Tomorrow - 144: The Year of the Dunk

Episode Date: December 24, 2018

For 2018's penultimate episode of Tomorrow, Josh and Ryan break down the best and worst of the year's memescape, the charm of Christmas, and how (not) to catch someone stealing your Amazon deliveries. Have a lovely holiday filled with as much MSG, retail shopping, and Emily Blunt vehicles as you can handle... but, remember: Fuck Batman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey and welcome to tomorrow, I'm your host, Joshua Topolki. Today on the podcast we discuss aliens, Chinese food, and Johnny Ives perfect curves. I don't want to waste one minute. Let's get right into it. Alright Ryan Zit, it's our second to last show of the year. Yeah, this is the 2018 is almost over. And I couldn't be happy. And what a year it was. It's a city. I looked at.

Sharpie has a thing. It's like the grip best headlines or the headline, the top stories, the stories that kept you engaged or whatever, like as if it's a thing to celebrate. And it's just so much horrible stuff. I mean, Laurel and Yanny was this year? Oh, boy. I mean, this year has just gone on. Like, someone was saying like,

just listing old memes from the year, and like, I'm trying to think of the other ones. I can't even remember the memes from this year, because there's the one that Jeremy wrote about, which I think is great, which was a very small event in the meme world, in the memescape, which was the, I don't care, fugitive meme.

Oh yeah. Just really good. We had a, I mean, I think that's a good, me, I don't think it was that popular. Can I point out this is what I was thinking of. Plain Bay happened in the second half of this year. Plain Bay. Oh, that's when the girl was like stalking the people. Yeah, but doesn't that feel like that was 14 years ago?

I was a fun one. I remember that. Everybody was so mad. I mean that. Every was so mad. I mean, this is the year. I was so mad. I've worked at BuzzFeed with like, how dare you monetize someone else's content and life in your work at BuzzFeed.

Yeah, they're like, if this had been a BuzzFeed post, that would have been really cool. She was like, hey, BuzzFeed, are you hiring? And they were like, not you bitch. And it was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. BuzzFeed doesn't want anyone to repurpose someone else's like content for their social media. Is that what you're saying?

It's very interesting, I have to say. It was a very interesting phenomenon, but I'm sorry that we're talking about it again, because it bumps me out all over. You know, because it's, I mean, I will say, yeah, it was fucked up. I will say that 2018, I think the defining feature of 2018 is that it was the year of swarm outrage.

I feel like it's the year that no peak swarm, peak swarm outrage. There was no, there was no even minor insurrection, even minor mistake that could be overlooked, that did not warrant. Several articles being written about it and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Twitter users trying to just swarm on that moment. You know?

The year of the dunk. Yeah, it's the year of the dunk, which is like, I think that Trump, I will say this, I think that yes, of course everybody is, we've got a lot of shit going on in the world that really sucks and there's a lot of horrible people that now are like, you know, sort of, have been given a megaphone, and there's a lot of issues that have come up, you know, because of Trump that, you know, we thought we had sort of dealt with,

you know, you're like, well, is gay marriage back on the table? That kind of stuff. And, and so, of course, everybody is kind of tweaked. But like, I also think the Trump and his, just sort of general way of walking through the world and what he's like brought sort of the wake of his, of his, of his gold yacht, of filled with feces has created,

I think everybody's made everybody like, meaner and less patient. And that's the thing is, the dunk is the most efficient way to be done with something. Like the news has brought you some garbage. You do a quick dunk, you get to feel superior, you got your take out there, you're like, fuck this,

I'm sick of this shit. It's like I love Lucy with the chocolates and we're at like a lot of chocolates coming out of that pipeline. Yeah, we're just popping them in our mouth, throwing them around. It's also, I just think everybody's just like, everybody's looking for the enemy.

You know, we're all like, who's the enemy? That's the current state, I would say, of our existence. At least it feels this way on the internet. And of course, this is the year that I became far less excited about being on the internet that I've ever been in my entire life. But it's the kind of like this,

like you're like, who's my enemy? Who is my enemy? And is my enemy somebody that I didn't think that they were or like, has somebody who I have previously not been enemies with now going to be my enemy? So, this week we've decided that Chrissy Teigen was bad because of some old tweets and it's like, Oh, what did she do?

Oh no. And like 2011, she used the T word to describe trans people, but not the word trans. She tweeted about game average in a flippant way. I think there was something racist. Like it was like, you know, Well, Chris is very outspoken, okay? She's not gonna apologize for those tweets.

Did she apologize? I don't think so. I think she deleted some. That's smart. Just get rid of them. She said something about like Lady Gaga was a man or Lindsay Lohan cuts herself. Like there was like a bunch of stuff that wasn't great,

but it was like guys, in 2011, like we all did some really bad stuff. Like Christian Cereano, who's a great person, used the T word a lot on project runway, and we've all grown and changed. But I'm so tired of the dunk of being like, finally, we can get Chrissy Teigen to delete her account. It's like, I get it, you listen to Chappell, but can we all move on? Like, there are bigger fish to fry.

Like, I'm not ready to full on by a second phone because some handset manufacturer made like a second phone that I can carry around that like the simple phone. All it does is take calls and I'm like, now I'm unplugged like, I'm not that person, but I am full on ready to like leave my phone in my backpack and just hope the notifications reach me on my watch. Because when I look at the trending topics, I don't want any of it.

I'm like, returned to sender. I don't need this in my life on subscribe. Yeah. No, it's a, there's a lot of checking out going on. Unfortunately, just like a moment ago, while we were talking, I stumbled upon a good thing on the internet, apparently. Oh, I guess I should bring it up. How you seeing this thread?

It's from this writer, Candice Marie Benbow. She's like, I, my neighbor, I don't want to ruin this for everybody, but I feel like I just have to talk about it, talking about the internet, things that happen at the internet right now, and how bad it is. She's like, my neighbor through this crazy party, so I wrote him a letter and baked him a cake.

And the letter is like, it's pretty funny. She's just like, you really, boy, you really went for it last night. Like, it was like four in the morning. I should have been sleeping, but like I could hear music coming from your apartment or whatever. And she's a super love.

Oh, this is so cute. Have you seen this? And she's a super long thread. And like, I don't know, it goes on and on, but then she's like, update. I just met my neighbor, Tommy. He's so freaking cool. He apologized for the noise, promised to have vibed

the next party. And most importantly, he. He's so freaking cool. He apologized for the noise promise to have vibrated the next party. Most importantly, he said my pound cake was amazing. That she has a selfie with her and Tommy. And then, I mean, let's just say it gets to a pretty heavy place. Like, it gets pretty heavy. And it is like, you know, the first good thing I've seen on Twitter, 2018. Now we're gonna find out it's all a hoax, you know, the first good thing I've seen on Twitter 2018.

Now we're gonna find out it's all a hoax, of course, but we can enjoy it all last. We're gonna milksick duck this at records. Yeah, yeah. People are gonna be like, well, Candace, how about these tweets you did in 2007 about the image? Hey, Candace, turning into a corn cob, honey. Yeah, it's, it's to be 19 drill at replies.

And I'm just going to be like, I, it's so, it's so bad, so bad. Anyhow, so far, so far, not nothing. But this is, this was post on December 18th. Let's give it, let's give it another couple of days. You know what? I really do think though the future of the internet and Twitter and Dunk and Outrage culture and stuff when we finally digest the Trump shit bag that is in our system right now,

is I do really think Sarah Silverman has the right approach, which is she really does approach people with kindness and she tries to figure out what's going on with the people who are the most vicious. Like people have sent her death threats. She's looked them up, found out something, there were in some really bad circumstance and wrote them a DM being like, sounds like you're going through a really hard time. If you need to get this out by being mean to me, have that at, but I do wish you the best. And I'm really sorry that you were diagnosed with cancer or I'm really sorry that you're in a place in your life

where you're really lonely and you tweet a lot about being lonely and I'm really sorry about that or whatever. And she just approaches everybody in this really human way. And I'm not saying like, I'm not Ellen, I'm not like be nice to each other. And I don't think that like, pacifism works in every context.

But I do think like more context and understanding and stuff like that. It has to be where we pivot. I mean, like punch Nazis, but at the same time, not everybody. Just hug Nazis too, you know? No, no, no, not everybody. After they fall. Not everybody is a Nazi. Not everybody's a Nazi, but most, let's be honest, most people are.

But lots of people are. Now, after we punch but most, let's be honest, most people are a Nazi. But lots of people are. Now, after we punch the Nazis, let's have a big campfire. Is the answer, I mean, is the answer, I mean, I will say this, here's the thing, I have a daughter, as you know, a young girl. And like, she, you live with a tiny lady.

I live with a tiny young woman. She doesn't know anything about race. I mean, she's never commented on the color of somebody's skin ever, not a word. Not even like it was a weird thing. Like it was, you know what I mean? Not like a question. Not like why is there skin in this color,

mine's that color or whatever. Oh, like when they people post that their toddler said, like, Mommy, why is that boy holding another boy's hand? Or is this a talk like a person? That's not like, please stop. That's learned. I'm gonna tell you something. Yeah, you taught your kid that that was not normal

and then they asked you why it wasn't normal. The only barricade you did taught themone you did, the only time something weird comes up and she's never said anything even close to the, but like it's like the some other kid said some dumb thing and because like their parents are saying it. Like what is true, what is true about human beings, I believe, having now observed one Lauren, I would just tell you about this, having observed one from,

you know, the start of her life, the moment that she was born into the world till now, is that like, you do people like are taught through the people around them how to behave and what to think. And I mean, yes, everybody has their own personality and everybody has their own sort of instinctual sort of ways of being. like there is nature there as well. But like, so Nazis, you know, it's like, it is very true at the heart of Richard, at the root of Richard Spencer, is that like, he didn't have to be Richard Spencer. Like he wasn't, it was not like he popped out, was like, I'm going to be racist.

Like, somebody made him that way. And so there is also not like, he looked like about at a bunch of data and objectively came to the viewpoint that some races are better. Like that didn't happen. He took me up around white people and that did not meet anybody of color was confused by it and then scared. And then he didn't want to be wrong.

So he backed that up with a bunch of fucking bullshit. But like you know, so there is a kind of like, yes, like do I want a punch Richard Spencer in the face of course you do. Because now it's like you should know better now he's a grown man and he can get the information you can't punish him but still under you want to understand well more than understand I would like people to change I would like I think like the best thing that could happen is that nazi's changed

their mind because like and because they are activists there are like I used to be a neo-nazi activists yeah like that's the thing and so there is like there is a level to like punch a Nazi but there is like is there could we come up with a better way to like break down their dumb fucking ideas that have been ingrained conversion therapy yeah we need exactly we need to look at the march send her to a church in the woods

to elect roads and then every time they say something, Nazi, we electrocute them. No, but it is like, we should, what's the mechanism? I know, they did it to us for re-education. That's what I need to figure out, you know? Like, what is it? Because like, you know, it's like,

these right-wing people, most of them are not, they're probably at their heart. I mean, people who voted for Trump, now there's plenty of bad people who vote for Trump, no question. There's plenty of bad people who voted for Trump. No question. There's plenty of people that just vote for Republicans and they're like, I guess I'm voting for Trump. And like, they should know better, but they don't.

How do we re-educate those people? How do we go like, listen, you're not doing yourself any favors. I think it's crazy. I mean, Laura talks all the time, but she had an aunt, her great aunt, who voted like Republican. And it's like, she was super working class. And like definitely voted against her interests all the time. Because like she literally worked for a Republican family. It was like a maid for a Republican family.

And like thought that they had the right ideas because they were rich, you know? Well, that I was just thinking when you were like, you know, Zelda doesn't ask this or that. I grew up, my parents sent me to a Catholic school because they thought that the public school by us was bad because it had poor people and people of color in it and that's what they were raised to think like that meant it was a bad school. They really wanted me to have a better life. Both of my parents were, I don't want to say homeless, but they were like kicked out of their houses,

left, whatever, one of eight kids, there was no money. And so they, they like couch-surfed while they got, like part-time jobs, got a job, had a kid really early on accident, which was me, then they put all their money into getting me what they thought was like a good future. So I went to a Catholic school for my first few years of school because it was the only private school in the area and grew up around not a ton of people of color.

Then when they had money, they moved to a richer area, which on Long Island because of redlining and the way that we built this country in like the post-World War II America was super segregated and continues to be one of the most racist places in the world. And I grew up in that bubble or whatever, but I was also poor. So like, did I not know about people of color and all that stuff?

No, and I had to learn a lot of that stuff as a teenager, finally meeting other kinds of people and having my mind expanded because I was queer. Like, I had questions that and I wanted to meet other kinds of people and it happened on its own, but I also remember distinctly being knowing that we didn't have a ton of money and asking my mom one time like why She was handing out she said something about how she had to buy food and I asked her like you have to pay for food I was she was like yeah, I was like what if you don't have any money and she was like well Some people might help you out, but you need to go get a job.

And I remember being like, that's not fair. How are you supposed to get a job if you're hungry? Like, I just remember asking these questions and being horrified by the answer. And the answer that I was given and taught was like, if you work hard enough and you're good enough and you want it, you'll be able to figure it out. And like, that was just like, everything was a meritocracy and rich people knew better and were better. And we were gonna try to figure it out. And that was just like everything was a meritocracy

and rich people knew better and were better and we were gonna try to be those people. And I remember trying to learn that like, like I remember trying to think, I would see like the movie Clueless and be like, oh, they're inherently good because they're like rich or whatever. Do you know what I mean?

Like I thought, right, that was the association that we were told especially in the 90s in the early 2000s. And then Paris Hilton happened because it was a subversion of that. It was like, she's the worst person in the world with every advantage. And I remember just thinking like,

and yet everyone still emulates this because there's this association that like, you watch 902.0 and you're like, these rich kids, they are inherently important and special. And it is something you get taught and it's something you believe. And like, like, oh my god, this is so unrelated. I'm just on a rant at this point.

But I was just watching the Incredibles too. And I think it's a terrible movie. I think also the old Incredibles, the themes don't hold up because they're about like being inherently special and superior means that you have abilities and you're gifted and the world should want to accept you for those and shouldn't limit you even though you caused a ton of damage in the meantime. Like Elon Musk is basically Mr. Incredible and society is saying like,

well you have to help us fix all of the damage you make when you quote unquote save us and whatever. And it's like kids are taught these lessons so early on about being special that like Batman is a billionaire and he just wants to help everybody. and that's maybe not a great message. Mm, Batman. I mean, what to do with Batman is a great, you know, like, what are we gonna do about Batman? I mean, she'll be writing a book about this, I assume, like at this point, you know, it's like, but like, back girl is the future. Her dad's a cop and she breaks his rules because she wants to do the right thing and she has no money and she fucking makes her own gadgets at home and she made her costume out of stuff

and that man was like, you don't work for me and she's like, I'm gonna do it anyway and then she became paraplegic and so she became another superhero that worked from a base and controlled robots. Like, that is the fucking future, not a billionaire who just pays a black guy to make his gadgets for him. Like Lucius Fox is like a problematic at this point, in my opinion. I feel like, okay.

I know, I'm saying a lot. I'm saying a lot. I feel like you just did a lot of spoilers, okay? I feel like you're giving away a lot of what's going on in the bat universe to people who maybe have got it. Oh, sorry. Did you want to catch up on 100 years of comic books? Yeah, I was thinking about doing that.

Actually, I was in a comic story yesterday and I was like, there's so many fucking amazing looking comics that are available right now. And I was like, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Like, I was reading saga for a while and then I like, I really liked I just read Tilly Adventures of Sabrina, like the original really, really dark version.

Like it's way more fucked up than even the show, but I loved it, it was really good. I would read that probably. I would love to, I mean, I keep getting now, the Google has all these ideas about what I like, and so they're always like, the latest Batman comic goes darker than you could have even imagined. I'm like, okay, that sounds interesting, and then I'm like, I don't know, like just,

I just don't know. You know? Batman stabs now. Yeah, no. Well, look, I'm trying to keep up with this Titan shit. Does anybody know what's going on? Do you watch the show? The Titans.

I don't watch the show. New Titans are the fact they're called DCs Titans. I did watch Teen Titans go to the movies, and that was pretty good. No, no. So there's a show, it's like, I guess there's like a DC streaming service. Is this, am I getting this right?

DC universe, it's called. DC universe, okay, I'm just gonna look at it. I'm just gonna get the comics, the TV shows, some games. They're trying to like make their own Netflix for superheroes. Okay, so anyhow, there's this show. It's called Titans and a Batman. Yeah, this is the fuck Batman show. And I guess like Titans, the end of this season,

they end up fighting Batman. And Batman like kills the Joker and he's like an unstoppable killing machine. And it's like, please, please, please tell me. Please tell me that it's not actually Batman because like if this is like, in this universe, this is... You're not Batman as murder. What?

The future of Batman as murder? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, he's like a killing machine. I mean, you got to watch the trailer. They're like, it's like, they're in a room full of body bags. They're like, this wasn't justice. This was a massacre. And it's like, yes, that's exactly what it is if you have a room full of body bags.

But it's definitely not, you probably got justice. So it's like, so anyhow,'s exactly what it is if you have a room full of body bags. But it's definitely not, you probably got justice. So it's like, so anyhow, but now I kind of want to watch the show because I want to see what the fuck they're trying to do with Batman. Yeah. But like, can we just have, do we have to go, do we have to have a commentary on Batman? Can't we just evolve him into a different character or like at least have a meta commentary where he learns that he might be a little problematic and opens his mind and his methods.

Like that would be sort of interesting. If it was funny and sharp like into the spiderverse, which would be amazing. And then hold on a second. So then they have this, apparently across over with this group called Doom Patrol, which is, I assume, from the comics. Now they have a show.

And the show actually looks pretty good. Brendan Frazier is apparently in the show. Oh, I'm on. He plays a robot in the show. Okay. A man who is inside of a robot. Like that Russian robot? Yes, yes, yes, yes, hold on.

I gotta get just search for doom patrol, okay? But it looks really good. And what's his name? Timothy, who's the British guy? No, Timothy McVeigh. No, wow, no. Doom Patrol. Timothy Dalton.

Timothy Dalton plays like their ringleader. And I don't know. Oh my God, this robot though. I'm sorry, it is sort of funny in the promo, like the behind the scenes pictures. It's just like him making faces and stuff. It's very funny. Yeah, robot man, this is named.

I think the idea is like he's supposed to be like, encased in like a robot exoskeleton. Kind of like the thing, but a robot. I think it's like kind of like tongue in cheek, it's like kind of funny, like cyborg's in it, but it's like a different young cyborg, and there's, I don't know, I'm kind of curious. I'm almost like, yeah, I kind of want to watch this show,

but then I think it's gotta be bad, right? So I'm just waiting on a rabbit hole. I really want DC stuff to be good, but I do think the answer for them is to do weird one-shot movies and like, what ifs and cool individual stories that take real artistic license and be the exact opposite of Marvel,

and I don't know that like an extended TV universe is the answer there. But, they do have a lot of weird stuff going on. They got a lot of weird stuff going on and I work all over the place. I'm like sort of curious about this DC universe now. I'm trying to see like they offer some pretty nasty shit that I got to tell you. I mean, yeah, it's cool. The comics that sounds great. Some of the shows they're offering us here are pretty bad. You are pretty bad. Pretty good. Well, first off, do they even have Gotham on here?

That's not even part of the package. No, you have to get Gotham as a separate thing. Okay, so this is exactly such a DC thing. You tell me I can get, I can watch Birds of Pre, but from 2002, and I can watch the Adventures of Superboy from 1988 to 1992. I mean, this is bad. but from 2002, and I can watch the adventures of Superboy from 1988 to 1992. I mean, this is bad.

They, what they are offering, but they don't have Gotham. Ooh. I assume they will get Gotham after like the rights have passed through Hulu. Here's what they got for movies, you ready? This is fucking insane. Oh no.

They have all the original Christopher Reeves Supermans. Then they have the Tim Burton Batman's and then the ones that follow that. They don't have the other they don't have dark night or any of that shit. They do have mask of the phantasm. So I love mask of the phantasm. The phantasm is probably the best Batman movies ever been made to be honest. It is. It is. It is. Batman returns. Batman is the best at Christmas. Yeah, that's a good. It's $80 a year? This is insane.

I guess if you read the comics, this is worth it. It is worth it if you read the comics. It is. Like, and Batman animated series being available, kind of worth the price. Kind of, but most of the time I wouldn't watch if even if they paid me. Okay. The animated Batman, though, like the entire run of that

and maybe Batman Beyond if it's on there, that's worth the price of admission. And I do think that. Is the only way to see this teen Titans show or Titans or whatever is it to subscribe to this? Is that what I'm getting? Sorry, I feel like this is not a very interesting podcast right now.

I'm just like coming to this realization. Well, I mean, to bring it back around, that is kind of the state of media at the moment is like everybody's shooting to make their own Netflix exclusive package Amazon Prime, but for my thing. Yeah, these people are fucking crazy. Everybody's crazy if they think we're all going to pay for separate subscriptions to things like they need to just make somebody needs to roll all the shit up for $250 a year and you get every scoots streaming or like most streaming services like cable.

And then just be a cable person again. Let me see what the free trial looks like. Cable sucks. No, I mean, it's bad out there anyhow. So I was just very confused. They're ruining Batman. They're making Batman more dark, which is like not necessary. No, he's already did that

He did that in the He's No, no, he killed now he kills too It's like come on well, let's talk about other news stories that happen. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it There's some weird shit The viral glitter package that thing okay, I've avoided this like the plague. I've avoided this video I I posted this first in the outline chat, but nobody pays attention to me.

This is very weird and strange. Go on. What is it? In this thing, this guy was like someone steals my Amazon deliveries all the time and it drives me nuts. Relatable as hell. We're already hashtag InstaStory Relatable. Like that happens to me.

It's a problem I think about a lot. I get really, really, really upset. It's taken up a lot of my time. I have filed police reports. So I'm already down for an exploration of this. He engineers a package, and it is a very cool engineering solution. It's basically like four phones that are recording

and like relaying the video, tracking this on GPS. And then it is a glitter explosion when you open the box, like it looks like an Apple HomePod. When you open the box, the glitter explodes everywhere and it sprays fart smell. And then he records their reactions as they freak out and try to clean it up or throw it out or whatever.

And he does this over and over and over again. The problem that came from this, which it's an amusing video, it is like, you know, one of those digestible YouTube videos, the engineering is interesting and the problem is one that we all have. But it ends up later that like he paid people to put these packages on their front doors. In order to get the payment, they had to get footage and some of these people didn't have the package stolen. So they just had a friend fake it. So then he had to pull a bunch of the footage because he found out it was fake because internet sleuths figured out that it was fake.

So now there's only two reactions in the new video or only two of them are real. And then like a day later, someone posted a viral video of they caught an Amazon package thief like that day saw her, chased her down, and eventually the girl ran out of breath, stopped, admitted that she stole the package, gave it back. And then when she caught her breath ran away again. And it's like that was the satisfying conclusion we all wanted to feel through a video. And this over-engineered over-packaged version definitely plugged into that, but because it was so over-engineered and overdone, it ended up undermining the whole thing by being faked.

Sort of. I'm so lost right now. Wait, so what's on your understand? I just I don't so so so So there was a a real package thief, but the guy couldn't get the real package thief on video He got a couple of real package these, but he wanted like a montage and so he paid people oh because the idea is that multiple multiple different people steel packages right at the holidays I don't know. I mean, I guess like, I, this seems like a really small problem. No, it is not. I have this problem so much. It is

very hard in New York City to receive an Amazon delivery because they all get stolen. So you end up like waiting for your Alexa to flash and then running downstairs, and if you're even a few minutes late, or you're at the gym on your way back, your package is gone. So then you can have it sent to your office, but if you don't work in an office, or if it's a weekend delivery,

it's not gonna get delivered, or you can get a PO box, but then post offices in New York are notoriously mobbed. You have to stand in line for two hours to get your packages. It's a very difficult thing. You can do like those Amazon Prime You know, why don't you do the lockers?

Because then at that point are we're already at Whole Foods or Like Target and I could just go get what I was gonna get I recommend is moving to the country. Yeah, cuz you're fine. They could just leave them I ordered you a Christmas gift and both of the parts of the Christmas gift that you are going to now get in the new year have been delayed or stolen not not here. Not where I live, man, send it to my house. I'm too poor for a mortgage. I have no credit. Well, you'd be surprised these days. Listen, what Trump is the deregulated all over the place. This is like the heyday. It's like 2006 all over the place. This is like the heyday. It's like 2006 all over again. You get your advice on Black Friday. You take out a credit card by everything you can. You get like

five houses in Florida right now for like 20 bucks in a bag of pieces. But then I would live in Florida. No offense to our listening listener. Listen, is it great place if you love humidity and and and ski and flooded coastal flight. Anyway, anyway, this was fascinating because it was fake and highly packaged and then a day later, a very authentic thing went viral and it's just interesting. I don't know. I just think, listen, I just feel like if you're stealing people's packages, that's really rude, but also you probably have a- Especially the holidays.

Maybe they need them. Maybe they need them. Maybe they need the packages. Maybe they have to give them- Builders toys. Maybe they have to give them to their children. Do you ever think about that? No, them from Jeff Bezos.

Jeff Bezos should just send everybody at least one package for free. That's true. Everybody in America. He just said everybody is one item using their algorithms to figure out Amazon should randomly just send you a box of their returned merchandise because they can't do anything with that stuff. I mean, you know, they're going to be ready to jump. I mean, have you ever had the experience of the Amazon where you're like, I need to return

this. They're like, you know, just keep it. Yeah, that happened. Yeah, we find you the money. You just keep it. They're like, we have so much stuff. I don't know. Yeah, that happened. Yeah, we'll find you the money. You can just keep it. It's insane. They're like, we got so much stuff. I'm going to put for like fairly pricey things.

I know. I had a $300 clam case for my iPad, like four or five years ago, and it was the wrong iPad. And they were like, oh, we'll send you with the right iPad size. Just keep that one. So I just said to a friend, hey, you want this expensive clam case? And they were like, sure. Yeah, we got something sent to us. It was like a, it had a battery in it of some type.

I'm trying to think of what it was. And they're like, you can't send that, and it was like expensive. It was like 200 bucks. I don't know what it was. Maybe a print, that was an printer. They're like, you can't send that back to us because of like the battery, new battery regulations. So you just keep it. Okay. Cool. That's great. It's really good stuff. I was going on in the world. Oh, so we didn't even talk about any that we didn't even get to any of the good memes. We didn't even talk about what the good memes were. I got some sweet memes. So Laurel and Yanny that it's not even a meme. It was just a thing that happened.

So I was like pretty sure this was sure this was gonna end in Nickelodeon animated series about Laurel and Yanny. It was like the, it was the, it was the, it was the oral dress. It was the dress part two. It was the dress with sound. And it was cool for five minutes and then I was like, we have to stop doing this.

Yeah. Here's a tweet that's happening right now, the hashtag Resign Trump, which is like, I don't know. It's the number one trending hashtag on Twitter right now. I mean, Trump doesn't know how to thread his tweets. He's not reading Twitter moments. I just think that this is the ultimate. To me, this trending is the ultimate,

dunk. No, it's the ultimate flaccidness of social media in expressed. It's like, oh, you got a hashtag going guys. Good for you. Why don't you fucking vote? How about that? Yeah. I know you came out, I know you came out record numbers during the midterms, but let's see you in 2020. Let's see where you're at in 2020 when you're not, when you're not excited enough about the democratic candidate, when you don't like her track record or whatever. Fucking idiots. Sorry. And that's not to most people, just saying that, good meme.

Good meme. They did surgery on a grape. Okay, they did surgery on a grape. It's pretty good very short lived It was great thought that was a good day It was Very it's still funny There just I mean it had a lot going for it. It was easy to pull off It was made no sense

It was very like weird Twitter, you know, yeah, yeah, and I miss weird Twitter. It's kind of like um We don't have enough of that energy like you're the man now dog Yeah, it's kind of like a little bit of a throwback remember that yeah You know, Zendaya is a Michi. Was a good meme. Oh, yeah, Zendaya's Michi was great. Was it a meme? It's just a video. It was a video.

But I mean, I think we need to get what we're calling a meme under, uh, I mean, videos can spawn memes. Like the hawk destroyers. I should not have, I should not have Twitter open while we're recording because I just saw this New York post headline fly across my screen. Elliott Spitzer snuck me into his apartment in a suitcase. X. Mr. Smith. Wait, remember what Taylor Swift was traveling in a suitcase. I don't remember.

Oh, in that box. Yeah. Yeah. I should just be taking on the stage. Wait, was Taylor Swift trying to get into Ellie's fantasy environment? Hold the phone. She does have a, doesn't she live in New York? Yeah. Wow. He used to sneak me into his fifth avenue apartment in a black suitcase when his wife was away.

Svetlana Travis, Zach Rova, told the post in an exclusive interview. A Russian? My knees would be up by my face, with a dormant would ask if he could help. Ellie would say no thanks At the risk of Michael Tracy is calling me Rousseau phobic. I'm a little suspicious this Is a bomb shell story a bomb shell story shell said he was not a good cook

This is I'm shocked that Anthony Weiner didn't have the patience to cook. It's good stuff. It's great. I got a close Twitter. I have to get this close. I was like, I think I opened it because we were doing some meme, meme hunting. At a rate, no, there was a year of the meme of the year was a dunk to be dunked and dunking. Yeah. To be dunked upon and to dunk upon was the meme of the year. And it's an ugly meme because we live in an ugly world now There is also a lot of like memes from slack then then like add a workplace then make themselves to Twitter like what? Like a lot of this stuff starts is like Like people who work wherever media people or a bit bored at work like I think even they did surgery on a grape I think the reason that got so funny is that like,

people had to explain it to each other in private, my, I messages or slacks, and then they could participate in it. But if you wanted to figure out what the story was really about, you kind of had to dig. Because it was all so like, in-jokey, because of all of that. Mm-hmm.

Sort of interesting. Mm-hmm. Sort of interesting. Mm-hmm. I don't know. I didn't participate. And they did surgery on a grape. Yeah, I did shoot. Did you? I did shoot.

Did you eat? Did you eat, did you eat, did they just surgery on a grape? I, I'm sorry, I lied, I did a tweet about it. You did do a tweet about it. I did a tweet, didn't get a lot of love. It was more of a meta tweet. It was You wrote said Soviet Russia grape do surgery on you

I think what I said was something to the effect of Everyone's talking about the fact that they did surgery on the grape but nobody's talking about whether or not we should do surgery on a great That was my I I am, I am become great. The destroyer of worlds. Yeah, I, it was a late night. It was a late night tweet. It didn't get a lot of play. You know, some people in Europe, some people in Asia saw it. I'm huge in European meme.

Very big, very big in the Polish meme community. People don't realize that about me. All right, what else in the news? What else has happened? You know, it's the end of the year things have slowed down. I've been doing a lot of Christmas shopping. Apple has been shipping bent iPads. Oh, this shit's crazy.

I've seen this story. I saw this story, they're like, that's right. That's how it's supposed to be. And it's like, I don't think, I don't think Johnny I was like, it's okay if it's bent a little bit. Like, of all the things I know about Johnny I've, here's the one thing I feel that I know pretty, like, concretely, is that he doesn't like it when things aren't

exactly the way he wants them to be. He literally, all he fucking literally made a ring entirely out of the diamond. He's like it's not just a ring, it's a diamond. It's a diamond ring made of diamonds. If a diamond is forever, a diamond ring is forever plus one. It's like This ring is forever plus one. It's like, it's a ring produced entirely out of diamonds. Anyhow, whatever, I don't know what he would say in the video for that, but it's something like that. It's the most diamond of any ring we've ever produced.

He's literally, but the fucking guy literally is in a video where he talks about the curve of the screen, like the exacting curve of the screen and how much time they spent just crushing it. And that was like, yeah, it's supposed to be cracked. Yeah, it might be a little bent when you get it. I mean, what is the deal? Pretty good. What are they actually saying? What are they actually saying? What are they actually saying?

What is the quote is the statement, Horan? Bear it. What they're saying is spend $1,500 on something that isn't a computer because you love yourself and you deserve it. But if it's bent, you deserve that. Don't love yourself enough to expect a flat iPad. Oh, and these pictures are like they are definitely bent.

They say that they're flatter than ever before. That's what Apple's saying. They've never been flatter. That's what they're telling us. Same. They actually say here, hon. Apple were poorly acknowledged. They had some, they saw, I'm just, I'm just catching

up on these exact slightly bad, but says it's normal. What is their quote? Apple does not consider it to be a defect. It needs or exceeds all of Apple's high quality standards of design and precision manufacturing. We've carefully engineered it and every part of the manufacturing process is precisely measured and controlled. According to the Cummins, the side effect of the device is manufacturing process and shouldn't worsen over time and negatively affect the flagship iPads performance in any practical way, Apple does not consider it to be a defect.

Apple is confirmed to the verge that, so they're saying, yes, some of them are shipping with a slight bend in the chassis. Oh, wow, this is quite a bend. It's quite a bend. If I spent that much money on something that is in the computer, no, I do not accept this at all from Apple. I do not accept that Johnny Ives fine with this situation.

I do not accept that this company is a company that would tolerate these things being bent and being like, yeah, it's fine. And so, I'm inclined to call bullshit on all of this. I'm inclined to call serious bullshit. It's just like a antenna gate all over again where they were like, actually, it's better. Really? Because I can't make a fucking phone call while I hold my phone. But I'm okay. I'll cop to the, I'll cop to Intenegate being like, it's so much more subtle, you know? Yeah, I mean,

what if the manufacturing process necessitated this is my question. Steve Jobs did say, you were holding the phone wrong. Yeah, that was an amazing quote. And I would say they did surgery on a grape of 2008. Oh, no, maybe he was right after all. Maybe he was right. I just whenever I see the iPad Pro, I'm like,

wow, it looks really cool. Like it looks nice. And then I think about using it. I'd rather have that than a pixel slate any day of the week. So I guess they still went. But is that a competition? No, it's not. Are those things in competition?

That might be the biggest dunk of 2018. Like, yeah, getting the pixel slate versus the iPad. Getting the pixel slate. Oh, I gotta say, if you got one for Christmas, there's no. I'm watching a video. I'm watching a video in the background, Jerry rig everything. Do you know this channel? He's a destroying an iPad. Oh good. He's burning it. He's burning it. Oh God, it's so upset in.

It's very, very, oh God, he's bending it. Oh my God. Oh God. I watched an unbox therapy where they used the not a flame thrower, flame thrower from the boring company. Oh God. That was a very unsettling thing.

Honestly, watching somebody bend an iPad till it breaks is truly, I have to say I've never seen it happen. So I don't watch videos like this. It's actually one of the most upsetting things I've ever seen in my entire life. It really, really is painful to watch. I saw someone take a sled chimer to the $10,000 air man's Apple watch for clicks and I was

like, we're done as a society. It's so bad. So bad. But I will say this guy, this guy who did the video also has, and I think Mark has brownly has one of these as well. He has an Apple pencil that has been painted to look like a pencil. And it's really good. And I want that.

It literally makes me want to buy a Nipad Pro and the pencil just to get it painted like that. Yeah. It looks really cool. And like, it's what they should, they definitely should make one like that. It's like a little bit of the Dition pencil. It's like perfect.

Because it has a beam cube on a racer on the end of it basically. It's a dream come true. Yeah. Anyhow, I think it maybe is maybe color wear does it? Not really sure. I want those color wear air pods whenever they update the air pods. They may have very cool air pod designs.

They have ones that look like old Macs. They have ones that look like a Game Boy case. Oh wow, color wear does switch customizations now. Yeah, they're website. This is what the whole, to me, this is what is truly lacking in technology is like, personalization. Yeah, like things that are unique, you know, that's like, you can even with the iPhone. Well, we all wanted these as status symbols at one point. And having the one, the iPod that looked like everybody else's iPod and the Mac logo

was a status symbol. And now we're at a point where we all have them and so you want to stand out. You know what I mean? Like the pendulum has swung and nobody's followed through with that. Nintendo and they're late in every console stage makes really beautiful custom consoles.

There are 2DS lines, we're gorgeous. The Animal Crossing 2DS is beautiful and it's perfectly made. They re-themed every piece of that thing. It was wonderful, but they only do it like late in the game so that people will buy multiple consoles. But I would love if someone, like some manufacturer, had color wear options, especially like an apple

that has the money. Color wear options from the gate, not just engraving, like let me come up with a crazy design. Let me upload my own watch. Right. Right. No, I'm with you. I'm with you 100%.

Apparently they don't do, just looking here, they don't appear, colorware does not do. Oh, they don't do much painting anymore. It's really not clear what's going on, but it doesn't look like they're doing like the Apple pencil, that's for sure. But they're doing that with other stuff.

In other Apple news, they're spamming us all to watch Carpool Karaoke. And as John Laga Marcino, who was ended up being quoted in a million pieces about this, pointed out that's against Apple's own terms of service. Is it? You're not allowed to spam people for promotional purposes that they haven't opted into. Apple is truly gone like full Microsoft with its like updates and notifications and shit. I mean now Microsoft has actually gotten better at it. I mean this this is the crazy thing. Oh, way better. This is the crazy thing. No, I mean, I tweeted about this the other day.

I get a Yosemite notification. Oh yeah. We talked about it last week. It's a nightmare. And it's like, and it's like you can't, you can't dismiss it. You can't, if you open this door and go through the tutorial and learn that there's a dark mode.

Yeah, no, no, but like you could I guess you could turn off store app store notifications, but like I'm saying specifically they're like upgrade to the new Mac OS and it's like install or more details. And if you try to swipe it away, it opens the app store. It's like that's a fucking crazy dark pattern that they should definitely not be doing to people. There should be an option to say dismiss this. Don't show it to me again, or like, remind me in a month, or remind me in a week, or whatever. It's like there are better ways to deal with it. I know that they want everybody to upgrade to the new OS. I know that there's plenty of good reasons to do so. I just think that

there has got to be a better way. It's gotta be. There's gotta be a better way to get people to watch Apple TV shows than like spamming them to watch Carpool Karaoke. By the way, maybe make a show that's better than Carpool Karaoke and people will watch. Maybe if people are allowed to swear in your shows, people might watch them. Is Carpool Karaoke a thing now? Is it out? It's out. They did that app series. Remember when they came out that that was like, you know, tap that app or like, app it up or whatever the fuck that show was.

And it was basically Shark Tank for apps. Yeah, we did a great video about that. It's called, it's terrible. It's called, you like apps? It's called app app app. I don't know, I don't fucking know what it's called. It's called app now.. I don't know. I don't fucking hold it. It's called app. Whatever the

thing with a bit of app tag would have been a better a better name. No, it's a thankful apps. And then it's just mozzarella sticks and a fish deck. Yeah, it just you just dunk just just you're trying to guess many apps is possible. Well, you need to come to Dipper's. We've got an app tech that will blow your mind. Listen, listen, let's get back on the subject here, okay?

Sorry. I saw a Dipper's opportunity. I took it for those sweet, sweet legs. So the, what were we talking about? Oh, the name of the show. Yeah, I don't remember. This one of the worst. So the, what were we talking about? Oh, the name of the show. Yeah, I don't remember. This one at the worst.

I feel like I'm very spaced out on this podcast. Apparently, apparently I'm still, I'm like down a rabbit hole looking for the fucking pencil situation. Oh, they make wraps for them. You can buy wraps. Anyhow. Okay, getting back to the subject to hand.

What were we talking about? Other news. What the fuck was they that show? Second, I could go to look at hand where we're talking about their news. What the fuck is a show? Second I could go to look at our our YouTube channel. What should it be? Hold on a plan of the apps is complaining of the apps planet of the apps. Oh God They went for a pun name and they didn't even reference shark tank. They referenced eeps I Get it Get it. They have bad ideas They have bad ideas and they force them on us.

Exactly. The biggest company in the world. Yes. Anyhow. In other news, Facebook gave away access to our private messages to Spotify and Netflix. I mean, I'm very close to, I like basically can't, like literally like I kind of can't, I can't delete Facebook because I have their business accounts associated with it. But I'm starting to like- That's the problem.

But they, even if you said you disabled all of this, you said no to it. Facebook still did it. And I have to have an account for work reasons. And so now no matter what, I'm stuck. I'm basically pretty open to the concept of not using Facebook at all, but I mean, I don't have any need to use it,

but I, you know, I'll be honest, I don't know how I can delete it. The worst feature, the worst thing about Facebook I have to say of all their egregious privacy leaks and everything is chat heads on Android is fucking so bad. I hate it. Oh, well, you can eat it. Well, you can disable it, I think. I'm just uninstalling messages from it. I can't take it anymore.

They're so annoying. I mean, just, just, well, I mean, I don't really use messenger. I don't either, but then someone uses it to me and then I've got a fucking head pop up and I'm trying to watch a YouTube video or play an emulator

and I'm like, oh, okay, so now I gotta deal with this. Someone from high school has something to say. So now I've to like pop in and not that i don't want those messages but just like at all times the chat heads are i hate them i don't know why we're talking about this uh... in other news in other news Ruth Bader Ginsburg has survived cancerous nodules

and the rib cage fractured that we all thought would be the end of the world literally might have saved her life and might save America. Is that, did that lead them to discover the cancer? Yeah. So oftentimes it happens with older people. People of a certain age is one injury leads to scans and they can catch other stuff earlier.

And they caught, like cancerous nodules and removed them because of the rib fracture. They were like scanning that. And they caught it early. And right now her biggest hurdle obviously is recovery because she's of a certain age. But this might be the thing that ends up saving her life.

So. She also cast a vote from the hospital that kept the asylum ruling from going in Trump's favor. So if you're ever wondering who is protecting... Every time you get sick of the RBG, notorious RBG memes, just remember that like, some things are cliches because they're earned. This woman deserves to be a meme,

if she wants to be a meme. If it delights her, let it go. Well, it certainly if it delights her, I think that's important. But also, it's important to remember that she's actually really fucking awesome. And an incredible person that everyone should look up to. And right, it is like good. And it's probably, you know,

has done more to protect America from horrible ideas than almost any person alive. So, you know, the credo she lives by, be best. Hahaha. She's a big fan of being best. I know that. I know that's true. And why not?

You know, really. What is it? That's the anti-bullying. Is that Melania's anti-bullying thing? Yeah, it's her motto for children. Michelle Obama had, be healthy and active and take control of your future. And Melania has the best.

Don't get bullied. Yeah, it's like, it's so crazy. It's so crazy considering who she's married to. It's really shocking that they think they do really do. For all the talk on the other side of the aisle about how liberals have a victimization complex, she talks constantly about how the, she said the hardest thing to deal with is about being president is the comedians and everybody who's making money on laughing at her husband. And it's like, that's the hardest thing.

That's the hardest thing. It would really be harder to hear about how your husband was like systematically paying off people that he was sleeping with so they would get into the press. I feel like that seems like a harder situation to deal with. Or having to ever talk to Eric. It seems like she definitely hates Trump, right? There's no question. Oh, come on.

How could you not? How could anybody be in his orbit? Kellyanne Conway hates Trump. You know that's true. Like, she's so irritated with him. Yeah, because you know that she looks at him and she thinks like you could get so much more evil done. If you weren't like this.

All right, what else? We should probably wrap up here. I don't know. What else is that? In the quick wrap up, we pulled out of Syria giving ISIS all its Christmas wish. The government shutdown. We're doing a go fund me for the wall and Mattis has resigned. Our bottom story of the week is the apocalypse.

Well, it's like, you know, look, with the governments in shambles. Now, I will say this, one thing that I, when here's my silver lining on the whole military action and not a stepping down, you know, the concern I think is always, if there's a constitutional crisis and you basically have to get the military to take action, you know, if Donald Trump controls the military,

you know, you've got, you got to worry because it's like he might just say, oh, you know what, you've to defend. You've to defend my presidency or whatever. Yeah. But I feel like now the military definitely is like anti-Trump. I feel like it's like firmly like Trump's bad for us.

But I do worry that, I mean, they all went to that border for no reason during the holidays over Thanksgiving, just for his whim. No, they protect us against an invasion, an alien invasion. This is what we're experiencing. Okay. Like Independence Day of violent alien uprising and invasion that we have

xenomorphs and we have. That's right. That we shut down using our crack military to wait and do nothing. Just their presence scared those. The invading alien horde. This is literally the terms. This is the way that Trump talked about it. Like it's like it's one of the worst halo games. Yeah it's like dude. It's like a caravan of six year old. The flood hungry six year old. He's like an alien h hoard is approaching our border.

It's a lot of things that moms trying to escape gang violence and you might defend America. They will reproduce. We must defend America and Americans. America's birthright and white. I don't know. She's a fucked up. I just do not know anymore. Anyhow, know. I don't know. She was fucked up.

I just do not know anymore. Anyhow. Anyway, go watch District 9. That's what I gotta do. I was just talking about District 9 last night. So it's weird that you brought it up. Oh really? Yeah.

It's more relevant than ever. I'm thinking about building. There's this, have you heard about this thing? Lotte Panda. It's a Windows 10. Sounds delicious. It's a full Windows 10 rig in like a four by four like box or whatever. Oh, it's pretty cool.

So I've been thinking about buying and building one and just using it to be my like emulator station. Well, let's get to nice things because I got emulator. I got emulator nice things. Hey, oh, should we do nice things? Let's do nice things. Let's do it. I got two nice things? Let's do nice things. Let's do it, go ahead. I got two nice things.

One of which is, I talk about video games and amulators every week, but there's two little consoles that I think are amazing and cool. One's more expensive. There's one called the BitBoy, which is $40 flat, including shipping over the holidays. And it's a little Game Boy clone. It's very cute and adorable.

It's fully functional Game Boy, Game Boy Color, SNES emulator, all in one complete little package for 40 bucks. You throw an SD card with your ROMs in there and it's got a cute little interface. It is really nice. I ordered myself one. I'm excited about it. The other one is... Oh wow.

This is like a... Seriously like a Game Boy clone. It is what the Game Boy classic should be. Yeah. If they ever make one. Well, I mean, tons of people make like you have one I know, but tons of people do like these modifications of old Game Boys that where they put new guts in them. Yeah, I'm a huge Game Boy fan. So that has established my... Wow, you've definitely, do you have one of these, the BitBoy? I ordered it.

It just show up right after Christmas. I'm gonna have to order one of those. Yeah, you gotta play with it. It looks really cool. All the videos I've seen are sent out are sick of shit. The same stuff. Yeah. The other, what was the,

let me look what the other emulator was called small Yeah, it is a little tiny, but I actually think like for pocketability reasons because I already carried two phones I'm like happy about that and you know what I loved my Game Boy my advanced micro So this is a nice little dupe and then the other one is the clockwork pie Which is an entire it's more expensive. It's $140. It's an entire, if you go to ClockworkPi.com, you can look at it. It's an entire Game Boy kit that you can build without screws. They give you all the pieces and it's a little project that you can build your own little emulator, your own little Game Boy clone, for like a kid to play with. And it comes with a custom Pi CPU,

it comes with the keypad and the game case, and because there are no screws, it's really easy to assemble and really easy to swap out parts as you care to. It's green as gorgeous. This is cool. It's a cool little project. This is really cool.

It teaches kids about like emulation and stuff, but it's also like fun for an adult to do. It looks really fucking cool. So I want to order one of those when funds are available. And that, look, doesn't that look cool? This is a little project with Zelda built her on little game. This is very cool. I wonder if, oh, it has its own little OS.

Yeah, and it runs on the, it's just like a cool little solution. Um, I runs on the pie. Yeah. I want one of these. This clockwork OS looks amazing and awesome and like extremely cool. And I definitely, I got a lot here. Let me see what they got. How does this, how does this work? Oh, they have different colors. Yeah, there's different kind of kits. And if you're a student, you can get a discount on it. Oh, wow. Well, but you're not a student.

Mm, I know some students. Oh, wow, okay. You're going to scam this poor company. No, I'll put it for you. But this is interesting. It is interesting, right? It's a cool little project. And it's pretty complete

and pretty polished. I just love the design. They did a really good job with like, they did a really good job with this. Yeah, it's gorgeous. So that end I hacked my 3DS to run HomeBruz software, which was an exciting little project for me. And so that was one of my nice things.

The other nice thing, it might be a little divisive. I talked about the Incredibles too earlier, and it's on my mind because they just watched it. And I didn't love it. I thought it was a fun, like, funny movie, and it was, the animation is stunning. The action sequences are incredible, hence the name. But I looked up online, let me get the name of the channel.

I wanted to see some people's commentary about the movie, because I had issues with it, and I didn't know if I was being an asshole, or if they were valid, if other people felt like that. And there is a channel on YouTube that did basically re-wrote what the villain should have been and re-wrote the ending. It was called Fixing the Fin been and rewrote the ending. It was called Fixing the Finale and rewriting Screen Slaver. And it's at a channel called Nando Versus Movies, Nando V Movies.

It's a fairly popular YouTube channel, so I don't think I'm telling you, they have 150,000 subscribers, so this is not like, I'm not special for having seen this. But it really, really wowed me. The way that they scripted it was kind of the way that I thought that they should and the way that they re-roaded, I thought was really interesting. And so if you've seen that movie and you also were a little unsatisfied with the politics of it and the way that the villain didn't really make a ton of sense and the finale was bad, it was delightful. And this person sat down and over the course of two, like

20-minute videos, broke down exactly what their script treatment would have been, including dialogue and they re-edited certain scenes to give you an idea visually what it would have looked like. And it was amazing. And I was like, God, some people are so talented. All I thought was like, that did make any sense. And this person truly fixed the movie.

So check that out if you like Pixar movies and script-octoring. Those were my two nice things. That's interesting. I did not see the film, but I should also tell you I've never seen the original Incredibles. Amazing ground breaking at the time. The politics of that original movie don't totally hold up

because there are another situation where like, Pixar made a movie about how someone is inherently special and we should trust them with all the power to remake society, which is like a lot of the themes in their movies, which isn't necessarily a bad theme. It's just been done to death. And it's not very relevant right now. So you're saying that should I watch either of them? Yeah, yeah, they're definitely worth a watch, definitely worth a watch. Zelda will love. Well, let me tip out my nice things. Yeah, she's not really into like high action, though the other day she was watching

the Powerpuff girls and I was like, what the fuck is this? So they made like new Powerpuff girls. And I was good. I was not. You can go without terrorists, you're wrong, it's not gonna be, it's good. Yeah, but I was just not that pleased with the dialogue.

I mean, it's for older kids, I think. But everybody's like, everything, even the stuff for kids now is like everybody's mean to each other. It's for older kids, I think. But everybody's like, everything, even the stuff for kids now is like everybody's mean to each other. It's like insane, you know, at any rate. Okay, let me tell you about some of my nice things. So first off, we're on the, we're not, it's not Christmas Eve yet,

but it is Christmas. We're in the Christmas zone. And now as you know, I've recently adopted Christmas as something that I enjoy. I think we've talked about this in the podcast previously. I went shopping at the mall yesterday. Mall shopping's fucking great, man.

Shopping, physically shopping is great. It is so much better than shopping on the internet. Because on the internet, everything's available to you. And like everything is too much. Like I need limitations. You need not be allowed to look at everything because although you were very good at it, you fall into holes for everything.

Oh my God, no, it's crazy. And then like, but in a store, you're like, okay, one, you've curated this, there's a fine, it's, look, everything should be like Trader Joe's. You know, Trader Joe's thing is like, they only have like, five thousand skews in any given time and like a normal grocery store has like 20,000 or something. Like, like, you can only get, they basically are like,

we have decided now this is gonna be the set of things that we offered you and you're gonna have to figure out how to make dinner from these things. And like, you know, more often than not, you're like, oh, I've got some good dinner ideas. I mean, I just went to Trader Joe's and maybe that's why I'm feeling all worked up. But I went to like a fucking Nordstrom, you know?

And it was just so nice to just be like, oh, here's what they offer. And like, you see, they have a bunch of different brands, like you can buy all sorts of crazy shit Nordstrom, you know, and it was just so nice to just be like, oh, here's what they offer. And like, you see, you see that they have a bunch of different brands, like you can buy all sorts of crazy shit, Nordstrom, now like Topshop and fucking J Crew, they sell that in Nordstrom. But it's like, it's like just interesting, right, to just have the set number of things and to be able to look at it physically and go like, yeah, I like this, or I don't like this. I went to a, a game store and I bought some like puzzles and games for Zelda.

Now, it's just like nice to like physically interact with things and look at them and think about them and like feel them in your hand and say like, do I want this? But it's also just like, I just think that there is, we are a wash and options and like, that's nice but it sometimes is just overwhelming. So I would say, because of the Christmas season,

but now I've been, I've sort of pushed myself into going out into public and I really enjoyed it. But I was gonna say what I'm really excited about is Christmas Eve, because as you know I'm Jewish by birth, I'm a atheist, but that was raised Jewish. And you know on, Jews on Christmas Eve, I don't know if a lot of people know this or not,

often go out to eat Chinese food. This is sort of a thing, I don't know if a lot of people know this or not. Often go out to eat Chinese food. Yes, it's sort of a thing. I don't know if it was a thing for you. Well, you've got, I've always had Christmas. Well, so we're doing Christmas, but like, we're also gonna go, we're gonna go see Mary Poppins. We're gonna take Zelda to see the new Mary Poppins movie. And we're gonna go have Chinese food on Christmas Eve.

So a movie and Chinese food was a family tradition for me. And I have, Lauren, I have sort of carried on that tradition. Last year we did, we actually did dinner at home, but I'm excited. To me, it's, it is the most fun because it's like, it's kind of dad outside. There aren't a lot of people on Christmas Eve out and about. It's very quiet. And it's just a very cozy moment in the year. And then I'm really psyched about Christmas morning because I got, I ended up with a lot of great gifts and dogs got a lot of stuff she's gonna open. And I don't know.

I'm kind of like, I'm like kind of excited. Like Laura claims she got me some gifts and I'm like, oh, what's in there? Yeah, Christmas is, listen, it is a fun holiday and you don't have to, you don't have to evangelize the word of God and Jesus to open presence and have fun with Santa and enjoy Frosty to snowman. That's right, that's right.

Now it's just a very exciting cozy time of year and also it signals the end of the year, which is, which is great because this year needs to end. But almost like, oh, next year's gonna be better, but I don't know now anymore. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just like, yeah.

So anyhow, all right, we should wrap up. Well, well, before we wrap up, I wanted to say, yeah, I went shopping at a Marshalls in a Burlington coat factory because I was like, I gotta find Christmas gifts. I don't know what anybody wants and I don't wanna spend a lot of money. And you know what's great is a little store filled

with weird diverse varieties of piles of stuff and none of it's expensive. And you could just spend the whole time being like, they made a Riverdale board game. Hey, look over here, shoes that are $9 and look great. And oh, look, a purse, my mom wants it. Wait, what is that? What are you describing?

Marshalls and Burlington coat factory. Yeah, they have the board game situation's crazy. They've got like a nightmare before Christmas operation. They have like all of these crazy like tie-in games. Yeah. You can't even buy a version of clue that doesn't have some tie-in now, apparently. Yeah.

It's like the peanuts gang did a murder. Yeah, it's no, it is. It's like, the peanuts gang did a murder. Yeah, it's no, it is. It's like, it's like a game of Thrones clue. It's like, I already do a lot of stuff going on here. It's like when they have a toothpaste that has mouthwash in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, it's like, crest with,

listerine. I'm like, what's happening? But you know what? Then you walk over and they're like, here's a pile of expired makeup palettes. Hey, you know what we've got over here? You like hacky sack? That we got a ton of those.

You're like, okay. Do I have a minute, is a home goods like part of Marshall's? Yeah, they end up getting combined, I think a lot. So we're like, like a Ken Takoha. Right here, right. Yeah, like I, I haven't been to a Marshall's in a really long time. I don't think I've ever been to a home.

It's such a good experience. Go to the tax section of Marshalls. Again, this is a piece that I should probably write. The tech section of Marshalls is filled with all these weirdly, slightly knock off or slightly off brand things that work perfectly fine. They're just like Chinese clones with weird brand names or like one was like Nick Jonas earbuds.

And I was like, these are actually fairly quality earbuds. They just have a picture of Nick Jonas. Did you buy the Nick Jonas earbuds? No, but I did take a photo of them. Wow. Wow. And that whole section is amazing. If you need a USB-C cable, that's like carbon fiber reinforced

and also costs $4, go to a Marshall's run, don't walk. Hmm. Sounds good. All right, now I'm going to do you need to wrap up. Yeah. Because I'm very cold. There's Mary making to be done. Yeah, I gotta go do some fucking gingerbread houses.

Figgy pudding. Yeah, I gotta go create some figgy pudding for my beautiful family and make egg dog from scratch. Well, that is our show for this week. We'll be back next week with more tomorrow. And as always, I wish you and your family the very best, although I've just been told that your family is on the naughty list. And I'm not talking about Santa's list. you