Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment last stravaganza.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history? Um? Okay? So,
Speaker 1: KIM Control Scouting was on the list. Also on the
Speaker 1: list was Final Destination Composer because there was this, uh
Speaker 1: it was a clip that I was looking for that
Speaker 1: I vaguely remembered from a Final Destination DVD. Didn't remember
Speaker 1: which DVD, but I was able to find it. There's
Speaker 1: this really great I think that she composed most of
Speaker 1: the Final Destination soundtracks, and I was really into those
Speaker 1: movies growing up because they were just so nasty. This
Speaker 1: is the Final Destination three a k a. The Tanning
Speaker 1: Booth one, but it's it's the Final Destination Composer describing
Speaker 1: her process, and I think they're like setting her up
Speaker 1: to like really be like, so, you know, being a
Speaker 1: musician is really hard. But what she does is she
Speaker 1: has this like little like gross so meter, and she's like,
Speaker 1: so when I'm writing for Final Destination three, there's like
Speaker 1: there's a point where I say it's a little gross,
Speaker 1: it's really gross, or it's like someone's on fire and
Speaker 1: they're dying gross. And I just kind of figure out,
Speaker 1: like if it's level one, two or three, and that's
Speaker 1: how I write all the music. And she has this
Speaker 1: little like hand drawn gross ometer that has like hand
Speaker 1: drawn blood dripping of it, and she's like, and that's
Speaker 1: really my whole process, and uh and it works, and
Speaker 1: I was like, holy sh it, it made me laugh
Speaker 1: so hard it holds up. I will I'll send the
Speaker 1: clip because I like pulled it for posterity. She was
Speaker 1: so straightforward. I I I appreciate that she's like, it's
Speaker 1: not hard, just like girls and demystify something like composition
Speaker 1: of a film score, where I think most people, like,
Speaker 1: if you're not a musician, you're like, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what these people fucking do. They sit down and
Speaker 1: start writing notes on a fucking like what the funk?
Speaker 1: How is it? And then but if you're a musician,
Speaker 1: like you understand the process a little bit more, and
Speaker 1: then for me as a music to hear her just
Speaker 1: be like, nah, it's real simple. Man likes there's three
Speaker 1: vibe levels and that sort of determines where I go
Speaker 1: with it, Like, yes, she's simple perfect, she's so good.
Speaker 1: Her name is Shirley Walker, and she died shortly after
Speaker 1: the Final Destination three came out. She was like, she
Speaker 1: set the tone for Final Destination and then she arrived
Speaker 1: at her final destination I assumed peacefully and not like
Speaker 1: a final destination, um, but like she uh it made
Speaker 1: me laugh. Well, she was driving behind a tractor trailer
Speaker 1: that was carrying a bunch of like logs, right and
Speaker 1: rebar yeah, yeah, yeah, as peacefully as one and then
Speaker 1: a thumb track, a thumbtack truck crash on the road
Speaker 1: ahead of them. Anyway, she lived. She was like, so
Speaker 1: then I like, this is the level three on the
Speaker 1: gross her own system. But she did so many and
Speaker 1: then I went down a Shirley Walker hole, like this
Speaker 1: lady was so goddamn cool. She did like the score
Speaker 1: for like Escape from l A and True Lies and
Speaker 1: like all these fun movies. And she was like one
Speaker 1: of the first prominent female film composers. And she worked
Speaker 1: on a gross song at her system. I love her.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I love that especially like I would like
Speaker 1: to view that next to another like a director's commentary
Speaker 1: from those films, who's like being real pretentious and you're like,
Speaker 1: well you see what she's just like, No, it's it's
Speaker 1: Final Destiny. She was the music director for a Batman
Speaker 1: the Animated series. Okay, yo her, I'm sorry. Her death
Speaker 1: is tragic as I mean it was before. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: like she she like passed away like eight months right
Speaker 1: after her husband passed away. So yeah, anyway, rest in
Speaker 1: power though. Oh and she wont She won an Emmy
Speaker 1: for Batman the Animated Series. She's really cool. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's all these like stories like this
Speaker 1: of like pioneers in fields that know whatever talks about
Speaker 1: and then whenever you stumble across it, it's always the
Speaker 1: coolest story of all time. I'm like, she's working worked
Speaker 1: with Danny Elfman and then that's what she based the
Speaker 1: Batman all the what the ah? This is good. She's awesome.
Speaker 1: And so I'll post that clip of her explaining her
Speaker 1: gross ometer composition system because it's great. We will put
Speaker 1: that in the footnote. I respect Final Destination, the Final
Speaker 1: Destination film franchise, like the same way that you respect
Speaker 1: like a children's book author that just like taps into
Speaker 1: the mind of a four year old because like, if
Speaker 1: you had given me like limitless time to write a
Speaker 1: movie when I was eleven years old, if like I
Speaker 1: would have come up with the Final Destination, like best
Speaker 1: case scenario, I would have come up with the Final
Speaker 1: Destination movies. What if fortune Cookies were true? Yeah? Uh,
Speaker 1: they totally nailed exactly what I was looking for in
Speaker 1: movies when I was like, yeah, to this day, I
Speaker 1: will not reach my hand into a sink like where
Speaker 1: there's a garbage compactor, incinerator thing, blender, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, in syncorator without thinking of Final Destination. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. Final Destination three was I think the first
Speaker 1: Final Destination I saw the one where everyone dies on
Speaker 1: the fucking roller coaster and it's Mary Elizabeth Winstead is
Speaker 1: the lead. Like, there's a bunch of people who ended
Speaker 1: up getting famous, but in this one they're just beheaded
Speaker 1: on a roller coaster. It's so funny, girls, it's so good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Amanda Crew is in Final Destination three. Who would have known? Yeah, Yo,
Speaker 1: she's a fucking legend. She worked with everyone, and based
Speaker 1: on how her credits are working, I'm I'm gonna presume
Speaker 1: she had a lot to do with a lot of
Speaker 1: these scores because whenever, like you have Hans Zimmer or
Speaker 1: like these other people, it's very collaborative. I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean early on a lot of them are doing a
Speaker 1: lot of composition. But like at this level, she was
Speaker 1: worked with Danny Elfman on Dick Tracy Edwards Scissor Hands, dude,
Speaker 1: fucking Hans Zimmer on Bird onto Wire here most of
Speaker 1: these yeah, yeah, fucking worked on this is this is
Speaker 1: what a league of their own toys, radio Flyer with
Speaker 1: Hans Zimmer renaissance. But okay, you know what, Okay, when
Speaker 1: she died, she had like what it wasn't At the
Speaker 1: time of her death, Shirley Walker had scored more major
Speaker 1: studio motion pictures than any other American woman. She's a badass,
Speaker 1: She's cool. So that's a that was a fun way
Speaker 1: to learn about Shirley. Highly recommend going down the Shirley
Speaker 1: hole because like she's conducting, like like when these some
Speaker 1: of these credits, at the very least, she was the
Speaker 1: conductor when they were recording these scores, conducting the orchestra whatever.
Speaker 1: Man fucking backdrafts. And she only lived to be a
Speaker 1: sixty one legend legend DJ justin just putting the chat.
Speaker 1: A detail that I will not be able to unknown
Speaker 1: is that his best friend's parents house had an automatic
Speaker 1: garbage disposal unit in their sink. No, that is with
Speaker 1: a motion sensor, Like I think it must have not
Speaker 1: like sensed when there was food to chop up. But
Speaker 1: could you imagine if like the sensor was off a
Speaker 1: little bit. Is also one more thing, just so you know,
Speaker 1: bucking a goofy movie. She did a goofy movie. She
Speaker 1: conducted and orchestrated the score. She's she's just and she's
Speaker 1: like just a mom. She's like, listen, it's not hard.
Speaker 1: It was a final destination score. I'm surely walker. Like
Speaker 1: I do difficult things all the time. This is not
Speaker 1: one of them. I just love it. She's like I
Speaker 1: did Edwards scissor Hands. You fuck with Yeah, you're working
Speaker 1: around with final destination. This is a check to me. Okay, dude, arachnophobia.
Speaker 1: I love it. Child's play too. Where was it? Where
Speaker 1: was it? Sureley? She she really was the moment. She
Speaker 1: was the moment for decades. One of the tools that
Speaker 1: was aided specifically for the scoring God this is the
Speaker 1: gros soometer. I had to pause because you can't see
Speaker 1: the video. I'm just playing it for everybody. It is
Speaker 1: such it is like a remarkable piece, like back when
Speaker 1: you used to do like a book report project and
Speaker 1: you have to be like an accompany like art piece
Speaker 1: with it. This grossometer is one of the greatest handmade
Speaker 1: things I've ever seen in my life. But we thought
Speaker 1: that grossometer was far more elegant. Did the artworker correct
Speaker 1: and we would uh let the orchestra know what the
Speaker 1: grosso rating was. So this one was like it about
Speaker 1: as sixty as it was filmed, but I challenged the
Speaker 1: orchestra to bring it up with their performance to and
Speaker 1: a at least an eight. And I think the performance
Speaker 1: really we were close to a hundred on that. The
Speaker 1: level one is boobs and burns, Level two is dismember,
Speaker 1: fer mint and wiggly guts, and level three is blood
Speaker 1: spatter and brain matter. Wow, I hadn't even like, I
Speaker 1: guess that makes sense, but like burns would seem to
Speaker 1: be almost as bad as blood spatter. But no, I
Speaker 1: guess not like visceral when you're watching something happened, I mean,
Speaker 1: she she would know. I guess she's yeah, she did
Speaker 1: Final Destinations one through three. What is something from your
Speaker 1: search history that is revealing about who you are what
Speaker 1: you're up to? Alright, so here's here's something that's I'm
Speaker 1: getting back into video games. This isn't exciting or phone
Speaker 1: or anything or funny. I'm sorry. He's like, guys, I'm
Speaker 1: not here to make y'all chuckle today. I'm here to
Speaker 1: talk serious ship. I've just started playing seven years late
Speaker 1: The Last of Us, and you know what, you know,
Speaker 1: Like when I was younger, in my younger days, when
Speaker 1: my brain was a little more sharp, it was it
Speaker 1: was operating on all levels. Uh, I would I wouldn't
Speaker 1: go to the internet for walkthroughs or things like that.
Speaker 1: But that, man, I'm thirty four years old. My brain,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I ain't got time to be sitting up
Speaker 1: here waiting, like trying to find a goddamn dumpster to
Speaker 1: pull over to a wall if I don't know where
Speaker 1: it is. So I'll be hitting these walkthroughs up. I'll
Speaker 1: be hitting these walkthroughs up and be like, all right,
Speaker 1: Last of Us and I don't know what the chapters
Speaker 1: are called. I'd just be like Last of Us uh,
Speaker 1: stuck in dirty water and then like find what I need,
Speaker 1: but I needed it, come up and I find it,
Speaker 1: and it's always the simplest ship and be like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I walked past that like forty times. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's it's a fun it's a great game walk throughs,
Speaker 1: you know, because and you know, back in our days,
Speaker 1: the book version the Prima guides that put out for
Speaker 1: a video game, I might also going to the library
Speaker 1: to fuck borrow like how to Ship. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: used to have to buy books for the game we
Speaker 1: walked through back all day, I don't know, or you
Speaker 1: do the thing where like used to go to a
Speaker 1: bookstore and treat the bookstore like the internet. We're like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna buy it, but I'm sitting here. I'll
Speaker 1: write everything down and then I'm gonna leave. Uh there's
Speaker 1: that too, But yeah, The Last of Us is one
Speaker 1: of those games that really I see, like I totally
Speaker 1: get the walk through ship because it's so intense at times,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't exactly like you don't come into the
Speaker 1: same feeling like a call of duty. We're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: funk that, what's good. It's the Last of Us. I'm
Speaker 1: here to do ship, and then you're like, oh no, yeah,
Speaker 1: the the deck is completely stacked against me and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not clever, so I need I need that help.
Speaker 1: I need the help. But I'm almost there. I'm at
Speaker 1: the last chapter, so I'm excited to finish it out
Speaker 1: and beat it all and then by last of us two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my search history is absolutely riddled with a much lamber
Speaker 1: version of that, where it's looking up cross word answers
Speaker 1: just like a crossword puzzle. Yeah, wait, how do you
Speaker 1: do that? You just literally searched the clue. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: there's there's all sorts of websites for like hours after
Speaker 1: the New York Times puts its cross word up. You
Speaker 1: can they websites that are just on that ship. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm not. I am ashamed. I should say,
Speaker 1: don't be ashamed. How the hell you supposed to know everything?
Speaker 1: What's a four letters? Don't? But I don't know a
Speaker 1: single one of them. I just loved them all up.
Speaker 1: And then I'm like, hey, and show it to my
Speaker 1: dad and she's like, I don't care. Jack's phone bill
Speaker 1: from all the crossword game puzzle games that he uses,
Speaker 1: but he just buys the hint packs. So he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten a single one, and uh a long time,
Speaker 1: and why do it? It's more fun. You just hit
Speaker 1: press hint, hint, hint, hint, and you know you type it,
Speaker 1: you type. So you're still doing some work. You're still
Speaker 1: doing your thing, you know, And I respect I respect it, Maurice.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? Oh? My god? Um,
Speaker 1: the Coming to America sequel. Oh is it bad? It
Speaker 1: so bad? And the thing about it is that it
Speaker 1: didn't have to be bad, I think. You know. Of course,
Speaker 1: there's all this stuff about reboots and people want to
Speaker 1: bring back these sort of you know, very popular franchises
Speaker 1: from before, and the movie does some things around. Well,
Speaker 1: let me be completely honest, they do a lot of
Speaker 1: ship around the old movie. It's almost like they had
Speaker 1: an intern right down every catchphrase that has caught off
Speaker 1: in the past thirty years and just like through darts
Speaker 1: at a board to figure out where it could go
Speaker 1: into the movie. Off the top of my mind, do
Speaker 1: we get in the face, uh, something like that chocolate yes,
Speaker 1: sexual chocolate days. Yeah, that's literally is there a yes?
Speaker 1: I mean I think the fact that a large part
Speaker 1: of the premises based on date rape, uh rather casually,
Speaker 1: So I should mention what is a is a harbinger
Speaker 1: for just how off tone the rest of the movie
Speaker 1: kind of is. It's it's star studded cast. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, what's what's the snipes? Tiana Taylor, anybody great cast?
Speaker 1: Horrible plot? Kenya Burrows wrote it, So it's coming to America,
Speaker 1: ish right, that's what it. Part of me like was really, look,
Speaker 1: I knew it came out, but part of me was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch it and it not hit
Speaker 1: the same and me just ruined my weekend. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna hit the same. I don't care how many edibles
Speaker 1: you take, how many joys you smoke, it's not going
Speaker 1: to hit the same because the first I say that
Speaker 1: from personal experience, but it's just not going to hit
Speaker 1: the same. There are there are laughs, though I've heard
Speaker 1: there are laughs like that. I mean, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a comedy, so ostensibly there are laughs, but actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: is this okay? But is there are there other talking
Speaker 1: a wrong? There's some people that saw it that loved it.
Speaker 1: I mean, suspend disbelief and plot holes and flimsy characterization
Speaker 1: it's probably a very funny movie. I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: have to go into it like thinking about it. But
Speaker 1: it's also just not that good, right. I mean, the
Speaker 1: original was r This is a PG. Thirteen, so that
Speaker 1: kind of gives you a bit of a sense of
Speaker 1: how toned down some things are. It's just not that good.
Speaker 1: I mean I saw like a clip, yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: a clip that they put on a social like the
Speaker 1: barber shop and seeing all those characters come back, and
Speaker 1: my first thought was like, yeah, they're still alive, and
Speaker 1: also they didn't age because their old. But then you
Speaker 1: look at looking Semi and the chem and you're like,
Speaker 1: motherfucker's got right, and the barbers are the same age,
Speaker 1: they're still at the same shop. Like gentrification hasn't wiped
Speaker 1: all of that. It's He's like, my Browns don't. And
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I get it, get some gentrification
Speaker 1: hum were in there, but it's it's not It's not good.
Speaker 1: Is Kenn Barris from New York Because it's a very
Speaker 1: New York movie. I don't know the first one at
Speaker 1: least it was like a very l a I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, man, but they bring back pretty
Speaker 1: much every character except for Lisa's sister and Samuel L. Jackson.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I think every other character from the
Speaker 1: movie is probably in there. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think the deadbeat landlord isn't. No, he's not in it.
Speaker 1: But no, no, Eric Wassal is not in Okay, and
Speaker 1: he made some interview about why he was not going
Speaker 1: to be a part of it or whatever. But it's
Speaker 1: probably for the best given how bad the movie is,
Speaker 1: right right, right, Yeah, I mean Darryl was like, you know,
Speaker 1: the iconic bad guy, you know, with his soul glow
Speaker 1: and he's getting his Jerry Crawl juice all over the couch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those those kinds of jokes do not exist in this movie, right,
Speaker 1: because those are like super on point that so you're
Speaker 1: saying it kind of just got overly broad or something
Speaker 1: like you just say, they introduced a lot of new characters.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of it was filmed I think
Speaker 1: in Rick Ross's mansion. Um is that like a joke.
Speaker 1: It's not a joke, it's not a it's like the
Speaker 1: literal musician rapper Rick Ross in his mansion, like whoa
Speaker 1: because of like COVID things. No, this was this movie
Speaker 1: was supposed to come out in they've sat on it
Speaker 1: for like a whole year. Wow. Man, that that is
Speaker 1: a real bummer to me that Frankie Faisan doesn't come
Speaker 1: back as the deadbeat landlord because real like people who
Speaker 1: really like coming to America, Like those are some of
Speaker 1: those are some of my favorite lines where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a real ship, you love it. And and the
Speaker 1: reason that I the reason I'm saying it's overrated because
Speaker 1: like I see a lot of promotion around and I'm
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of interviews around it, I'm not seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of good I mean Twitter people on Twitter like,
Speaker 1: oh this is hilarious. It's not a good movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it seems like everything when you even just
Speaker 1: search review like it's universally it's like either tepid or
Speaker 1: they're slamming it. So yeah, lots of musical performances for
Speaker 1: some reason, which are not really I mean, there are
Speaker 1: musical performances in the first movie, of course, you know
Speaker 1: she's your pen to be all that, you know, soul
Speaker 1: glow theme, of course, but like Gladys Night does a
Speaker 1: rendition of Midnight Train to Zamunda. That's like why description.
Speaker 1: That's the second detail in a row that I'm like,
Speaker 1: why is he making ship up slander? This is all
Speaker 1: made up? And and the thing is like the of course,
Speaker 1: like the Queen to Be song that I think, like
Speaker 1: the Chancellor, one of the consorts sing is in the credits.
Speaker 1: It's not even in the actual movie. It's in the credits,
Speaker 1: sung by John Legends pretty well, but it's in the credits. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just not I think it's one of the things too,
Speaker 1: like are we like, because we we're so close to
Speaker 1: the original thing too, where do you think it will
Speaker 1: invite a new audience? Because I know it's I feel
Speaker 1: like it sounds like how I would feel like when
Speaker 1: the Star Wars prequels came on, like they didn't need
Speaker 1: to funk with it, like that they has something going.
Speaker 1: But I just think the comedy was perhaps edgier. I
Speaker 1: think that's true of a lot of comedy, Like when
Speaker 1: you go back and watch some of the like True
Speaker 1: Lies is one that like when you when you go
Speaker 1: back and watch that, like there's no way they have
Speaker 1: that build built back in character saying asked like a
Speaker 1: ten year old boy, like in a modern movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the get yeah, it's the nineties, man, because it
Speaker 1: was basically we turned up the eighties even hotter, but
Speaker 1: like did it was some like nice sheen and CT effects. Basically, yeah,
Speaker 1: it felt like there was more sort of picking at
Speaker 1: black culture. I think a little bit because the dichotomy
Speaker 1: that's set up in Coming to America is like rich
Speaker 1: affluent Africans meet regular people from New York and it's
Speaker 1: coming to America, coming to America. That's another reason why
Speaker 1: it's bad. Um sort of does this like weird Connecticut
Speaker 1: Yankee and King Arthur's Court kind of thing with with
Speaker 1: a Keem's bastard son. I mean, I'm ruining the plot
Speaker 1: a little bit, but like it's not good. It's just
Speaker 1: not good. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back, and we're back. What is What's something
Speaker 1: you think is underrated? Getting out of bed before four pm?
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, I think I feel like
Speaker 1: just people should try it. I've been doing this thing
Speaker 1: where I I opened my eyes. I wake up at
Speaker 1: nine thirty every day probably beautiful. I'm not out of
Speaker 1: bed until until four thirties. Sometimes I just stare at
Speaker 1: the ceiling, look at my phone and then um, and
Speaker 1: then and that's my whole day. I start my day.
Speaker 1: This is the earliest I've been out of bed, and
Speaker 1: and we're honored that you would do that for us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I almost canceled because like it's getting a
Speaker 1: little bit before four would be right there, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what time you go to sleep? Let me see I
Speaker 1: wake up at nine, so eight. Yeah, it's really sleeping
Speaker 1: from eight to four. I wouldn't call it sleep. It's
Speaker 1: more like I ruminate. It's a deep state of rumination
Speaker 1: from eight to four infects essential dread, looking directly and ceiling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, just pondering and pondering is a good word
Speaker 1: for it. Postulating, right right, Um, yeah, sleep is not sleep.
Speaker 1: Is the least of my worries. It's yeah, thank your
Speaker 1: pick at the moment. Yeah, I was just in in
Speaker 1: researching this daylight savings article. Like one of the arguments
Speaker 1: against changing it is that kids will have to go
Speaker 1: to school in the in the dark if we don't
Speaker 1: like do the daylight savings thing. Okay, well, if you're
Speaker 1: familiar with the American education system, you know these kids
Speaker 1: are already in the dark. Based on our history books.
Speaker 1: Everyone has been in the dark filmy. Sometimes you gotta
Speaker 1: open your third eye. Children. That's also a made up
Speaker 1: problem because kids shouldn't have to go to school at
Speaker 1: like six in the morning every morning, like they should
Speaker 1: like doctors say, they should be going to school late,
Speaker 1: like lemane. Yeah, it's like how far are we going
Speaker 1: to go to the that we we have to shelter
Speaker 1: kids from the concept of nighttime, Like yeah, okay, you
Speaker 1: can see the sun when it's down, but it's got
Speaker 1: to be at six in the morning. You gotta you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta slowly intry use kids to it, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got to know it's coming out in a in
Speaker 1: a half hour or so. Oh man, I mean, hey,
Speaker 1: we made it with daylight savings. We were fucked about
Speaker 1: by this unpredictable timeline that we call our time system
Speaker 1: or whatever this is. But the time system yet yeah,
Speaker 1: the time system. Yeah. But yeah, just like what they
Speaker 1: said was the other thing we always because we've brought
Speaker 1: this up on the show before, like there's more car accidents,
Speaker 1: people getting just it's just it's just doesn't help anybody,
Speaker 1: Like there's physical ramifications that play out statistically when you
Speaker 1: do this ship. Yeah, we're adaptable. We'll we'll figure it
Speaker 1: out if it's happening slowly over the course of time.
Speaker 1: But why why like just throw a curveball at us
Speaker 1: in the middle of the year. Yeah. Also, we're not
Speaker 1: all farmers. We're not We're like mostly not farmers. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's yeah. Like statistically, statistically, if you look at the numbers,
Speaker 1: a number of people who are not farmers, pretty there's
Speaker 1: so many of them, most of them these days, so
Speaker 1: many people not and you hate to see it. You
Speaker 1: hate to see it. We're losing God and farm You know,
Speaker 1: people talk about white people is the majority all the time,
Speaker 1: but you know, if you look at the numbers, it's
Speaker 1: really people from farming out farming, non farmers. Kenny, what
Speaker 1: is something you think is overrated? I feel like the
Speaker 1: impact of Twitter. That's something I've learned. Like things keep
Speaker 1: happening on Twitter and I'm like, oh my god, and
Speaker 1: then I'll talk to someone that's not on there and
Speaker 1: they're like, what are you talking about? No one knows.
Speaker 1: I went on the road last fall and I was like,
Speaker 1: I had all these jokes about stuff on Twitter, and
Speaker 1: people in Ohio we're looking at me like I was
Speaker 1: from a different planet. They were like, we don't we
Speaker 1: watched the local news. What is this. Mr potato heads
Speaker 1: has a gender? What are you talking about? You know,
Speaker 1: you know when no one cares about people on Twitter
Speaker 1: talking about and so um and like this whole thing
Speaker 1: is to be like cancel culture. It's like, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: canceled on Twitter to like two thousand people that don't
Speaker 1: leave their house. No one cares. Everyone's fine, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting to see that the difference of like how
Speaker 1: people look at the things that are happening on Twitter
Speaker 1: as it relates to like outside I r L reality
Speaker 1: and the stark contrast in it is really something. I
Speaker 1: think it really you think it's really good to like
Speaker 1: embrace the fact how overrated is in the context of
Speaker 1: if you have like social media induced anxiety, Like if
Speaker 1: you're on Twitter and you you start being like, oh shoot,
Speaker 1: I'm doom scrolling. I think the world's wanted get off
Speaker 1: that ship for a second and remind yourself you live
Speaker 1: in the real world and go talk to people like
Speaker 1: in your community, Like that's that's the realist ship to Twitter,
Speaker 1: you have, like because those are people you will rely
Speaker 1: on at some point, not fucking avatars who are like, right, well,
Speaker 1: that's like another thing I learned that tour I was
Speaker 1: in the middle of the country and if you like
Speaker 1: read Twitter, everyone in the middle of the country is
Speaker 1: a racist idiot and you like go out thinking that
Speaker 1: and then you do shows and people are like thanks
Speaker 1: for talking about that stuff or I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: just like it's not as stark, it's not as black
Speaker 1: and Twitter makes life. Yeah, it definitely helps contribute to
Speaker 1: that cruel world syndrome that people can get and I
Speaker 1: think especially when in a year like the last one
Speaker 1: we've had where we've unfortunately not had the ability to
Speaker 1: go out into physical space that much and connect with
Speaker 1: people on that level. Yeah, that's that's a good point
Speaker 1: of too. Why the trauma of this year is like
Speaker 1: part of it is induced by the media we consume,
Speaker 1: whether that's broadcast media or social media. Yeah. I feel
Speaker 1: like Twitter's uh use right now is to like bubble
Speaker 1: up stories that then the mainstream media might find useful.
Speaker 1: Like the Dr Seuss thing, uh that we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about later would have in any you know, ordinary universe,
Speaker 1: been a story that just existed on Twitter. But because
Speaker 1: the Fox News kind of ecosphere needed a story to
Speaker 1: focus on and drown out another story they didn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about. It became like a thing that I
Speaker 1: feel everybody's heard about, right, and I think yeah. To
Speaker 1: your point though, to Jack of like surfacing stories, it's
Speaker 1: like depending on the ideological bend of something, It's like
Speaker 1: it's basically ground zero for the culture wars. Like all
Speaker 1: the culture war stories are mostly extracted from Twitter on
Speaker 1: some level, like aside from like policy things, but there
Speaker 1: are a lot of things that are coming out of
Speaker 1: discourse on Twitter that then evolved into some larger culture
Speaker 1: war point. And then you have doctor Stuits that's gotten canceled,
Speaker 1: and it's like because one person pointed out some shit
Speaker 1: about it earlier and that tweet blew up and that
Speaker 1: that that that that, so there drowns out the good part,
Speaker 1: like because also there's been some great things. Like to
Speaker 1: your point about bubbling stories, I don't think police brutality
Speaker 1: gets the traction that it has gotten without social media,
Speaker 1: without Twitter, without real time. But then everybody wants to
Speaker 1: be involved, and so people start bubbling up their story
Speaker 1: and it's like, not, now, let's can we focus on
Speaker 1: Can I focus on this I don't need to know.
Speaker 1: I don't need to talk about dr suits. Yeah, last night,
Speaker 1: as we all hopefully know by now to I guess, uh,
Speaker 1: Saturday night, Sunday morning, the clocks uh sprung forward. We
Speaker 1: lost now asleep, so it means the sun will be
Speaker 1: setting later, it'll be rising later. But that's okay because
Speaker 1: the days are going to get longer. There's some momentum
Speaker 1: happening in Washington for legislation to basically never do basically
Speaker 1: never fall back to standard time like what. So basically
Speaker 1: the way the schedule works, there's four months out of
Speaker 1: the year where we are on standard time. The rest
Speaker 1: of the year we're on daylight savings time. So we're
Speaker 1: currently on daylight savings time right now, and that is
Speaker 1: the time that is basically made the most sense for
Speaker 1: the modern world. And the idea would basically be to
Speaker 1: get rid of standard time, which I guess would just
Speaker 1: mean making daily saving time standard time. But the point
Speaker 1: is we only use standard time for four months out
Speaker 1: of the year anyways, not that many people really use it.
Speaker 1: It's actually counterproductive. I guess, let's to allow farmers to
Speaker 1: wake up earlier. See this big farmer agenda again, we
Speaker 1: already give them the upper house of our fucking legislature,
Speaker 1: Like why do we need to but yeah, like why
Speaker 1: is it called standard? Yeah? See that's what's sucking people up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also like hearing it be like, you know, nobody even
Speaker 1: fucking uses standard time. It's like that conceptually, it's just
Speaker 1: so weird to even think about, Like, no, I don't
Speaker 1: use that time like for a month, time for four months,
Speaker 1: You're just like floating through a like a formless fourth dimension.
Speaker 1: I don't funk with standard time. Yeah, I'm not really
Speaker 1: on a schedule, bro. You know, it's like I spend
Speaker 1: all four months on po Mr burns. He's blowing and
Speaker 1: don't be afraid. So they first introduced daylight savings time
Speaker 1: in World War One and then brought it back during
Speaker 1: World War Two, and it was to save fuel. And
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, we it's not like we're living
Speaker 1: through an existential disaster right now. That would be nice
Speaker 1: to save energy and stop like stop burning as much fuel. Now,
Speaker 1: it's like, let's just go back to that ship like
Speaker 1: I mean we are, but more long term. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, Like that's what we need to do.
Speaker 1: We need to like this would say it so it
Speaker 1: would save energy. One of the one of the big
Speaker 1: reasons that people point out for like let's keep doing
Speaker 1: doing it the way we've been doing it is that
Speaker 1: kids would have to go to school in the dark,
Speaker 1: and like that can be dangerous. Just make kids go
Speaker 1: to school later, Like what that? That's another thing that
Speaker 1: has been studied by science, and it's like, yo, this
Speaker 1: is this would be much better. They did a study
Speaker 1: where they moved the kids starting minutes and they were
Speaker 1: like healthier, happier, better at school, Like what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Also stopped sheltering your kids so much they were going
Speaker 1: to have to experience nighttime at some point. Maybe it'll
Speaker 1: be good for them to go to school before the
Speaker 1: cops wake up. You know, it could be in and
Speaker 1: out before all the srrows get there. I mean, what
Speaker 1: the fund is the Okay, I get it is. I
Speaker 1: guess it's so dark or whatever. But it's the more
Speaker 1: you started saying all these arguments about going against why
Speaker 1: we still keep it, I'm like, yeah, what what really
Speaker 1: was the point of it all? And like with school, yeah,
Speaker 1: it absolutely should start later, regardless of the daylight savings.
Speaker 1: Because I ask any teacher ask any person who had
Speaker 1: been in high school, junior high, I could never fucking
Speaker 1: stay awake because I'm like already even going through adolescents,
Speaker 1: my bodies doing all kinds of crazy shit. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to grow, and top of that, I'm like I can barely,
Speaker 1: Like I would need nine hours of sleep so to
Speaker 1: wake up like a sixth story to try and make
Speaker 1: class that that I'm already walking in like ship, yeah kids,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. I pulled the study about waking up later
Speaker 1: from a study that had nothing to do with daylight
Speaker 1: savings time. It was just about, like the American Academy
Speaker 1: of Pediatrics is just like, you know, we need to
Speaker 1: start sending kids to school later. We are making them
Speaker 1: sick by like waking them up this early. So that's
Speaker 1: just a benefit. Let him stare at the ceiling until
Speaker 1: four pm. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thought leader
Speaker 1: on sleep science. But like, wait, because what are they
Speaker 1: saying the standards should be for a school, like for
Speaker 1: school to start? Uh? They did forty five minutes later.
Speaker 1: So they just studied like a shift from UH in
Speaker 1: one school district and moved it back forty five minutes
Speaker 1: and saw improved sleep reductions and tardiness, dramatic improved mints
Speaker 1: to behavior problems, like dramatic improvements to behavior problems. And
Speaker 1: so they issued a recommendation that no school start earlier
Speaker 1: than eight thirty, no middle or high school, because that's
Speaker 1: when like people start getting weird. Yeah, yeah, things, things
Speaker 1: start getting a little weird. Although I don't know why,
Speaker 1: Like why send kids so early in the first place,
Speaker 1: is just because like parents, I guess, go to work
Speaker 1: so early, and so they need to drop their kids off.
Speaker 1: Just let parents come to work a little bit later,
Speaker 1: you assholes, Like what the fun or fucking work less?
Speaker 1: How about that we've all found out people don't need
Speaker 1: to be working all these hours they work. But look
Speaker 1: now we're describing some fucking comi utopia now, and like,
Speaker 1: get your head out, jack, because that ain't never happening here.
Speaker 1: This comy utopia is being forwarded by uh, super progressive
Speaker 1: left winger Marco Rubio. But he's driving a lot of that.
Speaker 1: I think he's just like, maybe we should just let
Speaker 1: loves only work on ship that like doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: and is de politicized maybe as good ideas on on
Speaker 1: other ship. But he's always been on this you're right, right, well,
Speaker 1: because can you imagine though, just because Marco Rubio is like,
Speaker 1: now you got like Chuck Schumer being like, oh this
Speaker 1: is this is racism. I think they've I think they've
Speaker 1: got like a bipartisan commission. Fortunately, yeah, thank god. I
Speaker 1: mean this just feels like because everything is so partisan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I cannot wait for all the for all the liberals
Speaker 1: to be like, you know, black people would thrive more
Speaker 1: in in standard time, yeah they're black? Like what what
Speaker 1: you noticed? Productivity and African Americans rises for four months
Speaker 1: a year. What do you think that comes from? Uh?
Speaker 1: Not thanks coach Sabant over here. But like, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: my fun high school started at seven. I was walking
Speaker 1: into that dead yeah shit, yeah, I had totally forgotten
Speaker 1: how early school was until I had kids, and then
Speaker 1: I was like, what the funk? Like they even go late,
Speaker 1: like they get there at eight thirty, but like that's
Speaker 1: still like fucking early. And then they get out at
Speaker 1: like the kids in the upper school get out of
Speaker 1: like to thirty or like three o'clock. It's like, why
Speaker 1: are we doing? Why did we just shift everything way
Speaker 1: the funk forward? Like you know what though, it's because
Speaker 1: of way it's set up though, though, is like that
Speaker 1: allows us in our like puberty adolescent teen years to
Speaker 1: really funk up and make mistakes without because life bigan
Speaker 1: for me at two pm. That's where I was. That's
Speaker 1: where my education funck is started for But that's probably
Speaker 1: also why like sports, like sports is another big argument
Speaker 1: for why we need because like kids would have to
Speaker 1: like it wastes energy to have to light a football
Speaker 1: field for practice or whatever, so kids would have to
Speaker 1: leave school a little bit early to play sports. But
Speaker 1: like that, it's just like, first of all, kids don't
Speaker 1: need to play sports if they're getting out in there,
Speaker 1: Like family is already off of work when they're getting
Speaker 1: out of school. So like, yeah, I don't know. Also,
Speaker 1: maybe uh, spend that money on things that enrich kids
Speaker 1: lives as opposed to like the other ship you're spending
Speaker 1: money on. You know, maybe lighting a football field is
Speaker 1: a little bit more beneficial to that kid's life than
Speaker 1: uh than fucking having the cops at the school, you know,
Speaker 1: or like food or food or food, Like, there's an
Speaker 1: amount of poverty that's being experienced by students too. It's
Speaker 1: like but I I just in general, like I know
Speaker 1: so many people who and I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was because of the pandemic, but this this year, when
Speaker 1: daylight saving or I guess standard time hit, it just
Speaker 1: seemed like the sun was going down at fucking noon,
Speaker 1: like it was just going down so early this winter.
Speaker 1: I think just because everybody was kind of an oblique mood,
Speaker 1: it just like, uh piled on. But fuck yeah, I
Speaker 1: think time was just moving different. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if time got
Speaker 1: like a big check. Time was just acting different. Time
Speaker 1: is definitely hitting different right now. Time was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a new whip, I got a new baby, mama,
Speaker 1: I got all the time, Like damn, time slowed down, Like, bro,
Speaker 1: why are you? Why are you acting different? Man? You
Speaker 1: know me, it's me just cashed out my whole daylight savings,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. There there's a BuzzFeed quiz
Speaker 1: uh that claims with a lot of confidence that they're
Speaker 1: going to tell you how old you are based on
Speaker 1: your food preferences. Just picking sixty fucking items off a list.
Speaker 1: They're saying, we'll fucking will zero in on your asp
Speaker 1: No one, if you like just pick and just click
Speaker 1: what you like off the sixty itemn you motherfucker, and
Speaker 1: will know what carbon nature as, will cut you a
Speaker 1: half and count the rings. So I just want to
Speaker 1: first allowed people to know what's on this list, because
Speaker 1: it's interesting the way they're trying to triangulate things. The
Speaker 1: first thirty are definitely like young people dishes asai e bowls,
Speaker 1: avocado toast, impossible, burger chrone, nut, kombucha, charcoal ice cream, Okay,
Speaker 1: find Zoodle's cold press juice, you get it. And then
Speaker 1: the next list is more like, okay, let's see how
Speaker 1: how old you are with it, ambrosia meat loaf, fig rolls,
Speaker 1: butter pecan ice cream, which I was like, well, hold on,
Speaker 1: don't act like there's an age too. Butter that that
Speaker 1: ship is, Yeah, what the cold slab, potato salad, fruitcake, liquorice, jello, oatmeal,
Speaker 1: raisin brand ship like that. So I went through, I
Speaker 1: clicked what I like, and I will report that with
Speaker 1: near I will be thirty seven this year. It said
Speaker 1: I I am thirty eight years old, and it got
Speaker 1: me within two years. I said I was thirty eight
Speaker 1: and I'm forty so and I got me with him four,
Speaker 1: I said I was thirty eight. I'm thirty four, but
Speaker 1: I'm an old soul. See damn we're so we're all
Speaker 1: we all plucked in at thirty eight. Yeah. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: just what. Maybe it's just like this. Our average readership
Speaker 1: is thirty eight years old. Just tell everybody there thirty eight.
Speaker 1: I just did a I just did an experiment where
Speaker 1: I picked none on the first screen and picked like
Speaker 1: the ones that I chose from the second screen. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it said I was fifty ah and the wording
Speaker 1: we were close, weren't we? If not, there's probably a
Speaker 1: food or two you checked off that you don't actually
Speaker 1: like what alright? I guess like there was a couple
Speaker 1: of like a clear trap. It was like jello molds,
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, you're just trying to hard hard candies,
Speaker 1: Like come on, that's that's you know what. They almost
Speaker 1: caught me though, because I was thinking, because I like,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, what kind you know, like jolly ranchers,
Speaker 1: I like fucking blow pops. But they made it look
Speaker 1: like the Grandma Grandpa Indie dish that never that you
Speaker 1: were always disappointed. You pull the candy out of as
Speaker 1: a kid, and the jello is actually just jello. It's
Speaker 1: not jello molds, but they do use a picture that
Speaker 1: looks like the old ask jello molds from like a
Speaker 1: seventies cookbook. Pretzels is an old person food. Nah, I
Speaker 1: mean pretzels, I think is it's timeless, timeless they're times. Yes,
Speaker 1: grapefruit juices in the old person category. I'm assuming because
Speaker 1: it's with all the it's with like tapioca pudding. Pudding
Speaker 1: is like, that's that's what they served the people whose
Speaker 1: whose teeth have failed them clicked, I clicked it. I
Speaker 1: like tapioca, but I love it so good. Well, all right,
Speaker 1: so maybe you did right. Yeah, y'all take the quiz
Speaker 1: to let us know how accurate is. Yeah, I'm curious
Speaker 1: if like, I'm wonder if you know. I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: some data nerd there who knows that there's probably ones
Speaker 1: that are really loaded, you know what I mean, that
Speaker 1: will swing the age at certain points. So do some sleuthing.
Speaker 1: I'll get back to us. Yeah, meat Loaf definitely pulled
Speaker 1: me up like five years because I checked the ship
Speaker 1: out of meat Loaf. Yeah, but definitely like, oh, so
Speaker 1: you're seventy we thought you were. But there's like so
Speaker 1: many like new spins on meat loaf out there, like
Speaker 1: in the on the blah, you know, the food bugs
Speaker 1: that I could see that being popular. One whole milk
Speaker 1: makes me old still then you know, call me Moses.
Speaker 1: Dairy makes you old jack any dairy? Come on, that's
Speaker 1: the older I get, the less dare I can take.
Speaker 1: So um damn take that. Take that. Let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back and we're back. What
Speaker 1: is what's something that you think is underrated? Oh uh?
Speaker 1: One thing that is underrated is buying door to door truros.
Speaker 1: This is I first experienced with there. This ended up
Speaker 1: being a bizarre situation. But like my landlord was having
Speaker 1: some stuff dropped off at our apartment and was like, hey,
Speaker 1: someone's going to be dropping off some stuff. And I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, no problem. And then the guy got
Speaker 1: there and he was just like he dropped off it
Speaker 1: was like cleaning something. I don't know, it was some
Speaker 1: landlord ship. And then the guy was like, by the way,
Speaker 1: do you guys want turros? And I was like, what
Speaker 1: do you mean? And and and then we were like
Speaker 1: talking to him for ten minutes about his churro business,
Speaker 1: and he was like, you know, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: to gluten free. I'm not quite a gluten free, but
Speaker 1: I am at dairy free, and like he just and
Speaker 1: then he was like, I could come back in twenty
Speaker 1: minutes with like a shipload of turos. And we were
Speaker 1: like okay. And then so if you live in l
Speaker 1: A and you want these turos, I'll plug him. It's
Speaker 1: at hippie turros and at hippie churros they're not gluten
Speaker 1: free yet, but they are dairy free. And there I've
Speaker 1: been lunching on them for a whole day, and it
Speaker 1: was it was not how I expected that delivery from
Speaker 1: my landlord to go, but I was. It was the
Speaker 1: first human interaction I've had in several days, and it
Speaker 1: went so well because it because then I got a
Speaker 1: bunch of delicious, reasonably prized truro's straight to my door.
Speaker 1: Sounds like like a scene from how To with John Wilson.
Speaker 1: And then my landlord had someone drop stuff off and
Speaker 1: we talked and it turns out he wanted to talk
Speaker 1: a lot about so they're pretty good. And then you
Speaker 1: guys like, yeah, I got him to almost they're not
Speaker 1: gluten free, but they're dairy free. That was the fourth
Speaker 1: time he said that in the in ten minutes. If
Speaker 1: it had been I mean, it's like because it's like
Speaker 1: I do have time. If it were safe, it would
Speaker 1: have been fun to invite him in and be like,
Speaker 1: what's your story now? Because he was wearing like sunglasses
Speaker 1: that were the shape of stars and they had yellow lenses,
Speaker 1: and I was like this, this guy's a business man,
Speaker 1: he's dealing. Guy's wearing a heart star shaped sunglasses. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I better take this guy seriously. And um, I I
Speaker 1: can vouch for the turos. They're delicious, loving them and
Speaker 1: what what kind of cut are you getting off of
Speaker 1: these turo recognitions that I'm just I just love a
Speaker 1: local business and I love an assertive person showing up.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would not have gotten to that
Speaker 1: point in the conversation, So I really I want to
Speaker 1: figure out how to like have that John Wilson Jamie
Speaker 1: loftus like finding out what's interesting about people. I would
Speaker 1: I would just I would just be It's not that
Speaker 1: I'm not like mean, I'm just like so avoid and
Speaker 1: like shut off that I would never be able to
Speaker 1: get to the point of him offering to sell me turrows.
Speaker 1: I think you just got to say yes to life.
Speaker 1: The man shows up in the star shaped sunglasses, you
Speaker 1: say tell me more, say less? Yeah, that man, And
Speaker 1: now I'm like, does my landlord know him? Is it
Speaker 1: like I don't I wasn't clear on like that. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's like yeah, but my contacted her and
Speaker 1: she was just like, oh uh, you didn't eat those turros.
Speaker 1: That's It's like the ring. It's that seven days to
Speaker 1: lift ship at Hippie Turo. If you want some delicious
Speaker 1: groovy turros, that's how they advertise themselves, delicious groovy turros.
Speaker 1: You're plugging is so hard. I feel like what you
Speaker 1: did was take a first bite in front of him
Speaker 1: that you didn't like, and you're like, oh, why these
Speaker 1: are good? Oh I'm going on a podcast tomorrow actually,
Speaker 1: where I'm gonna tell people about it. How much you
Speaker 1: know I swear star Star It's okay, brou bro Alright,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeite, guys,
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