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Speaker 1: what is something you think is overrated? Dai? Um, I
Speaker 1: think that sleeping in the same bed as your romantic
Speaker 1: partner is overrated. UM. I say this because, um, I
Speaker 1: told my partner, like right pretty early into our relationship
Speaker 1: that this is what I require that we have, like
Speaker 1: separate bed, separate rooms. Um. And I know sometimes people
Speaker 1: wind up in that situation like after they've had a
Speaker 1: fight or their relationship is starting to dissolve or whatever,
Speaker 1: but I was like, I want this from the start.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why, like being in love means you
Speaker 1: lose your bed. That's I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: just like I'm a life sleeper or I'm an only child,
Speaker 1: but I'm just like, I think everyone else is weird,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I know our situation is unusual compared
Speaker 1: to everyone else, but I'm like, no, why are you
Speaker 1: doing this? Like for you? You do you just don't
Speaker 1: want to see you bet I don't want to share.
Speaker 1: I just I'm like, sleeping time is for me. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I have like I was when I was
Speaker 1: still living alone, I got a queen bed because that's
Speaker 1: how much space I want. Like I'm gonna be outstretched
Speaker 1: in like a star shape in the center of my
Speaker 1: back and yeah, just happy because I'm a queen. I
Speaker 1: just don't think that that should be taken away from me.
Speaker 1: I don't like, I don't know if under if do
Speaker 1: people understand like sex doesn't have to be it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to happen to sleep. Yeah, Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: why these things are combined. Yeah, there's like there's something culturally.
Speaker 1: I think we saw like grandparents do that with like
Speaker 1: the separate beds, and like I remember they're being like
Speaker 1: black and white TV shows where you would see it
Speaker 1: and people are just like, well that's for prudes. Let's
Speaker 1: sen moving to the Brady Bunch era from that. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want my own room, not just my
Speaker 1: own bed, like my space just to be me. And
Speaker 1: I definitely have read like research that says that that
Speaker 1: is like a more progressive or like a great way
Speaker 1: to um, you know, keep a relationship healthy. And like
Speaker 1: if you're saying Delia, like, if you are a light sleeper,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that will get you more off of your
Speaker 1: ship than like not sleeping restfully that you'll carry into
Speaker 1: the next day. Because like at my house, my partner,
Speaker 1: her majesty, she likes to have all the fucking pets
Speaker 1: on the bed, so I sleep in these contorted positions
Speaker 1: where pets occupy the negative spaces that I am not,
Speaker 1: and sometimes like but then I in my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to disrupt the little cat right now,
Speaker 1: so I don't want to move my arm, And then
Speaker 1: I'm like sucking myself over. If I had my own bed,
Speaker 1: wouldn't happen sort of, it might become I'm a real pioneer. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: for real. That's yeah. That's like there's all sorts of
Speaker 1: like whack things that are like really good for relationships,
Speaker 1: like seemingly whack, like scheduling, like intimacy being like all right,
Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, eight o'clock time for like weekly cuddle sessh
Speaker 1: or whatever and meantime um, and yeah that this is
Speaker 1: definitely a good one. I've I've been struggling with similar thing,
Speaker 1: but with kids Uh, my wife likes to have like
Speaker 1: doesn't mind when the kids come into our room in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night and comes snuggle, and then
Speaker 1: I just get kicked to the fucking curve. I just
Speaker 1: think there's something to be like, we love each other
Speaker 1: and I want to keep loving him, and I think
Speaker 1: there's something to be said for just kind of like
Speaker 1: maintaining a relationship with yourself while you're in a relationship.
Speaker 1: Credit to you for knowing what your needs are and
Speaker 1: communicating them up front clearly from the beginning, which is
Speaker 1: what most people do not do, and then they end
Speaker 1: up being resentful and like, why did you break up?
Speaker 1: It's like I should have just said we needed separate
Speaker 1: beds from the jump. Yeah, I couldn't sleep, right, I
Speaker 1: just I just realized it sounds like I'm just alone
Speaker 1: in my room jerking off all day. But that's not
Speaker 1: what I meant. Nothing nothing. Where's that USB charger the
Speaker 1: one that for that package that came that had the
Speaker 1: very vague label on it? Are you like an affectionate person? Though? Like?
Speaker 1: Are you? That doesn't mean because I think a natural
Speaker 1: conclusion be like separate beds, like no touching, No I
Speaker 1: am I like cuddling. I'm a cuddler, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's a time and a place and it's not when
Speaker 1: I'm sleeping. Like get your arm away from me? Is
Speaker 1: something you think is underrated? Looking like Ship is underrated?
Speaker 1: Like what's up with like on Instagram? Like all these
Speaker 1: things to make you look better and stuff like I
Speaker 1: had a week last week of looking like Ship and
Speaker 1: I was so fucking happy and giggly, and it was
Speaker 1: like looking like today I have. I just got this
Speaker 1: haircut which is kind of a mullet, which is cool
Speaker 1: when I like, you know, it looks good. But if
Speaker 1: I don't put product and stuff, it justs straight up.
Speaker 1: I look like Eileen Warns type, you know, like, oh man,
Speaker 1: please she Charlie s there and played her. She looks
Speaker 1: a disaster, give me the warn Yeah. I looked like
Speaker 1: that for an entire week. And that was my giggly week.
Speaker 1: And my husband was like, yeah, you know you don't
Speaker 1: like you're not trying, but but you're happy. Can't look
Speaker 1: at you. But but it was great. It was my
Speaker 1: favorite week in a long time. Yeah, it's empowering. That's
Speaker 1: why I think. Yeah, I mean, i feel like I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that there's something about fashion that changes as a
Speaker 1: result of us like taking you know, a year plus
Speaker 1: of not having to dress to impress that. Like if
Speaker 1: there's another like a movement that comes out of it
Speaker 1: called like shit wave, Like I mean that's what norm
Speaker 1: core is, isn't it. Like that's when I went to Berlin.
Speaker 1: It was like people try to look like ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but now I think it's gonna be like it's more
Speaker 1: it's like jazz baby, Like there's no rhyme or reason
Speaker 1: to it. Like you got to come out just feel
Speaker 1: playing your own first. Yeah, just out with a comforter
Speaker 1: around exactly. Yeah, just wrapped around your head, or like
Speaker 1: if it's raining, you were one of those translucent like
Speaker 1: bags your sheet sets come in just on top of
Speaker 1: your head, like umbrella. You're like, oh man, look at
Speaker 1: that ship wave umbrella. You got ah. I love you guys.
Speaker 1: I mean are people Are people going to be wearing
Speaker 1: like uncomfortable clothes again, I can't imagine like wearing a
Speaker 1: like I mean, I guess there's still people who are
Speaker 1: wearing suits to work and ship right now, which is insane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who wears I don't know, I mean, is there I
Speaker 1: mean personally, is there anything that you've looked at your
Speaker 1: own clothing said, you know what now that through this pandemic,
Speaker 1: I'm never wearing that again. I don't think I have
Speaker 1: I dressed so I dressed so comfortably. In general, it's
Speaker 1: more like I'm only going to wear like these three
Speaker 1: hoodies now forever, not the scratchy hoodie exactly. Not long ago,
Speaker 1: it was my sister's birthday, and I don't know what
Speaker 1: happened to me, but I bought her this like vinyl
Speaker 1: dress and she opened it. I saw it in her
Speaker 1: face and I said, why the fund did I buy?
Speaker 1: We just all started. I was like, you're never gonna
Speaker 1: wear that? And she was like never, like late text
Speaker 1: and the worst I also thought her to wear with
Speaker 1: the late text dress this like heavy gold chain. You
Speaker 1: just have a very specific vision for your sister that
Speaker 1: she hasn't quite realized for herself yet. But like I
Speaker 1: feel that like when you're giving a gift, Like it's
Speaker 1: like watching a movie that you recommended with someone you
Speaker 1: can't fully appreciate, Like like you you start feeling like
Speaker 1: insecure about it, and like that's when you really have
Speaker 1: an idea of it, Like I feel like a gift.
Speaker 1: I don't fully like understand how good or bad the
Speaker 1: gift is until the person is about to open it,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, shit, they're gonna fucking hate this.
Speaker 1: Just so nervous too, or like you're kind of putting
Speaker 1: it together at the zero hour. Actually not uh oh man,
Speaker 1: that to your gift. Yeah, yeah, actually, don't open it.
Speaker 1: Don't open it. No, it's it's so true though. I
Speaker 1: got my friend, we had a gift exchange for Christmas,
Speaker 1: and I got him a set of Fraggle Rock stuffed animals.
Speaker 1: It does, but it's like he just moved into a
Speaker 1: new nice apartment and they're like large, and it was
Speaker 1: all the battle routes. You're gonna need a room for this.
Speaker 1: You're gonna need a Fraggle room. That's amazing. They're bringing
Speaker 1: Fraggle Rock back for I think HBO exciting times. I'm
Speaker 1: into it, not into reboots, but this one I think
Speaker 1: they're going to do right. Yeah. I think when they
Speaker 1: like bring the Muppets back or the Fraggles or like,
Speaker 1: it's usually fine yeah, yeah, yeah, we're pro fragle over.
Speaker 1: Let's change gears and talk about There's an article in
Speaker 1: the Herald Media last week about how zombie movies are
Speaker 1: taking over in Korea right now or have been, I
Speaker 1: guess for the past couple of decades, and they're basically
Speaker 1: predicting that it's coming back in America. There's a remake
Speaker 1: of Trained to Bousong coming to Hollywood that's going to
Speaker 1: they're predicting might kick off the next wave of zombie movies. Um,
Speaker 1: which that we've talked before about how like when a
Speaker 1: Republican is in office there's an uptick in zombie movies
Speaker 1: because zombies, like just the mindless, groaning hordes is how
Speaker 1: Democrats view the Republicans. And then when there's a Democrat
Speaker 1: in office, there's an uptick in vampire movies because like
Speaker 1: euro like sexual accented deviance is how Republicans view democrats.
Speaker 1: Um But I feel like, I don't know. I feel
Speaker 1: like now that we are, now that Trump happened, like
Speaker 1: all bets are off. It's like we don't need a
Speaker 1: Republican to be in office to be afraid of of
Speaker 1: the people around us. I mean, fucking the January six
Speaker 1: look like fucking World War Z in a way, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. We just saw this fucking flow
Speaker 1: of bodies, just like, what the fun is going on here?
Speaker 1: It's actual zombies, like all of like those viral videos
Speaker 1: of people like banging on doors like let me in
Speaker 1: without a mask or whatever like zombies. Yeah, I'm actually
Speaker 1: kind of suppressed. Like this article made me surprised that
Speaker 1: zombie movies haven't like started blowing up even more, like
Speaker 1: more haven't been coming out in the past, like it's
Speaker 1: just ahead of the game and always. Yeah, because I've
Speaker 1: seen Kingdom on Netflix that series, No, you know, this
Speaker 1: ship is dope. It's like a it's like a period
Speaker 1: like thriller piece, uh like where it's like old school Korea,
Speaker 1: but then there's zombies on top of that ship. It's
Speaker 1: that ship is wild. Um, but yeah, I check that
Speaker 1: out on Netflix. I'm like only through the first couple episodes,
Speaker 1: but yeah, there's like something I think, yeah, that they're
Speaker 1: sensing something clearly that because I feel like, yeah, the
Speaker 1: more we look at like our news, I'm also finding
Speaker 1: myself like interested in zombie content again. Like I was
Speaker 1: like trying to find this game I just play Left
Speaker 1: for Dead where you're it's like four people fighting a
Speaker 1: bunch of zombies. I'm like that's just tight um, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I think because I feel, yeah, there's on some level
Speaker 1: there's like this feeling of like is it me and
Speaker 1: a few other people and then a lot of nonsense
Speaker 1: around right right, But also like they're starting to be
Speaker 1: so realistic like zombies in movies, Like they seem so
Speaker 1: much like people that I feel like they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to give them something, like they're gonna have to like
Speaker 1: start flying or something, you know, right, yeah, yeah, some
Speaker 1: other path were that to differentiate them from real people.
Speaker 1: The ability to cancel anyone, Oh my god, don't go there, Miles,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. On top of fearing that they're the
Speaker 1: four people fearing that they're going to get eaten by zombies,
Speaker 1: they also fear that the zombies will cancel. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: what's worse. They're like, no, they might eat like they
Speaker 1: can cancel you though, well hold on, that's that's the
Speaker 1: less of a threat to you. Maybe, yeah, to you,
Speaker 1: but there's only four of us left. Still still well,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to wear this Blue Lives Matter shirt
Speaker 1: around them because I don't know what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: what they might tell their others on I don't know,
Speaker 1: you don't know. Oh my god, well let's get worked.
Speaker 1: Let's start working on this. Yeah. I think it's funnier.
Speaker 1: I think it's funnier to just sort of lambasted liberal
Speaker 1: politics with this. Then it would be the other way.
Speaker 1: I think it's just waive in my mind, there's just
Speaker 1: way more. There's there's way more to mind through like
Speaker 1: liberal thinking than just being like, we get it, it's
Speaker 1: ignorance or whatever. This like high like a high minded
Speaker 1: idiot zombie who's going to cancel you? Like yeah, and
Speaker 1: just the we're all ground into mindless automatons by by capitalism.
Speaker 1: So that's how we'll bring the country together. There are
Speaker 1: are zombie show that makes fun of liberals that liberals like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, there's something there. And then for people like
Speaker 1: on the Red yeah, fuck, it's just looking great. I
Speaker 1: like that you even added a little bit of chaw
Speaker 1: into the person's mouth who you were just impersonating, fucking
Speaker 1: horseshoe down here. Let's take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: be right back to talk. Some knees and we're back
Speaker 1: and the January sixers, Uh, I do like who would
Speaker 1: be the start in five? I mean obviously yeah, um,
Speaker 1: Trump at the Trump running is playing point guard? Yeah,
Speaker 1: cu Shaman, I don't know. Is he like a small forward? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Actually maybe maybe Trump is embiid uh, this is the
Speaker 1: ego is center egos at the five Arkansas dude about
Speaker 1: his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk, Yeah, either way for
Speaker 1: real post or not? I mean yeah, So this whole story,
Speaker 1: it keeps evolving or not evolving. They just they're more
Speaker 1: ridiculous stories about the arrogance. I don't know what I
Speaker 1: thought it. I thought it was over what the he
Speaker 1: going on? Um? So we talked about Federico Klein last week,
Speaker 1: who sounds like the off brand and underwear designer but
Speaker 1: as actually was a Trump State Department appointee, and how
Speaker 1: he was arrested for you know, assaulting officers with a
Speaker 1: riot shield and other violent crimes and you know, felonies.
Speaker 1: But either way, now that he's in custody, he had
Speaker 1: some concerns about the conditions at his like hearing. He
Speaker 1: told the judge quote, I wonder if there's a place
Speaker 1: where I can stay in detention where I don't have
Speaker 1: cockroaches crawling over me while I attempt to sleep. I mean, really,
Speaker 1: I really haven't slept all that much, your honor. It
Speaker 1: would be nice if I could just sleep in a
Speaker 1: place where there were knock cockroaches everywhere, your on her,
Speaker 1: your honor cockroaches much. He's like being like sarcastic um
Speaker 1: power user on trip Advisor. I could fund this whole
Speaker 1: thing up with one review. Okay, so think about it
Speaker 1: before I before I leave a review in this courtroom
Speaker 1: and the detention facility here and wherever it was. I mean, wow, okay,
Speaker 1: because we've seen this, this whole sense of like, but
Speaker 1: I'm white, don't treat me like the other people. There's
Speaker 1: two justice systems. That's why I stormed the capitol because
Speaker 1: I knew that. And now you want to treat me
Speaker 1: like every other person that you brutalize with your fun
Speaker 1: up legal system. Hell no. So I mean, like, look,
Speaker 1: if Q Shaman got organic food and the other lady
Speaker 1: got to go to Cancun and the judges like Yang
Speaker 1: going Cancun trip, I mean, honestly, he might be in
Speaker 1: the st regis by tonight. I mean, obviously, as a society,
Speaker 1: we should not be putting people in cages where cockroaches
Speaker 1: crawl over them. Period. It's just wild that The only
Speaker 1: times we hear about it is when it happens to
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein or somebody who was trying to overthrow the government.
Speaker 1: Well employed by the government, right, um, basically Republicans. If
Speaker 1: it happens to Republicans, we hear about right. The other
Speaker 1: one is there was another guy who was at the
Speaker 1: at the capitol that day. He was arrested at JFK
Speaker 1: because he attempted to flee to Kenya on the tour.
Speaker 1: So on they he flew to Kenya and then the
Speaker 1: Kenyans deported him last week. They're like, wait, what the funk? No,
Speaker 1: bye go, and then the FBI just got his ass
Speaker 1: at at JFK. But again, these are the kinds of
Speaker 1: uh like solutions that these people think will work. And
Speaker 1: the other man who was arrested, this guy, he was
Speaker 1: a business owner from Montana. So yeah, Isaac Steve Sturgeon,
Speaker 1: mm hmm, I don't know, Yeah, I've read about this guy.
Speaker 1: What what would you learn? I mean, it just reminded
Speaker 1: me of like in Queens, we have a lot of
Speaker 1: like racial because it's the so diverse, we have a
Speaker 1: lot of racial tension everywhere, and I'm used to seeing
Speaker 1: white races do white racist stuff then run home to
Speaker 1: co op like black culture for their enjoyment. So like
Speaker 1: in this case, Isaac Sturgeon or whoever he is, he
Speaker 1: did his like white racist stuff in Capitol Hill then
Speaker 1: like co opted Africa just like he was like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to the source. Here's my costco card of white supremacy.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to get Kenya. I need
Speaker 1: to go back to the cradle of life. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, get down, you know you feel me
Speaker 1: my newbie and kings and queens. Wait what, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but anyway, funck Barack Obama, Wait, hold on, this is
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's just so confusing, it must be exhausting.
Speaker 1: But again they've found their way into the the wonderful
Speaker 1: embrace of the FBI. Mm hmm uh. I do wonder
Speaker 1: if he was going over there to like on some
Speaker 1: berther ship to try and or like Montana, sounds like
Speaker 1: you're a big game hunter and maybe you could let's
Speaker 1: pretend you're like Alma do like I'm gonna go kill
Speaker 1: African things to blow some steam off from the insurrection.
Speaker 1: But because like that feels like a you know, like
Speaker 1: I know, there's a lot of big game, but what
Speaker 1: was the other story, like in the beginning of Trump administration,
Speaker 1: some like big game hunters from Montana and stuff going
Speaker 1: to wherever. But yeah, it could be it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but either way it didn't work. The point about it
Speaker 1: being exhausting, uh, kind of brings me this last thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to just bring up in the context as
Speaker 1: a sort of an ongoing question. But like I was
Speaker 1: saying in the intro, Adam Curtis his name is the
Speaker 1: documentary director of Hypernormalization. Just released a six part documentary
Speaker 1: on the BBC Can't Get You Out of My Head,
Speaker 1: and you can find it. You can watch it on
Speaker 1: YouTube for free. Like. One of the arguments that he
Speaker 1: makes is that culture like both online culture uh and
Speaker 1: culture like music, movies, TV like this sort of ship
Speaker 1: that culture wars are fought over is something that has
Speaker 1: been like almost created by the current like system of
Speaker 1: power as a release valve two like get the revolutionary
Speaker 1: energy out of us UM. And the way he illustrates
Speaker 1: this is with Tupac's mother, who was a you know,
Speaker 1: incredible revolutionary, a black panther who defended herself in court
Speaker 1: for a bombing plot. She was entrapped into and both
Speaker 1: got herself and all the other Black Panthers acquitted, and
Speaker 1: also got the undercover FBI agent to admit that what
Speaker 1: they've done together when he was pretending to be part
Speaker 1: of the Black Panther movement was beautiful. Like it's it's
Speaker 1: like I'm out of a movie, like like the rom
Speaker 1: com where it's like, even though I was duplicity, those
Speaker 1: times were a beautiful day. Yeah, And like their goal
Speaker 1: was beautiful, the goal of the Black Panther movement as
Speaker 1: they're trying to make her seem like a villain. And
Speaker 1: then he kind of says, so Tupac inherits this legacy
Speaker 1: and he has all the trappings of like revolution and
Speaker 1: the energy of a revolutionary but it's sort of pushed
Speaker 1: off into this direction of more individualistic artistic expression, and
Speaker 1: you know that's sort of the other side of the coin.
Speaker 1: Like kind of a more straightforward example would be the
Speaker 1: culture worship, like us arguing over culture worship when you
Speaker 1: know there is there are people who are starving in America. Um,
Speaker 1: And so he kind of does a historical look at
Speaker 1: this through and like sort of the prism of US, Chinese, British,
Speaker 1: history over the last like seventy years, like through this
Speaker 1: dichotomy of like individualism versus collectivism, and like how individualism
Speaker 1: has won out and put us in this like version
Speaker 1: of reality that we live in now where we're sublimating
Speaker 1: air anxieties and like anxieties that are caused by structural
Speaker 1: problems through like individual expression with no aim but like
Speaker 1: the beauty of art and that like makes us less empowered,
Speaker 1: would be I guess an argument that he raises and
Speaker 1: I don't know, I thought that was interesting, but just
Speaker 1: kind of in the context of the culture war, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you can swap out your energy for for outrage
Speaker 1: over children being killed in the Middle East or you know,
Speaker 1: starving American kids or unarmed black people being killed for
Speaker 1: getting into like well, hold on, man, Lola Bunny's titties
Speaker 1: should look at a certain like yeah, we're fucking You've
Speaker 1: completely lost the plot um and it's hard to like
Speaker 1: refocus things or try and get immedia to like focus
Speaker 1: refocus things on like when you have these other things,
Speaker 1: you can kind of like you're saying this, release vale
Speaker 1: and get your anger out on this completely misguided, misdirected way.
Speaker 1: But it's a like if it's as cynical as like
Speaker 1: we're kind of looking at this of how it organically
Speaker 1: becomes a system guarding itself against revolutionary action and ideation,
Speaker 1: then it's like very elegant and you're like, holy shit.
Speaker 1: I think also in like a very dystopian way, it
Speaker 1: is so much easier to, let's call it, bully a
Speaker 1: studio into removing a character because they care exclusively about money,
Speaker 1: and just like, okay, everyone's mad, let's take them out.
Speaker 1: Whereas you know, affecting real change is fucking hard. And
Speaker 1: then and the gatekeepers are the government, you know, and
Speaker 1: the government doesn't give a fuck. The corporations give a
Speaker 1: funk because their bottom line will hurt government. They don't
Speaker 1: give a funk. They're not even sending out checks, you know,
Speaker 1: Like it doesn't matter if it's Biden's government trusts, it's
Speaker 1: always going to be more difficult to affect change within
Speaker 1: the government. So it's like it's like this really it's
Speaker 1: it's a release valve, but like we continuous, we see
Speaker 1: changed on. He was a funny example of like even
Speaker 1: though just as simple as like the Sonic the Hedgehog movie,
Speaker 1: where they were like he looks too human. This movie sucks,
Speaker 1: and so they like literally readd the movie because the
Speaker 1: people spoke, and and then it's like we won, you know,
Speaker 1: and and it's easier to win that way. It feels
Speaker 1: like you're winning when you're having these conversations that like
Speaker 1: technically don't matter, don't matter as much. And you compare
Speaker 1: that to the millions of people who pour into the
Speaker 1: streets over the summer, uh, you know, against systemic racism
Speaker 1: and over policing and things like that, and it's like,
Speaker 1: can't get a fucking dubbed there. Nope. At most you
Speaker 1: got Joe Biden being like shoot him in the leg
Speaker 1: or fucking how about like we ask nicely for people
Speaker 1: to show their hands before we start clapping, like it's
Speaker 1: not it that's really we needed sonic the hedgehog results there,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And I think that's yeah,
Speaker 1: I really liked to put it that way. It's like
Speaker 1: we we're looking for sonic type response, is um, but
Speaker 1: we get in these sonic type arguments all the time,
Speaker 1: so it's completely Yeah, obscures the energy and puts it
Speaker 1: in many different directions. Yeah, And those those movements happened
Speaker 1: when culture kind of ground to a halt. So I
Speaker 1: mean that would be another piece of evidence that like
Speaker 1: there's something about this distracting kind of constant cultural you
Speaker 1: know conversation, especially like these current culture war things that
Speaker 1: are conversations completely started by the right wing that that
Speaker 1: is just you know, siphoning off energy that is much
Speaker 1: better spent elsewhere. Well, all right, so there's a an
Speaker 1: Atlantic article that's kind of on this subject of like
Speaker 1: the brain fog and like the fact that we can't
Speaker 1: really remember what things were like before. I can't remember
Speaker 1: what things are like now, let alone what things were
Speaker 1: like before. And like I think I was describing the
Speaker 1: fact that like when I like started parking in this building,
Speaker 1: I could remember like where I parked, but after like
Speaker 1: four months of parking in the building, I had no
Speaker 1: idea because each memory was just like going into this
Speaker 1: sea of like nearly identical memories. And so it was
Speaker 1: just like and like that's how I feel about every
Speaker 1: day now. It's like every day just goes into this
Speaker 1: sea of nearly identical days and I have no kind
Speaker 1: of frame of reference or like you know, point to
Speaker 1: orient things around. And that's kind of part of this theory,
Speaker 1: This guy Mike Yassa, who's a neuroscientist at You See Irvine,
Speaker 1: says that we're all basically walking around with some mild
Speaker 1: cognitive impairment. Based on everything we know about the brain.
Speaker 1: Two of the things that are really good for it
Speaker 1: our physical activity and novelty. A thing that's very bad
Speaker 1: for it is chronic and perpetuals stress and basically living
Speaker 1: through a pandemic is exposing people to micro doses of
Speaker 1: unpredictable stress all the time. Yeah, Like feeling like your
Speaker 1: things are out of your control is one of the
Speaker 1: greatest cause of stress or contributors exacerbators of stress um
Speaker 1: and I feel like we've all felt that way a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah. The other thing, here's this like calling
Speaker 1: cascading collective trauma is the other way I've heard this
Speaker 1: talked about where it's this again, it's every level. It's COVID,
Speaker 1: it's economic recession, it's racial unrest, it's disaster like natural disasters.
Speaker 1: So like, yeah, we're and then on top of it,
Speaker 1: there's like a media environment too that I've seen saying
Speaker 1: is compounding these stresses just by the kind of meta
Speaker 1: you and just on top of it is just a
Speaker 1: recipe for like, yeah, just consistent like low grade trauma
Speaker 1: that is, you know, building up over time. It's a
Speaker 1: little tough. Is that why ty Caves feels like it was,
Speaker 1: you know, two decades ago exactly? They have cell phones
Speaker 1: back then, I know. I'm like, they had divers. Were
Speaker 1: they going around those like copper helmets, like those OTLD
Speaker 1: diving bells? Are they okay? Did they come out all right?
Speaker 1: Did they find on the cord? Yeah? The kids are
Speaker 1: and I think there's just the one I think one person.
Speaker 1: Yeah at this point right there, like yeah, they're in
Speaker 1: their sixties. I think, yeah, they got grandkids. They're doing
Speaker 1: all right. Dally, have you done anything like in terms
Speaker 1: of addressing the monotony of lockdown? Like have you created
Speaker 1: strategies to combat these things? Are you even experiencing something
Speaker 1: like that? Because I feel like people have different resiliency
Speaker 1: levels when it comes to the lockdown. I feel I'm
Speaker 1: definitely experiencing that. It's actually very cathartic to read like
Speaker 1: terms that like language for it, um because I kind
Speaker 1: of thought I was just getting old and losing my memory,
Speaker 1: but uh, it seems like it's a bit deeper than that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, definitely. I, Um, I've been I'm a stand
Speaker 1: up comedian, so I all my shows have had to
Speaker 1: go on zoom now and UM, it's it's not ideal,
Speaker 1: but it's also a great way to keep talking to people. Um.
Speaker 1: If I don't do those, I'm just talking to my
Speaker 1: dogs and that's insane. I talked to them with this
Speaker 1: voice and I can't do that voice a day, so
Speaker 1: it's UM, that's one thing that helps kind of just
Speaker 1: I have something to look forward to a few times
Speaker 1: a week. Um, and it does kind of break them
Speaker 1: and not me. But other than that, it's so hard
Speaker 1: for me to remember when things happened. I'm like, was
Speaker 1: that early in the pandemic? Was that five years ago?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've been trying. I've also been trying
Speaker 1: to do like morning pages, which is just like, um,
Speaker 1: it's like the artist way, like journaling like seven words
Speaker 1: every morning just to like articulate what is triggering depression
Speaker 1: or just vents or just talk about what articulating thoughts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I don't know what I did this week.
Speaker 1: So that's been extremely helpful. Just getting one of my friends,
Speaker 1: one of my comedy friends said it's kind of like um,
Speaker 1: taking a ship in the morning. It's just kind of
Speaker 1: like you get that out of your system, right, And
Speaker 1: that's been really helpful for me. Your first seven words,
Speaker 1: my first seven Yeah. Indeed, having dogs is good too.
Speaker 1: They forced you to go outside and write fresh air. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But like with kids, though Jack doesn't, doesn't that somehow
Speaker 1: break it up or there is also a pattern to
Speaker 1: with like the ebb and flow of them. They definitely
Speaker 1: break things up for sure. It's just like every other
Speaker 1: part of the life that's like framing it and just
Speaker 1: physical location. I remember watching my nieces and nephews, like
Speaker 1: I remember that's like those are parts of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I remember like doing it say flee and being like yeah,
Speaker 1: like well we could watch the kids for a little.
Speaker 1: I remember that because it's like so much going on.
Speaker 1: But yeah, with the COVID the funny thing and there's
Speaker 1: this other research paper that you know, they're they're talking
Speaker 1: about the just cascading trauma effect or whatever, and they're saying,
Speaker 1: so what do we do about it? What do you
Speaker 1: think the solution is? From experts? Just in general? How
Speaker 1: can we remedy what's happening for people that are stressed
Speaker 1: out right, Now, what do you think the solution is
Speaker 1: to this the pandemic being over? I don't know, or
Speaker 1: you know, what can the government do, you know, like
Speaker 1: help people. That's all they're saying. They're like the trauma
Speaker 1: is compounded when on top of it there are people
Speaker 1: who are being like I have no like there's no
Speaker 1: I have nowhere to turn. Yeah, I'm not getting educated,
Speaker 1: I'm not getting ppe, I'm not getting rights as a worker.
Speaker 1: They're saying, all of these things would be just particularly
Speaker 1: effective um for like those that are you know, especially
Speaker 1: at higher risk for for COVID and things like that.
Speaker 1: So it's just like a you know, it's like the
Speaker 1: simplest things, but we're just would never I don't know,
Speaker 1: just across the river, across the rubicon into like help. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a America has always been like a very like
Speaker 1: cold world, and I think this is just like laying
Speaker 1: there how like live and let die, like with the
Speaker 1: emphasis on the let die side of things. Uh, it
Speaker 1: really is shit. Well, what a way to end things?
Speaker 1: All right, Let's take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back and talk about cocaine Bear Paddington's fucked up cousin
Speaker 1: and we're back. All right, let's talk about dog gate
Speaker 1: or I don't know, I don't know what the funk
Speaker 1: they're gonna call this uh in the right wing media,
Speaker 1: but it is. It was the top story on bright
Speaker 1: Bart when it happened President Biden's dog bit someone and
Speaker 1: had to be uh moved to a different location because yeah,
Speaker 1: and I mean this is you would think. Actually, Like
Speaker 1: my main takeaway from the story is not the you know,
Speaker 1: uh full of shitness of the right wing media, because
Speaker 1: like that is a given at this point. My main
Speaker 1: takeaway from this story that our writer JM submitted is that,
Speaker 1: like there must be something about being a dog at
Speaker 1: the White House that just turns you into a complete
Speaker 1: asshole because the record of dogs biting, so he's pointing
Speaker 1: out in this article, like this happens almost every White House,
Speaker 1: Like Obama uh took lots of ship because his dog
Speaker 1: right before he left off us as dogs sunny bit
Speaker 1: one of Malia's friends on the face, Which that's not joke.
Speaker 1: A dog bite on the face, Like I know people
Speaker 1: who had to have a reconstructive surgery for dog bites
Speaker 1: on the face, Like that's that's no joke. George W.
Speaker 1: Bush's dog Barney, bit two people, a PR person for
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics and a reporter um the Jenna. Bush
Speaker 1: later described the dog as a real jerk. Oh no,
Speaker 1: but you know it's serious. Uh yeah, that like bringing
Speaker 1: up a conservative white woman language saying a dog's a
Speaker 1: real jerk. Is like that person mauled. That dog mauled
Speaker 1: like nine babies. It's a it's a monster. And then
Speaker 1: you go back to f DR. He had a German
Speaker 1: shepherd like Biden, named major like Biden, so that was
Speaker 1: clearly not accidental. Uh. He bit four people, including the
Speaker 1: British Prime Minister, actually ripped the seat off his pants
Speaker 1: like a fucking car. Ye Like, reporters at the time
Speaker 1: made a big deal of the fact that they were
Speaker 1: just like, it's a Germany attacking Great Britain because it
Speaker 1: was a German shepherd and that you know that that
Speaker 1: was the big big thing back then and then and
Speaker 1: then Teddy Roosevelt's dog Pete routinely bit people who displeased him,
Speaker 1: including naval officers, cabinet members, police officers, diplomats. At one point,
Speaker 1: he chased the French ambassador down the halls of the
Speaker 1: White House caught him and tore again toward the backside
Speaker 1: of his pants off. Okay, hold on, is that really now?
Speaker 1: Now this sounds like a weird bit and we're getting
Speaker 1: like hyper just like right, storms are just fucking with us. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know every to two times a dog's ripping
Speaker 1: the butt off of dignitaries pants like some pining of
Speaker 1: Like it's truly like a comic strip where the most
Speaker 1: embarras missing things like the dog bit his butt and
Speaker 1: the and his underwear was exposed. He but I do
Speaker 1: wonder sad untold story here. That's the one dog Major
Speaker 1: who was young with the biting, but it's two dogs
Speaker 1: that are b that got deported from the White House.
Speaker 1: It's because of Major. So there's an older dog. Champ
Speaker 1: was like an old man, and he's paying the collective
Speaker 1: you know, punishment or for for Major's accusations. Right, that's
Speaker 1: the bull accusations because that's what they are, right exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't see their allegations. And honestly, shame on whoever
Speaker 1: he snitched on that dog. There should be there should
Speaker 1: be problems for that person. But like you know that
Speaker 1: there is that relationship between owner and dog and you know,
Speaker 1: like the presidency. We've also seen that it like ages people,
Speaker 1: like the Ring from Lord of Rings, Like it's just
Speaker 1: it's not good for the soul. So I just wonder, like,
Speaker 1: is a dog of a president just like inherently just
Speaker 1: goes goes dark on the people? Right? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's because like the environment is just
Speaker 1: overly stimulating, Like it's just like or I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how the residential quarters work
Speaker 1: of the White House and where dogs live or don't live.
Speaker 1: But I felt like if I'm picturing the show the
Speaker 1: West Wing and a confused as dog being like all
Speaker 1: these people do a lot of walking and talking trailing
Speaker 1: behind and also like everybody's gonna be deferential to the dog,
Speaker 1: and so that's probably not the best thing in the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you know, the dogs shooting on people's stuff and
Speaker 1: they can't say anything because it's dog. I'm sure to God,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna punch the dog if this does. It was
Speaker 1: in the shape of the presidential seal, like I do,
Speaker 1: I think, But yeah, it's just the dog probably assumes
Speaker 1: that the dog is president, like because it doesn't know
Speaker 1: any better, and everyone's just being like yo, like just
Speaker 1: treating it like it it runs ship. Uh yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's like, where's the nuclear football toy that you can
Speaker 1: play catch with me in the in the rose garden with? Right,
Speaker 1: And we don't have like because the media didn't you know,
Speaker 1: fully report honestly on on presidents before Nixon. Basically we
Speaker 1: we don't know how many presidents actually how many of
Speaker 1: those presidents were actually biting people, So that's always their
Speaker 1: possibility to all right, let's talk about Elizabeth Banks's new movie.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Banks directed Pitch Perfect. I think that's yeah, one
Speaker 1: of the one of the Sue and Charlie's Angels was
Speaker 1: the latest one, right, so you know she's also a
Speaker 1: famous actress who you would know from many an anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Hunger Games would be our younger listeners would probably
Speaker 1: recognize her from. But so her latest movie is called
Speaker 1: Cocaine Bear. H Is that is that? Really? Like? I'm
Speaker 1: I'm looking at her IMDb filmography and they might be
Speaker 1: using a different name for it. Uh really under director, Yeah,
Speaker 1: under director they've yeah, maybe I don't know, or they're
Speaker 1: just I think no, what hasn't gone into production? Yet
Speaker 1: so maybe they are um waiting to actually like fully
Speaker 1: fully announced that got it. But anyway, yeah, she's got
Speaker 1: the she's got the new movie coming out, And I
Speaker 1: thought cocaine. Bart was like, Okay, maybe this will be
Speaker 1: a hilarious comedy uh and maybe or a really ridiculous
Speaker 1: film something. It's a fucking true story about a bear
Speaker 1: that ate a bunch of cocaine in the eighties and died.
Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, so it's a short movie.
Speaker 1: But the whole thing is they say in December, bear
Speaker 1: was walking around the Chattahoochia Coney National Forest in Georgia,
Speaker 1: minding its own business made up when it found forty
Speaker 1: plastic bags of cocaine worth fifteen million dollars eight them
Speaker 1: and then died. The medical examiner who performed an autopsy
Speaker 1: on the bear said the cause of death was cerebral hemorrhaging,
Speaker 1: respiratory failure, hyperthermia, renal failure, heart failure, stroke, you name it.
Speaker 1: The bear had it. Its stomach was quote literally packed
Speaker 1: to the brim with cocaine end quote. There wasn't a
Speaker 1: mammal on the planet who could survive that. That makes
Speaker 1: me feel so bad, said I'm also wondering what our
Speaker 1: plot is here, right, well, a screenwriter, let me tell
Speaker 1: you what I would do, citing incident when the coke
Speaker 1: falls on the bear's head from this guy. Um oh,
Speaker 1: I'm also seeing here that, um you, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: a Hollywood Report Order article. Universal is behind Cocaine Bear,
Speaker 1: which is based on an untitled spec script. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they probably just are like untitled Cocaine Bear project.
Speaker 1: But I think they should just keep the title bear.
Speaker 1: Why not? I mean, so the origin story. I think
Speaker 1: that's why the film will probably center around how that
Speaker 1: blow got to the bear. And it turns out that
Speaker 1: it was a man named Andrew Thornton who was like
Speaker 1: a corrupt narcotics cop who then transitioned to international drug
Speaker 1: smuggling kingpin. Amazing how those things happened sometimes, And so
Speaker 1: it all happened when one day he was doing I guess,
Speaker 1: a massive transport of cocaine and there's some engine trouble occurred,
Speaker 1: and so he got spooked and started dumping as much
Speaker 1: of the blow out the planes doors as he could,
Speaker 1: and that's when I think the ship got into the
Speaker 1: forest where the bear got to it, and then he
Speaker 1: tried to jump out with a parachute, but unfortunately he
Speaker 1: was holding seventy pounds of cocaine, a ton of cash
Speaker 1: and guns that the weight was sucked up and his
Speaker 1: his shoot didn't deploy properly because the load was too much.
Speaker 1: And then he died and they've discovered him literally like
Speaker 1: with next to a seventy pound pilot blow with guns
Speaker 1: and like money dead in the forest. Wow, I'm still
Speaker 1: not sure what? Like what how do we center the
Speaker 1: bear in this? Maybe the cocaine bear was inside all
Speaker 1: of us all along. Like here's what I would do.
Speaker 1: I would really take a lot of liberties with the
Speaker 1: story and do some pretty major world building where the
Speaker 1: bear comes upon the cocaine, eats it and then rather
Speaker 1: than dies a tragic death, um develops superpowers and then
Speaker 1: becomes a superhero bear, a super bear. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: the spec script was actually written by the bear before
Speaker 1: it died of a compane, so that might it was
Speaker 1: edged into a tree trunk with his close and then
Speaker 1: oh yeah, man, and I can see fucking so good
Speaker 1: at night now, so then I get night vision and
Speaker 1: then yeah, I mean, unfortunately and launched three restaurants in
Speaker 1: the Yeah, some sick underground bear speakeasies. Yeah. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like world building. I would like some world building around there.
Speaker 1: I just the I get. I mean, like the story
Speaker 1: of this Andrew Thornton person seems fine, but I mean,
Speaker 1: what of this bear? Like I think I think the
Speaker 1: movie will be great if the entire film is about
Speaker 1: the bear and the last shot is the cocaine coming
Speaker 1: down from the sky. So it's just the bear. That
Speaker 1: movie where it's like following a bear around the forest. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: or that one movie um with Danny de Vito, Jack
Speaker 1: the Bear, Wasn't that right? And yeah, I thought I
Speaker 1: knew my bear movies. I thought that was a porn
Speaker 1: Jack the Bear. That's a different one, okay, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the the Marshall Hurskovitz. Could also be um
Speaker 1: brother Bear, that Disney vehicle from the early two thousands,
Speaker 1: Know and Love. Um. Maybe maybe it's The Revenant right
Speaker 1: from the Revenant. Could be Yeah, it's just going through
Speaker 1: different movies because it's in its own mind, because it's
Speaker 1: so yeah again it's and we're still talking about a
Speaker 1: fucking animal that interested forty pounds of cocaine and it's
Speaker 1: a mess. Its body was a mess. It's wild. How
Speaker 1: quickly the bear because cocaine is it? I can't imagine
Speaker 1: it tastes good to bears? Uh, but it very quickly.
Speaker 1: Was like, holy sh it, I gotta get more. You know.
Speaker 1: They're like, man, I don't want to I'm coming down
Speaker 1: bro mo. Yeah yeah, forty pounds worth. How about it?
Speaker 1: Gosh um, unless maybe it was cut with like nutra
Speaker 1: sweet or sweet lower yeah, or like baby laxative, baby laxative. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, this is it. This is Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Banks is third or well, actually know she's not. She's
Speaker 1: directed a few things, but I'm I'm really curious to
Speaker 1: see what this how this all turns up Like it's
Speaker 1: just it's compelling and that it's so vague but has
Speaker 1: these odd specifics. Where how do where? Where can we
Speaker 1: go with this? Guide me? Cocaine bear? That is a
Speaker 1: wild true story. I mean you could it could literally
Speaker 1: go in so many directions. But did you see um
Speaker 1: Robert Evans's tweet about it? Um? He said, this is
Speaker 1: the only movie we have needed since Fury Rode. So
Speaker 1: thank you. All right, that's gonna do it for this
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