There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-daily-zeitgeist-28516718/
episode 3: TDZ Holiday EP: Xmas Not Horny Enough, Gifts, Home Alone Theory 12.21.22
In episode 1396, Jack and Miles are joined in this special Holiday Edition by creator and co-host of Ridiculous History and Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, Noel Brown, to discuss… Our Favorite Gifts/Memories, Put The XXX Back In XMas Movies, The Old Man From Home Alone Was Totally A Serial Killer and more!
- The Old Man From Home Alone Was Totally A Serial Killer
- According To This ‘Home Alone’ Fan Theory, We Finally Know Who The “South Bend Shovel Slayer”...
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Speaker 1
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to sixty eight,
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Episode three of Dirt Atli's Like, guys, it's the last
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episode of the year. It's the last episode of the year.
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The school's out. Teachers are showing movies vibes. Episode. Yeah,
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it's it's gonna be pretty half passed up in here.
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We're heading out, folks. It's been a great year, been
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a great year. You got a bunch of evergreen holiday
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episodes coming to you. But I gotta tell you today's episode,
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we're really uh, we're sling it in. We're just smiling.
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Who knows what day it is? Who knows if? Oh ship,
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I should start recording, okay, recording? Well, look, folks, we're
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doing it our way today. Like what's his name? The commander?
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What did they call Frank Sinatra, the chairman of the board.
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We did it our way. Anyways. It's still a production
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of I Heart Radio, still a podcast where we take
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a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. Today a little
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bit more holiday themed than others. It is Wednesday, December one,
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which of course means Team on US National French Fried
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Shrimp Day. M hmm, that's what I was gonna say.
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Humbug Day, National Main Day. It's also the solstice. Yeah,
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remember they turned and that's why we're doing. It. Happens
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because for the solstice, because it's so dark today. You know.
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My name's Jack O'Brien, a K. I have a little
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z idle. I listen every day. I love the Daily
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Sight guys with Jack and Miles of Gray. Zitl's idols
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idle those motherfucker's cray zitles idles idle. Both Jack and
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Miles of Gray get the guilt out Let's courtesy Ruthie
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always forgets fudge at Forgetful Fudge on Twitter. Shout ut
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to you, Happy happy holidays to everyone. I'm thrilled to
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be joined as always by my co host Mr Miles
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Grass Miles Greg I talk the walk to a bed
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lamb obvious because he is the reason for the season.
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As they all said, Uh yeah, shout out to I'm
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just I can't. I'm so excited. I was telling you
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when we were talking about this episode, I'm like, I
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have wild last day of school energy. Yeah, I'm coming
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in my fucking like I'm like already half dressed to
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do some ship after the bell rings, which for me
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is just to lay down so you have a blanket
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around your Yeah. But I think for we do the show,
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you know, very consistently, you don't really hear us talk
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about like how it's it's a lift, you know for
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us to two episodes of killing us people. No, we
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love to do it, but when we get to this
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time of the year, it's like it's weird once you
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start working, like when you're out of academia or your
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schedule is sort of tied to the like the seasons,
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Like this is like still that one sort of stretch
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of the year that I think, I feel like we
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can kind of be like, oh, relax and to those
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that are able to obviously, you know, shout out to
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y'all and those that can't, I hope you're able to
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find ways to relax in whatever way you can. Yes, yes, well,
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we are thrilled to be joined in our third see
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for this half asked of episodes. The creator and co
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host of Stuff they Don't Want You to Know and
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Ridiculous History. He's also the co author of the book
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Stuff they Don't Want You to Know. That makes a
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great gift for the holidays. Not too conspiracy. Theorist in
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Your Life it's no braday. Yeah, welcome ye are you looking?
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Are you looking forward to the holidays? Yeah, I'm gonna
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lay down for the whole time. Immediately following this, everybody
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was like doing the Wild podcast. He's like, yeah, I
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will lay down. I will lay down and I would
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not look like I will not look at any microphone
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for at least seven days. My energy at this point
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in the year is always Richie Tannenbaum, Like when he
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has one of his shoes, No, when he like has
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one of his shoes off during the tennis match, it's
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just like hitting it underhanded and just getting it like
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slammed back at him and they're like an inexplicable and
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he starts crying. I think at some point, yeah, yeah,
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oh that happens there. We have good editors, but that
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happens frequently throughout that episode Behind the Curtain. Couldn't come soon,
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It couldn't come sooner or I don't know, I see,
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I don't even know what that phrases. But the Royal
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tannonbamb is a Christmas movie. Isn't there some Christmas action
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in that movie or Christmas vibes? But I don't remember
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there being a Christmas all that Mark Mothersbam music could
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be standing Christmas music. It always uses jingle bells, you
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know what I mean, just like the instrument, not the tune. Yeah,
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you know, I remember it's so weird. I remember like
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when Life Aquatic came out, I was so into it
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at the end of the year that, like the sus
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George like David Bowie covers from that album, I was like,
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this is Chris. Like whenever I hear it, I'm like, oh,
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this is Christmas music. It's so weird. How contextually Sometimes
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it's just like, yeah, I when I hear Rebel Rebel
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in Portuguese Chris, I was channeling my Blair Sacchi because
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at that point I was like it. He had done
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a couple of movies with Owen Wilson and then I
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don't know if that was this first one, but that
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was when I was like, this guy can't make a
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movie unless he writes it with Owen Wilson. That was
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one of his first that he didn't and so I
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was out on it right away. I had a boss
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that had Rebel Rebel as his ring tone, you know,
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like a look at me kind of ring tone that
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was always on full blast, like in an open office,
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and so, you know, I was trying to make conversation.
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I was like, hey, so you're a big music fan.
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I guess now, I don't really listen to music. Cool, good,
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good time. Shut that right, I don't really listen to music.
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Wait is that a song that comes out of my
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phone when people call me? I just oh no, man,
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I went to U N L V. Man. That's why
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I have this. It was a weird flex called back
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to a ridiculous history. Wait, what's so? Was the ring
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tone just that guitar lick that I'm on a loop?
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And it was just the loudest thing. And again open office.
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Everyone's just like, oh my god, I'm not a kid.
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They're like, oh man, I'm a fan of rebels. He's
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a ring tone rebel. Who even has a ring tone anymore?
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You know? It's just yeah, which is sad. He found
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silent like a human, you know, yeah, like or just
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little buzzing or at this point even the buzzing. I
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just stopped because I was getting phantom buzzings in my leg,
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like you know, like when you're like, it's my ship going. Yeah,
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it's it's all bad. All right, Well, we are going
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to do a half as Christmas themed episode. We don't
06:45
really have news to talk about today. What do you
06:48
want to talk about? You want to talk about Marjorie
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Taylor Green and Lauren Bobert fighting? Yeah? What what? I
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wonder what Elon Musk did this time? Who cares? Grow up? Okay, listener,
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grow fired. We don't care what he did anymore. So
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instead of that and all, we are going to get
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to know you a little bit better in a moment,
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We're also gonna just talk about Christmas gifts, our favorite
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Christmas gifts of all time or the for me, the
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one that got away. Yeah, oh you didn't get that. No, dude,
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I'm fucked up about this. That that is. I thought
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my favorite Christmas gifts were homo erotic, and then I
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looked at your favorite Christmas grift, Like the commercial is like, yeah, Gacy,
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a greased up man with like a master blaster from
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mad Max body just like standing there was a mask
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and a gun just for unders. Yeah you need this,
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little boy, And I'm like, and put it on your
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underwear too. Tidy Whitey's. You know remember that when that
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was the thing. G I Joe Tidy Whitey's and he
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meant that was a weird still a thing with the
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with the Little Boys that we've got some Marvel guys,
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incredible Hulk. I'm gonna just talk about why I think
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Christmas movies need to be horn here, just in general.
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I think we are suffering from a lack of horn
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nous in our Christmas movies. And we're gonna then dig
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into The Old Man from Home Alone. So we asked
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our writer j m all right, man, it's schools out
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for for the winter, put a movie on and uh,
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just let us know, let us know what you're thinking.
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And he has a pretty convincing theory that the Old
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Man from Home Alone is actually a serial killer. So
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I think he's the Fisherman from I Know what you
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did last summer. That's an extended universe. That would make
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a lot of sense. Actually, that makes all the sen
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that would explain everything. To quote my favorite viral video
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from Christmas work Key for Sutherland is told he's a
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pirate and then says that would explain everything in and
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turns and dives into a Christmas tree. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The Old Man, for those you don't remember, that was
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like the lonely old guy. He was so afraid of
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and then it's kind of like the d s X
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smashing a moment. Yeah, when he shows us snow shovel right, yeah,
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the snow shovel killer. All right, all that plenty more.
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But first, No, we do like to ask our guests,
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what is something from your search history that's revealing about
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who you are? So I just looked at this before
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we hopped on. I had totally forgotten that this was
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the last thing in my search history, as you do
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with search histories. We you know, in our line of
09:37
work we search for a lot of weird ship but
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the most recent thing is the Ship of Theseus, which
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is a thought experiment um that sort of posits whether
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an object made of completely unoriginal components ak like replacement parts,
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is in fact still the original object. So I don't know,
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I you know, it's sort of like a Shortinger's Cat
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kind of situation. I'm not quite sure what the answer is,
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but it's fun to think about, Yeah, why did this
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pop up? Or what what? What? What? What inspired the search?
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We were actually Ben and Matt and Night who co
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host something that once you know, we're doing an interview
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with our friend Alex Williams for his podcast ephemeral about
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the ephemeral nature of podcasts, and so we were just
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kind of talking about if something exists only in digital form,
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is it really a thing, especially like a tree falls
10:27
in the forest kind of question, like is it really
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something you can wrap your arms around? Does it exist
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in perpetuity? You know, knowing the infrastructure, you know, and like, uh,
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you know, societal collapse, doomsday times, could you know, literally
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render us podcast lists? Right? And since Alex's show is
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is a relatively limited series and it is all about
10:48
ephemeral kind of objects, we recommended that he pressed all
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of his episodes onto wax cylinders and keep them in
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a vault, you know, for when this inevitable moment our
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history does come so people can enjoy it, you know,
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parsing out parts from dumpsters so they can make a
11:02
hand crank victrola and listen to Alex's podcast. And you
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said you said an old school cylinder, right, not an
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old I mean, you know, if vinyl would work cylinder,
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maybe magnetic tape that does degrade. It's possible because you know,
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like there's so many you can like vinyl cutters are
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somewhat affordable. There there are and there's even like this
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company called Teenage Engineering. Speaking of nerdy music ship, we
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were talking about off air that actually makes a tiny
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little vinyl cutter that can cut like kind of low
11:29
five violando these tiny little discs, and then you can
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use it to sample and make you know, low five
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beats for to study to. Alright, so Jack, we need
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to create we need to create the like library of
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Alexandria podcast on vinyl, every podcast episode ever can. And
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then the question became if if it has to be
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pressed or you know, put on physical media, then there
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becomes a hierarchy of which ones are worthy of this
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treatment because there's just too many out there. So is
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it about downloads? Is it about filling certain content categor
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gorries and having like a you know, a nice full
12:03
kind of representation of like what podcasts were or are.
12:06
It'll be who sold the most Casper mattresses that will
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decide entry into the into the Hall of Fame. But
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just if anybody doesn't know the thought experiment, it's like
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a ship where over a number of years, like they
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keep replacing broken parts to the point that every single
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piece of the ship is a replacement part. And the
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question is is it still the same ship, and something
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similar happens to our bodies, where we're turning over cells
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like many of ourselves, like on a near daily basis.
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And so you're, you know, almost nine of you is
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completely different in any structural form from the thing that
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you were, you know, five ten years ago. Are you
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the same person? It came up pretty heavily and Wanda
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vision um in terms of I think, what's his name?
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What's the red faced robot guy? Vision? Yeah, because you
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know there's like an evil version of him or whatever.
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And then the ship of theseus question comes up as
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to whether he is you know himself or whatever because
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he's been rebuilt completely from scratch. Yeah, damn, I'm not
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even high. I was really thinking about the can you
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feel like? I think? I think they it's yeah, you
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are the same person, and use yeah philosophical I like
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the deeper philosophical implications, but I wish I could also
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go up to like a credit Buro and be like,
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that actually is not me. My cells are different from
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that person. With those, I'm a different person. Score literally Yeah, alright,
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what is something you think is overrated? I think lying
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to kids about a weird overweight bear demand that breaks
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into your house and gives you nice things if you
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behave yourself, and undesirable things if you're a bad child
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is overrated. I think it's, like we talked about it,
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a lot of stuff that wants you to know about
14:01
being kind of the original conspiracy that sort of teaches
14:04
kids and then inevitably adults, not to believe the lines
14:08
that they're fed, you know, throughout their life. And I
14:10
think it's sort of counterproductive to do this. I think
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maybe kids are a little smarter these days, the Internet
14:15
being what it is, kids probably figured out a little
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earlier than they used to. But I still think it's
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a weird thing to perpetuate, you know, a a tradition
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based entirely on a lie. Yeah, it's like, you know,
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if the first our first brush up with the Panopticon,
14:32
it's the all seeing eye of Santa to be like,
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tecause you to either accept it or fear it and
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and not trust it, you know. And I remember just
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getting so angry. But I had a very quick evolution
14:45
with Santa, because again I was so like one track
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mind about like you said, if I was nice, I
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get this, and I didn't get them, Like then this
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motherfucker doesn't exist, and they try and I was like, no,
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I'm off this. Listen, How how come Santa makes all
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this stuff that I do? You target? You know, I
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understand that either exactly exactly. It's not like we're getting
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rocking horses and handmade like you know, wooden toys. Like
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it's all commercially produced. Ship. It falls apart pretty quickly.
15:12
Do you have the scars of living under the rule
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of Santa's all seeing? I you know, I just remember
15:19
finding like I got a joke coo. Remember Joe Cool.
15:21
He was like Snoopy, like the cool guy version of Snoopy. Well,
15:25
I found it was also, yeah, exactly, I found this
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like skateboard, this Joe Cool skateboard in my parents closet.
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You know, I think I think everyone has that story.
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But yeah, and then I was just like I didn't.
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I don't think I I didn't really call them on it.
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I just sort of let it go for a couple
15:38
of years, and then I think up naturally like it does.
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I think most kids figured out before their parents realized
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they do, and they just keep playing along because they
15:47
don't want to like wreck the grift. Yeah, not me.
15:50
I was buying that ship. I was like, why would
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they lie to us? That's crazy to my older sister,
15:57
you know. A couple of years back, it was hard.
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I remember, Yeah, I remember seeing the gift and getting
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it on Christmas, just being like, weird they got the
16:06
same thing for me. Remember getting pissed one year because
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I found a gift Like you guys don't even fucking trying.
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She was in the garage just like out there. Yeah,
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like you think I'm not gonna look in the toys
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r us bag. We don't have that ship in the
16:22
house ever, Like, yeah, it was, I think, And then
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most of the time it was just my like mom
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trying to do her best to like hide ship in
16:29
the weirdest places so I wouldn't because I was like
16:30
flipping the house like the fetes. Yeah. But yeah, once
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I learned it was a lie, I started smoking. That
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was immediately. Yeah. I was like, I switched from Joe
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Cool the state. Yeah, that's why I thought you were
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talking about For some reason, saying Joe Cool just put
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it sticks in my head and Joe cambl oh Jack
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forgot about him. It's don't like it later. What's something
17:00
is underrated? I think eggnog is underrated, but that might
17:03
just be you know, a lot of people think it's gross.
17:06
I think it's great as great as a flavor. It's
17:10
great as a boozey drink. I like it in like
17:13
lattes and cakes and whatever. I just love the flavor.
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And Alex Williams again the ephemeral creator and host. Every year,
17:20
at least back when we were in an office, he
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would make George Washington's eggnog recipe, which contains no less
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than like eight different kinds of booze and like raw
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eggs and games all they like. Have you ever read
17:36
the like list of the booze that was consumed during
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the time when they were like drafting the Constitution a
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receipt from It's amazing. It's like bathtub, it's swimming pools
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of like gin and just like all of the like
17:52
dark booze that would make you feel like ship and
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make you incapable of like doing anything. That's all they drank.
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They partied so hard. It's crazy, and it's crazy because today,
18:02
like if you find out that a lawyer or a
18:04
judge had a drink, it's a mistrial. But we based
18:08
our entire democracy on a document drafted by a bunch
18:11
of booze hounds. They were actively drinking, you know. Yeah,
18:16
they used to make room for functional alcoholics because that
18:19
was like kind of all there was was because they
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couldn't Like water wasn't really good back then, it was tainted.
18:27
Is this water been treated with alcohol? Then I cannot drink?
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Where are you going, George, I'm going hanging out with
18:35
the other slavers to figure some ship out about the
18:37
al right, now, get the funk off my back. Yeah,
18:40
it's a living document. Yeah, which is so funny. I
18:43
wonder like, how if you know someone tried to get
18:46
one of these like Supreme Court justices or these like
18:48
strict constitutionalist type people when you like bring that up,
18:51
like you're like, do you think that may have had
18:52
any effect? Like knowing on paper on wax they were
18:56
fucking smashed too, but sanctified, sanctified. Yeah, alright, let's let's
19:03
take one one quick break. We'll be back. We'll talk
19:06
our Christmas ship and then we will bid you ad
19:09
not gang and we're back and yeah, so we're talking
19:27
Christmas stuff. Yeah. Loosely formattic miles, you brought to my
19:31
attention the most homo erotic child's toy I've ever said. Okay,
19:34
so I was just thinking about Christmas, right, and I'm thinking, like,
19:39
the last toy I wanted so fucking bad was this
19:43
thing called the Eliminator t S seven and came out
19:47
like ninety two, and I wanted this show so fucking bad.
19:50
I remember this kid got one for his birthday. I
19:53
almost had a fucking panic at that because I didn't
19:55
have that ship and yet, and I was like, everybody
19:58
got this fucking thing. But I gotta play this commercial
20:01
because I just I was having trouble remembering what it
20:04
was called, and I was just like that nineties toy
20:07
like gun sword thing, and the commercial comes up with media. Yeah,
20:12
the whole thing is that this shitty looking plastic cube
20:16
thing with a fucking like phallic thing just shooting off
20:20
the side is like a seven and one weapon. But
20:22
I do want to play the commercial because it absolutely is.
20:26
It's not anything I remember. The sword has the silhouette
20:29
of a dick, like they've gone with a like you know,
20:33
rounded sword. And then so you think, like if you
20:37
if you watch the obviously can't see it because this
20:39
is a podcast format, but if you're watching it, you're like, oh,
20:41
I see what they're talking about. Like the sword has
20:43
a silhouette of a dick. That's it's like, and then
20:45
they added an attachment that is just a flashing dick. Yeah,
20:53
it's just a vibrator. I'll just play the commercial because
20:56
you you will appreciate the nineties sound of this commercial.
21:00
But please picture master blaster. He so he has a
21:03
mask on with like a police helmet. Yeah, riot cop
21:07
kind of yeah, riot cop without a shirt on, just
21:10
oiled up. And also he appears to have been miked
21:13
from across the room. I was hearing there seven off.
21:24
That's a little shrimpy. Definitely, he's jack. Look at that one.
21:33
That one it did. Then he just put a condom
21:35
on top of another and he hit that. He hit
21:38
the gun from the back with the sword. Yeah, and
21:40
then it kind of goes through the front. Nubbin kind
21:43
of sticks out the front, and it's just pre Terminator
21:45
because that is a Terminator text that is Terminator fought right.
21:48
Oh yeah, this is nice. This is probably nine months
21:51
after Terminator came out, and it was like, yeo, man,
21:53
they fast tracked this after seven Oh it's the of course,
21:57
the dash yeah, the limit amazing, amazing exactly. I was.
22:01
I just remember being like, this is the coolest ship,
22:03
and then I looked at it again. I'm like, man,
22:06
fucking marketing fucked me up so bad as a kid
22:09
that I was just like, I have no fucking use
22:11
for this stupid thing. But it's like man, meat man
22:15
is screaming in my face. I will please in doctor
22:18
nate me. I have this distinct memory of going to
22:20
like flea market when I was a kid, and you
22:22
know how they have like booth to sell like weird
22:24
knives and nunchucks and ship like that. There was something
22:27
that was called a taser knife, and I just always
22:31
remember that, like why do you need it to be
22:34
both like so you chase them and then you stab
22:36
them or or is vice versa or is it just
22:38
in case they get up close? It just seems like
22:41
one of the most difficult applications of a taser, like
22:45
how do you do how do you safely? Because either
22:48
are you are you committed to like sticking somebody with
22:52
the blaze and then you're like, actually I want to
22:54
go non lethal with the taser afterwards. But yeah, it's
22:59
the the s and m vibes are like real, like
23:02
his voice is like something good. What would what would
23:07
the what would conservatives? What would Marjorie Taylor Green say
23:11
about this commercial? Because it's clearly meant to be like
23:13
this is this is boy shit gone knife boy. This
23:17
is made by conservatives, but for the children of conservatives,
23:21
they would probably Yeah, but just knowing how sensitive, how
23:25
you know, the the faux outrage over anything seemingly like
23:28
out of the heteronormativity of like you know, what they
23:32
believe how men or women are or aren't that they
23:35
would be like this guy's naked, he looks like one
23:38
of these like you know s and m guys. Or
23:41
would they just be like, finally a fucking role model
23:44
for our young kids. It's a biker cop with I
23:46
think I think that, Yeah, I'm with I'm with Jack.
23:50
I think they would dig it. I think they would
23:51
appreciate what it represents. It's got some Chippendale vibes to
23:55
listening pectorials, you know, like yeah, so even Mark Taylor
24:00
Green's like, I don't know, I mean, he's he's attractive. Well,
24:03
she or she would be like outrage if if this
24:06
was like I don't know it could it could go
24:09
either way. It could go I think I think they
24:11
would be happy that this was out there, mad when
24:15
a liberal media institution pointed out that it was fucked up,
24:20
and be like, you guys are sick, okay, But then
24:23
also I feel like, invite this guy to their Christmas party.
24:27
You know, like they were pictures of like with male
24:31
escorts and stuff like with like Chip and Dale types.
24:34
I could have sworn there was some like pictures yea,
24:38
but yeah, then the application the toy itself is extremely phallic,
24:42
where like different parts of the gun fuck different parts
24:46
the gun. Yeah, and there's like a condom that makes
24:49
the gun bigger or makes the sword bigger. And then
24:52
ultimately there's a laser blaster that is a three dimensional
24:57
dick that just flashes. Only we're also a super soaker
25:02
kind of situation that would just really be the cherry
25:04
on top of anyway by gone toys. And I'm sorry
25:10
when you were describing this earlier, I was picturing a
25:11
human situation. That's why I said Harry Underpants, because he's
25:15
also an S and M E jacked kind of you know,
25:17
oiled up action figure. That was my favorite toy Christmas
25:22
present was the he Man Castle. Yeah, and those are
25:27
cool bank now, I mean that like all that stuff
25:29
is like seriously collectible. The other one that that is
25:32
similar to this was a machine gun from the A Team,
25:35
and I went, I was like it couldn't have been
25:37
as I remember it, which was just a like screen
25:40
accurate machine gun, like a black metal, metallic looking machine
25:46
gun that just had a team on the on the butt.
25:50
And I'm sure enough that's what it was. It was
25:52
a submachine gun with a box that has one of
25:56
the characters from the A Team just like spraying someone
25:59
with team gunfire. And yeah, they it was the UZI
26:05
like the they have a K forty seven M six team,
26:08
like they have the real names of the right I
26:12
had And it's a slick sound, right, It was kind
26:15
of is that the deal? They even advertised that it
26:19
like makes authentic automatic weapons sound murder sounds. Yeah, make
26:24
your child feel like he's really murdering someone, just just
26:28
be just he could be just like the Israeli Defense
26:30
forces with this ouzi who were the bad guys in
26:35
the A Team? Were they like killing commies or something?
26:37
Was there a political bent too? I just have no
26:39
recollection of this show. I gotta wonder who were they
26:41
pitted against. I think I remember reading something something this
26:45
year that what they had an episode that was like
26:48
really pro union and they were like fighting people who
26:52
were like union busters. So maybe like the team actually
26:55
had like progressive politics. I can't I didn't dig into
26:59
it as much as I should have, but yeah, they're
27:05
fighting Pinkerton's and ship Okay, all right, y'all, okay, like off,
27:09
we were fucking there during Haymarket Man, fuck it alright, Annibal,
27:15
a show that is entirely about the worst marksman in
27:19
the history of gunplay. Just shooting into the ground. Just run,
27:25
run over a hill and fire an automatic weapon into
27:28
the ground. It seemed to be their strategy at all,
27:31
at all times. While we're still on toys, Canna ask
27:34
you guys, Um, have you guys heard of Trumpy Bear?
27:36
Has this crossed your path? And yeah, yeah, a buddy
27:40
of mine's dad lives in Queens and it's like, you know,
27:43
Fox News isn't right wing enough for him, so he's
27:46
a news Max dude. Um. He sent me a video
27:49
of this like mail order commercial like from the old days.
27:52
It was like the eight hundred number for this thing
27:54
called Trumpy Bear and he's you know, double thumbs up.
27:57
He's got the swath of you know, weird hair and
28:00
he's yeah, and he's got like a little zipper pouched
28:02
on his back of his neck. The unfurls like an
28:04
American flag cape. And he bought it for his dad
28:06
and pushed the video of it on social that. I
28:09
was just tickled by the we should play because the
28:12
opening is like, it's like, I think you should leave.
28:18
It's it's absolutely the wind whispered through the forest, A
28:22
storm is coming. Storm from the trees rose the resounding voice.
28:28
Why fear nothing. I come when the trumpet sound the
28:33
way that line was delivered. I come when the trumpets
28:37
sounds like, okay through I am the storm. The Great
28:42
American Grizzly introducing the original Trumpy Bear super plus American
28:51
trump Bear was born June fourteen. However you want to
28:55
you know, born flag day. Hold that l you fucking lives.
29:00
This is wild. Yeah, I mean it seems like it's
29:03
specifically designed to piss off liberal people like yeah, but
29:10
also like but luckily they're they don't have like a
29:13
very discerning audience, so they're not like, oh, this is
29:16
a little too hack for me. We're like, just get
29:18
to the part. Okay, American flag right whispered through the forest,
29:24
such a wild and the trumpets sound. That's what it said.
29:29
Oh wind whispered through the forest that a storm is coming.
29:32
Like you just just jumped straight to Q from that
29:35
first sentence. But and they and they said the Great
29:38
American grizzly as like that was the climax, which leads
29:41
me to believe that they did not get the market,
29:44
like the trademark rights to Trump's likeness, right, Like that
29:49
must be why they didn't. They don't really like mentioned
29:52
Donald Trump. Oh, because it's like a grift on a griff,
29:55
because that he's like he can sue them. Yeah, I
29:58
mean it's just cool to watch, like I like right
30:02
around on his fucking motorcycle with this bear or this
30:05
guy who's like in a golf cart. He's like, when
30:07
I'm trying to be racist to Asian people that are
30:10
on this golf course, I used the trumpy bear and
30:12
the stars and bars flag to let them know I'm hostile.
30:16
Do you not approach? Yeah? Alright, let's move on to
30:21
Christmas movies. For the Great Christmas Presents. No does anything,
30:24
stick out to your favorite favorite Christmas present before we leave,
30:27
favorite Christmas president or when you want it. Yeah. I
30:30
think I got like a Huffy remember Huffy's Yeah, yeah,
30:34
I got Huffy. I think it was like, you know,
30:36
mega boy Huffy, Like it had like machine gun turrets
30:39
mounted on it, or and it just has like a
30:42
picture of a young boy but he's built like the
30:45
Master Blaster dude from Total Miles was commercial now and
30:50
I just think of like paint sniffers, you know what
30:52
I mean, Like it's just which was something the kids
30:56
in my middle school we're into. So yeah, Full circ
31:00
date in Ohio. Full Circle now where Gummos based might
31:08
shitty Rabbit stinks like shit. So I want to talk
31:11
about Christmas movies. So, first of all, this is something
31:14
I bring up frequently. But if you look at the
31:19
birthdays in the US, what we're living through right now,
31:23
this time period is actually America's breeding season. This is
31:27
when the most babies are conceived in the next couple
31:30
of weeks, presumably because everyone's indoors. I think in America
31:34
we have the artificial high of like buying gifts and
31:37
just being so like market capitalism brained that just getting
31:42
to buy or steal or you know, give things. Transactions
31:46
get people high. It's also among the most acceptable times
31:50
to be publicly drunk, which I think always helps with that.
31:54
And then I don't know, it's like built in two
31:57
our system and like into into our civilization that like
32:02
there there's a giant, you know, week long festival around
32:06
this time to honor the winter solstice and you know,
32:11
laugh in the face of God for trying to kill
32:13
us yet again with winter, and with the thing that
32:17
we like to do when laughing in the face of
32:19
God is fuck each other. So I was just like
32:21
thinking about Christmas culture. By the way I started, I
32:25
started my the first thing I wanted to do was
32:28
answer the question why so many birds in the twelve
32:31
Days of Christmas? And it's just there's no there's no
32:35
real good answer. Well, you're like, before I get to horny,
32:38
why the birds throwing me off? It seems that that
32:42
song seems like it's written by like a bird themed
32:45
batman villain. It's just all birds. I have a pretty
32:49
significant bird phobia, you guys. Oh man, I'm sorry. I
32:53
always have. I have traced it back to being a
32:55
kid and my Grandpa's taken me to the beach and
32:57
just throwing breadcrumbs everywhere, and seagulls dive bombing my little
33:01
boy body and it's just a super traumatic I like,
33:04
it's a sense memory, and like I don't like their
33:07
twitchy movements. They're very unpredictable, you know, So this would
33:10
be a nightmare gift for me. Yes, so many every
33:13
fucking day. It makes such bad gifts. Also, that's the
33:17
context of the song is but like seven days of
33:20
just bird gifts, which like it's up through the milking,
33:28
aren't like an actual some kind of bird reference up
33:31
through seven. I think it's all birds except for the
33:34
five Golden rings. The five golden rings is a reference
33:38
to like a golden ringed bird. I just saw some
33:41
tweet about that. Yes, really, yes, but the imagery is
33:45
always like goldenh Okay, that's that's news. I don't think
33:48
people I don't know it. But again, it's Twitter, and
33:50
it's the last days of Twitter, so you know, people
33:52
could saying anything and I'll believe it. There's a thing
33:55
in the office or Andy Bernard was dating um Ellie
33:58
Kemper's character and he did I r L the twelve
34:01
Days of Christmas and it was just like she was
34:03
just covered in scratches and from being bird attacked, you know.
34:08
But anyways, back to the horny and it's of Christmas.
34:10
So Christmas is our horny is Holiday? Valentine's Day be damned,
34:14
you know, it is Christmas just naturally, even though no
34:17
one says that we all like the birthdays, reveal year
34:21
after year people are fucking around. Yeah, and the music
34:28
reflects that. When you listen to the music, there are
34:31
there is. It is shot through with sexuality, like the
34:35
you know, the classic Christmas songs are very horny in
34:38
a lot of cases. So I'm wondering, like it feels
34:43
like holiday movies need to get hornyar I'm I'm identifying
34:48
a gap here that And it's also I think the
34:52
answer to the question that I know, like half of
34:55
the population has half of the population loves the movie
34:58
Love Actually, and the other of the population is like,
35:01
why is this a thing? Why not cards? Yeah? Note cards?
35:08
So my theory is that Love actually is addressing a need,
35:14
like it's addressing a hole in the market, which obviously
35:18
there are like holiday romcoms, but this is like the
35:22
most mainstream one. And I think it's getting a lot
35:25
of the attention and a lot of the love that
35:29
could be taken up by other ones, just because it
35:32
is inhabited by people who are thinking about and having sex.
35:37
And and that's something that is missing from our holiday movies.
35:41
Like most holiday movies are still just like a re
35:43
skin of either a Christmas Carol or The Grinch or
35:47
Miracle Onto Streets, Miracle on thirty four Street. And you
35:51
know it's like all these asexual protagonists. I yeah, we
35:56
need more sex in our Christmas movies, is what I'm
36:00
is what I'm saying. So George Bailey should have been hornier.
36:07
Like I get that. It's you know, a time when
36:11
people are like, oh, they're watching movies with their kids,
36:13
but like, love actually should not be Love actually should
36:17
not be the only option for like after the kids
36:19
go to bed, like a movie in which that is
36:22
inhabited by a universe of characters who have had sex before.
36:27
Like that, love actually should not be it. And I
36:29
think that is where love actually's outsized impact is coming
36:34
from in our culture. Let's also not forget the most
36:36
overtly rapey Christmas song baby It's cold out, So Yes
36:40
so songs the songs are the songs get it. The
36:44
songs get it. The movies the songs get The songs
36:47
are like I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus hang low,
36:51
the missiletoe Hello. They don't say, but you get the point.
36:55
The newest like all I Want for Christmas is You,
36:57
with the accompanying image of Murrai in that Santa suit.
37:01
I think is one of the most iconic, like cultural
37:04
moments of our lifetime. Like that it became it's like
37:09
the number one Christmas song now like that for so
37:12
many years of my like when I was young, like
37:15
all the Christmas songs were kind of set, and then
37:17
that thing came through and she looks great, she looks
37:20
you know, like I think the songs get it, though
37:24
you can. You can do a lot just with like
37:26
the voice and you know, just the vibes that the
37:30
song is giving off. But it's funny, man, I haven't
37:32
heard all that one for Christmas is you Want this Season? Yet?
37:35
But I have heard ten different versions of Last Christmas
37:39
by Wham, every version except the Wham version, which I love.
37:43
But these like half asked knockoff covers are just embarrassing
37:47
and like, why do you even need a cover of that.
37:48
The original is fantastic. You know what, I'm curious, because
37:52
you know you like music, are is there a song
37:55
that There's so many songs people hate during Christmas, like
37:59
the Wham thing, Like it's like, you know, it's like
38:01
a trope on the internet of like trying to yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:05
I haven't heard it yet this December. So we heard
38:07
it like in the lead up somebody like recommended as
38:10
an a k and so I listened to it then,
38:12
but someone was like, actually it doesn't start until December one.
38:15
I haven't heard it since the game started, so I'm
38:19
living clean. Okay, what's your what's your most controversial favorite
38:23
Christmas song? It would would it be that one? Yeah? Probably?
38:26
I love that song just a lot, Like I've covered
38:28
it before myself, like with like a vocoder and like
38:30
very like chromatics kind of like Italians do it better vibes.
38:33
But I really love the song Father Christmas by The
38:35
Kinks because it's just like a good kind of punky
38:39
fun XTC vibe kind of like banger. I think that's
38:43
an underrated song. I think Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney.
38:47
I've looked with that. People think, really, it's so fucking wild. Yeah,
38:54
it's it's the part I was just talking with Justin
38:56
before we got on and he was like, I think
38:59
people don't funk would because the chord progression is very
39:01
like simplistic. I'm like, that's why I love it. And
39:04
then when those sins that delay gets out of control,
39:06
disrespects your sense of hearing like an equilibrium, yes, and
39:10
then do you really like it? Yeah? Okay, it's so
39:15
So This is Christmas by John Lennon, which is just
39:17
such a downer, mega depressing thing. It really highlights their
39:21
you know, different sides of the beat. So you're lendin Jack.
39:25
I like that song, probably better than the McCartney one two.
39:30
It's in the Maytells by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires
39:33
is my favorite Christmas excellent song. Oh wow, okay, I'm
39:36
over here being like man Andy Williams do and Dick
39:41
Gary Doc and don't forget da your sock like that ship,
39:46
I'm up your sock you. Oh no, I kiss off
39:51
piss off her majesty every time because I add my
39:54
own lyrics to that. Yeah, yeah, because you know you
39:58
and Andy ship faced again and on my handy handy andy,
40:12
alright on my whoa. But I think those I think
40:19
for it's interesting from I always talk about this, like
40:23
from my experience of like being like not being a
40:26
white American person and that only being the predominant messaging
40:30
that was just shot at my face like through TV
40:33
and media like as a child, that I have this
40:36
very idealistic idea of it that sort of conforms to
40:40
this like target commercial lexus December to remember type aesthetic
40:44
that's completely like got me, like like that's the version
40:48
of Christmas. I'm like, yeah, yeah, that that's Christmas. So
40:50
I don't know, I don't know if that's a tragedy
40:52
or not. To goddamn tragedy is what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
40:57
Christmas travesty. Thanks, Thanks, I just wanted to get that
41:01
out there. So all right, and finally we have to
41:03
get to j M's conspiracy theory. You know, we have
41:06
one of the very conspiracy stuff purveyors with us, and
41:11
I think this is a pretty good one. So what
41:14
what would What were people's thoughts initially when the old
41:17
man from Home Alone came out and saved the day,
41:20
was that he was just like good, yeah, it's weird.
41:23
I just gave him a pass because he has kids
41:26
that he the and like, he's got a kind face.
41:29
They nailed the casting to the point that he's like, hey,
41:32
I just don't have good dental healthcare. My my my
41:37
job doesn't have good dentals. But otherwise I'm a pretty
41:40
good guy. And he's only he's only beaten on the
41:42
bad guys. So I mean, yeah, right right. It's a
41:46
starting violent movie, brutally violent, and it's only a kid
41:49
perpetrating all these acts of violence. Which is why it's popular,
41:54
is because it's you know, allowing us to enact our
41:58
fantasies as children to you know, just take take adults out.
42:02
I think, hell yeah, I mean, did you any if
42:05
you ever try and emulate that? Remember my mom caught
42:07
me paint cans. Oh man, I thought I was putting
42:09
like thumb tax and ship on the ground. Well boy,
42:12
rusty nail through a piece of wood. Yeah, And I
42:15
didn't go that far. We only have thumb tacks. And
42:17
I was like, what in the fund is this? I'm like, Kevin,
42:21
did you guys see X that uh kind of seventies
42:24
born slasher thing with no I didn't me at goth
42:27
It's really good. But there is a literally pulled right
42:30
out of Home Alone rusty nail through a board in
42:33
that movie, and it's a close up, but they go
42:36
further than Home Alone could go. So a recent study,
42:41
first of all, is just interesting little nugget that they
42:44
asked people around America favorite Christmas movie their number. The
42:48
number one by kind of a lot is Nationally includence
42:52
Christmas Vacation, which I mean hanging with the Grizz Walls
42:57
Hanging with the grizz you know, makes us all love
43:00
Chevy Chase by constantly placing him next to Randy Quaid.
43:03
I've never seen it, hey, man, that's that's your assignment
43:07
for the part where the lights go on are with
43:10
Vegas Vacation of all the National Room? Is that real? Yes?
43:15
And the cast is all different. But that used to
43:18
be on Comedy Central, like on a loop in the
43:20
late night. That's what I've seen. It is Randy Quaid,
43:22
okay now? Or is he still way in the wind.
43:27
He's whispering in the forest right now. My friends are
43:31
whispering through the forest that the storm is coming and
43:36
he is the storm. So the fifth most popular holiday
43:39
classic is home alone and our writer Jam wanted to
43:43
discuss the Old Man. So Old Man Marley is introduced
43:47
by Buzz, who claims that he's the South Bends shovel slayer,
43:52
a serial killer who beat a murder rap in because
43:56
the cops could never find the bodies. He's out back
43:59
using his snow shovel, So we're kind of led to
44:02
believe this is probably just a thing you're older, Like
44:05
cousin tells you to freak you out right, Yeah, that's like, hey,
44:11
the guy's got a shovel. He actually kills people with
44:13
a shovel. And then, like we later see, Kevin convinced
44:16
him to reach out to as a strange son. Their
44:19
families reunited for Christmas, but he like doesn't really do
44:22
anything to prove his innocence to Kevin. He doesn't like
44:27
tell tell us that, like, oh, I actually just moved
44:30
here from Australia, where I lived for the entire nineteen
44:34
seventies and eighties. You know. Yeah, so it's one question.
44:41
Yeah when when that scene when they're looking at Old
44:44
Man Marley, Yeah, is he just shoveling fucking aimlessly? He
44:50
does appear to be shoveling snow in a backyard into
44:54
a garbage camp. It's not how you do that. Yeah,
44:57
I'm like, I'm even from I'm look, don't know, I
45:00
don't know the first fucking thing about winter, but yeah
45:04
that I always remember the walk. I'm like, yeah, I'm like,
45:07
who's fucking property? Is that? What's he doing? Like is
45:09
that a chore you do? Like just hey, man, go
45:11
shovel that one area by the tree, that shoveling the
45:14
forest floor, which seems like a fool's errand you know
45:17
what I mean? So is that our first set up
45:21
from the director to be like, yeo, this this motherfuckering
45:23
something you're eyeing him here he's in the middle of
45:26
the backyard. Yeah, in the middle of like a backyard
45:29
that I don't think is his. Maybe it is, but
45:31
like do they have backyards in Illinois or is it
45:34
like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Like people some
45:37
places don't have fences and ship that always bugs me
45:39
out when I go to that part of America, or
45:41
it's like, wait, what the funk you don't have a fence.
45:43
This is also a really fancy neighborhood, by the way,
45:46
and to get all that money, there's all this talk
45:50
about you know, the actor that plays Kevin's dad is
45:53
also the crooked cop in the Sopranos Umn Tony's Payroll.
45:57
So there's this theory that like it's actually a shared
46:00
universe saying that he's uh, he is in fact working
46:04
for the mob, because we never get a sense of
46:06
what he does for a living to afford to take
46:07
fifteen people to France. France. Yeah, Okay, I like that
46:12
he's a sanitation, but like we do see him use
46:16
his shovel as a weapon to brutally beat the burglars.
46:21
It happens at the climax, it definitely doesn't seem like
46:24
it's his first time using his shovel like that way,
46:28
like to the point for he let's this motherfucker have it?
46:34
Like the any TV eyes would they have suffered in
46:36
the course of this film, Like if they were normal people,
46:38
Harry and Marv, right, they would add a traumatic traumatic
46:42
brain injury like from the first paint. Can I feel
46:44
like you're done? But if the if in the movie
46:48
they were like there's butcher, old man butcher Marvin. He
46:52
used a butcher knife to kill his family and then
46:54
at the end he like saves Kevin by like using
46:56
a butcher knife on the people. He'd be like, oh,
46:59
he really was the butcher knife guy. So like using
47:03
masterfully using the snow shovel and there being a rumor
47:07
that he was the snow shovel killer, but that that
47:10
that positive that the snow shovel killer was real, and
47:13
that Buzz wasn't just making it up in the first
47:15
place just to to freak out his his his cousin.
47:18
We have no evidence of this being a real crime
47:21
and this being a real you know, Monica, I'm just
47:24
putting that up. But so he he's just Buzz just
47:28
happened to guess that this was somebody who like you,
47:31
because it does seem like he's not just a guy
47:36
who happens to be shoveling snow like at that moment,
47:39
and Buzz makes it up because he's constantly he's like
47:43
a again, like a snow shovel themed batman villain, like
47:47
he always has his snow shovel with him and uses
47:49
it as a weapon throughout and also seems to be
47:53
like living in some sort of like tortured existence where
47:57
he's just like doomed to shovel snow for ever, like
48:01
almost like he was punished, being punished or putting himself
48:05
through a punishment, paying his penance to tragedy. I wish
48:09
snow shovel the links to this earth to pay my penance. Anyways,
48:14
and then and then, so here's the other thing. So
48:17
he saves this kid from two bandits who have been
48:21
like burglarizing homes throughout the neighborhood, neighborhood that this old
48:25
man lives. And for some reason, even though it's not
48:27
it's not clear, he doesn't like give off like wealthy
48:31
old you know, like retired guy vibes. He gives off
48:34
like vibes of haunted ex serial killer. But he saves him.
48:40
But then he takes the bodies of Marv and he
48:44
takes the bodies of the criminals and just leaves them
48:47
in a home and calls the police and like runs.
48:50
So it's a batman move. It's also the move of
48:55
somebody who doesn't want to attract the attention of the police,
48:58
especially you saying a weapon that he was like known
49:03
for killing somebody with. I think he's a hero. I
49:07
think he's a hero too, And I don't and I
49:09
don't care if he wants to avoid police Okay, I understand. Yeah,
49:13
I'm with him on that. I'm just saying, maybe this
49:17
is a much cooler, deeper story where this man who
49:20
committed a bunch of murders with a snow shovel was
49:24
like head has been just paying his penance by aimlessly
49:29
shoveling snow, like just everywhere snow has fallen. Just I'm sorry,
49:35
this is this is my hell until I can die.
49:39
And then he gets his penance by using the same
49:44
weapon that he used to kill his family to have
49:47
a child. We have to first presume that he did
49:50
kill the family. I think, to Nola's point, we haven't
49:53
seen any anything that corroborates buzzes accusation that this man
49:57
was involved in any kind of murder. You know that
49:59
could be You're say, you so when maybe what if
50:02
this guy is a misunderstood hero in the community and
50:05
they just intimidated by him because he doesn't look as
50:08
wealthy as other people in Winnetka, Illinois. Is there any
50:12
other mention of the South Bend shovel Slayer as being
50:15
a thing in the lore of this world or do
50:18
we just hear it from buzz that one time. I'm
50:21
pretty sure we just hear it from Buzz that one time.
50:23
It just sounds like a thing you'd make up, you know,
50:25
if you were gonna have a creepy sounding you know,
50:27
you know, plausible serious. That's very true. That's very true.
50:33
So somebody, somebody might have made it up to him.
50:35
But again, I don't know, like those those rumors. Like
50:39
we always had this dude who lived up the street
50:42
from us that our bus stop was in front of,
50:44
and we were like, man, that guy's like kind of
50:47
scary and like he was always like moving like these
50:50
big metal vets like in and out of his garage,
50:55
and we we had all these theories and like he
50:57
was a nom vet, like there was you know, wait,
51:00
and like sometimes he would come out of his house
51:02
and just start shouting at us, even though our bus
51:04
stop was there, like every day he was like get
51:07
off my wine. We're like we're I swear to God
51:09
we're here every single day and we're not. And then
51:13
like you know, we all had our theories. And then
51:15
like years later he started like sniping people's pets, like
51:20
in the neighborhood. Yeah, started like shooting people's dogs from
51:24
the So there was I'm just saying, I'm just saying
51:29
like sometimes like twelve years like sensitive to that. That's
51:33
so wild. There was a guy in my neighborhood. His
51:35
license plate was Mr Wine on his buick and you
51:39
always almost hit me and my friends on his bike.
51:41
We were on our bikes and he would always drive
51:43
like fucking recklessly around us, and we're like, yo, this
51:46
guy is a fucking like something's wrong, like he's trying
51:48
to hurt us. Turns out he was just a drunk.
51:51
He loved wine. Wine yeah like her. Yeah, We're like,
51:58
oh no, he he looks with wine. And then we
52:01
found out like he was kind of going through it
52:03
because like his wife had passed away like like three
52:06
years prior. And then like but then all those human
52:09
details only came out to me and like adulthood from
52:11
people in the neighborhood, and I was like, damn. I
52:13
just thought he was like isn't that a bit of
52:14
a red flag for cops? That plate? I mean, it
52:17
seems like Mr Wasted. Mr Wine is like plausible reasonable,
52:22
But you know what, sometimes you just want to be caught.
52:24
Sometimes you want to be put out of your misery.
52:26
And let's also say if you killed your family with
52:28
snow shovels got away with it, but then like we're
52:31
just constantly aimlessly shoveling in the back of people's yards,
52:34
like not even doing any like not even shoveling their walkway,
52:38
just randomly shoveling, and then being like what are you
52:41
looking at all? This talk of like him having some
52:44
sort of like penance that he's he's you know, having
52:46
to complete it really makes me feel like they kind
52:49
of miss an opportunity to have there be a supernatural
52:51
element like he's actually like a ghost of this guy
52:54
who aimlessly wanders the forest shoveling forever. You know, like
52:58
that would have been cool if then they could have
53:00
done it for the pigeon lady. And in part two too,
53:03
that could have been like this ghost of Christmas whatever
53:05
kind of situation yea, Or is it like why are
53:08
these people always like borderline like unhoused? Yeah, you know
53:12
that that'd be like saving is there? Like because I
53:13
think always the sort of the weird kid messages like
53:17
just because they're all like unkempt and stuff doesn't mean
53:19
they're nasty. In fact, they might be the homie and
53:22
like like help you out. But there isn't much other
53:25
humanization offered to them aside from that, and they came through.
53:30
It's in like tuns, it's all over the place. That's like,
53:32
you know, don't judge a book by its cover, or
53:34
a kind of situation where there's the creepy person and
53:37
then you grow to realize they're just like me and
53:39
you and they're actually lovely people with stories about their
53:41
grandkids exactly, or sniping fucking domestic animals. Sometimes that happens
53:47
to Yeah, alright, well, no, it's been a pleasure having you. Yeah,
53:54
where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff? Yeah,
53:58
I do a podcast with Ben Bowling and Matt Frederick
54:00
called Stuff they Don't Want You to Know. You can
54:02
check that out and Stuff they Don't Want You to
54:03
Know wherever you get podcasts and follow us on at
54:06
Conspiracy Stuff Show on Instagram. Um, you can follow me
54:10
personally at how Now Noel Brown on Instagram, and you
54:13
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54:15
A book, Like you said, it's not too late. It's
54:16
a really cool kind of coffee table book with really
54:19
great illustrations from our buddy Nick Benson. It really feels
54:22
kind of like a graphic novel it's a nice hard back.
54:24
I men get that wherever books are sold. And I
54:26
also do a podcast with Ben Bowling called Ridiculous History
54:29
that you can find anywhere podcasts exist. There you go, Miles,
54:33
working people. Oh sorry, and Noel's there a tweet or
54:36
some of the work of social media you've been enjoying. Yeah,
54:39
I found I just recently found out what a NEPO
54:41
baby was, so I've been kind of fascinating with this concept.
54:44
And Gloria Alatapo from The Guardian Um posted, if I
54:48
was a NEPO baby, people would literally never see your
54:51
hear from me. I would spend my parents money in
54:53
absolute silence and peace, and that seems like the pro
54:56
move there. Yeah, a lot of the ones I know,
55:00
they're like, I want nothing to do with work. Yeah, wow,
55:03
it must be cool. Good for you. Yeah. The thing
55:07
I learned from my parents is UH works. They were
55:11
very unhappy. Yeah, Miles, you've been enjoying well. First off,
55:16
thank you to everybody uh for rocking with us this year.
55:20
He signed off from you know, our last like main
55:23
recorded episode and obviously we'll be having some evergreen stuff.
55:26
But yeah, I hope everybody has a fantastic evergreen stuff.
55:30
We've recorded almost all of it already and it's a
55:32
lot of fun. Super producer Anna Hosnier, superproducer Becca Ramos. Yeah,
55:37
we all all the homies are there, so check that out.
55:40
But yeah, I just want to say thank you to
55:42
everybody and looking forward to next year and I hope
55:45
you have a RESTful break and you're able to spend
55:47
time with those that you give a funk about, because
55:50
that's what it's about. Uh, some tweets that I like, Man,
55:54
there's there's there was a lot of nepple baby discourse.
55:57
But Dr Anna Hughes at an uh G A and
56:01
a G hues on Twitter tweeted learning that quote five
56:04
golden rings is not in fact, is not in fact
56:07
referring to five literal golden rings, but to five ring
56:10
necked pheasants a k A more birds. Uh that ship
56:14
really had Yeah, then Jamie loftus had Jamie Loft his
56:18
help tweet it also get ready for Santa University. This
56:21
one is a fucking banger. Jack, I mean Jack Jack
56:25
is improvising some a fucking whole Like, yeah, it's it's
56:33
pretty wild. But at Jamie Loft has helped, tweeted, man,
56:35
I just had a cab driver who spent the first
56:37
half of the ride describing all the times he's gotten
56:39
blackout drunk before getting on a plane, and the second
56:42
half about how his greatest wish is to see an
56:44
eagle in the wild. People are so cool. I love
56:46
talking them, talking to them so much. We finished the
56:49
ride with him recapping Grizzly Man and I said, oh, yeah,
56:53
that's Grizzly Man and he said, nope, it's not perfect.
57:02
That's my favorite Christmas movie. By the way, Grizzly Man,
57:05
that's a good one. Cocaine bears about to add to
57:09
the that. That's what I meant, not more horny nous,
57:11
more bears in our Christmas movies. That's what we actually want,
57:15
because that's what we're doing. We're hibernating like bears, and
57:18
also we're hiding from bears, and so we just need
57:22
more bears in our Christmas movies, more trumpy bears. You
57:26
can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brian, Let's
57:31
see Kirk Cousins of the NFL Kirk Cousins of the NFL.
57:37
Cousins is asked the question can someone explained to me
57:40
the difference between these three brands, l L Being, lands
57:44
End and Eddie Bauer and I it was at that
57:48
moment that I realized those were three separate brands. They
57:51
had all occupied the same brand in my brain prior
57:54
to that tweet at least LLL Being and Land's End did.
57:58
So is it ll be the one that you could
58:00
do unlimited returns? I don't know. They had to. They
58:03
had to start, like because their their products are like
58:06
guaranteed for life, so if they start wearing down, like
58:08
you can go and like they exchange it, right, No, no, no,
58:13
And I think it was like where I think there's
58:16
like a this American life story too. Or then eventually
58:18
they had to like pull back the policy because people
58:21
were just you know, taking advantage of it. Anyway, great
58:25
job on Twitter this year, folks keep coming back. I
58:28
don't know why you wouldn't Twitter the best place to
58:31
hang out? And yeah, thanks for thanks for listening to us.
58:35
You can find us on Twitter at daily Zeitgeist, where
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at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram, we have Facebook fan
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58:44
our episodes and our foot No where we link off
58:48
to the information that we talked about in today's episode. Well,
58:50
it's a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, Miles,
58:53
what song do you think people might enjoy? Oh? Well,
58:55
Terry Hall of the Specials passed away recently, and it's
58:59
some boy who was a big Sca fan, somebody who's
59:03
you know. Scott was like one of the only context
59:05
where we playing trumpet was cool in the nineties. So
59:07
I was like, yeah, I'm sucking with it. I wanted
59:10
to go out on one of my favorite songs from
59:12
the Specials, which is a Message to You, Rudy, but
59:16
not the album version. They did a live version on
59:18
the old Gray whistle Test, uh from nine. So this
59:22
is the Specials A Message to you a Rudy, the
59:26
Old Gray whistle Test version. All right, Well, The Daily
59:30
Zey Guys is a production of I Heeart Radio from
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more podcasts from my Heart Radio is the heart radio
59:35
app Apple podcast for wherever you uh find podcast Over
59:43
the finish line, that's gonna do it for us this morning.
59:47
Are we doing a trending Nah, We're not doing trending. Nah.
59:50
This is it. This is it. We out lots of
59:54
fun evergreen content over the holiday, I have a RESTful,
59:58
peaceful holiday. I lie