Tomorrow - 173: Somewhere That's Greenland

Episode Date: August 24, 2019

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Hey and welcome to Tomorrow, I'm your host Josh with Topolski. Today on the podcast we discuss Normani, Greenland, and the Joker. I don't always want to minute. Let's get right into it. All right, Ryan, we're finally back. Hello. On the air. Hi.

It took us you were in the Midwest. I was in the Midwest. It took us, you were in the Midwest. I was in the Midwest. It took us a week to get back. Luckily, nothing happened at all in the world, so there's almost nothing to talk about, really. Let me think about it. No, it's big. A lot of stuff going on.

I was in the Midwest visiting my grandma's been sick for like a year now, but I was visiting her and seeing my family. And I was just for like a year now, but I was visiting her and seeing my family. And I was just in like a bubble of like, I couldn't control the TV and I didn't have time to like go through my RSS feeds or like be like extremely online. And I woke up one day and I, I read the news and I came downstairs and I was like,

is it, have I been away from the news for a while? Or is this Greenland tweet the craziest shit that's happened in a really long time? The Greenland thing is, I mean, you know, the funny thing is it's like, yeah, yeah, I mean, I guess so, that's happening now or whatever. It doesn't, it seems like, and I know people keep saying this, but does it seem like an onion headline to be like,

America trying to buy other white country? But it also doesn't mean it also is like, what is it why? Like what's the motivation? Like has that ever been even discussed by anybody? That's what we're in such a... People have said like, sand and mineral resources, but like, isn't it fairly common knowledge in elementary schools that Iceland is the green one and Greenland is the ice one?

I think, yes, I kind of barren. I don't understand what we're doing. I think we're just through the looking glass, man. You know what I'm saying? And then I was sick this week. I had food poisoning for two days. And several IV bags of like rehydration later, I was on Twitter trying to like get my mind off of nausea.

And I saw that this was still in the news and that like senators were like, if you, Tom Cotton was like, if you don't support this plan, you're anti-American and I was like, am I still hallucinating? You know what, I'm kind of fucking proud of the fact that my brain will not resolve this with reality.

Yeah. It's fucking crazy. It's fine, it's great, it's normal. This is a normal life now, how we live. This is how we live now. No, look, I mean, the only thing I really want, I don't want it to get too political, but the last episode I feel like is very political,

and I want to talk about, really, I just want to have a gadget today. But the reality is, you know, what I really want more than anything is I just want my life back. Okay, I just want my days back. And the thing about it is, I just want Trump to lose and go away. You want your body back? I want a normal person.

I don't really want to talk about this stuff. I don't want to, I don't want to lose and go away. You want your body back? I want a normal person. I don't really want to talk about the stuff. I don't want to think about it. I want normal people with good policies in charge of the world so that we can get back to doing more of the right things and fewer of the wrong things. I do agree that America's a very fucked up country founded on some pretty bad shit.

But I also believe that America's a country that largely has been moving towards a better state of affairs and like, you know, it's imperfect, but it's never been so fucking imperfect as it is now. And I just want to like, I want to have a day that goes by where nobody says shit about doing anything, where like just like Trump nobody tries to buy Greenland and and nobody like you know Put the kids in cages at the border and like just like where we can just have a normal day again, you know I'm not saying I want to turn it out. I can't turn it out

But I believe that better people in charge would make everybody's life a lot more pleasant and More than anything. I just want my life to not be Wall to wall sanity coming from like the people who run the country. Like, it's just like too much. I think we're all exhausted. No one remembers what it's like to be calm anymore. Yeah, I know.

When I talked to my family, at least on my mom's side, people who were like, I don't know, that Trump, I like how he talks, two years, three years, whatever it is at this point of go, they all fucking hate him at this point. Do they really? Do they really? People who voted for Trump and your family

don't like him anymore? The only person on my mom's side, I don't know if they voted for him so much as they weren't, they were like very weirded out that I was so horrified by him and was like screaming at them to vote for Hillary Clinton. Like they were really like, I don't know, he talks like we talk. And you know, he's got some okay ideas.

He seems like a patriot. Like, you know, that kind of like, well, everybody's equal and she, you know, lock her up. Yeah. Yeah. They fucking hate him like virulently. Like it was every morning's breakfast discussion eventually ended on like he's a psychopath. And these are the people that I know are like, pretty fiscally conservative. And it gave me like hope that we will,

at some point, like resolve this, I guess. I don't know. I don't know, we're all die. Maybe we'll all die. That's possible. Well, wait, so you can name the person who's still a fan or what? Well, it's my dad up here. It's your dad, I was gonna say, it's your dad.

Yeah, we all die. But you know your dad, you know your dad probably is like, deep down now, is like, yeah, Trump sucks, but he's like an American man. And he's like, I gotta stick to my guns. I think if he had never said anything, the man he is right now would look at the news and be like, I don't like this guy, but because he spends several years being like, this is my guy. I don't know that he's, I don't know that he's ready to like, cancel his premium subscription to Fox News online or whatever, because he'll have to feel like an asshole.

Like my mom knows that Trump's a psychopath, but if she says in such plain terms that this guy's a sociopathic, basically like a serial killer with a cottage cheese brain running the world's nuclear supply, if she says that in front of my dad, if she points out that he's a rapist, she'll be calling my dad a bad person for like continuing to not want to admit that he was wrong. Do you know what I mean? So she's just like talking around it in this way. Like that's what's going on here. And and if I call that out, then you know, I'm the asshole.

So I don't think my dad will vote for him again, but I do know that or if he does, it will be like through a series of derangements. But like it does give me hope that like regular people who don't keep up on the day-to-day stuff and don't have the time to like be on the ins and outs of every piece of news, you know, like they still say things like fake news, but they don't believe in Trump anymore, so that's like, right. Right, so okay, so let's switch off, so listen, I think we all agree. So let's switch off so listen, I think we all agree. Anyway, so have you seen this push?

Push controversy? No. Push is like a, it's like a all natural feminine hygiene product. Oh no. And Courtney Cardassian. Why would you call it push? Courtney Cardassian's product. Of course it is.

Of course it is. Okay, what's it do? It's like a, it's like a do? So do you know this person Jen Gunter? She's like a doctor. She's in do? It's like a, it's like a dude. So do you know this person, Jen Gunter, she's like a doctor, she's in OB and she's like the vagina Bible. She, she did an amazing tweet, which I actually saw on Bustle, which I, obviously I don't read that often. I'm not the target audience, but she did a tweet, which is amazing, which I'll just read to you. It's like, I like to see people get shut down in this manner.

They're like, you know, pooches like keep your hoo ha clean, which is like, just like, just get out of my phone. Can you be in a, be a grown adult and call it in the vagina? Just call it a pussy. I mean, let's just, you know, let's get out there. Yeah, Jim got your, says, how about you follow none of this advice? Your vagina isn't actually fresh. Anyone who says otherwise is representing the patriarchy,

feminine washes are a scam. I'm the expert, the end. It's like, you know what? You know, mic drop, that's a mic drop situation right there. You can't help, you can't help but like it. That's my new, honestly, that is in line with my new policy for all insane bullshit. Like when people were like,

why was in the throws of vomiting, people were screaming on Twitter back and forth about Susan's hand in a Deborah Messing. And my new policy is just like, shut the fuck up. Just shut the fuck up. Just shut the fuck up. I don't wanna listen to it. You got a fucking fake thing

that you want people to put in their vaginas and make themselves sick. No, shut the fuck up. I'm not doing this. That's the, this is what we need more of in this world is like this is by the way, I think similarly why people respond to like when you, when you talk here, AOC talking about issues, she just sounds like a human being talking.

It's like when Bernie during the during the, during the debates, we probably talked about this, but during the debates, you know, Jake Tapper was like, oh, oh, socialized healthcare is going to, is it, is it not going to cost taxpayers more money? And he was like, you know, you're repeating a Republican talking point. And by the way, like your advertisers on this show are definitely insurance companies. So like, you know, the question's not really coming

from an honest place or whatever. And it's like, I was like, yes, I love, and this is like, I guess this is my version of Trump's like straight place or whatever. And it's like, I was like, yes, I love, and this is like, I guess this is my version of Trump's like straight talk or whatever. I mean, Trump is like, I mean, I'm sure you've seen the video that has cropped back up of Trump talking about his favorite passage in the Bible. If you haven't seen this,

this was like, by the way, it's from Bloomberg, it's from the show All-Due respect that we did with the now to Scrake scrape Mark Halperin and John Hyman, who's been a guest on this podcast, but not Halperin Hyman. But the interview is like before he's president, obviously, they're like, you know, what's your favorite Bible passage? It's like, that's very personal. I don't like to talk about that. You know, there are a lot of good passages there. It's like, yeah, you don't, you don't have a favorite Bible passage because you've never read

the Bible because you are a fucking liar. And literally everything that comes out of your mouth is fucking garbage. But so it's great to see, to hear people speak actual truth. This is bullshit, is really refreshing to hear. You know, anyhow, so I just thought maybe everybody would enjoy this lockdown down push lane. I just wanna get to a place where I know I'm sick of seeing like threaded Twitter replies with like annotations and people don't care.

Like, we just have to tell people like when you're wrong, just shut the fuck up. We don't need to hear from everybody. Like I don't need to hear a Nazi, whatever, and I don't need to hear someone else come back with like actually the way that melanin is produced and the difference between the races is nobody cares. They're race, they're not racist because they believe it scientifically like I'm just in a place of like just shut the fuck up like she's not selling vaginal care because she thinks she's actually gonna help you and she's not gonna pull the product because she think Courtney Kardashian is not gonna be like oh wait is it actually bad for women oh I'll stop

making money then yeah she's not gonna do that right just tell her, shut the fuck up. I'm an expert. Don't buy this piece of shit. Next thing. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I agree. We need more real straight talk, not fake straight talk. Anyhow, all right. Should we talk here and balance? Fair and balanced news. Should I buy the galaxy note 10 plus? Yeah. I've had an erection since I saw yesterday. That has not gone down. Wow. You know, it's just like every other Galaxy. No, it's good. It's just a good. It's cool. I like it a lot.

Sorry. You took it out. The back is sexy as hell. Whatever they're doing with the design is so much. No, I got the aura. Yeah, the aura, whatever it's called. It's a good, it's great phone. It's really good. It's incredibly fast. It's like the screen is sick. The camera is really, really. The screen makes my iPhone X look like it's not good for surprises. It's in another league. The pen is awesome. They're actually the thing that's really cool that I didn't even show you in yesterday, but it's like cut AR sketch where you can basically make your own like Snapchat filters. Like you can draw on your face and it maps that to stuff.

And it's really cool. There's actually some really weird cool shit you can do with it. Actually, I'm gonna share you right now on a video of me. So it's got a bunch of cool features. It does text writing, a text to our handwriting conversion. It's really good, surprisingly good. It's good. It's great. I mean, it's, if Apple made a phone like this, they just came out with this phone tomorrow, people would be like, the game has been changed. And, you know, oh, this is cool. You watch my video. Yeah.

There's like this weird like, metallicky thing that I drew like some weird circle that kind of looks like the Avengers logo. It's so weird. It's very strange. Well, I want one now. And honestly, I'm at the point where I just have to get off of I message as if it was like cigarettes because I'm just like, I can't it's that the problem between the phone.

It's it's like the only thing that honestly, I'm the only thing that the apple, I mean, what Apple has going for it that's really great is integrated services like FaceTime and I message and it like if you have an Apple TV, you know, the phone is like, hey, Do you want to type on your, you know, use this as a remote or do you want to type on your Apple TV and like if you put it like a Wi-Fi password and your phone, it comes up on your laptop. But like, if you don't, like, I mean, literally, if, I mean, just to be clear, if I message, if nobody was using I message that I knew,

I would not have an iPhone. I would have no reason to have an iPhone. And I wouldn't miss it for a second, you know? And I only am using it because everybody, I know uses I message and I am feeling left out and also like, Zelda can't face time with me when I'm away or she's away and so, I've been forced into it.

Modern Android funds do everything better. I don't talk about this a million times, but the note 10 is extremely sick. You should get one, just do it. I'm gonna. Anyhow, David Koch died. Yeah, you know, Ron Perlman had a great tweet. Ron Perlman, who is an actor.

He did a tweet wishing the Koch brothers a speedy reunion. I thought it was, takes a minute, takes a second. And then you're like, oh, that's good. Anyhow, can't say I'm sad about it. You know, obviously death is a bummer, but if you're a monster who ruined people's lives and try to destroy the planet, I feel like I feel like a lot less bummed about your death. Basically, I will quote Eddie Davis about John, Joan Crawford here.

You should never say bad things about the dead, only good. David Koch is dead, good. He's a terrible person who leaves a horrible legacy for public education and for the poor and the working class in this country. And the only good thing he ended up doing it with his life was funding a ton of research into the specific kind of cancer he had, which will help extend the life of other

people who have his specific kind of cancer, but other than that, he was a selfish monster. And the only good deeds we see from him are acts of vanity and selfishness. And I hope that other billionaires can look at him as a warning because he is basically Ebenezer Scrooge. He is the ghost of Christmas future for these people. You can die on a pile of fucking money. And what good does it do you? Because you're fucking dead. And your kids are gonna live in a world

with an enslaved lower class. And like that's on fire. The Amazon is literally on fire. The Arctic is on fire. We're all gonna die because this dude like prevented action on climate change. Like I hope that other billionaires can look at this and realize that like hoarding is a mental disorder

and it doesn't matter what you're hoarding. Like these people hoarding money and like notoriety. Like it's so disgusting and the fact that he died while the Amazon is on fire and he was probably happy about that is so sickening. And I have no sympathy for him. I have no sympathy for his family or anyone that, you know, they say like don't shit talk the dead and like let people mourn and stuff.

It's like his whole life was political. So I don't see why his death shouldn't be either. I'm a, yeah, I agree. So then also, sorry, I hate to go back to politics. This is more like the economy. I don't know if you've been catching what's going on today. This is obviously Friday. Oh, the recession?

Well, it's not a recession, but I'm watching. I'm looking at a CNBC thread, which is like, that's from 11.04, okay, hold on a second. They're like CNBC, four hours of a breaky Fed chair, Powell and Jackson Hole speech, no rule book on trade blah blah, stocks jumped to session highs and Dow turns positive after Powell, Jackson Hole speech, down Nasdaq, S&P 500, now all in positive territory

after Powell's speech, breaking after Fed shares Jacksonville's speech, Trump tweets, who is our bigger enemy, J Powell or Chairman G? Breaking, this is literally a threat on CNBC. Breaking stocks plunge after Trump tweets that he will respond to new China tariffs today. It's as American companies are hereby order to immediately start looking for an alternative to China. Breaking, S&P 500 slides more than 1% after Trump orders US companies

to start looking for alternatives to China. It now briefly falls more than 410 points after Trump's latest tweet thread on China tariffs. UPS Amazon FedEx shares drop after Trump tweets. I am ordering all carriers including FedEx, Amazon, UPS, and Post Office to search for and refuse all deliveries of fentanyl from China or anywhere else. Stocks hit new session lows. This is two hours ago, with Dow slidey 430 points at NASDAQ followed more than 2%. Breaking, this is one hour ago. Dow slides more than 510 points to new session low. I mean, this is fucking nuts. Just in the national 15, but worse. 53 minutes ago, just in the national, the national retail

federation, until CNBC is unrealistic for America retailers to move out of the world's second largest economy. Just a progression of, and this is what's going on in our country. Just literally the insanity of one,emented Just like person with dementia a Demented and has dementia is like we're like actually actually plunged the economy into into disaster Through a tweet. It's really fucking cool Anyhow sorry, so the galaxy no 10. I recommend everybody goes and buys immediately right? Yeah I mean who does he may turn his focus to Korea, and then we're in big trouble, you know? You don't go to Galaxy Note 10 either.

No Huawei, no galaxies. Everybody on iMessage, just like Apple wants. We don't know the Tim Cook's about behind this whole thing, actually, when you think about it. Yeah, he did have dinner with him. That's right. He said that Tim Cook is the only good see. Huh?

What was that? Siri just came to life when I accused him Cook of having dinner with them. Siri's like, how dare you? That's what my boss you're talking about. Oh shit. Oh, now the mother ship knows. Yeah, dude, they're watching.

Okay, they're watching. They're listening. They're coming for you. Apple campus. Han Hyler. Yeah, he was like Tim Cutsk is the only CEO that he likes because he calls him and the other ones don't.

I was like, you sound like a fourth grader who is like, I like Tommy Best because he invited me to his birthday. You were the fucking president. The impact of, I mean, I wish we could stop talking about politics but the impact of politics on every sphere, including gadgets. Like you have to have your head really buried in the sand if you think that they're not

an extricably tied at this exact moment, because the tariffs from China will affect everything. I mean, game console companies are now scrambling for second plans in case their consoles become so difficult for the public to buy, like that it impacts their quarterly profits. So things like, you know, if you're producing a switch in China and you have to import a new version of the switch, you have to factor in what will our best profit scenario be if we have to build in a price of a tariff. So like, can consumers reasonably purchase this?

I mean, so it's changing the like actual what's going into product development. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, maybe that's great. Maybe that's a good thing. I'm going to look on the positive side. How about this Taylor Swift has a new record? Yeah, it's okay.

I don't hate it. I hated that song, me, and I thought it was trash garbage that should be burned in a dumpster. And then the next single, what was that one? You need to calm down. I thought it was fine, not as bad as like the local rotti would have you believe. I didn't think it was as like offensive or bad as people were like off the deep end about. The whole album I think is better,

it's tighter than those first two singles. I think she's definitely a fairly solid songwriter and she's got a great production team and there's no reason why, like people really freak out when you say that she's like good at her job, but she is. She's a perfectly serviceable pop star. She's not.

I better or worse than I just. So good. It was a fine album. I took a listen to a couple of songs. And my feeling is, it's a little plinky plonky for me. It sounds like Sarah Bareilles is to me is what it sounds like.

Yeah, Sarah Bareilles by way of the Dixie chicks with like a pop star shine. I used to tell her, tell Swift is like the most phony, transparent, garbigy of all of the phony, transparent, garbigy pop people. She was like, just like, nothing seems genuine that she does whatsoever. I think Elvis was super phony and transparent. Okay.

You're wrong. Elvis really was into drugs. Okay. And. And so people who are really fucked up and high don't have time to be transparent, okay? Yeah, so what you're saying is you would like to ask her if she created a heroin addiction if she like she, I want her to be like, who's the guy that, who's the guy that was married

to Kate Moss? What was his name? Oh, Pete Dirty. Pete Dirty. I want to tell her so to be the female American Pete Dirty, okay? Did you see like Kelly Cotron said about Stephanie Pratt? No, what was it? 70 Pratt came in interview where she was like,

I was addicted to meth as a teenager and it really messed my relationship with my brother. And she was like, giving a pretty heartfelt interview and someone asked Kelly Cotron about it. And she said, well, I certainly hope that's true. It would make her a lot more interesting. She's very stupid and shallow. I mean, I've watched her on that show and so far, I have to agree. Also her fake British accent is like out of control, but it's getting worse.

It's very disturbing. All right. What else is the news, Ryan? This is something I kind of wanted to talk about. We could like, I guess pick out ones that we liked or didn't like, but every single streaming service is dropping a trailer or an announcement. Like the, the, there used to be a time when I when I was a kid, I would get my entertainment weeklies every week.

But there was like the fall pilot season one that would come out. And I would cut out the pages that would describe the new TV shows highlights the ones I was interested in. I would like make a whole chart of when I was gonna watch certain shows and I would like to side if I like them or not. Like I was a tiny Emily Nussbaum at a very young age. And I remember going on like TV message boards and being like, oh my god, like they're doing these new projects and like speculating and fan casting and all this stuff. And now network TV is so beyond anyone's relevant like sphere. But these streaming services have completely replaced that. And it's been a whole season around the culmination of which which is happening now, which is D23, which is the Disney

Expo where they're announcing their slate of shows for their new Disney Plus service. Leading up to that into the fall, there's just been trailer after trailer for both movie reboots and new TV series. And I'm a little bit overwhelmed by it, but I'm also kind of happy that culture of like sort of competitiveness

for these projects has still kind of exists. And it's not just like rolling Netflix drops or whatever. Yeah, it's a lot though. It's a lot. I mean, there's too much. There's definitely gonna need to be a calling of the fat here. Yeah, I mean, we're definitely like in a whole new era

of content just on every level, you know? I mean, there's a lot of content. I mean, so many shows, so many networks. It's too much for anyone to really absorb. And what's crazy is that there's so much in each genre that if you say I like sci-fi, we might not have shows in common.

It used to be like, oh, did you watch Battlestar? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, now there's so many shows that how would you know what the other person watches? Right. I mean, it is, and there is, like, I do think there's a little bit of fatigue.

I mean, it's, it's their so, like, you know, the, like, the new season of Mind Hunter is out, which we watch the first season of. I don't know how I'm going to get to it. Right. Well, you have to give something else up. I mean, what else would you do?. Right. Well, you have to give something else up. I mean, what else would you do?

I mean, what are you gonna do? But the thing is, I can't be living my life around like, well, this weekend we got a fit in mind hunter. Like, I can't live life right? I can't, listen, I can't believe the people that I know who are like, oh, like, I've watched every, you know, I can't believe you know, you've watched all the fucking real housewives and shit.

I mean, like, you know, I can't believe you know, you've watched all the fucking real housewives and shit. I mean, like, you know, I mean, that's crazy. All the movies, every fucking streaming show, network TV stuff, reality shows, video game, like I know that this sounds like an insane problem, but as a media, it's not that I wanna keep up with all that I certainly don't need to, but it is different now that we live, we have fully transitioned to an America that does not have like a water cooler moment

outside of a meme. We don't have something that we all experience together and we're like, Rachel and Ross need to get together. I know, I know, they do though. When are they gonna finally get it figured out? That's crazy kids. Enough's enough with those guys. Listen, it's, I mean, I could complain,

but we're getting some good stuff, so why should I complain? And I want everybody to be employed. What about what if Hitler's ghosts returned? I don't want Hitler to get an overall deal with Disney plots. I was like, Hitler's house. Oh my God.

I mean, is there we ready for some kind of meta-hitler entertainment? Maybe we are. Are we already done it, I guess? Yeah, it's called the apprentice. With the producer. Oh, very good. Very good stuff. Very impressive. Are you excited about the Matrix?

Oh, the Matrix 4. Well, so the craziest thing about the Matrix is that it's it's being written by David Mitchell who is an amazing author who's written amongst other things cloud Atlas, which is a film that was made by the Wikowski's and a German director whose name now escapes my memory. But I mean, no, because the two later Matrix movies that other sequels to the Matrix were very bad, like not good. I don't know if anybody remembers that they were bad.

I know, it's like I love Kiano. I love the original Matrix and I love to see a trans director have such a huge project. Like it's great. But the other Matrix stuff wasn't good and I'm a little... like I don't think we can just be like oh it's the Matrix great. You know? Yeah and it's like it is Lily just not interested at all. Like Lily just didn't she didn't want to do this. Like I don't uh... I just think it's um... yeah I don't know like I I don't know if we need a matrix, a fourth matrix and like what are they gonna do? They're gonna reboot it. They're gonna introduce some like young

new Neo or whatever. I just think this is at some point there's like gotta be an end to things. I think she should have. I think she should have I think should have to be like kingdom of the crystal skull, but the matrix. Right. Right. I just think like things should end. I think that's a good thing. It's okay if they do. We should be scared of like stuff coming to an end. What if the world's worth humans are batteries is a matrix inside of a matrix and all of it just comes

back around to the Sims. I mean, all they have to do, right, I'm sure they're, look, I'm sure they're like, oh yeah, there's so much new stuff now with like, we're living in a simulation and all this shit, but I don't know, I mean, I think that, I think that the matrix would have been really perfect had they never made a sequel to it.

That's how the fulfillment's perfect. Is there was never a six dollar? I don't know that I described it as perfect, but I think one of the strengths of, it could be a strength, you know, where it's just, you don't do a sequel. It's a one weird off thing that happened in the 90s and you're like, that's great. It's like American Beauty, which I just watched.

Did you see, it's very problematic, but go on, what were you gonna say? Did you see whose hand is on the cover of the American Beauty poster? We've seen a Hendrix. Oh yeah, it's funny, because I literally just randomly rewatched it. And I would have to say,

I mean, it's a pretty amazing movie, but also just like, it's so, it's very, I mean, it shows this age, obviously And you know, it's like now with Kevin Spacey. It's really up at its time. It's hard to watch anything with Kevin Spacey and not kind of think about all the shit that Kevin Spacey's done. So it's, you know, somewhat tainted. But it's also, like, it's still a really interesting good movie that encapsulates a lot of stuff in a very sort of compact space. It's very much like, you know, the work of a playwright.

Yeah, totally. And it's very much like, you know, I was like, Lauren, I were watching. I'm like, there's no doubt. I'm getting, I guaranteeing to you, if I go to look at the Wikipedia entry for this right now, it's going to be like, the story was inspired by an article that Alan ball had read. And like sure enough, it's like inspired by the global lost story. You know, it's like something and like some a lot of in the 90s were very playish though, like election and like, there was just like a sense of it needs to be a small scale.

So they were importing a lot of, like, there was a boom of indie projects. Yeah. Importing a lot of those stories from a stage, like quiet or smaller stories. And there's no problem with that. But nowadays we just write 13 more stories and call it a TV show. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, anyhow, it's, it was just interesting to see, um, to kind of, uh, look back at that. But it, I mean, that's a great example of like, you know,

I can imagine now, like, if an American beauty style movie happened, people be like, we're gonna do a sequel to it. And it's just interesting to see this. War American beauty. Yeah, like American beauty too. Like he doesn't die. Sorry, spoiler alert, if you haven't seen it. It's like, he actually survives the, and then he's in a coma and it's a movie where it's all in his head. And then at the end of the movie, he really is dead. And it's like, all right, you know what? So yeah, how do I feel about the new matrix?

I mean, how I feel about it is I'm going to go see it because I'm, you know, I'm contractually obligated as a fan of, as a fan of science, face it in nerd culture. And, you know, maybe it'll be really good, maybe they'll like completely surprise us. Do we, do we talk about, we haven't talked about the fact that we're hiring for a bunch of roles at both in, right? We haven't even touched on this. So, you know, we're all, we're really off to the races on input and inverse. I'm very excited. It's both theme ahead at this point. We're hiring input. We're looking for a managing editor, a reviews editor,

to a couple of some news editors, some staff writers, some news writers, so like a bunch of people. In versus hiring for an associate entertainment editor, a deputy editor, a mind and body editor, a news writer, a news writer science editor, and a TV writer. So a lot of rolls up, but like, makers doesn't. And I'm excited, you know, I'm very excited and we're working on some really, really cool product stuff.

We're full of seeing my head in. And I honestly can't wait for everyone to see all this stuff we're making because it's going to blow your fucking assholes off. Wow, you know, and then you're gonna have a horrible life after that because you won't have an asshole. And you'll be like, why did I look at this? You'll say, ah-ha, we got one over on you. Yeah, we're like, our whole goal here was to blow your ass all off and to thus destroy your ability to use the bathroom normally. Yeah, mission accomplished.

Mission accomplished. I mean, I had his exciting. I like to build stuff as you know, big fan of building things and we got some cool stuff coming. So I'm very excited about that. What else is going on? Another thing that we're making me like bringing me joy. It's not my nice things. But I have you have like subdice things that are still nice. Did you see the Normani video? No, it took over the internet. No, it didn't because I was I didn't see it called motivation. It's in her new music video It's her first solo song after the harmony and it is great and it is the return of I'll be honest Yeah, I don't I've never heard of Normani good now you know you will

Okay, I'm watching. Okay, there's a commercial for a city bank card beforehand. You're gonna set up for a city bank card when you get that Apple card right there. Fuck the, I will type of the Apple card in a second. Here we go. Let's start three, meta. Oh, it's so good.

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Get out of here. Oh wow. Um. Okay, I need to go masturbate. So I'll get that back. Someone tweeted a picture of her outside like with the water, whatever. And someone wrote someone left the cake out in the rain. like with the water or whatever and someone wrote someone left the cake out in the rain. Um, very good, very good, very good, very fun. She is the return of pop music and I have told you that my theory before that when we get out of some of these dark times, we will have a main pop girl again and people will dance

and sing and there will be talent and people will, well,, and there will be talent, and people will baby one more time, and want to be, and like a virgin in the streets. And I really think we're coming back around. And then I'm really excited. She's dancing, she's singing. I'm pumped. This is not Taylor Swift.

Definitely not Taylor Swift. It is the polar opposite on every level of Taylor Swift, I would say. So yeah, I'm in. I'm in. I'm bought in. Anyway, you had just talked about that ad for a city bank card. I would like to know if you're getting the Apple card.

Oh, the Apple card. No, why would I get an Apple card? I mean, the Apple card is, I'm not exactly sure. Credit card. What? The Apple card is just a credit card. It's like a loyalty card, like a macy's card or a coals card. Yeah, what do I get?

Like a discount on a discount on a... Get cash bet like a slightly higher cashback percentage on Apple purchases. And it also stains if you put it in a leather wallet. Yeah, it's like keep away from denim and leather. It's a credit card. I wear pants. You can wallet. Like here's the two most likely places credit card, I wear pants. You go wallet.

Like, here's the two most likely places that card is going to end up. It's like, you don't wall it, made of leather. You're like, don't let it touch anybody. Or in your jeans. Or in your jeans. Or in your jeans. It will disintegrate. Like, what are you talking about?

They're like, we thought of everything with the Apple card except about where it could physically go when you're taking it out into the world to use it. They're selling the Apple card that needs a screen protector in a case. We really haven't had and considered this one thing which is that people take the card out of their house and put it in things. Okay. of their house and put it in things where they then remove it from those things and use it to pay for things. I mean, literally like, dude, I mean, literally. It's also, you know, what works fine is all my fucking cards. And I don't need a fucking bank, like a store centric rewards card. That's insane to me. I don't understand why anybody would sign up for one of these outside of brand loyalty.

I mean, I don't know. People were like, I mean, I remember when Pete came out, it was like, this is gonna be the new status symbol. It's like, why? It's like a credit card that I think pretty much anybody can get. And it's like issued by a bank. And it's like a fucking credit card.

You know, it's not like the, it's not like the fucking black card from American Express. Yeah, it isn't like a secret thing that nobody can get their hands on. Like you know, it's not, I don't know, a fucking membership to Soho House, you know, it's like, it's like, yeah, it's a card that you pay, you know, you have to fucking pay off every month. I like that Apple ran out of ideas so they just started copying magmuses. They're like,

they're like, I'm from Fire Festival. Right. So like, what about a credit card? It's metal. It's a status symbol. Everyone can have one. I have people respond to that shit, you know? They, that's really, you know, that's really like, that's what matters.

I mean, I will say, like, people like the metal cards or whatever, but they're kind of like making it seem like, you know, it's like, that's what matters. I mean, I will say like people like the metal cards or whatever, but they're kind of like making it seem like, you know, it's like Apple's changed the game. It's like, what are the features of the, what are the points guys say? I'm gonna go to the points guy right now. I'm going point the points guy.com. It's not at.

Better to get a discover card. I don't know if the points guy is the guy still. I know he's like, here's a card info. Where is it? News. Top cards. They here's the card info. Where is it? News. Top cards. They ain't the top cards. I'll tell you that baby.

No, they're not. Number one card, Chase Sapphire preferred. Okay, interesting. Damn, what about Sapphire? What the fuck do I have? It's like a reserve. Damn, 60,000 points when you get a Chase Sapphire preferred right now.

Look at this shit, Inc. Business Preferred Credit Card. 80,000 points when you get a chase afire preferred right now look at this shit ink business preferred credit card 80,000 points or you start a business account with chase How about this shit look at this shit Hilton honors american express business card 130 bonus points plus a free weekend night boom Where it come up if anything this apple card has me getting serious about my finances because I realized how stupid Everyone's signing up for an apple card has to be I need to see a point's guy review of this Apple card has me getting serious about my finances because I realized how stupid everyone's signing up for an Apple card has to be. I need to see a point's guy review of this fucking card right now. Here we go.

Apple card. As a member of the media, I personally had an opportunity to sign up among the first group of users, so I could experience the super simple sign-up process for myself. After updating the iOS 12.4, I mean, that itself is like, oh, you'd update your OS to get the card? That's weird. Yeah. This is an institution, a financial institution. Not a fucking app.

Okay, here it is. Coolest credit card activation ever, says the points guy. Low bar, low fucking bar. Like no offense, everyone. I don't give a fuck how cool the, like, activation experiences. Like, oh, I mean, I don't have to dial the 1 800 number and put in a code Okay, great

Oh here we go cash back 3% purchase made directly with Apple so anything you buy from Apple you get 3% It's like who buy shit from Apple. What do you mean like the iTunes movies? I buy I guess if you're hoard laptops, 2% all Apple pay purchases and then 1% on everything else. Intro APR, 12.9% to 23.9%. So, you know, pretty fucking high. Yeah. This is bullshit.

People are like talking about this, like it's like hot shit. I mean, Apple purchases. How often do people buying things from Apple? Anyhow, okay. All right, well, the points guy wrote about this. I mean, it seems like the points get kind of tried to avoid writing about it, to be honest with you.

So I would say that if you really care about what the points guy has to say, maybe this is not the card for you. It just blows my mind that anybody would sign up. Credit cards are not, they are a necessary evil and a means to an end. They're not supposed to be sexy and cool. Every time someone tries to convince you a credit card is sexy, sad assemble, they're tricking you.

It doesn't matter if your card has ironman on it. That's not, ooh, wait, can you get that? Yeah, you can. Really? Like, is it made of metal? I don't know if they make it of iron. Huh. Huh.

Did you read that Conan O'Brien podcast thing that everyone got all up in arms about from Variety? I heard somebody mention it in passing. Variety wrote like a growing article. I had a very busy week. Sorry, I don't want to interrupt you. Just, I want to say, I had a very busy week, sorry, I don't want to interrupt you, just I want to say, I had a very busy week. I did not, like there were days when I like,

I looked at my computer at like 8.30 in the morning and then I shut it and I'm like, I'll get back to that like soon and then I opened it at like nine o'clock that night and I was like, oh yeah, I was doing this 12 hours ago. I didn't mean that. No, because I was in between, I was like in meetings and shit.

Yeah, but at least you weren't on the internet. Yeah, but then people were like, oh my god, Cohen was a brine. I'm like, I don't dizzy dead. Like, what happened? Did Cohen and Brian lose both of his legs in a horrendous accident? Did he, oh, did he get canceled? Colonel Brian did a rape. They're like, no, he's just in my podcast.

I don't know what he said. He didn't, I don't even, so Colonel Brian, like, is doing a podcast and it does okay. And he's excited because he's like, I didn't really know a lot about this. And now I'm podcasting and people like it. And it's like great for you, Conan O'Brien. This, this Simpsons was good when you wrote on it. It's true. That was when it was good. And then variety did this glowing article where they were like, the podcast revolution being led by late night hosts, like Conan O'Brien. And then variety did this glowing article where they were like the podcast revolution being led by late night hosts like Conan O'Brien. And then everyone was like,

podcast revolution's over. Yeah, first off, the podcast revolution was led by Sarah Cana, if it was led by anybody, and it started in 2003 and it didn't really hit the mainstream quote unquote consciousness until quote unquote serial. And so if you want to pin it on some fake moment, that's the fake moment. Look, podcaster of urban knows that.

Ask any listener of this podcast. But it's just like, it's super out of touch and like frustrating because it's another moment of like, I don't know, it just feels like older people are like, I guess, normies or there's like this fake idea that there is a group of people who didn't know what podcasts are and it's like everybody knew what a podcast was. Why are we pretending that we don't understand memes

or the internet or the way that content is distributed now? There's still this whole idea that regular people are like, what's a YouTube star? Wow, that sounds new-fangled. Everybody knows what that is. We had variety doesn't need to pretend that Conan O'Brien invented podcasting in a garage somewhere with Leo Laporte.

Like come on. Oh wow, Leo Laporte. That's a blast from the past, man. You're welcome. Taking me on a fucking journey over here. Come on, God damn trip. No, so the Conan, the Conan thing, there was something else of this Popeye sandwich.

What is going on with the Popeye? Oh, yeah, the Popeye. I honestly, I don't want to be in a war. I don't there's a lot of shit happening. This is what I'm saying. I'm like, if I read about if I read about David Cokes like crimes, you know, then I don't have enough time to find out what's going on with the Popeye sandwich. This is a door of shit that I saw while I was literally like attached to my toilet. Wait, hold on, hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, explain it to me. Wait, hold on, hold on, wait is that way is that way is that way is that way is that explain it to me? What's going on with sandwich? Poppies came out with the chicken sandwich.

Okay, they didn't have your tummy. Ha ha ha. You tell me Popeyes didn't have a chicken sandwich? No, they did not. Okay, that seems strange, but go on. There was like one to sandwich in the early 2000s. That was like, but like a Popeyes, you could get like a biscuit, right? Yeah.

And you could get some chickens and like boneless chicken. Yeah. Okay, like you could bake that into a sandwich, just saying, do you want the long version of the short version? Yeah, no, I want you to tell me everything. Okay, so. So there was a restaurant in LA that was serving Popeyes chicken on their menu, but not calling it that.

They were just calling it fried chicken. And they were including it with different meal options. Like like a like a non Popeyes restaurant. Yeah, They were just calling it fried chicken, and they were including it with different meal options. Like a non-popized restaurant. Yeah, they were just going out buying it, bringing it in, and then charging you for pop-ups chicken. Okay. What kind of a restaurant? Like a fancy restaurant.

It was like a highly rated, like, comfort, seven-comfort food restaurant. Okay, so it was like a trendy LA restaurant. Yeah, like chicken and waffles, and it was like an internet phenomenon. Okay. And when they were asked about it, they said, well, we source all the best ingredients, and we can't make, we don't think anybody can make fried chicken better than Popeyes. And it went like viral, and people were like, so they were like, the way that we would

get like the best avocados, the finest organic avocados, we are importing the finest fried chicken in the world. Yeah, so instead of making our own recipe. Yes. Okay, I mean, it's a stretch, but okay. And they were making it with mad at them. But they were making a sandwich. They were making a sandwich out of it? No, no, no.

Okay, so this is the earlier timeline. Okay. Then the internet earlier timeline. Okay. Then the internet was both mad and okay with it, and then they dropped it from their menu just to make it end. The restaurant then, for the next couple of years, it was notable for this Popeye's gate thing, but it also had other chef in his menu, so who cares?

Then Popeye's came around and made a chicken sandwich with them that they only served at this restaurant with their Popeyes fried chicken. And they sold it there. And they collaborated with Popeyes and created this chicken sandwich that would only be served at the restaurant. Okay, okay.

So Popeyes was like, we're not mad. And then do you want to collaborate on a sandwich? Yeah. Okay, all right. This is quite a tale. Keep going. So then they roll this chicken sandwich out like nation wide and they say, okay, you can get it at all Popeyes. Like it's now available people like it and then the internet had it and they were like it's like loaded with MSG

and it's apparently the most delicious thing anybody's ever eaten really losing their shit over this chicken sandwich. Then Chick-fil-A tweets out chicken over this chicken sandwich. Then Chick-fil-A tweets out, are Chick-fil-A equals love or something like that? Like, they were like, are Chick-fil-A's love? Oh, I saw that. It's like, chicken plus bun plus pickles equal love or something. Yeah, and the internet was like,

really? Cause you hate gay people. Right. So Popeyes tweeted at Chick-fil-A, y'all good. And then the internet exploded, and then every fast food restaurant would like who like hired a, they're the Burger King team or whatever,

you know, that like Wendy's has like Sassy Wendy's or whatever, they hired all those marketing firms, they all jumped in on this chicken sandwich, and everyone on the internet's mad because they're like, this was Popeyes moment, good for Popeyes, Popeyes did something cool, you guys suck. And it's like, I mean, these are all national corporations, it really cares me.

But I mean, let's talk about the chickens for a second, okay? That's poor chickens. Impossible needs to get in the chicken game like hard. Oh, totally. I would 100% go to Popeyes and buy an impossible version of that. Like, let's get real for a second. Like 75% of the fried chicken is not the chicken.

Like 80% of fried chicken is. Morningstar chicken nuggets taste exactly like burgers. They actually don't, okay, but, but let's not get off topic here. Let's not get off track. I mean, they're fine for people like us, but I'm saying let's get the fucking, I want the chicken sandwich shit,

that's not chicken that makes people who don't eat chicken, like, wretch in their mouth when they taste it, because they're like, am I eating chicken? That's what I want. Do you understand what I'm saying? I want people to meet scientists. I want the meat scientists, because like, I fucking love chicken fingers,

and I don't eat them because I don't like the animals being killed, but like a chicken, just give me a piece of fucking fried chicken. This is where there's no chicken, but the hayst like fried chicken. There used to be a place in Williamsburg that had like, they made just shitty vegan food. What was it called?

They had like some like chicken fingers that were not bad. It was called like, Bubsy's or Joey's or like Zappos or something like that. It was like, it was called like, Bummers or Jammers or I don't know, come on. Hold on, I'm just gonna Google it. Williamsburg, Berge, vegan junk food. So just gonna Google it. Williamsburg, it's Burg, a vegan junk food. That's how I would describe it.

Screamers? No. Is it Screamers? Champs, diner? Nope. Food swings. I think that's what it was. I ain't even close to what I was thinking it was called. Is that what it was called? Food swings. Food swings. They had like all kinds of fucked up. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. This was like the proto-superiority burger. Oh yeah. It was like shit. You wouldn't like come here and you'd have a paper cup and eat some shit that kind of tastes like meat, but it's like doused in like weird quasi, you know, like gravis, quasi gravis, my new math rock band.

It's like, it's like when I first moved to New York and I would get really, really drunk and go to cryptogs and be like, everything you have that's technically vegetarian and just like chow down on absolute garbage. You know what, there's some bad news going on right now. You're aware of what the breaking news that's happening right now. Oh, fuck. Come on. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth Bader Ginsburg being treated for pancreatic cancer. You thought that's just as you're dead, right? Yeah. Well, guess what? The trend is like, you know what, fucking Twitter needs to fucking get their shit straight

on this trending shit. They're like trending the USA Ruth Bitter Ginsburg. And it's like, okay, she's dead, right? It's like, why don't you fucking say in the little thing underneath it, like being treated for cancer? Yeah, there was one that got me the other day that was Bob Barker and I was like,

oh no, Bob Barker's dead. But you could literally put George Washington and I'd be like, George Washington is he canceled? Yeah, it's like, yeah. It's like, I yeah, I mean yes, though of course of course he is But I that would be my reaction like there's no context around these. I don't know I don't know at all at any rate And it every but maybe that's by design because they want us to click on it and read that's exactly what they want because Twitter is a fucking shit hole Okay, and not the good work. Yeah, they're very bad. I can't stop.

That's the kind we're gonna blow off of you. That's the guy in our website is gonna remove from your body by force. Okay, totally different kind of shithole. Any, how did you see this? The Joker is going to be at the New York Film Festival? No, but that makes sense. Yeah, dude, the comic books are coming for your art house.

Also, like the essay in this essay, I will... I'm saying. Actually, I was like, hey, is this a star talking to Jeremy? I'm like, is this a story? Like comic book movies are coming for your art house and he's like, no, they've been trying to do this for like 20 years. I'm like, oh, yeah. He's like, Logan and the Dark Knight movies.

And I was like, yeah, kind of. I think the Joker's going for like a psychological thriller. Yeah, I'm excited about superhero movies doing other things that aren't necessarily like a linear, Marvel Cinematic Universe with one tone and one color palette and whatever. I'm excited to see some variety of stories and take weird chances and do what if stuff.

But I also don't want it to be like a genre creep where I go to see a romcom and it's like, you can't just see a romcom about like two teens who pretend they're dating and now they really are. I have to see like, Spider-Man pretends he's dating Miss Marvel and even though I wouldn't see that movie, but I don't want it to be like every genre of movie. Do you know what I mean? Like, I don't want because that makes superhero movies kind of useless and there aren't their own thing anymore.

So I'm excited for this, but as a general trend, I the thing that annoys me about the Joker movie is that it has no relationship to any of the other things they've been doing with the DC movies. So I like that. I like it. But why? But what's the, it's like, now what? Now they're just going to create like, it would be like weird. Because they're asking you a good movie. If it isn't a good movie, there's no reason to see it.

It can't lean on the fact that, well, did you see every Marvel movie? Because if you haven't seen Ant-Man 2, and it's like, Ant-Man 2 was fine. It wasn't that good. You don't have to see it. I would rather them make lots of weird movies that are really good or different than stuff that I have to see to check off a fucking list.

I get what you're saying. I'm just saying it's nice if there's some consistency to the world of characters they're building, if they're trying to build a world of characters, if they're just doing one-offs, that's totally fine. But they're not just doing one-off. So doing a bunch of shit where it's like, yes, these are connected and then no,

they're not connected. Yeah, I get what you're saying. They should pick one lane or the other. Like do one-off cool things in series. Yeah, like this is the weird Joker series. This is the weird Harley Quinn series and they're not connected in any way. Right, or do, or make it work.

Or make it fuck the work. I also think they need to play with other formats with their characters. Like if their big budget movies are all gonna be connected, cool, your DC universe online movies should have some, there should be some one shot movies there. Do you know what I mean? Like a one shot limited series that you experiment

and you play with the form. Like I would like to see that it doesn't need to be explained to the consumer because Marvel, the Marvel Universe footprint in a short amount of time has dominated how we think about movies and how we think about extended universes and stuff, but I would like to see them try. I don't think DC at this point is ever going to catch up with an interconnected universe, but why not try something else? I mean, I don't know, just blow it all up, you know what I'm saying? Just blow it up.

Now Trump, the Dow is down 523 points in Trump's making jokes about it. Good, great. I mean, sorry, I'm just catching you up on what's happening in my mind. I don't know real time view. I don't know how to react to any of this anymore like yeah the world's ending I guess if we speed it up that'll be good things done in record time. I mean let's

just say this I don't want a recession. I don't want a recession but I feel but I don't think that the people at the bottom who I don't think that this quote unquote good economy has helped that many people and if the people at the top need to have their knuckles slapped again, if we're for the people at the bottom to like, I don't know, I don't want to sound like Susan Sarandon. But I don't know a way out of this except through it. Hmm, that's an interesting way to put it. What about, what about around it?

What about over it? I guess there is another solution, which is like everybody band together, see how things are going, which isn't great, wake up, and let's do like a green new deal or some kind of economic plan that saves the planet and gets everybody jobs. But I don't, people just don't seem to fucking care

or wake up until they lose their house. And then they're pissed. But it does, until that point, I don't see to fucking care or wake up until they lose their house and then they're pissed. But until that point, I don't see that anybody wants to learn. Like they just want to play team colors. Like I bought a Republican jersey, so I'm a Republican. You got a Republican jersey, why would you do that? All right, what else? Let's wrap this thing up.

Enough of this. Enough of us whining and bitching. All right, nice thing. We're in a K-hole, but we have to crystal our way out. Oh my God. All right, I bought a Tesla Model 3. I didn't buy it yet. I put the payment down on it,

and I'm picking it up in a couple of months or something, a month. So my lease is almost up. I have an Audi, and it's a great car. I love it. Probably saved my life. So credit to Audi where it's a great car. I love it. I probably saved my life. So credit to Audi where it's due. But I decided that I didn't want to have another gas car. I commute in and out of the city every day. I drive, which I know is irresponsible, but for me, it's actually

the easiest way to do it. And the the the most efficient and frankly, I don't like being around other people. So it's also the most private. You don't have to defend why I take a car. Anyhow, even though I am. So I was like, I'm going to get an electric car. And so there are a lot of electric cars that are like mid-range cars. Like Hyundai makes one and there's the Chevy Bolt or whatever. But I'm used to it. Like one of the reasons I bought the Audi

didn't buy it, least it, is because it's got a really quiet, smooth ride and like, since if you're in the car for several hours every day, it's sort of like to me, it's kind of important. I take a lot of calls in the car, I listen to books on tape, while audiobooks, audible shit. So whatever, I want to go really quiet cabin and really comfortable experience. So I was like, okay, well, I'm not gonna whatever, I want like a really quiet cabin and like a really like comfortable experience.

So like I was like, okay, well I'm not gonna get, I'm probably not gonna get like the Chevy Bolt or the, not that they're bad cars or anything, just not for me. I wanted to stay in the range of the car that I have. So the options are like really fucking limited, like almost nonexistent. There's a new Audi called an E-Tron,

which is basically like a version of an Audi SUV that is electric, that has a 200 mile range, which is shit. And then there's a Jaguar iPace, which is a weird, like, sedan SUV hybrid, but is a electric car. Any high-test drove them, and one, neither one of them seemed that great as cars.

They're just like cars and also they're really fucking expensive, like insanely expensive, like double the cost of my car basically. And then I went to test drive a Model 3 and the Model 3 is sick. Like it's a really nice car, like really nice and has insane features. You can basically lease them now for the cost of what I pay to lease my car. It was kind of a no-brainer. One thing Tesla has done that nobody else has really done in the auto industry is they've designed a car that's basically for this moment, like right now, designed with like actual, like modern human beings in mind. Like even down to like where you put your phone in the car is like, oh yeah, that's obviously

where it should go. And like they have like a wireless charging mat you can get so it can just like sit like in the space where you can like see your phone if you need to, but it's not like you don't have to like fuck with it or like pull it out of a pocket or whatever. And it's just like the electronics of the car are insane. The ride of the car is excellent. The interior is like surprisingly spacious. Anyhow, so I'm like pretty, I haven't been this excited about like a vehicle in a really long time. Like, it's a gadget.

It's a big gadget and it's really awesome. And as much as I may disagree with some of the things that Elon Musk thinks or says You know Elon and I you know, we've had our history together You know good and bad But I imagine right now I'm on touch if you're running in the fields asking him if we live in a simulation Yeah, then him rhymes getting eyeball surgery Him being like Jews run to me. They know he'd actually do that live in a simulation. Yeah, then him. Ryan's getting eyeball surgery. Yeah. Yeah.

Him being like, Jews run the media. No, he didn't actually do that. But he said something like that. I don't know. Following people pedophiles wasn't great. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That thing was cool.

That was crazy. He was so mad because he couldn't get his like tube in to save the, to save the soccer team. I totally wanted to be his fish. And he was like, this is why we're going to destroy the media. What a crazy world we live in. Anyhow, bad at Twitter, great at making electric cars is my review of Elon Musk. So we'll see what happens. I'm going to pick it up in October, right, right, my birthday, I think. And, you know, I'll start complaining about it almost immediately. I'll start complaining about it almost immediately.

Okay, then I have one other quick, nice thing, which is, I have along the same lines. I finally have the Impossible Whopper, which is a Burger King Whopper with an Impossible Paddy, and it's fucking great in the way that a Whopper is great, which is to say it's a fast food hamburger that is of mediocre quality, but hits the spot when you want one. The impossible burger presence

does not alter the spot-hitting quality by any measurable degree that I can tell or perceive rather. I would say that's a success and everybody should try one and, you know, I think that there are some very bright times ahead for the impossible corporation or whatever they're called and their and their patties. I'm sure at some point they'll get upset because we won't use their fish tube to save dying tilts around the bush. Do they have a fish tube? I don't know, I'm sure their CEO will be terrible on Twitter at some point.

Definitely, he's gonna be like, Trump's good for the economy or some shit and then it's like, that's the end of impossible. Okay, anyhow, all right, those are my nice things. I really have three Netflix recommendations. I enjoyed the Rock Was My Own Life reboot. It was cool and it reminded me why that show was so smart and savvy. And it was genuinely, I walked away being like,

that was such a cool, amazing experience. And the moral of the story essentially is, why do you crave this reboot? And it's so fun and meta and great. Then there was the Invaders in Reboot, which I also liked. I didn't like it as much as the Rock Was My Don Life fun. But it was fun and it was cool to see those characters get to ride again, made me feel like I was 13

and in Hot Topic again, and you know, what, when was life better? And then the other Netflix thing is for adults, which is the family, which is the mini series on Netflix about the, like a Christian cult in the highest levels of government and influence in industry. I could not believe that it was real. I watched it when I was little high

and thought that maybe it was me projecting this or like I was making this more mind-blowing than it was. And so I watched it again when I wasn't high and it's as horrifying. And if Donald Trump wasn't the president and he wasn't trying to purchase whole other countries with cash, this would be the biggest news in the world. The fact that these people shamelessly

are using this opportunity of complete media insanity to, quote unquote, like come out of the closet as a cult of power centered around Jesus. They think that Jesus was like the leader of a power scheme. It's like the opposite of a pyramid scheme. Like all the apostles had agreed if we all have each other's back. It doesn't matter what we do to people because we'll have each other's interests at heart. And like there's a whole thing about like if you rape three kids, I won't judge you because you're my brother in this family. And former presidents appeared in this mini-series. It's unbelievable. I could not...

Yeah, I said, I watched the trailer for it. It looked interesting. It's horrifying. I just couldn't believe the level of influence. And that all these people are like, yeah, you know, people have talked about us existing. I have heard all that sea street stuff and I had understood to a certain extent that there was even gelical influence in the government, obviously, but I just did not understand the level at which,

like the National Prayer Breakfast and the organization behind it really controls a certain amount of power internationally and that the national pre-Breakfast is called that as a cover for the fact that it's a four day conference with evangelicals where world leaders bow before them and it's really, really upsetting

and things are a lot worse than I ever imagined they were. But the nice thing about this was that at least it was something me and my dad could agree on, because we were both like, wow, everything's fucked. So there's that. My other two nice things were weirdly was getting food poisoning because that was horrible. It was really bad.

For three days, I was so dehydrated, I thought there was post-its all over my room and that I thought my dad was here and he wasn't. It didn't make any sense, but I was vomiting, like you couldn't believe, but it was a good opportunity for me to re-evaluate some of the ways I've been living my life. I didn't get sick because of not going to the gym or whatever, but it did make me think like, I don't want to feel like this, and I have family members who have cancer and heart disease, and some of my family members are going to feel like this every day until they die because they're not well, and I need to really like reevaluate what I was doing because I didn't want to wake up one day and find out that I wasn't going to get better in two days, and I would feel like this. So it was a good opportunity for me to like throw out a bunch of substances and look at what I was eating

and decide to make time to go to the gym every morning. So I'm actually feeling, I'm like two days out of it at this point and like, so these are some big claims for someone who's two days out of it, but I actually feel so great. And I can't believe I was, you know, having a glass of wine with every meal or whatever I was the fuck I was doing a glass of wine with every meal or whatever I was doing.

Yeah. I mean, it's interesting. I do think we're all going to start to sober up a little, not saying that you're sobering up, but I mean, I've been thinking a lot about drinking and drinking less and just sort of being more. I mean, as you know, I've been smoking more weed, which maybe is a weird trade-off, but for me, it has way fewer sort of like overhang effects or hang over effects, if you will. And I think I was using food and alcohol and various other devices as coping mechanisms

for what felt like the end of the world. And even if the world is ending, I would like to enjoy my days during the end or whatever. And I was not feeling good. And I got sick because I ate the wrong thing from a bit shitty restaurant. But if I, if there's a chance to save myself from like a cancer or a heart problem or something or diabetes. I need to just throw out the fucking potato chips and I need to like not down a bottle of wine because it's Tuesday and I don't like the president. Like that's not the valid reason. Right. I agree. No, I think where I think I would I would imagine the drinking is in the last

or the last few years had a massive upswing. Oh yeah, millennials drink way more, and in recent years drink way more. Yeah, I thought drinking was down amongst millennials, but I don't know what the last few years has been like. All I know is that it's really easy to have a reason to drink these days, to have a reason to do anything really. You know what I mean? That gets your brain slightly slowed down.

And it's easy to just, we now have commodified alcoholism into like wine mom culture or like Saturdays or for the boys bullshit. And it's easy to be like, oh, it's brunch. I'm not an alcoholic. I just went to brunch both days during the weekend. And happy hour, oh. It's really, I mean, I recently spent a week

not having any alcohol at all. And just to kind of give myself a breather and just to see how I fell afterwards. And it definitely like, you start to notice how much everyone else is drinking all the time when you're not drinking because you're making a conscious decision to not participate. And it's pretty interesting. I mean, it's very so commonplace now. It's so widespread, it's so constant. I just need to think like a reset period

to put things back into perspective, because there was a point in time when I would go the entire day without taking any mind altering substances and I wouldn't eat a pile of garbage and I would make it to the gym and I was like a happy functioning person. And that needs to be the majority of my days again. I just, I don't know. And being sick, it was like not only did I not want to feel like that, I was also like, what was I, like, I feel like it was a good moment for me to be like,

I, what, what am I meditating over? And like, maybe let's attack the problem that I'm meditating over, rather than the like symptoms of it. I know that sounds obvious, but it really takes like a big break in your routine for that to hit home. So I don't know, I'm happy about that. My vape is in the garbage. And my last nice thing was I went on that flight to the Midwest and it was, you know, it was a fine trip. It wasn't as bad as the last one, which was

legendarily awful. But it was fine. Indiana is not necessarily my favorite place, but Purdue University where my ants, is so stunning. It truly makes my, the college I went to look like Burger King. And it was crazy. But my nice thing is that on the way back, I always tell my mom that LGBTQ people in people facing service industries will do things

for other LGBTQ people with like a wink. And I always called the game off, and she does not believe me. And we were on a flight back from Indiana. And I was, it was a very small plane. So one row of seats was just one chair. And the other row is two. And I was sitting in a solo seat. My brother and my mom were sitting in the two seats. And the flight attendant can do it. And he was like, do you want anything? And I said, I think I'll have a glass of wine and whatever the snack is. He came back to me with two bottles of wine that I did not pay for and a pile of snacks. And I said, oh my gosh, thank you. And he just winked and said, have a great day. And I was like, God, I want

that energy going into 2020. I want us to all get back from a place of desperation and just like do things for each other. So that was shout out to Hector on American Airlines. I like you. Wow, look at that. The personal shout out, how interesting. I never get personal shout outs on this podcast. All right, should we wrap up? Should we get back to the live in here?

Yeah, I guess. Yeah, I got any to drink after this conversation. No! 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. Though I've just discovered that your family is the family from Netflix, and I think that's very bad. you