The Daily Zeitgeist - Weekly Zeitgeist 97 (Best of 10/14/19-10/18/19)

Episode Date: October 20, 2019

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That is a myth. But I have seen like three or four people in the last couple weeks in LA where I'm like, you just can't just put them on and do whatever. I fire them up and I start I'll stop in the middle of the freeway to get something out of my trunk. If you could do that, everyone would just

have them on ramming into each other i had my lights on what wait what kind of egregious hazard light use did you witness on the way here was what like sparked it where i was like man this is like something i've seen three or four uh just one of those starline tour vans uh-huh dude just i watched him do it in the he was in the far right lane right in front of me and he just put on his his hazards and then just went over like and did a complete u-turn on hollywood boulevard oh like that it wasn't like hi i'm gonna pick up these passengers double park or something it's like i'm using this that's what i thought he was just like right he was just gonna you know veer off to the right sure be like this is on you, I'm a... He was just gonna, you know, veer off to the right and be like,

this is how you stop. He could have crossed to the left. Hey, they're called hazards, man. I'm about to be a hazard. This is hazardous, right. Yeah, and the way... I mean, but there's like other people stopping

and looking like I did, like, what? You can't even... Right. Not even doing a hand out the window. That used to be the hazard sign. He had this, like, look on his face like, this is how driving happens. Right.

There was no concern. Also, were there passengers in it? I don't know. I couldn't see because I was just like, who is this man? If that was my gig and I knew my company was insured on that shit, I would probably be like, fuck, watch this. I'm not even fucking around. I'm just going to do this U-turn with the hazards on.

I mean, there was no emotion either way. It was was just like this is how my day goes yeah right so that was just i mean i would i went from being like what in the to being like all right dude yeah that's next level bad driving when you can't even be mad you're just like i'm glad i got out of your way amazing Amazing. Yeah. He may be still doing it. Just doing donuts in the tree. Yeah, he's like, someone's going to hit me. I was trying to get hit, but everyone just keeps respecting me. I see that, too, when people go in the emergency lane to beat morning rush hour traffic.

And I'm always like, please, dear God, if there's a good cop out there, let me see you pull this asshole over right now. Because there'll be people just, they throw the the hazards on they're flying down the emergency lane you're like that that is not even that doesn't even prepare somebody just because the lights are on because by virtue of what you're doing just like busting u-turns from the far right lane it's just you're just gonna see somebody just like bam yeah there it goes it's like the motorcycle guys. I respect, hate them equally. I'm like, that's cool, but you're going to die. Right. And I'm okay with it for whatever.

You mean like when they're splitting lanes and stuff? It's that risk-reward that most of life is. Yeah. You're just like, what's the consequences? You're like, I'm going to get there 30 minutes early, but I could die. Right. I'm going to have fun doing it. Oh, yeah.

But if I don't have fun, I might be dead. It just takes one stoner jamming too hard to modest Yahoo to not notice you. Yeah. Swipe you. Yes. And goodnight you. It's impressive, though. It is kind of impressive.

That's why I said I hate respect it. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's the. Because you're like, I wish I would do it. Right. Yeah, they do that thing. I am not. Too scared. Too you're like, I wish I would do it. Right. Yeah, that is the thing. I am not.

Too scared. Too scared. Got kids to live for. That is the children thing now. See, it's these damn kids. See, this is where you fucked up. I'm about to buy my motorcycle now. Well, like the thing they say about motorcycles is that our brain like sometimes doesn't register them

because our brain is just like the way it's built. When we're out driving we're just looking for car shaped things that are moving like cars and so people will just drive like it's not there and i feel like motorcycles like good motorcyclists recognize that and like drive defensively about it yeah and then bad motorcyclists are like i'm gonna take advantage of that they don't see me i'm like i behind you. Now I'm in front of you. All it takes is you one time to almost kill a motorcyclist to forever

be afraid of killing another motorcyclist as a driver. In San Francisco, it's insane. They're everywhere and those hills and everything. You're like, what happens? Well, you get hit sometimes. That's what all of them say. Sometimes you get hit. What's something people think is true

You know to be false So I had a couple ideas for this And like The Netflix model is Unsustainable and Naomi's like Don't do that do something fun So the myth That I'm going to dispel is

The Netflix model isn't unsustainable Mozzarella sticks are bad for you That's the myth and I'm going to dispel is... The Netflix model isn't interesting. Mozzarella sticks are bad for you. That's the myth. And I'm going to say, no, they're great for you. Now, follow the logic on this. Have you guys ever been in a high-stress situation?

Yes. Every day. Okay. And how does your body feel in that high-stress situation? I don't know. I've never felt different. From the womb to the tomb,

all stress. All stress in the unpredictable. From the womb to the tomb. Womb to the tomb. All stress. All stress in the unpredictable. Yeah. So have you ever been in a more stressful situation? Yes. Yes. And how does your body feel then?

Very tight. Right. Yes. Okay. Okay. So a while ago, Naomi and I were working on a project that was, we were working with some terrible people. This is like five-

The Koch brothers, you can say. Okay. I don't know why we decided to sell a. This is like five brothers. You can say, okay, we're, I don't know why we decided to sell a TV show to the code. We're writing scripts for Prager university videos, but it was all about how frack it was. It was about a fracking team and how they're saving the world. Oh my God.

They start fracking and like discover there's like a whole underground civilization that the frackles it was right there in front of us the whole time um so it was about six years ago now uh and um i got um chest pains from this and naomi got an ulcer from this thing. It was not good. We were under so much stress. What was the bright spot in our lives? Why the food we would eat. So now I say this. When you are in a high stress situation why not eat a mozzarella stick? From where? From where though? Well where are we now? In Los Angeles? America. But I'm just saying that like I can't dictate.

Wherever you are, where the best mozzarella stick is. I'll tell you this. Well, what was the one you were eating? I want to get like- Well, that was New York then. I don't know exactly. Call it out. Here, House of Pies, surprisingly the best mozzarella stick I've had in Los Angeles.

Cosa Buona comes in second. Cosa Buona. Because they have a smoky mozzarella stick, but it's not, but it's like homemade. It's delicious, but it's when you want like a mozzarella stick, flour shell, deliciously fried. Yeah.

House of Pies. Nothing else on their menu is great. Right. But their mozzarella sticks. Brought to you by House of Pies. You know, that's what I think most doctors say. If you're having chest pains,

have some mozzarella sticks. I do think though. What's going on, Andy? Chest pains? I mean, when people talk about. I can't feel my arm, but I should have these mozzarella sticks with the other one. When people talk about the placebo effect, they picture like sugar pills only.

But I do feel, you know, the placebo effect basically means how you think you feel is like how your body is actually going to behave and medically exist. And I feel like eating comfort food sometimes is healthy. Oh, hell yeah. There's nothing that, man, I know exactly what you mean. Stress eating and I will go hand in hand. Yeah. And also knowing there are certain things that you eat that make you feel really good.

Yeah. I love a French dip sandwich. Yeah. Ooh. That's just how I self-medicate with food. With French dip. That seems very hoity-toity. Yeah, well, I mean, like you get a Philips.

There's a way to make it yourself where you get the little packet and just make a weird one on your stove. Not that great. Sounds like soup for me. That's part of the bourgeoisie. Am I right? Well, you know, you'll see my ex-Massad security guards beat the shit out of you if you try to get at me. I was wondering if authenticity is becoming less of a thing in modern hip-hop and just modern culture in general

because we have YouTube stars who are like theul brothers who are just like bad they're just caricatures of wwe caricatures of like something but like not actually believably authentic in any way right well but then i think but but really the artists that do really well are the actual artists you know who are really like this is me this is what i'm doing this is how i'm choosing to express myself no matter what the genre is right because i think there's a sincerity about artists who are really like, this is me. This is what I'm doing. This is how I'm choosing to express myself, no matter what the genre is. Because I think there's a sincerity about someone really expressing themselves truly that no matter what the beats are, the lyrics are the package, it just, it just connects with people on a deeper level.

You know, I think that authenticity is a term that's thrown around a lot these days. Right. And look, I think that I am very authentic. I think I have a very authentic voice. I think that my memoir is very authentic, and anything that I do is authentic. So if people are going to be storytellers, and the claim is that they are telling their own story, right, as opposed to writing fiction, then I want authenticity. And I think that MCs would probably consider themselves storytellers.

I think the best of them are. And herein, I also want authenticity. That's why I think I'm having an issue with saying, okay, you know, I'm down with this or I do that or, you know, going back to the guys I was telling you about in the industry who, you know, suddenly acted like they were, you know, so down. I mean, to me, one of the most beautiful manifestations of authenticity in hip hop was Redman's episode of Cribs. Yes. You know, this is, you know, for that show MTV Cribs, they used to rent houses for the rappers.

Right. They used to rent cars for the rappers. So that's the furthest thing from authenticity, right? That's the opposite. And he so disrupted that. Yeah. He completely subverted that model. He's like, let's hop over to my sleeping cup.

Right. Exactly. Here's the box on top of, here's, let's hop over to my sleeping cup. Right, exactly. Here's the box on top of, here's a cereal box on top of my fridge that has the dollar bills in it. Right, right. And I think that also speaks very much to his talent and his confidence in knowing there's nothing that I could do or show you that's going to ever shake who I am as

Redman. And so the notion that there is a show based on luxury, on aspirational living, and it's all about consumerism, that too is kind of offensive to me. I never fucking watched that show. I never watched Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. I never watched any of those things that shoved in my face, wouldn't your life be amazing if it was this? Because those are not the things that define happiness. Yeah, they're all external.

That's right. They're completely external. And look, I would love a nice big fat crib. I'd love to fucking fly private and all that. I would love that. But that's not, I'm not on the paper chase. Right, right, right. So the fact that there was so much programming, I don't know if there is anymore.

I don't really watch television like that. But the fact that there was so much programming around wanting to be wealthy and live in luxury I think is kind of gross to the point that you fake it. Again, it's faking it. Right, right. Right? Rent this house. Which house do you want? I want the one with the fucking big ass – I want the one with the big ass aquarium and it's got to have the staircase. Like Nelly? I want the one with the fucking big ass, you know, I want the one with the big ass aquarium. And it's got to have the, you know, the staircase. Like Nelly, that house.

I remember that one. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. He had an obscene aquarium. Oh, okay. Well, yeah, just all of those markers of success, which are firmly based in capitalism. Oh, absolutely. Right?

Which kind of goes back to the conversation about billionaires. Like capitalism, my girlfriend, Treva Lindsay, said capitalism makes this shit hard so yeah it makes it hard yeah you know it's it's it just it just necessarily if you think about it it necessarily compromises everything we do i own a home exactly right right yeah well yeah and i think it's funny too as you say like they need to sell a mirage of aspirational wealth and things like that because to to really inoculate people or get people to buy into that thinking is the precisely the kinds of shit you see in the form of like centrism where really evaluating what the issues are and if there is a class of wealth in this country that is actually working against everything and a lot of systemic issues are coming from this mentality of like consume, consolidate, gather as much as possible to the detriment of others.

You like that's sort of how these programs function, because it's sort of like this thing in the back of your mind. It's like, well, I don't should I be should I be mad at millionaires? Because like, what if I'm a millionaire? You know, I'm like, that would be sick. Right. So maybe I should go easy on them because that could be me you know what i mean like there's that suddenly works on your subconscious because for me as a fucking what 14 year old probably watching cribs at the time 15 i was full i fully i'm sure you found it completely seductive of course how

could you not and most people would i went to the back of the source magazine and ordered fake canary yellow diamond earrings and shit i wanted to fucking show out because in my mind that really was i i had a very one-dimensional idea of what success or happiness was and it was purely as do most of that shit absolutely yeah but that's but again that's where we live we live in america right right right i love fancy things i wear a gucci hat i buy Prada shoes. I absolutely am part of this system. There's no doubt in my mind. The other thing I think about you guys in terms of authenticity is that I came up in an era where there was no social media. And so I think about, I think, is it safe to say that Instagram is probably the most robust platform for artists?

Definitely more so than Twitter and Facebook. Yeah, it depends on where you're at. But yeah, Instagram for sure is. Right? So let's say I have 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 million followers and it's all about pictures. So it's all about what I wear, where I live, what I drive, whom I'm fucking, what I'm eating, what I'm drinking. I mean, I cannot imagine, you guys, how onerous it is to sustain this big willy. Back in the day, we used to say big willy, this big willy lifestyle.

Yeah, right. big willy lifestyle yeah right you know i mean you know so what if you walk down the street and you just want to like you're not wearing whatever the fuck or whatever the brands are whatever the sneakers are and stuff like that you know i i never i never want to be in a position where i'm going to be in i take uber pools i can't i'm a fucking immigrant when i look at the four dollar price difference i'm like i could afford the $4, but I can't. Constitutionally, as an immigrant, I can't. You hear a voice in your head being like,

really? Yeah, it's my mother going, why don't you take the subway, right? And I'm like, I'm treating myself to a pool. But just the notion of, you know, going back to authenticity, a lot of that, too, I think is not necessarily authentic, because I think a lot of the artists out think is not necessarily authentic because i think a lot of the artists out there are spending their money on these things that present a lifestyle but then

do you own a home right do you have a trust for your children right right do where is your money parked right so you might not you might not go into the stock market or whatever but is it somewhere because some of these guys millions of dollars will go through their hands and leave their hands and that's okay look if i was a 19 year old kid i'd spend the shit out of my money i would be i would be i would be off the chains i would be off the rails i would be foolish right but the notion that i now, oh, fuck you guys. I got to pose. Hang on.

I got to go buy these shoes. Hang on. I got to go do that. I got to go do that. That's a lot. I got to pose by this like villa. Yeah, I've got to be in a G5. Well, yeah.

I got to pretend my friends from TV are also my friends in reality. Oh, yeah. Jennifer Aniston. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. oh yeah jennifer aniston yeah yeah well yeah and i think that's sort of that's why i think the instagram is the it's the perfect sales tool because it sells people on seemingly authentic versions of life because people it's like well a person posted that not person with a stylist

the fucking whole marketing plan and lighting yeah lighting uh who has someone probably editing the photo itself who probably has deals going with brands to figure out like okay well here's a deal we'll get you to this location and then do subtle things and that kind of helps you know create this thing of longing through your your phone screen yeah and it's even worse for women right right so okay take that picture but get rid of all my age spots get rid of the bags under my eyes and get rid of the wrinkles and everything. And I'm going to get surgery and I'm going to do all this. And I'm going to, you know, my tits are going to be bigger.

My waist is going to be smaller. My ass is going to be bigger. And no shade to anybody that does this. That's not what I'm saying. But we are living in a time where we can actually buy a certain kind of beauty, right? So if we have the means and we're all going towards, frankly, what I think is a very narrow definition of beauty, well, first of all, we're going to become more homogenous,

which I never like, right? And then what does it mean for me raising a daughter who was a yellow girl, again a white world? Right. Who does not fit into this paradigm of beauty? How do I tell her if she says to me and she never would. But if she said to me, mommy, I want to get this job or that job or whatever, you know, the things that we have to battle. And so to be a famous woman too, like nobody gives a fuck what a man eats. Okay. Nobody gives a fuck. But if somebody sees an actress, let's say she's a thin actress and she's eating a cheeseburger, like what?

That's a fucking story now. Like who gives a fuck? Whoa, she's brave. Yeah. Right. Exactly. She's brave for eating what she wants.

Exactly. We're fucking human beings. Yeah. Yeah. Oh man. It's a, yeah. And I think also like growing up in LA, man, I see how quickly people's shit gets poisoned

by this like performative. Yeah, I've heard that too. Like wealth shit. Yeah. It's exhausting. And the beauty shit too. Right. Like if I'm going to go out and I'm going to be on the red carpet, you know what?

Sophia is not quite pretty. You know what? I think I have to upgrade from Sophia. Right. Right. Right. I've got to to upgrade from Sophia. Right, right, right. I've got to get somebody who's younger and thinner and this and that. Yeah, they're like, oh, well, like I can't pull up to a party with you because you're a college student. That's right. And I can't pull up in this car either. Yeah, exactly.

Like, okay, what, you going to park your Prelude around the corner? Right. We'll act like our limo broke down? Okay. Let me tell you something. That Prelude fucking goes, ma. I ride a city bike in new york yeah and i take uber pools there you go i mean but that's the thing like right i think it's about

people being able to realign what makes them happy or redefine what makes them happy i think because we have the because consumer culture makes us think when i attain x then i will be happy that's not i will be happy right right then i can attain whatever and and those things have to be the gravy not the meat right like my ex and i talk about this in my memoir is a 34th generation shaolin monk and when we started seeing each other i you know completely i was a stylist and he started wearing prada sport and stuff like that and he looked really great and i remember people looking askance at him and they're like oh i didn't know that buddhist monks could wear prada like you know what suck a dick homie because it's not about it's not about him wearing the prod it's about him being attached to it and

he would never be attached to right right right he fucking slept on a concrete floor for like 25 i don't think he's gonna care if he can't wear a fucking Prada jacket tomorrow. He's like, I'm not having running water. We'll kind of do that too. Exactly. Exactly. So the notion, it's not about having it. For me, it's about I have to actively exercise not being attached to it. And I think that what's really, really important for us spiritually and just for our soul and our internal happiness is to not let the external world define

it. Am I happy if I buy a new pair of shoes? Sure I am. But does that define my happiness or define me? Of course it doesn't. Right. Right. Because if the shoes are taken away and it fucks you up, then that ain't it. Right. That's exactly it. What happens when I say, it's the same thing with praise, right? Of getting too attached to people's praise. It's like, yes, that can feel good. But if that becomes your be all end all, what do you do when that, you no longer hear that? Right. Where you crump. It's like, it's a good reminder, but I don't need that.

I don't feed off. That's not my fucking oxygen. Exactly. You have to have your internal barometer and your internal compass have to be so fucking solid and then all of it is like you take it and it comes and it goes and it's fine smooth like water baby yeah exactly it's like bruce lee be like water my friend all right we're gonna take a quick break this summer the nation watched as the republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks.

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So, look, the NBA and pretty much any company doing business with China that's an American-based company is going through a bit of a time now where people have to be like, should we talk out loud in favor of people who are being oppressed by this autocratic regime? I don't know. Or do we like money better? Right. And the NBA saga unfolded when Daryl Moria from the Rockets tweeted out an image in solidarity of the Hong Kong protests. And that was almost fired. the Rockets tweeted out an image in solidarity of the Hong Kong protests. And then so that caused- And it was almost fired. Dude, it caused a massive profits fire.

Like, leaning sportswear ended their deal with the Rockets. Tencent, like, every company, a lot of companies that are doing business with the NBA are like, we're done. James Harden and Russell Westbrook in the immediate aftermath were like, we love China. China's the best. China's actually really tight to me. We love our fans there. Super tight.

We love authoritarian communism slash capitalism so sick though whatever i guess i'm more i was more willing to forgive that because it was the day after and they were clearly like had a gun to their head whereas this is like yeah well i think a week and a half later lebron james he has to say. I'm sure he was probably asked. I'm sure that's how it all happened. And his answer. But anyway, he just has this quote. He said, I don't want to get into a verbal feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand. And he spoke and he spoke.

Wow. And so many people could have been harmed, not financially physically emotionally spiritually so just be careful what we tweet and say and we do even though yes we do have freedom of speech but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that too i mean unless we play in china then we don't right uh i'm just what have freedom of speech what was what what is he i don't understand that he he he wasn't educated on the situation. What is he misinformed by? Yeah, I was confused.

What did LeBron James think that Daryl Morey didn't know when he tweeted support for the people in Hong Kong who are being riot policed? I think, I don't know. Maybe he didn't understand the whole, the whole like the law like what was going on with the ex is it extradition i forget the exact sure like what the reason why the rendition maybe he didn't understand that whole thing i think yeah i think really what it says the translation might be talking about china can fuck up everyone's money we aren't willing to confront their transgressions because it would risk our revenues so we have chosen to ignore this because money is more important yeah i think is what he meant right see guys it's a class warfare yeah no but but again you know and it's a very odd it was

a weird thing to say and i i can only imagine the the league's biggest star probably has to send up a flare to Chinese business interests to say, like, I am still in line with whatever y'all are trying to do. But even the NBA, after they initially issued a statement that was like kind of in this direction, that was sort of like, well, you know, there's multiple sides to everything. You know, there's multiple sides to everything. Adam Silver came out and made a statement that was definitely picking the side of freedom of speech and pissing China off. So it's not like Adam Silver was behind him being like, say this or else. Yeah, no. It was all about not fucking up his money. It was's like he's about progressive values until it becomes uncomfortable it's a little yeah it's a little sad to see because on one hand i i can understand privately if he's what he's saying is to someone

else he goes man daryl should have known he's like we've we're in bed with china that's like a third rail topic like you only talk about the business and that don't talk about anything about what their government does or anything to do with their domestic reform policy. You can talk about the Meg and other international co-productions. And that's it. And how sick leaning footwear is. Right. But like, that's where I wish he would have just not said anything at all because I can

stomach him just being, you know, about his money and not really trying to act like he's some kind of savior type person. Right. But it's drawn a lot of criticism. Him saying this has drawn a lot of criticism. Muhammad Ali's wife was like, Muhammad Ali wouldn't have done that. And he wouldn't have. No, he wouldn't have. But I do think it's sometimes important to remember

you shouldn't have your hopes pinned on. I don't watch athlete interviews after the game for a reason. They are always boring as fuck. They don't have interesting insights. I just want to thank God. I want to thank Jesus.

I want to thank the Holy Ghost. I'm sorry, I misspoke. Not Jesus. Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping. I'm sorry. I misspoke. Not Jesus. Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping. I'm sorry. Xi Jinping. Yeah. But Ali Kaepernick. You can't really count that many athletes who were important.

OJ Simpson on Twitter. He's great. Tom Brady. Sorry, hold on. Obviously. The greats. What did OJ say? Oh, my God. He's just too much. He's incredible on Twitter. Obviously, you know, the greats. What did OJ say?

Oh my God. He's just too much. He's incredible. I love China makes some great knives. Right. There you go. Well, I think that's the whole deal, right? Is certain people in your activism, if you're really about your activism, you will follow that path wherever it leads you.

It's not for the faint of heart. Right. And I think that's what we see is at the end of the day, LeBron James is a capitalist. That's his prerogative as a business person. I mean, this is what Michael Jordan probably would have done or said. Dude, yeah. He would have been like, fuck them protesters. Right. Probably. Exactly.

Was that your Michael Jordan impression? No, just not. I don't think there's a way to properly do Michael Jordan. Right. But he did say fuck them kids. I can't even imagine what his voice sounds like now. Yeah, he's not a very kind guy. But, like, you know, for example, you know, Enes Kanter, who's a Turkish player, he tweeted out, basically,

after this came out, he said, so, anyway, Enes Kanter is, basically, cannot go back to Turkey. Right. Erdogan wants him dead. Yeah, and Enes Kanter has been outspoken and a very big critic of Erdogan, and so that comes with consequences. And he tweeted, haven't seen or talked to my family five years, jailed my dad. My siblings can't find jobs, revoked my passport,

international arrest warrant. My family can't leave the country. Got death threats every day, got attacked, harassed, tried to kidnap me in Indonesia. Freedom is not free. And I think that sort of realigning the stakes for people here it's like this isn't just some it's not just like is the is it did it was it yanni or laurel right it's like fucking real shit here right it's not like oh yeah i'm either cool with this or no actually this is actually and i cannot abide by this it just depends on your point of view yeah Yeah. And again- You should have taken other people's point of views into account.

Take the middle road like most people and just don't say anything at all. Right. But if you're going to, don't speak on the right side, please. By the way, has anyone ever done an Erdogan slash and one mashup? Ooh. Erdogan mixtape. Yeah. Erdogan mixtape. Yeah, Erdogan mixtape. Dude, wow.

Because I would love to see that. Hell yeah. I mean, his crossover was nasty. Right. I saw him fucking spin hot sauce in half. Yeah. It was incredible. What is a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false? That Asian men aren't sexy. Okay. Okay. I don't have a problem if you have a preference. I totally get that. We all have preferences.

But when people make the blanket statement... Right. Speaking absolutes. That's right. Yeah. Come on, everybody, nobody finds Asian sexy.

I want to slap the shit out of them. Yeah. Because you are effectively erasing a whole gender of a whole race. And I've been thinking about this a lot, you guys, in terms of my memoir. Visibility and erasure. Right. And black women too, erased. Right.

Me too, erased. Right. Black women too, erased. Right. Me too, erased, right? And how we actively have to ourselves un-erase ourselves and give ourselves the visibility, which isn't fair. We shouldn't have to do that.

We should just have it, right? But we don't. So we have to fight for that. So, you know, the notion, I mean, the father of my two children is a 34th generation Shaolin monk who could kill you with his bare hands in 30 seconds. But there are a myriad other incredibly sexy men. Bruce Lee, God rest his soul. Chayanne Fatt. Tony Leung. I mean Jake Choi.

the West has systematically emasculated and castrated my brothers while simultaneously exoticizing, eroticizing, and fetishizing me is infuriating. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You fell in love with Chyna and Phat because of who? So I grew up yellow in a white world. Right. And yellow wanting to be white in a white world. Right. And yellow wanting to be white in a white world. And then I heard hip hop, then I moved to New York, and then I meet Wu-Tang.

And, you know, they're talking about, you know, there's that great skin on 36 Chambers where Ray is saying, you know, meth, where's my killer tape? Where's my killer tape? And I was like, okay, you know what? I'm going to pay attention to this because they were so deeply respectful of Asian culture in general but they loved John Woo so I watched

The Killer and I watched Hard Boiled and I went down the John Woo rabbit hole and I watched all of his movies I still have the laser discs I watched all of his movies

laser discs I actually still have laser discs Google it I don't know how many times I've seen The Killer I don't it's my times I've seen The Killer.

It's my favorite movie of all time. Chayanne Fad is his muse in the same way that De Niro is Scorsese's muse. And to me, John Woo was the greatest director of all time, and Chayanne Fad is the greatest actor of all time. And I think that what Asian action movies manage to do that I don't know that Western ones are able to do is infuse philosophy. And maybe that comes from the martial arts tradition, right? Because in the martial arts movies, you have action, but you always have philosophy, whether it's Buddhism or Taoism or a form of Confucianism.

And so a perfect example, I'll tell you, there's a movie called The Departed, right? And it was huge. It won the Academy Award that year. That movie was a remake of a Hong Kong movie called Infernal Affairs. And it was directed by Andy Lau, I believe. Now, if you watch The Departed, it was my favorite movie of that year.

If you watch The Departed and then you watch Infernal Affairs, you can see that The Departed had to have a Hollywood ending. Right. In a way that Infernal Affairs did not feel beholden to make. You know, it's going to be okay. Yeah, right, right. It's going to be okay. The bad guy's going to get it.

And the conflict, and there were great actors in the department and it's an amazing he's an amazing director the but the the conflict that was demonstrated in infernal affairs was made that movie so much more touching and compelling emotionally compelling for me does it end with a rat coming in and winking at the camera? Or it doesn't? Fuck. That should be the alternate ending. It might be on the Laserdisc version. Flip your Laserdisc over. A, B. Alright guys,

we have to get to the story of Robert Downey Jr.'s return to the big screen, the silver screen, the silver screen. Tentpole movies. Post MCU. Do little. The gritty remake.

Robert Downey Jr. is Do Little. Wow. Is this like Joker? So this is like Joker. It's equally anticipated. Also won the award for top film at the Venice Film Festival when it premiered there.

Do Little? Yeah, Do Little. People were sobbing in the audience. So this movie, I think, technically is the opposite of those attributes in that it was set for to be released last spring and has instead been held for January, which is generally like studio dumping ground

where they just drop all the- I mean, it's a kid's movie, right? I don't know. You saw the trailer. It looks like a kid's movie. I mean, it is a kid's movie because Dr. Doolittle lives in an enchanted castle where he has a toy train running through it for some reason. Like a weird FAO Schwartz on mushrooms.

Yeah. Like toys. The Robin Williams movie? Love it. But it's... And Joan Cusack. So one sign that we're on shaky ground is that Robert Downey Jr., in order to keep himself focused, attempted a Welsh accent. Yeah, I don't know what that was.

Oh, that's a Welsh accent? He literally said he's doing it as a fun challenge for himself. What's a Welsh accent. Yeah, I don't know what that was. Oh, that's a Welsh accent? He literally said he's doing it as a fun challenge for himself. What's a Welsh accent? So it is Christian Bale's accent, which if you've ever listened to Christian Bale in interviews, sometimes he sounds like he has an accent, sometimes he doesn't. It's like, why does Christian Bale have a fake accent?

He doesn't. He has a Welsh accent, which even Welsh people are like, it's really a weird accent. Or depending on where you are, it can differ. I mean, Catherine Zeta-Jones is also Welsh. Right. And you're like, it's like vaguely English. Right.

So like Madonna. Yeah. Right. Like Lindsay Lohan. Well, like the other time that somebody tried to do a really difficult accent, Leonardo DiCaprio did a South African accent in Blood Diamond. And everyone's like, that's the worst accent work ever. But then some South African people were like, no, it's actually really good.

But we just have a weird accent that like on some words, it sounds like you forgot to do the accent. And on other words, it sounds like you have a thick accent. I remember my first trumpet teacher when I was taking lessons as a kid who like worked at my school, his wife was South African. And when she spoke, I was like,

as a kid, I didn't know what the accent was. And I thought, I was like, it sounds like she's from Texas mixed with England. Right. Is what my first description

of a South African accent. Yeah. Anyways, this movie is. It's fucking, I don't know. It's garbage. It looks like absolute trash. The tray looks like absolute trash. Right. But it's not for you... It's fucking... I don't... It's garbage. It looks like absolute trash.

The trailer looks like absolute trash. But it's not for you. It's for children. Okay, but it's very serious. Are you guys big doolittle heads? Is that what that is? It has a very serious vibe to it. Like, it starts with, like, really dramatic, like, sweeping shots and...

Yeah, dramatic. Louis Armstrong, It's a Wonderful World is not... It's... That's when you know a movie is going to be terrible. That was my terrible attempt. My first attempt. It's time to do Sandsmo. Hey, that's me. Hey, guys, that's me.

But it's not that song in its normal presentation. It is the like echoey version where it's like. Like the Facebook movie. Whatever that was called. Social Network. Right, right, right. You know, there were so many things in it that were very odd. For whatever reason, I just

can't stand the polar bear wearing a knit cap. Why? I don't know. It's fucking dumb. Are you guys angry that it includes animals that will be extinct within our lifetime? Here's what I'm angry about. It cost $175 million to make. Jesus.

They spent a Marvel movies worth of budget on this movie. It's like you guys don't live in Los Angeles. Yeah. I live in the valley. It's made by the guy who wrote and directed Siriana. What? And who wrote Traffic. Yeah. Are you serious? Yeah. I live in the Valley. It's made by the guy who wrote and directed Siriana. What? And who wrote Traffic. Yeah.

Are you serious? Yeah. And he had to be replaced halfway through because apparently he was. The animals were attacking Dr. Doolittle and killing him. I hear David Simon wrote the original script. Yeah. A lot of the imagery. I mean, it's one of those things.

It's a hard needle to thread with Dr. Dolittle movies, I feel like, because it has to almost be fully cartoonish for it to not sort of start veering into the absolutely absurd. I think that's what we're responding to. It's like if you made Flipper a dramatic film where Flipper was a trained assassin. That's what this trailer feels like. Imagine Red Sparrow mixed with Flipper. a trained assassin like that's what this trailer feels like imagine Red Sparrow mixed with Flipper it's just red tide

yeah that's actually I mean the there was a time when the CIA was trying to do that and not the CIA it was like some Russian intelligence there was some intelligence agency that was trying to train dolphins to do the Germans I think everybody was basically like I don't know fucking get these sea dogs to do shit.

We have billions of dollars. We might as well do whatever the fuck we want. They tried to do it with cats. It was called Operation Acoustic Kitty and it did not go well. Are you serious? Yeah. Like to do what?

Scratch people's couches? I think they were bomb carrying cats, but there's a reason the, no, no, they were cat spies they they were cats with recording devices oh got it and that's why it was acoustic kitty and uh there's a reason that uh herding cats is something that's a saying for something that's impossible oh well i mean they should have just got dr doolittle because he could have just had the cats back and say, what did you hear?

Oh my God, there's your gritty remake of Doolittle where he's getting animals to do black ops. That makes so much sense. Right, right, right. That would actually be interesting to see Doolittle in the modern world, but this is just like Doolittle in Pirates of the Caribbean. It's like vaguely Pirates of the Caribbean.

Yeah, that would be great. Like a series of Homeland type shit. Right. Like Gritty, Doolittle. Doolittle, yes. Right. Thank you. What's the, Disney?

Is that the, who's- So in conclusion, Disney- Who has the rights to this? Disney. Contact me. Yes. This is the second winner of a movie idea that we've come up with in the past three episodes. It's a free punch up.

Yeah. The Nightmare on Elm Street, but it's a free punch-up yeah the uh nightmare on elm street uh but it's people who get too high is the other right and then their panic brings on freddy krueger to fuck them up so it's like how high plus right yeah exactly yeah too high yeah how high uh uh all right we're gonna take another quick break. We'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks. President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today.

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it's time we talk about the fact that people could be putting weed in your kid's Halloween candy. Oh God, no. Happy Halloween. The Johnstown Police Department in Pennsylvania are back at it again. In my mind, I believe we've talked about this department

before when they were asking people to volunteer to get drunk for a study. But either way, they're active on Facebook. So are they just doing like viral stunts? I don't know. Could you? Oh, that's probably where we're headed. Police department doing viral content.

I don't know what they get out of it. But like the social media, the head of social media for their police department is like, you know, gets promoted. A few viral stunts or like proposal videos can paper over a shooting. Yeah, it's like, well, what about that white cop? What about the white cop that, you know, hit them folks at that barbecue? You know what I mean?

The dance. Not literally hitting somebody. The dance move. You never seen an undercover Millie Rock? Yeah, that shit was hilarious. And then kiss a dog. All those polls over. Not that they just shot a woman

fucking in her own home in Fort Worth through a fucking window but upload that video of the police department doing the Harlem shake right and I'll be forgotten

I mean to be fair I do think that cops don't have problems going viral right now just not for the reasons they would probably like yeah right

possibly I mean maybe that's the idea is that they're thank you that's a straight up for you. Yeah, I could totally see the meeting where they come up with that strategy of like, we got to combat all this negative social media publicity that we're getting out there. Come on, pitch me ideas, guys.

Yeah. Cops can be fun. Yeah, cops can be fun. This cop was a former break dancer? I wouldn't have known in that uniform. People need to remember that we are out there protecting their children. What's a story that we could tell about that? Oh.

What about that child that was shot because they thought he had a gun? Oh, no, not that. Not real stories. Remember how we used to be afraid that people would put razor blades in our candy? Yep. Boom. Yeah. Here we go.

There it is. How would that even work? Okay. You Yep. Boom. Yeah. There we go. There it is. How would that even work? Okay. You bite into a candy bar. Sorry about this. Well, no, because I think you- Do your teeth protect you? I think you push the razor blade

into the flesh of the apple and then the caramel covers over the actual point of insertion. I eat apples also, just like candy bars, with my teeth. What are you talking about? The most impervious, my mouth bones. Yeah, but if you took a full-on my mouth bones. Your tongue does get in there.

Right. If you took a full-on bite, though, and there was a razor blade in there, she would cut your mouth in half. Yeah, it's maybe unpleasant. It's just not the most efficient way to do harm via Halloween candy. Sure.

This, on the other hand. This apparently is. According to the Johnstown Police Department, they have this whole Facebook post that says, Attention! The Johnstown Police would like to draw extra attention

to the Nerds Rope Edibles, containing 400 milligrams of THC. Nerds Ropes are so good. I know. Nerds Ropes are one of the GOAT fucking movie candy. Foundering a search warrant in Stony Creek. It says, Okay, during this Halloween,

we urge parents to be ever vigilant in checking their children's candy before allowing them to consume those treats. Drug-laced edibles are packaged like regular candy and may be hard to distinguish from real candy. Okay, now it looks like maybe if you're just like the dude who's making your own wild edibles, you sell them like this to avoid detection from the police. Not because you have a scheme where you're throwing thousands of dollars away to play a sick-ass prank on the kids of this town. I want to bankrupt myself

by getting a bunch of six-year-olds high. It's a really good use of my money. I'm going to give away all of the weed that I bought to sell to get a bunch of kids to make their Halloween extra spooky. I mean, you should obviously check your kids candy. I think that's

all fair. But I don't know if this is like, they're like, what? Kiva mints? Are those for kids? I mean, I'll personally be giving away jewel pods at my house for this trick or treat. Wow. Yeah. Shit.

Hell yeah. Yeah, dude. I just want to be cool with the kids. No, for me, it's to be cool. You know what I mean? Yeah. That and some Fortnite stuff. That's right.

But in the long run, it might be just as bad as putting razor blades in an apple. Whoa. Fiberglass in the lungs. Truth campaign. Dang. Yeah. You're giving them fucking Dejarum clove cigarettes? Yeah.

Oh, my God. Don't do that. Wait. What? Did those really? Like, what did those do? I mean, other than taste delicious. I remember the myth was. they would like fiberglass.

Fiberglass in your lungs, yeah. Fiberglass, yeah. Because that's why they hit so smooth, dude. Oh, yeah. That was like the thing. That's why they hit so smooth, dude, because of fucking fiberglass. Is 400 milligrams of THC a strong edible? That seems like a lot.

That's, yes. DJ Daniel is headbanging. DJ Daniel is headbanging DJ Daniel is headbanging Because it was too much That is too much Kids Too much for a Elementary school age job

Yo you're Especially on Halloween Because shit is like Spooky You do like Maybe 15 20 To go to sleep

Nice Would 400 kill you? I don't know if they I mean I don't think They found a lethal dose Of THC That there's such a thing I don't know I think I mean I don't think they found a lethal dose of THC that there's such a thing I don't know

I think I found mine and like most people are like I don't know I died in this I pick theater and went to heaven I'm right now

I'm in my afterlife this is all a dream this would make sense if this was perjury yeah you're like anxiety purgatory it's also perjury

your anxiety attack can kill you Freddy Krueger style. Like just because you believe you're dead. Yes. Oh my God. That's what I always thought was happening. That's incredible. Pitting people with edibles. Yeah, that's a good idea.

That's a really good idea. Freddy Krueger attacks people who are too high. That is my nightmare though. Dude, it feels like my chest is getting sad It's like you are a motherfucker It's like you do this every time You had one CBD drink I don't know

I don't know What is something from your search history That's revealing about who you are I was writing with a friend of mine today, and I could not remember the answer to this, so I was Googling Queen Who Fucked Horses. Yes. I mentioned that today. Whoa, you talked about Catherine the Great.

Yeah. I made a Catherine the Great reference earlier today. Yeah, that's weird. Uh-oh, where is Sync? Where is Sync? Synchronous? They'll be in the house tonight. And that name came to my mind much easier than it should have.

So I think we were like pulling from the same. Oh, and it all happened when we were riffing about like hot posters we would have had as kids. I'm like, anybody have a Daisy Fuentes? And then I went back like Twinkie? No, I said Catherine the Great. I was like Catherine the Great. Wait, does she have sex with a horse? No, that's just a.

That's just the rumor. It's like Napoleon. Yeah. The worst they could come up with about him was that he was short. Right. And then that stuck. And that's how they disparaged Catherine the Great. So that she fucked a horse. Fucked a horse, yeah.

Which is a little uneven, if you ask me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen that video with Kenny Pignon. Yeah. But it's just like, that's how sensitive men are, you know? Yeah, exactly. They're just like, oh, one thing we know will piss him off is if you ignore that he is of average height. Yeah, exactly. Height.

Height. Height than analists. Height than analists. We are on fire. Heifey. This is when Mike Tyson wants a heifey. Yeah. This is when Mike Tyson wants a high C.

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