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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
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Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really well, Uh, We're thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined in our third seat by a hilarious and talented
Speaker 1: person who's probably the most likely guest we've ever had
Speaker 1: to know what the funk you're talking about? Right there?
Speaker 1: She is the hilarious, the talented, the brilliant Molly Lambert.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give a song parody. What's up, guys? Uh,
Speaker 1: stop in game? Stop game stop in the name of
Speaker 1: the stock market before you crash the stock market, before
Speaker 1: you take my yacht? Hey, stop stopping? What's what's mapulation?
Speaker 1: What's up? Molly? How are you? I am good? There's
Speaker 1: how you think there'll be a new movement? Just like
Speaker 1: walking down Wall Street and starting to pat people's pockets,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like if you see a
Speaker 1: guy in a suit, like what's up from me? Like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, yeah, I'm gonna show up in costume
Speaker 1: as the Brave girl statue. Oh not the Brave girl
Speaker 1: from Brave. The Brave Girl I do look like the
Speaker 1: Brave girl from Brave. But there is a statue they
Speaker 1: put up of like it's like a little girl Boss
Speaker 1: and she's like standing looking at the bull and being like, mmm,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you bull, girl Boss. So yeah, everybody,
Speaker 1: uh give give the girl boss their money for girl bosses.
Speaker 1: I also am into just bringing back like pick pottery,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, hell yeah yeah, yes, they forgotten Harple Dodger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean but pretty pretty uh like, whenever you go
Speaker 1: anywhere that has like trains, it's gonna have yeah. I uh,
Speaker 1: my first time in New York when I lived since
Speaker 1: I was younger. I I lived in New York when
Speaker 1: I was like six seven, but then as a as
Speaker 1: a teenager, uh, when I lived in Kentucky. My friends
Speaker 1: and I went to New York and I claimed that
Speaker 1: I had been pickpocketed, and they're like, oh, ship, that's wild.
Speaker 1: And then they eventually learned that I actually just had
Speaker 1: like a twenty in the waist band of my basketball shorts.
Speaker 1: And they're like, nobody pickpocket of that man that just
Speaker 1: like fell out of your basketball shorts, You dumb, You
Speaker 1: had you had a waste band money. When I had
Speaker 1: that was no pockets just in my waist. Bam, you're
Speaker 1: asking for the artful dodger. Yeah, I mean it fell
Speaker 1: out a pocket or two. I remember those days. That's
Speaker 1: like when I used to wear only Nike basketball shorts
Speaker 1: before they wised up and put pockets in them. So
Speaker 1: I would be wearing like Cincinnati bear Cats shorts, no
Speaker 1: pockets and like eighty bucks in my waistband, like pinned
Speaker 1: to my torso because I had. But I was really
Speaker 1: careful about that ship because I could. I lost. I
Speaker 1: remember I lost five once riding my bike, and I
Speaker 1: after that, I always kept tracking my waistbandmin I just
Speaker 1: blamed I blamed it on pickpockets every time, like damn
Speaker 1: pickpockets times, Like I was wearing boxers to back then,
Speaker 1: so like you were, like Mois came through like a
Speaker 1: game and his clown makeup just heared on roller skates
Speaker 1: and these guys who were dragging their hockey sticks all
Speaker 1: menacingly on the ground as they walk. For uh, that
Speaker 1: that needs to become a reality now that we're living
Speaker 1: in this world. That bears a striking resemblance to lots
Speaker 1: of different works of dystopian fiction. We need to start
Speaker 1: dressing up as like themed gangs. I mean that's what
Speaker 1: the Capital storming seemed like a little bit yeah, but
Speaker 1: just like not very well designed. Like their theme was
Speaker 1: all like dot matrix, printer camo and red hats. Like
Speaker 1: it was a little bit clown gang. Though I had
Speaker 1: just watched Batman Returns and saw a lot of similarities
Speaker 1: with kind of just the roving clown gang. Right, so
Speaker 1: you want to see like the Visco cam people like
Speaker 1: march on the Capitol. So it's a little bit more
Speaker 1: aesthetic to it. Uh, Matt, what is something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? Underwrited? Real talk? Uck? And I hate to
Speaker 1: bring this you know, podcast down a little bit, but uh,
Speaker 1: Dustin Diamond r a p to a real one. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think Dustin Diamond, the guy who played Screech, you know,
Speaker 1: he recently died, and uh I think that he uh
Speaker 1: as a human being, was constantly underrated his whole life.
Speaker 1: I think, uh he was treated like dogshit his entire life,
Speaker 1: and people wondered why he was like such a dick
Speaker 1: after you know, saved by the Bell, And I was like,
Speaker 1: I get it, man, I understand as someone who grew
Speaker 1: up looking like Screech and being called Screech a lot
Speaker 1: until Harry Potter came out, and then I started being
Speaker 1: called Harry Potter. Um, Like I understand what it's like
Speaker 1: to uh, you know, to constantly be shipped on by
Speaker 1: people who look like Zack Morris, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I so, I I felt like after he died, I
Speaker 1: felt like really sad about it, because like I feel
Speaker 1: some sort of kinship with Screech, Like we're kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, we're kind of brothers in that way, except
Speaker 1: for I was never a child actor, you know, and
Speaker 1: never put out a porno or anything. But like, so,
Speaker 1: what was the Like I thought there was something like
Speaker 1: problematic about him, but then all the stories seemed to
Speaker 1: be that he like edited himself into a port Like
Speaker 1: it was like just actually a really sad story, like
Speaker 1: edited himself. Listen, he edited himself into a porno to
Speaker 1: make it seem like he was in a porno, which
Speaker 1: is it's pretty bad. But there's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things about him that are like I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: constant stories about him, you know, kind of like um
Speaker 1: kind of just being dicks to people and whatnot. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a few Screech stories that have kind
Speaker 1: of like made the rounds right, and and I understand,
Speaker 1: like I understand why he would be the way he
Speaker 1: is because, you know, like he was a child actor
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, which is a predatory industry. He played a
Speaker 1: character that was constantly getting shut on. He played the
Speaker 1: worst kind of character too, because it's like, um in
Speaker 1: any other TV show, it would have been like like
Speaker 1: freaks and geeks, there's the nerds and there's the cool kids,
Speaker 1: and they don't they don't meet, you know, in between.
Speaker 1: The worst thing about saying by the Bell is that
Speaker 1: technically Screech was Zack Morris's best friend is the most
Speaker 1: gas lighty, emotionally manipulative relationship you've ever seen on television,
Speaker 1: where you have this you know, freaking aryan god, you know,
Speaker 1: who gets all the chicks and then this little like
Speaker 1: crypto Semitic character who they never say that he's Jewish,
Speaker 1: but let's be real, this is an Arian versus jew
Speaker 1: type of thing. And and he's pretending like that's his
Speaker 1: best friend, but he ships on him all the time
Speaker 1: and everyone makes fun of him, and like Lisa Turtle
Speaker 1: won't give him the time a day, Like why why not?
Speaker 1: He's he's perfectly he's smart, and he's a smart guy.
Speaker 1: I understand it's kind of weird, but you gotta get
Speaker 1: to know him a little bit. The point is that
Speaker 1: when is is that, you know, I feel like his
Speaker 1: entire persona and whatnot is a result of playing this
Speaker 1: character screech and people given him crap for that, and
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like in the afterlife he shall
Speaker 1: have his revenge. Revenge. You believe in a a vengeful god,
Speaker 1: and the evengeful god is Dustin dion Um. Yeah, Zack
Speaker 1: Morris is a very interesting character, like very much. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen the reboot of Saved by the Bell, but
Speaker 1: very much like introduced me to the concept of like
Speaker 1: a winning, predatory capitalist kind of guy who like everybody
Speaker 1: can't help but like while he is like, you know,
Speaker 1: stealing money from you, but very likably. Yeah, yeah he does.
Speaker 1: He does crimes likably and sheets all the time and
Speaker 1: his original American psycho. Yeah, straight up, straight up original
Speaker 1: American psycho and like, you know, but you're just charmed
Speaker 1: by him because he's hot and you're just like, no,
Speaker 1: there's more. There's more to this world than just being hot.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta have like strength of character I've
Speaker 1: ever had that. I mean, I don't want to I
Speaker 1: had to look it up and figure out what I
Speaker 1: was going on with Justin's sex tape. Uh. So he
Speaker 1: used a fake wang because you don't want to put
Speaker 1: himself out there like that. He did hire a quote
Speaker 1: body double, and he decided to do it after the
Speaker 1: Paris Hilton tape where she apparently earned fourteen million dollars.
Speaker 1: He was in his mid twenties and he thought it
Speaker 1: was a good idea. But in two thousand and four
Speaker 1: he went on Oprah's Where are They Now? Um, he
Speaker 1: was in his mid thirties by then, and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I realized it was stupid of me to try to
Speaker 1: get millions of dollars like Harris Hilton. Uh, but you know,
Speaker 1: that is a very signs of the new That is
Speaker 1: a very profound misunderstanding of the dynamics of the sex
Speaker 1: tape industry. And people were looking for from from Paris
Speaker 1: Hilton and from him. Yeah, he kind of misread He
Speaker 1: misread that a bit like, Oh, clearly they just want
Speaker 1: to see anyone who's ever been on television. Fuck Like,
Speaker 1: that's that's not true, but it does. It begs the
Speaker 1: question why he felt the need or how he could
Speaker 1: have been in a financial situation in which he would
Speaker 1: have been like desperate enough to put out a fake
Speaker 1: uh sex tape, you know. And a lot of it
Speaker 1: is because uh his you know, I'm sure he was
Speaker 1: screwed out of all sorts of like syndication, money and
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. You know, because like say, by
Speaker 1: the Bell is in syndication. He was in both shows.
Speaker 1: He was in the new class and the old class.
Speaker 1: Why would he not have money? And he was constantly
Speaker 1: in money trouble And you know, I look at that
Speaker 1: and I said, a Hollywood's a predatory industry. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that's that's very fair. Yeah, Ramsey is in the house.
Speaker 1: By the way, my friend has joined us. Ramsey, you
Speaker 1: want to say how to Matt and Joel? So I'm
Speaker 1: at and go out, baby, alright, I'll have kids. Fine.
Speaker 1: Drastic decisions like everybody getting an animal. I'm like a chill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is a big thing right now, huh like just
Speaker 1: a lot of dogs. I almost did it, get it.
Speaker 1: I'm so close, Like I bought all the stuff for
Speaker 1: the dog. Now he's needing the dog perfect one. You know,
Speaker 1: you might just be okay with just all the stuff
Speaker 1: for the dog that for a couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: see how that goes. Joel keeps buying all of all
Speaker 1: of these dog toys, but there's no My brother was like,
Speaker 1: do we need three dog beats? It's like one for
Speaker 1: each floor. I want to be comfortable wherever. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that also like gives him a place. It trains him
Speaker 1: to always have a place, as opposed to just like
Speaker 1: lying all over everything, brand new couch. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't think so dogs you're going to name him dog?
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? Overrated? I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to gen Z, but that damn driver's license song? Good lord,
Speaker 1: I can't I can't do. I'm so tired of the
Speaker 1: avocado singing. I just gone my driver's license. But also
Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe I get involved. You know, it seems
Speaker 1: like an easy ship. Um yeah, oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: She's got the Disney community behind her and stuff, so
Speaker 1: I know that it's like, you know, the youth, like
Speaker 1: they have plenty of time to stream the song and
Speaker 1: blow it up. And I'm it's a. It's a fine song,
Speaker 1: but I was like, really number one in the world, this,
Speaker 1: this was this is what we live with, like it's
Speaker 1: I was just like, what is this? And I have
Speaker 1: the same thing to say about avocado singers. I have
Speaker 1: to say about R and B singers who are doing that,
Speaker 1: like sis, yeah, badger, what are you saying? I want
Speaker 1: to sing along? I'm tired in it. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: having to just be like I was, w ha, can
Speaker 1: I know the word? Carry it? It's not a karaoke
Speaker 1: friendly singing style because you're like, oh, I do need
Speaker 1: the words, I really do need them, and then when
Speaker 1: you read the words, you're like, wait, what that's what
Speaker 1: she said? What right? We're all gonna be a kill
Speaker 1: this up? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, number belt and I'm rading
Speaker 1: co bad. The whole album is like what, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: beautiful voices I've ever heard, and I don't ever know
Speaker 1: what she'd be talking about. I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: talking about sex. I don't know if we're talking about Honestly,
Speaker 1: Ariana could be organizing for Anti Fish, but Wa're gonna meet,
Speaker 1: We're gonna be That's how they stormed the Capitol. Arianna
Speaker 1: single Yeah, she was sending messages through vocals. All that
Speaker 1: of the Congress will be in the Ragley. We won't
Speaker 1: know ever know that driver's License song. That was like
Speaker 1: one of those things where I didn't think I had
Speaker 1: heard it, but then I'm like, oh, I've heard that
Speaker 1: at seven eleven every time I've been into seven eleven
Speaker 1: for a month. I just didn't. It's a real seven
Speaker 1: eleven kind of song. Oh, no, disrespect, I mean it's
Speaker 1: like whatever, Like I because that was the Girl is from,
Speaker 1: like the High School Musical TV series? Is that right? Right?
Speaker 1: High School Musical, the movie, the TV show or something
Speaker 1: doesn't have like some meta title like that. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling like an absolute boom or not really knowing what
Speaker 1: it is. It's good, but I just like the this
Speaker 1: one seems acutely designed to be only meaningful to people
Speaker 1: between like who who aren't of legal drinking age yet,
Speaker 1: and like that seems like it's kind of creating some
Speaker 1: of the some of the popularity because then everybody else
Speaker 1: is talking about it, and like that's actually what makes it,
Speaker 1: what makes pop music cool, Like old people hating it.
Speaker 1: So it's she was in that and then High School
Speaker 1: Musical the musical the series. Yes, that's exactly what it's called.
Speaker 1: I think there was one other show though, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. Jack. It's like it gives me like,
Speaker 1: remember that song. I was like, it's not I would
Speaker 1: a whisper. We all got tortured, so a huge seven
Speaker 1: eleven songs. They all got tortured by this song. What
Speaker 1: was anybody ever like? This is a bad up? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: listen to the song punching cram it down? And I
Speaker 1: whose song is that? Even? Who knows? Who know? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: nobody knows, Jamie. We've been trying to figure that out
Speaker 1: for years and the scientific community is still baffled, unable
Speaker 1: to figure it out. When I get the little emo
Speaker 1: side of the kids wanting this avocado song and liking
Speaker 1: to listen to it, it's fine, and she plays instruments.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to take anything away from her as
Speaker 1: a musician. I was just like, I don't know, can
Speaker 1: we sing with our voices again? No, man, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna say. We're not gonna put the teas at the
Speaker 1: ends of what No is? What? No? Okay? Fair? Fair?
Speaker 1: What did you just say? Maybe that is like a
Speaker 1: thing like every general I feel like every generation has
Speaker 1: like a musical style where they don't respect certain letters
Speaker 1: because it's like whatever, Like early two thousands pop music,
Speaker 1: they didn't finish their words either, where it's like yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like more of a vowel issue for that generation.
Speaker 1: Their vowels are all over the place. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll come right back and
Speaker 1: we're back. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated?
Speaker 1: Great question, Jack, Thank you so much. I will say
Speaker 1: underrated is any type of YouTube cooking video. Like we've
Speaker 1: all been in pandemic now for almost a year, so
Speaker 1: we've all been cooking at home. Like I have really
Speaker 1: been tearing through um YouTube cooking videos. But not just
Speaker 1: like you know the dude or the lady or whoever
Speaker 1: sitting in their kitchen. Have you seen these videos of
Speaker 1: like it will just be like some random like Hungarian
Speaker 1: man with like a big knife in the woods just
Speaker 1: cooking in a pot. Have you seen those videos? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll he'll he'll like build a fire. It just has
Speaker 1: this giant or Dane knife and like he'll he'll be
Speaker 1: like him cutting up the meat and cutting up the onions,
Speaker 1: and like he always puts like the spices on the
Speaker 1: giant knife and then dumps it into like his like
Speaker 1: cast iron as he's cooking over wood. The one that
Speaker 1: I watched the most is called Men with the Pot.
Speaker 1: I think he's like a Polish or Hungarian guy because
Speaker 1: it will have like salt in English and then we'll
Speaker 1: have like whatever like language he speaks translated and it's
Speaker 1: just him cooking random, delicious looking food in the woods
Speaker 1: with a pot and one giant knife. No spatulors, no
Speaker 1: no tongs. It's just a dude with a big gass
Speaker 1: knife in the woods. I love that when whenever you
Speaker 1: see videos like that, I'm like, does this know does
Speaker 1: this guy know about the coronavirus? Or he just like
Speaker 1: been in thes with his knife for years. It's amazing
Speaker 1: just doing this thing. It's great. I do wonder are
Speaker 1: there like remember that article right after Trump one where
Speaker 1: the New York Times guy is like, he's not a
Speaker 1: New York Time, he doesn't work for the New York Times,
Speaker 1: but he's just like the most New York Times reader
Speaker 1: that The New York Times has ever profiled. He's got
Speaker 1: a beard and like a tote bag, and he had
Speaker 1: quarantined himself off from the real world so he wouldn't
Speaker 1: find out who won the election and was like living
Speaker 1: in a separate reality. I wish I could have that
Speaker 1: type of privilege. I could escape reality for four years.
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's still out there and doesn't know
Speaker 1: about the Maybe this is the guy. Maybe he's got
Speaker 1: his own bad developed Yeah. I love isolated people with
Speaker 1: YouTube channels. It's so you have you have you? Have
Speaker 1: you seen the dude that builds like spas in the
Speaker 1: middle of the jungle in South America, right, like carves
Speaker 1: them into the ground. Yeah. He it's just this one dude.
Speaker 1: He has two tools and it's just him like moving
Speaker 1: tons of dirt and building like elaborate spas in the
Speaker 1: middle of note in the jungle. It's great. How do
Speaker 1: you get there? Like how do you arrive at that
Speaker 1: point where you're like this is it for me? Like
Speaker 1: I've done. It's like the Rock the Raccoon Guy channel
Speaker 1: that he's like it's this old man in Canada and
Speaker 1: he leaves out food and then there's like fifty raccoons
Speaker 1: that comes to his porch every day and he has
Speaker 1: five trillion subscribers. That's my life given it's nice and
Speaker 1: octopus teacher. It's like my occopus teacher, but with fifty raccoons,
Speaker 1: My fifty raccoon teachers. I do think that there's like
Speaker 1: a fascination with like the blending of Yeah, like a
Speaker 1: spa that's like dug into just like Earth, or you know,
Speaker 1: a cooking video that's like that. The sort of complete
Speaker 1: other end of that continuum is that the new Amazon building.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw that, but it's
Speaker 1: like they've created did this giant like prism shaped spiral
Speaker 1: skyscraper but like like kiked a park onto the outside
Speaker 1: of it, Like there's like a big full super villain stuff.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, really at this point, why not? Yeah? Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very lysium. But of what's something you think is overrated? Overrated?
Speaker 1: I would say is coppaganda like TV shows that portray
Speaker 1: police officers, because these shows are basically marketing for police departments,
Speaker 1: and they glorify and normalize the systemic violence and injustices
Speaker 1: that are handed out by the police and instead make
Speaker 1: them heroes and so overrated. What is there a piece
Speaker 1: of coppaganda you've had, You've had to have a reckoning
Speaker 1: with over time as you're like I realized this is
Speaker 1: this is just straight nonsense. But but I loved it
Speaker 1: as a TV show or film. Um, I most of
Speaker 1: the time watch that stuff in it, Like I I'm
Speaker 1: no fun to watch legal shows with. I scream at
Speaker 1: the TV. I'm like that that's not true, that would
Speaker 1: ever happen, you know, I'm like really unfund So this
Speaker 1: is why I just like, you know, I just instead
Speaker 1: watched like reality television. There you go, yeah, because like
Speaker 1: what do we know about the K one visa process
Speaker 1: on fiance? But watch a procedural with you you're like,
Speaker 1: oh that is not Oh my god. The chain of
Speaker 1: custody on that is absolutely bizarre. Right, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I watched Den of Thieves over the weekend. I had
Speaker 1: not seen that that's the Gerard Butler two thousand eighteen
Speaker 1: movie that it's like the protagonists are the l A
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department, um who and like it's there are like
Speaker 1: vague implications that they're the ones who like have those
Speaker 1: tattoos and like basically kill people and like have white
Speaker 1: supremacist ties. Uh, but they like they cut all that out,
Speaker 1: you know, they make it a little the team a
Speaker 1: little bit more first, but it's like you're supposed to
Speaker 1: be rooting for the l A. Sheriff's Department in two
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen, um still having trouble, just like that Denzel
Speaker 1: movie that came out where people are like, this is
Speaker 1: also capaganda. I don't care if it's Denzel, and like
Speaker 1: we're taking a like Rosie lens to look at policing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's everywhere. Yeah, Chopot trap House was like
Speaker 1: had recommended that. They were like that movie is great.
Speaker 1: It's like about a dirt bag and it's like, huh,
Speaker 1: that's the one with Ocean Jackson Jr. Right, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's yeah, that one takes a weird turn and I'm
Speaker 1: like whatever, it's just like it's just like testosterone fast.
Speaker 1: It's really there's not much else in it. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it, but I'm not going to. Yeah, good watch
Speaker 1: a watch Bling Empire instead about the real crazy rich
Speaker 1: Asians of l A. Which I was watching the weekend.
Speaker 1: How is that? It's wild? You know, it's funny when
Speaker 1: you see like the you know, just obscene wealth where
Speaker 1: like people are giving each other gifts and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the towel has real gold in it you're like, you
Speaker 1: gave someone a towel that had gold in it, and
Speaker 1: you're like, that's it's so obscene, And it's just like
Speaker 1: a whole other dimension of reality that we're not used to.
Speaker 1: Lies I am curious as running for d A and
Speaker 1: saying things like coppaganda, right. You know, a lot of people,
Speaker 1: as we've seen over the years, like to walk this
Speaker 1: weird line of being like, oh, I don't want to
Speaker 1: make the police mad, but also wanting to also seek justice.
Speaker 1: Um in terms of and I don't, I don't you
Speaker 1: don't need the cash dispersions on the other people running,
Speaker 1: But it seems like I think there are what eight
Speaker 1: how many people are running at the moment? Eight people?
Speaker 1: Is that? Has that been a tone right now for
Speaker 1: for the other candidates, because I feel like only one
Speaker 1: is not really about any kind of real reform or
Speaker 1: seemingly doesn't seem like very forward thinking. But in terms
Speaker 1: of the race, um as it is right now, how
Speaker 1: how many people are sort of have this sort of
Speaker 1: progressive viewpoint on how things need to change within New York? Well,
Speaker 1: so you know what's so interesting? And I was kind
Speaker 1: of touching on this a little bit when I say
Speaker 1: that that now, all of a sudden, it's become popular
Speaker 1: to say things like sex work is work, um, And
Speaker 1: I'm so thrilled that people are coming around to the
Speaker 1: to the progressive views that we should decriminalize sex work,
Speaker 1: we should decriminalize drug possession, we should end mass incarceration
Speaker 1: and stop using you know, jail as the default and
Speaker 1: punitive prison sentences for for low level offenses. But the
Speaker 1: problem is even people who are now espousing progressive talking
Speaker 1: points because they're popular, are not necessarily people who truly
Speaker 1: believe these things. And I think some of the evaluations
Speaker 1: that have come out recently about the candidates really do
Speaker 1: kind of delve into these nuanced views of what kinds
Speaker 1: of changes you would make, and in those like I
Speaker 1: come out, you know, heade shoulders above everyone else, like
Speaker 1: I'm the only real progressive in the race who has
Speaker 1: the authentic commitment from my career, from my experience as
Speaker 1: being a public defender and fighting against this system of injustice.
Speaker 1: And it's not like all of a sudden, one day
Speaker 1: I woke up and was like, oh, you know what,
Speaker 1: I think it'd be popular to say we should end
Speaker 1: mass incarceration. So that's the pivot I'm going to take
Speaker 1: and yeah, I'm gonna hold police accountable. And it's like
Speaker 1: people who have been working in conjunction with the police
Speaker 1: to lock people up for their entire careers all of
Speaker 1: a sudden are saying they're gonna hold police accountable. Well,
Speaker 1: I've spent every day of my career cross examining police
Speaker 1: officers and questioning the veracity of the things that they say. Um,
Speaker 1: and so I think that, you know, prioritizing this kind
Speaker 1: of accountability for the police and these real reforms is
Speaker 1: incredibly important. But making sure that we're not just listening
Speaker 1: to someone's memorized talking points, but looking into their record,
Speaker 1: looking into their history, making sure that this is an
Speaker 1: authentic commitment to bringing about real change, right. And I
Speaker 1: can I can tell by the New York Post treatment
Speaker 1: of you there. You probably are walking the walk because
Speaker 1: they're painting you as someone who's like this headline most men,
Speaker 1: most Manhattan DA candidates care most for protecting criminals. Wow.
Speaker 1: And just like such a disingenuous look on reform, which
Speaker 1: is like these people just want It's like it's gonna
Speaker 1: look like a Batman movie where they just open up
Speaker 1: the asylums and the jails and it's it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: the people are gonna be running wild when it's really
Speaker 1: about we have such an inhumane of treating people and
Speaker 1: we're not actually we're not addressing the root causes of anything,
Speaker 1: um so rather than it. So, you know, credit to you,
Speaker 1: because the New York Post is absolute trash. Listen, if
Speaker 1: the New York Post is criticizing me, I'm obviously doing
Speaker 1: something right. So I don't I feel like great about it?
Speaker 1: Our pick for Manhattan d A, then he'd be likely.
Speaker 1: Uh do you do you aspire to one day have
Speaker 1: like a real shitty New York Posts like pun headline
Speaker 1: about you. I feel I feel like that would be
Speaker 1: the ultimate honor is like some yeah, some pot they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna come after me, undoubtedly, Like it'll be
Speaker 1: it'll be a daily occurrence of them just waiting on me. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, hell yeah. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about coronavirus COVID nineteen, the big I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: the only two names I know for it. Are you okay?
Speaker 1: You are you? Like as soon as you said it?
Speaker 1: Like for effects? Yeah, that could be like that could
Speaker 1: be a sound cue that we have every time we
Speaker 1: bring up coronavirus sensitive America. Amazing. It would be an
Speaker 1: amazing like Morning Zoo like talk radio thing where they're
Speaker 1: like and now in coronavirus news, and then you just
Speaker 1: have like, um, all right, well the numbers are dropping,
Speaker 1: so we can't we can have fun here, folks. Uh
Speaker 1: it Uh. People aren't really sure why. Like it seems
Speaker 1: like it's partially vaccine. Uh, partially we're seeing the you know,
Speaker 1: remnants of the you know, holiday travel. It's kind of
Speaker 1: clearing through our system after everybody went and saw their
Speaker 1: family during the holiday. Um. And then there's also well
Speaker 1: so yesterday when I saw this chart, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, of course it's because Trump is gone, like
Speaker 1: he was telling he was lying, and like people, it's
Speaker 1: happening everywhere in the world. So we actually had to
Speaker 1: like at a chunk of yesterday's episode out where I
Speaker 1: was just like ranting about how it was all Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: But it's I think that at least has to be
Speaker 1: like I think there's a bunch of different factors combined, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's in medicine, Like that's they do they do
Speaker 1: that all the time where they're like, there are four
Speaker 1: medications that we know how to treat this cancer with,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you all of them. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: mean I I do think weather has something to do
Speaker 1: with it too. Yeah. Yeah, So that was something I
Speaker 1: didn't realize until I started like kind of trying to
Speaker 1: research why it's dropping. Whether is a big contributing factor,
Speaker 1: like to the point that it's more important than like
Speaker 1: whether somebody is social distancing or not. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: think because it, um, And I'm not a scientist. I
Speaker 1: just want to point that out in case people got confused. Um,
Speaker 1: but I think social distancing and whether they're correlated in
Speaker 1: that like you know, if you're if it's freezing out side,
Speaker 1: you're most likely to be inside, uh and stay inside
Speaker 1: with other groups of people rather than like these outdoor
Speaker 1: restaurants and whatnot. So people are still meeting up, but
Speaker 1: before you know, they would go to a park or something,
Speaker 1: and now people are like, oh, let's go hang out,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. This is also I think, um, the
Speaker 1: Christmas you know holiday bump, um, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: like had a huge surge and now it's kind of
Speaker 1: like dropping again. So so I think we're going to
Speaker 1: kind of level out for a bit and then um,
Speaker 1: and then we'll continue dropping. Yeah. So there there there
Speaker 1: are a bunch of different articles about this, talking about
Speaker 1: like what one thing that we know for certain is
Speaker 1: uh good for not spreading coronavirus or like bad for
Speaker 1: the actual spread of the virus is wind Like if
Speaker 1: it's windy, it spreads much worse. And then we also
Speaker 1: know it really seems to be like a completely correlated
Speaker 1: wind temperature. There's this study that found I think it
Speaker 1: was so starting at eighty eight degrees and going down
Speaker 1: by one temperature, every time you drop a single degree, uh,
Speaker 1: the rate of transmission rose by three point seven percent.
Speaker 1: So it's like that much of a just straightforward like
Speaker 1: if it's this temperature, you were going to have a
Speaker 1: COVID spike. Um, which seems relevant, And like I was thinking, like,
Speaker 1: why why aren't we telling everybody this because that seems
Speaker 1: like a very important thing, But they like nobody knows
Speaker 1: why other than that the actual like physical virus likes
Speaker 1: that temperature better. Because they were saying that, apparently, I
Speaker 1: I always assumed the influenza, what influenza was seasonal because
Speaker 1: of you know, what you were mentioning, Matt, like staying
Speaker 1: inside versus going outside during the summer months. And this
Speaker 1: scientist in this article was saying that, like that, actually
Speaker 1: the literature doesn't support that. Um, we actually only spend
Speaker 1: like ten more time indoors during the winter than outdoors
Speaker 1: on average than we do during the summer on average. Right,
Speaker 1: I mean you know which people are this who is
Speaker 1: outside less in the way. I feel like I never
Speaker 1: go outside in the winter. I'm like home inside. Great,
Speaker 1: it might be because we never go outside in the
Speaker 1: summer either, to right, right, I'm a hermit in Um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Another kind of new emerging study or like kind of
Speaker 1: scientific area that they're looking at is uh COVID what
Speaker 1: they're calling COVID longhaulers, which gives it a very like
Speaker 1: seventies smokey in the bear uh like type vibe. But
Speaker 1: it's actually like people who a recent study of patients
Speaker 1: in Wuhan, China, found three quarters of them still have
Speaker 1: symptoms six months after they left the hospital. So like,
Speaker 1: that's how many do you say, three quarters? Three three quarters?
Speaker 1: So that's obviously, like they this isn't a sample of
Speaker 1: everybody who tested positive, right, this is a sample of
Speaker 1: people who were bad enough to have to be hospitalized. Um,
Speaker 1: but still it's I guess, I guess I have generally
Speaker 1: heard the stories of people who uh don't make it
Speaker 1: or people who recover and just get back to their lives.
Speaker 1: I didn't really know about this, And apparently the illness
Speaker 1: that they're seeing a lot of these people have is
Speaker 1: very similar to chronic fatigue syndrome, which is uh, really
Speaker 1: strange and interesting disease that has like no biomarker, like
Speaker 1: they can't find any physical thing in the blood, but
Speaker 1: it is so like it's a nightmare scenario where you
Speaker 1: like are you know people doctors are like, you're it's
Speaker 1: just in your head, and like, more and more they've
Speaker 1: been able to get rid of that stigma and been like, no,
Speaker 1: it's actually like they were talking to this one sixteen
Speaker 1: year old who can only sit up in bed for
Speaker 1: like two hours a day, and when he sits up,
Speaker 1: like when he's lying down, his heart rate of sixty
Speaker 1: five or in the sixties, and when he sat up
Speaker 1: it goes to one thirty five, Like it's insane. Bryan
Speaker 1: Gumble just did a really good piece on this for
Speaker 1: Real Sports of Bran Gumble on HBO where he interviewed
Speaker 1: athletes who had gotten COVID. Most of them were like
Speaker 1: college age athletes, like on their track team from we
Speaker 1: got COVID it. So she had all the like base symptoms,
Speaker 1: like couldn't smell anything, like a feverish sort of symptoms.
Speaker 1: It was out for two weeks. She got up, She's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I feel better. I'm gonna go for a run this morning,
Speaker 1: she said out of her door, and was like ready
Speaker 1: to collapse and just couldn't do it. And it's been
Speaker 1: something like three or four months and she still can't
Speaker 1: go for like a regular run. It's just whild the
Speaker 1: havoc this can wrete on bodies, especially perfectly healthy bodies.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, for preconditioning pre existing conditions, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of thought of like, okay, well obviously that's
Speaker 1: going to take some extra effort. But it's perfectly healthy
Speaker 1: human beings that are just being like knocked over by
Speaker 1: this disease. It's wild to think some people are still
Speaker 1: like it's the flu. It's not right like after U
Speaker 1: bender of like ice cream and pizza for a week,
Speaker 1: that a college track athlete is healthier than I have
Speaker 1: been on my healthiest day in the history of my life. Like,
Speaker 1: so that is my biggest fear about starting to work out,
Speaker 1: like totally. My biggest fear about like deciding to like
Speaker 1: overhaul my life and go completely you know, have a
Speaker 1: healthy lifestyle, is that like I'll be stricken with something
Speaker 1: and I'll be like, you know what, I should have
Speaker 1: never started. I should have just lived up the last
Speaker 1: few years to get all buff look good. Yeah, now
Speaker 1: I'm saying I can't do nothing and I should have
Speaker 1: just been eating hamburgers the whole time. Same ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my big fear. It really does seem so much random.
Speaker 1: There's also and I have no reason to believe this
Speaker 1: is connected other than that they reminded me of each other.
Speaker 1: But just anecdotally, I feel tired constantly. I know so
Speaker 1: many people who feel tired constantly. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that is um, you know, just the fact that we don't.
Speaker 1: Like I I definitely feel less tired if I go
Speaker 1: some where during the day. So maybe it's just like
Speaker 1: that we're in the Like I do exercise, I run,
Speaker 1: but I am running, you know, thirty feet from where
Speaker 1: I'm sitting right now on a treadmill, and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just different because like the fatigue you're talking about
Speaker 1: is like that. It's it's like almost a psychosomatic fatigue
Speaker 1: where it's not really about the overall health of your body.
Speaker 1: It's more about, you know, the fact that you're stuck
Speaker 1: inside during a you know, a massive pandemic, and and
Speaker 1: it's very depressing and you're just like, you know, in
Speaker 1: this little you know, hamster cage, and we're like, I
Speaker 1: guess I'll spin on the wheel, like, you know, the
Speaker 1: hamster might be physically healthy, but he's so sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and people at home can't see that I am drinking
Speaker 1: from one of those upside down drip bottle things that
Speaker 1: they and hamster cages. Uh so that's probably sitting on
Speaker 1: a bunch of wood chips. Um. If anybody's doubt with
Speaker 1: the exhaustion and has like ideas, uh all years, you
Speaker 1: know where to find me. I have an idea for you. Though.
Speaker 1: How often do you go outside and like do activities? Oh?
Speaker 1: Not that often? What is it February? Uh? Probably? Now
Speaker 1: I do go outside with my kids and like take
Speaker 1: walks and stuff. Okay, well, so you're you're probably fine then,
Speaker 1: but I as someone who was spending months and months
Speaker 1: and months inside and like every time thinking about like
Speaker 1: going out, I was just like, it's always got to
Speaker 1: be at the like park, and and and it's always like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just walking around and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: it's just it wasn't fulfilling. And then I discovered the
Speaker 1: game of golf. And I tell you, guys, golf, I
Speaker 1: get it now. I get it. Yeah, golf. You go
Speaker 1: and there's like and all the people are far away
Speaker 1: from you. Everyone who's playing at the hole in front
Speaker 1: of you there, you know, a hundred two hundred three
Speaker 1: hundred yards away, the people behind you another two three
Speaker 1: hundred yards and you're just alone and you're just playing
Speaker 1: golf and you're bad at it, and people behind you
Speaker 1: are mad because you're like taking a lot of time.
Speaker 1: But you're free, dog, you're friend, You're out there, You're
Speaker 1: breathing the good air. It's like it's a good COVID
Speaker 1: relaxation sport. You get outside, you know, physical exercise, and
Speaker 1: you don't feel like you're a hamster on the wheel.
Speaker 1: So play golf, Okay, Yeah, it's they do have the
Speaker 1: they do have all the best spots in l A.
Speaker 1: They've just been like, Okay, these are golf courses. Now
Speaker 1: everybody can go funk themselves except people who golf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but now you can be someone who golfs. And I
Speaker 1: tell you, you feel bad for the first few times
Speaker 1: doing it because you're like, oh, this is what my
Speaker 1: life has become. I'm a douche bag. But then after
Speaker 1: a while you start to own the douchey nous of it,
Speaker 1: um right, and then it's not so bad. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would be going around on one of those scooter things
Speaker 1: from hole to hole. Well, like I say, like a
Speaker 1: standing job, Segu's gonna be so mad at you take
Speaker 1: a segway back and forth to the golf to the
Speaker 1: uh golf cart. Yes, I don't want to do any
Speaker 1: physical exercise. The world is like reacting to the fact
Speaker 1: that Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO to become
Speaker 1: vice chair, which is another position that allows him to
Speaker 1: do the same thing he's been doing. Like I I
Speaker 1: really need someone to explain to me. I've read the
Speaker 1: articles about this and I cannot figure out why anyone
Speaker 1: and should give a ship about this at all. But people,
Speaker 1: it's just it just seems like an opportunity for the
Speaker 1: mainstream media to write articles that reinforce the sort of
Speaker 1: pro billionaire propaganda. Like it's all like he started Amazon
Speaker 1: in a garage in Washington State, Uh, you know, a
Speaker 1: mere twenty years ago, and it's like, well, he was
Speaker 1: also a Wall Street guy who then did that, Like
Speaker 1: he rented out a garage, probably for a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and like outfit did it with an orange couch because
Speaker 1: he heard that's what you're supposed to do it startups,
Speaker 1: and like, uh, but he's what people don't think of
Speaker 1: garage like that, Like when they when he whenever I
Speaker 1: hear that narrative spun, it's always he started it in
Speaker 1: his garage, so people were thinking like a two car
Speaker 1: garage and like he was like Amazon dot Com like
Speaker 1: it was fucking Nirvana or something like yeah yeah, um uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just ties into the overall myth
Speaker 1: of American capitalism that there's like these individual great man
Speaker 1: accomplishments and not that this is the inevitable consequence of
Speaker 1: a system that doesn't defend against monopoly and like one
Speaker 1: person is going to get that successful and like it's
Speaker 1: funny even this Wall Street Journal article. Uh, Like it's
Speaker 1: like with a day one philosophy of always maintaining an
Speaker 1: underdog startup ethos. However, in recent years, missed Mr Bezos
Speaker 1: has stepped back from day to day management. He doesn't
Speaker 1: set schedule meetings before ten am and makes all his
Speaker 1: tough decisions before five pm. H employees say the billionaire
Speaker 1: is elusive. That's how they describe it, with many saying
Speaker 1: they have never spotted him on the company sprawling downtown
Speaker 1: Seattle campus, so he doesn't show up to work or
Speaker 1: works like you know, between ten and five, which are
Speaker 1: things that would cause somebody to get immediately fired from
Speaker 1: an Amazon warehouse job. Well, also, he could fucking solve
Speaker 1: world hunger today, like just the like discussing the like
Speaker 1: ins and outs of his day to day I feel
Speaker 1: like it's just like glorifying some like you know, innocuous,
Speaker 1: like who gives a ship what he does at what time?
Speaker 1: He could solve world to hunger? He could help people,
Speaker 1: but he is not. He fucking destroyed Seattle and he's
Speaker 1: like just I don't know, I just and and the
Speaker 1: way that these stories are framed of like the whatever
Speaker 1: the like he's just a startup guy who like worked
Speaker 1: really hard and hustled his way to the top. And
Speaker 1: it's it just like implies that he has somehow earned
Speaker 1: all of this, when it's like, we know that that's
Speaker 1: not true, Like it's just finding people and that he's killing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's responsible for many deaths that they cover up
Speaker 1: all the time. The Amazon warehouses are an ocean nightmare, like,
Speaker 1: and they just hide it. They don't make reports. There's
Speaker 1: been so much as you just one quick google away
Speaker 1: you can find out. And and that's why I hated
Speaker 1: when all that negative press came out about Amazon during
Speaker 1: the pandemic. Um they made all these weird commercials where
Speaker 1: they basically like holding people at gunpoint, Like I love Amazon.
Speaker 1: They treat me so good here. Jeff Bezos is like
Speaker 1: a father to me, Like what is happening? Those were
Speaker 1: so weird. And also and everywhere, yeah, everywhere. And if
Speaker 1: we haven't learned anything from the game, stop thing is
Speaker 1: that the game is fucking rigged. Look at what happened
Speaker 1: when all the little everyday average joe people got their
Speaker 1: hands on some stocks that was being shorted. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, your app doesn't work and you can't trade
Speaker 1: at all because it was never built for you to
Speaker 1: be a millionaire. You're not gonna be able to work
Speaker 1: hard or make trades and be a millionaire because there's
Speaker 1: already millionaires and billionaires who are going to make sure
Speaker 1: you cannot get to the level because that's how they
Speaker 1: stay rich. So I'm like, I'm still praying for game stock.
Speaker 1: They and my prayers like they on the stick of
Speaker 1: shet and I'm like, please, please y'all hold the line
Speaker 1: they'll sell them stocks so that we can just I
Speaker 1: want to ruin all the hedge funds. I know we're
Speaker 1: gonna end up paying for it in our tax dollars,
Speaker 1: but I just want to see it happen. I feel
Speaker 1: like that one's already been is already being sunset to
Speaker 1: like this is what happens when you go against the
Speaker 1: big guy and like being covered as like the GameStop
Speaker 1: thing was folly, But it's like, but also keep hustling, everybody,
Speaker 1: this could be you, and it's like, no, no, it couldn't.
Speaker 1: Like it's been made exceedingly clear that it fucking couldn't be.
Speaker 1: I think we all need to just like look at
Speaker 1: that and realize, like that is the perfect example of
Speaker 1: like you cannot be a billionaire because billionaires will not
Speaker 1: let you right right. The thing of specifically trying to
Speaker 1: reinforce the underdog myth um, which is is the main
Speaker 1: motif that gets reasserted over and over again in these
Speaker 1: articles about him retiring. Um really like it really seems
Speaker 1: like it's uh the war department thing again, Like I
Speaker 1: taught for shorthand, I I talked about how the US
Speaker 1: military changed it's uh name from War Department to Department
Speaker 1: of Defense once they started waging offensive wars because you
Speaker 1: like do that you change the name to be the
Speaker 1: opposite of the truth so that you can like kind
Speaker 1: of cover up for it. And like with trying to
Speaker 1: portray billionaires is underdog stories like the when people look
Speaker 1: at how billionaires make their fortune, it's always the opposite
Speaker 1: of that. It's always they find an advantage over someone
Speaker 1: who's smaller or has less you know, resources than them,
Speaker 1: and just exploit the ship out of that until they
Speaker 1: are they have billions of dollars. That's the only way
Speaker 1: to become a billionaire is by being a predatory uh
Speaker 1: capitalist praise on less powerful you know dynamics basically, Um.
Speaker 1: But because we don't like the idea that that is
Speaker 1: the secret to capitalism. We tell ourselves over and over
Speaker 1: again and pay the Wall Street Journal to tell us
Speaker 1: over and over again that it's all Disney movies where
Speaker 1: the underdog came up. It's yeah, it's it's just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and it's it's weird because I feel
Speaker 1: like it's kind of unspoken that most people recognize that
Speaker 1: it is like a false narrative, but it hasn't stopped
Speaker 1: it from being pushed over and over and over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's I do wonder if we're like moving
Speaker 1: in that direction, But it does seem like it's you know,
Speaker 1: you you wouldn't know it from reading like the mainstream
Speaker 1: accounts of Jeff Bezos and way that It's also it's
Speaker 1: like a question of like, well, how many of these
Speaker 1: papers does Jeff Bezos own? You know, it goes off
Speaker 1: the way to the top there. Yeah, so this diet
Speaker 1: left past story is one that it's it's a staple
Speaker 1: of the um, you know, conspiracy theory community. I first
Speaker 1: came across it in an article like I think over
Speaker 1: a decade ago and cracked that was basically miss like
Speaker 1: big famous unsolved mysteries that totally have solutions. Um And
Speaker 1: so here I'll tell you what the mystery is all
Speaker 1: since you're not familiar with it. Um So, ten members
Speaker 1: of this Uh, this is a real thing. This is
Speaker 1: a real thing. The way you started off, it sounded
Speaker 1: like a weird so it was a stormy night and
Speaker 1: ten so ten members of like a polytechnic institute, like
Speaker 1: a scientific college, nine students and one sports instructor who
Speaker 1: had fought in World War Two headed up into the
Speaker 1: frigid wilderness. Is like nineteen fifty nine, One student with
Speaker 1: joint pain, uh turned back, and the rest, led by
Speaker 1: a twenty three year old engineering student, continued on. There's
Speaker 1: camera film personal diaries later found on the scene that
Speaker 1: makes it clear they made camp on February one, pitching
Speaker 1: a large tent on the snowy slopes of a mountain
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna try to pronounce, probably not when you're
Speaker 1: intimately familiar with but the name can be interpreted as
Speaker 1: dead mountain in the language of the region's indigenous Mancie people.
Speaker 1: Uh So, when a search team arrived a few weeks later,
Speaker 1: because they just nobody ever heard from them again. The
Speaker 1: other guy made it back and he never heard from
Speaker 1: them again. Like none of the planned you know, rendezvous happened. Uh.
Speaker 1: Their tent was found barely sticking out of the snow.
Speaker 1: It here to be cut open from the inside. Uh.
Speaker 1: The next day, the first of the bodies were found
Speaker 1: near Cedar Tree. Over the next few months, as the
Speaker 1: snow thawed, they gradually uncovered just all sorts of creepy bodies.
Speaker 1: All nine of the team members. Bodies were scattered around
Speaker 1: the mountain slope, some in a baffling state of undressed.
Speaker 1: They were half naked, some of their skulls and chests
Speaker 1: have been smashed open. Others had eyes and one lacked
Speaker 1: a tongue. Others had eyes missing and one lacked a tongue.
Speaker 1: And yeah, people were like, this doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: There was also uh, like radiation on one of the bodies,
Speaker 1: and so people like the official explanation from the Soviet
Speaker 1: bureaucracy was quote unknown natural force and so that like,
Speaker 1: it's it's impossible not to be into this as like
Speaker 1: a somebody who's open to conspiracy theories. Yeah, it could
Speaker 1: be anything. Monsters yeties what her. So back when we
Speaker 1: wrote about it, we pointed out that it made sense
Speaker 1: as an avalanche, uh, and just kind of some of
Speaker 1: the more inexplicable details, like the radiation isn't actually that
Speaker 1: uncommon for anything that's been laying in a snowy area
Speaker 1: that gets a lot of sun because sun is a
Speaker 1: snow is a tremendous reflector of the sun's energy. The
Speaker 1: missing eyes and tongue are pretty common with bodies left
Speaker 1: in the wilderness for a long time, since animals go
Speaker 1: for the soft parts first. Um. And the various states
Speaker 1: of undressed are pretty common for anybody suffering from hypothermia.
Speaker 1: And you know, the theory being that they ran out
Speaker 1: of their tent when an avalanche they heard an avalanche
Speaker 1: coming at night, uh, and the tent and all their
Speaker 1: stuff was buried, and so they died of hypothermia. People
Speaker 1: will as they're dying of hypothermia feel hot and like
Speaker 1: take off some of their clothes. Is, um, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's yeah. So the but people there there was a
Speaker 1: lot of like pushback on that theory, not just that
Speaker 1: that was like one of the more common explanations, and
Speaker 1: we just pointed out that it made a lot of sense,
Speaker 1: uh in ways that conspiracy theory that pushing back, Like
Speaker 1: my first thing was like, yeah, probably, like if they're
Speaker 1: scattered everywhere to like who knows if even the avalanche
Speaker 1: took some people. Yeah, So there was no snowfall on
Speaker 1: the night that the avalanche would have happened, and usually
Speaker 1: you need snowfall to add weight to the snow burden
Speaker 1: that triggers the collapse. Most of the blunt forced trauma
Speaker 1: like injuries and some of the soft tissue damage were
Speaker 1: atypical of things caused by avalanches, um, where usually people
Speaker 1: mostly asphyxiate. And then if an avalanche had occurred, uh oh.
Speaker 1: There there's this thing about like a gap of nine
Speaker 1: hours between when they made camp and when the avalanche happened.
Speaker 1: I think it assumes that they would have caused the
Speaker 1: avalanche because they're like cutting into the side of the
Speaker 1: mountain to make camp and that's usually how those things happen,
Speaker 1: and yet it happened nine hours later. Um. So this
Speaker 1: new study basically just takes those down point by point. Um.
Speaker 1: I think the most interesting the way it's taken down
Speaker 1: is that the idea that there's dimension, the fact that
Speaker 1: people say it wasn't a steep enough hill that they
Speaker 1: were camping. Oh, so they're saying it was even too
Speaker 1: flat for an aval It was too flat for an avalanche,
Speaker 1: is one of the things they're saying. But that's actually
Speaker 1: a optical illusion that you see. Have you ever heard
Speaker 1: of places where they say, like water flows uphill and
Speaker 1: it's like this mystery of like a place where gravity
Speaker 1: doesn't operate or gravity is weird, like you drop a
Speaker 1: stone and it kind of falls to the side, or
Speaker 1: a burning man. So all of uh that that actually
Speaker 1: is a thing that happens. Like basically, you're at a
Speaker 1: place that a chunk of flat ground that is actually
Speaker 1: on a portion of ground that's embedded with within a
Speaker 1: larger slope. So even though all your sort of context
Speaker 1: clues point to the fact that you're on flat ground,
Speaker 1: you're actually on a slope. And that's what was happening here.
Speaker 1: They say that this piece of land, when you go
Speaker 1: and study it, has at least thet grade needed to
Speaker 1: trigger avalanches. There wasn't snowfall, but there was massive wind.
Speaker 1: But one of the reasons this is like kind of
Speaker 1: a fun story that I think might actually like become
Speaker 1: popular enough to put an end to this is that
Speaker 1: they used frozen the Disney movie to figure this out
Speaker 1: like like clues from the film or so. One of
Speaker 1: the scientists who is basically created this paper with the
Speaker 1: official explanation back when Frozen came out was like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: they have absolutely nailed h the way snowfalls and is
Speaker 1: blown away and is like actually behaves. And so he
Speaker 1: actually traveled to Hollywood and met with the three D
Speaker 1: modeling company that created the snow for Frozen and like
Speaker 1: got a better idea of how snow behaves and like
Speaker 1: used their algorithms that they used on Frozen to better
Speaker 1: inform his algorithms of just like how snow operates. And
Speaker 1: then they also consulted these old GM studies that they
Speaker 1: had done with a bunch of cadavers, like back when
Speaker 1: people weren't paying as much attention. GM took a hundred
Speaker 1: dead bodies and just like through heavy shit at them, uh,
Speaker 1: and just like studied the way that the bodies were destroyed.
Speaker 1: Um were fourteen year olds in charge of Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just smash them up, and we're like, oh and so yeah,
Speaker 1: that's bad. It's bad. So looking at that study data,
Speaker 1: they basically found that the injuries were pretty consistent with
Speaker 1: what you would have seen if there was a like
Speaker 1: suv style chunk of hard snow or ice inside of
Speaker 1: the avalanche which is hitting you right, And yeah, so
Speaker 1: they think the avalanche hit them. They were camped at
Speaker 1: a pretty like when you look at where their beds were,
Speaker 1: they were actually like dug into the snow in a
Speaker 1: way that they were pretty well supported. So when the
Speaker 1: thing hit them, they were pre demolished but probably didn't die.
Speaker 1: And then their camp mates like dragged them out to
Speaker 1: safety and then went downhill. Yeah, all went downhill from there. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's a wild story. Uh. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do think that this is the explanation. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's been Yeah, Yettie explanation, Eddie Gang, where are
Speaker 1: you at? Come on rebut this terrible study Yetie, they're
Speaker 1: going to uh they Yeah, I am making a lot
Speaker 1: of enemies. As reasonable as this might sound, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be what in big community, people like a sexier Yetie explanation.
Speaker 1: Come on watch, they're gonna be like, well, if they
Speaker 1: use Frozen, we will use the modeling of the child
Speaker 1: Child's film Abominable to then prove our YETI theory. It's like, well, no,
Speaker 1: that's not what they did. It wasn't just because there
Speaker 1: was a movie that that reinforced their their argument. But
Speaker 1: go at it yetie Gang, I'd love to see it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they probably will use the fact that, oh because frozen Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what did a nice monster do it? That elsa of
Speaker 1: created Right, That's where it's that's where you realize to like,
Speaker 1: you don't get don't get an arguments with conspiracy theorists,
Speaker 1: because if you're not on the same page, then nothing
Speaker 1: you're saying is real and there will be It's like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how you reverse engineer common ground.
Speaker 1: At that point, we're like, all right, well, where can
Speaker 1: we agree what snow? Can we agree that that's frozen
Speaker 1: like a water that's very in a solid state? Okay? Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on, what's Russia? And then it all falls apart
Speaker 1: like an experimental ground Russian governments of the world to
Speaker 1: like create like new bio bio organisms that are like
Speaker 1: like just terrorize the earth. Russia exists, right, and you're like,
Speaker 1: who's now, who's naive? Uh? Did you say Russia? What?
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back. Nancy Flosie told me about this new
Speaker 1: treat that she's stocking in her fridge. Uh in your
Speaker 1: telegram channel called lit Freezers. Yeah, Jenny's, which is what
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi had her fridge stocked with. It's like, uh,
Speaker 1: fourteen dollar a pint ice cream? Um, it's nine Jack
Speaker 1: don alright, I don't know. I think it's like twelve.
Speaker 1: Maybe you guys are just like Nancy Pelosi. You have
Speaker 1: no idea how much a pint of ice cream? Actually,
Speaker 1: I don't know, out of touch, how much is a banana?
Speaker 1: Did you guys read? There is that interview with Billie
Speaker 1: Eilish the other day where she was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know how much cereal costs. So I ordered like what
Speaker 1: I thought was a box of cereal and it was
Speaker 1: like fifty boxes of cereal. She thought a cereal boxing
Speaker 1: zero was like, yeah, she doesn't know. Like you're too young,
Speaker 1: probably doesn't even know what that because she's rich for
Speaker 1: so long. And the combination of like you're a teenager
Speaker 1: maybe doesn't buy your own groceries and now you're incredibly
Speaker 1: rich and have no idea how much things cost because
Speaker 1: she completely skipped that phase of life where you have
Speaker 1: like a little bit of money that you've earned and
Speaker 1: you try and go out to eat with your friends.
Speaker 1: That's a very formative period. So if you go straight
Speaker 1: from I don't know every time I go, my parents
Speaker 1: pay for everything to I don't know my accountant, I
Speaker 1: have a card to my account and gave me and
Speaker 1: I just I waived that at whatever. You don't have
Speaker 1: to choose between like seeing the movie and having dinner exactly,
Speaker 1: or be like, all right, fuck it, let's let's let's
Speaker 1: figure out what you got a calculator or just do
Speaker 1: it on paper with the tax Okay, so we'll get
Speaker 1: nachos and then a case idea, and then we'll all
Speaker 1: have enough to go in the movie and then maybe
Speaker 1: split a smoothie at the end. Okay. There's also that
Speaker 1: point where you're growing out of like being young enough
Speaker 1: where it's still kind of cute that you don't know stuff,
Speaker 1: uh right, right, which is why it's not cute that
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi doesn't know it's a bad look to have
Speaker 1: five hundred pints of really expensive ice cream in your
Speaker 1: fridge when people are starving. You know, like, how much
Speaker 1: is a violet insulin? Nancy, I don't know. She's like
Speaker 1: I don't know like three, but yeah, So this boutique creamery, Jenny's,
Speaker 1: it's not really boutique, it's a chain now right, huge
Speaker 1: Now they're huge. But they dropped a flavor everything Bagel
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it was viral marketing or whatever,
Speaker 1: but they call it violent marketing. They had somebody who
Speaker 1: I follow and trust on socials like I don't know
Speaker 1: how it's this good, but it is. And I was like,
Speaker 1: well that's enough for me. Yeah, I'm I'm worried because
Speaker 1: when I saw the thing, I'm like, get the funk
Speaker 1: out of my face with this everything Bagel ice cream.
Speaker 1: My friend Goldie was like, come on, you cowards, like
Speaker 1: put locks in there. Yeah, let's actually yes, I will try,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna do it. They mentioned how, you know,
Speaker 1: the like cream cheese like a great already stabilizer for
Speaker 1: ice creams as it is, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: put in a lot of like artificial things in it.
Speaker 1: So cream cheese is always like for for people who
Speaker 1: make ice cream, isn't anything new? Um, So I was like, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: I see the logic there, but like, really, like what's
Speaker 1: the description? They say? It's cream cheese ice cream with
Speaker 1: everything Bagel gravel like poppy set me onions and garlic.
Speaker 1: Here's what I think you really onions and garlics. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's everything Bagel, everything baby. I was just thinking like salty.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love everything bagels and I like a
Speaker 1: salty sweet thing. But I'm blaming this entirely on the
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's Everything Bagel seasoning that came out like last
Speaker 1: year where they put all that stuff in a shaker
Speaker 1: so you could just put it on stuff, and then
Speaker 1: in your Trader Juice fashion. They started just making a
Speaker 1: lot of other products that have that Everything Babel Bagel
Speaker 1: seasoning on it. So I think kind of the idea
Speaker 1: of everything Bagel. There's also just kind of like a
Speaker 1: bagel boom going on for Hope, They're You're late to
Speaker 1: the party. All there's been no bagel boom. There's I've
Speaker 1: been I've been down with the bagel boom since the eighties.
Speaker 1: There's that. I just feel like anytime you make a
Speaker 1: savory ice cream flavor, you're dancing with the devil. Did
Speaker 1: you ever go to a Stinking Rose the garlic restaurant? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But I did not get the garlic. Okay, so I've
Speaker 1: had garlic ice cream before, and garlic ice cream isn't bad.
Speaker 1: You know, It's not like something I go, oh, fuck,
Speaker 1: get the garlic ice cream because it's going up tonight.
Speaker 1: But it's one of those things you eat and you're like, damn,
Speaker 1: I'm actually more interested because it's not bad, Like I
Speaker 1: honestly think there are Yeah, I mean, like if they
Speaker 1: didn't call it ice cream, I think that's the key.
Speaker 1: I think if you made like a like I thought,
Speaker 1: I think about this always in the sun, or like
Speaker 1: soup popsicles, like a gaspacho popsicle and like a tomato
Speaker 1: soup popsicle. Maybe not a clam chowder popsicle, but just
Speaker 1: things like that, just thinking about it. But I think
Speaker 1: you have you gotta call it like a granita or something.
Speaker 1: If you call it an ice cream, like, people's minds
Speaker 1: go to sweet, and I feel like most of the
Speaker 1: time when people try to do savory, I don't really
Speaker 1: funk with all those artisanal ice creams that have like
Speaker 1: fucking like duck skin in them or whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of that lately. Wait, there was
Speaker 1: like salt and straw all they're weird as you know,
Speaker 1: things where it's like a thing you wouldn't expect an
Speaker 1: ice cream that's an ice cream. And there's a place,
Speaker 1: there's a place in Philadelphia called Little Babies that did
Speaker 1: a pizza ice cream. No, thank you? Right, Like I
Speaker 1: don't want that. I respect it's right to exist, but like, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's one of those things the idea you say
Speaker 1: no to, just like I would say no to everything
Speaker 1: bagel ice cream. No, don't need it. But we all
Speaker 1: have this morbid fascination to try. You would you not
Speaker 1: try this pizza ice cream? Jack, I'll try anything. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll try anything for free, right right? All right? Then
Speaker 1: maybe what we'll do is we can all go in
Speaker 1: a couple of bucks. Maybe we'll have zeit gang because
Speaker 1: it's expensive. If every if the listeners and all of
Speaker 1: us put in a dollar, we might be able to
Speaker 1: afford one of these points, one of the everything bagel points. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: did you wait? This is like related, But did you
Speaker 1: guys see the mac and cheese, the pink mac? And yeah,
Speaker 1: it made me hate mac and cheese more. By the
Speaker 1: end of talking about it, I was like craft has
Speaker 1: lost its way and it's like the Q and on on.
Speaker 1: You're like, I gotta put you to bed now. I
Speaker 1: just set like you could make it pink without making
Speaker 1: it sweet and cheese. But then I'm like, isn't it
Speaker 1: maybe sweet mac and cheese is just coogle? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think again, it's like you just
Speaker 1: have to have different words for these things. You could
Speaker 1: talk somebody into a sweet pasta. You just have to
Speaker 1: not call it Kraft mac and cheese but it's sweet
Speaker 1: because then your mind just reels. Yeah, I guess coogle
Speaker 1: would have been better, because now that you say that,
Speaker 1: I'll be like, well, yeah, okay, because I'm pro like
Speaker 1: dessert pizza. I'm pro a pizza ki. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean pizzuki is like not mixing flavors. It's just like
Speaker 1: taking the concept of pizza shapes and putting desserts in
Speaker 1: the shape of pizza. Like, I'm all about that, but
Speaker 1: like trying to make the base of the dessert actual pasta.
Speaker 1: I cannot abide it be J that you say that
Speaker 1: that's one of those restaurants like in my late teens
Speaker 1: that you're like, yeah, we're going to be J's Brewery
Speaker 1: with our fake I d s funk out of here.
Speaker 1: And then you're like, we don't have We shouldn't really,
Speaker 1: we can't really afford to drink in public. No, you
Speaker 1: can't afford the prices that any of those arcades. Those
Speaker 1: are for barcades. The barcade scene in l a Is despicable.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what y'all are charging so much money for
Speaker 1: these games? Like, no, have you been to that one
Speaker 1: spot in Hollywood that's like the pizza nineties pizza arcade
Speaker 1: in the before Now, I haven't been in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the pizza was okay, and the you know, they were
Speaker 1: they were going for an aggressive nineties aesthetic that just
Speaker 1: felt a little ham fisted for me. It feels ham fisted.
Speaker 1: But then there was also that one in like down
Speaker 1: by Dodger Stadium. Yeah, yeah, yeah that I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is so stupid. And then I was like, oh no,
Speaker 1: they like exactly got all the games, but they got
Speaker 1: It's like it wasn't eighties games. It was like late
Speaker 1: eighties early nineties games, so it was like arcade games
Speaker 1: like you we all played at the Hut, and I
Speaker 1: was like, it got me. I think Button Mash is
Speaker 1: still in business too, Maybe I mean, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: The barcade business is like very uh popping right now.
Speaker 1: There's one in Echo Park that closed. I'm sure stuff
Speaker 1: for me. I did all the experimenting I needed this
Speaker 1: week when I got a peanut Reese's Peanut butter big
Speaker 1: cup with chunks of pretzel inside. The chips one, oh chips,
Speaker 1: I don't know which chips the pretzel one as good
Speaker 1: as Oh my god. Her majesty steals them from set
Speaker 1: and brings them here Like any good person, if you
Speaker 1: have a partner who works in production, they better be
Speaker 1: stealing from rafty for you and bringing it home. But
Speaker 1: she came home with him, and she's like, you'll never
Speaker 1: guess what's happened. I don't know what the you got
Speaker 1: a promotion? And she like I hadn't seen them. But
Speaker 1: the chip one is fucking potato. Yeah I will. I
Speaker 1: will funk with some potato chips in there as like
Speaker 1: a you know, a salty accent. I might. I might
Speaker 1: do this Everything Bagel ice cream, you gotta do it.
Speaker 1: I want it doesn't especially because it doesn't have locks
Speaker 1: in it like it it sounds like it might not
Speaker 1: even be that crazy, like it'll taste like a like
Speaker 1: a cheesecake ice cream probably right. The closest thing they
Speaker 1: say is like if you've had a garlic ice cream
Speaker 1: that was good or it's just like it's subtle. It's there,
Speaker 1: but you're not like, what's like a frozen you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like apparently has but I would do
Speaker 1: like you know, I would do a sour cream ice cream.
Speaker 1: There there are other you know, there's like a really
Speaker 1: good avocado ice cream, the Filipino ice cream, things that
Speaker 1: you might not necessarily consider for ice cream. Then you
Speaker 1: have it in ice cream and you're like, actually this
Speaker 1: kind of makes sense. There's only find out all right,
Speaker 1: let's finally dig into some wholesomeness. Uh that still has
Speaker 1: like a depressing news peg. So there's this guy, I
Speaker 1: don't know, did you guys know about cat Done, Sir
Speaker 1: Tom Moore? No? Okay, So he is a He was
Speaker 1: a nine year old man who was about to turn
Speaker 1: one hundred and decided to raise funds for the NHS
Speaker 1: uh by trying to walk a hundred laps in his
Speaker 1: garden before his hundredth birthday. Uh and just be like
Speaker 1: people just really liked him. He's just like a charming
Speaker 1: ass old man to the point that he ended up
Speaker 1: like collabing with a famous pop star on a song
Speaker 1: that went to number one in the UK. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: and he raised thirty five million pounds for the NHS,
Speaker 1: which is like incredible. Um, everybody loved him. He then
Speaker 1: got knighted. Uh and um he just passed away from COVID,
Speaker 1: which is not you like a little old man mustache
Speaker 1: this guy. Yeah, this is gonna be Anthony hopkins greatest
Speaker 1: role it really yeah, because like that ending the third act,
Speaker 1: you know you've got coronavirus love. I think it's bollocks
Speaker 1: what I bet he had. He's this whole star. I'm like,
Speaker 1: even if they make it up, this guy has some
Speaker 1: profound last words. Everyone's going to be sobbing. Yeah. He's
Speaker 1: spent his final hours with his kids, like reminiscing about
Speaker 1: their mom who passed away, and uh yeah, just seems
Speaker 1: generally like an awesome dude. Uns are from from all
Speaker 1: the other stories. Yeah, shout out to him, shout out
Speaker 1: to something. Uh to believe in? That's a that's that
Speaker 1: really speak to where we're at. Where are like new
Speaker 1: thing to believe in is a recently deceased, very old man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ocially this is a winner your British army man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys,
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Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
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