The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 61 (Best of 2/4/19-2/8/19)

Episode Date: February 10, 2019

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Hear episodes of Rip Current early and completely ad-free and receive exclusive bonus content by subscribing to iHeart True Crime Plus only on Apple Podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated is the Seth MacFarlane space television show.

The Orville? Yes. Really? Here's the thing. The Orville is good. I don't like Star Trek or Family Guy. I do, full disclosure, I think that every little New England girl contractually has to have a crush on Seth MacFarlane, even though he has some of the more obvious veneers I've ever seen in my life.

And I don't know how many of his original body parts he has, but. Wait, why New England young people have to love Seth MacFarlane? Because he's from New England and he's like the little cartoonist who could. Oh, so there's so right. Mythical legend status for the region. Yeah, exactly. Definitely a regional hero. Who could? Oh, so there's so right. Mythical legend status for the region. Yeah. OK, exactly. Definitely a regional hero.

So and I used to have like a huge crush on him when I was younger. But watch the Orville dropped in. Usually if I'm watching Seth MacFarlane joints, it means that I'm in a bad place mentally. OK, just good to know. I started watching the Orville. Guess what? It's good. It's really.

Yeah, it's funny. Yeah. It's funny? Yeah. Wow. All right. Yeah. So you're going to put the Yammy Lofty stamp of approval on the Orville right now? Wow. I'll watch it.

Listen, don't start. Your brand is trusted. I know it seems like a gamble. I would say maybe start mid-season one. It's not. Oh, you don't need any exposition at all to understand where you're at? Seth MacFarlane is in space with his friends. That's all you gotta know.

And it's, what a wild ride. There's some really problematic early episodes. You get into mid-season one and they start to figure out like, okay, okay, that's, you know, we shouldn't have said those things about abortion at the beginning. Okay, well.

Yeah. Are you a MacFar fan on the level that you were pulling for him during the Oscars? Okay, well. Yeah. Are you a McFarland fan on the level that you were pulling for him during the Oscars? I, yes. I, yes. You were? Yes, I remember.

You were like, shut up guys on Twitter. He's funny. No, I'm so quiet about my Seth MacFarlane fandom because it does definitely say, it sends out a vibe that, you know,

I don't want people in Stewie Griffin t-shirts to approach me right i want them to be very far away from me but uh yeah i use i had such a known crush on seth mcfarland in college that i get remember like all the texts i got when he was announced as the host and they're like jamie your crush oh my goodness i was like i know i had such a crush on him i remember all the times the FBI visited me. I used to have a dream literally when I was, I've been trying to tell standup jokes about it.

Some people think it's funny. Some people think it's like too bad, too much. Too real. But I used to have a dream when I was little that Seth MacFarlane would push me down the stairs and that my legs would break. And that, um,

wait, recurring. Yes. It was like a romantic dream though. It had to do with my crush. Um, so he pushed me down the stairs and my legs would be broken. And then he'd go to the bottom of the stairs and be like, I'm so sorry.

I didn't mean I, it was a mistake. What can I do to make it up to you? And then I would be like well first of all set my legs back where like set my bones back uh-huh and second of all you have to be my boyfriend now uh-huh and then that would be the dream yeah I mean it shows a very good understanding of how relationships and love works yeah truly horrifying but he would snap my legs back into place and I'd be like, uh.

And they looked even better than before. Yeah, it was great. Anyways, The Orville. All that to say, The Orville's pretty good. Season two airing now. So you had a crush on him like back when, sorry, I'm way too fascinated by this, but like he wasn't really a known,

like he was first the guy behind Family Guy. Did you just like know him from interviews and stuff? known, he was first the guy behind Family Guy. Did you just know him from interviews and stuff? Yeah. Wow. He was known in New England because no one from New England really does stuff. Right. So it's Tom Brady, bro.

Oh, we need to talk about Tom Brady kissing his son. Yes. But yeah, my uncle thought Seth MacFland was like the coolest guy in the whole world and so he would show us the dvd extras oh okay i was like what peter griffin is hot right and uh and and that's where my crush originated hey jamie get in here get the fuck in here you know the cartoon is this guy is fucking hot he's fucking hot you see this guy i was like oh my fucking god oh my fucking god oh my fucking god he's actually very hot your relationship to your seth mcfarland fandom sounds like my relationship to my patriots fandom so we can both be quiet and ashamed yeah

i'm not i don't i'm not trying to talk about it all the time because it does, yeah, it just gives people the wrong message about your core values. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's talk blackface, guys. Oh, man. This is the story that just won't quit.

Yeah, I mean, look, not only is Virginia for lovers, it's also for blackface. It seems like it's mainly for lovers of minstrel shows. Virginia is for lovers of blackface. I mean, yes. So first there was Ralph Northam, the governor, came out and we talked about him being like, look, I actually, it wasn't me in the blackface KKK photo.

I did blackface. You know how the shoe polish gets on your face and it doesn't come off? It wasn't me. I was Michael Jackson. It wasn't me. And I won. So hopefully that takes it down a couple so there was just incidental blackface on his medical school yearbook page

right just another person in blackface but he did have a blackface experience and in his past and his nickname was coon man his nickname was coon man and not the song right confused with spoon man right uh but yeah he look that was that was the first thing so everyone looked at okay well who would be next in succession and that would have been the lieutenant governor justin fairfax and right now he's embroiled in uh he's like looking at sexual assault allegations from back in 2004 right where the victim has come out and put these things on the record right and he's been denying it so people are like oh fuck well yeah they got nobody democrat party is in a ray like well who's next in line the attorney general

fortunately yeah the attorney general mark herring and now we find out he puts out a statement who was like look in the 80s i was 19 and i was a real big fan of the rappers like Curtis Blow. So me and my friends did a little bit of a rap minstrel show, put on some blackface at a party, and did some songs, performed some songs. I'm really fucking sorry. And I've just, you know, I've come a long way and did the usual thing where then he lists off all the good things he's done,

which is meant to sort of offset all that other shit. Right. But come on now. Like, let's be real. All y'all got to go. Well, i think it's weird because also these white people are trying to say that like they're trying to like actually act like like they're referencing like beloved black artists like you know like like he's like he mentioned curtis blow it was probably like pm dawn or something right he's like you know he's like he's like trying to be like i just loved og rap yeah it's like oh we'll give him be like i just loved og rap yeah it's

like oh we'll give him a pass i mean rock kid i mean who talks about him let's give this guy a pass for that or i really loved or i won the michael jackson contest you know i just love like that'll help yeah like that's well it's just one yeah right well there's a thing i don't know what's going on in virginia because even that uh his yearbook his medical school east virgin Virginia Medical School, they had to like stop doing the yearbook because there was so much blackface happening. Right. There was a recent medical school yearbook like from the past 10 years where there were people in blackface again. Yeah. Like that recently.

I know the deal because I grew up in Connecticut in a really wealthy town. We were not all that wealthy and that's why I've been in a perpetual rage for my whole life. And that's almost 75% true. So growing up in that area, you know where these people, what they're like. I remember in college, I went to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, which is where Tucker Carlson, I was in the same class as Tucker Carlson. I knew Tucker Carlson. Oh, wow.

And he actually seemed normal. He didn't let on that he was secretly a fascist. That's the problem with him is he does seem normal. He might actually be normal and he's still doing his shit. Yeah. So anyway, at that school, I remember blackface happened at my school or it was like white people being like oh yeah no one can stop me from being politically incorrect it was like the old version of that like like oh yeah i'm not supposed to do blackface why because i like michael jackson you

know so what's the problem but it was this way of being racist that it's like a it's like a a book that white bully culture right that that those politicians come out of. All those politicians, they're all connected, wealthy people. And that scene is a deeply- Well, and also it's one of those things where you don't have many people of color in your orbit. So of course you're going to do that because you don't see black people at this party like, hey, there's my friend, blackface guy. You know what I mean?

And I think it's those environments too where you can fuck around and and do wild shit like this but there's no one around to be like yeah and it's just like a thrill thing where it's like we're not supposed to but it's just us right and we know yeah we'll do this offensive and the internet thankfully changed that because now there's like light in those corners where they were safe to do this this bullshit because nobody would call them on right it's like streaking for racist people right like a thrill yes yes that's exactly that's exactly right yeah that's like oh god that was so cool don't tell anyone that's a perfect description of it you're right that's what it is and you know i mean coven and catholic also saw blackface there this is just yeah these whites can't stop themselves from i'm sorry say something final frontier yeah it's like it's like well what you Also saw a black face there. This is just, yeah, these whites can't stop themselves.

Jack. I'm sorry. Say something to them. It's like the final frontier. Yeah, it's like, well, we can do whatever we want. Right. It's like, what other thing can I do that I can get away with? Let's talk about refrigerating. Refridating?

Refridating. Refridating. Refridating. It's a dating service. Yeah. From Samsung. Yeah. Just matching people based on the contents of their fridges.

Yeah, so rather than swiping on a photo of a human visage, you would look at a just cluttered mess of the inside of someone's refrigerator, and they're encouraging people to, you know, based off what a refrigerator looks like, go after that. Now, I don't know how serious this is because it's- This seems like some post-apocalyptic shit where it's just like look at the food i have in my refrigerator ladies well if i if this weren't you know just a blatant pr thing from samsung for the new refrigerator and

i really thought about it i'm trying to think of what kind of refrigerator like interior would be like i would be like oh fuck yes we're swiping on this yeah yeah did you see how she had the milk in tupperware like i don't know what i'm looking for that's good tupperware yeah she doesn't fuck with cartons uh you know whatever that is i think you'd be looking for like just i mean i would think like the more i mean you just would end up with people with fake pictures of fridges right well organized i'm not gonna show my fridge right yeah absolutely what's yours cold brew and one container of feta cheese that's expired like you know and maybe like some candy because i'm afraid oh you put candy in the fridge well no i don't know not candy but my cereal i live in an unusual place so i'm afraid of of

animals so i keep my keep cereal in the refrigerator. I mean, whatever. It would be horrible. I mean, they would say I'd rather – I look like a murderer or something. So I would get a picture if I wanted to have a date. I would get a picture of Kim Kardashian's refrigerator, and then I'd have that up there. And then they'd come to my house, and they'd be like, where's your refrigerator that I loved? And you'd be like, sorry.

Where's all that boxed water from the refrigerator? Yeah, exactly. yeah exactly yeah the box water would be the flip this would drive sales of boxed water through the roof well it's yeah this samsung like it's this new line of refrigerators that already seems like i think we've hit peak refrigerator technology already when we had the ice door and water dispenser in the door i think that's all we need but like now there's like see-through doors and fucking smart tablets built into it but this one specifically has a touch screen and interior cameras that allow you to see the inside of your fridge from an internet connected device and the system can alert you when used by dates are approaching now does it read the used by dates it must be analyzing it

but like how many cameras are there like are you just putting everything that has a used by date not everything is like printed right there on the top yeah if they make you input the used by date then that is such a pain in the ass yeah yeah just using your hand and eye i still think is the best system yes yeah or your fucking nose or nose nose, yeah. When your refrigerator starts to smell bad, that's the real use by it. Hopefully it doesn't get to that point where you're like, damn. Yeah, no, me neither. A little spicy in there. Yeah.

I would never let something go that long. That's a whole thing. Grown up with children. Anyways. Yeah, you have a refrigerator. You have a refrigerator. They're just trying to trick you into getting more refrigerators. I mean, you have a refrigerator that's working,

and then they'll tell you you need a refrigerator that helps you date. With a camera or whatever. Well, the camera is just sort of like, you don't need to be seeing inside. Like, what the fuck do I need that my refrigerator be camera-enabled? Like, what reason? In my mind, it only goes to dark places where I'm like, what are you trying to figure out? Are you trying to get a hand profile of me?

Exactly. Yeah, oh, yeah. It's like 14 more. Are you trying to get a hand profile of me? Exactly. Yeah, oh yeah. It's like 14 more. Are we fucking algorithms? Yep, more NSA looking at your shit. Looking at my hands. NSA finding. Why would your hands be in the refrigerator?

Because you're grabbing shit. Oh, oh, it's like a live video feed? Yeah, like inside. It's un-fucking-necessary. Yeah, okay. Got it. It's like that doorbell thing. Like fucking four people have rung my

doorbell in my life like that would be the most dead air thing who rings your fucking doorbell you're like calling them like i think it's broken i don't know man oh it's a raccoon again it's not alerting me it's a wreck man you do live in an unusual place where raccoons ring the doorbell i live in monrovia i live in monrovia californ got to move to here. I live in Monrovia, California. It's out east of Pasadena. Yeah. There's a lot of animals out there. I live in like a little cabin kind of thing.

Oh, that's awesome. In a backyard. Backhouse. Let's talk Adam Schiff. Hey, look. He's got the reins of the House Intel Committee. Okay. And he's ready to do some shit.

If we remember when Devin Nunes was running it, when he was the chairman, when the Republicans had the House, it was basically a laughable interview session where people from the Trump campaign or in orbit of the Trump campaign would come in to quote unquote testify about quote unquote Russian stuff. And they would just basically lie. Yeah. And no one really pressed them because it was up to the, you know, the chairman to be like, okay, hold on. Did you commit perjury?

They're just like, okay, thanks for your testimony. You can go. And then all the Democrats are like, well, hold on. There's a, ah, fuck. Right. Nobody was pushing them.

Nobody was like cross-examining them in any way that was. Exactly. And now, so on the first day of official business, Adam Schiff now in the chairman's seat has said, look, Robert Mueller, you're getting all the transcripts of all the testimony, like over 50 instances of testimony, over 50 different people, I think. Wait, were

they holding it back from him? Yeah, because Devin Nunes wouldn't give him the official transcripts. That's right. Just to be like, oh, well, you know, I don't think it's good. I think for national security or whatever. Right. You know, we don't think it's good. I think for national security or whatever. Right. We can't trust Robert Mueller with these secrets. Because if you look at it, like people like, you know, Michael Cohen and Rick Yates and Paul Manafort, they've gotten in trouble for lying to Congress. Right. And you can do that when you have an official transcript to say, this is what we know.

Oh, wait, and this is what you said, you know, under oath, essentially, to Congress. So now he's going to have, not only is Robert Mueller going to have full transcripts, Adam Schiff's like, this is what he says. The committee also plans to release to the public all investigation transcripts as it's committed to providing the American public with a greater transparency and insight into Russia's operations and the U.S. government's response. So, hey, everybody's going to get to take a look at what they were talking about. Now, this could be really bad for people who have not really seen the indictments yet, like Eric Prince and Jared Kushner and Donald Jr. Those are people who...

Oh, Eric Prince. Boy, oh boy. I'd like to see him go down. Oh, yeah. Creep. He just went in there and was like, I don't know anything. When I was in the safe shelves, I just ran into that, like, murky figure from the Middle East.

It was total coinkydink. Yeah. So, yeah. We shall see. I'd like to know how many blackface photos Eric Prince has in the closet. Jesus Christ. It's his wallpaper. I think, yeah, I think Devin Nunes is, like, one of those people that a lot of these people, I always think

they're so lucky for suits and ties and like full heads of hair and and uh speaking as a person who has no hair um but you know like i'm always mad at everybody who has hair and mainly the hair yeah you fucking evil hair they look like you know devon nunez looks like like really squirrely and suspicious and like a criminal kind of but if you put a suit on him right you know the all these guys are misfit sociopaths and they benefit so much by this by suits and by the fact that a lot of them look like airline pilots you know cartoon airline pilots it's so much theater I mean Darden Nunez if you took him and put him in like an

undershirt and a pair of shorts, you would see what he is, which is a grifter. Right. They're a bunch of grifters, and I'm so tired. They should all have to wear their regular clothes to the Congress. He should have to wear gotcha weightlifter pants from the 90s with a sun-bleached bum equipment t-shirt and wrap-around sunglasses. You'd be like, this guy, I wouldn't even let him near my fucking car.

I bet he dresses like Joey Badafuka when he's lounging around. He's got like a little p-tail too. It makes me mad. You know, same with Mitch McConnell. I mean, the guy looks like a... Mitch McConnell wears jean cargo pants. For goodness sake. I mean, thank goodness for suits.

That's all I can say. Yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. Mitch McConnell does rock jeans a lot with a polo tucked into the jeans. Oh, yeah. Well, definitely. It's a professional look. There's an amazing article about Devin Nunez's family.

So he has like a really rich farming family from California. And that's how he became a representative from California is because that's where his family's farm was. But they apparently moved away like 10 years ago to Iowa or Idaho or one of those places. And a reporter went to report on that to be like, this is shady because they are trying to hide that because they don't want people to know that he's not really from California.

And they went full crime family on him, on the reporter. They started tailing him around and telling people to tell him to back off. And they were like, it's going to be bad for man right yeah it's really wild like hey look if y'all got info on the real nunez family farm yeah yeah you know nunez when he ran for office it's the kind of thing where he's like my family farm and it's probably like yeah they probably own like 70 factory farms where they and it's shoot pigs like a – they drop bombs on the pigs. Right, and it's heavily dependent on illegal labor, and that's the thing he's trying to cover up. As well as the bombs that they drop on other people's farms.

They probably have Eric Prince come in and kill the pigs. He's a trained human. He's like, can I? Can I have my team of mercenaries come in? I made a homemade bomber. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Can I test it on one of your family's industrial farms?

Devin Nunes, sure. I'd love to watch, too. It sounds great. That's true. That's true. You can quote us on that. And that is true. Let's talk about the NYPD versus Waze.

Yeah. Waze. Do you still use Waze. Yeah. Waze. Do you still use Waze? I use Waze sometimes. It's actually good. I think in certain areas it's good, and at certain times, you know, like L.A. can be such a clusterfuck traffic-wise that sometimes Waze can give you a bit of an out to try and avoid traffic. Right.

Other times it will just send you in a, man, all the left turns, like unprotected left turns. Nope. Don't like that. Especially not that especially not in la at rush hour but i mean for the most part it has its uses anytime i get an uber driver that's like i'm gonna use ways i'm like oh god this is gonna be a long journey because i feel like it always goes right round you yeah it can be it can be weird yeah sometimes it can take you way out of the way when it could be like okay yeah maybe i saved four minutes but we went like a mile out of the way and you're adding distance so whatever yeah but you know for people who don't know like on waves you can do stuff like be like you can add like flag like oh there's a pothole here right there's construction or there's a dead end or that's the sound of the police, there's a DUI checkpoint

or DWI checkpoint, depending on what part of the country you're in, for them to stop drivers to make sure no one is drink driving, as you would say, in the UK. Is that what they say? Yeah, drink driving. Drink driving sounds so fun.

I actually used to cycle around LA and everyone thought I had a DUI. I'm like, no, I'm just British. Right, right, right. I like that assumption. They're like, yo, I think Katya had a DUI. I'm like, no, I'm just British. I like that assumption. Yo, I think Katya has a drinking problem. She bikes everywhere. Like someone with a DUI.

But yeah, so on Waze, I guess the New York police were really kind of not feeling it because they noticed a lot of people were sort of marking where DWI checkpoints are. So they hit them with like a really intimidating letter, like legal letter. It said individuals who post the location of DWI checkpoints are. So they hit them with like a really intimidating letter, like legal letter. It said, individuals who post the location of DWI checkpoints may be engaging in criminal conduct since such actions could be intentional attempts to prevent and or

impair the administration of the DWI laws and other relevant criminal and traffic laws. So basically saying like them posting it as irresponsible, blah, blah, blah. Google's argument is like, you know, look, we're just trying to let other drivers alert people to things on the road. Like they say that when, for example, when they tell people about like speed traps or things like that, by putting that there, it might help a driver or most likely would help a driver make a safer decision

knowing that this is a thing. Yeah. But on the other end of the- With DWI, it's harder to make that argument. Yeah. That just is helping drunk people evade. Right. Well, I think that's also, but I think that's where it kind of becomes like a First Amendment

issue where it's like, well, you can tell people that if you're merely saying, I'm trying to avoid traffic rather than I'm trying to enable people who are drunk and driving. But at the end of the day, I mean, I in no way think we should make it easy for people who might be drunk to be like, well, OK, better avoid that part of town and then just drink and drive in this part. Right. Exactly. So we'll see where it goes. What what legal steps happen next? Yeah, that is interesting.

I've been waiting for this ever since the first time that I avoided a speed trap with Waze. And I was like, oh, but that can't be good for cops. Like, cops cannot be okay with that. I think in L.A., though, the thing that people really hate about Waze is, like, suddenly there's traffic on streets that were never, like, thoroughfares. You know what I mean? Like, especially in the hills, there are people who have, like, aggressive signs. They're like, if you came here because of Waze, just turn around. This street's too narrow. And you're like, like, especially in the hills, there are people who have, like, aggressive signs. They're like, if you came here because of waves, just turn around.

Yeah. This street's too narrow. And you're like, okay, whoa. Thank you. My street, like, back when I lived in Westwood, our street would just every once in a while have standstill traffic going all the way up it because, like, a wave. Right. It was, like, to avoid traffic off of Main Street. Yeah.

But, like, you couldn't. Yeah, it was just crazy. It was, like to avoid traffic like yeah off of main street but like you couldn't yeah it was just crazy it was like a traffic jam and some neighborhoods have gotten who are so on the ball or just have connections at city hall

well actually I've noticed like when I was really using it when I was commuting like from the west side to the valley and back and forth and was really taking advantage of side streets

they got signage up to be like during like rush hour like from 7 to not seven to nine and from four to seven you can't come fucking through this street and i'm like wow that happened quick yeah what city council member lives here right exactly yeah uh all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back definitely caruana galicia a Maltese investigative journalist

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hammering at it until Medicare for All isn't a very good option, basically. Well, that's with the NHS in the UK. Everyone keeps saying, oh, the NHS is suffering and oh, the NHS isn't working. But it's because they keep cutting the funding. Right. And for me personally, I think it's a fantastic thing. And I think they do a great job of what they have. And I'm so grateful for free health care. And I feel like any time I'm out here and I'm just at stand-up clubs,

like, telling the audience my health issues because I'm, like, too scared to go to a doctor out here. Right. Like, anyone a doctor in the audience? Yeah. I'm like, so. Trying to do doctor right here. Like anyone a doctor in the audience? Yeah. I'm like, so. Trying to do a bit around this growth on your arm. Yeah.

So NHS is your national health care service. Yeah, national health service. And when they're cutting the funding, is it the conservatives who are basically like, this is, we need more of a private option? They keep saying, exactly, 100%. We've had, I mean, Theresa May and then it was David Cameron. And it's like, yeah, they keep saying, oh, we need to go private. It's like, yeah, because you keep cutting the funding.

Right, right. You're creating the situation. I mean, I think that's the thing is there's on one side, yeah. I see the argument to say like, yo, let's do away with all the private insurers. But then you have, it's a very tough political battle, right? Because when you look at a lot of the polling, people, they like the concept of Medicare for all. But when you actually go into the mechanics of it, they're like, okay, well then how do you feel about it if we did it

and we got rid of your private insurance? The support drops down to under 30 or under 40. So it's guarantee health insurance as a right for all Americans, 71%. Eliminate all health insurance premiums and reduce out-of-pocket healthcare costs for most Americans, 67%. Eliminate private health insurance companies, 37%. Are in favor, right. Right. And do you favor or oppose having a national health plan? It's 56. And so that's the number, 56. A majority supports a national healthcare plan, which people are equating with Medicare for All. But what the interpretation of that is, is a much trickier question. And I've heard it argued both sides. I've also heard people say,

well, none of this is happening in 2021, so let's not make this the litmus test where you just disqualify candidates because you're not going to be able to put Bernie's vision in place that are more realistic. Right. This does seem to be a place where the rubber is hitting the road in terms of leftists versus neoliberals, basically. Yeah. It's one of those things, right? Like Obamacare was trying to address it, but because it took into consideration the market and the private insurance companies, it just turned into this thing that wasn't really what it was intended to be. It was written by private insurance companies. They took a CEO from a private insurance company and was like, right. Turn this up for us. Yes, exactly.

And I think that's why some people were like, it has to be all or none. And that's where it gets tricky because it is such a huge industry. You have people who are employed by these insurance companies. What are the mechanics of trying to make that work? And it's one of those things where I think the sentiment is there, but we really have to really think about the creative ways that we can actually get people to not have a reaction to be like, oh, I'm going to lose my private health insurance. Because a lot of people who can afford their own insurance, I think most people who are fortunate enough to pay for or have employee provided insurance or whatever, employer provided insurance are fine with that. Right.

But it's right when the second it starts being like, well, we would have to do away with that. You start losing support and navigating that I think is going to be the toughest thing. Right. I just heard about that guy that changed the price from a $13 HIV medication to $700? That's nuts. Just the way that that's possible. The amazing thing about that is when you asked perfectly rational

people about that who work in the markets, they're like, yeah, but what he's doing is just that's logical. That's what you have to do. That's what the market dictates. And it's like, well, that's the problem with the market. The market doesn't work then. It doesn't take humanity into account.

It just takes into how do I pump up these profits. Exactly. So in England, in France, in Canada, and I think in most Scandinavian countries, there are private insurance companies. In most Scandinavian countries, there are private insurance companies. They are sort of niche things for very wealthy people of means. And the point is that it's not the main thing, the private insurance industry.

It's supplemental. It's not a multi-trillion dollar industry. The United States private health insurance industry down to the sizes of those would require a thing that is completely unnatural to America and to markets, basically, is the issue. So actually, Katya, so in England, and this is just like genuine curiosity, is being a doctor a prestigious like career and is it like a one that you people are like oh he's a doctor he probably does well yeah like doctor lawyer going into medicine or law they're still the same like yeah and is the health care like do you have generally good experiences with health care I personally do, yeah. I know that I've heard that because I live in London when I'm in the UK, that being in London, you're more likely to be seen quicker by the doctors for some reason than if you live in the countryside, like in a suburban rural area.

Supposedly they're either maybe understaffed or they're not able to get the prescriptions that you might need. That's just what I've heard. But I generally have had a really good experience with it. But I have had situations where, like, especially if I've needed something and I'm like, oh, I'm going out to America in two weeks. And they're like, well, on the NHS, we won't be able to get that done for you. So I'd have to go privately to get something dealt with right um before yes so that is an option yeah um yeah and the question of how the system would be set up what the role of private insurance companies would be that is something that you would expect

all the democratic candidates to have nuanced ideas on and nuanced positions on right and they haven't and that's been a well that's the thing it's everyone just like yeah y'all fuck with this right yeah right how are you gonna do it fuck right yeah right because this is people like the politics of it right you know but it's the when you get down to the nitty-gritty of the policy that's where we're going to start seeing you know fly. From a user perspective, from a consumer perspective, from the people's perspective, that is the ideal, is you shrink the private insurance industry down to something that is there if you need it, if the publicly available system is not filling a need, like it's not

getting you the medicine quickly enough and you have to pay extra because it is a private insurer, but it's not catering to the needs of, for instance, there was a leaked slide presentation that The Intercept published recently that was one of Nancy Pelosi's main aides basically presenting to the head of Blue Cross Blue Shield and being like, look, we're going to find a way to kill this Medicare for all thing. Because Blue Cross Blue Shield and big companies like that, Kaiser and giant corporations, are going to do everything in their power to make it so they don't have to shrink at all. Well, that's the problem with healthcare overhaul or healthcare reform in the country is that

it's such a moneyed industry. You're trying to take down a gigantic industry. Right. And then also you have people who inherently are a little suspicious when the government's trying to be like, oh, we have something for you that's going to work. So there's a lot of hearts and minds that have to be changed really for it to kind of have that meaningful change. And I hope someone is able to communicate those ideas in a way that can, you know, get more

support behind it. But yeah, it's just, it's just going to be a very, very interesting, difficult debate because of, you know, just the state of the industry and the state of how lobbying and all that works in this country. And like you said, Obama had a public option in Obamacare until the very last round of revisions. And then it got crushed by the private insurance interests. And even if it had lasted, I mean, you still would have had these markets where probably they found ways to regulate, make it so that it didn't stand a chance. They found a way to thrive despite all of that anyway. So that's, you know.

Yeah. I mean, the main issue is America's like down to the level of DNA, like at a very cellular level, America is organized on a principle of market economics. And you're asking for them to change one of their largest industries into something that doesn't function in like by that logic at all and it's going to be tricky but again the people are starting to come around i mean what we talked about with tucker carlson is the same thing we're talking about here people are starting to wake up to the fact that you you know, the vast majority of Americans get fucked in favor of these extremely wealthy handful of people who are at the top of corporations. Yeah.

Well, I mean, what's good is that the will is there and I hope that only grows. Right. And I think now we just need to begin articulating this policy in a way that can bring more people in and make it a little more realistic from a policymaking standpoint, too, of how to do this and do it in a way that causes the least amount of damage possible. Yeah. Liam Neeson.

No. Just. So he has a movie coming out, Cold Pursuit, where he plays a snowplow driver. Oh, I thought you were talking about snowplow. No. Yes. That's it? I believe so. I mean, in spite of

what we're about to talk about, that sounds good. No wonder he dropped this. And it's also getting good reviews, strangely. Yeah, there's a bit about vengeance there. Yeah, so anyways. I lived once. I just don't know. This is a weird story. During the press conference,

he confessed that he... Here here i'll just read the excerpt from this uh so essentially what he said a close friend of his uh was raped while he was overseas and he asked the woman he's like do you know like what they were what they look like and it was a person of color so then he begins to sort of really i guess uh open up the box more so we can see what was inside his mind he said it was a person of color. So then he begins to sort of really, I guess, open up the box more so we can see what was inside his mind. He said it was some time ago. Neeson had just come back from overseas and found out. His immediate reaction to hearing about the rape was there was a pause. I asked, did she know who it was? No. What color were they? She said it was a black person. I went up and down areas with a kosh,

hoping I'd be approached by somebody. I'm ashamed to say that. And I did it for maybe a week, hoping some, Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers, black bastard would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know,

so that I could, another pause, kill him. And then he's like, you know, I obviously was really ashamed. It was a really dark point in my life. But it's like, do you want points because you're like, I didn't indulge my crazy murder fantasy of vengeance? What was he hoping to accomplish?

I think he was hoping this was the closest he ever felt to one of his characters as like a man of vengeance. Right. You can come to kick some arse. Yeah. But he also had a guilt about it and just is so out of touch. He's been famous for too long, so he just thinks that that's a thing that he can talk about. Yeah.

Like, yeah, it's bad but you know i mean i get you guys get it sure uh revenge isn't you know beneficial to anybody right right fantastic but like liam nissen is historically weird in interviews though like he'll say stuff that is always like you're like i see what you're going for but he always like there was a horse there was like a story last year where he said that like the pay gap between uh male and female actors was disgraceful and they're like so would you take a pay cut to absolutely he's like no not me so he like. He's like, fuck off. That's not my problem. So this is like a very weird pattern for him of being like, oh, maybe he's about to say something not confusing and offensive,

but then he just sticks the landing on. Yeah. But the best part they say is like right after he said that, his co-star that's sitting next to him, right after he finishes just goes, holy shit. Verbatim is his quote right after he says that shit. And then he's like, it's awful, but I did learn a lesson from it when I eventually thought, what the fuck are you doing?

You know? Anyway, I play a plow man. I was like, just talk about snow plows. You don't got to make this up. It reminds me of that bit when Life is Short, when he goes to do improv comedy with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. And they're just all like, dude, what the fuck are you improv-ing about? It really does.

It seems like that was in some way based on his actual personality. Right, where he's like, if it's true, I'll say it and act like it's not odd because it's true and then that's that. I'm Liam Neeson. Goodbye. Anyways, you guys know how hard it is to get shoe polish off your face, right? I just put a little bit on my cheeks. Right.

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What's something that most people think is true you know to be false? So I don't know if we were planning on debriefing on this during our recap of the big game, but I guess I just want to know how long your own father should be allowed to kiss you on the lips and just sort of take the temp. I would say, Myth, your father should kiss you on the lips for, and I don't want to put anyone in a box,

so I was really struggling with this on the way over. If you're going to kiss your father on your lips, which you can, I don't think it should go longer than a second. Less than a second. It should be a – Yeah. It should be –

Yeah. If that's what your family does – that's my – I don't know. I grew up kissing my dad and my grandpa on the mouth. Yeah. I kiss my dad and I think my dad still – he hasn't let it go, but we're not holding it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not – Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, don't – We're not fucking holding it yeah so this is something that uh super producer nick stump when i came in this morning he was like i just saw tom brady interviewed for the first time he is a weird creep and that's true like if you see him interviewed he's just got this weird like vibe about him it seems like it's like a very uncomfortable personality that was preserved in amber by his fame and success right so it was like he was you know a weird high school student but then he became so good at football that nobody was like you're kind of weird dude yeah knock it off right and then so there was controversy at the end of the Super Bowl on Sunday night because I don't know if you call it controversy.

He was like Frenching his son. Well, he kissed the team owner, Robert Kraft, on the lips, perhaps. Yes. But there's also an outtake from a home video or I guess it was a documentary. From like last year. TB12. I remember we talked about this, right? Yes. And he's getting a massage on a table and he makes his son come over, give him a kiss.

And his son gives him the sort of kiss that you give your father on the lips if he's demanding that you kiss him on the lips, which is quick. But then he calls him back though. And sprints out of the room and Tom's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You get back in here and give me the good stuff give me the smooch to the boot it is three seconds long it's really long I I was really blown away at how long the kiss was and then I was like I fell into like crisis of like I because I felt weird that my dad still kisses me on the lips and those are the quickies yes you know no there i think it's not the smoochies i think a lot of dads want to kiss on the lips they want to kiss

their kids they want to kiss their kids on the lips that's fine but just have enough respect for your kid to not hold it and also if you're let the kid decide how long they want to hold exactly if they go okay thank you dad i love, right. Because they're not doing, like, yeah, if you're a dad who's still kissing your kids on the lips, they're not like, yay. They're like doing it as a favor to you. There was one point last year where I had just been single for a while and kissing my dad on the lips was the first lip kiss I'd received in like five months. And I was like, that just, that shouldn't, that shouldn't be, that's not right.

Something's not right. Something's not right. And even in that context, you presumably did not want to hold it for longer than like less than a second. Even when violently horny, I still didn't want to French my dad. Right, right. There it is. Fathers of the world, you've heard it here. Kids don't want to hook up. When I throttled off of kissing on the lips, because I did it probably until I was maybe nine.

Right. And then it went to cheek kissing. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if that was a thing I did. I got to check in with my brother, see if my dad just is not taking social cues right or something. Maybe he's still doing it to my brother.

Maybe he's kissing everyone. Your arms are locked in front of you. No, no, no. Well, is it weird if your dad, before he kisses you on the lips, says, I really need this? Or afterwards, just a deep sigh after. I'm just taking notes over here for when my son doesn't want to kiss me on the lips anymore, you know? And you're like, what's wrong? What's wrong?

I'm going to cut it off after a mere two seconds. Get out of here. On my lips, chap? Tell me, how lips anymore, you know? And you're like, what's wrong? What's wrong? What's to cut it off after a mere two seconds? Get out of here. Are my lips chapped? Tell me, how can I make this work? The fact that the son leaves the room and is coerced into coming back. It's very strange. Oh, God. Yeah.

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