Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment last stravaganza.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined by a real dick,
Speaker 1: real real jerk who we're not gonna take it from,
Speaker 1: probably the most hated his small New Zealand shit. He
Speaker 1: is the hilarious, the talent to the legendary guy Montgomery
Speaker 1: wanted to be. Here is a man on the ground
Speaker 1: chicken into heaven like Mike and shut my mad lads
Speaker 1: are doing okay, the mad lads. I cannot I just
Speaker 1: cannot believe how, just as a you know, binary, looking
Speaker 1: at the US and New Zealand, how different things are going.
Speaker 1: Because the latest the news story I woke up to
Speaker 1: yesterday this morning was that, yeah, New Zealand's economy has
Speaker 1: bounced back in the third quarter, surges out of recession
Speaker 1: in V shaped recovery. Like it's all happening, it's all come,
Speaker 1: everything's coming up kiwi right now. That's right, And I
Speaker 1: would like to exceed me a huge amount of responsibility
Speaker 1: for that injecting what limited disposed by income I have
Speaker 1: to your local cafes, occasional flights to different cities, you know,
Speaker 1: domestic tourism if you will. Yeah, it is life as
Speaker 1: usual in New Zealand. And I will say I'm honored
Speaker 1: and flatted that you guys checking in with news really
Speaker 1: has America bothered to keep their finger on the thrumbing
Speaker 1: posts of the things of alter on New Zealand. And
Speaker 1: then now you guys are schooled up, and you know
Speaker 1: this is maybe a first in um transnational relations. But
Speaker 1: I barely know what's going on over there, fellas. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you the amount of American like pretty much
Speaker 1: since your election, remember that really efficient little piece of
Speaker 1: democracy you guys exercised over there, But since the outcome
Speaker 1: of that, it's just been like, it's like the entire
Speaker 1: nation has just been slowly turning the dial down on
Speaker 1: the US to the point that like if I skim
Speaker 1: read the local newspapers or generally the news, you guys,
Speaker 1: it's like it's it's really odd. I hadn't actually thought
Speaker 1: about it, but there, I mean, and I think part
Speaker 1: of it is that Trump's not been given the oxygen.
Speaker 1: He once was sort of like this low level throumming
Speaker 1: anxiety even from down here, has just has just been
Speaker 1: shown the door. Yeah, I think it's coming east. Being
Speaker 1: too much of a bummer to tell people about, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that that thing, that dumpster fire. Still somehow
Speaker 1: the flames are getting bigger. I thought, yeah, how there
Speaker 1: was Yeah, there was the analogy. I thought during your
Speaker 1: election it was like America was voting between a massive
Speaker 1: kerasene fire and a bucket of water. You guys voted
Speaker 1: for the bucket of water, but it's not a big
Speaker 1: enough bucket. But yeah, I'm talented New Zealand for sure.
Speaker 1: Is this a return to what things were like before
Speaker 1: the Trump administration? Or is this even quiet for New
Speaker 1: Zealand's honestly, the way that the way that we are,
Speaker 1: the way that people consume using information now, I cannot
Speaker 1: cast my mind back that far from relevant comparison before.
Speaker 1: It feels um. I haven't spoken to people in America
Speaker 1: for or actually been on a zoom call with people
Speaker 1: in America for a while, and it is a It
Speaker 1: is um because it's hard to not sound like a
Speaker 1: total ass. I've been talking about life in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: But it's just like, yeah, you're just you're just doing
Speaker 1: your You're doing your business. You know, you're out and
Speaker 1: about your doing your business, and you don't have the
Speaker 1: same volume of time in which you're just looking at
Speaker 1: a computer for new information about what's happening, and so
Speaker 1: I feel less informed. And honestly, that was it was
Speaker 1: really good. It was really good. Fuck you man, do
Speaker 1: we do we look a little more dead behind the
Speaker 1: eyes than the people you've been interacting with on a
Speaker 1: daily basis over there. Yeah, the energy is a little different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's it's great to be here, and
Speaker 1: you know, like it's it's a it's a process. But
Speaker 1: surely you've gotta be you gotta feel as though you're
Speaker 1: turning some some sort of corner. The numbers are hard
Speaker 1: and you're going into winter. Yeah, but we're turning the
Speaker 1: corner in the wrong direction. But it's like you've got
Speaker 1: the knowledge this must be the worst corner. And then
Speaker 1: you think we'll once we around this corner, surely, well
Speaker 1: mild corner. And then we realized we're in a maze
Speaker 1: of brutality. We're like, wait, they're just it's just all
Speaker 1: corners and each one worse than they let last. And
Speaker 1: then you wake up the next morning and you're Jack
Speaker 1: Nicholson from from the Shining just frozen solid exactly. Yeah, well, guy,
Speaker 1: we you're giving us life. We appreciate you giving us
Speaker 1: a little beam of sunshine from my New Washington. Yes. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know they'll be they'll be overwhelmed to hear that.
Speaker 1: I know. It took me. Took me a while for
Speaker 1: to build the courage to say that on Mike, but
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, what is something from your search history
Speaker 1: that's revealing about who you are? Um? I searched recently
Speaker 1: U for pregnant woman hormones UM, which that is Uh,
Speaker 1: it's something that my wife is going through right now.
Speaker 1: So we were we're do in April. So I just
Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, search that and see what kind
Speaker 1: of things go on with that, if it's a normal thing,
Speaker 1: how to deal with. But the stuff that's in Google
Speaker 1: is not very helpful. It's just like be funny, be caring.
Speaker 1: It's just like al right, well you know I try
Speaker 1: to do that like right before I can do yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: do you have any direct line connections to improve the mood? Right?
Speaker 1: So you did the crude dude Google search version of
Speaker 1: what to expect when you're expecting. When you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: pregnant woman hormones? What do I deal with my wife's hormones?
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I'm just a simple man. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're doing yet. We're five months out.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll acknowledge what's going on here here we go.
Speaker 1: I guess I should like a book or something, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, congrats man on your thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: first first kid? Was that? Was that a thing? A
Speaker 1: planned pregnancy within quarantine? I knew people who were like
Speaker 1: looking at it, like, well, this is a sustained period
Speaker 1: where I might be able to be around for a
Speaker 1: long time, So should we have a child? Did that
Speaker 1: enter the thing or was this something that you were
Speaker 1: just always always happening or did pandemic ha anything to
Speaker 1: do well? We I mean definitely the pandemic had a
Speaker 1: factor in the timing of it, for sure, because we
Speaker 1: we did planned, because we were like I'm usually out
Speaker 1: touring and on the road like a lot of weekends
Speaker 1: of the month, and right now I've been home more
Speaker 1: than I ever have, and I probably will be going
Speaker 1: into you know, the new year and stuff like that
Speaker 1: more than usual. And we were like, okay, I'll be
Speaker 1: here more like this is one of those things where
Speaker 1: if I was on the road all the time, like
Speaker 1: that's just that's kind of hard for her while she's
Speaker 1: pregnant and experiencing that, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: we kind of figured if we did it when we
Speaker 1: did it and uh, that it would be beneficial for
Speaker 1: for us both um and be the most helpful for
Speaker 1: her like along the way, so that way I'm not
Speaker 1: just like gone and then she's just like dealing with
Speaker 1: like everything while being pregnant. So yeah, but she's been
Speaker 1: She's been great through the process. Even though I'm googling
Speaker 1: hormones and stuff. It's it's more just like it's it's
Speaker 1: a foreign thing to me because like we're both pretty
Speaker 1: even keel people. So it's just like an adjustment, like Okay,
Speaker 1: this is like a this is like part of it.
Speaker 1: It's like a thing. Yeah, nice. Yeah, it's good to
Speaker 1: just know what what to expect throughout. I should have
Speaker 1: got that book. I should have got to expect when
Speaker 1: you're expecting comfortable for for women towards the end of
Speaker 1: the Yeah, that's what I've been reading and hearing about
Speaker 1: sleeping gets difficult. M Yeah, get that body pillow. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, I do highly recommend the body pillow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. I just I'm a side sleeper and I
Speaker 1: learned that tip from my home girl that was pregnant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was like, you might want to dry body phil
Speaker 1: because I remember it's like, hey, what's that thing. She's like,
Speaker 1: it's because I'm pregnant and it helps me sleep more
Speaker 1: comfortably because my body is all growing in different directions.
Speaker 1: I was like, huh. I was like, how do you
Speaker 1: think that work for me? Yeah? You're like you done
Speaker 1: with that thing? Or can I buy that all? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Exactly the second the child was born, I'm like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I'm coming to get that body pillow really quick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She's like, you don't want to say hi to the child? No,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no kid, give me the pillow during this pregnancy.
Speaker 1: Are you are your families based in l A Or
Speaker 1: do you have is your are your family is like
Speaker 1: on completely other parts of the country, because I know
Speaker 1: that's another thing a lot of people have been sorting through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so her family's in northern California. It's about five six
Speaker 1: hour drive away, so if they need to come into town,
Speaker 1: it's not crazy, but it's still you know, a bit.
Speaker 1: But my family is back in Kansas, so that's either
Speaker 1: a very very long drive it's like a twenty five
Speaker 1: hour drive, or it's you know, a flight home. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna try once the baby is born to stagger
Speaker 1: their visits and stuff. Hopefully this stuff with covides chilled
Speaker 1: out a little bit and everybody's a little bit more healthy,
Speaker 1: and you know, we got four or five months away,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. I'm hopeful we'll see. And I like
Speaker 1: that we just needed till covid to chill out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like take it, take a chill pill covid. Come on, bro,
Speaker 1: fuck we get it. Okay, we get its point made.
Speaker 1: Now you're just rubbing it in at this point. You're
Speaker 1: a sore loser at this point. Yeah, God, what is
Speaker 1: something you think? It is? Overrated? Billionaires donating money? I
Speaker 1: think they get so much credit and nobody ever donates
Speaker 1: more than they have like increased their wealth. I just
Speaker 1: saw that UM story today about Mackenzie what's your faces? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so she had given six billion dollars this year to charity,
Speaker 1: and they're like, isn't this incredible? And in Forbes she
Speaker 1: was listed in July as um having thirty billion dollars,
Speaker 1: and then in September this is this year. In September
Speaker 1: she had sixty sixty eight billion dollars um and then
Speaker 1: so she gave away four billion in that time. It's like,
Speaker 1: thank you. And she said her goal was to give
Speaker 1: away half of her money, which is hilarious for a
Speaker 1: person with sixty eight billion dollars to say that she
Speaker 1: only wants to give away half of it. And also,
Speaker 1: how can you say that and then give away such
Speaker 1: a smaller percentage of what you made, half of what
Speaker 1: half of your future earnings. It's just not money, Nick,
Speaker 1: you got four billion dollars laying around, That's what I thought.
Speaker 1: So you know, it is a lot of money. And
Speaker 1: she does this for literally no work. She owns four
Speaker 1: percent of Amazon on and just that she gets in
Speaker 1: this time, she's gotten a billion dollars every three days.
Speaker 1: I mean she I would say she probably did it
Speaker 1: for more work in terms of more work than Jeff Bezos,
Speaker 1: because she had to be married to that motherfucker for
Speaker 1: that many years, but uh I do like these yes,
Speaker 1: totally certain point. You're kind of like, let me look
Speaker 1: at that flock man, if I run this out a
Speaker 1: few more years, I can get half this bit. Literally
Speaker 1: everyone else in the world didn't marry him, so I'm
Speaker 1: not we all managed to do that. But the two
Speaker 1: things that they love doing is getting credit for giving
Speaker 1: away their money and sheltering the funk out of their
Speaker 1: money from from the government, from any like having to
Speaker 1: pay taxes, which is where it should actually be going. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the government will gladly take half of your money. They
Speaker 1: take half of a lot of people's money. Uh, who
Speaker 1: can't afford to fucking like put it in a tax
Speaker 1: shelter off off of offshore or whatever. Um So at
Speaker 1: the very least I wanna, um, I submit to the
Speaker 1: zeit gang. Let's uh, let's let's stop using Amazon. Boycott Amazon.
Speaker 1: Nick Turner said it, and when they kill me, look
Speaker 1: back to this episode of TDZ. Amazon is really the worst.
Speaker 1: It's bad. I've I've I started boycotting last year and
Speaker 1: it's incredibly difficult. Yeah, I think that's probably boycotting this
Speaker 1: year and having to pay like thirty dollar shipping on something. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know what probably stopped ads to then now audible.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, yeah, I love the Washington Post
Speaker 1: to look, it's not all terrible. Anyways, we do want
Speaker 1: to get to Kirk Cameron real quick because he's uh,
Speaker 1: he's part of the you know, let's do something for
Speaker 1: the holidays and own the libs a situation. Yeah, why,
Speaker 1: you know, why why do this? This the Growing Pains
Speaker 1: guy that I only remembers, the Growing Pains guy. Uh,
Speaker 1: he is attempting relevance yet again, but this time it's
Speaker 1: specifically to troll Governor Gavin Newsom. Now, look, well, I
Speaker 1: love to troll the funk out of like Gavin Newsom. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, please let me have Kamala Harris's Senate seat
Speaker 1: or Diane Feinstein's Gavin Newsom, let's talk. Um. This is
Speaker 1: a very specific take that they're they're going down this
Speaker 1: battle with him that they want to do, which is
Speaker 1: about you know, why are they stopping you know, the
Speaker 1: congregations of people just because there's a pandemic that's transmitted
Speaker 1: through the air and enclosed spaces and could lead to death.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why they would ask us to do that. Nay,
Speaker 1: why would they make this a law or say that
Speaker 1: we have to do this. So this dude has been
Speaker 1: doing some outdoor caroling. Uh, just like full on meet
Speaker 1: me out a parking lot. I'm gonna set up some
Speaker 1: p a s and we'll just yell into each other's
Speaker 1: mouths in the cold. And he did the like he's
Speaker 1: I think the second one happened recently in Thousand Oaks
Speaker 1: at the Oaks Mall parking lot, and they were just
Speaker 1: the photos were like yo, this is interesting, like no
Speaker 1: masks and and and singing. Um. Sure the police were
Speaker 1: called in which they just came up, didn't give any
Speaker 1: citations and just sort of like you guys should wear
Speaker 1: masks and they're like boo and then they left. So uh,
Speaker 1: this is all again so camera or Kirk Cameron control
Speaker 1: the governor and like like not even giving a funk
Speaker 1: about these people. Like sure, he's gonna bait these people
Speaker 1: in with the promises of like hey, get your holiday,
Speaker 1: jolly's off with everybody, and like we can sing like
Speaker 1: you know, falla la la la and all that ship.
Speaker 1: But really he's just doing that behind the scenes. He's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, man, this is just fun. Yeah, right. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wear a mask and I will be seventy feet
Speaker 1: away looking through binoculars. That's how camera was experiencing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but try and explain bananas without agreeing with Kirk Cameron's worldview.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen that video of him being like, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't think God exists? And then he holds up
Speaker 1: a bananas like explain this. It's like, uh wait, so
Speaker 1: the logic being like, wait, what is that mean? It's
Speaker 1: too perfect of a creation for a man to have
Speaker 1: created it, even though like basically all fruits that we
Speaker 1: consume these days have just been genetically modified and like
Speaker 1: by man, Yeah, by man. Bananas were the size of
Speaker 1: your pinky finger before humanity started, just like breeding all
Speaker 1: the biggest ones together. And now we don't even have
Speaker 1: like bananas that like our our elders used to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like we've got like we have like one banana on
Speaker 1: earth now, Thanks Kirk Cara, Thanks God or God Santo
Speaker 1: or mon Santo wherever funk you are, Uh, shout out
Speaker 1: to that one banana doing all that work? Though, great,
Speaker 1: great food? How well? I mean do you think Kirk
Speaker 1: Camera smokes weed that feels like a but that is
Speaker 1: look at this banana, like, I feel like he smoked
Speaker 1: weed once and saw God a guy who smoked weed
Speaker 1: on I feel like coming from Oh yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 1: met a white dude, a white pastor with dreadlocks who's
Speaker 1: like a Christian like pastor, and he was just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you thought about a banana, Kirk, Like,
Speaker 1: it's it seems like chaos on the outside and it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense, but when you peel it, it has
Speaker 1: the vital essences of things we need, like potassium and
Speaker 1: vitamins and and and the fibers we need for our bodies,
Speaker 1: sort of like Christ's love and salvation. From the outside,
Speaker 1: it may look like this one thing, but you really
Speaker 1: have to engage of that to understand it's nourishment. Kirk. Alright,
Speaker 1: I'm in Actually, I'm gonna be at the that was
Speaker 1: actually good. Yeah, I'll be that. I'll be a Hillsong
Speaker 1: with Justin Bieberrow this Sunday. Where am I white outfit? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because that dude was He said God was
Speaker 1: like making him cheat on his wife or some ship
Speaker 1: at tempted him and he fell down on the job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was cool. Glasses. All right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be right back, and we're back. A
Speaker 1: story that was kind of unimaginable, probably even a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, is now. I don't know, hopefully this
Speaker 1: isn't the new normal, But there is a former police
Speaker 1: captain who deputed was deputest, was funded with a quarter
Speaker 1: million dollars to try to track down the imaginary scheme
Speaker 1: that stole the election from Trumpact of this man is
Speaker 1: a fucking patriot, thank you doing round the clock surveillance
Speaker 1: on the kingpin mastermind of a seven hundred fifty thousand
Speaker 1: fake absentee ballots scheme. Okay, and he tried to fucking
Speaker 1: tell everyone this man it's like Mark, Mark Anthony, and
Speaker 1: Geary he was he's like sixty three. He was watching
Speaker 1: this person who he believed with others in this group
Speaker 1: of patriots to figure out if this was the kingpin
Speaker 1: of this fake ballot scheme. They one day, this man
Speaker 1: leaves for work, Geary follows him, like crashes into his
Speaker 1: car to force the guy to pull over. When the
Speaker 1: man comes out, pulls a fucking gun out and holds
Speaker 1: him at gunpoint, gets him on the ground, puts a
Speaker 1: knee to his back, and while some other goons hopped
Speaker 1: out take the guy's work van and take off with it.
Speaker 1: When the cops come, all to find out this guy
Speaker 1: is just a air conditioning repair technician, nothing more. He
Speaker 1: is just a man who lived in a like a
Speaker 1: like a mobile home park or something where this guy
Speaker 1: was tailing him. And they decided this was the guy
Speaker 1: who had a bunch of ballots in his van, which
Speaker 1: is why they tried to get him when he was
Speaker 1: in his work van, only to find the normal things
Speaker 1: that a fucking a c repair tech would have in
Speaker 1: their van. And when the cops came, they were like, Yo,
Speaker 1: what the funk are you doing? And the this guy
Speaker 1: a geary told the officer that arrives like, look, man,
Speaker 1: you can be on the right side of history of
Speaker 1: the wrong side, man, but I'm telling you this guy's
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. And they're like, okay, sir,
Speaker 1: like you're under arrest, Like what the funk is this?
Speaker 1: This is like false imprisonment, like all kinds of ship
Speaker 1: you're coming with us, And and the thing that you're
Speaker 1: talking about jack the quarter million dollars. Yes, this guy
Speaker 1: was fucking funded to do this work. To the tune
Speaker 1: of over two hundred sixty thousand dollars. He got a
Speaker 1: two hundred eleven thousand dollar payment the day after this
Speaker 1: confrontation took place, just directly wired into his kind of
Speaker 1: like what the Everyone's like, what the fund is this money? Uh.
Speaker 1: It turns out he's saying, I'm working for the Liberty Center. Uh,
Speaker 1: and this is a thing that's funded by this guy,
Speaker 1: Steve Hoates, who was a huge mega donor to the
Speaker 1: GOP and he was basically you know how before the
Speaker 1: election we were talking about how they were a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty seven thousand ballots in Harris County that were
Speaker 1: like the Republicans are trying to sue to get invalidated
Speaker 1: because this drive through Vote center he was. He was
Speaker 1: funding that legal battle, amongst many others. He was going
Speaker 1: all out to try and you know, funck the election
Speaker 1: up and also find evidence of fraud. This was his
Speaker 1: big thing. The Liberty Center's Facebook group was all about
Speaker 1: We're gonna find this fraud. They were asking people on
Speaker 1: their website being like, you please give us money. We
Speaker 1: have all these investigations going. They cost like two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, a very specific number per investigation. We need
Speaker 1: this money, and this is where we're at. And you know,
Speaker 1: apparently this man a Geary was telling law enforcement at
Speaker 1: every level. He asked the attorney general of the state,
Speaker 1: he like, the heads of police departments, the Texas Rangers, saying,
Speaker 1: this guy's got ballance. Man, I'm watching them, you gotta
Speaker 1: help me out with this. And they're all like, please
Speaker 1: stop calling here, Like you can't just call in a
Speaker 1: fake crime and expect us to fucking go do something
Speaker 1: about it. And he was pleading with them, which kind
Speaker 1: of brings me to an interesting point, which is what
Speaker 1: happens when you if you're in law enforcement and someone
Speaker 1: is so insistent that a crime is occurring, and them
Speaker 1: saying that they are also investigating, Like, at what point
Speaker 1: is their responsibility to try and figure out? Wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: are you just gonna harass somebody who's not doing a
Speaker 1: fucking thing because you're hopped up on like news Max
Speaker 1: and o A n conspiracy bullshit. So yes, that is
Speaker 1: a weird thing, and I hope this is not the
Speaker 1: new normal, but it feels like some ship as we
Speaker 1: get closer to January twenty and these people like on
Speaker 1: the full Trump Mago World Train are like, oh man,
Speaker 1: he's really gonna pull a switcher ru on him on
Speaker 1: January nineteenth, Like, come on, bro, Dad went to get
Speaker 1: cigarettes and is not coming back. It's it's truly wild
Speaker 1: how much just you know, Republican donors are able to
Speaker 1: manipulate the reality of of people who are in the
Speaker 1: thrall of of that party like that. This reminds me
Speaker 1: for some reason of the whole Tea Party movement and
Speaker 1: just uh, you know, five ten years on reading what
Speaker 1: was actually going on with the Tea Party movement being
Speaker 1: you know, billionaires funding the whole thing and like doing
Speaker 1: grassroots organizing to get these people to do their bidding.
Speaker 1: It's also this is the charities that they are donating to.
Speaker 1: This is when they say, I didn't know donated five
Speaker 1: billion dollars. It's to and to Liberty, the Liberty Center. Yeah,
Speaker 1: liberty has had such a bad run, just like from
Speaker 1: a PR perspective, the word liberty yeah fuck, I mean
Speaker 1: even the yeah, ever since Rebecca Lobo left, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Liberty ain't been right. Um, but yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know you know where this goes, how this evolves. But
Speaker 1: it's truly like this weird, Like you know, these mega donors,
Speaker 1: they get off on just being like, I think I
Speaker 1: can get a bunch of like poor, useful stooges to
Speaker 1: like so chaos and I can kind of be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: watch me do that ship with money or other people's money,
Speaker 1: rather than like substantively trying to actually like winning election,
Speaker 1: like you know, get more people out there to try
Speaker 1: and do some you know, door knocking or whatever. It's like, na, na,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a guy who is a cop to
Speaker 1: basically act like a fucking Steven Seagal character and maybe
Speaker 1: he'll manufacture some evidence of fraud and I don't care,
Speaker 1: but fuck it, Like, let's just do that. That's fun.
Speaker 1: I can do that with my money. America just needs
Speaker 1: the very the slightest stuff pushes to become violent, like
Speaker 1: you know, um right wing idealized like that. That's you're
Speaker 1: just helping them do what they already want to do
Speaker 1: in this and a lot of experts are saying this
Speaker 1: whole rejection of the election results is basically like they're
Speaker 1: just saying, Oh, this is what they're doing, is they're
Speaker 1: accelerating radicalization of the party by doing that. It's not
Speaker 1: just oh wow, they're they're not giving us like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: like even whether or not they know it or if
Speaker 1: it's intentionals, like the fact that the party line is
Speaker 1: now saying we're against reality is the one of the
Speaker 1: you know, it's a huge step towards fully radicalizing everything.
Speaker 1: And it's not like trump Ism, it's more just like
Speaker 1: GOP is just going like mask off with it, because
Speaker 1: the Trump is Um narrative is kind of like more
Speaker 1: than like I think he was just the dude at
Speaker 1: the concert, the first dude at the concert to smoke
Speaker 1: a blunt inside when the security is like a no
Speaker 1: smoking inside, and everyone's like, oh, we can smoke in here, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I was on that ship anyway too. That's basically
Speaker 1: what's happened. Not that Trump is anything new, it's just
Speaker 1: like he's just he's sparked up if before everybody else did,
Speaker 1: and everybody else knew what time it was, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was remarkable. Way after even after Mitch McConnell acknowledged Biden
Speaker 1: as president elect, there's still two stors and congressmen, uh,
Speaker 1: congress people, excuse me, Republican who have yet to acknowledge it.
Speaker 1: Um and I just wonder what would people be doing
Speaker 1: if there wasn't like just these people whose lives are
Speaker 1: spent doing Q and on Proud Boy bullshit, Like what
Speaker 1: if that was not there and no one had tricked
Speaker 1: them and going up to a fun party once where
Speaker 1: it turned into ruin their lives, Like, uh, it's just
Speaker 1: such a fucking waste of time and energy and lives,
Speaker 1: Like it's just a waste of lives, a ruiner of
Speaker 1: family relationships, and yeah, when you're so much unseen damage
Speaker 1: being done, it's hard. I get it just as a
Speaker 1: sports fan, right, Like one of my team's arsenal is
Speaker 1: fucking up right now. They are comically bad. But like,
Speaker 1: rather than read the posts that are like analyzing why
Speaker 1: it's so bad, even though they're objective analyzes of like
Speaker 1: what's going wrong, I'd rather read the article where the
Speaker 1: staff at the club are saying, yeah, we're actually we're
Speaker 1: we expected all of this turbulence right now, and it's
Speaker 1: all part of the plan because you've gotta we gotta
Speaker 1: get through this to reach the next evolution. Like it's
Speaker 1: it's like an equivalent where it's like I don't want
Speaker 1: the objective or like just make me feel good or
Speaker 1: like less bad about the thing that I'm so attached
Speaker 1: to being bullshit or at least on some like very
Speaker 1: humanistic you know, like that's just our need to never
Speaker 1: feel like we're fully losing or you know, because we
Speaker 1: we have this like sort of binary of winning are
Speaker 1: losing in our minds, especially with politics, that it just
Speaker 1: turns into this thing was like whine fucking losing. So
Speaker 1: if I'm not losing, then I'm choosing to follow que
Speaker 1: truck Nuts are not the only thing that's in short supply.
Speaker 1: Bregsit has people across the pond as the as the
Speaker 1: media cliche goes, people in England are concerned about you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're going to have shortages. Um, yeah, because they
Speaker 1: want to break up with the EU. They want to
Speaker 1: around and now they're like, well we still need to
Speaker 1: they still need to sort out a trade deal because
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, maybe politically we're not aligned, but like
Speaker 1: trades a huge thing and like we need stuff from y'all,
Speaker 1: and like we're an island, So what's going on right
Speaker 1: now that has not been figured out? And if there's
Speaker 1: like a straight up no deal BREGSIT on that it's
Speaker 1: going it could be. It could lead to shortages, price
Speaker 1: hikes on certain things. But it kind of really underlines
Speaker 1: just how my to you know, the global economy, you know,
Speaker 1: and how much we rely on other countries for certain
Speaker 1: imports and things like that. Because if they don't have
Speaker 1: a deal in place with the EAR, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to like revert to like World Trade Organization norms or
Speaker 1: there's like certain tariffs on things, and that could really
Speaker 1: change things for people in the UK. Things that okay,
Speaker 1: so if they don't figure out a deal, these are
Speaker 1: some of the things that people in the UK will
Speaker 1: have a lot of trouble and not a lot of
Speaker 1: trouble getting, but pay more. Yeah, it could be a
Speaker 1: little pricey. For example, pizza dough is made from wheat,
Speaker 1: very varieties that they have to get from other places,
Speaker 1: avocados and bananas. Most of that ship is imported. So
Speaker 1: that's another thing that ever happy millennials will starve to death.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be real, if there is no avocado,
Speaker 1: toast or diamond industries for them to ruin and so
Speaker 1: you're messed with my pizza. Now this is getting seriously
Speaker 1: what about ham? You can't get ham if you're in
Speaker 1: the UK because a lot of the good ham like
Speaker 1: the loins and things like that are coming from across
Speaker 1: the like from the EU. Broccoli. Tomatoes, that's another thing.
Speaker 1: Like you know, apparently the UK only produces a fifth
Speaker 1: of the tomatoes that they actually sell within the country. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry tomatoes tomato. Um, come on, UK, say potatoes.
Speaker 1: I say tomato, right, I think that's potato. How do
Speaker 1: you say it? Oh? Also potato, that's an elevator. But
Speaker 1: so they also wine will be tough to get. But
Speaker 1: the things that they can get, so don't worry, you
Speaker 1: get plenty of mutton because that's all being grown. Carrots, Yeah,
Speaker 1: keep peas, carrots and beats. Don't worry, UK, You're good.
Speaker 1: Plenty of those. They have this listed like it's a
Speaker 1: combination or that beat root, peas, carrots and beat root,
Speaker 1: like those are core staples of Is that just more
Speaker 1: popular in the UK than um? I mean you could.
Speaker 1: I mean beats are kind of having a I mean
Speaker 1: their renaissance. J stands are popping in the UK. Right yeah, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I think maybe because it's probably one of the things
Speaker 1: that they have a ton of. That's where they're just
Speaker 1: pointing out like, look, we're good in the UK when
Speaker 1: it comes to beats, carrots and peas or bread. Uh,
Speaker 1: they say, toast and chips. Don't worry about that because
Speaker 1: we got enough potatoes. Uh you know, we have Scotch whiskey. Uh,
Speaker 1: so we don't we need to worry about wine. But
Speaker 1: this adding is chips. Yeah. Well yeah, unfortunately with cod
Speaker 1: for fish and chips that's coming from Norway and Iceland,
Speaker 1: so that's going to be a bit of a hit.
Speaker 1: Lobster they got that. They have toast and chips, lobster
Speaker 1: and chips, which as far as I know, aren't like
Speaker 1: the only thing I've ever heard of his fish and
Speaker 1: chips are cotton chips. So it feels like they're trying
Speaker 1: to start something here with toast and chips. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: seems don't worry, you can get this thing we just
Speaker 1: made up. Yeah, we we totally have lots of it.
Speaker 1: It's it's not a problem. Plenty of that when that
Speaker 1: came from. Don't worry, you won't want the fish and
Speaker 1: chips anymore. That's that's the thing. In the past. We
Speaker 1: do have um uh well, um, we have a peanut
Speaker 1: butter and chips and oh yeah, lots of new things.
Speaker 1: They exciting. You gotta try it. I think I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go to Nando's. Thanks anyway. Oh yeah, but lobster,
Speaker 1: I mean they I didn't realize they have an abundance,
Speaker 1: as they say in this Daily Mail article of crab,
Speaker 1: prawns and lobster. So you're good on the Yeah, living
Speaker 1: that good life. I guess. I guess they'll be fine.
Speaker 1: After all, this would be enough to change my politics.
Speaker 1: I have traditionally been pro bregs. But yeah, which was
Speaker 1: the hammer? Pizza? Pizza? A course, you don't mess with
Speaker 1: my pizza. Okay, you've always said that. Uh, as long
Speaker 1: as I know for the past, you don't do that. Alright,
Speaker 1: that's a crossing the line where I'm from. That was right,
Speaker 1: I have miles. You were talking about having a little
Speaker 1: bit of a history with St. Louis. I lived in
Speaker 1: Columbia for the first three years of my marriage. Um,
Speaker 1: many many, many miles from any airport. So did a
Speaker 1: lot of spend a lot of time driving driving in Missouri.
Speaker 1: Why were you there for three years of school? Uh?
Speaker 1: My wife was going through medical school. Yes, Columbia is
Speaker 1: not bad Columbia is a nice little college town. It
Speaker 1: is the definition of college. Yeah. We were like within
Speaker 1: earshot of the football stadium, so you could just like
Speaker 1: ambiently get the the vibes that I never had, uh
Speaker 1: in my college time because we didn't have like a
Speaker 1: big college football team. But y umcents. Yeah, yeah, decent.
Speaker 1: Wait what's the college of that missoo missoo? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: my cousin went there. Yeah. I didn't know that was
Speaker 1: in Colombia journalism school. Brad Pitt went there, didn't he.
Speaker 1: I believe that's correct. That is on the on the
Speaker 1: sign when you're entering the university. Red Pitt one here,
Speaker 1: it's a statue of him like eating an apple, eating
Speaker 1: nacho because he's always eating so good at eating. Man,
Speaker 1: that guy he is. He photographed eating a lot. He
Speaker 1: think of any movies, Oh yeah, I guess you're right,
Speaker 1: any Oceans film fight clubs, now, like you can. I
Speaker 1: can always picture a moment where he's eating or taking
Speaker 1: a bite of something. Yeah, he's got to work that
Speaker 1: that chisel jaw actually draws attention to the chisel jaw.
Speaker 1: I noticed it in the Oceans and then I like
Speaker 1: went back and like in Eat Eat Joe Black, Fruitian
Speaker 1: Flip but Meet Joe Black, he like there's a thing
Speaker 1: where he tries peanut butter of the first time. Like
Speaker 1: I I feel like there are certain people who just
Speaker 1: have things written into their contract that they have to do,
Speaker 1: and eating is like, you know, show off the Tom Hanks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, we do. We do like talking about Yeah,
Speaker 1: John Cusack likes to be stuck in the rain. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of Some people say they like Tom
Speaker 1: Hanks has had a career in acting just for easy
Speaker 1: access to doing pecenes for large cruise one way or another.
Speaker 1: If he hadn't broken into Hollywood, he was going to
Speaker 1: get into the porn game. Because have you guys heard
Speaker 1: about that podcast where he fired a guy on on
Speaker 1: the set of Band of Brothers because he had dead
Speaker 1: eyes And this guy goes back to the podcast is
Speaker 1: called dead Eyes. I just started listening to it. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1: This guy. It was like, you know, listen as like
Speaker 1: a podcast of the year, and I just heard the
Speaker 1: first episode the other night. But it's called dead Eyes.
Speaker 1: And this guy was like got his first acting gig
Speaker 1: um in Band of Brothers and he was he's American.
Speaker 1: He was over in London studying theater and and acting.
Speaker 1: He was really struggling to get a job over there,
Speaker 1: and like out of nowhere, a band of brothers starts
Speaker 1: casting and it's like he has a chance as an
Speaker 1: American to get get a role, and he gets it
Speaker 1: and then they take it. He calls everybody knows he's
Speaker 1: so excited to speaking role. Like it's not he has
Speaker 1: like ten lines, but it's just huge, you know. And
Speaker 1: and then he gets a call from the casting director
Speaker 1: that says, you have to re audition because Tom thinks
Speaker 1: you have dead eyes and they're not. He wasn't supposed
Speaker 1: to find out he had dead eyes. That was a
Speaker 1: note from like the assistant that told him that. And
Speaker 1: he goes in and he has a re audition and
Speaker 1: then he gets fired by Tom Hanks spreading dead eyes.
Speaker 1: So he's going back and like investigating it and finding
Speaker 1: out like what happened, and um, yeah, and it's it's
Speaker 1: it's really fascinating. That's a whole new level of rejection
Speaker 1: because like that's because that's you're being rejected by America's dead.
Speaker 1: Here is one thing to get her rejected by your
Speaker 1: own dad, but by the entire tree the world's I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm like what I'm feeling right now,
Speaker 1: whether it's at like, wait, Tom Hanks is capable of
Speaker 1: bad or also am I putting myself in dead eyes position?
Speaker 1: And I'm like what? But I can't help my eyes?
Speaker 1: How can I undead them? Like? Did he come in
Speaker 1: wild extra for the audition was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: Sergeant Baker, Captain Winter's we got it. We have to
Speaker 1: take that hill. That was the curious part I was.
Speaker 1: I was confused as to why he didn't talk about
Speaker 1: his re audition and how he tried to make his
Speaker 1: eyes more lively. I would think that that would be
Speaker 1: something you would move him more, but he didn't mention that.
Speaker 1: And then I googled him, which when I was going
Speaker 1: through my Google searches for you guys, I saw his
Speaker 1: name and I go who is that? And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I I google to see if he had dead eyes
Speaker 1: and he kind of does, like they're a little bit sociopathic,
Speaker 1: a little bit like just like looking through you, which
Speaker 1: is not a bad thing. He's actually a really great actor,
Speaker 1: communic actor, and uh, he's like a UCB guy and
Speaker 1: really accomplished. But um he he. In fact, I did
Speaker 1: see what Tom was talking about. But I do think
Speaker 1: that maybe Tom has a bad side, you know, Like
Speaker 1: I mean, we could have never guessed. Yes, Connor Ratliffe,
Speaker 1: is it okay? I mean Tom Hanks is a producer
Speaker 1: on that show, and it's like, on the one hand,
Speaker 1: it's not great that it got back to him because
Speaker 1: that's very personally insulting and something that he can do
Speaker 1: nothing about. It would sound like, but that is kind
Speaker 1: of his job, is if somebody has miscast or like
Speaker 1: doesn't isn't like reading on the screen. Like, I kind
Speaker 1: of don't big grudge Tom Hanks the ability to fire
Speaker 1: people for having dead eyes, especially because as we as
Speaker 1: we've discussed, I've always said that actually Tom Hanks, but
Speaker 1: he might have had that specifically duck in his head
Speaker 1: because he was coming off of Polar Express, where the
Speaker 1: mo cap is specifically known for like giving Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: the deadest eyes that any movie character has ever had.
Speaker 1: On the show. Seriously, that, I mean, that's a really
Speaker 1: good point. He said. He walked into the re audition
Speaker 1: and um he and Tom's in there, and he didn't
Speaker 1: recognize him because he looked like ship. He said, he was,
Speaker 1: like he looked terrible and he has just gotten done
Speaker 1: filming cast Away and so he lost all this weight
Speaker 1: and you know he didn't know what he was all
Speaker 1: skinny and like just like looked homeless for and um
Speaker 1: it just like I have you guys ever found out
Speaker 1: something about yourself that you weren't supposed to know like that,
Speaker 1: Like I try not to hear. I would never I'm
Speaker 1: not one of those people that wants to know what
Speaker 1: people really think about me. I would like to live
Speaker 1: in in the world where you know, like I talked
Speaker 1: ship it about people, so I assume ever people talk
Speaker 1: about me, and it's like it's there, right, I don't.
Speaker 1: It's that whole phrase of like it's none of your
Speaker 1: business what other people think about you. I try to
Speaker 1: like I would. I wouldn't be one of those people
Speaker 1: that's like, if you could be invisible for the day,
Speaker 1: what would you do? And I wouldn't like go to
Speaker 1: hear people talking about me. Ever. Yeah, not necessarily not
Speaker 1: a good idea, but people like that. It's like a
Speaker 1: thing where like you're not I mean, like when you're
Speaker 1: susceptible to that, like it shows that you're very like
Speaker 1: you can't live from your inside out, you know, like
Speaker 1: you're living from the outside in. Everything that's happening outside
Speaker 1: of you is actually determining your internal space rather than
Speaker 1: coming from a place like yeah, I don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe my mouth is crooked, which is and I'm like,
Speaker 1: but I don't give a funk. That's just that's what
Speaker 1: it is. Uh, And I don't care. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, like, I can't see my own
Speaker 1: fucking mouth, so gives a ship. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: You can't meant to see our reflections. Like ever, what
Speaker 1: I was just gonna says is a great mouth, not crooking.
Speaker 1: It has si our performance review that you wrote up
Speaker 1: of meine one bro he wrote, bro your mouth dog
Speaker 1: dog Yeah, like what I've done the roasts, you know,
Speaker 1: Like that's when you are subject to those those things
Speaker 1: that you're like, oh, I didn't even know that about myself.
Speaker 1: But people, just the writer's room for those they just
Speaker 1: sit and stare at a picture of you all day
Speaker 1: and take it a heart and say like the worst
Speaker 1: things possible. And it's really led me to be deeply
Speaker 1: insecure about things that I didn't, you know, I already
Speaker 1: have insecurities, and then they find new things and um yeah,
Speaker 1: like and one that comes back to haunt me all
Speaker 1: the time is like people said I look like Owen Wilson,
Speaker 1: which is I kind of didn't like I guess it.
Speaker 1: And the way you guys just laughed just confirmed it.
Speaker 1: To pull up a photo and really give it a gander,
Speaker 1: like we totally like yeah, we oh, yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: work on an impression of him that would be killer.
Speaker 1: But he has a he's like a feminine looking man,
Speaker 1: so I'll take it. Um, but that one's come back
Speaker 1: to hurt me a lot. And I definitely did see it,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, you know, I gotta I
Speaker 1: like booked a m an appointment with a plastic surgeny
Speaker 1: person after the roast to like go like fix some stuff.
Speaker 1: It was wild. I spent so much money different dumb stuff, uh,
Speaker 1: just to like you know, and then and then they'll
Speaker 1: make fun of you for looking plastic, so it's like
Speaker 1: you can't win. But I did have dead eyes for
Speaker 1: a while. Um when I I got like botox, that
Speaker 1: really does kill your Like that's that's talk about dead eyes.
Speaker 1: And now it's all gone. It's like it's with COVID.
Speaker 1: You can't have any more touch ups. So I feel
Speaker 1: so good like having my face just like being able
Speaker 1: to move again and back to normal. Because I did
Speaker 1: you feel like there was any diminished, uh, feeling like emotions.
Speaker 1: I've read that that's something that happens where when your
Speaker 1: face is frozen, you're less able to even feel the
Speaker 1: emotions because it's the two way street. Did you that, No,
Speaker 1: you know, I already have a hard time feeling my feelings,
Speaker 1: so I think that I was already just like it
Speaker 1: was probably just felt pretty good on top of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I did cry. I was on Who Wants to
Speaker 1: Be a Millionaire right before the pandemic, like right when
Speaker 1: it happened that week. It was like the one of
Speaker 1: the last things that filmed before everything shut down, and
Speaker 1: I had a lot of botox in my face, and
Speaker 1: I cried on that show, Like it's so weird that
Speaker 1: I don't cry, but when the camera was in front
Speaker 1: of me, and it was a real cry. It wasn't
Speaker 1: for the camera, like I accidentally said the wrong answer
Speaker 1: and like I locked in the wrong answer. You know,
Speaker 1: it was between two things and I was like, it's
Speaker 1: not this. I know it's not this. And then I said,
Speaker 1: you know, be final answer, and it was what I
Speaker 1: was saying was not so everyone knew, like I just
Speaker 1: funked up. And I go and I'm screaming and I
Speaker 1: cry because it's like it was just because I just
Speaker 1: didn't take my time and I just gotten done telling
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel, the host, that I really want to be
Speaker 1: patient and and think and um, and I was just
Speaker 1: so disappointed myself. So I started crying. And it looks
Speaker 1: like I'm fake crying because my face can't move. It's
Speaker 1: just like a tear falling out of a frozen face.
Speaker 1: And uh. And that's when I was like, you gotta
Speaker 1: get that stuff out of you until until the next roast.
Speaker 1: And that someone makes you feel bad again. By the way,
Speaker 1: Polar expressed two thousand four, Band of Brothers two thousand one,
Speaker 1: So maybe Tom Hanks should have worried about his own
Speaker 1: dead eyes. All right, let's take another quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. And we're back. One thing I
Speaker 1: was looking at it was interestingly enough, is The New
Speaker 1: York Times devoted a bit of page space to the
Speaker 1: trend the pandemic trend of squirrel tables, Um, the squirrel
Speaker 1: table sort of stuff like the squirrel tables. You haven't
Speaker 1: seen these kinds of memes are like not memes, Like,
Speaker 1: but I felt like at the very beginning of Lockdown,
Speaker 1: I was definitely seeing these like videos and images of
Speaker 1: people creating like picnic benches for squirrels that they would
Speaker 1: put on trees or fences and like just be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, look the squirrels eating at this table
Speaker 1: I made, and it's eating sunflower seeds, and people just
Speaker 1: getting giddy by being like I made a cool restaurant
Speaker 1: for a squirrel. Um, okay, that's kind of cute. This
Speaker 1: isn't I'm really the only one that was tapped into
Speaker 1: the world. Was like this does not ring any kind
Speaker 1: of bells for me. You were, what, what's your algorithm?
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I think it's like it's it's
Speaker 1: it like modulates between like Europeans saw Sucker, NBA weed
Speaker 1: like hip hop beats and then like moments that will
Speaker 1: make you cry because you skipped therapy this week. Um,
Speaker 1: but this one the trend. And so as they're saying,
Speaker 1: they really tried to dial like dial in where the
Speaker 1: origin of this trend was. They said the trend seemed
Speaker 1: to have started in March quote when Rick Kalinowski, an
Speaker 1: unemployed plumber in brent More, Pennsylvania, posted a series of
Speaker 1: pictures of a squirrel feeder in the Facebook group all
Speaker 1: about squirrels. In one widely shared picture, a squirrel sits
Speaker 1: at the table attached to a fence and grasps peanuts
Speaker 1: in its little hands. Um, Now, just a quick history
Speaker 1: about squirrels, which I didn't know. I just thought there
Speaker 1: were things we have lived with a long time. Apparently
Speaker 1: like we got very close to like eradicating squirrels from
Speaker 1: cities because people are just like, oh, these are crop pests,
Speaker 1: are like their game, Like they're not for fucking hopping
Speaker 1: around our our neighborhoods and things like that. But they
Speaker 1: had a nice rehabilitation in the mid eighteen hundreds, UH,
Speaker 1: in places like Philly and Boston, they began reintroducing squirrels
Speaker 1: to like the urban environments to quote beautify and enliven
Speaker 1: the urban landscape at a time when American cities were
Speaker 1: growing in geographic extent, uh, population density, and cultural diversity.
Speaker 1: And then once the urban park came along, it was
Speaker 1: Frederick bestowed upon us. Yeah, I mean we all know.
Speaker 1: I mean we all have the tattoo. Um squirrel is
Speaker 1: basically once like we have more parks, they really began
Speaker 1: finding their place and like trees and in suburbs and
Speaker 1: in cities. So now cut to like us living vicariously
Speaker 1: through these tiny animals. It sounds like something that my
Speaker 1: my like aunt would post a Facebook and be like, Now,
Speaker 1: this is true bipartisanship. There are some things we can
Speaker 1: all agree on. And it's at a squirrel on the
Speaker 1: table makes me laugh and look at him eating. Today
Speaker 1: my best customer the Loneous Chipmunk, which I think is
Speaker 1: the name of a famous squirrel. This is much hie
Speaker 1: under to the squirrel than some of the YouTube squirrel
Speaker 1: clicks I've gone after, which are people who are unhappy
Speaker 1: with squirrels taking the bird their bird seed. Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: this is a and there are some true hilarious depending
Speaker 1: on what you know, mean um obstacle course aficionados that
Speaker 1: have like really taken it two squirrels because as anyone
Speaker 1: from the Midwest like myself knows, they will get that
Speaker 1: bird seed right, well, they will get the bird seed
Speaker 1: well going going off this. I want to make a
Speaker 1: quick YouTube recommendation. There's a channel I learned about recently
Speaker 1: called James Blackwood, the Raccoon Whisperer. He's a guy that
Speaker 1: lives in Novaca, Nova Scotia, and it's just truly thousands
Speaker 1: of videos of him feeding raccoons peanut butter sandwiches every
Speaker 1: single night. The raccoons are gigantic and they love him
Speaker 1: and he has them on the schedule, and it's just
Speaker 1: if you want to see a retiree feed, like thirty raccoons,
Speaker 1: is this how Grizzly Man DoD It's so, it's the
Speaker 1: raccoons are so because they have fingers and hands and
Speaker 1: it's cute and so that's yeah, there's a whole He
Speaker 1: has four hundred thousand subscribers. Is Werner Hurtz not gonna
Speaker 1: narrate that too. It's like Raccoon Man came to the
Speaker 1: hung Old. He uploads twice a day. It's just like
Speaker 1: and all the videos are called like Mobbed by Raccoons Tuesday,
Speaker 1: November three day. This guy is a content machine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we think we release a lot. Well, he's going twice
Speaker 1: a day, no days off with the raccoon content. I
Speaker 1: will say this, like people are I mean, it's nice
Speaker 1: to see people product like be productive in their time
Speaker 1: off at least like they're being like, I'm dedicate my
Speaker 1: time at least feed some animals and like poisoning the
Speaker 1: raccoons or like that. But I posted one of the
Speaker 1: pictures from this article. People are making like full on
Speaker 1: charcouterie boards for squirrels, and that's where I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: I get it if it's a hobby and helps pass
Speaker 1: the time, Like I'm not gonna judge you, but like
Speaker 1: I'm looking at that, I'm like, yeah, I'm too greedy
Speaker 1: with my food to ever put a platter out for
Speaker 1: an animal who won't give a funk about the presentation.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, for at that point, I feel like
Speaker 1: that's people doing it more for content than for the animals,
Speaker 1: which is annoying. They're like, oh, isn't this funny, and
Speaker 1: you're like, I guess whatever, More like you're no raccoon whisperer,
Speaker 1: more like shark CUTI that has to be a fucking
Speaker 1: Instagram page. I'm sure showing the best of people to
Speaker 1: step on. I didn't want to step on Jamie's raccoon mention. Sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't interrupt me when I'm talking about the raccoon whisper.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean credit to all these people. I mean,
Speaker 1: look if if just because we can't dine out, it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean we can create that experience for our squirrel friends. Guy,
Speaker 1: I'm actually curious, what is the like, what what are
Speaker 1: what would you say? The national consensus in New Zealand
Speaker 1: is around UFOs aliens like as compared to what you've
Speaker 1: experienced in America, Um, we we just we struggled to
Speaker 1: do anything on the same scale as you guys. It's
Speaker 1: such a nice way of putting it. We don't have
Speaker 1: a Roswell rom this time last year, actually I visited
Speaker 1: I was in ros. I visited Roswell in New Mexico,
Speaker 1: and it was like, you know that they're sort of like, ah,
Speaker 1: people said they saw something that got heavily debunked here
Speaker 1: sixty years ago. Why don't we brand our entire town
Speaker 1: around it? But here it's like it's it's probably just, um,
Speaker 1: there's nothing, there's nothing in the mainstream. You know. You
Speaker 1: talked to a few people who are hobbyists who sort
Speaker 1: of very like low level fringe conspiracy theorists to get excited.
Speaker 1: But it's it's not really a feature of discourse, right
Speaker 1: what about over there were I dabble a little bit
Speaker 1: and there's something there's there's some wild sightings off the
Speaker 1: coast of Australia, and now it'shere. It's it's almost like
Speaker 1: an exit strategy for you guys like I need. It's
Speaker 1: only fucking explanation. Um, well, just an update that John O.
Speaker 1: Brennan very close to having my same name was but
Speaker 1: the oh was a middle initial. Um he was CIA
Speaker 1: director under Obama. Uh so completely you know, evil and
Speaker 1: manipulative monster, but someone with the highest security clearance, like
Speaker 1: he probably knows who killed Kennedy and all the where
Speaker 1: all the bodies are buried, all that good stuff. But
Speaker 1: the surprising thing here is not just that he's like
Speaker 1: open to the possibility that UFOs are the result of
Speaker 1: intelligent life, but also like how mysterious and completely wide open.
Speaker 1: The whole thing seems to him like there's at one
Speaker 1: point he says, uh, life besides what's in the States,
Speaker 1: meaning like that other it seems to apply that other
Speaker 1: countries might be aware of different life forms that we're
Speaker 1: not aware of. And then he says that there might
Speaker 1: be life defined in many different ways, uh, and something
Speaker 1: that we don't yet understand that could involve of some
Speaker 1: type of activity that some might say constitute a different
Speaker 1: form of life. So it's like he's opening the door too.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if it's robots or what.
Speaker 1: Like Ted talk at Burning Man director, but he just
Speaker 1: sounds like a great classroom. He sounds like us when
Speaker 1: we first saw those videos. He's like, you know, I
Speaker 1: think we should be open to everything. Those videos are
Speaker 1: fucking wild man right right. Essentially, he's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: When people talk about it, is there other life besides
Speaker 1: what's in the States, in the world, the globe, life
Speaker 1: is defined in many different ways. I think it's a
Speaker 1: bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there's
Speaker 1: no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe.
Speaker 1: What that might be is subject to a lot of
Speaker 1: different views. But I think some of the phenomenon we're
Speaker 1: going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might
Speaker 1: in fact be some type of phenomenon that is the
Speaker 1: result of something that we don't yet understand. And that
Speaker 1: could involve some type of activity that some might say
Speaker 1: constitutes a different form of life. Okay, your cryptic fuck
Speaker 1: as if being the head of the CIA wasn't enough,
Speaker 1: You're like it might be. Could it? Wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: hilarious if like we were just so wrong scientifically that
Speaker 1: like something like oh, yeah, waters aliens what they're like? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What then do you think like that's the whole reason
Speaker 1: ships popping here is because of water. That ship is aliens.
Speaker 1: That's the aliens, the water drinking aliens. Yeah, my body
Speaker 1: is aliens alien. Yeah, yeah, I don't know, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't that the way he's speaking, and it's almost
Speaker 1: like his mind's been fucked, Like he's totally at his
Speaker 1: mind blown, like someone who's like just has like the
Speaker 1: calm of like seeing like zooming out to a point
Speaker 1: where you're like, honestly, man like, clothes don't even fucking matter, dude.
Speaker 1: After the ship, it's real high plane of consciousness sort
Speaker 1: of galaxy brain stuff. Right. It's like hearing anyone who
Speaker 1: is a very specific expert at a thing try and
Speaker 1: explain it to you in layman's terms, and you're like
Speaker 1: that you can see that their brain is working over
Speaker 1: time to try and articulate it in a way that's accessible.
Speaker 1: But what comes out and just completely fails, Like there's
Speaker 1: no there's no forced salads going out sides a word
Speaker 1: salad where the cruton is the word phenomenon. Use the
Speaker 1: word phenomenon, Like every couple bites that phenomenon. If you
Speaker 1: take the phenomenon out, it would just be a wit myss.
Speaker 1: The CIA, did you know, during the Cold War, have
Speaker 1: a habit of dosing each other with lsd uh for
Speaker 1: you know, as a bit kind of uh and also
Speaker 1: because they thought it a way to control people's mind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, maybe maybe maybe he's appled. It sounds a
Speaker 1: little bit like somebody here does. Yeah, like you said,
Speaker 1: had their third eye opened a little bit, right, it's
Speaker 1: a guy who came back from a shroom trip for
Speaker 1: the first time. Yeah, but like really just even decided
Speaker 1: to like look at a problem with this set, like
Speaker 1: with this vocabulary of just being like, you know, when
Speaker 1: someone goes like, I don't know, it's weird, like some
Speaker 1: people call it pain, and I realized if you zoom
Speaker 1: out a bit, it's a sensation. And then from there
Speaker 1: we fork off to say whether or not that sensation
Speaker 1: is pleasure or pain. So I take a view even
Speaker 1: further back that that sensation not pain. And this guy's like,
Speaker 1: you know this first line that he says, I think
Speaker 1: it's important for analysts to do. The important thing for
Speaker 1: analysts to do is not go uh into this type
Speaker 1: of challenge, either discounting certain types of possibilities or believing
Speaker 1: in advance that is likely X, Y or Z. It's
Speaker 1: it's such a good articulation of hallucinogens. It's just like
Speaker 1: it's just a person pushing zoom out on the opispicitive
Speaker 1: of life, and some people just get they think it
Speaker 1: caught on the zoom out button. They're like, get your
Speaker 1: the command minus key. You know you text is too
Speaker 1: small now, if anyone wants to I think one thing
Speaker 1: we're learning here is that if anyone wants to immobilize
Speaker 1: John O'Brennan or render him moot for like seven months,
Speaker 1: they just have to introduce him to the Joe Rogan podcast,
Speaker 1: because this motherfucker would love the Joe Rogan or he's
Speaker 1: like too hard for Rogan. He goes on, there goes dude,
Speaker 1: you're full of ship. Dude, you don't even you fucking no,
Speaker 1: you're out here with your fucking Navy seals who run marathons.
Speaker 1: You're fucking stupid. Man, what's this podcast even? You? Fuck?
Speaker 1: I can't be here, man, I can't even be here
Speaker 1: right now with the ship, I know, like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I talked to this journalist who I want to He's
Speaker 1: like a historian journalist who I wanna develop a podcast with,
Speaker 1: and ahead of our call, he had like clearly just
Speaker 1: like tried listening to podcasts a couple of times for
Speaker 1: the first time, and that was his exact vibe. He's like, Joe,
Speaker 1: listen to Joe Rogan, what the fund is that? Like,
Speaker 1: it's just so unimpressed. I was like, yeah, well we
Speaker 1: wouldn't we wouldn't do that necessarily. But he's like, what
Speaker 1: the fund is that? Man? That's the future exactly. Ship.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk smoked a blunt on their dog. All right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this week's weekly zeitguys, please
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