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: LOCKDOWNniversary, Cocaine Bear Is A Thing 3.11.21
In episode 829, Jack and Miles are joined by Bechdel Cast's Caitlin Durante to discuss the one year anniversary of Tom Hanks catching coronavirus and the NBA shut down, Trump being investigated by Georgia prosecutor, the GOP coming for the covid relief bill, religion and politics, the new movie Cocaine Bear, Avatar coming to movies in China, and more!
FOOTNOTES:
- Rita Wilson Marks Anniversary Of Her And Husband Tom Hanks Contracting Covid-19
- One Year Later, Rudy...
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Speaker 1
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one, Episode four
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of Dally's Like Guys. The production by Heart Radio. This
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is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
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America's share consciousness. It is Thursday, March eleven, a happy
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Hanks Gobert day to you all. Three eleven day, Uh,
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the day that shall live on an infamy when we
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found out that we as a world had covid um
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and everything shut down. My name is Jack O'Brien, a
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k key lime juice Graham cracker who excited excite old
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Jack here condensed milk, some egg yolks. Come on. This
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is no joke, marangue or some whip cream mis This
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is my dream. Oh, I wanna eat me up some
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key lime pie. That's what I wanna try. Get me
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some key fine pie that is courtesy Dick Abs, true soul.
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And I am thrilled to be joined as always by
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my co host, Mr Miles Gray Miles Gray, which is
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dar a Miles Gray and you smoke too. But because
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you hit the dad brick all day, you can rely
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on a ditsy honey. You can rely on a ditsy honey. Okay,
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thank you for to Hank Skypio Skipio however you want
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to put that down. But I love a good little
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Hall and Oates. It's totally one of my favorite vocal
01:36
performances of years. I was those beautiful. I mean, there's
01:39
something about when you when you have to become Darryl Hall,
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it brings something out of you. And I've I've I
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mean I have stories about this, what things I've done
01:50
at Hall and Oates shows. Yeah, I've gone out of body.
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And it's been like the youngest person where people were
01:56
like circling around be like, go off, young man, sing
01:59
this ship, saying I can't go for that with all
02:01
the movements. Wait, you were singing like so loud at
02:05
a concert. This is outside Lands that music festival up
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in the Golden Gate Park. I dude, I was so
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drunk but so stoked to see Holland Oates and I
02:17
was dragging my friends like we're gonna going with something
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like I'm going to Holland notes and I'm in tears
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like singing and it was just a whole vibe and
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shout out to Darryl Hall or that sounds like a
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whole last vibe. It is. It's and entire vibration. As
02:31
we say in the scientific community, there's a elderly gentleman
02:35
who uh is always sort of taking over at least
02:40
my experiences of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. Uh. He
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has like he just like does this weird interpretive dance
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right next to the stage the whole time. Um, I
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don't know. I always admire that somebody who's willing to
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just make the concert their own. Hey, Miles, we are fortunate,
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thrilled to be joined by the brilliant, the talented, the
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hilarious Caitlin Duranto. Ow, it's me and you know that
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I would not come on this show if I didn't
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have another anagram of my name. I'm not ready so
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this Jack, this also comes from at As. I don't
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think i've I've shared this one before. So brace yourself
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for Caitlin Durante anagramming two alien tain't crud Alien tint crud.
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They're so evocative names. Your name is like it's like
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like lost or something like we. I can't explain this
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collection of letters and the powers that it has to
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be so malleable. Well, um, official dickhead who who came
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up with this shared a whole slew of these. Let
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me let me open up my doc because I have
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an anagram's Google doc. Of course, um runic tit and
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ale unclean arid tit, annual tit, cider, uncle, tain't raid nail.
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Wait wait, uncle Uncle, that sounds like a John Corn.
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Oh my god, Uncle opening for Uncle Chris cold uncle
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tain't raid and then he gives you a little grab. Wait,
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there's more nail, nail, crude, taint, lauren, taint acne you're
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in clad taint remember taint. I feel like that was
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one of the last ones I remember. Um lunar taint, dice,
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alien taint, tread on, plain tit raid and an iced
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lunar tit so and then um as also said, yes,
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they all seem to be about taints, tits, and urine.
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I mean, the holy trinity of things that a name
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can antagram to lunar tit um. It's unbelievable, how how
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many um just dirty thing, dirty and evocative things your
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name anagrams to, of course, Dracula being nine Dracula. That's
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one of my Latin answer t I and nine pit Dracula.
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I think I think we have not a new like
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nothing's ever gonna defeat those, but the we might have
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a couple of new entries in the Hall of Fame.
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Um Jesus, what's uh ho ship even the wild things
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like they'd be really interesting. Abstract art piece is like
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the price pieces called lunar tit dice, And what I
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did here was sort of playing with the female memory
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glands along with the gaming cubes of dice in a
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moon context. That's that was the inspiration for this. So basically,
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so all any any visual artists out there, you have
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all these wonderful names for pieces, and I expect or
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it's it's aliens on the moon playing celo like throwing dice,
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but the dice are tits. Oh you mean the aliens
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that have tank crewd Yeah, the ones that are have
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credit old tape, Yeah, and they're playing for tank crud.
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So this is all This is like a Norman Rockwell
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piece is making itself possible right now. Alright, Caitlin, we're
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going to get to know you a little bit better
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in a moment um, but first we're going to tell
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our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. It
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is the one year anniversary of the world shutting down,
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So uh, I just went back through, looked at some
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emails that were sent on that day, listened to the
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episode we dropped on that day, just to put myself
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back in that mind frame. I'm wearing jeans in honor
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of the before times. Oh no, jeans are violence. Jeans
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are violence, they are. But I mean it's the same
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as like people dressing up an old timing clothes to honor.
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I don't know, I guess, so, yeah, it's a recreate.
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It's a historical recreation that what we do from now
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and like everyone dresses like a slob, it's like a
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man's three eleven, put on your what you used to
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wear in public in your sweatsuits. Um. So we'll talk
07:38
about that. We'll talk about how Donald Trump might just
07:42
get hit with the RICO. Uh. We'll talk about a
07:48
new article that says modern America uh might be replacing
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God with politics, might be a replacing religion with politics,
07:58
and just that being kind of an interest resting framework
08:01
to view the modern, our modern condition through. Uh. We'll
08:05
talk about COVID relief. We'll talk about Elizabeth Banks's new
08:09
movie which is called is this an anagram for something?
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It's called cocaine bear. Yeah, all right, we'll talk about that,
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We'll talk about Avatar heading back to movie theaters in China,
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all of that, plenty more. But first, Caitlin, we like
08:30
to ask our guest, what is something from your search
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history that is revealing about who you are or what
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you're up to. Just googled tubal ligation recovery because I
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am next week having my tubes tied. Please and thank you,
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please and thank you. So kids are off the table. Huh,
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kids are off the table. Yes, every medical professional that
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I've talked to about this, I was like, hey, I
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would like I don't want children. They're like, oh, what
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have you seen the world? It's awesome right now. You
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don't want to bring someone into this. Or they assume
09:16
that I've already had children, so they're like, oh, how
09:17
many children do you already have? And I'm like zero
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and they're like, I'm sorry you what did you did
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you mean to? And do you mean how much money
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you have as a result of having kids? So um,
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and I mean I get these responses from you know,
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non medical people as well, but um, yeah, I I
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am childless and I will be childless from here on
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out thanks to my tubes getting all tied up. What's
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the so what is the recovery like? Is it a
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pretty sort of severe procedure or not too bad? No,
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it's Um, it's I'm pretty sure outpatient. So I'll be
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able to go home the same day. I think I'll
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just like have some I can't like lift heavy boxes
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for a couple of weeks after and what you can
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do then? What do you can do with your time?
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So yeah, it's it's pretty it's minimally invasive. I think
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it's it's a pretty easy recovery, but I didn't totally
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know until I googled it. What was your sort of
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path too? Because I'm sure you know, thinking of like
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our own like our mortality and that like evolutionary itch
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that some most humans have to procreate. What was your
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path to? Yeah? So I've known since I was a
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child that I did not want to have children, um,
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which is again very people. But you have a uterus?
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Don't you want to use it? Uh? And no, thanks,
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I really don't. In fact, I'd like to get rid
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of it entirely, but couldn't figure out a way or like, no,
11:03
surgeons won't be like, yeah, I have a hysterectomy a
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propelled of nothing. Um so, so the next best thing
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basically was to get um my tubes tied. But yeah,
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I just I've always known that I don't want to
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be a parent, and I you know, I was like
11:19
on birth control for a long time, and I was like,
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I don't know if I just like want to be
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on because I mean, not to get into some gory
11:27
family history or anything like that, but um my mom
11:31
was on birth control like in her forties and it
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gave her a blood clot in her leg. So I
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was like, I don't want to, like from like adolescents
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to like into my like forties or whatever be on
11:44
like hormonal birth control. So I was like, you know what,
11:48
let's just chop chop me up down there, just up.
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Just by the way you're expressing this, I may say
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you're not the best candidate for this person. Just uh
12:05
just damn it up. Huh. Well, good, I mean good
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for you. I'm just must feel good to take that
12:12
power into your hands and and be able to finally
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have that decision and feel liberated from like having to
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you know, have other forms of birth control and ship.
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It feels so good, especially because I mean I've been
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exploring this for several years, and every doctor I talked
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to they're like, well, you won't find a surgeon if
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you don't already have children. You won't find a surgeon
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who will do this procedure unless until you're like thirty five.
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I guess who's about to turn thirty five? People know
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about the turning twenty six being able to rent a car.
12:46
Very few people know that doctors won't give you autonomy
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over your own body until you turn thirty five. What
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what's even the reason, Like you're at risk for being younger,
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and they're like, but you you'll regret it, probably it is. Yeah,
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that's it. It's literally the patriarchy. They just assume that
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if if you have a uterus, you're going then you're
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a baby making factory and that's your only life goal.
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Um so yeah, there's no The only legality is that
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you have to be I think eighteen or older and
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of sound mind, and um that's like those are the
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legal stipulations, but not so many doctors don't follow that
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and they say, well, you're going to change your mind,
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or you just haven't met the right man yet, or
13:30
like any number of like really like heteronormative, and I'm
13:36
sorry you'd even like deal with that when you're trying
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to make a real decision on your own behalf and
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they're like, well, let me just throw this bullshit that
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you you've considered this and don't give a funk about
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Therefore you're here, but just in case, you know, Prince
13:49
Charming will come along and then I can't wait for
13:53
like the day after my surgery to meet my Prince
13:55
Charming and then oh my, oh no, I'm going to
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change my mind. You gotta romcom to right. Oh yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Called all tied up, and it has so many meanings
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because I'm like tied up romantically, right, But you're also
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because you're not tethered to birth control, you're not tethered
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to the expectation of motherhood. I mean, it's it's I mean, guys,
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that's why I leave it to you, someone with a
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master's in screenwriting. Yeah. I was just gonna say, if
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only we had somebody who was a master's a master
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of screenwriting. I didn't want to be the one to
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bring it up because I hate to mention it. Of course, right,
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what is something you think is overrated? Okay? I think
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that frosting, icing, whipped cream, basically anything that you might
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put on like a cupcake or any really any dessert
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of any kind. I hate it. I think it's it's wow,
14:56
we're having some back to back dessert takes on this show.
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Yesterday pie was a lie. Today icing is all tridash apparently,
15:07
so you like it? So you just want straight up cake.
15:11
If you're having a cake, I want like the tiniest layer,
15:16
Like I'm talking a millimeter layer put on like a
15:21
razor ing exactly. Someone will give me a cupcake that
15:26
has more like taller icing, So I just scrape all
15:31
of that off and then whatever is like leftover is
15:34
what I deem tolerable, fantastic. I'm whipped cream, Okay, I'm
15:41
whip Wow, you don't wait. Whipped cream is disgusting. I
15:45
hate it. Yeah, I mean it must be a consistency
15:49
thing because whipped cream is like less sweet than Yeah.
15:54
So it's like they're all different flavors, right, I mean
15:58
they're all I guess sugar, but it's just like, yeah,
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whipped like sugar. I don't, but I like sugar. I
16:04
like sweets and pans, but I like straight sugar with
16:06
a spoon. Do you eat ice cream? Are you a
16:11
fan of ice cream? Yes? I love ice cream? Okay,
16:14
but no, but you would never deign to put whipped
16:17
cream on that disgusting Yeah, it would ruin the whole
16:19
thing for me. I will take all your icing. The
16:22
next time we're around each other and needing cupcakes, you
16:25
just give me the icing. I'll double it up. Yeah.
16:28
Then your wife's gonna be like, stop giving Jack ice
16:31
icing or whatever the funk you guys are doing when
16:33
he's out of the house. What is happening is all
16:35
his teeth are loose. Oh man, I love icing. A
16:42
little icing bucket you like, yeah, the side of your bed. Yeah,
16:47
most people don't notice, but I just like occasionally reach
16:50
out of the zoom and pull in a handful of icing.
16:53
We noticed your face is pink and blue. You do,
16:57
but the listeners don't aren't aware? Um right, and our
17:00
guests have to be uncomfortable and polite throughout that we
17:03
have just signed an n d A. I'm texting them
17:07
on the side. Please just ignore this. If if you
17:10
bring it up, it's going to derail the entire show.
17:12
So let's just keep this moving. I'm not comfortable unless
17:15
my lips are crystalline with Amazon, which is something I noticed. Caitlin,
17:26
what is something you think is underrated? I think that
17:30
fake house plants are underrated and good. They're right, they're
17:36
getting good and as much as I I mean, I
17:39
think the real house plants are also underrated. But I
17:43
which one the real house plants of Orange County or
17:45
real house plants? One of us was going to make
17:48
that jo I prefer Atlanta. I think we all do.
17:55
I mean, she's she's a legend. Yeah, I um, I
17:58
am not able to keep real house plants alive. So
18:02
people like a little bit like fake house plants are
18:04
TACKI they look like ship, but they look better than
18:08
the dead real ones. I've encountered three fake plants like
18:17
recently that I've just like been in a building or
18:20
like just stopping by someone's house to grab something and
18:23
I'm like, oh, damn that fucking monsters that ship look good.
18:26
They're like it's fake or like other ones I've like
18:29
brushed up against and I'm like, oh, this is beautiful
18:31
and it's fake. So I'm getting fooled on the regular
18:34
by these plants. Like they look they have the waxy sheen.
18:38
It's just when you don't dust them. That's when I
18:40
think we'll figure out. Sometimes you dusty, ask when you rely, No, no,
18:43
this isn't at it. Yeah, you need the gloss. Yeah,
18:46
but they're Yeah, they're getting really good. Even if you
18:48
can keep your house plants alive. Like there's it. We
18:51
have one, uh where we mix and match. We have
18:54
some living ones so we can use those as cover
18:58
for the ones that are fake. But we have one
19:00
that is just making the floor like within a six
19:05
degree or a six foot radius just incredibly sticky and
19:09
like I can't figure out why it's just the floor
19:12
around that, but but it's like it must be like
19:15
missing out because it's not like noticeable. This is a
19:18
real one. But it's like I'm just saying one of
19:20
the one of the hazards of real plants is that
19:24
when you said you were getting to grow real big
19:26
because you're watering it with maple syrup. Yeah, is that?
19:30
I don't know, Jack, I would taste the floor next time, Jack,
19:33
stop feeding icing to look how big it can't be stopped? Yeah?
19:42
Is that? Gang? Let us know if what's jack? For
19:45
your photo for the episode, take a photo of the
19:48
plant so people can so is that gag can clock
19:51
in and say what the fun is going on with
19:53
the vapor sap that's coming out of there? Yeah, but
19:56
there's just like there's socks stuck to that part of
19:59
the floor. Our kid was stuck there the other day,
20:04
kids school because we couldn't get them and pry them
20:06
off the floorboards. Caitlin, how many fake? How many do
20:09
you have a lot of fake plans right now? Or
20:11
is it something you like you're admiring from a far
20:13
and you're like, I think I want to get in. Well,
20:15
like I just got my first one recently because I
20:17
had held off for so long because I just felt
20:19
so much shame around buying fake plans because people will
20:22
make you feel so ashamed and I don't know why,
20:25
I just I should have just whatever. Anyway, So I
20:30
got my first one, I was like, Oh, this looks
20:33
this is good. I'm gonna so now I'm I'm going
20:36
to continue to go find Yeah, but like, yeah, your
20:39
your house just most like polyvinyl because it's too many
20:43
fake like it's a very plastic alright, uh, Caitlin, that
20:52
thank you, thank you for letting us get to know
20:54
you better. We are going to take a quick break
20:56
and we'll come back and talk about the news and
21:09
we're back, and yeah, it's it's March eleventh, one year,
21:14
one year on from I think it was the day
21:19
that a lot of people were like, Okay, the our
21:23
lives are going to be fairly different for the foreseeable future. Yeah.
21:30
I think that was the day that I went to
21:31
the grocery store and bought like everything I could find,
21:36
things that I never even bought before, but I was like,
21:38
this isn't a can, so I'm gonna need it, right Yeah,
21:42
And like it was just the chaos the store and
21:47
just every Yeah, everyone was just like kind of in
21:50
panic mode because no one knew what to expect. It was. Yeah,
21:53
it was surreal too, because I remember prior to that,
21:56
we in the studio, we were like getting all this
21:58
stuff for the studio, Like there was wipes everywhere. We're
22:01
wiping everything down and trying to make the surfaces as
22:04
clean as possible. And but it was almost the second
22:08
it was like, yeah, we're gonna have to like shut
22:10
everything down. It was a weird moment where I was
22:13
like half ready for it, but then it was sort
22:15
of surreal. Like how immediately I was like, Okay, now
22:18
we're in survival mode and like these are things we
22:20
have to do. But then like in the process of it,
22:22
I was like, this is this is this is happening
22:25
right now, Like this is this We're in the midst
22:27
of it. I was listening back to the episode that
22:30
dropped on March eleventh last year through eleven day last year,
22:34
and like we opened up and I'm like, yeah, it's weird,
22:38
like people are worried about the mic covers and like
22:41
coming in and just talking into a mic cover that's
22:44
like drenched with someone else's like breath, right, And I
22:49
was like talking about how I like sometimes find myself
22:53
touching my mouth against the mic cover. Is just like
22:55
a totally different, disgusting reality that I at least I
23:00
was operating with him. Right, We're still emailing about like
23:05
all right, so we'll we'll meet on Thursday in person.
23:08
It's it's wild, man, Yeah, how quickly things uh change,
23:14
is just like our understanding, you know what I mean,
23:15
Like how it was kind of like all right, we'll
23:17
see what happens two weeks and we'll flatten the curve, right, yeah,
23:23
oh man? And then that was, of course the day
23:26
that we found out Tom Hanks tested positive and that
23:30
a Utah Jazz Oklahoma City Thunder game was like about
23:36
to start, and then all the players like left the
23:39
court and they announced over the lad speaker that the
23:42
game was going to be uh postponed, And it was
23:45
like a full stadium of people, and it was like,
23:48
this is not safe, this is never going to happen again.
23:52
Was that the day? Also, I think Disneyland closed. It
23:56
was like within one or two days of that. Also, Yeah,
23:59
I mean, look, that was depending on where you were culturally,
24:02
something happened that made it real for you. Tom Hanks
24:05
got it, That made it real for some people. The
24:07
NBA shutting down made it real for other people. Disneyland
24:11
shutting down and has definitely made it real for some people. Yeah,
24:16
and now it's I'm almost suspicious about how exactly to like,
24:22
you know how sometimes you'll be like I had a
24:24
twenty four hour bug and it was like almost like
24:26
the timer went off at twenty four hours, and like
24:30
you felt better. It almost feels like that's happening with
24:33
the pandemic, or like we're trying to make that happen
24:36
with the pandemic that it's like on the one year anniversary.
24:39
Like one of my friends who's like a big sports fan,
24:42
was just like, I just heard that they're going to
24:44
be opening with like forty thou people in sports stadiums
24:49
within four weeks for like Major League Baseball, which is
24:53
you know, it seems very significant and like I wouldn't
24:57
feel comfortable doing that, but uh, what is it? CDC know,
25:00
you know, what the hell do they know? I trust?
25:05
I just think like how the evolution of like how
25:09
we were even protecting ourselves like sort of emotionally psychologically
25:13
from an oncoming pandemic was like, oh, man, like who
25:16
knows like it could be cool? And then like how
25:18
that's slowly sort of like withered away, and we're like,
25:21
this is so fucked up, Like nothing of substances coming
25:25
from the government in terms of like support and where
25:28
people are being fed. This completely backwards narrative of that
25:31
businesses need to open rather than the government needs to
25:33
support people through this pandemic. And yeah, and now we're
25:38
here still talking on zoom mm hmm. But yeah, the
25:45
NBA thing made it real for me. I'm not gonna lie.
25:47
I don't know why well it's what Yeah, because that
25:49
was one thing that I feel like I had in
25:51
the back of my mind that like, well, there's all
25:53
these people in stadiums together, Like that's one of those
25:56
things that you just see just you know, on you
26:01
can't help but see it on TV, like if if
26:03
you're just walking by a TV there's like stadium is
26:06
full of people crowded in together, and you're like, well,
26:08
it can't be like that, like if that's a llab
26:11
to happen and there's not like massive outbreaks. And then
26:14
the fact that they were just like, oh, yeah, this
26:16
is this is a terrible idea. Everybody run for your
26:19
life announcement is like really, unfortunately, have to cancel today's
26:23
game and get the funk out now, move calmly. Yeah.
26:28
That just felt very very surreal to like just see
26:32
like an abrupt end to uh life as we knew
26:36
it um. And then the struggle to remind people how
26:40
we can't go back to just ignoring everything like before times,
26:44
which seems like there's a you know, uh, pretty big
26:48
movement for people to kind of get on with it
26:50
and just be like, don't forget all the ab ject
26:52
you know, uh strife you saw from people. It's just
26:56
I mean, we got we can get people into into
26:59
Dodger Stadium. Yeah, all right, let's talk about somebody who
27:04
was much closer to the front of our minds back when,
27:10
uh one year ago that ish the guy was the
27:14
president back then, Donald Trump. Uh there's a chance that
27:19
he might just get hit with the RICO. Yeah, the
27:22
racketeering what is it? Racketeering? Racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations.
27:29
I wouldn't have gotten that if you gave me tries um.
27:33
But yeah, typically for gangsters, you know what I mean,
27:35
Like that was like the way they were able to
27:37
get mobsters rounded up in other like really nefarious crimes.
27:40
But so we've talked about how the d A. Fannie
27:44
Willis UM in Georgia is going for the throat, you know,
27:48
to the point where the UM State Senate in Georgia
27:51
tried to like change the laws to be like you
27:52
can't in panel a jury like in the county because
27:55
it would be too uh diverse and not pro Trump enough.
28:00
But they missed their opportunity for that. And now well
28:03
we're finding out, like, so what's going on because clearly
28:05
most of it is all kicking around that call where
28:07
he's like, find me twelve votes now so I can
28:10
overturn the will of the people, And that call and
28:13
many other events are now like you know, factoring into
28:16
this investigation. But the biggest thing we just heard is
28:19
that there's this inclusion of an attorney named John Floyd
28:23
to the prosecution team, and he is known as the
28:27
racketeering expert. He literally wrote the guide on how to
28:32
pursue state racketeering charges. And Willis, um Fannie Willis has
28:38
mentioned like racketeering charges before, like in passing, and it
28:41
wasn't really connecting because we're mostly thinking, like, this is
28:44
election fraud, like what does racketeering have to do with it?
28:46
But that's because Georgia has broader racketeering laws that basically
28:50
seemed to describe everything that Trump and his little gang did.
28:54
Um So they're saying, if she pursues racketeering charges, she
28:58
will need to quote prove a pattern of corruption by
29:01
Trump alone or with his allies aimed at overturning the
29:04
election results to stay in power. And Georgia's statute defines
29:09
racketeering more broadly to include false statements made to state officials.
29:14
M H. So it's looking pretty pretty or rough. I mean,
29:21
just to kind of give you some background, like, racketeering
29:24
charges happen a lot more often in Georgia than you'd realize.
29:27
And the last time like Willis and Floyd you know,
29:31
collabed was six years ago when there was a school
29:35
when school officials were falsifying standardized test scores to try
29:38
and make the Georgia education system looking like more robust
29:41
than it actually was. They got them all on racketeering charges.
29:45
They get like, this duo seems to really get racketeering
29:48
ship done. So I think a lot of you know,
29:51
legal people were like, this is very interesting because once
29:54
they proved I think like two violations within this Rico statute,
29:58
it's gonna be hard to to say otherwise. But you
30:01
never know what this with this with this country, so
30:03
I don't know every time. Yeah. On the other hand,
30:08
Trump's defense team is probably going to be full of
30:10
some cracker jack you know, lawyers like Rudy Giuliani and
30:15
uh now he might be Yeah. I mean it's bad
30:20
because if you think of all the people, man, it's
30:22
not just him. It is Rudy, you know, it is
30:24
Lady Graham, it is this, you can point to this
30:28
pattern of corruption of people leaning on other officials and
30:33
then of like spouting falsehoods. Yeah, I remember total landscaping
30:38
four seasons. It's it's like really it's I don't know,
30:41
it's comforting to be like, oh, this might be a
30:44
really good uh pursuit of justice here. But then at
30:46
the same time, like as I keep saying, there's like
30:48
two or three legal systems depending on who you are.
30:51
So yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, big news that came through
30:55
yesterday is that the relief package was passed, and so
31:01
now it is time for Republicans to figure out how
31:06
to spin actual like concrete relief for people who are
31:13
struggling as a bad thing. Let's see how they do
31:18
Why why do this as a sport to like subjectively
31:23
a thing to help people in a pandemic? So that
31:26
takes are all over the place From the right. Rick
31:30
Scott from Florida said, who so Jesus quote who hurts
31:35
get who hurts gets hurt? I don't know what that means?
31:39
Who hurts? Wait? I don't what does this sentence mean?
31:43
Who who hurt? Getting gets hurt? Hurt? Poor families? Oh okay,
31:48
that's very conversational and confusing. So poor families are the
31:52
ones who will be funcked over by help. Apparently they're
31:56
not helping poor families with this, they're hurting poor family
32:00
Please point to how that works, because every study talks
32:03
about how these stimulus bills will lift people out of
32:07
poverty on some level. Obviously, so much more could be done.
32:12
But did I say that this hurts poor people or
32:15
poor families? Right? Finish your state? Like what? How? Like
32:20
what this is? You can't just make a statement and
32:24
then be like, but that it's true. I don't know
32:27
to back at well that is that? That's the way. Yeah,
32:30
that's being a politician for the most Like, that's what
32:33
I said. Don't follow up or else I'm gonna say,
32:35
you're harassing me. Okay. How Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's called
32:40
this uh During a debate on the bill, he said,
32:43
it's a socialist laundry list of left wing priorities. Okay,
32:48
helping people. M h uh huh sounds good to me.
32:52
What are you saying? What are you saying? keV? Let
32:54
me know? In the comments, Representative Marjorie Green described this
33:00
as quote massive woke progressive Democrat wish list, and then
33:05
Mitt Romney just went with all reliable, which was we
33:07
shouldn't be spending any money's ever on people, So that
33:11
was at least more consistent. But I don't understand like
33:14
this this bill has bipartisan support of Republicans have realized
33:19
that they are human beings that need help from the
33:21
federal government and are supporting this bill. But even if
33:25
a majority of your voters, it's like, it's just so odd.
33:29
I don't even know what to do. They're just so
33:30
hooked on like these woke attacks and socialist attacks. Man,
33:34
they get so concerned, and not just Republicans, even the
33:37
mainstream media gets so concerned about spending and the federal
33:43
deficit whenever a democratism power, but they do not give
33:47
a fuck whenever a Republican is usually because the Republican
33:52
is sucking up so many other things that that's just
33:54
not a priority. And I think they also understand that,
33:58
like that's not a priority for a lot of the readers,
34:04
right it's like, well, that's that's not the worst thing
34:06
they're doing, that's not the thing that's going to resonate
34:08
with people. But with Democrats, that just it always becomes
34:12
spending too much. Guys can't add to that huge deficit
34:17
number because then I mean, ignore the last couple of years.
34:21
But I'm working, which is the you know, the ebb
34:23
and flow of their rhetoric when it comes to this stuff.
34:25
But it just again, it's so weird, like when you're
34:29
having to just do these really superficial attacks that are
34:33
so transparently um intellectually bankrupt, like to just be like
34:38
it's a laundry list of woke agenda items, okay, but
34:42
you're not. No one is actually going for the substance
34:45
of it, which is why I'm like, that's probably why
34:49
of Republicans are on board, because this ship isn't even
34:53
like appealing to them, you know what I mean, Because
34:55
on some level they're like they can recognize a helping
34:58
hand when it's offered, but this their attempts to try
35:02
of completely be like, no, God's humanity is overrated. Come
35:06
over here with the ignorant racist squad, like the I
35:09
R S got you. Uh, It's I don't know, We'll see,
35:12
We'll see how much longer like this happens, until like
35:15
it starts getting old even for their own audience. M
35:19
all right, I just read an article that introduced me
35:23
to a concept that I wanted to kind of talk
35:26
through with you guys. See what you guys thoughts are.
35:29
So the the idea is called the law of conservation
35:33
of religion. Um. There's a political theorist called Samuel Goldman
35:38
who observed this as basically a law that more or
35:43
less there's a constant level of religious fervor in a
35:48
in any society, and it just changes like in terms
35:51
of where and how it's expressed. So like there's just
35:56
a you know, it makes sense from a standpoint of
36:01
what when you look back at human history, like the
36:06
constant throughout no matter what point in history you're looking at,
36:10
there is a need for religion among people. Like it's
36:15
just it's not like one person lying and uh and
36:21
then like tricking everybody, And it just seems like there
36:23
is an organic need for people, uh, for a certain
36:29
number of people to to believe in a religion that
36:32
like takes them out of the day to day and
36:35
like the the real time concerns of being a human basically,
36:41
so yeah, they basically this theory that this writer for
36:47
The Atlantic is making the point that you can kind
36:51
of view America as transferring its religious fervor from religion
36:59
over to pop politics. Over the past basically, uh, he says,
37:04
was the year that religious kind of commitment and belief
37:09
started dropping. Uh. And now we're at a place where
37:13
a lot of the same sort of ideals and practices
37:17
are being practiced in the political landscape. And I feel
37:24
like it wasn't right at ninety eight. I feel like
37:27
there was a like techno utopian kind of fifteen years
37:33
there where we were like, Okay, we're gonna like put
37:36
our religious fervor into like building the separate reality where
37:42
everybody's connected on the web. And then like suddenly we
37:46
kind of realized that was that was not what was happening.
37:50
We should have been connecting with the Holy Spirit, thank you.
37:54
That's anyways, that's what that's my point is, just like,
37:57
let's get back to the Holy Spirit. Uh, come on, Yeah,
38:02
you want to log on, log on to God. Yeah.
38:06
And I'm really hoping once you connect with the Holy Spirit,
38:08
you will rethink the procedure you're about to take. Consider
38:11
the Holy Spirit and adding more Christians to this earth. Please,
38:15
for the sake of Christ, for the sake of his
38:18
absolutely right, my duty is to just have millions of
38:24
babies to honor Christ with my uterus. Um, yeah, I
38:29
mean is this because now we're seeing there's a lot
38:32
of reports to about how now evangelical Christianity is fusing
38:35
with Q and on and how that is becoming a
38:39
really dangerous combination because like in that same way, if
38:43
it's religious fervor, I mean, facts don't fucking apply. You're
38:47
fucking with a different energy source at that point. Yeah,
38:51
I mean, that's he the author would kind of it
38:54
and let me find his name. But the author would
38:56
basically see this at that as part of this overall trend.
39:01
His point is that like from ninety seven to church
39:05
membership remained relatively constant at about seventy in America, which
39:11
is very uncommon for like a wealthy democracy. Uh. And
39:17
then over the past two decades that numbers dropped to
39:19
less than fifty which is the sharpest recorded decline in
39:23
American history. And meanwhile, the like atheist signostics and those
39:29
claiming no religion have grown to represent a quarter of
39:33
the population. And so it's not it's not like the
39:36
entire society has like gone away from religion. It's just
39:39
that there is now a much larger portion of the
39:43
population that is looking for that thing that they can
39:47
kind of sublimate themselves too and like feel relief from
39:53
the day to day. And this author's perspective is basically
39:57
that if this continues in this direction, we're in a
40:02
bad way because politics is a terrible it's a terrible
40:06
substitute for religion. Um. In the article, he points out that,
40:11
like religion is about distancing yourself from the temporal world
40:17
and like all the imperfection of day to day life. Uh.
40:21
And it's also about like conferring final judgment and like
40:27
ultimate judgment to another time, another being that like you
40:33
don't have control over. And this new kind of form
40:38
of religion like brings that judgment like down into like
40:42
the here and now, and that's where you're getting like
40:45
the Q and on where it's like our political opponents
40:48
are evil and demonic demonic exactly. And he also makes
40:55
the point that like some of the cancel culture things
41:00
are you know, part of like he he uses wokeness
41:05
in quotes a bunch and talks about like cancel culture
41:09
being part of like sort of in line with like
41:13
excommunication and the sort of thing that you see in
41:16
religious cultures, uh, which you know, it's in the Atlantic,
41:21
so it's a it's it's yeah read it with an
41:26
accent exactly. Um, but I don't know. It is just
41:30
an interesting way to kind of look at our current
41:35
moment and a lot of the things that we're trying
41:38
to explain that are that are new to our culture,
41:40
like Q and on, like uh, the political violence that
41:45
we're starting to see, or like celebrity worship too, you
41:48
know what I mean, because that's another version where you're
41:52
replacing like, well, fuck religion but like I'll buy everything
41:56
Kempbell Jenner puts out, or kind of Jenner puts out,
41:59
and sort of this lack of self awareness like hyper
42:03
consumption culture to which in a way is like its
42:06
own you know, religion. Um, that people are so caught
42:10
up in that you can't see sort of the realities
42:12
of of your world because your church is like you know,
42:16
the drip and like showing out on your social media too.
42:20
So yeah, it's interesting to see and like I'm sure
42:22
those people be like, oh, I'm not religious at all,
42:24
but like I must post three times a day looking
42:26
sick as fuck. Um, I mean I am not religious
42:31
at all. I grew. I was like raised in a
42:34
very secular atheist household, and now I've turned to Paddington's.
42:42
So I like, I agree with the just I mean
42:45
the general need for for humans to something like an
42:49
alien for humans, for the human to understand pattying Tony
42:54
in theory. I mean, my perspective on religion is that
42:59
it I think just generally provides some sense of just
43:04
kind of comfort and way to understand the world um
43:09
around us. I feel like, well, I don't want to
43:14
say too much for fear of everyone yelling at me,
43:17
but I'll need I need like a day to collect
43:21
my thoughts on this. But I guess so I'll just
43:24
conclude by saying, um, long live Paddington. What what do
43:30
you what do you take umbradge with exactly? I mean
43:33
the shift from like like following a religion to I
43:38
guess more following a political ideology. I don't, Yeah, I guess,
43:45
but I think that has more to do with just
43:50
are advanced advances in like society and culture and science
43:57
that a lot of people are just They're like, well,
44:01
religion isn't, like I don't I don't know anything that
44:05
explains more than the Bible called science and Wikipedia. You
44:09
should check this ship out. Man. The moon is something else. Yeah,
44:12
I like, yeah, I would need a whole I need
44:14
to like, I need several days too. Yeah. But you're
44:17
saying it's not as simple as now, because that's happening.
44:20
It's just it's flowing to another thing sort of immediately. Yeah.
44:24
And then also, like, I feel like a lot of
44:27
people's political alignment is informed by their religion. So I mean, first,
44:35
I mean for some people, um, obviously not everyone. But
44:38
I don't know. I'm just I think this is just
44:41
like I guess it's an interesting take that I don't
44:45
really get. Hey, so the author, Shaddihammed, is a contributing
44:53
writer at The Atlantic, as I mentioned, but he's also
44:56
a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Hey, in the building.
45:03
That's like very neolibum establishment angel investor type ship. I
45:12
feel like, So, I don't know, it's an interesting thought experiment. Well,
45:17
I think I mean the very least we are witnessing
45:19
a phenomenon at the very least of this combination melding
45:24
of the two into this other thing. Or like maybe
45:27
it's that's part of the American religious evolution is that naturally,
45:32
you know, ei're going from people who just we're trying
45:35
to have their values in their churches to now being like,
45:37
we want this for all of you, because that's sort
45:41
of the that's sort of what is happening, is they're
45:44
using biblical law as they see it from their religion
45:48
to try and put that into it, like in the
45:50
laws of our country as well by just saying like
45:53
oh yeah no abortion, no no, no, we're not going
45:55
to do that, or other things that will feel our
45:57
counter to our religion, like uh, a thing having to
46:00
do with the LGBTQ community as well. Yeah, alright, let's
46:05
take a quick break and we'll come back and talk
46:08
about Cocaine Bear, Paddington's fucked up cousin, and we're back. Uh,
46:26
and alright, let's talk about Elizabeth Banks's new movie. Elizabeth
46:30
Banks directed Pitch Perfect I think yeah, one of the
46:37
Charlie's Angels was the latest one, right, so, uh, you know,
46:41
she's also a famous actress who you would know from
46:45
many A nine anybody. Yeah, the Hunger Games would be
46:50
our younger listeners would probably recognize her from. But so
46:55
her latest movie is called Cocaine Bear, m hm, that
47:01
is that really? Like I'm I'm looking at her IMDb
47:05
filmography and they might be using a different name for it.
47:10
Uh really under director, Yeah, under director they've Yeah, maybe
47:15
I don't know, or they're just I think, no, what
47:17
hasn't gone into production yet, so maybe they are um
47:21
waiting to actually like fully fully announced that got it?
47:25
But anyway, yeah, she's got the she's got the new
47:27
movie coming out. And I thought Cocaine Bear was like, Okay,
47:32
maybe this will be a hilarious comedy uh and maybe
47:35
or a really ridiculous film something. It's a fucking true
47:38
story about a bear that ate a bunch of cocaine
47:41
in the eighties and died. So I was like, okay,
47:44
so it's a short movie. But the whole thing is
47:46
they say in decemb bear was walking around the Chattahoochia
47:50
Coney National Forest in Georgia, minding its own business made
47:54
up when it found forty plastic bags of cocaine worth
47:58
fifteen million dollars, ate them and then died. The medical
48:01
examiner who performed an autopsy on the bear said the
48:04
cause of death was cerebral hemorrhaging, respiratory failure, hyperthermia, renal failure,
48:10
heart failure, stroke, you name it. The bear had it.
48:13
Its stomach was quote literally packed to the brim with
48:16
cocaine end quote. There wasn't a mammal on the planet
48:18
who could survive that. That makes me feel so bad, said,
48:24
I'm also wondering what our plot is here, right, well,
48:28
a screenwriter, let me tell you what I would do.
48:31
The citing incident when the coke falls on the bear's
48:33
head from this guy. Um oh, I'm also seeing here that,
48:38
um you, I'm looking at a Hollywood Reporter article. Universal
48:42
is behind Cocaine Bear, which is based on an untitled
48:44
spec script. So yeah, I think they probably just are
48:47
like untitled Cocaine Bear project. But I think they should
48:50
just keep the title Cocaine Bear. Why not? I mean,
48:54
so the origin story. I think that's why the film
48:57
will probably center around how that blow got to the bear,
49:02
and it turns out that it was a man named
49:05
Andrew Thornton who was like a corrupt narcotics cop who
49:10
then transitioned to international drug smuggling kingpin. Amazing how those
49:16
things happened sometimes, And so it all happened when one
49:20
day he was doing I guess a massive transport of
49:23
cocaine and there's some engine trouble occurred, and so he
49:27
got spooked and started dumping as much as the blow
49:30
out the planes doors as he could. And that's when
49:32
I think the ship got into the forest or the
49:34
bear got to it, and then he tried to jump
49:37
out with a parachute, but unfortunately he was holding seventy
49:41
pounds of cocaine, a ton of cash and guns that
49:44
the weight was sucked up and his his shoot didn't
49:46
deploy properly because the load was too much, and then
49:49
he died and they've discovered him literally like with next
49:52
to a seventy pound pilot blow with guns and like money,
49:56
dead in the forest. Wow, I'm still not sure what
49:59
the like, what how do we center the bear in this?
50:04
Maybe the cocaine bear was inside all of us all along.
50:09
Like here's what I would do. I would really take
50:14
a lot of liberties with the story and do some
50:18
pretty major world building where the bear comes upon the cocaine,
50:23
eats it and then rather than dies a tragic death,
50:27
um develops superpowers and then becomes a superhero bear super bear. Yeah,
50:35
I mean the spec script was actually written by the
50:38
bear before it died of a cocaine over there, so
50:41
that might it was etched into a tree trunk with
50:44
his cloth and then oh yeah, man, and I can
50:48
see so good at night now, so then I get
50:50
night vision and then yeah, I mean unfortunately, and it
50:53
launched three restaurants in the Yeah, some sick underground bear speakeasies. Yeah. Yeah,
51:01
I like world building. I would like some world building
51:04
around there. I just the I get. I mean, like
51:07
the story of this Andrew Thornton person seems fine, but
51:11
I mean, what of this bear? Like I think I
51:13
think the movie will be great if the entire film
51:16
is about the bear and the last shot is the
51:18
cocaine coming down from the sky. So it's just the bear.
51:22
That movie where it's like following a bear around the forest, Yeah, yeah,
51:26
Or that one movie Um with Danny de Vito, Jack
51:29
the Bear. Wasn't that right with wo And Yeah, I
51:32
thought I knew my bear movies. I thought that was
51:35
a porn Jack the Bear. That's a different one, okay, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
51:39
this is the the Marshall Hurskovitz direct could also be
51:44
Um Brother Bear, that Disney vehicle from the early two thousands.
51:49
I don't know and love. Um, maybe maybe it's The
51:53
Revenant right there, from The Revenant. Rent. Could be it's
52:00
just going through different movies because it's in its own mind,
52:04
because it's so yeah again it's and we're still talking
52:08
about a fucking animal that interested forty pounds of cocaine
52:12
and it's a mess. Its body was a mess. It's wild.
52:16
How quickly the bear because cocaine is it? I can't
52:21
imagine it tastes good to bears? Uh, but it very
52:27
quickly was like, holy sh it, I gotta get more.
52:29
You know, You're like, man, I don't want to I'm
52:32
coming down bro mo. Yeah yeah, forty pounds worth. How
52:37
about it? Gosh um, unless maybe it was cut with
52:40
like nutra sweet or sweet lower yeah, or like baby laxative,
52:45
baby laxative. Yeah. I think, I mean this is this
52:49
is Elizabeth Banks is third or well actually know she's not.
52:52
She's directed a few things, but I'm I'm really curious
52:55
to see what this how this all turns up Like
52:57
it's just it's compelling and that it's so vague but
53:00
has these odd specifics where how where where can we
53:05
go with this guide me? Cocaine bear that is a
53:09
wild true story. I mean you could it could literally
53:11
go in so many directions. But did you see um
53:15
Robert Evans's tweet about it? Um He said, this is
53:21
the only movie we have needed since Fury Rode. So
53:28
thank you. Yeah? Alright, Well, speaking of the early two thousand's,
53:34
Avatar is heading back. When did Avatar come out? Was
53:38
that early two thousands? That was two nine? Right? Okay?
53:44
Eight or nine? The late odds? Uh, Avatar. As we've discussed,
53:50
it's it feels like Avatar didn't necessarily have the impact
53:56
on the cultural consciousness that a lot of other movie did,
54:00
At least at first. It wasn't like a It felt
54:03
like a movie that never happened, even though it was
54:06
for a time the most successful movie of all time
54:10
and kicked off all three D everything right, but it
54:14
but all three D after Avatar was bad and so
54:17
it was just like so, China's Film Bureau has approved
54:23
a surprise plan for Avatar to get a wide re
54:27
release on Friday. It's like coming out now, and that
54:32
is kind of big news because in addition to having
54:37
been pretty popular, there was also an attempt to kind
54:41
of shut it down like once it was at peak popularity,
54:45
they like started taking it out of theaters uh and
54:48
putting out like more uh, I guess China focused movies.
54:55
There was there was a Confucius biopic that they like
54:59
put out in a bunch of theaters instead of Avatar,
55:01
like to try to artificially like control the culture and
55:06
make it less like Western. And the Confucius biopic flapped
55:12
big time. So there's like racist sketch with Chris Farley
55:17
from SNL. It was starring Chow Young Fat. Uh Oh
55:22
chaoyung Fat was confusus? Is he like shooting guns? Said
55:27
John Woo cons Yeah, so there there's probably going to
55:32
be like a bunch of excess demand. It was a
55:35
huge deal back in two thousand nine. People waited in
55:39
line for hours. Some people paid a hundred dollars per
55:42
ticket to see Avatar. Whoa, and it was not worth it. Yeah.
55:48
It was such a phenomenon that a local official renamed
55:52
part of the Yellow Mountains after the floating mountains in
55:55
the movie We Weren't they inspired by those mountains too?
55:59
I think so? Yeah, Like I feel like James Cameron
56:01
was like or maybe it was there Vietnam or somewhere,
56:03
but very much Okay, cool, Yeah, so that'll that'll be interesting.
56:08
I mean, uh, you know, as we've discussed in previous episodes,
56:12
the Chinese box office has now completely surpassed the American
56:16
box office had a record setting day for a movie
56:21
earlier this year. The all the economists forecasts are seeming
56:25
are pretty spot on from the eighties and nineties when
56:27
they're saying China will be the biggest uh you know,
56:31
economic powerhouse by and now. Yeah, because they're movies are
56:36
even like movies that aren't that great or just blowing
56:38
out endgame for numbers, right yeah, yeah, anyway, so maybe
56:43
maybe Avatar will have its chance to have more of
56:46
a cultural impact. But wait, we still haven't heard about
56:49
the sequels, and when is that happening? What is going
56:53
on there? Didn't you release a teaser or something. I
56:57
feel like I've read that somewhere. I've not been paying
56:59
attention the only I mean, if it's Titanic or nothing,
57:04
I don't care. You are Aronian film scholar I am,
57:08
and I do really like Terminator and Terminator to Aliens
57:13
is a great my goodness. Um yeah, but so I
57:17
just I think he needs to shift his focus from
57:20
all these Avatar sequels to some Titanic sequels. Yeah, I'd
57:25
honestly watch it tight. I'm just interested in Conceptually, I'm like, Okay,
57:29
you're doing a sequel. I don't even know what the
57:30
fun that would be, but I like it. It would
57:32
just be about James Cameron diving Titanic. I feel like
57:36
you could do just another person's story on the Titanic,
57:41
not like focus on not Jack and Rose, but or
57:45
anyone we've covered, because they would have aged. I mean,
57:48
Danny Nucci does not look the same anymore as Fabrizio.
57:51
He looks even better these days. Yeah, I used it's funny.
57:54
I know his sister and the day I found out
57:56
that her brother was Danny Nucci, Like, it blew my mind.
58:00
I'm like, I'm like the dude from Crimson Tide, that's
58:04
your brother. Oh my god. The Rock he's in the Rock.
58:08
He is in everything. Oh yeah. Shout out to the
58:12
anniverse of his wife. Did she pass away March ninth? Again?
58:15
According to The Rock, Yes, Barbara Hummel his wife from Okay,
58:21
do you remember in the Rock? Where? Um, why are
58:27
we being so gleeful about this woman passing away? No?
58:31
Ed Harris's character in The Rock, right before he takes
58:34
over the island, he goes to the graveyard where his
58:37
wife is buried. But the tombstone it just says Barbara Hummel.
58:41
But at the top it just says his wife all aggressively,
58:44
and like when I did an episode, the first episode
58:47
of Bechdel Costs I did was we were talking about
58:49
the Rock and we just could not get over the
58:53
Barbara hum even though this motherfucker's not buried, it's just
58:56
still his whose wife? Wow? Which, like everyone will be
59:02
like that's standard, like military cemetery. Yeah, we know that
59:12
is wild m hm must be defined through husband. Yes,
59:20
what um need? Cool? Uh? Well, Caitlin has been such
59:26
a pleasure as always, Thank you so much. Where can
59:30
people find you and follow you? You can follow me
59:33
on Twitter and Instagram at Caitlin Durante and you know,
59:38
scoot on over to my website Caitlin Durante dot com
59:41
for information about upcoming screenwriting classes that I have because
59:46
I use my master's degree in screenwriting. That again hate
59:51
to mention to impart my knowledge to other people in
59:55
my classes. So yeah, that's an a lum nye of
1:00:00
your screenwriting courses. Have written such films as Cocaine Bear
1:00:05
So Titanic. Uh, not the dialogue, just the overall Uh yeah, yes,
1:00:13
the dialogue for Titanic. What when it was happening? I
1:00:16
couldn't believe it was happening. I was just like, James
1:00:19
Cameron is not a good screen You're not good at
1:00:21
writing how people talk. Just stop like with the the
1:00:25
coked out idea and then let a screenwriter be like,
1:00:28
that's an interesting idea, James. I will take it from
1:00:31
here though. Just no shut up about no shut up
1:00:33
about that other ship? Please? Uh? And is there a
1:00:37
tweet or some of the work of social media you've
1:00:40
been enjoying. Yes, I'll shout out Solomon Georgio, who recently
1:00:45
tweeted my great My greatest fear is showing up anywhere
1:00:50
and having to do something. Yeah, I do. Not relatable,
1:00:58
And that's where we're headed. It seems like, yeah, Miles,
1:01:02
where can people find you? What tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram,
1:01:06
PlayStation network, Miles of Gray Um getting into Destiny too.
1:01:12
Didn't think I would like the game, but it's kind
1:01:14
of tight. Um. Also the other podcast for Twenty Day
1:01:17
Fiance talking ninety day, So check that out and hit
1:01:20
up the twitter streams the party. Some tweets that I like.
1:01:23
First one is from Amelia Ellis All Day at Amilia
1:01:26
Ellis all Day tweets you should be able to get
1:01:29
buried alive, but just for an hour to rest. Yeah,
1:01:34
that's kind of cool. Another one from at your Underscore
1:01:38
tweeting I was just about done with skating and then
1:01:42
I landed a pop shove it while demonstrating that I've
1:01:44
never landed one. Why is life like this? Uh? See?
1:01:50
Because that just keep believing in yourself. And then another
1:01:53
one is from Lauriel Simone at La Rielle Simone tweets
1:01:57
there's a PTSD that comes from being poor that nobody
1:02:00
he talks about when you start getting money and boy
1:02:02
of the truth there the thinking will it all be gone?
1:02:07
Will I be back to having no money? That's just
1:02:09
that tweet I think resonated with a lot of people,
1:02:12
especially if you were anyone millennial or gen Z when
1:02:16
you thought you were about to start your life out
1:02:18
of college and you're like, where's the where the jobs at? Uh?
1:02:24
There is a tweet I was enjoying from Eve Forward.
1:02:29
Uh to sign on a like? Uh? Custodial door that
1:02:35
says refused to be stored in black plastic sacks and
1:02:39
placed in the containers provided. But it looks like refused
1:02:43
to be stored in the black plastics, and she wrote, rage,
1:02:47
rage against the dying of the lake. Refused to be
1:02:51
stored in the plastics. Do not go into that plastics. Yes, yes,
1:02:57
you can find me on Twitter liking tweets like that
1:03:01
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1:03:04
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1:03:12
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1:03:15
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1:03:19
the information that we talked about in today's episode. Well
1:03:22
as a song, we suggest you ride into your day
1:03:26
upon miles of what song is the recommendation for today?
1:03:31
You gotta kick off this anniversary of shutdowns and ship
1:03:35
with one of my favorite songs, but a remix Mantel
1:03:39
Jordan's This is how We Do It, But it's a
1:03:41
remix by the producer d Don't care Um And you
1:03:46
know this one's gonna be on some be on SoundCloud
1:03:48
because this one is one of those remixes that just
1:03:50
goes too hard to labels, be like, no, this is
1:03:53
too much, too much fire. So check this one out.
1:03:55
Is how we do it, and it's you do. It's
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