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Episode Date: March 3, 2019

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or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. 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. Yeah, so without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist. What is something you think is overrated?

Sleep. Okay. Perfect. Now, why is that, man? Because I also know that I don't need as much as I want, if that makes sense. Yeah. You're a glutton for sleep. It's a sad realization that, like, also, I understand as you get older, that thing in your brain lessens.

That you need less. Yeah, that you need less sleep. There's a chemical in there. But if I get three or four in a row, and then I'm up for an hour, and I get two or three after that, I'm pretty fine. Yeah. It's not ideal. I'd rather sleep for six hours to seven hours straight.

Right, right. But I also know I have this weird thing that a lot of people don't, is I know I'm going out on the road soon. Right, right. And I'll get to sleep for 12 hours one night. Right, right, right, right. Yeah. I mean, it's more health-wise.

People are like, oh, that's like luxurious. It's like, no, I'm really tired when I do that. Right. It's not like I go to a spa or anything it's like i got off a four hour plane ride and i haven't slept for a month and a half yeah and then i'm in you know the middle of nowhere in a hampton inn and i'm like yeah slept there for 12 hours now does plane does traveling on planes get you sick like do you ever like get a cold it? I feel like you're putting a hex on me right now. I don't like it. Yeah, yeah.

Well, I told Miles this morning he was having shoulder pain, and I was like, oh, are you sure you're not having a heart attack? And that was, I don't know, for some reason I'm just, like, putting a hex. That's not back there. That's not a heart attack. Well, first of all, I come in, and I'm like, yo, I'm about to go see this. Like, I go to this Japanese physiologist sometimes to take a look at my shit. Not like a chiropractor.

Anyway, I slept weird and I was like, it felt like one of those times. Does the Japanese have a different physiology? No. Oh, no. It's just this dude. You know, we got that one extra muscle in the tricep. The dumbest dude ever. It's because your body's different.

No, it's just like this dude who like I don't need to go through insurance who like for like 60 bucks, he'll just kind of look at me. You know what I mean? I'm sorry I had to explain that to you. No, but yeah, my this dude who, like, I don't need to go through insurance for, like, $60. He'll just kind of look at me. You know what I mean? I'm sorry I had to explain that to you. No, but, yeah, my dad has a doctor like that, too. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so I go in, and I'm like, yo, this shit's hurting. And then I kept touching my shoulder. And then out of nowhere, this dude just looks up from his computer and goes,

you think you're having a heart attack? And I'm like, yo, it's in my right arm. I thought that's in your left. And he goes, could also be your right, though. And, like, tried to WebMD me in my mind. Yeah. And then I wasted 20 minutes. I know.

Thank you, sir. It could be anything. You sent me down a fucking spiral. Does your heart hurt? Oh, terribly. That's a number one sign. When I touch it, I don't feel nothing moving. Right.

That's pretty cool. I think I'm running on vapor. That's great. Just inertia. Yeah, you should go into politics if you feel nothing in there. Yeah. That's the cool. I think I'm running on vapors. That's great. Just inertia. You should go into politics if you feel nothing in there. That's the first sign. You could be our most gifted politician. Jamie, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Well, you know, I'm back on Lamictal, so you know I'm search history-ing math class for adults for fun. Wait, you said you're back on the what? I'm back on Lamictal, which means that my search history is going to be wild. What's Lamictal? Lamictal is bipolar medication. Oh, okay. And as you get back on, you're like, oh, I'm having strange feelings I haven't thought in a while.

For example, I really want to take a math class, but I want to feel good. I don't want to feel stupid. Right. You don't want to be in there with a bunch of genius 13-year-olds. Right, I was like, math class for adults for fun. As far as I know, in the LA area, there's no math classes for adults for fun. I'm sure there's a meetup group, right? I feel like meetup.com has some where like, you know, let's brush up on our trig skills.

I'm afraid it'll be fucking, you know, Mensons, and they're going to fucking eat. I know. Really, the people you could be falling back on are your Mensons. I know, but I was canceled by Mensa. But I want to take Math class for adults for fun. I miss one week. I don't know what the fuck you guys are talking about. She's going to the Mensa annual gathering of the Juggalos in Arizona

for the official Mensa weekend. Yeah, but they canceled me on their Facebook group. I do remember that. Yeah. I'm sorry,

I'm just getting the math thing because I like math. What is, is there a specific kind of math that's like something you miss? You want to do like, you know, square roots?

I didn't like math, but I feel, but in retrospect, I feel like I just wasn't good at math and then was like an asshole overachiever teenager i was like fuck math then i don't need math oh wow so what did you supplement math with i i don't know like being rude to people and doing drawings on the computer yeah and using microsoft paint a lot so i would but i was like you know

what i didn't give math a fair shake. I got to go back to math. Yeah. And I've been having math dreams. I've had multiple dreams where I'm taking a math class and I feel great. Oh, wow. So I think I got it.

Just go take a JUCO class, community college class. I was looking at that, yeah. I mean, I might have to wait until next semester. I might have to wait until summer session. If there's LA Zeitgang, if you're a math professional, math tutor, math teacher. Hook me up with a math class. I'll do a class with you. Yeah?

You should come take math. We should have, yo, that would be so funny. That would be a fun friend activity of like, oh man, Miles and I were in math last night. So you're not hoping to really like get anything practical out of it. It's just more of like a, your brain craves it. Yeah. I think if I applied myself your brain craves it. Yeah. I think if I applied myself I could be better at math. But I won't know until I take a math class

for fun. Is that something that you run up against on a daily basis? No, I'm good at addition and subtraction. Oh, great. Solid. The building blocks of math. That's my main math activities I do now is adding and subtracting. Those are good math activities to do.

But I want to get back into long division. I want to get back to- Some remainders? Maybe some axes. Oh. And even some shapes because geometry was really where I fell off in high school of like, fuck math. Oh, geometric proofs? Hated them.

Mrs. Foley did me dirty. I got my first C in geometry. And then I was like, I'm done. Math is done. Math is over. My geometry teacher had like an American Psycho vibe. He had like the wildest tan. Like intense tan.

Like a leathery tan? Yeah, almost. And he had straight, slick back hair. Jackson Maine? Like Patrick Bateman style. No, not like I passed out in the desert. He was hitting the bed. He was hitting the bed. Okay. And then had straight, slick back hair, and his teeth

had a film on it that could only be described as chronic. That's a math teacher thing. My Algebra 2 teacher, he was obsessed with corn. The band? No. Oh, fuck him. The fact that it's in a lot of our food. Oh, yeah.

So he would have like Thursday, he would pass out, he'd be like, it's Cornspiracy Thursday. And he'd pass out handouts about how corn's going to fuck us all up. And he'd point at our snacks and be like, what's the number one ingredient? And then he'd be like, I don't got a check, it's corn. Wow. So I had some bad math experiences. Yeah. Yeah.

Sounds like it scared you. Because my experience with math is that I have been more amazed at how little I use any of my math education. Like in rich, it's just addition and subtraction for me. But that's just me. I'm not as ambitious. Oh, I'm constantly finding myself having to draw out bell curves in three dimensions. You do do that a lot. Yeah, I do. Maybe that's just me. I'm not as ambitious. Oh, I'm constantly finding myself having to draw out bell curves in three dimensions. You do do that a lot. Yeah, I do.

Maybe that's why I lean on you for my bell curves and therefore I don't need to. I wouldn't be able to be that friend for you. Oh, well, I appreciate that. And just a cautionary tale I wanted to bring up because this could have been me. In fact, it was me on MySpace in 2004. Wow.

But let me just read you from the Idaho State Journal this story about a man who was using social media in an inappropriate way. It says, A Facebook post requesting fast food in exchange for an illegal substance led to the arrest of an Idaho Falls man. The Idaho Falls Police Department took 22-year-old Brian Starlipper into custody after searching

his home at 3-1-blah-blah-blah. They gave his address. Starlipper had posted on his personal Facebook page earlier that day offering a gram of marijuana wax to anyone who would bring him McDonald's or Burger King. Marijuana wax. So that's what I was referring to. So the wax concentrated form of marijuana, which they now dab,

we call them dabs in the street. That's what that is? Yeah, that's what- I'm so stupid. I know, no wonder you didn't infiltrate that teen gang. I know. You're like dab, you're just like dabbing your pizza slice with a napkin?

Yes, like with a dressing. A little dab will do it. It's bro cream. Right, a little dab will do it. They're like dab? You're just like dabbing your pizza slice with a napkin? Yes, yes, yes. Like with the dressing. A little dab will do it. It's bro cream. Right. A little dab will do it. They're like, what lady? I know. That really does me.

You're out of the scooter gang. Really does me. I got removed from my lime gang. Oh, lime scooter gang. Yeah. I mean, I just, it's so funny to me that, A, why is somebody snitching on this guy? He was clearly just a lazy stoner who was... It seemed like this is the barter economy.

It seemed like a fair shake. You know, he had me at starlipper. I'm still stuck on that. What do you think? He's a good kisser. Yeah, right? Or he has like a really weird bottom lip. This is really, you know, a scourge on the starlipper name.

And I won't stand for it. Or maybe, is it pronounced starlipper? Starlipper? We don't know where the emphasis goes. maybe, is it pronounced Starlipper? Starlipper? We don't know where the emphasis goes. Does it spell like it sounds? There's only one P, so maybe it's Starlipper.

I didn't want to say Starlipper. Starlipper. Yeah, that's bad. Let's stick with Starlipper moving forward. That's the only way I can. I'm sure we'll be talking about him a lot.

Yeah, I can't move on thinking his name is Starlipper. He'll be running for Congress. Yeah, soon enough. I need to know how to pronounce that name. And I would He'll be running for Congress. Yeah, pretty soon enough. I need to know how to pronounce that name. And I would vote for him because he would probably have some pretty interesting ideas on the economy. Yeah. Although I would say that, I mean, like in California, a gram of marijuana wax for like the good stuff would be well over $50.

So hopefully he was asking for $50 worth of fast food. If he was like, I'll give you $50 worth of this drug for a hamburger, then I would have serious concern about this man's business. About his business. Don't want to have him in any trade deals. Yes. Right. I mean, but he's a giver. He is.

He's a giver. Justice for Starlipper. Justice for Starlipper. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated. I had to write it down because maybe it was underrated in my head too. Oh, I just watched The Dangerous World of Comedy on Netflix, a docuseries. Oh, with Larry.

Yeah, the guy who. The guy who directed Borat. That's right. Larry, the guy who directed Borat. Larry, the guy. I can't think of his last name right now. Charles, I think. Yeah, that's right.

I think it is Larry Charles. Yeah. It's really, yeah, I don't know. Maybe because I've been at home sick, so I think it's underrated, but maybe everyone's watching it. I don't know. I have not seen it yet. I heard about it when they were first talking about releasing it

and making it, and then I guess it, did it just come out? Yeah, it just came out. Yeah, people, I'm starting to hear about it. What is the general premise? I know it's just about comedy in different parts of the world. Right, I mean, he goes to, like, conflict zones. Oh, right. And he's like, is there a stand-up comedian here?

You know, and there are stand-up comedians or, like, humorists. Right, right, yeah. Who make videos, and they're, they're in Iraq or Libya. He interviews some ISIS guys about their sense of humor. Oh, really? They're not that funny, it turns out. No way, are you for real? Yeah, yeah, I'm dead serious.

He's like, what are you guys, like Pratt Falls? Right. Character bits? Prop comedy? They legitimately are like, yeah, no, we laugh sometimes. Like there's the, when you're dragging the bodies of people you just killed

behind your Jeep. That's right. Oh, they work out? Wow. You find yourself laughing a lot because it's just funny to watch them bounce around. So yeah, it's like kind of a dark

but psychological look at the roots of comedy. Yeah, I heard him interviewed on Choppo Trap House, actually. Gotcha. It was a good interview. Yeah. I'm excited to watch that. Was it like super heavy to watch or was it just very interesting?

No, it's very refreshing. You know, you have comedians who are like, yeah, I was abducted by Al-Qaeda, but then when we were getting tortured, I think he tortured me less because I started cracking jokes as a way of survival you know and it's like a refreshing it's not like a typical comedy documentary that we've been seeing which is like haha let's pat ourselves on the back yeah or just being you know comedians from the 90s being like oh I started at the comedy cellar and right no it's like people being like I was abducted and i said uh you know i said to the the dude who was gonna torture me i was like please please anything but you know bottles up my ass and then i guess the torturer started laughing right and he's like bring in the bottles

and he's like oh thank god it's plastic or whatever, you know, instead of a glass bottle. And then the guy would laugh again. And like, so it's really, it's like people who, you know, kind of found comedy as like a survival. An escape, right? Yeah, for sure. Damn, all right. I'm going to have to check that out. It's really cool. And as a comedian who, you know, you have family from another country, do you feel like you view like the relationship of comedy to the culture you're in like more objectively than other people maybe?

Possibly, maybe. I definitely see like the beauty of like taking something traumatic and finding the levity of it. But I think I'm still trying to figure out what the question was do i look at comedy more objectively right or like from a like did you relate to it in any way that was like specific to somebody from you know a japanese background like having like have you looked at comedy in j and, like, what things are, like, what people find funny there as opposed to in the United States?

Yeah, yeah. I think I'm still trying to figure that out. I grew up watching a lot of slapstick-y stuff, for sure. I feel like that feels universal. Right. Even in the States. Well, Japanese humor, a lot of it's based in status right you know like a lot of the humor is derived from like a senpai kohai kind of relationship where one

like a lesser person is being admonished or other like there's a lot of the humor comes out of that sort of status yeah and i think a lot of the humor that's super funny here or in Japan would be hard to do in the US because of people's egos sometimes like the super fucking wild shit that's like people are like these Japanese game shows these people are humiliating themselves is what it looks like to American people because they're like I would never make myself look like that

but in Japan people are just like oh that's just funny or this is dumb it's not like oh this guy's humiliating himself where I think that relationship would be a little bit different huh yeah yeah there's a show that i wish they made in the u.s uh that is like uh don't anyway i don't want to talk about that okay it's a good idea that i feel like someone else yeah yeah someone needs to really develop you gotta save it to make the american version like when you were like early last year, you were like,

there's this show in Korea called The Masked Singer that somebody should bring over here. Yeah. Then these motherfuckers. And then they got a Korean-American to judge it. Right. Ended up being T-Pain. Well, speaking of the world of behind the scenes of social media and, you know, the problems that Donald Trump Jr. is having getting his message out there on.

We wanted to take a look at what the process for moderating Facebook looks like, because so this is something I always knew must exist. Right. Jamie, you've come into contact with some of the. This is an area of my expertise. Right. Some of the social media moderation forces on Twitter. Sure. So apparently it is a nightmare on the level of giving people PTSD who... Like quite literally.

Like literally a former moderator is suing Facebook for giving her PTSD. Oh my God. Just from the content she was having to look at like as being a moderator? Yes. So they described somebody went inside one of these. Now they contract the workout because, you know, the average employee at Facebook, like literally the median employee at Facebook is paid $245,000 a year. median employee at Facebook is paid $245,000 a year. And so they can't have their full-time employees, you know, doing this sort of shit work. So they contracted out to, it used to be just countries where they could pay people, you know, even less than they can pay them in America. But

now they've started doing it to Americans. And some journalistic outlets were able to get some people inside one of these moderation farms. Oh, so they got the information by infiltrating the... By interviewing people who had signed NDAs and they got just... It's crazy. One of the videos depicted during training, they had a woman come up in front of the group and watch a video of a person being murdered, someone stabbing him dozens of times, like an actual murder, and he screams and begs for his life.

And then they're like, okay, now tell the room, is that post appropriate for Facebook or not? Oh my God. What? And apparently that is the sort of shit like they are just seeing horrible horrible just the dregs of any media that exists is like stuff that they're having to say no to which it seems like that would be easy enough to like automatically just be like okay i, I've seen enough.

I mean, and Facebook is so disingenuous about what they're willing to moderate and what they're not anyways. Where like there's certain stuff where they're like, well, if we have a vested financial interest in leaving this fucked up thing here, usually they'll just leave it. And that's why there's wars going on. Right. They're paying these people $4 more than minimum wage. And to have just to look at the most awful shit and misinformation on the internet, basically. Yeah. The idea, though, in this article,

that there were people who were getting so exposed to conspiracy theories that they began themselves to believe them is really fucking terrifying. Yes. That there are people who are like, you're looking at shit like flat earthism, 9-11 trutherism. And then they're saying that like one auditor walks the floor promoting the idea that the earth is flat.

A former employee told me that he has begun to question certain aspects of the Holocaust. Yes. Certain aspects? Right. It's, I mean, that's like red pilling 101 though right like if just if you expose yourself to enough bullshit even if you know it's bullshit if it's like you slowly it that just wears you down it wears you down and then you just start to question reality and oh these poor people yeah i mean it's yeah if you've ever like worked for a technology company or

something you probably had that thought of like eventually somebody has to be moderating this stuff for it to be like legally or just like morally okay or otherwise there's just gonna be people with horrible ends finding ways to just cram horrible things down our throat and all because you're trying to like make a living wage and the only way it's possible is to watch the most horrifying shit like that is right that is dystopian as hell yeah and so i mean there are companies like reddit has a policy where they you know train people ahead of their moderation work to, you know, prepare them and like be kind of disconnect themselves from the content that they're watching. But Facebook treats these people like shit.

Unable to leave the property during breaks, being banned from freely using their phones, even in emergencies and restrictions being placed on when they can take quote wellness breaks. In addition to being unable to speak to family members about their work. Excuse you? Which is the exact, like that causes PTSD. That's one of the worst exacerbators of PTSD is when you can't speak to anybody about it. It just gets worse and worse inside your own head.

Or even get a breather for a second. Yeah. What are you trying to do? You're trying to fucking decompress after you saw that animal abuse montage? Right. Yeah. They should have like a puppy room there where these people doing the most, the worst job on the internet.

Right. Yeah. Can just like get a fucking- They found other ways to cope. Yeah. So there is, I guess what you could call a puppy room. Oh no. Yeah.

So there's- Oh no. No, they- What? Apparently, they found also when they kind of looked at this office that the employees were coping with rampant drug use on the job and also having sex with each other in the bathrooms and in the breastfeeding room. It was a complete mess of...

It was like Vietnam basically. It's just horrible behavior because people are under the most horrifying circumstances. Fucking in the bathroom, the stairwells. The idea that... In this thing they say they had to remove the locks from the breastfeeding room for mothers

because it was just turned into a fuck room. i mean i don't i don't know i don't know yeah i don't know i'm stressed out just hearing i know when it's it's just like oh of course facebook is is like a black mirror episode and as always the solution to this is just treat your fucking employees like human beings like this is a shitty job and it does i i sort of feel like it does need to be done by people and not algorithms because facebook will always fuck that up right but it's like if they're doing that just they just treat them like fucking people and compensate them like they're having to look at very intense shit that could really fuck your footing up because

you have to be a particular kind of person to have to be able to handle that. And it's like if you can't talk to your family about it, provide them with people to talk to about it. Absolutely. That aren't just each other that are just like, yeah, that was fucked up. Like give them some fucking tools. Yeah. They're paying them insufficiently and not providing the therapy that the people need because, you know, so that a small elite in Silicon Valley can become insanely rich. That's essentially how it works.

Facebook makes me fucking sick. It makes me so angry. If you're on Facebook still, just know that just by you being on there, that you're creating the world in which people like this have to begin moderating. Not that you're, you know, complicit or whatever, but like, my God, to think that. It's tough. I mean, it's a, I'm, I'm still regretfully on Facebook because for a lot, I mean, it's like a, it's a family thing.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's also the, I mean, it is interesting to observe how fucked up things get like in unmoderated groups and shit like that it's just insane yeah um yeah what a what a hellacious uh website oh but it's all a part of the common theme is let's pay people what they're worth right and take care of them these people should be treated like fucking gods you have to watch shit like that. You should be treated like

princes and princesses. Yeah, there are cultures that have sin eaters that are like the people who absorb the horrible shit that we do or don't have to put up with. That is so

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, um. That you need sleep? Yeah. A myth?

Yeah. That they're trying to win the drug war. Right. I think that's a myth. They're just trying to war. Right. I think that's a myth. They're just trying to keep it going. I think it's a business at this point. Yeah. And it funds a lot of black ops and all that other stuff.

So it's like a- More defense spending kind of shit. All that stuff. Economies we're not even aware of, if that makes sense. Right, right, yeah. I think that that's yeah it's a huge new not new but uh at the time that it got started it was a new sort of dimension of the military industrial complex it's like yeah now we get to build tanks for oklahoma yeah yeah or like

compton right yeah exactly fucking house down. Because someone might have drugs in there. Yeah. Yeah. You never know. You never know. Now we have more property. Yeah, exactly. That was huge, though, that the Supreme Court came out and said that they can't- Just seize shit and-

Yeah. State of Tennessee was doing that. They have a couple semis, the state patrol does. Right. Wasn't there an interview with the guy where they're like, y'all have a real nice fleet of cars it is like we deserve them it is insane right it is like it was like you don't carry drugs in your car in tennessee it was always a thing oh right because that will be their car now it was yeah if you have anything right they're pulling up with nicer shit than like the dubai police yeah exactly oh you see our here our bugatti squad car like yes yeah so we got hover bikes on the way too and it'll help usher in uh legalized marijuana

and hemp and that will help yeah because it's not a revenue source anymore yeah yeah so that will help that and which will help in turn just hop on a john bainer's uh hemp cannabis uh scam train that he's trying to get people to buy into. What a scam train. Well, the way his is sold, it's like, it's, you know, selling people dreams. Like now's the time to get it. The time to get it.

No, the time was like 10 years ago. It was the time to actually get in. So now he's trying to find dummies to be like, yeah, give me 50K here and there. And you're like, we're talking thousand percent return on investment type shit right yeah for me yes no the time would be to start a tobacco company about the turn of the century right but yeah the the civil forfeiture stuff is wild there's some just incredible stories of like small towns that just happen to have a uh highway running through them and so they're just like yeah that's that's our income stream just pulling people over oh right just grabbing their shit yeah um this is a boss hog shit yeah it's boss hog it is exactly hazard there is a literal boss it's like

somebody grew up watching that show and then got involved in politics and made some laws yeah and they're like let's just do that yeah hell yeah i won't let everybody know i'm moving to canada oh shit i've had enough well miles had enough of mcdonald's well let me let me finish now okay i've had enough of this hot and spicy mcchicken being taken from us in the united states and we have no longer have a spicy chicken sandwich option like a real one, like we used to. At McDonald's. At McDonald's.

Okay, I was like, Chick-fil-A has it wonderful. Yeah, Chick-fil-A's, man. Come on now. Chicken, man. Don't get me in trouble. Now, is that something that they giveth and taketh away, like the McRib? No, it was on the menu for a long time. Bottom line is, I'm just reading now that Canada is, okay,

one of my biggest gripes with fast food is I like spicy food. And shit they always market as spicy is never actually spicy. It's like they put pepper on it. Right, because they know it has to be palatable enough that they don't lose money on it. Because people are like, holy shit, this is spicy. What the fuck? That's why you're not going to get any. Like the Wendy's, when it first came out was spicy.

Their spicy chicken was legit spicy as fuck. Oh, was it? And then it slowly got blander and blander and blander. Right, because people were complaining. Yeah, because even, like, I like spicy stuff, too. I was like, shit, this is fucking... Here we go, right? Anyway, so now they just put out three, fucking three hot chicken sandwiches with varying levels of spice.

So if you know where you are in that Scoville meter, you know what kind of units you like, you can pick. So they have a spicy jalapeno McChicken, perfectly breaded seasoned chicken. Is this McDonald's? Yes. This is in Canada with a creamy jalapeno sauce. Okay, fine. Whatever. Spicier habanero McChicken with a creamy habanero sauce.

And then at the highest, pan high is the what they call spiciest ghost pepper mcchicken so they are using like actual i guess ghost pepper for their sauce uh to give you that burn is it on the is it just the sauce it's just the sauce yeah yeah because mcdonald's have the infrastructure like everything has to be sort of you know module where it's like the chicken sandwiches will always those patties will stay the same and we'll dress it with sauces or buns or whatever but is that what their spicy chicken sandwich has always been or did they have a actual spicy chicken patty that one i think the patty was actually hotter yeah and i think that's probably why they pivoted away because they have to manufacture i don't look i don't work for

mcdonald's right but i'm going to move to canada uh so to manufacture. I don't know. Look, I don't work for McDonald's. Right. But I'm going to move to Canada. So if you guys have like a bedroom for me to stay in, please let me know. I think there's a lot of people in Canada that are like, we do. Thank you. Great. Please let me know because the spiciest, February 26th to March 11th, it's only while supplies last. So maybe I'll have to take a Winnebago tour real quick up to BC, get that sandwich and dip out.

Dip on out. Yeah. Sorry. And dip it in that spicy ghost pepper McChicken sauce. So shout out to my overlords in the north for holding it down. But Zite Gang, Canadian Zite Gang, taste test that shit for us. Let us know on Twitter. Yeah.

What it is, how spicy it is. It's fine. Yeah. That's probably going to be the take. Right. They're like, well, how spicy it is. It's fine. Yeah, that's probably going to be the take. Fine. It's not bad. Give me a little more description. It's like good-ish.

Had better, had worse. Or someone send a video of you eating the spiciest ghost pepper McChicken sandwich, and then maybe we'll play the audio on the show if it's funny enough. There you go. But don't hurt yourself, because I know some of y'all can't handle the heat.

Or do. That would be funny, right? No, no, don't hurt yourself. Don't do it. Don't put it in your eyes. If you go. But don't hurt yourself, because I know some of y'all can't handle the heat. Or do. That would be funny, right? No, no, don't hurt yourself. Don't do it. Don't put it in your eyes. If you work at it, just... It's a myth. Right.

Ghost peppers, they don't burn at all. Right. It's a myth. Ghost pepper eye drops. Jason, are you a beer guy? Formally. Formally?

I mean, I grew up a lot of beers. Yeah. I grew up drinking in the woods in the suburbs Oh man the cheapest 30 packs We can get our hands on we were drinking What's the cheapest around you Natty? At that time it was like well yeah

Natty Ice Ice House, Red Dog Oh man these were like $10 Milwaukee's best You just wanted the ice when you were a teenager Because you get fucked up Off of like seven beers instead of- It was the pre-IPA IPA. Right.

Yeah, exactly. That's right. The poor man's IPA. Right. I mean, just side note before we get into the story. I read a thing that kids are getting fucked up off vanilla extract because it's 35% alcohol. Yeah. So they're going to Trader Joe's and a school district was warning parents.

They're like, if your kid has bourbon vanilla extract in their backpack, they're sipping that shit to get fucked up at school. Oh, they're going to like Trader Joe's and like a school district was like warning parents are like, if your kid has like bourbon vanilla extract in their backpack, they're sipping that shit to get fucked up. Oh, they're not cooking. They're not bringing it to school to add to. Apparently they just dump it in their coffee they buy and just down it and are fucked up. Yeah. You know who else is getting fucked up off of that? Alcoholics.

Yes, exactly. I was just going to say that too. All right. Oh, but why don't you just buy the alcohol? Yeah. Is that just like if you're trying to like if you're undercover getting fucked up? Right, undercover or it's cheap or, yeah, around the house. If you do that, just get Purell, homie.

Yeah, yeah. Put that on ice. Yeah, a couple pumps. A couple pumps, some water, you know what I mean? You're good. Yeah. You're fucked up. Your insides are burning.

Your esophagus is burning. Yeah, no, that will really fuck you up. Or mouthwash is the other one a lot of people drink. It's low. Alcoholic, Psych Gang, don't do that. Don't do that. Just get pop-off vodka or whatever. It's much cheaper.

Get help if you're suffering from alcoholism. But if you're going to do it, don't drink Purell. The official stance is drink Purell from me. Okay, all right. I'll separate myself. That's where I land. Anyways, beer is becoming less popular now that kids have these e-, these e-cigarettes and their e-extasy, right? That's what the kids are into, right?

Talking like a true scumbag. Uh-huh. So. Yeah, it's on the slide. There are more effective ways of getting fucked up. Yeah, that. And I think they're also trying to overcome the perception because of people, you know, people love their fucking rosé now. It's wine time now all the time.

People love fucking cocktails. They like Japanese whiskey and shit like that. It's making beer just sort of like they're having a sophistication perception issue. Right. And I think that's what they're fighting against. Yeah, there's the microbrewery thing that kind of tried to take it in a hipster direction. Yeah. But that also became kind of lame.

And beer is generally, like, mass market is associated with just, like, dumb commercials for, like, sports bros and shit like that. Right. And, like, that's not a fashionable thing to be anymore. Yeah, because I think also, you know, it's just sort of, we used to live in a world where it was the two options were like, you want to do shots or you want beer. Right. And now we're like, what's a Manhattan? Right.

Like, what's a Sazerac? Yeah. And shit like that. So anyway, because of this, there was like a fucking emergency like roundtable summit like last year where the fucking top brewers, we're talking like Heineken, Anheuser-Busch, InBev, Constellation, Molson Coors, got the fuck together and they're like, how the fuck do we get people to drink beer again?

This is like some B-level cartel meeting. Yeah, exactly. No, for real. Overbelly losers. And so this is a quote. This is what they were thinking. It says, Executives from the four companies met early last year to discuss

what the Wall Street Journal describes as a got-milk-style, brand-ne neutral ad campaign to convince Americans to buy beer. The hours long meeting at a hotel in Virginia focused on how beer can regain its market share when spirits, wine and cocktails are perceived as more sophisticated. Right. I would have in the past maybe thought of that as like, that's weird because milk is so wholesome. But man, that dairy cartel, they're the most evil motherfuckers in America, dude. I'm dead serious. They're bad.

They've been killing us since... We've known that dairy kills people since World War II when we had dairy rations and we kept it going because... What do you mean kills people? Like when they had dairy rations, the heart disease like went down for the first time and only time ever. Oh, because we're like, hey, we got to cool down to cool down yeah they just like didn't have enough milk to drink for everybody to get fat

off of or get heart disease off of and then the dairy farmers just were like yeah we're gonna cover that up and just like make sure that people keep consuming oh what's your favorite milk to drink mine's half and half delicious body milk I do love whole milk on my cereal. If you ever put a little half and half in some Frosted Flakes or Fruity Pepple. Oh, fuck yeah. Might as well have a bowl of ice cream. Oh, yeah. Well, anyway,

this whole got beer thing, also, can we talk about what the fuck would that campaign even have looked like that wasn't going to be ridiculous? Yeah. It's like a guy at a bar on a date and the dude next to him is a hipster and he's like, I'll have a look like that wasn't going to be ridiculous. Yeah. Just like, I don't know. It's like a guy at a bar on a date and like the dude next to him, the hipsters like, I'll have a mojito. Right.

And this guy's like, huh? And he's like, I'll have a beer. And then a woman's like, I want to fuck. Yeah. And it's like,

I got beer. I think that's every beer ad for the past like 30 years. It is. Yeah. It's like making fun of hipsters. Beer is tighter, more masculine. I think that's the problem is you're attaching this hyper-masculinity to beer.

Yeah, I don't think this is going to solve any of their problems since the only ad that tried to make beer sophisticated was the most interesting man in the world being like, I don't usually like beer. Beer is kind of shitty. But when I drink it, I'll drink this one. Also, I don't wear condoms. It's like, whoa, fuck.

That's interesting, man. What kind of take is that? That guy has never once worn a condom. Oh, that don't wear condoms. Whoa, fuck. That's interesting, man. What kind of take is that? That guy has never once worn a condom. Oh, that guy? I've seen him in real life at a barbecue restaurant in Santa Monica. He's so pale in real life, I felt fucking betrayed. Oh, really? Yeah, he's a very fair-skinned man.

Oh, wow. So, you know, I guess you need that sort of like passed out in the desert kind of hue. Swarfiness. Yeah. of like passed out in the desert kind of yeah but anyway this got beer thing was gonna happen up until bud light did that fucking shade campaign during the super bowl where they're like oh there's corn syrup in the beer bro right that's why we're no corn so we use rice syrup right now a lot of brewers have been like it doesn't it's a pretty industry-wide thing that's going on doesn't make that much of a difference but whatever but all But all the other brewers are like,

bruh, you just kicked everybody else in the dick for your own benefit. And they're like, fuck that. We're not doing the got beer thing anymore. Right. They had an agreement of the five families, like the godfather, and then they started the war. Then, yeah. Then they moved on the Colombians.

Right. And then, boom. Now we're here, and now we have no got beer ad campaign. I know. Shit, man. I now we have no got beer ad campaign. I know. Shit, man. I am really worried about the beer industry. Those guys deserve better.

Come on, bud. Yeah, for all the water they're sucking out of the earth, especially in Mexico, bro. To kill people? Like Estrella and Corona, them beers, man,

you want to talk about the damage that's being done to that water table for local people who are like, we have no fucking water. Yeah. And they're like, nah, nah, nah, nah.

People need their beer. Yeah. So, I mean, there's got to be a way to make everybody happy. Keg stands. Back to keg stands. Right. Yeah. The fun.

What was the time you did one? Last time I did a keg stand? Last night? Yeah. Right before bed. That's just how Miles drinks, though. He doesn't drink any other way. What I do is I break into a BevMo at around 3 a.m., and I just bust the kegs open, do my own keg stance against the wall.

But no, honestly, I think I did it once because drinking upside down, shit just came out my nose. I was not good at drinking. Can anyone drink inverted healthily? Not healthily. I think that is a contradiction in terms. Yeah, but right. I think, honestly, I nearly drowned myself with the goddamn fucking keg tap in my mouth being held upside down. I was too good at drinking, which is why I don't drink anymore.

So I could get the keg stand down pretty easily. Well, maybe, hey, let's do some. We'll get a water jug. Okay. See how much water you can drink up right now. No, I can drink anything pretty quickly. Especially Mountain Dew, man. Get me a Mountain Dew.

I'll show you. Give me a glass of half and half. Yeah. I'll just fucking go down easy. Baja Blast Boys over here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You fuck with Taco Bell, man?

I do. Oh, good. Okay. I spent a lot of time in high school in parking lots of Taco Bells. Yup. Wow. It was just like the scene. I'm glad that's not in Connecticut.

The Taco Bell scene was lit. Yeah. It was woods or Taco Bell. Rides, drinking, eating. Why was your Taco Bell parking lot like this den of iniquity then? I don't know. I think it might have been the one open the latest. Sure, sure.

And there were a lot of easy routes to run away when the cops came. There wasn't just one exit. You could just get out of there two or three different ways. Were you on foot? Until I got a car. Right, right, right. But it did make most sense to be on foot at Taco Bell, just because it's easier to get away.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to guess roller skates, man. We didn't have woods, man, growing up here. We did our dirt on freeway underpasses. Yeah. The best is in the south when people live on farms, just out there and drinking the horse pastures. Oh, wow.

But you're trespassing when you do it? Or some homie has the farm? Well, I had a friend who had a horse farm. Wow. We would just go out, start a fire in the middle of nowhere. Mr. Horse Farm Friend. First porno I ever saw was called Horse Keg. Horse Keg?

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been helping me mourn the win of Green Book because it really puts into perspective how many great movies are missing from the list of Best Picture winners. Wow, what's on there? Well, so what's not on there, like Forrest Gump is on there because it beat Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction.

Oliver beat 2001 A Space Odyssey. How Green Was My Valley beat Citizen Kane. So some of the best movies ever are not on there. Right. You know, they get some things right, but it's really. Why do people love Shawshank Redemption so much? Because it's a really watchable movie. Yes.

An insanely. I don't know. I saw it like twice and then I always watch it like hung over because it's on TNT like fucking 23 hours a day. That's right. But maybe I've been over Shawshanked. Yes. But the first half of the list is just mostly

pretty forgettable garbage. Really? Yeah. Okay. Let's go through. Tell me. Because when I tried to click on the link, Vulture's like, oh, you've seen all your free articles. Oh, for real? Yeah. They hit me with that soft paywall. Oh, I'm gonna pay journalists.

So, at 89, so there's been 91 Best Picture winners. I'll just list off the ones that you've probably heard of. 89 is Crash. The Dave Matthews band song? Crash. 86 is The Artist.

84 is Driving Miss Daisy. 83 is A Beautiful Mind. Okay. Which I totally agree with all this, and it's just good to have it put into perspective that, yeah, these were all terrible decisions. 81, Dances with Wolves. 80, Green Book.

So these are all... Keep going, 79. We've been... Well, no, I'm not gonna go through all of them, but I'm just saying, like, these are movies that, Slumdog Millionaire from 2008, like, what the, why did Slumdog Millionaire win? Because it was broad and easy to digest.

At 76, we have still overrated pedophile hero's tale, American Beauty. Oh. Yeah. Academy's dead. I mean, they're making a museum that means something like when you have a when you have a retrospective or a museum it means like an entity has died right and you can see it in the halls right yeah

now I mean there was no host yeah and then yeah I don't know I thought it was fine with I thought it was i thought it was fine and watchable but it was one of those things where yeah you don't i don't know i don't i just every year it's like you it's like the vmas man i used to care yeah you care about the mtv video music i used to fucking care about a moon man i remember there was such a stark drop off in my giving a shit about that like it was the summer before college chris rock was hosting that year i was excited i was like oh fucking chris like that'll be the best and then college started and i remember like it was on tv as i was walking by someone's dorm room and i was like oh

i don't care about that at all we're in college now bro we're in college dude yeah uh yeah i'm gonna balance my checkbook exactly i was busy balancing my checkbook. On a pencil. 64 Forrest Gump, which every time I think about that movie, it gets more absurd and racist. Oh, man. Forrest Gump is- Hey, look, you could say that I'm never going to stop eating at Bubba Gump Shrimp. You can keep eating at Bubba Gump Shrimp. I eat there, I think think three times a month the the depiction of the black panthers in forrest gump is incredible

because oh that's right i forgot the black panthers are first of all just like so angry all the time and then at one point forrest gump like runs away from one of the black panthers because he's going to punch uh somebody who just hit which the Black Panthers don't give a shit about. They're just like, oh, yeah, whatever. People can hit women. That's no big deal. And after Forrest Gump runs away, the guy's still just yelling at the empty space where Forrest Gump had been before, which suggests that the Black Panthers were just like these automaton anger robots who like didn't even like it just shows such a lack of perspective or empathy for

anyone who isn't white. And it like rewrites history. So Forrest Gump is Wesley Morris from New York Times was talking about this this week on his podcast, but it rewrites history. So a white male helps the young black woman who is breaking the color barrier in Alabama. Oh, that's right. He's like, you dropped your book. Yeah, he helps her pick up his book.

It's just so weird because Robert Zemeckis is the same dude who rewrote history so that Marty McFly invented rock music instead of Chuck Berry. Yeah, Chuck Berry. I'm going to say Barry Gordy. His whole oeuvre is giving white men credit for things that they didn't take credit for already. Okay, calm down now. But the restaurant is a little

bit of a different entity. Don't touch the Bubba Gump shrimp. We know that Bubba Gump shrimp is a little different. That's based out of the love that Bubba and Forrest have for each other. It's just Bubba. Yeah. Bubba and his shrimp. This person put Shakespeare in love at 55, which seems way too high for me.

Should have been Satan Brett Ryan. Yes. I guess what I'm trying to ask is, is Forrest Gump canceled? Would you cancel Forrest Gump? Oh, a long time ago. I would cancel Forrest Gump. I can't cancel him. All right.

Yeah. I love Tom Hanks. All right. Yeah. I think if it was a real guy. You know, who's Tom Hanks? OK, my bad. Give me Forrest Gump. It's about Bubba. It's about Bubba the shrimp.

For anybody who wants to know the top, Casablanca is number one, Godfather two, and Godfather part two is number four. All about Eve is three. Wait, Godfather one is before Godfather two?

Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Don't people, it's not objective. Yeah, sure, Wait, Godfather 1 is before Godfather 2? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Don't people... It's not objective. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Who is it written by? Like one person?

It is written by the... Tim Grierson and Will Leach. Yeah. There you go. Sounds like a diverse group. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Sounds like they love Casablanca.

Yeah. Yeah. Casablanca's good. Come on. No, it is. Yeah. That's... Yeah. No, that one's right. You on. No, it is. Yeah. That's, yeah. No, that one's right. You're right.

I'm just, I just started sweating from it. Yeah. Just like profusely sweating from my back. For me, number one would be Mallrats. Yes. I don't know why that didn't make the fucking list. Injustices happen every day. Alright, that's gonna do

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