The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 443 (8/10/26-8/14/26)

Episode Date: August 16, 2026

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So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. What is something from your search history? that's revealing about who you are. Okay, two things. Like, one thing is just this, on my show, Goldbrook got me like, we have a break. We take a break in the middle. And I've been finding, like,

coffee reviews by, on YouTube, by people who have no views on them, and they're from, like, 2008. Like, go ship. Like, basically YouTube ghost ships, you know? Right, right. Like, some guy who decided he was going to start a coffee review channel and did, like, six episodes, and it was four.

Now, assignment for Zyke gang if anyone wants to, and I did it on my show too, is if you guys can track down, like, low view, uh, coffee reviews, um, and send them to my email, best of bread at gmail.com. That's my real email. You can also just send anything you want to there. There you can say, what's up? Or you can say, you suck or whatever. And, uh, best of bread at gmail.com.

So anyway, yeah, I'm trying, I also think you could probably use AI for that. Like, you could probably turn AI loose and say, find the lowest view things. but I wish there was a search thing on YouTube where you could say, like, I want the lowest view videos. Right. But instead, YouTube is like popular. So fucked.

All it does is pop up AI searches, and it's just ruined. So it's actually, no one wants to go look for what I just said. But anyway, this guy is just a really good, he did a really good coffee review a really long time ago.

I couldn't find any other ones of his. He said he was going to review a K-cup every day for like 25 days or something in 2008. Oh, and here's the, audio, it's real fun. Hello, I'm Jonathan, and we're going to be doing 200 K-K cup taste reviews in as many days. First, I am not a professional coffee taster. I just love drinking coffee, and in regular brew coffee, I prefer the darker roast. I think it's important to know a reviewer's taste

preferences in order to put opinions into perspective. This is product review number one, Green Mountain Coffee's Breakfast blend. That's good coffee. A little sweet, a little acidic, and it's something that I could drink. It's coffee that I could drink throughout the day.

That's it. That's it. I just think it's so he let in. With the song and everything, you would think he would say, like, this is coffee. Then he's like, this is coffee I can drink throughout the day. That's right.

Yeah. That's why, like, God. If he went through with his all 200 K-cup reviews, he would have quickly found that he was running out of real estate in terms of. I feel like you would have been like, oh, that's good. I just don't understand why he gave such a thorough lead in and then just said it's pretty good. That's a lot of, like a lot of people write the theme song for the podcast before they have an idea for the podcast, you know?

Mm-hmm. So anyway, that guy, I'd rather watch. that guy review K-cups, then see Mark Zuckerberg fight somebody on a raft. Yeah, yeah, going full. I mean, you're a little fucked up like that, huh? We've lost our way. We've lost our way, Internet. We need to get back to that.

At least that person has, like, the sincerity or transparency. We're like, dude, I don't fuck all about coffee. I just, like drinking coffee. I just like coffee. That's all right. The end. It's like so sad to review a K-cup anyway. That's like reviewing, right.

Like a frozen meal. You got to start somewhere. Present pizza reviews. Yeah. I like it. What is something you think is underrated, Jamie? Okay. I, so I, I'm, this is like mostly movie stuff, but it's all over the place.

I have not seen The Odyssey. Okay. I have not seen Spider-Man, big new. Big new day. Big new little see new dog. My new dog. My new little Caesar, Samsung Galaxy. I haven't seen them yet.

Spider-Man the big red dog. The other night. my friend sent a The Big Red Dog is so stupid just clifering with a Spider-Man costume on Who's that? Spider-Man the Big Red Dog, man.

He got stomping around New York City. He was just a big red dog that got bit by a radioactive Spider-Man. Anyway, I'm sorry. So you were looking into those movies? Wait, please. I got an unexpected.

I do think the way that like A-List, A-F-C-A-List works is so bizarre because your friend can just just be like, guess what, bitch? You're seeing. That's how I feel when I get. What's going on with your friends? Well, it feels like when someone reserves, like I got a text saying, are you free tonight?

I said, yes. That sounds nice. And then someone, I immediately got, your friend has booked a ticket for you to see one night only. Oh. At the AMC Burbank. That's a little. That's really, guess what?

what bitch comes from. Like, guess what bitch? We're seeing one night only. We're seeing one night only. Yeah. And I saw one night only. Oh, do tell. The movie itself is not underrated.

The experience of seeing it in a room full of people who are also very confused by the premise of one night only was really fun. Just like a lot of whispers. Like a lot of people. Yeah, what was it like? It's like a flavor of conservative I'd never tasted before. Oh, interesting. So weird. I mean, this guy...

Domestic Qm, if you will. It's a domestic... The domestic Qm for one night only, I don't think will be very good. Yeah, yeah. Might be low. But, yeah, it's two hot people. Uh-huh. But the whole, like, premise of it is...

Sex purge, right. Yeah, it's the one... Imagine looking for love on the one night a year where single people are legally allowed to have sex. I hate this night. And that, that's the, what's his name? Not Glenn Powell, do Aleepas husband? What's his name? We know who it is.

Yeah, that guy. The guy who's not Glenn Powell. It's just like a weird movie because, spoiler alert, they obey the law the whole movie. We read about it last week. And like, I just remember just from what I had read about it, I was like, wait, so gay people are like exempt from this law? Because like, isn't there gay people? You're just like, it's for the straits. And it's like, and you're like, I'm mostly unclear.

I mean, there's, the implications have been discussed far and why. But there's like, they make the consequences very unclear. People are behaving as if there are like snipers on top of every building that will. And then they're also obsessed with, and maybe this is me being disgusting. But like they, there's a whole thing where they're looking for a directs condom. They like, Monica Barbaro is lowered into a sewer grate. So she can get a condom. A condom. I'm like, at that point, you're going raw.

I'm not like. lowering myself into a sewer gray. When we die to have a direct condom. So like do you get double killed, double jail? Just everyone against a wall the next morning? She was in a sewer grate. And then she was like, thank God. Because she wanted to fuck the main guy?

Because she wanted to have sex with dualie his husband. It's weird. And then at the end, and now I'm like undercutting. This is fine. No, no. We basically gave a summary of the film last week. Everybody who saw the movie. Nobody saw this movie.

We were Hood and Hollering. Two things are an issue at the end. In the last scene, they finally end up together and they're like, let's wait for next year. And then we fast forward to the next year to ensure that they've continued to obey the law, which they have. But in the last scene where they decide not to have sex, there's also some of the most diabolical Duncan Donuts coffee acting I've ever seen in my life. Duolipa's husband. Duncan did a big ad spend on the weirdly Republican sex perjury. They know where the crowds are at, for sure.

The ones that jumped out to me were Duncan, Durex, and Totinos. They don't want us having sex. And we're on board with us. A lot of prominent Totinos. But at the end, yeah, Duolip's husband comes running with, like, her coffee order. And he's like, I got this for you. And then he goes like, whoop, he's like, I got your coffee order. he would be in the hospital

if he was actually holding a cup of hot coffee. Wow. Does he just forget he has it? Or he does that on purpose? No, he's just like flailing around with what we are told is a cup of piping hot coffee. Like an empty cup where he's just like. Yeah, he's like, here you go, babe.

This is the one night a year that you're allowed to have hot coffee so I don't know how to operate. Here, Jamie's going, the fuck is wrong with this reality, bro. That's a hot cup of Dunkin coffee. No, he sat like that? Okay, terrifying implications aside. Let's handle the dunk. Well, let's at least put water in the cup.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks ridiculous. Prop master's fucking up on the. The implication is that they're all, anybody who breaks the thing is being shot in the streets, right? Like if they're that adamant about sticking to it. Something like that. It has to be an existential.

Right. Threat for you to be like, well, then I'm not going to fuck. Right. Yeah. And it's only single people, right? It's only single people. everyone has these like tattoos that light up and turn off. Jesus Christ.

The implications of that, I was like, really? That's what we're going with. It's an implant. It takes less than six seconds to install visitors to the United States. Mandatory must also install these sensors. It's very fine. Okay. Just get on board with fascism, guys.

There's a Nicholas Braun character that is only there to explain how the tattoos work. And he's doing the Nicholas Braun thing. He's like, so yeah. It was really. And then the other thing that. There's like a lot of little details about one night only where I'm like, why? Why? You get to choose the shape of your tattoo that tells you whether you're legally allowed to have sex or not.

Like a bunny rabbit or a heart or a diamond. Which is like how like our version of fascism would be. Yeah, yeah. Which emoji deal. It's like, you get to do like a fun one. It's like, yeah. I got a Nike swoosh. Yeah, yeah, right.

I have the snowboarder. Oh, cool. I have the jump man. He had the, he had a bat. She had a lighthouse, which is the story's way of telling us. These people are boring and okay with fascism. They love it. He's actually an enforcer of like the fascist thing.

What's something you think is overrated? This might be a controversial one. Frozen beverages. Frozen cocktails. Really anything frozen. Anything frozen at all? It takes a frozen dream. Okay, yeah, go on.

Including the movie. Yeah, including the film, Frozen. Yeah, you dare. Not that good. I was out recently, and it's really hot, you know, it's a summertime. And we went to this bar that only does or specializes in frozen drinks. So they do froset. They do frozen margaritas.

And it's in the middle of drinking one, and I realized, after a few sips, it basically melts, and it just isn't as good. I feel like what I want is the first few sips of a frozen drink. But I don't want to be, feel like I have to rush through a frozen drink before it melts, and then get a headache and then or be left with kind of a melty, half frozen, half not too sugary situation. It's a couple, a couple different approaches to giving you a headache. We can give you an acute, terrible headache right away.

Or we can like give you one in the long run with by poisoning you. Yeah. I think. A hangover. The melting is what sucks. We're talking the fleshy kind, right? It's frozen drinks being the slushy. Something that something that isn't a thing that needs to.

be spinning if it's going to be pre-mixed. Yeah, exactly. Because the melted part is vile to drink. Like when it just like become concentrated syrup and like that, that's what I feel like if you have that shit, it has to be in like an insulated cup. So it has the same sort of consistency, the entire drinking experience.

Because in the heat, that shit is not going to last more than, yeah, fucking four minutes or something. And if they don't get the mix right and it, you're drinking it with a straw and then it like you, you get all the syrup out of there. and all the juice and then it's just the the ghost of the drink,

you know, just the ice that's left, then the balance is all fucked up. Too many variables. And oftentimes when you're talking about frozen cocktails, they'll add a couple extra bucks on for the favor of it being frozen. And I don't like that. Mm-mm. Mm-mm.

That would like a couple less bucks, actually. So your underrated is electric Kool-Lade in Northwest. Oh, my God. That's exactly the place that I was at. Yes. So you know this spot. Okay. And also they're so lovely and they're so kind.

I know. You don't have to put it in there. I was just like, I think she's talking about electric cool aid in D.C. Literally, I was just there. It's outdoor only. So you're sitting outside in the heat. Yeah.

The most, like 90% of their menu is frozen drinks. So it's like, oh good. A frozen drink in 95 degree weather. And also is $15 fantastic. That's what I wanted. Yeah. I, I kind of ruined a friend's party

because I was so salty at that place. You're just being there being nasty the whole time? Yeah, being a little negative. You know how you like can drown a situation and sort of negative energy

when one little thing goes wrong? Damn, not you, Bridgett? That wasn't me. Wow. That doesn't seem like you. I will just say, I've never gotten negative energy off of you once. But that shows if,

because Bridget is so like effervescent and bright that I could feel like you have the power to be like and I can turn into the, I can tap into the dark crystal. Do you want me to change my khyber crystal? Because this lightsaber blade can change colors real quick. Oh, you're joking, but that is kind of how it is. No, I can be a similar way too where people like, oh, you're so chilling.

Like, sometimes I can get in a bad mood. But I've also learned when I get like that, I have to leave. Because I almost did that at another birthday party. I'm like, I'm going this fucked up ass crowded ass bar, bro. They fucking knew better. You can't bring 15 fucking people in this bar. It's so fucking crowded all the time. the fuck they think it. And I was just out of it the whole time. And I was like, you know what? I'm going to go.

And not like in a rude way. I was just like, hey, you know what? Like I stayed for like an hour, which felt good, saw the birthday person, had a drink. And then I was like, hey, I'm going to go because I'm going to start being. I would turn it sour through it by osmosis. Maybe you did say to me, hey, I stayed at your shitty party for an hour. That's got to be enough, right? Yeah.

Is he talking about your party? I would never have a birthday party. Never, never. Maybe the underrated is just knowing when your vibe's not right and knowing to call it. Like, let me get out of here. For real. For real, because, like, it's funny, it's only since I've become a parent where I've had that sort of self-awareness where I'm like, oh, like, where you go, like, you look at your kid and be like, oh, this isn't good for you at all. like we should we need to change the environment and now I'm like I'm realizing like oh I'm becoming like I can feel me about to have a tant like a 42 year old man tantra a mantrum if you will and I'm like you know what time for me to get on out of here I need to be put in a small time out you're like you're like reparenting yourself yeah yeah exactly and I don't and I don't visibly show I don't visibly show distress I just I check you with myself I'll go oh I think we're getting there so before I get ASAP nassed in here I'll just

say, good night, happy birthday to you. Great, great choice of venue for this party. And a good morrow to you, sir. What? Why is he talking like that? Let's take a quick break. Okay. We'll be right back.

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solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And let's talk woke one. Woke one. Rogue one. I did not know what it means until you wrote this up, Miles. So thank you for that. The establishment is definitely taking a victory lap on this because I've noticed a few mainstream outlets have latched onto a comment that AOC made to ABC News on Sunday

where she was talking about her own like political aspirations and like reflecting on what has come to become known as woke one. And that era was like the era that started in 2014 and culminated like with all the protests in 2020. She was talking about like this one tweet from New York City Council member. She said I have

a local city councilman that was that has this saying quote, woke one was crazy. And the way she was talking was about how the rhetoric that was used then may have been too radical for the lips and how it's changed a bit. I'm not a fan of this summation of that time period because the problems that we were contending with are and were still very real and not crazy. But I'm not surprised by this since many elected progressives have shifted the emphasis. So again, they're like, I'm trying to get in office. It's part of the bargain of getting into higher office, it seems.

But places like the Atlantic, you're seeing in like New York Times, Washington Post, it's like wild how they're taking this quote and be like, look, they admit it. It was bad. You see these people were so wrong about defunding the police and made everything about systemic oppression. And then they ended up becoming full on anti-Semites. And you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what the fuck is this now? They're immediately, whenever a progressive or leftist candidate, wins anything. They're immediately trying to get you to do like some centrist purity test where they're like,

oh, well, what do you think about this? The craziest idea that I could possibly come up with that might be the logical extension of a thing that you said once, you know? Yeah. It's not surprising. But I think you're like, like, you're saying, like this a moment, this moment with like the progressive, you know, like left wing of the Democratic Party being ascendant, they're just trying to find anything they can to sort of pick apart and they're like, well, yeah, maybe, but there's also all this other bad stuff that is actually, it means it's not, it's not as good as what they're saying. Also, woke one was crazy is not a good saying. That's not even a saying. That's just, woke one's not even a good name for that area. I know. It doesn't, I feel like the whole thing,

throw the whole thing away. I don't know what any of that meant. And I live in Oakland, so I would assume that we were like, pre-woke one. I don't know. We were pro-woke. We were pro-o-woke. Yeah. Pro quo. Pro quo. Yeah, pro-wo. Pro quo. We were pro-wheel. Yeah. I think the idea, I mean, this happens all the time. The idea that, like, things got too radical is if things don't get radical, things don't change. Right.

As I sit here in Oakland, the home of the Black Panther Party. Like, you know, you thought, you thought, one was radical. Wait until I introduce you to Hughie P. Newton and Erica Huggins and Angela Davis. Right. Let me introduce you to you. You thought some hashtags were a radical. And the idea for me as a, you know, I always, I always go back to slavery. The idea of like free the slaves was woke.

Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The original book, whoa. Whoa. Negative one. Yeah, yeah. Like that every time black people are like, hey, can we vote? Is that?

Whoa. Wow. We had to fight over bus seats. And look, I think there's some good stuff in what you're saying. But the voters, the. The voters are not going to like that. We don't know. You're actually not allowed to say that.

I'm sorry. You can't leave me out. Yeah. The idea that, and so I think I get that like, if you're Abdul El-Said, that now that you're, like, running for, like, proper Senate, I'm, I get my, he's working for Senate, right? Yeah. It's funny. I don't generally want to pay attention to races around the country because it's like, because it's like, I got enough going on here. But anyway, I get that he's going to have to, like, figure out how to do this Michigan dance of like, because Michigan is the state of Michigan, it has all the extremes in.

Yeah, it contains truly all the multitudes. If you go to the Upper Peninsula, you're basically in another country. So I get that he's going to have to figure out how to, like, dance with all these different people. But I also think that at the end of the day, those people often come around to like, oh, wait, my health care is too expensive. And the, and the cost of living is too high. They understand that stuff that we, that some people would call. all woke. Well, now they're calling that woke two.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because again, they look at dropped the 0.0, you know, that was the thing that the tech industry gave us that everything was point one. I mean, it depends. I've seen some articles written as woke 2 and woke 2.0.

Oh, God. There isn't an agreed upon naming convention. I'm going back to on steroids. I like when everything was on steroids. Yeah. This is work on steroids. Or on crack.

Those are the two things from back of the map. And then people were like, oh, that's kind of problematic to talk about the crack. Okay. So it's on steroids. It's on steroids. But yeah. So like now, like with, you know, recent wins from people like Zoran showed like the emphasis on affordability, inequality, you know, Palestine. Those seem to be more palatable, like in a general election.

But that has led like activists and other leaders to wonder, like, how do you continue to push progressive ideas forward around the issues that scare liberals but are also vital to a large. your vision of like what liberation looks like is there a balance is it just merely like fun like siloing people into like well these are the people who are the vote getters to be able to get the votes in congress then you have the other people that need to actually message these things to up to create the environment for more of these people to get in again everyone has very uh diverging opinions on like what the best way is to do that but it's it's interesting it's like when the atlantic new york times Washington post they start running these stories or op-eds it feels like they're more like the coverage, the way your guys are talking,

I think really we're talking about the establishment losing their grip on reality. That seems like that would be the story, right? That, man, all the voters seem to be gravitating towards this messaging. And instead, it's become all about like how far is too far immediately. And it's like, I don't know, it doesn't seem like we've got there yet

because they keep winning elections. I mean, it's also about CNN, I didn't watch the thing, but CNN did a story a couple weeks ago called the left insurgency. Oh, yeah. But then it's about who gets defined as the left, and it was like, Nancy Pelosi.

Yeah, and people in San Francisco are like, it's crazy that they think she's the left. People who live in her district are like, she's not the left. She's not the left. She's a Democrat. She's the, yeah. But, and it was like the Pod Save America guys,

and it was like, and Ezra Klein was mentioned. What? As the left? Yeah, and that's right. And also was like as progressives, as progressive. Wow. And I was like, well, they're not right.

And then Hassan Piker was thrown in, which was like, okay, now we're, but it was like, the fact that you put all those people in one group called the left or progressives, you're not, you actually have missed the story. Have not. Right, right. Yeah, exactly. And on a basic level, you miss a story because aside from Asan, who is white presenting, this is all white guys.

It's all guys, first of all. But it's all white guys. And Hassan could change his name to Harry Piker. His life changes a little bit. But I'm not trying to, you know, I'm just saying like he's a light-skinned brown guy. But it's, but none of it is like, none of the like, there's no, there was no black leader. There's no black people on the left. There was no women.

There was no LGBTQ plus. And it was just like, that's what they're trying to tell you. We want the party. And they also checked in with James Carville is like, do you think the left? Absolutely. So to me, it's like you're guiding the conversation in a very specific way in claiming that this is the parameters of the conversation. Right. That's not where we're at when Zara and mom.

Donnie exists. It's like, right. And for us to define the left, we asked James Carville. Exactly. And that's a problem. You see, all these people, I don't want them in my party. You see, if they all going to say the Democrats and against Israel, okay, that's not going to work for me. Although it was funny, too, because he was on Fox and he was kind of half defending Abdul El-Said because he was sort of like, well, shit.

I mean, like, I'm on Fox and I can't. Yeah. What's a boy to do? I mean, I just saw somebody tweeted out today or thread it out. How do you say it? And they said that like, I don't know, they said that Bill Maher said he might vote for the GOP for the first time in his life or something like that.

And the idea of like the left. I don't know what I do then. Yeah, exactly. You're telling me Bill Maher. We lost Mark. We lost Mark. And again, the fact that we would, that somebody's trying to convince me that Bill Maher is the left or on the left.

Because to me, voting is what you are is not just what you vote for. It's how you live, who you support, who you don't. support who you associate with. And by that metric, Bill Maher's been a Republican. Right. Yeah. I don't need to see his voting record.

He dated. He dated Superhead. Yeah. That's what I mean. And I don't know, man. Bill Maher dated Superhead back in the day. Like, what the fuck does that do? He's an Islamophobic, fucking racist freak, bro.

He's nothing to me. Give a fuck if he's put off by what the Democratic Party looks like. There's a lot of things we add into who you sleep with is a part of the metric, but it's not the only. Yeah, yeah. No, not at all. Just who you were. Jenny Thomas sleeps with a black guy every night.

Yeah, exactly. Well, she has the opportunity to. I don't know what thing. Yeah, we don't know what. They probably have like, I love Lucy beds, two twin beds in a room. He probably sleeps in that RV every night. Yeah, that Harlan Crow got him. He's like, yeah, man, I'm just chilling in here, man.

That's kind of my bro cave I got in here. But I think, again, a lot of people are also sort of like looking at like, what's the sauce that you're progressives or DSA candidates have. And again, it's just so many of these pieces are written from like this entrenched mentality of the establishment that they can't actually do the analysis to say like, well, the difference being kind of like, you know, a lot of these progressives, DSA candidates, their policies are rooted in like hearing people out and what they're clamoring for and then providing a policy prescription for that.

Whereas the establishment have it backwards. They go, all right, what's the legislation we need to get through? Okay, how do we sell that to them and be patronizing? and tell them this is actually what they need and not the thing that they are clamoring for. That this sort of neoliberal solution is actually the way, it's like slightly liberation type oriented stuff.

And that should be good enough. And I think then now and they're looking at Aaron, they're like, what the fuck's the problem, man? Like they're only listening to the people who are saying they're hearing them out. It used to not be like this. And I think that like now that we've seen we're like, you know, we're still, I don't know,

are we Zauron 1 or Zoron 2 yet? I don't know. But anyway, we're... I think he was popular. because he's got a nice smile. That's where I land on him. He's got a nice smile, and he's a talented politician. Yeah.

That which is why they fucking hate the Abdul El-Said, like, win so much, because now they're like, wait a second. Is this a trend? Exactly. But just the idea that like, and then he got in there and he, and, you know, New York seems to be happy with him. He even got the next to him. So, I mean, the idea that he hasn't come in there. and done the things that politicians in New York.

First of all, I think New York mayor is probably one of the worst jobs in the world. So hard. Yeah, nobody's ever happy with them. Some early wins. Like, even when he was like, it's snowing. I'm going to hire people to shovel the snow. Like, that is such a basic thing to do that other mayors would be like,

I don't know. What do we do? But it's such a, like, a social media thing to see people out there like, I'm making $30 an hour shoveling snow. Yeah. That you get some. He doesn't have to do the laundering that my life. was talking about of like he's not he doesn't have to be focused full on like full time on like okay

I'm taking this policy that's good for corporations and put it like how do I spin it into something that makes people instead he's just like all right what are people saying today what what is their problem how do we help them solve that and I want to be clear I'm not saying he's perfect I know people know people are sure sure yeah yeah I do believe that like he he he's he talked a big game and he he seems to be one interested in walking a big like he just had the thing yesterday where he's going to like they're going after Amazon for not covering the Amazon drivers and the Amazon cars and the Amazon trucks. Like they're going after, you know, so when you go, I'm going after Jeff Bezos. It's like he's walking the walk.

Yeah, yeah. And it's easy stuff that people point to and go, yep, I can see how that could affect my life. Yeah. Rather than like, this obscure tax credit that will give you if you're qualified, you're like, what? If you jump through these 13 hoops, you might be able to get this. Yeah. I mean, like, even like, I mean, obviously as we record this, we don't know what's happening in, the governor's race, yeah, in Wisconsin with Francesco Hong running.

But, you know, she's looking like a frontrunner. And, like, you even hear articles that are written by, like, the Atlantic or the Washington Post. She's getting a lot of heat for tweets she wrote, tweets she wrote, where she said Thanksgiving should be anti- Thanksgiving. And the police should be defunded. When I, like, and then when you read the leaks down from her harsh Thanksgiving state. And you're like, I don't know. I mean, like, I agree with the take. I mean, I know what she's saying.

She's like, yeah, bro. we're celebrating the colonial history of this country. It's actually like, it was like the death knell for indigenous people in this country. So that's why some people look at it differently. I'm like, you can't argue with that, but I get how she'd be like, yeah, I'm not

trying to say no one can celebrate the Thanksgiving. I'm just saying, don't have a meal with your family. I'm just saying, fuck Thanksgiving, bro. That's what I'm saying. Fuck that shit. Yeah. And trying to use that to be like, oh my God, without really contending with like all the other things that a lot of these candidates stand for, which have a lot of appeal. But she should just have one word response, pedophiles.

What about them? What about them? Does that bother you? You're right to think up about the Epstein files? No? Yeah, I think I've really gotten, I think every now he was like, okay, okay, fine, you're mad at that tweet. Where should that be on your list of things you're upset about currently going in the country? Can we rank these?

Let's just rank it. Let's just rank it so we can figure out. Here, I brought it. There's a poster board with Velcro tabs. Go ahead. You place them where you think that should be. I got pedophiles. And I got my.

Thanksgiving tweet. Now, you feel free to put... Oh, you're going to put that above? Okay. There's a New York Times, folks. There they are. Putting that above everything else. Let's take one more break.

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And we're back. I just want to say that I think we're missing an opportunity with, so a story dropped while I was out of town on August 1st from the Wall Street Journal, my favorite website about how bad the police botched the Nancy Guthrie investigation. And it's the mother of Savannah Guthrie. The mother of Savannah Guthrie who went missing. That video was fucking so scary where the guys like walking up and covers up the door bell camera.

Right. There's just like so many stupid, stupid details. of the police doing the dumbest shit. The charges in the homicide case were dropped for insufficient evidence. Stivers and his detectives arrived at Nancy's house in the late afternoon on Sunday, February 1st. For hours, they gave little regard to the dried blood on the front porch, said people familiar with the investigation.

They suspected the blood might have come from some unrelated head bump, nosebleed, or other incidental injury. He's like, so much I had their period. It's a lady. She's a lady. She's a lady. It's by the door, right? Yeah.

Yeah. My wife does that. I've seen this 100 times. On February 3rd, the sheriff opened his late morning news briefing by apologizing for any confusion he might have caused about the theory of the department's theory of the case. I'm not used to everybody hanging on to my words and then trying to hold me accountable for what I say. Holy fuck. Wow. He's got the language for it and everything.

Yeah. You said that out loud, man. He's got the therapy speak. He's just like, this is crazy. I've never been held accountable for the... If this was like any generation besides a boomer, like the boomers will be like, you see? Yeah. You see what they're like?

This kid doesn't know that they got to, their words mean something? God. Doggett. God, dog it. God, dog it. God, dogs are always the same. God, dog. But I was just thinking about this yesterday, as we were talking about how everybody is backtracking their like woke one takes about defunding the police and like the police being bad.

And it's just like, why isn't there a consistent group that is just constantly prosecuting the fact that the police are fucking terrible at their job? Right, that you're trying to do the thing of like not freak out the people who are like, but we need police. Right. Just going, dude, these guys are, they fucking suck at their job. I think it is the smartest in. Yeah. Do you feel like, what the phone? This is an adultry's mom.

You start going, dude, I could have fucking done. I would have been like, yeah, that's fucking blood right. At the door. Yeah. And it's like a, a new story that grabbed national media attention and like nobody took that angle at all. They're just like, well, this one guy's a dope. And it's like, no, you look at any police case. That's what's happening.

Just like, treat it as endemic of like what is happening. And you'll be able to like win some of these arguments when people are like defund the police. What the fuck. That's all like you got to go out there. You know, just be like a cat, like a progressive can't be like, look, cops. Hey, love you guys. But man, you guys got to start fucking doing some work, man. Right.

You got to be better. I can't keep your job. I can't keep on time of these checks. Like one good job. There, it, I think probably a lot of this is connected to just like the how, dismantled journalism is now too, where it's like the cops have not gotten more competent. People are just more scared of the state. But like there's not, I feel like the same level of rigorous reporting.

Like I'm glad this piece exists, but like you don't really see that as much as you see it five years ago because they're all fired. Yeah, they're all gone. Yeah. But yeah, I do feel like just a wing of the, you know, the leftist movement that is just constantly laser focused on being like, it's not like that in theory that'd be great if they solved crimes. They don't. They do a bad job. Right. You're more like sort of like kicking out sort of the rhetorical defenses of policing. Yeah. Like one is always like, well, we need them to be safe. Okay. Right. How come

they can't solve a fucking crime? How many. Riddle me this. People are there. Riddle me that. They address this in one night only, you know? Do they? Yes. Monica Barbaro has to go to. I didn't realize it's that much of a right-wing fantasy. It's, well, it's like the, well, let me know what you think. It kind of skews. We get, we get to the center almost. Sure, sure, sure. In this one scene with the police where they were taken in for suspected fucking or whatever.

And Monica Barbaro was like, do you really think this is a good use of your time and your life and taxpayers' money? And the police officer's like, not really, but it's. my job and then the movie just keeps going wow just doing my job so we just got just doing my job she's just doing her job and Monica Barbaro is like all right well I can only have sex for 11 more hours so I'm going to

be leaving I'll be on my way dive into a sewer to get a drug I'm sorry I'm like oh oh that I'm going to rinse off is the world such that like condoms are like the golden tickets and Charlie and the chocolate factory oh like the like quay ludes like

They stopped making them in the fucking 80. No, they're still, they're sold at crazy inflation. On the day of. On the day. But it's like, wouldn't people be stockpiling them? Yeah, you would just have them crazy. Also, married people can always have sex. So I imagine that they can buy, or maybe they're not allowed to buy condoms and it's that.

That's not. That's actually gay sex. According to that one right wing guy we talked about last week where he said, if you're having sex to not procreate, then that's basically gay sex. That's, and that's, wow. All right. Yeah. So you would have to, like, sit outside.

Like I used to do when I was, like, 13, you sit outside of a liquor store and be like, hey, man, could you, could you buy me something? Get me in jerks. You'd just be like outside of CVS looking for married couples going in. Hey, man, you guys get some jimmies. You know what I mean? Rubbers. That's my favorite song of the summer.

Oh, yeah. That still happens, which is I found comforting. When I saw obsession in, I saw obsession in Wisconsin. a couple months ago. And there were like a couple like 12 year olds. There was like two or three 12 year old girls that I guess they weren't allowed in

because it's rated R. And they're like, could you pretend to be our aunt? Oh, that's good. Could you pretend to be our aunt? I said you mean they were like, can you buy alcohol for us? I was like, Jamie, no. No, they just wanted to go to obsession and then got turned away at the door.

But I did say no. I was just like, I can't bring some loose kids into obsession. I can't do it. Slipary slope. It's also, they will. Like I did that for lethal weapon three. As I went to lethal weapon three, too young.

My dad got the tickets, took my younger sister to see Ferngoly. We went into lethal weapon three and 15 minutes in the fucking people came and got our ass. Yeah. They took you out? They took us out? Yeah. They, you got sentenced. We got in and then somebody fucking narked on us because I was a fucking tipper gore or something.

Ultimately, I'm like, let the kids into upset. Like, I know it's not good for them, but it's like, it's a right of passage. I mean, I think we all grew up seeing shit that was well above our mental pay grade or experiential sort of like database we could draw from them. I was like, these kids grew up on watching those demented YouTube videos where Spider-Man gets run over by a car. Like, I think they can handle the same thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they grew up with pregnant Shrek. Like, I think they can handle it.

You're giving this whole speech outside of obsession. You're just trying to get, look, girls, I'm not going to pretend your B or aunt, but you will get in. Come with me. I'm going to have a talk with this other teenager. Right. How do you know how old she is? Oh, she's your sister. Right, right, right, right.

Well, I think she should be allowed to see someone fucking explode or whatever happens. I haven't seen an obsession. Is it good? That's fine. Yeah. That's what I hear from everyone. They're like, this is the thing that is like the movie of the summer. It's interesting.

Andy Richter should have gotten a good kill. Oh, he hired Andy Richter, and then they didn't even kill him in a fun way. Oh. It's crazy. He deserved that. Oh, I thought that way about the Odyssey, too. I felt like they're. Who'd you want to see Die?

Well, just. I just like, when you're stunt casting, it's like, you have to do something fun. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, I get that. It just felt like Robert Pattinson's death. Like, they really build it up, and you're like, I can't. died? Yeah.

Oh, that was him. You're right. Yeah, yeah. I saw it too. Damn. I, give him like the close on the face orgasm death where he's just like, oh. Like his eyes go out of focus.

Yeah. That's what he looks like when he's coming. But like, yeah. Yeah. And we know. And we know. And that is actually probably what the people want more than like a

fucking beggars. Fucking beggars, dude. Have you seen those memes though, Jamie? Are you aware of the Robert Pattinson beggars memes that keep coming up? Yes. Yeah.

It's like the one thing that's escaped containment that people who don't know, they're like, is that the one where he's saying beggars? It's because his emphasis on that line, you know, in the film, he's like, get these beggars out of the way he's hitting that explosive bee. Everyone's like, it's just become like a giff and shit. Yeah, it's good times. He's such a little worm. And has to be Chris Hanson?

He's on a fucking heater right now. I know. Dude, him is great. It's going to be great. It's got to be great. Well, he looks like he's like, it's like a look like half body horror. trailer and he's like, yeah, like trying to fight his demons. Like, do I entrap people for primetime views?

My, I think there's going to be some Edward Cullen in the Chris Hansen performance. Oh, like he plays a really sinister, scary guy and still make you be like, but let's hear him out. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's kind of given that in Odyssey, right? He has his moments where you're like, he's a little charming. I hated his ass the whole time. Now, I was rooting for him.

The most beautiful character A whole time. Be Tom Holland's dad. He's your daddy, Tom. He can't do nothing about it. Oh my God. He's going to be so sad about this. Wait, what?

What? Do we care about Field of Dreams? Baseball? Do you care about baseball at all, Jamie? Do you remember Field of Dreams? I've never seen Field of Dreams. Was it that, no, I see, I always mix up Field of Dreams with Angels in the Outfield. Angels of the Outfield?

Angels and Outfield is great. Baseball Angels. Yeah. Field of Dreams is baseball Angels as well. Yes. Okay. Big time. Okay.

And Danny Glover, too. The lethal weapon in Angels in the Outfield. Okay. Not in Field of Dreams. No, no, unfortunately. Okay. So the field from Field of Dreams, they do a baseball game there now. Okay.

In Iowa. Yeah, right. In Iowa. Oh, wow. The twins are playing the Philadelphia Phillies there. Mm-hmm. Everyone very excited about this. I thought this was a joke poster.

where David Harbour had lost a lot of weight. I don't know if you've seen this. You guys see? Wait, what is? I was like, this isn't real. I don't even know these two bases. That's David Harbor, I think. It does look like David Harbor like,

like, David Harbor like 1997. Yeah. Right, right, right, right. I'm like, okay. So those are real, that is a real place. That's a real thing. Yeah, good to know. Okay, that's a guy.

The movie Field of Dreams is guy builds a baseball field into his cornfield and ghosts from the, the 19, early 20th century come back and play baseball in his field. Okay. Which is really cool. That sounds cool. Losing his mind. Yeah.

Yeah. He's unraveling. There's no ghosts. There's no ghost. Okay. Let me guess. It's about fathers and sons somehow. And daughters.

And daughters? Wow. Okay. Even daughters. So it's a little progressive. Okay. But I don't know. It seems dumb because they're not even playing in a cornfield.

They're just playing in a field now. So they're playing near a cornfield. Yeah, everyone's alive. They're playing near a cornfield. It's not even David Harbor playing the Philadelphia Phillies were. Not even David Harbor playing the Philadelphia. Yeah. I got invited to like a viewing party for that tomorrow.

And then I just kind of was like, what the fuck is that? What are you talking about? What are you saying to me? You mean watch a baseball game? Why are people? Yeah, would you like, I would never do that unless it was Hello Kitty Night at the, at the Dodger. But what, what? Trump's going to be there.

What? At Hello kidding? No, I was like, no. Because the Dodgers have been so Trumpified with the ownership. God, yeah, they're going to have MAGA kitty. Right. No. Well, I feel, you know, Hello Kitty is great for MAGA because she doesn't speak.

Oh, wow. Thank you. Uh, she's not. You're going to let them claim her. Like, everyone's like, actually, this is the hardest thing. Have you ever heard that broad talk? Exactly. Yeah.

Why do people care about this? It's a great question. I mean, Field of Dreams is a movie that, like, people fucking love. It makes men cry, right? It makes men cry. It's like the first,

yeah, they're just one thing that they're allowed to cry at. So they're like, oh, watching Field of Dreams again tonight for that because I need a good cry. It's a release film. Yeah.

I saw a picture of my uncle. That reminded me something. My uncle. Put on Field of Dreams. There's all sorts of, like, local politics about, like,

there's like a local developer who are not a local from the big city of Chicago developers like trying to turn the Field of Dreams place into like 27 baseball fields yeah just like you know what's better than one

good baseball field for who? Wait, what purpose? You know, just capitalism. Baseball city. Baseball city, yeah, yeah. Welcome to baseball city.

Welcome to baseball heaven. Right, baby. You remember obviously the message of the film, the original intent of the film. It was kind of. the original data centers because everybody who was like on board with it got run out of office because they were like,

what are you talking about? 27 baseball fields. Right, 26. I'm thinking like Santa University style. I'm like, if we're doing a field of dreams game, only one of the players is going to be alive at the end. Yeah. Yeah.

And they're all playing to live. Right. To go from ghost back into the living world. Oh, it's kind of like the jellicle ball in that way. Yeah. Except I guess those cats want to die. Yeah, yeah, sure. Just let me die.

But yeah, so I hadn't really thought about the premise of field of dreams, but it's kind of mega-ish. It's about nostalgia for baseball, like how good baseball used to be in a simpler, better time. And they're talking about a time when the league was segregated. So they're like doing the- When is the team from? Like the 1918 or it's like the Black Sox, the team.

team that got caught cheating in the World Series and it was like when America was Joe Jackson America lost its uh falling asleep innocence yeah I think it's also magocoded because it sounds kind of boring yeah boring is difficult to watch okay loves corn and uh and not even a band things used to be better right when only whites played baseball anytime like that's always like the the such a good indicator of someone remember their own, like, they talk about baseball and nostalgically. Because it is just one of those few sports that American cultures dug in to be like, we can't fucking let this change too much.

Like when Ken Griffith Jr. wore a hat backwards. The fuck with that. In practice, motherfuckers lost their goddamn mind. Impress tradition. Yeah. This field that they are playing at was built with COVID relief money. So I do respect that.

They're like, you know what? Well, shit. That's, ah, man. We got to do the rounds. again on the COVID relief money because every once in a while, you find out where it went. And how did your business thrive? Oh, yeah. I bought every happy meal toy that was ever created for my collection.

Right. That's what I do with my COVID relief money. He's losing his mind. Ghosts come back and play baseball. And it's like people are like, it's actually anti-capitalist because he is like losing his farm because he's not making enough porn or fucking whatever because he built a baseball field into it. Um, so it's like, does he do it for the love of baseball or the love of capitalism by selling more corn again, very boring. Yeah. And then in the end, he's like, I'm actually able to keep

my farm because I'm going to charge $20 per person to watch the ghosts. Wait, he turns it into a business. Yeah, he turns it into a business that is proof of the afterlife and he's only charging $20. No, I don't ask any questions how that business will operate. When people go, holy fucking shoot him. What the money. They would bring in, like, the guys that killed E.T. If that happened. They would be like, what's going on? I didn't know.

He turned his farm into an amusement park at the end. Ray Leota and Shulish George Jackson, one of those tents, like, E.T. They're like, you're killing him, man. Now, that's a good movie. It's just like a ghost. I don't watch that. They kill the ghosts the second time.

They're, that's wild that they, they just turned it into an amusement park. Field of Dreams, too. And this one has two, two baseball parks. And then like all the way up to 27. Yeah. Yeah. It's just about the modern newsball complex.

It's been built. But yeah, now tickets for this year's Field of Dreams game going for over $1,000. So I think he was. The fuck is paying for this shit. I don't know. Men are sick. That's, I just. They're all just, they cut to the crowd and they're all just we've crying.

And they're like live. It's like my uncle in unison. My uncle. Our uncles. That's, yeah, they do like the wave. Yeah, good for them. Let me get it out of your system. Yeah, I don't fucking shoot.

God. They now, I think, because we recently covered, honey, I shrunk the kids. And there's one line in honey, I shrunk the kids, that implies that the reason he's doing this shrinking technology, this kooky fun Rick Moranus technology is so he can sell it to the government and become a military contractor.

And you have to think there's a way in for the field of dreams guy. Right. He's thinking too small. Now I'm sort of like on his side and I'm his business consultant. Oh, yeah. Like $20 tickets?

An army of the undead? My man. You have a zombie army. Yeah, I'm going to be all right. He's like, I'll bring back William Tocomsa, Sherman, fucking general McNamara. I can summon these fuckers.

I'd be like, don't freak out. but I am going to call the guys from E.T. Just to take a look at them. Just to see what's in there. We just want to make sure they're okay. He was so, he looked like, E.T. looked like such shit, dude, when they had him. When they find him in that fucking stream,

and he's all, like, pale and shit. He looks like a dried-up dog shit. He does. E.T. makes me cry every time, but that scene always makes me laugh when E.T. is like, die. It's crazy because I'm also feeling how I'm supposed to feel, but it's like, it's so funny. He looks so busted.

He looks like dried up. Dried up shit when it turns white on the outside. And I had made that connection in my unconscious mind, but I hadn't consciously made it. That's why I would always like, he looks like. You know how if you leave shit out too long? Or what were those like things that would be in like trail mix in the 80s that were like, it was like kind of like a fig? No, but it was like kind of like a white coating on the outside. The things are kind of white crust when it's like too oxidated or whatever.

That's anyway. I'm just, anyway, he looks like shit. Yeah. He also can't read. E.T. looks like shit. Probably can't read. Can read your mind?

I think you have already to pivot the... Wait. I have a stunk cast. E. E. Jamie laughed us. I'm going to rent a rubber costume. I'm going to wait too much shit on me.

You get the dying E.T. I'm like, it wasn't... It didn't look like this. Oh, that would be so great. If you had two kids and one kid was living... the other was a good sibling costume. That is really good.

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