Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh These are some of our favorite segments
Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
Speaker 1: last stravaganza. Uh yeah. So, without further ado, here is
Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Miles. We are thrilled and fortunate to
Speaker 1: be joined in our by one of the very faces
Speaker 1: on Mountain, Zepemore the Mountain, featuring the phase of our
Speaker 1: fan favorite Daily Zeitgeist guest that's being built in my
Speaker 1: garage out of Legos and Plato and spit. He is
Speaker 1: the hosts of the podcast The Worst Idea of All
Speaker 1: Time and which he watched Grown Ups two Sex in
Speaker 1: the City to once a week for a year until
Speaker 1: death do Us Blart, which is going to be going
Speaker 1: on for the rest of his life. I believe it's
Speaker 1: the year he will be watching Paul Blart too until
Speaker 1: he expires. Um. He is the hilarious stand up comedian
Speaker 1: who you've probably seen making fun of American accents on
Speaker 1: his comedy CenTra. What the fuck the funk is up
Speaker 1: with that brouh. He is the billion and talented guy Montgomery.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's it's so true. I just think you
Speaker 1: guys talk funny. Obviously obviously not to you, but to me,
Speaker 1: what's the fun what's the funniest sound Americans make? I? Uh,
Speaker 1: you're always like, oh, I don't know, I don't know. Oh.
Speaker 1: I love about ki accent is saying like when chips
Speaker 1: kind of becomes chops. Yeah, like any of that ours
Speaker 1: that you know Australian kiwi sort of sound. Yeah, those
Speaker 1: are my favorites. But I guess it's just our Oh
Speaker 1: we swap a lot of eyes for us. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't even know we're doing it. And when we do it, no,
Speaker 1: one don't here police is it. We'll just sort of
Speaker 1: we know what each other is saying. Get it doesn't
Speaker 1: sound odd to the I hadn't. I hadn't thought about it.
Speaker 1: But without traveling and our borders being close, there's been
Speaker 1: a lot less um sort of teasing about our hilarious cadence. Right.
Speaker 1: You know, we've all been striding around the country talking confidently,
Speaker 1: and I get an email. It says you want to
Speaker 1: come in the Daily's like guys, And I say, sure,
Speaker 1: that sounds nice. I'm sure that won't be damaging for
Speaker 1: my self esteem. Right out and here we are We've
Speaker 1: had enough of your confident speaking. You built out here
Speaker 1: nice cock. Wow. That's why people get New Zealanders to
Speaker 1: say nice dick. The belief is that we're describing apion
Speaker 1: so pish, that's all. That's all Americans, were you joking
Speaker 1: or now you're saying, like tourists come and and clown
Speaker 1: your accents on your land or not your but you
Speaker 1: know where your people settled, uh people? Yeah? Yeah. Australians.
Speaker 1: Obviously Australians are like, um, they're high school bullies. They're
Speaker 1: like Australia to Canada, so like, so it is kind
Speaker 1: of true, like that relationship that they showed in Flight
Speaker 1: of the Concords. Yes, they love to ruffle out here
Speaker 1: and tell us it's all okay, and it was all okay,
Speaker 1: comes over. Yeah, yeah, before they ruffled out here, it
Speaker 1: was fine. We like to ask our guests, like, what
Speaker 1: is something from your search history that is revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are? I was searching the Clippers because I
Speaker 1: was trying to find a way to watch the game
Speaker 1: and I don't have cable or whatever. This Valley's network
Speaker 1: is that apparently bought all the Clippers games last Yeah,
Speaker 1: that like bought Fox sports or whatever. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: no idea what's going on. I learned all of this
Speaker 1: very quickly last night when I realized that a national
Speaker 1: playoff basketball game I couldn't watch because I live in
Speaker 1: the city that the team plays in and I don't
Speaker 1: have the right wires coming into my house. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of people talking about like how
Speaker 1: they ran the the NBA scheduled the Lakers game and
Speaker 1: the Clippers game at the same time, same damn time.
Speaker 1: It's pretty ridiculous. Yeah, it's pretty And I know there's
Speaker 1: a lot of puzzle pieces with stuff being on the
Speaker 1: West Coast and you know, all the moving parts with
Speaker 1: all the games. Was the first round, so there's like
Speaker 1: all of these series happening once. But you you figured
Speaker 1: they wouldn't even be on the same day at the
Speaker 1: same time. And this is game two of round one. There,
Speaker 1: this was unavoidable. It's not like this is you know,
Speaker 1: they're one teams in the first round Game seven and
Speaker 1: the other teams that like, this is just straight up
Speaker 1: this was the plan all along, Mike, you the Clippers, Man,
Speaker 1: I think so, or I thought I was. Now I'm
Speaker 1: I'm just confused, man, I'm just confused. I have no
Speaker 1: idea what's happening. They seem cursed. Yeah, And it's like,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's too dangerous to root for them
Speaker 1: now because who wants who wants heartbreak that it's for
Speaker 1: sure coming right, and for people who don't know it
Speaker 1: might not be interested. You know, one of the big
Speaker 1: things going into this postseason with the Clippers is that
Speaker 1: they tanked because you know, some they tried to manipulate
Speaker 1: their records so they wouldn't have to face the Blazers.
Speaker 1: They didn't want They wanted to avoid stronger oppositions, so
Speaker 1: they wanted to face the Mavericks. And now they're down
Speaker 1: to nothing in the series handed to him by the
Speaker 1: people who they who they chose right, and and and
Speaker 1: and that's weird because I was talking to Jack earlier
Speaker 1: off Mike, I was like, psychologically, you don't want to
Speaker 1: go in like strategizing if you're if you're intent is
Speaker 1: to say no, Actually, I believe this is the team
Speaker 1: that's the best in the league. It shouldn't matter who
Speaker 1: the funk you play, because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you're going to prove that through your wins. But too
Speaker 1: then strategically avoid oh tylu come on now, sorry buddy,
Speaker 1: but you know, maybe he's just a he's an undercover
Speaker 1: Laker in disguise. It's so it's so wild, like the
Speaker 1: fact that the Clippers are down to oh To to
Speaker 1: the Mavericks to like a team that I think I
Speaker 1: think most people had the Clippers winning that series. It
Speaker 1: really does make you ask questions about like the psychology
Speaker 1: around both that, like the team that you're playing, realizing
Speaker 1: that you wanted to play them because you didn't respect
Speaker 1: them enough, right, and then the psychology around like playing
Speaker 1: for what is supposedly a cursed franchise. Well, if you
Speaker 1: watch the last dance, I think what we should all
Speaker 1: take aways. You don't make people angry on purpose, right,
Speaker 1: don't do it? Yeah, because they will athlete have some
Speaker 1: good job of turning that into fuel. Yeah, yeah, like they.
Speaker 1: I think there's a reason that the team that broke
Speaker 1: the curse for the Boston Red Sox were affectionately known
Speaker 1: as the Idiots. Like there's like something psychologically complex in
Speaker 1: sports about like playing for a cursed franchise and you
Speaker 1: just have to either like stupid your way through that
Speaker 1: or just like through sheer tyranny of will like, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Lebron would be able to do that. I mean
Speaker 1: he did that with the Calves, but not to piss
Speaker 1: off Clippers fans even more. But I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is overrated? The Los Angeles Clippers.
Speaker 1: I think they're overrated. So we don't have we don't
Speaker 1: have to stay on him. I just we have three
Speaker 1: basketball fans talking right now, and this is what's happening
Speaker 1: right now. I'm I'm on the other side of that
Speaker 1: lifelong Laker fan, so I I love it. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is when I become my most toxic because a lot
Speaker 1: of the times I am I love the relationship between
Speaker 1: like a franchise that defines themselves based on someone else,
Speaker 1: and I just love to see it backfire. But part
Speaker 1: of me also like on paper, I'm like they I'm
Speaker 1: like scared of the Clippers until I see the results
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, hmm, let's well, it's up and down.
Speaker 1: They should be like really good. I'll be surprised if
Speaker 1: they lose the series still because I just feel like
Speaker 1: k While put it together. But man, it was the
Speaker 1: last person to go to games down, yeah, right and
Speaker 1: then come back win, So you know, see are you feeling.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do I mean you, Mike, you look
Speaker 1: lost as we talk about this, and just I feel
Speaker 1: like you're watching like old Darius Miles highlights playing well.
Speaker 1: I mean I did have to watch the game in
Speaker 1: my own mind last night, that is, that is part
Speaker 1: of I couldn't actually see it. So I'm just like
Speaker 1: watching Google for information and live score coverage. I don't
Speaker 1: even know how to pirate stuff anymore, so I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. But also a z Gang holler, holler,
Speaker 1: I Mike on Twitter with some info because there are
Speaker 1: plenty of ways, because it's the same thing like Spectrum
Speaker 1: Sports or like kan in l A, what do you
Speaker 1: want to watch your team where Yeah, you have to
Speaker 1: just work around these greedy broadcasters. Yeah I got and
Speaker 1: I got caught out there yesterday. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: to do, so yeah, yeah, I mean I only caught
Speaker 1: I caught like highlights. And then at the end of
Speaker 1: the Laker game, they like cut to you know, they
Speaker 1: started watching it on the t N T brow or
Speaker 1: the whatever the broadcast was. Yeah, so you could got
Speaker 1: like the last couple of minutes where like Charles Barkley's like,
Speaker 1: oh man, and they weren't even It was funny because
Speaker 1: they were they were just watching and they weren't really
Speaker 1: giving commentary, but it was commentary, and that this is
Speaker 1: what it sounds like when the four of them are
Speaker 1: watching something passively Lakers fans. Miles, you said you were
Speaker 1: a lifelong Lakers fan, and that that's true. You had
Speaker 1: to live through those tough times when they were where
Speaker 1: Kobe was still putting up like eight one and no
Speaker 1: stop stop stop. I was here. I was there that
Speaker 1: one year when Magic Johnson like was Lakers. They know
Speaker 1: my history, man, like fucking down, I've I've held ashes
Speaker 1: in my hands and be like, what is happening? And
Speaker 1: then yeah, the pensions on the other way, and now
Speaker 1: you know, I'm using this to completely become an insufferable fuck.
Speaker 1: So I'm a Bulls fan, So I have no sympathy
Speaker 1: for you at all. We haven't won anything in my
Speaker 1: adult life. Yeah, the one loss in the playoffs. The
Speaker 1: Lakers lost their first game of the playoffs, and I
Speaker 1: was getting the texts from Lakers fans being like, what
Speaker 1: is Vogel doing right away? People passionate context of what
Speaker 1: a postseason even looks like. It's like we only did
Speaker 1: a couple of times. I think it was like against
Speaker 1: that one series against Iverson where we like went winning
Speaker 1: every single game on the way to the finals, and
Speaker 1: then when we lost, like but yeah, that one lost
Speaker 1: again like one of those hard things that Lakers fans
Speaker 1: had to live through when they lost that one game
Speaker 1: to Diverson. That was hard, man, that must you swept
Speaker 1: everyone else that year. But yeah, I mean, these are
Speaker 1: the same people who were texting me last year being
Speaker 1: like Vogel should be fired, like halfway through a run
Speaker 1: to the playoffs where they won the championship and they're
Speaker 1: like back, They're like this guy, what the what is
Speaker 1: he doing? It's like you think that it would build
Speaker 1: up faith. But I don't know, Lakers fans, I don't
Speaker 1: call for heads like that, like that's any anytime somebody's
Speaker 1: coaching Lebron, like part of their job description is to
Speaker 1: take all the blame for everything, because you know, we
Speaker 1: all think that Lebron's really coaching the team and that
Speaker 1: guys just standing there board that's right, Tyler. That one
Speaker 1: picture he's like outside the huddle dumping on someone's back.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is underrated? I think it's underrated.
Speaker 1: And this is again Gray's Anatomy related and that is
Speaker 1: all you will be getting for me today is graze
Speaker 1: a nomy content. So I hope you like it. It
Speaker 1: is underrated that I really like that men have to
Speaker 1: be hot. Now, Um, that's nice that that standard has
Speaker 1: now been applied to all genders. It's just that everybody
Speaker 1: has to be hot, because it used to be that
Speaker 1: if you were watching a movie and they introduced a guy,
Speaker 1: you couldn't tell if he was supposed to be hot
Speaker 1: until you heard the music cube or saw the main
Speaker 1: character's reaction, because a lot of the time they would
Speaker 1: present you with like a really average looking guy, not
Speaker 1: an ugly guy, just a regular looking guy. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: then the characters would be like, oh, he's fine or whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, and you'd have to see that to know
Speaker 1: because they were just like, yeah, we can't find any
Speaker 1: hot guys. We just don't know where to find them.
Speaker 1: Or the white guy who like the white cis heterosexual
Speaker 1: guy who like was directing the movie just like didn't
Speaker 1: give a ship, was like that guy's probably hot, right,
Speaker 1: Like I can't be hotter than me because I want
Speaker 1: to think I can funk these people in my mind
Speaker 1: also like where would we be without this move? Someone
Speaker 1: lowering their glasses to excuse him, glasses just pulled, pulled
Speaker 1: some shades. I've got all kinds of props, you know,
Speaker 1: around here. If we can, we can, we can do
Speaker 1: a terrible improp scene. If now he has giant scissors,
Speaker 1: what are you doing with those giant scissors out? I
Speaker 1: felt like on Sex in the City though, too. That's
Speaker 1: when I would always see like norm core as dudes
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh fuck, and I'm like why yeah
Speaker 1: talking about Yeah it was, but it took their repection
Speaker 1: for me to say like, oh, that's what's hot, and
Speaker 1: then for you to understand what's supposed to be hot. Actually,
Speaker 1: now that you say that, I think about the confusion
Speaker 1: that overcame me as like a pubestan boy being like
Speaker 1: this is what they're feeling, like, this is what's hot.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I'm in trouble then, because I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't look like some fucking little league coach. Well,
Speaker 1: sometimes I would see that and I would be like,
Speaker 1: am I hot? Because I'm harder than that guy. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm hot, but like, if that's the standard,
Speaker 1: but there was a completely different standard for girls and guys.
Speaker 1: And now, because you know, now we have YouTube beauty tutorials,
Speaker 1: nobody has an excuse to not know what to put
Speaker 1: on their facebody has an excuse. Yeah, how to alter
Speaker 1: your face with paints, how to moisturize your skin, how
Speaker 1: to dress. All this information is on the internet now.
Speaker 1: And uh it's also thanks to a lot of people
Speaker 1: working very hard. There's more people of color on TV,
Speaker 1: so you don't just have to go with the best
Speaker 1: looking white guy. Now you can go with the best
Speaker 1: looking any race guy, which really widens your field to
Speaker 1: the hottest of the hot. Yeah, I mean Reggae Jean
Speaker 1: from Fucking What's I remember getting a fight with her Majesty.
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, like you think I could be
Speaker 1: I could be in a show like him? And she's like,
Speaker 1: hell no. I was like, thank you for keeping it.
Speaker 1: Manna is yelling in the chat to be hornier when
Speaker 1: we talk about him. This is the most specific note
Speaker 1: we've ever gotten from consistent with this one. She's like,
Speaker 1: if we're talking Reggae Jean, get the horny nous up.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm I'm going to my zoom recorder and
Speaker 1: turning up called to identify with when you're talking about him,
Speaker 1: and just not not being horny. Look, you either gonna
Speaker 1: get horny, you're gonna get down on yourself. I turned
Speaker 1: off my splush mike so you can't hear. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: it that we do usually ask that all guests have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a label of NFL games on the sidelines, focus sounds,
Speaker 1: no matter what, just a mic. I shove up their
Speaker 1: channel too, but I turned it down, turned the way
Speaker 1: down from my production people out there. Chris, what's something
Speaker 1: that you think is overrated? Celebrities? Oh? Yes, even though
Speaker 1: you even though you have a famous Twitch show called
Speaker 1: brew got me like, even though I myself wanted my
Speaker 1: whole life to be a celebrity because I thought it
Speaker 1: would solve all my problems my whole life. I thought
Speaker 1: that I wanted to be a celebrity because it would
Speaker 1: give me love without me having to do any work.
Speaker 1: I have found out that also I used to be
Speaker 1: an alcoholic, Joel, you don't know. So as part of
Speaker 1: my alcoholism, I was like, what better way to be
Speaker 1: an alcoholic than be a celebrity, because then you have handlers,
Speaker 1: you have like a team. You know, James at his
Speaker 1: wife that way, who did Robert Downey Junior's wife was
Speaker 1: his handl There there you go, And that's exactly right
Speaker 1: because I don't want to have to meet people. I
Speaker 1: don't want to have to like put myself out there.
Speaker 1: I just want my handler to fall in love with
Speaker 1: me because I'm a celebrity. That's exactly right, That's what
Speaker 1: I wanted it. And I'll never I'll always have love
Speaker 1: and I'll never have to do any work and no rejection,
Speaker 1: no rejection. Who's gonna leave that orbit? Everyone's favorite place
Speaker 1: on earth, the land of no rejection and failure exactly,
Speaker 1: the land of no action as well. It's weird how
Speaker 1: that works, right, But I mean, no one's gonna leave
Speaker 1: your orbit of your celebrity because it's unlimited snacks until
Speaker 1: your Twitch show coldbrew got me like doesn't start doing
Speaker 1: as well as they Just here's your real friends. There's
Speaker 1: always there is always a cliff bar within reach when
Speaker 1: you're a celebrity for free, and that's enough to keep
Speaker 1: your significant other around, even if you're a monster, even
Speaker 1: if you're a mom. You're like, he free bases all
Speaker 1: the time. But I get free cliff bars. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: these like backpacks we get for free out yeah and
Speaker 1: back like cologne and stuff and like free anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a I have a coffee mug that you
Speaker 1: can charge your phone by plugging your phone into it.
Speaker 1: I got it, got it the Kid's Choice Awards. So anyway,
Speaker 1: the idea that celebrities first of all, Yeah, because as
Speaker 1: an addict, you're thinking, I used to honestly think that,
Speaker 1: Like listen, if I get out of hand, I can
Speaker 1: go to a you know, a mud bath or whatever
Speaker 1: it promises, you know, and the right and then I
Speaker 1: can go back to my other lifestyle. So and they're
Speaker 1: also like I can go to the doctor or whatever
Speaker 1: I want and they can check if I'm dying or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then they say you're not dying, and then I
Speaker 1: can do coke. You know, you're not dying, but your
Speaker 1: heart can't handle any kind of ampheta means I will
Speaker 1: say that you don't alright, but I'm not dying. Right,
Speaker 1: It's not No, it's not it's a good idea, any
Speaker 1: of it. None of it's a good idea at all.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a terrible idea. Yeah, that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do coke and then find out if I'm still alive,
Speaker 1: and then do coke again. But I really wanted if
Speaker 1: I thought figured, if you're rich, you can have a
Speaker 1: doctor in your house. I mean, look at Michael Jackson,
Speaker 1: Poor Michael Jackson and his own doctor. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, give me propa fall and he's like, I
Speaker 1: can't say no to the King of Pope, say no
Speaker 1: at all, but put me to sleep. What did you
Speaker 1: handle that happened? Did you come out the other side?
Speaker 1: What's your vision now that you have this take? So
Speaker 1: here's my take. My take is that it was seeing that.
Speaker 1: It was seeing the Academy Awards and it was lovely
Speaker 1: because it looked ridiculous. It looked ridiculous everyone involved in
Speaker 1: it looks like an egomaniac. No one wanted to see,
Speaker 1: Uh Glenn Close do de butt or whatever the hell
Speaker 1: she's doing. Yeah, it's because they're fools. Celebrities are nothing
Speaker 1: but the worst of us in a way. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not saying they're not talented. Some of
Speaker 1: my love, but the culture is absurd and this pandemic
Speaker 1: revealed celebrity used to be just what they are, which
Speaker 1: is completely narcissistic versions of ourselves, and once they were
Speaker 1: stuck at home, they just look like assholes because they
Speaker 1: were just like kind of people. Like they were just
Speaker 1: like kind of people. Remember when they did that. Imagine
Speaker 1: all the people video at the top of the pan.
Speaker 1: That's that's exactly what I was thinking in my head,
Speaker 1: was Galdado when I was thinking that ship? Right, Yes,
Speaker 1: it's like this person just spends too much time on
Speaker 1: their makeup and their hair. This is not someone I
Speaker 1: should be might that should be my even doing their
Speaker 1: own makeup and hair. Listen, celebrities have far too much
Speaker 1: time because people will eight organize their life, be there
Speaker 1: the revenue stream for like at least six people. Once
Speaker 1: you're like at a certain level of celebrity, and those
Speaker 1: people are going to make sure you get to where
Speaker 1: you need to go. Don't worry about driving anywhere. They're
Speaker 1: gonna send a car for you. Your hair and makeup,
Speaker 1: they'll do that. If you haven't showered, they might even
Speaker 1: scrub you, or they'll just deal with your stink, whatever
Speaker 1: is easiest for the general team. Right, they're gonna pick
Speaker 1: out your clothes. You have to worry about that. People
Speaker 1: we talked about this. The other day, we were offended
Speaker 1: when a celebrity came to our office and had to
Speaker 1: pay for their own parking. Mortified, We're like, what's happening,
Speaker 1: Why did that happen? They can't pay, They couldn't Possibly
Speaker 1: this person exponentially wealthier than any of us, And it's
Speaker 1: the whole world opens up to you. And it's like,
Speaker 1: on the one hand, you don't want to feel bad
Speaker 1: for somebody because they have all of the options, right
Speaker 1: and so of course not. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: like that world is so preconditioned that once you, like
Speaker 1: if you're even just a little bit talented, and you
Speaker 1: somehow gets swept up into this thing, like that's it.
Speaker 1: You're off the extra exceptional celebrity. Maybe, like you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't like a Shenado O'Connor was like, I was
Speaker 1: really smart to tear up that picture of the Pope
Speaker 1: because I just got to go back home and chill
Speaker 1: where that's where I like. She's like, I made a
Speaker 1: smarter decision career by stepping out of canceled. She's like
Speaker 1: the only person who really got canceled in the history.
Speaker 1: Well that there's a few that, like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember Shenadoconnor, like that's a that was a cancela.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she got fucked just for ripping up a
Speaker 1: picture of the pope, which is completely righteous. There's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with I mean in retrospect, it's like at the
Speaker 1: time I was like, who cares about the goddamn pope?
Speaker 1: It's like tear picture of Queen Elizabeth. We have Congress
Speaker 1: people who are like, well, they may have been seventeen
Speaker 1: at the time, I don't know, it's a trafficking and
Speaker 1: we're over here like I don't know trafficking for this.
Speaker 1: But to your point about the celebrity thing, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: you know, on some level, it's like sure the people themselves,
Speaker 1: did they become whatever celebrity culture makes them right, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's not that they're like on some level, yes,
Speaker 1: some people who get reached that level of celebrity will
Speaker 1: begin to really I think, switch gears into what they
Speaker 1: believe a celebrity is. And then you always have to
Speaker 1: look for people who try and maintain their humanity through it.
Speaker 1: There are like versions where I'm surprised at how like
Speaker 1: humble some people are. Not to say that, it's all
Speaker 1: varying depending on who you are, but that there's also
Speaker 1: just like this thing that they also are on comfortable
Speaker 1: with what celebrity culture is and what that means to
Speaker 1: other people, where some like you know, you'll meet people
Speaker 1: like no, I'm just I'm just a person, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Like I can get that thanks not shout
Speaker 1: out to all the celebrities who refused to show their kids.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's mainly we're talking about the celebrities
Speaker 1: like no, my child is not a commodity, it's a
Speaker 1: person alone. Let them developed in private. But I think
Speaker 1: we also are learning, like you're saying, Chris too, that
Speaker 1: when we're all stripped down to like what we really
Speaker 1: need as human beings, looking at celebrities like it just
Speaker 1: feels very vapid or it doesn't have any substance to
Speaker 1: it or nourishment, because like you're saying, it's like these
Speaker 1: projections of our own egos that we wish to maybe
Speaker 1: be or can't be. Therefore, it's easy to be invested
Speaker 1: in this version of a person that we think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's also to be sympathetic to them. The new media
Speaker 1: landscape has made it so like say the oscars, It
Speaker 1: used to be like best picture. You really were often
Speaker 1: like oh wow that those people really did some work,
Speaker 1: you know, and now best pictures like Mario Kart, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's like it's like Glenn Close.
Speaker 1: I don't even know why Glenn Close, dude did but
Speaker 1: I didn't even watch it, but I saw, you know,
Speaker 1: all the takes of course, because I'm an take our
Speaker 1: best friends. And he called her up and he was like, yo, Glen,
Speaker 1: please please do this for the best friends. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's a better version of Snoop and Martha. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a very elevated They're like, I'm actually
Speaker 1: like I want to see that dinner party. So anyway,
Speaker 1: my punch line that I wrote down was basically, during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, I found out that the real celebrities are
Speaker 1: deer and bears from hiking. From hiking, I was so
Speaker 1: much more excited. You know, who's got more to offer?
Speaker 1: You know, he's got more to offer than Glenn Close
Speaker 1: doing to butt a deer, a real deer the forest.
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is I just realized that the
Speaker 1: real celebrities are animals, like actual animals in nature, birds
Speaker 1: and ship I'm so much more excited to see a bear.
Speaker 1: I saw bears, Joe hell I went, I went hiking
Speaker 1: a bunch during the pandemic for the first time, and
Speaker 1: that was just a shift, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I mean by point my I guess my point was,
Speaker 1: you know what, who's not I don't want to see?
Speaker 1: I love that. I'm just making this all about Glenn
Speaker 1: Close doing I don't want to see I don't. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't even see it. I just saw the takes.
Speaker 1: I never see anything. I just see the takes. Uh So,
Speaker 1: I never watched anything at anything was looking for din
Speaker 1: Or audio from nineteen seventy six, Man Ordering Eggs nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy four rough audio, raw raw fortage of Man ordering eggs.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I just think that for me, there was
Speaker 1: a shift towards, like, you know, away from celebrity culture,
Speaker 1: which I liked because I like celebrities too and I
Speaker 1: love pop culture. But it just shifting to the woods. Literally,
Speaker 1: you know, it was kind of fun. I'm waiting for
Speaker 1: the first Bear Vogue cover exactly thing. I would vote
Speaker 1: for Christian Triano to style it. Let's go, all right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break and be back with
Speaker 1: one more because we got got a lot of runway
Speaker 1: when we're landing the crafton plane. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Stick around and we're back and let's check in with
Speaker 1: our old friend Amy Cooper. I mean, she's like maybe
Speaker 1: her face is definitely on the like Mount Karen more
Speaker 1: like of the most famous Karen's. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a weird time because she wasn't like
Speaker 1: Barbecue Becky or some of the other ones like Lemonade Lisa,
Speaker 1: some of the other famous white women who would just
Speaker 1: sort of you know, metal and just called the police
Speaker 1: on people doing things like having a barbecue, selling lemonade
Speaker 1: and ship like that. I think because this ship went
Speaker 1: down the same day George Floyd was murdered, so you know, rightfully,
Speaker 1: so the reaction they got the reaction it deserved. And
Speaker 1: for if you don't remember, it is Christian Cooper. He's
Speaker 1: a bird watcher. He was in the bramble of Central
Speaker 1: Park where it's posted everywhere you gotta have your dogs
Speaker 1: on a leash, and a lot of bird watchers like
Speaker 1: to go there, and when your dogs are not on leash,
Speaker 1: they can chase the birds away and now you've got
Speaker 1: the fucking day wasted because this person got the dog
Speaker 1: off the leash. So if you remember the video, was
Speaker 1: him just being like, hey, do you mind putting your
Speaker 1: dog on the leash, like you're not supposed to have
Speaker 1: the dogs off leash in this section of the park,
Speaker 1: and she's like, oh, this black man is attacking me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then like you know, if you remember, she was
Speaker 1: like yanking the dog around by the leash, and people
Speaker 1: are like yo, yo, yo, you're not even paying attention
Speaker 1: to your dog. You're just like flinging it around. So
Speaker 1: it led to you know, she lost her job. Believe
Speaker 1: the dog was even taken away because a handle a
Speaker 1: dog on a leash um. And you know, she and
Speaker 1: she even had a kind of apology that she did publicly.
Speaker 1: I'll read it just so you can, because I think
Speaker 1: this is a good primer to understand where she's at now.
Speaker 1: So the starts off really clear. I sin Cemilian humbly
Speaker 1: apologized to everyone, especially to that man. Oh okay, okay,
Speaker 1: keep on. I'm sorry to that man uh and his family.
Speaker 1: It was unacceptable, And I humbly and fully apologized to
Speaker 1: everyone who's seen that video. Everyone that's been offended everyone
Speaker 1: who thinks of me in a lower light, and understand
Speaker 1: why they do. When I think about the police, I'm
Speaker 1: such a blessed person. I just I don't even need
Speaker 1: to read anyone. She says, I've come to realize that
Speaker 1: I'm afforded a different luxury in my interactions than with
Speaker 1: the police than other people might be, and then ends
Speaker 1: it with I reacted emotionally and made false assumptions about
Speaker 1: about his intentions, when in fact I was the one
Speaker 1: who was acting inappropriately by not having my dog unleash.
Speaker 1: I'm well aware of the pain that misassumptions and insensitive
Speaker 1: statements about race cause. Cut to she's suing her bosses
Speaker 1: and former employee or for wrong determination and she was
Speaker 1: discriminated against. Oh yeah, she's really the victim. Let's think
Speaker 1: about it here. I mean she you know, poor thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think her lawyers are that band prodigy who are
Speaker 1: like you, the victim. Okay, yeah, that's right. This is
Speaker 1: in her lawsuit. She says Franklin Templeton is a company
Speaker 1: she worked for, characterized a former employee is racist for
Speaker 1: calling the police on a black bird watcher whom she
Speaker 1: had had words with while walking her dog in Central Park.
Speaker 1: Ok okay, they're saying that was the problem is that
Speaker 1: they categorized it as a racist. Amy Cooper said the
Speaker 1: incident was spurred by her fear of the bird watcher,
Speaker 1: Christian Cooper, who she says had a history of quote
Speaker 1: aggressively confronting end quote dog owners for walking their dogs
Speaker 1: off leash. She even goes on to say that she
Speaker 1: can even back up her scary black man claims with
Speaker 1: a testimony from a fellow black man that would also
Speaker 1: attest to Christian Cooper's scary eness for being like, hey,
Speaker 1: have some respect for the bird. Why Like I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I still don't understand what is so scary,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's it. I'm wondering if like part of
Speaker 1: their strategy is to wait a year and hope that
Speaker 1: we don't remember what we saw in that video, because
Speaker 1: like she is talking to the police and being like
Speaker 1: a black man is like, ah, I forget she says
Speaker 1: a costing me or attacking me, but whatever it is,
Speaker 1: she's definitely you satronizing the description of this person on
Speaker 1: the phone to the police, which is why everyone's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what the funk you're doing. You're
Speaker 1: saying I can call police, and that's why you should
Speaker 1: stop telling me what I can and cannot do. That
Speaker 1: is not your place as a black person telling me
Speaker 1: a white person if whether or not I shot my
Speaker 1: dog on the leash, and that, you know, is what
Speaker 1: it boils down to. And even her employer was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're like, we don't have anything to say. The video
Speaker 1: speaks for itself. Quote. Her lawyers sucked up because it
Speaker 1: should have been like, we're suing her workplace for just
Speaker 1: nation they were discriminating against Cuckoo for Coca Bust people,
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? My god? And they should have
Speaker 1: definitely used that language to it's a mental health issue
Speaker 1: after all. Yeah, General Mills brought you. Oh yeah. She's
Speaker 1: also suing for her lost wages and like a bonus
Speaker 1: that she thinks she would have got. Uh, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: sure every every company is doing Bookoo numbers. And she
Speaker 1: also says like determination caused obviously much trauma and pain
Speaker 1: and distress as well. This lawsuit is not busting bust
Speaker 1: perspect Sorry, it's so funny because she it's like we're
Speaker 1: watching someone like find out about the internet in real time.
Speaker 1: But I feel like this isn't even the Internet. This
Speaker 1: isn't like a clip taken out. This is a three
Speaker 1: minute long clip. Her actions are so clear. So she's
Speaker 1: claiming that she was discriminated against by like someone showing
Speaker 1: her behavior to lots of people like that's that's the
Speaker 1: only thing that happened. So it's I mean, look, I'll
Speaker 1: play the video really quick. Just you can hear she's
Speaker 1: because a lot of in her lawsuit. He's like, you go,
Speaker 1: you should play the whole nine one one call. The
Speaker 1: video starts off when she starts charging at him fro
Speaker 1: being like, yo, can you put the dog on a leash?
Speaker 1: Please don't come close to me? Please don't come close
Speaker 1: to me. Please don't come close to me. Please please
Speaker 1: call the carts. The calling cops, and the dog is like, yo,
Speaker 1: you're lifting me off the grounds, threatening me. Right, there
Speaker 1: was an African American man just like I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if you heard me, motherfucker threatening the dog. At this point,
Speaker 1: she's literally holding the dog like off the ground. I
Speaker 1: forgot about that part again. I'm sure, Yeah, you need
Speaker 1: the whole nine one one call. But regardless, nice try,
Speaker 1: Good luck to you. In your endeavor. You want to
Speaker 1: hear my big conspiracy theory. Hot, all right, she you
Speaker 1: know that thing happens year ago. She she gets famous,
Speaker 1: she gets infamous. All right, that dies down. We have
Speaker 1: other things to think about. She's like everyone's you know,
Speaker 1: thinking like, all right, how do we make money off
Speaker 1: this woman? She's the most infamous person, and like there's like,
Speaker 1: you know, ten infamous people a year. I think she's
Speaker 1: trying to make a podcast's keeping her name up there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean when I saw that this headline from our
Speaker 1: outline Central Park, Karen re emerges in her final form,
Speaker 1: written by Miles Gray, I was almost certain that she
Speaker 1: was going to be speaking at like Sepack or like
Speaker 1: some some like conservative convention. Like it's possible. Yeah, totally. Also,
Speaker 1: super producer Justin is pointing out that she did get
Speaker 1: her dog back, Oh thank god. Dog was like fuck
Speaker 1: really within ten days of the incident. Okay, So look, look,
Speaker 1: people everyone last their cool. Homi, let's just let's just
Speaker 1: call it bygones. I don't know what I mean. This
Speaker 1: is the the crescendo to be speaking at Sea Pack,
Speaker 1: you know, just like with the mccloskeys, who were like
Speaker 1: pulling guns on protesters, and we were predicting. We're like,
Speaker 1: they're speaking, and I was just flippantly. I was like,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be at sea pack and they were. I mean,
Speaker 1: the second she starts taking it to like cancel culture
Speaker 1: or like the liberal media, She's not. There's no buzzwords
Speaker 1: like that quite yet. But I'm sure you know, right right,
Speaker 1: her fed up talk with all the conservatives, her ted
Speaker 1: nugent talk. Oh god, alright. I wanted to give a
Speaker 1: quick update on Havana syndrome, like, do are you familiar
Speaker 1: with what Havana syndrome is? No. When I readious outlined
Speaker 1: his entire paragraph, fucking terrified me, just like three different
Speaker 1: points in it. I just like broke out in tears.
Speaker 1: So so, there were diplomats, just like the real quick
Speaker 1: thumbnail version, there were diplomats in Havana at the start
Speaker 1: of the Trump administration who started feeling like they were
Speaker 1: being hit with a sound being. Basically they were feeling
Speaker 1: like pressure changes in their brain. They were suddenly like
Speaker 1: had vertigo. Like even after the fact, I've been in
Speaker 1: between like thinking that it's like could be a mass
Speaker 1: psychogenic illness, like basically a a mass panic thing, and
Speaker 1: not because I think like people are being babies, but
Speaker 1: because I think the placebo effect and like the power
Speaker 1: of the mind to create actual physical symptoms in our
Speaker 1: bodies is like highly underrated. But the so the New
Speaker 1: Yorker differs with me. Uh and I've always said they
Speaker 1: were hacks, but they they believe that this ship is
Speaker 1: going on. They kind of wrote an article that went with,
Speaker 1: like the CIA take on it that they're they're being
Speaker 1: attacked by probably Russia with microwave weapons. The New Yorker
Speaker 1: the CIA is still kind of on that path, and
Speaker 1: they believe that it's actually spread now to being at
Speaker 1: people being attacked while working at the White House, and
Speaker 1: there's been like people suffering from similar symptoms. I still
Speaker 1: think the symptoms are like kind of vague and weird,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's just very diffuse, which is which
Speaker 1: is what I think, which is why I still kind
Speaker 1: of lean towards mass psychogenic. But um, so, what the
Speaker 1: US is doing now is they're going to try to
Speaker 1: create these weapons. Because so that's the other because that
Speaker 1: always works, that always works out great, So that that's
Speaker 1: the but that's the thing that is so weird here
Speaker 1: is that science doesn't have an understanding of how a
Speaker 1: weapon like they're describing could do the thing that they're
Speaker 1: claiming it does, and so now they're going to like
Speaker 1: build weapons that they think can do this with microwaves
Speaker 1: and like train them on primates brains basically to try
Speaker 1: and recreate the symptoms, which is fucked up. So do
Speaker 1: we mean, like what do you say microwaves? Right? How
Speaker 1: close is this to the thing that you know you
Speaker 1: hate soup with in your kitchen? Like how how like
Speaker 1: what what is what is the different differentiation there? Because
Speaker 1: I refuse to believe we have consumer technology that has
Speaker 1: not been tested as a weapon that that is the case, right,
Speaker 1: I think they're much bigger. Like one of the criticisms
Speaker 1: of any theory that this is like a real weapon
Speaker 1: being used on people is that like you would need
Speaker 1: a thing that is the side that would take up
Speaker 1: like an entire hotel room to like create the level
Speaker 1: of like radiation or microwaves that like would cause this
Speaker 1: sort of injury, and after it happens, they just like disappear,
Speaker 1: And it like happens in all sorts of places that
Speaker 1: happens to people like while they're walking on the street.
Speaker 1: It happens to people while they're driving in traffic. Again,
Speaker 1: the White House, which like you would think is pretty secure,
Speaker 1: like that it's happening to people there. There's also the
Speaker 1: fact that what this is happening at the same time
Speaker 1: that we're seeing things that science can't explain happening in
Speaker 1: the sky and now apparently in the sea, over the
Speaker 1: ocean and under the ocean like that, there's now a
Speaker 1: submarine data that suggests that like similar to the flying
Speaker 1: tic TACs, uh, submarine sonar has spotted things moving through
Speaker 1: water at speeds that don't make scientific sense. And so
Speaker 1: it's a weird moment where suddenly like the military is
Speaker 1: is coming out and being like, uh, yeah, so like
Speaker 1: we don't know, but the ship is weird. Uh. And
Speaker 1: they're doing that on like a number of fronts. So
Speaker 1: you could skeptically say like they're using this as a
Speaker 1: ploy to make people scared, to create like another arms
Speaker 1: race with instead of the Soviet Union, like a imaginary
Speaker 1: threat fans, right fanos basically, but it is it's still
Speaker 1: just kind of a mess, like the whole story, just
Speaker 1: like the reporting around it. It's still scary though it's
Speaker 1: scary scary. These words are very scary. There's something about
Speaker 1: increased white matter in here. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: What's white matter? Right? So that's the thing, Like they
Speaker 1: talk about the people who suffered the injuries, when they
Speaker 1: examine their brain on scans, they seem to have increased
Speaker 1: white matter, which or decreased I forget one of the two,
Speaker 1: but it's a bad one. Where like the thing that
Speaker 1: connects thoughts is not there as much as it should be.
Speaker 1: The no, exactly the thing you said they're trying to
Speaker 1: we reverse engineered and tested on primates. Okay, so that's
Speaker 1: the beginning of Planet of the Apes, isn't use? That's
Speaker 1: what the is gonna happen? Like you like, you just
Speaker 1: super charge their brains up right, I don't know what
Speaker 1: that's just that's what I'm hoping for. Fingers crossed. It
Speaker 1: does seem like, yeah, this would be a great origin story.
Speaker 1: At the same time, the it's probably just going to
Speaker 1: make those primates lives shitty from the rest of their existence,
Speaker 1: like it has for the people who work in the
Speaker 1: State Department. And again, by saying mass psychogenic illness, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying this is something that they could just snap
Speaker 1: out of sounds like what you're saying. You just sound
Speaker 1: like you're saying they're whiny. Yeah, don't get it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: stop whining, be right. I do hope though, that this
Speaker 1: does lead. I just want to see a Silverback Gorilla
Speaker 1: rip off parking meter out of the fucking sidewalk with
Speaker 1: concrete on and just like chuck it through like an
Speaker 1: armored sheriff's car. Yeah, you know, like when these primates
Speaker 1: are unleashed. I'd like to see that from afar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm actually just I'm just thinking up things
Speaker 1: I've seen in Planet of the Apes, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so those of the Apes movies are dope. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would suggest you watch those those wait movie yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the What the Franco and then the other one. Those
Speaker 1: are those are pretty cool. Alright, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break now that we're all suitably terrified, and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. And we are back and the Olympics are
Speaker 1: almost here. Oh my god? Which is wild? I I
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess there's usually like this impending media
Speaker 1: like cloud that seems to always be looking forward to
Speaker 1: the Olympics in America. At least I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's how it is in New Zealand. Guy, But like
Speaker 1: I the Winter Olympics, you realize that's happening once it's
Speaker 1: started and and it's on TV and people are suddenly
Speaker 1: talking about it. But the Summer Olympics, I feel like
Speaker 1: it is always a big deal with like a lead
Speaker 1: up in the media and in the sports world. Simone Biles,
Speaker 1: the greatest U S gymnasts of all time, maybe the
Speaker 1: greatest gymnast of all time, has been like doing this
Speaker 1: routine on the vault that is like unprecedented, and that's
Speaker 1: that's really the only piece of mainstream news I've seen
Speaker 1: that like kind of crossed over into the zais where
Speaker 1: I would have been like, wait, why are we talking
Speaker 1: about gym gymnastics again? Oh, there's an Olympics coming home.
Speaker 1: Doesn't realize how ignorant I am too a gymnastics because
Speaker 1: like Simone Biles just does things. So after less I'm like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that looks normal, right right right, And then and then
Speaker 1: I remember I think it was like Franklin Leonard, past
Speaker 1: guests or someone was like, can someone explained to me,
Speaker 1: like I know this is historical, this double pike your
Speaker 1: chenko that she just busted, but like, I don't beyond
Speaker 1: just seeing that looks like just some very cool shit.
Speaker 1: And and and then someone's like, check out Mary lou Retton's
Speaker 1: four vault that got her a perfect ten in eighty four,
Speaker 1: and you'll see how much the game has changed. And
Speaker 1: then you watch the tune, like, okay, right, she just
Speaker 1: came up. Mary lou written just came up to the
Speaker 1: vault and then did a somersault underneath it, and that's
Speaker 1: what got her perfect ten, which is my my famous vault?
Speaker 1: Is it the judges fist time seeing a gymnast? I
Speaker 1: think that's the fist of venta holy ship. There's an
Speaker 1: interesting experiment that if you only watch Simone Biles, then
Speaker 1: you'd be like, god, wow, incredible what old gymnasts can do, right,
Speaker 1: And that is kind of how it is. That's the
Speaker 1: only thing that me, a non gymnastics follower like really
Speaker 1: sees is the greatest like single acts of h Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's true of like all sports. I mean
Speaker 1: it's like anything, right, Like someone might watch joke it's
Speaker 1: just bland, a weird shot, and we're like, yo, that
Speaker 1: is difficult to even take a shot. Like that, or
Speaker 1: people who play, you know, who think soccer is easy.
Speaker 1: Try trapping a ball that's coming from, you know, just
Speaker 1: above your head and effortlessly just trapping the ball. There
Speaker 1: are so many little skills that, like, yeah, that are
Speaker 1: born out of ignorance. That's why I'm just trying, especially
Speaker 1: with Simone Bios, to inform myself so I can truly
Speaker 1: appreciate just how next level this ship is. What you're
Speaker 1: what you're talking about's very excited to me. I was
Speaker 1: hopefully there's some sort of large scale international platform with
Speaker 1: the basic athletes from every country to represent themselves and
Speaker 1: show us these different skills. Well, guys, because Japan Tokyo,
Speaker 1: even though it's that's my favorite thing about it's like
Speaker 1: I think that no one it's gonna remember COVID, Like
Speaker 1: when we look on those games are gonna be asterisk
Speaker 1: to hell, you know what I mean, Like when you're
Speaker 1: looking at a do people still looking at all my
Speaker 1: nexs like I used to when I'm playing in San Diego.
Speaker 1: But the whole thing with this is like right now,
Speaker 1: Tokyo is in terrible ship. Japan is in awful shape
Speaker 1: in terms of the COVID situation. The vaccinations have like
Speaker 1: stalled out. Less than five percent of people have their
Speaker 1: first shot. Major metropolitan areas have declared states of emergency.
Speaker 1: The Osaka hospital system, they said, is completely understrain, if
Speaker 1: not like on the just brink of disaster because of
Speaker 1: the amount of people that are having to be admitted.
Speaker 1: And the United States government is even telling Americans like,
Speaker 1: don't even think about taking a trip to Japan right now.
Speaker 1: Don't even try it, even though yeah, we're the probably
Speaker 1: the worst place on earth to go a few months ago,
Speaker 1: but don't even think about going there? Is that too
Speaker 1: Americans or American athletes to Americans now that you're did
Speaker 1: States Olympics and like Paralympics committee has said, don't even
Speaker 1: think about not going some mo biles, you better get
Speaker 1: your ass on that because we gotta work to do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they the obviously the people are representing the athletes,
Speaker 1: believe that it's going to be a perfect bubble, no
Speaker 1: problem at all, don't even worry about it. Meanwhile, the
Speaker 1: polling shows that even the people of Japan look on
Speaker 1: the other side of this. Prior to it, I spoke
Speaker 1: to friends and family in Japan. They were like, oh,
Speaker 1: the Olympics are coming, that that will be fun because again,
Speaker 1: any opportunity for nationalism. Chapanese people love you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, I think like most countries, but you know,
Speaker 1: for Japan there's like certain sports where we really excel.
Speaker 1: So this felt like a good moment. Now of the
Speaker 1: people in Japan are against hosting the Olympics this year
Speaker 1: want to postponement. Forty percent want a complete cancelation. So
Speaker 1: you know, but since a lot of money has been made,
Speaker 1: what are we going to reprint these T shirts? No?
Speaker 1: The T shirt the T shirts become more valuable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love if these got canceled. To get my
Speaker 1: hands on some Tokyo is a ticket? Who's who? Who
Speaker 1: speads a cancelation? Is that the io C is that
Speaker 1: the Japanese government? Like how does how would that? Actually?
Speaker 1: I think I would have to come from the IOC
Speaker 1: because the Japanese government has not put up any resistance
Speaker 1: to the games. So it's gonna take the executives for
Speaker 1: the i o C to wonder is this worth it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what their calculus is.
Speaker 1: It probably does have to do with the amount of
Speaker 1: fucking merchandise that's probably been produced with the number or
Speaker 1: some ship, but I don't know, Like I mean, I
Speaker 1: would be interesting though, too, to see how many athletes,
Speaker 1: if any, refused to participate. They're like, yo, this is
Speaker 1: just a reckless I'm sorry, this is just this seems
Speaker 1: so reckless, and I don't know how. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you women you want me to put myself at risk,
Speaker 1: and other people like no, I'm off this that the
Speaker 1: athletic cycle of an Olympic athlete is so like they've
Speaker 1: got such a limited amount of opportunity to be the
Speaker 1: best at what they do. And also so many of
Speaker 1: the sports that take place at the Olympics are just so,
Speaker 1: you know, like they're not there's not a light on
Speaker 1: the shot in them in the three years in between
Speaker 1: every ceremony. The life cycle of a sakata, it's like
Speaker 1: you get this one chance to come out everything every
Speaker 1: four years. And so, I mean, I can I can
Speaker 1: understand purely from an athletic perspective, how some of these
Speaker 1: people are like, God, damn, I've been working so hard
Speaker 1: for this. I just want to go to the Olympics once,
Speaker 1: like I might be their one opportunity. And then but
Speaker 1: you I mean, I feel like it's it's just it's
Speaker 1: ridiculous that it's happening, and it's it sounds like, yeah,
Speaker 1: money drives it, and if it's going to go ahead,
Speaker 1: then an athlete is going to be like, well, I
Speaker 1: have worked towards us, they're putting it on. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to not go. And then it's sort of it's
Speaker 1: a similar thing happened. I don't know if you guys,
Speaker 1: you almost diffinitely don't The i p L, the Indian
Speaker 1: Premier League. It's a T twenty cricket tournament that is
Speaker 1: the most expensive and cricket. It takes place every year
Speaker 1: in India, and they in the face of what was
Speaker 1: stens we looked at the worst COVID nineteen crisis that
Speaker 1: had happened across all of the pandemic was raging through India,
Speaker 1: and then they created this biosecure bubble and like, you know,
Speaker 1: millions of not billions of dollars are being spent creating
Speaker 1: this league and you're they're playing cricket and what is
Speaker 1: a biosecure bubble? And then like it's so incongruous with
Speaker 1: the news you're reading about what's happening in India, and
Speaker 1: then about halfway into the tournament there was a biosecure
Speaker 1: bubble breach and all of a sudden, that highly contained
Speaker 1: the strain of COVID is ripping through the players, and
Speaker 1: then all of them are panicking and trying to get
Speaker 1: charter flights out of the country. And you know, I
Speaker 1: mean that India, it didn't have the facilities to take
Speaker 1: care of its citizens, the people who lived there, and
Speaker 1: I just can't have it feel like you're going to
Speaker 1: see I mean, and I don't know if the i
Speaker 1: C pay attention to that. They must have because it's
Speaker 1: the only other massive multinational sports league that's trying to
Speaker 1: take place in the middle of a of a hot spot.
Speaker 1: But there is a very damning warning and advertisement for
Speaker 1: what is almost invitably going to happen if these guys
Speaker 1: go ahead. I don't know what you can do to
Speaker 1: prevent that. I mean, I think in their mind they'll
Speaker 1: be like, forget that example, what about the NBA bubble
Speaker 1: that works? And they're like, well don't that's not hold on.
Speaker 1: So you're selectively thinking anecdotal to justify this, Why miles
Speaker 1: is the number of vaccinating people stalling it under five
Speaker 1: is their opposition to like getting vaccines or I think
Speaker 1: it's just the distribution is just happening as efficiently as
Speaker 1: it can. But yeah, I just I think just getting
Speaker 1: it available has been the hardest part, right, yeah, alright, Well,
Speaker 1: staying on sports in American sports over the weekend, it
Speaker 1: was kind of a surreal experience where suddenly fans we're back,
Speaker 1: Like the NBA playoffs kicked off over last weekend and
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden in New York City where the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks play was packed to the gills with people
Speaker 1: like screaming and shouting and not masked up and packed
Speaker 1: to the main sorry not the girls. And one uh
Speaker 1: there was a golf major and it went from they're
Speaker 1: not being anyone on these courses, like watching the tournament too,
Speaker 1: like an unprecedentedly drunk and like out of control crowd,
Speaker 1: just like crowding the players and like pouring onto the course,
Speaker 1: like I don't know my dad watches these. I don't
Speaker 1: watch them. My parents are staying with us. And that
Speaker 1: he was just he was like, I've never seen anything
Speaker 1: like this. They were like running up to the guy
Speaker 1: as he was like about to win the tournament, like
Speaker 1: patting him on the back and like grab him and
Speaker 1: ship and he was like, what is happening? But it's
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's surreal to see that many
Speaker 1: people in that small space in a world where we
Speaker 1: know that the US is not really doing like strict
Speaker 1: vaccine passport, like vaccination passport. You know. The New York
Speaker 1: Knicks and the New York Nets, Brooklyn Nets, who also
Speaker 1: had full attendance, are almost full attendance. They had they
Speaker 1: said that there was like ninety percent vaccination. But I
Speaker 1: don't think they're like checking people's paperwork. Maybe maybe they are,
Speaker 1: but I mean maybe some level. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to go to Game three. Yeah, yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: I know they just say pull up with your VACS
Speaker 1: paperwork or whatever and or like a negative PCR test
Speaker 1: from within seventy two hours. But we'll see, you know.
Speaker 1: But people, yeah, I guess they are. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: just it. Yeah, but there is this energy though to
Speaker 1: the like the Madison Square Garden game, I could not
Speaker 1: believe what I was saying. I think it's a combination things.
Speaker 1: It's that it's the Knicks are in the postseason again.
Speaker 1: I think for starters mixed with just the post VACS
Speaker 1: world that we find ourselves in. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: I mean people are able to switch it up real quick.
Speaker 1: I'm like just now being like a little bit more
Speaker 1: like yeah, fucking baby, I'm I'm feeling feeling safer is yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the world like I flew back east over
Speaker 1: the weekend and everything is like fully masked up, and
Speaker 1: like you know, when you're inside the airport, when you're
Speaker 1: on the plane, like you have to be wearing a
Speaker 1: mask the whole time. Still, somebody ordered like two drinks
Speaker 1: in a row, and the flight attendant was like, why
Speaker 1: don't we take a break because you need to put
Speaker 1: your mask back on because you've had it off, like
Speaker 1: having this drink from I think there was all I
Speaker 1: think that was also at play, But the situation is
Speaker 1: so bad on airplanes. I'm surprised you didn't see some
Speaker 1: ship because didn't a flight attendant get or or I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was who who got the flight
Speaker 1: attend got their teeth knocked out on a flight recently,
Speaker 1: but that we're out of pocket, but they're still like
Speaker 1: making everybody wear their masks. You know, I didn't I
Speaker 1: I had a you know, a fake thing covering conscientious
Speaker 1: objector card that held up sir, uh it is my right.
Speaker 1: Uh all right, get off, asshole, Get this asshole off.
Speaker 1: You're saying some kind of body provenance. Weird, don't talking
Speaker 1: about It's just funny that the place that they are
Speaker 1: letting people like finally experience the being in public without
Speaker 1: a mask is like this just unhinged, like emotional environment
Speaker 1: where like it's encouraged to just lose your mind on
Speaker 1: the refs and the opposing players. Like the the Knicks game,
Speaker 1: they were like Channing swears that like this young young
Speaker 1: this guy was like really good player, young ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he did tell them what's it been like for
Speaker 1: you man? Because I know you've been really quiet during
Speaker 1: this whole section because probably because you haven't, I know,
Speaker 1: New Zealand's in a bad place. You guys haven't had
Speaker 1: crowds in a minute, I found fantasy. Yeah yeah, we
Speaker 1: can only dream. I mean, yeah, we we've had crowds
Speaker 1: at sports games since I feel like maybe July or
Speaker 1: August last year, and the plan was to um, it
Speaker 1: was elimination. It means that you know, watching these American
Speaker 1: sports games, and stuff, and you see people like all
Speaker 1: these people who are clearly pisted up and packed and
Speaker 1: close proximity to people who presumably they didn't come to
Speaker 1: the game worth with the masks hanging around their chin
Speaker 1: or often air or like holding it to gesticulate, just
Speaker 1: waving germs everywhere. Exactly. We didn't. No one's wearing masks
Speaker 1: at the stadiums because like you have to wear masks
Speaker 1: on public transport, you have to wear masks on airplanes,
Speaker 1: but in the airport you're not wearing a mask, Like
Speaker 1: I don't actually know what the functionality of it is,
Speaker 1: you know, it seems crazy to me that you wouldn't
Speaker 1: wear one all the way through the airport. You've got
Speaker 1: this idea, but just on the plane. Yeah, But so no,
Speaker 1: I mean there's we've even recently we've started playing um
Speaker 1: there was a super right by alt At or competition
Speaker 1: which was like just with the national borders. There five
Speaker 1: franchises who who played rugby against each other. And then
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks we've got an open travel
Speaker 1: by what with Australia now so quarantine free travel between
Speaker 1: the two countries, and we've started playing super Rugby Australasia.
Speaker 1: I think that's what it's called whatever, And now we're
Speaker 1: playing international matches and you're watching sports games in Australia,
Speaker 1: where again people aren't wearing masks. But I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like going to a sports game was the first one
Speaker 1: of the first things I did when we got letter
Speaker 1: out of lockdown, and it was like the sense of
Speaker 1: I can viscerally remember the intensity and the relief and
Speaker 1: the excitement and just you know, being in a crowd
Speaker 1: and all of that emboldened and underscored by the fact
Speaker 1: that we knew that we had to isolate like that,
Speaker 1: you know, we had eliminated COVID nineteen and so yeah,
Speaker 1: the consequence was not there. But I think it's it's
Speaker 1: just too I mean, your guy's experience of it, in
Speaker 1: your relationship to it so different. I can't imagine that
Speaker 1: difficult it would be to go to an NBA game.
Speaker 1: If you're in New York and you support the next
Speaker 1: and you're at Medicine Square Garden for the first time,
Speaker 1: what ten years or something, and you've just gotten out
Speaker 1: of your house for the first time in two years.
Speaker 1: You've got to remember to fucking keep a mask over
Speaker 1: your your mouth like Trey Young probably can't hear you.
Speaker 1: The only way that you're going to get through them
Speaker 1: is if you can read your lips. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: a it's the assumed responsibility keeps getting passed down to
Speaker 1: the individual like it's it's yeah. The same thing with
Speaker 1: just like with the CDC is bizarre, Like mask mandates
Speaker 1: were like don't yeah if you well, actually I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe if well, how old your kid? And it's like,
Speaker 1: what are the fucking rules? What? Then forget it essentially
Speaker 1: as a way to let businesses put it on businesses
Speaker 1: now to say that's on you to decide, because we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't want to be the boogie person anymore for
Speaker 1: the Chamber of commerce, who is allowed like these politicians
Speaker 1: are allowing, allowing them to put more pressure on us
Speaker 1: and the other people who are trying to do right
Speaker 1: by this pandemic. And also just box office continues to
Speaker 1: be you know, it's not fully there, but it does
Speaker 1: seem like the people who are releasing movies are getting
Speaker 1: a better return than like The Wrath of Man. Jason
Speaker 1: Statham's new movie is going to be the best performing
Speaker 1: Jason Statham movie to date. Despite being like almost indistinguishable
Speaker 1: from other chasing state to a Statham head. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna sit by a while you poo poo the
Speaker 1: filmography of the Great Jas instead, But like the you
Speaker 1: couldn't get I could not tell you the difference between
Speaker 1: the Wrath of Man and the Mechanic to uh like,
Speaker 1: yeah one of them is a sequel for a stot Yeah,
Speaker 1: my bad. But it's just I feel like people studios
Speaker 1: are probably realizing that they're leaving money on the table
Speaker 1: if they're continuing to not release movies, like there's just
Speaker 1: no competition so you can really like do well. And
Speaker 1: Demon Slayer is continuing too. It's now made forty five
Speaker 1: million in America alone and is the biggest movie ever
Speaker 1: in Japan with four hundred million dollars, and it's the
Speaker 1: biggest grossing movie of Wait till Fast nine comes out, Jack,
Speaker 1: then we'll start seeing you know what I mean? Because
Speaker 1: the Family Man, when your family or whatever the funk
Speaker 1: doudline was it all of when you're here your family,
Speaker 1: Maybe that's all art and not Fast and Furious, but
Speaker 1: remarkable themetic similarity it does, like the energy around that
Speaker 1: Fast and Furious movie, though, it is kind of funny
Speaker 1: to see, like, even though it seems jokey, but this
Speaker 1: does feel like a good time for a movie like
Speaker 1: that to come out in the US, for at least
Speaker 1: the people who want to be safe and go to theater.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, maybe that New Zealand they've been playing.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're doing it in America. To you. You
Speaker 1: can go to the cinema and much all the fast
Speaker 1: films at the moment, they just rolling them out so
Speaker 1: cool they haven't done that's right, damn it because you
Speaker 1: can't really understand. Yeah, you can't understand F nine if
Speaker 1: you haven't recently. Do I need to know the past
Speaker 1: material to understand this installment? Yes? What do you think
Speaker 1: you're gonna You're gonna make sense of a flying car
Speaker 1: and from the fucking sky? No, it's a it was
Speaker 1: a light crescendo to this point. It's it's less about
Speaker 1: the flying car and more about the relationships between the
Speaker 1: people in the car in the flying cars. See you
Speaker 1: just see your hung up on the car part. What
Speaker 1: about the air between the characters contained within? And if
Speaker 1: people watch one through eight and have questions about why
Speaker 1: someone who always talks about family Uh. The Vin Diesel
Speaker 1: character who's obsessed with family never mentioned his brother before
Speaker 1: this one. Yeah, you know he has a brother in
Speaker 1: this one. Yeah, bro, John Cena. He should have also
Speaker 1: mentioned his brother is John Cena. That's a big deal.
Speaker 1: That's that's an interesting casting decision. Okay. Anyways, guy, have
Speaker 1: you is f nine out in New Zealand? Non? Not yet?
Speaker 1: Are you just dreaming in New Zealand like a fantasy world?
Speaker 1: Like it? It's fashion furious and already out man, And
Speaker 1: there's no COVID. That's cool. That's probably not as big
Speaker 1: a deal to have flying cars there, since you actually
Speaker 1: have flying cars in New Zealand. We do, and the
Speaker 1: horsepower on them is something oh unfathomable. All Right, that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like
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