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Speaker 1
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
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Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
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from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
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laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
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the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really well, we are thrilled to be
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joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented.
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You do travel. What's going on? It's me you dot
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a a K. A young dood who watches too much
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anime a k. A old dude who watches too much anime.
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Depending who you talk to? Uh, what's up? Oh? Man,
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not much, you know, just How's how's New York? How's
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How's what's new over there? Oh it's all right. I
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just got back. Um, so I've been at I've been
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at my apartment mostly. Okay, Well, what do you mean
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you just got back from. I was in New York,
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in the streets of New York. Yeah, I was in.
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I was on the streets of New York. I was
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just you know, I just got just got back home. Uh. No,
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I was in. I was in Beaute, Montana, of all places.
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What were you doing in Montana? I was in? I
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was Yeah, I was going to just hanging out with
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some of my biker friends. Um, just in the middle,
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Like it was kind of a lot of us just
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kind of you know, packed into a parking lot. Um,
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just you know, shaking hand hugging, kissing, you know, typical
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biker san Um. Yeah, no, I was. I was. I
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was shooting a movie. Oh cool. What was that like
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on set? Because I know, I mean, having friends and
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family and production, it's it seems like a lot more going,
01:50
a lot more work, especially for crew. Yeah, it's Um,
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I've been I've been tested four times in the past week.
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I think, just make sure I'm not sick. And there
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was a period where I was not allowed to leave
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my room and uh and also the hotel might have
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been haunted, so that I think that was unrelated to
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I think that would have been the case. That would
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have been the case regardless of COVID. But you know,
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it was just I mean, it's basically the premise of
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the shining. It's just that instead of a blizzard keeping
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you inside the hotel, it is the coronavirus pandemic, but
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you still coronavirus pandemic. And also a lot of racist people.
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Hold on, Jack, we gotta we gotta script going there
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were you able to feel the local racism and beaute.
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It was weird because I I feel like, um, because
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of COVID, Asian people are getting it harder than black
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people right now, and so there was an Asian dude
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on cast who definitely felt it. I felt like people
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were being too nice to me, Like I, yeah, like
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two people asked me from money on the street, and
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then I went back and talked to the rest of
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the cast. Was like, people asking you for money, and
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all of them were like, no, nobody's asked any of us.
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I was like, it's like this weird thing where they
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feel like they have to ask me because they're like, oh,
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he's not like guaranteed to be poor anymore. It's not
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that it's not like that people have money. You're a
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rich person. In my mind, I'm not racist. Yeah. Also,
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one of them was Australian, which was very weird to me.
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They were begging on the street and they were Australia.
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Was a whole Australian man with blonde dreadlocks. I was
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just gonna ask if he had dreadlocks. Yes, he absolutely did.
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He was exactly the type of person you think he was, uh,
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and it just made me feel sad. I was like,
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you gave up health insurance and live in a mining town,
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you know, like you might be safer in Australia with
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those dreads. Yeah, it's got to be a rough climate
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to be unhoused in. Yeah, yeah, it's probably pretty bad,
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but I don't I don't know. It was just like
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it was just a very it was a very weird place.
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There was also there was also one bar that everybody
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told me very specifically not to go into because nobody
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was wearing a mask. And I walked outside one day
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and there was just one dude standing outside in this
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haunted ass town, two teeth in his mouth, and he
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looked at me and I looked back at him and
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he goes, hey, man, you okay. I was like no,
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and then he just and then he points to the
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he points to the bar that everybody told me to
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not go into, and he just goes, have you ever
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been in here before? And I was like no, and
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I don't plan to And I kept moving. Yeah, all right,
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think about it. Think about brushing my teeth as soon
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as they get back. Yeah. Wow, interesting, it's a weird place. Yeah,
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that's about what I would have expected a weather in
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New York? Is it? Uh? Are you guys still in shorts?
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Because we have people dunking on us from Brooklyn being like,
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oh man, it's it's fantastic. It's not bad. It's um
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especially coming from like nineteen degree weather, is it you?
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Oh yeah, you must be like you're in a tank
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top now, oh yeah, reflective panel in a sun chair.
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Oh yeah, I'm out shirt off, sitting on the roof,
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just uh tanning, but like as a bit right right, yeah,
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Like it's not it's not doing anything. It's just yeah,
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just a funk with the Google Earth photographer. Yeah, Joel,
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what is something from your search history that's revealing about
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who you are? This is so embarrassing. I was to
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your lovely Daniel before we got it on. I have
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been researching a lot of pokemoningly you know your combinations?
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How do they work? This is my stress reliever. Now.
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I got a Nintendo for myself. My brother bought Pokemon
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and immediately I was like, oh, this is what I'm
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gonna do for my stress relief. There's no uh, geopolitical
06:18
analytics in here. I don't have to worry about race
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relations in this app. No one's making podcasts in here.
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It's just you just catch a Pokemon and if you
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find another Pokemon and then you buy a cool outfit.
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And it's like the best fake retail therapy because I
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can't afford to do actual retail therapy anymore. Uh, you know, Pokemon,
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that's what's happening. Oh my god, that's incredible. We're surviving. Yeah,
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so wait, what are some what are some particularly? What
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are what are the top Pokemon? I'm like, how do
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I because I was gonna so, I mean, so tell
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us about these pokemons? Tell us more. Um, listen for
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the children out there, slash older adults. You never got
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out of their child favorites. Um, really boosting up my
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my champ. He's a fighter, he's he's got big boxing gloves,
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he's ready to go. A slur puff, which looks like
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whipped cream is really I like it because depending on
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what kind of fruit you give it, it turns into
07:27
different Pokemon, so you get a variety of the same thing. Um.
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And then I can't remember the name of my elephant,
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but I got it and it's cool and I love it.
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And this is on switch yes, which again It's just
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it's amazing stress relief. It's really great when it's late
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and falling asleep, you just you pop it in and
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you get to bike all over little countrysides that look
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like London. It's wonderful that I read recently about there
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was like a big well and by big, i'm like
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YouTubers I watched discussed it at length. But there was
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like a big Pokemon scandal where bear with me. I
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guess Loganmogan Paul, He's not the villain of the story. Shockingly,
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Logan Paul has a Pokemon dealer, which is a job
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you can have, and this Pokemon dealer dealt like arranged
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this big Pokemon deal and then these guys paid two
08:30
hundred thousand dollars for a set of Pokemon cards, and
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then it turned out the Pokemon cards were fake, and
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now there's all these It was a Pokemon fraud scandal,
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and I really loved watching it unfold because it was
08:43
a bunch of du faces with too much money being like, well,
08:47
the cards about to get here, and they were like
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live streaming it. They're like the most expensive Pokemon deal ever.
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And they opened the cards and they were like, well,
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these are clearly fraudulant. It's like regular paper stock that
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you would get staples. Yeah, it was just a pile
09:04
of printer paper. I'd just like to say that the
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game is thirty dollars right now. It's on sale. You
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don't have to for anything. There are no in app purchases,
09:14
to the best of my knowledge. Just go ahead and
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save your money, you know, invest that in something, give
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it to a child in need. Please don't spend that
09:22
kind of money on paper. It doesn't make sense. It
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simply doesn't. Don't do anything that Logan Paul has already
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done that. I thought that's been a rule of thumb
09:30
for years. Good idea, perfect guideline. I do wonder like
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for sports cards and Pokemon cards and like physical things
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like that. I do feel like we're reaching a point
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where I mean, we can make any video like make
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people seem like they're saying things that they haven't said,
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like perfect precision, and like you know, sneakers like that.
09:58
One of the ways that people they're getting quote counterfeit
10:02
sneakers is like the people who make those in other
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countries are just like here, I'm going to make a
10:09
couple more, and they won't go through Nike, but you
10:13
will get the exact same thing, and those are like counterfeit,
10:17
but it's like what, I don't know. I feel like
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the philosophical question of like what counterfeit is is going
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to arise more and more, especially with regard to Pokemon cards.
10:30
That seems like a pretty easy one to to knock off.
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But maybe maybe I'm missing something. I understand the collectible.
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You're definitely not missing anything. The collectible aspect of it
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is what's keeping people going, and like it's only it's
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the belief that's like keeping people connected, right, like no
10:45
mine is real, like so it depends on how you value,
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you know, I guess the subject of the thing because
10:53
with with baseball cards was like, oh that was like
10:55
a moment in history, like they printed it while this
10:57
guy was in run, you know, and now that's where
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Tea retired. So there are no new base though if
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you really like that player, then you have to have
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that card. That I totally I somewhat understand that I
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don't quite understand, Like to your point, like especially the
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use of a Pokemon card is like in a game,
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so as long as you have the correct information in
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front of you can play the game. So it's bizarre.
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But you know, I also know people spend like a
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ton of money on like rare Monopoly sets, and I
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don't know. I think when you have too much money,
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you're just looking for something to brag about, and like,
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I bought this like incredible rare thing, and now you
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have to value me and my collection as well. It's
11:37
a weird cyclical thing. Like we're talking before we started
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recording about the Donkeys market. The Dunkin Donuts shop that
11:44
they just opened that has tandem bicycles, it has a
11:49
Dunkin Donuts bathrobe immediately sold out, like everybody just bought
11:57
all of the Dunkin Donuts bathrobes. Um, but that's more.
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I mean, I couldn't just try to jump to their
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defense as I always will for Duncan Donuts. I feel
12:10
like they're marketing. It's going to sound like I'm being
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paid to say this. I'm not. I think their marketing
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has gotten so weird and savvy recently where they're like, okay,
12:20
we're an old ass like doughnut brand that is mostly
12:25
known for like really mean moms going to like that
12:30
is their consumer base. But then they're just kind of
12:33
like they're they're definitely trying to hit the teen market
12:35
because they gave Charlie Demelio her own Duncan beverage and
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as a regular Duncan customer, I'm a very mean mom. Uh,
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but like there's now teenagers at Duncan Donuts all the time.
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It's like you can tell Charlie Damelio brought her fucking
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TikTok base to Duncan Donuts and now they're releasing merch
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like it's sneaker drops, Like it's just they're trying. They're
13:02
they're trying some stuff out. It seems to be working. Also,
13:05
the Charlie Damelio drink has so much dairy in it
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that I'd like I was sitting just for young people,
13:14
for the young's. It's for teenagers only for adults. That's
13:19
so interesting that Duncan Donut. It seems almost random that
13:23
Duncan Donuts is the brand that like got this culture.
13:26
Like McDonald's tried really hard with their like Travis Scott
13:29
Meal and yeah, that work definitely sold out in a
13:36
couple of hours, Like the children loved it. And I
13:41
live across the street from a McDonald's. There was a
13:43
line around the block for like probably a solid week
13:47
to get into McDonald's to get the stupid meal which
13:49
is already on the menu. It's yeah, I'm so confused.
13:53
Wait that was for the box, Like how would you
13:58
sell out of the meal because is there is there
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a meal? Like is there a box that comes with it? Okay?
14:04
So the Travis then came in two parts, right, So
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first there was online merch right, so they had like
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the jackets and stuff. So all of that stuff sold out.
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But then McDonald's had a shortage of like the burger.
14:15
I think with some of the condiments that go on
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his specific burger, they were like running out. They couldn't
14:20
keep it in stock because so many people had come
14:22
through to purchase this burger. I didn't get the meal,
14:26
but I do think it came its own like practice
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jack style box, but don't keep that. It had food
14:31
in it, like just gonna smell like a cheese burger
14:35
for like untouched by human hands. My favorite product they
14:45
had was a cactus Jack McDonald's lunch trees, you know
14:48
the brown trees and he's McDonald's. Yeah. That was checking
14:52
a biber like fifteen bucks, and I was like, this
14:55
is tempting, but no, so steal it for no bucks
15:00
because those things are the easiest things to Still, these
15:02
kinds of grips are not going to work forever, but
15:05
they're definitely working right now. I have nothing to look
15:08
forward to. I think yeast that was like half of
15:10
the cell was like something new. Yeah, I mean I
15:13
have to have it. It's just new. Yeah. Yeah. It's
15:17
just interesting that we are. It's almost like we're going
15:20
into opposite or seemingly contradictory directions, whereas one like consumers
15:26
or like materialism is breaking down, like you can replicate
15:30
anything easily, and then on the other hand, we're like
15:34
going super hard on like okay, there are only five
15:37
McDonald's bathrobes that we all need to get because it
15:41
has the special tag in it. And it's it's almost
15:44
like we're having a end of materialism like panic moment
15:49
where we have to like really dig in our heels
15:51
and be like this matters. Somebody who just bought two
15:56
suits from Beyonce. Yeah, I where will I wear these suits?
16:01
I'm not going anywhere, literally anywhere, not to dinner, not
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to but I have these suits. Later, I'll come clean.
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I bought the Duncan Dubai. It will be on my
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my bed come Christmas. Al Right, guys, let's take a
16:19
quick break and we'll come back and talk the dreaded news.
16:34
And we're back. All right, let's talk about what this
16:37
lockdown is doing to our brains. Miles, you brought a
16:42
article from the BBC about a kind of a study
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or I don't know where were they using science or speculation? Well,
16:50
they are using science and then just what neuro neuroscientists
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just know to be true about how our brains work
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like and and a lot of people like experts themselves
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experiencing it too. I've noticed old family. Yeah, yeah, like
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my grandfather he's ninety three, and he he used to
17:07
go to his church social group and do ship like that.
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But it's all old people that he hangs out with,
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so that that's gone down. He's like less talkative. I
17:15
mean it's very pronounced, they say, and like especially like
17:19
convalescent homes and like you know, old folks homes for
17:23
lack of a better term, And so they're saying, you know,
17:26
the lack of socializing and isolation is definitely a contributing
17:30
factor to how like our memories are even being formed
17:32
and stored. So you know, the isolation part I think
17:36
most people can figure out, because yeah, like we're just
17:39
we've completely changed the rhythm of our days. But you
17:43
know a lot of things is like it's these smaller
17:45
conversations where if we don't feel you know, like any
17:50
kind of talk you have by the refrigerator or water cooler,
17:53
by the elevator, walking in somewhere, walking out somewhere, like
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we're always just like talking, like we always just have
17:59
something to tell, like talk about we can talk about
18:01
what we did last night, what we're doing this weekend,
18:03
what even some dumb ship you talked about your friend
18:06
with on the phone. And that repetition of stories apparently
18:09
they're saying that helps to actually keep our memories sort
18:13
of consolidated and organized within our minds. So like they
18:16
call them episodic memories. So if we don't, if we're
18:19
missing on that socializing aspect, it's those things don't crystallize
18:22
in the same way they do and like, oh, I'm
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I'm telling my weekend story three times today, you know,
18:27
like you it's like you know that that that momentum
18:30
helps build our memories. And then when we do get
18:33
the chance to chat. They're saying, like, because we are
18:35
isolated and we aren't having we're not doing as much
18:39
as we normally do. We also have fewer stories to
18:41
tell when we see each other. Like it's just kind
18:44
of like we're almost like, yeah, how's it been like own,
18:46
Like everyone's kind of in the same thing where we
18:49
we look at the same we sit in the same place,
18:51
look at the same screen, do the same thing, and
18:53
they're because of like this sort of cycle of very
18:57
little change, it slowly works its way into, you know,
19:01
affecting our ability to form and recall memories, because even
19:04
like it's something as simple as people feel like holy shit,
19:06
Like normally I can remember my fucking teachers from kindergarten on.
19:10
I can tell you every single fucking teacher I had,
19:12
And it's like the other day, I took me fifteen
19:14
minutes to remember who this teacher was or whatever. And
19:17
that's all part of just kind of like we're not
19:20
fully using all of those faculties as much as we
19:23
can be as a result of this lockdown. Yeah I was,
19:26
I was saying, I think early on, like I had
19:30
the same feeling as when I would always park in
19:33
the same parking garage, and like after it was like
19:37
six months of parking in the same parking garage because
19:40
like all those memories just like kind of collapsed on
19:44
each other. I could never remember where the funk my
19:46
car was because it was just all like one endless
19:49
expanse of memories of that parking garage. I feel like,
19:53
same deal with now. Just like being at home, constantly working,
19:58
recording from home them, you just don't have the those
20:02
events that get your heart rate up a little bit,
20:04
where you like, you know, go somewhere, drive to work,
20:08
getting mad at the person who cuts you off, go
20:11
to work, tell people about the person who cut you off.
20:14
You know, just dumb ship that we take for granted.
20:17
That is like what you know, our our brain is
20:20
meant to have that social interaction. Yeah, I'm I'm loving
20:24
the hell out of not having to, you know, because
20:27
I have social anxiety not having to be anxious around
20:31
people all the time. But I don't think overall it's
20:33
good for my health and for my mental health. Yeah,
20:37
that anxiety is a good long term Yeah, I feel
20:39
like I feel like this past week has been like
20:41
the first maybe like one of two times I've left
20:44
New York and definitely the only time I've left my
20:48
home for an extented period. I feel like it's the
20:50
most granted it was last week, but I feel like
20:55
it's just the most vivid string of memories that I've
20:57
had six months. Well, yeah, because that's what it is.
21:02
When we're just isolated and we've especially for people who
21:04
work from home, you just we don't have these cues
21:07
that we normally have, like even commuting, right, like you
21:10
use your hippocampus to like navigate the earth to get
21:14
home to your destination. And when you don't do that
21:17
that we're starting to like we're using that less. And
21:20
then also like everyone's on the same We sit in
21:23
the same chair looking at the same zoom meeting, he's
21:25
talking to the same people. Like that also blends around
21:28
and like this neuroscientists saying, it's like it's like playing,
21:30
It's like you need black keys on a piano or
21:32
else you don't know where the funk you're at if
21:34
it's all white keys. And that's what happens with our
21:37
our memories because we're not punctuating things properly, like yeah,
21:42
they're there, but our way to differentiate is completely lost
21:45
because we don't navigate like the roads like we used to.
21:48
If we do things, it might be the same thing.
21:50
So a way to get around that is something like
21:53
as simple as like if you walk your dogs or
21:55
you go on walks, go a completely fucking different route
21:58
because most of the time we'll walk the same fucking
22:01
route just to be like, oh it's time to do
22:03
my walk or I'm gonna go here. Do just do
22:05
ship like that because the more you're putting yourself in different,
22:08
different space, you're now looking at new ship. You might
22:10
hear different ship. It's just like these subtle changes to
22:14
that can help go a long way. And even if
22:16
you're stuck at home and you really can't go outside,
22:19
like they say, even just try something completely different, like
22:22
if you've never fucked with puzzles, like just fucking like
22:25
give yourself something to try too. Because the more we
22:28
can break up the monotony of it, that's just gonna
22:31
help sort of give our you know, lockdown lifestyle is
22:34
a little more texture that we can, you know, still
22:36
remember things because if you said something to me about
22:39
May the month of May, I couldn't tell you a
22:41
fucking thing like I don't because we used to be like,
22:45
oh yeah, because that was two months before the trip
22:47
that I normally go on, which is in June. That
22:49
that that that that. But because we don't have any
22:51
of that, it's really important that we are giving ourselves
22:54
like enough things to stimulate our minds. Even though we're
22:57
comfortable that, but we still need that flexibility with our brains. Yeah.
23:01
I started, uh, I started skateboarding at twenty nine. And
23:04
the last thing I remember before that is getting diarrhea
23:06
in Ghana. It's palm oil. Yeah, no, I I I
23:14
ate uh, beach meat. I ate meat meat on the beach.
23:19
I'd ate beach meat in Ghana too. I had goat
23:21
on a skewer. Oh yeah, had so yah. Yeah, yeah
23:25
that's what I had. That's what I had. Yeah, And
23:28
I know people are like, you want to do that? Like,
23:29
I don't know, they're eating it. I'm good. Yeah, did
23:32
you get sick? No. The thing that I got when
23:34
I was in Ghana was just the amount of palm oil.
23:37
Like I wasn't used to palm oil being in a
23:39
lot of food, So that was I think that was
23:41
the one thing I had to get used to, is
23:43
the amount of palm oil that's used in cooking, and yeah,
23:45
that's been my whole life. I think I just like,
23:47
I hadn't been to Africa since I was sixteen. I
23:51
went to Nigeria and I think my body just lost
23:54
all the enzymes or whatever, or maybe it was cooked.
23:57
I don't know. Yeah either way. Right, it's always funny
24:00
telling people I got a stomach virus and then I
24:02
say it was in Ghana and they get so much
24:04
more concerned, like, oh God, like, did you did you
24:08
have visions? Yeah? Yeah, did you like see visions? Yeah? No, No,
24:16
not ourselves and our body like completely swap out, like
24:20
within a period of six years, seven seven. That's wild.
24:24
We're just like completely new organisms seven years off, um
24:29
seven to ten years damn. Okay, Yeah, I wish I
24:32
knew when that was happening. I could be a little
24:34
more on top of it. You're like, yo, man, I'm
24:36
about to get my whole new cell shipped up in
24:37
about two months. Bro, let's talk, you know when it's
24:40
all reset, Like yeah, like, trust me, I will get
24:43
to this project. I just need my ship to reset
24:46
cycle out. That will definitely be a SPA treatment in
24:50
the future where you let go and they just like
24:53
accelerate it, so like get all your cells switched out.
24:56
So yeah, yeah, just let me go re up right quick.
25:00
Oh shit, I like broccoli now that's w yeah, because
25:04
I feel like that's the same that's the same time period.
25:06
They say your your sense of taste like evolves over
25:10
it's like every seven to ten years. You oh right,
25:12
you start liking different foods. By twenty I liked mushrooms finally, Yeah, mushrooms.
25:18
So it was twenty and that makes sense around if
25:20
we're going by sevens and tens. Damn, that's wild. I
25:23
started doing mushrooms when I was like fifteen. But put
25:29
that ship on a pizza. Um, let's talk about ambient TV.
25:37
There's a there's a piece that I really enjoyed in
25:41
the New Yorker. They've written you up before, Jamie. You
25:44
might have heard of them the New Yorker. Um. They
25:48
they were writing about Emily in Paris and kind of
25:53
how their description of Emily in Paris was very dystopian.
25:57
But they overall we're saying that it reminds them of
26:02
like the rise of ambient music, like the Briany No Thing,
26:05
where he made music that um, he considered as ignorable
26:12
as it is interesting. UM and like that these TV
26:17
shows are basically designed to be background music, like nothing.
26:22
The plot is incredibly thin on purpose, like so that
26:27
you can miss half of it and still just kind
26:29
of have a sense of what's going on. I've always
26:32
used sports this way, like as a thing that you
26:35
can just have on in the background and not really
26:38
pay any attention to. Um. And evidence of that is
26:42
like I can have sports on and my kids don't
26:45
give a shit about it because like won't suck them
26:47
into a TV comma, like literally everything else is because
26:52
it's bad television. UM. But they're making the point that
26:56
this whole movement, like they were talking out other Netflix
27:02
reality shows that um, like the Taco Chronicles, Dream Home Makeover,
27:07
they really go in on. I haven't seen that, but
27:11
apparently very bland. I yeah, I don't, Joel, did you
27:16
watch any of Emily in Paris? I got bitch watched
27:20
Emily in Paris. Let me talk about it, Okay, I
27:23
love uh And we call AMI television. My crew calls
27:27
a depression TV, which is like I can't afford to
27:30
get emotionally infested in anything right now, Like the world
27:33
is already too much right but I need something on
27:37
the TV because then otherwise I'm just alone with my
27:39
thoughts and I don't want that either. That's not a
27:42
good recipe for me to get through this evening. So
27:45
Emily in Paris No, definitely not a great show. I
27:48
don't know what's happening with any of the fashion in there.
27:50
It's a hot mess. I don't care. I was in
27:53
six You're like, where, what years this? Who did this?
27:56
And why? I don't know. I don't care about any
27:58
of the characters. I was surprised anyone could like develop
28:01
a heated emotional reaction to it, because there's a lot
28:04
of discourse and they're like, Emily is so rude for
28:06
going to Paris and shoving her American ways in their face,
28:09
and like that's literally the plot of the show, like that.
28:13
You should have tuned that after episode three. But it
28:16
was perfect for me because I was just like, Okay,
28:18
it's just there and I can be on my phone
28:20
scrolling Twitter, which is what I really want to be doing. Anyway,
28:23
It's not silent, and it's great. I really feel like
28:26
we perfected this TV in the nineties. Friends peak Friends,
28:29
This peak depression TV. It's peak ambient television. Nobody changes,
28:33
nobody grows, nothing changes about the status of anyone's relationship
28:35
when they're together or not, it doesn't matter. It's just
28:38
a bland, blank slate. And I think that there's really
28:40
truly value in this kind of television. What bothers me
28:43
is when we try to either escalate it or de escalate,
28:46
and we tried to escalate it into something more than
28:47
it is, which is really what I think what happened
28:49
to Emily in Paris. I think people were bored and
28:51
we're like, I can rag on this show wonderful, but
28:55
it's a vital aspect to my life. I really enjoy um.
28:59
I think British bake Off maybe have a little more
29:02
emotional steaks in it for some people, but mostly it's
29:04
just nice people baking awesome. They're really sorry when they
29:07
have to let someone go excellent. Anything that's not gonna
29:10
bring me up too high or down too low. That's
29:12
exactly what we're looking for. It's literally yet I feel
29:15
like Depression TV. It was nice of them to call
29:18
it ambient, but but it's it is like it feels like,
29:22
I mean, even like great depression media, where you're like
29:25
this is about nothing and everywhere it's it's pleasant. You
29:32
don't feel like you're going to turn around and something
29:34
horrible is going to be happening, like if you were watching,
29:37
for example, the news, like it's just it's just my
29:41
I really hope that I had like a very abrupt
29:45
fantasy what I saw this piece about ambient TV and
29:49
it's that the creator of Emily in Paris releases a
29:53
like scathing response, being like, how dare you say Emily
29:57
in Paris was about nothing? Mene with it was about everything.
30:04
I just have no idea. It was a really bad
30:06
TV show. This is how they found out that it
30:11
was only number two because everyone was so sad. Oh
30:15
my god. This is how I feel about Like Netflix
30:17
has really perfected the algorithm right of making a show
30:21
that you don't necessarily have to be invested in. But
30:23
it's like I love the way they like John like
30:26
their new show Jingle Jangle. It's like if you were
30:29
sort of into high school musical but you want some
30:31
black representation in your Christmas shows, and you know you
30:35
like a little bit of comedy, but you're not gonna
30:37
laugh too hard because that's not what we're doing here.
30:40
Perfect it's so straight down the middle. You can watch
30:43
it with your conservative family and no one's gonna fight. Listen,
30:47
it's genius, it's necessary. And then you know, every once
30:50
in a while you get a Queen's gambit and you're like, cool, great,
30:53
something I can actually think my teeth into when I'm
30:56
in the mood for it. But yeah, we need like
30:58
sevens of ambient television to get through whatever the next
31:02
like eight months is going to be before we can
31:03
re emerge into society. I enjoyed. Yeah, Julian and the
31:07
Phantoms was fun. That was like, I feel like a cute,
31:10
underrated show that was like very high school musical e
31:14
but like it's it's just cute, cute, I like cute
31:19
ship that isn't gonna remind me of my mortality exactly. Yeah,
31:25
that's what's on the menu. Yeah. The point that they
31:28
like their description of ambient TV is kind of that
31:32
it it basically crowds out the noise in your mind
31:35
and just like makes everything feel like like go down smooth,
31:39
basically like smooths out. Like where whereas when we first
31:43
had like streaming tving, you could like choose a show
31:46
to watch and it would be like a show that
31:48
like was engrossing and that was what we valued. Now
31:52
it's more just like here is a time portal to
31:57
uh an hour from now in the future. You just
32:00
put on your like open up Netflix and put this
32:03
show on, and you'll be in the future, which is
32:07
kind of a dark way to think about human existence.
32:12
I also have found comfort in like the all these
32:15
I feel like I talked about them all the time now,
32:17
but like these YouTube channels that are like by funny
32:20
people who are based They're talking about nothing. They're talking
32:23
about like Pokemon card scandals for forty five minutes, and
32:27
you're just like, oh, this is just engrossing enough. I
32:30
don't really need to listen, But like, good good for
32:34
them for caring. Like, I don't know, it's just it's nice.
32:39
It feels not horrible. That's what I mean when I
32:42
say nice. Yeah, they they highlight. TikTok is the ultimate
32:47
in ambient TV because it just is a stream of
32:52
kind of passive, you know, unremarkable videos that just go
32:58
down easy Slutly depends on what videos you're enjoying on TikTok.
33:04
I could go a lot of way if your stream
33:06
is just those like five dance moved dance things, and sure,
33:10
sure ambient and endless, but there some people are being
33:15
creative and some people are being very weird, and some
33:17
people are being you know, weirdly political. Uh yeah, I
33:21
wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, go to TikTok looking for
33:23
your ambient television fix. Um. But I do think that
33:26
it's not a streaming issue either. I wouldn't blame this.
33:29
I'm like, oh, this is what streaming has come down
33:31
to now. I think it's absolutely just a sign of
33:33
the times and the fact that people cannot engage. Like
33:37
I started watching Halt and Catch Fire, which is stunning.
33:40
It's such good television. I got three season one and
33:43
then I'm like, oh man, they're really doing with some
33:44
real life issues here. I want to put some backburner
33:48
around to it later, Like they're like, oh, financial crisis
33:51
coming up. I was like, no, no back out of it. Um.
33:54
So yeah, I think if we were watching on network,
33:57
and to be fair, let's look at what networks are
33:59
coming out with right now in the middle of the pandemic.
34:01
We've got two versions of the mass singer. One that's
34:04
just lip singers where they're trying to see if you're
34:06
the actual person singing or not. This is the content
34:09
we need to get through, and I really think TV
34:11
is doing a good job for us, even if it's
34:13
not intellectually stimulating. There's too much to do. We don't
34:17
need to be any further intellectually stimulated. At this point,
34:20
did we talk about do we ever talk about Mickey
34:22
Rourke on the Masked Singer? We have a big Mass
34:29
Singer blind spot. I am here to say I stopped.
34:36
I'm behind on Mass Singer. I'm not gonna say I
34:38
stopped watching this season, but I had to stop watching
34:41
after I got to Mickey Rourke episode because it was
34:44
so good that I'm like, nothing is going to top
34:46
this for me for months. So what happened was this?
34:53
It's still so funny. Okay, so it's like the first
34:57
round of Mass Singer, which takes like four weeks. But uh,
35:00
they bring out a celebrity dressed like a big purple
35:04
gremlin and he sings, Oh what did he sing? Whatever
35:08
he's saying, he didn't really know the words. Uh, and
35:12
it wasn't good and the whole panel couldn't guess who
35:16
it was. Nick Cannon gets up on stage to have
35:19
people guess, and then whoever's inside the Grimlin is like,
35:24
no more, no more. I'm liked. He quits the masked
35:29
singer after his first performance. He knows he's gonna lose.
35:33
He rips off the Gremlins head. It seems like it wasn't.
35:38
I mean, it might have been pre planned, but Nick can't.
35:41
If so, best acting performance of Nick Cannon's life, because
35:44
he was like, wait, you can't, you can't take, you
35:46
can't quit. He unmasked himself. It was Mickey Rourke. Everyone
35:51
lost their ship and he was like, yeah, they asked
35:55
me to be on and I watched two or three
35:58
episodes and I said, why why not? But this costume
36:01
is really heavy and I want to go home, and
36:05
he just left all of us. Yes, I did not
36:09
know how it went down. I just saw the review
36:11
on Twitter the same night, right, So I just Mickey
36:14
Rourk's tiny head, his head not tiny, but in a
36:17
giant stood it looks small and he's covered in like
36:19
purple fuz and he's like a little sweaty, And I'm like,
36:23
how did they get making Rourke to come on this show?
36:27
And that to me was a funny part, but knowing
36:29
that he was just like, oh, no, I have about today.
36:32
It's so much sweeter. It's it's everything I think everybody
36:35
wishes they could do it, just like you know what, No,
36:37
I'm taking this human costume off. I have to go
36:39
home now. I had no idea. It was his first performance,
36:42
but it was his first performance and he unmasked himself.
36:47
It was I'm shy. I mean, there was a lot
36:49
of ship going on. It was peak election stuff going on,
36:53
so I feel like it really slipped under the radar,
36:56
but there's clips of it online. It was like, truly
37:01
the best television I've seen in a really long time.
37:04
Listen at the Heart Studio. We have Snicky's text or
37:08
infamous yes from the season on the wall on a
37:11
giant flag, and now I really feel like we need
37:13
to have Acy Rourke with his head off. You know,
37:16
just hey, I'm right there. It's it's iconic tvel television
37:20
that is amazing. Is that great of television he's because
37:23
when you just hear the voice escaped, like right before
37:27
he rips the gremlin head off, he goes, no more,
37:29
no more of us. It's the greatest clip you'll you'll
37:38
ever watch it's like pure saratonin. Apparently Netflix is trying
37:44
is going to try to be like a network. They're
37:47
going to do like a streaming, like a linear version
37:50
of Netflix. So uh, that's interesting to me. Wait, like wait,
37:58
like you just turn on Netflix send there's something on.
38:02
Oh watching. So this is something I've somewhat been asking for,
38:06
and I think it absolutely feeds into the ambient depression
38:09
TV conversation of like, I don't want to have to
38:11
make a choice. I came here to put something on
38:14
the TV and walk away. And if you're like me,
38:17
there's you have like five shows in rotation that you're
38:20
like like me, It's the King of the Hill. Like,
38:21
I guess I can watch more of that any time.
38:24
I will absolutely do some more. Bob's Burger's Girlfriends is
38:27
on somewhere the Game Crazy Drama. So I feel like,
38:31
but I still think I don't understand my no streaming
38:33
services listening to the Internet, because the Internet has been
38:35
begging for playlist style streams forever. Like what if I
38:40
just put all five of my shows in there and
38:42
you just shook it up and where like here's episode
38:44
five from season six and I just watched that like
38:47
that is honestly the dreams. I don't dress Netflix. Netflix
38:50
is gonna do what any smart business person would do,
38:52
which is like, here's our new show. We hope you
38:55
get hooked to it. I don't want to watch you
38:56
a new show. I don't watch something I watched eight
38:58
thousand times, so I don't have the anxiety of having
39:00
to figure out what's going to happen next. I just
39:02
want to know, Yeah, they will totally fuck it up though,
39:07
Like you're just like I did not want to watch
39:09
The Holidate and you know that that, and now in
39:13
forty five minutes into it because I couldn't find the
39:15
remote and I'm hooked. Goddamn. Just a p s A
39:20
to everyone. You don't need to watch The Holidate. I
39:23
took that out for us all. It's not worth it.
39:27
I think about watching Jingle Jingle and just doing like
39:29
a live tweet of it because the fact that it's
39:32
name it's not named after the drug that's on the
39:35
arch series Riverdale on the CW, but it does share
39:38
the same name Jingle Jingle and Yeah and Riverdale Jingle
39:41
Jingle is like they're hard drug. It's like the heroine
39:44
of Riverdale it's terrible, but it's funny. They boxed a
39:51
bear in prison, Jack that someone brought a bear into
39:54
a prison, put it in a boxing ring, and then
39:56
had one of the stars fighting. Like the show was unhinged,
39:59
but in best possible way. I just I'm curious, like
40:03
if there is any correlation between Joe Jingle Jangle and
40:06
River Deal and Jingle Jangle, the comedic hip hop musical
40:11
Christmas Special on Netflix. I feel like there's got to
40:14
be some good media discourse in there somewhere. I was
40:17
in on Jingle Jangle the second I learned Forest Whittaker's
40:20
character was named geron Kiss Jangle, I was like, Okay,
40:24
I'm gonna watch that. The trail alone is enough. The
40:29
trailer is like I have to kicking Michael Key plays
40:33
the villain, and like, what in what world is there
40:37
a series or single? It's a movie. Okay, I'm in.
40:43
I'm already watching it right now. All right, let's take
40:47
a quick break. We'll be right back and are back.
41:00
What is something from your search history, uh that you
41:05
don't want us to know about? Um? I mean, I'm
41:09
pretty open about all of my fix that I I
41:14
do search, but I am a little bit embarrassed. Um
41:17
that it's two weeks after Halloween and my search history
41:21
is so full of Halloween stuff. I can't can't get
41:24
enough of spooky stuff. Like you look like you want
41:28
to buy spooky stuff spooky to put in the house. No,
41:32
I'm goth, and you guys knew that. You guys accepted
41:35
that I'm a goth American. Um, I do want some
41:38
spooky stuff in my house. I do have a couple
41:40
of spooky things, like I have a large kimono on
41:43
a wall, um and a blackout like a week ago
41:46
and it was very creepy, um stuff like that. Um.
41:50
So the thing that I have have been I think
41:54
the weirdest thing that I've searched or still keep searching, is,
41:59
um this called Jimmy. I'm trying to pronounce it right,
42:03
but it's Halloween costumes that are like very like mundane
42:08
and like specific. It's like a Japanese trend called Jimmy. Yeah,
42:14
like just meaning like subdued, like just plain totally just
42:18
like playing Halloween costumes of like someone who has like
42:21
has too many pens in their pocket, or somebody's like
42:25
waiting in line, but they're like busy to go somewhere else.
42:31
So yes, like a very Japanese bit to just be like, No,
42:34
these are gimmy, like it's like someone who dressed up
42:38
as like, oh, I dressed up as someone who has
42:41
a lanyard and it's flipped the wrong way that you
42:48
can definitely tell the difference between good and bad coffee
42:52
exactly have to explain it's it's pretty much my favorite thing.
42:58
Your your search has ruined my day because now this
43:01
is all I'm gonna be looking at. Yes, some of
43:03
these are super brilliant, like they it's not always just
43:07
like super mundane and like one of them is a
43:11
woman with her face painted as a standard Zoom background,
43:15
like a little piece of the standard zoom background, and
43:18
her costume is that weird thing that sometimes happened with
43:21
Zoom meeting backgrounds. And then they have like bystanders from
43:27
a famous frame and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. They just have
43:30
like a dude from the background of that. I'm just
43:34
looking at this. I see his Jojo memes. He'd be posting.
43:42
You know, you know me, what is something you think
43:45
is underrated? This might not be underrated for most people,
43:49
but in my life it was underrated having the proper
43:55
storage system. I am a messy person. I come from
44:02
a line of messy people. As my dad said about
44:05
my mom, she's the messiest person I've ever met um
44:08
and she's it's not that she's slothful, she just doesn't
44:12
know how to organize and doesn't know how to like
44:16
purge and so I and I know, I sound like
44:20
an adult blaming my mom for something. Maybe it was
44:22
not her job to to pass this along to me,
44:25
but somehow I just like never accrued the knowledge and
44:31
then know how to be an organized person who doesn't
44:34
have just clutter on like every horizontal surface. It's just
44:39
a thing that I I don't know. Like my husband
44:42
is not he's also messy, but it's not as bad
44:45
as me. I just don't know how to do it.
44:47
But anyway, there was this article I read on the
44:50
cut and it was like, here's how I organized my
44:52
small bathroom. And I actually have a pretty good sized bathroom.
44:55
But I bought some of the under cabinet storage drawers
44:58
that she recommended, and I put them in the under
45:03
the sink area, and all of a sudden, everything that
45:07
was just a big pile of crap before is like
45:11
neatly organized, and when I open it, I just feel
45:15
this sense of calm wash over me, and I'm like,
45:18
oh my god, this is how people do it. My problem,
45:21
in addition to hoarding too much crap, my problem is
45:24
that I've just never I don't have the right shelves
45:27
and drawers, Like the right kind of storage system can
45:30
make your space Again, I'm saying to me, everyone knows
45:33
the right kind of sources can make your space not
45:35
feel totally out of control, and I've just never done
45:39
that before. One counterpoint to that is my my wife
45:43
and I are both very messy people who are very
45:47
like a d D. And we have found that we
45:53
have a problem with clutter from organizational products like we
45:57
have we have contained inner store ship like everywhere. We
46:02
have probably thirty books about like living with a d
46:06
D without like medication, Like, yeah, it can be a
46:10
problem if you don't stick to it. So it is good.
46:13
It's good that like really making a plan and sticking
46:16
to it as opposed to just having drawers upon drawers
46:21
and like keeping the ones when they break because he
46:24
bought like some cheap plastic shelving. Isn't that the most
46:28
beautiful like poetry in the world when you're just like
46:31
laying in a pile of depression. Books like that are
46:36
just like spine uncracked and you're like any any day now. Yes,
46:42
I have a book called Clutter's Last Stand that I've
46:45
never opened. It is Clutter. That's a custod reference. Yeah,
46:50
that's rules. Who is the audience, just me for the check?
47:00
Just me someday I am going to have to go
47:03
out and buy that book now. Unfortunately for my household.
47:09
What is something you think is underrated? Uh? The answer
47:13
is is specifically tied to my dog, which is that
47:16
I think chihuahuas are very much underrated. Um. I have
47:21
an eight pound black Chihuahua and they get a really
47:25
bad rap. And that's because most people who own chihuahuas
47:28
aren't very good at training them. Um. But she's amazing.
47:32
She hikes eight miles with me. Well eight pound body hikes.
47:35
Will like, do eight miles. I'm tired of the end
47:37
of it, and she's like, no, I'm still ready to go.
47:39
She's super trainable. She I've recently taught her to put
47:43
away her toys. I have to do each individually, but
47:47
she will, like I say, like take it. She'll take it,
47:49
and I point to the basket where we put her
47:51
toys and she'll drop it in there. Like these dogs
47:54
are amazing and I don't know why they get hated
47:57
on so much. It's it's really unfortunate. I so you,
48:02
I'm sure as someone who like loves already you've confessed
48:05
you are into zoology, so as part of you being like,
48:08
I can make this work, like I don't know about
48:11
all this because I think I can make any of
48:12
it work, right, because I feel like a lot of
48:14
people just sort of get if they're not used to
48:16
training a dog or like how that works or something
48:18
like they give up very easily, and then you get
48:20
the runaway train effect where it's like I don't know,
48:22
I think my chihuahua is in here, I don't know
48:24
check or is everything ripped up? Oh yeah, the dogs
48:27
in here then, or like like oh they shipped on
48:30
your pillow that you were sleeping on. That's weird. But
48:34
yeahs do you get like what are you using like
48:36
a clicker method and just treat positive reinforcement? How do
48:39
you to teach her a new treat, a new trick.
48:42
I will generally use a clicker because she actually responds
48:45
relatively well to it. Um, she's not one of those
48:48
dogs where it can just like you can. You can
48:50
show them a thing and then they'll they'll mimic you
48:52
like they're super dogs that can do that. She's not
48:55
like that. Um, but the clicker works well with her.
48:58
And uh yeah, just catching the trick. So if she
49:01
does something that I want her that I like, then
49:04
I will praise her like crazy, like it's a it's
49:07
a party in this apartment, if right, And then she'll
49:10
figure it out and she'll try to to recreate that
49:12
moment and then more. Yeah. I if you could see
49:19
the amount of just toys around me right now, I
49:23
could use I'm taking notes right now for how to
49:26
train my two and four year old to do humans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
49:32
I I because actually I was talking to my wife
49:35
yesterday about how like as far as like catching a
49:39
trick and then praising a specific behavior, like it is
49:42
actually quite similar with with very young children, right, Like
49:45
you praise them when they do something that's really good,
49:47
and you just like catch them in the act and
49:48
they try and recreate it because they know it's a
49:50
good thing. I think that stops working after a while
49:53
when you or you reinforce the wrong behaviors that you
49:57
take into adulthood and you're like, oh, I'm meant to
49:58
be passive around this kind of person, because that's how
50:01
I always been. Like, oh, good for you. If someone
50:03
tells you to come here and you know, do you
50:05
do that? That's okay. The other thing I want to
50:07
know about chihuahuas is I I like chihuahua's, but they're
50:11
big ass skulls trying to freak me out. Like I'm
50:15
always looking at him like, yeah, the dome skull. Yeah,
50:17
like up with your skull piece, Chia. Yeah, it's weird.
50:21
She actually, So there are two types of chihuahuas. She's
50:24
she's not a purebread she's a rescue from Texas. Um.
50:28
But there are two types of chiawas one has like
50:30
a dome skull and the other one has more of
50:32
like a flat skull. So she's a flat skull. Um.
50:38
I agree with you. The dome the dome skull is weird. No,
50:40
you know, no shade to dome skulls, you know, but
50:43
for me maybe not my cup of tea. Yeah, no,
50:46
I I get you, I feel you. Yeah, it's just
50:49
something it looks uncomfortable, like when you see like the
50:51
trembling chihuahuas that have like the dome skull, because you're like,
50:54
is your head about to explode? Is that's why you're shaking?
50:56
Because that's what it looks like to me. So I
50:59
will tell you that the trem ing is one major
51:01
downside of this particular animal. Like she does it all
51:05
the time if she's stressed out, if she's cold, which
51:08
is a lot of the time, she will she will shake.
51:11
And that I do like, I wish there was nothing
51:13
that she did. Um, but you know what, I'm cold
51:18
all the time too, So if I'm cold, I know
51:20
she's cold. So we help each other, you know, we
51:23
alert each other to this environmental problem that we're just
51:26
by thinking about you just like Hi, every time I
51:28
get in her arms so cold And Jamie, Um, I
51:36
noticed on Twitter that you've been You tweeted a truly
51:41
cursed Christmas tree ornament. Then I I can't believe exists
51:48
and and you are telling me that there are more
51:51
of these, is what I'm uttering. So this year is uh,
51:55
my first year living with my partner and living in
51:58
a place that Christmas tree could sort of fit. I
52:03
like have been shopping for like a fake apartment de
52:06
sized Christmas tree. So that is how I came across
52:10
these ornaments. It appears that thousands of them have been sold. Uh,
52:15
and they're all about I'm going to drop some of
52:18
them into the chat and then just kind of describe them.
52:21
But just keep in mind for people listening that every
52:24
word I'm about to say is in a different font
52:27
and uh, and and that it's accompanied by a cute
52:33
little clip art. Did you get my first one? It
52:38
says twenty it's and I have to imagine this has
52:41
to be the size of a dinner plate because it
52:42
says so many things. It says, shop online, wash those
52:46
hands clean and organized? What day is it? Binge? Watching zoom?
52:50
What's your temp? That one's sinister, stay home or upside
52:54
pickup home workouts survived? The TP shortage that is also
52:59
very harped on is the TP shortage face masks Flatten,
53:02
the Curve YouTube game Nights and my YouTube Glenn. Then
53:09
it just says global pandemic And that's an ornament you
53:13
can put on your tree if you And then there
53:17
here's another one. They're all sorry real quick is what
53:22
is design that tube? Is? That is that some new
53:25
thing that the pandemic gave us YouTube? So as the
53:29
designer of these ornaments, I'm really hoping we can get
53:32
some organic interest in uh in the parent market in
53:36
YouTube via these ornaments. So I'm hoping we can really
53:40
get everyone excited about YouTube right in time for the hostes.
53:44
Can I just say how much I hate this? I mean,
53:48
I just couldn't hate it more. I hate that they're
53:52
making They're like this is like the but first coffee
53:55
of a global pandemic with death. It's so cute. It's
53:59
like this is like something you'd make of with like
54:02
inside jokes from your family reunion. In this is making
54:06
a barfe that's the font game being delivered here. It's
54:10
very like wine o'clock kind of graphics design. Uh So
54:15
the next one is says a year to remember. This
54:18
one's formatted like a checklist, but there is a lot
54:20
of clip part A year to remember, toilet paper shortage, check,
54:25
bask wearing check, hand sanitizer check, drive by parties, check
54:30
curbside pickup, work from home, quarantine, travel band, social distancing,
54:35
online school sports canceled and worldwide pandemic check. And then
54:40
this is it looks like zero zero, so it yeah,
54:46
it's Zepplin. Who can remember? Who can forget? They hate
54:51
this too. The last one I'd like to share is uh,
54:54
maybe the worst one. It's it's the twelve Days of
54:58
coronavirus in so it Allison is actually physically getting illed.
55:06
I won't I won't saying the whole thing, but it goes,
55:08
no you can't, Okay, Okay, you know, Okay, I've set
55:15
myself up for this. I did. I was just cackling
55:18
when I because they're all on like the best selling ornaments,
55:24
like they're like, these are the top ones. A lot
55:29
of people to have these dregs of man. No, they're
55:34
like the top Okay, So on the twelve the twelve
55:37
Days of Christmas Corona gave to me is what we're Yeah,
55:40
the pandemic gave to me. Twelve canceled plans, eleven face masks,
55:44
ten sanitizers, murder horn nine murder hornets, eight zoom call,
55:51
seven mental breakdown six feet apart. That's the five curb
55:55
side pick up, four quarantines, three travel restrictions to Karen's complaining,
56:03
and a message shortage of t P. It's a real
56:08
that's a really bold move to say two, Karen's complaining
56:12
for an ornament that is clearly big marketed at Karen's. Yeah,
56:18
like self aware Karen's. So those are yeah, those are
56:23
the most cursed coronavirus themed ornaments. Um they are. They
56:28
are topping the charts on Jeff Bezos his little experiment
56:33
and uh yeah they're they're they're the worst ship I've
56:36
ever seen. But they're all all three of those are
56:38
in the top ten right now. Is he the YouTube guy?
56:44
I think he's managed to get to YouTube. I think
56:48
he should probably serve the channel though I think it
56:49
would be very well received. These are all like if
56:53
there was a conversation starters for dummies like these are
56:57
all like how about the murder hornets? Already imagining a
57:03
scenario where I discovered that someone I like has these ornaments.
57:07
I mean I'm buying all of them. Okay, I don't know.
57:10
I don't presume to say you'd like me, but they
57:13
will all be on my Christmas tree. I have. I
57:16
have found all three of these off of Amazon. Um,
57:20
if you're not if you're not doing Amazon, you can
57:24
still get these hideous ornaments, and I feel like I'm
57:28
going to get one. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out
57:33
just as like a relic, not as I'm not even
57:36
going to hang it up. I'm just gonna put it
57:37
in a drawer and then someday my children will be like,
57:40
what's that and I'll have to sing that song to them.
57:45
Why do you think YouTube it's on that first one?
57:48
Just I'm just I know this is not the most
57:51
the silliest thing. Why did they just find out about
57:54
YouTube during the pandemic? Think well, as the graphic designer,
57:58
I just learned about YouTube earlier this year, and so
58:01
it's been it's been a big year for me and YouTube.
58:05
And I'm gonna I'm not going to describe this one,
58:07
but there's there's just so many there's so many fonts
58:10
and YouTube is uh not, there's more. There's more, not
58:16
the YouTube font, but there's more than one ornament that
58:19
says YouTube on it. As as if we were all
58:23
as if we've all agreed on this. I don't. I
58:25
don't quite get it. Did they be? The idea is
58:28
like you finally have time to stay home and watch
58:31
YouTube like we've always dreamed, But like there do they
58:36
think that that's what people who are doing do they
58:39
think TikTok is YouTube? Oh is TikTok YouTube? How do
58:47
we how would we ever know? There's no way to
58:50
tell you, guys, that's actually a good call. The font
58:53
situation in the one you just sent is awful. Essential
59:00
Workers is in a like horror movie font um. Virtual
59:06
learning just the the use of white spain. And I'm
59:08
not a graphic designer at all, but the use of
59:10
white space under virtual learning is very upsetting to me.
59:12
I hate this one. I hate the most just aesthetics
59:16
face masks. There's too many Sarah's happening. It's very Thermometer
59:20
isn't first of all, it just is thermometer in unreadable cursive. Wait,
59:27
where's that? I just sent? As many thermometer? And what
59:34
about these thermometers? I think that's one that even like
59:38
the worst like conversation starter attempt like would still be like,
59:43
what huh right about this year? Right? With the uh
59:50
the thermometer, you know, and these essential workers? What are
59:56
you talking about? It's brutal? Is does that birthday parade?
1:00:02
Birthday parade? Yeah, I think very bad job of writing parade.
1:00:07
That is like that is a nightmare. I think the
1:00:11
horror font that says essential workers is just straight up offensive.
1:00:15
That's really that one is a bad one. If they
1:00:18
didn't do it in a horror I hadn't even noticed that. Like,
1:00:23
but it is a total that Yeah, like someone wrote
1:00:26
that in blood on a mirror. Yeah. Um, I'm sorry
1:00:30
that I showed these to you, but I couldn't keep
1:00:34
the fact that someone somewhere is making a ton of
1:00:38
money off making these hideous ornaments. And uh, and people
1:00:44
seem to be on board. If you've purchased one of
1:00:46
these ornaments, reach out to me. Was something you think
1:00:51
is underrated? Um? Something I think is underrated is and
1:00:55
hopefully you guys share this with me. But Hostess cupcakes,
1:01:00
specifically the orange kind. I like orange Hostess cupcakes. I
1:01:06
can only find them in some convenience stores. I can
1:01:10
never find them in a grocery store. I can never
1:01:12
find them in a pack bigger than two. Um, sometimes
1:01:15
they just don't have them. Um they sustain me sometimes
1:01:20
when I'm like, I don't know, really stone or whatever,
1:01:22
but they're delicious. Um. I don't know if you guys
1:01:26
have fucked with the citrus. I think because when I
1:01:29
in my mind, the Hostess regular one is the chocolate
1:01:32
brown one with the white swirly on top. Right, And okay,
1:01:36
this is the one, except it's orange colored. Yes, and
1:01:40
it's orange favorite because you know, truth be told, I've
1:01:42
only messed around with the with the NORMI the norm Core,
1:01:46
just the icing, and I want, I do want both
1:01:49
of you to treat yourselves. I mean, so you guys
1:01:53
haven't experimented with the rest of the Hostess catalog. If
1:01:56
you guys had a snowball before, I'm host curious, but
1:02:00
I haven't fully dolven yet. Oh my gosh, I've definitely
1:02:05
is the one that's like more marshmallowy than you would expect, right,
1:02:10
the pink like coconutti marshmallow one. That's one that, like
1:02:15
in theory, I should be super into, but like the
1:02:19
marshmallowness of it all doesn't doesn't really do it for me. Jack,
1:02:24
show me your practice. Yeah, um, the I've never had
1:02:32
the orange, but that sounds so there's like a citrus
1:02:35
tang that they've infused into the Yes, the icing has
1:02:38
a little bit of a citrus tang. I'm sure it
1:02:40
has absolutely no nutritional value. Not asking about that. Come on, yeah, OK, good, Yeah,
1:02:46
there's no vide have been seeing there or any of
1:02:48
that bad. But to fight off scurvy. I mean this
1:02:55
is like if we're gonna be trash Americans, Like this
1:02:59
is what America is unique for. Is like, it's not
1:03:03
we America doesn't have any cuisine. We have fucking Hostess
1:03:08
cupcakes that are made with all sorts of unnatural sciences
1:03:12
that make it so that they don't break down over
1:03:15
the course of twenty years like they'll they'll still be
1:03:17
moist if you leave them open on a shelf for
1:03:19
twenty years. Uh. That is that's our offering to humanity.
1:03:26
My favorite flavor since a very young age is blue raspberry,
1:03:31
and I don't think that's real. Mine's mystery. That's my
1:03:40
favorite flavor. If we're going on, yeah, like bottle pops
1:03:47
and then they took one asshole to be like it's cherry.
1:03:49
I'm like, what the I'm on face mystery? Wait? I
1:03:53
thought mystery was just a rotation of different ones without
1:03:58
the food coloring, so you can. But I feel like,
1:04:01
definitely it just on like maybe two flavors. Whenever a
1:04:05
Mystery was a blue raz I lost my money. Running
1:04:10
through the streets. Yeah, you become that gift for the
1:04:14
dude with the kid with the dress and the wind.
1:04:18
I actually am the kid in that. Um. Yeah, when
1:04:24
blow Pops made it so that you could do the
1:04:26
blue raz that was that was a big big day
1:04:29
for me. Oh man, did you have that thing with
1:04:33
the tittsy pops? If like you had the rapper with
1:04:35
the star on it, you'd be like a demand of
1:04:37
another one for free. There was a bourbon legend that
1:04:40
if you had the one that a star on top,
1:04:42
you could exchange that for a free one. Yeah. That
1:04:47
was born out of my school, like snack hut that
1:04:50
they would have at the end of the day where
1:04:51
you could go and like buy like a fucking thing
1:04:53
for five cents and there they would be like, Okay,
1:04:56
if you got that, you can come back and we'll
1:04:57
give you another one. I tried to do that at
1:04:59
like a liquor store and then they get the book
1:05:01
on like, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know, but yeah,
1:05:05
I think that I think we had that at like
1:05:08
the fair at my elementary school. But but yeah, I
1:05:11
guess it's not it's not legally binding. Uh. This is
1:05:18
tried to try to put a down payment on a
1:05:20
house with that excuse me, I have the right here,
1:05:25
so like we only have monopoly money. Okay, all right,
1:05:32
that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please
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1:05:48
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