The Daily Zeitgeist - What We're Effing With: THE HOLIDAY EDITION!

Episode Date: November 29, 2019

A bonus Black Friday episode where Jack, Miles, and super producer Anna tell y'all what items they're fucking with this holiday season.FOOTNOTES: World’s Smallest Vacuum PowerJet F700 140 MPH 725 CFM 12 Amp Electric Handheld Leaf Blower Japanese Vegetable Peeler (Green) - Cabbage Salad Peeler Cutter, Onion Slicer Cutter, Thin Slicer Cutter Sivan Back and Neck Pain Relief Acupressure Mat and Pillow Set, Chronic Back Pain Treatment - Relieves Your Stress of Lower Upper Back and Sciatic Pain Bruder Toy Trucks High Hemp CBD Wraps Variety Pack Lodge Silicone Hot Handle Holder for a Cast Iron skillet We Are in a Book! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)  Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Video Game Good Grips 3-in-1 Avocado Slicer JASON MARKK REPEL SPRAY Nostalgia Pop Up Hot Dog Toaster Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this special Black Friday episode of the Daily Zeitgeist, TDZ's Favorite Things. I'm Jack O'Brien. Yep, you are. Oh, I'm Miles Gray. Hey, what's up, man? And we're also joined by... Anna Hosnier. Whoa, it's her. So guys, this episode, we're doing something a little different. We are going to talk about some of our favorite things on this most consumerist of all days, the Black Friday. Yeah. Yeah.

And then you got stuff that's really special to us. You got your Cyber Monday coming up. So, you know, just it's a feeding frenzy out there. Folks, I don't have to tell you. You've seen the local news reports about people just beating the shit out of each other to get to those flat screen sales. Classic America. My things are very daddish old man things. Miles's are also very on brand. Very daddish for me, too. Miles' are also very on brand.

Very daddish for me too. No, yours are super on brand. And Anna's are... Everything is miniature. Everything is miniature. Just joking. Why don't you talk about your first Super Producer Anna Hosnia? Speaking of miniature, my first favorite thing, if you will, is the world's

smallest vacuum. It's a hand vac that's really tiny. It's about the size of your hand, but it's perfect for picking up those little crumbs when you don't want to pull out that giant hand vac you have. Yeah. What makes us better than a regular sized hand vac, which is also a smaller vacuum? Because I use it to vacuum the crumbs off my laptop. Right. But why can't I just use my regular sized hand vac for that? Because then you have to go get a giant hand vac. I know I keep saying giant, but once you use this- Hold on, what's your regular hand vac look like?

This basically starts from the presumption that other hand vacs are giant. Well, once you use this tiny one that's very convenient and you can take it everywhere with you and clean up after yourself, you'll realize all these hand vacs are actually monstrosities. It does look like one of the hand vac, like a hand vac that's been put in a shrink machine. Yeah, like you microwave it and turn it into a keychain. Yeah. Oh, boy. I'm curious, Anna, what is your day-to-day

hand vac, exactly? Is it just a shop vac? Oh, no. I mean, I have, I think I have like a dirt devil and I have one of those. I'm just making sure. The way you talk about it, I was picturing something so cumbersome. I have two. One for animal hair and one for-

Human hair? Human remains. Human remains, yes. One for animal hair, one for human remains, one for food. Basically, I have them for cat litter because my cats are monsters. Oh, yeah. See, that's why you need one of those little mats that you put in front of the litter box. I have that.

But for some reason, these mother- And the worst part is the litter box entrances are all faced towards the wall. And yet they somehow can get the litter from across the room. Yep. I hear that. I don't care about any of this as a non-cat owner.

Kids are like cats from what I understand. But only the youngest one goes in a litter box. True. But you can give your child a tiny hand vac and they'll just think it's so fun and they'll clean up everywhere. Oh, no, they do. Yeah. Ramsey loves vacuums.

Okay. Well, there you go. Give him a small one. He'll be like, perfect. They made one for me. Actually, this leads into my first pick kind of perfectly because mine is the opposite of a vacuum. It's a corded leaf blower.

Oh. Specifically the Toro PowerJet F700 140 MPH. This bad boy comes in at a cheap $57, which is half what other leaf blowers cost. Gas leaf blowers are illegal in LA. So I got a plug in one and it's surprisingly powerful. And kids, kids really, my son really digs it. Are you doing a lot of, we're both confused. What?

Do you do a lot of yard work or something? Yeah. What's it for? Is that how you clean up your kids' toys with a leaf blower? Yeah. You can clear the dishes Is that how you clean up your kids' toys with a leaf blower? Yeah. You can clear the dishes at the end of a meal. Just works for everything. Your home is, that's why you need a tiny vac.

If you have a driveway or like any paved area, it's great to just clear that shit off. It's good for if you have a lot of if you have leaves that fall anywhere like on your property it's good to just like get them off and you it looks a lot better yeah it looks a lot better and it starts looking a little pristine may i ask why cordless ones are illegal in la uh gas powered gas powered ones yeah why i don't know because it's bad for the environment probably bad for the environment also like up in people's faces with exhaust fumes uh yeah yeah i don't i don't know. Because it's bad for the environment? Probably bad for the environment. Also, like, up in people's faces with exhaust fumes. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. That is, that looks, yeah, that's it. That's the one. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. By the way, guys, we're putting all these items in the footnotes. Footnotes? So you can spend all, you can buy your son that leaf blower he's always wanted for Christmas.

I mean, so my son is so into the leaf blower action that he walks around pretending that other things are leaf blowers. That's what he does. Like for playtime, which is, you know. Why not? Why not? Get him started on a new career idea. Miles, how about you? What's your first pick that involves sucking and blowing?

Mine is called the suck blow. All right. And what it is, it's actually called kabetsukun, and it's a Japanese device that I like to cut cabbage with to make it razor thin. I love eating cabbage. See, these are things you're going to – this is why you tune into these episodes. I eat a lot – I like cabbage.

And I like to cut it very thin, kind of like if you go to a Japanese tonkatsu restaurant. Like cabbage is like a very traditional side for tonkatsu, for fried pork cutlet, for those who are uninitiated. And it's a very – I just just it's like how i get a lot of my vegetables i just love cabbage and this cuts is so thin you put it on top and you sort of swirl it around like a shaved ice machine but the cabbage comes out like an angel's hair an angel's armpit hair is so feathery and light right but it smells like cabbage but it smells i don't know i guess raw cabbage doesn't really smell. It's more the cooked cabbage.

Yeah, I mean, I think it all depends. Oh, I think you can soak it a little bit to get a little bit of that smell out. But for me, I love it, baby. And this is a very, like, look, I know it's a device that is mostly sold in Japan. You can sometimes find them on Amazon, but they also have different. that is mostly sold in Japan. You can sometimes find them on Amazon, but they also have different... So if you want this style, right,

you can find like Japanese style vegetable peelers or a mandolin, really. For anybody who just has just general cooking items in their kitchen, the mandolin is how you get those very razor thin cuts of like vegetables and things like that. The mandolin is... Not an instrument from medieval times.

Okay. I don't know if it goes that far back, but it's like that the mandolin is not an instrument from medieval times okay uh i don't know if it goes that far back but it's like that huge it looks like a washboard that has a blade on it so you just go like you just run it down and it's just a lot of people injure themselves on there because you get too casual with it the the shit will cut you that's also good you can also get a cabbage slicer i also have one of those anna keeps showing me things on Amazon. But yeah, I think that's just one of the things, because I really like, if you see my Instagram from time to time, I'm cooking every now and then. But that's a simple dish, man. You just want to get your vegetables in, you know what I mean? Get you some thin cabbage. Very on brand for me.

Anna, what's your next item? You know, thanks for asking, Jack. I'm going to pretend I'm on. What's that? QVC? QVC. QVC. Yeah.

You know, this is something I bought a while back and then ended up buying for my father. I started recommending it to everyone. It's those acupressure mat and pillow set. It basically is a mat that's like covered in spikes and a pillow that's covered in spikes. It's wild. It really hurts if you accidentally step on it. But if you lay down, either shirtless, whatever, if you're a woman, sports bra, whatever, shirtless, live your life, it helps just release a lot of pressure and you start to immediately relax

if you lay on it for 10 minutes. It's like a pin cushion? Yeah. It's the most comfortable thing. I have one. I just lay on it when I'm stressed out or I have a lot of tension in my back. What is that? What are all those circles?

They're little spikes to like, you know, it just hits pressure points. Oh, that's like the nail bed I sleep on. Sure, yeah. But it's like acupressure. So it hits certain points in your body to kind of like release like eases tension just gives you make it's it works so well that like within 10 minutes of laying on it you don't feel the spikes and you're i mean you feel them but like it doesn't hurt and you're like very relaxed like you could sleep on it it hurts to step on well yeah if you're casually just walking

through the house and you have it left out i don't recommend just stepping on it because it hurts like a motherfucker okay but if you lay on it with your back yes there's a few minutes of hurt if you're casually just walking through the house and you have it left out, I don't recommend just stepping on it because it hurts like a motherfucker. Okay. But if you lay on it with your back, yes, there's a few minutes of hurt. If you can't handle the hurt, wear a t-shirt. Can't handle the hurt? Put on a shirt. But then if you lay on it, it's, yeah, it's really nice.

And it's like you don't have to pay for acupuncture. You can just lay on it. Just roll out your mat? Yeah. And the pillow is good that you can actually put it on. You put your feet on it if you're having some tension when you get that muscle spasm in your foot. It really helps.

Just release. It's just nice. Let me tell you guys. I lay on it. I feel good. I guess we know your secret. Yeah, and I got one from my dad and he loves it. It's really nice.

Nice. I mean, you and your dad seem like very different people, so if you guys are both feeling it. But we both have back pain. Yeah. All right, for my second pick, I'm going with the DeWalt 12-amp corded electric leaf blower. What?

How many leaf blowers do you have? all my picks are corded leaf blowers i know my shit's so old uh so my second pick is brooder toy trucks for what's up for the kiddies zapruder toy trucks zapruder brand what's a brooder toy truck uh. Zapruder toy trucks? Zapruder brand. What's a Zapruder toy truck? It's just like toy trucks, like Tonka trucks and shit like that. But Bruder actually, you can get replacement parts. You can order away for replacement parts. For a toy?

Yeah, for a toy. Do they ride around on it? No, no. It's just like it's got moving parts. Oh, shit. So my son has an excavator, which is one of those big scooper things. Oh, yeah. Like these? Yeah, exactly.

Those are cool. You can order parts? The crane truck, yeah. That's tight. The crane truck, I've ordered a replacement part and fixed it. And they're very simple machines, but you feel like you're fixing something when you when you order the replacement it's funny to imagine you being like yeah i gotta go work on the car in the yard or in the garage and you're just working all right let me get underneath this thing real quick gotta change the oil wear

an old white t-shirt roll up the sleeves with a pack of marlboro resinin. Yeah. Do you, uh, a kid passed the wrench. It's one of those toy wrenches. He's like, God damn it. Like what happened? I mean, so kids are like, at least my son is really into construction sites. Like we'll go to construction sites and just like watch trucks work because it's just like,

and it is actually like, once you kind of view it through a kid's eyes like it's really dope like just watching the machines work and also it gives you a little appreciation of like all the work that i take for granted usually that goes into like buildings that are all around us um yeah i think my brother lucked out because my dad's a civil engineer so we got to go to work sites all the time and like hang out on the actual trucks and stuff and

I was always fucking around with my Tamagotchi I didn't really care as much but like I would you know my brother got to like ride around in them and then we got to be like the first people to walk on bridges as they were built because my dad is careless but he'd be like come on let's just go walk on it he's like using you guys as testers.

He's like, but we haven't tested it yet. What do you think they're doing? Oh my God. But it was cool. It's a cool thing to grow up with as like for a boy to be like, my dad will just take me to work and I can like hang out on trucks.

All right. Anyways, Bruder Toy Trucks and taking your kids to construction sites for free. Both things that I like. They're on my list of favorite things. Miles, what's your second pick? Well, since you were talking about leaf blowers, I'm talking about how I'd be blowing on these leaves. Quite literally.

Shit. Wait, do you just blow on the weed when you smoke it? Yeah, get super high like that. Nah, inhaling's for narcs, dude. I was doing it wrong. So I smoked a lot of bonds in my day. How do I put this? How do I put this my way?

I love to smoke bonds. But smoking tobacco with the wacko tobacco, not really good for your lungs. Wacko tobacco. So I've been slowly, I've been getting off the dutches and backwoods and swishers and I've been doing more hemp wraps which is a very healthy alternative because it's not tobacco

and they have CBD in them. I don't really know if that really matters because you're puffing on high levels of THC. But there's one brand called High Hemp ones that I really like because they roll the same. High Hemp. Yeah.

Then off to work we bimp. Where it has the same look and feel of the blunt without the guilt and the health risks of smoking so much tobacco. And yeah, it's been, you know, I don't know. So it's like organic blunt wraps? Yeah, they're organic. They're made out of hemp leaf. So it's like pretty much the best thing you can do if you don't like smoking joints or whatever. Cause I, you know, I'm, I'm look, I'm not against joints, but I prefer blunts usually.

And this helps me maintain my feeling of being in like, you know, a mid nineties golden era, New York rap video. Right. And still, still, New York rap video. Right. And still, still, still keep my, my health. So is it the tobacco that is bad for you? Like the. It's what they say, man. They're trying to, people are trying to malign the tobacco, man. Right.

But I had always heard from my friends who work in the tobacco industry that it's the smoke that is bad for you and not the fact that it's tobacco. Well, I mean, for the amount of people who smoke weed and the lack of real hard lines of it being super carcinogenic. Yeah, that's true. There's something just about tobacco that's just inherently worse for your respiratory system. I wonder if there's anybody who's addicted to nicotine, but the only way they get it is through blunt reps. Just smoking a blunt rep? Just smoking blunt. That's a sad way. I have a bit of a... Oh, like you inadvertently become

addicted to nicotine because of smoking blunts? You're addicted to blunts because of the nicotine. I have friends who started smoking cigarettes because we smoked a lot of blunts. Oh, really? I have a thing where I don't smoke cigarettes, but I put tobacco in my joints. I make spliffs all the time and it always makes me think like- You're so European, don't you know?

Yeah, totally. But I also think I'm like, I'm kind of low key addicted to cigarettes in an indirect way by like continually putting tobacco in my spliffs. And I don't really like to smoke just plain joints, which is- Why? Too intense? It's the addict in me, man. Is it too intense? No, I just think it's just so packed. You know, it's like... What?

Loosen it up. What do you mean? I just like how... The texture? I like how tobacco in joints smokes better. I think it just smokes better. That's a personal preference. Like, I just...

This is how I've always been. I'm so European. Mm-hmm. But I don't know. I don't know. Okay. All right. I guess you're just so re-European. I'm so European, but I don't know. I don't know. Okay. All right. I guess you're just so re-European.

I'm just so re-European. The first time I was like, someone gave me like a rolly that had like passion and stuff or like mixed, you know, 50-50 blended joint. I was like, why? I'm like, do you not have enough weed? And they're like, no, it's just like less intense. And I'm like, I'm here for the intensity. I don't know if it's less intense. Just that it's just like less intense and i'm like i'm here for the intensity so i don't know if it's less intense just a it's a slightly different high well yeah that with a

nicotine will definitely get your head light a buzzing yeah as i know i don't pack in lippers i don't like and when i have been to europe where people like roll a cigarette and sprinkle some weed in it it's like what are you even doing here yeah right that ain't doing nothing that's stupid we just like to have sorry Sorry to all our European friends. Being an edgelord. Have four or five cigarettes. Four or five cigarettes. Two or three bottles of wine. Who's this European Jack O'Ryan?

Get some sausages. It's that Nick Kroll character from Kroll's show. Alright, before we get to Anna's next favorite thing, Miles, I want to talk to you about ExpressVPN. Hey, Miles. It's me, Jack, from work.

What? Jack? Me, over here. Hey. Hi. So I don't know if I told you this, but recently over 100 million people had their personal information stolen in a mage data breach. Yeah, we talked about this. You're talking about Capital One? Yes. I'm pretty sure I was affected. There is a good chance you were. Well, yeah, 100 million people. Hopefully,

I make the cut. And I did. And I think that's one of the reasons why you have to be really careful about your data and having all of your sensitive information protected. And it's not that hackers just go after companies like Capital One or these other places. They will also come after you, the little guy. They might hop on your Wi-Fi. They might be trying to get you through a hotel lobby Wi-Fi network. That is why I use VPNs. And that's actually why I use ExpressVPN. They'll come for you anywhere, bro. They don't care. Well, you can make like $1,000 from selling someone's information on the dark web. Yeah.

So that's why, obviously, big celebrities like you and I, with these net worths that are like, whoa. The people are actually Googling on networth.com. Yes. When you search my net worth on Google, it says, who? But you can get, look, that's why you also have to protect yourself because they go after everybody. Yes. And you guys, you can use my special link, my special little link expressvpn.com slash TDZ right now to arm yourself with an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free. Support the show and keep your information safe. That's expressvpn.com

tdz for an extra three months free. And now it's time to bring Anna back in to tell us what her next most favoritest thing is this holiday season. Now, guys, this is going to blow

everyone away, but it's a Lodge silicon hot handle holder for your, that's right, you guessed it, cast iron. What? No. It's one of those silicon holders for your- Look, is it for your butter, isn't it? It's for your cast iron because your cast iron gets hot. Oh, to put on the handle?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you just put on the handle. Wow. So you don't have to continuously be grabbing a mitt to pick it up because it's impossible to clean or use. It's honestly, why are we even using cast irons? They're so hard to fucking deal with. It's like, don't wash this.

But surely that won't fit on the handle of my cast iron stove, pan. What do you mean? Does it fit on the end of all? Yeah. Okay. I was just teeing you up for that. Yeah, saying it's adaptable.

You cannot be on QVC with this. Come on, man. It's like improv, baby. You got a yes and. Yes and it's great. Yes and you're wrong. Surely. It's wonderful.

Are you cooking a lot of cast iron? We have multiple cast irons in my home um i try not to use them because i hate cleaning them they're so hard to clean so uh my partner zakari uh he cleans them all the time and yeah so he most i mostly make him cooking it while i watch over his shoulder the plural of cast iron is casts iron, not cast irons. Wait, really? No. Damn it. I was about to punch you. What else is there?

I got my next is a children's book author. Mo Willems. The plural of Mo Willem. Mo Willems. I know Mo. You know Mo? You're a fan? no mo the most people yeah hey uh so he's got this series of books called uh elephant and piggy books uh to it's an

about an elephant and a pig who are friends uh who just have conversations with one another and i don't know they're like meta they're really smart like one of them is called we are in a book where the two characters freak out about the fact that they're in a book and can make the and plead with the child to set the reader say whatever they want they well they do have

like an existential crisis when they realize the book is coming to an end but oh then they realize that they can just ask you to read it over again they're like please if you're reading this save us or we'll die you sick fuck you're just gonna let us fucking die in this book oh you've read it yeah oh wow yeah i know mo gave him the idea we were smoking weed together uh but he's pretty uh you know he's got all sorts of skills because those aren't the only like those books he's got he's got those books he's got all sorts of skills because those aren't the only like those books

he's got those books he's got these don't let the pigeon books pigeon presents who's the mystery reader that's right love that one I'm invited to a party that's one of them or time to pee

who could forget that one and who can forget such greats as Time to Pee. And Let's Go for a Drive. These are great. I read these. And Waiting is Not Easy. Or even in Bilingue, Estas Lista para Jugar Afuera?

That's tight. Great one. Yes. So yeah, that's one. Is there a reason why, I'm sure you've seen many children's books is it because it's even for you you're kind of like hey this guy's shout out to everyone like dr seuss and you know really changed the game like in the 60s because like say that again some of the books from like back in the day that were like classics and when my parents were kids are just complete hot garbage. There's one called Pet the Cat, and it's just a cat,

and it's like, pet the cat. Help Susie change the drapes. It's like C-Spot Run type shit, basically. Huh. And with Dr. Seuss, they started bringing artistry to it, and now there's just all sorts of really great children's books authors. You got another book called Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed The Rock Experience. Hell yeah.

I like the one about the bird. It's a vinyl album? The Bird on Your Head. Oh, I love Bird on Your Head or The Pigeon Needs a Bath Book. Yeah. Man, I remember bath books. And your kids like these. Oh yeah. They're like, hell yeah, dad, read them up. And your kids think this is good. There's also Nuffle Bunny. Oh, what. They're like, hell yeah, dad. Read them up. And your kids think this is good. There's also Nuffle Bunny, which is good.

Oh, what's that? That's one where this kid basically has a stuffed animal that he brings into school, but then forgets it there. Oh, God. You hate to see it. You do. You hate to see it. You really hate to see it.

God. The pigeon stuff is really hot right now. There's just these people who have an innate sense of what's going to appeal to children. With Disney, I'm like, yeah, I get it. That stuff is fun and mysterious and entertaining. But this book, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, where the pigeon's like, hey, can I drive the bus? Right. And the kid's like, no.

And the pigeon just tries to convince The kid to let him drive the bus Is the kid driving the bus? No the kid is just put in charge of driving the bus By the bus driver And the bus driver is an adult And he's like hey will you watch this bus for me For a second I have to go do something

And the pigeon pops in and is like Hey can I drive the bus? It's interesting that in popular culture We've decided that pigeons are dirtbags. Yeah. Because they are. Like we don't trust a pigeon. Like we're like aw, pigeons, those are rats with wings. Let me tell you, this is

the best thing that's happened to pigeons since Mike Tyson. Is it? Yeah. Now Kith. He's a really lovable kid. But like kids just see this character and they're like the pigeon. They like freak out.

That and the minions are like, the minions really are just like hacked into some part of a children's brain that like is. I think because their shapes are easy to understand. It's like. Right. And I bet you can draw a minion real easy as a kid. But yeah,

I think I talked on the show about how we were, like, scrolling past that Despicable Me movie, and my son, who had never seen a minion before, was like, I want the yellow guys. Like, show me the yellow guys. And just has ever since been obsessed with the minions, but he calls them the yellow guys. I have two things about minions.

One, I believe Ian Abramson, a while back, tweeted that they're just a metaphor for the pharmaceutical pill industry. And then two, I know someone who knows the guy who create like the animator who designed the minions. And they told me that he's very minion-esque. Like he acts like a minion. Like it's somewhat based off his own weird my one-year-old over the top behavior doesn't and so this adult must act like a one-year-old yeah like he's got he's very he doesn't speak english he's always like running into himself yeah always runs into walls

he's got these great ideas though miles what's your next pick uh it's a video game oh shit and i've been playing a lot of games this year from fifa to division two shout out to all y'all who was playing with me on there i was playing ghost recon breakpoint which is such a massive letdown but i'm loyal to the franchise so i slogged through it but this game was such a good refreshing game to play after that and it is a star wars game because i also love star wars and it's star wars jedi fallen order now you say what the fuck is that and why should i care well what is it it's a video game where you're a jedi why should you care i don't know if you don't like star wars or video games you might want to just skip this part however the thing that's really great about it it's like this game where you're a Jedi and right now the Jedis are gone

and we're trying to rebuild the Jedi, the Jedi Council and this dude who's like working in a scrapyard is low-key a Jedi, but he's not, he's trying to keep it on the low because the Empire is trying to get rid of everybody who's like force sensitive.

And then he starts coming back into, he starts remembering all his powers and shit and you're just fucking it up with a lightsaber basically. However, like there were past games that like with the character star killer that EA had where you could just like button mash and you would just like wipe out everybody.

Like nothing could mess with you because you're very powerful. This game forces you to be a little more patient as you play forces. Thank you so much. You caught up. You caught that one. Like normally in a game like this if you've played like arkham asylum or like the mordor middle earth game that they had that lord of the rings slasher game like you could just hit block or something while people were

attacking you and it would instantly block and you could just get right through it this you really have to actually think like you're fighting someone with a sword and time things and it kind of re-inspired that feeling of a challenge of a video game like i remember when you play like mario or something right you could always like you'd always get to a point in the game where it's like i just can't get past this fucking thing and you realize through repeated trial and error how you like actually navigate it right whereas now like games are a little bit easier unless you're playing them in a super hard setting where this one like I respect the mechanics of it.

And it got me. I wasn't like rage quitting. I was getting upset that the game was hard, but it's still it was like, you know, caused a bit of a flow state where I was sort of like, no, like it's just enough of a challenge where I know I can get through it. And I do. And it feels great. Combine that with the high hemp blunt wrap. I mean, the cabbage salad. You got yourself a saturday

going it's why i've been stuck on paper mario on nintendo for 19 years oh no oh boy what are you better at video games while high i don't know if there's really any way to test that i mean the only time i really play against other human beings i am high right so i really wouldn't know so the only way to test that would be to play video games not high and you're just not interested in doing that? Yeah. No, I am. They just kind of go together.

You know what I mean? Right. As I completely melt time away. But, I mean, ask people who play me against FIFA. You know what I mean? You might get me once and then something happens inside me and then I beat you five straight times and then you don't want to play anymore. The force.

Thank you. The force was awakened within me. Anna, what is your next? Thank you so much for asking, Jack. My next item is the Good Grips 3-in-1 Avocado Slicer. Oh, I thought this was another handle

thing. No? Okay. So this is, so we already have something for slicing cabbage, but now we're going to be cutting up some cado. Yes, this is a three-in-one. Some avocado. Some free shavacado. What is shavacado? It's that vine

where the woman's reading a Del Taco sign. It says fresh avocado, but like the spacing's all weird. It's like free shavacado? So with this three-in-one, you can split it. There's like a knife feature. You can slice. Quit it?

Yeah, you can quit it. And then you can, there's a little hole where you can put it, like with grips where you can pull the pit out. And then it has like the little, like a jail-looking sort of situation where you can scoop it out while making like the easy slice. Jail looking. Oh, you mean because it's like vertical.

There's bars. Okay. I let you, you got your head in the criminal justice game. Yeah. It's three in one. It's really, I have one at home.

I use it all the time. It looks, it looks like a thing. You'd show a baby boomer. Yeah. And you go, what is this? Right.

Of course you kids are. Yeah. And we go, what is this? Right. Of course, you kids. Yeah, of course. An avocado cutter. Of course. Wait, does the top blade, that's the actual, that's a blade? Yeah. I mean, it's not super, super sharp, but it can do the job of cutting through an avocado. But you kind of need a, the best way I feel like is when you have a really sharp knife

to cut an avocado in half because it just goes straight through that rind, that skin. Oh, that's what you do? You cut through the. No, I know you eat the peel off with your teeth first oh yeah no that well most people look to each their own right you're not supposed to eat the skin i don't personally no i don't eat the skin huh are you supposed to what about the pit i don't eat the pit oh but i do you must leave the pit in to keep the color nice. To keep it fresh. So if you're only eating half your avo, don't get rid of that pit. Oh, really?

Even guacamole. If you throw the pit in on the cover, it helps it. It's key. That could be a total urban legend, but I always do that. Same. Cool. Urban legend. The rest of mine are pretty blowing up balloons and not tying the ends. Just letting them go all over the room.

That's fun. That's one of your favorite things. That's just a thing you like to do? That's the thing I like to do with my kids. I have a feeling that was number one and you got all self-conscious because you were saying actual things. You're like, ah, there's a leaf blower. Now, is there a type of balloon you like to do that with? No, just any balloons.

Okay. It's just a blast, a free way to pass an hour with your kids. Are you finding yourself enjoying it because your kids enjoy it, or you are recapturing your childhood and go, man, this is kind of tight, actually. I blow up the balloon, I let it go, and you don't know where it's going. Yeah, just like you start empathizing with your kids, so you're having fun because they're having fun. Yeah. And, yeah, you yeah you just don't know where it's gonna be so you're trying to catch it before

it hits the ground that's a little game we played um hell yeah it's oh catch it before it hits the ground yeah that's a classic yeah um even as an adult i will get dangerously into that like i will break my head open so that balloon does not touch that ground but it's truly unpredictable the path the balloon will take and it's like a little game of uh russian roulette which i've also played with my kids and uh they don't like it as much uh scary for them yeah yeah um like deer hunter style you mean also kids are into like physical media like there's a my kid has a cd player that he's like really into like loves playing is it your own cds player or player that he's like really into, like loves playing CDs on it.

Is it your old CDs player? Or it's, I think it's like my mother-in-law's old CD player. Oh, but it's like one of those things where like a kid, I remember I used to like this one old, my dad had this weird thing where internationally you could put, this is the weirdest thing. It was like a tone dialer. So you would put it to the microphone part of a receiver and you could pound,

like, so you didn't have to touch the keyboard or something. You could press the numbers because the sound of each phone number is good enough to like program whatever phone number you're trying to call. Look, I'm not a telecommunications expert, but this was just a stupid toy I would put on. I would dial the phone with that on it.

Oh, wow. And I would call my friends. So rather than dialing on the keypad, this little dialer you put to the mic part and go, you know, 81850862. Right. Whatever it was. Yeah. And that was just a stupid adult toy that I was like, this is the coolest thing ever. So cool.

Is he listening to CDs on there? Yeah, he's listening to CDs. What CDs you got? Some Korean music. Some G-Dragon. He's listening to some Beat Bud buds oh hell yeah listen uh the chronic he's listening to onyx yeah did you get him a lubega cd yet no not yet oh that was my favorite as a kid oh you know he would love his immortal technique oh no dance with the devil yeah okay

yeah i'm not familiar with this guy but i mean if, if he's as good as you say, if it's what you say it is, then I love it. Especially in November. Maybe some Celine Dion. I'm just going over all the CDs I had as a child. Maybe the Baz Luhrmann Romeo and Juliet soundtrack. Maybe the Soul Food soundtrack. He's got a pretty good playlist, though, that we've compiled.

I had a great Radio Disney mix that was all Mickey and Minnie singing, covering songs. Yeah. It was insane. Shout out to They Might Be Giants, who are still making music for Disney. Really? Yeah, they make children's music now. I mean, that's the wave. You think of how many people just pivot to that, and they're like, it's actually the biggest check I've ever got.

And it's also like when you listen back to their old music, were always making children's music yeah it was a triangle man yeah triangle man triangle man and then like a little birdhouse in your soul is like a song about a little blue plug-in light-up bird no pretty silly uh miles yes what's your next my next where am I on this list? Oh, uh, this is for all the sneaker heads out there. Oh, this is just, it's a thing I've been using very frequently this year. Uh, because I, I like my shoes to stay as clean as possible. Um, I already talk about how I used the Jason Mark cleaner, uh, for my sneakers and has

have everybody in this office using it now. And many listeners shout out to y'all. I'm still waiting for, uh, some kind of free something, Jason Mark cleaner for my sneakers and have everybody in this office using it now and many listeners. Shout out to y'all. I'm still waiting for some kind of free something, Jason Mark. But there's another product that he makes called Repel. Okay, and what you do with this, it's a stain repellent and like water repellent. When you get your shoes new,

I know you want to wear them right away or some of you don't, but I hit him with the Repel. You coat them once let it cure for 24 hours coat them again let it cure for another 24 hours if you want to do a third time you get that cure right your shoes are basically scotch guarded just and stomp around and shit oh yeah doesn't matter stomp around and shit medical waste motor oil it doesn't matter but like no but it's like a really good product.

You know, I just, I stand by it because it makes, it gives you just a little bit more protection for your sneakers. Because especially in this day and age, we want our kicks to look crispy. Okay? That's not my fault. Can I borrow that for this evening? Can you borrow it for this evening? What do you mean?

Well, I have a pair of shoes coming. Miles has been like lending this shit out. It's pretty much out at this point. Like it's a car. I used it twice. Sophie used it. The first person to ever buy it. Someone else uses it. Yeah lending this shit out. It's pretty much out at this point. Like it's a car. I used it twice. Sophie used it. The first person to ever buy it. Someone else uses it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like $20, right? How much is it? Yeah, what does it matter? What do you put in on that though? Right. It's $17. It's $17, so we should just buy our own.

Because my instinct was to ask you to borrow it too. Borrow it. I don't care. Shit's almost done anyway. And plus, you know- Well, I get to borrow it first. Okay. it. I don't care. Shit's almost done anyway. And plus, you know. Well, I get to borrow it first. Okay. Well, I'll decide.

And first I'll see, I'll determine who gets to borrow my bottle of Repel through a series of tests of strength. Wait, should we fight Club Fort? Yeah, but in my own way. Because now I'm in control. You seem weak today, Jack. Today? Today.

Yeah. Who can build the most, who can fold the nicest paper airplane that goes the furthest that's how we'll test it with Jack's shaky hands but he's got kids you gotta teach them kids yeah but I understand aerodynamics both my parents are engineers well hey okay we'll put it on the line then

Jack just sarcastically rolled his eyes and wobbled his head like oh cool guy I just fill up balloons and let him go. I'm sorry. That's pretty fun. I like the unpredictability of physics. I'll try and control it like you're

an engineer nerd parent. It's all about chaos theory, man. That's what that balloon is. That's right, bro. You guys have others? I have one more that I don't own it, but boy, do I look at it every other day. Um, it is the, uh, pop up hot dog toaster. I don't know what the fuck, I don't know how I found this, but basically it's a toaster to toast the hot dog and the buns together.

So you don't have to like cook them in water or however you cook them on a skillet so you just put them in the toaster turn up the heat you know put it down or push it down i know how toasters work and then and then you just frankfurter you just i mean it's it's very much what you are picturing in your mind it's so truly absurd it's been on my wit my amazon wish list for a very long time. But it looks, it's got that look of like a retro refrigerator, like a retro appliance. I think that's probably one of the things that makes it

appealing. Like, he feels like, yeah, remember when you used to eat a couple hot dogs? Yeah, it's who, I don't know who was like... But what kind of, what size Franks can you put in? Because it looks like it's only made for standard size, like Oscar Meyer, Ballpark, Hebrew Nationals, maybe Nathan's. Who knows?

I have yet to. What's your favorite? I mean, if you're getting a fine sausage and trying to cram it down a hot dog thing. Could you imagine? I'm like, that's how I cook my fine sausages in a weird toaster. Or I imagine you trying to cook other shit in there, like dishes that aren't meant to be in there. It's like, yeah, it's my spaghetti warmer. It caused a fire.

I personally, I was never really raised with hot dogs. So now I love them. I think they're just like the most simple American food and I love to eat them. I love to put some ketchup, mayo, relish. And it also came from my childhood obsession with hot dogs at Costco. My parents always being like, we don't need it. You don't need to get a hot dog right now. We're going to go home and eat our normal Iranian stew.

Oh, you're too good for a Tadig now? Yeah. But as a kid, you're like, come on, can I just have a hot dog? My mom said it was poison. I mean, yeah, that's what my parents were like. It's preservatives. You don't need it. Basically, that's how she described every American food.

Like why I couldn't eat it. Now I'm so fucked up in the brain, I'm looking for toasters for hot dogs. See, I love- Be careful what you say no to your shits about. Yeah. I love, like, that's why I eat tuna helper. Because my mom was like, are you from a trash planet? I'm like, maybe.

I like tuna helper. I like fucking shit. And I just, every gross food is like my thing because my parents or my mother, especially because she was, you know, trying to be as conscious as possible, but also being Japanese, like was also like,

we'll eat this Japanese food too. Right. You don't need Oscar Mayer cheese hot dogs, which I love. They're disgusting. But the cheese filled Oscar Mayer, bro, I could eat that shit. Cheddar, cheddar jalapeno, baby.

That's too fancy for me. I just like the gross cheese straight up. American cheese. Yeah, it's just like the cheese dog. I eat that shit with one fucking slice of Wonder Bread. That's my bun. Goodbye, sir. Call me Bun B. Don't gotta tell me. Honey. Miles, you have any others?

After that, fuck. I know know how are you gonna top that what the fuck i'm gonna do we clearly have a winner hot dog toaster yeah they said that there's no right or wrong favorite thing but anna clearly hit the the correct favorite thing absolutely hot dog toaster cooker i'm surprised it wasn't on Oprah's favorite things list. Seriously. Or on the goop list. Well, first of all, Gwyneth Paltrow is probably convinced that if you ate a hot dog, you would die. Like, immediately. From some kind of sodium whatever, blah, blah, blah. If you fed a

hot dog to your child, she would probably call Child Protection Service. Oh, yeah. CPS is on speed dial. Yeah, but feel free to put a stone in your vagina. Hey, that's called health and wellness, my man. But I think with Oprah, I bet she just like would eat a hot dog like very ironically. Yeah.

Like at a baseball game where she's like, look at me engaging with the poor. With the hoi polloi. She would think it was a lot of fun. With the proletariats out here. Look at me. I'm just like you. And we're all like, okay, Oprah, what are you doing? But yeah, so.

That's it. Has anyone else got anyone else? No, I'm just thinking about that cheese dog, actually. I think I might literally go buy some and completely debase myself. Your mom's ears are burning. To enrich myself. To go to my highest level of existence. The highest plane of consciousness.

Alright guys, well happy Black Friday. We won't be doing a trends this afternoon because... I'm eating cheese dogs. Miles is going to be eating cheese dogs and you just don't deserve it. And let's be real, it's not actually Black Friday we're recording this. Oopsie! It's ahead of Black Friday we're recording this. Oopsie. It's ahead of Black Friday. We're recording this on Thanksgiving.

Yeah, actually. We all came in on Thanksgiving. But yeah, hope everybody's having a lovely long weekend. Go out and buy all these things for yourself, your loved ones, us. And all the links are in the footnotes, so you have no excuse. Have a great weekend. We'll be back on Monday with more podcasts, and we'll talk to you then. Bye.

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