The Daily Zeitgeist - YOU’VE BEEN DRAFTED LOL! QAnon But Star Wars 1.9.20

Episode Date: January 9, 2020

In episode 545, Miles and special guest host Jamie Loftus are joined by comedian and co-host of the Black Men Can't Jump podcast Jonathan Braylock to discuss influencer Emma Chamberlain's thoughts on influencing, updates on the US and Iran tensions, scam texts going out telling people they've been drafted, updates on the impeachment trial, how the Democratic candidates are doing, a NY GOPer blaming his wife for his DUI, a pizza ATM, Oscar Mayer hiring, the JJ cut of Star Wars, and more!FOOTNOTES: 'Influencer' Is a 'Disgusting' Word, Says Extremely Influential Influencer Are You Cool Enough to Know Who Our February Cover Star Is? Iran Fires on U.S. Forces at 2 Bases in Iraq, Calling It ‘Fierce Revenge’ Watch Full Video: Trump’s Address on Iran Texts telling people they’ve just been drafted into the Army are fake, officials say Pelosi Unmoved By McConnell’s Announcement On Having Votes For Senate Trial Sans Witnesses Warren Fundraising Drops, Lagging Behind Other Top Candidates Every American family basically pays an $8,000 ‘poll tax’ under the U.S. health system, top economists say NY GOPer Arrested For DUI Allegedly Blamed Wife For Crash: ‘You Know How Women Drive’ University installs pizza ATM Oscar Mayer has a way with H-I-R-I-N-G D-R-I-V-E-R-S Star Wars Fans Think There's a Secret, Three-Hour J.J. Abrams Cut of The Rise of Skywalker Here's what I've been told from a source that worked on TROS. “Release the JJ cut”: the Star Wars conspiracy that offers fans an impossible fantasy The alleged 'Rise of Skywalker' J.J. Abrams cut is "bullshit." Here's why. TICKETS for Daily Zeitgeist at SF Sketchfest WATCH: Darondo - Didn't I (Official Audio) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's Thursday, Januaryuary 9th 2020 my name is miles gray aka miles gray la roca uh and look there will be some rage against the machine themed aka's coming up but i have not my voice is not ready for that but brace yourselves because they are on the way uh shout out to at 3 45 a.m for that name uh. Now, if I'm talking, that means Daddy is away. Where is Daddy? I don't know. He's sick through the entire production schedule off. We're starting so late.

Daddy cough coughing. But you know what? I send out the Zamboni signal. And who else but her? She got here eventually. My wonderful guest co-host, one of the faces of Mount Zeitmore. There will be no Mount Zitemore unless her face is upon it.

Frequent podcast guest, Jamie Loftus. Hi! Welcome. I don't think I have an AKA. I thought of an Aerosmith-themed AKA. Why? And then I got really ashamed

and I didn't follow through on it. Why are you ashamed of Aerosmith? Because they're not good, right? Oh, man. They fuck. Wow. They're the only band that got their own rollercoaster, okay? Wait, where? In Florida.

They got the Rocket Rollercoaster. Oh, shit. They had a video game, too, I think. Did they? Which was also absolute garbage. They'll license their shit to anybody. I respect that. Yeah. They're like Jason Derulo in that way. They'll just license their image to fucking anyone. Who else does Jason Derulo license his image to?

I've seen him at the wax museum. You have? I've seen him at the wax... Him and his... Because, you know, it's like his thing that he always wants his dick to be visible, and that's like a compulsion that he has. I did not know that. What?

Is that from Cats? Yeah. It was covered in Cats, but he just has this weird media history of being like, oh yeah, you can take my picture, but make sure you get my fucking bulletin. Hey, my dick in there? He's got a huge dick.

It's his thing. It sucks when you reduce your personality to your big dick. I can't shut up about it. That's actually not big dick energy. No. It's very different. You don't leave with your big dick.

It's little small chode energy. It's anything. It's withered chode energy. he but he's got he's at the wax museum he's got a huge dick at the wax museum check it out do you need to authorize them to make waxes of yourselves because they have so many oh wow so a lot of people just everybody who's there that's why it's like they didn't realize don't they get a mold of you first to make sure it's accurate or they do like 3d laser because? Because wax museums are kind of littered with some randos where you're just like, oh, I wouldn't expect to see that person here.

And that's the person who was really trying to be there. You're like, wow. That's interesting. I didn't think I would see tech from the Hawaii Real World cast as a wax figure. Wow, what a pull. Jason Derulo got his own special spot at the wax museum. You're like, has he earned this? got his own special spot at the Wax Museum.

You're like, has he earned this? I don't know. I'm sure that's where the labels step in. It's Big Wax and Big Music. They're all in cahoots. Anyway, who is that disembodied voice that we're hearing? That is our guest today. Please welcome comedian, actor, writer, and one of the stars of the netflix sketch comedy show astronomy club

jonathan braylock hey what's going on everybody thank you for coming by thank you for having me patient you know it's a chaotic day today it's all good it happens it's 2020 yeah thank you okay can we start saying that look man it's 2020 it's 2020 we get it yeah 2020 is a different energy um so before we get to know you jonathan let's tell people what we're going to be talking about. We're going to be talking about Emma Chamberlain. I don't know who that is, but apparently she's big time. She's got a bigger podcast than we do. Tell you that much.

Fair enough. I don't know. Not verifiable. Well, I don't know her. I don't know her, so it's not real to me. Also, you know, Donald Trump seems to be easing up on the attention for now. People were getting, you've been drafted text messages, apparently, over the last few days. The army had to let people know that's not what's going on.

We'll have to check in with the impeachment really quickly. I'm talking about impeaching this group. the impeachment really quickly. I'm talking about impeaching this creed. And then talk a little bit about what's going on in the Democratic race for the nomination because it seems like the centrist establishment is

very, very weary and scared that Bernie Sanders actually has a very legitimate shot at this point looking at some numbers. People are so mad. We'll go through this. And then shot at this point looking at some numbers so rise of sky we'll go through the exactly uh and then uh a new york state assemblyman with a absolute humdinger of an explanation for why he crashed his state-issued suv into a ditch drunkenly what oh and the answer isn't alcohol

uh yeah it's a bit of that and mixed with a little bit of misogyny. Then, you know, we'll have to talk about the pizza ATM, which is now on Florida University campus. If you want to drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile,

we'll tell you how to do that. And also, there is some wacky-ass Star Wars conspiracies going on that are like... I'm here for it. But it's getting into this post-truth phase that's very similar to the thinking of QAnon, where it's almost like, hold on, but we're telling you the thing you're even going off of is not true.

And they're like, no, no, no. What's the character they're basing it on? It's not about... It's not even about character? It's even more next level. It's high level. It's high level. it's above me now i'm sorry did you guys like babu freak oh yeah i love babu freak what a freak i gotta get babu yeah but i thought a second time i was like babu freak hits even better the second time honestly the real war right now is between babu

freak and baby yoda oh 100 who's Who's cuter. Babu Freak will hack Baby Yoda's brain. I'm a Babu Freak head, yeah. Are you a Babu F-R-E-A-K? I'm a Babu Freak! Okay, and other stories too, you know, as the time goes by. But first, Jonathan,

what is something from your search history that reveals a little bit about who you are? I mean, this is kind of, this is, this is super boring actually, but, uh, but,

uh, I was, um, I was looking up my boy, uh, my boy, Rami Yusuf, cause he just won a golden globe.

Um, and I was, uh, I just wanted to know because I feel like I, I know about his show. Obviously, uh, we've been, we've been friends since

high school actually but you know he made a joke when he gave the Golden Globes speech like I know none of you have seen my show and I kind of feel like that's true and that's why everybody laughed and so I wanted to see

I wanted to look up who was talking about him and what they were saying. And the internet is wild. Oh, yeah. Welcome. Yeah, yeah. You didn't go on that website Twitter, did you? No, no, no, no, no, no.

That website was canceled. Yeah. 2020. Oh, thank God. Officially canceled. Yeah. It's 2020. So there was like a lot, obviously you have a lot of support and stuff like that.

But like the trolls were out in full force talking about, because he said a la Akbar and you know, which just means like God is great. But like people were like, oh, he's like a secret terrorist and like all these things that you would think that people would say, but you're like, are people really saying? Yeah, absolutely. All out there and stuff. So that was crazy. I went down that rabbit hole

yeah he didn't of course he wouldn't he wouldn't do that but I like to do it for it's like it's so much easier when it's like

somebody you know and you're like I can read all these because it's not personally affecting me right right right you get to see what the people

what people say and if he wants the close notes you can give it to him exactly right you're like yeah take the liberty this is a google doc link

I just did some excerpts if you want to check them out. That's a really good friend to be like, I checked out your internet abuse for you. I'll summarize it. Yeah, I can summarize it.

No need to get specific. I've never heard this term before, but I saw it used, Affirmative Action Award. Wow. Yeah. Triple A, baby. That's what they called it

and I was like, what does that even mean? I don't know. I think that's how white people explain how, when brown people do things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's I don't know. I think that's how white people explain how when brown people do things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's an affirmative action. Oh, he's got a car.

It's affirmative action. Oh, he got a job. It's affirmative action. I love when someone galaxy brains. Very simple, like an amazing achievement. Love it. Well, you know what's funny? A lot of the members really liked it, I think, because so many of the members of the HFPA themselves are immigrants to the United States.

That they're like, even if it's a completely different culture or generation, they're like, no, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Which is funny where people don't like because they, you know, they for some reason didn't think Watchmen was a good show. I don't know what the fuck happened there. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Well, it got completely shut out.

Apparently, they they miscalculated actual submission times for it and did not. Oh is that what happened. Apparently HBO did not promote to the like voting public.

I believe that they were more leaning on Game of Thrones. Because I was just kind of assuming that it came out too late. I don't know what the cutoff is.

Yeah. No it came out sort of right at the cutoff. But it's a weird thing. You're also. That actually happened with us in Astronomy Club. Yeah. I mean that came out sort of right at the cutoff. That's the weird thing. Oh, that sucks. That actually happened with us in Astronomy Club. You know what I mean?

That's why we didn't get nominated. You should have been also sent like, Rami, been like, yo, this is what they're saying about Astronomy Club. Yeah, it's the same thing, bro.

It's a pointy show. I know. It's like, I don't know. I know. I don't know if they're saying this stuff about you. Even these white guys with wraparound sunglasses

in their truck as their avatar photo like my show. Yeah. What's something that's overrated? Overrated social media detox for your New Year's resolutions. Wow. I think that's overrated.

That's a take. Honestly, because everybody's doing it. Oh, I don't want to be on social media. No, I'm getting off social media. First of all, if you're posting that on social media, you already failed. Yeah, right. I don't even want to hear it. If you truly don't care about social media, then don't tell me that you're getting off social media. I don't even want to hear it. If you truly don't care about social media,

then don't tell me that you're getting off social media. I don't need to know. Don't make it part of your personality. Don't make it part of your platform. I literally just scrolled past somebody who posted a picture of them and they were like, here I am meditating.

You're not meditating. You're posting on social media. You're on Instagram. You just took on social. You're on Instagram. Like you just took a picture of yourself in a video. Also screenshot what your drafts look like. Cause I have a feeling you have many versions of this photo. And yeah, right. There's no way you just took one.

Like, and so, I mean, I think people, I think we just need to accept the fact that it's here, that we're addicted to it. You know what I mean? I love that.

Just embrace it. Yeah. I don't know. It's like a full writing style when someone says that they're they're logging out for a while and they never are and they never really come back they need it they're like i'm just like i'm just promoting things now i'm like you're still on it right the people i respect are like the people who i'm like i i go to tag and i don't see them anymore i'm like oh my god they don't like they're off it you got the fuck off yeah you just got off you didn't post about it you didn't like make an announcement good for them i'm like now that's a respect so if you want to do that go ahead and do

it but like i don't know just that part of your new year's if i'm singing it on it's on your story right right no it is a bit it's odd when you're like you're but you're you're announcing it through it versus like i just don't use it as frequently. Right. And that's good. Yeah. I try not to. I don't make a thing out of it because I don't.

Before this, it wasn't part of like me always using it. I guess if you were someone who was a hyper user of social media, then you kind of be like, look, y'all. Yeah. I know you're used to some really flitty memes coming out of this page. I must go now. There is some hubris to it, too. It's like if you have to announce it, you think that what you're saying is very important. So much hubris.

Like all your 212 followers are going to be like, no. I know you have a high quality. It's like I know that you think that this is the coolest shit ever, but unfortunately, I must go. No more portrait pics. Anyone who legitimately needs to detox from it, though, please do. Because, man, most people, I think,

don't realize how toxic it actually is. And you get into this loop where you're like, almost like, but if I don't, especially in comedy. I think it's too late. It's like, do you exist? But it's like, do you even exist if you're not on Twitter?

No. You know what I mean? And it's very few comedians who aren't on Twitter and are still able to thrive. That's true. I think that there is an element of, I forget who I was talking to with about this, but there is a certain level of privilege to be able to log out in that way, especially if you're a comic. Yeah, that means you're-

Right, because how are you promoting? Right. It's like, well, then you must be a comic. Yeah, that means you're... Right, because how are you promoting? Right, it's like, well, then you must be a big enough deal that you can afford to not be using the free tools all the time. Right.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't like when people make you feel guilty about having to be on it and stuff, you know what I mean? It's just like, well, that's what some people have to do.

Also, it's fun sometimes and there are healthy ways to consume it, you know, if you just... Name five. Okay, here we go. Just micro doses. Eat apples while you walk.

Be in the sun. When the sun is down, put that phone down. I think I'm online until I'm canceled. I think that, unfortunately, I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to work out. I think, yeah, you've been hardwired into the matrix. Yeah, I've been hacked. Are you scared of getting canceled? Is that like a legitimate fear?

Not really, but then sometimes when you see a misfire of a cancellation, you're like, oh, that could be anyone. That's true. I don't know if they deserve to be canceled. It's an occasional misfire,

but a misfire is scary to witness. It is scary to witness. What's something you think is underrated? Bidets. Hey. I feel like, I truly feel like America is a backwards country that we don't have bidets. Just commonplace. We should be blowing our buttholes out with water.

It shouldn't be something that only a rich person gets when they install a Japanese toilet. It's weird that we haven't upgraded our butt cleaning for, what, centuries? We're still using papers? For millennia? That's true. Or in my instance, microfiber

towels that I rewash. I can't get past it. Well, can't you get past it? The water's just coming up. They literally just let that go by. I said I admit it. Anna was shocked. She said I wipe my ass with microfiber towels.

You're in disgust. Dan is in the booth going, what the fuck? And y'all just kept moving. We didn't know how to respond. Hey, thank you for not shaming me. No, for the record, I steal toilet paper from the office. Like everyone else that works here. I was going to say, I love to steal toilet paper from wherever people leave it loose.

I'm like, that's on you. I got toilet paper in the house. What do you mean? Like a loose square of it on the ground? No, I'm just saying, if you go to a restaurant and they've left a couple of rolls loose, I'm like, I'm taking one home with me. Are you crazy? So do you go to the bathroom with a purse

so you can stash that shit or do you ever fucking just say, fuck it, I'm walking out with my chest out holding this toilet paper? I always have a tote.

I've like gone to, especially like when I go and do an audition, I'm like, that didn't go well. I'll pick up a loose roll and make it worth my time. Oh, interesting.

That's their problem for being lazy and not wanting to constantly should have secured your rolls. Don't sing my genius. I guess I'll take this one-ply toilet rolls. Don't sing my genius. Yeah. I guess I'll take this one ply toilet paper. Don't want to cast me in a mattress commercial.

It's like. Joke's on you. Joke's on you. I got two rolls. Where was the first time you used a bidet? It was very recently. That's why I'm talking about it. Yeah, yeah.

Go on. It was at an Airbnb that my wife and I were staying at. And I was like, I was a little scared. I was like, because that's why I want to hear about why you can't get past it. Because I was nervous. But then it was like, no, it was perfect. It was perfect. It was exactly right.

Hit the right spot. You know, doesn't feel weird. Also, it didn't feel too good either because I feel like some people like over-sexualize it. I mean, it does feel good. Oh, wait, some people were like, you haven't used a bidet? I think so.

Put that pressure on. Get that power wash. It's like when people recommend bidets, they recommend it so hard that I feel like pleasure is implied. And I'm like, I don't know if I'm right. Oh, no. For me, it's because, like, look, if you take a shit and you've ever had to wipe your ass like 900 times. Exactly.

That shit is a wrap with a bidet. You know you will fucking bidet your butthole and then you just do a quick dab. Shit is cleaner than the day you were born. It's clean. And it's like it makes you feel good. You don't feel bad about having to be in the bathroom for so freaking long just because you're trying to wipe your butt. Yeah.

You know? I mean, especially any of us who aren't like shaven down there. You know what I mean? Another thing I advocate for, wax your butthole. Yeah. Yeah. My friend whose wife is an esthetician, I have not yet to have my butthole waxed completely. I've tried it with candle wax.

That's why I say completely. Apparently, that's not the way to do it. I didn't know that you could do it. It would cause a terrible injury. That sounds rough. Men with the clean butthole swear by it. They're like, yo, bro, everything's a smoother operation. You know what I mean?

All right. Damn. Cue Sade's smooth operator. There we go. I don't like to think about my butt too hard. Damn. Cue Sade's smooth operator. There we go. I don't like to think about my butt too hard. And like, I don't know. What's your fear? You're going to sit on a bidet and then it's going to tear you up?

I'm afraid. No, I'm afraid I'm going to sit. I think just the way it's been described to me, I'm like, I don't want to sit on a bidet and then like cum. Like, you know, like everyone's just like, it's incredible. So yeah, you are worried about that. You're worried about the over-sexualization of the bidet. I have this very puritanical fear.

That's so weird. I'm like, the bathroom isn't erotic. That's a place for poop and pee. Yeah. I don't like, yeah. Because growing up in Japan, a lot of the bidet toilet attachments were pretty standard. So, for me, it was always like, you know, just get your butt clean. It makes sense.

I've never been like, ooh, ooh, ooh. I got to normalize it. Yeah. That's the sort i think yeah my dad would look at that and be like if my dad's out of a day he would treat it like starbucks he'd be like oh you fucking french oh you're like this is royal asshole like that kind of stuff right which is crazy because why would we not all want to have clean clean butts yeah right why are some people dying well i'm sure there's like probably a a very weird American male homophobic idea. Yeah, totally.

Dude, I'm not letting nothing stimulate my b-hole, not even for cleanliness. I have to grow up. Yeah. It's a problem. Yeah, right. And then also,

it makes you feel better if you're intimate with somebody. You know what I mean? You're like, I know it's clean. Yeah, I just pressure wash that shit. Yeah.

Just got the graffiti off the sidewalk. Yeah, I just pressure washed that shit. Yeah. Just got the graffiti off the sidewalk. Yeah, man. Come on now. And what is something that's a myth? There's this myth, I think, that Netflix is about to go down. And now, I know I have a Netflix show, so it sounds like... Go on.

It sounds like I'm just a propaganda machine over here. No, I love this unbiased take. Go off. It's impossible for me to not sound unbiased uh um truly and it is uh you know it's not um but i just this idea that like all these other streaming services are going to take netflix down is so ridiculous to me and we were talking about a little bit before but like look i love disney plus as much as the next person, but that you're not sitting and watching Disney,

like freaking old school Disney animated shows. Yeah. If you're a child. Yeah. If you're in, if you're a Disney, if you have that AP sticker, a child trapped in adults body.

Wait, you got to fall asleep. Simpsons put on the sleep timer. You're 100% correct. Oh, yeah. I always fall asleep to Disney Plus because I'll put on some animated movie that's like calm and whatever,

but I watch five minutes of it. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? It's an ASMR channel. Guess what? Still using it. Yeah, it's true. Giving them $8.

Walt is still crib walking in his cryogenically frozen state. I agree with you, though. Yeah. But it's like the amount of content that Netflix has also, by the way, Disney Plus not available in other countries. Netflix is available in so many different countries. It has like crazy amount of content.

It's hard because also most people, the first streaming service they signed up for is Netflix. So you're not, I think you're going to be less likely to get rid of that just because other, if anything, right now people are just adding to the pile right are probably going to hit a point where they're like i all of my income is going to streaming services and how many times are you like i mean like apple tv or hb and like look i'm where i want to work with all these people yeah but i just it's just the idea that like netflix is going i just i've seen so many people talk about that recently and canceling subscriptions or whatever.

I'm just like, get out of here. Even if you cancel, you're coming right back when Stranger Things season four drops. Stop pretending. Netflix in particular, I feel like any conversation I've ever had of like, oh, if I had to unsubscribe, that's never, I feel like it's very rarely on people's list because it's their first love.

And it's very broad. Everything else is very specialized. So like kids, like, right. Like I get the HBO max has more, like is slightly a little more varied, but like Disney plus is very specific thing in my mind.

Like, and you know, Hulu is like one that I get to, it's, it's broad enough because there's all these other things, but these new spinoff ones, I'm like, bro,

I'm not going to fucking pay for it. Everyone don't, don't sleep on Quibi, gang. Don't sleep on Quibi. I'm kidding. And do you want to announce your upcoming Quibi show? Yeah.

I've literally worked on two Quibi shows, couldn't tell you what it is. It's not out yet, though, either, right? Shit, I might be on Quibi. We might be on Quibi right now. You never know. We don't know. You never know.

You never know. Welcome to Quibi. I might have to hold my tongue. Oh, those commercials for Peacock were sad. There's commercials for the NBC. That's the NBC streaming one. Yeah. They had them during the Golden Globes.

And it was like a chicken laid two eggs. And then it was something like, it's about to hatch. And then Peacock. And I was like, what? Wow. Wait, but what happened to the other egg? Just one egg hatched? I don't know. You're right. That I was like, wow. Wait, but what happened to the other egg? Just one egg hatched? I don't know.

You're right. That doesn't make any sense. Even the description. There were two eggs. No, but, oh, actually, I didn't even think about this until you just said it. There was a white egg and a brown egg. No, there was not. I swear to you, maybe I'm making this up, but I truly believe that there was a white

egg and a brown egg. Well, at first, I didn't think about it at all. But what you just said, why were there two eggs? I'm like, well, what if they only put a white egg and a brown egg. Well, at first, I didn't think about it at all. But what you just said, why were there two eggs? I'm like, well, what if they only put a white egg and then there was some conspiracy theory that they were being racist. But if they put a brown egg, then you'd have the same conspiracy theory.

2020 race war confirmed. So they put both. The race war will be streamed on Peacock. On Peacock. Tune in. Oh, Peacock. Oh, man. Well, let's Hatch. Oh, man. Well, let's move on to other pressing information.

Yeah. Emma Chamberlain. Emma Chamberlain. Who's that? I don't know. I'm Googling. She's that. Okay.

So this is all I saw. Okay. Is that she's on, I think, the cover of Vogue or some shit. Yeah. And I don't know. Okay. So I'm like, okay. They're saying she's that chick right now in terms of influencers.

Yeah. Do you guys really not know who she is that chick right now in terms of influencers. Do you guys really not know who she is? I mean, I know the name, but I've not read in depth about her until this thing. Truly, everybody's going to hate me. I know almost nothing about influencers. That's a positive personality. No, that's whack as fuck because influencers are the coolest fucking people.

So I know she's got what? 8.57 million YouTube subscribers. She's 18 years old. 8.5 million YouTube subscribers. She's 18 years old. 8.5 million Instagram followers. 2.8 Twitter followers. Exactly. She's 18 years old so I have no why the fuck

would I be checking. She's hashtag random. What does that mean? Is that part of her brand? Yeah, she makes hashtag random YouTube videos and everyone hashtag loves it. Are you serious?

Yeah. Oh, wow. So in this article, I think in this Vogue profile or in this I'm sorry I misspoke it's Cosmopolitan

and the article was written by Dana Schwartz one of the hosts on our network I love Dana shout out we run the culture Dana's incredible

people know this so they start off she is without a doubt an influencer by every metric you would say like just sort of in terms of what

her identity is. And in the beginnings of this profile, she says, quote, I think the word influencer is kind of disgusting. Let's use me as an example. If someone is calling me an influencer, they're saying that my job is to influence. And I don't think that's true. I prefer to entertain and be a friend. I don't want to influence.

I like I get it. Well prefer to entertain and be a friend. I don't want to influence. I like, is it? I get it. Well, you know. I see why she's saying it. You make videos. Yeah. She's saying, to say that that's my intent and what I do, it's like, okay, what we're saying is influencer means the newest, most popular kid right now.

Well, I feel, yeah, because she's like 18. Yeah, she's 18. I get that she's like, I want to be taken more seriously than I am. Whether she has earned that yet. Hashtag random. She's pretty hashtag random. Is it that? Or is it the, it almost feels like the opposite. Like she's saying, people are taking me too seriously.

I don't want to be an influencer. That sounds like more. But I feel like she has a deal with Target. She's an influencer. And fucking Louis Vuitton. Yeah, like once you're a sponsor for someone and like you're an influencer. You're right. Because people call actors

influencers and like, you know, there's like. It's just made, influencers is a term described as saying like how people commodify or weaponize your celebrity

to market products. She's like hit on like, she is interesting to me because she's like, she's like was a cheerleader making random YouTube videos and then was able to like monetize it by like overlapping random internet culture

and just like hot teen culture. And that's like, that's. No, I have no gripes really. I mean like I look at someone who many years ago thought YouTube was the way out. Uh, I understand like the possibilities of like this era.

I know, man, should I just give this podcast and shit up and start my vlogs? I guess it is kind of inspiring. Hey, beautiful bastards. Step into the light. It's inspiring that there are people who are still doing like,

like new voices that are coming out and getting hot on YouTube. I'm surprised that it's still, yeah. You know what I mean? Kids love video because they don't fuck with podcasts. I don't know why she's calling it disgusting, though. I can understand her being like, it's weird. I'm an entertainer, but I get like. I think it's like, don't reduce me to this word that already to most people my age has this weird connotation.

Yeah, because I'm sure that kids like teenagers don't like the word influencer like i'm sure there's some how would you like lit teen right yeah um excuse me fellow kid how about how would you like this is it fair to call all entertainers influencers i think to a certain extent yeah i think if you're if you if you are if you are marketing anything, I don't know. I don't know what the definition is. Well, I guess it's weird if you're on a streaming service like Netflix, then you're not actually advertising anything. It's just like, I don't know how Netflix makes money, but they're making money, I swear. Yeah.

That's not for you to figure out. They're going to be I swear. Yeah. That's not for you to figure out. They're going to be here forever. Yeah. But like they, so is it different if you are entertaining people and there are no ads being sold while you're doing it?

Hmm. Hmm. Yeah. I don't know. Because she's making videos and the reality is she is an entertainer, but her main source of income is to influence people to buy

products yes through ad ad deals through ad deals and brand because i don't think she signed like a four picture development deal with warner brothers or something no i don't think that she's like an actor but she does have a really popular podcast too i don't know i don't know i'm like well i'm saying it's not really about good or bad i'm saying like how do we define it right because I think influencer at least to my mind that term came up in the era of people somehow

starting to make money on Instagram from looking cute right and so and wasn't it because like they had it's like

they had a bunch of they had all these followers and then people were like wow you have that many followers can you put my product in one of your videos right or like do a video that sponsors my thing?

And they're like, sure, I will use my influence to do that. Are there influencers that don't promote products? Is that a thing too? Oh, interesting. Paradoxical. Yeah, I'm just trying to think of, are those two things mutually exclusive? How do they make money then? I don't know.

Maybe they have their own thing. I don't know. Maybe they sell, maybe they have their own thing. I think because influence. Patreon? Patreon, maybe. Yeah. Because I just feel like it's a marketing term that comes out of,

like again, it's to influence a behavior from the, from the advertiser's perspective. That's why they would describe that. DJ Dan just held up a whiteboard that said Greta? Greta Van Susteren? No.

Greta Gerwig? Thunberg. Thunberg. Whoa. Because I think she's an influencer, but I don't think she takes money from outside places. Well, Greta Thunberg isn't suddenly going like, and please try the new Impossible Burger at Burger King. Is she considered an influencer?

I feel like she would be. I guess because, right, because she does have an ethos and like a- And she has a specific point of view. And a behavior that she's trying to instill in people. It's more overt. It's behavioral. But is she doing that through, does she have like a social media following? Is she-

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. There you go. Huge Twitter. So maybe it is like just like to make it more vague, like trying to influence a behavior in your followers whether that be buying something or something else we're really breaking this down i mean really then if we think about it i mean jesus christ was the original okay people cared how he voted

yeah cared how he voted yeah that's true and people would be mad if they found out you were like voting for pete budaj you're an Yeah, if people get mad over who you endorse for anything. Right. That would, I don't know. But then I don't know. That's just celebrity. I think we nailed it in that. Is Joe Pesci an influencer?

I don't think he is. I don't think so either. Because if I found out that Joe Pesci was voting for someone fucked up, I'd be like, yep, makes sense. I don't know. Joe Pesci influenced me wanted to have a gold tooth joe pesci sing still making music he released a song called baby girl last year wow he did it's terrible you gotta listen to it oh that's a different song i mean i'd believe it we'll take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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And that's it. You just ruined this episode. So he had a press conference on Wednesday to, you know, explain the whole Iran situation after the missiles were launched upon some bases in Iraq. No one was hurt, luckily, and basically said, look, there's going to be more sanctions. He said the Iranians are standing down. Yeah, okay. He said Ben was trying to imply that Obama had funded the Iranian weapons program because he unfroze the assets that were frozen during the,

when the embassy was overtaken in 1979. Couldn't make heads or tails of that. But he was just like, yeah, that's it. He gave him $150 million. It's like he unfroze assets as part of the, okay, whatever, motherfucker. And then now he wants NATO to get involved more. I mean, the only thing that I took away from this is I was just like, oh, thank God he wasn't trying to double down on the fire and brimstone rhetoric. But I think it's foolish to think that this is the end of it, even though they're saying, I think, in Iran that that was their response to it, but this is far from over, and

this has completely changed the footing of things in terms of the balance of power in the region. Absolutely, yeah. I do think that neither of these countries actually want to go to war, but it's one of those things where it's

to me it's just like you know like two dudes like just like bloviating and like try like it's one of those things where you're like you you go to attack somebody but you know your boys are gonna hold you back so you're not actually you don't actually think about it you're like oh i wouldn't i wouldn't actually swing but you know what i mean i would you're like no literally please you know what i mean like hold me you know and like i feel like that's what both people are doing. But the thing is, if somebody accidentally slips and a punch gets land. Well, that's what was dangerous about assassinating Soleimani because that's essentially what that was.

It's like, well, you just smacked him in the nose. So what do you think is going to happen now? I just, I don't know. I mean, I think in the US, there are people who are absolutely want a war. Oh, for sure. Like have been – they've been masturbating to Iranian war posters in their bedrooms since they were children. Definitely. Like they have war fantasies.

But yeah, I think it's just – it's nice to see that the hawkish crew that's around Trump in the Oval did not prevail in this incident. But I think this story is far from over, especially when you consider all the players involved. And now he's asking for the countries that are involved in the Iran deal to be on his... Truly, the ultimate losers

too is Iraq and all the people who live in Iraq. And that was a thing too. That was a thing I was completely missing from his statement too was even talking about like Iraq being like hey yeah I know it completely like just violated your sovereignty by like doing a state sanctioned murder there. Which is

intentional. Yeah. But anyway that's so you know I think that it was tense. It's still very tense from what I can tell. I'm still, you know, I have no confidence in the ability of this administration to handle a situation like this, considering that like they have like B team national security people. Like it's not even like the people who have, who are at the tops of their fields.

Like they've had to go so far down the list. The people that are the experts there are like not the greatest people to have anyway and are not equipped to handle situations like this. And so it seemed like people were really, some pranksters were really trying to capitalize on a lot of the ignorance and anxiety around this conflict with Iran.

Some chaos Nathan Fielder. Yeah, people were getting texts that read like this. Hello, comma, but no space between the next word. That would be my first. I'm like, this is fake. I don't know, but like Trump's White House, you never know. Yeah, that's true. It says, hello, we are contacting you in regards

to the United States official army draft. We tried contacting you through your email several times and have had no response. You've been marked eligible and must come to the nearest branch in the New Jersey area for immediate departure to Iran. Please contact us at the following number immediately. United States Army Referral Program. Ask for blah, blah, blah extension.

Thank you. Jesus Christ. I think most people who just saw like the lack of proper punctuation and things would be like this is a fucked up joke. But you know

a lot of people Did anyone show up? Some people would call like try to figure out what it was and like the recruiting centers were like we would never

that's a completely separate department that's run by the selective service like that department. And yeah I mean you know it was a thing that I definitely thought about, I think, because around the Iraq War, I was just getting out of high school. And I was like, oh, okay, that puts you in like prime draft age.

But I mean, again, for that to happen, that would take Congress and the president to authorize it. And then it would be people between 18 and 25, first up. Oh, nice. I'm out. Yeah, I was thinking like, damn. I'm like old as fuck. I was talking with my boyfriend.

My boyfriend's like just eligible. And I'm like, we just got to make it six more months, baby. Yeah, I mean, don't worry. The way modern warfare works, shout out to Call of Duty, you know, it would unlikely happen like that. Yeah, no. But nonetheless, I mean, it just shows you the kind of overall anxiety

people had about it. And again, ignorance too to think like, yes, that's what would happen because I'm used to seeing a pattern of like lack of diplomacy in this country that would say like,

yeah, now it's war. Right. I mean, I think we are living in a comma no space kind of era. Yeah. That's true. 2020, the year of comma no space. Hey, man, it's comma no space, man.

Give me a break. AKA 2020. Okay, let's check in very quickly with the impeachment because that's not going away. So Mitch McConnell, he so giddily announced that he is ready to start his absolute joke sham of a Senate trial. His lizard tongue was hanging out. Yes. votes in the Senate to basically ensure that there will be no witnesses and no documents presented as part of the trial to determine whether or not the president was fucking around

in terms of withholding aid to Ukraine. I know that sounds like 900 years ago, but I'm pretty sure the impeachment happened less than 30 days ago. No shit. Just for your- He just confirmed that there will be no witnesses and no evidence? Well, yeah. Essentially, they could force a vote. If there were enough votes, if there were 51 votes witnesses and no evidence? Well, yeah, essentially they could force a vote.

If there were enough votes, if there were 51 votes, then they would be like, yeah, no, there need to be witnesses called. But because he has the votes, he can completely dictate what the style and substance or lack thereof would be of a Senate trial. So sad. And Nancy Pelosi,

she's been withholding the articles, transmitting the articles because it has to move from the House to the Senate because she's been trying to ensure that an actual like. I mean, I don't even know. I don't even it's funny to even think that there could be an impartial trial in the Senate. But that was she was trying to do to get him to play fair. But this dude has proven himself to be an evil nutsack. So I don't know how uh that was ever going to happen uh so we'll see where we go from there i mean she seems uh pelosi seems pretty much

like steadfast and saying like well it seems like uh his allegiance is absolutely to the president and not to the constitution and that's sad and we'll see what she has in store there's been like also articles saying that Nancy Pelosi has not really told many of even her closest confidants what her plan is here. I mean, what's her plan? What can she even do? Yeah, at this point, I mean, it's almost like you allow the,

you would need the public pressure to get to a certain point, but it almost happened, right? So over the break, you had people like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski who do a really good job of being like, oh, the behavior of the president is disturbing. Or like, that is really, really awful. I do not like that. And then go and just vote for whatever Trump needs. It happened all over again.

Yeah. It happened all over again. Yeah. And it's just like kind of shitty timing for her to get the public to be, you know, really public pressuring just because there's so much other shit going on. Yeah. It's like a month ago, that was what everyone was looking at and focusing on. But 900 things go wrong in the meantime. Yeah.

Where do you put your attention? Exactly. So. Well, it's almost like it was planned. Hopefully. Hey. Yeah. It's like, yeah, we'll do this, and then that'll give you cover to then throw your spines in the trash

and then move your invertebrate body into the... I mean... Just throw a whole region into chaos. Yeah, I mean, it's easy to feel... The hope is a 2020 election. I mean, like, yeah, legal nihilism is fully set in. Pew, pew, pew. And, you know, it's...

Them defecting really would have been somewhat of a game changer considering that John Bolton was like, yeah, I'll testify if y'all call me up. But again, I'm not even convinced

that what John Bolton would say would be a slam dunk for impeachment because, again, he wants to bomb the earth forever. So I'm sure

what he was seeing going on in terms of our lack of diplomacy with Iran was probably like, maybe I won't make it hot for this administration right now. Because that's kind of earth forever so i'm sure what he was seeing going on in terms of our lack of diplomacy with iran was probably like uh maybe i won't make it hot for this administration right now right that's kind of something i'm into okay let's check in wild with you know our candidates that maybe uh we'll we'll battle donald trump in the depths of hell to become the next fucking president of the united states so the my God. Celebrity death match.

So the top tier candidates were all outraised by Donald Trump in the fourth quarter. Which makes sense. By a lot. Well, yeah, because all the money is being focused into one candidate. Over 45 million? 46 million. 46 million. Yeah.

Yeah. That is 45 million. Over 45 million. Yes. Thank you so much. But if you added up all the other candidates, that's much more than... Oh, yeah. I mean, if you added up Biden and Buttigieg, you'd get to 46.

Yeah. But the biggest earners in this last quarter was Bernie Sanders. More than Biden or Buttigieg or Warren. I think, yeah, Buttigieg was in second place with 24.7 million. And that's with his wine caves. That's with wine caves. That's with the wine caves and Seth MacFarlane's money. Oh, yeah, Seth.

I love every time Pete Buttigieg comes up, got to bring up the family guy vote. Got to do it. Got to get the family guy vote. How much money does Seth go? I don't know. He loves Pete so much. He probably maxed out for as much as he can for a single person.

He's waiting for his space show to get picked up. He's like, I don't know, maybe if the Oracle gets a season three. Is his space show out? Oracle, yeah. Oh, is it up in limbo? Honestly, my crush has fallen defunct. I don't really know. Oh, man.

Well, you hate to see it. So, again, when you look at Bernie's fourth quarter fundraising and the number of different donors he had, and you couple that with how he's basically really made himself a legit contender in Iowa and New Hampshire, we're starting to hear the establishment alarm bells go off. And they're all using kind of the same sort of scare tactic, because obviously their whole thing is like well we sort of uh we protect the interests of wall street and most major for-profit industries and to have someone like bernie sanders or elizabeth warren uh just might not be a tenable situation for those people um so

rahm emmanuel obama's former chief of staff came out basically saying like yo we got to be careful that medicare for all it's going to scare the swing voters away. And then Trump will win. So Medicare for all equals Trump will win is sort of the dynamic. And he says, you need a candidate with a message that can help us win swing voters in battleground states. The degree of difficulty dramatically increases under a Bernie Sanders candidacy. It just gets a lot harder.

There was like a Daily Beast story that, I mean, it's not official, but there's been just like sources within like former Obama administration members where like he's gone on the record saying he's not going to endorse a specific Democratic candidate. But if Bernie gets too far ahead, maybe he'll speak up in like, you know, like, hey, this isn't the way, like incremental change, centrism, centrism. Yeah, but then after that, it did seem that he kind of

stepped back from that a little bit and just said, no matter what, he said no matter what though, whoever it is, like, I will ensure that I will do whatever I have to do to make sure Donald Trump loses.

But do you think he'll say something before the nomination? The dominatrix entrance? Do you think he would say something before the nomination? Or do you think if Bernie gets the nomination, he'll be like, all right, I'm with this. I don't know. If he's going to say something, you'd probably want to do it now considering, what February 3rd is coming up, coming up, coming up. But yeah, we'll see. I mean, I think when you really look at sort of, you know, like the numbers around it, it's true that Medicare for all like the support for it has declined since the midterms when many people were using that as a way to like

get into office. But a lot of that is more connected to the voters fears around electability rather than like oh i don't think everyone having health care is a good idea it's like i think having a candidate who's pushing that is going to freak out swing voters who want to keep their evil fucking health care they have now. Well, they were all freaked out in 2016. Yeah. Oh, wait, that's right. Medicare for all wasn't on the platform for. Yeah, exactly.

Oh, oh, oh. So when you look at just sort of like even when you break down what the costs are for Americans, like right. A single payer system would be much cheaper. And I think the things that people typically point is like, well, you got to raise the taxes. The taxes, then my taxes go up. First of all, when you look at already what people's incomes go to for healthcare, like, you know,

the U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the United States. In the world, yeah. Yeah, it's near, oh yeah. The U.S. and the United States. And on Earth, apparently. It's a cost of almost a trillion dollars more than the second most expensive system, which is Switzerland. A trillion dollars more.

Granted, the populations are much different, but that just means that U.S. households are paying an extra $8,000 per year in medical expenses. So if you're thinking about that on your household, an incremental tax, which would be a pale in comparison to the $8,000 that's already flying out of your paychecks and your co-pays and all these other things, there needs to be a little bit more of a nuanced discussion as to how these numbers level out for people. Because I think a lot of people just think, people are going to think Medicare for all is communism, and then they're going to scare these other people.

But when you look at sort of how dire the living situation is for most people in this country, we need, we need Medicare for all because there's no way that the disparities and incomes and things like that is so fucked up and we're doing nothing to begin to alleviate those pressures. And these two economists who have been talking, they have, there's like a new book coming out that they're writing. It's like the deaths of despair and the future of capitalism. They've been these economists who

have been really focused on this, this trend of deaths of despair that is only, that is only unique to the United States, which is born out of people between the ages of 25 and 64 have been dying from suicide, overdosing on opioids or other drugs, and alcohol-related problems like from liver disease have just been going off the charts. Isn't suicide one of the top killers of young people now? Yeah, and I think of older or middle-aged white men also yeah um well and it's like because sometimes like you can't afford to live right and it becomes like the issue i mean there's so many examples of people who are like i don't want to continue to put this financial burden on my family who can't afford to literally keep me alive but the way that the health care exactly signed uh set. And the areas where, or the sort of demographically where these deaths of despair hit very hard

are white Americans without college degrees who are having dwindling job options too. So when you even think of things like what Sanders or Warren is trying to have as their platform of being like, we also need to be able to educate people. Like going to university should not be a class barrier, but it is as it stands. And you look at how all these things feed into each other. I understand, look, there's people have this argument of like, well, it's the electability thing I'm worried about. But we also have these really terrible systemic issues that need to be addressed.

The electability thing is so funny because it's such a uh it to me is a nonsensical argument because my thing is like are you would you vote for them yes then don't what what the fuck don't talk about electability you have no idea how how or why other people are going to vote you can pretend like you do but the reality is we chose an electable candidate in 2016 and that candidate didn't win yeah and like so that so you're you're like and donald trump by most metrics would not be considered an electable candidate and he won so like just throw this idea of electability out it's it's all theoretical consider obama an electable candidate either at the time like oh 100 it's a ridiculous argument

but i think that's where you know people begin begin to need to reeducate themselves or people need to educate each other on like when they start getting like, well, I don't know about that. It's like, no, no, no. You know, because at the end of the day, people are going to be selling, like when it gets to the general, it's all about selling people your version of reality that you want Americans to experience going forward. And if you have a message that people can actually believe in, they say, you know what, that actually does, that would tremendously help my quality of life. With Medicare for All, I feel like it is just like sitting someone who's skeptical about it down and like taking the buzzwords and like the scare words that are thrown out,

out of the equation and be like, no, here are examples and numbers. And like, it would improve everyone's quality. And it's interesting though, too, like when you think of how ferociously the medical the health insurance industry has been fighting like this idea and has introduced like that talking point of like choice is a lobbyist created talking point and like you have candidates like regurgitating and you're like as if we all have we don't have choice nobody has choice right now you have the health insurance that you at your job provides you you don't have that that's not a real choice right you. You have the health insurance that your job provides you. You don't have that. That's not a real choice. You can live as well as your employer will let you.

Allow you to. Yeah, if you're lucky. But don't fuck up my yacht money. Yeah. Fuck up my yacht money. That's right. If you're lucky enough to have a job in which they provide you health insurance. And if they do, it's not like, I mean, how many times have you heard people go, well, yeah, I like – I mean, I have a plethora of job opportunities at my foot and I decided to look at the health insurance that each of them provides and that's how I chose which job I was going to have.

No. That's a fantasy world. I mean, unless you work for one of those tech startups that actually has the kinds of benefits, you're like, oh, my God, really? They're like, yeah, nine months paid parental leave. I mean, I haven't had health insurance in two years. And it's just like it is because of whatever the options that you're given. Like it's just, it shouldn't be connected to that. But again, even if you look at the insurance most people have, many of them are not humane.

Right. And are completely like just unusable in terms of cost. So it's not really, it's not. Yeah, high deductibles. Yeah, it's not really it's not it's not high deductible yeah it's not actually taking care of people it's only taking care of their pockets baby well yeah you can like you can even go further and i mean obviously it all goes back to hashtag capitalism but just like it like hashtag random hashtag capitalism but but yeah like we're there i've i've known people who stay at jobs that they're not like happy to be at.

Yeah. They're like, like, yeah, I know that like I've, I've a friend who remained working at Amazon, a place that is terrible and that like they disagreed all of the tenants of this place, but they're like,

I have a kid. What am I supposed to fucking do? Like, it's just, it shouldn't be connected to your job. Well, exactly. And then that's taken away your freedom too, as a human being. So that's what, it's like an illusion of choice. You don't really have choice. It. Well, exactly. And then that's taken away your freedom, too, as a human being.

Right. It's an illusion of choice. You don't really have choice. It's like, well, which master are you bowing to? Amazon? Because they have your insurance? Because you need that to live? Right. I have that over your head now. Anyway, so that's about that. Really quickly, I just want to tell this story about New York State Assemblyman Brian Kolb.

As I alluded to earlier, he drove his state-issued SUV drunkenly into a ditch. And this is where it gets funny. When the tow truck driver arrives, not the police, tow truck driver arrives first. Wow, wait. He comes off top.

According to Scovel, who is the tow truck driver, Kolb stood up, put his hands up and said, my wife was driving. He then said, you know how women drive, Scoville said. I did not see anyone else around the vehicle. Kolb allegedly told him.

His wife wasn't there? No. Kolb allegedly told him that his wife was, quote, up in the house. I don't know what that means so anyway when the house when the police deputy uh got there yeah he blew a 0.16 uh breathalyzer uh so you know that that they were like okay it was your wife uh then he resigned on friday it was just like okay i kind of fucked that up that's the idea that you could go i don't know man that's that's an interesting energy where you're like he'll get it yeah i'll hold up my hands go my wife was driving you know how women drive right where is your wife sir up in the house we're in a field we were in a ditch my man she

she crashed the car it was like i'm going to the house you should see her man she's like dr man she zapped herself to the house. You should see her, man. She's like Dr. Manhattan. You know what women are like. She zapped herself to the house. She's a coward. You know, she should really take responsibility. Arrest her. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

You know, arrest the system. He's still happily married? I know. His wife's about to resign. Yeah, right. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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I'm pretty sure we've spoke about this pizza ATM before, but the news popped up about it again, and I'm trying to really figure out if I think the pizza ATM is a good idea. I know there's the Sprinkles Cupcake that you see like at the Grove and shit. I've seen that. At the Americana. Yeah, at the Americana, whatever. It doesn't make sense.

Explain a pizza ATM. Pizza ATM. It's been on college campuses most recently at the University of North Florida. But basically for 10 bucks, you put your money in and five minutes later, a pizza comes out. Okay. Now, but however, the shit is like the size of like a fucking room it's like a what or i don't know it's actually i mean it's like a size of a brick oven well i don't know it's a big ass machine it's a machine attached to a brick oven but the whole thing is like whoever like operates the machine you have to

make your dough you have to assemble all the pizzas in advance, put them in the different refrigeration compartments, and then when it's actually punched in and ordered, then that uncooked pizza goes to its heating thing, and then it pops out the hot pizza. There's better ways. I just don't know. I mean, I guess it's fun, right? Apparently... Can I see a picture of this?

Yeah. Apparently, the word on campuses is campuseses that they love it. Now, like, people on the word on campuses is, campuses is, that they love it. Now, I don't know. Because to me, Little Caesars is also a pizza ATM. They got hot readies. And it's ready. They're basically.

Six or five bucks. You don't have to touch a button. I feel like, I don't know. I mean, like, a lot of colleges, I feel like, have a tendency of acquiring really expensive shit to justify charging more people for college. And then they're like, have a tendency of acquiring really expensive shit to justify charging more people for college. And then they're like, look, they love it. Yeah, like computers.

I had a ton of stuff at college that I'm like, I don't want this shit. Like what? What was something you had that was like a waste of money? They would really push. Oh, so much. They would just push random products on you. Like they were pushing the naked juices. They would push those at my college and they would like put them permanently.

You got free naked juices. Yeah, quote unquote. But then you would just spend through your meal plan faster. And then you would have to put more money on it. I don't know. Everything related to college is insane. I mean, so much. Colleges have all these entertainment shows that nobody goes to.

I know because I perform there. They spend so much money. Like all of like the, you know, RAs get like a little budget to like buy snacks and stuff for their meetings that nobody comes up to. And they're just like, they have bowls and bowls, pretzel bites and, you know, M&Ms and things like that. They're like, why did you take them all out of the bag?

You could have saved some of these. Like, I don't know, they look better. I know, I don't know. The bowls look good. It looks good, right? Bring it out the sphere. Like, yeah, there's so much. I mean, I don't know they look I don't know the bowls look good it looks good right like yeah there's so much I mean

I don't know man I feel like if I was in college and this was a thing I would probably get it but now yeah I'm just looking at it

I'm like that sounds disgusting is it 24 hours is it like the good thing that you would get a pizza at like 3 in the morning yeah until that shit's sold out though

is it like a microwave heat airing in there a pizza at like 3 in the morning? Yeah, until that shit's sold out though. Is it like a microwave heating in there you think? It's actually pretty small considering like it's making a bunch of pizza. It's probably some kind of confection of it. Like how many pizzas can it make? I don't know. Before some guy has to come and refill his handmade pizza. And like is there like a pepperoni option? You know what I mean?

Or is it just straight cheese? There's options I think. But again, this is where I'm like it sounds like it sounds like fun but i don't know if like if i put my mind myself in the mindset of me being like 19 and hungover as fuck i part of me would just eat a bunch of shit from 7-eleven i was like i would just go to 7-eleven where the pizza is also hot and ready and what if you're in your no but the thing is thing you know you put this in like you put this in like the residence halls the dorms

like you just you just stroll out of bed and like go get a freaking pizza yeah or just deliver one you don't have to like leave and yes there are

I guess it depends on the quality some places that are open up late but not like a lot of places a lot of colleges they're in the middle of nowhere so they're that's true

I love late night college town food though like yeah like when I when I'm in a college town, I'm like, where do they go? Where do they go? Do you ever do insomnia cookies? No.

I would let myself do that once. That's like cookies they deliver to your dorm. What? They just deliver hot cookies to your dorm. It's called insomnia cookies. Where was this? In Boston? It was in Boston.

I think it's around, though. Yeah, they have it in New York. They have Diddy Reese in New York. Yeah, it's good. They have it in New York. Yeah have Diddy Reese in New York. Yeah, it's good. They have it in New York. Yeah, I would just get, I remember like my friend went to U of O. We'd go to Doco.

Just like these nasty ass calzones. I'll get the most meat bomb zone. They call them zones. You know what I mean? There's, oh, like apostrophe zone. Yeah, cool. Most meat bomb zone, bruh. Anyway, shout out to College Campus Foods.

Also, shout out to Oscar Meyer, who is hiring hot doggers. And I didn't know what a hot dogger was. Wait, what is that? So you get to basically drive the, you drive an Oscar Mayer weenie mobile around for, it's like a one year gig, full time. It's a job. Longer than I wanted it to be. It's a full time job for one year.

Okay. And basically what you do is you're part company spokesperson. Full-time. It's a job. Longer than I wanted it to be. It's a full-time job for one year. Okay. And basically what you do is you're part company spokesperson. So like if there's any kind of event, they'd be like, hey, Jamie, you got to take the Wienermobile down to the Cal State Long Beach campus real quick to do an event. That's amazing. It's on you. I do media appearances. You do charity events.

You do brand promotions. Quote, meet M-E-A-T and greets. Handing out wiener whistles. Wiener whistles. And then also, this is where it gets a little bit involved. Pitching coverage ideas. This is where it gets involved.

Pitching coverage ideas to local news outlets. It's content. Wow. I mean, I feel like where the wiener mobile goes, the news follows. I worked at a promotional hot dog truck for a while, but it wasn't Oscar Mayer.

Wait, what do you mean you worked at? I got fired but they i in college i worked for the stub hub had a hot dog truck for a while and they would just park outside of like basketball games and give away free hot dogs i'd be like have a free hot dog have you heard of stub hub and they'd be like no and they're like fuck you and you're like okay and then one day I tweeted, fuck this hot dog stand. And then I got fired. Damn. But the Wienermobile, that's clout. The Wienermobile has clout. Also, you would respect. Okay, so wait.

Let me get this right. If I'm interviewing you, I'd say interesting. Jamie, I've asked around because, you know, everyone in the free promotional hot dog industry talks. And I was talking to my friend Craig at StubHub. It was seven years ago. Okay. So you know years ago. Okay. So you know the incident. Sorry, no, continue.

No, it sounds like you do. You said, fuck this hot dog. It was seven years ago. Yeah. So, and you know, how am I to trust you with the Oscar Mayer brand? I wasn't, I didn't have any, I didn't know what my mental health issues were

seven years ago. I was a kid. I didn't really, and also I would say that the stuff, no disrespect to your colleague, but lacks the prestige that the Wienermobile brings, which I would never in my life. I'm a brand gal. I see a Wienermobile, I follow it. Well, you know what? Hold on.

Let me get on the phone. Hey, Oscar. Yeah, let's move. We found her. But apparently, there's like 12 there's 12 open spots for this yeah that's me yeah that's me i'm sorry oh excuse me what i say about you calling me oscar it's mr meyer i'm sorry uh mr meyer uh also i just do want to touch on this um did everybody see star wars in here of course okay uh If you have not seen Star Wars, just cover your ears or just skip ahead.

Also, this isn't really- Go see it. Also, this isn't really spoilery because it's just so bizarre. I am a freak. There is a- I am Babu Freak. There was a thread going on Reddit. I'm a Babu Freak.

I'm a Babu Freak. Where my Babu Freaks at? Where's all my Babu Freaks at? Where's all my Babu freaks at? This anonymous Redditor posted a fucking thesis-length post talking about basically that there is another cut of this most recent, what is it, The Rise of Skywalker? Sure. That J.J. Abrams had originally shot.

And it's three hours long and way better than what Disney did to it. They're just Snyder cutting it. That was like the whole Snyder cutting it. Exactly, right? So this whole thing, according to this post, this anonymous brave Redditor

who will not tell you any of the sources but just trust him when he says that. Got it. Basically somebody claiming to have worked. Claiming to have known someone very close to to the production so yes so one degree abrams that basically that in the original the ending here we go spoilers that there were so there's a moment where ray is hearing all these jedi voices that J.J. Abrams had actually got people like Ewan McGregor and Samuel L. Jackson to physically

be there to appear as force ghosts. Right. But it was cut out possibly because of China. Because of China? Okay, so what they were saying, it had something to do with shades of blue? That there were approved shades of blue? Actually, that's a, i think this is china has a

has a weird policy about like ghosts and things like that sure they so they don't there are certain movies that they don't allow into their country because they're like spiritual right and so you sound like people that are replying to that giving credence to this star wars isn't even popular in china yeah which is funny. Isn't that partly why then? No, because they say a lot of like, even the beginning, like the sword fighting stuff, it just doesn't resonate culturally. Like the Transformer films

are like, yes, giant robots, great. But for some reason, like samurai adjacent things. It just doesn't hit there. It was like number four. They don't care about Star Wars. Another thing now. This would upset you for the freaks in the building.

Babu Frick was nearly cut because some of the executives at Disney feared of him being Jar Jar Binks 2.0. No, they were wrong. But he's only in it for like two seconds. He's so cute.

He wasn't Jar Jar Binks. No, he was. Even though he had like, look, great, great. People have vague ethnic accents who talk in broken sentences. Fine. But he was, even though he had like, look, great, great. People have vague ethnic accents who talk in broken sentences. Fine. But he was so adorable.

But he's so little. He's so small. Yeah, no, no, no. Little things. He's not big. Jar Jar was a mess. A hot mess. And he also sounds.

He's also a senator. He was also dumb. Like, it wasn't just how he spoke. It was like he was like tripping all the time yeah and like bumbling things it was like babu freak's a motherfucking hacker yeah he's like extremely smart yeah and just like english is not his first language so yeah maybe that's our xenophobia where we're like man what are you can we trust babu can we trust him i don't know i don't know he's not really speaking right.

Nah, that's fine. That's just a language barrier. But everyone who knows Babu Freak is like, listen. They're like, yo. Yeah. He knows what he's fucking doing. Yo, you should call him.

You mean Babu Fucks. You're all about to become a Babu Freak. This motherfucker gets it in. Also, J.J. Abrams apparently wanted Finn and Poe Dameron to have a gay romance. But that was also quashed by Disney.J. Abrams apparently wanted Finn and Poe Dameron to have a gay romance. But that was also quashed by Disney. Yeah. Those rumors have been strolling.

Yeah. I mean, what happened with Finn? I don't know. We'll talk about this on my podcast. But so apparently that started off a whole, again, hashtag release the J.J. cut campaign. But there was a legit Star Wars leak expert but there was a there's a legit Star Wars leak expert there was a dude who like does start like who does this

who like leaked a lot of the major plot points before the film came out and they were all accurate he was like dude this is bullshit from top to bottom was like his was his take on this guy doing the leak stuff but now this is the thing where people are like in this post truth fucking like era now where they were they're like not taking that as being like real because J.J. Abrams.

So in an interview, he was asked how he'd respond to Star Wars fans who were like disappointed about like the elements of the larger franchise story that had they've been left out of the current film and things like that. And he said, quote, they're right. The people who love it more than anything are also right that so that people are taking that to be like you see dude he's letting us know man that was like a subtle signal that there is like another he's just saying however you and however you like or interpret the film is correct for you because we all get to have our own opinion right and i mean i see where like i feel like it's coming from a place of like it was the same thing with like the snyder cut shit where everyone's like it couldn't have been this bad there has to be some galaxy brand explanation of why it turned

out like why we're this unhappy like that it's just like too much faith in the person yeah well that's funny in the process of making a movie well right and then the other thing that people said was they said that uh disney wanted to make rise of skywalker bad on purpose because jj abrams had signed a deal with warner brothers i love this theory that's fun i love the theory of star the new trilogy they wanted it to match the old trilogy and they wanted the first one to be like pretty good and everybody loves it and is excited.

The second one to be considered critically the best one and then the last one to be like kind of a disappointment but like some people love it because there's so much action in it but it's like not as good as the other two.

But I think, do you like, but you think Disney- It is weird that it did turn out that way. I don't think so. I liked The Force Awakens better than The Last Jedi. Oh, for sure.

I mean, I loved The Last Jedi. I personally like A New Hope more than Empire Strikes Back. Sure, sure. I mean, and look, and those people,

they're also right. They're everyone's right. It's just, I don't know. But Babu Freak, there was a whole stripper scene I think with him that they cut out.

Oh, well now that, I believe, and I'm upset. He was making it clap. The Babu Freak. There was a whole stripper scene, I think, with him that they cut out. Oh, well, now that I believe and I'm upset. He was making it clap. The Babu Freak hive is going to lose their shit. The Babu Freak hive. Where's Freak hive at? Babu Freak. Yes, I don't know. But also, the people's outrage over it reeks of people who have not been crushed by the entertainment industry

and know that a lot of this is, it was going to happen no matter what, like no matter what this movie was, it's always going to be people who disappointed and people who I've completely. Yeah. Like in my older age, I've learned to like,

just not get upset by like movies so much. Yeah. Like I used to like, like an adult. Yeah. No, but I used to leave theaters hot. Yeah.

Like fucking hot. I was so angry. It'd also be at a time when like I was trying to get my shit going too. And I'm like leave theaters hot. Yeah. Like fucking hot. I was so angry at Avatar. It would also be at a time when I was trying to get my shit going too, and I'm like, They make this shit? Yeah. I'm out here with these real ideas. Yeah, exactly. It's about a fucking guy.

It's about a Rasta who starts a poke restaurant called Pokemon. Anyway, so like the whole shit, I don't know. How the fuck have you had that jerk in your past? That was just at the tip of your tongue. I say that all the time shit I don't know how long have you had that jerk in your back I'd say that all the time people don't know Pokemon coming out soon but apparently

there's some licensing issues a roster believable but yeah I don't know I mean I think I just also you know

I every franchise I guess it's hard to accept that a movie could just be so bad and that's just that is what it is did you guys think

you guys I didn't listen to your episode about did you i don't think i was here to speak on it whenever if they spoke how much did you not like oh i didn't care i don't care enough to say it was bad or good i'm like i didn't care for it but then i also just started watching star wars movies two seconds ago and then like a few days after i was like i didn't like that i i basically i forgot and moved on with my life like right like a few days after i was like i didn't like that i i basically i forgot and moved on with my life like right like a grown-up yeah yeah i think the things that upset me most were just like the mechanics of screenwriting and i was talking right uh with your beck del casco host caitlin dorante who has a master's uh in screenwriting i believe right

yeah just how much of like the basic elements of storytelling were completely abandoned it's a mess i mean it's like messy and it's i feel like it's trying to have it every which way but it totally ignores i laughed coming after yo i laughed out fucking loud when they kissed when they could i i know so many times and i bet and i think people were like hot in the theater i was in people were met yeah i mean yeah i saw it opening night and there were like so many people, like my friend and I love Star Wars. Right. And we were,

there were so many different parts where we just burst out laughing like pretty hard. Yeah. But, and like, my wife was like, I think you guys need to not laugh as hard. And I was like, but how can we not?

Like they literally, it's like, it's like now real spoilers. Yeah. Like Chewy dies. And then like five seconds later, he's back on screen. we not like they literally it's like they were now real spoilers yeah yeah like chewy dies and then like five seconds later he's back on screen and we're just like what like okay like none of this matters like that was bad writing too why did they tell us he was a lot like we should have found out at the same time ray did i don't know why they were like oh you know and you know and the characters don't what i roll like my man, I never saw two ships take off.

She does not feel bad. Like, she forgets that she killed a beloved character two seconds. It's a mess. When she healed him, so many stuff. I was just like, what is that? I was like, truly none of these paths. I'm like, this fucking parcel tongue. You're like, that's not even this franchise.

What are you doing? It was funny to watch. I loved it. There were Raylo stands at my at the at the second screening I saw

there was like a bunch of Raylo like ship like who ship them and then when they kiss they go they like lose their shit

oh there was applause there was applause in my theater I laughed I was like hell yeah just fuck who gives a fuck why not

people clap yeah they got blood on their hands I laughed when they when they did the switch it was like dead he's. Who gives a fuck anymore? Why not? Yeah, they got blood on their hands. I laughed when they did the switch. It was like, dead. He's dead. Nope. He's not dead.

She's dead. Nope. Now he's dead. I was just like, this is amazing. Yeah, it's just too much. Anyway. The only thing that I genuinely, that stuck with me of like, that was bullshit was just like, no Kelly Marie Tran whatsoever.

They just left her to do paperwork with a pile of tennis balls that's supposed to be Carrie Fisher. You're like, that's not fair. Oh, that. That's not fair. Way to shoehorn in reeks of when Olivia Soprano in, I think, season two

has to show up in random episodes because the actress had passed away. And it was like, let's use these out-of-context shots to try and create some semblance of a narrative here. That's not ghoulish to do. I mean, I guess there's no right shots to try and create some semblance of a narrative. That's not ghoulish to do. I mean, I guess there's no right way to do it.

But it's just scary. They did Kelly. Just. Oh, yeah. I mean, they did the whole thing. They did everything. That's why I like I had to go in. It was like in a delirium.

Just being like, oh, this is something. But then Babu Freak is on. Yeah. Freak, baby. I'm back. Babu fucks. I'm back. All right.s. And I'm back. All right.

Well, Jonathan, thank you so much for stopping by. Thanks for having me. We almost didn't have a show today. Jack pulling an audible on us. Where can people find you and follow you, support you, listen to you, watch you? Yeah, please. You can follow me at John Braylock, J-O-N-B-R-A-Y-L-O-C-K on Instagram and Twitter. My podcast that I do

with two of my friends called Black Men Can't Jump in Hollywood, where we talk about movies with black leads and discuss them in the context of diversity and race in Hollywood. It's very fun if you like movies and you aren't racist.

Good, yeah. Some people will be like, wait, hold on, man. Was this for woke people? And then, yeah, Astronomy Club, The Sketch Show. The sketch show that I'm a part of is on Netflix, and you can stream that whenever if you have Netflix or if you have somebody's Netflix password, which most of us do.

You can learn about Resting Creep Face, Magical Negroes. I mean, it's got everything. The show's got everything. It does. Definitely check that out. Is there a tweet that you like? Yeah, so this tweet is by, uh,

Joe Reed, who, uh, is a critic and he wrote me, everybody bitches about the Baptist every year for some reason or another. I'm sure they're fine. And then he has a picture, uh,

of, of an article that says Joker leads Baptist film awards, 2020. I mean, it's just about a man who was cast out of society, you know, um, truly wild.

Uh, we'll definitely be talking about that on our podcast. Uh, damn it. What about you? Oh yeah. No, go ahead.

Jamie. What about you? What sayest thou about your, where can they find you and follow you and listen to what you like? Uh, you can find me on Twitter at Jamie Loftus Help, on Instagram at Jamie Christ Superstar. You can listen to My Year in Mensa,

which just came out last week. It's just four parts and you never have to think about it again. That's the pro. And it's, I think, the number one podcast on earth right now, right? It's number one. No, I'm kidding.

Oh, it isn't? No, it's like number a billion. No, no. But some people have listened to it and they liked it. Not based on my handwritten podcast charts I just did. Oh, you updated the charts? I updated the charts.

Oh, you updated the charts. Daily Zeitgeist, number a billion though. But you can listen to that pretty much everywhere except Stitcher for some reason. I don't know why. Anyways. Stitcher, get it together. People are tweeting me like, what about Stitcher?

You know why they're suppressing the truth. That's what it is. The thing is they don't want people... Mensa has Stitcher in the palm of their filthy little hand. And then I'm going to promote a tweet that is self-serving, so sorry, but it's my dad's tweet. Nice. So the other day I got to ride the Zamboni

at the Staples Center and it changed my fucking life. You did? I did. So the other day, I got to ride the Zamboni at the Staples Center and it changed my fucking life. You did? I did. During the game? During the game. Between the second and third periods at the Kings game the other night, I finally like, I want to shout out, it's a show called Go Fact Yourself. It's on the Maximum Fun Network.

They hooked me up with the guy who's in charge of, he's the ice manager. That's a job. His name is Francois. Francois hooked me up with the um the guy who's in charge of he's the ice manager that's a job uh and his name's Francois Francois hooked it up he got me in my boyfriend's seats he got me a Zamboni uh ride oh my god so I got to ride it hook you up jake keith hooked it up yeah jake and helen hong they're incredible uh so they hooked it up I got to do it on Monday and my dad is so proud uh he's so excited about the zamboni so today he tweeted out the video of me riding the zamboni and he said

the hashtag nhl bruins aren't practicing today so here's a little bit of hockey related performance art by my daughter just to show how deep hockey roots run in this family. Hey, baby. Who'd you say held you as a baby? Cam Neely or Ray Bork? Ray Bork, baby. Ray Bork, baby. Ray Bork, baby. Oh, wow. Damn, that's dope, though. When are they going to let you drive that thing, though? You got to get a license. But the guy was so nice. I made a rhinestone suit with a Zamboni

on it. I was so excited. Hell, yeah. You know what we should do? I mean, I would watch that miniseries, like MTV Made, like how they used to do. You wanted to be made into a Zamboni driver? Right? It would be simple. And do the Stanley Cup, though. Oh, yes. That's the ultimate.

That's prestige. Okay, what's a tweet? A tweet I like is from Reductress. Very simple. Everyone can relate. It says, wow, this woman can't masturbate unless she's on a deadline. Hey, procrastinators unite.

My goodness. Procrastinate. I remember, didn't that term come out like 2010 or something? Procrastinate? I've never heard that. Oh yeah,

it was like a, it like resin, it hit so hard and I was like, oh no. Rather than like look at my bleak financial prospects, I'd rather masturbate.

Oh, I mean, yeah, that tracks. rather masturbate. Oh, I mean, yeah, that tracks. You masturbate to procrastinate. Yeah, exactly. Got it.

But at least, you know, you get something out of it. Yeah. We were both figuring it out. seeing the light. I don't know why I was interpreting it backwards. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. Procrastinating, masturbating. Yeah. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray. You can find me on my other podcast right here on the iHeart Network at 420 day fiance

with Sophia Alexandra where you know we get high and talk about our favorite trash reality show 90 day fiance it's also very in depth discussion you know we go on tangents but we also talk about like all kinds of socio economic things it's very interesting I can't recommend it enough what else

what else you can also find us Okay, we have some upcoming shows. Check the Twitters. Check everything. January 25th, Gateway Theater, San Francisco. 8pm or 8.30pm. One of those two. You can get those tickets at SF Sketch Fest website. Also on January

30th, we're going to be in Portland, Oregon at the Mississippi Studios. So get your tickets there for that one. And you might see some cool faces there, some cute faces. I forgot we're performing at San Francisco's Guest Specials. I forgot. I'll be there twice.

When are you performing? Jamie, go. I'm doing Boss Woman's Girl. Too late. Shit. Wait, go. Boss Woman's Girl, January 21st, Bechtelcast 22nd. Oh, shit.

Definitely check that out. Yeah. Especially Boss Woman's Girl because this is like the post-Fringe edition too, rightchtelcast 22nd. Oh, shit. Definitely check that out. Yeah. Especially Boss Human's Girl because this is like the post-Fringe edition too, right? It's good now. I thought it was good when I saw it. Boss Human's Girl, parentheses, it's good now.

I saw it before Fringe. I haven't seen it after Fringe. Oh. I thought it was great. Check that out. January 24th, Astronomy Club is performing at 7.30, January 24th.

Where at? Uh-oh. I don't know that. Go to San Francisco Sketch Fest and look up Astronomy Club. Yeah, find the venue. Yeah. January 24th where at uh uh oh I don't know that go to samraskechfest.com and look up astronomy club yeah find the venue

yeah uh you can find oh were you gonna say something oh I'm doing shows in Philadelphia and New York

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