Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
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Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really, I I am also thrilled to
Speaker 1: introduce our guest today. Uh, somebody that Jack is scared of.
Speaker 1: For sure. I'm not scared of hurt because you know,
Speaker 1: let me do the fu um please please welcome one
Speaker 1: of actually one of my favorite guests to have on here,
Speaker 1: the brilliant and talented and hilarious and just honest as fuck,
Speaker 1: Marcella Arguao. We welcome in a minute, in a fucking minute. Really,
Speaker 1: what's new with you? Talk? Depression? M hmm, that's news.
Speaker 1: What kind of depression did you say? Just regular depression? Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, just like that quarantine. Like I'm finally hitting
Speaker 1: finally here, I'm actually coming out of it. But I
Speaker 1: was like hitting the wall. That's why you guys in
Speaker 1: here from me from hot second and I was like, Marcella,
Speaker 1: please come back. Great an impression and I was like, no, bitch,
Speaker 1: it's gonna have to wait. It fools, I'm back. Bit.
Speaker 1: Yes there you are. Yeah, man, that ship that it
Speaker 1: creeps on you. Because sometimes this depression doesn't look the
Speaker 1: same way and it can be a general malaise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's different now because you're just like, oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do nothing because I have nothing to do. Oh it's weird. No,
Speaker 1: it's not nothing else, there's no means. I guess I
Speaker 1: can start timing how long these blunts I will last,
Speaker 1: and then start like a grand Prix of blunts to
Speaker 1: see what said. Your your psychologists will ask you how
Speaker 1: much you're smoking, and he's going to look at you
Speaker 1: like he knows you're lying. I said, look shout out,
Speaker 1: Dr Schmitra. But also I said, why am I on trial, Chamitra,
Speaker 1: Please I'm coping. And also, if you knew this one
Speaker 1: blunt had less than one g and it went for
Speaker 1: seventeen minutes, that has to be a record. And she's like,
Speaker 1: just let's let's start talking about your family. Dr Kevin
Speaker 1: had the audacity to be like, it doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: all the weed is helping, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: not smoking weed is helping either, So I don't know, sir,
Speaker 1: things are so bad for me. My gunacologists prescribed me,
Speaker 1: so off, that's how bad he's got. Y'all are you
Speaker 1: at okay? You know what? Let me give me that
Speaker 1: other notepad real quick. Uh. And then Joel you were
Speaker 1: just I mean, look, we keep in touch because we
Speaker 1: work together, but I know you and Daniel were on
Speaker 1: family feud Donald and Zach for fake doctor's real friends
Speaker 1: versus who who are you going up against? Some family?
Speaker 1: We went against Neil Flynn improv true. Neil was like
Speaker 1: the janitor on Scrubs. He's also the dad on I
Speaker 1: think in the middle right right, and so he's but
Speaker 1: he's got Keckner and like Horatio SAMs. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: I had a broken family. Was it did did it
Speaker 1: get competitive? Did you did you perform? Well? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: it was wild. It was wild. We have indid out
Speaker 1: the ask, so I can't talk about performance, but we
Speaker 1: like listen I and they were like we're doing to
Speaker 1: know was like, oh, I don't know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to do it. I'm not into it. I don't do
Speaker 1: the game shows. And they were like, no, you got
Speaker 1: you please, And then of course Danil Light of my
Speaker 1: life was like this is a dream that was on
Speaker 1: the road d Jay and that is what we watched.
Speaker 1: The trailer is it? I love Family of You? And
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm listening, I'm not going to be
Speaker 1: the human that let's Daniel down. Okay, it could not
Speaker 1: be me, but so let's let's just do it the
Speaker 1: whole day. I'm just had to be up early as
Speaker 1: hell to be at the studio, all of them the
Speaker 1: OtherSide of town. They did send a car, which was
Speaker 1: I thought it was very nice, like, thank you, I
Speaker 1: don't have to drive. I love that. Um So we
Speaker 1: get there, They're like, this is your trailer. I was
Speaker 1: like a trailer for a game show. What kind of
Speaker 1: next level stuff are we dealing with? When I saw
Speaker 1: Daniel had a whole new outfit. His lady helped him
Speaker 1: buy pants and pants shopping the day before, and he
Speaker 1: was adorable. Listen, my whole heart lifted. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just here for Daniel. I'm just gonna say a
Speaker 1: day about Daniel and making sure Daniel feels good and
Speaker 1: has a great day on his favorite effing show. Competition
Speaker 1: got steep. It was like it was real intense, like
Speaker 1: I couldn't let him down. I was worried. I forgot
Speaker 1: which way to walk at one point. It was one
Speaker 1: of those molds were like, oh no, that's really Steve
Speaker 1: Harvey in his shoes are polished to the tents like
Speaker 1: the A plus uncle he is, and it's much. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say that you do that your eye
Speaker 1: blind does meet his teeth often, I will say that
Speaker 1: it was it was wild. It was weird to be there. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you check out my Instagram, Donald I was so
Speaker 1: excited at one point that he broke out into to
Speaker 1: that girlss poison the whole audience. They love. It was
Speaker 1: entertaining as how would do it again? And it was
Speaker 1: celebrity family feuds. So now my mom's excitedly telling all
Speaker 1: of her like cousins and stuff, like I raised the
Speaker 1: celebrity and my baby is a celebrity. Sure, Mommy, she's
Speaker 1: very proud of me. I feel like this is the
Speaker 1: least I've ever had to work for anything. And she's like,
Speaker 1: you're doing so well in life. I'm like, family, Few've got,
Speaker 1: Mom's tried. I love it. I love that Steve Harvey
Speaker 1: legitimizes a lot of people to their parents. I mean, yeah, also,
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, through the transitive property. You are
Speaker 1: a celebrity. You are if if you are if you're
Speaker 1: on celebrity family Feud and you are on there with
Speaker 1: other celebrities, therefore you are are you are not. I
Speaker 1: don't see the I don't see the flaw on that
Speaker 1: logic at all. You Eve introduced this as Zack and
Speaker 1: Donald and friends, like that's appropriate level of celebrity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you should have been like, oh man, you look good
Speaker 1: without your wig on. Man, damn much at Steve Harvey
Speaker 1: in house. Okay, here's my favorite thing abouting it. So
Speaker 1: you know they've got the hair and makeup people, all
Speaker 1: the producers and stuff. No one, not a single person
Speaker 1: didn't call him Mr Harvey. It's not Steve Steven Steven,
Speaker 1: Mr Harvey. It's Mr Harvey to everyone. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I see the law has been laid down here. I
Speaker 1: see it. Damn I'm not coming in. I'm not coming
Speaker 1: into his house. That's respecting him. I feel like someone
Speaker 1: would beat me. Well, you know, look, that's why. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm not a celebrity and I'll never be on there.
Speaker 1: So I'll live my wild fantasies out through vicariously through
Speaker 1: you where I've created an alternate version and then you
Speaker 1: snap out of it and you're like, yes, thank you,
Speaker 1: good to be here. I would just I would just
Speaker 1: go on there and call him Dr Teeth. You're looking
Speaker 1: great today, Oh man, what's your secret? Many? Um? What
Speaker 1: do you think is something that's underrated? You know, I
Speaker 1: had a thing, but I think we're gonna end up
Speaker 1: talking about it later. So I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna move that and I'll say that it's not thing.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited about that. Not a lot of people
Speaker 1: talk about is spray on deodorant. I like it. I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty cool. And as somebody who suffers from
Speaker 1: from from absence who gets the fucking boils under their
Speaker 1: arm from regular deodorant, spray on deodorant. It doesn't clog
Speaker 1: your pores, you still smell nice, and you get to
Speaker 1: kill the environment at the same time. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Not out of ten for me. They haven't figured out
Speaker 1: a way to make it environmentally friendly. Are Yeah, there
Speaker 1: are some that are. I am not investing in those.
Speaker 1: Those probably cause tends to twenties of dollars. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the ones that are damn they're free, or
Speaker 1: you get like killing penguins when at school, the like
Speaker 1: the janitor, like the custodial services with spray for bugs,
Speaker 1: like that pump bucket, and then like like I can
Speaker 1: just do it on my own, but yeah, I could
Speaker 1: just stand next to Hank and get whatever he's got.
Speaker 1: Is it like a an AX style container. I've avoided
Speaker 1: acts mostly because of the self respect, years and years
Speaker 1: of people making fun of acts. If I'm being honest,
Speaker 1: I think AX smells pretty good, and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: why everybody hated on it, but I will say that, yes,
Speaker 1: it's like a degree, but you know, the just a
Speaker 1: regular spray can kind of thing, Yeah, it's pretty I
Speaker 1: felt like that was almost the standard in the late
Speaker 1: eighties early night like visually that was being reinforced in
Speaker 1: my mind was like, oh, yeah, you spray your deodor
Speaker 1: in on. I think I think they go out a
Speaker 1: lot faster. I think you run out of it a
Speaker 1: lot faster. And so the stick became more you know, reasonable,
Speaker 1: it's a purchase. And I think as we then science
Speaker 1: revealed to us something called the ozone that was another
Speaker 1: people were like, Okay, maybe there's another way to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm here for the me zone, baby, I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to get nice and and I tried. I tried with
Speaker 1: the crystals. They don't fucking work. I'm sorry, crystals bullshit,
Speaker 1: I'm my stink is on another level. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've never met a crystal that can fucking you know,
Speaker 1: neutralize my ship. I'm sorry. I had a friend who
Speaker 1: told me about the crystals, and I did not understand
Speaker 1: if the implication was that you're you're holding the crystals
Speaker 1: under your like you just have to like, but it's
Speaker 1: more you just keep them in your pockets. Then they're
Speaker 1: like stinky crystals and they keep you from stinking. Is
Speaker 1: that the deal's to roll it on? Just wet the
Speaker 1: crystal and apply you know what I mean? Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is Look, this was some ship I remember seeing in
Speaker 1: my because my dad stunk and he tried everything. And
Speaker 1: then at the time this is like in the early nineties,
Speaker 1: were like, yo, crystal, you know he's an artist or
Speaker 1: some other motherfucker's around him was like the crystals and
Speaker 1: then them just it made no sense. Like he would
Speaker 1: read a wet like a rock and like rub it
Speaker 1: on his arm and he's still stunn. I tried that
Speaker 1: it later on in life because I wasn't trying to
Speaker 1: put all that like chemical ship on me. But it
Speaker 1: was either that or just smell fucked up. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna do you know, and hey, exact gang, if you
Speaker 1: have a if you know crystal that's fucking powerful enough
Speaker 1: to do battle with me, then let me know why
Speaker 1: was your Why was your dad so stinky? Why why
Speaker 1: did he think so bad? I don't because you know,
Speaker 1: like you know how people I don't know. I'm like
Speaker 1: one of these people if I don't wear deodorant immediately
Speaker 1: out of the shower, and I'm like, if I watch
Speaker 1: a sports game, I'm invested in my sweat smell awful,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know what the funk it is something
Speaker 1: I just whatever my body. That's what our bodies are doing.
Speaker 1: I'm a sweater. I get that. I like, if I
Speaker 1: start sweating, it's some bads coming out. So you get
Speaker 1: no fight out of me, right exactly. I still am
Speaker 1: stuck on axe body spray. I feel like maybe there
Speaker 1: there is like maybe they did get it too rough
Speaker 1: back in the day. I think so, like guy fiery
Speaker 1: style almost like yeah, and then he had kind of
Speaker 1: a redemption arc. Maybe that will happen for X body spray. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You you want to believe that ax has been given
Speaker 1: like bottles to orphans this whole time, and then you
Speaker 1: know you find out ex body sprays the Humanitarians deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for everybody spray purchased, you know, send one to a
Speaker 1: body and knees. It's like the Toms shoes of like
Speaker 1: Deodurans just making little African kids smell like muscle beach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that I guess. I mean it smells like swag in here.
Speaker 1: What do you think is something that is underrated? Underrated
Speaker 1: of erectile dysfunction? I think a rectile dysfunction is underrated
Speaker 1: because if you think hard enough about all the negative
Speaker 1: things that have been precipitated by erections, it's it's almost obvious,
Speaker 1: like the quest for power, wars, assaults on people's bodies.
Speaker 1: If you're dick stopped working, go teach a kid how
Speaker 1: to read gold, start a nonprofit, volunteer at a sup kitchen,
Speaker 1: like take take that energy if you were wasting and
Speaker 1: put it towards good. Okay, when the dick stops working,
Speaker 1: if it had a beautiful vision of doctors being like,
Speaker 1: you know what, We're not gonna try to kill this anymore.
Speaker 1: We're gonna drive men to be better human beings. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a divine intervention. Your dick stop, go to
Speaker 1: good in the world. Okay, I have a double edged sword, though,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like how many people with that
Speaker 1: toxic sense of masculinity then go on the other side
Speaker 1: and you're like, what's wrong with I have? I have
Speaker 1: a friend who has said more than once like if
Speaker 1: if my dick stops working, just kill me. I'm like, no, dude,
Speaker 1: stay alive and like plant a garden a garden. Also, yeah, also,
Speaker 1: please make your existence more than if your blood flows
Speaker 1: to your penis. Yeah, it's not. I mean honestly, Like, look,
Speaker 1: if that's his measure for like a quality of life,
Speaker 1: what does he look like with people who achieve things?
Speaker 1: And he's like that, it's like the dick work that.
Speaker 1: I don't give a funk about the Lebron James. We
Speaker 1: didn't he got on those rings, but Dick, Joe, he
Speaker 1: got the rings. But what about that thing working with
Speaker 1: the ships? Are no? Okay, sir, Please the toxic section
Speaker 1: is over there. Please let that go. Please, let's non
Speaker 1: Dick Hafter. This is the greatest conversation ever. This is
Speaker 1: so funny. But it's y'all something that truly that I
Speaker 1: truly think it's underrated, Like you know, I want to
Speaker 1: deep Yeah, yeah, we appreciate that. That's why the listeners
Speaker 1: come here and we avoided talking about ship because which
Speaker 1: is normally what will happen sometimes. Well maybe that might
Speaker 1: be a song we go out on later you'll see,
Speaker 1: very surprised. But yeah, Langston, let us know something about
Speaker 1: you in the form of your search history. What's something
Speaker 1: you've been searching that This is exciting. I got jury duty,
Speaker 1: uh the notification, the official notification that I was on
Speaker 1: call for jury duty. So I've been google searching how
Speaker 1: to get out of jury duty, like the various methods
Speaker 1: for for escaping jury duty. And I think I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna show up and say that I'm extremely biased against
Speaker 1: the police and see how that, uh you know, that
Speaker 1: plays in their little ears. I've had to have an
Speaker 1: evolution around that because unfortunately, if people like you or
Speaker 1: I don't do jury, the verdict could get fucked up
Speaker 1: by the kind of people that do serve on jury
Speaker 1: don juries and like there was a reckoning I had
Speaker 1: to because I used to be the professional jury duty dodger.
Speaker 1: I'd come in and I would be so contrarian, like
Speaker 1: when they're asking questions that I would just frustrate whoever,
Speaker 1: like I didn't need an excuse. I'll be like, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna intellectually frustrate the like the lawyers, so they're
Speaker 1: like out of here. And then as I get older
Speaker 1: and realize the complexions of juries in this country and
Speaker 1: the verdicts that regularly come out, like, I'm like, fuck
Speaker 1: the thing, like it. It is my duty on some
Speaker 1: level to be there. But also sometimes, like I think
Speaker 1: about the case one was like about some tax accountant
Speaker 1: had a thing with other, don't Miles, I agree it
Speaker 1: is your duty to be there. I have no intention
Speaker 1: on upholding any of my civic responsibilities. I'm going to
Speaker 1: lie my way out of it and to stay at
Speaker 1: home out. Yeah you should. If anything, Look a quick
Speaker 1: tip for people in l A. If you can get
Speaker 1: it at the Burbank court, half the time they'll let you.
Speaker 1: They'll let you go early. That was a court rooms
Speaker 1: small yeah, just for the for the experts out there. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got jury duty at the beginning of quarantine and
Speaker 1: then they had to cancel jury for a little while,
Speaker 1: so I got out of it. Oh that was to
Speaker 1: do it? When would you when would you have to
Speaker 1: go in potentially? I don't know. They never they like
Speaker 1: Jamie ye, they just bring with Jamie with you and
Speaker 1: be like, you know, she's she's actually she's actually really
Speaker 1: cool and would love to do Jerry do pledge herself
Speaker 1: as a tribute for this, uh jury summons? But like
Speaker 1: did they have Oh yeah, um do they like what's
Speaker 1: the date? Because it was today was completely resumed. I
Speaker 1: don't know they said, they said it was today and
Speaker 1: then they said, uh, I went online and they said
Speaker 1: you don't have to come in today, but you got
Speaker 1: a call tonight to find out if you tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go in tomorrow or do you know the whole you
Speaker 1: get it? But that said, uh, you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna keep trying to to draft dodge as much as possible.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna blame my shin splints, I'm gonna do whatever.
Speaker 1: I can't exactly the whole The vibe though in that
Speaker 1: waiting room is so funny because like it's the whole
Speaker 1: spectrum we have people who like have time, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, and they have done it. They have
Speaker 1: crossword puzzles, books and ship fucking thermous. Then you have
Speaker 1: like the young idiots that were like me, who like,
Speaker 1: even before smartphones, I had like half of a script
Speaker 1: that I like panic just grabbed out of a pile
Speaker 1: of things to read, and I was like, fun, what
Speaker 1: then am I doing? And then there's always somebody stressed
Speaker 1: the funk out on their phone. It's like having to
Speaker 1: handle some monumental personal business but they're stuck in this
Speaker 1: fucking room and they're trying. Like, look, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm missing an opportunity if I skip
Speaker 1: out on this, But I can't bring myself to you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's comedy gold. It's gotta be just a bunch
Speaker 1: of miserable people trapped in a courtroom. That sounds wonderful,
Speaker 1: but I just can't bring myself to do it, to
Speaker 1: try and find equity and be effective in a legal
Speaker 1: system that is completely flawed upside down. I mean, the
Speaker 1: whole thing is a farce, but but so is this country,
Speaker 1: and we're still participating. Right there, we go, What is
Speaker 1: something from your search history? That is revealing about who
Speaker 1: you are. Well. Also in the spirit of moving in
Speaker 1: toilet bowl brushes. Oh man, looking up than toilet bowl brushes.
Speaker 1: That's been so you know, uh, my partner takes right
Speaker 1: take huge bowl in their honey event horizons where it
Speaker 1: like a peers out over the water. It's just always
Speaker 1: one of those ones. It's just it's always becomes so
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sorry about that. It's a shitty podcast,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Second rate, more like a number
Speaker 1: two podcasts. Anyway, So toilet bowl brushes, it's just been
Speaker 1: in the process of getting things for the house, We've
Speaker 1: had different responsibilities and while uh, Stephanie is covering main
Speaker 1: things like the couch and the bed frame, she's like,
Speaker 1: why don't you look up a good toilet bowl brush, Like, babe,
Speaker 1: I got you on that one, no problem, let's get it.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I've been searching a lot of those,
Speaker 1: and the market is right. There are so many toilet
Speaker 1: bowl brushes out there of all different designs and shapes.
Speaker 1: Now that I was, I mean, I'm thrilled by there's
Speaker 1: just there's a lot, and it's very it's very fun
Speaker 1: to shops. Don't new technology. I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: they need it's pretty gross. It is. Toilet bowl brushes
Speaker 1: exist and we just leave them there, and uh like
Speaker 1: I'm trying to come up with like maybe like a
Speaker 1: squirt bottle or something that we, uh we could use
Speaker 1: or it isn't like the other lazy versions like you
Speaker 1: put the thing in your toilet tanks. So then like
Speaker 1: it's always just kind of like there's like some kind
Speaker 1: of with that blue ship remember in the night. It
Speaker 1: looks like yeah, or you or you stick one on
Speaker 1: the side of the thin Yeah, exactly. I just throw
Speaker 1: a couple of those in there every time I go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, Just drop a couple in. You're gonna
Speaker 1: need that plot plot fist fish. Oh my god, guys,
Speaker 1: we got it. We're off the air, We're off the internet.
Speaker 1: What's happening. I remember like anytime I would move into
Speaker 1: a new place back back in the day, there was
Speaker 1: a bed bath and beyond trip that always took place.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, we hand we handled the bed
Speaker 1: bath and beyond trip got are necessary, you know, shower
Speaker 1: curtain hangers and all that jive. But the the other thing,
Speaker 1: the funny thing about the toilet pol brushes that babe.
Speaker 1: I've had a really a couple of really cool ones.
Speaker 1: There's one from CB two. There's this other one who displays.
Speaker 1: She said, no, we're not going to CB two because
Speaker 1: I have her gifts or to pick it there, and
Speaker 1: we're only going to buy stuff from there when we
Speaker 1: have a bunch of things to buy it. And I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, okay, so I won't get that one, idiot,
Speaker 1: what about this? Also have a gift certificate from there,
Speaker 1: so we're not gonna buy anything from there because we
Speaker 1: have a lot of stuff to buy. Wait, y'all got
Speaker 1: like moving in gift certificates, dude, like all of these
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to remember which service it was. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was changing your address with the USPS. Change your
Speaker 1: address they give you like just a right, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: different than a gift certificate, where I think people are
Speaker 1: making range I have the cards on you. It was
Speaker 1: definitely improper, improper language there. But yeah, we've just been
Speaker 1: you know here, they're on whole order, I mean like
Speaker 1: makes you wonder, makes you wonder? Yeah, yeah, what are
Speaker 1: they charging normally? What's that really? What's the exactly costing them?
Speaker 1: Literally nothing? But it's saving us pennies on the dollar. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, let us know which brush you end up with. Oh,
Speaker 1: I will be updated. What does it matter that is conical?
Speaker 1: I want that slightly conical, that way you can really
Speaker 1: hit the underneath, real sub rim as I call it.
Speaker 1: I want the good points, but I also want the
Speaker 1: one that has like the cap attached to the stick,
Speaker 1: so that when you put it back in like the tube,
Speaker 1: it stays like that and then like you push it
Speaker 1: down like venus light. Also also very nice. I've been
Speaker 1: looking for those, but they all have a kind of
Speaker 1: those ones all have like a very like future kind
Speaker 1: of aesthetic where I wants a little bit more, a
Speaker 1: little bit more. You've always said that like cottage, cottage core,
Speaker 1: very cottage core, you know, Spanish style home. We can't
Speaker 1: have this future tech toilet ship. So which is why
Speaker 1: you're doing with like a tree branch with a cotton
Speaker 1: bloss And thank you. Precisely you've nailed. You said your
Speaker 1: fashion icon is Blake Lively, right nailed. Thank you. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about news, and we're back. James Cameron is making another
Speaker 1: Titanic movie. Kind of okay, kind of because it's a documentary.
Speaker 1: But but I'm gonna put a pin in that because
Speaker 1: we have to do a little bit of research here,
Speaker 1: just a little bit of context. Um. Shout out to
Speaker 1: j m Our writer who was like, look at, look
Speaker 1: at what's happening. Um, there is a Chinese developer right
Speaker 1: now who is in the process of constructing a life size,
Speaker 1: full scale version of the Titanic. Um. It is built
Speaker 1: in the countryside of China about one thousand miles from
Speaker 1: the sea, so it is very landlocked. Um, why is
Speaker 1: it being built? Nobody knows? What? Why? Why question joy
Speaker 1: in this way? Why who cares? I like this photo
Speaker 1: of seeing it being built, like clearly in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere, and I like, and I do you can
Speaker 1: tell what they're doing is they're building like a miniature
Speaker 1: doc so it looks it will sit in water essentially,
Speaker 1: so it look like it's yeah, it's a little foot
Speaker 1: bath for the Titanic. Um this I mean it the
Speaker 1: ship looks massive, so yes, they are building in fact,
Speaker 1: a full scale replica. Uh the way it's all so
Speaker 1: there's an infomercial apparently that the developer of the like
Speaker 1: this construction site screens for visitors when they go visit,
Speaker 1: and even the infomercial that plays doesn't answer any of
Speaker 1: those questions. It's just sort of like this is a replica,
Speaker 1: full scale coming soon. Know why? Who? Where? Huh? And
Speaker 1: it turns out this is actually being built by a
Speaker 1: very wealthy businessman, a businessman by the name of last
Speaker 1: name Sue, who is the president of a seven star
Speaker 1: energy investment group. He's just a gigantic Titanic fan project.
Speaker 1: This is like a cool there. I reject people this wealthy,
Speaker 1: except for this person specifically. This is a fun way
Speaker 1: to use fabulous wealth. This is and and also there's
Speaker 1: been other attempts to do this, like over the As
Speaker 1: a long time Titanic head, there have been so many
Speaker 1: attempts to like get uh, you know, they like to
Speaker 1: create a Titanic cruise ship and then take the same
Speaker 1: round as the Titanic and like that for years. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm just so happy it's actually happening. James Cameron didn't
Speaker 1: even get to build a full sized Titanic, he only
Speaker 1: had to half. I think he's jealous us a little
Speaker 1: bit of Laura. He seems like a bitter man. My
Speaker 1: mom was in Mexico when they shot the sinking scene
Speaker 1: and got yeah, or like when they had the half
Speaker 1: half version coming out of the water, and I remember
Speaker 1: she was like I remember as a kid, I was like,
Speaker 1: why are you going to Mexico, like for a word trip.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't want to be and she's like,
Speaker 1: it's Titanic and I'm like, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: And it always confused me, like why it wasn't shot
Speaker 1: in the sea in Mexico And I had no idea
Speaker 1: about production then. But anyway, a little bit of fact,
Speaker 1: you should what it was like to be there in
Speaker 1: the cold. Um. So back to this new thing. There's
Speaker 1: a new Titanic movie with James Cameron at the helm,
Speaker 1: or well rather he's producing it. But it's a documentary
Speaker 1: about the six Chinese survivors of the Titanic sinking who
Speaker 1: have gone ignored by history. This is called the movie
Speaker 1: is called the Six Um and it's just about just
Speaker 1: all the Chinese aspects of this story that have been
Speaker 1: completely erased or not told outside of China perhaps. So um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be coming out like pretty soon actually this
Speaker 1: April on the hundred and ninth anniversary the Titanic. Damn.
Speaker 1: That's why I to think my grandma would have been
Speaker 1: a hundred nine. She was born, uh two days after
Speaker 1: the Titanic. Um she lived one or two. She was
Speaker 1: doing all right, shut up, mich um. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think one of the reasons that we didn't get
Speaker 1: the you know, full story about these six Chinese survivors
Speaker 1: is you guessed it, racism. Um. The men were in
Speaker 1: steerage where their survival rate was only about and once
Speaker 1: they arrived in the US, they were detained and deported
Speaker 1: due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. These motherfucker's survived the
Speaker 1: sinking of the like off the Titanic, being pulled out
Speaker 1: the water. They got to the US. Yeah, and they said, y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all are out of here. Now we're doing this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other thing that JM notes is that other passengers
Speaker 1: were given medical treatment, and they were denied medical treatment.
Speaker 1: It was like an immediate like no, no, no, you
Speaker 1: already know you can't be here, can't be here. Here's
Speaker 1: your ticket, goodbye. So yes, this is like a very
Speaker 1: American telling of this story. But another really interesting bit
Speaker 1: was that James can and originally had a scene or
Speaker 1: a shot where a Chinese man was rescued from a
Speaker 1: wooden plank, but they cut it from the theatrical version.
Speaker 1: Are they going to release it in the new movie?
Speaker 1: I know, like it shouldn't that be? Like the new
Speaker 1: Snyder cut is just like put back the little weird
Speaker 1: bit of Asian representation there was in this in a
Speaker 1: four hour movie. Wow, this is I had no idea
Speaker 1: this was going to happen. This is so fucking cool.
Speaker 1: Another mind blowing thing. James Cameron used the story of
Speaker 1: one of the passengers, Fang Lang, who survived on a
Speaker 1: floating door. As you guessed it, inspiration for Jack and
Speaker 1: Rose's final scene. So you're taking from them and you're
Speaker 1: still we didn't know this, James, James needs to make
Speaker 1: this right. I'm glad he needs to make this right.
Speaker 1: This is so oh my god, that's this. I can't
Speaker 1: put into words how excited I am to watch this.
Speaker 1: I hope it's like it will be widely available. Ball
Speaker 1: shoot reshoot the film, but splice in these like this
Speaker 1: is a much more interesting story than the made up
Speaker 1: rich white lady who threw her ocean in her necklace.
Speaker 1: But this is where they're at but yeah, and then
Speaker 1: he released James Cameron did another documentary about Titanic that
Speaker 1: I called Ghosts of the Abyss. Did you see that?
Speaker 1: Oh that was like the one that went back down
Speaker 1: into the sea, right, yeah, submersible one. He's just really
Speaker 1: in love with Titanic the ship, and he's got so
Speaker 1: much money. But this is this is like a story
Speaker 1: I've never heard about before. This is I'm so happy
Speaker 1: this is going to be released equal parts interesting and horrifying.
Speaker 1: So gets your good and you're bad. But yeah, to
Speaker 1: know that that's off based off of this other person's
Speaker 1: like true life, is really like my moment. Yeah, Jamie
Speaker 1: as a resident Titanic head, I don't know if you'll
Speaker 1: know the answer to this, but I am um curious, like,
Speaker 1: why do you was that Titanic such a badass ship
Speaker 1: that we would want to make so many replicas of it?
Speaker 1: Because it just seems like why do we keep trying
Speaker 1: to replicate the Titanic? If it is this the dumbest question? No,
Speaker 1: I think it's I don't know if speculating. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's a number of things. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: like a at least for us, right now it's just
Speaker 1: enough in the distant past where it feels like, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like it does that mean? Am I?
Speaker 1: Am I making sense here? Like it was just long
Speaker 1: enough ago that people aren't like this is ghoulish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like so it's been you know whatever, almost a hundred
Speaker 1: ten years. I feel like the way that the movie
Speaker 1: presented it was so romantic and also the like the
Speaker 1: because most of the Titanic media, even like before the
Speaker 1: James Camera movie, we're all either it's like you're into
Speaker 1: it because of like the whole like the ship angle
Speaker 1: and like the ego angle and the and and that
Speaker 1: side of it, or it's like you saw like there's
Speaker 1: like a Night to Remember in the fifties and then
Speaker 1: the James Camera movie and just like it was also
Speaker 1: like romantic and glamorous too. Yeah yeah, and it always
Speaker 1: and I feel like this is like part of what
Speaker 1: this documentary will hopefully remedy. But it was always focused
Speaker 1: on like the rich people, um, and the stories were
Speaker 1: always like this tragic, like, oh my god, this millionaire died.
Speaker 1: It's so sad and it's so I feel like that
Speaker 1: the truly tragic parts of it were like sound like
Speaker 1: the stories of like the Six and those were completely
Speaker 1: erased and it was kind of made to be the
Speaker 1: like almost this novelty thing, right, I don't know wild
Speaker 1: I have a Titanic hoodie coming in the mail right now,
Speaker 1: so this is this is throwing. Caitlin and I are
Speaker 1: recording our annual Titanic episode next week. Okay, damn, there
Speaker 1: we go. Then you can talk about that, because I
Speaker 1: just only recently knew that the like the one black
Speaker 1: man that was on the Titanic mm hmm. But hey, look,
Speaker 1: we've got so many stories we can tell after this is.
Speaker 1: But I think for me, the reason I want to
Speaker 1: see it is like I kind of want to see it,
Speaker 1: like I just want to see it. I think that's
Speaker 1: my fascination. And I think for me it's truly like
Speaker 1: the glitz of it of being like, oh, look, a
Speaker 1: bunch of people would have not allowed me to eat
Speaker 1: in here in real life, but I thank you for
Speaker 1: having me. And I think it's just like all the
Speaker 1: white Gloved ship, I think is like what I think
Speaker 1: people just have this romanticized view of the nineteen tens.
Speaker 1: I guess chandeliers on a boat dancing. Look, that's a chandelier. Yes,
Speaker 1: on a boat. We must see that. People like the
Speaker 1: idea of Billy Zane on a boat. That's what it
Speaker 1: all boils down, keeps it, yeah, it keeps keeps the
Speaker 1: memory going strong. What is something for your search history
Speaker 1: that reveals a little bit about who you are? Okay?
Speaker 1: So one thing from my Google search history is I
Speaker 1: l g W you nineteen two strike New York? Okay?
Speaker 1: Is this ringing any bells where you where my strike
Speaker 1: nerds at? Is this a garment workers union? Yes? Okay, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: So the International Ladies Garment Workers Union strike of nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty two. I was searching for it because I randomly
Speaker 1: like stumbled across it and learned that in nearly twenty thousand,
Speaker 1: almost all women, mostly all of Asian descent, marched from
Speaker 1: China Town down to Columbus Circle, Um. And it was
Speaker 1: this huge labor uh moment where the garment workers Union
Speaker 1: was fed up and they basically demanded rights that had
Speaker 1: a major ripple effect into like just workers at large rights.
Speaker 1: And my mind was just blown because I had never
Speaker 1: heard of that before. And you would think that like oh,
Speaker 1: twenty people taking to the streets, like maybe that would
Speaker 1: be something that's like in our in our history books.
Speaker 1: But no, no people of color organizing other people of
Speaker 1: color and like making change. Oh shocker. Um, we aren't
Speaker 1: thought about that in our textbooks. Um. So I was
Speaker 1: doing some some digging to find out more about that
Speaker 1: and the rad women who organized it? How did you even?
Speaker 1: How did that even? How did you? Because I'm hearing
Speaker 1: obviously I'm like you, I'm like, wow, I've heard this.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of this. And also it's no surprise
Speaker 1: because yes, why would you tell a little kids and
Speaker 1: put idea in their head that they could organize themselves
Speaker 1: and demand better treatment? Um? So how did you come
Speaker 1: across the story? So? I was doing, um, some research
Speaker 1: for Women's History month month content because uh, you know
Speaker 1: custom content. So International Women's Day, if you didn't know,
Speaker 1: actually has its roots in the labor movement and old
Speaker 1: school socialism. Um so Women's History Month, by extension actually
Speaker 1: has like very labor socialist roots. So I was thinking like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can make some custom content around like women in
Speaker 1: the labor movement and uh and also too, I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: not to be too on the nose, but I think
Speaker 1: that labor history is very zeitgey see right now as um,
Speaker 1: the Mills and the gen Zs are getting maybe just
Speaker 1: a touch fed up with capitalism. Um, And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden I ran across this profile of may Chen,
Speaker 1: Connie Ling and Alice It who organized this, and I
Speaker 1: was like, God, damn it, more stuff that I didn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is so cool. It's like, it's so funny. At
Speaker 1: every turn, it's like it's always they don't want people
Speaker 1: to have the imagination for revolution at any point. You know,
Speaker 1: that's really all. It's what it all boils down to.
Speaker 1: No, no no, that doesn't do that. Let's talk about cancel culture.
Speaker 1: No no no, no, don't hear about how thoroughly Amazon is
Speaker 1: getting owned with piss bottle Gate and the Fake Accouncil
Speaker 1: has other nonsense. It's like the revolutions they teach are
Speaker 1: very selective, that reinforce a certain kind of idea. These
Speaker 1: I'm looking at pictures of this strike and it's so
Speaker 1: cool and so on. On top of um, how incredible
Speaker 1: it is to see just like women organ organizing and
Speaker 1: getting results. The outfits are great. It's very eighties, so
Speaker 1: highly I mean, you gotta love some history. I mean,
Speaker 1: if only for the fashion only for the pants. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: I mean okay, this all makes sense too that in
Speaker 1: like one of their first strikes was right after their
Speaker 1: triangle shirtwaist fire. So man, shout out to I L
Speaker 1: g W and we're learning something every day. This is amazing,
Speaker 1: thanks for doing. Let's talk. Okay, we're talking about fucked
Speaker 1: up April Fools jokes pranks, and you know, so you
Speaker 1: know ailing's worth here in the motor city. So this
Speaker 1: is relevant because we're talking about cars. Volkswagen completely fucked
Speaker 1: up their April Fools Day because what started as okay,
Speaker 1: essentially their whole thing was like their April Fools prank
Speaker 1: was gonna be we're gonna be called Volkswagon now implying
Speaker 1: that they are going to now doing more electric vehicles.
Speaker 1: But they fucked up because a press release got posted
Speaker 1: to their website and was later deleted on March twenty nine. First,
Speaker 1: so people thought this was for real. They're like, well
Speaker 1: this isn't And then but some people were like, hold on,
Speaker 1: is this early, Like did you guys make a mistake
Speaker 1: or something like that. They fucking doubled down three days early,
Speaker 1: and they doubled down then, so too when they said
Speaker 1: it was just an early joke. They said no, no,
Speaker 1: and to prove it, here is a legit press release
Speaker 1: that we're putting out right now that had quotes from
Speaker 1: the CEO. They even put a video on Twitter. So
Speaker 1: and it was still March being like, oh no, this
Speaker 1: is for real, like we're Volkswagen. Uh, it's sounding very
Speaker 1: Matt gatesy. At the moment, the head of communications for
Speaker 1: Volkswagen was straight up asked by reporters. They said, is
Speaker 1: it early And even the head of communications said no,
Speaker 1: the name change is real. Were they like really invested
Speaker 1: in making sure that the joke landed. They were like, listen,
Speaker 1: if we then if we do it on name the
Speaker 1: first no one's going to believe it. So I really
Speaker 1: I need people to believe that we would change our
Speaker 1: name to Volkswagen, so that then tomorrow we'll be like
Speaker 1: April fools. Everyone has a nice stuggle. It's been a
Speaker 1: long year, Volkswagens trying to help us. They just don't
Speaker 1: understand comedy. That so weird. But the funny thing is
Speaker 1: to like in they fucked up. When the E p
Speaker 1: A was like, uh, you're rigged. Your diesel cars have
Speaker 1: like cheap devices that are making them look like low
Speaker 1: emission vehicles. Like that was a huge scandal, and Volkswagen
Speaker 1: paid like almost twenty billion dollars in settlement money because
Speaker 1: it was so like so egregious how they were deceiving
Speaker 1: people about how nature bound their cars were. So this
Speaker 1: is like, oh, this this is oh, I guess it
Speaker 1: is kind of like them. So the other thing is
Speaker 1: be because of this, right, the like doubling down saying no,
Speaker 1: we're getting in into electric vehicles. This ship had an
Speaker 1: effect on Wall Street stock rows by five per cent
Speaker 1: because everyone is looking at this. They're saying, I mean clearly,
Speaker 1: you're the CEO is here saying they are committed to
Speaker 1: electronic vehicles. And like one of these like analysts in
Speaker 1: there like letter to ship, like you know, traders and
Speaker 1: things said that the name change quote underscores Volkswagen's clear
Speaker 1: commitment to its e V brand. And so guess what
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna be fucked up with investors and the
Speaker 1: Securities Exchange Commission. The sec is not gonna be like
Speaker 1: because you cannot make false statements that would affect your
Speaker 1: investors price. So it's like what do you what the
Speaker 1: fuck it's it's all, it's all, it's all jokes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had a clear commitment to working on their type,
Speaker 1: their Type five for the next open mic, right, I mean, like,
Speaker 1: what do you it's true? Like what did they really
Speaker 1: want to make sure that people believed it? Because either way,
Speaker 1: if they really believed it, then the stock price probably
Speaker 1: would have changed as well, just like what happened. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of odd to try and fixed sort out
Speaker 1: like what exactly happened. Vote Volkswagen is not synonymous with
Speaker 1: humor and like yeah, and then there's another thing our
Speaker 1: writer Jam was talking about. You know, I'm some racist
Speaker 1: ass ads that they had last year where like this
Speaker 1: white hand like flicked a black person like away from
Speaker 1: the car and then into a cafe. That's the name
Speaker 1: was called little Colonists. What. Yes, I don't remember the ads,
Speaker 1: um because they vanished pretty quick from Yeah, well, thank goodness.
Speaker 1: I prefer when a company at least has some common
Speaker 1: sense even after the event, as opposed to like, I
Speaker 1: guess what they did this time, which is double down.
Speaker 1: Volkswagen in its history has been known for trying to
Speaker 1: have like comedic ads like when the Yeah, when the
Speaker 1: bug came out everybody like it was poorly revealed, And
Speaker 1: so they made a double page spread in a magazine
Speaker 1: and called it a lemon. Does it sort of shape
Speaker 1: like a lemon? It's a lemon? And in the sixty two,
Speaker 1: what that's what you called your car? A lemon? Wild?
Speaker 1: So funny, and there's like and they've done that. I
Speaker 1: remember in my youth they have like weird kind of
Speaker 1: cookie ads, and so I get this is it's a
Speaker 1: step too far, Agold, you're doing too much. Yeah, they've
Speaker 1: lost they've lost their way. You hate to see it
Speaker 1: when a comedian loses their way in such a big
Speaker 1: public way. All right, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll be back to talk some slightly positive news and
Speaker 1: we're back. What is something you think is overrated? You
Speaker 1: know what? I also hate this segment of the show.
Speaker 1: So I decided to ask my group chat what they
Speaker 1: thought were some overrated and underrated and things like overrated
Speaker 1: was Hamilton's Motherhood and the Keto diet? What a what
Speaker 1: a list? What a list? Was that from the one
Speaker 1: person or that was like sounds like yeah, four friends,
Speaker 1: my little Pizza Friday crew. I just asked them and then, um,
Speaker 1: That's what they responded with, So are these friends are comedians?
Speaker 1: Don't know? These are not comedians. That's why I asked them,
Speaker 1: because they're not comedian. Yes, off the streets. And then
Speaker 1: it was funny because the Hamilton's one is what got
Speaker 1: the group chat arguing, because you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: girls in the group chat like it's the greatest film
Speaker 1: ever made, its revisionist history and yeah, and I mean
Speaker 1: I don't care. I mean I watched I very being like,
Speaker 1: you know what, something is so hyped up. You're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I should at least try to watch it. And so
Speaker 1: my friend and had me watch it with her, and
Speaker 1: I was like, this is the most boring ship I've
Speaker 1: ever watched. I hate it. He's wrapping this is so dumb,
Speaker 1: and yeah, and and and his story and it's also
Speaker 1: that thing of like you don't even have to know
Speaker 1: history to like just follow the story and be like
Speaker 1: this doesn't this doesn't make sense. I don't like the
Speaker 1: way this is going and this is all kind of weird.
Speaker 1: And you're big musical fan in general, though, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't hate musicals, like, I mean, I liked him
Speaker 1: as a kid. Of course you know I liked him
Speaker 1: as a kid, and um, and I don't hate that
Speaker 1: the child's play from your perspective, you know, it was
Speaker 1: a very mature child, Matt, Matt Gates would be into it,
Speaker 1: you know. Sorry, problematic that's me. Um, the woke Lily.
Speaker 1: And then the underrated. The underrated is the bid day
Speaker 1: and sleeping in a bed alone. That was the only
Speaker 1: two I got for underrated true mhm, sleeping the bed alone,
Speaker 1: stretching out at any corner, the sheets on your schedule. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm really tall, so corner to corner is how I sleep.
Speaker 1: But it's it's really like diagonal. Yeah I can't. I mean,
Speaker 1: if I share the bed with somebody, have to be
Speaker 1: off straight and uncomfortable because I'm so long, my feet
Speaker 1: hang off. You know. Again, sometimes the pets sunk up
Speaker 1: my sleep style. But like, I don't have the heart
Speaker 1: to be like I'm like sleep ship. You gotta shape
Speaker 1: them to you. I know when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: you know, my childhood dog slept in my bed. So
Speaker 1: when she passed away, I realized it took me years
Speaker 1: to stop sleeping against the wall straight because that's how
Speaker 1: because she took up all the bed and I would
Speaker 1: just sleep against the wall to make room for her,
Speaker 1: like a side sleeper with your back to the wall.
Speaker 1: I think I was like facing the wall quite literally,
Speaker 1: making yourself as like thin and small, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: And so after she died, I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have to sleep like this anymore. Exactly how
Speaker 1: a parent walks in on a child in a horror
Speaker 1: movie to be like, why is she just facing the
Speaker 1: walls just like happening because they're in the bed too, honey.
Speaker 1: They You're like, all right, we're selling Yeah, I like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: bedsize is a good thing. And b days also, uh man,
Speaker 1: you know, not just because hello tuss she's the sponsor,
Speaker 1: because sponsor. Yeah yeah, yeah that once. I've always you know,
Speaker 1: being Japanese too, Like in Japan the toilet seats over
Speaker 1: there have bidats built in, so from you know, that
Speaker 1: would always be the thing. I'm like, oh, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: we got this over here. And then when it sort
Speaker 1: of became more popular or people like everywhere for a while,
Speaker 1: everyone like the take of like the world's like, have
Speaker 1: you been to Japan? Have been on the toilet in Japan?
Speaker 1: Have you had an egg salad sandwich from Japan from
Speaker 1: like Anthony Bordine. It's like those three things. Um, then
Speaker 1: the bidats became more popular. But yeah, this thing telling
Speaker 1: you beautiful never felt cleaner. Mother ship, Yeah ship, there
Speaker 1: you go exactly. All right, that's gonna do it for
Speaker 1: this week's weekly Zeite. Guys, please like and review the show.
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