The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 71 (Best of 4/15/19-4/19/19)

Episode Date: April 21, 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. or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Thursday. extravaganza uh yeah so without further ado here is the weekly zeitgeist uh i do want to just talk about meet joe black because meet joe is back uh on on social media uh-huh yeah i'm on fire yeah i'm on fire today miles you don't have to say it everyone knows it no that's why i'm dialing 9-1-1 dude yeah all the fire department um doctor it's happening yeah people people were just rediscovering this movie and one of my favorite scenes of all time where brad pitt gets just totally wrecked by uh traffic going both ways

at the beginning it's like one of the opening scenes of the movie. And then there's this ER scene that maybe people can help us with this because I might be legitimately losing my mind, but I thought I saw it for the first time on Thursday night. And apparently Miles and Nick thought that we had talked about it on the podcast before. But let's just play a brief moment. This is when Brad Pitt, who is being inhabited by the body of death, like the Grim Reaper, suddenly breaks into a Jamaican patois, I think. It's very accurate. Yeah.

No be a sister, no devil,'s very accurate. Yeah. No, be a sister. No devil, no dopey. Everything going to be irie. Go with the doctor. Lady mom going to be fine. Those are all.

Be evil. I not evil. Yeah. And what you is then? That's not right. I from that next place. That is. That's from. So they're saying that if Brad Pitt meets the next place. That is him. That's him. I from the next place.

So they're saying that if Brad Pitt meets the devil, he becomes Jamaican? He can just do whatever he can inhabit. So he's speaking to her in her language. What? And it is... Don't worry, no. Me not the dappy. Me not devil.

Right. Also, me offering a special on two for one pair of sailing on montego bay just sign this waiver no oh man it's an indemnification agreement in case you are injured during the experience i don't know what again man cool great call uh brad pitt jamaican icon yeah yeah you know he's like the Lee Scratch Perry of acting. Do you think, is it offensive or is it just bizarre and surreal? I don't think it would be allowed today. It's a mix of everything. It's so weird.

I think it's so offensive that I'm trying to understand how it happened. Yeah. But also I get in the creative mindset of a script, you're just saying this person has a physical presence but can tap into many spiritual things and therefore is channeling this Jamaican. Yeah. But I think it'll always be jarring to see, especially that stage Brad Pitt when he had the beautiful golden blonde hair. Right. Suddenly acting like he's the mayor of Trenchtown.

suddenly acting like he's the mayor of Trenchtown. The movie is Brad Pitt maybe at his most beautiful as a human being. He looks like he's glowing in every scene. He's pregnant. And it also allows him to eat a lot in the movie, which I found out not by watching it, but by doing a bunch of research. But that is Brad Pitt's

the number one thing Brad Pitt likes to do on camera is eat have you seen Ocean's Eleven no oh yes I have his character just is eating and everything he just knows that he looks cool eating and so in this movie he is

death so he's like inhabiting a human form for the first time and he like inhabiting a human form for the first time. And he like gets to try peanut butter for the first time. And so you see him like he really gets to ham it up when it comes to ham, when it comes to eating. Let's talk about Wisconsin since we're doing the accent already. So Wisconsin restaurants or a Wisconsin restaurant has banned middle schoolers. And this story just brought me back to a time in my life when I was a middle schooler, just a shitty middle schooler looking for some grown up behaviors I could do with my friends and fucking it up beyond reproach. Hold on.

I just had while we were talking about this story. I don't remember Claire Forlani being in The Departed. I don't either. Nick Stumpf. She's not in The Departed. What's her name? You burned me, Stumpf. You burned us.

Let's talk about this Wisconsin restaurant. The band Middle Schoolers. I would have had no place to order water and try and buy cigarettes out of the back cigarette vending machine and then fight over a $12 bill with my friends. I mean, so apparently Tom's driving. Tom's. Fuck, sorry.

That was me. Yep. So apparently Tom's driving in Fox Cities, Wisconsin has had it. Tom's, Fuck, sorry. That was me. Yep. So apparently Tom's Drive-In in Fox Cities, Wisconsin has had it. Tom's, you burned me. So they put a sign up in their window or on the door. It says middle school students highlighted. Due to mistreatment of Tom's Drive-In's property, guests, and staff, you are no longer inside of the building without parental supervision.

For those who did not cause any of the incidents, we are sorry for this inconvenience. You may still purchase food through the walk-up window. Now, WFRV Local 5 News. They were saying that this has been a problem because they've just been acting out of pocket. So we're talking carving into booths drawing genitalia with sharpie markers making just a fucking mess of the restaurant and bathroom stealing soda fighting with customers yelling profanities at the manager even tattooing so i think they were using like jailhouse shit with pen ink and needles like when the like the only the wildest middle schoolers do

shout out to uh my homegirl, Sarah, who has a smiley face to this day that looks like a crying circle. Oh, no. And it says, yeah. So anyway, so the cops didn't even call. They were just trying to deal with it. And apparently, they broke. Yeah.

And I get it. Because honestly, being a young child with no job at a restaurant, like as a patron, you do not know how to act, first of all. Because normally, for me, when I was in a restaurant, I was with my parents. And then the second I'm in there feeling like an adult, of course I'm going to act out the dumbest shit while six of us are trying to spend $13 on fries and then fighting over one drink. Yeah. Totally.

I remember when I went, we used to always go to Pizza Hut because i lived in perth in scotland so it's like a small town so there's like one pizza hut that like allowed all the kids in and um we would get all our one pizza well i mean it was just kind of where we would all hang out yeah and i remember we want we'd um get our like ice cream and pizza and the chili flavors the parmesan we'd like put it all in one thing and it would be like i bet you 20 pounds if you drink that i'll give you 20 pounds and all the guys were like no way no way and i was like i'll try it and i actually enjoyed it it tasted amazing it was like weirdly tasted like licorice and uh then they were like they almost didn't want to give it to me because i i was enjoying it because you didn't drink? It just didn't look difficult. You took the whole thing down? You're like, I'll have another.

Wait. Do it again. What was it? How rich were y'all? Y'all had a 20-pound note like that? Or you were like, no, I got this on it. Yeah, I don't know. It was probably a birthday or something.

Okay, I'm just making sure. Oh, we got to treat ourselves. Yeah, I was like, because I'm like, wait, what year was that? I'm thinking the exchange rate. I'm like, that's big money. I've never seen math magic like what would happen when there was like 10 middle to early high schoolers

at a restaurant and the bill comes and everybody has put in 20 and we're still $50 short on this bill somehow. Somehow. Somehow. Somehow Dion Scott,

oh, you forgot your wallet when we went to Vitello's before prom? Fuck out of here, bro. I still remember that shit. And I was like, oh, I only had a salad. Motherfucker, don't. You were eating my motherfucking pizza, though, too, Dion. Mine was Friendly's in Centerville, Ohio.

That's where we used to fuck shit up. I lived there in middle school and RIP to Friendly's. I think they've gone out of business. Well, you know, so sorry to the kids, you know. Got to learn how to at least, you know, don't be. I'm surprised that they're tattooing each other. That was my favorite little detail. I'm like, of course, kids are going to draw dicks on stuff and stick gum places and just be farting up and screaming and doing dumb shit.

But like the fact that like someone would look and be like, is that child tattooing the other one? Just like Penny? Bad kids in Wisconsin, man. What is something you think is underrated? I think, oh, also internet related. Underrated to just not respond. You don't have to respond to everything with all of your feelings and thoughts all of the time.

Just you can. I mean, I'm a comedian on the Internet, so I want people to know. Again, you guys have really nice fans. So whatever. I mean, keep replying. Follow me. Amy Miller. Whatever.

I just you know, sometimes the thing is just a joke. Right. And you can just be like, I enjoyed that. Right. Yeah. Maybe I'll ret be like, I enjoyed that. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe I'll retweet it. Did something happen recently that brought you here? I tweeted this thing about a kid I saw at Target that I ended up on some parenting message boards or something.

And so it just blew up. So it just like blew up and just a number of people that are like either attacking me because they think I'm criticizing parenting or telling me their trauma too, which I'm like, fuck, like I'm sorry that happened to you. I'm just making jokes. Yeah, I'm just making a joke. It was just a funny story that like became this whole thing. And I just want people to know that it's okay to say nothing. Yeah. Any of the time. Sometimes people's egos, though, don't allow people to have the last word.

Right. And people don't realize the power you give away when you insist on engaging or trying to rationalize or justify something you said. Yeah. I couldn't even keep up with all of it. It was so wild. And then parents arguing with each other in the comments. And I was just like, I don't know. This was just a fun story.

Keep that shit on the moped tweet, guys. Yeah. Damn. and I was just like, I don't know. This was just a fun story. Keep that shit on the moped tweet, guys. Yeah. Damn.

So you tweeted something about a kid and parents were like, that is offensive to me as a parent because I had a kid as parents and I too am a parent. What did you tweet? What was it? Just let me hear it. I saw this little girl at Target

who got in trouble and this is all it was. Her mom was like, all right, no more Happy Meal. And she lost it, and it was hilarious. And your take was like, it was hilarious that she lost her Happy Meal. Yeah, just to clarify, she did not appear to be autistic or special needs of any kind, which I think that I know

because I worked with autistic kids for a long time. Again, that's another thing. You can't diagnose. You're not an expert. But I saw a lot of their interactions. She just was three and she had a tantrum. But then she calmed down very suddenly and then looked at her mom super seriously and was like, let me earn it back.

Oh, shit. Earn this. And that was all the tweet was. Was like, how funny is that? And then people lost their goddamn minds. That's so adorable. That is very cute. Every kid will have a complete meltdown.

Every three-year-old kid will meltdown for the strangest reasons. Yes, we all know if you've been around kids ever. And then there are all these people that just said, you made this story up. I do have that kind of time. Right. What would kill right now? Yeah.

Also, I mean, in a way, that's actually a testament to that parent's parenting. Because they've created a situation where the child said, okay, I'm running out of loss now. Oh, yeah. No, seriously. How do I address this deficit? The mom was rad. Like, we had a nice chuckle with each other about it because it was so funny. And like, yeah, she was great.

I think she handled it great. Let me earn it back. Yes. That is amazing. It was a great. You'll let me earn it back? Yes. That is amazing. It was a really funny scene. Let me earn it back. The fact that anyone would object to that at all is just, I question their mental stability.

Well, yes. And then a lot of people just disclosed their own abuse to me. And I was like, I'm really sorry. Right. And why is this the time right wait what their parents did to them or okay yeah I thought you meant they were like uh yeah you can just say nothing that's right that's my lesson as somebody who never posts on Instagram I agree you don't Don't ever have to say anything. Guys, teens. What are they?

What are they? Who are they? What does that word mean? What are they like? No. So a new study from researchers at University of Texas and University of Chicago, Hook'em Horns and Hook'em... Hook'em Italian Beef Sandwiches? Yeah, there you go.

Or Harold's Wings. They found a way to inoculate teens from eating fast food, possibly, maybe. What's the secret? It's Photoshop. It's a Photoshop contest premise that we did at Cracked, basically. Okay, yeah, I like how when you were reading this, you jumped to say you already did this study. I did this study.

Okay, well, let me explain to people who might not be familiar with the study you had already performed. Essentially, they found a way to get teens to eat healthier by making them feel rebellious. Right. So the things they found in this experiment, so during what they call the intervention, where they just present these kids with information, the intervention produced an enduring change in both boys' and girls' immediate gut-level emotional reactions to junk food marketing messages.

And teenage boys, when it came to giving up junk food, started making healthier drink and food choices in their school cafeteria almost immediately. So basically, they read an article that framed corporations as being manipulative with their marketing and making junk food as addictive as possible. that framed corporations as being manipulative with their marketing and making junk food as addictive as possible. So the truth, basically. And brain on vulnerable populations, low-income young people. Right.

And they frame it as though this is a very specific article that they presented to these kids, but you'd get the same message from sitting inside one of those companies' marketing or sales meetings. That's what they do. So anyways, after presenting that with them, they gave these kids the ads for some of the products that those companies sell and just told them to make it true by writing like basically graffiti style on top of the ads to like correct some of the some of the misconceptions fucking rebels dude do some sick ipad graffiti watch me fucking put a mustache on this dude and black out one of his teeth he's's trying to enjoy a burrito. But yeah, I think we said like translated,

like popular ads translated for truth or something like that. Is what you did at Cracked? Is what we did at Cracked. They already did this at Cracked. Cracked.com is for the children, motherfucker. Okay. I believe that's actually Wu-Tang that's for the children. Correct.

I guess we'll go with Cracked. I mean, couldn't you just show them like only like embarrassing cool dads eating fast food like a guy with like khakis and like a bluetooth or whatever yeah oh yeah and a fucking phone holster yes with uh khakis and they were rocking a sock and sandal and like a maga hat yeah or just or i just do boot cut jeans with sneakers basically michael jordan dresses right uh and interchange that with all the different fast food things just get michael jordan to endorse mcdonald's again the man who hates the children right also he looks ridiculous the what's interesting about the whole thing though is that like for the boys who underwent this intervention, quote unquote, they said that their daily purchases of unhealthy drinks and snacks in the school cafeteria decreased by 31 percent compared to the control group, which is just like, you know, keep doing your thing.

Right. But the one interesting thing was that with when it came to the adolescent girls who were in the experiment, their purchases were similar regardless of which group they were in. And they're still trying to understand what is sort of the underlying thing, whether it was that the fact that they didn't change meant that neither intervention worked or that both were effective for different reasons. Well, so the control group was being presented with traditional health educational material.

So it's basically this expose style and graffiti teaching method was effective on the boys, whereas just giving the information to the young women was like enough. They were like, okay, yeah, got it. Well, right. And that's what the researchers are saying that they suspect that the traditional stuff was ineffective with the boys, but influences the girls because of it, because it mentions calories,

which they felt could trigger social pressure to be thin. So they're saying actually the graffiti method might be better because we're not trying to be like, Oh, I'm like the calories. You got to think about that rather than like, this is poison. Young man and young lady. Right.

You need to fucking wake the fuck up. Yeah. It's just so, I mean, it's just so hard to get teens to not eat cheap, readily available food. You know what I mean? Yeah. With a high calorie content because you're like burning. So, you know. You could eat 7,000 a day.

You have so much energy. Yeah. It's just like, I mean, you're like looking through the couch for change like of course you're gonna eat like all that food for five bucks right yeah oh yeah five buck roundup at arby's um were you a big fast food eater as a kid um no well no not really okay not as a kid well as a, but not so much as a teenager. Right, right. Yeah, I mostly like ate at home. Yeah.

And like made food or my mom made food. But yeah, it was always like a treat. You know what I mean? I mean, it's still like a treat. Oh, for sure. Especially when I'm on the road. I was going to say like when you're on the road, like. Yeah, plus I'm broke.

So it's like, it's actually harder to avoid as a comedian than it was as a teenager. You can't be like, mom. Yeah, because with my mom being Japanese, like I think any immigrant kid, your parents are like, I can make that at home. Yeah. That old bit where it was not anything like that. And you're like, jalapeno poppers, mom? Yeah.

Really? I'm like, really? You're going to make a sourdough jack? With ranch? Really? Do you have that, jalapeno poppers, mom? Yeah. Really? I'm like, really? You're going to make a sourdough Jack? With ranch? Really? Do you have that weird white sauce at Jack in the Box? I don't know what it is. Right.

Definitely has more flavor than mayo, but I don't want to ask. Do you? But I think it seems like what's stepping up, too, is sort of the elevated, and I don't have any, I haven't read any studies on this, but just instinctively like the, you know, in and outs or like whatever is like fast food that's cheap, but has like natural and, you know, locally sourced ingredients or whatever. Right, right, right. Like that seems to sort of be the next thing that teens are hopping on. Right.

And McDonald's does not know what to do with themselves. Yeah. But everybody's getting like the veggie burgers now too, like Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger. Like you can get it at fucking Carl's Jr. Yeah, yeah. Taco Bell, healthiest fast food restaurant out there, as we learned on the Daily Zip. Hey, rest in peace to the Mexi-Melt, though.

What? Somebody on Twitter, I'm sorry, I can't remember your handle, kind person, brought this to my attention. So this is unsourced reporting. Well, I was shook to my core. I fucking walked to the Taco Bell in my house, and I said, I looked at the menu, it's fucking gone.

Oh, really? I wonder why. I couldn't even bring myself to ask. So all I did was ask for a loaded nacho taco and a quesadilla, and I left with my Baja Blast. You learned that somebody told you this on Twitter, and you just immediately dropped your phone, walked out the door, and walked three miles. Yeah, like within 12 hours, I was like, I have to make sure. I need to speak to a manager.

Because then I asked them, like, are you serious? And they said, well, at least for me and X location I live, and I went, it is gone. So what was the Maximo? Maximo was so simple. It was a soft tortilla with the ground quote unquote beef, cheese and just tomatoes. It was the most low

because I grew up like when broke, that was the thing that was like less than like, that shit used to be 69 cents. Yeah. When I was, you know, when I was a young man. Yeah, they had 69, 79, 89 cents. Right. And that shit slowly crept up to was, you know, when I was a young man. Yeah, they had 69, 79, 89 cents.

Right. And that shit slowly crept up to 79 then 89 then became like a buck 10 or whatever. But it was like a cheap thing that like I could get

like four of and not be totally, you know, air out on my wallet. You could still get that beans, rice and cheese at Del Taco

for 89 cents though. The BRC. But not outside of California I found out. The BRC isn't 89 cents? Yeah, I ordered it somewhere and it was like $1.25 and I was like, no thank you. They had already made it. You called the police. And I was like, no. I won't

pay that much. Just threw it right back at them. Did you go bold on that? I just, no. Yeah, that's where they put fries in it. Did you guys have fast food available at your school cafeteria? Oh, no, no, not at all.

Well, I went to Christian school. I went to a Catholic school where they had Chick-fil-A and Pizza Hut, personal pan pizzas. No, no, not at all. Sounds like a good time. Yeah, it was pretty awesome. Yeah, we had just, man, we had the fucking, we had prison food at my elementary school. Right. It's like Lutheran school I used to go to.

Yeah. And, whew. Ours was good, but it was a lot of the same stuff that was basically fast food. Like, we had Frito chili pie a lot. Oh, shit. But it's so good. Yeah, we would have, there was a day that was just salad bar day, which was just iceberg and beets and shit.

I was like, fuck you. Yeah. And then there was another one called chef salad, where then they would and a button and beats and shit. I was like, fuck you. Yeah. And then there was another one called chef salad, where then they would give you ham slices and bacon bits. And I was like, why are you acting like this is two different things? Trying very hard. Yeah.

But I liked the noodles with meatballs. It was the one thing I liked. The public school I went to a middle school in had taco bell, bean and cheese burritos. That's crazy to me. Now thinking back that they were selling middle school students Taco Bell at the school cafeteria.

Oh, we did that in middle school too. I totally forgot about that. Yeah, just the bean and cheese burritos. You could buy it. We shouldn't be selling middle school kids fast food probably. Police. I feel like someone just called in sick that day. You know, like someone messed up

and they were like, just go order 200 bean burritos and we'll sell these motherfuckers. I bet it was a high, high level decision where somebody sold the fuck out. We gotta monetize these kids. Right. We had a taco day in our cafeteria,

but this taco sauce they would give us was Taco Bell taco sauce. Huh. Yeah. We had a taco day in our cafeteria but this taco sauce they would give us was Taco Bell taco sauce. Yeah. Somebody was just stealing it. I think they were just fucking pocketing that shit because every time

it was mild sauce I'm like, why don't we just have Taco Bell? Right. Why are we doing like this weird jank ass version? All right, whatever. Now everybody listening

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Ooh, okay. This one is that people of color are taking writer's jobs. I see that a lot on Twitter, especially in the writing community. That is not true. Check the stats. Yeah. So we got some stats. This was on more than 200 series in the 2016, 2017 season.

They haven't come out yet with the 2017, 2018. But just 13.7% of television writers were people of color. That means 86.3% were white. 86.3 percent were white 86.3 percent um and just a reminder we make up over 40 of the population yeah ucla every year comes out with their annual hollywood diversity report um so for 20 this is for last year the number of shows created by people of color has risen to 9.4%. We did it. 9.4%. Awesome.

I mean, but when does it become unfair for the whites? So leads, this goes on. I got a couple more stats for you. I just want to really drive this home because I see this all the time. And I see people being like, I lost my job to a diversity hire. I lost my, it's creating like a race war amongst. Of like writers and actors yeah you hear i know i hear actors and people talk like that kind of shit like you know because like

because i didn't get it right i didn't get it um leads let's talk about acting leads played by people of color in the top performing films increased from 13.9 to 19 19.8%. That means 80% are still white. 80% of leads in top performing films are still white. And this honestly goes on forever. I actually, to tie this in, I wrote in a book that came out this year called The Good Immigrant USA. It was a follow-up to The Good Immigrant

that came out in the UK that Riz Ahmed wrote in, Coco Khan wrote in. It has a bunch of essays. And so I also quoted in there, I think one of the former UCLA ones that was 2016 that was talking about Latinx roles. And we made in the entire year, they looked at every single platform, including streaming platforms, including cable. We only made 5.8 percent of all speaking roles 5.8 percent and i think 2018 we got bumped to like 12 percent but it's still i think people are mistaking the emphasis that people are putting on the rise of uh people of color in creator roles uh as like to overlook what the actual larger statistics are because a lot of the examples like oh cool, cool, that person got a show.

That's a black show. This is a Latinx show. This is an Asian show. And it's a story because it's noteworthy. Right. Because it's a thing. And then so people are like, oh, so I guess they've taken over. Right.

And I also think, I mean, there is, if you're used to a world where it is 95% white actors. Some white actors aren't going to get roles that used to get roles. And that's a correction that needs to happen, unfortunately. I mean, if you even played it by the straight stats, then maybe only 70% of roles should be white. If you're trying to reflect society at large. But at the end of the day, the number of people number of people of color becoming a larger and larger demographic in this country.

Yeah. And again, look what happens. People watch shows that are, have diverse cast. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Those were actually the highest. That is another thing that UCLA found was, um, did you go to school there? No. Okay. She's a big fan of wooden. Yeah.

It's good business kid. Yeah. Good business a big fan of Wooden. It's good business, kid. Yeah. Because you relate to more, you have a wider demographic to pull from. Yeah. People have been turning down money to be racist in Hollywood for a long time. Yeah. Like, that's a fact. Now, granted, they probably were just like, you know, clinging to what their instincts were telling them because

they were just, you know, well, this makes me feel better as somebody who has grown up watching these things. And they were like, you know, using past results to just dictate everything they were doing in the future. That's how they were justifying it to themselves. But they were essentially actively turning down money. To be racist. What is something you think is overrated?

I think sarcasm. I mean, I don't know if people are as into it anymore as they were. Are people still into it? Are they? But if they are, stop. Because it's just like, it's not funny. You're just being mean, but you're trying to be funny. I don't like sarcasm and i

don't get it in what way like in people performing stand-up and people just interacting thinking they're funny and people yeah okay in general interactions people like oh i can't even think of a thing they're saying you sounded like the grape stomping lady like oh i can't oh i can't i can't breathe okay no but like you know what i mean give me a recent example what's something happened recently where you're like that's not it okay you sound like you're being sarcastic okay miles i'll come up with a recent example okay i was gonna like i was gonna say sarcasm but then i was also gonna my other answer to what's overrated is nihilism wow you're going big

but stick with sarcasm I think that's a good one because I do think that was a big deal for generation X I only spoke sarcastically from 1990 to 2001 after 9-11 I knocked it off and After 9-11, I knocked it off.

And 9-11 really took the sarcasm out of your... Yeah, I was like, this ain't it anymore. We got bigger problems. Right, right. Now, full earnesty. Oh, yes. Up and down. Yes, yes.

Yes, I've noticed that. Earnest goes to prison. Yeah. I guess with sarcasm, it's mainly people that... It's not necessarily with comedians using sarcasm. Sure. It's more just like regular folks who are like you know what i mean like trying to be funny and i i just like bartenders don't need

it yeah we don't need it and i'm trying to think of like an example i need an example yeah i know oh this is what we're like this happens i servers do this a lot and look i get it you can do whatever the fuck you got to do you got to get through your day yeah but there'll be times where i'll say like do you mind if I could get some cracked black pepper for this thing and they go no and you're like what and they're like no be right back and I'm like yo that was

jarring for a second because I was like are you a fucking asshole yes I mind miles yes I'm an asshole it would ruin my day oh god no you can't have that no you can't actually that. Right. No, you can't actually. Yeah,

sure. I think it's all, it's all in the delivery, but I agree. I might have a real life like example. Okay. If it comes to me, I'll be like,

Oh, it came to me. Cool. Cool. Cool. I think it's more like in like transactions, anything dealing with money. I don't need sarcasm if I'm a customer.

Right. Or the other one, I'll eat everything on the plate. Oh, you really hated the meal, huh? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. Because then I'm supposed to be like, what do you want me to say to that?

Right. No, I liked it. And act like I don't get it. Yeah, just correct them. Or just play along. I think earnestly correcting people's sarcasm is a good is a good way of going forward just earnestly no i did actually really like it that's why i ate all the food oh no was it not clear the food that was on the plate has actually entered my digestive system wait what

did you think happened all the food that was on the plate uh just really oh no i was being um it was a it was a joke, I got a lot of tables, man. Speaking about infighting, guys, as we were before the break, I want to talk about a house divided, a court case that is rocking Grand Haven, Michigan. Yeah. That's what I was going to guess. Yeah.

Haven, Michigan. Yeah. That's what I was going to guess. Yeah. So a man is suing his parents for basically destroying his collection. Yeah. That he had worked so hard building up. Comic books, baseball cards. We've all had it happen to us.

You come home, you're like, mom, where's all my Jason Kidd rookie cards? Right. Thrown away? What about the Stackhouse rookies? What? Man, the Stackhouse rookies worth like 45 cents. What about my David Stoudemire rookie cards? What? What about my Michael Jordan electric court

upper deck card? Electric court gold, by the way, and Beckett, that was worth 125, Mom. And it's gone. Yeah, we all know this same feeling. I'm still putting all my money into baseball cards. I don't care what people say. That's still where all my retirement is. Good as gold, baby.

Good as gold. So this case has been moving its way through different courts. Certain judges didn't feel like there was an actual case to be tried here. But I want to let the listeners decide the tale of, to keep this person anonymous, the news has been referring to this gentleman as Charlie. So behold the tale of Charlie. His parents allegedly telling him they destroyed the stuff he's looking for. That stuff being 12 moving boxes full of pornography. Unable to work it out with his

parents, he calls the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department, declaring his collection worth about $29,000. The prosecutor's office eventually declining to press charges in the matter. Just a month later, Charlie begins reaching out to his dad through email, according to the lawsuit, saying, if you had a problem with my belongings, you should have stated that at the time and I would have gone elsewhere. Instead, you chose to keep quiet and behave vindictively. His father apparently responding, believe it or not, one reason for why I destroyed your porn was for your own mental and emotional health.

I would have done the same if I had found a kilo of crack cocaine. Someday I hope you'll understand. The emails continue, some bringing up Charlie's alleged past, recalling him being kicked out of high school and even college for selling porn to other students. Dad allegedly saying, I also warned you at the time, if I ever found pornography in my house again, I would destroy it. Oh, Charlie. Charlie. I would have gone elsewhere.

So you just moved home as a choice? You had multiple options? What had happened was Charlie moved into his parents' home after going through a divorce. So Charlie is not a young man. I mean, I don't know how old he is. A woman left this guy? Yeah. No way.

And so he stayed for 10 months in his parents' home doing housework in lieu of paying rent. Oh, man. And he was asked to leave uh during a domestic situation 2017 and then that precipitated all this other stuff going on with his porno collection being thrown out and later on in the in the report they're talking about he's making the case he's like i have video cassettes uh they were video cassettes of material that is so rare uh that it cannot be found anymore. And not even the production studios that made the content have dissolved. And these are like some of the only remaining remnants of this work.

So his bespoke porno collection or some shit. He's making the case that he was a one-man moving box porn museum that like the culture is now worse off because we are without his collection. It belongs in a museum! Yeah. Just yelling that at his dad. I mean on one hand. Indiana Jones of butt stuff. Right. On one hand I'm like

alright dude like do whatever. Yeah. But then when you hear the emails back and forth like I'm not trying to shame anybody who collects porn. Do whatever the fuck you gotta do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, like, the way the dad was writing back, it seemed like this was negatively affecting the dude's life. Yeah.

When he was like, I did it for your emotional and psychological well-being. Yeah, if you're just watching porn. I just assume, like, he uses the boxes. He sets them up as a chair and he takes like that's like all of his furniture is made of his porn boxes like sleeps across them with like a cot mattress on top like a porn fort yeah yeah

exactly yeah pitches his own tent every night it seems like it's been a long term problem they said being kicked out of high school and even college so which means both for dealing like for selling pornography like out of high school and even college. Oh, what if this guy is your roommate? Dealing, like, for selling pornography, like, is that really a thing you kick somebody out of?

Like, everybody is. A high school I get, because you're probably a minor, and you're like, you're fucking around with this material that's only for adults or whatever. But in college? Like, what are you doing in college

where college is like, hey, Charlie, we got to talk, man. Right. What the fuck? You're running an Odyssey video out of your door. He's got a trench coat that he opens up and inside of it it's just like lots of just pictures just buttholes but he never sells them because they're way too expensive and he's a snob about it that's just how he flexes on people he's just like look at look at all these buttholes he's like what do you mean oh you don't know this gauge video from 1998 no sir you can go

elsewhere why don't you go to porornhub.com, sir? I refuse to sell to you. I mean, it seems like literally everybody who's known this guy since he went through puberty has known him as the porn guy. Like the guy who is constantly talking about porn, trying to push porn on you, trying to sell you porn. And I know everybody in this room right now knows somebody like that from their upbringing. I'm not. Okay, let's talk about two people. There's one kid named Ryan in my elementary school. And I know everybody in this room right now knows somebody like that from their upbringing. Okay, let's talk about two people. There's one kid named Ryan in my elementary school.

He got in trouble because he would cut out the underwear ads from the May Company newspaper shit and be showing us in first grade. We're like, yo. He got in trouble for that. Another kid, I'm not going to say his name, but we have the same first name. He lived with his grandfather who has so many porn tapes at his house. He was the one who you'd be like, yo, did you get that new tape from him? And it was one of those mixed tapes that were clearly just like, the grandpa was doing 2DCR editing and shit.

And he was also selling that shit. People would be like, yo, let's put like he was like also selling that shit. People were like, be like, yo, let's put like 10 bucks together. Yeah. Get that tape. Let's pull it,

pull it for the internet. Yeah. Oh my God. Shout out to Ryan. Yeah. We had a guy named Tucker that, similar thing, but then he also had a screen name.

He was the NY charity tickler that he like would message all these girls and marching band and be like i'm raising money for a charity in new york if you send me a tape of you being tickled oh my god and we were all like no and then we all found out on like a bus trip to a band competition that ny charity tickler was hitting up all the girls in the brass section and we were like who is this and then we had tucker we figured out. It was Tucker. I think he's in jail now. Oh, no. I thought you said he just got a show on Fox.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're the same thing. It's a form of prison. Wow. Yep. I like that. It was so specific. He's like, I want the ladies from the brass section.

I want to see Tickle videos with them. Were y'all just giggling too much? And was like i need a video one step more specific than the dude from ticklish he's like they have to play brass and it would win instruments they're like i need to see their embouchure yeah oh my god did you saw that documentary yeah the tickling one no on hbo yo you gotta watch everybody listening right now if you have not seen that it's called tickled tickled the hbo documentary it starts off about a thing that you it's about a tickling tournament or something and then they they peel this motherfucking onion so many layers you're just like what the fuck is going on?

And it's one of those documentaries that starts like, oh, it's about this. And then it just expands into this whole other thing. Oh, man, I got to see it. Yeah, it's wild. All right, we're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

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deactivated do you know why when the quote haters reported her account uh maybe it had something to do with the racist shit she had said in past streams anyways uh we we have some audio not of the 9-1-1 right well let me first just a little bit of background so there was an art interview with her an insider and she first of all was claiming that she was making five hundred thousand dollars over the last three years from her instagram account how old is this true uh 21 maybe 22 or something like that. And she was basically, she said that when the second that was taken away from her, she had no other option but to phone the police because it was a fucking, it was a death.

As she describes it, quote, I felt like it was a homicide. Like somebody murdered me and then went online to say i murdered this girl i don't know what that i called i called the police actually and told them about this and they said you can't compare a murder to this and i was like no that's exactly what it felt like okay so then she goes on youtube like right after her shit got deleted and just delivers this this victim's monologue straight out of a bizarro lifetime film i don't know what just listen to this hey guys so like i'm in the middle of editing and my instagram account got deleted and i have nothing without my following i have nothing without my following i want to say to everybody that's been reporting me,

think twice because you're ruining my life. What some of you guys have to realize is I have no skills. I have no job qualifications. I could never work a normal job. I am worthless. I bring nothing to the table. Zero. I bring nothing to the fucking table when it comes to that.

I always get in fights with people. I always get kicked out of places. Like, I'm not work material. I will never be work material. So stop fucking reporting me on motherfucking Instagram. The last thing I want to do is be a fucking homeless prostitute in the fucking street doing math. That's just what Norwegians say to each other day to day just a little backstory to keep us humble we we cut that down uh there are moments where she said she was a like she worked at a strip club and she claims

she was a prostitute for some of that time oh and then but there are other parts too where she goes after working people she's like i'm not like the fucking 90%, okay, who you guys just go do your 9 to 5, okay? That's why I moved to LA so I could do Instagram because I'm not trying to live that boring life. And then just comes at, like, working people. Wow. So clearly the comments were not kind to her. And then her IG was restored, and Instagram said it was deactivated, likeated in an error or something due to error or something. Now, this is where I'm become a little bit – I'm a little dubious, okay?

Because this is either the saddest indictment of the social media generation. I think it's that. It is a very, very clever marketing thing because this has been written up so many times because on the pure face of instagram influencer calls police because account is deleted and you get like everywhere from the sun to motherfucking business inside like everybody is writing about it so in a way i'm like that's a good way to bring some attention to your account or i mean she was seemed like those tears were legit it did yeah at first i thought i mean if it did seem like the pain of someone who it is the greatest the most pathetic and greatest

performance since bill paxton in true lies when he's like i got a little dick it's pathetic yeah she was basically and then like really does not do much for defending herself because every time she's like, I'm not saying like, okay, like that you're, you're lame if you have a job or whatever. She's like,

but like, fuck that. I would never work a job like you. But you know, Jesse. Yeah. I mean, those are,

those all sound like good things to consider as you decide, okay, I need to broaden my skills skill set maybe like the things she was saying it's like jesus man i don't get along with i don't get along with people so i probably need to like hit a therapist at least once a week uh i don't have any skills i can't like go places without getting thrown out yeah like yeah those are all problems that like you are using this Instagram thing to, you know, shield yourself from. So let's look at those.

But also like, I don't know where she's going to get any, no one's going to feel bad for her because there are plenty of people with like legitimate disabilities who still go to work, who still find a way to do things. And like, this is,

that's why I'm like, oh God, are we going to have to take care of these like young, dumb kids? We're just like, I don't know. I don't want to work. Cause you see a lot of people like when she said I moved to LA to do Instagram,

I'm like that. That's what she said. She struck a chord with me. Cause I'm like, this is a, this is a sort of the mirage about this city that people do really believe because it's shit like they see on keeping up with the Kardashians. Like this influencer really is a coveted career.

Yeah. And, and then I'm like really worried when you see people were like just shattered over this. And I don't know where the 500,000 comes from. Cause I didn't see many sponsored posts. I remember the first time I walked down Hollywood Boulevard, it was a rainy day.

And I've like, I was like, they never show this on TV. It is like a hooker without the glitter. It is just all rotten teeth and so creepy. Yeah, no, there's a really bad drug problem in Los Angeles. Yeah, I mean, at the same time, I do not want to say it's a generational thing.

We're just a generation. They're probably smarter than millennials who are smarter than Gen X, who are smarter than the baby boomers. I think there's one in between there. Not smarter than my grandpa. Yeah, not smarter than any of our grandpas. They were the smartest. Yo, if you think about, man, my grandpa didn't go to college.

With his high school education, knows more than people that go to college, I feel like. Yeah. Well, college i feel like yeah well i just feel like just in general like the grasp of like there are things that i'm surprised that people who graduate college just don't know like basic stuff right and i'm like wow the education system used to be more robust back then yeah but i feel like but anyway i'm saying my grandpa's the smartest guy on earth and he's old as shit. I do feel like judging a generation by their influencers. I just don't like,

we didn't have the baby boomer equivalent of somebody who got famous for just being like an idiot. Right. Like they, there were fewer famous people. In the UK they have like eight girls or like they're kind of like celebrities, but not that I remember in the nineties. Yeah. Right. kind of like celebrities. But no. That I remember in the 90s. Right.

Yeah. That was before. I feel like maybe the most equivalent we've had is like reality stars up to this point. Yeah. Reality ushered in the era of fame being the achievement rather than you became famous for achieving things. Or for a talent. Yeah.

Yeah. That flipped around. Well, I mean, I think it's always sort of been getting there, but reality TV just blew that door open because now it's like, oh yeah, the person who screwed everyone over in that competition game show. Yeah, that's right.

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