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Speaker 1: You do travel. What's going on? It's me you dot
Speaker 1: a a K. A young dood who watches too much
Speaker 1: anime a k. A old dude who watches too much anime.
Speaker 1: Depending who you talk to? Uh, what's up? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: not much, you know, just How's how's New York? How's
Speaker 1: How's what's new over there? Oh it's all right. I
Speaker 1: just got back. Um, so I've been at I've been
Speaker 1: at my apartment mostly. Okay, Well, what do you mean
Speaker 1: you just got back from. I was in New York,
Speaker 1: in the streets of New York. Yeah, I was in.
Speaker 1: I was on the streets of New York. I was
Speaker 1: just you know, I just got just got back home. Uh. No,
Speaker 1: I was in. I was in Beaute, Montana, of all places.
Speaker 1: What were you doing in Montana? I was in? I
Speaker 1: was Yeah, I was going to just hanging out with
Speaker 1: some of my biker friends. Um, just in the middle,
Speaker 1: Like it was kind of a lot of us just
Speaker 1: kind of you know, packed into a parking lot. Um,
Speaker 1: just you know, shaking hand hugging, kissing, you know, typical
Speaker 1: biker san Um. Yeah, no, I was. I was. I
Speaker 1: was shooting a movie. Oh cool. What was that like
Speaker 1: on set? Because I know, I mean, having friends and
Speaker 1: family and production, it's it seems like a lot more going,
Speaker 1: a lot more work, especially for crew. Yeah, it's Um,
Speaker 1: I've been I've been tested four times in the past week.
Speaker 1: I think, just make sure I'm not sick. And there
Speaker 1: was a period where I was not allowed to leave
Speaker 1: my room and uh and also the hotel might have
Speaker 1: been haunted, so that I think that was unrelated to
Speaker 1: I think that would have been the case. That would
Speaker 1: have been the case regardless of COVID. But you know,
Speaker 1: it was just I mean, it's basically the premise of
Speaker 1: the shining. It's just that instead of a blizzard keeping
Speaker 1: you inside the hotel, it is the coronavirus pandemic, but
Speaker 1: you still coronavirus pandemic. And also a lot of racist people.
Speaker 1: Hold on, Jack, we gotta we gotta script going there
Speaker 1: were you able to feel the local racism and beaute.
Speaker 1: It was weird because I I feel like, um, because
Speaker 1: of COVID, Asian people are getting it harder than black
Speaker 1: people right now, and so there was an Asian dude
Speaker 1: on cast who definitely felt it. I felt like people
Speaker 1: were being too nice to me, Like I, yeah, like
Speaker 1: two people asked me from money on the street, and
Speaker 1: then I went back and talked to the rest of
Speaker 1: the cast. Was like, people asking you for money, and
Speaker 1: all of them were like, no, nobody's asked any of us.
Speaker 1: I was like, it's like this weird thing where they
Speaker 1: feel like they have to ask me because they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's not like guaranteed to be poor anymore. It's not
Speaker 1: that it's not like that people have money. You're a
Speaker 1: rich person. In my mind, I'm not racist. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: one of them was Australian, which was very weird to me.
Speaker 1: They were begging on the street and they were Australia.
Speaker 1: Was a whole Australian man with blonde dreadlocks. I was
Speaker 1: just gonna ask if he had dreadlocks. Yes, he absolutely did.
Speaker 1: He was exactly the type of person you think he was, uh,
Speaker 1: and it just made me feel sad. I was like,
Speaker 1: you gave up health insurance and live in a mining town,
Speaker 1: you know, like you might be safer in Australia with
Speaker 1: those dreads. Yeah, it's got to be a rough climate
Speaker 1: to be unhoused in. Yeah, yeah, it's probably pretty bad,
Speaker 1: but I don't I don't know. It was just like
Speaker 1: it was just a very it was a very weird place.
Speaker 1: There was also there was also one bar that everybody
Speaker 1: told me very specifically not to go into because nobody
Speaker 1: was wearing a mask. And I walked outside one day
Speaker 1: and there was just one dude standing outside in this
Speaker 1: haunted ass town, two teeth in his mouth, and he
Speaker 1: looked at me and I looked back at him and
Speaker 1: he goes, hey, man, you okay. I was like no,
Speaker 1: and then he just and then he points to the
Speaker 1: he points to the bar that everybody told me to
Speaker 1: not go into, and he just goes, have you ever
Speaker 1: been in here before? And I was like no, and
Speaker 1: I don't plan to And I kept moving. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: think about it. Think about brushing my teeth as soon
Speaker 1: as they get back. Yeah. Wow, interesting, it's a weird place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's about what I would have expected a weather in
Speaker 1: New York? Is it? Uh? Are you guys still in shorts?
Speaker 1: Because we have people dunking on us from Brooklyn being like,
Speaker 1: oh man, it's it's fantastic. It's not bad. It's um
Speaker 1: especially coming from like nineteen degree weather, is it you?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you must be like you're in a tank
Speaker 1: top now, oh yeah, reflective panel in a sun chair.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm out shirt off, sitting on the roof,
Speaker 1: just uh tanning, but like as a bit right right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like it's not it's not doing anything. It's just yeah,
Speaker 1: just a funk with the Google Earth photographer. Yeah, Joel,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are? This is so embarrassing. I was to
Speaker 1: your lovely Daniel before we got it on. I have
Speaker 1: been researching a lot of pokemoningly you know your combinations?
Speaker 1: How do they work? This is my stress reliever. Now.
Speaker 1: I got a Nintendo for myself. My brother bought Pokemon
Speaker 1: and immediately I was like, oh, this is what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do for my stress relief. There's no uh, geopolitical
Speaker 1: analytics in here. I don't have to worry about race
Speaker 1: relations in this app. No one's making podcasts in here.
Speaker 1: It's just you just catch a Pokemon and if you
Speaker 1: find another Pokemon and then you buy a cool outfit.
Speaker 1: And it's like the best fake retail therapy because I
Speaker 1: can't afford to do actual retail therapy anymore. Uh, you know, Pokemon,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening. Oh my god, that's incredible. We're surviving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so wait, what are some what are some particularly? What
Speaker 1: are what are the top Pokemon? I'm like, how do
Speaker 1: I because I was gonna so, I mean, so tell
Speaker 1: us about these pokemons? Tell us more. Um, listen for
Speaker 1: the children out there, slash older adults. You never got
Speaker 1: out of their child favorites. Um, really boosting up my
Speaker 1: my champ. He's a fighter, he's he's got big boxing gloves,
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. A slur puff, which looks like
Speaker 1: whipped cream is really I like it because depending on
Speaker 1: what kind of fruit you give it, it turns into
Speaker 1: different Pokemon, so you get a variety of the same thing. Um.
Speaker 1: And then I can't remember the name of my elephant,
Speaker 1: but I got it and it's cool and I love it.
Speaker 1: And this is on switch yes, which again It's just
Speaker 1: it's amazing stress relief. It's really great when it's late
Speaker 1: and falling asleep, you just you pop it in and
Speaker 1: you get to bike all over little countrysides that look
Speaker 1: like London. It's wonderful that I read recently about there
Speaker 1: was like a big well and by big, i'm like
Speaker 1: YouTubers I watched discussed it at length. But there was
Speaker 1: like a big Pokemon scandal where bear with me. I
Speaker 1: guess Loganmogan Paul, He's not the villain of the story. Shockingly,
Speaker 1: Logan Paul has a Pokemon dealer, which is a job
Speaker 1: you can have, and this Pokemon dealer dealt like arranged
Speaker 1: this big Pokemon deal and then these guys paid two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars for a set of Pokemon cards, and
Speaker 1: then it turned out the Pokemon cards were fake, and
Speaker 1: now there's all these It was a Pokemon fraud scandal,
Speaker 1: and I really loved watching it unfold because it was
Speaker 1: a bunch of du faces with too much money being like, well,
Speaker 1: the cards about to get here, and they were like
Speaker 1: live streaming it. They're like the most expensive Pokemon deal ever.
Speaker 1: And they opened the cards and they were like, well,
Speaker 1: these are clearly fraudulant. It's like regular paper stock that
Speaker 1: you would get staples. Yeah, it was just a pile
Speaker 1: of printer paper. I'd just like to say that the
Speaker 1: game is thirty dollars right now. It's on sale. You
Speaker 1: don't have to for anything. There are no in app purchases,
Speaker 1: to the best of my knowledge. Just go ahead and
Speaker 1: save your money, you know, invest that in something, give
Speaker 1: it to a child in need. Please don't spend that
Speaker 1: kind of money on paper. It doesn't make sense. It
Speaker 1: simply doesn't. Don't do anything that Logan Paul has already
Speaker 1: done that. I thought that's been a rule of thumb
Speaker 1: for years. Good idea, perfect guideline. I do wonder like
Speaker 1: for sports cards and Pokemon cards and like physical things
Speaker 1: like that. I do feel like we're reaching a point
Speaker 1: where I mean, we can make any video like make
Speaker 1: people seem like they're saying things that they haven't said,
Speaker 1: like perfect precision, and like you know, sneakers like that.
Speaker 1: One of the ways that people they're getting quote counterfeit
Speaker 1: sneakers is like the people who make those in other
Speaker 1: countries are just like here, I'm going to make a
Speaker 1: couple more, and they won't go through Nike, but you
Speaker 1: will get the exact same thing, and those are like counterfeit,
Speaker 1: but it's like what, I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 1: the philosophical question of like what counterfeit is is going
Speaker 1: to arise more and more, especially with regard to Pokemon cards.
Speaker 1: That seems like a pretty easy one to to knock off.
Speaker 1: But maybe maybe I'm missing something. I understand the collectible.
Speaker 1: You're definitely not missing anything. The collectible aspect of it
Speaker 1: is what's keeping people going, and like it's only it's
Speaker 1: the belief that's like keeping people connected, right, like no
Speaker 1: mine is real, like so it depends on how you value,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess the subject of the thing because
Speaker 1: with with baseball cards was like, oh that was like
Speaker 1: a moment in history, like they printed it while this
Speaker 1: guy was in run, you know, and now that's where
Speaker 1: Tea retired. So there are no new base though if
Speaker 1: you really like that player, then you have to have
Speaker 1: that card. That I totally I somewhat understand that I
Speaker 1: don't quite understand, Like to your point, like especially the
Speaker 1: use of a Pokemon card is like in a game,
Speaker 1: so as long as you have the correct information in
Speaker 1: front of you can play the game. So it's bizarre.
Speaker 1: But you know, I also know people spend like a
Speaker 1: ton of money on like rare Monopoly sets, and I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think when you have too much money,
Speaker 1: you're just looking for something to brag about, and like,
Speaker 1: I bought this like incredible rare thing, and now you
Speaker 1: have to value me and my collection as well. It's
Speaker 1: a weird cyclical thing. Like we're talking before we started
Speaker 1: recording about the Donkeys market. The Dunkin Donuts shop that
Speaker 1: they just opened that has tandem bicycles, it has a
Speaker 1: Dunkin Donuts bathrobe immediately sold out, like everybody just bought
Speaker 1: all of the Dunkin Donuts bathrobes. Um, but that's more.
Speaker 1: I mean, I couldn't just try to jump to their
Speaker 1: defense as I always will for Duncan Donuts. I feel
Speaker 1: like they're marketing. It's going to sound like I'm being
Speaker 1: paid to say this. I'm not. I think their marketing
Speaker 1: has gotten so weird and savvy recently where they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: we're an old ass like doughnut brand that is mostly
Speaker 1: known for like really mean moms going to like that
Speaker 1: is their consumer base. But then they're just kind of
Speaker 1: like they're they're definitely trying to hit the teen market
Speaker 1: because they gave Charlie Demelio her own Duncan beverage and
Speaker 1: as a regular Duncan customer, I'm a very mean mom. Uh,
Speaker 1: but like there's now teenagers at Duncan Donuts all the time.
Speaker 1: It's like you can tell Charlie Damelio brought her fucking
Speaker 1: TikTok base to Duncan Donuts and now they're releasing merch
Speaker 1: like it's sneaker drops, Like it's just they're trying. They're
Speaker 1: they're trying some stuff out. It seems to be working. Also,
Speaker 1: the Charlie Damelio drink has so much dairy in it
Speaker 1: that I'd like I was sitting just for young people,
Speaker 1: for the young's. It's for teenagers only for adults. That's
Speaker 1: so interesting that Duncan Donut. It seems almost random that
Speaker 1: Duncan Donuts is the brand that like got this culture.
Speaker 1: Like McDonald's tried really hard with their like Travis Scott
Speaker 1: Meal and yeah, that work definitely sold out in a
Speaker 1: couple of hours, Like the children loved it. And I
Speaker 1: live across the street from a McDonald's. There was a
Speaker 1: line around the block for like probably a solid week
Speaker 1: to get into McDonald's to get the stupid meal which
Speaker 1: is already on the menu. It's yeah, I'm so confused.
Speaker 1: Wait that was for the box, Like how would you
Speaker 1: sell out of the meal because is there is there
Speaker 1: a meal? Like is there a box that comes with it? Okay?
Speaker 1: So the Travis then came in two parts, right, So
Speaker 1: first there was online merch right, so they had like
Speaker 1: the jackets and stuff. So all of that stuff sold out.
Speaker 1: But then McDonald's had a shortage of like the burger.
Speaker 1: I think with some of the condiments that go on
Speaker 1: his specific burger, they were like running out. They couldn't
Speaker 1: keep it in stock because so many people had come
Speaker 1: through to purchase this burger. I didn't get the meal,
Speaker 1: but I do think it came its own like practice
Speaker 1: jack style box, but don't keep that. It had food
Speaker 1: in it, like just gonna smell like a cheese burger
Speaker 1: for like untouched by human hands. My favorite product they
Speaker 1: had was a cactus Jack McDonald's lunch trees, you know
Speaker 1: the brown trees and he's McDonald's. Yeah. That was checking
Speaker 1: a biber like fifteen bucks, and I was like, this
Speaker 1: is tempting, but no, so steal it for no bucks
Speaker 1: because those things are the easiest things to Still, these
Speaker 1: kinds of grips are not going to work forever, but
Speaker 1: they're definitely working right now. I have nothing to look
Speaker 1: forward to. I think yeast that was like half of
Speaker 1: the cell was like something new. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: have to have it. It's just new. Yeah. Yeah. It's
Speaker 1: just interesting that we are. It's almost like we're going
Speaker 1: into opposite or seemingly contradictory directions, whereas one like consumers
Speaker 1: or like materialism is breaking down, like you can replicate
Speaker 1: anything easily, and then on the other hand, we're like
Speaker 1: going super hard on like okay, there are only five
Speaker 1: McDonald's bathrobes that we all need to get because it
Speaker 1: has the special tag in it. And it's it's almost
Speaker 1: like we're having a end of materialism like panic moment
Speaker 1: where we have to like really dig in our heels
Speaker 1: and be like this matters. Somebody who just bought two
Speaker 1: suits from Beyonce. Yeah, I where will I wear these suits?
Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere, literally anywhere, not to dinner, not
Speaker 1: to but I have these suits. Later, I'll come clean.
Speaker 1: I bought the Duncan Dubai. It will be on my
Speaker 1: my bed come Christmas. Al Right, guys, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll come back and talk the dreaded news.
Speaker 1: And we're back. All right, let's talk about what this
Speaker 1: lockdown is doing to our brains. Miles, you brought a
Speaker 1: article from the BBC about a kind of a study
Speaker 1: or I don't know where were they using science or speculation? Well,
Speaker 1: they are using science and then just what neuro neuroscientists
Speaker 1: just know to be true about how our brains work
Speaker 1: like and and a lot of people like experts themselves
Speaker 1: experiencing it too. I've noticed old family. Yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 1: my grandfather he's ninety three, and he he used to
Speaker 1: go to his church social group and do ship like that.
Speaker 1: But it's all old people that he hangs out with,
Speaker 1: so that that's gone down. He's like less talkative. I
Speaker 1: mean it's very pronounced, they say, and like especially like
Speaker 1: convalescent homes and like you know, old folks homes for
Speaker 1: lack of a better term, And so they're saying, you know,
Speaker 1: the lack of socializing and isolation is definitely a contributing
Speaker 1: factor to how like our memories are even being formed
Speaker 1: and stored. So you know, the isolation part I think
Speaker 1: most people can figure out, because yeah, like we're just
Speaker 1: we've completely changed the rhythm of our days. But you
Speaker 1: know a lot of things is like it's these smaller
Speaker 1: conversations where if we don't feel you know, like any
Speaker 1: kind of talk you have by the refrigerator or water cooler,
Speaker 1: by the elevator, walking in somewhere, walking out somewhere, like
Speaker 1: we're always just like talking, like we always just have
Speaker 1: something to tell, like talk about we can talk about
Speaker 1: what we did last night, what we're doing this weekend,
Speaker 1: what even some dumb ship you talked about your friend
Speaker 1: with on the phone. And that repetition of stories apparently
Speaker 1: they're saying that helps to actually keep our memories sort
Speaker 1: of consolidated and organized within our minds. So like they
Speaker 1: call them episodic memories. So if we don't, if we're
Speaker 1: missing on that socializing aspect, it's those things don't crystallize
Speaker 1: in the same way they do and like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm telling my weekend story three times today, you know,
Speaker 1: like you it's like you know that that that momentum
Speaker 1: helps build our memories. And then when we do get
Speaker 1: the chance to chat. They're saying, like, because we are
Speaker 1: isolated and we aren't having we're not doing as much
Speaker 1: as we normally do. We also have fewer stories to
Speaker 1: tell when we see each other. Like it's just kind
Speaker 1: of like we're almost like, yeah, how's it been like own,
Speaker 1: Like everyone's kind of in the same thing where we
Speaker 1: we look at the same we sit in the same place,
Speaker 1: look at the same screen, do the same thing, and
Speaker 1: they're because of like this sort of cycle of very
Speaker 1: little change, it slowly works its way into, you know,
Speaker 1: affecting our ability to form and recall memories, because even
Speaker 1: like it's something as simple as people feel like holy shit,
Speaker 1: Like normally I can remember my fucking teachers from kindergarten on.
Speaker 1: I can tell you every single fucking teacher I had,
Speaker 1: And it's like the other day, I took me fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes to remember who this teacher was or whatever. And
Speaker 1: that's all part of just kind of like we're not
Speaker 1: fully using all of those faculties as much as we
Speaker 1: can be as a result of this lockdown. Yeah I was,
Speaker 1: I was saying, I think early on, like I had
Speaker 1: the same feeling as when I would always park in
Speaker 1: the same parking garage, and like after it was like
Speaker 1: six months of parking in the same parking garage because
Speaker 1: like all those memories just like kind of collapsed on
Speaker 1: each other. I could never remember where the funk my
Speaker 1: car was because it was just all like one endless
Speaker 1: expanse of memories of that parking garage. I feel like,
Speaker 1: same deal with now. Just like being at home, constantly working,
Speaker 1: recording from home them, you just don't have the those
Speaker 1: events that get your heart rate up a little bit,
Speaker 1: where you like, you know, go somewhere, drive to work,
Speaker 1: getting mad at the person who cuts you off, go
Speaker 1: to work, tell people about the person who cut you off.
Speaker 1: You know, just dumb ship that we take for granted.
Speaker 1: That is like what you know, our our brain is
Speaker 1: meant to have that social interaction. Yeah, I'm I'm loving
Speaker 1: the hell out of not having to, you know, because
Speaker 1: I have social anxiety not having to be anxious around
Speaker 1: people all the time. But I don't think overall it's
Speaker 1: good for my health and for my mental health. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that anxiety is a good long term Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like this past week has been like
Speaker 1: the first maybe like one of two times I've left
Speaker 1: New York and definitely the only time I've left my
Speaker 1: home for an extented period. I feel like it's the
Speaker 1: most granted it was last week, but I feel like
Speaker 1: it's just the most vivid string of memories that I've
Speaker 1: had six months. Well, yeah, because that's what it is.
Speaker 1: When we're just isolated and we've especially for people who
Speaker 1: work from home, you just we don't have these cues
Speaker 1: that we normally have, like even commuting, right, like you
Speaker 1: use your hippocampus to like navigate the earth to get
Speaker 1: home to your destination. And when you don't do that
Speaker 1: that we're starting to like we're using that less. And
Speaker 1: then also like everyone's on the same We sit in
Speaker 1: the same chair looking at the same zoom meeting, he's
Speaker 1: talking to the same people. Like that also blends around
Speaker 1: and like this neuroscientists saying, it's like it's like playing,
Speaker 1: It's like you need black keys on a piano or
Speaker 1: else you don't know where the funk you're at if
Speaker 1: it's all white keys. And that's what happens with our
Speaker 1: our memories because we're not punctuating things properly, like yeah,
Speaker 1: they're there, but our way to differentiate is completely lost
Speaker 1: because we don't navigate like the roads like we used to.
Speaker 1: If we do things, it might be the same thing.
Speaker 1: So a way to get around that is something like
Speaker 1: as simple as like if you walk your dogs or
Speaker 1: you go on walks, go a completely fucking different route
Speaker 1: because most of the time we'll walk the same fucking
Speaker 1: route just to be like, oh it's time to do
Speaker 1: my walk or I'm gonna go here. Do just do
Speaker 1: ship like that because the more you're putting yourself in different,
Speaker 1: different space, you're now looking at new ship. You might
Speaker 1: hear different ship. It's just like these subtle changes to
Speaker 1: that can help go a long way. And even if
Speaker 1: you're stuck at home and you really can't go outside,
Speaker 1: like they say, even just try something completely different, like
Speaker 1: if you've never fucked with puzzles, like just fucking like
Speaker 1: give yourself something to try too. Because the more we
Speaker 1: can break up the monotony of it, that's just gonna
Speaker 1: help sort of give our you know, lockdown lifestyle is
Speaker 1: a little more texture that we can, you know, still
Speaker 1: remember things because if you said something to me about
Speaker 1: May the month of May, I couldn't tell you a
Speaker 1: fucking thing like I don't because we used to be like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, because that was two months before the trip
Speaker 1: that I normally go on, which is in June. That
Speaker 1: that that that that. But because we don't have any
Speaker 1: of that, it's really important that we are giving ourselves
Speaker 1: like enough things to stimulate our minds. Even though we're
Speaker 1: comfortable that, but we still need that flexibility with our brains. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I started, uh, I started skateboarding at twenty nine. And
Speaker 1: the last thing I remember before that is getting diarrhea
Speaker 1: in Ghana. It's palm oil. Yeah, no, I I I
Speaker 1: ate uh, beach meat. I ate meat meat on the beach.
Speaker 1: I'd ate beach meat in Ghana too. I had goat
Speaker 1: on a skewer. Oh yeah, had so yah. Yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: that's what I had. That's what I had. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I know people are like, you want to do that? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, they're eating it. I'm good. Yeah, did
Speaker 1: you get sick? No. The thing that I got when
Speaker 1: I was in Ghana was just the amount of palm oil.
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't used to palm oil being in a
Speaker 1: lot of food, So that was I think that was
Speaker 1: the one thing I had to get used to, is
Speaker 1: the amount of palm oil that's used in cooking, and yeah,
Speaker 1: that's been my whole life. I think I just like,
Speaker 1: I hadn't been to Africa since I was sixteen. I
Speaker 1: went to Nigeria and I think my body just lost
Speaker 1: all the enzymes or whatever, or maybe it was cooked.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah either way. Right, it's always funny
Speaker 1: telling people I got a stomach virus and then I
Speaker 1: say it was in Ghana and they get so much
Speaker 1: more concerned, like, oh God, like, did you did you
Speaker 1: have visions? Yeah? Yeah, did you like see visions? Yeah? No, No,
Speaker 1: not ourselves and our body like completely swap out, like
Speaker 1: within a period of six years, seven seven. That's wild.
Speaker 1: We're just like completely new organisms seven years off, um
Speaker 1: seven to ten years damn. Okay, Yeah, I wish I
Speaker 1: knew when that was happening. I could be a little
Speaker 1: more on top of it. You're like, yo, man, I'm
Speaker 1: about to get my whole new cell shipped up in
Speaker 1: about two months. Bro, let's talk, you know when it's
Speaker 1: all reset, Like yeah, like, trust me, I will get
Speaker 1: to this project. I just need my ship to reset
Speaker 1: cycle out. That will definitely be a SPA treatment in
Speaker 1: the future where you let go and they just like
Speaker 1: accelerate it, so like get all your cells switched out.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, just let me go re up right quick.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, I like broccoli now that's w yeah, because
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the same that's the same time period.
Speaker 1: They say your your sense of taste like evolves over
Speaker 1: it's like every seven to ten years. You oh right,
Speaker 1: you start liking different foods. By twenty I liked mushrooms finally, Yeah, mushrooms.
Speaker 1: So it was twenty and that makes sense around if
Speaker 1: we're going by sevens and tens. Damn, that's wild. I
Speaker 1: started doing mushrooms when I was like fifteen. But put
Speaker 1: that ship on a pizza. Um, let's talk about ambient TV.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a piece that I really enjoyed in
Speaker 1: the New Yorker. They've written you up before, Jamie. You
Speaker 1: might have heard of them the New Yorker. Um. They
Speaker 1: they were writing about Emily in Paris and kind of
Speaker 1: how their description of Emily in Paris was very dystopian.
Speaker 1: But they overall we're saying that it reminds them of
Speaker 1: like the rise of ambient music, like the Briany No Thing,
Speaker 1: where he made music that um, he considered as ignorable
Speaker 1: as it is interesting. UM and like that these TV
Speaker 1: shows are basically designed to be background music, like nothing.
Speaker 1: The plot is incredibly thin on purpose, like so that
Speaker 1: you can miss half of it and still just kind
Speaker 1: of have a sense of what's going on. I've always
Speaker 1: used sports this way, like as a thing that you
Speaker 1: can just have on in the background and not really
Speaker 1: pay any attention to. Um. And evidence of that is
Speaker 1: like I can have sports on and my kids don't
Speaker 1: give a shit about it because like won't suck them
Speaker 1: into a TV comma, like literally everything else is because
Speaker 1: it's bad television. UM. But they're making the point that
Speaker 1: this whole movement, like they were talking out other Netflix
Speaker 1: reality shows that um, like the Taco Chronicles, Dream Home Makeover,
Speaker 1: they really go in on. I haven't seen that, but
Speaker 1: apparently very bland. I yeah, I don't, Joel, did you
Speaker 1: watch any of Emily in Paris? I got bitch watched
Speaker 1: Emily in Paris. Let me talk about it, Okay, I
Speaker 1: love uh And we call AMI television. My crew calls
Speaker 1: a depression TV, which is like I can't afford to
Speaker 1: get emotionally infested in anything right now, Like the world
Speaker 1: is already too much right but I need something on
Speaker 1: the TV because then otherwise I'm just alone with my
Speaker 1: thoughts and I don't want that either. That's not a
Speaker 1: good recipe for me to get through this evening. So
Speaker 1: Emily in Paris No, definitely not a great show. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's happening with any of the fashion in there.
Speaker 1: It's a hot mess. I don't care. I was in
Speaker 1: six You're like, where, what years this? Who did this?
Speaker 1: And why? I don't know. I don't care about any
Speaker 1: of the characters. I was surprised anyone could like develop
Speaker 1: a heated emotional reaction to it, because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of discourse and they're like, Emily is so rude for
Speaker 1: going to Paris and shoving her American ways in their face,
Speaker 1: and like that's literally the plot of the show, like that.
Speaker 1: You should have tuned that after episode three. But it
Speaker 1: was perfect for me because I was just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's just there and I can be on my phone
Speaker 1: scrolling Twitter, which is what I really want to be doing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: It's not silent, and it's great. I really feel like
Speaker 1: we perfected this TV in the nineties. Friends peak Friends,
Speaker 1: This peak depression TV. It's peak ambient television. Nobody changes,
Speaker 1: nobody grows, nothing changes about the status of anyone's relationship
Speaker 1: when they're together or not, it doesn't matter. It's just
Speaker 1: a bland, blank slate. And I think that there's really
Speaker 1: truly value in this kind of television. What bothers me
Speaker 1: is when we try to either escalate it or de escalate,
Speaker 1: and we tried to escalate it into something more than
Speaker 1: it is, which is really what I think what happened
Speaker 1: to Emily in Paris. I think people were bored and
Speaker 1: we're like, I can rag on this show wonderful, but
Speaker 1: it's a vital aspect to my life. I really enjoy um.
Speaker 1: I think British bake Off maybe have a little more
Speaker 1: emotional steaks in it for some people, but mostly it's
Speaker 1: just nice people baking awesome. They're really sorry when they
Speaker 1: have to let someone go excellent. Anything that's not gonna
Speaker 1: bring me up too high or down too low. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what we're looking for. It's literally yet I feel
Speaker 1: like Depression TV. It was nice of them to call
Speaker 1: it ambient, but but it's it is like it feels like,
Speaker 1: I mean, even like great depression media, where you're like
Speaker 1: this is about nothing and everywhere it's it's pleasant. You
Speaker 1: don't feel like you're going to turn around and something
Speaker 1: horrible is going to be happening, like if you were watching,
Speaker 1: for example, the news, like it's just it's just my
Speaker 1: I really hope that I had like a very abrupt
Speaker 1: fantasy what I saw this piece about ambient TV and
Speaker 1: it's that the creator of Emily in Paris releases a
Speaker 1: like scathing response, being like, how dare you say Emily
Speaker 1: in Paris was about nothing? Mene with it was about everything.
Speaker 1: I just have no idea. It was a really bad
Speaker 1: TV show. This is how they found out that it
Speaker 1: was only number two because everyone was so sad. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. This is how I feel about Like Netflix
Speaker 1: has really perfected the algorithm right of making a show
Speaker 1: that you don't necessarily have to be invested in. But
Speaker 1: it's like I love the way they like John like
Speaker 1: their new show Jingle Jangle. It's like if you were
Speaker 1: sort of into high school musical but you want some
Speaker 1: black representation in your Christmas shows, and you know you
Speaker 1: like a little bit of comedy, but you're not gonna
Speaker 1: laugh too hard because that's not what we're doing here.
Speaker 1: Perfect it's so straight down the middle. You can watch
Speaker 1: it with your conservative family and no one's gonna fight. Listen,
Speaker 1: it's genius, it's necessary. And then you know, every once
Speaker 1: in a while you get a Queen's gambit and you're like, cool, great,
Speaker 1: something I can actually think my teeth into when I'm
Speaker 1: in the mood for it. But yeah, we need like
Speaker 1: sevens of ambient television to get through whatever the next
Speaker 1: like eight months is going to be before we can
Speaker 1: re emerge into society. I enjoyed. Yeah, Julian and the
Speaker 1: Phantoms was fun. That was like, I feel like a cute,
Speaker 1: underrated show that was like very high school musical e
Speaker 1: but like it's it's just cute, cute, I like cute
Speaker 1: ship that isn't gonna remind me of my mortality exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what's on the menu. Yeah. The point that they
Speaker 1: like their description of ambient TV is kind of that
Speaker 1: it it basically crowds out the noise in your mind
Speaker 1: and just like makes everything feel like like go down smooth,
Speaker 1: basically like smooths out. Like where whereas when we first
Speaker 1: had like streaming tving, you could like choose a show
Speaker 1: to watch and it would be like a show that
Speaker 1: like was engrossing and that was what we valued. Now
Speaker 1: it's more just like here is a time portal to
Speaker 1: uh an hour from now in the future. You just
Speaker 1: put on your like open up Netflix and put this
Speaker 1: show on, and you'll be in the future, which is
Speaker 1: kind of a dark way to think about human existence.
Speaker 1: I also have found comfort in like the all these
Speaker 1: I feel like I talked about them all the time now,
Speaker 1: but like these YouTube channels that are like by funny
Speaker 1: people who are based They're talking about nothing. They're talking
Speaker 1: about like Pokemon card scandals for forty five minutes, and
Speaker 1: you're just like, oh, this is just engrossing enough. I
Speaker 1: don't really need to listen, But like, good good for
Speaker 1: them for caring. Like, I don't know, it's just it's nice.
Speaker 1: It feels not horrible. That's what I mean when I
Speaker 1: say nice. Yeah, they they highlight. TikTok is the ultimate
Speaker 1: in ambient TV because it just is a stream of
Speaker 1: kind of passive, you know, unremarkable videos that just go
Speaker 1: down easy Slutly depends on what videos you're enjoying on TikTok.
Speaker 1: I could go a lot of way if your stream
Speaker 1: is just those like five dance moved dance things, and sure,
Speaker 1: sure ambient and endless, but there some people are being
Speaker 1: creative and some people are being very weird, and some
Speaker 1: people are being you know, weirdly political. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, go to TikTok looking for
Speaker 1: your ambient television fix. Um. But I do think that
Speaker 1: it's not a streaming issue either. I wouldn't blame this.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this is what streaming has come down
Speaker 1: to now. I think it's absolutely just a sign of
Speaker 1: the times and the fact that people cannot engage. Like
Speaker 1: I started watching Halt and Catch Fire, which is stunning.
Speaker 1: It's such good television. I got three season one and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, oh man, they're really doing with some
Speaker 1: real life issues here. I want to put some backburner
Speaker 1: around to it later, Like they're like, oh, financial crisis
Speaker 1: coming up. I was like, no, no back out of it. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think if we were watching on network,
Speaker 1: and to be fair, let's look at what networks are
Speaker 1: coming out with right now in the middle of the pandemic.
Speaker 1: We've got two versions of the mass singer. One that's
Speaker 1: just lip singers where they're trying to see if you're
Speaker 1: the actual person singing or not. This is the content
Speaker 1: we need to get through, and I really think TV
Speaker 1: is doing a good job for us, even if it's
Speaker 1: not intellectually stimulating. There's too much to do. We don't
Speaker 1: need to be any further intellectually stimulated. At this point,
Speaker 1: did we talk about do we ever talk about Mickey
Speaker 1: Rourke on the Masked Singer? We have a big Mass
Speaker 1: Singer blind spot. I am here to say I stopped.
Speaker 1: I'm behind on Mass Singer. I'm not gonna say I
Speaker 1: stopped watching this season, but I had to stop watching
Speaker 1: after I got to Mickey Rourke episode because it was
Speaker 1: so good that I'm like, nothing is going to top
Speaker 1: this for me for months. So what happened was this?
Speaker 1: It's still so funny. Okay, so it's like the first
Speaker 1: round of Mass Singer, which takes like four weeks. But uh,
Speaker 1: they bring out a celebrity dressed like a big purple
Speaker 1: gremlin and he sings, Oh what did he sing? Whatever
Speaker 1: he's saying, he didn't really know the words. Uh, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't good and the whole panel couldn't guess who
Speaker 1: it was. Nick Cannon gets up on stage to have
Speaker 1: people guess, and then whoever's inside the Grimlin is like,
Speaker 1: no more, no more. I'm liked. He quits the masked
Speaker 1: singer after his first performance. He knows he's gonna lose.
Speaker 1: He rips off the Gremlins head. It seems like it wasn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, it might have been pre planned, but Nick can't.
Speaker 1: If so, best acting performance of Nick Cannon's life, because
Speaker 1: he was like, wait, you can't, you can't take, you
Speaker 1: can't quit. He unmasked himself. It was Mickey Rourke. Everyone
Speaker 1: lost their ship and he was like, yeah, they asked
Speaker 1: me to be on and I watched two or three
Speaker 1: episodes and I said, why why not? But this costume
Speaker 1: is really heavy and I want to go home, and
Speaker 1: he just left all of us. Yes, I did not
Speaker 1: know how it went down. I just saw the review
Speaker 1: on Twitter the same night, right, So I just Mickey
Speaker 1: Rourk's tiny head, his head not tiny, but in a
Speaker 1: giant stood it looks small and he's covered in like
Speaker 1: purple fuz and he's like a little sweaty, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: how did they get making Rourke to come on this show?
Speaker 1: And that to me was a funny part, but knowing
Speaker 1: that he was just like, oh, no, I have about today.
Speaker 1: It's so much sweeter. It's it's everything I think everybody
Speaker 1: wishes they could do it, just like you know what, No,
Speaker 1: I'm taking this human costume off. I have to go
Speaker 1: home now. I had no idea. It was his first performance,
Speaker 1: but it was his first performance and he unmasked himself.
Speaker 1: It was I'm shy. I mean, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of ship going on. It was peak election stuff going on,
Speaker 1: so I feel like it really slipped under the radar,
Speaker 1: but there's clips of it online. It was like, truly
Speaker 1: the best television I've seen in a really long time.
Speaker 1: Listen at the Heart Studio. We have Snicky's text or
Speaker 1: infamous yes from the season on the wall on a
Speaker 1: giant flag, and now I really feel like we need
Speaker 1: to have Acy Rourke with his head off. You know,
Speaker 1: just hey, I'm right there. It's it's iconic tvel television
Speaker 1: that is amazing. Is that great of television he's because
Speaker 1: when you just hear the voice escaped, like right before
Speaker 1: he rips the gremlin head off, he goes, no more,
Speaker 1: no more of us. It's the greatest clip you'll you'll
Speaker 1: ever watch it's like pure saratonin. Apparently Netflix is trying
Speaker 1: is going to try to be like a network. They're
Speaker 1: going to do like a streaming, like a linear version
Speaker 1: of Netflix. So uh, that's interesting to me. Wait, like wait,
Speaker 1: like you just turn on Netflix send there's something on.
Speaker 1: Oh watching. So this is something I've somewhat been asking for,
Speaker 1: and I think it absolutely feeds into the ambient depression
Speaker 1: TV conversation of like, I don't want to have to
Speaker 1: make a choice. I came here to put something on
Speaker 1: the TV and walk away. And if you're like me,
Speaker 1: there's you have like five shows in rotation that you're
Speaker 1: like like me, It's the King of the Hill. Like,
Speaker 1: I guess I can watch more of that any time.
Speaker 1: I will absolutely do some more. Bob's Burger's Girlfriends is
Speaker 1: on somewhere the Game Crazy Drama. So I feel like,
Speaker 1: but I still think I don't understand my no streaming
Speaker 1: services listening to the Internet, because the Internet has been
Speaker 1: begging for playlist style streams forever. Like what if I
Speaker 1: just put all five of my shows in there and
Speaker 1: you just shook it up and where like here's episode
Speaker 1: five from season six and I just watched that like
Speaker 1: that is honestly the dreams. I don't dress Netflix. Netflix
Speaker 1: is gonna do what any smart business person would do,
Speaker 1: which is like, here's our new show. We hope you
Speaker 1: get hooked to it. I don't want to watch you
Speaker 1: a new show. I don't watch something I watched eight
Speaker 1: thousand times, so I don't have the anxiety of having
Speaker 1: to figure out what's going to happen next. I just
Speaker 1: want to know, Yeah, they will totally fuck it up though,
Speaker 1: Like you're just like I did not want to watch
Speaker 1: The Holidate and you know that that, and now in
Speaker 1: forty five minutes into it because I couldn't find the
Speaker 1: remote and I'm hooked. Goddamn. Just a p s A
Speaker 1: to everyone. You don't need to watch The Holidate. I
Speaker 1: took that out for us all. It's not worth it.
Speaker 1: I think about watching Jingle Jingle and just doing like
Speaker 1: a live tweet of it because the fact that it's
Speaker 1: name it's not named after the drug that's on the
Speaker 1: arch series Riverdale on the CW, but it does share
Speaker 1: the same name Jingle Jingle and Yeah and Riverdale Jingle
Speaker 1: Jingle is like they're hard drug. It's like the heroine
Speaker 1: of Riverdale it's terrible, but it's funny. They boxed a
Speaker 1: bear in prison, Jack that someone brought a bear into
Speaker 1: a prison, put it in a boxing ring, and then
Speaker 1: had one of the stars fighting. Like the show was unhinged,
Speaker 1: but in best possible way. I just I'm curious, like
Speaker 1: if there is any correlation between Joe Jingle Jangle and
Speaker 1: River Deal and Jingle Jangle, the comedic hip hop musical
Speaker 1: Christmas Special on Netflix. I feel like there's got to
Speaker 1: be some good media discourse in there somewhere. I was
Speaker 1: in on Jingle Jangle the second I learned Forest Whittaker's
Speaker 1: character was named geron Kiss Jangle, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch that. The trail alone is enough. The
Speaker 1: trailer is like I have to kicking Michael Key plays
Speaker 1: the villain, and like, what in what world is there
Speaker 1: a series or single? It's a movie. Okay, I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm already watching it right now. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back and are back.
Speaker 1: What is something from your search history, uh that you
Speaker 1: don't want us to know about? Um? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty open about all of my fix that I I
Speaker 1: do search, but I am a little bit embarrassed. Um
Speaker 1: that it's two weeks after Halloween and my search history
Speaker 1: is so full of Halloween stuff. I can't can't get
Speaker 1: enough of spooky stuff. Like you look like you want
Speaker 1: to buy spooky stuff spooky to put in the house. No,
Speaker 1: I'm goth, and you guys knew that. You guys accepted
Speaker 1: that I'm a goth American. Um, I do want some
Speaker 1: spooky stuff in my house. I do have a couple
Speaker 1: of spooky things, like I have a large kimono on
Speaker 1: a wall, um and a blackout like a week ago
Speaker 1: and it was very creepy, um stuff like that. Um.
Speaker 1: So the thing that I have have been I think
Speaker 1: the weirdest thing that I've searched or still keep searching, is,
Speaker 1: um this called Jimmy. I'm trying to pronounce it right,
Speaker 1: but it's Halloween costumes that are like very like mundane
Speaker 1: and like specific. It's like a Japanese trend called Jimmy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like just meaning like subdued, like just plain totally just
Speaker 1: like playing Halloween costumes of like someone who has like
Speaker 1: has too many pens in their pocket, or somebody's like
Speaker 1: waiting in line, but they're like busy to go somewhere else.
Speaker 1: So yes, like a very Japanese bit to just be like, No,
Speaker 1: these are gimmy, like it's like someone who dressed up
Speaker 1: as like, oh, I dressed up as someone who has
Speaker 1: a lanyard and it's flipped the wrong way that you
Speaker 1: can definitely tell the difference between good and bad coffee
Speaker 1: exactly have to explain it's it's pretty much my favorite thing.
Speaker 1: Your your search has ruined my day because now this
Speaker 1: is all I'm gonna be looking at. Yes, some of
Speaker 1: these are super brilliant, like they it's not always just
Speaker 1: like super mundane and like one of them is a
Speaker 1: woman with her face painted as a standard Zoom background,
Speaker 1: like a little piece of the standard zoom background, and
Speaker 1: her costume is that weird thing that sometimes happened with
Speaker 1: Zoom meeting backgrounds. And then they have like bystanders from
Speaker 1: a famous frame and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. They just have
Speaker 1: like a dude from the background of that. I'm just
Speaker 1: looking at this. I see his Jojo memes. He'd be posting.
Speaker 1: You know, you know me, what is something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? This might not be underrated for most people,
Speaker 1: but in my life it was underrated having the proper
Speaker 1: storage system. I am a messy person. I come from
Speaker 1: a line of messy people. As my dad said about
Speaker 1: my mom, she's the messiest person I've ever met um
Speaker 1: and she's it's not that she's slothful, she just doesn't
Speaker 1: know how to organize and doesn't know how to like
Speaker 1: purge and so I and I know, I sound like
Speaker 1: an adult blaming my mom for something. Maybe it was
Speaker 1: not her job to to pass this along to me,
Speaker 1: but somehow I just like never accrued the knowledge and
Speaker 1: then know how to be an organized person who doesn't
Speaker 1: have just clutter on like every horizontal surface. It's just
Speaker 1: a thing that I I don't know. Like my husband
Speaker 1: is not he's also messy, but it's not as bad
Speaker 1: as me. I just don't know how to do it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, there was this article I read on the
Speaker 1: cut and it was like, here's how I organized my
Speaker 1: small bathroom. And I actually have a pretty good sized bathroom.
Speaker 1: But I bought some of the under cabinet storage drawers
Speaker 1: that she recommended, and I put them in the under
Speaker 1: the sink area, and all of a sudden, everything that
Speaker 1: was just a big pile of crap before is like
Speaker 1: neatly organized, and when I open it, I just feel
Speaker 1: this sense of calm wash over me, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is how people do it. My problem,
Speaker 1: in addition to hoarding too much crap, my problem is
Speaker 1: that I've just never I don't have the right shelves
Speaker 1: and drawers, Like the right kind of storage system can
Speaker 1: make your space Again, I'm saying to me, everyone knows
Speaker 1: the right kind of sources can make your space not
Speaker 1: feel totally out of control, and I've just never done
Speaker 1: that before. One counterpoint to that is my my wife
Speaker 1: and I are both very messy people who are very
Speaker 1: like a d D. And we have found that we
Speaker 1: have a problem with clutter from organizational products like we
Speaker 1: have we have contained inner store ship like everywhere. We
Speaker 1: have probably thirty books about like living with a d
Speaker 1: D without like medication, Like, yeah, it can be a
Speaker 1: problem if you don't stick to it. So it is good.
Speaker 1: It's good that like really making a plan and sticking
Speaker 1: to it as opposed to just having drawers upon drawers
Speaker 1: and like keeping the ones when they break because he
Speaker 1: bought like some cheap plastic shelving. Isn't that the most
Speaker 1: beautiful like poetry in the world when you're just like
Speaker 1: laying in a pile of depression. Books like that are
Speaker 1: just like spine uncracked and you're like any any day now. Yes,
Speaker 1: I have a book called Clutter's Last Stand that I've
Speaker 1: never opened. It is Clutter. That's a custod reference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's rules. Who is the audience, just me for the check?
Speaker 1: Just me someday I am going to have to go
Speaker 1: out and buy that book now. Unfortunately for my household.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is underrated? Uh? The answer
Speaker 1: is is specifically tied to my dog, which is that
Speaker 1: I think chihuahuas are very much underrated. Um. I have
Speaker 1: an eight pound black Chihuahua and they get a really
Speaker 1: bad rap. And that's because most people who own chihuahuas
Speaker 1: aren't very good at training them. Um. But she's amazing.
Speaker 1: She hikes eight miles with me. Well eight pound body hikes.
Speaker 1: Will like, do eight miles. I'm tired of the end
Speaker 1: of it, and she's like, no, I'm still ready to go.
Speaker 1: She's super trainable. She I've recently taught her to put
Speaker 1: away her toys. I have to do each individually, but
Speaker 1: she will, like I say, like take it. She'll take it,
Speaker 1: and I point to the basket where we put her
Speaker 1: toys and she'll drop it in there. Like these dogs
Speaker 1: are amazing and I don't know why they get hated
Speaker 1: on so much. It's it's really unfortunate. I so you,
Speaker 1: I'm sure as someone who like loves already you've confessed
Speaker 1: you are into zoology, so as part of you being like,
Speaker 1: I can make this work, like I don't know about
Speaker 1: all this because I think I can make any of
Speaker 1: it work, right, because I feel like a lot of
Speaker 1: people just sort of get if they're not used to
Speaker 1: training a dog or like how that works or something
Speaker 1: like they give up very easily, and then you get
Speaker 1: the runaway train effect where it's like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think my chihuahua is in here, I don't know
Speaker 1: check or is everything ripped up? Oh yeah, the dogs
Speaker 1: in here then, or like like oh they shipped on
Speaker 1: your pillow that you were sleeping on. That's weird. But
Speaker 1: yeahs do you get like what are you using like
Speaker 1: a clicker method and just treat positive reinforcement? How do
Speaker 1: you to teach her a new treat, a new trick.
Speaker 1: I will generally use a clicker because she actually responds
Speaker 1: relatively well to it. Um, she's not one of those
Speaker 1: dogs where it can just like you can. You can
Speaker 1: show them a thing and then they'll they'll mimic you
Speaker 1: like they're super dogs that can do that. She's not
Speaker 1: like that. Um, but the clicker works well with her.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, just catching the trick. So if she
Speaker 1: does something that I want her that I like, then
Speaker 1: I will praise her like crazy, like it's a it's
Speaker 1: a party in this apartment, if right, And then she'll
Speaker 1: figure it out and she'll try to to recreate that
Speaker 1: moment and then more. Yeah. I if you could see
Speaker 1: the amount of just toys around me right now, I
Speaker 1: could use I'm taking notes right now for how to
Speaker 1: train my two and four year old to do humans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I I because actually I was talking to my wife
Speaker 1: yesterday about how like as far as like catching a
Speaker 1: trick and then praising a specific behavior, like it is
Speaker 1: actually quite similar with with very young children, right, Like
Speaker 1: you praise them when they do something that's really good,
Speaker 1: and you just like catch them in the act and
Speaker 1: they try and recreate it because they know it's a
Speaker 1: good thing. I think that stops working after a while
Speaker 1: when you or you reinforce the wrong behaviors that you
Speaker 1: take into adulthood and you're like, oh, I'm meant to
Speaker 1: be passive around this kind of person, because that's how
Speaker 1: I always been. Like, oh, good for you. If someone
Speaker 1: tells you to come here and you know, do you
Speaker 1: do that? That's okay. The other thing I want to
Speaker 1: know about chihuahuas is I I like chihuahua's, but they're
Speaker 1: big ass skulls trying to freak me out. Like I'm
Speaker 1: always looking at him like, yeah, the dome skull. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like up with your skull piece, Chia. Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1: She actually, So there are two types of chihuahuas. She's
Speaker 1: she's not a purebread she's a rescue from Texas. Um.
Speaker 1: But there are two types of chiawas one has like
Speaker 1: a dome skull and the other one has more of
Speaker 1: like a flat skull. So she's a flat skull. Um.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. The dome the dome skull is weird. No,
Speaker 1: you know, no shade to dome skulls, you know, but
Speaker 1: for me maybe not my cup of tea. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I I get you, I feel you. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: something it looks uncomfortable, like when you see like the
Speaker 1: trembling chihuahuas that have like the dome skull, because you're like,
Speaker 1: is your head about to explode? Is that's why you're shaking?
Speaker 1: Because that's what it looks like to me. So I
Speaker 1: will tell you that the trem ing is one major
Speaker 1: downside of this particular animal. Like she does it all
Speaker 1: the time if she's stressed out, if she's cold, which
Speaker 1: is a lot of the time, she will she will shake.
Speaker 1: And that I do like, I wish there was nothing
Speaker 1: that she did. Um, but you know what, I'm cold
Speaker 1: all the time too, So if I'm cold, I know
Speaker 1: she's cold. So we help each other, you know, we
Speaker 1: alert each other to this environmental problem that we're just
Speaker 1: by thinking about you just like Hi, every time I
Speaker 1: get in her arms so cold And Jamie, Um, I
Speaker 1: noticed on Twitter that you've been You tweeted a truly
Speaker 1: cursed Christmas tree ornament. Then I I can't believe exists
Speaker 1: and and you are telling me that there are more
Speaker 1: of these, is what I'm uttering. So this year is uh,
Speaker 1: my first year living with my partner and living in
Speaker 1: a place that Christmas tree could sort of fit. I
Speaker 1: like have been shopping for like a fake apartment de
Speaker 1: sized Christmas tree. So that is how I came across
Speaker 1: these ornaments. It appears that thousands of them have been sold. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they're all about I'm going to drop some of
Speaker 1: them into the chat and then just kind of describe them.
Speaker 1: But just keep in mind for people listening that every
Speaker 1: word I'm about to say is in a different font
Speaker 1: and uh, and and that it's accompanied by a cute
Speaker 1: little clip art. Did you get my first one? It
Speaker 1: says twenty it's and I have to imagine this has
Speaker 1: to be the size of a dinner plate because it
Speaker 1: says so many things. It says, shop online, wash those
Speaker 1: hands clean and organized? What day is it? Binge? Watching zoom?
Speaker 1: What's your temp? That one's sinister, stay home or upside
Speaker 1: pickup home workouts survived? The TP shortage that is also
Speaker 1: very harped on is the TP shortage face masks Flatten,
Speaker 1: the Curve YouTube game Nights and my YouTube Glenn. Then
Speaker 1: it just says global pandemic And that's an ornament you
Speaker 1: can put on your tree if you And then there
Speaker 1: here's another one. They're all sorry real quick is what
Speaker 1: is design that tube? Is? That is that some new
Speaker 1: thing that the pandemic gave us YouTube? So as the
Speaker 1: designer of these ornaments, I'm really hoping we can get
Speaker 1: some organic interest in uh in the parent market in
Speaker 1: YouTube via these ornaments. So I'm hoping we can really
Speaker 1: get everyone excited about YouTube right in time for the hostes.
Speaker 1: Can I just say how much I hate this? I mean,
Speaker 1: I just couldn't hate it more. I hate that they're
Speaker 1: making They're like this is like the but first coffee
Speaker 1: of a global pandemic with death. It's so cute. It's
Speaker 1: like this is like something you'd make of with like
Speaker 1: inside jokes from your family reunion. In this is making
Speaker 1: a barfe that's the font game being delivered here. It's
Speaker 1: very like wine o'clock kind of graphics design. Uh So
Speaker 1: the next one is says a year to remember. This
Speaker 1: one's formatted like a checklist, but there is a lot
Speaker 1: of clip part A year to remember, toilet paper shortage, check,
Speaker 1: bask wearing check, hand sanitizer check, drive by parties, check
Speaker 1: curbside pickup, work from home, quarantine, travel band, social distancing,
Speaker 1: online school sports canceled and worldwide pandemic check. And then
Speaker 1: this is it looks like zero zero, so it yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Zepplin. Who can remember? Who can forget? They hate
Speaker 1: this too. The last one I'd like to share is uh,
Speaker 1: maybe the worst one. It's it's the twelve Days of
Speaker 1: coronavirus in so it Allison is actually physically getting illed.
Speaker 1: I won't I won't saying the whole thing, but it goes,
Speaker 1: no you can't, Okay, Okay, you know, Okay, I've set
Speaker 1: myself up for this. I did. I was just cackling
Speaker 1: when I because they're all on like the best selling ornaments,
Speaker 1: like they're like, these are the top ones. A lot
Speaker 1: of people to have these dregs of man. No, they're
Speaker 1: like the top Okay, So on the twelve the twelve
Speaker 1: Days of Christmas Corona gave to me is what we're Yeah,
Speaker 1: the pandemic gave to me. Twelve canceled plans, eleven face masks,
Speaker 1: ten sanitizers, murder horn nine murder hornets, eight zoom call,
Speaker 1: seven mental breakdown six feet apart. That's the five curb
Speaker 1: side pick up, four quarantines, three travel restrictions to Karen's complaining,
Speaker 1: and a message shortage of t P. It's a real
Speaker 1: that's a really bold move to say two, Karen's complaining
Speaker 1: for an ornament that is clearly big marketed at Karen's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like self aware Karen's. So those are yeah, those are
Speaker 1: the most cursed coronavirus themed ornaments. Um they are. They
Speaker 1: are topping the charts on Jeff Bezos his little experiment
Speaker 1: and uh yeah they're they're they're the worst ship I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. But they're all all three of those are
Speaker 1: in the top ten right now. Is he the YouTube guy?
Speaker 1: I think he's managed to get to YouTube. I think
Speaker 1: he should probably serve the channel though I think it
Speaker 1: would be very well received. These are all like if
Speaker 1: there was a conversation starters for dummies like these are
Speaker 1: all like how about the murder hornets? Already imagining a
Speaker 1: scenario where I discovered that someone I like has these ornaments.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm buying all of them. Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't presume to say you'd like me, but they
Speaker 1: will all be on my Christmas tree. I have. I
Speaker 1: have found all three of these off of Amazon. Um,
Speaker 1: if you're not if you're not doing Amazon, you can
Speaker 1: still get these hideous ornaments, and I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: going to get one. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: just as like a relic, not as I'm not even
Speaker 1: going to hang it up. I'm just gonna put it
Speaker 1: in a drawer and then someday my children will be like,
Speaker 1: what's that and I'll have to sing that song to them.
Speaker 1: Why do you think YouTube it's on that first one?
Speaker 1: Just I'm just I know this is not the most
Speaker 1: the silliest thing. Why did they just find out about
Speaker 1: YouTube during the pandemic? Think well, as the graphic designer,
Speaker 1: I just learned about YouTube earlier this year, and so
Speaker 1: it's been it's been a big year for me and YouTube.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna I'm not going to describe this one,
Speaker 1: but there's there's just so many there's so many fonts
Speaker 1: and YouTube is uh not, there's more. There's more, not
Speaker 1: the YouTube font, but there's more than one ornament that
Speaker 1: says YouTube on it. As as if we were all
Speaker 1: as if we've all agreed on this. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't quite get it. Did they be? The idea is
Speaker 1: like you finally have time to stay home and watch
Speaker 1: YouTube like we've always dreamed, But like there do they
Speaker 1: think that that's what people who are doing do they
Speaker 1: think TikTok is YouTube? Oh is TikTok YouTube? How do
Speaker 1: we how would we ever know? There's no way to
Speaker 1: tell you, guys, that's actually a good call. The font
Speaker 1: situation in the one you just sent is awful. Essential
Speaker 1: Workers is in a like horror movie font um. Virtual
Speaker 1: learning just the the use of white spain. And I'm
Speaker 1: not a graphic designer at all, but the use of
Speaker 1: white space under virtual learning is very upsetting to me.
Speaker 1: I hate this one. I hate the most just aesthetics
Speaker 1: face masks. There's too many Sarah's happening. It's very Thermometer
Speaker 1: isn't first of all, it just is thermometer in unreadable cursive. Wait,
Speaker 1: where's that? I just sent? As many thermometer? And what
Speaker 1: about these thermometers? I think that's one that even like
Speaker 1: the worst like conversation starter attempt like would still be like,
Speaker 1: what huh right about this year? Right? With the uh
Speaker 1: the thermometer, you know, and these essential workers? What are
Speaker 1: you talking about? It's brutal? Is does that birthday parade?
Speaker 1: Birthday parade? Yeah, I think very bad job of writing parade.
Speaker 1: That is like that is a nightmare. I think the
Speaker 1: horror font that says essential workers is just straight up offensive.
Speaker 1: That's really that one is a bad one. If they
Speaker 1: didn't do it in a horror I hadn't even noticed that. Like,
Speaker 1: but it is a total that Yeah, like someone wrote
Speaker 1: that in blood on a mirror. Yeah. Um, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that I showed these to you, but I couldn't keep
Speaker 1: the fact that someone somewhere is making a ton of
Speaker 1: money off making these hideous ornaments. And uh, and people
Speaker 1: seem to be on board. If you've purchased one of
Speaker 1: these ornaments, reach out to me. Was something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated? Um? Something I think is underrated is and
Speaker 1: hopefully you guys share this with me. But Hostess cupcakes,
Speaker 1: specifically the orange kind. I like orange Hostess cupcakes. I
Speaker 1: can only find them in some convenience stores. I can
Speaker 1: never find them in a grocery store. I can never
Speaker 1: find them in a pack bigger than two. Um, sometimes
Speaker 1: they just don't have them. Um they sustain me sometimes
Speaker 1: when I'm like, I don't know, really stone or whatever,
Speaker 1: but they're delicious. Um. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: have fucked with the citrus. I think because when I
Speaker 1: in my mind, the Hostess regular one is the chocolate
Speaker 1: brown one with the white swirly on top. Right, And okay,
Speaker 1: this is the one, except it's orange colored. Yes, and
Speaker 1: it's orange favorite because you know, truth be told, I've
Speaker 1: only messed around with the with the NORMI the norm Core,
Speaker 1: just the icing, and I want, I do want both
Speaker 1: of you to treat yourselves. I mean, so you guys
Speaker 1: haven't experimented with the rest of the Hostess catalog. If
Speaker 1: you guys had a snowball before, I'm host curious, but
Speaker 1: I haven't fully dolven yet. Oh my gosh, I've definitely
Speaker 1: is the one that's like more marshmallowy than you would expect, right,
Speaker 1: the pink like coconutti marshmallow one. That's one that, like
Speaker 1: in theory, I should be super into, but like the
Speaker 1: marshmallowness of it all doesn't doesn't really do it for me. Jack,
Speaker 1: show me your practice. Yeah, um, the I've never had
Speaker 1: the orange, but that sounds so there's like a citrus
Speaker 1: tang that they've infused into the Yes, the icing has
Speaker 1: a little bit of a citrus tang. I'm sure it
Speaker 1: has absolutely no nutritional value. Not asking about that. Come on, yeah, OK, good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no vide have been seeing there or any of
Speaker 1: that bad. But to fight off scurvy. I mean this
Speaker 1: is like if we're gonna be trash Americans, Like this
Speaker 1: is what America is unique for. Is like, it's not
Speaker 1: we America doesn't have any cuisine. We have fucking Hostess
Speaker 1: cupcakes that are made with all sorts of unnatural sciences
Speaker 1: that make it so that they don't break down over
Speaker 1: the course of twenty years like they'll they'll still be
Speaker 1: moist if you leave them open on a shelf for
Speaker 1: twenty years. Uh. That is that's our offering to humanity.
Speaker 1: My favorite flavor since a very young age is blue raspberry,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's real. Mine's mystery. That's my
Speaker 1: favorite flavor. If we're going on, yeah, like bottle pops
Speaker 1: and then they took one asshole to be like it's cherry.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the I'm on face mystery? Wait? I
Speaker 1: thought mystery was just a rotation of different ones without
Speaker 1: the food coloring, so you can. But I feel like,
Speaker 1: definitely it just on like maybe two flavors. Whenever a
Speaker 1: Mystery was a blue raz I lost my money. Running
Speaker 1: through the streets. Yeah, you become that gift for the
Speaker 1: dude with the kid with the dress and the wind.
Speaker 1: I actually am the kid in that. Um. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: blow Pops made it so that you could do the
Speaker 1: blue raz that was that was a big big day
Speaker 1: for me. Oh man, did you have that thing with
Speaker 1: the tittsy pops? If like you had the rapper with
Speaker 1: the star on it, you'd be like a demand of
Speaker 1: another one for free. There was a bourbon legend that
Speaker 1: if you had the one that a star on top,
Speaker 1: you could exchange that for a free one. Yeah. That
Speaker 1: was born out of my school, like snack hut that
Speaker 1: they would have at the end of the day where
Speaker 1: you could go and like buy like a fucking thing
Speaker 1: for five cents and there they would be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you got that, you can come back and we'll
Speaker 1: give you another one. I tried to do that at
Speaker 1: like a liquor store and then they get the book
Speaker 1: on like, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that I think we had that at like
Speaker 1: the fair at my elementary school. But but yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess it's not it's not legally binding. Uh. This is
Speaker 1: tried to try to put a down payment on a
Speaker 1: house with that excuse me, I have the right here,
Speaker 1: so like we only have monopoly money. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please
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