kravma God training.

I'm also infuse his brain with terrible non-self-defense classes that were just ways to assault people, which shouldn't be surprising. Give him those Elvis karate classes. Yeah. In retrospect, having a class fully being top. by former IDF guys was never going to be like, here's how you defend yourself. It's all like,

here's how I'm going to use my skills to fucking beat the shit out of somebody. I badly injure somebody who isn't expecting me to attack them. Exactly. And that's how I win. That's how I went. Should we take a break and come back with the big lore, the big stories, you got your me piss in my pants.

You got your, oh, so you're a tough guy. We're going to hit some of the biggest ones in the Daily Zyke. Guise Hall of lore when we come back. We'll be right back. Welcome to the A building. I'm Hans Charles. I'm in Lake Lamuba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had both been assassinated. And Black America is out a breaking point. Writing and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale. In Atlanta, Georgia, at Martin's Almermata, Morehouse College, the students had their own protest. It featured two

prominent figures in black history. Martin Luther King's senior and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. To be in what we really thought was a revolution. I mean, people would die. 1968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago. This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should, and it will blow your mind.

Listen to the A-building on the I-Heart Radio Act. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused.

Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. NLP, aka neurolinguistic programming, is a blend of hypnosis, linguistics, and psychology. Fans say it's like finally getting a user manual for your brain. It's about engineering consciousness. Mind games is the story of NLP. It's crazy cast of disciples and the fake doctor who invented it at a new age commune and sold it to guys in suits.

He stood trial for murder and got acquitted. The biggest mind game of all? NLP might actually work. This is wild. Listen to Mind Games on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the on-purpose podcast. On a recent episode, I sat down with Nick Jonas, singer, songwriter, actor, and global superstar. The thing I would say to my younger self is congratulations.

You get to marry Priyanka Chopra Jonas. And also, you know, your daughter is incredible. That's beautiful, man. Yeah, thank you. That's so beautiful. I can see that got you a little. Yeah, for sure. Our daughter, she came to the world under sort of very intense circumstances,

which I'd not really talked about ever. Growing up on Disney in front of a million, how did that shape your sense of self? I went blank. I hit a bad note, then I couldn't kind of recover. And I had built up this idea that music and being musician was my whole identity. I had to sort of reliant. learn who I was if you took this thing away. Who am I?

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about how there are much better cars being made and sold in China that America, like, doesn't know shit about because they're not allowed. Like a Wall Street Journal columnist got to drive one for a week and was like what? They were fucked up after.

They were like going to withdrawals. Yeah. And that mixed with this story that we're talking about today just has me feeling like America is in this weird prohibitionary period where

it's just like everything's set up so that you aren't allowed to have like good stuff. You just have to have like mediocre bad stuff and pay corporations as much fucking money as possible. I'm going to need to give you guys another pep to. I've done this, I think, in previous appearance. The vibe, Jack, is dire.

Okay, I'll let you get into the story and explain this. And then I'm going to tell you guys later in the episode why, you know, you can have a little bit of pride in being an American and there's light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe we'll see how it go. All right. So they have this article about pirate streaming boxes that allow you to actually. has cable and other services for free once you buy the box. So you like, buy the box and then you don't have to subscribe to anything because it allows

you to steal it. And there, a lot of them, this article says they're not being sold at Walmart. Miles found them on Walmart. Yeah, they're on Walmart.com. I mean, it's like they're selling the technology. And I think it's like Walmart, you know, it's like sort of like Amazon too where it's like they were selling like Nazi shit that they don't have in the stores. But you can use Walmart.com as like a marketplace.

for you might order this and then get a picture of the technology right right right right like in the mail but they're being sold at like farmers markets and like just you know there's like dealers barbershops yeah craigslist yeah the article says superbox and its main competitor vc box are gaining in popularity is consumers get fed up with what tv has become pay tv bundles are incredibly expensive streaming services are costly or every year and you need to sign up for multiple services just to catch your favorite sports team every time they play. The hardware itself is generic and legal, so these boxes are generic and legal, but you won't find them at mainstream stores because everyone knows the point is accessing illegal streaming services that offer every single channel show and movie you can think of.

Sounds like a great deal. And our, Brian the editor, we were talking about this today because he's always been a, you know, hypothetical advocate for piracy. And he was just saying that, like, it's actually easier to pirate things now than to, like, figure out where to stream something and then, like, buy that, buy it on that streaming service, and then have it disappear. And, like, pirating used to be, the issue used to be that you had to, like, do work to, like, go find it. But now it's like, no, that's actually, it's the easier way to do things.

For sure. People forget we've been through this before as well with the music industry in the early 2000s. Everyone was pirating everything for about a little under 10 years. Or maybe like sort of five years it got super super hot. Napster took off. I was part of the limewire era. Hell yeah. Cazard.

You know what I mean? And then all the record companies went, this is unacceptable. And then Steve Jobs went, we got a product that could solve this. And that's how iPod took off. And it's like they've completely forgotten that if you make things easy enough for consumers to get, they won't pirate ship. But all these TV networks are so so greedy. They can't work together to figure out a way to sort of serve the consumer. So confusing the overlapping agreements they have.

They're like, well, if you get one month of Netflix, you actually get three months of Hulu. And you're like, what the fuck? I thought, I used to. And as a parent as well, I'm like, I just need to know where Paw Patrol is. And they'll be like, okay, well, season one to five is on Disney Plus, but you've got to go over to Netflix. Pau Patrol is every one. Yeah. So what?

Pau Patrol is scattered across the, like, streaming services, like caught like a plain wreckage. Like, it's like, okay, you can get the third episode. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But yeah, it's almost like the U.S. is a massive scheme for extracting wealth from people and giving it to court. Almost. Almost as if it's almost like that. It's almost like we live in a world like that. Like, if someone made a movie where that was the case, it would almost be like that.

Yeah, kind of. Kind of, a little bit. Miles, we were talking about this years ago with the rep sneakers, like industry where you can get basically identical sneakers for cheaper in, like, from other countries. Yeah, from China, basically. Yeah. There's just, like, a lot of ways that now that corporations for so long in the U.S. have been in the game of, like, not thinking about the consumer, whatsoever, just thinking about how do we capture this audience and like fucking twist their arm on their back and make them pay us as much money or like trick them into paying us as much

money by like offering them three free months and then like no ability to cancel. Like it's just going to be more and more like prohibition where everyone is just going to be like fuck this and like also as everything else gets more and more expensive. Sure. It is like that. I mean like, To Tim's point, like, millennials, we grew up pirating shit because a lot of time we were like kids who couldn't afford to buy the album. So it's like, fuck it. I'm going to use BitTorn or whatever. I learned how to edit and video and make music through wares that I allegedly downloaded, like a final cut or logic or whatever.

Don't say allegedly when you're saying the illegal thing you did. Allegedly, I may have. I think the allegedly came too late in that series of. I may have allegedly. Now, I don't know. But anyway, but like to that point, it's like, we have this reflex in us to be like, shit's too expensive, bro. I can get it.

And I'm not going to pay full price for it. And I think that's naturally, yeah, now it's naturally extending itself to like, to your point, Jack also of like, they keep twisting your arm, twisting your arm. And they don't think the reflex from consumers are going to be like, well, what's the path of least resistance now? Some guys just told me at a farmer's market, I paid $200 for this box, and I'll have everything forever for free. Yeah.

It is crazy to me that there is this sort of, I don't know, American belief that you can just keep twisting the arm, twisting the arm. On a, like, bigger scale, I just finished reading this book. I didn't finish reading it, I finished a book, which for me, huge, absolutely huge update. Tim. Anytime I read a New Yorker article, I talk about it no less than five times. You should. You should. Get your money's worth.

So, fucking proud. Did you read the whole magazine? No, just one of the articles. No, just the one article. I got to the end. I got to the end of the article. This book called Apple and China, which charts the, like, you cannot really overestimate the influence that Apple has had on China and now the importance that China

has on Apple. But Apple basically came in, and there were all of these entrepreneurial tech manufacturers in China who just went, look, we don't need to make any money ourselves, but we need to learn how to make high-tech stuff. So if you kind of allow us to make your gear effectively at cost with, you know, pretty low labor costs, to put it kindly, and they were bang up these factories, these huge factories that were like, you know,

multiple football fields big inside of a month, there was the story of like Tim Cook walking around a rice paddy and the guy who's in charge of Foxcom being like, yeah, so in six weeks from now, this will be pumping out iPods for you. And it fucking was. Right. It's crazy.

Just the scale of it all. And I think America hasn't really had a big competition for a while. And now that China is a capitalist country that now has taught itself through Apple how to do all this high-tech manufacturing, it's like you said with the cars. Like, finally, there is some competition. And I think these companies are going to have to wake up to the fact that they can't. It's too late, though. But I think it's like American companies have been so popped up on American exceptionalism that they completely lost sight of the fact that the rest of the world was like really beginning

to creep ahead in a lot of these certain areas. Because like even with the EV thing, Jackie was talking about the Ford guy that went there and he came back from China. He's like, oh, fuck. He was like, we're fucked. We're so fucked. Tim, the CEO of Ford keeps being like, we are so fucked. They're so much better at this.

Their cars are so good. They're so fucking good, dude. The latest thing. I heard this yesterday, apparently, this was on the news. China is going to make it illegal to have those Tesla-style door handles that are recessed into the middle of the car because they're too dangerous. Dangerous. They keep catching fire and then locking people in the vehicle because they're not mechanical.

They're electric. Right. And so they're like, from now on, they're going to, that's great. Good on you, China. I fucking hate those door handles. It's so stupid. That makes me feel like an idiot. It's just having at the like C-suite level

the beginnings of a thought of the consumer. And they, that is the reason that the U.S., because I agree with Miles that it's not going to happen. America is going to go through a long losing streak before it bounces back and like starts competing. And the reason that we're going to hear in the mainstream media is, well, our failing schools and like,

you know, with American kids are lazy or, you know, shit. Like, it's going to be blamed on the people. But the real reason is that everything in the corporate world is focused on wealth extraction and not focused on serving the consumer in any way and hasn't been for a long time. It's the inshittification boomerang, basically. Yeah, yeah, it's just an inshittification. Sure, maybe you got a lot of money out of all the inshittification you've done to consumer products and apps and things like that.

But in the meantime, other countries have been knuckling up. up and in the fucking lab trying to be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, it's time, it's time. I was going to say not New Zealand, but I just remember we do have something. We've got rocket lab. Oh, what's that? We're making rockets here now. We're like, I think the third biggest rocket launcher in the world, which is insane because there's only 5 million people who live in this whole country.

Oh, man. We got all those New Zealand. Don't fuck with me, guys. We make rockets now, okay? We're in the way. Yeah. We're in the mix. That's legit. That's legit. Yeah, we're only exporting the worst shit right now. So good on you. Yeah, which includes rockets. Yeah. J.M. Our writer pointed out that a lot of older people have these boxes for the exact reason we're talking about because it's, it's too confusing for us to like find where everything is and like navigate all the fucking subscriptions and like, you know, figure out when to cancel the ones and, you know, just juggle all those things. And like for old, imagine being an old person.

So like getting a box where it's just like one streaming service that rhymes with Ubi on it. You know? Yeah. Like they're just going to do that shit. Yeah. I mean, I think also it's, I feel like a lot of like immigrant diaspora communities, fuck with this technology too because it's the easiest way to see shit from your home country too. Yeah.

And they're like selling it to each other like Tupper. Yeah. They're like, how do I watch that this shit from back home? They're like, yo, bro, get one of the fucking. skyboxes or whatever the fuck they're selling. Yeah. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah, they go through like the different people. They're like, the economy paints a full picture of America and characters abound.

And it's just like Christian conservative from Utah who pitches them as like a way to drain the swamp. Idaho based smart home vendor. Midwestern church ladies in Illinois, Indian uncles in New Jersey. MMA fighters, wedding DJs, special ed teachers, just modern day boot. They call it a modern day. day bootlegging scheme where they're like selling them out of their car trunks. Yeah. Because yeah.

Like why the fuck not? I just feel like more of the economy is going to become this. It's just like that it's that the US like the corporations are going to become easier and easier to be because they suck at their job. The same thing with like rep sneakers, right? A lot of people like, oh, how could you buy replica sneakers, bro? They're not the real thing. And you're like, I don't give a fuck.

Yeah. It's the real thing anymore. Like that's a weird illusion. thing for you. Like, I like the shape and color of this thing. If it's that, that is fine for me. I don't need it to be quote unquote real. And I think as, especially as the cost of living goes up, less and less people are going to be like, oh, you don't got the real Netflix subscription. It's like, no fucking idiot. I'm saving $7,000 a fucking year with my pirate box, each shit. By the way, getting rep sneakers. I was made to realize how good an idea it is when Miles and I were

in Las Vegas for this NBA convention. and I wore my best sneakers and a teenager walked up to me and was like, hey, nice reps. Yeah. And now it's almost like, he might have been big in the floor.

Yes. Oh, Miles saw. He spiraled. He spiraled before we were boarding. He's like, what do you think he meant by that? And I was like,

I was like, I was like, who gives this shit, bro? He don't even know the real, real like that. And it doesn't even fucking matter, bro.

Like, yeah. They're not reps. Yeah. I know. I'm like, let it go. Miles,

should I go tell them they're not ready? Let it go. I can show him where on my phone where. My wife got me these. Hold on. Let me text her so she can send me the email confirmation. Look at this receipt. Look at this receipt 15 year old.

There's a rips. Excuse me. Why are you talking to my son? He thought my shoes were fucking reps, lady. That's why. What? I'm sorry. I'm calling the police.

And then just another detail from like back in the day, American capitalism is this Cracker Barrel story. This was the top U.S. Google search at the beginning of this week was Cracker Barrel because it leaked that they're now stressing that employees are expected to dine at Cracker Barrel store for all or the majority of meals while traveling whenever practical based on location and schedule. Can I float a balloon here? Yeah.

Yes. Cracker Barrel is engaged in esoteric public relations. strategies. So you think this is part of it? I'm just after watching all of the bullshit with the full circle, we're changing the logo. We've changed the logo. For some reason, conservatives care a lot that we change the logo. We've changed the logo back. And it's, it was an expense, everyone kind of got focused on how much it costs to do the rebranding. But in terms of the exposure in the media, that the, you know, the conversation that Cracker Barrel got to be a part of for how much they spent. It was,

invaluable. Maybe I've been reading too much Epstein shit and I'm just connecting every conceivable dot, whether it's there or not. But this smells to me like Cracker Barrel has really figured something out about being part of the news cycle to have mind share among the American consumer. And I'm wondering if they're like, what if we like a memo saying that we only let our employees eat our food and that's it. What if people thought we were a really shitty company? Maybe they'll come back. Well, that's because that's interesting. I mean, like, you know, from their, like, last earnings at the last, like, end of last year, they were, the sales were down, like, revenues down. So it wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, I know, color me, cracker, but I don't,

I don't believe it. I'm, also, I've never been to one. What food do they have there? What is, what is cracker barrels deal? Southern home cooking, like, stick to your arteries good. Yeah, yeah. The, the thing that I heard there, that was pretty good. when I was like, you know, in high school, I think the only time I ate there, when I lived in Kentucky was biscuits and gravy. I think it was the first time I had like biscuits and gravy with like sausage gravy.

Oh, wow. That shit was, it hit. Poor deprive child. How old are you when he first had it? Like 17. Oh, no. Oh, God. Fuck out.

Yeah, I mean, it feels like they're like at the same way, like, you know, Sidney Sweeney, like with that, bra thing. Like, everyone's kind of doing this sort of like asymmetrical marketing thing. Is it a, is it a, or just sort of like, was it a controversy or is our name back in the news? Right. You know, I could see. I'm delighted to hear it's not translating to sales for them. I'm delighted to hear that, you know. Yeah, yeah.

They're trying to be too clever by half. It's like, alternatively, make better food. Yeah. And also that. Just make, just make affordable food. I'm telling, it's like, it feels like the low. hanging fruit business ideas, like, if you just made a little less money on the food, the volume in sales would probably go through the fucking roof, like how people just eat Costco pizza all the time. It's just like, they're like, dude, we're not making a ton of money, but we sell a fuck ton of these. We are in a weird moment, right? Because you guys are kind of, like, all the things you've mentioned so far, it reminds me of what's happening with AI at the moment.

Like, there are problems to solve right now, both, you know, big problems and consumer There are things that people want. There are products. There are things that people want their products and services to do that they're not currently doing. But instead, like, these absolute dickheads in the C-suite are just coming up with the craziest shit that no one wants. Like, AI being the ultimate example of that.

It was like, okay, everyone would like, you know, a stable video platform to do their meetings on so they can do their work. And Microsoft's like, oh, cool, you want an AI. You want clippy on methamphetamines to just watch every screen and basically be a key logger inside of Windows 11. Like what Microsoft has done recently to Windows is got to be in history books for business classes and taught for the rest of time, that they had absolute market dominance and essentially got bored. And so we're all in on AI completely fucked their operating system that everyone has to the point where everyone's now going like, Like, okay, I guess I've got to learn Linux now.

Right, right, right. Driving them to their competition because they got bored and inserted this AI thing into every part of their operating system. No one wants this shit. Because I think, again, it's like all those ideas are just, they all circle back to the just greed aspect of it. They wouldn't have integrated, like all these companies wouldn't be integrating all this AI into shit if they weren't all super over leveraged in investing in AI because they were

told like, this is a fucking next wave, man. How does it make money? We'll put ads in it. Stop trying to make infinite money. People used to be called just making an amount of money, making some profit. Great. Everyone was saying, you know, we had shareholders getting a cut. Employees were getting paid.

CEOs would get more than the employees. Okay, everybody's going home to their family. It's very nice. Everyone's now trying to chase an infinite money glitch. But unfortunately, like the biggest assholes are actually, have the resources now to enact the craziest version of trying to get it done, making all these data centers. It's maddening.

The money and power has been concentrated at the highest levels for so long that they've just completely, they're like, what if we can take the consumers out of it? They're mentally ill. I am so convinced that now, like, having that much money has rotted their brains. You're not a human being anymore. You actually have become some kind of like zombified automaton who only chases like more and more wealthy. extraction more and more profit at the cost of everything. It doesn't matter if the fucking earth you live on dies. Yeah.

Because your end game is like line go up. And yeah, like I think for all those people, especially who are insulated with that kind of wealth, they don't, they're not actually even living the, the form of like day-to-day life that the majority of people on this planet do. And like, yeah. We should be institutionalizing these people. And I am dead serious about this. Like we should worry about you guys.

We're not trying to. Do a guillotine. We're worried. No, no, no, no. Oh, my God. You're behaving in a very crazy way. You're obsessed with numbers. You're obsessed with graphs.

We're going to put you in a rubber room for six months and try and get you reattached to your humanity. Because where you're at right now, you're a danger to yourself and society. So we've got to remove you for a little bit. So, yeah, don't worry, Jeff Bezos. We're not coming with a guillotine. It'll be about 7,000 of us with folding chairs just right outside your door. You're going to come on and go, hey, Jeff,

Jeff, we're really worried about you. All of these people are really worried about you. Just want to sit down and talk. We're all here because we care about you, Jeff. And also, yeah, don't set the guillotine up yet. But anyway, let's see what he said. But when the, like, I feel like we've been on this path for a long time. I first realized, like, how fucked it was when the pandemic happened, the economy took a shit.

And Wall Street just stayed up, just magically stayed perfectly still. It's just like they've figured out how to eat. insulate all that shit from what's actually happening in the world to people. Yeah. They can keep their money. They've figured out like the financial models and shit. And they call that economy. Yeah.

And so now that has been totally broken off from the actual consumers, the actual people who the economy is supposed to serve and like, you know, be a part. Like you make a great product that people want that helps people's lives. And they've, they don't, they've lost sight of that. purpose because they don't need it anymore because they're just paying each other back and forth a bunch of money. Could we all pitch something? Could we come up with an invention right now off the top of the dime of what people actually want?

Oh, I mean, yeah, let's do it. A box. I'll give you one. I'll give you one right now, top of my head. Here we go. A consumer need that's not being met. Here's the thing. It's a thing that attaches to new cars.

So like, especially EVs that have got those huge. screens and everything's like a touch control. Oh, my. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Put something on the steering wheel that turns it into buttons, tactile buttons that I can push to do the things that the touch screen's supposed to do so don't crash the car. Tim, you'll never guess who's already thought of that, mate. Oh, really? Bloody China. The Chinese car that we were talking about yesterday that the Wall Street Journal reviewed was like. And they have this amazing thing that magnetically attaches under the thing.

So you actually have buttons instead of the fucking, yeah, I swear to God. They're in a magical world where they're still paying attention to consumers and making products for them. Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying. I was saying this on yesterday's episode, like we are in the village, the M-night Shyamalan movie, the village where they're like, don't fucking even. You don't need to learn about what's happening outside of here. It's all fucked up and spooky. It's so modern and futuristic.

Yeah. That bit couldn't have gone better. Wow. Yeah. Perfect. Congratulations, China. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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You have to go find a famous actor from a famous movie. from the past when people feel like we didn't have problems back then. That was a different America where we could ignore the white supremacy in this country. Can I give my theory on this? Yeah. I feel like they're trying to boomerify our generation. So they're pulling back all the nostalgia for like millennials in order to get us to stop caring about like social justice so that we will just like spend money as though we have it like the boomers do. So I feel like that's why they're like pulling out all these like characters.

and they're like, don't worry. Remember when you were a kid? I think they're actually stupider than that to the point that they have no ideas and they look at a wall of old tapes and go, have we done this one yet again? That's also fair. Maybe, maybe.

I think the reason it was so attractive to boomers. I think you're right. And like the reason it was so attractive to boomers is because they were in the process of ignoring a lot of shit to just be like, yeah, but the 60s were fun. fucking cool, right? You know? But we don't want to think too much about what what our country's wealth is built on.

But they had a financial boom period of the 80s and 90s, which is very different. And so they were able to sort of really insulate themselves with all kinds of creature comforts to really dead. I feel like they're trying to work it backwards as though we have money. Right. Yeah. What if you had money like your parents? Yeah.

And so a lot of where they're pointing the propaganda is the 80s and 90s. when something I've talked about before is the dependency ratio where like the period where a glut of people in your country is going through the working age is your country is just inevitably going to do better financially than it has in the past. And that was when the baby boom was going from 18 to 65 and like reaching the peak of their money making capabilities. And lo and behold, America, like, has a booming economy. And obviously, the baby boomers don't want to make it about that. But it's just, like, sort of a demographic thing that happens that, like, supercharges

your economy. But so those were the boom times and the 80s and 90s. And so they're like how we. They were the boom of times. That's right. I just think, like, I look at that time and I get angry. Yeah. The 80s and 90s?

Well, yeah, or even the 90s, really the 90s for me that I'm like, bro, this, like, because especially as a dad, I'm like, brother, it'll never be like that for my kid. Not to say like everything was right or anything, but I'm like, we're so far gone from what the norms are even then. And it happened so fucking quickly. Like, I cannot get over the fact that like my parents' generation, like, and my generation, everybody wanted to come to the U.S. And now, like, the generation below is like, fuck no, I don't want to get killed in a mass shooting. Yeah. It's like, it like is the entire like immigrant identity is like the American dream.

And the fact that my parents are like, oh, no, yeah, it's gone. I'm like, oh, shit, you get that you can't just walk into a store and do a firm handshake and handover a resume. Right, right, right, exactly, yeah. I think that's very cool of your parents. I think most people in that age cohort are like, and the reason is because of TikTok and your generation. Yeah, my parents are pretty, pretty cool. But so in order to be risk-free, you know, ads are just, there to make you feel good, make you have positive associations. So they're just like,

how do we reference the 80s and 90s? Last year we got an ad in which Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan re-team does Harry and Sally to Hawk orgasm deploying mayonnaise, like mayonnaise that gives you orgasms, I guess. I don't even remember that one. That's honestly why I thought white people loved mayonnaise. So this whole time. That's the only explanation. Can't be the taste. I was like, that's their K-Y jelly, to be fair. But yeah, like, during the, this started in the pandemic, and it's just like as political polarization increases, they're like, when do we go back to a time when Joe Biden could have lunch with the biggest racist in Congress? And everybody felt good about that. They even did a Ferris Bueller one.

I think that was the big one where everybody was like, hell yeah, where Matthew Broderick was in a car commercial, even though he was involved in a horrible. But that's for Gen X, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. So they've got the ultimate nostalgia bait Super Bowl ad this year with, and it's brought to you by corporate consolidation. Comcast Xfinity, which owns. Oh, like the T-Mobile ads with all the scrubs people. And that shit was huge last year, too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the premise of the commercial is Comcast X-Finity would have worked out, would have worked out the time. problems that Jurassic Park had like if Comcast Xfinity was just around yeah then you we wouldn't have had to all collectively hold on to our butts it's really stupid you guys keep saying hold onto your butts but I've been holding my butt this whole conversation so I see your hands in frame I see your hands in frame what's the other one doing I don't know what's the other one doing I don't know I don't know same fix or did it happen doesn't take 10 I can't I can't I only have one hand for I got hand on both my cheese

Hollander and Rosanov right now. And I'm lifting myself up. That's what I call my butt cheeks now. I pull myself up by my butt straps. My butt cheeks. Y'all would put up yourself by the bootstraps. I was pulling myself up by my butt cheeks. Samuel L. Jackson said, hold on to your butts in the movie.

What were you picturing? Were you picturing both hands on the cakes, like squeezing your butt together so you don't poop yourself? That's the traditional way to do it. But I am but sexual. So that's why I only have one. One hand. A one-handed butt grab? Yeah.

I mean, you feel like, because there's two cheeks. You know, you got to respect them both. You can take turns. You know what I mean? Yeah, or if you got a big, like, Javon Kirst style hand, maybe you could just grab a hold of both with one. But the way that, like, commercial unfolds because it's like all around the moment where the, like, the shit goes haywire right in front of the T-Rex pen.

And then Sam Jackson's like, I hate this hacker crap. Well, he doesn't say that. But then, like, the Xfinity guys is like, hey, how about Xfinity? just refires up Jurassic Park and they skip all of the bad part and then it's all about how chill Jurassic Park is because nothing bad went wrong. First of all,

it's directed by Tyco Watiti. Bro, he's killed. He did that Mountain Dew commercial with Seal last year, I'm pretty sure. Wow. That is crazy. He's just like, bro, I know where my bread is buttered. Yes.

Yeah. But it incorporates footage from the original movie and then they also bring back the original stars Sam Neal, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, and do a Irishman-style de-aging, but not quite that good. It's somewhere between the Irishman and the Polar Express movie where Tom Hanks plays everyone and the eyes are dead.

There's one shot where Jeff Goldblum's, his face is completely wrong. Like his nose and eyes don't look like his at all. It's just like they got the skin tone and basic shape, right? And I'm like, you certainly couldn't have let this happen. And Sam Neal looks like he's perpetually melting in certain shots. Like, where like one half is just really smooth on his face. Like you have no idea how they.

He looks like he got yassified, like face tuned. Yeah. In a weird way. And I guess like even as I watch it, I'm just like, fuck, dude, no. Like, yuck. This is not. I mean, I love Jurassic Park, but this is like the dumbest shit you could have done. with it. Wait, you don't, you're not

a fan of corporate synergy? Because Comcast is the owner of NBC Universal, Universal owns Jurassic Park, NBC's broadcasting the Super Bowl this year, come on. Oh, shit. How many people got boners in their fucking suits? I'm not going to

hold this against Laura Dern. I'm just not going to, I'm going to pretend like she never did it. She's the gay icon. Yeah, yeah. Well, and like, when I think about her famous quote from Big Little Lies, I will never not be rich. When she says that, I'm like, I will never

not be rich. I'm like, hell, yeah. Like, you know what, Laura Durant? And honestly, she actually ended up looking the best out of all three of them. Yeah. Because women have to do that to their faces in real life. They're already given the technology a boost. Or maybe it just didn't, yeah.

Or I think because she's, she's, she looks great. Like, as she's aged, you know what I mean? So maybe the computer was less fucked up trying to just slightly. do things where it's like Sam Neal was like, are you? Is this Sam Neal? Yeah, I think she and Jeff Goldblum got the best of it. Yeah, and Jeff Goldblum even didn't get the best of it. Yeah, let's see.

It's a weird ad because he fixes it with Wi-Fi, which obviously doesn't exist at the time. Okay. They're taking like selfies with the T-Rex and stuff. Yeah. Also, the root cause of the disaster was that they wouldn't pay Nedri. They really, this ad is full of Nedri erasure. Oh, yeah.

Which I think the premise is, what if this guy was the tech guy instead of Nedry? The reason Nedri fucked off, and they don't even have, they show the screen that is like password denied, password denied. They don't have him saying, ah, ah, you didn't say the magic word, which you fucked up. That's one of the most iconic parts of the movie. But the reason he fucked off, like in the book, I think they're even more specific. about it was because they, like, wouldn't pay him. And so he was like, all right, I'm going to sell these two other people. But yeah, he went extracurricular with it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, gosh, we've cut dots in here. I really do think, though, this Xfinity commercial is what Michael

Crichton had in mind when he wrote this whole thing. Sure. I think that's the underpinnings of it. Yeah. I was wondering, like, why did, was it way night like, you know, uh, pushed out? out, but it's probably because him being there completely ruins, like, the facade of what this commercial was trying to do. I'm like, no, you have it all wrong. And also, shit had to go wrong for them to understand what they were doing was backwards in the first place. Yeah.

But, yeah, the whole movie's central premise is that all the characters all object to the park's ethically objectionable science and capitalistic exploitation of the natural world, even before the system goes offline. And this is just like, nah, everybody's happy. Like, the Sam Neal is like calling someone being like, I enthusiastically endorse the opening of this park. I thought the whole thing of original Jurassic Park was supposed to adopt don't shop. I thought that's why they were. Is that not?

No, it may have changed. Oh, okay. All my dynos are rescues. so I don't know what you guys are talking about. The goat budget, though. Oh, man. Oh, God. Pet smart.

They just deliver directly to my home now. A universal rep literally stated that they want this ad to both promote Comcast's Wi-Fi service and introduce the original Jurassic Park to a new generation. So like that. That's so fucked up. Like kids are going to find out about Jurassic Park and be like, man, this is just a movie about one bad tech guy who fucks everything up. Right, right.

As opposed to the entire underlying theme of the movie. Right. Also, I hope that parents are introducing their kids to the original Jurassic Park before any of the other fucking movies I haven't seen. Jurassic World. Yeah. I'm not watching any of that shit. The original Jurassic Park stands up. It's so good.

Yeah, my kids call it the prequel to the Chris Pratt movie. That's what they call the original Jurassic Park. No. They call it the prequel? They call it the prequel to the Chris Pratt movie. Yeah. Wow. Do they like the Chris Pratt movie?

They look at me with tears in their eyes and they say, Daddy, I want more Pratt. He is our most great movie star. Go on, son. Ruth kind of forever. I just happen to have two loose copies of Jurassic Park here in my pocket. There you go, young man. Make sure you raise them to be good conservative men. All right.

Nick Adams. Nedry really gets fucked over, both in the original movie, because he's just somebody who's trying to make, like, they treat him as like, well, take, you should just be happier getting to work for Jurassic Park. Right. But, like, in the book, they make it more clear that he's, like, they're not paying him. And so he's going to sell the dinosaur embryos to a competitor. We need, we need a unionize the Jurassic Park Workers movie. Yeah. Yeah. And then they, and then they fucking, like, his death is humiliating.

Like, slips, falls down, then gets eaten in a scene that, like, they make it scene. But it is very epic, though. It is. It's like one of the most epic scenes in the movie of like the. Yeah, because that's like, that's also the nature telling the human, bro, like, no, no, no, no, no. It's not happening. This is, this is, well, these are not the embryos you're looking for. I always found it weird that the car is rocking like that.

when it's when it's showing you're like when it's a rocket like truly i was like that's it i was saying earlier dinosaurs are trying to fuck i grew up on 80s movies where that was just short hand for people fucking in a car and then they just like cut away and it's like it it or it or it would be like showing like a bed like a headboard hitting in the wall what if stephen spielberg in every movie thought that that was dinosaurs attacking Right. And then this couple gets attacked by dinosaurs. Right.

And then this couple attacked. In a deleted scene from the movie with Nedri and the Dilafasaurus having a cigarette in the Jeep after. Oh, I should have had more of an open mind sooner. That's right. I think the movie or the commercial does have the X-Fiddy guys the stand-in for Nedri because at the end he gets in his car and the De Lafasaurus is right there. And then he was like, okay, that just happened. And then like backs away.

Part of me was like, you would have actually got a lot of goodwill if the Xfinity guy got eaten by a dinosaur because most people hate like the duopoly of cable companies. Or they'd be like, yeah. Yeah, bro, fuck it. I actually liked it at the end where the guy got, had that poisonous shit spit in his face. And then he shit bit. Yeah, if he was like an evil Xfinity guy, if they were doing like a Domino's style thing. You know when Domino's was just like, sorry, our pizza sucks shit. We're, we killed all those other guys and we're back in our pizza good now.

Like, what if they were just, what if they just did an ad where, like, they fed all the previous Xfinity people. And they're just like, we're replacing them with nice ones. Yeah. Sorry, they all got eaten by dinosaurs. The customer service people were like, well, I'm sorry, your agreement did say after 18 months, there would be a new price. So we are unable to change that. Just getting ripped up by a T-Rex. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, go on, go on more.

They're like, there's an outage and there's no knowing of when it'll come back. And then the dinosaurs escape. A technician will be at your home between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. and you're like, what the fuck? On Christmas Day. Yeah. 7 a.m. today and 7 p.m. on Christmas day. Elon's like, I'm sorry. I'm going to be at the island. Hey, John.

Do you have any wild parties planned? Oh, God. Good, sir. That is the most cringe shit ever. Good sir. begging to go to Petto Island. Girls for the wind. Those sex traffic minors were owned.

Yeah. No, Elon, they were actually, they were owned by people. Also, Girls for the Wynn is true of the plot of Jurassic Park. They try to make an email and they come back. Life finds way. Exactly. Who run the roars, girls. That's what I meant.

My emails were misinterpreted. And that's what I meant. That was an illusion to Jurassic Park. All right, that's going to do it for this week's weekly zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. It means the world demiles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I will talk to you Monday.

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