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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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last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
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the Weekly Zeitgeist. Chris Craft, how's how's it going? Thank
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you for that great guaranteed to disappoint after that? Come on, man,
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to be here, so happy to be here, always so
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good to have you. Uh you're joining us not from
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bear Country, you're joining us from Uh, well, what's Nashville.
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It's called country music music city, yeah, but it's more
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like a country country. It's like basic city. Now, oh damn,
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why why is that your faith? Nashville? It's a just
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it's a it's a it's full of pay paper condominiums
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and full of whoever buys paper condominiums. And I'll tell
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you what. They're not musical. Yeah, they're not the real ones,
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not the old airfield. It's like Williamsburg. It went the
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way of Williamsburg. It's like it's like yeah, it's like,
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I mean, it's there's still good musicians here, but I
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mean in general, there's a I don't know, like just
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millions and millions of paper condominiums everywhere, full of whoever
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buys paper condominiums, And I gotta tell you, most of
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the time, I don't want to know those people. Yeah,
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when you say paper condominiums, are they made of paper?
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What was right? That's the only reason. It's like, you
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know the ones that the ones that go up in
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forty five minutes and are already to go and have
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sex more plan and have the same appliances and everybody's
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like excited about that for some reason. Well, yeah, they're
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just like these like yuppy prison cells. Like it's like
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I'm a middle class prisoner in my stainless steel kitten,
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and you know, yes, and they're like, I don't know,
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Like I'm kind of making up that they go up
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in forty five minutes, but they do go up very quickly,
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and they are made of they're all the same. And
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then all the stuff in it is the kind of
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stuff that as soon as it gets dirty, like you
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find out like you bought a shitty place, Like it's
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like when it's brand new, like this couch is awesome,
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and then like starts the threading starts to come out,
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and then the firepit the fire pit on the roof
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doesn't work anymore, and the fitness center doesn't have anybody
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behind the counter. And then when I got one dumbbell, yes,
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and the foodsball table all of a sudden breaks and
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nobody fixes it. And then and then you realize you
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paid basically, you're paying rent for a foosball table. Yeah.
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Is there a part in Nashville that is like gentrifieded
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pretty hardcore where like, you know, fifteen years ago, you're like,
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what's that part? Like, what's that part? Because I feel
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like Echo Park in l A Was one of those
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aces that in initially, you know, for people growing up,
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it was you know, very working class areas where I
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would go to get my fake I d s and
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any other nefarious items. Uh, And now it's like, oh,
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you love we love Echo Park. It's just so fantastic.
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What's what's like the Nashville equivalent, I would say Germantown.
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Germantown was this sort of like it was really kind
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of a poor area and and it's still adjacent to
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very low income areas. But then they just sort of
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just redid it and now it's got you know, its
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paper condos, it's got paper condos, and it's got the
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people that jog around like poor neighborhoods in like really
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expensive yoga clothes and just pretend that for some reason
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with the landscape around them doesn't exist, which I think
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is really weird. Yeah. Well, yeah, my outfit is expensive
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enough it might affect the other people around me. Yeah.
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It's like I just think it's about tuning it out.
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It's like, you know, they just say, I'm in a magazine,
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in a magazine, I'm in a magazine while they run,
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you know, the point about condo is going up quickly
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in New York. I lived in a Long Island city
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for one year I think in like two thousand ten, uh,
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And then when my wife and I were visiting New York,
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like a handful of months later, we had to go
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back to our paper condo, uh to see if like
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that there was mail there for us, like that's how
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recently we had been there, and like we couldn't find
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the condo. The landscape was so different, like the it
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was just it was so different. It was like when
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we got there like one year earlier, it was like
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dog parks and warehouses, and then like it was it
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looked like fucking Tribeca when we when we went back
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to pick up the mail, it was wild a lot
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of insider geographical references there. Yeah, Nashville is not like
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a grid. So the interesting thing about like in New York, well,
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all I know is that Nashville is like gentrified in
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spots and then not gentrified and then gentrified, and everything
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is sort of on top of each other. And that
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leads to a lot of like wealthy people tuning out
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their neighbors, which is like a really weird experience. Because
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my next door neighbors in the house, um that well
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my parents lived there now, but it's a fucking long,
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boring story, but me and my brother and sister lived
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there for eight years together. We can do a whole
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podcast about that someday. But but that house, that house
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it is it's a TV show that involves a lot
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of panic attacks. So uh, TV shows called panic attack. Anyway,
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that the house next door to mine is like used
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to be this crazy house well full of people who
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who who you know who their Their dog's name was
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front yard and um, and that's true maybe like get
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in here front Yard, um, which is pretty badass. Like
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I will say that maniacs know how to name dogs.
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So so anyway, someone got shot next door. Um, there
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were twin brothers living there and one shot the other
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one when they were drunk. And then that house, you know,
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they moved away. Um, and that house was sitting vacant
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for a while, and then they tore down and built
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this giant like like paper condo thing that looks like
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a scukoo clock, looks like a Swiss It looks like
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a house in Switzerland, but it's next to you. It's
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and it's huge, and it's like bursting out of the
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property lines. Like it's like the most house you could
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possibly put on the smallest yard ever. I mean, this
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is previously a low income person's yard. It's small, and
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they packed it full of roof decks and fire pits
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and foosball tables and it's just bursting and it looks absurd,
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and their neighborhood around it is still poor based not poor.
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I mean poor is like I don't mean to say
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for middle class. I don't know, like it's not like
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really poor because when I mean I just has a
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lot of personality according to the real estate listings, Yeah,
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I mean, it's just a regular street. It's a regular
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street full of people, like yeah, and like then there's
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this cugle clock in the middle of it. And those
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people just pretend the rest of the neighborhood don't exist.
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So you can't even really talk to them because that
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would blow their whole, like theater piece they're doing. So
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they're just like hello to your neighbor and they will
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not acknowledge you, because they're like to acknowledge you would
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do it be admit that you're a fake millionaire because
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you came to a neighborhood and just this is the
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only place you can build that monstrosity and go build
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it in the neighborhood where it's supposed to be with
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all the other rich people, or else build a normal house. Dick,
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What is something from your search history that's revealing about
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who you are? So a Google search was sex for science.
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It's sex for science, yeah, you know, Okay, so like
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there's you can have sex for research, right, yeah. And
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I was just curious, and I mean I think I
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was writing a joke and like it started out with
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another search like things that are hard to do while
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your horny, and then I just you know, went down
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a hole and I was like, oh you can, you can.
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That's like that's kind of hot. Yeah. Wait, so what
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what are the normal sex for science? Things like you
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feel out a questionnaire or like hooking you up to
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some like brain wave readers and ship and then like
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you know, popping them off. I don't know, it's just
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the idea that someone's watching with a with a clipboard
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and taking diligent notes. That really roleplay. Yeah, yeah, you
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could just be going on your fantasy is to be
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a scientist. Cook. I watched my wife getting but I
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have aboard and I'm just like peeing myself. Like other
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person's like this is kind of weird. I'm like, please
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keep going the experience. Yeah, that's the more dignified with biology. Wow.
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Um yeah, I do wonder like because Kinsey was real,
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you know, had a lot of studies going, had his
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lab assistance in there, all sorts of wild ship, Like
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is there a modern day Kinsey Who's who's studying the
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sexual spectrum and all that good stuff, you know, deep
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as I wanted in the research. Um yeah, so you know,
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just just just just something you were searching. Yeah, just
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the tip of the iceberg. But um, I mean i'd
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be interested to know, so like, as I find out more,
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I can keep you posted. Yeah about it? Let us know. Yeah,
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what do you do? Like do you get a free mattress?
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What it like? You know what I mean? Yeah, I'm
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also interested, like how do you can you can you
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eat off of fucking for science for your research? Yeah?
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And then is it also like do you have to
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be yeah? And is it like you have to be
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a couple like a specific like physiolotic like physiological traits?
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Can you just be like a traveling couple that like
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has sex for research? You just hop from lab to lab?
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This is all. This is all a very interesting film
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that I would watch. And Joe Biden's America that you'll
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be able to have so you'll be able to make
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a living off of this. Scientists. Yeah, those scientists he's
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gonna listen to. They're gonna pay people to have six Yeah.
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I look forward to this bright future. Yeah right, I'm like, cool,
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What is something that you guys think is underrated? Mookie bets.
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Mookie bets that dude is underpaid at three fifty million
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or whatever. He is fucking the greatest baseball player of
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all time. He's so good. We're all freaking out. But
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we should be freaking out more. We should be like
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running out our doors and down the street. He's so good.
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Yeah yeah, So Game one he had two steals in
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a single inning. The Dodgers had three steels in a
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single inning, which was the most since nineteen twelve. Damn
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World Series. Uh, I guess it was Game seven of
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the last series where he basically flew. Yeah, it was
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like he's flying. That's not no human can do that.
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And also just like one of the all time great names.
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I think couldn't you know he could? He would he
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would either be like a jazz drummer or a baseball player.
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Yeah yeah, I mean, how came Mookie Blaylock didn't get
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his you know roses when he was playing in the NBA, right,
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it's Mookie Blaylock was a name that I think I
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invented before he made it into the NBA because when
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I was like when I was a kid, I used
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to like prick tend to be like the local basketball
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like local college basketball team and like that, there would
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be this amazing recruit that came in named Mookie Blaylock.
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And then he became like I found out he was
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a real basketball player. Also, that name is like so
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amazing that that was pearl Jam's name before they were
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pearl Jam was Mookie Blaylock. Really really yeah, they and
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then they're like, that's a that's kind of weird. So
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isn't that like why the Mookie Blaylock it U C.
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B is Also he was like a Mookie Blaylock or
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he's Blakelock. Right, It's so funny how there's a similar
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Mookie Blakelock was the improviser Szooky Blaylock, the fucking NBA player.
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It's it's like, where'd you get your Mookie? Like your
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parents give you that? He's like, no, I don't. People
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just started calling me that, like he really just didn't
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have a memory, Like why Ester actually is like is
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there some wizard going around blessing the mookies of the world,
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like without them knowing? And I call you blue, I
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call you Mooky, you are now a mookie or it's
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like the result of some amnesia episode you just switch
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means like everybody, I think it's too late for me,
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but I definitely, I definitely wish I had gone mooky
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or earlier. I didn't know that was the thing you
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could do just become like, yeah, Mookie Blake Block sounds
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like a name that was made up on the spot
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more than it sounds like a name that I would
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have made up on the spot if somebody was like, hey,
13:36
what's your name? Yeah or yeah, or you're doing an
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improv scene and you have to name your improv partner
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and they come out, what's up? Sorry about that? It's
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crazy because Mooky the improviser is like one of the
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funniest improvisers. So funny. I mean, I don't know, almost
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nobody's cracked me up on stage as much as him. Yeah. Yeah,
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so you're just if your name Mookie, you're inherently talented.
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Well he doesn't. Like at the end of every uh,
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end of every scene, he goes, that's it from Milky
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and every goes crazy because that's always sky Man. How
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much do you miss? Do you guys miss doing improv?
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Are you guys improvisers? I'm not. I did back in
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the day when I was trying, when I thought that's
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how I was going to get on the office, and
14:24
I gave all my money to UCB. Yeah, and then
14:29
I was like, wait, they're making me do level for
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a bunch of times on the office. Yeah, I know that.
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I feel like that was you know, like for a
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lot of people that seeing that sort of pipeline because first,
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like the Groundlings was like the pipeline to a lot,
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Like everyone was hiring a lot of Groundlings people, and
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then u c B people were coming out of u
14:47
CD were getting a lot of work too, And that
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was sort of my like ten thousand foot view from
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like doing improv in college with groundlings me and like
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when I got back into it, when I left politics,
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I was like, no, it's UCB man, this is where
14:59
I'm going. Yeah, back in our day, it was conan
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that you were trying to get on right right right,
15:05
like as a as the master bidding as a writer
15:08
would be like the ultimate. But that was just to
15:11
be a character in there. Everybody. Everybody did bits and
15:15
then you would eventually getting kind of getting good with them,
15:17
and then you'd be like say to one of the
15:19
writers like can I submit a packet? Like oh yeah, yeah,
15:22
you get somebody to kind of like usher in a
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little bit, right, Um, And you guys are both famed improvisers,
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do you get you guys miss it quite a bit,
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so much, so much a much crazy. It's like totally
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one of the things when I would do it regularly
15:38
and then I wouldn't do it. I was like, oh,
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I feel crazy when I don't do this stuff right.
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My wife was just saying, uh, I hope, I hope
15:46
improp theaters open because I'm tired of your bits around
15:48
the apartment. Yeah, like performing for an audience of one
15:53
all the time, who also has to be in the
15:57
scene with you right right right and carried to wait
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and you're like, Hey, is it cool if I just
16:02
spill a bunch of beer in the kitchen I needed
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to smell, like backstage at Franklin. We'll be right back,
16:19
and we're back. We are thrilled to be joined in
16:23
our third seat by the brilliant, the talented Sapphire Sandello. Hi, okay, okay,
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happy to be here. Yeah, you have the coolest studio
16:38
of anyone we've ever talked to. Oh my goodness, thank
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you so much. Dope. Where are you coming to us from?
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I live in Echo Park? Hell? Yeah, you're Is that
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a chair behind you that? Do you have like a
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really high back chair? Oh? No, yeah, I thought that
17:01
was like a yeah, is that what kind of gamer chair?
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You work. I know gamer chairs are real, but every
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time someone says it out loud and like that's fake,
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that that can't be real. My husband has one, he
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hates it. Yeah, it was gifted to him. So a gamer,
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I mean he plays games. I don't like what makes
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someone a gamer as opposed to just like a person
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who plays games. That's a good question. There has to
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be something. I guess it would just be like when
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you're willing to buy the chair for yourself, definitive, but
17:40
a gift that's a gray area, right, unless you're such
17:44
a gamer that people are like, look, he's not going
17:47
to buy it for himself. I hate to see gaming
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like your back is all hunched over because you're not
18:00
gaming in the proper chair. I don't know. I don't
18:04
know what gamer chairs do. Do they make your posture better?
18:07
Probably not. I mean they're supposed to be make it
18:10
more comfortable for you to game for long periods of time,
18:13
but I mean you shouldn't be doing that anyway. So
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he says you, says you, what is something from your
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search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, I
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would say, uh um, I've kind of running out of
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crazy things to watch this pandemic on so long, I
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don't know what to I mean, I've watched every dumb
18:36
thing you could possibly watch, but I've been watching a
18:39
lot of abandoned just generally like abandoned house videos, abandoned
18:46
like factories and abandoned mental hospitals and stuff. But here's
18:51
something I kind of it's kind of a just an
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observation about it. Watched enough of them now that I
18:57
realized that I've seen an episode where a guy showed
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up and a vlogger they call him vloggers, video blogger,
19:08
those bloggers with the video Now, huh, it really rolls
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up floggers. It what a lazy who so so that
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they showed up to an abandoned house and there was
19:24
already another bunch of vloggers in it, like they were
19:31
shooting at the same time, and they have like the
19:33
whack As West Side Story showdown of all time where
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they like there four they kept saying, I was like spooky.
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You know, it wasn't spooky because there's someone another person
19:43
with a camera there. You know. They're so that to
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go into each room, they had to wait for the
19:47
other vlogger to leave the room, so would be spooky again.
19:51
They were like, what was that? And it was actually
19:53
some other vloggers saying what was that was the Yeah,
19:58
like an echo, like all this doll in the house,
20:02
and so everybody when they see a doll in a house, yeah,
20:07
they're like, it's not a creepy doll, and it's maybe
20:09
a nice normal doll. They still go, oh my god,
20:12
dolls creepy. So it's like an echo walking through that.
20:16
Like one vlogger you can hear going into the room
20:18
and going that doll is creepy, and then the next vlogger,
20:22
the vlogger industrial complex, Yeah, and it becomes like plant
20:26
that doll? Does the vlogger bring a doll with them?
20:29
So having the planted doll, you see them. You see
20:33
it all the time, these vloggers planting dolls at the
20:35
seat of the crime m doll is building seven. Okay,
20:44
hold on, listen, man, you can hear. Shut the funk up.
20:46
I think the dolls talking listen, he said, like can subscribe.
20:50
Didn't a lot of that. And then the other thing
20:54
I was noticing is that people are desperate like content creators,
20:58
you know, you know, it's like it's an endless operation
21:02
and there's only so many abandoned houses in the work, yeah,
21:06
I mean out of them, Like, you know, if it's
21:08
just nothing in there, like then it's pretty boring. But
21:11
the good ones that still have the stuff in them,
21:12
which are also super really sad because it just means
21:15
whoever was living there died and like didn't have any
21:19
close relatives, so they're all their stuff still in it.
21:21
And then people are look, I wonder what happened to
21:24
this person? All their heart medications all over the place,
21:27
and they they you know, there's blood all over the toilet, Yeah,
21:31
the macaroni. Still these people lived like crazy, and it's
21:34
like they didn't live crazy. They they were old people.
21:37
So anyway, I feel like sometimes people are breaking into
21:42
people's houses when they're not at home. It's now that's
21:48
that's the next wave is capt burglar content curiously, and
21:54
they're gonna do They're gonna need to do it. They're
21:56
gonna be like and they're just gonna end up breaking
21:59
in and being like, look, there's a man still in
22:01
the bed. That's like that's like I remember when we
22:05
were talking about the the guy who was caught camping
22:07
on that like abandoned tropical Island and Disney World in Orlando,
22:12
and then that got me like watching a string of
22:14
just like these kids who just get off on like
22:17
just trespassing in Orlando, like at Universal or disney World
22:21
or wherever, and like they're so slick. They'll literally just
22:24
like jump fences, time it out, slipping through a door,
22:27
walk through a concourse, and end up in like some
22:29
discontinued part of Epcot. And then like when they get caught,
22:33
they'll be like excuse me, um, what are you doing here?
22:35
And it's like, oh, I'm sorry, I was looking for
22:36
the bathroom and they're like, well, you shouldn't be here
22:39
at all, and he said, oh I'm sorry. I'm like
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they walk them out and they're like, oh, ship, that
22:43
was so close. Uh that's like the my like high
22:46
sticks content now I'm like, oh, little kid, right, And
22:50
then they're like yeah, and then the people are like,
22:52
I wonder if that was like you know, like I
22:55
just think they're just start being like, oh, it's a
22:57
ghost security guard. Like no, I'm a real fucking security guard.
23:03
Oh No, that's like you know, like I just I
23:07
just feel like there's a there's a point where they're
23:09
gonna they're gonna break into someone's house and they're gonna
23:12
be in there and the person is gonna be like,
23:13
they're like, there's a ghost, you know in here, and
23:16
the guys will be like, no, I live here, it's
23:17
my house. My house needs to be painted. You ask
23:20
whole get out of here. Yeah, you know how much
23:23
it cost to reroof a house. There have been a
23:25
couple of videos where there have been people saying like,
23:28
I'm not sure it's abandoned, and I'm anyway, that's that's
23:32
that's what I've been up to, have been watching like
23:33
these abandoned and also just the question is the place
23:36
abandoned if it has twenty vloggers in it? There's a
23:42
mental hospital abandoned if there's twenty loggers in it. That's
23:46
like in l A there's like two like abandoned hospitals
23:50
that like everyone shoots in like to do like gorilla
23:53
style creepy shoots or photo shoots. And at a certain
23:56
point you're like it completely isn't weird anymore because it's
23:59
a got like a bunch of leftover modern trash, and
24:02
you're like, this just looks like some fun building. People
24:05
are just like ship look at that Dorrito rapper. I
24:08
feel like that's the old kind of Doritos that they
24:10
used to have before it was clear when it was
24:12
seat through in the front window, right, yeah, like a
24:16
year ago. Yeah, when they did the retro bags. Oh ship,
24:21
that's so creepy. I remember that shot from Grey's Anatomy,
24:24
when Grey's Anatomy shot here in season two. Oh my god,
24:28
let me pose here. Is that a surge? Is that
24:30
a twenty ounce bottle of Surge unopened? There's a lot
24:35
of that, A lot of like I think that's old.
24:37
That happens. I mean, that's most of those I think
24:39
that's old. Yeah, I think that's old, or maybe it's not.
24:43
They always say, like there's three things they say. They said,
24:45
I think that's old, or maybe it's not, but I
24:47
think it is, and then it's yeah not again. It's
24:51
a kind of the same genre, like that big Foot
24:54
hunting and ghosts, like where you kind of got to
24:56
pretend like it could be, but also you've got to
24:59
be kind of real and be like, but it also
25:00
could not be. But I don't want to ruin the
25:02
whole illusion, So I'm gonna pretend a maybe it could
25:04
be a gig though mostly waffling. Yeah right, yeah, because
25:11
it's all about the mystery, so like by not knowing,
25:15
that's like part of the fun. Yeah. I like watching
25:19
Old I love Old Ship too, So it happens to me,
25:21
and it happens. It happens to me all the time.
25:22
I'm always like, I think that's old, but then maybe
25:25
it's not. But I think it is, but maybe it's not.
25:27
That happens. It's like all day for me. Yeah, it's
25:30
all day bro. Finally, what is a myth? What's something
25:33
people think it's true? This is crazy because I wrote
25:36
this down before I knew what we were going to
25:38
talk about today. I have two again, but one of
25:40
them I couldn't debunk, and that is that I think
25:42
my nails are growing faster now. Um wait, why what's
25:47
going on? I don't know. I don't remember having to
25:51
trimm them this off in but maybe it's because I
25:54
have I used to be all go outside, Um, but
25:58
I think they're growing. I'm having to trim them I
26:02
feel like multiple times a week, hmm. And when that's
26:07
too many? Yeah. But and I tried to look it
26:09
up and there's mixed results, so I couldn't debunk it,
26:12
like Megan Family guy when that was her power or
26:14
just her legs or her nails has got super long
26:17
for a second. It's just every time because I play
26:20
guitar and you notice quick when that and even because
26:22
we all type so much, you notice on your keyboard
26:24
when they're longer because you're like, am I worst at typing?
26:27
All of a sudden, a lot of weird shread buzz here. Yeah,
26:30
So I don't know that was the first time I
26:31
couldn't debunk that. Maybe if I know that there's definitely
26:34
people smarter than me that listen to this, because that's everyone,
26:37
and so let me know if you grow faster as
26:40
you get older. The internet has mixed results. I have
26:42
a feeling I've had a similar thought. I'm like, damn,
26:45
my nails got long with suddenly. I think it's because
26:49
it's like one of the few things is keep helping
26:52
me keep track of time, is my fingernail, Like like
26:56
I've lost every other marker, Like you know, Pumping Spy
26:59
Slot A season happened five days or early. The NBA
27:02
Finals just ended. You know, there's a I don't know,
27:06
she's going at two pm on a Monday for their
27:08
Thursday night game. Yeah, it's like I don't know, so
27:12
I have like those normal things, like the only that
27:14
in my allergies are the only thing that I've been consistent,
27:18
And I think because I've lost those other things, I
27:20
forget like how much linear time has passing, Like you know,
27:24
I feel like Uma Thurman and kill Bill when she
27:26
come out to coma and she's like looking at her
27:27
hands and she's like four years or whatever that is.
27:30
But yeah, that's interesting because like when you when you
27:35
I just remember when I used to uh park in
27:39
the same parking lot every day, Like at a certain point,
27:42
it just they all started blending together because like I
27:45
just couldn't distinguished that morning from every other morning that
27:49
looked and felt exactly the same. And I just wonder
27:54
if like a similar thing where we're just like kind
27:56
of um, you know, our brain is actually far more
28:02
nerves going from our brain to our eyes than vice versa.
28:06
Like our brain fills in a lot of the stuff
28:09
that it already knows is there, and your eyes are
28:12
only taking in a very small portion of it. And
28:14
I think that's just generally true with our world, Like
28:17
we when they're whenever there's something that our brain is like, Okay,
28:21
this is going to be the same every time. It
28:23
just like starts filling that in and memory holding it.
28:26
So yeah, it's like cookies on the internet. Yeah, exactly.
28:30
Your brain is cooking the world around you because we're
28:33
in a very routine. Is like that when you see
28:37
those paragraphs where every word is misspelled except but the
28:40
first and life and then but you can read them properly.
28:43
Brain is doing all the fill in work for you
28:45
where you just understand how everything's supposed to be exactly.
28:48
Come on, brain, you gotta get better and work harder. Uh. Um.
28:54
The other thing I wrote down to debunk is uh,
28:57
you and I like I said this, I didn't know
28:59
we're gonna talk about today. You'll be okay if you
29:01
delete Facebook. Uh, you're not gonna lose connections with your friends. Um,
29:07
you're not gonna miss It's okay. You can keep in
29:09
touch with people without it. Now. I know that a
29:11
lot of people hang on because they're like, this is
29:13
how I keep in touch with what my like cousins
29:16
or I I deleted it. I just I've been forcing.
29:20
I just text people sometimes and say what's up. Hope
29:23
all all as well, Like that's like high school friends
29:26
or things like that. You can kind of just put
29:28
in a little bit different work and it's not like
29:31
replacing Hey we're all having a dialogue about a funny
29:34
photo or something. But yeah, it's I was like, oh,
29:38
ship are the star quarterback of my high school? Is
29:41
like just a racist troll now, and like people into
29:46
it justis you know, you remember back then, like there
29:50
were no protocols, and I really I remember his helmet
29:53
was a lot lighter than everyone else because he was
29:55
more of a you know, it's kind of scrambling quarterback,
29:57
and he took I remember that one game against Bishop
30:00
bat It was pretty fucked up, and then he still
30:02
got back in. I don't know. Maybe that's what I'm like,
30:04
Maybe just racist. I don't know, maybe he's just been
30:06
racist the whole time. Maybe that's just maybe he said
30:09
he wanted a lighter helmet because white people's brains were bigger,
30:12
and you need to look it up, like maybe maybe
30:16
that was the sign he was racist and not the
30:18
getting hit by the football. I just think I have
30:22
lost nothing. I have I haven't. I have missed out
30:25
on nothing because I deleted it. Um I don't know.
30:29
I have a Facebook fan page that I don't know
30:32
how to maintain without having a Facebook. Um, but I
30:35
don't really know what to do. I know that some
30:37
people hang on because they're like, well, yeah, because it
30:40
is a really At its inception, it was a really
30:43
good way to rate women on their hotness. And then
30:46
the second thing it was good at was you could
30:48
keep it kind of you don't need a high school
30:51
reunion anymore, right, And it's like, well, I don't think
30:54
we're meant to be this in touch with this many
30:57
people and have no intimate relationships with any friends anymore.
31:01
Like it's I don't I'm not supposed to have a
31:02
one percent tab with the thousand people to have the
31:05
most annoying thing that those thousand people do every day
31:08
just bubble up to the top of your consciousness to
31:11
make so if you're thinking about it, here's here's what
31:13
I can say. If you're listening and you're like, well,
31:15
I don't I don't like what it's doing, log out
31:17
and delete the apps for a little bit and see
31:21
how often you just open a browser and type F A,
31:24
B or every It's really it makes you feel crazy.
31:27
When I logged out and the lead the thing. I
31:29
would just open Chrome and type F A C and
31:31
then I'm like, oh no, like my uscle, And then
31:34
you'll slowly stop doing that and you'll slowly get better.
31:36
It feels like I'm like getting rid of like a
31:37
sugar addiction or something. Yeah. Yeah, I think you don't
31:41
to your point though, by texting somebody, I mean, like
31:44
just being on Facebook. I think people massively like overrate
31:48
or under rate how passive it actually is. Like you
31:51
may think, well, how do I keep ups? Like, but
31:53
are you interacting? You might just be scrolling. Oh that's
31:55
what they're doing. That's what they're doing, But it's not
31:57
you're not connecting. And I think even to your point,
31:59
by even texting someone like hey, what's up? You good? Yeah,
32:03
that's after a little bit, do you know what I mean?
32:06
It's like a one way connection we all have with
32:08
each other. Yeah. But and then I hated who I
32:11
was going in and being like my muscle memory is
32:16
to go to these things, and I'm like, this is
32:19
where did I get toward? This is a thing I
32:21
check off a hundred times a day because Zuckerberg, bro,
32:27
you can do without it. I'm yeah, I know people
32:30
who say, and I I who you know? I need
32:32
it for this, I need it for this. I use
32:34
it for this. You don't. You can figure it out.
32:38
I'm now zoom bombing for my personal interaction on a
32:42
daily basis. Random, yeah, random logging numbers, family reunions, you know,
32:49
just corporate meetings, and like, suck. See what you do?
32:55
Is you just you just crawl? You just look on
32:57
Google and you just search for people who are pub
33:00
look you posting zoom meeting ideas and I just go
33:02
in video off and I'd just like to be a
33:04
fly on the wall. Oh I had to zoom stand
33:06
up show get bombed by And this is what I
33:09
missed live stand up so much because at least Heckler's
33:11
had to have gumption when it was face to face.
33:14
Now bomb a zoom meeting. And these kids are so
33:18
not good being racist. They're so they pulled up, they
33:22
took the they bombed the meeting, they stole the screen chair,
33:25
and they went to the KKK's Wikipedia page and I'm like,
33:28
what do you do? Why you The page says they're bad, Like,
33:31
I don't know what you're trying to get across. What
33:34
a lazy racist. At least if you were heckling me
33:37
in person, you had to call me a slur while
33:39
I looked at you, do you know what I mean?
33:41
Right right, there's a little more his risk and ball
33:43
come on back in my day year old they just
33:48
all zoom bombed and they like googled penis do you
33:51
know what I mean? And a picture up there and
33:53
you're like, I got one, like I don't know your
33:55
medical diagrams yourself actually sounds like you were zoom bombed
33:59
by like a fifty five year old dad or mom
34:02
or something. You don't know how the internet, this being
34:07
Monday is the Amy Coney Barrett thing, like over or
34:11
do she My understanding is that it was three days,
34:15
three fits in and out? And then I write, is
34:19
that yeah, like wasn't there a thing where like Kavanaugh
34:23
did the same thing, like he had three days, but
34:25
then we found out that he was a serial sexual
34:28
abuser and so then like and then they were like
34:31
we gotta get back in there. I don't really, I
34:33
don't really know. Over time, as as I was watching
34:39
honestly half watching the Amy Coney Barrett like sessions, I
34:44
guess I was like, oh, I guess I have never
34:46
really paid close attention to like a fairly uneventful Supreme
34:51
Court because I just was like, the only one I'd
34:55
really ever paid attention to was like the high drama,
34:58
high trauma of the cow An not hearing. So I'm like,
35:01
maybe this is how it goes. I have no idea. Yeah,
35:05
I feel like I don't know. The thing that it
35:08
made me realize just watching it is like how full
35:15
of ship the whole Supreme Court thing is, like the
35:19
because by the time an argument gets to the r
35:22
a law gets to the Supreme Court, there are going
35:26
to be multiple interpretations that you could conceivably be like
35:34
sided with, like they're equally valid, and every time a
35:39
case comes before them, it has two arguments that are
35:42
going to be equally persuasive and correct, and you just
35:45
choose the one you want to go with based on
35:48
your pre existing politics and the fact that she kept
35:52
getting out of it, and that there's even this like
35:56
pretense that she that that any Supreme Court justice like
36:00
has no pre existing beliefs, and it's just like this lawyer, philosopher,
36:07
priest that is just like I will then like descend
36:11
upon the bench and give the one true answer is
36:16
just so full of ship and it seems almost outdated
36:22
that we still like even give lip service to it. Yeah,
36:27
I mean she was very Uh what I mean, I
36:30
guess what Supreme Court justices are allegedly supposed to be doing,
36:34
but it's so clearly untrue, like for every justice of like, well,
36:40
I'm going to read the Constitution and whatever the constitutions
36:43
has to do, that's what I'll do. And what I
36:45
think the Constitution, I will whisper to the Constitution and
36:48
what it whispered. Fact, that's what I'm going to vote on.
36:50
And like I only listened to the Constitution, which is
36:53
like whatever. Putting aside all the issues with the Constitution
36:57
is also like not true that Constitution is misinterpreted for
37:02
like partisan reasons every day all the time I did.
37:08
I found it. My least favorite part was when Ted
37:12
Cruz was getting all flirty that I hated extra. He
37:16
was like, so what are your hobbies? I was like,
37:19
what is this? And she was like they rather fucking
37:24
bumble day. Yeah, they're just like He's like, oh my gosh,
37:29
so you're married, you got kids? Like we can work
37:31
around that. I'm like, sick man, a sick man, like
37:38
there's not some new piece of evidence or like a
37:41
new footnote in the Constitution she's going to notice and
37:44
be like, well, I'll be damned, a woman does have
37:48
a right to choose what to do with her body.
37:50
Like that's just not going to I don't know. The
37:54
whole thing just seems like a farce to me. Hot
37:58
take this tack stuff is a farce, real circus. Yeah, no,
38:05
I'm gonna say it, Jamie. It's someone put a tent
38:10
on this circus. Someone it was. I don't know. I
38:15
was honestly in and out on it because I'm engaging
38:19
with the news at this point where I'm like, if
38:20
I truly can do absolutely nothing and my opinion will
38:25
not alter what is happening in front of me, I've
38:29
just been engaging with it slightly less because then you're
38:32
just like, well, this is depressing. I'm just like watching
38:35
someone who if things work out, we'll just definitely try
38:39
to take reproductive rights from people, will definitely try to
38:42
take health care for people. And then and then what
38:44
I'm supposed to just like drop everything on a Tuesday
38:47
morning and watch no thank you. Alright, guys, let's take
38:52
one more break and we'll be right back and we're back,
39:05
and I want to talk to you guys about Phil
39:07
Collins personally, uh, professionally. On this show, we typically don't
39:14
cover much celebrity gossip or public divorces or Phil Collins,
39:20
Phil Collins. We rarely cover uh Peter Gabriel fans here right, Yeah,
39:25
I mean we do have the Gabriel block that we
39:29
do every Friday, but um, he would actually do Good
39:33
Guests All Talk, Charlie just we couldn't just like, yeah,
39:38
I don't know where he'll be after this situation, but
39:41
maybe he would. Yeah, I think he is. Um It's
39:48
it's one of those stories that um even in it's like, God,
39:53
I wish I had more bandwidth to devote to uh
39:57
to just following this story as it developed simpler times
40:01
this year. Um So a headline for Vanity Fair, Phil
40:06
Collins is now suing his ex wife over quote an
40:10
armed occupation and take over of his mansion. Um So
40:16
that's real. So if you haven't been up to date
40:21
on Phil Collins, this romantic history, uh, he married Orion
40:26
Sevy back in ninety four when she was twenty one,
40:30
he was forty four. No problems there, got it feel
40:38
like coming in the end, Phil Collins. Yeah, yeah, perfect,
40:44
nailed it. Uh. They got married in ninety nine, they
40:47
divorced in two thousand and six, but then they got
40:49
back together in sixteen and then yeah, when she when
40:56
she had grown up a little more, uh in she
41:00
went to Las Vegas and married a younger man and
41:05
informed Phil of this in the form of a text message,
41:09
which is harsh. Yes, maybe karma at work. Since Collins
41:14
was famously Mary a man younger than her, because that
41:18
was fifteen years her junior. So how old was he? Well, no,
41:26
that was so she's now I think in her forties right,
41:30
because she was so she was twenty one, so she's
41:35
like forty three Mary and a guy in his twenties
41:39
in Vegas. Let's fill no via text. Phil was famously
41:44
rumored to have broken up with his second wife via
41:47
fax machine. So there's a couple of ways that karma
41:51
maybe uh like rearing its ugly head here and is
41:55
it like handwritten to like oi, Yeah, Phil, I don't
42:07
know much about the again, like this is this has
42:10
always been a blind spot, Miles. We've talked about this
42:13
when we're thinking about doing a news podcast. Was like
42:16
I am notoriously blind to Phil Collins's romantic history. Uh.
42:21
And so yeah, it's just I haven't done the work,
42:27
you know, but what I did in college. So now
42:33
his ex wife Cvy is living in Phil Collins's Florida
42:38
mansion with her new husband, uh, and Phil Collins is
42:42
trying to get rid of them. So it sounds like
42:44
kind of a straightforward like squatter scenario, where like someone's
42:49
trying to kick somebody out of their house. Um. But
42:52
that's easier said than done, because according to Collins, uh
42:55
Severe and her husband have implemented a bold plan to
42:59
sees control of the house using heavily armed guards. Uh.
43:03
So she has hired uh a team of armed security
43:09
guards who now patrol his house. Noted all the all
43:13
the security team or fifteen years younger children that is
43:20
important to keep razor scooters. Um. She also had the
43:27
alarm system changed so that Phil Collins didn't know the code.
43:31
And there's a detail in the suit that is pretty incredible.
43:36
She so she contacted the company that provides the alarm
43:39
service to the property, told the owner to come to
43:43
the property. Uh, and then her, her husband and one
43:48
of the armed guards. Basically like forced him, coerced him
43:52
to do like lock Phil Collins out of the home. Uh,
43:56
And they're like, you can see the details of this
44:00
coercion attached to an exhibit ten. So it's yeah, like
44:05
there she had a guard with a gun on their hip.
44:08
Change the code so Phil wouldn't know. That's not intimidating.
44:12
Excuse me, sir, please go with this armed guard and Frank.
44:17
I love how. I love how in the affidavit it's
44:19
like by a quote unquote guard named Frank, but it's
44:24
half R A N c K so fancy German. Yeah,
44:31
I mean I have changed the codes. Speaking speaking of German,
44:34
it does feel like they're definitely like some die hard
44:37
vibes going here where they've like taken over. Yeah, this
44:42
is like war the Roses turns into die hard taping
44:48
over the security camera lenses to they've taped over the
44:51
security lenses. It's so wild. Uh. I feel like I
44:56
feel like it was just like one night they got drunk.
44:59
Let's just here, you know, like kind of like it
45:02
started like good, whimsical fun and it just got a
45:05
hand and now they're like now they're dug in. Yeah,
45:09
like her new husband's like babe, where are we gonna go?
45:11
I thought you had money. She's like a funk. Yeah,
45:18
working my ecstasy dealer to come with his gun untill
45:23
he'll make the alarm company people change it at gunpoint.
45:26
The only thing Philipinson and doing is just like faxing
45:28
like crazy, not realizing that they don't have a fax machine.
45:31
So she's like, please, there's a fax machine with just
45:40
like a three ft pile of paper at the bottom,
45:42
and his like media closet that also has like a cassette,
45:46
a cassette player and CD. Uh. I feel bad. I
45:51
feel a little bad for him, but not really. It's
45:54
just people create what it insane like they're because I
45:59
have a messy divorce. Worse, like, what is the what
46:01
are the demands of these the people who set off
46:06
this coup de ta? Yeah, so there she's threatening to
46:09
release damaging allegations, which he claims are false if he
46:13
doesn't basically just let them stay and pay up. Yeah.
46:18
So the kids involved, I really need to know, as
46:20
a parent or the kids. Lily's mom, I don't know.
46:23
I don't think so. I don't think so. I think
46:26
that Lily's mom might have been the one who they
46:29
did have to they fed two kids together? Oh they did. Um,
46:34
so I'll answer my own question. Yes, Brian, there are
46:37
kids involved. Really, Oh my god, that's so troubling. Well, yeah,
46:42
I mean a strong parental forest is important. How do
46:46
you even go to therapy for that? When you're like
46:48
in your thirties, when you're like, so, what was your
46:50
childhood like? And you're like, well, funny, remember that Phil
46:53
Collins armed guard takeover. There is not right of passage.
46:57
Every kid goes through where your mom takes armed control
47:00
of the house and you're just looking at your parents
47:02
like what's going on? And that's when I knew I
47:05
wasn't gonna get married ever. You know. Now, if that's
47:09
how it ends, yeah, well, let's all let's keep him
47:12
in our prayers, guys. Yeah, seriously, really really, and hopefully
47:16
have him on ball Talk so he can work through
47:18
some of this. Yeah, oh my god, if we could
47:20
bring if we could get Phil Collins to come on
47:23
ball Talk and cry about like I just wanted him
47:26
to cry. Oh my god, imagine and you guys just
47:31
trying to like shoot this ship with him, and he's
47:32
like I was looked out of my house and we
47:36
just drop in an audio underneath the damn just thing
47:41
is I never felt it coming in the air that night.
47:47
All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeit. Guys,
47:52
please like and review the show. If you like the show,
47:56
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48:01
I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
48:04
talk to you Monday. By