There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-daily-zeitgeist-28516718/
episode 4: Oh, Was There A Debate? Janky Movie Theaters That Rock! 10.03.24
In episode 1753, Miles and guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by writer, actor, and comedian with a new album titled, I Turned Out Fine, Paige Weldon, to discuss… Debate Night - VP Edition, That Boomer That Smashed The Taylor Swift Signed Guitar Probably Got Duped… and more!
- Debate Night - VP Edition
- That Boomer That Smashed The Taylor Swift Signed Guitar Probably Got Duped…
- A Piece of Media Paige Enjoyed
LISTEN: Dopamine by BINA...
00:05
Speaker 1
I watched Megalopolis instead, Oh how bad? Was just so bad?
00:11
It's good or so bad? It's fucking infurio.
00:13
Speaker 2
It's pretty tedious, but the tedium makes it so that
00:17
there's like two very very funny and insane parts near
00:22
the end that are like the hardest I laughed in
00:25
a theater because I.
00:26
Speaker 3
Was so like, I'll save I'll save my line.
00:31
Speaker 1
I gotta I got a line prepared for why I
00:34
watched Megalopolis instead of the uh, instead of the debate.
00:38
Oh pretty, it's pretty. I mean it's just like, you know,
00:44
a crazy rich man got to do whatever the fuck
00:47
you wanted, and a crazy old rich man exactly. Yeah,
00:51
like the dying fart from a boomer corpse as a film. Yeah,
00:56
and Myles, I'm not sure we got a cold open up,
00:59
so none of the I thought to talk about Megalopolis.
01:03
Oh maybe, I don't know.
01:05
Speaker 4
Was there a big left there?
01:06
Speaker 1
Usually usually there's like a huge last whoa whoa Okay, hey,
01:13
whoa whoa wait? I mean, well, hello the Internet and
01:24
welcome to season three fifty eight, Episode four of the Dailies.
01:28
I GUIs the production of My Heart Radio and uh
01:30
for people to say, who is this mysterious undecided podcast voter.
01:34
It could be us, or could be someone who's just grifting,
01:37
or could be something that New York Times likes to create.
01:39
To be like, some people don't understand what is happening
01:42
in our world, allow us to explain. But this is
01:45
also the podcast we take a deep.
01:46
Speaker 3
Dive into America's shared consciousness.
01:48
Speaker 1
And it is Thursday, October third, which means it's National
01:53
Techies Day and National Boyfriend Day that that's used to
01:58
we have a lot more things, but I guess I don't.
02:00
I think it looks the picture is of a dude
02:02
who has an iPad, laptop and computer in front of him.
02:06
So if that's you, shout out to you. This feels
02:10
like an Alpha and Omega situation. No, Techi's Day and
02:13
Boyfriend's Day just encompasses all of creation right right right,
02:17
every everything, everything is is all all entities.
02:24
Speaker 5
October third also the day from Mean Girls.
02:29
Speaker 3
Is it?
02:32
Speaker 1
I mean, I'm gonna just I'm gonna trust you on that,
02:35
You know what I mean? Yeah, you're right, absolutely right.
02:39
Speaker 4
See, I just don't want people going off on you
02:41
in the comments.
02:42
Speaker 1
You know what, I'm pretty sure last year, I fucking
02:45
missed it and then people are like, yo, is he okay?
02:47
Like the actual holiday was mean.
02:49
Speaker 4
Girls, are you paying attention at all?
02:52
Speaker 3
So sorry?
02:53
Speaker 1
When that movie came out, I was at the height
02:55
of my ignorance as a college student, thinking he knew
02:58
fucking everything there was to be known, and I was like,
03:00
freaking relax, okay, anyway, I'm your host. It's not Jack today.
03:07
Jack is out sick. As some of you may have heard,
03:09
I said, I clocked it yesterday on the show.
03:11
Speaker 3
I was like, bro, I hear something.
03:13
Speaker 1
I hear something, And it turns out today he needed
03:16
a little bit of a break. And that's why it's
03:17
your host with the most miles great aka the Lord
03:21
of Lankersham, the showgun with no gun, the podcaster with
03:23
micro buns that are you know, slowly getting more round
03:27
and strong as I exercise on my bike more because
03:30
the podcast but is a real thing. It is a
03:32
condition that many of us are afflicted to win. But
03:34
I am thrilled to be joined by my co host,
03:37
a wonderful person, somebody who is a fantastic cook, a
03:41
fantastic okay, writer, producer. You know, I guess I'll say
03:45
elder Hey when I was looking at comedy, so.
03:49
Speaker 3
This was years ago. Years ago.
03:51
Speaker 1
You always stressed that part. Also a fantastic podcaster you
03:55
probably know you must know from you as this racist.
03:59
Please welcome my friend, our co host, mister.
04:04
Speaker 3
What's up?
04:04
Speaker 6
I uh signed on too late to do the podcast
04:09
to get an ak in the chamber, so aka doctor
04:13
unprepared as usual. I'm glad you you made violating Jack's
04:19
like uh doing a hip a violation on Jack part
04:22
of the content.
04:23
Speaker 3
That's the that's the key.
04:24
Speaker 1
Yeah, well, I mean I call it transparency. You know,
04:27
some people call it the hip of violation, you know,
04:30
legal faux pa. But I'm just saying I'm just trying
04:33
to be open and honest, y'all.
04:34
Speaker 3
That's right.
04:36
Speaker 1
That's why I got a stackfull FBI files that the
04:39
person who used to live here left behind that I'm
04:42
going to be revealing very soon and the truths within
04:45
will shock you. But anyway, Andrew, you've been good. Yeah,
04:50
I'm alive. I watched I've been watching some pretty wild
04:54
movies in the last week. I'll trickle out this informa
05:00
as the episode continues, a consummate professional. Well, then, let's
05:04
welcome our guests. Today in our third seat. A talented comedian,
05:08
writer actor. You may have seen them appear on places
05:12
like The Late Late Show with James Cordon or perhaps
05:16
I don't know, Comedy Central stand up features. I don't know,
05:19
maybe the wonderful Don't Tell Me comedy shows that are around.
05:23
People are like, where's the Don't Tell Show at?
05:25
Speaker 3
How do I get in?
05:25
Speaker 1
How do I know about this?
05:26
Speaker 3
Look?
05:27
Speaker 1
Our guest has been everywhere, seeing them on Heathers, seeing
05:30
him on Corporate writing episodes of Corporate. Also also I
05:34
think one of the nearest and dearest swifties to this
05:37
show's heart. Please welcome to the third seat, Page.
05:41
Speaker 3
Well man, Oh my god.
05:43
Speaker 4
An honor and a privilege. It's so good to be here.
05:45
Speaker 1
Great to have you. Great to have you, Page, great
05:48
to have you. I'm always like reminded to you about
05:51
the first time we actually met, which I think was
05:54
at the Chatterbox, when I made a guy go do
05:58
a bunch of AI written jokes on stage.
06:02
Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I don't know that.
06:06
I yeah, I feel like it. I didn't connect that
06:09
with you until later when we met another time.
06:12
Speaker 1
Yeah, and I was like, I was like, Page, I've
06:14
met you, and I apologized because I think I took
06:18
the life out of the chatterbox with this dumb video
06:21
I was making for Wired magazine.
06:22
Speaker 5
It was an open mic and I just feel like
06:24
it's already a delicate situation, you know.
06:26
Speaker 3
Yeah, could it be real?
06:30
Speaker 1
Dude, I'm not joking. You can probably look it up.
06:32
It's like it's on Wired YouTube channel about like this
06:36
guy Brent Rose had to go on stage. We'd like
06:39
coupled together every like, because it was like the era
06:42
of like Alexas and shit coming out, and we're like,
06:44
they tell jokes, write them all down, and send this
06:47
man up there to tell them straight faced in front
06:50
of an audience who thinks it's stand up.
06:52
Speaker 4
Yeah.
06:52
Speaker 5
There was like a really beautiful highros photo of me
06:54
looking at my phone at the bar that I think
06:56
was part of the article about this.
06:58
Speaker 1
I was like, oh oo, everyone wins, everyone wins. Well, page,
07:03
it's great to have you. Also, i'd be remiss. I
07:05
forgot to mention you have a new album. I turned
07:07
out fine out now on ASC Records. Every man, I
07:11
need to I want a record? Is it hard to get?
07:13
Speaker 3
Hard to do? Yeah?
07:15
Speaker 4
You want to record one?
07:17
Speaker 6
It looks hard you need a daily Zeitgei's Greatest Hits
07:21
album Dog Oh that was fun, print print.
07:25
Speaker 1
Your spiciest takes to final I know it's it's hard
07:28
because there's so many times like there, you know, like
07:31
people who listen to the show reach out and like,
07:33
oh my god, yesterday's thing that you said. I'm like,
07:35
I'm I talk so much, I don't even know. I
07:38
don't even know what I'm saying anymore.
07:40
Speaker 5
So, yeah, you can't remember everything. Yeah, you would need
07:43
someone to call through the archives.
07:45
Speaker 1
Because there's not much. You can't remember anything everything. You
07:48
can't remember anything. I know, the instant I say something
07:51
on a podcast, it is completely gone from my memory.
07:54
Speaker 3
Yeah.
07:55
Speaker 1
I think that's the only way you can.
07:56
Speaker 5
It comes out immediately, because I do feel like other
07:59
times I'm on podcast that comes out, you know, a
08:01
week weeks later, and I'm like, damn, I definitely don't
08:05
want to listen back, but I am curious what I said.
08:07
Speaker 1
They're like, oh my god, that take you had on
08:09
Strawberries Page like today, fuck, I don't even know. Well, Page,
08:16
We're gonna get to know you a little bit better,
08:18
but obviously we got to tell people what we're talking
08:20
about today. Obviously, I don't put together three guests or
08:25
two guests for this show who aren't going to be
08:28
fully tapped into the goings on of the world, including
08:31
the vice president so debate that happened on Tuesday, because
08:36
guess what not today we're doing. We're switching things up.
08:38
I got two people that couldn't give a fuck less
08:41
about the presidential debate for their own reasons. But then
08:44
that will be me because this is the duty of
08:45
the show, because I know some of you don't give
08:47
a fuck either, and rightly so you have better things
08:49
to do. I you're intrepid host. Put my body on
08:53
the line to watch that fucking snooze fest, and I'll
08:55
tell you some of the funny shit that happened, amongst
08:59
other things.
08:59
Speaker 4
I mean to be bored.
09:01
Speaker 6
Yeah, nothing represents America better than like two thirds of
09:05
us really didn't give a fuck.
09:06
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's like, I don't know, what do you want
09:08
to what do you want?
09:09
Speaker 4
Man?
09:10
Speaker 3
Like?
09:10
Speaker 1
Sure I watched. I mean the thing is you could
09:14
I feel like that both of you are intelligent enough
09:16
that you could probably lie through the segment and you
09:18
would come off as if you had actually seen it.
09:21
If you're just like, I.
09:22
Speaker 3
Don't know, dude, JD Van lying, I.
09:25
Speaker 1
Think so we'll talk about that. Well, just there was
09:28
an interesting moment where JD. Vance gave his sort of
09:31
thoughts on climate change, and it's sort of connected with
09:34
the story I was thinking of about Asheville, North Carolina,
09:36
which is one of the hardest hit areas from Hurricane Helene,
09:39
and how prior to this, people like, even in the
09:41
climate field, we're saying like, this is one of those
09:43
places that would be I think pretty good to to
09:46
sort of escape the worst parts of climate change. But
09:50
I think this revealed that there might not be such
09:52
a place that exists. And then page, like I said,
09:55
a swifty you know what's going on. But I'm so
09:58
glad you haven't seen this clip because I think for
10:00
some of us that are terminally online, it was hard
10:01
to miss this video that went viral of this red
10:04
faced boomer just destroying a Taylor Swift guitar. Now we
10:08
don't know why, but I'm pretty sure we know why.
10:11
He didn't outwardly say why, So we'll get into that
10:14
in the provenance of that guitar, but anyway, we'll get
10:18
into that and plenty more but first page, Well, din,
10:21
what is something from your search history that's revealing about
10:24
who you are, what you're into?
10:26
Speaker 4
Okay?
10:26
Speaker 5
I googled The Third Gilmore Girl, which is Kelly Bishop's
10:31
memoir that came out a couple of weeks ago.
10:34
Speaker 1
Which one's the third gil Oh? Is that the moment?
10:37
Speaker 3
Okay?
10:37
Speaker 4
Yes, the Grandma? Yeah, yes, okay, yeah.
10:41
Speaker 5
I listened to the audiobook of it, and then I
10:44
found myself. I found myself trying to remember like things
10:49
that she said, and I was like, I gotta get
10:51
a hard copy of this, like.
10:55
Speaker 1
I need a dog here, some I need to dog here,
10:57
some pages here.
10:58
Speaker 5
Yeah, I just I need it as a ref friends text,
11:00
like I need to be able to revisit it.
11:03
Speaker 4
I looked it up. I think I'm gonna I think
11:05
I'm gonna wait.
11:06
Speaker 5
And maybe get it not to be a bitch, but
11:08
from my local bookstore. But I did google it to
11:11
potentially buy it online.
11:13
Speaker 1
And wait, So what's what she like? What she sort
11:16
of what was intriguing to you? Like, oh shit, I
11:18
need I need this all wax, Like I can't.
11:20
Speaker 3
Just have this.
11:21
Speaker 5
She's just such a cool chick, like she just has
11:24
had such a life and it's just so interesting and
11:27
she just has some real, just some real banger moments
11:30
that I wish I remembered exactly what she said, you know. Well,
11:37
the story that comes comes to mind is there's a
11:39
story in the book she talks about that she got
11:42
cast in something she started in theater and as a dancer,
11:46
and she talks about that she really wanted this agent
11:48
to work with her, and so when she got cast
11:51
in something just by virtue of like people she knew,
11:54
and they asked, is do you have an agent that
11:57
we can call to like work this out? And she
12:00
drop that person's name and said, you can call this person,
12:03
and then of course that ended up working and that
12:05
person became her agent. And she just has so many
12:08
moments like that that I'm like, I want to go
12:09
back and remember exactly how she how she dropped that.
12:13
Speaker 1
That's like the kind of shit like when people always
12:15
say fake it till you make it, Like, yeah, that's
12:18
like one of the few moments it goes off seamlessly,
12:21
because there are other I feel like there's a lot
12:22
of horror stories too where people fake it and then
12:25
they get found out quick.
12:26
Speaker 5
Yeah, it is funny listening to her story because like
12:29
obviously she's very successful and she's highlighting her best moments
12:32
and stuff, and it is funny, like it is always
12:37
it's it is kind of funny when you're listening to
12:40
or reading somebody's life story and there's sort of this
12:43
thread of like fake it till you make it, or
12:46
advice like that of like if you don't book it,
12:48
it's because you're meant to be in something else.
12:50
Speaker 4
It's like, yeah for you, yeah exactly, I'm sure that
12:54
felt true for you.
12:55
Speaker 1
Yeah, I've been faking it so fucking hard, and I'm
12:59
what helped me.
13:00
Speaker 3
How harder?
13:01
Speaker 1
How much harder can I fake this?
13:02
Speaker 3
Ship? Yeah?
13:03
Speaker 5
But I just I really enjoyed it, and I was
13:06
like I kind of want the hard copy, so that's
13:07
what I googled.
13:08
Speaker 1
Yeah.
13:10
Speaker 6
I feel like old Hollywood advice is like so damaging
13:13
to everyone currently trying to work now because it's always
13:16
just like some shit that not only will that work now,
13:20
but will probably get you in immense trouble, if not
13:23
legal trouble, like sneak onto the lot and just hand
13:26
your script out.
13:27
Speaker 1
Yeah right exactly. They're like, who's your agent? Ari Gold?
13:37
Speaker 3
Whoever?
13:37
Speaker 1
That guy's based on fuck are.
13:40
Speaker 3
You e manual?
13:40
Speaker 1
Anyway? That's like the that was just like to that
13:43
point about like how shit used to be. I was,
13:45
I was listening to this like interview that aunt Rachel
13:48
from Family Matters. Tell me what's her real name? But
13:53
Telma Hopkins she like used to be like a backup
13:56
singer for like Marvin Gay, and like she was like
13:58
really like up in it. And she talked there's a
14:01
moment she talks about how she for the table read
14:03
for the pilot for Family Matters, she was doing like
14:05
a backup singing gig in Blake Tahoe and for her
14:09
to make it to La for the table read of
14:12
the pilot of Family Matters, the producer sent a fucking
14:15
lear jet.
14:16
Speaker 3
To pick her up and bring her back.
14:18
Speaker 1
And I was like, for a fucking table read of
14:21
a pilot, I was like, the money's gone, y'all, the
14:24
money's going, or at least it's not moving in the
14:27
same direction anymore.
14:28
Speaker 3
It's just all going to the top.
14:29
Speaker 1
But anyway, there's that level of Hollywood fake it till
14:32
you make it.
14:33
Speaker 5
Yeah, I just I do love a story that I'm like,
14:36
I'm not taking the advice from her. I'm just really like, Yeah,
14:39
I just think it's so cool to listen to somebody
14:41
she's I think eighty now. She just turned eighty, And
14:44
it's just cool to listen to someone reflect on their
14:47
life with all the perspective like.
14:50
Speaker 1
Yeah, right, yeah, because I could not do that shit
14:53
now with my narrow perspective of life looking back.
14:55
Speaker 4
But yeah, you're too close to too many of the events,
14:58
you know, dude, I.
15:00
Speaker 1
Was such a fucking baller. Motherfuckers didn't even know you
15:03
know what I mean.
15:04
Speaker 3
I think.
15:06
Speaker 1
I'm in this motherfucker v IP, you know what I mean.
15:10
Speaker 4
Things are going good and I think they will for
15:12
the rest of my life.
15:13
Speaker 3
Yeah.
15:13
Speaker 1
Yeah, And I'm forty and both my parents are still alive,
15:18
and it was all smooth sailing from here. What's anything
15:21
is Underrated?
15:22
Speaker 3
Page?
15:23
Speaker 5
I decided to go with there's this artist I really like.
15:25
Her name is Orla Gartland, singer songwriter, and I do
15:29
always feel bad saying someone's underrated, because it's like, obviously
15:32
she has some popularity, but I just I she has
15:35
a new album coming out soon. But I really someone
15:38
sent me one of her songs like sometime last year,
15:41
and I got really into her first album called woman
15:43
on the Internet.
15:44
Speaker 4
That the title it's it's so good. It's just such
15:47
a good album.
15:49
Speaker 1
What's her style? Like?
15:51
Speaker 5
Is it kind of like pop indie? I guess okay.
15:55
Speaker 1
I see her up there with her guitar, okay, yeah
15:58
orla Yeah.
15:59
Speaker 5
I just think she's cool and I just, you know,
16:02
I think it's rare that somebody sends you a song
16:04
and then you go to check out the full album
16:06
and you're like, yeah, I like.
16:08
Speaker 1
All of this, right right, that's those are the best
16:11
music finds, like when you find out like obviously we're
16:15
out here looking for songs we like and then artists,
16:17
but like when you find an album, you're like, oh
16:19
my god, like, yeah, this is there are no skips
16:22
in this. I like this is. I wasn't sure. I
16:25
was like in need of something I wanted to hear
16:27
and I couldn't articulate it, and here it is boom.
16:29
Speaker 3
Yeah.
16:30
Speaker 4
It's rare.
16:31
Speaker 1
So if you're how would you like in it? If
16:33
you were a Spotify algorithm, if you're a fan of X,
16:36
you will like orl of Gartland.
16:38
Speaker 4
Oh interesting, Oh that's so hard.
16:43
Speaker 1
Come on an algorithm, John Henry, This I'm gonna actually
16:47
look up what Spotify recommend.
16:49
Speaker 5
Yeah, I'm curious. Yeah yeah, let the computer do the
16:53
job for me.
16:54
Speaker 1
Yeah that's true. I'm sorry you should be. I didn't
16:58
mean to make you replace the computer and not the
17:00
other way around. Okay, Orla, let's see listeners who fuck
17:04
with Orla? Also like Baby Queen, Dodie low.
17:10
Speaker 4
In some other stuff to check out?
17:15
Speaker 3
Is a musician just like.
17:19
Speaker 1
I didn't know was an artist.
17:21
Speaker 4
Yeah I have, I did know that, but I haven't
17:23
actually heard her music.
17:24
Speaker 1
No, Sunflower Bean, that's another one they said I am liking.
17:28
Speaker 3
I know.
17:28
Speaker 1
This just makes me old. How all of these sound
17:31
like made up?
17:32
Speaker 5
Yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and say. The other
17:34
artist that I was considering bringing up, Who's Ash? Okay,
17:37
but I think she's more popular. But I really like
17:39
her new album Wilson. She's cool because she like kind
17:42
of she kind of dipped for a little bit. She
17:45
had a really good first album and then like moved
17:48
back home for a minute and just came out with
17:50
this new album. And I would say, if you like,
17:52
if you like her, she's she Her famous song is
17:55
I think it was in a movie or something. Uh,
17:58
what is Ashes famous famous? I hate it when I
18:01
have to think of something and it leaves my brain,
18:03
it's okay, moral of the story.
18:06
Speaker 1
Okay, Yeah, this is why we have phones. Yeah, why
18:08
would you need to remember stuff with fun?
18:10
Speaker 3
I don't know.
18:11
Speaker 4
You don't even brain does an atrophy?
18:14
Speaker 1
Yeah, you don't even know how to navigate physical space
18:17
or orient yourself. That's all fucking dumb, you know what
18:21
I mean?
18:21
Speaker 3
The phone does? My watch does it?
18:24
Speaker 1
Like I even see like that feature and like like
18:26
Apple watches too that it'll literally just guide you to
18:29
wherever the fuck the thing you lost is. It's like
18:31
you're closer hotter, hotter, hotter, I could say, St Christopher.
18:38
Speaker 4
What just came to me?
18:39
Speaker 5
There is one song on on Orla Gartland's album called
18:43
Codependency that to me, I got really hyped on that
18:46
song because it sounds to me like it would be
18:48
in like a two thousands like movie soundtrack, like it
18:51
would be on the soundtrack of Freaky Friday.
18:54
Speaker 4
Like I got pretty hyped on that one. And Zombie
18:58
is similar.
18:59
Speaker 1
Fun what's something you think is overrated?
19:02
Speaker 3
Page?
19:03
Speaker 5
I struggle with this one for the same reason. I
19:05
don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. Everybody likes everything the
19:08
amount that they do.
19:10
Speaker 3
That's fine, that's fine. I appreciate the count.
19:12
Speaker 5
So I have a really weak one. But I'm gonna
19:14
say it. I don't like setting my bills on auto pay. Okay,
19:20
I want to know when money is leaving my account.
19:22
I set my rent payment on auto pay in July
19:27
because I was going to be out of town and
19:28
I was just like, oh what if I can't get online, Like,
19:31
I'm going to set it and every month since I'm
19:34
so stressed because it's like a large sum of money
19:37
is going to leave my account. I need to do
19:40
that all in just a few clicks. I need to
19:42
know when money is leaving.
19:44
Speaker 3
Yeah.
19:45
Speaker 1
Yeah, it took me a while to get on board
19:48
with auto pay. That's like the one thing that's when
19:50
like I'm like, okay, I think I can put my
19:53
phone on auto pay.
19:54
Speaker 4
I like that certain ones you go, okay, all right,
19:58
I think I can handle this.
20:00
Speaker 5
I think put on a credit card so I don't
20:01
worry about it that I get that I put that
20:06
bill on my credit card, and I think I have
20:07
money that I don't.
20:08
Speaker 4
You know, I just need to be on top of it.
20:11
Speaker 1
Yeah, no, it helps, It helps it helps, Oh andrew
20:15
everything auto I'll just counterpoint now, just don't be on
20:19
top of it.
20:19
Speaker 6
I got burned by auto pay. Actually in a similar
20:23
situation when I moved to.
20:24
Speaker 1
LA, I drove, sorry, page, not a similar situation situation
20:29
to you, A similar situation to your fear, which was
20:32
when I moved here, I drove from New York to
20:36
Los Angeles and I just fully forgot that my credit
20:39
card bill wasn't on auto pay, and I just like
20:41
missed it by a couple of days.
20:43
Speaker 3
Was, you know, on the road.
20:45
Speaker 6
And they were not nice about it. Oh, really, you
20:49
might be surprised to learn City group not very nice
20:54
their money. No, No, didn't they descend from a bank
20:58
that used to be in the slave I don't know.
21:00
I mean that's mostly I mean, you're gonna be real,
21:03
but yeah, wow, I mean, wait, what do you mean
21:05
like the like what they pulled up on you violent,
21:08
They hit you with some exorbitant fee, they shamed you,
21:11
called your high.
21:13
Speaker 1
Yeah it was I think it was like three four
21:15
hundred bucks?
21:16
Speaker 4
And how long did you forget to pay?
21:18
Speaker 3
Yeah?
21:18
Speaker 1
I was gonna say, hold on, are you talking about interest? No?
21:22
Speaker 3
Definitely wasn't interesting. I don't.
21:24
Speaker 1
I don't keep a credit card balance. I try.
21:27
Speaker 3
Oh yeah. That Ever, that one time my.
21:30
Speaker 1
Dad scared the funk out of me when I got
21:32
out of the house. He's like, look, you're people are
21:35
going to offer you a credit card? Do fucking Maybe
21:39
the interest? Maybe it was the interest and I think
21:41
I had all my moving expenses on so it was
21:44
like one of the big yeah.
21:46
Speaker 4
Yeah, ever, yeah, remember good to put this.
21:50
Speaker 5
Well, in theory, it's good to put that on a
21:52
credit card, right because then you build credit. I paid
21:55
it off, and then if you have like a card
21:58
where you get points or something. But yeah, but like
22:02
if I had been on auto pay, would would you
22:04
have had? You know what I mean? It's like, do
22:05
you have the money in your account? Like you could
22:07
then overdraw your other account?
22:09
Speaker 6
No, thankfully I had it. It was more just like yeah,
22:13
I just I just fully. I was like, I can't
22:16
put this on I don't pay I need to remember,
22:17
and then I'm right, just you know.
22:20
Speaker 4
I guess what's overrated as the banks? You know, money
22:23
and the banks.
22:24
Speaker 1
Hell yeah, bring the whole system down please.
22:28
Speaker 4
Yeah.
22:29
Speaker 1
All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
22:31
right back to talk about the thing that's on everyone's minds,
22:34
the thing that no one missed out on the vice
22:37
presidential debate right after this, and we're back, and I
22:53
guess the last debate that we are going to get
22:56
in this cycle happened Tuesday night when Jadie Vance and
22:59
Tim Wall had their showdown on CBS. And I say,
23:03
I'm I guess it's the last one because I think
23:06
Trump fully backed out of the the the second presidential debate.
23:09
He's also backing out of a lot of interviews, which
23:12
I hope is a sign that he They're trying to
23:15
pull like a Dave type situation, like we need a
23:18
double fucking now because this guy cannot go out there.
23:22
Try to bring up like a really timely reference with
23:25
Kevin Klein Sigourney Weaver film.
23:27
Speaker 6
You know you know who could do it is uh
23:29
John Voight in Megalopolis, which is, oh god, yesterday instead
23:33
of the debate.
23:35
Speaker 1
Wait, isn't it Sigourney Weaver? Yeah, she was the she
23:37
was the first lady. Okay, So before we get into it,
23:40
the two of you, you both watched it, right, is
23:42
that what you said? You both got it?
23:44
Speaker 7
Well?
23:44
Speaker 4
No, because I knew I was coming on to this
23:46
and you would tell me you could.
23:47
Speaker 3
Learn about it.
23:48
Speaker 1
Yeah, that's smart. Okay, Page, great answer. And then Andrew,
23:51
obviously you're you're one of the most like up on.
23:53
You know, this is my one prepared line for this
23:55
entire episode.
23:57
Speaker 6
So I was really interested in watching a fascist who
23:59
thinks he's a libertarian who's resentfully doesn't have the approval
24:02
of liberals on the screen yesterday, So I.
24:07
Speaker 1
Watched so Megalopolis.
24:13
Speaker 3
I will say, you know, I don't come on here.
24:17
Speaker 6
I I I feel like the reviews are probably pretty accurate.
24:20
It's it's a pretty specific type of person who like,
24:23
is really gonna love it?
24:26
Speaker 3
Probably not me.
24:27
Speaker 1
That being said, I there are two scenes in this
24:31
movie that made me laugh harder than anything I've ever
24:34
heard laughed at movie theater.
24:38
Speaker 5
This is a new movie that I thought you were
24:41
talking about some old movie right now, there's so much
24:46
stuff and I have no idea why none of us
24:49
are aware of the same stuff.
24:51
Speaker 1
Well, and this was also no one would buy this,
24:54
No one wanted to distribute this film, so like, there
24:56
was really no rollout of this aside from people were
24:59
like I think like or not I think like Francis
25:01
Ford Coppola was assaulting people on set and then doing
25:04
massive rewrites on his trailers. It wasn't on the thing
25:07
in his trailer smoking weed. You gotta you gotta you know,
25:13
uh are artists not the art or whatever of it. No,
25:19
there's a lot of terror. I mean, you know, John
25:21
Voyd Child a buff. It's a really who's it's a real,
25:25
real gropy kind of set.
25:27
Speaker 6
Well just yeah, but yeah, i'd heard it was, you know,
25:31
not so good, but yeah, not a joke. I laughed
25:34
for Like, I'm not a big theater laugher, but I
25:38
really want buck Well also. And I'll get to this
25:40
at my recommendations at the end, but I saw it
25:42
at which I don't know if the two of you
25:45
have ever been there. I'm aware of it.
25:48
Speaker 1
I've not been inside there though, but I'll just give
25:50
just just a little indication of what kind of joint
25:54
it is.
25:54
Speaker 3
Yeah.
25:56
Speaker 1
For so okay, you know, like AMC a list for
25:59
I don't know whatever, thirty dollars a month, you got
26:02
unlimited ish with some restrictions movie screenings. This version of
26:07
this is they have a year pass that costs ninety
26:10
nine dollars. What it is, yo, in my opinion the
26:17
best deal. Yeah, it's like twenty eight cents a day. Yeah,
26:21
Oh my god, dude, I'm I'm thinking here is like
26:25
that place is busted, like like yo, I don't know, man.
26:29
They say it's a movie theater with dining, but it
26:31
does not have like the right vibes the part. I
26:34
don't know. Yeah, but it doesn't not feel like if
26:39
you were writing a movie about an obvious organized crime
26:45
drug money laundering allegedly place, allegedly, it would allegedly seem
26:51
a lot.
26:52
Speaker 3
Like this place.
26:53
Speaker 1
I'm my mind is blown with like a deal that's
26:56
like worse from a business perspective than fucking movie pass.
27:00
Speaker 5
Somehow, they're just maybe they're maybe they're in trouble and
27:02
they're just throwing stuff at the wall, like what if.
27:05
Speaker 1
This Let me just say, I know about this past.
27:09
I have been to this theater, and I just still
27:13
won't go. I still won't buy that pass.
27:16
Speaker 4
Okay, Okay.
27:18
Speaker 5
I was intrigued for a second because I did recently
27:21
cancel my AMC. I've kind of regretted it. It's like,
27:26
of course, like I thought there was nothing coming out
27:28
I cared about, But then I realized as soon as
27:31
I canceled that there's a bunch of stuff that I like,
27:33
kind of care about, and I'm like, oh, damn, see
27:36
that now.
27:37
Speaker 6
They do have they have new movies. I mean I
27:39
saw Megalopolis within the first week it's out, and it's
27:42
it seems fine, like there's nothing like outwardly wrong with
27:47
the place.
27:48
Speaker 3
It just is.
27:51
Speaker 1
There's one star reviews of this place are escaping.
27:56
Speaker 4
Yeah, I was just looking it up, I do.
28:00
Speaker 6
I did see a Reddit review for their other location
28:03
where apparently if they sell to like zero tickets or no,
28:08
if zero people have checked in, regardless of how many
28:11
tickets they've sold, they just straight up won't play the movie.
28:15
And so someone arrived late and they just walked into
28:17
a you know, a theater with all the light run no, no,
28:20
like everything just house, like.
28:23
Speaker 1
The club is closing.
28:24
Speaker 6
They're like, yeah, man, here just nothing, and then he
28:27
you know, they went to to find an employee, which
28:30
took a beat, and then when they finally did, they're like, oh, yeah,
28:33
we just told you want us to play it, and
28:34
they just like it was like like a TV at
28:37
your friend's house.
28:39
Speaker 1
A couple of buttons of the iPad and the movie
28:41
started Can you wait a second. I got to rewind
28:43
it really quick. You got to rewind it. They should
28:46
let you take just pause the movie.
28:49
Speaker 3
You should.
28:49
Speaker 6
You should just if enough people in the theater yell
28:52
pause at the same time, just a little.
28:55
Speaker 3
Pee break for everyone.
28:56
Speaker 1
Are we to pause?
28:58
Speaker 3
Okay?
28:58
Speaker 1
Yeah?
29:00
Speaker 5
It could be like a button you push when you're
29:01
like you're you're thinking, and if enough people silently push
29:04
the pause button. Yeah, it's agreed upon.
29:07
Speaker 1
You trigger the threshold for the white pause.
29:11
Speaker 3
Yeah.
29:11
Speaker 6
So, as we're talking about it, the other thing that
29:12
rules about this place is it it's like a dine
29:15
in movie theater, like an Alamo, except their ordering system
29:19
is on your phone. So in orders for their business
29:23
model to work, you have to turn on your phone.
29:26
Speaker 3
Yeah.
29:26
Speaker 1
Cool, perfect, and you have to have sounds on. And
29:32
it's truly else you won't know it is. It is
29:36
my favorite theater for a certain type of movie. And
29:39
I will say meis was definitely does sound right? Yeah,
29:42
for ninety nine dollars for the whole year, like it
29:46
does feel Come I go, bro, let's fucking let's go
29:48
get wild over at the fucking Yeah. All right, Well
29:52
enough of that, because we're putting off the actual news
29:54
that happened vice presidential basis, but there'd be part of
30:02
me I was like, I don't know, man, go ahead,
30:04
I mean, because he's the thing. There's a lot of
30:05
talk obviously about what was specifically said, and like like
30:08
any you know, reputable journalist would do talking reporting on
30:12
what was said. None of it was really all that
30:14
surprising given how each campaign has been messaging, like the
30:17
stakes of the election and just like the rhetoric being used,
30:20
but like, like the thing was. Vance tried to come
30:22
off as some kind of moderate when it came to
30:26
things like abortion or like election denial, but failed. Tim
30:31
Walls was just so normal and nice. He sort of
30:34
just kind of seemed out of place next to a
30:36
political creature and chronic bullshitter like Vance. Like there were
30:39
times where he would be like, oh, well, you know,
30:41
there was a time like he misspoke. He was talking
30:43
about like understanding school shootings and he's like, and I've
30:46
become friends with school shooters, and like now like can't
30:49
you know, like conservative news like what Tim Walls is
30:53
friends with school shooters. It's like, dude, the guy clearly
30:56
misspoke and he was talking about becoming friends like his
31:00
sort of stance on gun control change, and he said
31:02
that happened after meeting you know, grieving parents and so
31:06
like again, I think from stylistically, I guess if you're
31:09
just going from who quote sounded better, I would say
31:13
Vance sounded better in that like his the cadence at
31:17
which he spoke was smoother, but there was no substance
31:20
to what he said, and he basically used his smooth
31:23
talking to lie constantly and dance around the real hot
31:27
button issues, like him and Trump's constant vilification of immigrants,
31:31
or the fact that Vance wouldn't even say whether Trump
31:33
lost the election in twenty twenty. It was very Yike's
31:36
adjacent I.
31:38
Speaker 4
Saw that, I saw Hi, Yeah, refusing to answer.
31:42
Speaker 1
It's it's very I mean, it's like he tried to
31:45
wiggle his way out of it. But again, it's like
31:47
one of those things when you listened to you're like,
31:48
oh my god, this dude is so full of shit,
31:51
you know. And I think Roywood Junior tweeted something along
31:54
the gist of sort of like JD. Vance has the
31:57
energy of a man like a restaurant manager. That understand,
32:00
and your experience was terrible, but he has not taking
32:02
that Hamburger off the bill. Yeah, that's essentially like so
32:07
I think it was for most people, like I don't
32:09
like this fucking guy. And you know a lot of
32:12
talk about the polls, like well, who won, who won?
32:15
There's all like so many headlines who did win the
32:18
debate last night? I mean, like, I think in a
32:20
snap pole that like CNN or CBS may have done it,
32:23
people seemed evenly split. If that fucking matters. When it
32:27
came down to likability, I think Vance demonstrated that, you know,
32:30
despite his better than expected performance, people just don't like him.
32:35
And Walts came out with a boost in his approval
32:38
ratings rather than JD.
32:40
Speaker 3
Vance.
32:40
Speaker 1
But it really is one of those things where it's
32:42
like you want to see the presidential debates are really
32:45
giving you an idea of like who the president will be,
32:48
whereas this one just feels like and then the two
32:51
lesser characters can talk on stage. Yeah yeah, but it's
32:57
like he's such a freaky.
32:59
Speaker 6
Yeah, I think it's such a missed opportunity to really
33:04
you just got to call him a freak to face constantly.
33:08
Speaker 1
That was the thing, right, Like Walts was he's just
33:11
he I think he's just genuinely incapable of getting the
33:14
knife ouse, you know what I mean, Like you're like, yo,
33:17
this should have been a knife party up there. This
33:19
guy is has said so many fucking stupid things and
33:23
like offensive, racist, violently misogynistic things that you could just
33:29
be like, hey man, I've actually committed to memory like
33:31
eight things you've said, and I can every time you
33:34
say something, I can just dead that with something that
33:36
came out of your mouth. And the moderators did point
33:38
out a couple of things that they each said or whatever,
33:40
but you know, it just it didn't come it didn't
33:43
come out that way. So I think the other thing
33:46
is that, like Vance, clearly this campaign is just trying
33:51
to say everything that's happening right now is because of
33:54
Kamala Harris down from the fucking weather to like Mike
33:58
Bacon costs forty six dollars because of President Kamala Harris,
34:03
and that logic, like he kept using this same shit
34:07
over and over every answer was somehow masterfully and I
34:11
mean that in the most sarcastic sense, would just kind
34:15
of re route the topic back to Kamala Harris. So,
34:18
for example, right like Waltz is pointing out his dehumanizing
34:22
rhetoric around immigrants and how he blames immigrants for like everything.
34:26
It's like this guy's gonna blame immigants or everything, like
34:28
including like the housing crisis. Here is jd Vance's just
34:33
spectacular answer on how he's like, Oh, you think I'm
34:37
blaming everything on immigrants, will hold this l to him. Well,
34:43
Tim just said something that I agree with.
34:45
Speaker 7
We don't want to blame immigrants for higher housing prices,
34:47
but we do want to blame Kamala Harris for letting
34:50
in millions of illegal aliens into this country, which does
34:54
drive up cost him twenty five million. Illegal aliens competing
34:58
with Americans for scarce homes is one of the most
35:01
significant drivers of home prices in the country. It's why
35:04
we have massive increases in home prices that have happened
35:08
right alongside massive increases in illegal alien alien populations under
35:14
Kamala Harris's leadership.
35:16
Speaker 1
Under Kamala Harris's leadership, I'm just like, I love it igoes. Look,
35:21
I'm not gonna blame illegal aliens for everything. I'm gonna
35:24
blame Kamala Harris relating in the legal aliens that are
35:27
the reason we have a housing shortage, like uh, yeah, sir,
35:32
and just like this idea that like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
35:35
the reason homes are unaffordable is because people that are
35:38
you know, so destitute that they're willing to leave their
35:40
homes and families behind are the ones outbidding people you
35:44
with a cash offer for a starter home. That's that's precisely,
35:47
and they can't be the corporate you know hovering of
35:50
single family homes being turned into rental units and things
35:53
like that. So it's just like sure, man, yeah, that
35:57
that's what happened. There are a few other really interesting
36:01
gems that came out of him. I think a lot
36:03
of people also talked about like gun violence and school
36:06
shootings and what the plan is there. Tim Wallas is like, yeah,
36:10
gun control that could help.
36:13
Speaker 3
The JD.
36:14
Speaker 1
Vance's first answer was something akin to like, well, yeah,
36:17
I mean, obviously you got to cut down on school shootings,
36:19
but you know, we also need to cut down on
36:21
like the inner city gun problem. You're like, oh, okay,
36:23
so now you're just singing the focus on like black
36:25
and brown people again when the question was about protecting kids.
36:29
But when he asked, you know, when asked for something
36:31
a little more like But what how do you protect kids?
36:34
This was JD Vance, But what do we do about
36:37
the schools? What do we do to protect our kids?
36:39
Speaker 7
And I think the answer is and I say this
36:41
not loving the answer, because I don't want my kids
36:44
to go to school and in a school that feels
36:47
unsafe or where there are visible signs of security. But
36:50
I unfortunately think that we have to increase security in
36:53
our schools.
36:54
Speaker 1
We have to make the doors lock better, we.
36:56
Speaker 7
Have to make the doors stronger, We've got to make
36:58
the windows stronger. And of course we've got to increase
37:00
school resource officers, so we need more police.
37:05
Speaker 4
Yeah, we need the doors to lock better.
37:08
Speaker 1
That's just like again his delivery smooth the substance. We
37:13
need door lock better, we need stronger door.
37:17
Speaker 6
He's clearly are are going to be our first gamer
37:20
VP because it's just like there's no dumber like strategy
37:25
except and just like unless you truly believe, like, oh
37:29
h we're fighting now, Oh just right, we need more
37:31
need more armor hit points on the door out of here.
37:36
Speaker 1
We actually need a stronger HP HP on like the weapons,
37:41
the offensive weapons that the resource officers are using, as
37:44
well as some kind of protective spell that can be
37:46
cast on the students during such an effer.
37:51
Speaker 5
Yeah, it feels like his goal is just to just
37:53
talk in a cadence so that you like zone out
37:57
and don't hear what he said.
38:00
Speaker 1
That's that's almost precisely like what he's trying to do,
38:03
because it's like the thing where it's smooth. It's again
38:06
it sounds like the guy's talking and saying a normal thing.
38:09
Speaker 4
He's totally talking.
38:11
Speaker 7
Yeah.
38:11
Speaker 1
Oh, and you're like and if you like, oh, this
38:13
guy's talking, You're like, what yea, what is he what
38:18
is he saying? And he did his best I mean,
38:21
I guess compared to his running mate. Yeah, he's a
38:23
better debater because Trump is just the sure but that's
38:27
not really saying much. And it's interesting interesting to see
38:30
some of the coverage be like I mean, clearly jd
38:32
Vance like walked out of that one though, like on top.
38:35
But I think just to say that is because he
38:38
just is like just really good at being a bullshitter
38:42
and you know, saying things that are not true, like
38:45
with the confidence of three thousand white men.
38:48
Speaker 3
But that's what it takes.
38:50
Speaker 1
It seems yeah, I will just say that seems like
38:53
it's the game, who cares if he's lying.
38:55
Speaker 5
I mean, I was gonna say, obviously it's different, but
38:58
it reminds me of like there are certain comedians. I'm
39:02
a stand up, so this is like my the way
39:04
I think is this, like there are some comedians who
39:07
you'll watch like crush technicallyly like everyone's laughing, like when
39:12
you think about your like they're just talking in joke cadence,
39:15
Like what they're saying is like a magic trick was done,
39:20
like and then you go, well, ultimately those people left
39:25
thinking they had a good time, so.
39:28
Speaker 1
Right, right, right, that is that's how I thought, Like
39:31
as He's and Sorry's like early specials were like I'm like,
39:34
I think this guy is just getting louder at certain points.
39:37
Speaker 3
And you say it in the right joke, you know,
39:40
you will that and you're.
39:42
Speaker 1
Like, whoa, Oh my god, dude, I can't believe that
39:46
toilet paper costs that much at the store.
39:48
Speaker 3
You.
39:48
Speaker 4
I think both speak to the same thing, which is
39:50
that like a lot of people just don't want to
39:54
have to think. So if you offer them that, they're like, yeah,
39:58
he won, I didn't have to think about what happened
40:00
at all.
40:01
Speaker 1
Yeah, But I think most people though, when his like
40:03
when it came down to things like being like pro choice,
40:06
like he just failed like spectacular, like he'll be like no,
40:08
like obviously I think like this is this isn't a
40:11
bad like people should be able to have a decision,
40:15
but that I think that choice goes to the states
40:18
and blah blah blah. And like Tim Walls, he had
40:20
a pretty good answer. He's like like miss me with
40:22
all this like like nonsense about if it's a state's choice,
40:25
Like this is just down to someone deciding what they
40:28
want to do with their own body, like anything that
40:31
isn't if we're not just debating that, like there's no
40:33
point in talking about it. And he did keep hitting
40:35
that point. So like in contrast to what Advance would say,
40:38
you're like, oh right, this guy said something like actually,
40:41
like that makes sense rather than his kneely mouthed dancing.
40:45
Then there's just a lot of stuff too, where like
40:46
they were talking about family leave and again Vance like
40:49
we're all about choice, man, Like the choice like if
40:51
you want to sure, if you want to take time off, great,
40:55
but like also if you want a toil to death,
40:57
you know at work, you should be able to have
41:00
that choice. You should have that choice. There shouldn't be
41:02
some federal guideliness to like having family leave because you.
41:07
Speaker 5
Know, yeah, if you are bodied that you're gonna your
41:10
family is going to starve to death because you couldn't
41:13
work over this time, then you should.
41:15
Speaker 3
Be able to work, and you shouldn't have the option.
41:20
Speaker 4
It's a choice.
41:21
Speaker 5
If you want to make no money during exact time,
41:24
that's your choice.
41:26
Speaker 1
And that's your choice, and that's what we're all about. Choice.
41:29
If you don't want your kid to be able to
41:31
read and you've created some form of mathematics that you
41:34
want to teach them in your home, that's your choice. Okay,
41:38
and we'll try and get your subsidies so we can
41:40
completely destroy public schooling. But anyway, that's that's our.
41:45
Speaker 3
Choice. It's all choice.
41:46
Speaker 1
That's what it's like when you hear the like it's
41:49
your like, okay, am I choosing?
41:52
Speaker 6
I was just gonna say, VP de Bay does have
41:54
this weird sweet spot of like, who the fuck is
41:57
actually watching this except for the people that can see.
42:00
Speaker 1
Hopefully I would assumed see through all this or like
42:03
have their mind made up either way, I guess right. Yeah, Like,
42:07
so it's just like there's a little like it only
42:10
matters if someone totally biffs something. Yeah, right.
42:15
Speaker 3
I think who undecided watched this well.
42:18
Speaker 1
I think the people, like a lot of places or
42:21
a lot of you know, mainstream media coverage of it
42:23
is like jd Vance really fucked up at the end
42:26
when asked point blank about the twenty twenty election, and
42:29
he was just.
42:29
Speaker 3
Like who won?
42:31
Speaker 1
And he's like like Tim Wallas was like, hey, so
42:33
did he lose? And then Dad Vance goes, you know,
42:37
I want to talk about the future, you know, and
42:39
you're just like holy shit, Like it just felt like
42:42
one of those things are like that's those are the
42:44
kinds of non answers that are really revealing. And I
42:47
think that was like one of the moments that I'm
42:49
sure the Harris Wallas campaign will seize because it was
42:52
just kind of being like, yeah, like we got another
42:54
batch of like freaks out here who are like, no,
42:58
we whatever, whatever I need it to be is the reality,
43:01
and we'll, you know, do whatever we have to to
43:03
get there to achieve that. So, yeah, did we learn
43:06
anything new? Not really so in that sense. I think,
43:10
you know, it's not like this shifted poles in any
43:13
meaningful way aside from like their own likability or people's
43:16
perception of them and their suitability to be vice president.
43:20
But yeah, nothing, nothing great, you know. In a way.
43:23
That's why I appreciate you telling me I'm spoiling Megalopolis
43:26
for me, because now I can't wait to see that.
43:29
That's actually something I can't wait to at least, so
43:31
watch a pirated copy allegedly. All right, well, let's take
43:35
a quick break as we discussed the finer points of
43:37
Megalopolis amongst ourselves, and we'll come back to talk about
43:42
this poor red faced boomer who may have wasted four
43:45
thousand dollars, And we'll do that right after this, and
43:58
we are back now. Obviously, the Taylor Swift of it
44:04
all is a huge part of this election, especially for
44:07
people on the right who have somehow they've they've absolutely
44:11
lost it. I this is fucking election tampering. That this
44:15
person said that they don't like Trump, vote Harris. And
44:19
for those of us, like I said, we're online all
44:21
the time. There was this video of this boomer proudly
44:24
bidding on and winning a four thousand dollars guitar signed
44:29
by Taylor Swift, only to smash the absolute fuck out
44:34
of it with a hammer. So I will play this
44:37
clip so everyone can kind of see the delight in
44:39
this man's face. Got like a local auction in Texas.
44:43
This is the man going up. I just won this
44:45
Taylor Swift guitar, and I'm about to show y'all what
44:48
I think.
44:49
Speaker 3
We don't need the wher, you don't.
44:54
Speaker 1
Need the ever special on agilo.
44:59
Speaker 3
Look at him hearing.
45:01
Speaker 4
It's barely breaking out. This is.
45:07
Speaker 1
All right, don't take defending up that fust thing.
45:12
Speaker 4
So, yeah, there's so much going on here.
45:17
Speaker 7
I know.
45:18
Speaker 3
I fully did not realize there was an in person auction.
45:21
That is one.
45:24
Speaker 5
I also assumed he would have smashed the guitar in
45:27
the fun way to smash a guitar that we all
45:29
dream of, but no, we would never do, like least
45:32
if your rockstar fantasy.
45:33
Speaker 3
And yeah, exactly humiliating.
45:38
Speaker 4
Yeah, I mean it's like a little hammer like attack
45:42
hammer something like nothing is happening to it.
45:45
Speaker 1
I know, Like I mean again, nothing says I am
45:47
not afraid. I am a strong man. That nothing quite
45:52
like that then hammering a guitar that you think Taylor
45:55
Swift side. But here's the thing, a lot of people
45:58
close to Taylor, and I guess knowledgeable fans are claiming
46:01
that the thing he bought wasn't even fucking signed. Yeah yeah,
46:07
it wasn't just a Taylor Swift guitar for this is
46:11
for Variety reported a source close to Swift's merchandise company
46:13
confirmed the lack of a signature. While it did come
46:16
with a signed CD insert, the guitar itself was not signed.
46:21
Another source close to Swift made similar allegations to the
46:23
Huffington Post. The source pointed out that an authentic Swift
46:26
signed guitar would have come with an official certificate of authenticity.
46:31
So people saying, like when the video, they're like, here, man,
46:34
here's your four thousand dollars rage piece, do your fucking
46:37
worst worst without any kind of certificate. But then like
46:42
a TMZ said, oh, we actually have the certificate that
46:44
the man was given. Fans also were noted pointed out, like,
46:48
it's doesn't have a this seal that is typically on
46:51
this document that would say that it's the genuine item.
46:54
You can buy the unsigned guitar on eBay right now
46:57
for four ninety nine.
46:59
Speaker 3
Yes, yeah, this.
47:02
Speaker 4
Way, So do we know did this guy go there
47:04
with this plan in mind.
47:06
Speaker 1
No one que we haven't heard from the asshole in question.
47:10
Speaker 4
He's been silent.
47:12
Speaker 1
The fact that the auctioneer had a hammer, and also
47:15
there was a sniper rifle on a tripod on the
47:19
like dais behind them. Yeah, this was like this whole
47:22
thing was for this, right, let's let's zoom out of it.
47:25
This wasn't auction in Texas hosted by the Ellis County
47:29
Wild Game Dinner. This was like the Yeah, it's like
47:31
a wild for like hunters, I guess, And yeah, I think,
47:35
I mean, I think it's pretty clear what the point was.
47:38
It's a lot of people hooting and hollering, and they
47:41
were just getting off on the fact that this guy
47:43
pissed away four grand to break something that Taylor's well. Yeah,
47:48
and I think again because Fox and every like Elon
47:52
Musk Trump, they've all just lost it about it. Like
47:55
now the like sort of automaton action now is like
47:59
must destroy Taylor Swift inanimate objects to then win the election.
48:04
Speaker 5
This is like did you see the guy who did
48:07
this like months ago, it might have been last year,
48:11
the guy who like made a point of he went
48:13
to target and bought the like target exclusive nineteen eighty
48:17
nine Taylor's version vinyl to like smash in the parking lot.
48:21
But then it's very clear that he replaced it with
48:24
a different vinyl to smash and like with black, it's
48:27
like not the like blue or whatever that that vinyl is,
48:30
Like he saved, he bought, He bought it because he
48:34
had the case.
48:35
Speaker 1
But yeah, he replaced like the vinyl thing that he
48:40
pulled out of the sleeve was a completely different color.
48:42
And I will now assert my dominance over this flat
48:46
vinyl disc.
48:47
Speaker 5
And it was just like he so he wanted to
48:50
preserve his purchase, I guess. And then like if everyone
48:54
was commenting that, and I feel like he maybe did
48:56
a follow up where he really did smash it or something,
48:58
But all.
49:00
Speaker 3
Right, you caught me.
49:01
Speaker 1
But now watch this. This is the real one I
49:03
was saving, Like my daughter's a fan, and I thought
49:05
it'd be a nice yeah, but fuck that, y'all.
49:08
Speaker 3
You want to pull my card?
49:09
Speaker 1
Show you how boud it?
49:10
Speaker 4
I am, Like, it's just crazy to be such a dork,
49:13
Like it's just so brutal, Like.
49:16
Speaker 1
Yeah, symbolism, it's just so literal, for like, when it
49:21
comes to conservative outrage campaigns, it's like destroy the object.
49:25
Speaker 4
Yeah, show everyone it always comes with after purchasing it, Yeah,
49:30
after giving her more money.
49:32
Speaker 1
Exactly, the kind of have just like a like a
49:36
pay pig relationship with Yeah, it feels like, you know,
49:40
it's like, oh, this is how I prove take take
49:42
my money, sir.
49:44
Speaker 3
Yeah.
49:45
Speaker 1
Let me first of all put some money in Taylor
49:47
Swift's pockets. But then I'm gonna break this thing because
49:51
I'm so mad.
49:52
Speaker 5
At it, and I do believe in capitalist society, and
49:54
I do believe she deserves the money for this, So
49:57
I'm gonna.
49:57
Speaker 1
Pu Obviously, I'm not a communist.
50:00
Speaker 6
I'm not gonna I'll be doing more damage to her
50:03
bottom line because so many people will see how much
50:06
I hate her and be on board with oh we
50:08
all hate her, right yeah yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's you
50:13
figured it out.
50:15
Speaker 1
They found they've figured it all out. Uh well, Page, Andrew,
50:20
thank you so much for joining me on the Daily
50:22
Zeitgeist page. Where do the people find you?
50:25
Speaker 3
Follow you?
50:26
Speaker 1
And what's a tweet or other work of media that
50:28
you're enjoying.
50:30
Speaker 5
You can follow me on Instagram just at my name
50:33
Paige Weldon and on TikTok Paige Weldon comedy. I couldn't
50:37
get Paige weld in because some some kid has it.
50:41
She hasn't posted in years.
50:43
Speaker 3
She doesn't do fucking comedy.
50:45
Speaker 5
She doesn't do anything as far as I can tell. Yeah,
50:48
but yeah, find me there. I've been posting about it.
50:50
I just as again. I released an album. You can
50:52
stream it wherever, and there's a limited run of vinyl
50:55
that I guess you can buy and smash if.
50:58
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, by you and smash one if you do,
51:02
you know, yeah, yeah, yes, really stick it to page.
51:04
If you didn't like her, underrated or overrated, I know
51:07
she was taking shots at people, so you know, go
51:10
out there by the album, smash the fuck out.
51:12
Speaker 4
Of it, and then uh for a tweet? Should I
51:16
send it to you guys? Hold on?
51:18
Speaker 3
Let me Oh.
51:21
Speaker 5
H well, it's just a little list. My friend Sammy
51:24
Mawy posted this on their Instagram. It's uh, it's gender
51:29
gender neutral ways to say yes, ma'am or yes sir.
51:34
Speaker 4
So we have I I capton.
51:37
Speaker 5
That's how I'm choosing to pronounce it, capton like captain French.
51:42
Uh huh, that's correct, your honor? Okay, computer That one
51:48
was big in the comments.
51:50
Speaker 4
Yes, chef come worse. We we mea Moore?
51:54
Speaker 5
Uh huh, whatever you say, sweetheart, this one, this next
51:58
one's my favorite right away.
52:00
Speaker 4
A doctor.
52:05
Speaker 5
For sure, mixed master, they thumbs up, emoji, okay, buddy,
52:12
and all right, keep it moving.
52:14
Speaker 1
Yeah, I like okay computer, and I like I would
52:17
almost say we chef, just to let people know that
52:20
I did.
52:22
Speaker 5
Yeah, I think I'm sure Sammy would condone if you
52:25
want to mix and match, you know, play around.
52:28
Speaker 4
But this list just cracked me up. And I love
52:30
Sammy so love to share.
52:34
Speaker 1
Fantastic, fantastic contribution. Andrew, how about you? Where do people
52:38
find you? Follow you, hear you, what to tweet you
52:40
like or something you're watching and.
52:44
Speaker 3
Not saying? Then? Yeah, my podcast is yo is is racist?
52:50
Speaker 6
And I just read I did a short fiction reading
52:55
a friend of this show and my personal friend as
52:58
fo as Molly Lambert has a a monthly show called
53:00
Jazz Roulette and Echo Park. But one of the poets,
53:03
especially Natalie Schapiro Shapiro Chapiro with an E.
53:07
Speaker 3
Was fucking great. She was so great.
53:09
Speaker 1
I haven't I haven't written or read short fiction in
53:13
straight up twenty years, and I don't think I've been
53:15
to a poetry reading and longer than that, and that
53:19
ship was wonderful.
53:20
Speaker 3
Wow.
53:21
Speaker 1
Also Megalopolis also shout out they're gonna hopefully look if
53:28
you work, you know, look, look just hit us here.
53:32
Speaker 3
Here's what I will say about.
53:33
Speaker 1
As I started going there during the writer's strike multiple matinees,
53:38
I encountered not one human being. And I don't mean
53:42
like no patrons. I mean literally, no one took my
53:45
ticket at the door, No one was in the theater.
53:49
Speaker 3
It was amazing.
53:53
Speaker 6
Like I'm not saying just sneak into the theater. I'm
53:58
not saying that, but all right, I'm just saying.
54:06
Speaker 3
One human being.
54:07
Speaker 5
Well, you could plan to go to a movie, like
54:09
pick a movie and then and I'm not saying do this,
54:12
but pick a movie that has a similar time and
54:16
at the AMC at the Americana and try first yes to.
54:23
Speaker 1
Walk in and they're like fun, all right, we gotta
54:25
pay for it, Okay, all right. So if you're willing
54:27
to see a movie, I do believe it's also just
54:30
cheaper in general than normal theater.
54:33
Speaker 3
I do recommend it. You realize it's not like it
54:40
doesn't have some of the like amenities.
54:45
Speaker 1
Oh no, it has I guess technically has the amenities,
54:47
but it doesn't have the like social structure of other
54:50
movie theaters.
54:52
Speaker 3
I find it a good way.
54:56
Speaker 1
Again. The phone thing really the fact that like to
54:59
order to make their business function, you have to pull
55:03
up your phone basically unfold. Also, they have like reading
55:07
lamps on the seats that are just the brightesthit you've
55:09
ever seen. It's not for sinniasts.
55:13
Speaker 5
Yeah, your phone. Just this just reminded me. I went
55:17
to a movie last week with some friends and I
55:19
didn't notice what they were looking at, but my friend,
55:22
who was sitting a little closer did. There was someone
55:24
in the row in front of us opening their phone constantly,
55:27
and it turned out what they were doing was checking
55:29
their Instagram story views. Hell yes, yeah, like a lot,
55:34
like like really frequently throughout the movie. Yes, and apparently
55:39
posted a story like uploaded a photo from like an
55:42
earlier time, and was like seeking if someone had viewed it.
55:46
Speaker 4
And I just want to say to that person, I hope,
55:48
I hope it happened for you.
55:49
Speaker 1
Just can't have if you don't know how many likes
55:53
you have, why are you alive?
55:55
Speaker 3
Yeah?
55:56
Speaker 1
Yeah, exactly.
55:57
Speaker 4
Point Well, you know they're looking for a specific person.
56:01
Speaker 3
See this.
56:01
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, that's like honestly the gift and the curse
56:07
of all this data available to people and ship like that,
56:09
where like, you know, what what happened is just doing
56:12
an emo post on MySpace and you're.
56:14
Speaker 3
Like, you didn't know.
56:16
Speaker 5
You know, we all look at our story views or
56:18
check things like that, but like boldly just throughout the
56:22
duration of a movie. It was like a really full theater.
56:24
Speaker 1
It, yeah, we're at that point the movie becomes this
56:29
person and now you're invested in their story. I'm like,
56:31
oh god, who are they? They keep they keep looking
56:34
what's this account? And then now you're like looking, like
56:36
I can see a few handles. Let me just see
56:38
what's going. Oh I should also say, don't get the
56:45
wings that they were they were pretty dry. Thank you, okay,
56:51
thank you for that transparency. I was never going to
56:53
get the wings.
56:54
Speaker 3
It was. It was wild to get anything with a
56:57
bone in it or anything like that. Just yet.
57:01
Speaker 1
Pre made pizzas, premade pizzas seem like.
57:03
Speaker 4
The things on the Yelp reviews that the popcorn was cold.
57:07
Speaker 1
So I said that the martinis came in over big
57:10
wine glass and oh yeah, minutes into a movie.
57:13
Speaker 3
Okay, so we're still talking about it.
57:14
Speaker 6
The other thing that's hilarious is they have frequent novelty
57:18
cocktails that come in glasses that are bigger than their
57:21
couple versus.
57:23
Speaker 1
So you have to put like glass on the floor.
57:29
Speaker 6
I mean there's like a little tidy, like like you know,
57:33
desk table thing, but if you got food and a
57:36
humongous cocktail, there's.
57:38
Speaker 3
Nowhere to put I love.
57:41
Speaker 5
The reason I can keep talking about this is Victors
57:44
put this in the chat. That's the experience I like.
57:46
I totally agree. I like bad stuff, so.
57:49
Speaker 4
I kind of think I would love Yeah.
57:51
Speaker 3
I recommend check it out.
57:54
Speaker 6
You have literally nothing to lose. There's a real chance
57:57
that it won't even cost you money to go in
58:00
and just see. It's you either love it or you don't.
58:04
But I personally love it eighty percent of the time.
58:08
I would say I would like it for eighty percent
58:10
of yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay. I think it's like one
58:12
of those things when you go in there being like, yo,
58:13
this is about to be some shit. You're prepared and
58:15
that's all you need. If you go in there and
58:17
being like, oh, it's a dining cinema and then you
58:20
get some other shit.
58:21
Speaker 3
Yeah, you'll be.
58:22
Speaker 1
You'll be like, no one took our tickets, Like at
58:25
that Bridgerton Ball in Detroit, anyone could just walked in here.
58:29
It is the Bridgerton Ball of like, it's technically not
58:35
a scam. They give you everything to the letter that
58:38
said they would give you right. Right.
58:40
Speaker 3
The spirit is very much not there, but.
58:42
Speaker 1
You were operating on a different You knew what the
58:44
assumption would be, and it was a little bit different. Anyway,
58:47
you can find a thing. I like, I've just been watching. Look,
58:50
I don't know anything about the Marvel cinematic universe aside
58:54
from everything I absorbed sort of ambiently, and I started
58:56
watching WandaVision because I wanted to watch the Agatha all
58:59
Along show. Most people were like, you should watch WandaVision
59:03
if you even want to even make because I was like,
59:05
I want to see Catherine Hahn and this other thing,
59:07
and I didn't. I'm like so confused what you want?
59:10
But it's fucking tight. I'm like, wait, isn't that the girl?
59:14
I saw her in the Captain Marvel movie? And I'm
59:16
like I'm doing the thing where people are like, yeah,
59:18
it's the cinematic universe, dummy. But hey, listeners, if there's
59:22
other things I should be aware of that make it
59:24
make more sense, I'm all ears because I liked At first.
59:28
I was like, this is kind of cool, this genre
59:30
bendy thing, and then it became more of a mystery show,
59:32
which I'm also liking. Anyway. You can find me at
59:35
Miles of Gray on Twitter and Instagram. You can find
59:37
Jack and I on the basketball podcast I was with
59:39
Jackot Matt Boosties. You can also catch me talking about
59:42
ninety day Fiance on four to twenty Day Fiance and yeah,
59:46
find us at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram at daily
59:50
Zeitgeist on Twitter. We got a Facebook fan based on
59:51
the website daily zey Guys dot com where we post
59:53
our episodes.
59:53
Speaker 3
And our footnotes.
59:56
Speaker 1
Bang you Andrew, where you can find all all the
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articles we talked about, and a song we are going
1:00:02
to be writing out on. The song we are going
1:00:05
to be writing out on is by a London R
1:00:08
and B singer named Bena b I n A. The
1:00:11
track is called Dopamine and it's just one of those
1:00:13
kind of like dark, brooding sort of R and B
1:00:16
tracks with A.
1:00:17
Speaker 3
Really, I don't know.
1:00:18
Speaker 1
It's it's dope.
1:00:19
Speaker 3
It's dope.
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Speaker 1
You like this. If you like brooding R and B,
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you're gonna like her just generally her her body of
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work is fantastic. So this is Bena with dopamine. The
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free shows. That is going to do it for us
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today or at least this morning. We'll be back later
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to tell you what's trending.
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Speaker 4
Uh.
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Speaker 1
So we'll see then.
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Speaker 3
Peace,