The Daily Zeitgeist - Zeit Lotus Spoilers 3/24: Bernie & AOC, Democrats, Apple TV, 'Snow White'

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

In this edition of Zeit Lotus Spoilers, Jack and Miles discuss their respective weekends, Bernie & AOC's anti-oligarchy tour drawing big crowds and a quick check-in with the Dems, how unprofitable... Apple TV is, 'Snow White' going "woke" and, subsequently, broke (not really) and much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Yeah, I guess I'm just I have the first season stuck in my head. I think this is why people. Yeah. Well, there's like that. I think the whole score kind of has that whole like mouth. Yeah. Bird. I call it. Kinda has that whole like mouth. Yeah. Bird.
Starting point is 00:00:25 I call it Bird. What we call this music is mouth bird. White guy who doesn't know music. That's like a mouth. Wait, you mean that it's singing? Yeah. Yeah, I guess that is like bird. You know, like pretty like a bird. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah
Starting point is 00:00:46 No, I don't Do you see that French girl trying to pronounce burger Belgal oh that that's an old clip. She's like you come there You can ask is it a girl? Belgaer bigger big deal. I Bel-Gel. Bel-Gel. Bel-Ger. Bigger.
Starting point is 00:01:04 Bigger. I could not stop saying Bel-Gel all weekend. That clip operates on the same viral, like sort of engine as Hawk-Tua, but on the more innocent side of the spectrum. It's like, cute girl doing a thing and they're like, dude, the way she tries to say, tomato, potato, potato, potato way she tries to say to matter to potato potato, but it's so good, man. The match to I don't need her to be cute in any way.
Starting point is 00:01:31 I just need that. I do. I don't know how to react. Everything's a binary. Why am I watching this, dude? She's not everything. Not cute, bro. Shit fits into two columns. Shit, I want to fuck and shit. I don't want to fuck because it's so fucking sick.
Starting point is 00:01:45 Right, right. It's just tight. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? Can I go in and she's eating my lunch? Or if hypnotism is real? We will use this suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. What's inside a black hole?
Starting point is 00:02:05 Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe. Well, we have answers for you in the new iHeart original podcast, Science Stuff. Join me, Jorge Cham, as we tackle questions you've always wanted to know the answer to about animals, space, our brains, and our bodies. Questions like, can you survive being cryogenically frozen? This is experimental. This means never work for you. What's a quantum computer?
Starting point is 00:02:27 It's not just a faster computer. It performs in a fundamentally different way. Do you really have to wait 30 minutes after eating before you can go swimming? It's not really a safety issue. It's more of a comfort issue. We'll talk to experts, break it down, and give you easy to understand explanations to fascinating scientific questions. So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to science stuff on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Prohibition. It's no secret that banning alcohol didn't stop people from living it up in the 1920s.
Starting point is 00:02:58 When we're five years into Prohibition, the government is starting to go, okay, this isn't working. In fact, you might even say it backfired spectacularly. I'm Ed Helms, and on season three of my podcast, Snafu, we're taking you back to the 1920s and the tale of Formula Six. Because what you probably don't know about prohibition is that American citizens were dying in massive numbers due to poisoned liquor. And all along, an unlikely duo was trying desperately to stop the corruption behind it.
Starting point is 00:03:31 They were like superhero crusaders turning the page on a system that didn't work, wasn't fair, and was corrupt. So how did prohibitions war on alcohol go so off the rails that the government wound up poisoning its own people. To find out, listen and subscribe to Snafu on the iHe Storytime Podcast history. Well John, that's because it's Dumpin' Week and this user writes, my partner told me when we first got together
Starting point is 00:04:08 that he has cancer. He's currently living with his mom while he is in recovery so that it takes the pressure off me caring for both him and her baby until he's well enough to move into our new home with us. That's good so far. Well last week we had attempted break-in. I asked my husband who was supposed to be at his mom's
Starting point is 00:04:22 to come over and change locks, but he wouldn't. Then his mom told me he wasn't with her. I went to Facebook and it took me less than an hour to find the first two women he was cheating on me with. Oh, what else is he lying about? Well, one thing my paranoia just wouldn't let up was about the cancer in his treatments. I asked his mom about it who told me he doesn't have cancer. She also informed me he was in rehab, not the hospital. He suffered from addiction and was trying to recover for me and our baby.
Starting point is 00:04:48 Did she leave him? Well, to find out how the story ends, listen and follow the OK Storytime podcast on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here? Ow, goes lower.
Starting point is 00:05:01 From Blumhouse TV, iHeart Podcasts, and Ember 20 comes an all new fictional comedy podcast series. Join the flighty Damien Hirst as he unravels the mystery of his vanished boyfriend. And Santi was gone. I've been spending all my time looking for answers about what happened to Santi. And what's the way to find a missing person?
Starting point is 00:05:20 Sleep with everyone he knew, obviously. Mm, pillow talk. The most unwelcome window into the human psyche. Follow our out of his element hero as he engages in a series of ill-conceived, investigative hookups. Mama always used to say,
Starting point is 00:05:34 God gave me gumption in place of a gag reflex. And as I was about to learn, no amount of showering can wash your hands of a bad hookup. Now, take a big whiff, my brah. Listen to The Hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of
Starting point is 00:06:01 Dirt Island, hey guys! The Weeknd edition. Beard girl. Beard girl. Beard girl. I could really go for a beard girl. Cucumber, cucumber, cucumber. Cucumber.
Starting point is 00:06:13 She should have just hit that shit like Ilaria Baldwin. That's right. My friend was saying that Baldwin show, it starts to humanize Alec Baldwin. Wait, he has a reality show? Yeah, it's called The Baldwins. OK, so I was with somebody like, sorry, I got to get back. I got to I got to watch The Baldwins.
Starting point is 00:06:30 I'm like, you're really watching that shit. I'm like, how fucked up is Eladia? They're like, yo, she's they're like, you feel bad for Alec Baldwin because of her watching the show. Although the show is completely meant to be, you know, rehab because of the rust shooting right right anyway Just an aside because the word gun bear came on come bail Anyways go go google burger French pronunciation if you don't know what we're talking about
Starting point is 00:06:56 There's so many versions of people and if that game is so funny like it's funny when you see people trying like brute force the the pronunciations like, like just anything. Anyway, this makes sense to I'm sure everybody. My name is Jack that over there is Miles. This is the episode where we, did I say, did I get those right? Did I say I'm Jacking your miles
Starting point is 00:07:18 or did I get them backwards? It's impossible to say. This is the episode where we let you guys get to know us a little bit better while telling you what was trending over the weekend. First, we open up with a little overrated, a little underrated. Miles, we you want to start us off with a with something you think is overrated. Overrated is overrated. Fucking just de-boned chicken that you buy at the store.
Starting point is 00:07:44 So stop. Stop. Stop it. I feel like Michael Jordan. Just deboned chicken that you buy at the store stop stop Stop it. I feel like Michael Jordan. Okay as I as I've become really into unit pricing When I go to the grocery store and you know, you really look and you're like damn, bro I'm paying a premium for that like for things to be sectioned butchchered, deboned or whatever. And I had to really I had to really think like I'm looking at a lot of Japanese recipes like because I cook a ton and so much of the stuff is sort of built around the way people used to do things like you had a whole chicken that you bought. So you would have bones to make a stock.
Starting point is 00:08:20 You would have skin to render the fat out, to make your other shit even more tasty rather than like Just buying a chicken breast. So I've been buying like at times a full unbutchered chicken other times Sections like because I love making chicken thighs But I need to have that fucking skin on and you're not paying like when you only sell boneless skinless chicken thighs So I buy the fucking regular legs and I fucking I just butcher that shit You know, I mean again is the is the first part of your recipe recipe Like I want to offend the butcher is raise a chicken to maturity
Starting point is 00:08:56 Like is that is that how is what they like raise a chicken to maturity is like step one of the recipe Oh, yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have three children. Give it some love.
Starting point is 00:09:11 Time your three children's births to line up with the harvests is step two. But like, no, but in that sense, like buying a chicken, A, there's like, there's so many benefits. It's cheaper. I know not everyone has the time, but it's like one of those things with repetition, you get better, you get faster, you begin to understand the things you work with better and you have, I don't know, I just have more ideas.
Starting point is 00:09:32 So also when I look at how much more it costs, I'm like, oh, I'm also saving a ton of money by not buying like, like if you want a thigh, buy like the quarters and you get all this other shit. Just gotta do a little bit of knife work. It ain't crazy, it's not crazy. And then you can make stocks and shit. So just looking at that.
Starting point is 00:09:53 I will butcher that shit in the colloquial sense. In the whole. I would love to see you try and de-bone like a chicken thigh. You're like, whoa. Oh, I have. It has not gone well. I'm just like, leave the bone on the bone. Fine. And I get it.
Starting point is 00:10:08 It's it's a thing. Unless if you like the process, I can't recommend it enough. And also, when you think about how much more you're paying, it's like a little bit like a fuck. This is actually a better deal. Yeah, nice. All right. Overrated for me is my morning routine apparently
Starting point is 00:10:27 Have you seen the fitness influencer who's like going viral that morning? That's black dude who woke up. Yeah for him. Yes who wakes up at 3 like 28. Yeah in the morning Yeah involves multiple ice baths I don't know what that is. Yeah involves multiple ice baths They like just he has like bottle service constantly for Saratoga Spring This is water going in the video episode we're gonna have yeah, we're gonna have to frame by frame this one because The wild like he's got the mouth tape plus nose strip like when he wakes up You're like what's the wakes up with his mouth with tape on
Starting point is 00:11:06 his mouth, so much ice water face, so many face dunks, which I might have to start doing that. That's kind of fun, sir. I'm sorry. This is like one of those things when like white people do this. And they're like, I'm I it's all because I drink this collagen milkshake in the morning. Like, bro, this is your genetics. It's not because you're freezing your fucking face and ice. Right. Stop acting like that's why you have no wrinkles.
Starting point is 00:11:30 But there's one great moment where he jumps into a pool like so each each thing is like three twenty eight. Wake up three thirty. Take the mouth tape off. You know, three forty three first bottle of Saratoga spring water. There's one point where he jumps in like it shows him jump in slow motion into a dive over a like hotel pool There's way too small for him to be diving like this in yeah, yeah, and then cut to like Like five minutes later, and it's like him going into the water The leap has taken five minutes
Starting point is 00:12:05 that's pretty impressive yeah but yeah I don't know man this this caused me to reevaluate my morning routine and I think I'm pretty sure it sucks shit my morning routine like I I wake up and fight a like 45 minute to one hour battle with coziness. We're like, I don't want to get out of my cozy bed. Like I wake up early, like my body wakes me up and I'm just like, so I like stay in bed until I can no longer justify being in bed.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Do you shut your eyes and do pretend sleep or are you in your mom? I do pretend, and then my kids usually come in and wanna snuggle and so I snuggle with them. And then you're like, well I'm snugglinguggling. I mean like this that way. I'm doing this is this is gonna pay off years from now This is skin to skin. They're eight and six And then Yeah, so until I can no longer justify being in bed
Starting point is 00:12:59 I then I get up and then like immediately get into a warm shower and like fight another battle with like Warm wonderful shower into the cold cruel warning air, you know, I I don't I have coffee in the morning I don't really eat much in the morning. He like has a prepared everything's being prepared for him off Camera and it's just like handed to him Including his bottled water a lot of times. So stupid. And one of his things is he eats a banana and then rubs it on his face. Skincareful.
Starting point is 00:13:34 I don't consume anything and rub any of its byproducts on my face. I do inadvertently. Like I'll eat some greasy shit and then I'm like wiping it all over my cheeks right my wrist And that's why you look so good. That's my secret That's why I have this nice band of tight skin along my mouth where they rub food grease yeah, my one takeaway is I'm going to uh start consuming three gallons of Saratoga spring water every morning before 8 o'clock and And and taping my mouth closed like I'm in a hostage
Starting point is 00:14:06 situation. Like, and also you have you have this weird purple accent lighting all the time. I do always have always have bisexual lighting as it's been seen. I see my sexual lighting. Yeah. Yeah. I have that or else it's nothing or else you're not. You have to be euphoria adjacent.
Starting point is 00:14:24 So much journaling is happening on his end What about these guys he like journals and then like reflects on the journal? Yeah reflect on the journal five minutes later Shut the fuck cuz this guy's a life guru. He's like a life coach. That's like He's a lot of shit and former Alcorn State University football player Yeah, I mean if this is all it takes, he does push ups out on like a balcony overlooking the city, kind of takes like time to reminisce about how he runs this town and then, yeah, it's just being driven everywhere. It's a it's a wild video if you haven't seen it.
Starting point is 00:15:02 Highly recommend. Rubell shit, man. But yeah, well, we're gonna have to break this down Yeah, we'll have to break it down. It's too absurd and like I think just speaks to everything that's wrong with us Yeah, or right. Yeah, it speaks to everything that's wrong with me cuz I'm not doing this shit and that's me fucking up And that's but that's what this fucking content is meant to do to people. You know what? I mean, it's meant to preserve this idea that is meant to do to people. You know what I mean? It's meant to preserve this idea that
Starting point is 00:15:25 we are not capable enough as we are to do things like we have to. We have to achieve this other level of existence to do even like the most basic things like function. Oh, yeah, I'm unhappy because I don't get up at three thirty in the morning and do push ups like that's right. OK, I don't know that at 6 at night You know what Jack maybe this maybe this next week we should once we sleep the liquid the video We should attempt to do this and are on yeah
Starting point is 00:15:53 And then see but then you're missing the part where you lose it on your kids because you're so under you're not tired Right so fucking tired and you have the wherewithal to even be patient as a parent. No, all right. Let's try fall asleep yeah, there's no way I could get out of bed at 328 for anything other than like, I don't know, an alarm going off. Literally. Yeah, it would have to be like an evacuation order because my house is burning down. I mean, I wasn't going to say anything, but that's really what it would take. That's what I think. Yeah. And even then I might just be like, not this time. See,. I don't know pretty cozy pretty cozy in here
Starting point is 00:16:27 What is something miles you think is underrated? Okay, I'm just all my own my overrun does all based on like thinking about tariffs thinking about food prices thinking about the future Miles is in his food era. I'm in my food bag. I'm in my grocery bag if you will I'm in my food bag. I'm in my grocery bag, if you will. Try rubbing more of it. Another thing though too is without realizing, and this is why I'd say it's underrated, how easily we get produce and making us think that we live in a year, like a world of year round harvests where it's like, there's always blueberries. There's always blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:17:05 And then I'm like, isn't this shit season like, like wondering? Because I was, you know, I did a fucking blueberry few months ago. I'm like, where the fuck? I'm like, is there a blueberry shortage? Something's going on. And then I'm like, they're not in fucking season, asshole. That's why. But you're out here because you're used to seeing them all the time.
Starting point is 00:17:22 You think they are fucking they are just ready to eat year round. No, they are coming from abroad. That's why we have these things. So that's another, and then I'm like, why is it so expensive? And then you realize, oh, I'm buying out of season fruit. And then in my mind, sort of forcing it to be like, this is normal. This is normal. So I think it's really underrated how that thinking can take over us. And now I'm very much into thinking about seasonal fruits and understanding why. Yeah, I think that's in season. Cause like, cause dude, the farmer's market,
Starting point is 00:17:54 you know how much a fucking Fuji apple cost at the farmer's market yesterday? Right now? One fucking farmer's market apple. I mean, how much could an apple cost miles how much seven dollars? The most I think I would pay for on Apple on probably like a dollar $2 for a Fuji Apple for a not even like the best It was I mean the ship was sweet as fuck. I mean, like when I made it, I was like, oh, are you Fuji?
Starting point is 00:18:27 Are you Fuji? OK, big food, big food. Not a big Apple fan generally. So I don't I don't claim to have one. I Fuji because I think that's just like some misplaced like Japanese shit. There is a no. All right. So I am going to give you one spoiler for White Lotus, because I'm caught up and you are still,
Starting point is 00:18:45 you just finished episode one. I already could tell the way the one brother was looking at the other, I saw the first episode, I said, you know, what is going on with them? One spoiler is there's a part where a character is eating a red delicious apple, just a giant red delicious apple that was violence. I was like, what is this?
Starting point is 00:19:00 Like people pay attention to like the shit that they consume, they're like, what's this character reading? What's this? Characters eating what appears to be just a giant red delicious apple look like what? Lish and you know every other app that's the subtext Jack That's the subtext but then you but then then I'm talking to him like damn shit's expensive. It's like yes It is what it is and I'm trying to go direct, you know what I mean? Like cut out the middle man and buy from a farmer.
Starting point is 00:19:28 But then also like there's levels to that shit too because someone who's pulling up at a farmer's market in certain parts of LA, like they're already being foolish with their prices. So. I might go $2 for Honeycrisp, not even. Honeycrisp I don't think I'd even do $2 for. Maybe like Cosmic crisp or like a
Starting point is 00:19:46 Really good like what's that one? That's like super like engineered to be sweet. Yeah Or whatever. Yeah, something like that one. That's like almost too sweet Like if shit comes in a box then fine. Yeah, right. You know what I mean? But like if i'm just doing some newsy shit like turn turn of the century, New York, just grabbing it off the apple cot. Yeah. And then being chased around by a guy with a broom. Yeah. And I'm polishing it on my jacket with that. I keep throwing it off my elbow like the inside of my arm. That's my under-aid is popping apples off your elbow. Hey.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Having it fly. It's just fucking into the street. In the wrong direction. Causing a car wreck. Yeah. Yeah. No, because of this, I thought peaches were bad. Like I was so ignorant of like I just stopped paying attention to what is in season and what isn't.
Starting point is 00:20:39 And for a long part of my life, I was like, peaches suck, man. Like I haven't had a good peach in a long time. I guess maybe peaches were just always bad and I was wrong. And then I started realizing that peaches are in season at the end of the summer basically. July, August is peach season. And those peaches are so fucking good.
Starting point is 00:21:06 Yeah, so much better than the shit I'm going to get like right now. But it's like one of those things, right? It's like as kids, we ate what was in season. Like my mom was never bringing a watermelon home in December. Right. That just wasn't I wasn't eating peaches. Like and then when I really think about it, I'm like, oh, yeah, that's like peaches, that summertime. Those are summer fruits. And then these are like more winter things or whatever. Anyway,
Starting point is 00:21:31 go on. What was your, what were you saying? I was saying, uh, so my underrated, in addition to popping apples off your elbows, just like how much COVID broke us. I've just, I've like just encountered in the wild in the past, like week and a half, I've encountered multiple people just waxing philosophical about like COVID vaccines being like,
Starting point is 00:21:59 like it's settled to science that all everything that we did to save the safe people from the COVID pandemic being worse was like pointless and useless and Jesus like multiple people being like yeah change my daughter's menstrual cycle change your menstrual cycle dude like it's it's killed my friend all right man I'm just like I guess can I just get three of those gala apples? For real? Like, all right. So the most the wildest one I was, I took our Cub Scout den yesterday to a rocket
Starting point is 00:22:36 launch where they got to like launch rockets. It was like this little hobbyist group. Oh, like an SD's like rockets. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so there are. little hobbyist group. Oh like Estes like Rockets? Exactly yeah yeah yeah yeah and so there are also like people launching huge rockets and like timing how long they were up there like trying to like qualify for some world competition stuff so we saw like some awesome rocket launches and then there was just this guy on the mic who did like a tight five He was like guys line up over by that cord there. Don't worry
Starting point is 00:23:08 You don't have to stand 20 feet apart from each other social distancing Not that that did a thing Nor did the paper masks I'm a man of sight those of us who are scientists come talk to us. We'll tell you whether none of that mattered of us who are scientists come talk to us. We'll tell you that none of that mattered. He evoked man of science. Yeah. He's a man of science. He knows that, you know, rocket hobbyist that masks don't don't do anything. What's your degree in? Didn't go, but I love these rockets, man. Right. I'm just, I consider I like science, man. Ever put three D engine rocket engines together and launch them at once? Oh that's fun there's this one podcast that we're
Starting point is 00:23:49 like this kid basically talks to his mega parents and the the kids like it's a sign I don't know they like they I feel like they don't have the best counters all the time but it is like the the kids don't have like best counters all the time, but it is like the, the kids don't have like counters that I would necessarily go with, but they, you know, the parents like just at one point like swear up and down that someone they know like got the vaccine and it killed him. And there's like not, the kids don't really even like push back on that one. It's just like,
Starting point is 00:24:23 they're like, all right, all right. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's facts. Tax tax. Uh, I don't know. It just feels like it's like, we just like lost a whole chunk of the country who is now just like on some, do your own research. Um, can't trust doctors or scientists. And also that is probably pretty dangerous. It's sort of that whole that take is getting more and more mainstreamed because of this administration, too. So it's natural that for people who were like maybe like sort of on the not
Starting point is 00:24:55 necessarily on the fence, maybe didn't know enough either way. But maybe we're just like, I just don't like that. We have to be like, he told what to do, right? That they're not fully becoming anti-Sans, but they're like, oh, OK, so if this is like the overarching, this is sort of like the dominant narrative that I'm just going to. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. It was all fucking. That was bullshit. It feels like the one place that the or at least the first place
Starting point is 00:25:18 that the people who felt emboldened by Trump's election win feel like they can be like, yeah, that's right. We're, you know, spike the football a little bit. So I don't know. And it's tough. Like we knew something weird was coming. Like we talked about during the pandemic, like in past pandemics, past like plague outbreaks, like you always see
Starting point is 00:25:48 weird shifts in people's relationship to both science and religion. And like there were like, you know, during the Black Death, there were like roving bands of people who would just like come to your town and whip themselves. Like that was that was like culture back then. So like, we knew there was going to be some big destabilizing thing that rolled down off of this onto all of us. But I just, I feel like the, there's a lot of quote unquote men of science out there
Starting point is 00:26:23 who are very confident that they have the political capital to just like now tell us that like the shit that they heard on Joe Rogan is like facts. You know, it's just, yeah, it's just, it's just wowed that evolution that a lot of these guys went from the bud light real men of genius and now are the men of science. I think they come off the same tree. Yeah. They used to be like, don't know shit man like that's you know, and now they're like Actually, I know better than my doctor. So fuck yourself. Yep. That's empowering that must be empowering
Starting point is 00:26:58 Dude, if to be that omnipotent and omniscient good lord, man. Shout out to you man to be fully in control All right. Let's let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Have you ever wondered if your pet is lying to you? Why is my cat not here? Am I going and she's eating my lunch? Or if hypnotism is real? You will use this suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. But what's inside a black hole? Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe. Well, we have answers for you in the new iHeart original podcast, Science Stuff.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Join me, Jorge Cham, as we tackle questions you've always wanted to know the answer to about animals, space, our brains, and our bodies. Questions like, can you survive being cryogenically frozen? This is experimental. This may never work for you. What's a quantum computer? It's not just a faster computer. It performs in a fundamentally different way.
Starting point is 00:27:53 Do you really have to wait 30 minutes after eating before you can go swimming? It's not really a safety issue. It's more of a comfort issue. We'll talk to experts, break it down, and give you easy to understand explanations to fascinating scientific questions. So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to science stuff on the iHeartVideo app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Prohibition. It's no secret that banning alcohol didn't stop people from living it up in the 1920s. When we're five years into prohibition, the government is starting to go, okay, this isn't working.
Starting point is 00:28:26 In fact, you might even say it backfired spectacularly. I'm Ed Helms, and on season three of my podcast Snafu, we're taking you back to the 1920s and the tale of Formula Six. Because what you probably don't know about Prohibition is that American citizens were dying in massive numbers due to poisoned liquor, and all along an unlikely duo was trying desperately to stop the corruption behind it. They were like superhero crusaders turning the page on a system that didn't work, wasn't fair, and was corrupt. So how did Prohibition's war on alcohol go so off the rails that the government wound up poisoning its own people?
Starting point is 00:29:07 To find out, listen and subscribe to Snafu on the iHeartRadio stay? Okay Sam, that has to be the craziest story in OK Storytime podcast history. Well John, that's because it's Dumpin' Week and this user writes, My partner told me when we first got together that he has cancer. He is currently living with his mom while he is in recovery so that it takes the pressure off me caring for both him and her baby until he's well enough to move into our new home with us. Good so far. Well last week we had attempted break-in.
Starting point is 00:29:42 I asked my husband who was supposed to be at his mom's to come over and change locks But he wouldn't then his mom told me he wasn't with her I went to Facebook and it took me less than an hour to find the first two women He was cheating on me. Oh, what else is he lying about? Well one thing my paranoia just wouldn't let up was about the cancer and his treatments I asked his mom about it who told me he doesn't have cancer. She also informed me He was in rehab, not the hospital. He suffered from addiction and was trying to recover for me and our baby.
Starting point is 00:30:09 Did she leave him? Well, to find out how the story ends, listen and follow the OK Storytime podcast on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here? Ow goes lower. From Blumhouse TV, iHeart Podcasts, and Ember 20 comes an all new fictional comedy podcast series. Join the flighty Damien Hirst as he unravels the mystery
Starting point is 00:30:32 of his vanished boyfriend. And Santi was gone. I've been spending all my time looking for answers about what happened to Santi. And what's the way to find a missing person? Sleep with everyone he knew, obviously. Hmm, pillow talk. The most unwelcome window into the human psyche.
Starting point is 00:30:48 Follow our out of his element hero as he engages in a series of ill-conceived, investigative hookups. Mama always used to say, God gave me gumption in place of a gag reflex. And as I was about to learn, no amount of showering can wash your hands of a bad hookup.
Starting point is 00:31:05 Now, take a big whiff, my brah. Listen to The Hookup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. And we're back. We're back. And how the Democrats doing? Soul searching, man. Soul searching. You know, good.
Starting point is 00:31:31 It's wild. I love that for them. Talking to some boomer family members who are typically like Big D, Big D style with it. We're like, they're fucking done. Like the anger I'm seeing is interest is very interesting, just anecdotally that I've seen from people who like would never question the Democratic Party are now so pissed, which is very interesting. I thought that was, I thought that was
Starting point is 00:31:56 just a little factoid I've noticed over conversations with family over the weekend ahead. I mean, it's truly like we, they are like the in polling. They are as low as they've ever been. Like the Democratic Party is like and I can't imagine like the Republican Party has ever been this low either. Like they're just completely fucked. Yeah, yeah. I think it's like it's like a party thing. It's not working as a distraction anymore, I think, guys. But anyway, so over the weekend, the Bernie and AOC Fighting Oligarchy Tour hit Denver
Starting point is 00:32:27 and drew a crowd of around 30,000 people according to their estimates. It looked like a pretty huge crowd. And the message, I guess, seems to be hitting. You know, like how, like, oligarchy is, like, bad. Which I'm pretty sure is true. I'm pretty sure it's true from what I'm seeing, but I don't know.
Starting point is 00:32:44 But it's 30,000 people all agree. But yeah, like it is wild to see this amount of people like that clearly this is where the energy is at. If they are curious, it's not over Chuck Schumer being like, why will help the Republicans defeat themselves by cosigning their agenda? No, that's not what's working. It's all gonna fall apart. It's gonna fall apart on them, guys. And we'll just pick up the pieces. The Schumer Carville ticket. You just gotta sit back and wait for them to implode. Those are the type of people, and I'm not trying to be derogatory, toxic, masculine,
Starting point is 00:33:18 but in a thing, they get their... You get your partner stolen. You know what I mean? And you go, yeah, I don't want to play into their hands by like fighting for the love of my life or something. I'm just going to, I'm just going to let she'll figure it out. Right.
Starting point is 00:33:34 That's like, that's a problem back when she realized a metaphor. But you know what I mean? Like this idea that you don't have to fight for something that matters. Right. And somehow that's actually the
Starting point is 00:33:44 4D chest move, it fucking isn't. Not when your back's to the fucking wall, you have nothing left. Anyway, so we all know crowd sizes are a huge indicator of genital size, so naturally the freaks on Twitter started doing conspiracies. Manosphere podcast? Dude, we all know that. Your girl stole.
Starting point is 00:34:02 This is how you get your fucking chicks stolen, bruh. And you better pull up with 30,000 people or we know we know it ain't popping like that But no like it like the obsession, you know Because Trump is obsessed with it and you can see like because this is what happened Elon Musk was co-signing this stupid ass conspiracy tweet that someone posted a quote despite claims of ass conspiracy tweet that someone posted a quote, despite claims of 34,000 attendees, GPS data analysis reveals the real number was closer to 20,000. Still big, but not record breaking. Okay. More revealing, a whopping 84% of those devices had shown up at nine or more other protests,
Starting point is 00:34:42 including Antifa, BLM events, pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian demonstrations, and Kamala Harris campaign stops. And then Musk replied, the Dems just move around the same group of paid protesters. Uh-huh, yep, yep, yep. So then I'm like, but then everyone's like, where's that data from? What are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:35:01 And the guy's like, nah, nah, nah, you're not going to get me just like the, just like when Mayor booty head came to Long Island and said, I have 1800 signatures. They can't see him, can't see him. But I have the data. But also like, it's just so, it's so pedantic to not even be like, it wasn't 34,000. It was 3000 to be like, it wasn't 34 is like 20 still pretty fucking huge. Yeah. Like, I mean, there seems to be a lot of energy all over the country for these
Starting point is 00:35:32 rallies, like no matter where they go. Yeah. God, the, the, the travel budget for these paid protesters, they're like, I know, just moving them around. I mean, deep pockets of Soros. Yeah, I mean, look, this is it's so funny because that's it's exactly what Musk does, too. Like, it's always just projection or it's like it's George Soros paying people. It's like Elon Musk.
Starting point is 00:35:56 You are offering Wisconsin voters a hundred dollars to sign a fucking petition in what's like your right. That's literally what you do. So we get it. That's you're just calling yourself. And also it might work to sign a petition. I don't know that it works to like get them to fly to a new city. Bro, that's a gig. Right.
Starting point is 00:36:16 You know what I mean? Yeah. Jack and I don't even get paid for appearances. I know Tifa George Soros things. We do it for the love of George Soros. Yeah, we just like Soros. We think he's a cool guy. It's like, sure, I'd imagine people who are politically engaged enough right now
Starting point is 00:36:34 may have also been to other events, even if that is true. And then I'm also like, what fucking weird data sweeping technology do you have to be able to instantly be like, yes, and these phones are here and here and here? It's like, what are you either telling on yourself for like some weird ass invasive surveillance tech
Starting point is 00:36:49 that you have or you're just doing a thing where you're pretending you can see all this stuff. Either way, alarming. But the people he has to impress and who he has to convince he has that ability are on a wow, everything's computer level of understanding technology. Like you say fucking you say anything you want.
Starting point is 00:37:11 How you do that? I turn off I turn off his laptop. I come back five days later. He's on the laptop. I hate it. I said, how do you get that? Shut the fuck up anyway. So for anybody missed, was that the last trending episode? Maybe. Yeah, I'll have to just put that on.
Starting point is 00:37:30 We just have to keep playing. I don't want to put that on the soundboard, but listen, it's great. That was talking about Baron and how he's like a like he's basically a hacker, according to Donald Trump. Yeah. And the way that he was able to back that up is that he said that he told him to turn his laptop off. And five minutes later, he found him with his laptop open again. And he said, how you do that?
Starting point is 00:37:55 Hey, Dad, fuck you, Dad. That's probably what he said anyway. So all of this is just like we have like like, you know That there's a lot of soul-searching trying to figure out where the where where the pendulum is gonna swing in terms of influence within the Democratic Party Seems like the energy is on the progressive side But these rallies I think still may be an outlier when it comes to like sort of the broad spectrum of what the Democratic Party represents because there's a there's like more polling where people are like, OK, so like Democrats, like who would you want to run for president again? And a huge majority said Kamala, like it wasn't even close. Like
Starting point is 00:38:35 they're right. It's still there. And those early polls like that are pretty name recognition based. No, I get that. But I'm just saying like that's, but that that is just where that's where we are still. That is where we are still. I don't think enough people have been like absolutely not that was a disaster and I'm sure people have their thinking they're like well if maybe she wasn't beholden to what the DNC told her to do it could go one way if she ran her own campaign what would that have looked like? But then it's her, then Pete Buttigieg, then AOC, and Tim Wall's tide, then Mark fucking Cuban after that. I think it would be that, yeah, so Mark Cuban, name recognition. He's just a reality show guy. Well, and also they're just like, I like that work.
Starting point is 00:39:17 Yeah, but he's, but I think it's also because he, he speaks up when advantageous about like, hating Trump. And then also he's like, I'm trying to make the medications cheaper for you guys This guy can't be pushed around to our new billionaire mark urban. Mm-hmm. I mean Jesus Christ Yeah, but I think this next year will be very interesting Like because the different factions in the party are and the donors are going to fight over the brand I think the larger question is, is the brand dead? No, no, no, no. No, no. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:51 You know what I mean? No, this thing. Because AOC and Bernie, right? Bernie could even get people that were thinking of voting for Trump because to them he represented something that was outside of the Democratic Party. And I think the second you put that label like I'm running as a Democrat there's not there's no pivoting to this there's no amount of pivoting to the center you can do that will court those people because the label just stops people dead in
Starting point is 00:40:16 their tracks and if clearly that if you want something new to emerge that's indicative of something different it can't be under this brand. Yeah it needs to be somebody whose brand is like anti-democratic party, but they are officially part of the Democratic Party because the there's just like no liberals will be like, OK. Well, yeah. And also like just all the entrenched like power structures and stuff like they're not going to we saw what happens if you don't have the Democratic Party signing on.
Starting point is 00:40:44 But then what is the fucking that's that's the thing is like the what how formidable is the establishment still? When you have like a bunch of alien aging people at the top where the thinking is stale I'm just saying there's a lot of a lot in flux that I'm not sure that the same things are Going to keep happening, but I don't know. That's, that's sort of an optimistic take for me to be honest. This would be like, yeah, I just feel, I feel like their strategy right now is like, we're just going to rope a dope and then you just like never start fighting back. You know, there's that famous like Muhammad Ali, like for people who aren't sports fans, there's a famous story where Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman, RIP, and let him tire
Starting point is 00:41:28 himself out just punching him and avoiding and just weaving. And then in the eighth round, had enough energy to knock him out. That's called the rope-a-dope. And I feel like, I wonder how many boxers there's like that one successful example I wonder how many times people were like I'm gonna rope a dope them and then just like got knocked out in the fourth round Which I don't think we'd ever know you'd never know Strategy was to get punched a bunch of times. That's exactly what Chuck Schumer did with this book.
Starting point is 00:42:09 Yeah, exactly. That's what it feels like. He said, he's like, I thought the Republicans were going to clean a house on their own. And why did you think that, Chuck? Because you are not ready for this shit. You are the kind of guy like that dude in my high school who got his chain snatched at a party and then they came up to him and they said we'll give it back to you for $40 and you bought it when you had everybody in that party would have had your back. These kids were from another school
Starting point is 00:42:39 and then you kept quiet about it and everybody like yo what happened and they explained it and everyone's like, yo, what? And they were gone. And you could have been like, yo, I'm trying to take my chain. Everyone like, yo, what's good? No, this is Chuck Schumer got his chain snatched and bought it back for $40 by the Republicans. That's what happened. Could have raised your voice.
Starting point is 00:42:59 Could have raised your voice. People would have done something. But now, now I don't, I don't like we we want to see where they're going with this Seem like a fair deal that does seem like a player. It's just gonna play into their hands. I just want a square deal here Yeah, it's just gonna yeah, yeah, he's definitely not the right person to be in charge No, you got people like John Fetterman could be continuing to just fucking reveal how much of a fucking waste role he is Like y'all this ain't it. I do have good news Fetterman continuing to just fucking reveal how much of a fucking waste role he is. Like, y'all, this ain't it.
Starting point is 00:43:30 I do have good news. Joe Biden is available if needed. Exactly. Please. He's been meeting with the DNC offering to fundraise. I mean, that's that's the party's biggest problem right now. Lack lack of Biden. Joe Biden is also quote, prepared to campaign and raise money for fellow Democrats. And both of them are working on new books instead of simply going away forever.
Starting point is 00:44:02 Yeah. Serving in the capacities that she served is an honor and it comes with responsibilities to the part and she's prepared to help in any way she can. I mean that is like that's just again clinging to this old model where like it's just enough. It's enough to just have the Democrats just march out this decrepit monkey skeleton as they described Mr. Burns and the Simpsons in an early season of that show and have people throw dollars at it. Yeah, that'll Yeah, that's the plan. They have a good rule of thumb of like how to judge if Biden is the guy to help the party out of this existential malaise that is probably going to kill it in
Starting point is 00:44:49 any recognizable form. Jane Klebe, a vice chair of the DNC, said in an interview, if you were to call any state party chair and ask them if they wanted Joe Biden to be a keynote speaker for their annual dinner, the answer would be yes. He is beloved by the party and beloved by the voters. Wait a second. Was it used trailing the performance of Kamala Harris, who got beat in the election by like 10 points? Self-preservation, baby. Of course, the vice chair of the DNC is going to suggest that because they should have
Starting point is 00:45:24 cleaned house and they didn't know they they all promoted people internally. Like they did not take a fucking second to be like, are do we maybe get someone other people who have a different perspective on how this can go better? It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Another major Biden supporter said, who's going to want Joe Biden back in the game? Speaking of the condition of anonymity.
Starting point is 00:45:50 So that's loud. Shit. Yeah, it is what it is, folks. It's just you guys just just look at where the energy is at. Now that the energy is misleading miles, the the real thing that we should be paying attention to is who's getting punched and like pushed around the most because they are probably rope a doping and that was willing to get punched out. Who's willing to get knocked the fuck out with their hands down the whole fight?
Starting point is 00:46:16 I think people will respect that. Thank you. You know, one thing about America, it's we love a weak willed noner for things. Always do they rally behind. That's America at its core. What the fuck are y'all talking about? Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
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Starting point is 00:50:52 So Severance's second season came to an end last week. I am not. I watched the first episode of season two and have not have not been up on it yet, but I'll probably keep watching. did really enjoy seeing that show not any good weird sex stuff as far as I but that's the thing like Season one was pretty like tame, but then it seemed like everybody got real Horny for season two. I wasn't told someone got a note That's right a little bit hornier this next season. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but anyways Apple TV's most watched series ever Was renewed for a third season but around the same time the day that the finale came out a report was released outlining
Starting point is 00:51:40 how unprofitable the streaming network is, Apple Plus, reportedly it is losing them more than $1 billion per year, $1 billion per year. They're spending 4.5 billion on content annually, which is down from 5 billion in past years. And yeah, it has about 45 million subscribers at this point. But wow.
Starting point is 00:52:09 And the whole is that that's a good no, I feel like a bad mile out in this town. You're you're a billion dollar loser annually. They typically shutter things pretty quick. I know. That's the thing. Like people, people are like, yeah, Apple can just eat it. But I mean, they could. They could. They technically could, for sure. Like, so in 2024, they generated 391 billion dollars in revenue
Starting point is 00:52:38 and posted a net profit of 93.7 billion. Could have been 94.7 if it weren't for the streaming service though. Yeah, that is true. Wall Street will have an eye on that. Yeah. And like could have been 94.7 billion. You can move. Jesus Christ. Like the whole model for Apple Plus has never fully made like they don't market it like any other content platform does.
Starting point is 00:53:07 I mean, both them and Amazon both, like I think Amazon tries. It's just like, they don't suck at it. They're just fucking, they're, they're so backwards over there. Apple plus, like, I don't know. I guess I definitely heard a lot about Severance season two, I think largely because it was like viral and a lot of Severin season two, I think largely because it was like viral and a lot of people were watching it. But I heard about it more because Arsenal fans notice there's an Arsenal fan in that
Starting point is 00:53:31 writers room because so many characters have these names of people on the team that are so specific. Oh, really? They're like, yeah, there was like in one of the last episodes, there was like a conductor, I guess character and his name was bukayo and that's like one of our star players bukayo saca and there's like talk of like our teta who's our manager like there's like all these someone's like just looking all this shit there's like some fan is fucking running reckless in this room with all these easter eggs but that's but again I only
Starting point is 00:54:01 know about it because either if I buy like a fucking new anything Apple, they're like, hey, you want to fucking you want to hear free? I'm like, so do people pay for it? Or can you just buy something? They just keep giving it to you. The model doesn't really make sense. Like the other thing that people point to is like, well, they're all the characters are, you know, Ted Lasso is constantly tethered, tethering emotional moments to iPhones and iPads, where he's like, you know, away from his kids and they have like emotional like FaceTime
Starting point is 00:54:34 conversations, but nobody's actually buying iPhones for that. Like, I can't. They've already achieved ubiquity with that kind of stuff. Yeah. So we already call it FaceTiming, even if it isn't. Like I know can't they've already achieved ubiquity with that kind of stuff. Yeah, so We already call it face timing even if it isn't right, you know, so I don't you you've you've already ticked that box There's still it doesn't stop them from trying across 74 Apple TV plus episodes characters handled some 300 iPhones 120 MacBooks and 40 pairs of AirPods. So 74 episodes, that's not like across 74 shows
Starting point is 00:55:11 across the entirety. 74 episodes that they made of television, 300 iPhones, 120 MacBooks, and 40 pairs of AirPods. And a partridge in a pear tree. Yeah. So severance is the one like you can't really have Apple, uh, in that showing up in severance because we had a weird like sci-fi universe that like where the company is evil. Uh,
Starting point is 00:55:41 jam has a theory though our writer, JM McNabb has a theory that the way that Severance works is that the show's cartoonishly evil tech company makes them look better by comparison. I mean, yeah. He's like, you know, make it a Borg situation and then we look good on the other. At least we're not forcing our employees
Starting point is 00:56:04 to get experimental brain surgery yet. Right. Yeah. They're like, and did you have Octavia Spencer play God or Mother Nature? Yeah, I'd say we're pretty woke. We had Octavia Spencer play God. Thank you. And we got Tim a ton of acting lessons to prepare for that.
Starting point is 00:56:35 My prediction would be that this streaming service won't be around like long, like so people are talking about how they just renewed for season three. I would guess that season three comes out somewhere else, but they also have the MLS contract like you can watch everything Yeah, I don't know. I mean they're getting in deeper in D I don't know I mean like this is this shit always happens where like they lay out look at what happened to Hollywood y'all Then the streaming industry and how it's basically turned it's like LA is dying now because of this shit So you know what? I don't count out that this could end completely disastrous basically turn it's like LA is dying now because of this shit.
Starting point is 00:57:06 So you know what? I don't count out that this could end completely disastrous. Could end disastrously. It's just like I don't like prime at least makes sense in the sense that like it's bundled with their main business. Yeah, and it's a private account great drink to great beverage. What my favorite? Yeah, I'm always I'm always trying to get shopping for prime. Yeah. But I've never.
Starting point is 00:57:31 I've like, not only have I never heard anyone say that they like got an iPhone because they wanted to like watch a show on Apple Plus, but like, I can't even like conceive of that person existing like even once, you know? No. And I mean, if we're being honest, most people buy iPhones because because it's so ubiquitous and it almost feels like outside of the norm. Right. Where like because we have green bubble shaming. So I was like, you know, it's like I think it is generational because a lot of people talk about just how like washed a discussion is.
Starting point is 00:58:02 But like I was in a thread of people were like that was kind of brought up in a semi-serious way of like, well, if there's going to be green bubbles, we can maybe use like a different app. And I was like, Jesus Christ. Yeah, there's no green bubble talking about nonsense over here. Yeah. And finally, in a kind of made up news story, Snow White didn't do that well because of wokeness 43 million at the domestic box office totally because of a rejection of wokeness. Thank you very much New York, New York Post Yeah, oh this is from the New York Post.. Woke flop snow white could see one of Disney's
Starting point is 00:58:46 sleepiest opening weekends. That's that should have been for Sleeping Beauty. But anyway, or whatever, she's sleepy in a coffin too. She goes to sleep too. Yeah. Okay. Does he broad who can't stop herself from eating a poison apple? It's yeah. Yeah, so when you actually dig into the numbers, I'm for Kevin Sorbo did tweet out the ending scene where everybody's like celebrating in the I Guess this is a spoiler that things work out. Okay for Snow White. She doesn't die of apple poisoning They don't disappear her for being pro-palestinian Do process. oh, okay? As Gal Gadot yeah
Starting point is 00:59:28 They they he retweeted like the Celebration scene it does look like shit it looks looks pretty bad, and he said the left can't make movies Which is pretty bold coming from the director and star of left behind rise of the Antichrist Coming from the director and star of Left Behind, Rise of the Antichrist. Wow. Left Behind, Rise of the Antichrist. The poster just like has a like newscaster. You know, like the cutaways in like cheap movies where they're like, and we cut away to a shitty looking version of CNN where the person is reporting on the rise of the Antichrist.
Starting point is 01:00:10 Like this has that, that's like on the poster. That's like the bottom of the poster is like a news person. 97% on their popcorn meter. A lot of brigading, I'm sure, going into. Left behind rise of the Antichrist is 97%. It's a fucking cinematic classic. After millions of people vanish and the world falls into chaos,
Starting point is 01:00:31 a charismatic leader rises to lead the UN. However, his intentions are more sinister than they be. Oh good, okay, so it's about the UN and globalism. Oh sure, whatever, okay. Yeah, I bet he looks like Obama. There's a dude who looks like Discount, whatever. Okay. Yeah, I bet he looks like Obama. There's a dude who looks like discount like Keenan, I don't know how to describe this guy I've never outside of I've never seen this actor before and it makes sense that he would be in this movie with Kevin Sorbo
Starting point is 01:00:56 Yeah, anyways, it's it's a good movie and Snow White is bad because woke and not just because it's generally shitty deadline overanaly analyzed the box office results for Snow White as if they were election results and 56.5 percent of attendees were in theaters located in blue counties. What? What you go on but the majority of theaters in the US reside in blue counties, 53 percent. And attendance for family movies is usually around 60 percent blue counties and 40 percent red counties. So Snow White actually performed better in Republican areas
Starting point is 01:01:38 than you would have expected. Sorry. Well, what's this? Yeah, the reviews are pretty bad. It ended up at like 50 percent on Metacritic. I would have expected. Sorry. What's this? Yeah. Yeah. Reviews are pretty bad. It ended up at like 50% on Metacritic and yeah, the people's complaints are less that like it went woke on us and more that like it just seems like a soulless rehash. Like the same thing that happened with every one of these live Movies that everybody knows here
Starting point is 01:02:08 Maybe you take a note from Netflix and do fucking Snow White the reality competition show, right? Start doing that Disney. Yes fucking I said right spin around a woman Sent her into the forests to break into the first home that she comes across. Has to fight these people, these miners. Yeah, or win over whoever comes back to the house and finds. And by mine, M-I-N-E-R-S, like these people are in the mines, bro. They're not fucking around with trespassers.
Starting point is 01:02:38 That's right. But anyways, that is the better version. That's the more updated for modern America. This one has the problem of, you know, the Lion King had people who went and saw the original one taking their kids to go and see the original one. All the people who went and saw the original Snow White are dead and have been for a long time.
Starting point is 01:03:02 And yeah, I don't know. Like Cinderella did better than this, but it wasn't like the massive hit that like the lion King or the little mermaid were. Um, cause they just don't have that kind of social cache. It's just old as fuck. Well, it's Cinderella is definitely like Snow White feels it reminds like doing a remake of Snow White in the modern era reminds me of like the Vince Vaughn's psycho remake where it was big for its time because of like what had come before it, but it's not
Starting point is 01:03:33 The best of it's it's kind of like it was the first animated movie Like that's what Snow White like blew people's fucking minds because it was just the first animated movie they'd ever seen. And then they say, then the little girl had the voice, I said, how you do that? How you do that voice, Snow White? I mean, yeah, there's just also even with Cinderella, that has, we still talk about it in culture, like a Cinderella stories and like the glass. Snow White, you're just like, I don't know, the dwarves and like Apple That they went to sleep. I don't know. Is that mirror mirror on the wall or is that though? That is Mary Mary on the wall. It's too many but I mean like we're not Connected to evil Queen who's in the speed skating outfit for some reason
Starting point is 01:04:17 She's got that like that really tight black hood over her head and then I'm like, but what about Maleficent? You know, I mean then I'm like Beauty hood over her head. Right. And then I'm like, but what about Maleficent? You know what I mean? Then I'm like, is that the same person? Like, no, that's Sleeping Beauty. It's just like, there's, it has too many things going against it. And again, just start empowering the people that have the ideas that are different and will bring, it's like a milkshake. It will bring all the people to the yard. It is just wild to me that they've managed to turn a movie with like very regressive politics being remade for like modern audiences in a way that is like soulless and like a cynical money grab into like that's the side of the left.
Starting point is 01:04:57 It's like what's it not? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, look, they're hell bent on picturing every putting everything through the prism when it can't just be Disney's like fucking up Unfortunately for the people who you know, the New York Post and everybody who is all about like this is a big L for the woke the the only person who did have like recognizably progressive politics associated with this is Rachel Ziegler and the star and apparently that is the one takeaway that everybody has is like she's she's incredible.
Starting point is 01:05:33 She's a star baby. That's the one thing I was like, I because I knew people weren't like really hating on it but I think they're just like, it was a what a shitty gig to have to take. Right. And then also like because just like we were saying, like Snow White's one of those princesses or you're like, I don't know, but it gives a fuck about Snow White. Like if you're ranking them, that's not that ain't here.
Starting point is 01:05:54 Like if you look at the lines at Disney, at Disney World for like, you know, hanging with a Disney princess, I feel like Snow White's coming in last right like behind Cinderella If you put the two of them they would think snow white was some kind of fucking like Cosplay fan she was in the way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they were like you can't wear costumes here I don't know if you know that she's like no, I'm snow. I'm all right Just here go here want me to hold your phone to take a picture of you in Cinderella? All right. Well, those are some of the things that are trending on this Monday morning
Starting point is 01:06:31 We're back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show With her like her speed skating And I just picture like she should be wearing like a do rag with a Yankee fitted on Yeah, yeah Should have made it a fucking a wave cap All right back bar with all as episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves Get your vaccines way still can get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye!
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