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: Data Shows Cops Are Petty, Teaching History Will Destroy USA 6.17.21
In episode 932, Jack and Miles are joined by Web Crawlers podcast hosts Ali Segel and Melissa Stetten to discuss Republicans obsession with critical race theory, more shitty police antics, what exists in the deep sea, In The Heights bombing, A Quiet Place 2 frustrating deaf moviegoers, and more!
FOOTNOTES:
- None of These Republicans Trying To Ban 'Critical Race Theory' Seem To Actually Be Able To Define It
- The Specter of Critical Race Theory Is Rotting Republicans’...
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Speaker 1
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, nine, Episode
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four up The Daily s I Guy Stay production of
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I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where you take
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a deep dive into America's share consciousness. It's Thursday, June
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twenty twenty one. My name is Jack O'Brien a K.
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I'm not thick, but I'm not spelled, and I'm Jeong
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n son of jong Il. That is courtesy of Tyler
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Aulton at as Victor says, got me again, got him again?
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But uh yeah, flag pul sitter about the newly slimmed down,
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trimmed down hot Kim Jong n uh and I'm thrilled
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to be joined as always by my co host, Mr
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Miles grab might be that June boy on that cold
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brew or it ely Yeah, give me tuna meat, j
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Dilla Beat and her majesty Yeah, Okay, shout out to Christie.
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I'm a Gucci man. You combine all my interest cold Brew, Italy, Subway,
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tuna and j Dela. You missed weed though, so you
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almost got them all. And my partner, her majesty, A
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shout out to you for that wonderful into the groove
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of a k our alarm would have gone off. If
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he had hit hit him all, but hit every dimension
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of my personality. Uh well, Miles. We are thrilled, blessed
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to be joined by the hosts of the Web Crawlers podcast,
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two great writers and teammates on the Pistol Shops basketball team.
01:40
Please welcome the brilliant and talented Melissa Steton and Ali
01:44
Sega Hi Hi. Actually Allie's Allie's not on the basketball team.
01:50
Sheause she's an honorary member. I was gonna say, Jack,
01:53
that's I don't think. I actually asked when they were
01:56
having tryouts again, and uh, no, one circled back to me.
02:01
COVID happened. We haven't played in the year. No, I
02:05
saw you. Guys posted a picture of yourself is playing,
02:07
So I saw it. Okay, it's okay. Can I meet
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two comments really quickly? Yes? Yes, please? Okay? Um Harvey
02:16
Danger Flagpole Sita is my favorite song of all time.
02:20
And also one time I got food poisoning from a
02:25
subway tuna sandwich in sixth grade and I threw up
02:29
on stage during rehearsal for the class play. And I
02:32
haven't had a tuna subway sandwich since. Oh my god.
02:35
We knew both of those facts. That's why we I thought, so, yeah,
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well we sucked up the pistol, shrimp sparks. You got
02:42
to go to our research team and someone's getting fired.
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But what what was the play and what was your role? Um?
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It was a play on Greek mythology that my music
02:52
teacher created and made up. So wrote the play. I
02:58
feel like it was like an off Broadway production that
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she just brought to my elementary school. And I played
03:04
Hara Zeus wife. Yes I did. Okay, that feels like
03:09
a very l a teacher. The teachers like, so I
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wrote this musical that we're going to have a production
03:14
elementary school. Yeah, okay, after that, it's amazing. Were you
03:21
able to work it into your character like kind of
03:23
improv off of the Oh yeah, totally, Yeah it was.
03:26
It flowed right in, just tuned us. Subway everywhere just seemless,
03:31
like Melissa, where do you hail from? I'm from the
03:35
Great State of Michigan. Kalamazoo hander shout. Yeah, if you're
03:41
looking at the hand down here, Southwest got you? Got you?
03:46
And did you have any terrible experiences with subway? Tuna
03:50
j Dilla Weed, Madonna Black Boles just making sure. No,
03:55
I do love that song because it's a theme song
03:58
of the show Peep Show, the British comedy show favorite show.
04:03
I think we can all agree since we're talking about
04:05
how good that song is, that I nailed it my
04:08
performance of it. It was your songbird, your beautiful. I've
04:12
got perfect pitch. Shocking corn did rendy tasseling. What's corn tasseling.
04:22
It's a job I had because when you're like fourteen
04:25
or fifteen, you could work as a corn toy tassel
04:27
er and they would you would wake up at like
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five am. They'd put you on a school bus and
04:32
you we went to Indiana to these corn fields and
04:35
you would just pull the tassels off the corn. You
04:38
would just walk through the fields and it was so hot.
04:41
You would get this thing called corn rash because like
04:46
what wave up against your arms and you I mean
04:48
you got paid like I don't know, eight dollars an hour,
04:51
which was like huge back then, especially for child labor. Yeah,
04:56
but it was not They would like give you five
04:58
minutes for lunch and I get sunburned. What about our union?
05:05
What it was? Child labor? The corn fields filterless to
05:13
my car. I need to tassel corn, okay, and the
05:16
tassel is the tip like that has I mean that's
05:19
the thing that looks like top of the Yeah, easy buddy,
05:26
Oh that like we okay, right, the part you never
05:30
see at the store, that's in the stocks. That's how
05:34
a city boy puts it together in my mouth, oh,
05:37
from the pictures of the fields, but not what you
05:39
get at Whole Foods right when it's already and the
05:43
cellophane and styrofoam trade that it comes in that's not
05:45
in the field either, right it is. Actually, Yeah, that's amazing.
05:52
That's uh. That's some real hardcore ship to be doing
05:57
your first jobs like paying on someone's like show, like
06:01
that's like our corn d tasseling, or like working at
06:04
some persons store that's like, yeah, I don't know a
06:06
higher kid, you're like someone's assistant and like that was
06:12
my first job and moved to l a woman's assistant
06:16
when our basketball team, like in Kentucky, to raise money
06:21
for the basketball team. I have no idea why we
06:23
needed to do that, but we would work bingo halls
06:26
and fish shows like a fish like pH I s h.
06:31
That was one of the things you did. It was
06:33
like go to fish shows and like work basically worked
06:37
the parking lot and like direct traffic. But then you
06:39
were at a fish show and like your classmates were,
06:43
they're getting fucking high out of then there are that
06:48
many fish shows that happened. It was a cool thing. Yeah,
06:53
it was. It was just like we had there. There
06:55
was like an annual horse race that our basketball team
06:58
always worked the parking lot and an angle fish show.
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What's your favorite fishcheck? I had? I was not a fish.
07:08
That was when I was into the wood Tang clan
07:10
and you gotta pick one that must have been hell
07:14
then you like fuck this old soft. Actually there was
07:18
one album that I got into that I can't remember
07:20
the name of, like Billy Breathes or something like that.
07:25
Aren't fish people in tense? Like fish people are like
07:27
grateful dead people, like they follow them all around. Yeah,
07:31
there are certainly you follow Yeah, I know people who
07:34
straight up I mean I know people who did follow
07:37
fish around. But yeah, it's that same kind of energy
07:40
where because it's like their shows are just so like
07:43
they're just so jammy that it's like you go out
07:45
there off your board on psychedelics and like you're like,
07:48
let's jump rope and yeah, it's like real acid acid
07:53
energy acid, just what I want to do when I
07:56
take a classic combo of jump roping rave and like
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shows or people are on psychedecs. I've heen the weirdest
08:03
objects people used to like get their energy out. Like
08:05
I've seen people raves with like led jump ropes that
08:08
are like like you know what. I had seen those.
08:14
And also when I was I was in the marching
08:16
band in high school and our drum major who like
08:18
was the dude who had like the mace and would
08:20
do all like the fucking twirling ship. He would go
08:22
to raves with his own like gigantic glow stick and
08:26
do like the wildest light shows with his drum major skills.
08:30
And he was like he would wear these baggy Jinko
08:32
pants and I remember seeing him like and he's like,
08:34
hell no, I'm the center of attention at this race.
08:37
So yeah, people got nice successories, very cool. Do you
08:41
remember those things from the two thousands where it was
08:43
like those sticks that like yes, oh yeah, uh fish
08:53
shows and renfairs. I feel like that's the then diagram there.
08:58
My first interaction with Devil sticks. Was when I went
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to interlock in camp in Michigan and there was like
09:04
a kid who was crushing it with devil devil sticks,
09:07
and I thought it was easy and I was so frustrated,
09:09
like I had my mom buying for me. I sucked
09:11
and like I broke them and was crying. It was
09:13
like a whole thing. I had a couple of friends
09:15
with the interlock and it might have been them because
09:19
they were because my crew was sick with the devil sticks.
09:23
So yeah, that was us. That was yeah, yeah, that
09:27
was me. Us. My wife went to the interlock. And
09:29
I feel like a lot of I know so many people.
09:32
I feel like I missed out. I just went to
09:33
shitty basketball camps. And was she a musician? Right? He
09:36
said musician? You know? She was actually just really good
09:39
at a hackey sack. Her skill was I was plastered
09:44
all over like the brochure the year I went, because
09:47
it wasn't very diverse when I was there. So they're like,
09:49
and look at this young man who is brown like,
09:52
and I was like in three pages and I was like, oh,
09:53
I'm the star, even though I'm like the third chair
09:55
trumpet in the in the youth symphony. Yeah right, we
10:01
are going to get to know you guys a little
10:02
bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things.
10:04
We're talking about. The critical race theory GOP kind of
10:10
scare politics thing is continuing to be used and apparently
10:14
it's working. We're going to check in with the police
10:17
backlash too, being criticized by protesters. Yeah, they're taking it
10:23
really well and uh they've they're good at dealing with
10:26
constructive criticism. We are gonna talk about just a cool
10:31
thing I read about about. How you guys seen this.
10:36
You heard about this. Most of the creatures in the world,
10:40
on the planet Earth are part of a bioluminescent galaxy
10:44
that exists uh below the twilight zone and like the
10:47
pitch black part of the ocean. I thought they were
10:50
like the occasional fish that lit up. Apparently when you
10:53
go down there, it's like a constellation of just tons
10:56
and tons of animals that laid up. So we'll talk
10:58
about that. We'll talk about the box office, we'll talk
11:00
about why a quiet place too is frustrating hearing impaired viewers,
11:06
all of that plenty more. But first, Melissa Ali, we
11:09
like to ask our guests what is something from your
11:12
search history? Oh, well, mine is so stupid perfect. I
11:20
just occasionally I'll like pop in or something I'll pop
11:23
in my brain, like a memory of like someone I
11:25
met or like I hooked up with, and I was like, oh, yeah,
11:28
what happened to that guy I hooked up with, like
11:31
when I was in high school? And it was that
11:33
I met in an A O L chat room And
11:36
so the only thing I remember about him was his
11:38
name was Alex. He spoke Russian. He went to Western
11:41
Michigan University. So I googled Alex Russian, Western Regian University.
11:46
Clearly did not result in anything. And why I like
11:51
thought that was gonna work. Yeah. More importantly, do you
11:53
remember the screen name? No. I tried to actually see
11:58
if I could log back into my old AOL emails,
12:01
but I haven't checked it in fifteen years. So it's like,
12:05
this is the count has been suspended due to inactivity.
12:09
Damn it. I would kill the log into my old
12:12
AOL email. Oh man, yeah, I feel like that's I've
12:15
tried to look for people based on screen names and
12:18
it never worked. But never it gave me hope for
12:22
a second, because like sometimes it will be like search
12:24
screen names, email addresses, whatever to find somebody in it.
12:26
Now you always have to end up paying the last
12:28
status you have to pay exactly is it is it
12:32
worth seventy dollars to find out if someone, when it
12:36
is to me is married and has a family? Now? Cool,
12:40
good for them. You pay enough. You can just look
12:43
at their webcam right there in the moment, what they're
12:46
doing right now. I bet you that would be if
12:49
in a in a near future, that's probably an option,
12:51
Like for more, do you want to access their ring cameras? Oh?
12:54
It definitely that. Then you pay the money in they're
12:59
like like, can't do that, Ali, what's something from your
13:03
search history? Okay? So our producer of our podcast, her
13:07
name is Maria, and she is obsessed with this bottled
13:11
oxygen like but she like, you know how the severe
13:18
elderly or people who are sick have like severe tragically
13:28
the severe geriatric have like oxygen tanks, but it's like
13:32
you have to wheel them around. I swear to god
13:34
this isn't an ad or a sponsored post. But she
13:37
you can buy like portable oxygen and just huff it,
13:44
and she's obsessed with it. So I googled it and
13:46
I was like, what is the deal with this? And
13:48
I bought like a case of oxygen. One of the
13:51
characters I model my life after Dennis Hopper and Blue
13:54
Velvet Rocks. That quite a bit, you get it. Yeah,
13:58
the benefits of Huffy just straight oxygen out the can.
14:01
I'm so glad you asked aerobic performance, recharge and cover
14:07
and um altitude and it helps with altitude and poor
14:10
air quality. Oh so if you're going to climb Everest,
14:13
which I do frequently. Yeah, I mean, I don't know
14:18
if you guys knew this, but oxygen directly fuel of
14:21
all body and mind functions, and the air is only oxygen.
14:26
Doesn't this feel like a scan? Like someone's like, well, man,
14:29
if they're bottling water, Like why the are we bottling?
14:32
There's like nothing in here? This is like computer duster
14:34
for sure. I remember, like in the early like there
14:38
was that whole oxygen bar craze where vegas or like
14:42
vault malls and like the Beverly Center and ship would
14:45
have like come to the oxygen bar and like pick
14:48
some like tranquility mixed with stress relief and then you
14:51
just sit there inhaling oxygen and I felt like it
14:55
was such a placebo effect or like I mean, at
14:57
the time I was like fifteen, I was like, oh yeah,
15:00
but I'm like the strawberry, the strawberry is really good.
15:03
Yeah yeah, like a like Ashton Kutcher had his own
15:08
like oxygen bar and like Weiho or something. It was
15:12
next to Gisha House. Yeah, sun up the Chugye club
15:19
overs out there that remember the o g s If
15:22
you were there at Privilege at the underground after hours
15:26
part of privilege, let him go one time where you
15:28
can see the people underneath. I have no idea what
15:33
you guys are talking. This is l A. This is
15:35
I don't get to get Are you from l A? Yeah? Yeah,
15:40
where'd you go to high school? I went to Notre Dame,
15:42
Harvard Westlake Baby oh shit, okay, so that like Molly
15:46
Lambert went there. Also guests whose arm very regularly. Yeah,
15:50
but a lot of people Jacob sober Off a friend
15:53
of mine. I think also when Miles Off, Yes, I
15:58
love it. He cool. Look at that family. It's like
16:05
the Olive Garden. Do you feel any like when when
16:10
you take a hit off of the oxygen right now? Tank? Yeah?
16:14
Could you could we hear right now. Think that's always
16:22
like a thing i'd read. Okay, it just looks like
16:25
like a I feel like I'm breathing. I don't think
16:31
it does anything to tell you the truth. You just die,
16:38
your really bad. But I mean there is like they
16:44
say that if you're in a car that goes underwater,
16:47
you're supposed to like take like five deep huffs of
16:49
air and like you'll be able to, like I don't know,
16:52
your blood will be more oxygenated. Oh it's a good tip. Yeah.
16:56
I just tried it when I was holding my breath
16:58
to impress my three the other day, and it works.
17:02
I was able to do it by like, you know,
17:05
huffing big big breaths before I went under and I
17:07
passed out and knock the TV over. Yeah, um, no deal.
17:13
What is uh? What is something you guys think is overrated? Well,
17:20
I this might be controversial or not golf, m hmm.
17:25
Not on my podcast, Not on my podcast. What do
17:29
you want me to leave? I want to leave so
17:33
we can follow you to the protest at the country club.
17:36
I can't. It's it's boring. It's very boring. It's not easy,
17:43
and it takes so much time to be good at it.
17:48
So and it's expensive. That's the point. It's not take
17:54
the point like that's why it's so good and it's
17:57
so Yeah, you have to apply for memberships to go
17:59
to these country clubs. You can be denied a membership.
18:02
It's very like elitist and like rich people. Yeah. And
18:05
it takes up the best parts of so much space. Yeah,
18:10
so much space. You can build so many houses where
18:12
all these dumb golf courses are. So it's it's overrated.
18:16
We have like nine hundred amazing central parks if you
18:21
bring the gates down and just be like, hey, y'all,
18:23
can fucking just enjoy the earth in the city. To
18:27
understand l A, Yeah, all you have to really understand
18:29
is that. Imagine that in Manhattan if they just walled
18:33
off Central Park and only rich people were allowed to
18:35
go there. Yeah. Yeah, you have to pay two hundred
18:38
thousand dollars to like have a have access to it.
18:42
What is, Alie, something you think is overrated? Mine is
18:45
also probably will be controversial for some people, but for
18:50
me it's Chrissy Teagan, Oh shots fired. I'm just over it.
18:56
Just like log off, I don't need to talk about it.
18:58
I don't need to know your business is. I don't
19:00
care about like how you're feeling, what you're doing your
19:03
redemption to her. I just like I don't need to
19:07
know about what's going on with you. And it's weird
19:09
that you think the whole world always needs to know
19:11
what's going on with you. I don't. I don't need it. Yeah,
19:15
there's a there's like a wait. She it almost feels
19:17
like I have this burden to carry the world on
19:19
my shoulders and like, yeah, I have to get this
19:22
medium post off to let people know where I'm at
19:25
my target money. It's like we've all she thinks we've
19:28
all been waiting and like with bated brad. I mean
19:36
Mamilissa has, but like we've all been waiting with bated
19:38
breath to hear how Chrissy Teagan is doing. And it's like,
19:42
I don't care. Just live your life and that will
19:44
be so much better than you constantly being online. That's
19:48
that do we need from you? Go hang out like
19:50
on an island for like a year, just like hang
19:53
out with her family, Like she doesn't need to be
19:56
on the internet, Like, just enjoy your life. I wish
19:58
her no ill will I wish her nothing but the best.
20:01
I hope she I hope she's happy and kind and thriving.
20:06
I think I just like I don't. I don't need
20:09
to hear from her. I don't think anyone needs to
20:11
hear from her, like I think it would be a
20:13
benefit to her if she Yeah, I agree, Yeah, I agree.
20:18
It's just like I get it. You know, you're you're saying,
20:20
I I fucked up. I need to grow as a person. Okay,
20:23
go grow and then you know, right, your growth, that's it.
20:26
That's and then nothing as long as you're not out
20:28
here denying you said anything, like I never said any
20:30
I don't know what they're talking about. I'm fine, I'm good.
20:32
And then don't come back and be like, guys, I
20:35
know that was hard on me too. Okay, that's what
20:40
I will say. And like I don't even want to
20:42
get into her apology, but like her her amend's or
20:45
her apology was all about like her growth and how
20:48
she's doing and like what she learned on a public level,
20:53
and not at all specifically like about the people who
20:57
she called out or who she hurt on a public
20:59
love well, and all these people are like she ruined
21:03
my career, and she ruined my life in front of
21:05
millions of people, like say specifically sorry to them publicly
21:10
if you did, if you, you know, demolish their careers
21:13
publicly as well. You know, it was just all about her,
21:15
and it's just like I don't care, goodbye, just go
21:18
do your thing. It isn't weird to also see like
21:20
other celebs right this way, because today I was reading
21:22
like Leona Lewis was saying like, oh, I know Michael
21:24
Costello has something to say about Christy Tea and you said, well,
21:26
I have something to say about Michael Costello and You're
21:28
like what. It's just like, let's all about things that
21:30
are more granted, I'm perpetuating it right now, like I'm
21:33
talking about it here, but right now. Yeah, yeah, what
21:39
I is something you guys think is underrated. I'm gonna
21:42
say possums. Wow that this might be controversial, perfect it,
21:52
but possums. Okay. So I started putting out food outside
21:57
my house at the beginning of quarantine because like I
22:00
saw like a couple of cats walk up by, like
22:02
I want to put out food now. I have a
22:05
cat that I named Skeletor that basically lives in my
22:08
front yard. I feed it three times a day. It
22:11
sleeps in the dirt. It's it's my it's my cat.
22:15
It's my outdoor cat. And I also have possums and
22:19
raccoons and skunks, and I put out a little camera
22:23
so I could see them. Possums are adorable. I know
22:27
they look like scary, like pointy cats with like teeth inside,
22:33
but they're so nice and they eat a lot of ticks,
22:37
and they don't have brabies, and they don't have brabies.
22:40
My mom is the same the same crew as you.
22:43
She's been. She had started off with her seeing a
22:46
possum once and she is like the North Hollywood possum Lady.
22:50
She's a card carrying member of like the North American
22:53
like Opossum Society, and she's like a possum of it.
22:57
And at the first time, like, I'll feed them nasty
22:58
what they're fine, Their dusts out, they have brabies. The
23:02
scars on their faces because they don't see well, and
23:05
they go around the world using the front of their face.
23:08
That's why it gets all scarred up. It's not because
23:10
they're nasty and getting fights. That's just how they make sense.
23:12
And they carry their babies on their backs. Yeah. Yeah,
23:17
they'll have like five little possums like just hank like
23:20
carrying around on their backs until they're big enough own carries. Yeah,
23:27
carries carries me to this back rides for babies. That's
23:34
why mine is. Cold showers instead of hot showers really
23:46
good for you, actually good for your nervous system. It's
23:49
like people do those like cry oh you know, like
23:52
you go in that like freezing chamber and it's just
23:54
easier and you can do it from home like a
23:56
cold plung should just rejuvenating gives you more energy than
24:00
hot shower. You'll be surprised. Try it out. Doesn't have
24:03
to be a full cold shower, just like go cold
24:06
for fifteen seconds at the end of your shower and
24:08
it will. I love doing that. I love doing that.
24:12
Yeah I see see to a cold water floater on
24:15
top of your hot shower. Hell yeah baby, And then
24:17
I take a dose of that oxygen and I'm ready
24:19
to go. It's funny one of those things that Seinfeld
24:28
really influenced for me. And now like I'm just realizing
24:32
that as you say it, Like I think when I
24:34
was younger, like cold showers because they like wake you up.
24:38
And then there was that part in Seinfeld where somebody
24:42
claims to take a cold shower and Seinfeld's like cold
24:45
showers their first psychotics. And there I was like, yeah,
24:48
that's right, like that just resonated with me, and right,
24:52
guy who kids, right exactly. I just I need to
24:57
go through and just remove all Seinfeld assumptions from my
25:01
brain because I could have been the president galaxy brain
25:09
and all of sudden, what if airport peanuts aren't too small?
25:17
All right, let's take a quick break and we will
25:20
be right back to talk about the news, and we're back.
25:34
And the Biden administration has been a little strange for
25:39
the lack of kind of scandals coming from the right,
25:43
Like they I haven't heard about him wearing a the
25:47
wrong suit to anything the way that we we did
25:51
when Obama was empowered. That you know, Fox News just
25:55
could bring up anything about him, and like their majority
25:59
racist viewership was just ready to hate him. But Biden
26:03
looks exactly like their majority racist viewership. So now they
26:09
and I think also his policies are pretty popular, right well, yeah,
26:13
I mean they don't remember they didn't want to talk
26:14
about the stimulus because You're like, yeah, I need money
26:17
from the government. Are you kidding me? I don't I'm
26:19
not working right now. So they're like, talk about Mr
26:22
potato Head, you know how they have to talk about
26:25
Mr potato Head. Dr Seuss And the big one these
26:28
days isn't that critical race theory? Yeah, and it's it's
26:32
it's completely like like you said, it's we're in a
26:35
whole new environment where they can't even focus on even
26:38
the low hanging fruit, which would be like, what is
26:40
Joe Biden actually done from his campaign promises? Because I
26:44
would if you're looking for something to be critical of,
26:46
that's something you could go down and listen, like, well,
26:48
where is that student debt relief? Where was that that
26:51
weird math where certainly turned into a different amount of
26:55
stimulus money. But now it's critical race theory. And we've
26:58
talked about before how this has been a conscious effort
27:02
to create this like outrage over it. And the numbers
27:05
I think are starting to show that this is very clear.
27:09
Fox News mentioned critical race theory five fifty two times
27:13
in the previous eleven months, and then it ramped up
27:15
in the last three which there's another number that's like
27:18
over six hundred and it's only gotten more and more.
27:22
Last week, they've shoehorned it into coverage one five times
27:27
in five days. And then so then you see, we've
27:30
seen all their coverage or a lot of coverage in
27:32
the media of this has been you know, people in
27:35
Florida or Texas, like governors and legislators trying to be like,
27:38
we gotta stop teaching this, or like scenes of like
27:41
outraged like racist parents at these school board meetings being like,
27:45
don't teach them history? What is this? It's destroying us?
27:50
And yeah, the biggest thing, that's just the biggest miss
27:54
of all of this, at least in the reporting, is that,
27:56
first of all, it's a decades old academic discipline, but
27:59
on top of it, it's just taught at the graduate level,
28:02
like when you are in university. This isn't we didn't
28:05
grow up with, like alright, kids, and now open up
28:07
your critical race theory books. Is like first graders. So
28:10
all of the energy is completely misplaced. And this is
28:13
all by design because they just need this catch all
28:16
outraged topic to get people sort of, they just need
28:19
an energy to exploit. And yeah, I think the more
28:22
you you hear, what how people talk about it, You're like,
28:24
do they even know what this is? Or this is
28:27
just the new dog whistle that can play a bunch
28:29
of different tunes, right, didn't like one of them was
28:33
one of the conservative politicians was asked to describe, like
28:38
what critical race theory is and the person whose last
28:43
name is Pringle appropriately enough. It basically teaches that certain
28:48
children are inherently bad people because of the color of
28:51
their skin. Period. H that's a lot to unpack these
28:57
people whose perspective, these people when they were doing the
29:01
training programs and the government. If you don't buy into
29:04
what they taught you, they sent your way to a
29:07
re education camp. Huh, what do you mean? The white
29:14
male executives are sent to a three day re education
29:17
camp where they were told that their white male culture
29:20
wasn't there. Okay, let's just let's there, sir. Are you okay?
29:26
Because this is like just hearing that in the in
29:28
the wake of the uprisings last summer, there were companies
29:31
saying like, we need racial sensitivity training because they're clear
29:35
blind spots from a corporate culture that needs to be addressed.
29:38
And then this is now turned into they're what they're
29:42
fucking their heads are bagged and they're thrown into a
29:44
fucking van and then driven like the dark side of town.
29:47
For like how their eyes peeled open to watch like
29:50
a bunch of fucking rap videos. I don't know what
29:52
the funk they think this is. And it goes on
29:55
still like the other like attacks are people saying, quote,
29:59
minority students are going to suffer the most from this.
30:02
When you teach students that the system is against them,
30:05
they have no motivation to learn. They are not going
30:07
to try to work, They're not going to try to
30:10
improve themselves. Seeing that part, what are you talking about?
30:16
You even I'm going to improve themselves, he says. I
30:19
mean this whole idea that it's like, oh, thank you
30:22
the savior person for saving me from being defeated by
30:26
acknowledging that I'm surviving in a racist construct, Like what
30:30
what exactly is the concern there? And I think this
30:33
has been going it's it's just gaining more and more momentum.
30:36
But I think this is the part where you really
30:38
see what it's all about, because underneath it, it's just
30:41
like the other threats are that it will lead kids
30:44
to Marxism, and this is the last thing that this
30:46
guy Pringle said, he said, quote, this is still the
30:48
greatest country that ever ever been in the history of
30:52
the world. Okay uh, and the radical left is trying
30:55
to destroy that and tear us apart and divide this
30:57
country based on racing class, which is exactly what they
31:00
do in communist countries. Hum, I don't so you don't.
31:03
So you don't know what communism is either, Okay, cool? Goddamn.
31:08
They love comparing things to like concentration camps and like
31:12
just implying, did you see that? What's her face? Marjorie whatever? Yeah?
31:16
I was just gonna say, like as one of them
31:18
is apologizing for comparing masks to Yeah, she's like I
31:24
had like, was she not forty years to go to
31:29
a Holocaust museum? Like? Yeah, have you not taught that?
31:32
Was she not taught that? And this is why we
31:33
need better education because she didn't know what the Holocaust was.
31:37
And it's like, y'all, I was just in that museum.
31:42
She literally said, hey, it happened, Like are you what where?
31:48
They just don't know. I saw this. I saw this
31:50
TikTok the other day for this like Republican lady was
31:54
complaining about the Quaker oats guy on the canister and
32:00
is like, if we're gonna change anti mimah, we should
32:02
get rid of this slave owner around the this can
32:04
of votes. And like someone was like, that's not a
32:08
slave owner, that's a Quaker, that's a completely different that's
32:12
not a slave owner. You just no one knows what
32:15
they're talking about, right, Yeah, I mean, and I think
32:19
even with that Marjorie Taylor Green comment, it's like it
32:23
just shows you how much of a threat these kinds
32:26
of people are when this is their worldview. And then
32:29
they enter the halls of Congress too, you know, drum
32:32
up legislation that is trying to reinforce their worldview where
32:36
maybe the Holocaust I don't know, I don't know there
32:42
were you there, Yeah exactly. That's like her. So I
32:46
went to like a shitty public school in Michigan, and
32:50
I know about the Holocaust. Like at the very least,
32:55
we didn't have parents at home that we're saying, you know,
32:57
it didn't happen. The teaching because in eighth grade we
33:03
took a trip to d C. I may have told
33:05
this story before before we're going into the Holocaust Museum,
33:08
our teachers, before we got off the bus, said Hey,
33:10
I just want to let you know we got a
33:12
letter from a parent that said that the Holocaust never
33:16
happened and that they didn't want they didn't want your
33:19
classmate in to go to this museum. I just want
33:23
to let all of you know. I'm not going to
33:25
say who it is, but I just want to let
33:27
you know that there are people who are going to
33:29
deny what all of the things you are about to
33:31
see in this museum. And it was really a pointed.
33:35
It was like it was like everyone's like, yo, what
33:37
the funk? And I'm growing in l A. Were like
33:39
we saw a Shimmler's List, it was best picture. But
33:44
like then we go in and that was sort of wow.
33:46
That was my first time even hearing that. People were like,
33:48
what do you but that ship happened? Like what are
33:50
you talking about? Holocaust deniers? Until maybe like ten years ago,
33:55
I had no idea it was a thing, right, yeah,
33:59
all right, very cool, cool time. Marjorie Taylor Green, what
34:07
let's talk about the police real quick? Uh they're back.
34:11
And then it was easier, so uh one just kind
34:15
of smaller scale thing. But the manager from the shake
34:18
check that's supposedly poisoned the milkshakes. A poison is suing
34:23
the NYPD because yeah, they arrested him, interrogated him for hours,
34:30
like continued, Yeah, and this was this was after they knew,
34:37
like after they had happened. Yeah, they went to the
34:39
emergency were on the emergency people were like, you did
34:42
not drink bleach, Like that's just not a not a
34:46
thing that happened to you. So they came to him,
34:54
were like this tastes a little off, and he was like,
34:57
oh my god, I'm so sorry, and gave them vouchers. Uh,
35:00
they come back two hours later and arrest him after
35:03
going to the emergency room, and then their union immediately
35:08
like reports that they were poisoned on and it like
35:11
goes viral because again, the right just needs something to
35:15
complain about. But onto kind of the bigger stuff is
35:20
just the general reaction backlash by the police to just
35:27
the fact that they were criticized, openly criticized. There are
35:32
now like more and more documented examples of police refusing
35:37
to answer calls for help and being like, well, you
35:40
should have not defunded us, then come on. And there's
35:45
this argument that conservatives have been making since Ferguson. It's
35:49
called the Ferguson effect, and it claims that because people
35:54
protested the police, there was a spike in the murder
35:58
rate and that's because like the police were scared or something.
36:02
And the facts sorry that the police when their protests
36:06
just disassociate just like check out and will not protect
36:10
those people. Like I I've talked about how I've like
36:14
anecdotal cases where somebody was robbed and called the police
36:17
and they were like came the next day and we're
36:21
like sorry, but you guys shouldn't have like talked to
36:23
your council person and tell them they shouldn't have defunded us,
36:27
and like the funding change is tiny, it's like almost
36:32
non existent. It's not real. It's just the police being
36:36
fucking petulant. And yeah, I don't know, and I feel
36:41
like this story is being covered in the margins. But
36:45
it's not like there's evidence that MYPD response time to
36:50
like crimes in progress has dropped since the protests, even
36:54
though ambulance response time has like gotten quicker because they're
36:59
fewer cars on the because of the pandemic. And it's
37:02
not a like the police are like yeah, because people
37:04
were retiring because they their feelings were hurt. It's just like, well,
37:09
fucking hire new people, like what these aren't good if
37:12
you if you're feel that's that means you aren't the
37:15
kind of person who should be protecting or serving fucking
37:17
anybody rather than your own like racist fantasies that you've
37:21
you entered the force with. And I think it's also
37:24
just when you see things like that too, you're like, well,
37:26
what is what is? What do the police really? Do?
37:28
You know what I mean? Because do they prevent crime?
37:30
I'm not sure? Is that is that how we prevent
37:33
crime by having the police? I don't think so. I
37:35
think it's because people are destitute and resort to extra
37:39
legal things to survive, or because the nature of trying
37:42
to survive puts people in a different mindset. Your behavior
37:45
is completely different. It's this example. Always say, it's like
37:48
the same reason why you don't see a lot of
37:49
cops in Beverly Hills, the same reason you don't see
37:51
a lot of cops in Burbank unless you're brown and
37:54
you're driving down Magnolian your system is too loud. But
37:56
like that whole idea is those areas are well supported.
38:00
So because of that there's not the same sort of
38:02
forces acting on people to commit crimes. And I think
38:05
that to to think like, oh man, you just gotta
38:07
have more boots and they're just brutalizing people. That's that's
38:11
it's all. It's all fucking it's all. It's just a myth.
38:14
And yeah, I wonder why there is less sort of
38:17
energy to cover this, because it felt like if this
38:20
came out sort of last summer, this would have been
38:22
reported more. But I think it also shows how the
38:25
media how's up a role to play in upholding these
38:28
systems of oppression by saying like, well, we can make
38:30
it hot to a point and then we'll ease off,
38:32
and then we won't really give substantive reporting on this. Right,
38:37
there's this writer Thomas apt A BT who just released
38:42
a book called Bleeding Out that's sort of a manifesto
38:45
for targeting violence. And the book points out that basically
38:52
all the methods that the police used to police neighborhoods
38:56
where a lot of murders happen our counter productive. And
39:02
we're seeing like Biden's infrastructure bill, which is going to
39:06
get watered down, but like, at least it started out
39:09
with a lot of this guy's ideas like really well
39:13
funded in it. And I know that at a local
39:16
level a bunch of different city councils past funding for
39:20
non police like emergency response, which is something we've talked
39:24
about on the show as like yeah, there's a mental
39:27
health issue or basically any issue that doesn't involve somebody
39:32
who is physically harming somebody, like send some there should
39:38
be an option to call somebody who's not the police, basically, um,
39:42
And that is we're we're starting to see a little
39:44
bit more funding. So there is small victories, but it
39:48
just isn't really breaking through to the mainstream just how
39:51
toxic the police response to those protests have been. But
39:55
we'll have a lot of articles about this in the footnotes.
39:59
It should be like most disqualifying, you know what I mean,
40:01
Like if that's your behavior to say, like it's like, well, look, honey,
40:06
I didn't I couldn't clean the gutters because you asked
40:08
me to to get the garage tidy. If I have look,
40:12
if you asked me to do that, I could have
40:13
done the other thing. So like it's that same shitty
40:16
logic of well you inconvenience to me, So now I'm
40:20
gonna just be I'm gonna have this resentment and completely
40:24
disengage from my work. And it's just like that in
40:28
and of itself should be such a horrifying thing for
40:32
people to learn that these people are like even exercising
40:35
that kind of agency, to be like, nah, while we're
40:39
still paying them too. Yeah, yeah, with ceremony with our
40:44
real American dollars. I mean, the fact that there is
40:48
one type of person is allowed to just go up
40:52
and shoot someone based on their judgment and not face
40:55
any legal repercussions. You would think that that would be
41:01
the most you know, scrutinized group of people in the world, right,
41:07
Like we would, we would be all over those people.
41:10
And when we even try to like give them a
41:14
modicum of like responsibility for the actions of their worst
41:20
the people who are just wantingly killing people, they react
41:25
like this. It's just such a broken system. Like it
41:27
really makes you realize why people are asking for the
41:33
abolition of of police. It's because they helped protect the
41:36
property from the billionaires that don't actually pay their salaries,
41:39
which is the whole irony of it too. Right, All right,
41:43
let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
41:47
talk about a cool thing I read, and we're back.
42:00
And every once in a while I read an article
42:03
in The New Yorker and it makes me really proud,
42:06
and so I have to like tell everybody about it
42:08
that read something in the New York Yeah. Sometimes I'll
42:11
just do a whole segment on a cartoon that I've
42:14
read and like why the joke was funny. Um, sometimes
42:18
I don't even get it. I'm informed later by the
42:20
listeners like, no, that actually wasn't the joke, but um, anyways,
42:25
I just had my mind blown by this article about
42:30
kind of the deepest parts of the ocean, which we've
42:33
actually been talking about on the show in the context
42:37
of like unidentified aerial phenomenon and submerged phenomenon, because you know,
42:42
these like white tic tics that people keep seeing tent
42:45
to be around bodies of water and around the ocean,
42:48
and so some people speculate that that's where they're coming from,
42:52
is like the sea floor. But this just kind of
42:56
blew my mind just in general, with without any context
43:01
of of aliens that so the they're only only the
43:06
top layers of the oceans are illuminated. There's the sunlight zone,
43:10
which extends about seven feet the twilight zone, which goes
43:13
down another feet and then everything below that there's just
43:18
no there's no light. And down there, like every the
43:22
light is created by the animals themselves. There's like bioluminescence.
43:26
And apparently bioluminescence has developed in like fifty different ways.
43:30
It's not like everybody figured out the same trick evolutionarily.
43:34
It they all developed like in different ways using different methods.
43:38
And it's super cool. So this explorer like goes down there.
43:42
It's apparently really really hard to get to that depth
43:45
because you know, you have to lower a camera, you
43:47
would be like crushed as a for the most part.
43:51
And when they get down there, explorers are always like
43:54
it's like a firework show down there. It's not. It's
43:57
not like every once in a while there's there's a
44:00
glowing animal. It's like they're just everywhere because some avatar
44:04
type ship. Yeah, it's really it's like some avatary ship
44:07
and it's and there's so many animals down there that
44:12
are are bioluminescent that this scientists says that she estimates
44:18
that it's most of the creatures on the plant, like
44:22
most of the organisms on the planet Earth are down
44:25
in that zone, and we'd like, yeah, because we don't
44:28
know what's down there. Yea, we just don't know. There's
44:31
aliens down there. People are like there's aliens in the sky.
44:34
I'm like, guys, have you been in the ocean. There's
44:36
aliens down there. I don't even know what's down there.
44:40
Look outside the planet? Is this like? Because I always
44:43
see like whenever I've seen like those Planet Earth type things,
44:45
those are always the most fascinating sections for me because
44:48
I'm like, yeah, I've seen birds and other stuff, but
44:53
like all of this, I don't know technology or these
44:56
evolutionary traits that they've developed. It really is. It shows
45:00
you like we they're so little we really know. And
45:05
but when you say that most of the organisms, you
45:07
mean like numerically in terms of the number of like
45:10
different species like that, I think it's the number of animals.
45:14
The number of animals, like there's so many down there,
45:18
And yeah, so that's like the thing that Yeah, I've
45:21
seen the you know, the David Edinborough nature documentaries, and
45:26
I always got the impression like, yeah, there's like a
45:29
handful of these like really cool like bioluminescent creatures down there.
45:33
But for the most part, it's supposed to be like
45:36
a desert down there, and this scientist is like, no,
45:40
it's incredibly like active and full of life and full
45:45
of like glowing just whild It's like a it's like
45:49
a light show down there. Yeah, you know who um
45:53
is just recently hosted a nature show and it's like
45:57
the most distracting thing of all time ross from Friends,
46:01
David Schwimmer, and it's like I cannot get through it
46:05
with his voice being the one it's like the beautiful gazelle.
46:09
Like it's so bad. Wait what it's all like Discovery
46:16
plus or something. Yeah, that's a Joe bad. I thought
46:22
it was a joke and it's so serious and I
46:24
was like, who is this for? I guess friends fans.
46:27
It's so bad. Wow, Like yeah, I don't think, you know,
46:31
great scientific commentary. When I think David Swimmer, I'm greatly
46:37
because he was a paleontologist on the show, so they're
46:40
like he should do I don't know, to have some
46:43
fucked up data that suggests like this like ven diagram
46:46
overlap of friends fans and people who like the like
46:50
like nature ship too, maybe aith type combo or like, no,
46:55
it sounds stupid, but they're just doing numbers. Yes, I
46:58
mean that makes total sense. So like Friends is one
47:01
of the most popular streaming shows of all time, and
47:04
people like Nature Diet, Like I think a lot of
47:07
people watch nature documentaries on there. So George stands and
47:10
narrated a nature documentary. Yes, that's literally I made a
47:19
reference to that yesterday and yesterday's episode. Well, my god,
47:23
there you go a lot of a lot of time
47:26
felt references. Alright, let's let's talk about the box office.
47:33
I was very disappointed to see that the movie and
47:36
the Heights bombed, Like I think people were saying, like,
47:40
at least they were expecting at least twenty million at
47:43
the box office, and it made eleven. And also nobody
47:47
watched it on HBO Max. It had fewer people watch
47:52
it than Cruella and Cruella costs like thirty dollars, and
47:56
in the Heights was free, more people paid to see.
48:03
Karl was good. I'm sorry, Karl was good. It's really bad.
48:08
I don't think that's the hot tap. It was bad.
48:10
It was it was ridiculous, but I was entertained the
48:14
whole time I heard it tells the truth about those
48:17
fucking Dalmatians, right, They're evil and will kill your mother.
48:21
They should have been dead. Yeah, Ellie was furious. Elie
48:25
said it as a joke where I was like, what
48:27
is the origin going to story going to be that
48:29
Dalmatians killed her family? And then that was the origin story?
48:35
Sorry spoiler alert in the first scene, right, yeah, it's
48:39
a person that's like her Bruce Wayne moment. My god,
48:45
these hundred and one Dalmatians family. I haven't watched it,
48:51
which I should have like wanted to watch it. It
48:55
was like a in a dark period of my life
48:57
for real Hamilton's dork. I saw The Heights on Broadway
49:01
loved it. Was really like rooting for this movie, and
49:05
I just think they fucked up the marketing like they
49:08
it just seemed like the marketing, all the ads I
49:14
saw for it just it seemed like it was just
49:18
another like West Side Story type thing, like or you know,
49:21
a musical set in modern New York, and it was
49:25
like they were The thing that's cool about it is
49:28
the way that like the rapping like carries the story
49:33
forward and it has like, you know, a momentum of
49:36
its own, and they just like don't have that in
49:39
almost any of the trailers or commercials for it. It
49:43
reminded me of like when they released Frozen and like
49:47
just made it made the first trailer about Olaf the
49:50
Snowman because they were like scared that people would see
49:54
that it had two sisters at the center instead of
49:57
like a guy and a girl and would like wouldn't
50:00
watch it. They were like hiding the thing that was
50:02
good about it because it was unorthodox. Basically, yeah, I mean,
50:07
I'm sure that all the sort of controversy around like
50:11
the colorism and things like that that's consumed like a
50:14
lot of the coverage recently more than me even hearing
50:16
what people thought of the film apologizes you know, for
50:21
the lack of representation of like Afro Latin XT people
50:25
that could have been in the film and things like that.
50:27
So yeah, I don't And the trailers almost seemed like
50:30
it was like it didn't register to me that it's
50:33
a musical. I know it's a musical, but when I
50:35
watched this stuff didn't I'm like I didn't know either,
50:39
but like a very high energy action film with dancing
50:42
or something, that's what I thought, and it was like
50:44
a yes, there's also like something that felt sort of
50:56
Obama administration era about like how I don't know. It
51:00
was just like really on the nose, like he's wearing
51:03
a shirt that says Nueva York and the trailer like
51:09
it's like, yes, we're in New York and we are
51:12
part of the community. Yes, the way by York. But yeah, anyways,
51:17
the marketing just felt like it was kind of selling
51:21
it short according to people who have seen it, which yeah,
51:24
is the problem. Bummed to see it didn't do better,
51:27
and then When's West Side Story come out, like it's
51:30
like what the fuck? Who planned out their release schedule here? Like, hey,
51:34
you're going toe to toe with Spielberg's West Side Story. Well,
51:37
I think the pandemic planned it out, like maybe, but yeah,
51:42
I do think they were supposed to come out in
51:43
the same year during the pandemic, because I remember during
51:46
the oscars when we began, that was when I begin
51:49
to see even more West Side Story and in the
51:52
Heights like footage. I was like, this is confusing to me. Yeah,
51:57
I'm gonna I'm mixing up the two in my head
51:59
right out, and I don't. I'm certainly that doesn't help.
52:02
But yeah, again, something that if you showed the rapping,
52:06
would have like made it a very like the wrapping
52:10
and west Side story is supposed to be not very good.
52:14
I've been told it was all written by Maclamore, right,
52:21
Alan Menkin and Maclamore. Also just checking back on something
52:29
we've speculated about, the idea that like streaming shows aren't
52:33
really as popular as we treat them. I guess a
52:39
lot a lot of the time, like that low key
52:40
show that everyone was talking about a week ago. This
52:43
guy Scott Mendelssohn from Forbes, who I think is one
52:46
of the smartest people writing about kind of the entertainment industry,
52:50
was pointing out that like the equivalent of eight million
52:53
dollars worth of ticket sales saw that show like the
52:56
opening week, like for a Marvel thing, it would have
52:59
been a complete like disaster. But people treat it like, oh,
53:04
Loki is like a big show, and it's like no
53:07
nobody nobody really watches that ship, but we treat it
53:11
like it's a it's we treat it like it's another
53:14
Marvel movie or something. So anyway, so you'd luck good
53:18
luck to them, good luck to those, good luck to Disney,
53:22
good luck they make it. They make it. Hope they
53:26
I mean they're they're they're so uh they're they're known
53:30
for being very economic. I think they'll survive. Yeah, No,
53:35
I I do have high hopes for that company. I
53:38
think they're going they're going places. The only reason that
53:42
I want to watch that is for what's his name?
53:45
Ohm Wilson? I miss you know, Wilson and Wilson. What's in?
53:50
What's he in? Yeah? What things? Oh? Yes? Oh yeah?
53:54
And uh. There was like a little piece of viral
53:56
marketing where Tom Hittelson did a oh and Wilson impression
54:01
to like add a press junk hit and people are like, oh,
54:06
I'm so here for this like Owen Wilson impression, and
54:09
it was like so bad. It was just him doing
54:11
a fucking American accent. I'm like, what's happening? Alright, Let's
54:17
talk about the movie people are actually watching was which
54:21
is a quiet place to which, Yeah, it kind of
54:24
became the first pandemic era movie to make more than
54:27
a hundred million dollars at the U. S. Box office, which, again,
54:31
like you talk about people that we root for here,
54:33
John Krasinski's designer sock vendor business, that's we were always
54:38
concerned that that's making enough money, so happy to see
54:42
him have good things happen for him. So there's a
54:46
minor controversy in the UK about the lack of subtitled
54:50
screenings offered to the public on this movie, which is
54:54
like the protagonist of this movie is a deaf character
54:59
played by a deaf actress, um and like a huge
55:03
breakthrough and like creating a role model for hearing impaired viewers,
55:09
and they just like aren't showing it in a format
55:14
that would be like possible for deaf people to watch.
55:20
And this kind of story, like jmr Writer kind of
55:24
did a deep dive into just what the whole process,
55:28
like what it means when they say, okay, closed captioning
55:31
devices are available, Like that's just a little screen that
55:35
they give you the plugs into your cup holders some somehow,
55:39
and it just like says the words on it, but
55:41
you have to like look back and forth between the
55:44
screen and like this tiny little screen in front of you,
55:48
which sucks. Like that's people are like this is awful,
55:52
like and it's also like all of it is like
55:55
based off the dumbest presumptions on how people watch movies
55:59
or would repel someone from going to a movie or
56:02
attract someone to going to a movie. Like the idea
56:05
is like, well, we can't, we can't have more open
56:07
caption films. People don't go, right, That's why. So in
56:10
the UK they do open caption which is like putting
56:13
the captions on and just on the screen, and like
56:16
there's a certain number of movies that have them, which
56:19
seems to be the better option for everybody. But there's
56:24
a controversy because they're just not doing enough of them
56:27
in the UK right now. But so there's been a
56:30
push to do open captioning in the US, and like
56:35
theater owners have basically like just sandbagged any efforts to
56:41
do this. Like they they'll be like, Okay, yeah, we wanna.
56:44
We're gonna do a study where we like do open
56:46
captioning and see if it like changes the box office.
56:50
And then they'll like put open captioning on like Cats,
56:55
like on a Thursday morning, and then like put not
56:59
open been captioning on Avengers End Game on a Friday
57:03
and night and be like, well, I think that speaks
57:05
for itself. Guys. We can't Yeah, we can't do We're
57:08
gonna be drowned. We're gonna drown, and just the loss
57:11
of profit from doing this. Like I watch I my
57:15
wife and I keep the close captioning on all streaming
57:20
content that we watched. I always have my TV like
57:25
that's that's the thing. There's a lot of like just
57:30
analysis that shows people who like watch even TV shows
57:33
or Netflix with it on aren't hard of hearing or
57:36
hearing impaired. Like it's because a lot I remember, like
57:39
I first started doing it when Deadwood came out because
57:42
like the dialogue is so dense and like you know,
57:45
colloquial and of the time that I was like I
57:47
need to see the words they're saying it. And it's
57:52
been a thing that carries on, like certain things. Sometimes
57:54
I'm like sometimes they'll distract me from actually like looking
57:57
at like the cinematography and whatever. But for the most part,
58:01
I don't mind it. And that's what's like so bizarre
58:03
because there's not it doesn't seem like there's a sentiment
58:06
from people who would it require open caption to be
58:09
like I would never Yeah, I don't thin people are
58:11
vehemently against it. I don't think there's going to be
58:14
like protests outside a MC like right, you know, with
58:18
misspelled signs because you actually think about it actually, And
58:27
there's even like this thing with like during the pandemic,
58:30
like a lot of child development people were saying like,
58:32
if your kids are gonna watch TV, like put the
58:34
captions on because it's reading when they're very passively begin reading.
58:39
Like it's not a bad thing to do, so to
58:42
send my kids to school for the rest. Yeah, I
58:49
mean apparently Game of Thrones was a big people have
58:54
looked at. There's a huge uptaking people who just leave
58:57
the subtitles on for Game of Thrones because it was
59:00
like hard Dick kind of figure out, Okay, that person
59:04
is actually different from that guy with a white beard,
59:10
and should have had that for Mara beast Town, right,
59:15
they actually had to. This would also be really helpful
59:18
for Christopher Nolan movies. Oh my god, I feel like
59:22
he intentionally fucks up the sound he does. I couldn't
59:26
cared tant right. So there's a there was a theater
59:30
in Milwaukee that just made it exclusively open caption screenings
59:35
because it was so hard to understand. Yeah, it's impossible,
59:41
it's really it's so you have you seen it. It's
59:45
so impossible. The music is so loud, like the action
59:48
is so mixed it's terrible. But I literally thought something
59:53
was wrong with my TV, right all right, this has
59:56
been since being in Dark Knighted Rises, like they like
1:00:01
kept having to like funk with the mix because it
1:00:04
was just completely often nobody could understand what he was saying.
1:00:08
Dun Kirk was fucking violent, like the sound and that
1:00:12
was like aggressive and like damaging. And then now apparently
1:00:17
Tenant is you just can't hear it, like I don't.
1:00:20
I don't know what's happening at all. To be fair,
1:00:23
nobody knows what's going on in that movie, so right,
1:00:28
but you would think that you would make sure people
1:00:30
could understand the words that people were saying. But that's
1:00:34
sort of the experience, that disorienting situation where you know,
1:00:43
Chris Well, I walked out because I didn't know what
1:00:48
was happening. I was just gonna say, we should watch Tenant,
1:00:51
but we are watching, uh for this week. I guess
1:00:55
it'll be tomorrow's episode or Monday's episode. We'll talk about
1:00:59
a Netflix show recommended by super producer on a Hosnier
1:01:03
called We Are the Champions. So if anybody wants to
1:01:06
watch that with us and talk about it. We'll talk
1:01:08
about it on in a Streaming Corner on Monday's episode.
1:01:12
Give you a couple of days with that. Well, guys,
1:01:15
this has been so fun having you on the show.
1:01:19
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Alley Baby nineties from Oh my God It's so um
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And is there a tweet you guys have been enjoying
1:02:22
it so randows from Seawan O'Connor, and it said there's
1:02:28
a skeleton in the movie Coco with some big gas naturals.
1:02:33
My question is how I've been thinking about that tweet
1:02:38
for a week and it just is so funny to me.
1:02:41
That is so is so good minus from Noah Garfinkel
1:02:48
and it's uh Yoda is short for your dad, so
1:02:56
good Miles will find you. What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter?
1:03:02
Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also, if you want to
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1:03:21
oh No, she twittin at oh No, she twittint the
1:03:24
baltim Mermaid and tweeting so Governor Pete Ricketts of Nebraska,
1:03:29
I believe it is. He tweeted something said critical race
1:03:32
theory is an attack on our country's core values, and
1:03:35
she started quote tweeted that with the picture of Regina
1:03:38
from Me and Girls. He says, so you agree you
1:03:40
think our country's core value is racism, which is just like, yeah,
1:03:45
that's that's kind of what's happening. When these people saying
1:03:48
this out loud, You're like, so you get that, You're
1:03:50
so really the the whole argument is we want to
1:03:53
hide the racist history. You can find me on Twitter
1:03:57
at Jack Underscore O'Brien Uh tweet I've been enjoyed. Bailey
1:04:02
Moon tweeted God removed the mc rib from the menu
1:04:06
so Ronald McDonald could suck his I'm dick uh and
1:04:09
then sharene Lonnie Unice Shiro Hero six six six tweeted,
1:04:15
who wrote this about me? And it's a reductress headline?
1:04:18
It's a yikes. This woman made a self deprecating joke.
1:04:22
Then friends started consoling her way too real. Uh. You
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off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
1:04:47
as well as a song we think you should go
1:04:49
check out. Miles. What is the song we think the
1:04:53
people should hear? They should check out track called feel
1:04:58
Like by this artist in May and it's got like this.
1:05:02
It starts off feeling like something you know, your own
1:05:05
aunts and uncles. You're listening to a family you know,
1:05:08
outing or some ship starts smooth, but it has like
1:05:10
a a smooth jazz, trap, the soul vibe to it,
1:05:15
and I just love like this sort of convergence of
1:05:17
many different styles, but it's very easy to listen to.
1:05:20
So yeah, check that out. Feel Like by Aaron may
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