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Speaker 2: Well, hello the Internet, and welcome to season three oh seven,
Speaker 2: Episode five of the Daily zeitgeistup production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 2: is the podcast where we take a deep dive into
Speaker 2: America's shared consciousness. It's Friday. Wooo, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for getting it there. It is Friday, October sixth, and
Speaker 2: you know what that is. It's World College Radio Day.
Speaker 2: It's National Coach to Day, shout out if you ever
Speaker 2: had a good coach, National Orange Wine Day. I know
Speaker 2: my hipsters on both coasts loving their orange wine. Uh,
Speaker 2: let's see National Body Language Day. Shout out to pseudo science,
Speaker 2: National plus size Appreciation Day, National maide Fracturing Day, World
Speaker 2: Smile Day, National Noodle Day. We are jam packed, so
Speaker 2: there's even more National Mad Hatter Day. Shout out to
Speaker 2: everybody with mercury poisoning. This isn't that why the mad
Speaker 2: the hatter was mad? Because from like isn't that like
Speaker 2: colloquially where it comes from working with mercy? Yes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's a dye in one of the colors.
Speaker 2: Why do I know this?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: See, we're on the same page.
Speaker 3: My favorite murder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they did a whole story on it.
Speaker 2: Aha. Aha, Well guess what my name is? Miles Gray
Speaker 2: aka in honor of that FEMA broadcast cause I got
Speaker 2: the vaccine zop my brain with five G I'm un dead,
Speaker 2: I'm undad. Thanks Joe Brandan shout out to Conchi. Wow, Wow,
Speaker 2: you spelled that like Cole and then Friedrich Friedrich Nietzsche
Speaker 2: and then wa wow on the discord, I see you.
Speaker 2: I'd be picking up what you're putting down. And guess what, y'all,
Speaker 2: I am joined you already heard the lovely tones coming
Speaker 2: from my guest co host, really one of my favorite
Speaker 2: people to do the show with. I don't know how
Speaker 2: many more times I have to introduce her as, you know,
Speaker 2: one of the shining lights out there on the internet,
Speaker 2: someone who has impeccable taste when it comes to media,
Speaker 2: someone who has their hands on some of the best
Speaker 2: podcasts in the game. Right now, please welcome Joe.
Speaker 4: Money A lipstick down his back? What's up?
Speaker 2: How are you? How you doing?
Speaker 4: I after up my own birthday plans. I've been a
Speaker 4: little sour on it.
Speaker 2: What do you mean were ours?
Speaker 4: Initially? I told my friends, Hey, let's do the fourteenth,
Speaker 4: and then my friend was like, I can't do the fourteenth.
Speaker 4: I was like, well, it's not gonna be fun without you.
Speaker 4: Let's do the seventh. But my brain didn't clock the
Speaker 4: chain from the seventh to the fourteenth, and then I
Speaker 4: was like, I really need a break. I filmed the
Speaker 4: movie last weekend. I'm so glad I took this weekend
Speaker 4: off and I'm doing my birthday on the fourteenth. So
Speaker 4: she reached I was like, what time I picking you
Speaker 4: up the Saturday. I was like, no, honey, next Saturday.
Speaker 4: She was like, I'm out of town next Saturday. I
Speaker 4: already had this conversation with you. I was like, no,
Speaker 4: I gotta refigure out all my birthday plans, findday, all
Speaker 4: my girls are available. Good I the ady D kicked in,
Speaker 4: So yeah, so annoying. I will be fine. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: pick myself up. I mete myself friendch toast this morning,
Speaker 4: so already a little bit better. We're working on it.
Speaker 4: But man, the eighty D strikes again. She's brutal.
Speaker 2: Luckily, you know, like, I think I think that's a
Speaker 2: good way to give yourself a pass to have like
Speaker 2: a birthday three weeks. You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Oh I like this.
Speaker 2: I like this. Yeah, I mean like, yeah, I just
Speaker 2: recently celebrated my birthday with my mom, like last weekend,
Speaker 2: and it was already almost a month ago. But you look,
Speaker 2: I love it. It's not always bound to the day.
Speaker 2: Any Let's let us bring in our guest, because we
Speaker 2: always have fantastic guests. Another titan of podcasting. You know,
Speaker 2: she's worked on countless amazing shows like Reply All, et cetera,
Speaker 2: recently hosted the amazing history podcast Past It is currently
Speaker 2: hosting the show Past Perfect. And not only that. On
Speaker 2: top of the podcasting, they're writing, they're performing and filmmaking. Okay,
Speaker 2: please welcome to the third seat. Someone.
Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, Wow, almost out of breath listening to this introduction.
Speaker 3: I've been on journey already.
Speaker 2: I have to I have to hit my inhaler really quick,
Speaker 2: make sure I got to have the lung capacity to
Speaker 2: keep up. But Simon, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: How art that? How are you?
Speaker 6: I are fantastic. Thank you for asking. It's a sunny
Speaker 6: day here in Brooklyn, you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, what's the what's the temperature right now in
Speaker 2: New York?
Speaker 3: Oh? I can tell you that is seventy six degrees?
Speaker 3: Very pleasant. Some people are really living right now.
Speaker 2: That's that's what I'm talking. You know, our guest yesterday
Speaker 2: also in Brooklyn, and we were talking about the floods.
Speaker 2: Were you near one of the intersections that was flooding
Speaker 2: the way you would described it? Yeah, I was not.
Speaker 6: I was a little bit you know, above ground. But
Speaker 6: I do know folks who yeah, got into some hairy situations.
Speaker 6: Nothing yeah, life threatening, thankfully, but you know, like couldn't
Speaker 6: use their water because it would pump raw suwage up
Speaker 6: into their apartment.
Speaker 2: Were those videos, you know, because Most of the time
Speaker 2: we're just like, oh, that bus got flooded, and then
Speaker 2: other times I think, Joelle, I think we were on
Speaker 2: a call actually when we were talking about this, but
Speaker 2: I'm like, I feel like the real fucking devastation happens
Speaker 2: in those basement apartments those I actually.
Speaker 4: Saw a video right after that of somebody like trying
Speaker 4: to tape up the seam in their door as their
Speaker 4: apartment is flooding, and I was like, it's too late,
Speaker 4: and he said's not gonna work. I'm so sorry for you, terrible.
Speaker 2: I love the logic. I love the cartoon logic though,
Speaker 2: the seams and that will hold back the weight of
Speaker 2: the water, the torrenstial downfo.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you know we love a dream around here. Well, Simon,
Speaker 2: we are gonna get to know you a little bit better,
Speaker 2: but first we're gonna tell people what we're talking about today.
Speaker 2: A little bit of politics. We got to touch on
Speaker 2: today because Joe Brandon never stopped building Trump's wall, it
Speaker 2: turns out, and we're finding a little bit more about
Speaker 2: what's going on there and why it's probably what's gonna
Speaker 2: just keep happening. We're also gonna talk about Matt Gaets unfortunately,
Speaker 2: who might be the new Madison Cawthorne because Republicans are
Speaker 2: starting to say some really weird stuff about him in
Speaker 2: public and it feels like the you know the same
Speaker 2: thing we saw like the coordinated dismantling of a member
Speaker 2: of Congress where they want to oust from their party.
Speaker 2: So we'll touch on that. Also, it's time the annual
Speaker 2: candy map that we always discuss every year on this
Speaker 2: show has been released about every state's favorite Halloween candy.
Speaker 2: Are going to see you know what is going on?
Speaker 2: You know what, what has changed, what hasn't changed, Who's
Speaker 2: on the come up because there's some movers on that list.
Speaker 2: And also Drew Barrymore. We got to talk about Drew
Speaker 2: Marry Moore. She her show's back, but guess who ain't
Speaker 2: the writers because they want nothing to do with her
Speaker 2: after that nonsense that she pulled trying to be out
Speaker 2: here self scabbing or whatever she thought she was doing.
Speaker 2: But we'll talk about that and plenty more. Be first
Speaker 2: simone asking you since here the guests, Yes, what is
Speaker 2: something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: So this was a very interesting exercise to like go
Speaker 6: back and see what am I up to? Something that
Speaker 6: I wanted to highlight as a trio of searches jeggings
Speaker 6: followed by jeggings cringe, and finally jeggings ugly.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so this is new Jenny my Okay, so
Speaker 2: I've done similar searches like this. Is it because you're
Speaker 2: in the jegging market and you just want to make
Speaker 2: sure that you're not totally walked by wearing jeggings or
Speaker 2: are you working on a story about how jeggings are
Speaker 2: totally washed and nobody?
Speaker 3: Oh thank god, it is the latter.
Speaker 6: No, I am not in the market for jeggings in
Speaker 6: twenty twenty three, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I didn't that's why. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what I was. Yeah, yeah, I'm the same place.
Speaker 2: Yeah I wasn't checking that because I don't because I
Speaker 2: know they are bad and washed.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, yeah, we're all on the same page about
Speaker 6: the jaggings. No. But so this was actually for an
Speaker 6: episode of Past Perfect. Okay, So, for those who don't know,
Speaker 6: it's a time traveling trivia show, and last week we
Speaker 6: put out an episode all about the twenty tens, and yeah,
Speaker 6: I needed some visual references for jeggings. Yeah, And I
Speaker 6: feel like the reason why there is this like multiple
Speaker 6: searches is because, okay, conspiracy theory potentially, but I feel
Speaker 6: like there is an effort to like erase how truly
Speaker 6: horrifying jeggings were as a trend, because when you Google
Speaker 6: image search, it's like it's like all very time, like
Speaker 6: it's all the classy jaggings and it's none of the
Speaker 6: real you know, right, yeah right, yea.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so keep your eye open for them, yeah,
Speaker 2: because something might be a foot. Did you ever wear jaggings?
Speaker 3: Full disclosure, Full disclosure.
Speaker 6: I did wear jaggings, And maybe that's why I feel
Speaker 6: I have a deep wound in my heart because I
Speaker 6: did god in.
Speaker 3: Public a lot in cheggings.
Speaker 4: We do have to let the children know that, Okay,
Speaker 4: when jaggings came around, your only options were very uncomfortable jens.
Speaker 4: So they were stiff, they were too tiny, They're awful,
Speaker 4: And then they were like, what if you had a soft,
Speaker 4: comfortable gene. And that is why we went full tilt
Speaker 4: into the jaggings as a culture for a moment, and
Speaker 4: then we had the review photos of ourselves.
Speaker 2: Later we were like respect we have as an ignorant
Speaker 2: Cis head man. Are jaggings described as just leggings merely
Speaker 2: with the denim graphic printed pond the fabric or are
Speaker 2: we talking about those like super elastic jeens too? Were
Speaker 2: those jeggings.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about like, yeah, essentially leggings fabric with a photograph.
Speaker 2: Of gens and on top. Yeah, terrible photo. Now are
Speaker 2: there really elastic jeens out? Because I need those with
Speaker 2: my thick thighs, so they just don't.
Speaker 4: Technology, which you're gonna want to do? Is sad over
Speaker 4: to Good American. I'm sorry to support a Kardashian, but
Speaker 4: Chloe Kardashian found a business that works.
Speaker 2: And she's sticking to it and it's real good.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: They have gene.
Speaker 4: I think there's like what six sizes in a single gene.
Speaker 4: There's so much stretched Oh wow, which is crazy Okay,
Speaker 4: and they are apparently really really.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what is the name of the company, Good American?
Speaker 2: That is the worst fucking name. I will never buy anything.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I will never buy anything that's just good.
Speaker 4: I thought it was a maga thing when I first
Speaker 4: heard about it, I was like, what's happening over here,
Speaker 4: and they were.
Speaker 2: Like, no, it's Chloe Kardashian's gene company.
Speaker 6: And I was like, okay, this kind of sounds like
Speaker 6: Republican gens.
Speaker 2: Like wow, okay, uh, they're good not bad our bad
Speaker 2: American jeans.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: But then also that also sounds like from the perspective
Speaker 2: of someone like abroad, who's like another bad American has
Speaker 2: shown up. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, I'm merely
Speaker 2: just from this sordid place. I don't carry all of
Speaker 2: its fucked up values. But yeah, jeggings. For the record,
Speaker 2: I guess they're out, so I will no longer purchase
Speaker 2: them for the record. Okay, good to know, Simon. What
Speaker 2: is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: Okay? I wonder if this will be controversial.
Speaker 2: But go ahead, go ahead. Baths?
Speaker 3: Baths, I think they're overrated. Okay, all right, I need
Speaker 3: the details.
Speaker 2: What walk me through this? Walk me first of all?
Speaker 6: Wow, so you have to do a chore before you
Speaker 6: even get started with the activity you want me to relax,
Speaker 6: but preceded by labor, Like I'm already out, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean. I need to clean the tub, I
Speaker 6: need to clear whatever's in there. I need to get everything,
Speaker 6: you know, because I'm you know, I'm about to be sitting.
Speaker 2: In a Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you don't want to beat
Speaker 2: a bacteria in the water.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 3: So that's already that's a high barrier.
Speaker 2: Okay. First of all, okay, Second of all.
Speaker 6: Temperature control way too variable. I'm too hot, I'm too cold.
Speaker 6: I'm comfortable for like maybe thirty seconds of the whole experience.
Speaker 2: Right, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Next, and this is a big one for me.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm putting my butt on wet ceramic.
Speaker 3: That is a sensory nightmare. I don't enjoy the feeling
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 2: But you think at that point, right, the ambient temperature
Speaker 2: of the like, it all kind of equalizes, right, Like
Speaker 2: it's you're saying it just or is just ceramic.
Speaker 6: Just yeah, it's not for me. It just makes me
Speaker 6: think of damp and dank, and it's it's not a
Speaker 6: it's not a comforting experience for my body.
Speaker 2: I'll put I never thought, honestly, I never thought about
Speaker 2: the feeling of what it's like for your butt to
Speaker 2: be in a bathtub. But now you've you've given me
Speaker 2: a new way to a new perspective. I do thank
Speaker 2: you for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my my pleasure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then my final point, if you do somehow get
Speaker 6: the slightest hit of texture, a grain of sand, a
Speaker 6: hair something that again, like that'll send me over the edge.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what the hell is in this tub with me? Yeah,
Speaker 4: haven't forbid. You have bubbles and now you're pushing them around,
Speaker 4: like what else is in here? I'm horrifying.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, you get it, you get it. It's on
Speaker 3: your show.
Speaker 4: I do the bathtub stew has been confused. My mother
Speaker 4: is like a huge bath person. She loves a bath
Speaker 4: like I get it, sees all it's in the bath bomb.
Speaker 4: And also she's like it's so reallyad. It's like a
Speaker 4: dance spots, Like I've been to the spot and it's
Speaker 4: not all like that a spot. They do all of
Speaker 4: the work at the spot. The tub is a reasonable height.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you've ever been in one of
Speaker 4: those tubs where they're like, okay, so now you're gonna
Speaker 4: like with your whole body, wet and slick, hop out
Speaker 4: onto a tile floor.
Speaker 2: Don't die.
Speaker 4: Hopefully that's not an all relaxing situation. If we have
Speaker 4: hip issues, this is dangerous. And then on top of
Speaker 4: all of that, then you know, when you're done with
Speaker 4: your bath and you're drained the tub, there's always gonna
Speaker 4: be some kind of residue. I to stay behind and
Speaker 4: like shower the tub down, like try to make it
Speaker 4: somewhat halfway decent.
Speaker 2: Baths are a lot extra by a hot tub.
Speaker 6: Oh process, Okay, hot tub I can get behind and
Speaker 6: they shame like they're closely related.
Speaker 3: But I think you're right, they're totally different experience, totally different.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I know producer Victor said he he's riding
Speaker 2: with this take. I'm I'm pro bath. You know, that's
Speaker 2: I think a cultural thing I have. Japanese we love
Speaker 2: the bath where it's all about bath culture. But there's
Speaker 2: a difference. Right when you get into bath in Japan,
Speaker 2: you clean your you clean your ass and everything before
Speaker 2: you get in your tub. You enter like the tub
Speaker 2: is something you enter clean. So a lot of the times,
Speaker 2: but most American bathrooms are not set up like a
Speaker 2: Japanese or Asian style bathroom where it's like your shower
Speaker 2: is kind of and like you would basically sit on
Speaker 2: a little stool and kind of just like wash yourself down,
Speaker 2: make sure you're clean, get all your dead skin off,
Speaker 2: then go in the tub and enjoy it because that
Speaker 2: is it's very relaxing. It helps me go to sleep,
Speaker 2: like if I'm if I'm having trouble sleeping, a nice
Speaker 2: bath before that's the trick. But I get it for
Speaker 2: those of us who have sensitive butts, that's it's not
Speaker 2: it maybe isn't the best way to go. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go on a limbs say you're a very very sensitive person,
Speaker 2: like in general, right like you the way you are
Speaker 2: pointing out different textures and things, I'm like this person,
Speaker 2: their senses are firing on all cylinders. You know.
Speaker 6: I husband maybe called particular previous times in my life
Speaker 6: you're picking up on something.
Speaker 2: Do you have any other weird is there? Okay? So
Speaker 2: because I'm sorry the thing about my butt being a
Speaker 2: wess c aamic I can't. I can't let that go,
Speaker 2: Like it's so specific. Do you have any other specific
Speaker 2: things that are sort of similar in that vein where
Speaker 2: you would be like, oh, I don't do that.
Speaker 6: Well, I find I'm realizing like it's something having to
Speaker 6: do with like when my body touches surfaces. I have
Speaker 6: a hard time being barefoot a lot of places, Like
Speaker 6: I get really in my head about like what's going on?
Speaker 3: What am I coming in contact with?
Speaker 2: But like.
Speaker 6: Being in like sand or mud or like in nature,
Speaker 6: like that's fine, but like my feet on tile. Maybe
Speaker 6: it's ti something with bathrooms. Difficult relationship with bathrooms. I
Speaker 6: think I'm learning as I'm talking right now. Horrifying places bathrooms.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it's always not that's always weird stuff
Speaker 2: happening in there myself. Okay, let's go to something a
Speaker 2: little bit different. What do you think is something that
Speaker 2: is underrated?
Speaker 3: Okay, something that I think is underrated is listening to
Speaker 3: classical music at the gym. And this is something I
Speaker 3: only started doing kind of recently, and it's been a
Speaker 3: huge game changer.
Speaker 6: It's like it's really meditative and energizing at the same time.
Speaker 6: Beethoven's fifth goes especially hard interested that's basically house kind
Speaker 6: of Yeah, that's yeah, yeah, it's a very like that.
Speaker 6: Excuse me, yes it is. Yeah, dun, dun, dunn. It's
Speaker 6: a very arousing, and I mean that in the just
Speaker 6: it's a very sick okay, stimulating, like it's and like
Speaker 6: to the point where I was like, like, I didn't,
Speaker 6: I don't. I didn't know too much about Beethoven's history,
Speaker 6: and I was like, this kind must have and like
Speaker 6: the guy of his day, right, like he's probably doing
Speaker 6: He's like the usher in Vegas, you know what I
Speaker 6: mean of his time. So I looked it up, and uh,
Speaker 6: that is not the case. Turns out it was like
Speaker 6: the exact opposite, and he was actually a very romantic
Speaker 6: and love sick person who like didn't consummate his love
Speaker 6: with the many women that he fell in love with,
Speaker 6: which interesting that you created a romantic king.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I mean exactly this other thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, are we claiming him? You know, because the
Speaker 2: other rumors that Beethoven was.
Speaker 3: Black, Okay, I haven't seen this.
Speaker 2: Hilarious when they're like, look at this, he might be
Speaker 2: light skin like okay, sure, maybe it's like a very
Speaker 2: interesting internet thing of like Beethoven was black.
Speaker 3: Sure, I guess I love a black Ludwig.
Speaker 2: Yeah what about Okay, so you got Beethoven bumping through
Speaker 2: the headphones? Is it? Like? Is that like good for
Speaker 2: just in general? It just puts you in a good
Speaker 2: place to focus because for me, whenever I've listened to music,
Speaker 2: I kind of need it to be like a motor
Speaker 2: that drives my limbs to keep going. It's usually in
Speaker 2: the context of like running. But again that's my very
Speaker 2: narrow experience with it.
Speaker 3: I think it has that vibe.
Speaker 6: You know what it is too. It's the absence of lyrics.
Speaker 6: I think help you focus too, and you really are
Speaker 6: kind of like focusing on the rhythm and the tempo
Speaker 6: and and you know, the various instruments coming together, and
Speaker 6: it could propel you to like, you know, lift or
Speaker 6: run or whatever. I find that it like, Yeah, it's
Speaker 6: effect of like just keeping you motivated and kind of
Speaker 6: tuned into your body.
Speaker 4: Also got you what other classics are you spinning someone?
Speaker 4: If you're putting together a workout playlist, who also show.
Speaker 2: It up classical workout?
Speaker 3: I really like a Tchaikovski Yeah you like it?
Speaker 2: So you like the aggressive ones? Yeah? Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: Divorce Shocks, New World Symphony, You're like, okay, they're bangers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know some Vivaldi.
Speaker 2: Love Vivaldi, love the Love the Four Seasons, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 4: I might recommend Maurice Ravel's Ballero as a good warm.
Speaker 2: Up tracks from my classical music nerds out here. I
Speaker 2: used to play in a youth orchestra, so I was
Speaker 2: all I was all about the classical music back in
Speaker 2: the day. Okay, but you said lyrics distract you. So
Speaker 2: who's an artist you can't listen to or else you're
Speaker 2: gonna just be just completely singing along or completely distracted
Speaker 2: by the lyrics.
Speaker 3: That's a great question. Okay, Okay, I'll just reveal it.
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna say so, I've gotten really into also
Speaker 6: the Venga Boys. I'm back to that like nineties, early
Speaker 6: two thousands, like you know, electro whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so hard not to sing along and be like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so wait we're like vengel. I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: a Vengel.
Speaker 3: I'm a veng ahead yeah okay, I'm with my Kindred Spirits.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah. Where were they from? Like they were
Speaker 2: like from all over, weren't they? Are they really Dutch
Speaker 2: or something? I feel like the most to European. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because of the era when like every like nobody was
Speaker 2: from America back then, like all that electronic music was
Speaker 2: either coming from like Sweden or Germany or you know.
Speaker 4: Euro dance group like yeah, Okay, they're Dutch. Okay, also
Speaker 4: d Penn and Dennis vander Dreichen, they're very touch all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wait, what was that last thing said?
Speaker 6: I said, I did live in Holland for a little bit,
Speaker 6: and I don't see that much Dutch.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, there we go. Let's go, let's go. That's it.
Speaker 2: That's all like I thought for this one. Okay, let's take
Speaker 2: a quick break and just figure out what's going out
Speaker 2: with Joe going on with Joe Brandon's now Joe Brandon's wall.
Speaker 2: I guess we will figure that out when we come
Speaker 2: back after this. And we're back and we just found
Speaker 2: out Simone a bit of a bit of a Dutch passport.
Speaker 2: Hold her just a bit, you know, love to see it,
Speaker 2: Love to see it. It's an international show at the
Speaker 2: end of the day. But speaking of foreign relations, we
Speaker 2: should talk about our president. Our president is Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: So we just found out that the Biden administration will
Speaker 2: be continuing to build around twenty miles of border wall
Speaker 2: in Texas quote in an effort to stop rising levels
Speaker 2: of immigration. And you know this is this is using
Speaker 2: the funding that was secured by the Trump administration. So
Speaker 2: that's a bit of like the defense right now from
Speaker 2: the like from Biden is like, I mean, this was
Speaker 2: all these funds were already appropriated, so you know what
Speaker 2: I mean when I tried to do something. But also
Speaker 2: I need I also need to be painted as someone
Speaker 2: that's tough on immigration, so I'm just gonna go ahead
Speaker 2: and let this thing happen. And also like using the
Speaker 2: presidential powers and homeland security powers to waive federal laws
Speaker 2: that otherwise would have prohibited the project, including the Clean
Speaker 2: Air Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. A lot of
Speaker 2: environmentalists I'm talking about, like again, even since the beginning
Speaker 2: of the construction, they're like, you can't just put an
Speaker 2: impermeable barrier in the middle of an ecosystem, like it
Speaker 2: fucks things up. But that's where we are. And it's
Speaker 2: all kind of odd because if you remember, at the
Speaker 2: very beginning of the presidency, he said there would be
Speaker 2: quote not another foot of border wall built if he
Speaker 2: was elected. He was elected, and then his administration like
Speaker 2: proclaimed like like I think on like week one that
Speaker 2: the border wall quote is not a serious policy solution,
Speaker 2: which is true, just to build a wall in your
Speaker 2: you know, xenophobia like statue not the best way to
Speaker 2: I think figure out how to deal with immigration. In
Speaker 2: response to that, now Trump is doing a fucking victory
Speaker 2: lap and he's saying, like, well, Joe Biden apologized to
Speaker 2: me in America for taking so long to get moving
Speaker 2: and allowing our country to be flooded with fifteen million
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah. He said, I will await
Speaker 2: his apologies. Okay, I don't think they are coming. But
Speaker 2: the thing is, if we look closer, Biden actually never
Speaker 2: stopped building the border wall. And you know, in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two, he authorized the border Patrol to close gaps
Speaker 2: in the wall in Arizona. This was supposedly done under
Speaker 2: the rationale of like, this is for safety reasons because
Speaker 2: a child tragically like drowned trying to get into the country.
Speaker 2: But many experts have said this is not, Like the
Speaker 2: logic is fucking absurd here, like that's you're gonna do?
Speaker 2: This is like a man in miles Trefagan said that basically, quote,
Speaker 2: people have traveled halfway around the globe on planes, trains,
Speaker 2: and automobiles, so to expect that closing four small gaps
Speaker 2: is going to make them turn around and book a
Speaker 2: return flight is sheer fallacy. And that's kind of sort
Speaker 2: of where we are at. And many people, I think
Speaker 2: there's a lot of fingers being pointed is just because
Speaker 2: he has an eye on the election and doesn't want
Speaker 2: to give the Republicans or more conservative Democrats AMMO to say,
Speaker 2: like he's not treating this thing seriously. But many people
Speaker 2: have said that money would have been better spent in
Speaker 2: many other places rather than just continuing to build the wall.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, six thousand frustrations. The argument that like, oh,
Speaker 4: if I don't seem tough, then they'll be mad or
Speaker 4: say so they can say stuff anybody.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. This will not help you at all. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're not gonna win that more wile.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, this isn't a supportive It literally does nothing
Speaker 4: for you. Also, the excuse of the money's already spent
Speaker 4: to keep the money in stop building the wall, what
Speaker 4: does it matter, Like, yeah, somebody's already out there and
Speaker 4: you have already mentioned that it's a policy that doesn't work.
Speaker 4: I don't understand being like, well, we paid them, so
Speaker 4: they have to do it.
Speaker 2: Just move forward. If yeah, it feels like a thing
Speaker 2: where like Republicans, Like if the shoe were on the
Speaker 2: other foot, they'd be like, we're not using that money
Speaker 2: to like do woke shit. Sorry, we'll just completely go
Speaker 2: around those kinds of regulations. I mean the way it
Speaker 2: was though to I mean his credit. He was saying
Speaker 2: before when there was an appropriations bill where that money
Speaker 2: where Congress could have actually redirected it, it was like, y'all
Speaker 2: should redirect it, but the Republicans are in control, so
Speaker 2: that shit wasn't happening. But I feel like there may
Speaker 2: have been other opportunities to do this, so it again,
Speaker 2: it feels very politiicy, but also giving people who are
Speaker 2: like who have like strong feelings about immigration and like
Speaker 2: amnesty and you know, having humane immigration policies. Just it's
Speaker 2: a bit of a kick in the face when you
Speaker 2: you know, you ride in be like not another fucking
Speaker 2: foot except for these next couple of months that we
Speaker 2: got to build to really tighten this thing up. Because also,
Speaker 2: I mean, let's be real, like Biden was never someone
Speaker 2: who was super in on like really flexible immigration, so
Speaker 2: it all kind of fits hand in hand. But a
Speaker 2: shock to many people on the internet, like he's still
Speaker 2: building it.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, that's the interesting part.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: I'm not a political analyst or anything, but I'm like,
Speaker 6: to me, it seems like, well, you know, to me,
Speaker 6: it seems like it's going to alienate more people than
Speaker 6: it is actually going to like, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 6: attract anyone to his side. And it's like, so, I
Speaker 6: don't know. So I understand that maybe they see it
Speaker 6: as a political strategy to like, you know, loop in
Speaker 6: a new sector of voters, but I don't know, it
Speaker 6: just seems right, he's shooting himself on the foot.
Speaker 2: When you like look at like the math of the electorate.
Speaker 2: You got to know, anyone who's savvy's like, you're not
Speaker 2: winning over maga people everything. It's just not happening. So
Speaker 2: why why worry about their screams and flapping about about it?
Speaker 2: Like it doesn't make sense when there are a lot
Speaker 2: of people who were interested in like because like, like,
Speaker 2: you know, there's so many ways to address this, Like
Speaker 2: one is to address the factors or forces that are
Speaker 2: pushing people out of their countries to begin with. And
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of the time, for all the
Speaker 2: talk that people say, like oh, like what's going on
Speaker 2: in South America. It's like, well, American foreign policy happened
Speaker 2: to South America in the seventies and eighty, Like, that's
Speaker 2: that's a huge that's a huge contributing factor that they
Speaker 2: turn a blind eye to or not figuring out ways
Speaker 2: to stabilize situations in other places. So I think it's
Speaker 2: it's just a it's just a weird one, like to
Speaker 2: your point, where more people are gonna be like why
Speaker 2: like why do all this shit? Like case in point,
Speaker 2: right like here in California, there is probably like one
Speaker 2: of the most sort of famous sort of border crossing areas,
Speaker 2: which is like known as like you know, Friendship Park
Speaker 2: that's right here, like at the San Diego border crossing
Speaker 2: and right now, Uh, the administration is basically going to
Speaker 2: fully like make this thing completely like just completely do
Speaker 2: away with the old fence that was there for something
Speaker 2: a little bit more like more hostile to people and
Speaker 2: a lot and many people are arguing like that was
Speaker 2: sort of kind of like a monument to like the
Speaker 2: bond between US and Mexico because family members from other
Speaker 2: sides could like can meet each other there even though
Speaker 2: they couldn't physically be on the same side, they could
Speaker 2: still like reach through and touch each other, et cetera.
Speaker 2: And to now be like we need to we need
Speaker 2: to tighten that thing up and also get rid of
Speaker 2: the park that's on the US side. It's just feels
Speaker 2: like extra to for the sake of doing it. And
Speaker 2: I think to your point, like a lot of people
Speaker 2: would look at that and be like, that's not what
Speaker 2: we're looking for or even what we believe is going
Speaker 2: to help us be safer or quote unquote more humane
Speaker 2: or whatever the deal is here.
Speaker 4: So it's also I'm saying to use the death of
Speaker 4: a child as an excuse to be like, well, now
Speaker 4: we have to because a child, how many children have
Speaker 4: passed trying to make this journey a different right, it's
Speaker 4: in the journey, like it's the really difficult, especially coming
Speaker 4: from beyond Central America. You had to go through an
Speaker 4: entire forest, across the river, like, through several countries, Like
Speaker 4: it's not simple. There's obviously a reason people are trying
Speaker 4: to get here in the first place. Into your earlier
Speaker 4: point miles like, I just don't understand why we don't
Speaker 4: spend money trying to find a more permanent solution to
Speaker 4: how many folks as opposed to being like build a
Speaker 4: wall that we already know definitely doesn't work.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is something we've talked about a lot.
Speaker 2: Is you know, if if if the solution doesn't isn't
Speaker 2: a money making operation, it's not going to be pursued.
Speaker 2: Well capitalism. Yeah, that's like we can hire more engineering
Speaker 2: companies to dig up walls and build new wall, or
Speaker 2: have more privatized you know, prisons basically for children that
Speaker 2: are seeking to enter the country for whatever reason, and
Speaker 2: so those are things that can actually keep money going
Speaker 2: rather than sort of like the more humane things. You're like, well, why,
Speaker 2: like even in our own country, we're like, what, why
Speaker 2: can't we just have better healthcare that's like less expensive.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, then people start making less money on it.
Speaker 2: They got a lot of lobbying efforts behind it. It's
Speaker 2: it's a whole thing. So, yeah, it is. It is
Speaker 2: really frustrating, especially when again, like the rationale there is
Speaker 2: so backwards. It's like, oh, how terrible. So that just
Speaker 2: means we got to build more wall. That's the problem.
Speaker 2: But we shall see looking at the other side of
Speaker 2: the aisle. I'm sorry to have to bring up the
Speaker 2: fucking speaker of the House controversy again, but shit is
Speaker 2: getting like weird and salacious now, so Matt gets basically
Speaker 2: acted as like a one man wrecking crew to destroy
Speaker 2: the already destroyed speak former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who, as
Speaker 2: we all know, is a vile character that, as I
Speaker 2: said earlier this week, is lower than snake nipples, So
Speaker 2: he didn't deserve to be saved from his position. The
Speaker 2: GOP is in fucking disarray even more than usual somehow,
Speaker 2: and many of like the rank and file members are
Speaker 2: so pissed at Matt Gates and they just like they're like,
Speaker 2: just it doesn't make sense that one guy could derail
Speaker 2: everything for the entire party. I'm like, I'm sorry, what
Speaker 2: about Trump or what? Okay? So I thought you guys
Speaker 2: were in love with one men wrecking cruise. So this
Speaker 2: has led to look from you know, some onlookers perspectives
Speaker 2: the beginnings of maybe a plot to oust Matt Gates
Speaker 2: from the House, because there were a lot of sound
Speaker 2: bites on the heels of McCarthy's ouster that was stuff
Speaker 2: like people saying like Matt Gates, like he's not one
Speaker 2: of us, Like that's not what we were supposed to do.
Speaker 2: We need unity. That was like beyond the pale, or
Speaker 2: you know, like he shouldn't be associated with this party,
Speaker 2: he needs to be an independent. A detail actually from
Speaker 2: the session of Congress there when like they took the
Speaker 2: vote on getting McCarthy out, was that Matt Gates actually
Speaker 2: spoke on the left side of the chamber, the minority
Speaker 2: side of the chamber, of the Democrats side of the
Speaker 2: chamber because the Republicans are like, can't sit here. They
Speaker 2: basically just were like, you go do your thing over there.
Speaker 2: It was Forrest Gump on the bus, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, seats taking that's all it was, you cannot
Speaker 2: be here. So like you could kind of already see
Speaker 2: them beginning to turn their back on him or whatever
Speaker 2: they thought they were doing. And so now like we're
Speaker 2: starting to see like just weird comments come out of
Speaker 2: the right. So I just want to put our attention,
Speaker 2: unfortunately on Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who had this really
Speaker 2: weird thing to say to Manu Raju on CNN about
Speaker 2: like like why this guy is kind of a bad guy.
Speaker 2: Here's here's why he thinks, you know, Matt Gates bad.
Speaker 3: I'm scared.
Speaker 2: It's something you.
Speaker 5: Got about this guy. This is a guy that didn't
Speaker 5: have the media didn't give a time a day too
Speaker 5: after he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl.
Speaker 5: There's a reason why no one in the conference came up.
Speaker 2: So I'm sorry your own party didn't do anything about
Speaker 2: it when he found that out or the allegations came out,
Speaker 2: or found out that he was under investigator. But anyway,
Speaker 2: go off, go off King.
Speaker 5: Because we had all seen the videos he was showing
Speaker 5: on the house floor that all of us had walked
Speaker 5: away of the girls that he had slept with. He'd
Speaker 5: brag about how he would crush ed medicine and and
Speaker 5: and chase it with with an energy drink so he
Speaker 5: could go all night. This is obviously before you got married.
Speaker 5: And so when accusation came out, no one definditing, and
Speaker 5: then no one on the media would give him the
Speaker 5: time of the day. All of a sudden he found
Speaker 5: fame because he opposed the speaker of the house back
Speaker 5: in November, and he's always stayed there and he's not
Speaker 5: he was never going to leave until he got this
Speaker 5: last moment of fame by saying by by going after Ugh.
Speaker 4: But he was confused about what's happening in the streets.
Speaker 2: The kids were really.
Speaker 4: Excited when he posted this speaker and now he's all
Speaker 4: kinds of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean wow, crushing ed pills, chasing it with
Speaker 2: energy drinks to go at it all night. Obviously before
Speaker 2: he was married, because all.
Speaker 4: Of that, and you would definitely stop once.
Speaker 2: But it's funny, but it is true. Senator. We did
Speaker 2: hear about these loot images that he was sharing with people,
Speaker 2: and people, fuck's wrong with him? And we did. There
Speaker 2: were even reports of how this dude had like empty
Speaker 2: boxes of condoms like at the top of his trash can,
Speaker 2: and people were like, Yo, what the fuck is going
Speaker 2: on with this dude. So this doesn't seem too far off,
Speaker 2: especially when you remember a former congress person, Madison Cawthorne
Speaker 2: from North Carolina, if like last year he said this thing,
Speaker 2: he was like, you know, the Congress is just really weird.
Speaker 2: He's like, I've been invited to like orgies at houses
Speaker 2: and like people are doing cocaine and if you recalled,
Speaker 2: that was the beginning of the end for him when
Speaker 2: he said that, when he mentioned that there was like
Speaker 2: orgs and cocaine use and they basically vaporized his shit
Speaker 2: like instantly the party like they had his ass out
Speaker 2: on a like they ran him out on a rail
Speaker 2: real quick. So who knows where this leads for Matt Gates,
Speaker 2: But like all we do know is that like this
Speaker 2: dysfunction in the House, especially without having a speaker and
Speaker 2: like having the business of Congress sort of grind to
Speaker 2: a halt, is exactly the kind of shit that Steve
Speaker 2: Bannon and these other hyper right wing like ghouls pray for,
Speaker 2: because it's all, you know, it's all part of the
Speaker 2: acceleration of like ending the Fed, like the state the
Speaker 2: federal government to usher in like a more dysfunctional era
Speaker 2: of you know, total privatization. So you know there's a lot,
Speaker 2: there's a lot going on there. But yeah, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure what exactly why Mark Wayne Mullen was wanting to
Speaker 2: talk about is like ed pill I don't.
Speaker 6: Know again, And to think that is he presenting this
Speaker 6: information as like if you thought being with underage girls
Speaker 6: was bad, this guy you can't even get hard without help.
Speaker 2: Like I'm not even sure like what he's supposed to say.
Speaker 2: It's like is he saying he's like, oh, this man
Speaker 2: has ed or this guy is a sex monster or something.
Speaker 2: But I think he.
Speaker 4: Was just playing the SEO game. He was like, people
Speaker 4: probably don't remember. If I mention it now, maybe we
Speaker 4: can increase some Google searches on Math's history. Then it's
Speaker 4: back in the zeitgeist, and I can, you know, work
Speaker 4: with that as we try to oust him. It is
Speaker 4: strange to me the way Republicans there's just such a
Speaker 4: this idea of like, now you've you've betrayed the party,
Speaker 4: and so now we have to everything we hand to
Speaker 4: get you out. And it's like you should have wanted
Speaker 4: this guy out forever, like he has been such a
Speaker 4: bad like player for your side, not helped you in
Speaker 4: any way, shape or form. It's strange that like it's now.
Speaker 4: And but also I'm a little bit like I would
Speaker 4: love to just never hear from Matt Gates again. It'd
Speaker 4: be really great. So I feel I'm torn. I'm a
Speaker 4: little bit excited and a little bit perplexed.
Speaker 2: I mean, fun fact about him, he grew up in
Speaker 2: the house from the Truman Show shut Out. His parents
Speaker 2: own that house from like the Truman Show.
Speaker 6: There are so many details to his story that I'm
Speaker 6: having a hard time reconcile.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry that I had to. Like, whenever I
Speaker 2: hear that, I'm like, what it's like, Yeah, that house
Speaker 2: like with the exteriors for the Truman Show, that's Matt
Speaker 2: Gates's childhood home.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what that means, but I feel
Speaker 3: like it means something.
Speaker 2: I wonder. It feels like a thing where like when
Speaker 2: he saw the movie, he was like, oh shit, what
Speaker 2: if that's me? What if Truman? What if everything's for
Speaker 2: me and I can do no wrong? Like I mean
Speaker 2: a lot of people have that sort of main character complex.
Speaker 2: So who knows, who knows, who knows? But anyway, this
Speaker 2: is what is going on right now while there are
Speaker 2: real serious issues to talk about in this country, like
Speaker 2: cause the living housing crisis, the unhoused. But but Matt
Speaker 2: Gates has taking boner pills and that's gonna take up
Speaker 2: all the oxygen right now. All right, let's take another
Speaker 2: break and we'll be back to talk about something sweet
Speaker 2: literally after this. And we're back, and it's that time
Speaker 2: of year again, listeners. Each year, candystore dot Com drops
Speaker 2: on the masses their map of what they say is
Speaker 2: the most popular Halloween candy in each state aka the
Speaker 2: true geographic measure of America's soul. As our writer Jam
Speaker 2: McNab points out, some states haven't changed much. Okay, Montana,
Speaker 2: they still love twigs. Left twigs or right twigs. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but but they still love twigs. Michigan all
Speaker 2: about the starbursts. Illinois always about sour Patch kids. You're
Speaker 2: from Illinois, Joelle, can you corroborate it's sour patch kids,
Speaker 2: are you? Or it's your feeling towards Sara patcha.
Speaker 4: The children loved the gummies. I'm not a gummy kid
Speaker 4: because it feels weird. I can't do it. But like
Speaker 4: I remember Swedish fish being so huge when I was
Speaker 4: a kid. They love the sour patches. Sour like when
Speaker 4: I played softball, This is a sour thing on the stick,
Speaker 4: or its just sugar, but it's kind of soury.
Speaker 2: Oh funny. Yes, we just took like that like chalky
Speaker 2: tableat that. I'm sorry, Like what were some of those
Speaker 2: candies about back then? Just more sugar into you faster,
Speaker 2: I know, but they were really like take this piece
Speaker 2: of school chalk and dip it in this like high
Speaker 2: fructose cornser of powder and you're good.
Speaker 4: Kids love an interactive piece of candy. Okay, the ring
Speaker 4: pops were huge. Love pop.
Speaker 2: What was the like the bubble tape that you could like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah tape, Yeah, something like that where you could
Speaker 2: eat like sixteen feet of gum and then like choke yourself.
Speaker 2: Was I remember almost choking a soa bad. My mom
Speaker 2: never let me buy it, buy it again because I've
Speaker 2: put like a tennis ball sized a gum in my mouth.
Speaker 2: Same with Big League Chew that was meant to look
Speaker 2: like chewing tobacco. But anyway, that's where we're at. So okay,
Speaker 2: we found out earlier Simone, when you're not in Europe
Speaker 2: or was hanging out on Holland you were spending some
Speaker 2: time in California. Mm hm our our our steak candy?
Speaker 2: They say, is it's always been Skittles and I can't.
Speaker 2: I'm like, fine, I feel like everyone hands out skittles,
Speaker 2: but that's the one like I eat at the end,
Speaker 2: like when I ran out of all the chocolate stuff,
Speaker 2: because that's I'm chocolate all day. That's the only thing
Speaker 2: that registers to my brain. Are you what do you
Speaker 2: feel like? How skittles?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: For the record, Fine, I guess, but it's it is
Speaker 6: a little disappointing to like.
Speaker 3: Be represented by Skittles. I was hoping for a chocolate
Speaker 3: based candy as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah or okay, so now I'm starting to see a
Speaker 2: Skittles logo in Oklahoma. Maybe it means ours is Eminem's.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I mean, I'm saying that's sadder somehow chocolate.
Speaker 4: The plain ones are. Okay, I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Have you ever had you ever do that thing when
Speaker 2: you're a kid and you find your old Halloween candy
Speaker 2: from like four years earlier? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Did you did y'all ever have like? Okay, so full?
Speaker 2: I had a like a lego case that I was
Speaker 2: stashed on my candy and because my mom or my
Speaker 2: parents were like, come up off of that, you know,
Speaker 2: you're not getting all of it copper, So I had
Speaker 2: it like in a like a Cayman Islands account basically
Speaker 2: in the back of my closet. And I remember almost
Speaker 2: breaking my teeth and like on a on like old Eminem's.
Speaker 2: And it was the most like fucked up experience of
Speaker 2: my childhood. I remember like and when I mouth no,
Speaker 2: they were not they were melting my teeth. Oh no, anyway,
Speaker 2: that's that's neither here nor there. But over states, we're
Speaker 2: seeing some some changes. Okay. In the overall list of
Speaker 2: most popular Halloween candies, M and MS are hot on
Speaker 2: the heels of the number one rated Reese's cups. I'm
Speaker 2: with this.
Speaker 4: You know why Reese's changed their chocolate. It's not as tasty.
Speaker 2: It isn't no, if you eat reesis now.
Speaker 4: Like the chocolate has like almost a pully texture to it,
Speaker 4: which is not.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's literally like, instead of being melty, it
Speaker 4: feels more like tappy almost. It's not that thick, but
Speaker 4: it doesn't. The texture is wrong. It's the only way
Speaker 4: I can say. I think it's probably because they're using
Speaker 4: more corn syrup as opposed to like sugar. But if
Speaker 4: you get a reesis like in Europe, it's a completely
Speaker 4: different experience.
Speaker 2: They're so delicious, what so good? If they I'm sorry
Speaker 2: the government needs to step in because they should be
Speaker 2: and they should be announcing this over a FEMA broadcast.
Speaker 2: They are changing the fucking chocolate in a Reese's Peanut
Speaker 2: butter cup. I'm trying to think of the last time
Speaker 2: I had one I mean I had, I had like
Speaker 2: the big cup that have potato chips in it recently, okay,
Speaker 2: and maybe I was just distracted by all the fucking
Speaker 2: potato chips in it that I didn't realize that the
Speaker 2: chocolate formula had changed.
Speaker 4: And get a plane like just a regular resis not
Speaker 4: one of the big ones, but just the and you'll
Speaker 4: immediately be like, this isn't right. This is it's not
Speaker 4: good as Justin says, it's plastic, it's not right.
Speaker 3: American Empire is falling. I know, it's prooved.
Speaker 2: This is this is all I needed, This is all
Speaker 2: I needed. Now I'm all in. We are rom and
Speaker 2: it's bread circuses, fucking affirmations and Starbucks trying to keep
Speaker 2: our mental health right so we don't start a revolution.
Speaker 2: And now you're fucking with the Reese's peanut coat. Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, terrible. Other thing is number three on the list,
Speaker 2: which had a lot of people scratching their heads hot
Speaker 2: to Molly's unhinged.
Speaker 3: Right, I don't get that one.
Speaker 2: So okay, So what people are saying, like, because many
Speaker 2: people are looking at this list and be like, okay,
Speaker 2: well here here might be the deal with why hot
Speaker 2: Tomllies went to the three spot is because hot tomalies
Speaker 2: apparently are less available like out in the world at
Speaker 2: your traditional purveyors of candy. So it's basically inspiring more
Speaker 2: online orders, which is what candystore dot com is seeing,
Speaker 2: because there's a subset of people who are like, I
Speaker 2: can't get my hot to Molly's. Okay, all right, are
Speaker 2: they sinned? I've never even had one because they look
Speaker 2: violent to me as a child, like, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 2: not getting red pilled off this ship literally a me
Speaker 2: on red pill shape?
Speaker 3: Did you big red gum?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's kind of what it tastes like. Mm hmm,
Speaker 6: that kind of like spicy cinnamony.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your tongue taste that long lasting freshness with big red.
Speaker 2: I did not jingle. Oh yeah, a little bit. I'm
Speaker 2: a bit older, you know, then I let people know.
Speaker 2: But I remember the big red chewing commercials and even
Speaker 2: the Ford logan slogan that was like, have you driven
Speaker 2: a Ford? You remember that one?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well, allow me to show you my
Speaker 2: jeggings collection later impress you and blow the wheels off
Speaker 2: of this thing. But here's the thing that I cannot
Speaker 2: abide candy corn at number eight. I'm sorry, that's that's
Speaker 2: my that's my always on Halloween. Hot takee. Just there,
Speaker 2: can't do, can't do candy corn?
Speaker 4: You throw them out. I don't understand the point of them.
Speaker 4: I don't understand whoever could possibly have a craving for
Speaker 4: a candy corn. I would rather eat styrofoam covered in
Speaker 4: sugar than a candy corn.
Speaker 2: Wow, simone words.
Speaker 3: Man, I feel not safe coming out with this now.
Speaker 3: But I like a candy horn. Actually, I actually like
Speaker 3: sugary wax turns out.
Speaker 2: So what is the flavor of candy corn? Like vague vanilla?
Speaker 3: It's like vanilla butter.
Speaker 6: It's like have you ever had a popcorn flavored jelly
Speaker 6: belly bean? Okay, well, I know you will not silence me.
Speaker 6: I like shitty candy.
Speaker 2: Wait do you also like necho wafers?
Speaker 3: Okay, don't insult me.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'm trying to see where the spectrum is.
Speaker 6: Here, because looks like a different category of thing altogether.
Speaker 2: Wow, what do you call a neck?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: What what is an echo wafer?
Speaker 6: To you?
Speaker 3: Isn't that like a cookie?
Speaker 2: No, it's like a It's like a like a chalk disc.
Speaker 6: Oh those things. Oh yeah, that's like those are pretty bad. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's like flattened out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tom with no like value.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got no.
Speaker 3: Active ingredients.
Speaker 2: I can't settle my stomach with this ship. We're gonna
Speaker 2: upset my brain. Yeah. Wait. So you like the flavor
Speaker 2: of artificial jelly bean popcorn and that's kind of where
Speaker 2: we're at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a weird butter like which I'm not
Speaker 3: pitching it in a way that's sounding enticing at all.
Speaker 3: It's like waxy sweet butter, right, you know.
Speaker 2: But but yeah yeah, yeah, Like I found all that
Speaker 2: like a butter, and I rolled it in some sugar
Speaker 2: and took a bagel bite out of it.
Speaker 4: Call out Missouri, Yeah, pain smooth Missouri. And the Almond Joy.
Speaker 4: There's no joy in Missouri. There's no happiness there that
Speaker 4: you have to Almond Joys also.
Speaker 3: An anti almond Joy podcast.
Speaker 2: Don't look here's the thing.
Speaker 4: I can't do it all like a dry coconut.
Speaker 2: Well there's not even it's so chok full of like
Speaker 2: palm oil, you know what I mean. And sometimes I
Speaker 2: feel like a nut and sometimes I don't. Almond Joy
Speaker 2: has nuts mounds don't. But I funk with an almond Joy.
Speaker 2: Not like I'm not seeking it out, but I'm never
Speaker 2: mad am. I disgusting and now the disgusting ones.
Speaker 3: Okay, can I say something crazy?
Speaker 2: Please join me.
Speaker 3: I would go for an almond Joy before I went
Speaker 3: for a Snickers. WHOA.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much, Simon and for coming on
Speaker 2: the show. It's been great having you. I would ask
Speaker 2: you where people can find you, but I don't want
Speaker 2: to upset them more with your musings. Just how you're
Speaker 2: burning bridges over No, I mean look to eat their own. Okay,
Speaker 2: So okay, where do you rank butterfingers? What's at the top, Like,
Speaker 2: let me figure out. I'm trying to find your mass
Speaker 2: laws hierarchy of candy.
Speaker 6: Needs, so at the top, I'll bring one that's not
Speaker 6: even on in this infographic here.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 6: Take five like a peanut butter pretzelt Yeah, salty sweet.
Speaker 2: Okay, it sounds Oh it's really good, so good. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's also a reesis it's a Reese's product.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, okay, butterfinger is like pretty close to dead
Speaker 6: Last for me because I it's the texture, the teeth,
Speaker 6: like the it gets stuck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 2: I'm the same way, like get to sensory stuff, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it gets stuck in the crevice. I feel like you
Speaker 2: need a toothpick to eat a butterfing or like are
Speaker 2: the or are like the cavities I mean like the
Speaker 2: you know the shape of my teeth, not all the
Speaker 2: cavities that I have that my dentist keeps telling me
Speaker 2: how if you get sorted out, like it gets in
Speaker 2: there to a point that is very annoying. Okay, so
Speaker 2: that's dead last, so take let's keep it to this. Okay,
Speaker 2: So Snickers you got, I'm enjoyed over Snickers? Where's Skittles
Speaker 2: in relation to Snickers? Or I'm enjoyed.
Speaker 3: Below below below? Because I still press friends chocolate?
Speaker 2: Okay, Twigs twist.
Speaker 6: Is pretty high, twixes twixes above almond joy but.
Speaker 2: Caramel, I think? So is it above Snickers? Yeah? Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so okay? And then what about milky way hmm bad?
Speaker 3: I don't do not enjoy but better than butterfinger.
Speaker 2: Finger beneath her below Snickers below Snickers below Snickers? Okay,
Speaker 2: what about three Musketeers?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Isn't is that different from Milky Way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Nugat. Three Musketeers is chocolate and nut period.
Speaker 3: Nugat is feels very vintage.
Speaker 2: Where's the Milky Way?
Speaker 4: I think has what caramel in it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, hmm, but I'm gonna put that below Milky Way,
Speaker 6: maybe below Butterfinger even well, think I funk with Nugat?
Speaker 2: Okay? What about what about the Hershey's Mini Bar pack,
Speaker 2: Mister Goodbar, Hershey's Dark Chocolate Crackle, et cetera. Nestley Crunch,
Speaker 2: although that is a completely different family. Where do you
Speaker 2: put okay, Nestleie Crunch? Where do you put Neslie Crunch?
Speaker 3: Nestlie Crunch? I kind of like I'll put it. I'll
Speaker 3: put it around the Snickers tier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, okay, I'm so far, so far, We're okay.
Speaker 2: I would say, so, you know what, You're back on
Speaker 2: the show, and I really thank you for that. Joel.
Speaker 2: What's that that? What's at the top of your candy mountain?
Speaker 4: It used to be now it's Peanut Eminem's. They're my
Speaker 4: favorite candy because they go and popcorn and that's perfect.
Speaker 4: You throw a bag Peanut Eminem's into a popcorn at
Speaker 4: your movie Andrew, Good to go. You got protein and
Speaker 4: popcorn to absolutely listen. My grandmother used to be like,
Speaker 4: it's fine, you have shubery ice because now we had
Speaker 4: strawberries and dairy, so we're good. This is the kind
Speaker 4: people I come from.
Speaker 2: I just saw the Association of American Pediatrics just say
Speaker 2: that that is the most balanced meal that you could
Speaker 2: give child. So tell your children.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. If your kids are listening, you will never
Speaker 4: hear the end of it.
Speaker 2: Now, hey, tell your parents the American Association of Pediatrics.
Speaker 2: I think I just made that name up, but go ahead.
Speaker 4: When I was a kid, I love Snickers was definitely
Speaker 4: my top can. It's the combination of chocolate nuts. But
Speaker 4: now that I'm an adult, oh gosh, somebody helped me.
Speaker 2: It's like, now that I'm an adult, I love. Now
Speaker 2: that i'm an.
Speaker 4: Adult, god to because you can't afford it when you're
Speaker 4: a child. It's the chocolate that's got like hazel nuts
Speaker 4: in it, and they're like whole hazel nuts. And it
Speaker 4: comes in a square.
Speaker 2: Oh, kinder Bueno.
Speaker 4: It's like a kinder Bueno, but not they sell it
Speaker 4: Trader Joe's.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it comes like individually wrapped.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like a candy bar, but in the form
Speaker 4: of a square.
Speaker 2: The Internet, I know, I know listeners are fucking screaming
Speaker 2: at us right now. It sport, Yeah, the Rider, Sport.
Speaker 4: Whole hazel nut milk, chocolate candy.
Speaker 2: This is where this is where you're showing your I'm
Speaker 2: an adult now because we're going now, we're going abroad.
Speaker 2: We're going abroad for our fucking chocolates, which I mean,
Speaker 2: let's be real, like their chocolates are Have you ever
Speaker 2: had a milka?
Speaker 6: No? No?
Speaker 4: But they look so good. It's like if you can
Speaker 4: get into uh, the Japanese kit cats. That stuff was
Speaker 4: my boing. I was like, why are we not doing
Speaker 4: it here?
Speaker 2: It's so tasty? Yeah? Did you know I've I read
Speaker 2: something that like Japanese candy companies started introducing more candy
Speaker 2: flavored candy to help the sale of of or no,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, coffee flavored candy to help sales of coffee,
Speaker 2: like to sort of indoctrinate kids with the coffee flavor
Speaker 2: at a young age so when they grow up they're like,
Speaker 2: guess what off of with coffee?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: Is that evil?
Speaker 2: Or g Yeah? Baby, it's the world we live in.
Speaker 2: Milk shout out Milka. If you can get the oriole milk,
Speaker 2: my look for it, like they there's I see them
Speaker 2: around La now and I'm guessing simone, I saw you
Speaker 2: have a reaction to Milco. So I think we're back
Speaker 2: on this.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we are teaming.
Speaker 2: Good good to know, good to know. Well, let's let's
Speaker 2: just wrap this up for somebody who things aren't so
Speaker 2: sweet for right now, and that's Drew barrymore So, you know,
Speaker 2: the lady who said, I'm just trying to do what
Speaker 2: I do, which is to heal people by bringing my
Speaker 2: show back, because that's what the people are asking for.
Speaker 2: We found out that she's coming back to the Airwave soon,
Speaker 2: but without it's writers and not because it's there that
Speaker 2: you know, there's obviously the strike has been resolved because uh,
Speaker 2: now that the strike is over and the show is
Speaker 2: coming back, the writers have quote declined an offer to
Speaker 2: return with it, which makes a lot of sense because
Speaker 2: she really went out here being like, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do this ship with the writers. And guess who was
Speaker 2: leading the strike outside your studio or the picket lines
Speaker 2: outside your studio, your your own fucking writers verymore so. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is now like because it was really a bad
Speaker 2: look because even the writers they said that they didn't
Speaker 2: even know what was going on, Like they found out
Speaker 2: about Drew's decision, like through fucking Twitter basically, yike. So
Speaker 2: you know, communication, communication is key. But right now they
Speaker 2: are interviewing potential new writers. So we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens there. But I just wanted to wrap, just
Speaker 2: come back to that story because we were focused on
Speaker 2: it a lot. I like to I like to see
Speaker 2: the the kind of shit we're like, oh you thought
Speaker 2: we forgot, like they were never gonna come back and
Speaker 2: be like, oh, yeah, you good Drew. The last you think.
Speaker 4: About, what a huge sacrifice They've been out of worked
Speaker 4: for five months. Yeah, and now they're turning down a
Speaker 4: gig that's probably you know, Drew was like pretty consistently
Speaker 4: on air, not a lot of breaks. I imagine it's
Speaker 4: pretty good money, yeah, or at least decent enough to
Speaker 4: like get your bills and paying. Most people have run
Speaker 4: out of savings. It is a huge sacrifice for these
Speaker 4: writers to be like, I'm not going back because the
Speaker 4: disrespect was so large. I really hope you're able to
Speaker 4: find work soon, especially because apparently we're just not going
Speaker 4: to cover our writers with unemployment, which sucks, is really frustrating. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I hope this is a listen to Drew and the
Speaker 4: rest of I don't know the world. Don't piss off
Speaker 4: a union, especially not one as well organized and together
Speaker 4: as a people.
Speaker 2: Who are who are literally their profession is about communicating, like.
Speaker 4: Communicating, organizing and giving great speeches. It's pretty much all
Speaker 4: writers do. I have no idea why you would go
Speaker 4: up against them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you hate to see it. You hate to
Speaker 2: see it. Look y'all, just read the room, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. It's a hot labor everything right now.
Speaker 2: Labors so in. That's why we always are like imploring
Speaker 2: like the Democrats to be like, hey, try and hook
Speaker 2: your wagon to this shit called worker rights, because guess
Speaker 2: what a lot most people, you know, they're more workers
Speaker 2: than the fucking people that donate to your campaigns. Some
Speaker 2: quick back of the Napka math on that one, but
Speaker 2: simple stuff, you know, shout out to citizens United, because
Speaker 2: corporations are people too, all right, Well, simone, it has
Speaker 2: been to be honest, up and down and up sky
Speaker 2: high again. Disappearance and we're so glad that you joined us.
Speaker 2: Where can people check you out? And I know you
Speaker 2: have a substack, like where can people read you all.
Speaker 6: That kind of Yes, I'll give you the full so
Speaker 6: you can find me on social media. I'm on Instagram
Speaker 6: at Simone Palanin. You can listen to.
Speaker 3: My podcasts Past Perfect, the Time Traveling Trivia show and
Speaker 3: then Not Past It, which is a This Week in
Speaker 3: History show on Spotify. And I write a substack. I
Speaker 3: give recommendations for movies, TV music all that. It is
Speaker 3: called highbrow lowbrow. Find it at higbrolobrow dot substack dot com.
Speaker 2: Dope title simone dope title. Hey, And is there a
Speaker 2: work of media, social media, anything like that that you
Speaker 2: want to shout out that you've even enjoyed?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, I really need people to watch.
Speaker 6: You are so not invited to my bot mitzvah oh
Speaker 6: on Netflix, The Adam Sandler Family Affair, Sonny Sandler is
Speaker 6: a star. Sometimes Nepo babies really are incredible, And it's
Speaker 6: for me. It's like it was a perfect, beautiful, painful,
Speaker 6: emotional moving story of girlhood and coming of age and friendship,
Speaker 6: and it like so exceeded my expectations.
Speaker 3: I had time watching it.
Speaker 2: It was like it had like it felt you know,
Speaker 2: how do you see blockers?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Back Like blockers felt like a departure from the usual
Speaker 2: like teen movie. We're like, oh, they're getting into some
Speaker 2: interesting shit now, and they're doing it in a really
Speaker 2: funny way. That's how I like. This felt like the
Speaker 2: middle school version of that where I was like, holy shit,
Speaker 2: like this is fucking like this felt real as somebody
Speaker 2: who was in middle school a one point, but I
Speaker 2: was like, this is fucking really well done, I got
Speaker 2: to say. I was also pleasantly surprised. Sure, Joelle, thank
Speaker 2: you so much again for joining me. Where do the
Speaker 2: people find you or follow you? And what can you
Speaker 2: put us onto in the form of media or tweets?
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm Joel Monique. You can find me all
Speaker 4: over the internet at Joe Monique. It's j O E
Speaker 4: L E M O and IQ you E. I just
Speaker 4: filmed my movie Dinner this past weekend. We're gonna be
Speaker 4: going out to some festivals in twenty twenty four, so
Speaker 4: you can follow me and look for possible screenings. I
Speaker 4: would love to see your face around.
Speaker 2: We're very excited.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be amazing social things you should check out. Okay,
Speaker 4: there is a woman named Marty Pants m A R
Speaker 4: d I p A n TZ. She transitioned in like
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy four when she was fifteen, and she is
Speaker 4: documenting the history of what it was like to transition
Speaker 4: back then, what it's like to be an elder trans
Speaker 4: person who lost most of their trans friends. She talks
Speaker 4: to Zeniels about their current transitioning and what that's like.
Speaker 4: It has been so informative and like, we just don't
Speaker 4: have a lot of history on like what was it
Speaker 4: like to be trans three nineteen eighty And she's doing
Speaker 4: the Lord's work. They're getting into a lot of the details,
Speaker 4: which is great. Also, I'm obsessed with the sims. I'm
Speaker 4: playing a lot of sims. I've been building houses, I've
Speaker 4: been I have multiple families.
Speaker 2: They're all adorable.
Speaker 4: There's more lesbians for Kapa in my game than there
Speaker 4: will ever be in the world, and I'm just really
Speaker 4: enjoying being a part of the fandom. So if you
Speaker 4: follow the sims, you can see they're building. They're doing
Speaker 4: a Norwegian limited style or what do they call that? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: like that clean Scandinavian style. You know what's up. So
Speaker 4: they just added a new pack. So if you're out
Speaker 4: there and you do the SIMS and you build pretty
Speaker 4: houses and you want to pay me on any of
Speaker 4: my socials and show them to me, I like to
Speaker 4: look at your dope houses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my favorite part about the SIMS. Like,
Speaker 2: I remember playing that shit am I brokeus in college
Speaker 2: and I was like, this is where I live. Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 4: Every day I'm like, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, watch me update this TV with one click boom boom.
Speaker 4: They have entire like Los Angeles like get famous pack
Speaker 4: that has like an actual valley, a hills in a
Speaker 4: downtown area. I want to tell you. I'm like, this
Speaker 4: is my mansion in the hills. If I could afford
Speaker 4: house in the valley, this is what it would look like.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have three lots the valley. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh no, just when I think I'm out, get it, Damn.
Speaker 2: That's all I need to hear. I'm so so valley
Speaker 2: centric anyway. Yeah, find me at Miles of Gray wherever
Speaker 2: they got the ats. You can find me on you know,
Speaker 2: Twitter formerly x Instagram threads all that, and also check
Speaker 2: me out on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack Got
Speaker 2: Mad Boosties. I have a true crime show about the
Speaker 2: Greek robin Hood, the Search for the Greek robin Hood,
Speaker 2: the man who is kidnapping millionaires and giving the money
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Speaker 2: So check that out, and then if you're like ninety
Speaker 2: day Fiance, like most highbrow consumers of media are like me,
Speaker 2: check me out on my other podcast for twenty Day Fiance.
Speaker 2: I'll let you guess what that shows like. Now, a
Speaker 2: tweet I like is from your Doye former guest at
Speaker 2: your Dooye underscore tweeted affirmation and brackets. I am a
Speaker 2: hater and I am also correct. We need that. I
Speaker 2: love that kind of affirmation, and I am also correct.
Speaker 2: You can find us at daily zeit guyst on Twitter,
Speaker 2: at the Daily Geist on Instagram, got a Facebook fan page,
Speaker 2: website daily zeitgeist dot com. Worry post our episodes in
Speaker 2: our footnotes foot notes Thank you, Joelle, where you can
Speaker 2: find all the articles we talk about, as well as
Speaker 2: the song we ride out on that song. We are
Speaker 2: going to ride off into the proverbial sunset of our
Speaker 2: weekend by this track by this duo called Ermanos Putierez
Speaker 2: and the track is called which means close to you,
Speaker 2: and it is this. They're like, they're they're guitar playing.
Speaker 2: I gotta call guitar playing because it ain't guitar. It's
Speaker 2: they're picking some guitar on this. And Joelle, you heard
Speaker 2: me playing it before we started recording, and I said
Speaker 2: the same thing. This shit makes me feel like I'm
Speaker 2: smoking weed on like a rainbow colored horse riding through
Speaker 2: the technicolored desert. And it's just like great, like chill
Speaker 2: background music. You know, have a you know, a coffee,
Speaker 2: a smoke, a wine or whatever you want to do
Speaker 2: to it. Okay, ed Mino Scutiettis, that's gonna do it
Speaker 2: for us. We're gonna be back Monday with the Trending
Speaker 2: episode where we tell you what happened over the weekend
Speaker 2: as well as you know, some more hits coming your way.
Speaker 2: So I hope you all have a great weekend. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to you soon. Bye. Mas.