The Daily Zeitgeist - Wick-adiator WeekTrend 11/18: Neflix, Tyson vs. Paul, Trump, Joe Biden, Wicked, Gladiator 2, AirBnB

Episode Date: November 18, 2024

In this edition of Wickadiator WeekTrend, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Netflix's Tyson vs. Paul bout, Trump's many terrible appointees, Joe Biden's visit to the Amazon rainforest,... the box office getting 'Gl-icked' by 'Wick-adiator' this weekend, AirBnB's baffling 'Gladiator 2' tie-in and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You don't know shit about shit about this, dude. Um, did you watch the fight? The Coke T-shirt. I know, but look at this guy. Like he said, the voice of an angel. What? Yeah. of an angel what yeah this shit slopes chills dude chills that guy's got a guy's got a pocketful of GHB probably too stay the fuck away from him t-shirt and cargo shorts yep with the oakle's I think in his cargo pocket. Oh, so the
Starting point is 00:00:48 Okay, no, I didn't watch the fight cuz I it's oh, yeah, I knew we knew what it was I had it I had my own evolution because also again I don't know how many times I'm gonna fall for the this dude's about to beat Logan Paul's ass No, there's no way that was gonna happen that that trick. It's happened to me fucking seven You should have watched though because the fight before the Paul Tyson fight was Incredible, I can't remember the ladies names, but they were was that the one that ended controversially They ended controversially, but I swear to God they threw like a thousand punches each. It was so fucking wild.
Starting point is 00:01:26 It was so crazy. Just trading blows. Yeah, it was very entertaining. So to escape it, I went to go see Red One. And when it was so funny, when we were walking through the mall to the movie theater, so many dudes like would have phones out and people like, how are we doing? How are we doing? Like it was the fucking world series
Starting point is 00:01:46 Or so the last time I saw people in LA looking at other men with their phones I'd be like how we doing how we doing was the fucking world series Yeah, it's gotta be the world and I caught it happened like twice But that was still odd to see that happen twice in a mall where like one dude to another was like hey You watch it well, how we doing? What what we do how we do it how you doing and what was the assumption that they were cheering for Mike Tyson when you watch the fight the audience in the arena which was like I think 70,000 people like when they announced Paul dead-ass quiet yeah people the excitement was purely for Mike Tyson
Starting point is 00:02:22 people were really like yo yo, he's back. It's honestly genius to be to bait people with the promise of being like, and you will see this. Your dad's gonna come back home. They're gonna get their comeuppance. No, the fuck they're not, you fools. But thank you for your money. And we'll keep it moving. Hey, Bo. Hey, Matt. Can you believe we have a whole bunch of wicked episodes coming up? your money and we'll keep it moving. And of course, we're taking you inside the world of this epic movie with all the exclusive details you won't hear anywhere else. It's Wicked in a way you've never heard before. Don't miss it and be sure to go watch Wicked in theaters starting November 22nd.
Starting point is 00:03:14 Listen to Las Culturas to sound the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The 2025 iHeart Podcast Awards are coming. This is the chance to nominate your podcast for the industry's biggest award. Submit your podcast for nomination now at iHeart.com slash podcast awards. But hurry, submissions close on December 8th. Hey, you've been doing all that talking. It's time to get rewarded for it. Submit your podcast today at iHeart.com slash podcast awards.
Starting point is 00:03:46 That's iHeart.com slash podcast awards. Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro, host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets. How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello? And how would you feel if your doctor advised you to keep your life-altering medical procedure a secret from everyone? And what if your past itself was a secret and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our eleventh season of Family Secrets. Some of you have been with us since season one,
Starting point is 00:04:27 and others are just tuning in. Whatever the case, and wherever you are, thank you for being part of our Family Secrets family, where every week we explore the secrets that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves. Listen to season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:04:51 Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel de Lilla. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks. Tephany exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks everywhere on the iHeartRadio app,
Starting point is 00:05:30 Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On Thanksgiving Day 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean. He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere. Elian Gonzalez.
Starting point is 00:06:00 Elian Gonzalez. Elian Gonzalez. Elian Gonzalez. Elian Gonzalez. Elian Gonzalez. Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Piece, the Elian Gonzalez story as part of the MyCultura podcast network available on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello the internet and welcome to this week trend edition of their daily life guys. Yeah. A production of I heart radio.
Starting point is 00:06:53 Strainin' my man. My name is Jack O'Brien that over there is Miles Gray. You might know us from BlueSki where we- Yo, shout out BlueSki. Shout out everybody on BlueSki.. I'm I really feels like Twitter I'm just be like does anybody have the new FIFA like I'm just I'm using it like a fucking dorm hall Message board just throwing shit up and just yeah, whatever Great talking everybody. Oh, yeah, keep hitting me up for those discord invites
Starting point is 00:07:21 I'll get through them like I have to do it in batches But I'll make sure everybody gets a discord invite. If you want to find me, milesofgray, bluesky. Okay, we're there. Everybody go. Everybody go. And I'm Jacob1 or Jackob1. But it's spelled like a fancy European spelling of Jake.
Starting point is 00:07:38 Jacob, yeah. Yeah, like J-A-C-K-O-B, like ooh. Who's that? O-B-1, Jackob1. Oh, that's Jakob, yeah. Jakob. Anyways, this is the episode where we tell you what's trending on this Monday morning.
Starting point is 00:07:51 Also tell you what's going on with us by giving you a little overrated, underrated for us. We get to do the overrated, underrated this time. Give you a glimpse into our twisted world. Screw you, guests. No, that's not. Give us a taste of our own medicine. And Miles, let's kick it off with a little underrated.
Starting point is 00:08:10 What's something you think's underrated? All right. Wait, I'm Terry, right? He's the kicker, right? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's kick things off like Adam Vinatieri. I got it. Look, I got it. My NFL references are dated. If you haven't caught any of that, let's kick things off. Like Justin Tucker, the great one, Barkley, that Charles's
Starting point is 00:08:34 kid. Anyway, what are we doing? Underrated underrated. Oh dude, watching cheesy movies in the theater. So I saw red One fucking on opening night with her match. We went because we were like looking at what's out. I'm like, look, I'm I'm about this holiday movie life. So I'm like, let's go. She willfully accepted. We went. This was this was because I didn't want to watch the Mike Tyson fight. I was like, yeah, let's go to a movie.
Starting point is 00:09:01 I would rather watch it. And it was just it's quite an experience because in the beginning, most of the movies I'll see are like our rate, like adult movies or whatever. And it's usually not on opening night. So it was interesting to go to like a movie that's somewhat kid focused, even though it's like not like a PG PG kind of movie, I think it's PG 13. Um, and there's this moment during the trailers, they played some violent ass fucking trailer for this new Marvel movie like Craven or the killer or some shit. Craven the Hunter.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Yeah, yeah. It's just like stabbing a guy in the throat a bunch in the trailer and it's like a wild ass Marvel trailer. Then as soon as it ended, this little boy behind us was sobbing and was like, why does everything have to be so scary? My heartless inner teenager laughed at his ass cuz I was like motherfucker we in the movies, bro Okay, that wasn't even a red man trailer. Then I snapped back to reality I remembered I was also the parent of a young child and I was like, yeah, why the fuck is this shit all scary, man? They got kids in here. Yeah, they don't need to see all this even though that age to and I was like, yeah, why the fuck is this shit all scary, man? They got kids in here. Yeah. They don't need to see all this. Even though that age to where I'm like, why did you all do this?
Starting point is 00:10:11 Why did you put it there? We just watched Apollo 13 last night. It's not what it's way older than I remember it being, I guess, because I only watched it when it first come out, but it that shit is old. Tom Hanks is a young man. And it opens with Kevin Bacon, who's a real, uh, his character type. I would describe as poon hound. And it opens with him doing, talking to a woman and like being like, here's a
Starting point is 00:10:42 bottle and like pretend this bottle is going into your cavity and it goes in and glides in there so nice and smooth and it feels so good. And it's like, my wife was like, what the fuck man? But it's PG. It was just, you know, it's like, I don't like have a little double and Tondra up top, but like that's that's not even double. I mean, when you're putting a bottle into a pie ball glass.
Starting point is 00:11:11 Yeah, we know. Yeah. Then the best part, though, there was this woman sitting in the front row. And mind you, the theater wasn't like fully packed. So like you there was no need to sit in the front row at all. Like this was a conscious decision by this person to sit there she laughed at damn near everything that was target audience bullseye there was this one where like Krampus came out and she's like oh and then there was another part
Starting point is 00:11:42 where like these snowmen came out like to fight body and she was like a full body to the side. She was odd and we go, a snowman? Rolling, having to turn sideways in your seat full body laughter is such a great... No, it was and so and it was wild too because like in the beginning I was like this shit is annoying. Like you are you high? Like that wasn't even a joke. Like there were things that weren't even there were like transitional sentences. And she'd be like, oh, and I was like, this is fucking weird. Then it was funny because I was like, I was starting to predict when she would laugh and I would like nudge her majesty next time.
Starting point is 00:12:17 Like, here it comes, here it comes. I'm going to laugh at this. And it became a game then endearing because it was clear this person was just getting the biggest kick out of the movie. And in a way it like being around whether it was the child who thought the trailer was too scary or the woman loving every line of the front row, it like brought me kind of back to earth in this way that was very underrated that I did not expect. And also I didn't have to watch the Tyson fight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, yeah. But in that context, we're like, you're forced to be around people being themselves
Starting point is 00:12:47 in like a very honest way and just kind of be like, yeah, yeah, cool. All right, all right. Yeah, I know some people that did that during the election results. They just like went to a movie and that like, I wish I had done something like that. Cause a lot of pain, slow, dawning, ice cold
Starting point is 00:13:05 realizations that, um, yeah, I just made it. I made a, I made a doll of a Seltzer out of a bunch of hair I found in the bathtub. Yeah. Um, great advice. Uh, all right. My underrated Mexico, uh, pronounced by some as Mexico. Okay.
Starting point is 00:13:26 So first of all, just for my whole life, ever since the George W. Bush presidency, when people talk about moving out of the US because the incoming administration is a nightmare and no shade that people are perfectly, especially right now, within their rights to be like that. I don't want to get the fuck out of here. Um, the move has always been Canada and why we should, we should look at Canada. Um, what's because it's white.
Starting point is 00:13:56 Mexico speak English. Yeah. Yeah. But Mexico seems like, first of all, it just seems better based on everything that I've heard. Um, we, we have somebody who works on this show, who has moved to Mexico. Um, Brian, the editor and it's me telling us this for a long time that it's a lovely place. Uh, but not that you should move there. You shouldn't move there. Right? Only some people should move to Mexico because it is an adjustment.
Starting point is 00:14:27 It is a different place culturally. And you have to come correct or you're gonna have problems. Check with Brian first. Yeah, ask Brian before, yeah. Yeah, check out my WordPress and my other thing that people blog with and all the stuff.
Starting point is 00:14:45 But yours, it's not merely the living bear part. Just kind of in its totality because I know that... Guess who has a woman as president right now? Guess who? Just brands basically... It's me! So yeah, like the post-election conversations about neoliberalism being at a dead end and also the argument that like actually Kamala did pretty well like compared to how incumbent
Starting point is 00:15:13 parties everywhere else in Western countries like got cleaned out after. There is a one word answer to both of those and it is Mexico. The incumbent party just won a landslide in June by running a campaign that was like basically just defined neoliberalism as an upward wealth redistribution method. Oh, right. Basically, this is our system right at present. Your system is neoliberalism and it just makes rich people richer it at the expense of you they they get your money is Essentially what it is and they were just very clear in their messaging. They've been in power since
Starting point is 00:15:55 2018 this party and then this was the successor coming through and And then he picked Claudia Yeah to succeed him. Yeah. And I don't know. It just it feels like this in a world where people where the mainstream media didn't have this massive pro neoliberalism bias.
Starting point is 00:16:20 This would be a massive fucking story that everybody would be talking about right now. And instead it's just like when you Google the Morena landslide victory, like the first story is the economist being like, why they're on it? Why this sends Mexico down a dangerous path? on it, why this sends Mexico down a dangerous path. Because, yeah. And like one of the details, so Chapo had like an episode about the history of this party I think last week. And one of the details that stuck out to me was just they had to do a thing that seems
Starting point is 00:17:01 like super extreme, but the president basically every single morning would have these hour long press conferences every day, and they would just be like live streamed to like answer people's questions, answer the media's questions, and just redefine like the mainstream media is corrupt, neoliberalism is corrupt, and just like give answers directly to the people. And you know, the media was corrupt, neoliberalism is corrupt, and just like give answers directly to the
Starting point is 00:17:25 people. And, you know, the media was like, this is like authoritarianism. But it worked. It like allowed them, like, that is the big thing that you run into in the US over and over again is like, any sort of economically populist messaging is going to get redefined as like unrealistic, childish, too extreme. And the way they did was just like every day, first thing in the morning, they just talked directly to the people for like hours, which is seems crazy. But this talking to Oprah account, Oprah's a people crazy. But it's talking to Oprah account. Oprah's a people.
Starting point is 00:18:10 And they, these videos have like millions of views and it's like a fucking president talking about policy and they have like millions of views. Let me tell you, Jack, that shit was very, very foreign and unnerving. Seeing that happen. It's very weird as an American to hear heads of state talk about policy and not just sling mud and do like weirdo shit and memes. Yeah, right. Right. They're definitely like not perfect.
Starting point is 00:18:36 They use a lot of like populist rhetoric to take power and the policy hasn't been as strongly environmental or feminist as a lot of people had hoped. But again, it's a massive deal that they were able to do this, that they're one of the few places that succeeded in having the incumbent party reelected after the post pandemic period of economic turmoil. And it's just getting actively ignored by the mainstream media because it's like such a fucking you know. Yeah you're not going to see like a New York Times op-ed and like what we can learn from Mexico's election. Exactly. Well it's funny because like during that election the New York Times did have an op-ed and they chose to focus on how Jewish Claudia Scheinbaum is, which is the most New York Times thing I've ever heard.
Starting point is 00:19:29 Like as a negative or just being like, this is different? No, that was their pure focus. Like, is that she's a woman and that she's Jewish. And she's Jewish in Mexico. And that was the only thing they were interested in. Right, this is talking about a candidate and it's just like, let's not focus on the policy. Let's just get so drilled down on this part of the identity that we just believe in. Like, yeah, it was all identity politics and it was very frustrating and they didn't talk
Starting point is 00:19:54 about anything else. Yeah. Yeah. Huh. But I mean, they, like all the things we've been talking about, like that the Democratic Party or, you know, a challenger party that doesn't currently exist needs to do like, villainize the people like the wealthy and the people who the establishment parties and the mainstream media like they did all that they like just had very clear, concise messaging focused on on the aspects of the existing order of things that
Starting point is 00:20:27 are causing people's lives to be difficult and just kept drilling that message over and over again. I don't think it's easy, but it does seem like it could be fairly simple. By definition, you need to keep it simple a little bit. But anyways, it's uh, I don't know Makes me somewhat hopeful that it exists. I'm not necessarily hopeful that it can exist in this country, but again There is a rich history of distrusting the government and You know those sorts of struggles so it's just sort of inbuilt
Starting point is 00:21:08 Yeah, to be more receptive to that sort of rhetoric. Yeah, totally. At the same time, they had like one party that was in power for like decades and decades. So like if it does feel like if you told people 20 years ago that this is where Mexico would be, they would probably be pretty skeptical that it could work, you know at that time. So yeah, well, I think also the way things are talked about in the US the second you talk about helping people white people go okay, well, who's paying for it? Yeah, yeah. You know, I mean, like, there's no like, oh, that's that sounds like a net benefit for society. The first fucking thing people talk about is like, well, what do I get? Or who's paying for it? And if not, then fuck all that, which which tends to slow the momentum down. But anyway, so but Brian, a black man who grew up in L.A.
Starting point is 00:21:56 like in Mexico now. Oh, yeah, it's it is. I when I walk around my neighborhood, I am constantly like, holy shit, I can't believe I'm living in a place that makes sense. Like, I'm literally just stunned. I'm like, wow, people are really people are nice. And there's stuff to do. And like, yeah, it's just it blows my mind that I don't have to feel miserable
Starting point is 00:22:29 most of the time, just living life. Well, some of us like feeling miserable all the time. So don't take that from, don't yuck my yuck. I was really struggling in America and it, you know, and I knew it was, I knew I was just having America problems. That was the thing. So as soon as I as soon as I got an opportunity to leave, which how I left was kind of funny. But I did leave and yeah, he did throw a smoke bomb down and disappear. He said he said I'm off this shit.
Starting point is 00:23:01 Yeah. But yeah, I'm glad I took I'm glad I took the chance and and and got out on Not on like some weird like oh, well, that's it like oh this guy didn't win then I'm leaving it Was just sort of slowly you became allergic to the US like I I just can't do this anymore I was like is rejecting this country. Yeah It was literally killing me but I was not doing well well so yeah fortunate position that we're all in but yeah hey underrated under under Mexico truly is underrated yeah Miles Gray what is something you think is overrated over rated look this was the the weekend of watching holiday
Starting point is 00:23:47 shit. So, you know, I fucking watch hot frosty, baby. You know, I watch that. And the thing that's a little overrated, just the the wanting to be in a relationship with someone with the mental capacity of a child trope just begins to. I forget who was on Twitter. Someone said it was kind of a perfect description. They said hot frosty is Encino man meets elf. Yeah. Um, which again, totally fish out of water.
Starting point is 00:24:15 People fall in love with one to fuck somebody with the mind of a child. Like whether they're a cave person or someone who has the, the innocence of a child, but like, yeah, it was hot frosty. First of all, fine. It was funny. Like it had its like moments. So like in terms of like holiday movies, it does its thing. I think that like, if this thing is great, I think those reviews are a little overblown, but I think comparatively when you look at like a hallmark movie, like, yeah, this shit is better than like what we see on the hallmark channel. Um,
Starting point is 00:24:44 but there's just, there's just like these times where this character like has no concept of things like even clothes. And then you're like, hold on, dude, this, this dude doesn't even know what clothes are. And we're like, we're starting to look at this dude, like maybe he's a partner, like potentially. Maybe I was like, nothing, I was like, maybe they'll do the thing. I was like, maybe they'll have to tie his shoes for him. Right. Maybe he's merely a lesson for Lacey Shea Bear and then she'll be able to move on with her life from the lessons gained from
Starting point is 00:25:11 Her like interactions with sure hot frost. No, I can dig Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but not the case So it's just interesting like as we watched it her Massey and I both like she's gonna end up with the big with the snow It's a hot frost I don't know why we thought that wouldn't be the case because obviously that's what's gonna happen. But during it, we're like, he was like looking at like, there's like a scene where he's like looking at medical records and we're like, how the fuck,
Starting point is 00:25:37 this guy doesn't even know, like he didn't even know how basic things operated. Now he's looking at medical records, trying to make sense of stuff. There's just like these little details when you add them up you're like it's kind of hard to have this. I think it's also it's hard to pull off as a script to have a character who knows nothing about anything and then has to build on that because suddenly they say things that clearly are based on like experience that don't make sense. We're like, whatever.
Starting point is 00:26:05 At the end of the day, that's where I have to suspend my disbelief. It was just a little bit. I think that tropes a little bit overrated. Yeah. I think of the original frosty song, he's alive as he could be. The children say he could laugh and play just the same as you and me, but he's also clumsy as fuck. And we see him lopping along.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Right. And he doesn't have like the abs of like a Spartan, you know? Yeah. We talked about this, I think on Friday, but it is always weird. I mean, the, uh, what fucking Emma Stone movie, poor things is basically a satire of this, but, um, yeah, it's like I was raised on this shit with big and Cino man, like, and big is like so wild. First of all, he like is trying to get older to like hook up with a girl and then he like gets older and still has the brain of a child and like starts hooking up with a
Starting point is 00:27:02 middle-aged woman. And like, when they are about to hook up, like he is like touches her like, like a child in a way that would be so intensely off putting. And they're like, yeah, she's into it. It's just because they have so much of those films are just like wish fulfillment for man child writers. You know what I mean? Yeah, like we don't. That's right. We know what I mean? Yeah, I think that's right. We don't realize that, like then we see it as a movie
Starting point is 00:27:29 and like this is telling us something about our world. Yeah, Splash is one of these movies. Mannequin, oh man, Apollo 13, the pee thing. Written before about his obsession with peeing and Apollo 13's a great example where they just like cut to a scene in the middle so like has nothing to do with anything where he peas and then they eject it out of the
Starting point is 00:27:53 Spaceship into space and like show his pee in like little beaded droplets floating through space It's clearly the work of somebody with a weird fetish about making us all experience this week. But then there's like a part later where like there's a pee bag floating around aimlessly and they just like focus on that. That guy's a real pee freak. It's wild. There's like a catheter joke where like one of the characters thinks he got sick because he used the catheter of the poon hound guy and like caught the clap from him. All the things you miss. The Little Mermaid, Brian the editor just pointed out, also a great example of this, of the
Starting point is 00:28:39 mind of a child, body of a goddess, mind of a child. Yeah, it's very, very strange that we've all just agreed with this. All right, my overrated big fancy aquariums, just like my, my assumption of like what a good aquarium is, what a good, I don't know. I went to a small aquarium in San Pedro. I took my kids camping in San Pedro this weekend and we went to this small aquarium that was in the midst of a renovation. But rather than like shutting down, they just like let us walk through the guts of like the back area where the scientists are working. Like they just like opened that up and it was wild, man. They're just like back
Starting point is 00:29:23 there like with green bubbling cauldrons, trying to like get the algae right and all this shit. They were like doing legit work. Cause the way you say that, they're like, I don't know, just fire up that Bunsen burner and that or like, you know. I bet. It was wild.
Starting point is 00:29:38 It'd be funny if they're like, just one dude just pour stuff back and forth in test tubes. Like, hey, we're at work here at the aquarium. We watched them doing an experiment where they were taking water from one aquarium with like an animal that was a predator and pouring it into the other to see how like the animals in that would respond to the like signals or you know, like what whatever pheromone signals that the predator animals give off. And then it was next to just like a giant tide pool.
Starting point is 00:30:05 I don't know. Just generally like judging a book by its cover. Like if you just like push through the like something that seems messy, you might have a you might have a good time. We camped in this campground where we were under attack by 13 raccoons the whole weekend. They were trying to get your shit. Get. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:26 Trying to get food. Like a couple of people left food in their tents and the raccoons were unafraid. Oh yeah. That terrifying feeling of an animal that you're used to when you show up, they scamper away. Yeah. Just coming towards you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:43 And they're like, what's up? What's up? What's up? Yeah. And you can feel their little hands on towards you. Yeah. And they're like, what's up? What's up? What's up? Yeah. Yeah. And you can feel their little hands on your tent. Probably. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. It's got opposable thumbs. The only way I was able to get to sleep was by convincing myself they couldn't operate zippers, which I hope they could. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:56 But yeah, my kids were freaked out. We pushed through it. We slept next to the raccoon nest and, you know, it turned out great. Now I feel like they're less afraid of raccoons than they would have been. I woke up little bites all over my body and now I'm terrified of water for some reason. But it was worth it. You look kind of foamy.
Starting point is 00:31:18 I just get that sometimes I get those like little white specks and sometimes it's all a perfect circle of them all the way around. Anyways, shout out to doing things that are uncomfortable and look weird at first. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk about some news. Hey, Bo. Hey, Matt. Can you believe we have a whole bunch of wicked episodes coming up? Oh, I can't wait to share all of these amazing episodes with the readers, ktis, publicists, and finalists. That's right.
Starting point is 00:31:56 We're talking all things behind bringing this iconic musical to the big screen. And of course, we're taking you inside the world of this epic movie with all the exclusive details you won't hear anywhere else. It's Wicked in a way you've never heard before. Don't miss it. And be sure to go watch Wicked in theaters starting November 22nd. Listen to Lost Culturistus on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The 2025 iHeart Podcast Awards are coming. This is the chance to nominate your podcast for the industry's biggest award.
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Starting point is 00:33:11 and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our eleventh season of Family Secrets. Some of you have been with us since season one and others are just tuning in. Whatever the case and wherever you are, thank you for being part of our Family Secrets family where every week we explore the secrets that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves. Listen to season 11 of Family Secrets
Starting point is 00:33:45 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean. He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere.
Starting point is 00:34:08 Elian Gonzalez. Elian, Elian. Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian. Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with.
Starting point is 00:34:19 His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home, and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home, and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well.
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Starting point is 00:35:54 We're back. And yeah, so the Tyson Paul bout happened. A lot of people watched it. Crypto scammer fighting a convicted rapist. Enjoy it you pieces of shit seems to be the thesis statement of the Netflix production. Oh, this is giving you hope. Look in the mirror.
Starting point is 00:36:12 What? But also tune in. He might win. He might win. There's some everybody so many people I had to talk so many people down from different threads like, I can't believe I'm watching this. I just need to see this happen and I was just amazed how much people were really putting into this fight. Yeah falling for it. I get it. Yeah I think a lot of people came in
Starting point is 00:36:33 hoping this would like give us some solace in the aftermath of the election like like the onion buys info wars like where Tyson beats up this like mega influencer but I feel like what we got up this like mega influencer. But I feel like what we got instead was like a surprisingly close approximation of the first debate between Biden and Trump. But we just got the message. We got the moral of the election underlined 300 more times. We're like, we knew our guy was way too old, had a feeling there'd never been someone this old doing
Starting point is 00:37:05 this sort of thing for a reason. And the second it started, we were immediately like, Oh, oh, he's old. Like he, yeah, he's wearing a knee brace. But, ah, that fucking kills me. He wore a knee brace in the ring is just, yeah, that's really, you don't want to say that. I don't like Mike's legs. I don't like Mike's legs. That for some reason, Rich Jones saying that over and over is just jammed in my brain.
Starting point is 00:37:33 But yeah, I, this is a specific like analysis too. It's like, you're not even talking about the punches. Like I don't like his legs right now. Yeah. Yeah. I kept checking in because I was on enough text threads with people who are watching it and I couldn't not but Yeah, I don't know like it did give us two great media moments Did you see the pre fight interview with his son with no Tyson's son? So Mike Tyson's son is interviewing him In his locker room before the fight and he has like a pretty straightforward
Starting point is 00:38:06 like I'm going to hurt him like it'll be glorious thing gives us on a kiss and then slowly walks away and doesn't have his shorts on he just has like the fight belt jockstrap thing and so you can see his whole ass straight up like a comedy bit. Like it couldn't have been more well timed like to cut the there's so much tension before a fight like that. And then it was pretty wonderful. Yeets all the way. Oh, my goodness good old ass.
Starting point is 00:38:46 Yeah. And then, uh, obviously there was the great interview with, uh, I guess the jazzy Gara the of jazzy's world, a popular social media brand where they interview famous people. And they asked Mike Tyson, what does legacy, what does this mean for your legacy? And he just got, he got like bleak, like the first season of True Detective. It was just like, we're all dead.
Starting point is 00:39:19 It means absolutely nothing to me. I'm just passing through. I'm gonna die and it's going to be over. Who cares about legacy after that? No, we're nothing. We're just dead. We're dust. We're absolutely nothing. I like he's looking at a child who's like just the eye line. It's just so funny that he's addressing a child like we're dead. We're dust. And then the little girl's like mm-hmm mm-hmm. Having to be polite. She's like uh-huh. Thank you. Thank you. Our legacy is nothing. Well, thank you so much for sharing that. That is something that I have not heard before.
Starting point is 00:39:50 Someone say that as an answer. Very polite. Very polite. Yeah. Really well handled by them. I'm 12, fool. Yeah. But thank you for that. Appreciate that. Yeah. So that was the best thing that this had to offer. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:07 And then, yeah, but like Netflix really doesn't have live sports down. They really, every time one of these, and like it also happens with like Amazon prime football games, like I think they've gotten it down a little bit better. But every time you see a streaming, a a streamer trying to a live event, you're like, oh, like all those people who like worked for cable companies all those years were like good at what they did. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Like I feel like this is a skill I didn't know I was appreciating throughout my life.
Starting point is 00:40:44 Yeah. Netflix has a bad track record because like even when they did like tell-alls for some of their reality shows, I think that's when they first started doing live ones, it was like a disaster. The Mulaney shows actually ended up being the least mess, like in terms of like, streaming infrastructure, like wasn't falling apart. Everybody's in LA. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That one felt like it, it wasn't doing the thing where suddenly it's like,'t falling apart. Everybody's in L.A. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one felt like it wasn't doing the thing where suddenly it's like it stopped playing.
Starting point is 00:41:07 Yeah. And they like leaned into the mess of it all. Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. All right. Let's talk about some Trump appointees, baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we got RFK Jr., which I don't know. Had that happened by the one? Yeah, I think that was that's when we pushed through right before.
Starting point is 00:41:26 We were like, let's just get through this y'all. We know what this means. It's, it's happened. RFK at HHS. Yeah. So, uh, noted paragon of health and, uh, just like how to be a human being, RFK Jr. will be Trump's nomineeinate ahead. The Department of Health and Human Services. Obviously the brainworm will be implicitly the deputy head of Health and Human Services.
Starting point is 00:41:53 My brainworm tells me what to do in terms of his plan to do away with vaccines. I don't know. People are there's like a lot of stories about like it's going to actually be harder than you think. Um, because like undoing approved vaccines would require submitting evidence of harm that meets the FDA standards to prove harm. So I don't know, first of all, like the FDA is wildly underfunded and easily captured in our, in our experience, having paid attention. Um,
Starting point is 00:42:24 they're just like too small to do their job. And even if they, people are pointing out that even if they were like on board with his fuckery, they'd get tied up in lawsuits. I mean, the big thing is, they're screwing up for a fight against the pharmaceutical industry. So I'm curious how that, that's fight really, you know, regardless of what they do, it's a pharmaceutical
Starting point is 00:42:48 industry that has the like, it's in their interest to keep pumping out different medicines and things like that to be sold. So that's the fight that I'm curious, like, will they just bow to the administration? Are they going to fight for their lives to make the line go up? Who are they going to, who will they represent? They're shareholders. Which bad guy is going to win? Hopefully the one that doesn't kill us all. Yeah. I'm like, well, at least they make medicine.
Starting point is 00:43:14 Yeah. We're again, we're going to, I don't know, we're going to be rooting for, you know, whoever against RFK and the FDA or yeah, I don't know. I mean, like does he completely, I don't know. I mean like it does he completely? I don't know. It's yeah, I mean some people are pointing out like as with Reproductive health care like they could just make access to vaccines more onerous and costly which You know getting the CDC to scale back their efforts to promote vaccines including vaccines for children Which is a program that provides free vaccines
Starting point is 00:43:45 for children and low income families. I could see stuff like that falling by the wayside, which would be very significant because vaccine adoption needs to be pretty uniform. Right, yeah, and measles cases are not going down. Yeah, his plan for no longer adding fluoride to drinking water. People have pointed out that actually happens in the state and local level.
Starting point is 00:44:09 So water utility companies do that. I'm sure there's some pressure he could put on that, but this is a thing that always happens. They get these freaks in who are like, I'm going to do all this shit. And it's like, you read the fine print. It's like, well, you can't actually do that. Like, you can advise that. But like with something specific, like the fluoridation in water, that's like you're saying, that's not you don't have control over that. I'm sure you can get the red states to go along with you. But aside from that, that's not something you can do across the board. And all these people who enter office, like even
Starting point is 00:44:44 in the first administration, like, oh, we're doing away with that. And all these people who enter office, like even in the first administration, like, oh, we're doing away with that. And they're like, wait, how do I? I can't. Right. But I'm guessing that's why there's the Project 2025 version of what they want to do with the FDA, which is more specific and probably has more of like a tactical policy sort of strategy. And then you get these like rhetorical monsters who come in and they're like, we're getting rid of oxygen. Fuck out of here. And you're like, okay, maybe, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:45:12 Um, the one place that he does seem to make good points is his stance against ultra processed foods. Um, like that, that is in alignment with science that like the government is way too permissive when it comes to ultra processed food and like there there is a connection between nutrition and a lot of the chronic diseases that affect Americans on a daily basis. He also completely and immediately abandoned his you know processed food stance on like a photo op level because coming in, he was like, yeah, right. Donald Trump is like, you know, what he eats,
Starting point is 00:45:49 I would mostly qualify as poison and inedible. And because that was making the rounds, there was a shot of him eating McDonald's with Donald Trump. He's this is, this is totally a mob boss move that did on rfk. Yeah, he's like, oh yeah I'm eating poison sit the fuck down and eat some he's like it's like having to do is like oh I don't Do drugs that's like no you're gonna do this cocaine right now. Yeah. Yeah, you want you want to do something, right? Like and it because you can see his face in it. He's like, uh shit Here I am with does everybody have it looks like everyone's order is chicken nuggets and a sandwich
Starting point is 00:46:26 I guess I just want to point out Elon Musk's Eating habits in this picture where they're all on the plane eating McDonald's look at his how he eats french fries Okay, he's got the fry carton out, but he just dumps a bunch of ketchup on the top Like so he has to touch a bunch of ketchup Oh rise rather than putting your ketchup on a thing and then you dip your fries in the ketchup Am I fucking am I am I missing something here? No, that is he's like doing his fries. Yeah, he's like treating it like it's Pasta marinara. Yeah. Yeah, just dumping it on to anyway What a mess again like if there are more reasons to be upset about this man's existence, I found I found even more pedantic
Starting point is 00:47:10 I think that's number one. I think that's my number one now. Yeah, there's a lot going on But like look at the way this dude eats fries. Yeah, also like I don't know this is as convincing a You know video photo op of like McDonald's eating as the Rocks cheat days, you know, video photo op of like McDonald's eating as the Rock's cheat days, you know? Like, mm, mm-hmm, really good. I'm totally eating all of this. Why's that bucket next to you? Shut the fuck up, man.
Starting point is 00:47:37 Shut the fuck up, shut the fuck up. Yeah, Trump's eating his, he has his order though. That man eats Filet-O-Fish's, and that is, I know that blue box from a mile away But it's a it's a good point that it does seem like the place that we can probably Assume this administration is not going to stick by their Campaign promises anything that is going to hurt massive corporations because massive corporations are just gonna You know go ahead and kiss their ass and do whatever it takes to.
Starting point is 00:48:06 Well, yeah. Big Pharma. They they gave more money to Republicans than Democrats this cycle. They probably do. Yeah. So we also there are a couple more. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Over the weekend. So, OK, remember, we were talking about that guy, Brendan Carr, who is on the FCC is like a commissioner at the FCC during when Kamala was on SNL. I was like, this is all illegal.
Starting point is 00:48:26 Yeah. And it was like, it isn't well, yes. Surprise. He's tapped to be the head of the FCC. That's what I thought he was because that's how the mainstream media like covered it. They were like, uh, he's the, what was he? Commissioner, which I assumed was like, David Stern is the commissioner of the NBA. This guy is the commissioner of the FCC. Yeah, yeah, no, he would be the chairman.
Starting point is 00:48:51 Cause right now the chairwoman is Jessica Rosenworcel. And so just, you know, just so you know, a little background on this guy, he penned a chapter in project 2025 about how to tackle content moderation and stuff online. So prepare for that. And I think you can also expect him to go after things like net neutrality, like Ajit Pai did in Trump's first administration. So those are the kinds of things you can expect from him. The other thing, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense nominee, who everyone's like,
Starting point is 00:49:20 this guy is so unqualified. Also, he's like an extremist and has been like identified as like a potential like threat to like the military because of his extremist views and tattoos. A lot of people have been talking about his like Crusader tats that he has with like the motto that says like it's like Latin, it says God wills it that is used by every kind of unsavory extremist violent fuck you can think of. So people are like, a lot of mass shooters use this term. We heard this term term at Charlottesville too. And he's just like, no, no, no, it's like, it's like a, it's like a thing I just, I just like, it's like a Christian thing. And also we found out he settled a
Starting point is 00:50:01 lawsuit when he was accused of sexual assault back in 2017. Again, in a normal world, these are all disqualifying things. But right now we have the guy who hates science running the FDA at HHS and, you know, just go down the list. Everything is the antithesis of what it should be. Yeah, that's what we thought it was going to be, right? That's what he told us it was going should be. Yeah, that's what we thought it was gonna be, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What he told us it was gonna be, yeah. Yeah, but it's like, I think there's even reporting where they're like, Trump knew about all this stuff too. I was like, I don't care, dude.
Starting point is 00:50:32 He's like, yeah, I'm a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist as well, so it's not disqualifying in this administration. All right, and checking in with Joe Biden on his way out. He went viral over the weekend. He became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest where he stressed the importance of combating climate change. Saying, today, I'm proud to be here.
Starting point is 00:50:59 First sitting US president visits the Amazon rainforest to recommit to protecting the rainforest like this one folks We don't have to choose sleep between the environment and the economy Um, oh really? So yeah, it's like he's for protecting the environment as long as it's profitable Right, right is there's profitable then it's fine if it but if look Come on. Look, you know, I'm going with this. I liked, I liked it. I liked the environment, but I money and money's better. Money's better. He then turned away from the podium, which was in front of the rainforest and
Starting point is 00:51:34 appeared to just like wander into the rainforest and like there's a path going back behind him and then he like, looks like he wanders off the path. Um, yeah, our writers, and said he looked looks like he wanders off the path. Um, yeah. Our writers said he looked like Bigfoot returning to the woods at the end of Harry and the Henderson's timely reference. Yeah. But people are saying that a lot of other people left in that same direction after the thing that there was a path to the right that was visible.
Starting point is 00:52:05 I mean, although I love the version where he earnestly was just like, fuck it. Shit. He's lost. I'm going back into nature where I belong. It did make me wonder, would an animal, if given the chance, eat Joe Biden? Like, you know, I think the amount of Ben gay that is emanating from his body is probably a deterrent of some kind. Yeah. And like, I think he's probably like, yes, exactly.
Starting point is 00:52:34 You know, so much like so medicinal. I feel like he probably smells like an embalmed corpse, like mixed with Ben gay. Yeah. And yeah, I feel, I feel like he would just walk straight through the rainforest untouched by even mosquitoes and just come out the other side. Oh yeah. The mosquitoes would probably die eating. I'm serious. Hey, come on, Jack.
Starting point is 00:52:58 And like the mosquitoes all just die immediately around him. Yeah. I don't know. Well, Hey, that's cool, Joe. Just do it. Just do a quick Brazil trip, man. Yeah. I feel like he's probably got no discernible blood type at this point. Right. Oh, no. Yeah. It's probably like a sound rather than like a A or B. Like his blood type is the Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Hey Matt, can you believe we have a whole bunch of Wicked episodes coming up? Oh, I can't wait to share all of these amazing episodes with the readers, ktis, publicists, and finalists.
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Starting point is 00:54:48 How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello? And how would you feel if your doctor advised you to keep your life altering medical procedure a secret from everyone? And what if your past itself was a secret from everyone. And what if your past itself was a secret and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our eleventh season of Family Secrets. Some of you have been with us since season one and others are just tuning in. Whatever the case and wherever you are, thank you for
Starting point is 00:55:26 being part of our Family Secrets family where every week we explore the secrets that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves. Listen to Season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate. My name is Manuel de Lilla. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unearths the plot to murder a one-woman WikiLeaks.
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Starting point is 00:57:40 We're back. Um, we're back. It's the big weekend gladiator two and wicked coming out together. We're back. We're back. We're back. It's the big weekend. Gladiator 2 and Wicked coming out together. Oh, it's the same at the same time? Oh, I didn't realize that. Why do you think everyone's calling this weekend Wicked-iator?
Starting point is 00:57:56 What? No, I guess they're calling it Glicked. Oh, fuck. Glicked? That looks like Glicks. Yeah, the way they're spelling it looks like Glick. And because it is just a creation of the media, uh, that's how most people are encountering it.
Starting point is 00:58:13 Um, but yeah, they're trying to recapture the magic of Barbenheimer with Glick, uh, which yeah, it just sounds like Gl it reminds people of Martin short I personally am writing for wick had yator Okay, we'll cat yator. I think like that's what the fun part of the word gladiator is the ad yator Ad yator and week Yeah, yeah, yeah either one not as good as Barbenheimer No, yeah, or bop and Heimer.
Starting point is 00:58:48 I like to check those. Yeah. Stop trying to, God, the whole power of Barbenheimer was that it was just a big, stupid fun to say made up word and they've taken that away and done Glick it. Yeah. Which, yeah, it sounds like a Jiminy Glick reference They're like spitting from under your tongue or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, I do that a lot of accident But at least they have good 60s right now on a Metacritic by the way critic the so you're pointing out like hot frosty a
Starting point is 00:59:23 Soft frosty was a hot frosty, right? Hard frosty, I guess would be what it Is so fucking weird like we were talking about how all of the reviews are fresh on right the tomato tomato meter Mama tomato motor tomato. My tomato. Motomer. Yeah meter. Toma Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma, Toma It's hard to reconcile all of those things, especially with a genre like the Christmas movie too. Yeah. Gladiator 2 is in the 60s, which is right where I want Gladiator 2.
Starting point is 01:00:13 I want it to be dumb enough that it offends most film critics, but some of the film critics are like, this was so fun. Just can't right over it. A lot of people. Yeah, it's either you hear people like this shit is dumb as hell and not even historically accurate. And other people are like, dude, it's so crazy. Just go see it because like you don't even know what's going on. But you've never seen a bunch of shit like this before. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:39 I don't know. Are you going to see it? Do you have any urge to see it in the theater and the theater? You're going to see in the theater. My wife also interested in seeing this one. Yeah, see I already got my movie pick this last week with Red One, I was gonna be hard at it. It's her majesty to go see Gladiator 2. I'm like, I just want the full kit.
Starting point is 01:00:55 Is Red One good? Like, I don't think we ever got your full take on Red One. Red One is fine, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's fine, it's, yeah. Like a red wine, fine. Red One. I'm's fine. It's yeah. Like a red wine. Fine. Red wine. No, not as fine as a red wine. A boxed wine. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I mean, it is what it is. Like it's,
Starting point is 01:01:15 you know what you're getting into. So it's not like it's going to subvert those expectations in any way. You're like, Oh yeah, it's exactly what the trailer is and you get quippy stuff from the rock And then you get Captain America is kind of like a scumbaggy kind of dude And that's and it's been it's fine. He doesn't pretty good scumbag actually Yeah, I like him as a scumbag and knives out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's got he's got he definitely has scumbag range for sure Yeah, so I don't know we no no wicked Metacritic reviews as of yet
Starting point is 01:01:47 So we we don't know I'm really curious about how that one is because like Feel like it could go either way, but they are They got all the chips pushed in on this motherfucker Like they've got we've got target ad campaigns coming out like months before the movie came out there. Yeah. It'd be interesting.
Starting point is 01:02:08 Wait, is this for Wicked or for Gladiator? Wicked. Wicked like they have no review shop. But I hope it's good. I hope the fans enjoy it. I know a lot of people who are waiting very enthusiastically for this. Yeah. Gladiator.
Starting point is 01:02:23 I feel like I have a sense of what it's gonna be looking forward to experience that. They are doing some weird tie-ins. Airbnb has officially... alright, so I'm just gonna read their press release on this one. Airbnb has officially reached epic heights with the newest addition to their icons lineup. In partnership with Paramount Pictures, the head of Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2, Airbnb is opening the doors of the famous Colosseum in Rome to up to 16 guests for an unforgettable after dark gladiator experience where people will have the choice to book one or two or three hour experiences for up to 16 guests. It promises the spectacle of a thrilling showdown by seasoned gladiators, a meal of victuals like grapes, pomegranates, almonds, and walnuts, and a face off with fellow warriors.
Starting point is 01:03:14 Okay. So you're going to stick fight and then eat a bunch of trail mix? Yeah. The, the, the Coliseum. Okay. Sure. Sure. Sure.
Starting point is 01:03:24 Italian people must love that. Yeah, they're big fans Yeah, come jackass around in the fucking slave deathmatch castle. Yeah, they're they're big fans they already love Airbnb in the way that it What's the word that they're using here all over the place Disney fine over? touristing they Airbnb over tourists the the city of Rome and Yeah, they say that it is treating a historical Artifact like Disneyland, which does seem accurate. Wow. This I mean the other thing just to kind of put a
Starting point is 01:04:01 Damper on the whole thing. There are a couple of things I read about the movie that I'm like, hmm, first, did you see that Denzel Washington said that there was like a kiss that he had with another man in the film? They cut that. And then there's a Palestinian Egyptian actress, Mae Kalamawi, who her entire shit is cut from the film. She does not exist in the movie anymore.
Starting point is 01:04:24 Like she's been erased from the film. She does not exist in the movie anymore. Like she's been erased from the movie. And a lot of people are like, what is going on here? Is it because she's a vocal supporter of Palestinian rights? Or is it the studio version or people, people who are trying to take a more, I don't know, optimistic view is like, it just got cut for time. We completely erased the existence of this woman of color in the movie who we sort of said was gonna be if something like a pivotal role in the film Save time. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Starting point is 01:04:57 That is a good little bit of a bitter taste with that Film as this that's that's thing. I was I was like wait something I read something over the weekend then I was like man I have to fucking hate this movie now right well so many reasons to hate it I'll still probably see it and you know kind of enjoy myself we'll see we'll see I could see both of these movies doing really well and it being like a soft Barbenheimer right because it doesn't like all the other examples that we've had where people try to recapture it It's like hasn't been the same sort of mix of two completely different kind of fan bases So we'll see though. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not I don't think I'll see wicked
Starting point is 01:05:39 I don't know what I'm gonna see. I don't even know anymore. I mean you already saw a red one I saw red one a hot frosty dude now I gotta wait for the strip the stripper one that's coming out on Netflix next what's the holiday stripper one? But their next one out is like a holiday rom-com about like some dude. It's like Full Monty full Monty kind of thing where it's like a bunch of misfit strippers Christmas magic goal Mike magic oh oh magical Mike that is some shit that my dad would call magic Mike magical the merry gentleman to save her parents small town nightclub a Broadway dancer stages an all-male Christmas themed review and meets a guy with all the right moves say less thank you all right those are some of the
Starting point is 01:06:23 things that are trending on this Monday morning. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get your vaccine. Get your flu shots while you still can. Don't do nothing about white supremacy and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.
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