The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 92 (Best of 9/9/19-9/13/19)

Episode Date: September 15, 2019

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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.

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 Capital One, 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. What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, I thought about this because, well, I'm going to tell the listeners and you guys about one of the most important things to me in the world. And I've thought about it because I like it to be a secret. I like it to be my secret documentary that I only know about and I know that I'm not the only one who knows about it but but I know that if everybody knew about it it would cause you know people would really go crazy right um there'd be crime people just rioting in the street there'd be like shirts and stuff I think um you know I think, about this documentary.

But the documentary is called Devil at Your Heels. Okay. It's called Devil at Your Heels, and it's on YouTube. Okay. And it has like, I don't know. Like all the great documentaries. It has like 100,000 views or something like that. But it should have a billion views.

What is it? It is. Okay. It's not about Big Feet, is it? It's not about Big Feet. Okay. It's about a guy named Ken Carter. And Ken Carter was known as the Mad Canadian.

And he was a stuntman. And he started out as a ramp boy. And when he was a kid, he dropped out of school to be a ramp boy. Which is, I mean, talk about me being born at the wrong time. I'd give my right arm to be a ramp boy. It's just an extinct job. There's no job ramp boy. What's a ramp boy? Just a guy who setups ramps. Like a right arm to be a ramp boy. It's just an extinct job. There's no job ramp boy. What's a ramp boy?

Just a guy who setups ramps like a drop out. Like a ramp roadie? Sets up jump ramps. For Evel Knievel? Yes. That's gotta be a hard job to get. Why can't you be a ramp man? Because there's just not as many ramps. It's like being a ball man. It's not the same. You're not a ball man. You're a ball boy.

A ball man is a designer, but I think ramp boy, for how important a ramp is to someone's performance, you would want to treat them with respect because they could be, oh, I'm ramp boy. Right. They're treating them with all. A couple pins are missing. Let me put it this way.

In 1976 in Canada, you could say, like, I'm dropping out of school, and your teacher was like, what do you got set up? You're probably going to be on the street. And he's like, no, I got a job set up as a ramp boy. And they're like, oh, all right. Oh, shit. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. That's not something's not something you can say it probably came with a pension too so he is all right so i was watching like a buzzfeed or a mashable or i don't know what it

was some kind of thing where they do top 10 lists you know like top 10 car jumps yes and there is a clip of of a lincoln continental a yellow l yellow Lincoln Continental, trying to jump over. What he does is he tries to jump over the St. Lawrence Seaway, which is a mile wide. In a yellow Lincoln Continental with wings on it.

And he had, in the documentary, he had a serious team. He had the best engine builders. He had a guy on that camera that's like an engineer saying that once he was in the air, he was going to be able to fly the car with the wings. Oh, no. Like rocket boosters or something? A real physicist was like, yes, I've designed this, so he should be able to steer it in the air.

And there's no plan for the landing, really, except he plans he's going to land in a bunch of roses. And then they say, well, what about these trees? Are you worried about the trees? And he said, no, we'll be careful not to knock down the trees. And they weren't saying, you know what I mean? He took it wrong. They were like, aren't you worried about the trees? You're going to kill yourself.

He's like, oh, no, we'll be very careful with the trees. Oh, we'll make sure to not steer into those. Ken Carter is one of the most inspiring, not that smart people in the world. And he will make you so, because he's so confident. And he's really, he doesn't have a whole lot of charisma. He breaks his legs over and over again. He's constantly on crutches. He says stuff like, I'm standing on the threshold of life when he's not, when he's like 48.

Oh, in that sense. Okay. He said, I grew up in this poor area, but I grew up and I'm a, what does he say? A beautiful physical specimen, something like that. But he's not at all. He's limping. It's a very inspiring documentary. My favorite part is, I don't want to give it away because there's a twist ending.

He dies? No, he dies later. He died later. He died in a rocket car accident that you can find on, there's also a- You can watch it. That's the next video YouTube serves you. Now watch this dude die in a rocket car accident. You can watch that on YouTube, too.

Wow. Okay, so twist ending. We won't spoil it. So the twist ending, I won't spoil, but I will say that the jump does not go well. No shit. At all. Like, not at all you know and so when i first showed it to my brother this is my favorite thing because it's like okay so they build this hundred foot ramp and like a mile long runway i mean he had funding he's gonna be on wide

world of sports evil knievel's in the documentary he comes and checks out the jump and says that he like yeah looking good looking good he says that well he Like, yeah, looking good. Looking good. He says that... Well, he says... He knows it's going to be on Wild World of Sports so he can't trash the jump totally because they end up not televising it. Right.

But he thinks it might be televised so he's actually like, this is a terrible idea but he has to be like, but if it does happen, it'll be the greatest daredevil jump in history. But he tells Ken

that there's no margin of... He said, you got no room for error. Right. But it's like, there's nothing but, he has plenty of room for error. Like the whole area off the ramp. The whole thing is error. Everything past the ramp is room for error. Right. So my brother watches what happens, which I don't have to, it doesn't ruin it to say.

The car shreds. I mean, the car goes off the ramp and it shreds. I mean, because it's going, it's a rocket car. It's going like 300, 400 miles an hour. And they've done nothing to modify the car to make it better at this. They just strapped a rocket to a... No, that's the thing that's actually really interesting about it is the whole documentary, they have interviews with like competent or seemingly competent, like engineers who are saying that this is going to go well.

Huh? But the whole time you're like, how could it go well? And it's made of the, the body of the car is made of fiberglass, which is the reason it shreds, which is, I guess the reason they thought that would maybe fly or I don't know.

But my brother watched it shred and he said, he didn't have any context at the time. So I was just like, check out this car jump on Mashable or whatever. And he said, he didn't have any context at the time. So I was just like, check out this car jump on Mashable or whatever. And he said, what didn't happen that was supposed to happen? Which is the best question I've ever heard about. This looks like an accident. When you watch it, you're like, that is a fair question.

But I'm like, a whole lot of shit. He was supposed to be able to drive that thing in the air he was gonna land it right he was gonna be careful not to break any of the trees um so he so why roll the sport anyway evil's evil knievel's in it it's great he's wearing a cream colored outfit and he comes out of a cream colored cadillac and tells evil knievelvel does. Yes, and tells Ken Carter. Ken Carter looks up to evil. Right. And evil's like, you're a crazy motherfucker. And evil, yeah, he still likes it. He has a rolled up brochure or something in his hand.

Probably it was 1978. There are brochures everywhere. Yeah. He hit Ken Carter. He's like, I'll tell you what, buddy. And you could tell that was the best moment of Ken Carter's lifeter's life when he was hitting him with that piece of paper because he was like listen buddy you better be careful you better be careful there's no room for error right and he was like but it's been raining it's been raining because that's what ken carter was

like we're gonna do it though we gotta do it but it's been raining that's the thing evil it's been raining there's been so much rain he's like yeah, you're not ready. So Ken Carter's just like, we're still going to do it. Ken Carter ends up dying years later. The end of the documentary is not Ken Carter dying. It's a much more interesting ending. And anyway, this guy is one of my favorite people, Ken Carter. He drives a dragster and he can't get in the dragster because he's too fat. He tests.

He's trying to pull G's, you know, getting ready for the jump. He goes up in a biplane to do tricks or something. He throws up and he's real embarrassed about it. Real embarrassed. I don't tell him I puked, man. Don't tell evil. He has a press conference

in like a Ramada Inn announcing that the jump's delayed. That is one of the greatest pieces of footage ever shot. I mean, it's 1978 in Canada. I mean, there's just, you can barely see him. There's so much smoke in that room, you can barely see Ken Carter announcing that the jump is delayed because everyone in there is smoking.

Everybody. Everyone's drunk for some reason at this thing. There's like a buffet for the Ken Carter jump delay announcement. Speaking of the ramp boy being inadequate to the job, the jump that ended up killing him had to be delayed when he first attempted it because the start off ramp collapsed under his car when he drove up on it. Yeah, you can see it. It's on it.

You can go on there and see it. And there's a whole bunch of people who have found the car. And he's got a little cult of people. But I just got to say, if you want a midnight movie, a movie for you guys to watch when... A midnight movie. I like that. You know what I mean? A movie for you guys to watch when you're stoned.

If I was in high school, I mean college, I would just watch this movie every night. I would have never left the... Did you switch to college so you weren't encouraging high school students to smoke pot and watch YouTube? If I was a high school... I'm in college now. In high school, I was studying, and then as soon as I hit college,

I watched Documentary Stone. But my friends watched the A-Team every day, and they put on a red light and called it Condition Red. They were all stoned. Wow. How are they doing? Not well.

What is a myth? What some people think is true. The myth is that you think that you probably... I had such a hard time coming up with these. These are absurd. You probably think... I'm looking at Anna. Anna, you probably think that you can't watch The Curse of oak island if you don't have cable she's been

saying that all week actually all i watch is people do archaeology type stuff on on youtube right so so curse of oak island you know that show on the history channel no you don't know that show no oh i should have done that as my big one then oh Oh, man. Go on. Go watch Devil at Your Heels anyway. But, God, we should have talked about Curse of Oak Island. Oak Island is this island off the coast of Nova Scotia. And in the late 1700s, some kids were out there playing, and they found an area where it looked like it had been dug up, and they dug down, and they dug,

and they found a stone with a bunch of markings on it, and they found, like with a bunch of markings on it. And they found like a bunch of platforms. Like every 20 feet, there was a platform of like coconut fiber and that wasn't native to the area. And then they realized that they think there were drains that had been created on the beach. So if you got down to a certain level of digging, it would fill the water, fill the pit with water, ocean water. So anyway, these guys, I'd heard about that story since I was in grade school about this Oak Island. And people kept digging down, but the water would come in and destroy the shaft.

So the design was in order to flood any hole that somebody tried to dig. It was booby trapped. So they're guarding something. Yeah. So it was like pretty elaborate. So I've read about it. People have been trying to find it ever since the early 1800s. And the people have died.

Lots of people have died because the shafts keep collapsing. They build these 100 foot deep shafts. And some guys died from fumes, from using a pump down there. Like six people died at once, I think. Or four people died at once. Like a father and his son. Sure. Some father dragged his son into this treasure hunting business.

Yeah. You know, like, we're going to go find this. Yeah, they both died from a pump, from pump fumes. Yeah. I've seen it a hundred times. Yeah. That's a good ad. I should have known you were going to do this to me, dad, with your nickname, Pump Fumes.

Right. So- Old Pump Fumes. Yeah. James Pump Fumes. So anyway, these guys, Rick and Marty Lagina, have a show on the History Channel, and they're two brothers that are trying to find the damn, except they have big money behind them. And they've got drills and cranes, but they still haven't found much.

So we can see this on cable? It's a great show I love it, it's so funny it's great because Rick Lagina is the dreamer and Marty Lagina his brother Rick Lagina is like the sex symbol dreamer

he is clearly a sex symbol I have a crush on Rick Lagina it's like running neck and neck with Nicola White Mudlark for treasure hunters i want to fuck yeah so so anyway this show is great so i've been but here's even the better part of it is that i i don't have cable so i have to watch on i have to go on youtube and watch but no that's even better they scramble the episodes like so the algorithm can't like yeah so you copywritten so it's like a nonsense version of the episode, which I still watch.

I've watched like every episode of the show on YouTube where they've chopped the edit. So like the algorithm can't recognize it because the algorithm will be like, oh, I think this is a bootleg. Yeah. They're like, the algorithm will be like, this looks a lot like a bootleg of our show that we should take off YouTube. But it's also gibberish right right so it's like they cut the video doesn't match the audio and and you have to

watch it like that and this is a pleasurable experience and i like that show so much you're like i'll figure that i fucking watch it on that scramble a lot of times you'll see them do stuff like only show you like 70 of the image right and like speed up the i've seen that audio by like three or whatever. I couldn't take that. Yeah. I couldn't handle that. When the sound's different, it fucks me up.

No, this is what I like. This one, the images are all wrong, but the audio is right. So anyway, if you guys want to catch, and by the way, Curse of Oak Island, I think is heating up. I think they're going to find something, but there have been six seasons. Treasure hunting is so much fun to watch. This is a tribute to me and making sense of my lifestyle is that they've had six seasons or seven seasons they haven't found a damn thing

yeah i would say wood that they think might have come from a ship i would say your appetite for watching people pull just junk out of mud is higher than many a listener possibly. It's possible, but yeah. But he converts a lot of people. Yeah. I'm not saying he all of them. Mudlarking is, you know, for new listeners. Check out Mudlarking.

Mudlarking is like the Thames River. I've talked about this. Yeah, scraping, man. Just digging up, seeing what's up. Previous episodes. You just, London is a 2,000-year-old city. They've been throwing stuff in the river for 2,000 years. And you go down there in the low tide because the Thames is connected to the ocean.

Yeah. And you go down there and just dig through the mud and you find everything from Roman helmets to- Lighters. Yeah, to cell phones from yesterday. What is something you think is overrated? Cards Against Humanity. Okay. I love comedy and I love games. what is something you think is overrated cards against humanity okay I love comedy

and I love games I just hosted a game night at my home last night yeah you guys did not attend I realize I also did not invite you no that's

I'm gonna say would have been amazing had we attended yeah I saw that shit crack it on the on the gram yeah that was something I'd be happy to have you

in the future I usually host them every other week and we would probably be happy to have you back on this podcast once that happens. Oh, is that how it works? Okay.

I mean, I already had him on my podcast. That's why I'm back here now. Miles, we don't want to reveal the dirty underbelly that we use our podcast to get invited to parties. And should I point out that I would have to let you win? Would that be part of it also? No, no, no. I hate that. I know people let me win.

So I love games and I love comedy and I cannot stand Cards Against Humanity and even more so, I cannot stand people posting photos of funny combinations that came up in Cards Against Humanity. Yeah. Because it's pretty much just saying- What is this, 2012? Well, but I love classic. I play a lot of games from the 80s and the early 2000s.

I have no judgment on that. I just find it completely uncreative and unfunny. And then when people post something of like, look at this crazy combination of things. It's like, yeah, that would happen

because those things were already pre-printed and pre-manufactured and eventually those combinations would happen. Yeah, written by a bunch of comedians.

Yeah, it doesn't mean that you're clever for having selected them. And, you know, it's based on Apples to Apples, which is a great game that you can play with kids or with the elderly.

Unlike Cards Against Humanity. Yeah. But at least with Apples to Apples, you're A, you're learning a little something about what the certain topics are. But you also get some insight into the people that you're playing with. Like, oh, I think that person would choose that combination of things. And for Cards Against Humanity, there's none of that. It's just all random guessing. Well, I will say, I agree

with... It's manufactured outrage. I think there is something, though, like when you're playing cards, you do have to predict based on their sense of humor. It's like, I could put something that's witty based on the person who's picking, or something that's just completely absurd. I'm not saying that that's redeeming. But I don't find much wit in it.

I just don't find much wit in it. For me, in the game, it's more about like outrage, you know, it's being the craziest, wackiest thing. I just think it loses its excitement after you play it the first time. Yeah, I think. And the only other times I've enjoyed playing it has been like, I've not been sober. And then even then, the only good card is Chainsaws for Arms or whatever that card is. Love that one. No, it's like play it once, be amazed.

Like, oh my gosh, this thing is so outrageous. And they put it in print. Wow, that's like, play it once, be amazed, like, oh my gosh, this thing is so outrageous, and they put it in print. Wow, that's kind of weird to see something so outrageous in print, and then move on to something else. Well, that's why they need all those modifier decks now, because I think people, at a certain point, it's like, right, you said the Pope likes to jerk

off on an old foot or whatever the weird combo is. And you're like, oh, wow. On an old foot. Come on. I mean, I'd rather play Scattergores. But the Pope is so holy. Yeah, exactly.

Why would he? Guys, let me explain why it's funny. Yeah. I mean, Apples to Apples is a fun game, but not enough Pope. What is a good comedy game to you? A connoisseur of games. Well, I like regular games where it ends up being funny

because people are under pressure and doing something unexpected. So for me, Pictionary is always fun and funny. Celebrity. Yeah, Celebrity is one of my favorite games. Balderdash, you can at least be witty and clever in how you can get people to guess fake definitions of things. I like those kinds of things. But also, I just have fun playing... There's also just not

much very conversational about that game also. It's like you're waiting for someone to play something. They play the wacky thing. You make a statement about like, oh, that's so crazy. And then you move on to the next thing. It doesn't allow conversation. It doesn't allow... Other than being amazed at how crazy those combinations are.

I'm not very tapped into the game world, unless it's on console. But like, there was a version of charades where it started off as just sort of acting something out, but as each round got harder, there was like the same 20 things people had to act out, but you had less and less ability to actually

emote or gesture, so like first you would actually do, you know, proper, you know, proper shirt, you know, act it out. Sure. Then you could only just use like your face. And then as it got to one of the more extreme rounds is you put a sheet over yourself and then you try and act it out with a sheet over you.

Huh? And that was just kind of got funny because you began to just pick up on like micro movements that would suggest it was this one answer. But you know, I play that once. It works for people who are too good that once. It works in the brain. That's like for people who are too good at celebrity. Or too comfortable in a sheet.

A lot of ghosts. They just come out from under and they're naked. Yeah. I've never played a game of celebrity that didn't include people, like, laughing their ass off at each other or themselves until I overturned the table. And then, you know't watch less laughter. All right, guys, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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I 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 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?

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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. Let's talk about clowns. Scary clowns. Are you coulrophobic? No, not at all. I don't really have. Just racist.

Yeah. I have been interested in looking at old tv from the 50s like clowns were breakfast cereal mascots yeah yeah everyone loved a clown yeah they fucking loved them and it seems very strange to me because they they do seem like scary like inherently not like a thing that children would like well it's someone who has painted themselves to convey an emotion that they might not be experiencing underneath. Right. And duplicitous.

They can't be trusted and they're disgusting. And they're a danger to society. And I mean, that kind of is the general take is, it seems like people are like, fuck clowns, clowns are scary. So it's not super surprising, but it is interesting to me that they're still so salient

that it chapter two was uh set the record for biggest september opening and biggest horror movie opening outpaced only by it chapter one uh and then also the venice film festival gave out its awards at the end of the festival and the Golden Lion which has been given to movies like Rashomon, Brokeback Mountain and Roma went to the Joker movie, Joker, which is pretty wild. It's

pretty big departure for a comic book movie to get the award even though this is apparently less comic book movie than like taxi driver influenced character study. But clowns are still a powerful symbol apparently. I don't know why. Is it because there's like a generation of us

who absolutely did not like clowns? Like I feel like baby boomers, like my dad, I've seen like photos of like his room as a kid and there was like clown shit. Yeah. Like I remember my grandparents' house, they would have some clown shit up and i'm like this is fucking weird yeah no my grandma collected clowns right and then like maybe maybe then our parents weren't so into the clowns and then now we're like full-on like yo clowns are fucked up and weird yeah like i don't know if it's is it is it a the passage of time is it just purely because we or or maybe we're introduced

to more examples of clowns being like possibly weird with like john wayne gacy art or like other shit yeah it does seem like a it's tapping into maybe something like it's just such a break from the past like how i inherently respond to a clown versus how like my grandmother collected them and thought they were like cute like little ceramic clown maybe i'm in the minority i find clowns neither scary nor entertaining right i just find them kind of there all right i'm ambivalent i don't necessarily like get upset at the clown but i'm also like i'm like okay fine why i do know i've known people who are like coulrophobic right and I fucked up

around them. Because I didn't take it seriously to make someone cry. Because you show them like a wild montage with clowns cut into it unexpectedly. And, you know, I'm sorry. You got a jump scare from a dude? I did from a co-worker. And I had to apologize. I didn't realize what had happened.

But like, in a way, to me, I didn't take it serious. I'm like, yeah, yeah, you're doing that thing where like culturally you hate clowns. And I was like, oh no, you have a full on phobia. Take people's phobias seriously. Yeah, well, you know, there's earlier times. No, I've done that too. I once, I had a friend in college who was, had a like visceral reaction to the word cotton balls.

And I was like, oh, yeah, right. And said it a bunch of times. And she was like, it really fucked her up. Anyways. We're just called two horrible people. Yes. Who now host a podcast. But it's still, why is the Joker the character

that has brought out some of the best performances in film? It's just interesting to me that like a clown bad guy would be the, the character that draws these, you know, iconic performances out when that as a cultural symbol has become sort of irrelevant or maybe it's just been co-opted. I don't know. Symbolically, I think it really sums up

the waning influence of white men in America. Yeah, I'm wondering if that's culturally or historically. Just in general too, like a clown, right? Most of the time, this character is an impotent man who isn't achieving at the rate of the other men around him and then puts on a face to obscure that inner failure. Hi, I'm incel the clown. And then resorts to, again, that inner failure. Right. And then insult the clown. Right.

And then resorts to, again, I talk about this all the time, when you feel powerless, if you cannot create, then you will destroy. And that's the next way you can feel potent is by saying, well, if I can't build the things I want, I can destroy the things around me with great effectiveness. Yeah. Which is another thing the Joker does. So I don't know. There's many layers, I think, to just sort of like what the Joker could be to somebody. Yeah, that was pretty, that was great analysis.

I don't know, y'all. I just think it's because they're cute. I don't know, his laugh's weird. He's got a red nose. What? But also, too, but, you know, shout out to Clownzo, too. I recently saw like a clowning show, proper French clowning.

That really is an art form. I think if people got in touch with that style of clowning, maybe we would respect our clowns. Baskets was a good show. Is it actually funny, the French clowning that you saw? Or is it just more like an evocative? They all have different emotions.

It was more impressive to me as performance. like what the clowns can symbolize and the facets of our humanity. Well, shit, man. That sounds pretty weird. Anyway, it's pretty weird. You should go, man. What is something that is overrated? I think overrated is this idea of thinking like, oh, people are so soft now. And you can't take Dave Chappelle special. Because I was thinking about this a lot when it was in the height.

And I saw it and I was like, okay, yeah. There was stuff I liked, stuff I didn't. a lot uh when it when it was in the height and you know i saw it i was like okay yeah you know there was stuff i liked stuff i didn't but like this super like martyrdom performance that's been going on online where it's like you know that people were like picketing andrew dice clay shows like so like that compared to someone saying oh that's kind of shitty on twitter is nothing like can you imagine trying to walk into your show and you have to walk across a picket line that is not happening so like the i think that just negates two ideas one that is a new softening of society right and two that it's just so bad like cool yeah you know that's it's just you know freedom of speech not freedom of

consequence i mean softening of society is a way to not actually accept that society might be progressing. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's actually getting softer. That's what that is. It's just the same thing when old heads in, like, you know, music or some art feel that the things they like are being dated and people have moved on from it.

They try and push this idea of, like, oh, music sucks now. It's trash. It's like, like well the people making money uh see something's going yeah yeah their shows are still packed so maybe maybe it's not trash and it's just not for you right like i can kind of see the argument from the left because they're like well the left has traditionally been about, you know, completely free speech and like opening, like just saying whatever the fuck we want. But people on the right being like, man, you guys just try and censor speech when the right has been like the most all about censoring speech, like from Jump Street and like all

along that they would then act like this is something new that they would never be a part of. It's just wild. So funny because like because I follow Hassan Abiy from the Young Turks. And he was recently under fire because he was cracking jokes on Dan Crenshaw and his lack of an eye and depth perception. And and I remember like, you know, the right, just being like,

how could you do this? How could you? And then those same people, the same people are like, Oh, you want to be mad about some jokes from Dave Chappelle? It's like, would you just,

the words haven't finished escaping your mouth from like dragging Hassan on Fox news to like debate about this. After he's coming after the guy who's like, yeah, I lend my handguns out. Yeah. To friends. Yeah. They need,

you never know. Yeah. Anyway, I was with Pete Davidson and I flamed him. So I'm cool. Let's talk about Hasbro's new monopoly edition. Yeah. Because monopoly socialism was so funny

where they like shit on- Laser focused. Sharing things. And now they have decided to take a crack at feminism. It seems like. With Miss Monopoly. Oh, watch out, girl. Yeah.

With a nice young woman holding a cup of Starbucks, like what could only be presumed to be like Starbucks coffee. Right. With her hand on her hip. And it says, first of all, who is Miss Monopoly? She is Mr. Monopoly's niece and a self-made investment guru here to update a few things. It's about time. Now, when you look into it, though, this is obviously just a cynical cash grab for people who are maybe dumb enough to think that this is meant to be an empowering edition of Monopoly.

They made her a niece. They call it a celebration of women entrepreneurs and inventors. In it, female players start the game with more money than men and also collect more when passing go. The front cover declares it, quote, the first game where women make more than men. Yas queen. I mean, look, it's true. The pay gap is very real. But, like, what a flippant way to deal with it.

Right. Also, like, isn't Monopoly, the idea behind actual Monopoly is, like, this is how it is out there, guys. This is supposed to mimic actual capitalism. And to mimic actual capitalism, they're giving women a leg up. It just seems like it's, I don't know. I don't know how that's supposed to feel empowering. Yeah, especially because Miss Monopoly's from generational wealth, obviously. Well, she's a niece.

You don't know how Mr. Monopoly's brother did. He could be a deadbeat. That's true. You know what I mean? Maybe she inherited from him. It could be like that kid in Succession who was vomiting in his animal suit in that first season. And then somehow got swept up in the company. But the way they keep going on is, dude, a fun new take on the game that creates a world where women have an advantage often enjoyed by men.

Okay, then it says, although the company adds that, quote, if men play their cards right, they can make money too. Great. Players, rather than purchasing properties, will, quote, invest in inventions created by women. Things like Wi-Fi and chocolate chip cookies. Amazing. What? That is incredible. You're fucking kidding me.

I'm sorry. This was invented by the Hasbro. Yeah. My totally shit. That is incredible. Unsubtle. This was invented by the Has Bro. My totally shit. That is. My fucking talks, bro. On the front of the box, it says, without women, we wouldn't have Wi-Fi or chocolate chip cookies. Way to like send just a full U-turn.

I'm like, oh, dope. Wi-Fi and chocolate chip cookies. Yeah. Do you want your head to fully fall off? Please. One of the new tokens you can play with, like, you know, a race car thing or whatever, this one has a watch.

Okay, but Hasbro's Jen Boswinkle told USA Today, this is because it's about time for some changes. That's... No, I mean, that's... I think that conveys that message

very clearly. It says it all. This should just be like, rather than Miss Monopoly, it should be like, manless earth. Monopoly. All men have died because they're useless. Now do y'all think. First reformed Monopoly. Yeah, they... Again don't even understand.

Again, cash grabs, holler. Truly. That is- You're really at a loss for words, Jack. The chocolate chip thing really fucked you up. Chocolate chip cookie. That's the thing that they keep coming back to chocolate chip cookies as like, yeah, women can invent things.

They can bake a neat cookie. Right, right. One of the pieces should be a whisk. Well, don't let people think that women are actually capable of creating things like Wi-Fi. Bring it back a little bit. Let's tamper the Wi-Fi thing with chocolate chip cookies. Totally just obscure like the. Also that, by the way, the CEO of Wi-Fi.

Do you know what i mean like like that invest in oh i just hate it so much it's like so patronizing already that like i've failed this hey look hasbro y'all fucking stop it is not yeah wait till the black lives matter monopoly oh my god yeah white people get less money than black people. And when they go to jail, like, yeah, I guarantee you that has been at some point pitched. Oh,

you know, it has. If this shit got out. That's what I, yeah. Imagine what the discard pile is of ideas in those fucking meetings. Oh my God. I can't actually,

it almost pains me to think of what things, I mean, again, every day with the kind of shit that's said out loud in these boardrooms or even advertising agencies. But, like, if we got Miss Monopoly and they made socialism monopoly that were such fucking bizarre off bad takes on things, what didn't make it through the filter? And who did they test these two? Did they bring people in that they're like, how would you feel about a Miss Monopoly or a Mrs. Monopoly? Right. You know.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm surprised. And in this one, you can play with a new token, the biological clock, because it's ticking. Right. And you have to turn on an actual ticking clock while you're going around the board. And then it's like, uh-oh, you got too successful. Yeah.

Calm down. That's it. We're shutting the timer off. She can't be self-made, though. She has to be related to Mr. Monopoly. Yeah. I guess what, in their, like, in the expanded universe of Monopoly, this unbelievable tiny guy, like, we needed to think that he had a niece.

Yeah. And did they make it a niece so it didn't seem like too much, like, there wasn't that much nepotism involved? Or maybe just so that they had the same last name, Monopoly, you know? Right. Because they didn't want to make it like his younger wife. Let's talk about Face Off, guys. This is one of the most preposterous premises for a movie that has ever ended up being good, in my opinion.

Yeah. It's John Woo, right? Yeah, John Woo. Right. ended up being good in my opinion yeah it's like it's john yeah john woo right and it's it's a bad movie because of how ridiculous it is but it's still it's like a great the plot holes are gigantic huge i mean the idea that you're like okay man you're gonna go undercover just with this dude's face not even your body right You got the same motherfucking body. Yeah. It's your face. And then like,

you're supposed to also download, like there's no information about emotional relationships aside from maybe like what you could clean off a piece of paper and then you just become this person. Yeah. Also that voice changing thing they put on his throat. Yeah. That's the one technology I remember.

Yeah. Right. So, um, I mean, so they're going to recast this because i mean the thing that made it work was it was nicholas cage and john travolta at the top of their game uh and i thought they did a pretty good job like imitating each other and caster troy was a good character

um wait imitating each other you mean so when tra Travolta became Caster Troy, that he did a good version of being... Of Nicolas Cage's Caster Troy. Yeah. Everyone's like, oh, what a predicament. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I'll fuck with that. I mean, it's like an acting exercise.

It's like, that's kind of what's cool about it. I would love to see a deep dive comparing them. Like, you know, Travolta really nailed these like, idiosyncrasies about his performance. Yeah. Like, I wonder how much communication there was between them because they're both huge stars. Like, I wonder how much he was like, so I'm doing this.

Like, this is my, like, a little hand gesture that I'm doing. Or if they just, like, looked at each other's scenes. Right. How they did it. But anyways, they're going to try and recast it. I think it should be The rock and nicholas cage again just yeah i think nicholas cage i think should be in it for whatever reason he's just kind of still there i kind of need him there yeah but if you're going off of people who are like

fucking crushing this year you got like i guess chris evans and dwayne johnson yeah yeah like it would be one or look my i say look let's just get it done with jeremy renner and jackie chan just give the people what they want jackie chan had apparently had a big year in 2019 i did not know that did he oh really yeah and i was just searching like highest grossing actors because i was like you know because in my mind that was sort of the pairing for Face Off, the original one. I'm like, it's just sort of the natural who was making the shmoney this year. Actually, well, number one is Samuel Jackson. So Samuel Jackson and The Rock are one and two for highest grossing in, I think, 2019.

Oh, because of Avengers movies. Yeah. He was in Avengers, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man Far From Home. I mean, this dude has been- Yeah, he's in all the Marvel movies. They should do like a five-person face-off with all the Chris's. Oh, wow. Chris Pine, Chris Evans, Chris-

Hemsworth. Hemsworth. Chris Pratt. Yeah. That would actually be really good. Chris Rock. Chris Paul would be great. Yeah, I mean i mean fuck it let's just keep one of one of the worst actors in the history of commercial oh dude what if it was benicio and nicholas cage that would be fucking tight they both have that same they're aging kind of the same way yeah they already

have faces that look like fucked up masks right anyway that are coming off so yeah i mean that's the one issue that i see is when it first came out like the idea of a face transplant was far enough off that or like you know it hadn't been done so we were like could that be done but now they've done face transplants and like you've seen the pictures of what they look like and they're they don't they're not like seamless six out of ten i'll give them a six out of ten yeah yeah i mean honestly you actually like i saw a picture of the french woman who was the first successful face transplant and she looks really good like now like the face has like sort of adjusted yeah settled a little bit but it's still like now that we know what a face transplant looks like and

that it takes years for like things to settle right uh and for your body to like not fully reject it they don't just lay it on and then a laser just goes and then you are that and you're that person put a little microchip on my and then your wife can't tell that it's a different person's dick that she's having sex with. Oh, God. Maybe they just have very similar dicks. Yeah, yeah. That's really the deep dive we need to do. I mean, you know, this would be a great podcast where you dive into the realities

of these films and really try and find out what happened. There's a scene that never made the cut where his wife goes, when did you get circumcised? That would be amazing. He's like, I'm just pulling it back. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Yep. Yeah, where Jim Cramer, who I hadn't heard speak in like 20 years. Years, yeah. He doesn't seem to be able to put a sentence together anymore. I'm not totally sure why. But he's talking to a couple business guys. It's one of those like financial shows where there are like 3,000 numbers in the frame, like on boards in the backgrounds and then racing by below.

And they're, yeah, let's just hear what they have to say about Elizabeth Warren. I don't know. In the end, I know Elizabeth Warren. Don't listen. I favor CEOs. You think it's positive to have a CEO? I think, yeah. You're saying CEOs are...

Maybe not. It is... I don't know. If she becomes president, what do you think is going to happen to the banks? Well, it's not going to be a suboptimal situation. Suboptimal? You think Elizabeth Warren pushes banks into it? Well, they're already down 20 percent from the highs.

Yeah, I just think that there were these hearings in the 30s where they brought rich people in front of Congress. Oh, during the Depression? Trying to trash them. It was effective. About 20 years later, we had the least discrepancy in incomes in the 50s and 60s. I don't know what's going to happen. Look, I've got to tell you, when you get off the desk and you talk to executives, they're more fearful of her winning. I mean, I've never

heard anybody say, look, she's got to be stopped. She's got to be stopped. I don't know. She's very, she keeps going up in the polls. These motherfuckers sound like the people at Winterfell when the White Walkers are coming. They're like, fuck, the polls.

Right. He's also doing a parody of a panicked person. He's like, what? Like in the middle of it. I mean, either way, Bernie or Elizabeth, they both have Wall Street's number. Yeah. And I think, yeah, maybe because Warren is cutting through to maybe people they talk to more, they're more afraid because either one of them, it's going to be suboptimal for Wall Street. And they always reference these things that when it was the other time that it was the worst for the working class.

Like, well, you know, the 30s. Right. You know what was happening to rich people? But then someone after goes, but then that followed with like the lowest amount of income inequality yeah yeah but you know but remember the 30s don't forget had like an existential moment too where they're trying to figure out if ceos were necessary like the no one wanted to like handle that thought they're like huh well i don't they were talking about a bank that hasn't had a ceo they've just had an acting ceo for the past like year. And they were like,

I mean, CEOs are a good thing, right? Right. It's like, Oh man. Well, I mean,

yeah. When you look at what she's proposing, she's sort of like, I'm going to break up the big banks. I'm going to what birdie's talking about. And they want to basically separate like a lot of the commercial banking shit that manage like everyday people's money from the parts of the bank that do the high risk investment shit.

Yeah. Cause she's going from like the inside out. And that's what really scares. Cause she's seen everything. And I think like a lot of these people who are savvy about what's actually wrong with our banking system and our financial system, they're like, let, just so you know, this is what's happening. Right.

They're like, our deposits are insured by the government. And then they use that to be like, are basically we're gambling money that's insured. Right. And they're saying, let's's let's knock that shit off. And I think also, too, like a lot of it is basically trying to bring back the Glass-Steagall Act, which was repealed in 99. And that's when it became casino time, placebo time. And a lot of people say, you know, that's the financial crisis was definitely spurred along by the fact that that act was repealed. Yeah. And I mean, just like we've been saying with Trump and the,

you know, since Trump was elected, the stock market's been doing well. Like it might not do great under Elizabeth Warren, but like that is not the economy. Right. Exactly. Well,

her whole thing is like, if we want financial independence and freedom for working people and to like, just make everything more equitable we have to go right through the 1% fucking face absolutely and that's why yeah you see these shows where the 1%ers are huddled up like I mean how do we stop

the walkers yeah they're like a dragon do we have a dragon yeah no it's curious that they don't mention Bernie whatsoever in this like Elizabeth Warren that's I think in their mind they may have already dismissed him because if they're thinking like most of these hacks do, it's like, well, he's a socialist. I'm like, no one is going to buy that. What he's got is like Occupy Wall Street people. describing herself as a socialist, but someone about, you know, what is it? The thing like fair capitalism or something like, like whatever the other code word for still capitalism is, um, that maybe that's why they see maybe her as more viable and neoliberal. Yeah. But it's like,

but she likes, uh, what is it? Compassionate capitalism or whatever. Right. Right. Yeah. Cause also like what's really also ridiculous about this is that none of them are going to change anyone's minds in that conversation. There's no one watching that that's like, yeah, should I go with Bernie instead? You know what I mean? Or like somebody- Right, yeah, yeah. They're like, wait, what? She's coming for all of our money? Because a lot of the stuff both of them are proposing is about having to do a lot with CEO pay. And when these people come in and buy companies and just loot them legally, and then not honor the pensions that they've actually put forward for their employees. They're saying, no, no, no, no, no.

We're fucking putting an end to that if we're elected. Yeah. Hopefully, neither Sanders or Warren have any skeletons in their closet because- They would have been out. Well, I mean, it's early. Maybe they didn't take them seriously and they were just happy. They were taking votes away from each other, but rich people will,

you know, the, the corporate interests they've stayed. However, right. Power this long for a reason, considering where we're at, what the fuck could they have done that?

We're looking at the situation. We're looking like, ah, you know what? Maybe I'm going to go for Biden or the mainstream media is very persuasive, have done that we're looking at the situation we're looking like you know what maybe i'm gonna go for biden or the mainstream media is very persuasive or at least influential and yeah absolutely yeah i agree i feel like the mainstream media ignoring sanders has hurt his standing in the polls well the bar is so low that like a mod of the centrist democrat

is like a meal ticket for some people. They're just like, well, you know, it's not going to be Trump. Why not? Just a little bit. And that's what a lot of polls show recently, too. Like there's, I think, close to 60 percent, like 58 percent of Democrats and like left-leaning independents just want someone that is going to beat Trump. Right. Not someone that they're excited to vote for.

So just that idea of a second term is, I guess, making a lot of people circling their wagons around, just beat him first. Just beat him, and then fucking we'll clean up the mess after when most people have perished from student debt or medical debt. But electability is, you know, we've talked about how in the media it's a way for, you know, people to sublimate their own biases. Like, well, she's not electable. And it's like, why?

You know, because she's a woman. It's like, what? Yeah. Or Joe Biden's electable. Why? Well, you know, he just looks presidential. Well, what? How are you defining

presidential by the size of their veneers right all it took was a blood vessel to get his numbers down right right bursted blood vessel in his eye and people were like you know what maybe he's not the most best choice yeah well look although that the media definitely ignored the shit out of that i know right and he was like looks like he was auditioning for 28 Days Later. He really did. He's like, I was exposed to some experimental chimps who had been exposed to the rage virus. Wasn't it called

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