Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to seventeen, Episode two.
Speaker 1: After Daily Gus the production of My Heart Radio. This
Speaker 1: is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
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Speaker 1: I get it. The rates are rising, people are doubling
Speaker 1: down on recklessness. It's a lot at the moment, but
Speaker 1: it's good to start this new year with y'all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how this this is the first time we've spoken in weeks.
Speaker 1: How have you been? But we did have some little
Speaker 1: off unofficial transmissions backing here and there, but we do
Speaker 1: know anywhere for for a break, I tried to go
Speaker 1: up north to I tried to go to Lake Tahoe
Speaker 1: to see snow, and I was gonna go with her
Speaker 1: Majesty's family, the niece's nephews rather just the nieces. But
Speaker 1: then Tahoe had like a one in fifty year storm
Speaker 1: and so we were like, okay, so we got to
Speaker 1: cancel all of our plays. We just chilled in the
Speaker 1: bank for like a couple of days, and it was wonderful.
Speaker 1: We had a friend of ours who was supposed to
Speaker 1: come down from Tahoe and visit, and she was stuck
Speaker 1: up there for like she she eventually like had to
Speaker 1: just push through the storm because the locals were getting
Speaker 1: mad because they were running out of gas and food
Speaker 1: in to Um. But it was like dozens of feet
Speaker 1: of snow. Yeah, it was like crazy in like certain places,
Speaker 1: and like you would see clips of people like just
Speaker 1: driving their car like out of a block of snow,
Speaker 1: and you're like, but yeah, the the lack of roads also,
Speaker 1: like too many people not knowing how to drive through
Speaker 1: a storm, just causing a ton of spinouts, like on
Speaker 1: the main arteries that go through there. It's just it
Speaker 1: was a mess. But yeah, other than that, blessed rest
Speaker 1: East because people out visiting us try, you know, thinking
Speaker 1: My nephews were like, what are we gonna get to
Speaker 1: swim in the pool? And it rained the entire like
Speaker 1: every day that they were here. It was fucking frigid
Speaker 1: and raining, And you know it's good. We like to
Speaker 1: keep it for ourselves. Yeah, so very selfishly like time.
Speaker 1: I guess, uh, well, Miles, we are thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joy in our third seat. But brilliantly talented comedian actor
Speaker 1: writer who you know from Losa Spooky is on HBO,
Speaker 1: where she turned in a performance so remarkable and transformative
Speaker 1: that I googled Ambassador Melody Gibbons actor trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who was playing them, even though she had just
Speaker 1: been on t d Z when I did that. You've
Speaker 1: also seen her in Trill on Hulu. You will see
Speaker 1: her in season five of Search Party. Please welcome back
Speaker 1: to the show, Greta title man. Wait, you really didn't
Speaker 1: know it was me when I was like with you
Speaker 1: in what like in real life? Yes, yeah, and he
Speaker 1: was like it was so when he figured it out,
Speaker 1: we were like, that's Greta. Yeah I know. He's like,
Speaker 1: so take it away, you know it was You are
Speaker 1: so fucking good in that show. You know. I fly
Speaker 1: back down to Chile on Sunday to finish shooting season two.
Speaker 1: That's the best news I've heard more of my my
Speaker 1: prized Melanie Gibbons. It's an other worldly performance. Yeah, thank you,
Speaker 1: very very funny, Greta. The background you're working with their
Speaker 1: looks like a Danny Villeneuve like like there's a horizon
Speaker 1: in the background right here. Yes, okay, that's just yes,
Speaker 1: just you know, your standard kitchen banquet, one might say,
Speaker 1: but some looks like a gorgeous horizon in the backroom
Speaker 1: horizon on like or if you're like saying like I'm
Speaker 1: on location reporting from the Arctic. A lot of I am.
Speaker 1: I wish that we did this yesterday because I would
Speaker 1: have been in Mexico. Well no, I guess yesterday morning
Speaker 1: I would have been. But you know, what can we
Speaker 1: do here? I am? Now? A lot of you are
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Well, we are thrilled to have you with us.
Speaker 1: That's very exciting about season two, very exciting about season
Speaker 1: five of the search party for the best shows out
Speaker 1: there doing it. I'm very excited. Well, we're going to
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about today. We're just gonna say a fun
Speaker 1: farewell to Betty White. We're going to do the opposite
Speaker 1: of that with Marjorie Taylor Green. We're going to look
Speaker 1: at the latest TikTok trend in parenting. We're gonna those
Speaker 1: are stories that I did not write, Um, Miles, you
Speaker 1: wrote them, and I don't know what any of them
Speaker 1: are about. And I'm excited. I know what the Betty
Speaker 1: White one is about, so I will not be just
Speaker 1: like devastated by the news, but I don't know what
Speaker 1: the other Oh what what what news? Um? Well, we'll
Speaker 1: get to have you heard this song Jesus is the
Speaker 1: one by Zach Box actually have and I love that song,
Speaker 1: so I could think of actually passed. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the I think we mentioned this towards the end
Speaker 1: of last year that car crash deaths and car crashes
Speaker 1: are up even though there are fewer cars on the
Speaker 1: road during the pandemic. And we might have even made
Speaker 1: reference to an l. A. Times article that had an
Speaker 1: explanation that was like, people are just mad and selfish.
Speaker 1: Now I don't know, man. So super producer Brian Jefferies,
Speaker 1: actually producer of the Trending show, The Daily Trending Show,
Speaker 1: pointed out that we and the l. A Times got
Speaker 1: that totally wrong. So I wanted to dig into that
Speaker 1: because it's actually very interesting. It has to do with
Speaker 1: city design and America being a funked up place, and
Speaker 1: we might even get to the fact that wheel Fortune
Speaker 1: is a fucking train wreck. All that plenty more. But first, Greta,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guests, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history? Something that I searched recently was well, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean gold Price program was something that I searched
Speaker 1: a few days ago, obviously very important, Crischell Stouse or whatever.
Speaker 1: From selling Sunset. Now here's the thing. I'm not a
Speaker 1: big reality TV head. My husband loves selling Sunset. So
Speaker 1: now I just like I'm the person that I'm watching
Speaker 1: something and doing a full like Wikipedia deep dive about
Speaker 1: who they are at the same time. Clearly you didn't
Speaker 1: do that while watching Lost of Spookies, which is good.
Speaker 1: But then I have, like, you know, a bunch of
Speaker 1: other ship. I guess probably Rezzi is always up. I
Speaker 1: have a Google search for Michael Stipe up, you know,
Speaker 1: justin class. What's I don't think I've ever heard him
Speaker 1: referred to? Was Mike Snipe? Well, he lives at my
Speaker 1: friend's building, and I was in my friend's apartment going
Speaker 1: to visit her, and I thought that I saw him
Speaker 1: and it could not have been more opposite than what
Speaker 1: he actually looks, so that I was like, do I
Speaker 1: have no idea as to what Michael Stipe actually looks like?
Speaker 1: Turns out I had no fucking clue, So what did
Speaker 1: you What did you expect versus what it was? Because
Speaker 1: I have this guy that I see at Trader Joe's
Speaker 1: who I'm convinced is Michael Stipe, But I second guess
Speaker 1: every now and then when I kind of look closer,
Speaker 1: I think, like, in my mind, I know he's bald,
Speaker 1: but in the moment, I was like, he's not bald
Speaker 1: because there's something about him, like he and Moby could
Speaker 1: potentially get like smushed together as being like bald white
Speaker 1: guys that wear glasses. Even though Moby has a bunch
Speaker 1: of like insane tattoos now, so he's very recognizable. I
Speaker 1: don't know, shout out his restaurant here in l a
Speaker 1: little Pine. That's very funny to me that Moby got
Speaker 1: a bunch of tattoos. Is Michael Stipe? How is the
Speaker 1: height wise? That's always something that always top of mind
Speaker 1: for you. You know, you think that I would know,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to look it up for you right now.
Speaker 1: I guess the only their tab that would kind of
Speaker 1: be like inside into my brain is Hippopotamus attacks. That's
Speaker 1: the other tab that I have opened currently. You don't
Speaker 1: have to look it up. I was just curious if
Speaker 1: he struck you as taller or shorter than you expected
Speaker 1: when you The gent that I saw in person was
Speaker 1: probably like five ten, and now that I'm looking it up,
Speaker 1: Michael Stipe is five nine, so I wasn't far off.
Speaker 1: Do you know kind of car he drives? Sorry to ask,
Speaker 1: I don't think he drives a car, Michael, you think,
Speaker 1: Michael st Guy, I'm telling you next, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take a picture of this guy who's his double
Speaker 1: ganger that I see AROULI him. He lives in New York.
Speaker 1: He's like he's like the person state no way, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm raist, no but I am. But like, when you
Speaker 1: are a bald, white man of a certain stature, you
Speaker 1: could be Michael Stipe. You could be Jason Statham, you
Speaker 1: could be Moby, you could be you know, there's a
Speaker 1: whole you could be Mr. Clean. There's a whole laundry list. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that makes me feel bad. And I do suspect that
Speaker 1: the person that you were mistaking for Michael Stipe like
Speaker 1: chose that lane was like to be a Michael Stipe
Speaker 1: bald That's going to be my lane that people, you know,
Speaker 1: because because you gotta you can't just create your own
Speaker 1: white guy space. The whole vibe was like I'm wearing
Speaker 1: like an old vaporized T shirt and I got like
Speaker 1: this shitty classic car that like works, but I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to front like it's fancy, but clearly it's catching
Speaker 1: your eye because it's older and like just being like
Speaker 1: like moving like a ghost. And he had like a
Speaker 1: big Adam's apple and I'm like, that's all very spy,
Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't expect him to like I also, was
Speaker 1: it like a authentically burnt out tea or was it
Speaker 1: something that was bought at like Max Fields. It looked
Speaker 1: the vibe felt authentic to the when I was like,
Speaker 1: this could be Michael Stipe because it just felt like
Speaker 1: this wasn't like this wasn't really overdone. Because remember me,
Speaker 1: one time I saw you know, like, m yeah, it's Halloween,
Speaker 1: I'm doing an r em cost dude, what's your problem?
Speaker 1: Like it's Michael Stipe. I don't know, but it's like
Speaker 1: the same thing. One time I saw Diane Keaton out
Speaker 1: and I said, look at this Diane Keaton cosplay looking motherfucker.
Speaker 1: I was like, this person is trying to do Diane
Speaker 1: Keaton with the hat and the glasses and everything. And
Speaker 1: then I look close. I'm like, oh, ship, that's that's
Speaker 1: the real deal. And then it so I have those
Speaker 1: moments too, I'll be dismissive of the real thing because
Speaker 1: I'd be like, you, look at you attempting this other
Speaker 1: p It's jarring when you see someone that has a
Speaker 1: signature look and you see them out in the wild
Speaker 1: in the Signature book. I saw Billy Porter at the airport,
Speaker 1: and initially I was like, Wow, that guy is dressed
Speaker 1: exactly like Lillie Porter. And then I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: it's actually just Billy Porter. He's the only person wearing
Speaker 1: completely crystal jeweled sneakers and like a gorgeous hot that
Speaker 1: is like high and tilted and looked stunning very early
Speaker 1: in the morning that his hand motions are suggesting this
Speaker 1: hat is taller than any head I've ever it was.
Speaker 1: It was, yeah, like a b Lincoln. Lincoln, No way
Speaker 1: it could. I bet. I bet when they sat in
Speaker 1: the airplane, it was touching where the lights in the
Speaker 1: and I don't see him playing that either. He'd be like,
Speaker 1: I need a new seat because I'm not taking my
Speaker 1: hat off and it's touching the air condition or not? Right?
Speaker 1: Do we discuss this before one Diane Keaton and her
Speaker 1: signature look came up the question of like, are there
Speaker 1: other actors who have just been like, ah, this is
Speaker 1: what I look like, like, this is kind of how
Speaker 1: I dress, and this is how I'm gonna addressing all
Speaker 1: my movies, And that's just like they come with the wardrobe. Yes,
Speaker 1: I can say firsthand, Jeff Goldbloom, Yeah, he's on he's
Speaker 1: on Search Party this season, and like how he dresses
Speaker 1: that you you would compliment him on something and he like,
Speaker 1: these are mine. Like everything I hear is mine and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, the like I would compliment Like his rings,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I love your rings, Like you know,
Speaker 1: costumes really hit it out of the park or whatever.
Speaker 1: They're all just like his own, his own stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a very jazzy dresser. Yeah, and he just you know,
Speaker 1: he has zany style and I think that he has
Speaker 1: been another person to like the Jeff Goldbloom style is
Speaker 1: now how you see him on and off screen. I
Speaker 1: feel like Andy Garcia. Also, that's like my vibe with him.
Speaker 1: I feel like just always suit yeah, like or like
Speaker 1: on vacation, like rich person vacation with Linen on I
Speaker 1: was gonna say lin In and like a hot yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like there's like a soccer player, this Bulgarian soccer player
Speaker 1: named Dimitar Berbatov, and he was once told he looked
Speaker 1: like Andy Garcia and he said he devoted his entire style,
Speaker 1: like his whole wardrobe is now informed by Andy Garcia
Speaker 1: because you kind of look like Andy Garcia, who's twenty
Speaker 1: years older than you, as to feel like Gabriel Iglesia's
Speaker 1: always looks the same. Okay, yeah, that's definitely yeah, he
Speaker 1: has a style signature. Look. Yeah. Yeah, But we should
Speaker 1: circle back to hippo attacks because I'm sure everybody is
Speaker 1: thinking about those. I think super producer Becca Ramos mentioned
Speaker 1: that there are there's a TikTok about hippo attacks going viral.
Speaker 1: There are right now. Yeah. We were looking it up
Speaker 1: because it was on an episode of like I Survived
Speaker 1: Death or whatever I guess some podcast that my friend
Speaker 1: listens to, and we were all talking about this guy
Speaker 1: who survived this insane hippo attack. And when I see
Speaker 1: hippo's I want to just like cuddle with them. Looks
Speaker 1: so cute and sassy baskets. Well you know that they're
Speaker 1: like so fucking yeah. Yeah, the most deadly creature in Africa.
Speaker 1: I think it's wild. And also there mouths. I think
Speaker 1: they have like a two thousand pounds like jaw crush. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The eyewitness testimony that hippo tacks involves people being bitten
Speaker 1: in half a lot of the time, which you don't
Speaker 1: appear that about sharks, even though right, well, sharks don't
Speaker 1: mean to eat us, yeah, whereas hippos are like, I'm
Speaker 1: coming for you, like I thought you were a seal.
Speaker 1: Yeah right right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's on And they'll
Speaker 1: wave their little butts and their tails just like shoot
Speaker 1: ship out in like many directions. That's like the one
Speaker 1: thing I remember seeing in a nature documentary into ship fans.
Speaker 1: I wish I could be pretty metal man. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would like that. That would be pretty cool. That would
Speaker 1: be a great way to you know, you don't you
Speaker 1: don't need a receptable to take it away from you
Speaker 1: because you have one built in that just fires across
Speaker 1: the Yeah. What is what? Something you think is overrated?
Speaker 1: Something that I think is overrated has to be zippers.
Speaker 1: M hm, Yeah, I think zippers are really overrated. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this this morning. They buttons, Man, buttons
Speaker 1: never fail you. Zippers, Zippers break. What if you're a
Speaker 1: little zippy thing. If the little pulley thing comes off
Speaker 1: and you don't have a little safety pin to scutcheon there,
Speaker 1: you're fucked. Also, they can get caught, they can nag things,
Speaker 1: And I just think, like I would love to go
Speaker 1: back to buttons. I think zippers. Yes they're convenient, Yes
Speaker 1: we like them for convenience, but like, you know, let's
Speaker 1: be a little bit more tactile. Let's get in there
Speaker 1: with a button. And maybe this is born to people
Speaker 1: and people are like, God, this girl sucks. You should
Speaker 1: never come back on this podcast railing about something that's
Speaker 1: not even funny. But I'm here to let you know
Speaker 1: that zippers, when they fail you, you're kind of fucked.
Speaker 1: It's not a laughing matter. It's not a laughing matter,
Speaker 1: especially one that can fall down on It's like with
Speaker 1: its own Oh, nothing more aggravating, nothing more aggravating. Or
Speaker 1: when you have a zipper and then part of it,
Speaker 1: part of the zip part comes unzipped, and it's like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? I just closed you. You shouldn't be
Speaker 1: opening up down there, the closures down without making any
Speaker 1: effect on you. Don't even get me started on the
Speaker 1: stupid sweatshirts that have the duel zip so that you
Speaker 1: can zip it up and then unzipped the bottom part.
Speaker 1: I won't get you start on that because I think
Speaker 1: we'd be here all day. The base zipper, what are
Speaker 1: we doing? Yeah? Has that has that ever coming. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's like a reason for that, but sweatshirts are
Speaker 1: not it. I don't know what the reason is. I
Speaker 1: think it's a fashion statement. I mean, do I have
Speaker 1: a black top with a crystal zipper where I can
Speaker 1: undo the bottom zipper on the top, sipurn have the
Speaker 1: meat and it can become kind of this gorgeous crop
Speaker 1: top situation. Yes? What am I waiting for that top
Speaker 1: to completely break and then leave me full tits out
Speaker 1: on the dance floor one day? Yes? I can't trust it.
Speaker 1: You can't trust a zipper. What is something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? Diarrhea? Boom and we're done? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. My children have had a seventy two hour
Speaker 1: and very productive stomach bug right now. It's not good.
Speaker 1: Look here's what I'll say. No one wants it, but
Speaker 1: when you get it, there is no greater feeling of
Speaker 1: relief once it has passed. And I just think it's efficient.
Speaker 1: I think that it clears the system quickly. And I
Speaker 1: just think we we literally shipped on diarrhea as seeing
Speaker 1: like this awful thing. But you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: an are rated for the cleanse, the immediate cleanse it's
Speaker 1: not vomit, and I think for that we need to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more grateful for diarrhea. And I
Speaker 1: hate to and I hate to do this to the listeners,
Speaker 1: but you're picking diarrhea over vomit. What Absolutely, I'm just
Speaker 1: setting the table for a terrible discussion. Hold on, if
Speaker 1: you have access to a bathroom, okay, look, yeah, you
Speaker 1: want to sit on it rather than put your face
Speaker 1: in it. Vomit is more acceptable to do anywhere, right, Like,
Speaker 1: if you need to, you can run to the sidewalk
Speaker 1: and vomit on the sidewalk. You can't necessarily, like rip
Speaker 1: your pants off in diarrhea all over the sidewalk. So
Speaker 1: I understand one might say, well, vomit's more convenient. You know,
Speaker 1: vomit can kind of happen anywhere, It can sort of
Speaker 1: be impromptu. You don't need to be worried about a
Speaker 1: bathroom situation, right if you have access to a bathroom,
Speaker 1: especially if it's your own, Honey, I'm going to have
Speaker 1: diarrhea all day. You not can want to vomit at all,
Speaker 1: and we will be isolating that and making honey, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have diarrhea. It sounds like the lost line from
Speaker 1: Samantha from Samantha, diarrhea all day about this diarrhea? Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: getting the lines are open. Call in let us know
Speaker 1: you zippers or buttons? You diarrhea, vomit buttons? I say,
Speaker 1: as I bring it up, buttons, buttons, I say, I
Speaker 1: feel like, I mean, the Internet has been electrified by
Speaker 1: the debate about which way toilet paper rolls are supposed
Speaker 1: to go. So I feel like these could these could
Speaker 1: be Oh, everyone's like, I will come to your house
Speaker 1: and make that toilet paper roll go over. It's like,
Speaker 1: if you're taking the time to switch my toilet paper roll, yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to get a life, honey. You need to
Speaker 1: ask yourself whether your zippers or buttons exactly, because that's
Speaker 1: what you should be worried about. That is. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: asking the wrong questions here. Thank you. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll be right back and we're back.
Speaker 1: And so Betty White passed on New Year's Eve, just
Speaker 1: capping off a really shitty year. But what what a legend,
Speaker 1: what a career. Yeah, I just I didn't I would
Speaker 1: like put this in the dock, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know why because we don't necessarily always like
Speaker 1: sort of reference people's passings and stuff on the show,
Speaker 1: but unless like it's a trending up. But there was
Speaker 1: something I think that like Betty Whites obviously like her
Speaker 1: career aside was just legendary and like longer than anyone's
Speaker 1: on Earth as it relates to television. She just also
Speaker 1: had this huge place I think in culture that was
Speaker 1: sort of interesting to see in that moment multiple like
Speaker 1: sort of not reckoning, but just these realizations occur where
Speaker 1: some people were like, oh, it's such a lost I
Speaker 1: saw some people who were like really upset other people.
Speaker 1: You know, there was always these jokes about like protect
Speaker 1: Betty White at all costs kind of things that you
Speaker 1: would always see on Twitter and Instagram whatever, and it
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it was a sad day. And then
Speaker 1: I don't know, part of me I wasn't like a
Speaker 1: secessary like the biggest, like singular Betty White fan, but
Speaker 1: I really liked her as a performer. Every time she
Speaker 1: did a cameo, I was like, she's fucking got it.
Speaker 1: Like that's called mastery when even in your nineties you're
Speaker 1: going toe to toe with like other comedic talents that
Speaker 1: might be you know, generations between you and still just
Speaker 1: like holding your own. So I always really appreciated that.
Speaker 1: But there was something about I think, like her getting
Speaker 1: to almost a hundred that I feel like was maybe
Speaker 1: working on People were like, that's that was the goal, right,
Speaker 1: It was like, let's get Betty White to a hundred.
Speaker 1: They had a whole special plan for later this month
Speaker 1: for because I think January would have been her hundredth birthday.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. As I like I sat back,
Speaker 1: I was kind of like, I'm I was just prossed.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I only bring this up to process
Speaker 1: this out loud with everyone else. I'm like, I I'm
Speaker 1: glad she was here, and I'm glad she she passed
Speaker 1: away in a very natural way, like getting to years old.
Speaker 1: I feel maybe Benny White's lucky number was you know,
Speaker 1: maybe she was like nine is the is the age?
Speaker 1: Who knows? I mean, I was, I'm a huge am
Speaker 1: still am Golden Girls just like huge. And then to
Speaker 1: think about the cultural impact that had and how she's
Speaker 1: just you know, she worked. I'm pretty sure she was
Speaker 1: consistently shooting. Wasn't she on hot in Cleveland for like
Speaker 1: a million years and didn't stop working regularly, maybe like
Speaker 1: four years ago or something. But she never even announced
Speaker 1: that she was like quote unquote stopping working. She just
Speaker 1: kind of was like, that's how I want to do it.
Speaker 1: I kind of just want to slowly back away, not
Speaker 1: like opportunities can come and go, but you never formally
Speaker 1: announced that you're like leaving the business or retiring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and also she was supposed to be like the nicest, sweetest,
Speaker 1: most lovely person ever, right could have fooled me. She
Speaker 1: seemed like a real asshole. Yeah. I feel like this
Speaker 1: is one of those things that like the people who
Speaker 1: ruined the toilet paper debate about, like who are like, no,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be over under, And like I feel like
Speaker 1: I associate people being like Betty White is like I
Speaker 1: hope Betty White doesn't die with that sort of like
Speaker 1: meme or that like level of like internet sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But I think they're right about this one. Betty White's
Speaker 1: last dying breath is the toilet paper over Yeah, she
Speaker 1: saw it under the paper. I do think that what
Speaker 1: I did love about Betty White, then we can move on.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's really hard as an actor too,
Speaker 1: I would imagine, because like, I'm terrified of getting old.
Speaker 1: But when like a young act young male actor like
Speaker 1: makes out with an older woman and it's like the
Speaker 1: joke is like, oh my god, he's making out with
Speaker 1: a grandmother. And I feel like Betty White just took
Speaker 1: that in stride all the time, because I think she
Speaker 1: did a lot of making out with like young hot
Speaker 1: uh celebrities. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that did almost become like
Speaker 1: a thing where it's like and then they'll kiss Betty White, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you'll make out with Betty White and then yeah,
Speaker 1: then we'll cue the laugh track and that's it. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: anti vaxers said that she was killed by the booster shot,
Speaker 1: so obviously there's that too, And then that just implied
Speaker 1: come on, yeah, yeah, if you're on what's her name,
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor? Yeah, great transition, Miles. You know what, some
Speaker 1: people thought we were gonna be a little rusty come
Speaker 1: back from break, but you fucking nailed it with that transition.
Speaker 1: My way right to it. Yeah, because empty g got
Speaker 1: booted from social media and is fighting with Dan Crenshaw.
Speaker 1: I'm just reading the headline that you wrote, sir, take
Speaker 1: it away. I mean, I'm just you know, a long
Speaker 1: time COVID deny her anti vaxer slash CrossFit doctor major
Speaker 1: lye tainted growth, went a little too far on Twitter
Speaker 1: with the social mediaize again with the misinformation, and Twitter
Speaker 1: permanently disabled her personal account because she was talking about
Speaker 1: I don't know about all these vaccination deaths you heard about,
Speaker 1: just bringing up this thing about the vaccine killing people,
Speaker 1: and they're like, you know what, welcome to Twitter, strike five.
Speaker 1: You're out fifth right. I don't know why they settled
Speaker 1: on that number, but yeah, she has had that personal
Speaker 1: account pretty pretty much, not pretty much. It's permanently deactivated.
Speaker 1: So now all she has her official congressional account to
Speaker 1: spute nonsense from. But I have a feeling that's probably
Speaker 1: more for official business rather than her scathing takes on.
Speaker 1: You know what, what COVID actually is. Do you think
Speaker 1: she cares? I feel like she's not going to care.
Speaker 1: She's like, what whatever, I don't care that this is official.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna do it anyway. She does not care, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean she does, and then she doesn't, right, because
Speaker 1: then she'll go on like get her which is this
Speaker 1: really stupid? Other? Like Twitter sort of clones site that
Speaker 1: you know, the trumper made. It's called get Her like
Speaker 1: get her t E T t R get or g
Speaker 1: E T T Getter m hm. And she's just like,
Speaker 1: you know, she went on there to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't believe they're like booting me off the free speed.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm someone who represents seven thousand types, like okay, sure,
Speaker 1: but that the rules are pretty clear on Twitter. Don't
Speaker 1: don't spread misinformation that could potentially hurt someone's well being
Speaker 1: because they're believing you as a somehow a member of Congress.
Speaker 1: So you know what, after she was booted from Twitter,
Speaker 1: this all kind of this all happened after she was
Speaker 1: fighting with Dan Crenshaw again, the Texas Congress member. The
Speaker 1: guy was the ipatch who always says he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: not all for the histrionics but made like a like
Speaker 1: a Jankee Avengers film about like stopping the steel. So
Speaker 1: they were going on back and forth because again, if
Speaker 1: you remember, this all started a month or two ago
Speaker 1: when Dan Crenshaw was like doing people like Marjorie Taylor Green,
Speaker 1: they're hucksters. They're just trying to ride this mag away
Speaker 1: like they're not really about this conservative ship, and so
Speaker 1: they always started they started bickering constantly. Then Dan Crenshaw
Speaker 1: basically had said this thing on Twitter. He's like, hey, man, Biden,
Speaker 1: should you know, like increased FEMA's presence in areas that
Speaker 1: need expanded testing and support, you know, because you know
Speaker 1: Trump actually even did that. You know, he had to
Speaker 1: add the caveat that. He wasn't just saying like, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to tell Biden what to do, that's good. He
Speaker 1: was saying Trump did this. So from there, maybe Mark
Speaker 1: I can't call her Marjorie major ly tainted growth then
Speaker 1: tweeted at him, She's like, this guy shouldn't call himself
Speaker 1: a conservative. He's like riding for Biden or something I
Speaker 1: don't even know. Then her account got deactivated and she
Speaker 1: posted she she apparently was trying to suggest that maybe
Speaker 1: hurt and Dan Crenshaw's spat got her account de activity.
Speaker 1: Said all I said was no, we don't want FEMA
Speaker 1: doing any of that, and hospitals need to hire back
Speaker 1: unvaccinated health care workers. Then poof, I'm kicked off Twitter.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Big Cruncha definitely can for her. You
Speaker 1: saw the production value on that short film that he
Speaker 1: made like he's got backing from the highest levels of
Speaker 1: you know, finance. This this guy is fucking untouchable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, I'm glad to see them fighting. But
Speaker 1: also this is a moment where Amicron has you know
Speaker 1: well and truly is in the process of taking over
Speaker 1: the country, and the infection rates are so high. So
Speaker 1: I guess the only positive to take away at the
Speaker 1: moment despite all this is that, you know, hospitalizations are
Speaker 1: not as high as Delta. But yeah, this is all
Speaker 1: all of this information, misinformation is coming out of time
Speaker 1: when we we have never needed it. And a lot
Speaker 1: of the studies we've talked about where it's like eight
Speaker 1: of people who are you know, anti vacs have encountered
Speaker 1: one of these like Facebook myths that kind of sets
Speaker 1: people down this road at some point. So it also underlines,
Speaker 1: you know, the responsibility of places like Twitter and Facebook
Speaker 1: to their shipped together. Because she also got banned for
Speaker 1: twenty four hours from Facebook. You mean meta, Yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't respect their new name. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody tries to change their name like from
Speaker 1: a meta now baby, Yeah, I know, I just don't
Speaker 1: respect some Sometimes those name changes are trying to avoid
Speaker 1: a dark side and greata. You are part of Meta's
Speaker 1: outreach campaign, letting us know today, Yeah, let us know
Speaker 1: that Meta title men she will be changing her name.
Speaker 1: I'm having I'm having a career pivot for a great
Speaker 1: check though. Can you imagine they come up like hot,
Speaker 1: hot piece of ass Mark Zuckerberg's sun kids little talents
Speaker 1: in me. They're like, can we get some of those
Speaker 1: like Instagram character bits you do? But like really talking
Speaker 1: up Mark, No, I have beef with Meta. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure I'm shadow ban on Instagram. Really, well, why would
Speaker 1: you do? What kind of truth did you tell? You know,
Speaker 1: me just talking in a British accent about my snatch
Speaker 1: and I think people just like report that I use
Speaker 1: foul language. And now no one sees any of my content.
Speaker 1: Now I spiral and it makes me feel bad. Oh no, well,
Speaker 1: now we all have to go to at Gertie Birdie, Right,
Speaker 1: Gertie bird go look at my account, like all my stuff,
Speaker 1: look at your handle on get her could yeah, and
Speaker 1: then find me on getter as Metta Zuckerberg. Metta Zuckerberg
Speaker 1: titleman is does this signal? Is trump perma band on Twitter?
Speaker 1: Or is that just like, yeah, oh it's permanent, but
Speaker 1: hours for her they're checking back. I think she has
Speaker 1: to screw up enough times. There was just like a suspension.
Speaker 1: I also think they're like, we need people to stay
Speaker 1: active on this, and like the only people left are
Speaker 1: people that are like following Marjorie Taylor Green. Right, yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: finally we do have a TikTok trend to check in with.
Speaker 1: It is uh, you know, we we we tend to
Speaker 1: get a little scatological every once in a while here
Speaker 1: on the Daily Zeitgeist. What we haven't been talking to
Speaker 1: you all for a couple of weeks now, so we
Speaker 1: we had it all stored up, so we had we
Speaker 1: had to do it to them. So there we do
Speaker 1: have to tell you about a TikTok trend about parents
Speaker 1: smearing ship on their kids. Yeah, oh, on their hands,
Speaker 1: right yeah, yeah, like we're on their arms. Like this
Speaker 1: is the thing we've seen on the internet before, like
Speaker 1: sort of an isolated moments, but now because TikTok's ability
Speaker 1: to affect culture is just so powerful, we are seeing
Speaker 1: this new the reemergence of it, but called the hashtag
Speaker 1: poop challenge, and like, you know, if you've not seen
Speaker 1: a video like this. Like a parent will usually be
Speaker 1: in the bathroom, pretend to be on the toilet and
Speaker 1: asking for help from someone outside, typically a kid, and
Speaker 1: be like, hey, I need more like toilet paper, can
Speaker 1: you help me with something? They come in and they
Speaker 1: smear some shit looking food like nutella or pudding or
Speaker 1: peanut butter like on the kid's hand or arm, and
Speaker 1: then just be like, and now I'm record you. Let's
Speaker 1: see if my violation of our trust will get the
Speaker 1: likes the clicks, and you know, you see it all.
Speaker 1: You see some kids scream and cry because they can't
Speaker 1: believe that their parents just smeared shit on them. Then
Speaker 1: you see other kids who are like, there's one kid
Speaker 1: is like crying but also playing with it more as
Speaker 1: like they're trying to figure out there like you're like, no,
Speaker 1: but I'm kind of interested in what this may or
Speaker 1: may not be. And then you have some true o
Speaker 1: G kids who just looked their parents in the eye
Speaker 1: and they're like, you know this doesn't smell like ship
Speaker 1: and nice try who are like young and you think,
Speaker 1: I think I saw one that was actually really sweet
Speaker 1: when a kid like kind of realized what it was
Speaker 1: and looked at his parents. I was like, it's okay,
Speaker 1: it's okay, and then just like this is so much
Speaker 1: more fucked, like now you're putting the child like to
Speaker 1: comfort you for shipping on them. I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: just the the whole the culture behind that. I can't
Speaker 1: kept behind it. Like, yeah, that's what I think is
Speaker 1: interesting because I'm you know, I get pranking your kids.
Speaker 1: I is a victim of this kind of ship no
Speaker 1: pun intended constantly, like having uncles or cousins who would
Speaker 1: always be like, oh, let's kind of funk with them.
Speaker 1: So I know that, like, you know, having fun and
Speaker 1: doing that kind of stuff is you know, par for
Speaker 1: the course. But like this this new era of now,
Speaker 1: it's like but in my day, we weren't uploading these
Speaker 1: videos where I was crying because I was so afraid
Speaker 1: of the darker the lights going out to like the internet,
Speaker 1: uploading to the internet for people to feast their eyes upon.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm just it is interesting to watch how quickly,
Speaker 1: like consciously or subconsciously, parents are like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe your maybe your tears will get me some fowers. Jack,
Speaker 1: are you going to do the poop challenge to your kids.
Speaker 1: I mean, have I done the poop challenge with my kids?
Speaker 1: Is that where did I misunderstand it? And is that
Speaker 1: where their stomach bug came from? Our all questions that
Speaker 1: I'm not going to Oh it was okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: got more sense now, I know. Would you prank your
Speaker 1: kids though, definitely not a social media like this, just
Speaker 1: in the privacy of your own home, like civilized adult.
Speaker 1: We're getting divorced. They got to pick a parent to
Speaker 1: leave with right now? Yeah, yeah, I don't tap it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my wife is very much more prone to I don't
Speaker 1: know me wanting to mess with the bounds of like
Speaker 1: truth to see how they react, and I'm just too
Speaker 1: tired to do that. Yeas of right now. Were you
Speaker 1: pranked a lot as a kid, either of you? My
Speaker 1: uncle's yeah, not not my dad. I wasn't pranked a
Speaker 1: lot because I think I was, like I think I
Speaker 1: was like an annoyingly precocious kid where whenever anyone would
Speaker 1: try to do something, I would be like, that's not true,
Speaker 1: and it would be like, how do you know? And
Speaker 1: I would be like, because I just do, like I'm
Speaker 1: actually smarter than you. Yeah, I think, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I was like one of those kids. I never thought
Speaker 1: the tooth Fairy was real, Like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: was kind of just like, no way, some bits flying
Speaker 1: into my window, grabbing my teeth and putting money under
Speaker 1: my pillow. Yeah, I was like, okay, first of all,
Speaker 1: these teeth are worth way more, and second of all nerve.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I did believe in Santa Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: And I also, I guess until actually this year, when
Speaker 1: I was really little, my mom used to My mom
Speaker 1: was not a crafty person, like she was not like
Speaker 1: a pt A mom or anything like that, but she
Speaker 1: did do this thing, which I guess was a prank
Speaker 1: where on St. Patrick's Day she would mess up our room,
Speaker 1: me and my sister's rooms, like pull our clothes out
Speaker 1: of the drawer under our beds, and like then she
Speaker 1: would put little green footprints to like a little pot
Speaker 1: of candy, like a pot of gold, and she made
Speaker 1: us believe that lepre cons like came into our room
Speaker 1: and fulfed up, and that prank was cool for like
Speaker 1: a few years, and then I just realized it was
Speaker 1: her doing it, and then I was left to clean
Speaker 1: up my room right what were the footprints? They were
Speaker 1: like paper, They were like little like you know, cut
Speaker 1: out little footprints from paper. I mean, it's cute to
Speaker 1: do to your kids. Maybe you should do that, but
Speaker 1: I didn't. I never. I wish she was things. You
Speaker 1: wish your parents were alive to ask him. Why why
Speaker 1: did she pretend to be a lepricun? I wonder if
Speaker 1: it's like a thing to where on the most cynical level,
Speaker 1: parents can do that to cover up the fact that
Speaker 1: they flipped the room looking for drugs. Damn, lepricn came
Speaker 1: through here. But at least there's a lot of gold.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad to know you don't have drugs. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's take another quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: talk about car crashes and wheel a fortune. H And
Speaker 1: we're back. And as we talked about in a previous episode,
Speaker 1: car crashes, car crash deaths are up, even though there
Speaker 1: are fewer cars on the road, and there was there
Speaker 1: was this l A Times like. The way I learned
Speaker 1: about this, at least was through a l A Times
Speaker 1: iPhone notification Apple News notification that that was like and
Speaker 1: here's why. And then you read the article and it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, people are like mad or something. And yeah,
Speaker 1: and so we we talked about that. We didn't say
Speaker 1: that's definitively why, but super producer Brian pointed out that
Speaker 1: there's actually a much better explanation that the l. A.
Speaker 1: Times completely missed. But I just want to quote from
Speaker 1: the l. A. Times article. They said I fear were
Speaker 1: they are? They quoted somebody saying, I fear we've adopted
Speaker 1: some really unsafe driving habits and they're going to persist
Speaker 1: our roads are less safe than they were pre pandemic.
Speaker 1: And then I think they anecdotally we hear from governor's
Speaker 1: offices around the country that it's a sem them in
Speaker 1: a sign of the overall lack of consideration we're showing
Speaker 1: for other citizens. So it's basically they're like blaming it
Speaker 1: on individual like character defects, which I feel like it
Speaker 1: goes along with the I think this is the overall
Speaker 1: like sort of shape that America tends to take with
Speaker 1: any problem is find a way to isolate it, to
Speaker 1: like put it in terms of individuals and psychology, Like
Speaker 1: you're struggling right now, you probably suffer from depression. You
Speaker 1: should exercise more and take these pills, and you know,
Speaker 1: instead of looking at like the broad structural problems that
Speaker 1: we have in our community, right, if it's just that
Speaker 1: people were out of practice, right. Yeah. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: one of the psychic predictions of Super Producer the beginning
Speaker 1: of She's like more car crashes. People don't know what
Speaker 1: they're doing is driving, and it happened, and we're like,
Speaker 1: can you predict me becoming a like just a very
Speaker 1: happy person manifests that are healthy. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: So I think there's definitely like some of that for sure.
Speaker 1: But I also I think so there a thing that
Speaker 1: I hadn't really taken into account is something called strodes,
Speaker 1: which they're like these city planners who are talking about
Speaker 1: how America is full of these like combinations street roads,
Speaker 1: which I didn't know. The road my my exact question.
Speaker 1: So I think roads are supposed to be like thoroughfares
Speaker 1: where like lots of cars, they're wider. Streets are supposed
Speaker 1: to be single like one lane each one lane, yeah,
Speaker 1: that people can like walk along, and America has just
Speaker 1: kind of broken down that distinction to the point that
Speaker 1: now everything is basically just this like combination street road
Speaker 1: there's like strip malls all over the place. There's you know,
Speaker 1: these mass of like two lane three lane roads that
Speaker 1: have like pedestrian crosswalks, which is where people are seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of the death's happening. And basically what happens
Speaker 1: in normal times is that traffic like slows are driving down,
Speaker 1: Like when there's a lot of cars on the road,
Speaker 1: especially if they're all on the road at the same time,
Speaker 1: like during rush hour, then people can't drive fast. But
Speaker 1: when there's little traffic in the way, as has been
Speaker 1: the case during most of the pandemic, the overly wide
Speaker 1: design of scroads encourages people to drive very fast, regardless
Speaker 1: of the speed limit, and they're hitting pedestrians, they're crashing.
Speaker 1: Because there are parts like when you drive around, like
Speaker 1: any time you drive through l A or different parts
Speaker 1: of the county and stuff, you I find myself being like, damn,
Speaker 1: it's like a fucking three lane street with nobody on it,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, let's open this ship up, like in
Speaker 1: your mind it feels like a freeway or something that
Speaker 1: I get like this, I I definitely suffer from, or
Speaker 1: not suffer, but I get that impulse in a wide
Speaker 1: open road that's open. You're like, dude, the speed limit
Speaker 1: has to be like fifty five on here, right, wide
Speaker 1: open road that's open, Yeah, exactly, know, just just nobody
Speaker 1: on there. But like you know, in like certain streets,
Speaker 1: they just you'll see like you're like, oh sh it,
Speaker 1: you can go faster on this bit like very wide
Speaker 1: road or whatever. And that definitely affects my subconscious sometimes
Speaker 1: when I'm driving. I I live by the Wilshire Country Club. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know that like stretch of Beverly that's like
Speaker 1: between Highland and Rossmore that's just like straight right right
Speaker 1: right m m. I see sometimes you know, you can
Speaker 1: be flying, flying, flying down that little road and some
Speaker 1: people truly go like a hundred and fifty down that road.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, and I see these people that are
Speaker 1: like dropping on the side of it. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: is wrong with you? Death trap? Yeah, But to me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's on the pedestrian because that's just not safe, right.
Speaker 1: But there's also it's at a place where there's no
Speaker 1: And this actually brings up another point, which is that
Speaker 1: there's a massive private golf course that you can't go
Speaker 1: through any other way, but this one road that doesn't
Speaker 1: have any fucking sidewalks, so they literally make it like
Speaker 1: impossible to walk from one side, like to walk like
Speaker 1: three blocks across the city. It's you see people like
Speaker 1: traversing the little like ledge by the fence of the
Speaker 1: golf of the golf. Yeah. So anyways, the like the
Speaker 1: reason that America has been designed to this way is
Speaker 1: because it delivers people faster to like stores and stuff,
Speaker 1: and like they just are putting stores and other like
Speaker 1: profit making centers like all over the place instead of
Speaker 1: at like very like tightly planned like places that have
Speaker 1: a bunch of you know, traffic plan in place to
Speaker 1: make sure that it's safe and how shocking. I know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like us. No, that doesn't sound American
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, so there are strategies for reducing them,
Speaker 1: like you know, putting roundabouts instead of traffic signals and
Speaker 1: intersections like they all sounded when I first read them,
Speaker 1: like yeah, okay, but like it's what other other countries
Speaker 1: do constantly. And the city Fort Alaisa, Brazil cut its
Speaker 1: traffic deaths nearly in half between by just lowering speeds,
Speaker 1: narrowing lanes and adding complexity to the roads and you know,
Speaker 1: other cities have basically eliminated traffic deaths by just like
Speaker 1: doing these, so like we know what the answer is,
Speaker 1: Like the La Times doesn't mention it. The La Times
Speaker 1: is like, you guys are just mad because of pandemic
Speaker 1: and you just need to calm down and start thinking
Speaker 1: of each other. And it's like, no, we actually know
Speaker 1: how to completely eliminate this by reducing speeds, banning cars
Speaker 1: from city centers, building out bike paths, and you know,
Speaker 1: creating very slow or car free zones that actually Oslow
Speaker 1: virtually eliminated traffic deaths in twenty nineteen by doing that,
Speaker 1: So we know how to do this. It's just like this.
Speaker 1: This box article points out that like city planners don't
Speaker 1: think about it as like a thing that they're trying
Speaker 1: to eliminate. They think of it as like baked in,
Speaker 1: Like it's like a alright, what's the cost of doing business?
Speaker 1: You know what's humiliating when you get to a crosswalk
Speaker 1: and they want you to pick up that little flag.
Speaker 1: They want you to cross the street with a little flag.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm talking about? Have you seen
Speaker 1: this anywhere? No? No, It's like there are some in Brentwood,
Speaker 1: I think there's some. There are, there are some in
Speaker 1: random parts of d C where I grew up, you'd
Speaker 1: like push the pedestrian crossing thing. There wasn't a light,
Speaker 1: but then like little flares would go or like little
Speaker 1: lights would flare on the road. Then they want you
Speaker 1: to like take a little like pedestrian crossing flag and
Speaker 1: walk across the street like holding this flag again, putting
Speaker 1: all the like impetus on the pedestrian instead of the driver,
Speaker 1: because the driver is getting to where they're going to
Speaker 1: spend money faster. And so that is who American city planners.
Speaker 1: So you were struck by a car in the crosswalk?
Speaker 1: Were you doing anything like a ribbon dance or something?
Speaker 1: She wasn't holding the flag, And to me, it's like
Speaker 1: if what doesn't matter what I'm holding. I could be
Speaker 1: carrying a like huge Jackson Pollock across the street and
Speaker 1: if you're going to kill me with your car, I
Speaker 1: feel like that would happen. Yeah, it's and it's funny too,
Speaker 1: and you like you think about like other places have
Speaker 1: speed cameras, like the UK and stuff where it's just
Speaker 1: like we don't need to put fucking law enforcement on
Speaker 1: the roads. There's some fucking camera that will clock your
Speaker 1: us the second you will buy that ship going too fast,
Speaker 1: and that's like already you can tell how much compliance
Speaker 1: that creates with people because they're like, well, there's no
Speaker 1: way I can avoid the fucking automated speed ticket distributing machine,
Speaker 1: and that will already get me to be like oh
Speaker 1: that that that that that maybe not right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They have a quote from somebody who's like I just
Speaker 1: came from you know, I lived in Brazil for a
Speaker 1: number of years and came back to the United States
Speaker 1: and was shocked that like this wasn't this hadn't been
Speaker 1: adopted here, Like it's been adopted and like it's I
Speaker 1: you just if you break the speed limit, you know
Speaker 1: that you're going to get a ticket. It's just like
Speaker 1: how it is, and the speed limits are there to
Speaker 1: keep people safe. It's funny too, because I feel like
Speaker 1: in America, like I don't know where, it's like that
Speaker 1: robot company that's like getting a congressional contract to like
Speaker 1: put these all over the country where they're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: these speed cameras, like and you're gonna generate more revenue
Speaker 1: through like violation tickets and things like that. But I'm
Speaker 1: wonder if it's at odds with like our culture of
Speaker 1: being like no man, like the open road, like you
Speaker 1: gotta just trust that you're going to drive the right
Speaker 1: speed or some ship. I don't know, there's like something
Speaker 1: philosophical at like at odds with each other there. Well,
Speaker 1: it kind of just goes back to it we're talking
Speaker 1: about five minutes ago, where it's like the consumer capitalist
Speaker 1: part where it's like, nope, let's not have those and
Speaker 1: let's just have people get where they need to get
Speaker 1: going to go and spend money. Yeah, and also those
Speaker 1: businesses that have been built into the actual infrastructure of
Speaker 1: the city and that we're dying in order to like
Speaker 1: make more profitable. Those are more entrenched than some like
Speaker 1: tech company that is probably also like making a bunch
Speaker 1: of money doing this overseas, so they like, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully that but that's like how we have to think
Speaker 1: about it, is like, well, hopefully they get better at lobbying,
Speaker 1: because that's right, that's the only way we're gonna fucking survive.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that part of like the Wilshire Country Club
Speaker 1: on Beverley. I actually live right by there to Greta
Speaker 1: and like that, I mean, it's just right. The whole
Speaker 1: story about that that is like absurd, and the fact
Speaker 1: that there's not like sidewalks or any pedestrian like option
Speaker 1: for that whole area is pretty shocking. I mean, I
Speaker 1: I personally think we need to as a city just
Speaker 1: tear down the fences of the Welshire country Club and
Speaker 1: like claim it for the public, because you have to
Speaker 1: be like a public green space, because like a central
Speaker 1: party would blow your mind when you've I remember there's
Speaker 1: a kid who I played hockey with, like wealthy. His
Speaker 1: his backyard was the Bolshire country Club and at night
Speaker 1: they'd be like, let's go out there and like smoke weed.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the fun? Like, I remember not knowing
Speaker 1: there was a golf club a golf it's just a
Speaker 1: big black fence. That's dude. How do y'all live over
Speaker 1: here there? Yeah? Keep keep you in your small pets away,
Speaker 1: don't on that. No, don't puff green on the green. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's let's check in with Wheel of Fortune real quick.
Speaker 1: You know we've all been so focused on controversy surrounding
Speaker 1: Jeopardy Miles. I know it's kind of taken over your
Speaker 1: life completely, but no, it's like that was a big
Speaker 1: story in one but it seems like we've all let
Speaker 1: a lot of Wheel of Fortunes fun you slipped by
Speaker 1: because I I don't know anyone who watches it. But
Speaker 1: at the end of last year, there were multiple instances
Speaker 1: of Wheel of Fortune like being just a really just
Speaker 1: bed at being a game show. They like. So one
Speaker 1: time a contestant made it to the final round of
Speaker 1: the game, got the answer right, but she left too
Speaker 1: long of a pause between words, and so they're like, ah, sorry,
Speaker 1: you didn't like It's almost like it's what Pat say,
Speaker 1: Jack's like own personal like money in his wallet that
Speaker 1: he's like, nope, sorry, like he's they're like cheating their
Speaker 1: contestants out even though it like definitely makes it a
Speaker 1: worse show. And then there's another example. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: play a clip from that example here. What are you
Speaker 1: doing is the category? You have ten seconds to try
Speaker 1: to talk it out. Good luck choosing the right card,
Speaker 1: choosing the right word. You know, this one's tough because
Speaker 1: you said all the right words, including the word word.
Speaker 1: But as you know, it's got to be more or
Speaker 1: less continuous. We'll we'll allow for a little pause but
Speaker 1: about four or five seconds, I'm sorry. I had a
Speaker 1: good job in getting it, but but we can't give
Speaker 1: you the prize. And it was was like, and it
Speaker 1: is my autie. Actually if you were going to get
Speaker 1: Q three parked in the lot, that is so fucked up.
Speaker 1: Did she end up getting the car? No? No, no
Speaker 1: no no, it was just like a l right there, boom. Sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have lost my mind. I would have gone
Speaker 1: completely off. So back back in April, a similar thing
Speaker 1: happened where a contestant like, they just do one thing,
Speaker 1: so it's like, it's not it should be like the
Speaker 1: New York Times puts out a crossword puzzle every day.
Speaker 1: That's like, you know, good, and they also have easy
Speaker 1: ones on Monday, so like, you know, there there are
Speaker 1: people who are good at doing easy crossword puzzles that
Speaker 1: would be great for this. Back in April, a contestant
Speaker 1: solved a cross word category, which is literally just figuring
Speaker 1: out what four words are on the board. They don't
Speaker 1: form a sentence, but in listing the words, a guy
Speaker 1: out of the word and like in between such as
Speaker 1: you would in a list of words, and was disqualified
Speaker 1: and everyone was like what then there was another example
Speaker 1: where it was like I forget what the answer was,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't. It wasn't a thing like I think that.
Speaker 1: It was like young jock was the answer. They were
Speaker 1: like a type of person and it was young jock
Speaker 1: or just person. It was person person. Yeah. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: and this was just the day before the controversy. We
Speaker 1: were just talking about the categories person and the answer,
Speaker 1: which the contestant didn't get was young jock, which is
Speaker 1: not a type of person. I thought that was is
Speaker 1: going down, met Mia, the mall is going down. We
Speaker 1: all did that dance like I guaranteed to go down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: first number two. Yeah that's not like pat But that's like,
Speaker 1: that's not how crossword puzzles were. Like there they are
Speaker 1: supposed to be famous expressions or you know, phrases that
Speaker 1: people have said before in public spaces, and they were
Speaker 1: just like yeah, okay, I was just going to ask
Speaker 1: if young jock was a thing that I didn't know about. Yeah, right, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a young jock that is so crazy. No one
Speaker 1: has ever, no one refers to any I mean like
Speaker 1: a jock, yes, but a young jock to me, or
Speaker 1: just referring to like a young little athlete right right now,
Speaker 1: I think that's what it what they meant. But it's
Speaker 1: just I think they've probably had the same writers for
Speaker 1: too long and they've just run out of ship and
Speaker 1: they're just like, I don't know, like just recombining words
Speaker 1: that they know popular jock. Maybe I don't know, like
Speaker 1: that seems like closer to something I would have heard,
Speaker 1: like than young Jock. But well, I'm look, I'm not.
Speaker 1: They didn't hire me to write this ship. But there's
Speaker 1: also the fact that pet say Jack is just a
Speaker 1: complete fucking asshole. He back in February was called after
Speaker 1: making fun of a contestant speech impediment. And how is
Speaker 1: the show still on? It must make a shipload of money.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know why I'm asking that question.
Speaker 1: That's a completely stupid question. People are adjected to watching
Speaker 1: Wheel of Fortune, and also for people that like Wheel
Speaker 1: of Fortune is perfect for people to get insanely frustrated
Speaker 1: watching Jeopardy because they don't get any of the answers
Speaker 1: right watching Jeopardy because when you're just guessing letters with
Speaker 1: Wheel of Fortune, it makes you feel way smarter than
Speaker 1: not knowing like facts, Like when you watch Jeopardy. He
Speaker 1: he also went on Twitter and like complained about cancel culture.
Speaker 1: That was like a week before he made fun of
Speaker 1: someone speech impediment. And then one time he yelled at
Speaker 1: a contestant who rightfully pointed out again that a puzzle
Speaker 1: like didn't make any sense. They were supposed to answer
Speaker 1: like things that are in a kitchen, and they said
Speaker 1: cabinet tells, oven, sink, And then the contestant was like,
Speaker 1: kitchen oven, what what is that? Because it was supposed
Speaker 1: to like complete this phrase, so kitchen, cabinet, kitchen towels,
Speaker 1: kitchen sink, and then oven, and he was like kitchen oven,
Speaker 1: Like that doesn't really make sense. You should have been
Speaker 1: table right there. You got and say Jack was like,
Speaker 1: you want don't argue, Darren, you got the puzzle. Ung
Speaker 1: grateful players. I've had it. No, I'm just teasing and
Speaker 1: then laughing and saying I finally snapped. It's like it's
Speaker 1: just such a such a very specific producers have to intervene,
Speaker 1: I think getting their late seventies power there too. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean, no one they're gonna be like, well are
Speaker 1: you going to have the conversation with Pat today? And
Speaker 1: they're like no, no, let's let's let's not they're like
Speaker 1: because in his Twitter I always like laugh at how
Speaker 1: like just maggot out. It is one of his most
Speaker 1: recent retweets his friends, Happy New Year. If you've been
Speaker 1: censoring yourself or worse, affirming woke or other dogmas you
Speaker 1: know aren't true, make the year you break free. Don't
Speaker 1: like group the fear, ambition or anything else enslave you.
Speaker 1: Think for yourself, seek the truth, speak your mind. He
Speaker 1: tweeted that, or he retweeted thee and he will so
Speaker 1: he'll rant things like that himself, but then he'll delete them.
Speaker 1: One point, he tweeted, I now believe global warming alarmist
Speaker 1: or unpatriotic racist knowingly misleading for their own ends. Good night,
Speaker 1: and then had to delete it when the producer like,
Speaker 1: hey man, we might have to fire you if you
Speaker 1: don't delete that, and then he was like, that was
Speaker 1: a parody, which is just a true king true joke. Yeah. Anyways,
Speaker 1: it still is my favorite show on TV. So do
Speaker 1: you watch Meal of Fortune every day? Really? No? No, No,
Speaker 1: I haven't watched it since I was like six, since
Speaker 1: you were a young jock, A young jock back in
Speaker 1: the day, just waiting for them to call me out
Speaker 1: and here I am. I fucking missed it when we're
Speaker 1: looking for was young jack es Well Greta as always
Speaker 1: such a pleasure having you. Oh thanks for having me. Um.
Speaker 1: I will recognize you when you appear on season five.
Speaker 1: You're gonna I'm gonna get an email from you, like
Speaker 1: after you finished this season and you're like, hey, sorry,
Speaker 1: this is so embarrassing, but what episodes were you in
Speaker 1: because you got cut? Any Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you all that good stuff. You can follow me
Speaker 1: at Gurtie Bird on Instagram, and you can follow my Twitter,
Speaker 1: where I very occasionally tweet an occasional tweet, also at
Speaker 1: Gurtie Bird, and you can listen to my podcast Senior
Speaker 1: Superlatives all about high school Amazing. And is there a
Speaker 1: tweet or some of the work of social media you've
Speaker 1: been enjoying? Yes, you know, I like to observe, you know,
Speaker 1: my friends on Twitter and my dear friend io Debris
Speaker 1: tweeted something yesterday made me laugh and the tweet is
Speaker 1: it's crazy that monk wore his shoes in the house
Speaker 1: and I really really like that for all of my
Speaker 1: monk heads out there, you'll laugh because it is really
Speaker 1: crazy that that just made me check though, right, because
Speaker 1: he's like very does he have like he has like
Speaker 1: extreme O c D. Right, And you're right, because I
Speaker 1: feel like the only things I can remember is Tony
Speaker 1: Shalou being very careful about germs. But wow, and he
Speaker 1: wears his shoes in the house, lying, I know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh now a whole other series about people investigating Monk
Speaker 1: whether that ship was just performative because they're like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, he wears his shoes in the house. I know.
Speaker 1: They're like, maybe he's not actually an O C D
Speaker 1: real genius. Right, They're like, have you seen I saw
Speaker 1: him pack for a trip? He put the suitcase on
Speaker 1: his bed, impat the bed, fat in his daytime clothes
Speaker 1: on his nighttime bed. Miles, where can people find You?
Speaker 1: And what is the tweet You've been enjoying? Frying me
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray and also
Speaker 1: the other pod Fiance with Sophia Alexandro where we talk
Speaker 1: about ninety day Fiance the worst best show ever. Some
Speaker 1: tweets that I like. First one is from a Wembley
Speaker 1: Sewell tweeted no More circling back, square up, prepared to fight.
Speaker 1: And now there's Zach Fox reference, one might say, right, then,
Speaker 1: let's see this one is from Cameron at Cameron Bradford tweeted,
Speaker 1: imagine being the first American soldier in Vietnam to put
Speaker 1: on fortunate Son. Everyone would be like, dude, you're a genius.
Speaker 1: This is the exact vibe. Stupid. And finally at baby scalop,
Speaker 1: dude to stop asking if the wine is dry. It's
Speaker 1: literally a liquid, Like are you dumb? I mean true,
Speaker 1: true facts. Let's see. Katie Rich tweeted a friend of
Speaker 1: mine did social media for All State and her job
Speaker 1: mostly consisted of the leading hundreds of women's vile, warny
Speaker 1: comments about the Mayhem guy. And then uh cat Algorista
Speaker 1: tweeted Goldilocks was so stupid for not wanting to sleep
Speaker 1: in a bed too big for her. Oh no, I'm
Speaker 1: too comfy. Shut up. I never thought about that is done.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Undersquirrel Brian.
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