The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 88 (Best of 8/12/19-8/16/19)

Episode Date: August 18, 2019

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was assassinated. Crooks Everywhere unearthed the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. She exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:01:03 I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's basketball. And on this new season, we'll cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever
Starting point is 00:01:28 you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.
Starting point is 00:01:51 Listen to the making of a rivalry. Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. 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
Starting point is 00:02:27 greta something from your search history that is revealing about who you are but i have the problem where like i can't i mean i just i just googled how to take off a boot on a car wait like a fucking like a tutorial as to how to take off a boot. Okay, so are you not paying your parking tickets? What's going on? Well, my friend parked her car on my street. She got a boot put on it. She's out of the country. I was like, you have a boot on your car.
Starting point is 00:02:59 It adds up, too. Yes, they say on the thing they can just jack up, which I think is really fucked up the thing they can just jack up, which I think is really fucked up that they can just jack up the price. Rather than taxing people who need to be, they'll hit you with that. I've had to boot on my car because I had too many parking tickets. I've given LA
Starting point is 00:03:16 DOT between tickets and towing I would say around six grand. Oh my. I've been towed 12 times. No. Oh, that's right. Yeah, remember, I used to tell it. It's no longer a part of my narrative, okay?
Starting point is 00:03:29 Yeah. That's not who I am anymore. Put that outside of you. I'm a hoe with parking, okay? But I used to live that life. And also, I had a boot. This may be a myth, but I had a boot. Had to pay to get the boot off.
Starting point is 00:03:42 Then never returned the boot. Eventually, I threw the boot away. You kept the boot? I never returned the boot because now we take off the boot, had to pay to get the boot off, then never returned the boot. Eventually, I threw the boot away. You kept the boot? Wait, you never returned the boot because now we take off the boot and then it's like they're threatening you. They're like, you need to return this boot in 24 hours or else. They have no way of keeping track. That's what I said.
Starting point is 00:03:56 Wait, hold on. You can take the boot off yourself? You have to, okay, so you go to the website, you pay the money and then they give you a code and then you put the code in and then you take the boot off. And now they're like, now bring my boot back. Yeah, but they don't know where they boot at. And I don't think that they like. They can't know where the boot is.
Starting point is 00:04:09 And I don't think that they're keeping track of like license plate, boot ID number. You don't. No, they are. Of course they do. How can they give you a code to take it off unless they know where it is? Because the thing is, is the code on the boot is set like, okay, so yeah, they know what's going to your car. They know the VIN number, but they're not keeping track of where the boot is set like, okay, so yeah, they know what's going to your car. They know the VIN number, but they're not keeping track of where the boot is.
Starting point is 00:04:26 But they know where the boot, they know the boot, they know that the boot, that boot is with that car. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And sure, they can't like track where your car is,
Starting point is 00:04:38 but if you get fucked and you park your car in the street and then a LA, you know, parking person sees your car, they're like, oh, you also have a boot. And then they tow your car in the street and then a LA you know parking person sees your car they're like oh you also have a boot and then they tow your car
Starting point is 00:04:48 yeah I think that they have a better tracking system now than maybe when you had your boot on the car I mean I had my boot on my car like a year ago did you do the keypad
Starting point is 00:04:55 a lot changed in a year that would be fun to just take your boot and just throw it on someone else's car maybe like a year and a half I had a boot on my car in college
Starting point is 00:05:02 like 900 years ago unfortunately and we didn't have that key pad thing that you have. You had to call the person. Someone came. They had to give you
Starting point is 00:05:10 a window of when they would come. I had to sit at my car to wait for this person to remove the boot. for the cable man. But can I tell you something? I did my freshman year of college
Starting point is 00:05:18 at the University of Arizona and we would get college parking tickets. Yeah, exactly. Bear down. And we would get parking tickets and you could pay them off,
Starting point is 00:05:26 I thought, with our bursar, like our student thing, because I'm like a fucking idiot. Right, you're like, there's money on here. Well, they would let you buy like, I caught shuffles with it. I was like,
Starting point is 00:05:35 why can't I pay my parking tickets with it? Turns out you can't. And I had accumulated, I'm not kidding, I think like 27 parking tickets. And finally they put the food on my car. Legend. One other thing that I recently searched was which way to turn wheels uphill if you're parking.
Starting point is 00:05:52 Oh, yeah. A lot of car stuff for me. You know, I'm just a gearhead. If anything, we know you're a gearhead who's probably parking somewhere in Silver Lake. And also, last time I was here, I'm also a teeth freak. Last time I was here, I was talking about Millie Bobby Brown's teeth. Oh, yeah. Another thing that I typed in, Hilary Duff veneers.
Starting point is 00:06:11 I mean. Oh, yeah. She went a little. She got aggressive with her veneers. She went a little overboard. Did she go back? I think she had them filed down. Yeah, she did.
Starting point is 00:06:17 I think, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know. She looks great. You live and you learn. One thing I just want to bring up really quick is that another scam people are doing, I think, is really riding this wave off the interest of the Chernobyl series from HBO. Because there's a new vodka out called Atomic. I'm here for it.
Starting point is 00:06:37 With a K. With a K. And it is being used. It's produced with the grains and water from Chernobyl's exclusion zone. Right now, there's only one bottle in existence. And how much is it? So people are like, well, it's because like these people wanted to make it and be like, we've done it.
Starting point is 00:06:55 We've made the thing. Now, it's apparently like a team of like researchers, like are actually the ones making this. And this is basically just a huge publicity stunt. But the idea is actually... So the whole thing is these researchers, they found grain and water that were in this exclusion zone and the shit was radioactive. The grains, they say, were slightly radioactive.
Starting point is 00:07:16 Okay, the amounts were strontium-90, were just a smidge above, I guess, normal safety level. But I guess that's... What is the normal safety level? I don't know. I guess it's barely... And what is a smidge above, I guess, normal safety level. But I guess that's- What is the normal safety level? I don't know. I guess it's barely- And what is a smidge? Well, look.
Starting point is 00:07:29 Look, do you want to get fucked up about Chernobyl vodka? Look, Bill Nye. I'm trying to get radio act lit. Okay. I know. I want it. Yeah, you think I've been fucked up before. Wait until you see me get radio fucking active.
Starting point is 00:07:40 Yeah, exactly. And then, but apparently it's different because when they distill the grain, it's going to remove all the impurities. So it's actually perfectly safe to drink. And the water, just so you know, it's from an aquifer deep in the town of Chernobyl. And they say it's
Starting point is 00:07:57 free from radioactive contamination, similar in chemistry to the groundwater sourced from the Champagne region of France. Okay, but here's my thing about that. Then why doced from the Champagne region of France. Okay, but like here's my thing about that. Then why do we not have Champagne water? We have, you know what I'm saying? Why do we not have water from that region? Well, I think that's just to say that the water is supposed to be that amazing.
Starting point is 00:08:16 Then like where's the bottle water of that at? I guess just for growing the grapes, really. If we're getting into the vineyard, the wine growing aspect of it. But water chemistry for grape growing is very different than what we need to drink. I wonder if you drank, you're like... Yeah, I'm curious, what's the pH of that water? Is it like Icelandic glacial?
Starting point is 00:08:37 Shout out to great pH water. If the water in Champagne, France is that dope, why don't we have champagne water? Wow. Do you have a competing vodka brand? Right. I think you might. I do want to like, my goal is when I'm like huge celeb, celeb to have, of course, high
Starting point is 00:08:54 end alcohol. George Clooney has Class Amigos. Exactly. Well, they sold that. Oh, yeah. Paul Mitchell had Patron. Ryan Reynolds has Aviation Gin, which is now the biggest gin company. Wait, Paul Mitchell was behind Patron?
Starting point is 00:09:07 Yeah. Really? Paul Mitchell Hair Care? Yes, Hair Care. Why do you think the Hair Care was green and the Patron was green? Ba-ba. Wow. You know what?
Starting point is 00:09:14 That's called cross-branding. Yes, but so subtle. So subtle. I should try to drink his hair products. Wait, hold on. Casamigos sold, so now George Clooney has nothing to do with that? Yeah, so Randy Gerber
Starting point is 00:09:27 and George Clooney, whoever the third and fourth dude, they sold it for like a billion dollars two years ago. Whoa, so it's done. But they still use their likeness because I see them like palling around on trucks.
Starting point is 00:09:41 Oh, yeah. The branding's still the same, but they got their check. They got their check. Diddy Juice, you know what I mean? All the yeah. The branding's still the same, but they got their check. They got their check. Diddy Juice, you know what I mean? All the Cirocs. Oh, Avion. Was it Avion?
Starting point is 00:09:49 Yes, Ciroc. Ciroc. No, no, no. Diddy isn't Diddy. No, Ciroc. He has a tequila, though, too. Yes, but he also has a tequila. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:55 It's called Avion. No, Deleon. Deleon. Deleon. And then- Armadale was- No, Fitty had F in vodka. Fitty had F in vodka Fitty had F in vodka
Starting point is 00:10:05 yep and then but that's not doing that hot it's actually doing pretty well it's like in everybody's rail like in like that's considered like a high end
Starting point is 00:10:12 really a high end I've got I used to bartend a lot and a lot like a high end place that would be in their rail I was in a focus group
Starting point is 00:10:19 for F in vodka once wow and they were like how did that happen how were they like you are our target market. Because like my friend was working at this marketing company
Starting point is 00:10:29 in New York and we were like party kids. You know what I'm saying? And like I would, we were the people that were drinking. I'm a vodka drinker. And like,
Starting point is 00:10:40 So you want to try 50 cent vodka? It was like, what would make you try effing? And I was just like, the packaging for you want to try 50 cent vodka? It was like, what would make you try FN? And I was just like, the packaging for me, the branding for me is not, that's,
Starting point is 00:10:50 I am more likely to drink Ciroc than I am FN. Right. I actually like Ciroc. Puffy. I do want to say really quickly,
Starting point is 00:10:59 rest in peace to a real scammer. One of the more famous sports cheaters of all time, this woman, Rosie Ruiz, who in 1980 set the Boston marathon record for a woman with a time of two hours, 31 minutes, and 56 seconds. And when she took the women's medal, many of the other runners were very
Starting point is 00:11:18 suspicious of her. The reason being, they say she wasn't sweating enough. She had on a heavy shirt and she didn't know anything about running. Did not even look like somebody who had run over 26 miles. So this is before they were like checking people like where they had like markers and stuff. Like people would just sort of there would be spotters who would just like write numbers down or whatever. And during this time, she was able to take advantage of the system because also all of the folk uh the spotters were mostly paying attention to the men's race so there you go sexism use fucking use patriarchy to your advantage ma she um so and also she didn't show up on any video no fucking photographs that
Starting point is 00:11:57 were taken on the first 25 miles so how did she do it did she just run a mile and win she just showed up like a mile out and hopped in they say like two students caught her just jumping into the race um near kenmore square about one mile from the finish line shout out to a queen that's amazing when they when they were grilling her they were like okay they're like what about your training methods like your pace times what about intervals she She knew nothing. I'd just be running, you know what I'm saying? I'd be out here, I'd put my shoes on one shoe at a time like everybody else, and I'd just be running.
Starting point is 00:12:32 She couldn't even identify landmarks. It just fell apart. So is that how they busted her that day? Eight days later, they're like, I'm sorry, after talking to you, you clearly know nothing about anything. It also came out, for her to qualify for the Boston Marathonathon she cheated in the New York Marathon and took the fucking subway to get to the fucking finish line now that one was probably more believable because you do sweat on the subway
Starting point is 00:12:54 it's true I am obsessed with her and that's amazing so anyone that's willing to just like, to me, that is the greatest scam that like, it's so for what? Like for what? You know, it's like, it's not like you're scamming like a ton of money. And you do win money when you win these marathons. A little bit, yeah. A little bit, but like. It's more to be like, I won this marathon and set a world record. I was so proud of her.
Starting point is 00:13:22 I was so proud of her. The high must have been crazy. Honestly, I think that it's one of those things where you're like, wouldn't this be crazy if this worked? And then it does. And you're kind of just like, holy shit. They're like, so what are your methods? You know, when I was a little girl, I started walking. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:13:37 At first, I started with a crawl. Then I started walking. No, no. And then one day, I started picking my legs up. We're interested in your training methods as an elite marathon runner. Oh, yeah, absolutely. So would you do interval training? What do you... So I do all the intervals. You know what I'm saying? So I do
Starting point is 00:13:51 a here and a there and I do it everywhere. You know what I'm saying? And what about your runner's form? Is there anything you had to address? Oh, my form is very much putting one leg in front of the other. You know what I'm saying? You got to really put... I think we've seen enough, Ms. Mosley. Thank you so much for your time. Eight days later. I was set up.
Starting point is 00:14:07 That was wrong. They set me up. Miles. Yep. When does pumpkin spice season start this year? In my mind, this is part of the corporation's way of letting us know what season we're in ever, right? Yes. So when you see pumpkin, you're like're like oh it must be fall yeah uh some companies are so fucking thirsty to get this shit going already
Starting point is 00:14:30 uh like dunkin donuts they're declaring august 21st the beginning of pumpkin spice season because there's nothing like a thick rich pumpkin spice hot latte in late august yeah right and you're like oh man what would be great the butt of your pants is sticking to you because you're sweating go on no no i mean i've just heard that that's what happens to people who sweat a lot that's what happens to other people not me though i'm always dry all the time yep uh but yeah it's very you know it's like every single thing is getting inched up closer and closer i don't know Again, we've talked about this in the past, this really bizarre fixation on pumpkin spice in general,
Starting point is 00:15:11 like why it's been deified. Like some people we work with think it's like the fucking, like the God's blood type. DJ Dan. You mean they love it? They love it. They love it. They'll do backflips and shit if you just mention the word.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Is it polarizing? Because I don't care either way. I don't care. It tastes good when it's on a latte. It makes your latte taste like, it makes your coffee taste more like it's a milkshake, which is never a bad thing. That's the whole point of a latte.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Dan doesn't eat anything that is not pumpkin spice. His Cheerios are pumpkin spice. Everything. He has pumpkin spice that he dusts on a Like his Cheerios are pumpkin spice. Everything. He has pumpkin spice that he dusts on his steak. Exactly. During that time. Yes. He would take an old pie,
Starting point is 00:15:52 dries it out in the sun, and then grinds it up into a fine dust. He's got a mental problem. Yeah. I do like the peppermint mocha. That shit is good. I like that. And it's not good.
Starting point is 00:16:03 It's like 5,000 calories. That's the thing of all these things. So bad for you. Not a single one is even close to being healthy. But not all of them taste good either, though. My favorite one, a coffee bean and tea leaf, the Winter Dream Latte. I mean... I'll put that there. I like the Black Forest.
Starting point is 00:16:17 Isn't that just cherries and chocolate and shit? Yeah. Milkshake, basically? Yeah, it's a fucking milkshake is what it is, but it's got caffeine in it, so you get even better. Oh, because it's chocolate-covered coffee beans in there too, isn't it? Yeah. I remember the first time I had it, I was like working with a bunch of-
Starting point is 00:16:30 One million calories. My first adult job at an office and everybody was like, oh, let's go get coffee, a coffee bean. I'm like, oh, fuck, I don't drink coffee. Because to this day, cold brew is the only thing I've ever gotten a semblance of a caffeine boost from. So to me, going to coffee was like, I don't know what I'm going to order here. Yeah, that's just bad tasting water.
Starting point is 00:16:49 Yeah, I just go. I get the most childish fucking thing on the menu, and it was that Black Forest basically shake, and they're like, whoa. You don't want a coffee? I'm like, nah, this is my favorite. It was good, though, right? It was great. It was delicious, but then I'm like, I look like an idiot.
Starting point is 00:17:03 Everybody's drinking their hot things. I have a fucking gigantic cup of whipped cream overflowing. It's so good, though. After you smoke weed, oh my God, that thing. You're ahead of your time, man, because they just got more and more ridiculous and childish looking. Yeah, right? Until the unicorn shake, which was purple, pink, and blue. I saw that.
Starting point is 00:17:23 Yeah. I don't know. Well, look. That's the thing. They really like to realize if we put cool colors in it, people will buy it. Yeah. What was the other one recently?
Starting point is 00:17:33 I think they're like a casino. They're just shining stuff. They're like, hey, remember the band Cherry Pie? They're here this weekend. Warren? Yeah. And then people come see them, and then they spend a million dollars while they're here this weekend and people yeah and then people come see them and then they spend
Starting point is 00:17:48 a million dollars while they're there and that's what Starbucks realizes like if we can get them in that store for this weird thing they can take a photo with
Starting point is 00:17:55 they'll buy three other things yeah and it's just like and I say it and everyone's like oh yeah and then we go and then it works
Starting point is 00:18:03 it doesn't matter yeah and you're in there yeah to you and your instagram stories like got three of them fill that hole baby um well i order just coffee because it i use it when i'm on the road the app's pretty good and it's like familiar the starbucks yeah like when i'm traveling oh uh starbucks yeah but i just order coffee there and that always just throws them off. Right. Like what? I just want a blonde roast.
Starting point is 00:18:28 Drip? They just stare at me. Like in a cup? Yeah, just turn around and give it to me, and I'm going to get out of here. We can turn into a vapor. I just need a cup of coffee. Let me see if we make those. I do wonder how much of this move is based on them knowing that this is going to be earlier
Starting point is 00:18:46 than starbucks right so this will be the only place that you can go to get pumpkin spice but then right for the month of some dude in an office did some math yeah right august 21st we can have exclusivity for 10 days or something before we'll make 150 extra thousand dollars right yeah and but they're, you get a boat. I just like the inevitable conclusion of all these things. Like, you know, basically almost after Halloween, we're essentially already in Christmas. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:15 Like mixed with Thanksgiving that if Duncan does this, then what, Starbucks next year is like, oh, actually August 14th is when we're bringing pumpkin spice lattes. And then pumpkin spice lattes becomes like a dads and grads thing. Like graduation time, you know, pumpkin spice lattes. This Justin from resident PSL addict DJ Daniel, he said Starbucks, they're starting theirs on August 27th. So they're going to have six fucking days.
Starting point is 00:19:41 Wait, I guess that's that 150 extra K. Yep. He referred to it as the psl so casually yes the way he said it was it was horrifying well i i think the the part that makes me laugh is the aesthetic to it because it's like it's like the pumpkin color so people are like this is the pumpkin season so i spend my money on the pumpkins and Mm-hmm. And then, like you said, Halloween is like, it's a brighter orange. Mm-hmm. Right.
Starting point is 00:20:09 And then there's a black to it, so you spend your money on the black. And then it's like red and green. That's the, you spend a lot of money on red and green. Mm-hmm. And then you save some, and then it gets red again for Valentine's Day. Okay, go on. I like this color too. Is that what the Christmas colors represent to you, is blood and money?
Starting point is 00:20:27 That's how I was raised in my house. Damn. That's intense. Blood and money. That is intense. All right, we're going to take a quick break. What's the Easter Bunny, man? We'll be right back.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhearts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state.
Starting point is 00:21:14 And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for
Starting point is 00:22:01 advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it?
Starting point is 00:22:15 Like you miss 100% of the shots you never take. Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:22:37 I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that? I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on.
Starting point is 00:22:59 From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture.
Starting point is 00:23:26 Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game.
Starting point is 00:23:54 Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really in here. I'm just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her.
Starting point is 00:24:13 What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. Miles, I noticed you guys covered how to fight seagulls while I was gone.
Starting point is 00:24:46 How to stare a seagull the fuck down. How to stare a seagull down. Well, where I was, the city of Ocean City, New Jersey, was also making news for fighting seagulls in a unique way. When you asked about it, you're like, oh, yeah, you talked about the seagull thing. And I was like, no, it was from England. He's like, yeah, but the falconers and stuff. And I'm like, yo, what the fuck are you asked about it, you're like, oh, yeah, you talked about the seagull thing. And I was like, no, it was from England. He's like, yeah, but the falconers and stuff. And I'm like, yo, what the fuck are you talking about? My thing was purely about like staring at a seagull if they came to your chip back.
Starting point is 00:25:13 Anyways, Miles, the seagull wars are upon us is what I'm talking about. Okay, thank you. Yeah, this is the only time I've ever seen Ocean City make national news. Since Jersey Shore? Ocean City was not Jersey Shore oh it's the same it's a little different oh wow there's a furious head shaking all around the room it's a little different a little different okay anyway but please tell us your visions of the seagull war in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. So people were making a big deal because they hired a bunch of falconers
Starting point is 00:25:47 and people who had trained birds of prey to patrol the boardwalk in Ocean City to scare off the seagulls. Hell yeah. And it worked. Using nature to fight nature. Yeah, using nature to fight nature, but it's not like they just released a bunch of falcons.
Starting point is 00:26:06 They had them on a dude's arm with the little funny hats on and shit. And it worked, man. I was walking down the sidewalk, and I was like, what's different about this? I can hear the ocean. That's weird.
Starting point is 00:26:19 And then I was like, oh, yeah, there's no seagulls. You can't hear it. It's not just like, ah, ah, ah. Constant cacophonic but they went somewhere else yeah they just went to a different town on the jersey shore basically like there's one town right there yeah a lot right they went to a town that feels like a lot smaller falconer
Starting point is 00:26:35 budget i guess how many falconers did you see like i didn't stretch i didn't see any like in the wild i've seen one city and they their fucking falcons i've seen one in orange county actually uh at a hotel just like patrolling the hotel pool because uh to keep the seagulls away and like it's it's apparently an accepted way i just like though that like they've there's really no technological way to really do away with seagulls oh there is a gun okay maybe, but you don't want to be shooting off your pistol by the kid's pool. Yeah. But the fact that you could just be like, yo, get that guy with the hawk. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:11 And then the seagulls shook, gone. Although I feel like at some point- Hey, Barry, what's your weird cousin, what's his hobby? Falcon? Falconer, right? See if that'll help. Yeah. Bring his falcon over here.
Starting point is 00:27:22 What's he doing with that thing? I think it died. I don't know if that's a good Jersey impression. Some kind of impression. It's more like a Philly accent, which- It's pretty close. Pretty close. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:32 Well, look. He's got a lot of vacation in there. He's on vacation. Okay. Going to Wawa. A couple hours away. Get a haugi. I wonder, though, if because you have these birds, they would fly, right?
Starting point is 00:27:43 Or the mere presence of them was enough. They would let- They fly. They unleash it? They fly. Yeah these birds, like they would fly, right? Or they just the mere presence of them was enough. They would let they unleash it. They fly. So inevitably, right? Wouldn't there be some some families who are having to explain to their children why a fucking falcon was just just destroying, devouring a seagull right in front of them? I don't think they eat them. I think they just scare them away. It's like a territory.
Starting point is 00:27:59 But aren't they carnivorous birds? Yeah. I mean, Miles, you and I saw. We saw a fucking hawk. On our street. In the streets here in Los Angeles, we saw a hawk eating a pigeon. Just ripping it apart. But it was legit alive.
Starting point is 00:28:13 It was keeping it down with its talons and just eating it. Yeah. Hell yeah. I love hawks. One of the more beautiful things I've ever seen. But anyways, that shit works. Fight nature with nature. You think it was one of those pigeons that goes in front of your car real slow
Starting point is 00:28:28 and you're going to slow down? That's what he did to the hawk, and the hawk's like, no, dude. I'm going to eat you in the street so people know. I think you can find videos of hawk eating. Hawks eating pigeons. Hawk kill and eat seagull. Well, I think birds, because when you drive long periods, especially through the Midwest, you'll see a hawk every so miles.
Starting point is 00:28:54 Patrolling. Just sitting on the line. You just see them. So it's like, I think they're like crows too, where they have like a territory. Right. So they're not like, they may mess one seagull up just so that's enough yeah that reminds me like i went fishing in the in the atlanta in the gulf
Starting point is 00:29:11 part down in florida one time in the back channels and there's seagulls around because we were trying to get bait and all this stuff and our guide was like mad he's like these damn seagulls blah blah i wasn't paying attention i was like half stoned at 830 in the morning. This is fun. I picked a good job where I get to go do this. And I turn around and the guy is, he had caught a bird on his line and he was bringing it in. And I just stopped doing what I'm doing. I'm like, what's he going to do here?
Starting point is 00:29:40 And he grabs the bird. He reels it in to the top of the rod. He grabs it and then rips its head off. What? Yes. And then throws it back in the water. And he was like, they'll get the message. Let's go somewhere else.
Starting point is 00:29:54 I'm technically not supposed to do stuff like that. And we're like, what is happening, Crocodile Dundee? Holy shit. And you know what? The birds left us alone. Yeah. They're like, hey, that dude's the one that ripped Larry's head off. Right.
Starting point is 00:30:09 Just snatched it off. Wow. Yeah. I like that he's like, technically not supposed to be doing that stuff anymore. I was like, you mean legally. Legally is the word. Legally and based on the social. Manatee-wise.
Starting point is 00:30:21 Yeah. Disturbing for others to have just witnessed and also animal cruelty before their eyes. I want to go back to bed. Jesus Christ. Yeah, I once got a pelican on the hook
Starting point is 00:30:30 in the, in the Gulf because I caught a fish and then the pelican ate the fish. Oh, cool. I was like 12 and was like scared.
Starting point is 00:30:40 I was like, what do I do? Like people are gathering around. I was like reeling in a giant pelican that was, and this dude just came up and like did a couple things with the uh with the fishing rod and yanked it out oh good i was i thought maybe we were headed for another billy wayne type i didn't do it i was just there no i know i'm saying that it was a similar ending like that's just how they handle shit on boats uh It was, like, one of those traumatic things
Starting point is 00:31:05 where it would have happened. Like, you don't even react. I just went, holy shit. Yeah. And just kept laughing. I was like, okay, okay. Wait, what kind of bird was it? It was a seagull.
Starting point is 00:31:14 A seagull. Yeah, because they were just messing. We were trying to get a bunch of fish for bait. Yeah. Just the idea, though, that someone was like, let me just barehand decapitate this. It was not the first or last time that man ran that. That's his way of doing that.
Starting point is 00:31:29 I don't remember his name. They're like, Billy, we'd love for you to come back out with us. You're like, nah. He's like, was it Rob? Was it Rob? No, we caught a lot of fish that day. We did. I mean, I come from East Tennessee, so it wasn't that shocking to me.
Starting point is 00:31:44 It was just more like, oh, okay, well, that's how we're doing it here. But the swiftness, yeah. It's like, and how clean everything was. Like, he just knew. I was like, oh, wow, okay. We're going to tip him. We're going to tip this guy. What kind of fish did you go out for?
Starting point is 00:32:00 It was a red snapper, I think, is what we were doing. And it was cool because the club we were working at also, the guy was also a guy that owned the club and restaurant. So we took the fish, cleaned it, and then he took it to his – Oh, so good. The dude who ripped the seagull's head off? No, he handed it to the owner. Got it. He had other clients.
Starting point is 00:32:19 He was busy. He's a popular – That guy owns a comedy club too? No, well, that guy is also a guy, but he was like, I'm sending out with the best guy in town. We're like, he's good. He's a pop guy. He owns a comedy club, too. No, well, that guy is also a guy, but he was like, I'm sitting out with the best guy in town. We're like, he's good. He's real good. How'd Ripper do out there?
Starting point is 00:32:33 Ripper was real good. Let's get into the first and most important story of the day. Chris Cuomo was insulted. He was pissed. Cuomo's pissed, you guys. He was on Shelter Island with his family and some dude just got in his face and apparently did the thing you're
Starting point is 00:32:53 never supposed to do to an Italian man. Okay. I thought that's who you were. No, punk-ass bitches from the right call me Fredo. My name is Chris Cuomo. I'm an anchor on CNN. Fredo is from the Godfather. He was our weak brother.
Starting point is 00:33:09 And they use it as an Italian aspersion. Any of you Italian? Are you Italian? It's a fucking insult to your people. It's an insult to your fucking people. It's like the N-word for us. Is that a cool fucking thing? You're a much more reasonable guy in person than you seem to be on television. Yeah, but if you want to play, then we'll fucking play. You got something you want to say about what I do on television and say it, but don't call me a fucking insult. Hey, man, hey, listen. I don't want any problems.
Starting point is 00:33:29 You're going to have a big fucking problem. It's a little different on TV. Don't fucking insult me like that. I didn't insult you. You call me Fredo. It's like I call you punk bitch. You like that? You want that to be your nickname? I didn't call you that. You called me Fredo. You know my name's not fucking Fredo. I thought your name was.
Starting point is 00:33:43 You did not think my name was fucking Fredo. Don't be a liar. You want to be a man, stand up like a man. I'm standing up, man. Wow. fucking throw you down these stairs like a fucking punk please do you don't want to sue you don't so you can fucking sue well why don't you do it take a swing you want to call me fredo take a fucking swing wow okay so chris cuomo uh clearly he's very strong in his masculinity right what i've learned from that video uh has been suppressing his strong like bronx accent i don't know what that is whatever yeah yeah and he's also demonstrating he does not know what a racial slur is. Right. When he goes, you call me Fredo? Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:29 That's like the N word for Italians. Uh-huh. Comparing something to the N word is strong but wrong. Yeah. I mean, if you're going to swing on that pitch, it better be a big swing. Yes. Because he went for a bunt on that one. Really crazy.
Starting point is 00:34:45 swing yes because he went for a bunt on that i mean really crazy yeah that it's just it's all based off of that michael corleone's brother from the godfather fredo was like you know i get it he was lame but to for it to have that much weight for someone and to actually then shame another italian american he's like good that's a slur against our people right like yeah oh i didn't realize that i mean i guess in a way uh you know godfather is canon yeah oh for sure yeah um something tells me that's not the first time he's been called that possibly yeah well he said punks on the right or something call me right i mean like that person who walks up to a famous person and like insults them is like, what's wrong with you?
Starting point is 00:35:28 Well, this person is like a wannabe right wing gotcha guy. Jesse Waters guy. Yeah. He seemed like
Starting point is 00:35:35 a natural comedian. Yeah, I mean, he was pretty funny. Yeah, so I mean, you know, what's funny is Sean Hannity actually was like,
Starting point is 00:35:43 you know what? Chris Cuomo doesn't have to apologize for anything. This is his tweet. He said, I say good for Chris Cuomo. He's out with his nine-year-old daughter and his wife, and this guy is being a jackass in front of his family? In my humble opinion, Chris Cuomo has zero to apologize for. He deserves the apology. I'm just really glad that's where Sean Hannity decided to, like, the hell he decided to die on.
Starting point is 00:36:03 He's like, you know what? I'm going gonna break ties with my party for a second. Everything else is going great. Everything else has been perfect. But I have to say something about this. It's like that meme
Starting point is 00:36:12 of the two arms locking in like a, you know, from like, you son of a bitch from Predator. On one side, it's a Fox News.
Starting point is 00:36:20 The other side says CNN and the fist grabbing is that Fredo is a slur. Right. Like, you know what? The same. We don't fucking agree on a lot but that's fucking disrespectful there was a girl with curly blonde hair like me who my friend called a fucking ramen noodle head and um aggressive i kind of thought it was really funny though it's very it's i was like he was like that fucking ramen noodle head and i was
Starting point is 00:36:46 like hey i have blonde curly hair too right that being said i would never say hey does your mom have blonde curly hair yeah so you're disrespecting our people right right right yeah to like just saying in any way comparing it to the n-word would be insane. Hey, well, he's a tough guy, we found out. And, you know, good for him, I guess. But the ramen noodle, was that around like when Justin Timberlake had his hair that looked like ramen noodles? Because I feel like that was a very en vogue insult. He had, yes. His hair really, yeah, because it had a wetness to it.
Starting point is 00:37:21 And like the tips were so frosted. They could only be mistaken for uncooked ramen noodles. Yes. So brutal. I'm sure that Chris Cuomo's wife and daughter were thrilled that he chose to take it to the mat on this one rather than just letting it roll off his back. I mean, he was doing the thing that rich people who want to act tough do, which is say everything except get violent.
Starting point is 00:37:44 Right. like rich people who want to act tough do which is like say everything except get violent right or like if you know people who are like who are about that shit they're typically or just like no my ego has been damaged and i'm just gonna react violently where he's like i'll fucking throw you down the stairs is that not enough uh fuck you chris once threatened to uh eat me he said he picks chunks of people like me out of his stool. No, he didn't. Yeah, he did. When I worked at ABC News.
Starting point is 00:38:08 Wow. He's just a very fratty dude. Why does he pick chunks out of his stool? I can't. It's like one of those things that falls apart right away. Like Haki Gilmore. I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast. No.
Starting point is 00:38:22 So you examine your stool And pick chunks I'm having some sort of bowel things right now And the doctor says I need to send Look, fuck you kid I do think that Toxic masculinity is inherently Unattractive Like guys who are going to pick a fight with someone
Starting point is 00:38:40 Just from a female standpoint I think that's actually repulsive Which I don't think you can know Unless you're in that moment with someone i like just from a female standpoint i think that's actually repulsive like which i don't think you can know unless you're in that moment we were like oh my god no you are being so pathetic right now like the strong move is just to walk away right right obviously there's like circumstances where that's not the case but for the most part like fighting someone on vacation right but who knows his wife was like oh my God, Kristen was so fucking hot. It's like the end of Mystic River.
Starting point is 00:39:08 Right now. That fucking jabroni down the fucking stairs, Christopher. There's a story that echoes something I had heard Trump has done for years. That he was using an analog form of Twitter before anyone? Yeah, basically. When the New Yorker profiled him and the person who wrote the story,
Starting point is 00:39:31 it wasn't flattering. I mean, it was just an honest account of spending a week with Donald Trump and how he was just completely empty and was like, hey, it's a pretty cool life, huh? I live a great great life don't i how cool is my life literally like that's all he kept just literally so inspiring yeah so the guy wrote the article and then like a couple weeks later he got in the mail a piece of the article
Starting point is 00:39:57 with loser written on it from donald trump hey, you are a loser. Love, Donald Trump. Just scrawled across the page like that. Because he just gets mad at stuff and writes on it. Yeah. Well, this falls perfectly in line with it. There's no way his TV doesn't. It's literally the burn book from Mean Girls. Right, right. Except he's sending the pages out.
Starting point is 00:40:18 This girl is a fugly slut. Do not trust her. Right. Because he probably has, he's like, what you don't know is there's also a copy for his burn book that he puts together in bed. He's always had a complicated relationship with Justin Trudeau. Yeah, well, because
Starting point is 00:40:31 Justin Trudeau has, you know, stood up to him. Right. And he, like, he always says, apparently, like, about him, like, when he's not around Trudeau, or just, like, you know, casually to people in the cabinet, he's like, he always refers him as a tough guy. He's like, yeah, he's a tough guy. This guy's a tough guy. About Trudeau? Trudeau, he casually to people in the cabinet. He always refers to him as a tough guy. He's like, yeah, he's a tough guy. This guy's a tough guy.
Starting point is 00:40:48 About Trudeau? About Trudeau, he's a tough guy. What? That's so nuts. That's the weird nickname for him that he always refers to him as a tough guy, which is of course the thing you say when you're a dude trying to fight. Oh, tough guy, huh? Okay. I also think he must be threatened
Starting point is 00:41:03 by Trudeau's good looks. Yes. Like that can't, for someone who's so obsessed with their appearance and the long ties and the tan, you don't even talk about his hair. Let's say it's painted on with the grease paint. Yeah. It's like, it's again, it's just too much of a villain situation. But you, yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:22 Just to see someone who is so almost jokingly attractive. Right. And who your daughter wants to fuck. Yes. Like that picture of Ivanka. That picture of Ivanka. That's in the burn book. That is in the burn book.
Starting point is 00:41:34 She's just in profile and she's looking at his mouth. With her pen in her mouth. Yes. Which is. Oh, there's a, wow. Her pen is dangling out in her mouth. Yes. Which is. Oh, there's a, wow. Her pen is dangling out of her mouth. I am too self-conscious to have ever done that in front of a crush. Right.
Starting point is 00:41:51 Because it's too overtly sexual. Sure. Right, right, right. Good God. She's like, I'm an 80s seductress. My husband is a giant 12-year-old, and I will have sex with you. Yeah, I wonder what Jared, how Jared feels also seeing that photo.
Starting point is 00:42:10 Cause it's like him just on like Chad pills, basically bigger and bulkier and more masculine anyway. So with Trudeau, it's the same shit, right? There was a issue of Bloomberg business week. This is from 2017 in may. There was a picture of Trudeau and the headline just said, The Anti-Trump. So, our man tore the fucking cover off the magazine.
Starting point is 00:42:31 As you do. And wrote on it in silver sharpie. And this is according to people with direct knowledge, something to the effect of, Looking good. Hope it's not true. Wow. So, like, not a well thought out response either just hope it's not true okay like that
Starting point is 00:42:48 like you want to defeat me that you're gonna write down i don't know um and then so this was so absurd that the canadian ambassador thought it was a prank and immediately like reached out to the white house and was like um yeah i think we may have gotten some kind of prank thing on like the stationery realistic and they're like no similes of white house mail yeah they're like this is no this that was very real and they're like some mentally disturbed person but then it got basically it ramped up a little bit even more so then in december of 2017 trump told a crowd in pensacola florida that he's like you know we've got a tremendous trade deficit with Canada and we've got to, we've got to write that. And, you know, around this time he mailed Trudeau
Starting point is 00:43:29 this document, but of course it's a White House one that only takes into account like data that would only support his point very narrowly, a document that shows that the U.S. had a trade deficit. And then in Sharpie wrote, not good! Exclamation point. Well said. And then in Sharpie wrote, not good! Amazing. Exclamation point. Well said. But this whole document, they say all the analysts are like,
Starting point is 00:43:53 it's only mentioning the deficit in the trade of goods and ignored the surplus in services. So when you combine them, it actually gives the U.S. an overall surplus. But it's only looking at this one piece. So then Trudeau clapped back on his official stationery, not ripped off documents or whatever, and wrote, Dear Donald, it's been a busy year. Enjoy the Christmas holidays. You deserve it. Oh, one thing. You gave a great speech in Pensacola, but you were slightly off on the balance of trade with Canada. The U.S. Treasury Department says so. All the best for 2018, Justin. And the second page of the letter is a printout of this, like,
Starting point is 00:44:27 informational page that is from the U.S. Trade Office that shows exactly that there is a trade surplus. And it was like, and that's the devil's kiss he gave him. So, you know, they have a very, I just like that. That's how they get in Canada. That's the most insulting. Yeah, that's as far as they can go. I will highlight a fact.
Starting point is 00:44:46 And it will be apparent. And that's all we will need to do about this. He literally says you deserve like a good holiday. You deserve it. You know what? I'm not going to say you don't deserve it because Christmas should be fun for everyone. Exactly. You're probably mean to me because you're just exhausted. Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:48:59 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. video app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And Miles, I personally don't give a shit about spoilers. I don't either. They kind of help me enjoy the movie a little bit. Actually, same. The first time, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is the first movie that I'm really, really glad I didn't have spoiled for me.
Starting point is 00:49:26 So thank you, sir. Oh, okay. Because you had seen it like a week before me. I just don't talk about anything movie-wise sometimes. So I'm not like ever being like, oh, I'm not going to say anything for other people. I'm just like, look, I got a lot going. I got a lot of tables, man. Janine Garofalo famously said in The Cable Guy.
Starting point is 00:49:46 Yeah. Usually I don't care because movies stress me out. Right. Because I want to know what happens. You're the same with sports, too. Right. I fucking can't. I need it.
Starting point is 00:49:58 The fucking thrill of watching sports, for sure, is to live and die by that scoreboard and you know because you know obviously the downside is the lows could be just soul crushing but the highs like when you don't know the outcome and it actually becomes like legendary you you need those you need those that's when you were cool with uh strangers right all of a sudden being like in the space right there's a big win and you're both like and you're jumping up and down right you're high five With strangers, right? All of a sudden being like in the space, right? There's a big wind and you're both like, oh. And you're jumping up and down. You're high-fiving.
Starting point is 00:50:29 Your brain is just flooded with chemicals. Exactly. But I guess with TV shows and stuff, not as bad. I think the only time would be like a finale. Maybe, I don't want to know. But aside from that, like if someone, you know, like I knew the Sixth Sense ending before I saw it and I wasn't pissed oh humble brag huh well no someone said it and so i was like you've got friends who've seen the six yeah humble brag oh you saw the six cents a month later
Starting point is 00:50:55 no it's like one of those things where like people you know at the time that was considered like the oh my god six cents and someone was like yeah he's like fucking dead at the end and i was like huh okay and then i saw it and i was still like oh right but to me the the journey wasn't so much that twist like it was everything else around it yeah but anyway i mean both that and usual suspects are rewatchable movies oh for sure oh yeah even though they're big twisty twists at the end. But anyways. Huge Kevin Spacey fans over here. Yes. Yes, AI. Maybe this is the light.
Starting point is 00:51:31 Yeah, well, Allen Iverson, the answer, may be the answer as well. Wow, that's poetic. That AI could be the answer to creating a spoiler-free internet. Now, there are researchers at the University, UC San Diego, who have been working on some kind of AI algorithm
Starting point is 00:51:49 to try and basically detect spoilers and censor them so people can just fearlessly go into an article and make sure anything that could be a spoiler would be redacted. However, it's a lot fucking harder than they realized. So they call it spoiler net to train spoiler net the team went looking for large data sets of sentences containing spoilers spoiler alert they found none so they created their own by collecting more than 1.3 million
Starting point is 00:52:17 book reviews annotated with spoiler tags by book reviewers the tags encompass sentences that include spoilers and hide them behind of quote view spoiler link in the text. The reviews were collected from Goodreads, blah, blah, blah. So they really found at first there wasn't really an effective way to actually do this because there's still a lot of issues, especially with like semantic nuances. So they said, in addition, the same word may have different semantic meanings in different contexts. For example, green is just a color in one book review but it can be the name of an important character and a signal for spoilers in another book identifying and understanding these differences is challenging so they're sort of saying like we have something imperfect right but it almost seems
Starting point is 00:52:59 that even then the bigger picture here is that it's like yeah it might be very hard to do this or you're gonna have to feed this thing a lot more data before i can start picking out stuff like that sure so the conclusion of their scientific study is like science is hard science is hard this shit is tough guys this is tough dude honestly like come on man don't bust my balls about this dude it's a good idea when we thought about it thanks for coming to my TED talk what do you guys want there's free snacks outside yeah but they did run it on a few
Starting point is 00:53:29 single sentence reviews about TV shows and it was able to detect spoilers at a 74 to 80% so it's not like perfect but it is getting better and better but yeah I think that's where they're really realizing it's like okay we've got to train this shit a little bit I mean that's pretty good I only realizing it's like, okay, we've got to train this shit. I mean, that's pretty good. I only read sentence long reviews.
Starting point is 00:53:46 Well, right. Cause I like 70, 80% of the reason was that they were trying to also have applications for it on Twitter. Right. So that way you can like, if you,
Starting point is 00:53:55 you know, if you're doing it through the browser, it could be like a browser plugin that could just be running as you, cause the spoiler can sneak up on you. Yeah. You've gone through your timeline, you know, yeah. In between Casey Dia picks. Hey hey man spoiler alert might come up hey when you're in
Starting point is 00:54:10 la dude i'll take you to a case idea spot you'll cry no shit really it's just so bad it's loaded you're gonna get fucking listeria dude cool you know that's the way i want to go out no spoilers no there's some there's some really next level just like clog your whole soul let's do that quesadillas but uh but also just personally do you want an ai 98 plus percent uh spoiler no but ai i feel like it's only improved my life in the ways I don't know about, like where it's happening in medical, whatever. I'm like, great. I'm not one who's like, fuck,
Starting point is 00:54:51 I need an AI solution to my human problem of my day-to-day life. I think there are probably ways that it's already helping with navigation apps. Oh, absolutely. That shit I'm fine with, but I've never been like, ugh, these spoilers.
Starting point is 00:55:08 Why can't there be AI? There's God, but you'll better away. Because you're not Yoda. Well, because the whole thing is, God forbid, you don't fucking look at your phone for a few hours
Starting point is 00:55:16 or just say the fuck off Twitter or Facebook where the spoilers normally reside. And I think that speaks more to people's inability to get the log the fuck off. Right. It's also kind of this kind of foisting responsibility reside and i think that speaks more to people's inability to get the log the fuck off right it's also kind of this uh kind of foisting responsibility on to everyone who is not me yeah to say like i haven't seen uh whatever like i haven't seen the last episode of lost right so the billions of the
Starting point is 00:55:40 rest of you shut the fuck up until thursday yeah it's weird it's a weird expectation oh just like that for you right right guess what motherfucker they were dead the whole time right wait what yeah or or yeah or okay sorry i picked a terrible example for that but you guys do it yeah of course of course people who like read a lot about a movie or a show and then are mad when it gets spoiled for them. It's like, what? Why is that a thing? Let me read the wiki on my own, guys. What is something you think is overrated?
Starting point is 00:56:15 Overrated? The internet. Hey, fuck the internet. Yeah. I just think as a tool, we're misusing it. I may have said this before on here, but I do think every time I get on it, I'm like, I'm not using this correctly. I'm using it to feel worse about something.
Starting point is 00:56:32 It is. Yeah, and then the information I'm getting and putting in my brain is pointless. It's like, how much does a helicopter cost? Oh, wow. Are you doing well? No, I'm not. That's the thing.
Starting point is 00:56:45 I'm not doing helicopter. I'm just curious. How much does a MiG cost? Not that much as far as MiGs go. What is a MiG? The Russian fighter jet? Yeah, you can get one for under a million, close to a million bucks. Oh, really? That's pretty good. What about a helicopter? Depends on the type of helicopter. You can get like,
Starting point is 00:57:01 pretty affordable ones, like $150,000. Oh! Yeah. They're like kits. They're pretty affordable ones like 150 grand oh yeah they're like kits they're they're pretty cool oh i don't need a kid helicopter we need one that if it pops off or like yo we gotta we might have to dust the helicopter off um you know this is good like a gun chip you want no no you want like a huey from vietnam yeah or a black i did see i was talking to my manager on the phone the other day, and while we were talking, the SWAT helicopter circled my neighborhood with the dudes hanging out of it. Oh, really? With the guns?
Starting point is 00:57:32 Yeah. All because you didn't pay your power bill? It was that I did do a mental checklist of all the stuff. Right. Did I do anything? Have I pissed off anyone that's good at the internet? Right, right. And then they just kind of flew away.
Starting point is 00:57:46 Do you know what happened? No. That's the fun thing. I got that Citizen app. That's overrated. How about that? The Citizen app? Yes, it's overrated.
Starting point is 00:57:53 What is that? It's like a scanner, but it's like people use it, and then there's real-time stuff. But last night, there was a chase down my alley. I watched it happen. Oh, wow. They were chasing a Kia Soul. Did you find out about it and then run over? No.
Starting point is 00:58:07 No. I was coming home from doing a set, and I saw the helicopter was – I saw the beam, and I was like, that's real close to where I'm going, my home. Right. Yes. And I pull in, and I get out, and the helicopter's like real low. And then I watch the beam, and it's going down this alley by my house,
Starting point is 00:58:27 and then this Kia Soul just flies by, and then three cops fly by, and I was like, that's pretty cool. It was like the Goonies. I felt like Chuck was. Yeah, yeah. Great opening scene. Yeah, I went in, and my wife was like,
Starting point is 00:58:41 that helicopter sounded low, and I was like, hey, there are police cars. It was awesome. She's like making stuff up again, Billy Wayne. She's like, the baby's asleep. Shut up. I think they were chasing a giant hamster. I'm just amped up.
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