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.
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episode 2: Bathroom Battle Royale, Gerard Butler Has Fallen 01.18.23
In episode 1403, Jack and Miles are joined by writer, director, and comedian, Sara June, to discuss.....
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Speaker 1
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two seventy one,
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Episode two of Dirt at Least Like Guys Stay production
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of by Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we
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take a deep dive into America share consciousness. And it
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is Wednesday, January eighteen three. You know what time it is?
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National Michigan Day. Okay, Michigan. Yeah, if you're in the glove,
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you don't shout out to you over there the hand
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or hand or the mitten or whatever y'all like in
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your state to a hand? Uh. National Winnie the Pudai,
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National Pecking Duck Day, National Fi Sourist Day, Everyone's favorite dinosaur.
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You are nailing those pronunciations. Yea, there's always it's always
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in an interesting place. Did you see that tweet that
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was like, hey, kids who like learned vocabulary through reading books, like,
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what's the word you epically mispronounced because you'd only interacted
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it in books? I'm curious if you have a word
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like that, because I don't, you know, accrid? I would
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say a crid yeah, And then I was in a
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writer r and yeah, and somebody was like, what did
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you just say? I'm like, you know that a crid
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taste in your mouth, They're like, acrid. I'm like, hey,
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hold on, holds, could you just could you just repeat
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that real quick what you just said that quietly in
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the back of the room to me, that a crid
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taste in your mouth from the smoke in the I'm
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sure our listeners can tell me all the ship that
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I've mispronounced. Our guest has one. Just go ahead, comfort table.
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Oh no, it was a comfort table. Comfort comfort table
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table for the seat right there. Okay, I like that.
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Um anyway, my bad right back, just a comfort table. Yeah.
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It also suggests a childhood where you were so rarely
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comfortable that you just didn't didn't have any use to
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say that word out loud. You just read about it
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in books, never seen that word. Also, when you when
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your parents don't know how to say a word, you
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don't learned what that word is. Much later. I thought
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it was bullshit. A bowl of ship. Yeah, you're like, okay, yeah, bowl,
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that's a bowl of ship. Miles you said something very
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funny over text. You you instructed an entity to drink
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your ship. Yeah, it made me laugh very don Yeah. Yeah,
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I'm just how to do the Laker game. No, it
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had to do the Laker game. So it's nothing high stakes.
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But Jack and I had a face off over the
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weekend the sixer Nackers. But anyway, it's yeah, nothing import
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will nick John Travolta style. I mean, it sounds like
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you want to talk about it. I want to take
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my face off. We'll get to it on maybe another podcast. Anyways,
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my name's Jack O'Brien. A kit. Their plump, their plump,
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their plump. Look at my legs, They're plump, They're plump,
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They're plump like pony kegs. That is courtesy of the
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On the Only Christie Almagucci. Man, just talking about these
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little pony keg legs that I walk around on. And
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I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
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Mr Miles. Grab this bullshit. All the grift is get
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a load of this ship. A few times have been
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around that track, so it's probably just gonna happen like that.
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But I ain't no Russia hacked, George. I ain't no
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Russian hacked George. Okay, shout out to Locarni for that
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holiday back girl. George Santos mashh Yeah, I saw an
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article that was like wow, the like cries of appropriation
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ring out in the US, Japan merely shrugs its shoulders,
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probably think of what was going on with that. I'm like, yeah,
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the Japanese people are not easily offended about cultural appropriation.
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Let me just say, that's just kind of that's just
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kind of the stance I think most Asian people have
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when they're like, oh, y'all talking about us, okay, because
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over here we do it really wrong. That's right. We
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are to be joined in our third seat by a
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hilarious comedian, writer, director, vir real Sensation, the Brilliant, the Townsend. Sorry, sorry,
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do you don't tell me to do it? So I
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always forget about it? But you know what, my name
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is a song in itself. It is indeed beautiful song.
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Any thoughts written about me named after me? Yeah? Wait,
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so come for a table? Bulls bullshit, bullsh bullshit bush
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I just bullshit. How long did you start saying it? Like?
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When was the moment you had to have that reckoning
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with the real world And you're like, I'm sorry, what
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did you just say with with bullshit? Yeah? It was
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after I don't know. I I think I read it
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and then I heard somebody else say it. I heard
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a different adult say it, and I was like, step
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away from the two options and then come back to
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them with fresh eyes. I don't know why bullshit makes
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more sense because it's just specifying a and I'm like
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an animals type of ship. Yeah, a bowl of shit
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at least specifies a quantity. Yeah. And it's like you're
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trying to serve me this ship. Yeah, like you want
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me to eat it from a bowl. Yeah. I called
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bullshit called Yeah, I called asshole. I called bullshit. Oh wow.
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They said it comes from a French word bullshit, bull
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which means like liar or lie, you know, old French,
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from the old French bull meaning fraud or deceit. I
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don't know whatever. It's like one of those things, will
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never know. I just prefer someone be like, no, man,
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that's bullshit. That's not food that the guy just served you.
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That was bullshit from bullshit. That's all right. We're going
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to get to know you a little bit better in
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a moment. First, we're gonna tell her listeners a couple
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of things we're talking about. We're gonna talk about a
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fight that might may or may not have happened in
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the capital back It happened. Reports are it happened between
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Lauren go Gert and MTG. So the MTG is that
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the Marvel tinematic universe. That's exactly one. I knew it.
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I knew it. Yeah, we're big fans here. You always
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got to keep up with the latest installment. The Bloody,
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Bloody Murdogs, Murdochs, the the South Carolina corrupt legal family.
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Decades generations of having power in a small South Carolina
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town and then there's a bunch of murders and deaths
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and that that implicated them, and the trial is starting
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next week. The New Yorker sent a reporter down, which
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meant that I read a New Yorker article, which means
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that I have to share it with everybody. So but
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it's a it's a doozy. So we'll check in with
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with that story. We're gonna talk about there's a new
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Gerard Butler movie over the week end that did kind
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of good, made like fourteen million dollars, even though I
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was not aware of its existence, And we're going to
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talk about just sort of a a long standing trend
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we've seen of like sort of conservatism in the politics
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of his action movies and yeah, all of that plenty more.
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But first, sorry, we do like to ask our guests,
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what is something from your search history? Oh well, it's
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funny you mentioned reading a single New Yorker article and
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then having to tell everyone about it, because I did
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the same thing. But it was a different New Yorker
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article than the one you read, which meant I couldn't
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read the one that you linked me to because I'm
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not allowed were three articles. Yeah, I was locked out
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of the most private browser window. That doesn't work. You
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have to do some of you can't even reader mode
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or whatever. Oh maybe a reader mode would work. Try that? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I'm behind on the hacks. I used to used twelve
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foot but that that doesn't work anymore. But I did
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as a result of reading a single New york article.
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Um my last Google search is Kendall Getty website. There
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was an article in The New Yorker about the Getty family,
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which is a super supermassive, very very rich family, very
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big California family, a lot of foundations and places and
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philanthropy things named after them, particularly in the state. And
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the article is about how their money manager had been
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fired and then had filed I think like an improper
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termination lawsuit, and so as a result of the lawsuit,
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all of their tax avoidance strategies are being discussed as
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part of the court record, which is really fun. And
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Kendall Getty is one of the Getty heiress is uh.
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She is a multimedia artist, and I really urge you
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guys to google her and go to her website so
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you can look at her art. Sometimes I think that
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I don't know anything about art, and I don't know
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if it's good or bad, But it turns out I
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do know. You have some sense. Yeah, Sometimes you go
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to a museum and you go, I don't know, I
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like this one, I don't like this one. I don't
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really know why. I don't know what already is good
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and bad. I just know what I like. But then
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you see some art and you're like, that's bad art.
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You know, I didn't have to go to art school
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to to know this art is bad? Was it? Was
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this the same Getty that like had that inexplicable like
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spread like cover story done about him in a magazine
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like in the last year, and people are like, what
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the fun is going on there? Like they're a Getty
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And there was like, oh, that Yeah, yeah, yeah, the
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Getty family has like a lot of airs because J.
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Paul Getty, who was the one that made most of
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the money, had like a ton of children by a
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ton of different mothers and so cut a couple of
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them out of his will. Like, it's very dramatic. The
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article gets into it. It's it's very good. So she's
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like shitty billionaire Bob Marley kind of like You're like, yeah, man,
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of course you Getty's grants. Every everybody's fucking related to J.
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Paul Getty. Man. Yeah, So like, for example, Kendall Getty's
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Instagram bio includes the phrase bastard princess because she isn't
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a legitimate Getty Air this Game with Thrones or something. Yeah.
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Also it's she's just she's in the Democratic Socialists of America.
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It's a great artifer, It's good. It's all about how
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how money managers helped their millennial clients invest in more
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ethically responsible portfolios. Right start one, really good. All the
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millennials have portfolios they're trying to diversify. It's the most
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exciting article about tax evasion that I've ever read. I'll
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say that. Right, there's there's a lot of that that
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that actually ends up being not not really tax evasion,
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but like complicated financial crimes that are just by design
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so complicated that your eyes glaze over two sentences into
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the paragraph where they're describing it. It seems to be
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at the heart of this Murdoch empire. Yeah, it turns
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out that the whole money making money thing is like legal,
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but all of the lawyers that know about it are like,
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we got to do this as much as we can
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before it becomes illegal because once people, once people's eyes
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stopped blazing over and they realize what we're doing, they're
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gonna make it illegal. Yeah. The overall shape of it
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is them stealing money from poor people like that, that
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is what is happening, but also just avoiding taxes, like
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avoiding taxes for generations and generations by passing things down
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in these trusts and pretending that they don't live in
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California so they don't have to pay California property taxes
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even though they do live in California, Like you know,
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it's it's succession ship for sure, right, Yeah. I mean
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they even have a funk up named Kendall. That's who Aspirations,
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that's that rules. They made their money though in like
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a really smart way where they just had this brilliant
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idea that nobody thought, oh no, wait, they just found
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a bunch of oil. Yeah, yeah, became you used their
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influence from finding some oil to find all the oil.
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It's called entrepreneurship Jack, Thank you, dude. This one piece
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of art, it's like a deer with like a human
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face on it. I think it is the one that's
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a video called Happy Birthday, Mr. President, which I'll just
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spoil it for you guys, is a shadow play where
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you see the silhouette of a girl sucking a man's
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penis and then he kills her. Wow. Oh, this website
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is a wild What do you think that's implying? Like
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that's deep? Well, it says that it wants to be
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a disruption of visual literacy, and I think that's what
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it is. This is Have you seen that show, um
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Nathan Barley. It was a British comedy that came out
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in the early odds. I've heard of it, but I
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have never watched it. It's like presages all this kind
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of ship where it's like, dude, check out the newest
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art and like this one picture she did is literally
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she clipped out a scene where like Jean Claude van
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Dam is holding something but she like collaged it in
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with like a porno where like and honestly they're not
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the worst. Like this one was just a wild to
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look at. I'm like, why is Jehan Claude van Dam
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doing this to this woman? But it's just the juxtaposition
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of like the things like yep, and this one's my
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two and my two D medium. But anyway, it feels
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like this very like provocative for provocation sake kind of art,
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but it's really like a fourteen year old. It's really
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speaks to me. It speaks to me, you're in our
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fourteen year old yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah, because like this,
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I mean I remember when I was younger, like it
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did not. I cannot understand art, cannot understand poetry because
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I just hadn't lived enough and wasn't in touch enough
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with like meaning of life. So this I'm like, yeah,
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this ship where van Dam has like a sword to
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this naked lady. Yeah, I get that ship's wild. That's
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the point. Speaks to me, what is uh something you
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think is overrated? I mean I'm just looking at this
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website now again. Um, when I searched Kendall Getty, I
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get a lot of Getty image results for Kendall Kendall
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with an E. It's kah Ken Dolly. Who is Ken
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dot dot com? Yeah? I love It's like like, like,
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what is the matrix dot com? When that fucking trailer
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came out? Who is found it? What? What is something
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you think is? Says sorry, she's on her own Instagram
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posting at n why times. Somebody please report on iran.
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Thank you so much Kendall for your support. Okay, what
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is something I think is overrated? Preventative botox? I think
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it's just stop. It should stop. I know you guys
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are on that tip hard. Yeah, the whole getting botox
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at twenty three so that your face never has a
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chance to form wrinkles. Oh like saying like I'm not
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even gonna let y'all see some wrinkles on this fucking
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face kind of ship. Oh okay, Yeah, it's it's really weird.
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And there's a lot of like teens. I mean literally
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they're like nineteen on TikTok and they're like, you know,
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it's like one of those memes where they're like everybody's saying,
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I'm crazy me getting preventative botox at nineteen, and like,
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you know, it's it looks weird. It looks weird. Everyone
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can tell it's good. Getting wrinkles is fine, aging is okay,
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you know, yeah, don't worry. So what your foreheads you know,
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look like Kylo Ren's mask In a few years, I'm
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trying to get my four to look like that Geory
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division covered in four D like Kendall, like Kendall Getty's art.
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Did you see under the four D sc art? I'm sorry,
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just videos, I know, I'm like that ain't the fourth dimension?
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Ken art? Whatever? Anyway, smells some oranges while you're looking
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at it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that's smelling while
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looking at art. Yeah. This the you know, it's true,
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like the whole thing with your face being frozen, like
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it affects your ability to emote, Like yeah, the person
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I was like, yo, like Aubrey Plaza is really playing
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this whole character dead pan and white lotos and I
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was like, oh nah, it's frozen. Get ready, get ready,
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everybody's about to be that dead pan. I recognize it
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as dead pan anymore. People are always talking about like
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the dead eye look, and it's like it's because your
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face is frozen right to like the person who just
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doesn't do the Like the way they were emoting, I've
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never seen anything like this in my life. They were
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trying to express emotion, but everything around them made it.
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It was so restrained. You know, that's gonna be the
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word you hear a lot when it comes to performances. Restrained,
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so very, very subtle. The subtlety anger, very the subtlety
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of their anger was very clear. But studies have found
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and I don't like a lot of studies that came
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out in the two thousands that you know, we're like whoa,
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and you know I I wrote about them in correct,
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and then you know, I probably need to do some
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re research on that. But like there were studies that
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found that people who do botox report feeling less emotions
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because they can't move their face, and like, you know,
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you don't want to go down the slippery slope to
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like just smile and you'll feel better. But it does
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seem like there is a two way street that happens
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between the face and the brain. And so like if
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you get botox, you just like feel dead. If your
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face is not able to make the same expressions that
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it normally would via emotion. That's depressing. There was even
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the thing that they can't tell that I'm feeling depressed
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but it's depressed. Yeah that really hits sorrow. Yeah, but
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you played it really subtle, So shout out to you.
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I remember, like I think we even talked about on
17:53
the show about how like some like doctors are saying
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like if you go too hard on that, like you're
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like like parent infant come nication skills also begin Like
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that also looked like babies are like, oh yeah, this
18:05
motherfunction is not impressed at all. Facial expressions are like
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pretty important to our communication as a species, like extremely,
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extremely important. And you know, it's kind of a it's
18:15
kind of a hack joke of like somebody getting too
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much botox and can't make a facial expression, but honestly,
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it's fucking terrifying because yeah, babies learn to make facial
18:24
expressions because they see you make facial expressions. And that's
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why it's important to smile at babies so that they
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can smile, and why like them, smiling is a really
18:32
important developmental milestone, and like if babies don't make facial expressions.
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It's like a potential sign that they might be autistic.
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You know. It's like it's a it's an important thing
18:42
to be able to do, and like autistic children are
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taught facial expressions and how to read facial expresions. Like
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that's how important it is. It's like if you don't
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instinctively understand it, it's important enough that you have to
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learn it. I don't know why I have to explain
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that facial expressions are important. Is something that it's just
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not even like factored into the equation of whether or
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not to get botox as opposed to like wrinkles that
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only somebody who is staring at themselves in the mirror
19:10
for minutes straight. Well, now that's why they got levels
19:13
to it, you know what I mean, Like they dilute it,
19:15
you know, they get the watercolor. I heard my homebreaths
19:17
talking about that one. It's like, yeah, just a little
19:19
bit all over, so you still got a little control.
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I'm like, all right, what they call it? Like I
19:26
think they I think they water it down, like it's
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fucking bass, like they're cutting a crack or some ship.
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They're like, yeah, it's just watered down. A little bit
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and then it gives a little more of a natural look.
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But anyway, you know, to each their own, because I know,
19:37
I mean I remember my dad, Well, he's like he
19:39
had headaches or some ship and got it, but that
19:41
it didn't work. Yeah, it's an actual medical treatment that
19:45
works for some things. But then you know the it's
19:51
really useful. Yeah yeah, I still got time. All right,
19:56
what if something you think is underrated? I have so
19:58
many more underrated than overrated overall. I'm just a big appreciator.
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I okay, So before December thirty one, all three rush
20:06
hours around Netflix, Um, I watched them in a row,
20:10
and I do think they're underrated. I would love to
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talk about them. I think Samin no Strat is underrated,
20:15
even though she's extremely she's she's gotten a lot of
20:18
praise you in the James Spirit a word, but I
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still think she's underrated. I think people don't appreciate her enough.
20:23
This woman is the Juliet Child of the twenties. And
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then the last thing that I think is underrated is
20:28
rain catchment. We got rain barrels where I live, and
20:31
they filled up really quickly. And now I'm obsessed with
20:34
how much rain catchment we could be doing on a
20:37
municipal scale. And you know, I live in Los Angeles.
20:40
It's a very dry place. We have a very low
20:42
level of rainfall, and we have a lot of water problems.
20:45
And now I'm like water rich, and I'm going mad
20:48
with power with all the water I have. You're like,
20:50
look at this, sister, and I bill just slapping my barrels,
20:55
Like look at nest feel that listen to that ball
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And when I turn on this pigot and it sprays out,
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it just laughed maniacally. Yeah, it's amazing. It's it's really
21:08
mind blowing when you've lived in a place like you know,
21:11
Southern California for a long time and you're used to
21:13
thinking of water is an extremely precious resource, which it is.
21:16
You know, if I lived in a rainier place, perhaps
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I wouldn't worry so much. But you know, you're like water,
21:23
it's all it's so expensive, and I gotta get it
21:24
from the water company and then it's just falling out
21:27
of the sky and you're like, I could put it
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in this barrel. Yeah, So how does the catchment system work?
21:34
Like you is it just a barrel that sits out
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and the rain that happens to fall in it, or
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is there like some collecting mechanism. It's the downspout, you
21:41
know how like your roof has gutters, and the gutters
21:43
feed into down spouts and then water just goes out there.
21:45
You just connect the down spout to a barrel to
21:48
the top, and like there's different ways of doing it.
21:49
You can have, Like if you have an open top barrel,
21:51
then of course once the rain's over, you gotta seal
21:53
it so that bugs don't breed inside. But the kind
21:56
that we got it was like a closed system. So
21:58
it just goes from the barrel I'm sorry, from the
22:00
downspout into the barrel and it's all sealed and then
22:03
you just turn on this bigot when you want it.
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It's it's it's so cool. And now wherever I go,
22:08
I'm just thinking about the catchment possibilities and large buildings
22:13
and paved areas and I'm like looking at the gutters
22:16
and all of the all of the runoff that we
22:19
get in l A just go straight to the ocean,
22:21
which you know, and it seems like something they should address.
22:24
We're talking about that last week that we are a
22:27
place that is like chronically out of water, and then
22:30
we have this one huge downpour every six months and
22:35
we were just like, oh man, that water in a month.
22:39
Yeah well yeah, well I think that's the other part.
22:43
Two is like even locally right like in my yard,
22:45
like I dug a swale to like basically have more
22:48
ways for the water to re enter the like the
22:51
ground because grass that ship ain't doing it, So I
22:54
put a swale in. I'm like, because I think that's
22:57
one way I've been dealing with a lot of my
22:59
anxiety of climate and ship is like fun. Like part
23:02
of me is like, man, why the fund do I
23:04
gotta do this ship? Because all these motherfucker's that they
23:06
fucking Exxon who knew this ship for decades. But I'm like, God,
23:10
damn it, I guess I gotta do this ship because
23:11
they won't. But it feels good because in a way,
23:14
that's a really beneficial like they're really trying to encourage
23:17
that more in l A, especially because too maybe have
23:19
grass lawns and you could actually be doing ship to
23:22
like when we have rain like that, you could feed
23:25
that water back into the ground and also like native
23:28
like rewilding ship because you look at all the last
23:31
of like like I'm sorry, the loss of like biomass
23:33
and the insects and things like that. It's as easy
23:36
as like taking your like people's vanity plants that they
23:40
put in their yards and just putting back local fucking
23:43
just ship that grows, that grows here. Yeah, And it's
23:47
so that's the thing. It's so much easier to take
23:50
care of it so much. You throw seeds on the
23:54
ground before it rains, and then boom, like a month later,
23:57
you got flowers. All right, let's take a quick break.
24:01
We'll be right back to talk Lauren, Marjorie and all
24:05
sorts of ship. And we're back. And so yeah, that's
24:24
the tone, Chrismael McCarthy. Lauren and Marjorie are fighting in
24:30
the bathroom. That's what happened a couple of weeks ago, apparently.
24:35
And like for all the ship talking we do about
24:37
our elected officials in Washington, it's nice to get the
24:39
occasional reminder that we aren't wrong and that a bunch
24:43
of malformed eagle ego freaks do in fact make up
24:46
the majority of Congress. But the latest gusts is it's
24:50
quite literally out of the capital bathrooms where reports are
24:55
emerging of a friendship ending fight, although it's debatable the
25:00
whether or not these two people were friends. But between Lowen,
25:03
I said, loan, hold on, hold on, let me get
25:04
into my sleepover position where I hold into my ear
25:07
and I kicked my feet behind me. Yeah, exactly, Hold one,
25:14
you're some mothers boards that rhyme with Corey story allegory anyway,
25:19
shout up Simpson's reference. Um, but this latest gossip right
25:22
there in the bathroom, it's Lauren Goldgert versus major league
25:25
tainted fiend and they had to face off. And look
25:30
the way this even works. Again, I'm not even sure
25:33
these people even have a functional understanding of what a
25:35
friendship is. But at the very least they will not
25:37
be sharing clan robes after this bust up. I will,
25:41
I can say this. So the showdown happened as the
25:44
speakership vote kicked off and McCarthy was taken more else
25:48
than a drug dealer who's plug is in Canari boom,
25:51
please please bomb drop that Did I do that? Right?
25:53
In New York hip hop? Thank you so much? You
25:56
know what I mean? Take the elder canars anyway. Uh So,
25:58
Margie Taylor Green Confrontedlauren in the bathroom, and the exchange
26:01
goes as follows, based on quotes from the people that
26:04
reported this in the Daily Beast. First, Margie Taylor Green
26:06
comes up, apparently blows out of a bathroom stall like
26:10
a fucking villain, and it's like, so, quote, you were
26:14
okay taking millions of dollars from McCarthy, but you refused
26:18
to vote for him for Speaker Lauren. Lauren turns around,
26:21
don't be ugly, and then allegedly, according to the witnesses
26:26
that were there, quote ran out like a schoolgirl. Wait,
26:29
there are other people in the bathroom. Yes, one was
26:32
represented with Debbie Dingle from Massachusetts, Shadow Michigan, from Michigan.
26:37
She's a Democrat. But she when they asked her, like, yo,
26:40
were you in there, And she's like, look, what happens
26:42
in the bathroom stays in the bathroom. She kept the
26:44
G code. She said, that's where we go to handle
26:47
ship in the bathroom like a public high school. Like
26:49
now asked me off the record, as off the record,
26:52
she ran out like a little girl. She may have
26:56
been the source for this story, but yeah, this is
26:59
like apparently this has been brewing for years which makes
27:02
sense because they're both like the same version of like
27:05
a guano brained racist whose like reality is formed by
27:09
Facebook ship posts. But I think what the the problem
27:12
was there could only be one, you know, like just
27:15
completely out there right wing ethno nationalists spokesperson. Well, you
27:20
always hate the person who's most like you, you know,
27:23
right right, Yeah, And on one side you had tough
27:25
Marge and then you had cute gun gun in the
27:28
form of Loran Lauren go Gert And and I guess
27:32
it makes sense that it came to a head there.
27:35
But a lot of people are still trying to figure
27:36
out what the millions of dollars comment was because they're like,
27:40
hold on, like, was Kevin McCarthy's pack sending Lauren Bobert money?
27:44
They couldn't quite, it doesn't matter, But it's just wild
27:47
because the GOP is now entering like the kids being
27:50
banished from the cafeteria so they have to eat their
27:52
lunch in the library now phase yeah, which if we
27:56
remember that is the first cancel culture when when too
28:01
much drama you get banished, when you lose your social
28:04
cash like in high school, and they're like, you're like, yo,
28:07
they don't eat with them. Now they eat with them.
28:09
Now you're like canceled. I think the first cancel culture
28:13
is the time out. Yeah truly, Yeah, I guess. Yeah,
28:18
when you're little, you don't share, you get canceled. Yeahs
28:22
line reads like it was scripted ahead of time and
28:26
practice like just the way taking millions of dollars, So
28:34
right exactly, door flies open to like, come on, this
28:39
is true, and yet this is true the thing that
28:42
people say all the time, and it's very gossip girl.
28:46
Yeah exactly. I love it, but ran out like a
28:49
little school girl. So it's getting it's getting ugly over there.
28:53
But I would love to hear more reports of what
28:55
goes on in the congressional bathrooms. Males included, Yeah, we
29:00
Donald just did an absolute paint job in the national bathroom.
29:05
They're like, dude, have you ever piste? Next to Lindsey
29:08
Graham at the urinal Dude, it's like he like he's
29:12
given himself pep talks like his flows all week. Dude.
29:15
It's so awkward, and then I feel bad that I'm
29:17
being all normal and then he gets all just down
29:20
and out next to me. See, this is what people
29:22
used to do before Twitter is just be mean to
29:24
each other in the bathroom. Yeah, and then right about
29:26
it literally on the bathroom wall. Yeah, and then everybody
29:29
would be like, did you hear what happened in the bathroom? Yeah?
29:31
Did you hear? He has a weak stream? That is
29:35
one of the worst. It's like when you're peeing next
29:39
to a usually an older person and it's just evidently
29:44
very painful. That's like the that's like one of the
29:48
first moments you have about your mortality, I think as
29:50
a man entering the workforce, because like I remember one
29:53
of my first like big office jobs were like you
29:57
interacted with like one of the higher ups who's like
30:00
seventy five, and then you both are in the bathroom
30:03
and like I'm over here and be like and then
30:08
my man's over here, like fucking the Green mile like
30:11
Tom Hanks. Yeah, Like it's comflict. Sounds like a trap song.
30:18
It's like that a lot of breath happening. They've like
30:25
discovered Kundalini yoga, like just having to piss all the time,
30:30
and it became I remember this one job I had
30:32
where Sidney Stones. You're like, whoa kidney Stones? But yeah,
30:42
I just look, it's it's the passage of time and
30:45
it comes from us all. But anyway, yeah, hey, good
30:49
for you. Anyway, guys, get your prostates checked. Yeah, alright,
30:52
let's talk about the Murdocks. We we checked into this,
30:55
like I thought it was murder all. Murd All is
30:59
what it looks like, should be pretty for this is
31:01
an example of this. I was saying it wrong the
31:03
New Yorker. I don't know what paragraph said Murdoch. And
31:08
this will be the first time I've been pronouncing their
31:10
names correctly, and I apologize. I should have put more
31:14
respect on your name, the Murdochs. So this is a
31:17
story that's been kind of had our attention and drips
31:21
and drabs, going back to old people pissing as the
31:24
as the details kind of leaked out. But the so
31:29
so the New Yorker went down because the trial of
31:32
Alex Murdoch, the sort of patriarch and main criminal defendant
31:39
in this thing, is about to start. So basically, they
31:44
they were just like running this town. They like they
31:47
were the most powerful attorneys, they were connected to all
31:51
of the most powerful judges, all of the law enforcement
31:55
kind of answered to them. The thing that kicked it
31:57
all off, their son got really runk, which was kind
32:01
of what he was known for, just always being hammered,
32:04
got really drunk and crashed a boat into a bridge
32:07
with a bunch of people on it, and it resulted
32:10
in the death of a young girl. Sounds like a
32:13
Labor day crime. I I don't remember. It was like
32:16
a few years back. It was impossible to say, sorry,
32:20
what day was? No, it's it's in the article. I
32:22
just didn't write it down. So they hire an attorney
32:26
for him by the name of Dick harput Leon. And
32:31
it turns out Dick harput Leon is a powerful state senator,
32:36
a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in South Carolina.
32:40
And I can't emphasize this enough. His named Dick harput Leon.
32:44
And so he comes in it's looking like he's gonna
32:48
shoot holes in the case and like, get this dude off.
32:51
And then suddenly that that young man, the chronically drunk
32:58
son of this huge, powerful family and his mom are
33:03
murdered in on the night of June seven. They're they're
33:08
found dead outside the kennels on their seventeen acre hunting estate.
33:14
And then sorry, d d seventeen hundred acre. Sorry, sorry,
33:22
I was not in my Murdoch mindset Jack exactly. The
33:30
people will be able to hear them scream, Oh you
33:33
only to have a fifteen second head start. No come,
33:35
that's just that's just poor form, that's non sporting. Three
33:39
months later, Alex so Alex was the one who found
33:43
his son and wife and called nine on one. Three
33:45
months later, he calls nine one one again, telling the
33:48
dispatcher he'd been shot in the head by a stranger
33:51
while changing a flat tire on his car. And then
33:55
people quickly realized, like an eyewitnesses like, a looked really
34:00
weird when I drove by, Like it looked like a
34:02
set up. Quick quickly it becomes evident that he had
34:06
someone like shoot him, but nobody can even like find
34:11
the wound, so he like it might have just been that.
34:14
He like asked the local law enforcement to like say
34:17
he got shot. Oh so he said he got Wait
34:20
I remember this right, because then he was like, I'm
34:22
on opioids, man, that's what's going on. But he didn't
34:24
actually even get shot in the head. He showed up
34:27
in court two weeks later and he there was no
34:33
evident wound. There are a lot of other body parts
34:37
you could pretend to be shot in right, or just
34:40
take a real one and be like, I'll just just
34:43
get in the muscle, come on, let's go. But instead
34:46
he did a fake hedge, come on, Alex, let's go.
34:50
And and so the his like ne'er do well cousin Eddie,
34:56
who was supposedly the person who shot him, according to Alex,
35:00
like because he paid him too. So Alex basically went
35:03
with the like, hey man, I'm on a lot of opioids,
35:06
Like I need I needed the money for opioids. When
35:10
the reporter asked harput le In about the fact that
35:14
Alex showed up for a bond hearing with no sign
35:16
of injury to his head two weeks after the incident,
35:19
harput Leon said, good hair. That was his explanation. So
35:23
these people just like don't give a fuck. What is
35:26
that so fucking I think a head of hair that
35:31
you couldn't see a bullet wound in his head? God, yeah,
35:38
there's something wrong with Herputleian. Yeah, well you were drunk.
35:43
Incredibly powerful, the most powerful harput lean in the galaxy.
35:47
He's the most like people say, he's the most powerful
35:50
person in South Carolina. How do you get away with
35:53
like becoming that powerful and having the name harput Lean.
35:57
I don't know it rings maybe it helps, maybe like
36:00
in that likes from the planet Harputley. Which is so
36:04
wild though that the most powerful Armenian American in this
36:07
country isn't a Kardashian, it's this motherfucker Harputlean. He was like, yeah, man,
36:13
I said, my client got shot in the head. He
36:15
fucking did it fully, and I'm still banging out here,
36:17
Like why so the two new cases crop up, like
36:21
now that people are like looking at this, they start
36:24
to assume that Alex was involved in the murder of
36:27
his son and his wife, and in fact, now he
36:30
is accused of being the sole gunman in the murder
36:33
of his son and wife. And also two new cases
36:37
have cropped up that were people who died on their property.
36:42
That it's sucks, it's really suspicious. Like there's this guy,
36:46
Steven Smith, who had been found dead in the middle
36:48
of a road near their seventeen acre hunting a state
36:53
with a serious head injury. Superficial appearances suggested he'd run
36:58
out of gas, begun walking home the accidentally hit by
37:00
a vehicle, except there was no evidence of a hit
37:03
and run or like any vehicle. There was no vehicle debris,
37:07
kid marks, and then people are like, the rumor starts
37:12
to spread that he was murdered by Paul and Buster
37:16
the the oldest of the scions of this Paul. Paul
37:20
is the younger one who would eventually be murdered. And
37:22
but that is like the official state corner comes back
37:26
and is like or or no, wait, it's the official,
37:29
it's what. So some official comes back and he's like,
37:32
he was hit by a car. Not nothing to see here,
37:35
there's a normal collar, leave it alone. And so no,
37:39
no murdac, No murdocks were ever questioned in that one.
37:42
But there's like some rumor that Smith was gay and
37:46
his name was linked to Busters and the gossip mill
37:48
or former high school classmates, and so it was like
37:51
done to cover up any homosexual activity by Buster. I
37:56
can't believe there's a real Buster in this tale of
37:59
familial financial I know, it's it's wild. Uh. Then there
38:03
was a housekeeper who died in the house and they
38:05
used they basically he then reached out to her sons
38:11
and was like, hey, you could sue me for five
38:14
thousand dollars and then I will get collect the payment
38:18
for you and pay you back. And the sons were like, okay,
38:22
we're you know, we don't have any money and we
38:25
are about to be evicted from our our mobile home.
38:29
So they agreed to that. I never saw a penny.
38:32
And like, as the local reporters were kind of going
38:36
through all this ship, they discovered that he had in
38:38
fact collected the five hundred thousand dollars Alex Murdoch and
38:42
just like took it and didn't pay the children of
38:47
the housekeeper who died on their property. And so that
38:51
then leads to them being like and in fact, that
38:54
is really the only way this guy ever made money,
38:57
Like that's all he did. Was his law firm basically
39:03
was like really good at suing people for like that
39:07
was kind of the main industry and that part of
39:09
town because like all the factories that closed and you know,
39:13
just capitalism, capitalism, capitalism all over the place, Like they
39:18
had there was a bunch of farming that happened that
39:21
just had no long term respect for the land and
39:25
it like lead shout of all its minerals, and like
39:28
so the place is just the only the only industry
39:33
is this law firm suing people essentially, And then taking
39:37
their settlement money and then he would find ways to
39:39
siphon off settlement money. It's a tail as old as time.
39:43
Jack Tom Girardi was the Real Housewives taught us all
39:47
about this reasonably with another guy who was like the
39:50
He's like, oh man, these people blew up in a
39:52
gas explosion the Bay Area. I'm also going to keep
39:54
the money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like down and like
39:59
they talked about how it is still like a big
40:02
industry in South Carolina. Like that's how the laws are
40:06
set up, is that they will basically treat these settlement
40:09
payments like you know, cash payday loans, and they basically
40:16
take advantage of the fact that the people who are
40:18
getting these settlements need the money, and they're like, here,
40:20
we'll pay you thirty percent of that now and then
40:24
we get the rest like as it comes out later
40:26
on down the road. And that's on the books. That's
40:29
not even like against the law and what this guy
40:32
he can do whatever he wants because the Republicans are
40:34
protecting them. No, no, no no. So we also get
40:39
this interesting detail. Alex's attorney, still harput Lean as he's
40:43
facing murder trial, is super well connected. Harput le In,
40:48
a former chair of the State Democratic Party, has talked
40:51
of playing golf with President Joe Biden and his wife,
40:55
was recently made US Ambassador to Slovenia. Has a great
40:59
golf that O Biden Jack Right, I'm serious. We've all
41:03
played golf with Joe. Yeah, he doesn't remember it, but
41:07
I do. Yeah, but you can say it, and he
41:09
doesn't want to admit that he doesn't remember, so he'll
41:11
always say yes. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, how you
41:13
been see I told you Wow, So Joe Byron. I mean, look,
41:18
it's just it's wild again. No matter where you can,
41:21
you get powerful like this, It's the game is the same.
41:25
It's like, yeah, man, there's rules for us, but if
41:27
you know enough, people really can do whatever funk you want.
41:30
I said Alex got shot in the head, bro he didn't. Anyway,
41:35
I'm still cooking out here, Like is this guy in
41:37
trouble at all? Or is he actually still the attorney
41:40
in this guy's because you said Alex Murdoch's trial is
41:43
starting now or like he's starting in the twenty three
41:46
of January and harpud Leian is his attorney And that's
41:51
just the way it is, Like the thing that I
41:53
was talking about, like that there's something called factoring. That's
41:58
that's the practice of like basically lending people money or
42:02
like taking people's settlement payments, are siphoning it off, and
42:05
it's all just it's all just you know, the most
42:09
immoral use of money to make money, as you said earlier, sorry,
42:14
Like that's just they use the fact that they have
42:17
a ton of money to take advantage of people who
42:20
aren't capable, don't have like the massive staff to understand
42:25
all the legalities and like business complexities that they're using
42:31
to take away their money. And it's that that is
42:36
the US economy, Like it's it's not isolated. Is we
42:40
have way too many fucking fancy words for stealing from
42:43
board people. This part is really amazing. Factoring companies can
42:49
offer cash upfront to victims in exchange for part or
42:52
all of their settlements at an average rates on the dollar. Yeah.
42:58
In one case, judge, have a lot of company is
43:00
to buy a young woman's entire settlement in a series
43:02
of deals culminating in the purchase of her remaining trench
43:05
for about ten cents on the dollar. The woman had
43:07
suffered brain damage and a train collision at the age
43:10
of twelve, and the settlement was intended to support her
43:13
for the rest of her life. A retired judge dryly
43:16
underscored the state's tolerance of such practices by saying, we're
43:19
all entitled to make stupid mistakes. Oh okay, so there's
43:25
no such thing. There's no such thing as predators. Only stupid,
43:28
stupid idiots that make mistakes, all right, thank you. Yeah,
43:33
stupid idiots with their injuries settlements in their home. And
43:37
there was a t V I when you were twelve
43:40
years old. Come on, who makes a deal like that?
43:42
Like what where is the MP? Like, I mean there is? Yeah,
43:45
I mean it's like, why would you take out this
43:47
home one when you knew you couldn't afford it? Because
43:48
I need a home, right, you idiot? Who would give
43:52
that to you? You? You encouraged me, You said this
43:54
was the one to take. This is the way I
43:56
was going to realize my dreams. You fucking targeted me.
44:00
It's just a bunch of like people, privileged people like
44:04
golfing together and you know, let letting each other do
44:08
this ship. And when Alex Murdoc like, well, we'll update
44:13
you guys. As the case unfolds. But when he appeared
44:17
for like the before the trial, like there's a painting
44:21
of his grandfather in the back of the courthouse, Like
44:24
I love the South. Yeah, well, I don't even think
44:28
it's just the South, Like I think this it's not
44:30
just the sound, but I think I think the South
44:32
is one is one place in America where a lot
44:36
of the generational like dynastic generations have stayed in one place.
44:40
You know. Also this also really makes me think of
44:43
you know that the no one wants to work anymore thing,
44:47
And it's like, yeah, because we found out that the
44:49
work that you were doing was just stealing from poor people,
44:53
So yeah, no, I don't really want to do that.
44:56
So you got all of this from just stealing? Yeah yeah, yeah,
45:00
I'm not. I'm not. Yeah. Yeah. It's like you become
45:04
I mean, who becomes a lawyer, and then it's like, well,
45:06
can't wait to spend the rest of my life sucking
45:10
the blood out of everybody around me. But the reporter
45:14
is like still, They're like I just can't get my
45:17
mind around this person like killing their son. It just
45:21
seems so far fetched because like he everything up to
45:25
that point would have suggested that he was, you know,
45:28
doing everything, like using the machinations of his power to
45:31
protect this kid, and like it just seems it, but
45:34
I feel like they're not taking into account, like what
45:38
addiction can do to your brain and the fact that
45:42
like on a broad scale, you know, you you have
45:45
these people who are making all this money and you
45:49
know just completely immorally have no like no any social currency,
45:56
are like friends to to speak of, there nothing, yeah,
46:00
produce nothing. And then they are at the top and
46:04
they're like and then you can buy all the drugs
46:06
that give you the brain chemical that is produced by
46:10
the human interaction that we're that we've replaced with these
46:14
capitalist machinations, and so like it actually makes perfect sense
46:18
to me that this person who had replaced who would
46:24
like become drug addicted as at this point where they
46:27
were just like nihilistically stealing from everyone and knew they
46:30
couldn't be caught, that they would get to that point,
46:33
because that's that's kind of what happens, is just completely
46:37
alter your brain chemicals to the point that you're kind
46:40
of inhuman. And that's like kind of the whole complete
46:44
system that we've found is like you you have a
46:47
system that completely siphons the humanity out of everything, and
46:53
then your reward for that is like drugs that give
46:56
you the brain chemicals that that you used to get
47:01
from interacting with people like going. It sounds like a
47:05
perfect system to me. Yeah, perfectly self contained system. Sign
47:08
us up. Yeah, it's regenerative. Anyways, it's a it's worth
47:14
of read. We'll link off to it in the footnotes,
47:17
and we will keep you guys updated as the trial unfolds.
47:21
He's gonna walk Jack's see over under on. It's funny
47:25
the reporters, like I was expecting, everyone was like, Oh,
47:27
he's this good old boy. You dropped him in any
47:29
southern town, he'd just like come off as just one
47:32
of the guys. He'd be fine. And then like he
47:35
walks in and he's just like tall guy who looks
47:38
like he just like stepped off of a yacht, and
47:41
it's just like that that's who it is. He's and
47:44
he's in a courtroom again with a painting of his
47:47
grandfather in the back of it. You think he walks
47:49
in and kisses his hand and then goes and then
47:51
touches it to the painting, goes, that's my Grandpa, my grandpa,
47:56
love you grand grand love you. Game game. All right,
48:03
let's say you a quick break. We'll be right back
48:16
and we're back, and so is Gerard Butler. Jerry. Yeah.
48:24
So last weekend, so the release of Plane, which is
48:27
the newest action movie starting Gerard Butler Plane, just Plane first. Yeah,
48:35
we just want to Filly, let's sit with that. This
48:37
new movie, I think farmer, it's about let me just
48:42
look this. It's about Plaine plain good. You might have
48:46
bad guy Gerard Butler good. Brown Skin People Bad, I
48:49
think it is with the that's his next movie, Brown Skin,
48:52
People Bad. You can't wait to see either. But yeah,
48:56
it's a Plane came out. So the the reviews were
49:00
actually like pretty decent like that. People are like, it's
49:04
so simple and dumb that and it like seems to
49:07
know that it's simple and dumb um. But it does
49:09
have this kind of political bent that a lot of
49:13
his movies seem to have. We've talked before about Den
49:16
of Thieves and how that is supposed to be like
49:21
a gritty movie about that has in the background of
49:24
it like the l a Sheriff's Department, gangs. But he's
49:28
the like anti hero and he's like part of those gangs,
49:32
and the bad guy in it ends up being like
49:36
just a kaiser, SoSE like international criminal mastermind, Like they
49:41
have to like invent this wild criminal conspiracy too, so
49:46
so that you're rooting for the l A Sheriff's Department
49:48
gangs basically, And that's kind of what like through throughout
49:55
his movie. So so first there was The Three, which
49:59
was wildly racist. The war between the Spartans and the
50:02
Persians was you know, both the depicting depiction of the
50:06
Persians was like super racist. It was also a pretty
50:09
clear allegory and justification for the Iraq war. We needed
50:14
one than they had. D sub marines of the time
50:19
took inspiration from Butler and like talked about it in
50:23
the media to be being like, we're like the hopelessly
50:27
outnumbered Spartans fighting heroically to the death, except you know,
50:31
we're doing it from apache helicopter. Except the power dynamics
50:35
completely reverse has anything to do with anything at all,
50:38
But yeah, it's like that. Yeah. Olympus Has Fallen came
50:41
in twenty thirteen, a few years into Obama's presidency, and
50:46
it was one of two movies that summer about a
50:48
black president in this time. In this case, it was
50:51
played by Morgan Freeman, who allows the White House basically
50:55
to be overtaken by terrorists and like has to be
50:58
saved by a white secret serve this agent White House
51:01
down being the other one, and basically, yeah, it's just
51:07
like I don't know. There's a bunch of why I
51:10
never saw that movie, but people seemed to think that
51:14
it was like pretty pretty clear cut. Is like this
51:17
guy doesn't know what he's doing. And then there's also
51:20
like a subplot with Russians interfering on behalf of Morgan
51:25
Freeman to like get him elected essentially, So like four
51:29
D dude, that's the sick That wasn't that I didn't
51:32
even I just I just noticed everyone exploding when I
51:35
first saw the movie. I had no idea it was
51:36
about anything. But it's like even plane, right, It's like
51:40
about the description of plane. You know what the funky's
51:45
fucking character's name is Brody Torrents. Okay, yeah, that's that's
51:52
some porn ship. I like they said, pilot Brody Torrent
51:55
saves passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky
51:58
landing on a war torn I land only to find
52:01
that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When dangerous
52:04
rebels take most of the passengers hostage, the only person
52:08
Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspar, an
52:12
accused murderer who is being transported by the FBI. Oh,
52:16
I hate rebels except in Star Wars, right. Yeah, and
52:20
people completely missed the point of that one too. Yeah.
52:22
It takes place in the Philippines, which you know is
52:24
a place that the US intervened in, and you know
52:27
that one of the most heavily fucking colonized countries on
52:31
the fucking earth. Yeah, has like destroyed And basically the
52:35
movie just treats it as like, well, this is a hellhole,
52:38
but US is here and we're here to like save
52:41
the day. And also, by the way, Brodie Torrance, he
52:47
is only I'm sorry, what do you say, Brody Torrance.
52:49
I just imagine a fourteen year old, a fourteen year
52:52
old white boy who's skateboards. Yeah, or I feel like
52:58
it's a character Brody Reid would have been very upset about, because,
53:01
like Torrents sing in the fucking Valley, dude, Cody Torrents
53:04
fucking serious. That's that's my first thing. Yeah, it's it
53:08
sounds like a guy on the right he is only
53:11
flying this difficult shift because he was filmed attacking a
53:16
rude passenger one time went viral. So it's anti Yeah,
53:20
it's also anti cancel culture. So glad they worked that in. Yeah,
53:25
because I assaulted a passenger, Like what, I'm sorry? That
53:29
supposed to make you sympathetic towards to the audience. Yeah,
53:33
haven't you ever assaulted a passenger on a plane, Miles, Yeah, seriously,
53:39
London has fallen. The follow up to White House Down,
53:43
they were like, I can't say London down because they're
53:46
too fancy, so we have to say London has fallen.
53:49
But it is Basically it was decried immediately for its
53:52
blatant Islamophobia, ugly reactionary fearmongering. At one point, Butler's character
53:59
tells in a sailing get back to funk head of
54:02
Stan or wherever it is you're from. That happens in
54:05
the movie, in a movie that came out that was popular.
54:10
I remember what's that? People cheered in the theater. I remember. No,
54:18
it's just the vibes of these films just sound like
54:20
some guy who's like clearly has like he has a
54:23
writing career, but his entire perspective is just shaped by
54:27
like like cursory glances at Fox News and he's just like,
54:31
oh yeah, I get I know geopolitics. Man, watch this ship.
54:34
Man fucking they're dirty and he's the hero and that's it. Yeah.
54:39
So do they do the bad guys in this movie?
54:42
Are they they're from? From? Where? Do we know? Or
54:46
is it fun had to stand? I I actually don't know,
54:49
but I don't know if it's ever treated with more.
54:52
I love if they never say and then yeah, they're
54:54
just like, yeah, no, that's actually where they're from. He
54:57
he was correct. You know, movies do occasional invent entire nations,
55:03
so maybe maybe that's what they did. I did actually
55:06
misspeak earlier. White House Down is not the one with
55:10
the Putin Russia election hacking plot, because that came out
55:15
too early for that to speak to the magabase. It
55:19
was actually Angel has Fallen, the third in the series,
55:22
the sequel to the one where he says, get back
55:24
to the funk head of Stand. Angel Has Fallen was
55:28
criticized for lionizing Trump while also like making him a villain,
55:33
but the villain turns out to be Morgan Freeman's vice
55:36
president who wants to go to war with Russia and
55:38
make America strong again. But then it turns out that,
55:42
like Morgan Freeman, the former Obama standing was secretly elected
55:46
thanks to Russian interference. So it's like, so, really, we're
55:52
all bad man everybody. So they photoshopped Morgan Freeman in
55:58
to like an image with m Yeah, that was the
56:01
last scene of the movie to be like we he
56:04
he smoothed it over and everything's good. That's cool. We
56:08
also need to talk about Geo Storm, which is a
56:10
disaster movie supposedly about climate change, but the real villain
56:13
turns out to be a Democratic president's in competence and
56:16
also his secretary of State who straight up sabotaged the
56:20
futuristic satellites that could fix climate change in order to
56:23
attack America's enemies. So climate change isn't solved by humanity
56:28
altering its destructive behavior, but rather a magic gizmo invented
56:32
by Dr Gerard Butler. All right, that that is a
56:39
thing that like, I think in the future people will
56:42
look back on these movies that came out at this
56:44
time and be like, oh, they just thought that, oh
56:46
we can just tech, techno wizardry, something up and it's
56:49
gonna fix climate change, like in the world of the
56:53
movies that take place at this time, the action movies,
56:56
Like it doesn't really make sense that climate change would
57:01
be a threat because we we are able to fix
57:04
everything with technology, Like, there's no way Tony Stark wouldn't
57:09
fix climate change in in the Marvel Cinematic universe. You know,
57:15
I'm just reading about the guy who wrote Angel has Fallen.
57:19
He he started the karate Kid franchise. Oh wow, Yeah,
57:26
it was apparently that guy. It was based on his
57:28
own life because he got beat up by bullies and
57:31
at the nineteen sixty four New York's World's Fair and
57:35
then he started learning martial arts to defend himself. But anyway,
57:39
so that guy is a guy who got beat up
57:41
by bullies, uh, sought the help of a like Okinawan
57:45
karate teacher, and now produces wine on his vineyards. So
57:51
it's the story that all all's well, that ends well,
57:54
Oh my god, Jack, look at the guy who wrote
57:57
Look at the guy who wrote fucking London has Fallen
58:00
and white Hot like Olympus has Fallen. His name is
58:03
Creighton Rothenberger. Yeah, that looks like the face of someone
58:08
who goes like, oh God, like poor people are discussed
58:12
like He's just like, there's that looks like a face
58:14
incapable of understanding anything beyond like his own desires, which
58:18
is sometimes it's nice when people are wearing that transparently
58:21
on the outside of their face. Those are some shiny veneers.
58:24
Like guy has got a little face in his mouth. Yeah,
58:27
Jamie would have been. She's she's already analyzing your game
58:30
on this guy. Well. Sarah as always such a pleasure
58:34
having you. Where can people find you and following you?
58:38
You can find me on Instagram at Sarah to Bother
58:42
You s A r A to bother You. Um, you
58:44
can go to my website sorry June online, and both
58:48
of those you will find links to my short film
58:51
Bathroom Time, which was a Vimeo staff pick last year
58:55
and is playing some more festivals, so you can go
58:58
watch it on the internet for free. There you go,
59:01
You're welcome. Also, go watch is a Bird That Bird? Yeah? Yeah,
59:05
bird is so good? Oh? Thanks Jack, And is there
59:09
a tweet or some of the work of social media
59:12
you've been enjoying. Oh? Absolutely, I really enjoyed this tweet
59:16
from at Quarto Core. It is um at Quarto Core.
59:21
Rick and Morty creator being an awful person is like
59:23
nine eleven for smoke shops. It was my first thought.
59:32
I was like, what is Santi Ali going to do?
59:35
Like every smoke shop is every ners in my neighborhood.
59:39
I'm like, they're going to have to change the maryal
59:42
there's I'm pretty sure where they're not, and everyone's just
59:44
going to be like, yeah, we're We're actually good with
59:46
this now. I don't know. It seems like some Amber
59:49
Heard type stuff, which in the comments of like the
59:53
Rick and Morty fans already trying to dismiss it all.
59:56
But yeah, that was I think there's a went to
1:00:00
a head shop at Burbank, which I think like they
1:00:02
lead with Rick and Morty graphics, like on the outside
1:00:05
of their like they have like graphics on the windows
1:00:08
where it's like, yeah, dude, get your fucking Rick and
1:00:11
Morty grinders and dad riggs in here. Miles, Where can
1:00:16
people find you? What is the tweet you've been on? Man?
1:00:19
Some tweets I like, Well, first, you can find me
1:00:21
on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also check
1:00:24
me out and check out Miles and Jack got Mad
1:00:26
Boost These are Basketball podcast. Also find me on four
1:00:29
twenty Day Fiance with Sophie Alexandra, where we complain about
1:00:33
ninety day fiance. Some tweets out like first one is
1:00:36
from at Our Ali Maynard at ms m a y
1:00:40
N tweeted, My theory is suburban nights fucking love Disney
1:00:44
World because it's their chance to enjoy walkable dining and
1:00:48
entertainment experiences with convenient mass transit without having to see
1:00:52
homeless people that might that might actually be it. Uh.
1:00:57
Then another one at man this is just way name
1:01:00
at Blaze fort ninety tweeted, So apparently the numbers on
1:01:05
the toaster are in minutes for the last thirty three years.
1:01:08
I thought it was for different levels of toasting, nous
1:01:11
and sir, So the fund did? I wait a minute,
1:01:16
How the funk would I know what? Three minute? I
1:01:18
don't know. I'm like, yeah, I want level three, yeah three,
1:01:21
level three toasting. This is this is sucking me up.
1:01:25
It's it sucked me up so bad. I'm like, why
1:01:26
are they presuming I know what a minute of toasting
1:01:30
looks like? Why wouldn't they write minute on there? I
1:01:34
don't know. I don't know. I don't know, and I
1:01:39
don't like this. I don't know. This is all fucked up. Yeah,
1:01:45
I'm I'm not a fan of that information. I'm gonna
1:01:48
choose my brain has rejected it. You know, I'm gonna
1:01:51
go watch Angel has fallen. Uh Infaria tweeted, I was
1:01:58
just mugged in Park Slope by two beautiful parents and
1:02:00
their gifted children. Find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
1:02:06
You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're
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1:02:14
we post our episodes and our foot notes where we
1:02:17
link off to the information that we talked about in
1:02:19
today's episode, as well as a song that we think
1:02:21
you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think people
1:02:24
might enjoy? Yo? I just read that. That's bullshit. The
1:02:27
minute thing. Yeah, numbers on these toast giles. Okay, you
1:02:35
know what, when an english person says it with their
1:02:37
chest out like that, I'm gonna believe it. Yeah, they
1:02:41
love toasts too. That's my own confirmation blast. Like I annoying,
1:02:44
I know what to funk up that bad with the
1:02:46
toaster thing. No, that's not right anyway. What's the song
1:02:50
that I like? Well, this is actually a compilation or
1:02:54
an album called StarPoint Tactics from this producer three d MG.
1:02:58
And I think this is a German producer and like label,
1:03:03
but they make really dope, like lo fi hip hop.
1:03:06
And this is just a really uh, you know, wonderful,
1:03:11
wonderful like remix of ghost Face Killer called My Deadly
1:03:16
Okay from people who really know shake that body, body
1:03:19
that guy anyway. And this is like again, the beats
1:03:22
are boom bab lovely and it feels like I don't know,
1:03:26
it feels like like like an old like DJ Shadow
1:03:30
mixtape or something if he was. I don't know, I
1:03:32
fuck with it. Check this out Mighty Deadly three d MG.
1:03:36
All right, we'll let off to that in the footnotes
1:03:38
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