Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
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Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Chris Craft, how's how's it going? Thank
Speaker 1: you for that great guaranteed to disappoint after that? Come on, man,
Speaker 1: to be here, so happy to be here, always so
Speaker 1: good to have you. Uh you're joining us not from
Speaker 1: bear Country, you're joining us from Uh, well, what's Nashville.
Speaker 1: It's called country music music city, yeah, but it's more
Speaker 1: like a country country. It's like basic city. Now, oh damn,
Speaker 1: why why is that your faith? Nashville? It's a just
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's full of pay paper condominiums
Speaker 1: and full of whoever buys paper condominiums. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. They're not musical. Yeah, they're not the real ones,
Speaker 1: not the old airfield. It's like Williamsburg. It went the
Speaker 1: way of Williamsburg. It's like it's like yeah, it's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's there's still good musicians here, but I
Speaker 1: mean in general, there's a I don't know, like just
Speaker 1: millions and millions of paper condominiums everywhere, full of whoever
Speaker 1: buys paper condominiums, And I gotta tell you, most of
Speaker 1: the time, I don't want to know those people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you say paper condominiums, are they made of paper?
Speaker 1: What was right? That's the only reason. It's like, you
Speaker 1: know the ones that the ones that go up in
Speaker 1: forty five minutes and are already to go and have
Speaker 1: sex more plan and have the same appliances and everybody's
Speaker 1: like excited about that for some reason. Well, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: just like these like yuppy prison cells. Like it's like
Speaker 1: I'm a middle class prisoner in my stainless steel kitten,
Speaker 1: and you know, yes, and they're like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like I'm kind of making up that they go up
Speaker 1: in forty five minutes, but they do go up very quickly,
Speaker 1: and they are made of they're all the same. And
Speaker 1: then all the stuff in it is the kind of
Speaker 1: stuff that as soon as it gets dirty, like you
Speaker 1: find out like you bought a shitty place, Like it's
Speaker 1: like when it's brand new, like this couch is awesome,
Speaker 1: and then like starts the threading starts to come out,
Speaker 1: and then the firepit the fire pit on the roof
Speaker 1: doesn't work anymore, and the fitness center doesn't have anybody
Speaker 1: behind the counter. And then when I got one dumbbell, yes,
Speaker 1: and the foodsball table all of a sudden breaks and
Speaker 1: nobody fixes it. And then and then you realize you
Speaker 1: paid basically, you're paying rent for a foosball table. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is there a part in Nashville that is like gentrifieded
Speaker 1: pretty hardcore where like, you know, fifteen years ago, you're like,
Speaker 1: what's that part? Like, what's that part? Because I feel
Speaker 1: like Echo Park in l A Was one of those
Speaker 1: aces that in initially, you know, for people growing up,
Speaker 1: it was you know, very working class areas where I
Speaker 1: would go to get my fake I d s and
Speaker 1: any other nefarious items. Uh, And now it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you love we love Echo Park. It's just so fantastic.
Speaker 1: What's what's like the Nashville equivalent, I would say Germantown.
Speaker 1: Germantown was this sort of like it was really kind
Speaker 1: of a poor area and and it's still adjacent to
Speaker 1: very low income areas. But then they just sort of
Speaker 1: just redid it and now it's got you know, its
Speaker 1: paper condos, it's got paper condos, and it's got the
Speaker 1: people that jog around like poor neighborhoods in like really
Speaker 1: expensive yoga clothes and just pretend that for some reason
Speaker 1: with the landscape around them doesn't exist, which I think
Speaker 1: is really weird. Yeah. Well, yeah, my outfit is expensive
Speaker 1: enough it might affect the other people around me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like I just think it's about tuning it out.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, they just say, I'm in a magazine,
Speaker 1: in a magazine, I'm in a magazine while they run,
Speaker 1: you know, the point about condo is going up quickly
Speaker 1: in New York. I lived in a Long Island city
Speaker 1: for one year I think in like two thousand ten, uh,
Speaker 1: And then when my wife and I were visiting New York,
Speaker 1: like a handful of months later, we had to go
Speaker 1: back to our paper condo, uh to see if like
Speaker 1: that there was mail there for us, like that's how
Speaker 1: recently we had been there, and like we couldn't find
Speaker 1: the condo. The landscape was so different, like the it
Speaker 1: was just it was so different. It was like when
Speaker 1: we got there like one year earlier, it was like
Speaker 1: dog parks and warehouses, and then like it was it
Speaker 1: looked like fucking Tribeca when we when we went back
Speaker 1: to pick up the mail, it was wild a lot
Speaker 1: of insider geographical references there. Yeah, Nashville is not like
Speaker 1: a grid. So the interesting thing about like in New York, well,
Speaker 1: all I know is that Nashville is like gentrified in
Speaker 1: spots and then not gentrified and then gentrified, and everything
Speaker 1: is sort of on top of each other. And that
Speaker 1: leads to a lot of like wealthy people tuning out
Speaker 1: their neighbors, which is like a really weird experience. Because
Speaker 1: my next door neighbors in the house, um that well
Speaker 1: my parents lived there now, but it's a fucking long,
Speaker 1: boring story, but me and my brother and sister lived
Speaker 1: there for eight years together. We can do a whole
Speaker 1: podcast about that someday. But but that house, that house
Speaker 1: it is it's a TV show that involves a lot
Speaker 1: of panic attacks. So uh, TV shows called panic attack. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that the house next door to mine is like used
Speaker 1: to be this crazy house well full of people who
Speaker 1: who who you know who their Their dog's name was
Speaker 1: front yard and um, and that's true maybe like get
Speaker 1: in here front Yard, um, which is pretty badass. Like
Speaker 1: I will say that maniacs know how to name dogs.
Speaker 1: So so anyway, someone got shot next door. Um, there
Speaker 1: were twin brothers living there and one shot the other
Speaker 1: one when they were drunk. And then that house, you know,
Speaker 1: they moved away. Um, and that house was sitting vacant
Speaker 1: for a while, and then they tore down and built
Speaker 1: this giant like like paper condo thing that looks like
Speaker 1: a scukoo clock, looks like a Swiss It looks like
Speaker 1: a house in Switzerland, but it's next to you. It's
Speaker 1: and it's huge, and it's like bursting out of the
Speaker 1: property lines. Like it's like the most house you could
Speaker 1: possibly put on the smallest yard ever. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is previously a low income person's yard. It's small, and
Speaker 1: they packed it full of roof decks and fire pits
Speaker 1: and foosball tables and it's just bursting and it looks absurd,
Speaker 1: and their neighborhood around it is still poor based not poor.
Speaker 1: I mean poor is like I don't mean to say
Speaker 1: for middle class. I don't know, like it's not like
Speaker 1: really poor because when I mean I just has a
Speaker 1: lot of personality according to the real estate listings, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a regular street. It's a regular
Speaker 1: street full of people, like yeah, and like then there's
Speaker 1: this cugle clock in the middle of it. And those
Speaker 1: people just pretend the rest of the neighborhood don't exist.
Speaker 1: So you can't even really talk to them because that
Speaker 1: would blow their whole, like theater piece they're doing. So
Speaker 1: they're just like hello to your neighbor and they will
Speaker 1: not acknowledge you, because they're like to acknowledge you would
Speaker 1: do it be admit that you're a fake millionaire because
Speaker 1: you came to a neighborhood and just this is the
Speaker 1: only place you can build that monstrosity and go build
Speaker 1: it in the neighborhood where it's supposed to be with
Speaker 1: all the other rich people, or else build a normal house. Dick,
Speaker 1: What is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are? So a Google search was sex for science.
Speaker 1: It's sex for science, yeah, you know, Okay, so like
Speaker 1: there's you can have sex for research, right, yeah. And
Speaker 1: I was just curious, and I mean I think I
Speaker 1: was writing a joke and like it started out with
Speaker 1: another search like things that are hard to do while
Speaker 1: your horny, and then I just you know, went down
Speaker 1: a hole and I was like, oh you can, you can.
Speaker 1: That's like that's kind of hot. Yeah. Wait, so what
Speaker 1: what are the normal sex for science? Things like you
Speaker 1: feel out a questionnaire or like hooking you up to
Speaker 1: some like brain wave readers and ship and then like
Speaker 1: you know, popping them off. I don't know, it's just
Speaker 1: the idea that someone's watching with a with a clipboard
Speaker 1: and taking diligent notes. That really roleplay. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: could just be going on your fantasy is to be
Speaker 1: a scientist. Cook. I watched my wife getting but I
Speaker 1: have aboard and I'm just like peeing myself. Like other
Speaker 1: person's like this is kind of weird. I'm like, please
Speaker 1: keep going the experience. Yeah, that's the more dignified with biology. Wow.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I do wonder like because Kinsey was real,
Speaker 1: you know, had a lot of studies going, had his
Speaker 1: lab assistance in there, all sorts of wild ship, Like
Speaker 1: is there a modern day Kinsey Who's who's studying the
Speaker 1: sexual spectrum and all that good stuff, you know, deep
Speaker 1: as I wanted in the research. Um yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: just just just just something you were searching. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg. But um, I mean i'd
Speaker 1: be interested to know, so like, as I find out more,
Speaker 1: I can keep you posted. Yeah about it? Let us know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you do? Like do you get a free mattress?
Speaker 1: What it like? You know what I mean? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: also interested, like how do you can you can you
Speaker 1: eat off of fucking for science for your research? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then is it also like do you have to
Speaker 1: be yeah? And is it like you have to be
Speaker 1: a couple like a specific like physiolotic like physiological traits?
Speaker 1: Can you just be like a traveling couple that like
Speaker 1: has sex for research? You just hop from lab to lab?
Speaker 1: This is all. This is all a very interesting film
Speaker 1: that I would watch. And Joe Biden's America that you'll
Speaker 1: be able to have so you'll be able to make
Speaker 1: a living off of this. Scientists. Yeah, those scientists he's
Speaker 1: gonna listen to. They're gonna pay people to have six Yeah.
Speaker 1: I look forward to this bright future. Yeah right, I'm like, cool,
Speaker 1: What is something that you guys think is underrated? Mookie bets.
Speaker 1: Mookie bets that dude is underpaid at three fifty million
Speaker 1: or whatever. He is fucking the greatest baseball player of
Speaker 1: all time. He's so good. We're all freaking out. But
Speaker 1: we should be freaking out more. We should be like
Speaker 1: running out our doors and down the street. He's so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So Game one he had two steals in
Speaker 1: a single inning. The Dodgers had three steels in a
Speaker 1: single inning, which was the most since nineteen twelve. Damn
Speaker 1: World Series. Uh, I guess it was Game seven of
Speaker 1: the last series where he basically flew. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like he's flying. That's not no human can do that.
Speaker 1: And also just like one of the all time great names.
Speaker 1: I think couldn't you know he could? He would he
Speaker 1: would either be like a jazz drummer or a baseball player.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean, how came Mookie Blaylock didn't get
Speaker 1: his you know roses when he was playing in the NBA, right,
Speaker 1: it's Mookie Blaylock was a name that I think I
Speaker 1: invented before he made it into the NBA because when
Speaker 1: I was like when I was a kid, I used
Speaker 1: to like prick tend to be like the local basketball
Speaker 1: like local college basketball team and like that, there would
Speaker 1: be this amazing recruit that came in named Mookie Blaylock.
Speaker 1: And then he became like I found out he was
Speaker 1: a real basketball player. Also, that name is like so
Speaker 1: amazing that that was pearl Jam's name before they were
Speaker 1: pearl Jam was Mookie Blaylock. Really really yeah, they and
Speaker 1: then they're like, that's a that's kind of weird. So
Speaker 1: isn't that like why the Mookie Blaylock it U C.
Speaker 1: B is Also he was like a Mookie Blaylock or
Speaker 1: he's Blakelock. Right, It's so funny how there's a similar
Speaker 1: Mookie Blakelock was the improviser Szooky Blaylock, the fucking NBA player.
Speaker 1: It's it's like, where'd you get your Mookie? Like your
Speaker 1: parents give you that? He's like, no, I don't. People
Speaker 1: just started calling me that, like he really just didn't
Speaker 1: have a memory, Like why Ester actually is like is
Speaker 1: there some wizard going around blessing the mookies of the world,
Speaker 1: like without them knowing? And I call you blue, I
Speaker 1: call you Mooky, you are now a mookie or it's
Speaker 1: like the result of some amnesia episode you just switch
Speaker 1: means like everybody, I think it's too late for me,
Speaker 1: but I definitely, I definitely wish I had gone mooky
Speaker 1: or earlier. I didn't know that was the thing you
Speaker 1: could do just become like, yeah, Mookie Blake Block sounds
Speaker 1: like a name that was made up on the spot
Speaker 1: more than it sounds like a name that I would
Speaker 1: have made up on the spot if somebody was like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's your name? Yeah or yeah, or you're doing an
Speaker 1: improv scene and you have to name your improv partner
Speaker 1: and they come out, what's up? Sorry about that? It's
Speaker 1: crazy because Mooky the improviser is like one of the
Speaker 1: funniest improvisers. So funny. I mean, I don't know, almost
Speaker 1: nobody's cracked me up on stage as much as him. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're just if your name Mookie, you're inherently talented.
Speaker 1: Well he doesn't. Like at the end of every uh,
Speaker 1: end of every scene, he goes, that's it from Milky
Speaker 1: and every goes crazy because that's always sky Man. How
Speaker 1: much do you miss? Do you guys miss doing improv?
Speaker 1: Are you guys improvisers? I'm not. I did back in
Speaker 1: the day when I was trying, when I thought that's
Speaker 1: how I was going to get on the office, and
Speaker 1: I gave all my money to UCB. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, they're making me do level for
Speaker 1: a bunch of times on the office. Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was you know, like for a
Speaker 1: lot of people that seeing that sort of pipeline because first,
Speaker 1: like the Groundlings was like the pipeline to a lot,
Speaker 1: Like everyone was hiring a lot of Groundlings people, and
Speaker 1: then u c B people were coming out of u
Speaker 1: CD were getting a lot of work too, And that
Speaker 1: was sort of my like ten thousand foot view from
Speaker 1: like doing improv in college with groundlings me and like
Speaker 1: when I got back into it, when I left politics,
Speaker 1: I was like, no, it's UCB man, this is where
Speaker 1: I'm going. Yeah, back in our day, it was conan
Speaker 1: that you were trying to get on right right right,
Speaker 1: like as a as the master bidding as a writer
Speaker 1: would be like the ultimate. But that was just to
Speaker 1: be a character in there. Everybody. Everybody did bits and
Speaker 1: then you would eventually getting kind of getting good with them,
Speaker 1: and then you'd be like say to one of the
Speaker 1: writers like can I submit a packet? Like oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you get somebody to kind of like usher in a
Speaker 1: little bit, right, Um, And you guys are both famed improvisers,
Speaker 1: do you get you guys miss it quite a bit,
Speaker 1: so much, so much a much crazy. It's like totally
Speaker 1: one of the things when I would do it regularly
Speaker 1: and then I wouldn't do it. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I feel crazy when I don't do this stuff right.
Speaker 1: My wife was just saying, uh, I hope, I hope
Speaker 1: improp theaters open because I'm tired of your bits around
Speaker 1: the apartment. Yeah, like performing for an audience of one
Speaker 1: all the time, who also has to be in the
Speaker 1: scene with you right right right and carried to wait
Speaker 1: and you're like, Hey, is it cool if I just
Speaker 1: spill a bunch of beer in the kitchen I needed
Speaker 1: to smell, like backstage at Franklin. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back. We are thrilled to be joined in
Speaker 1: our third seat by the brilliant, the talented Sapphire Sandello. Hi, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: happy to be here. Yeah, you have the coolest studio
Speaker 1: of anyone we've ever talked to. Oh my goodness, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Dope. Where are you coming to us from?
Speaker 1: I live in Echo Park? Hell? Yeah, you're Is that
Speaker 1: a chair behind you that? Do you have like a
Speaker 1: really high back chair? Oh? No, yeah, I thought that
Speaker 1: was like a yeah, is that what kind of gamer chair?
Speaker 1: You work. I know gamer chairs are real, but every
Speaker 1: time someone says it out loud and like that's fake,
Speaker 1: that that can't be real. My husband has one, he
Speaker 1: hates it. Yeah, it was gifted to him. So a gamer,
Speaker 1: I mean he plays games. I don't like what makes
Speaker 1: someone a gamer as opposed to just like a person
Speaker 1: who plays games. That's a good question. There has to
Speaker 1: be something. I guess it would just be like when
Speaker 1: you're willing to buy the chair for yourself, definitive, but
Speaker 1: a gift that's a gray area, right, unless you're such
Speaker 1: a gamer that people are like, look, he's not going
Speaker 1: to buy it for himself. I hate to see gaming
Speaker 1: like your back is all hunched over because you're not
Speaker 1: gaming in the proper chair. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know what gamer chairs do. Do they make your posture better?
Speaker 1: Probably not. I mean they're supposed to be make it
Speaker 1: more comfortable for you to game for long periods of time,
Speaker 1: but I mean you shouldn't be doing that anyway. So
Speaker 1: he says you, says you, what is something from your
Speaker 1: search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, I
Speaker 1: would say, uh um, I've kind of running out of
Speaker 1: crazy things to watch this pandemic on so long, I
Speaker 1: don't know what to I mean, I've watched every dumb
Speaker 1: thing you could possibly watch, but I've been watching a
Speaker 1: lot of abandoned just generally like abandoned house videos, abandoned
Speaker 1: like factories and abandoned mental hospitals and stuff. But here's
Speaker 1: something I kind of it's kind of a just an
Speaker 1: observation about it. Watched enough of them now that I
Speaker 1: realized that I've seen an episode where a guy showed
Speaker 1: up and a vlogger they call him vloggers, video blogger,
Speaker 1: those bloggers with the video Now, huh, it really rolls
Speaker 1: up floggers. It what a lazy who so so that
Speaker 1: they showed up to an abandoned house and there was
Speaker 1: already another bunch of vloggers in it, like they were
Speaker 1: shooting at the same time, and they have like the
Speaker 1: whack As West Side Story showdown of all time where
Speaker 1: they like there four they kept saying, I was like spooky.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't spooky because there's someone another person
Speaker 1: with a camera there. You know. They're so that to
Speaker 1: go into each room, they had to wait for the
Speaker 1: other vlogger to leave the room, so would be spooky again.
Speaker 1: They were like, what was that? And it was actually
Speaker 1: some other vloggers saying what was that was the Yeah,
Speaker 1: like an echo, like all this doll in the house,
Speaker 1: and so everybody when they see a doll in a house, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like, it's not a creepy doll, and it's maybe
Speaker 1: a nice normal doll. They still go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: dolls creepy. So it's like an echo walking through that.
Speaker 1: Like one vlogger you can hear going into the room
Speaker 1: and going that doll is creepy, and then the next vlogger,
Speaker 1: the vlogger industrial complex, Yeah, and it becomes like plant
Speaker 1: that doll? Does the vlogger bring a doll with them?
Speaker 1: So having the planted doll, you see them. You see
Speaker 1: it all the time, these vloggers planting dolls at the
Speaker 1: seat of the crime m doll is building seven. Okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, listen, man, you can hear. Shut the funk up.
Speaker 1: I think the dolls talking listen, he said, like can subscribe.
Speaker 1: Didn't a lot of that. And then the other thing
Speaker 1: I was noticing is that people are desperate like content creators,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, it's like it's an endless operation
Speaker 1: and there's only so many abandoned houses in the work, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean out of them, Like, you know, if it's
Speaker 1: just nothing in there, like then it's pretty boring. But
Speaker 1: the good ones that still have the stuff in them,
Speaker 1: which are also super really sad because it just means
Speaker 1: whoever was living there died and like didn't have any
Speaker 1: close relatives, so they're all their stuff still in it.
Speaker 1: And then people are look, I wonder what happened to
Speaker 1: this person? All their heart medications all over the place,
Speaker 1: and they they you know, there's blood all over the toilet, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the macaroni. Still these people lived like crazy, and it's
Speaker 1: like they didn't live crazy. They they were old people.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I feel like sometimes people are breaking into
Speaker 1: people's houses when they're not at home. It's now that's
Speaker 1: that's the next wave is capt burglar content curiously, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna do They're gonna need to do it. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be like and they're just gonna end up breaking
Speaker 1: in and being like, look, there's a man still in
Speaker 1: the bed. That's like that's like I remember when we
Speaker 1: were talking about the the guy who was caught camping
Speaker 1: on that like abandoned tropical Island and Disney World in Orlando,
Speaker 1: and then that got me like watching a string of
Speaker 1: just like these kids who just get off on like
Speaker 1: just trespassing in Orlando, like at Universal or disney World
Speaker 1: or wherever, and like they're so slick. They'll literally just
Speaker 1: like jump fences, time it out, slipping through a door,
Speaker 1: walk through a concourse, and end up in like some
Speaker 1: discontinued part of Epcot. And then like when they get caught,
Speaker 1: they'll be like excuse me, um, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1: And it's like, oh, I'm sorry, I was looking for
Speaker 1: the bathroom and they're like, well, you shouldn't be here
Speaker 1: at all, and he said, oh I'm sorry. I'm like
Speaker 1: they walk them out and they're like, oh, ship, that
Speaker 1: was so close. Uh that's like the my like high
Speaker 1: sticks content now I'm like, oh, little kid, right, And
Speaker 1: then they're like yeah, and then the people are like,
Speaker 1: I wonder if that was like you know, like I
Speaker 1: just think they're just start being like, oh, it's a
Speaker 1: ghost security guard. Like no, I'm a real fucking security guard.
Speaker 1: Oh No, that's like you know, like I just I
Speaker 1: just feel like there's a there's a point where they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna break into someone's house and they're gonna
Speaker 1: be in there and the person is gonna be like,
Speaker 1: they're like, there's a ghost, you know in here, and
Speaker 1: the guys will be like, no, I live here, it's
Speaker 1: my house. My house needs to be painted. You ask
Speaker 1: whole get out of here. Yeah, you know how much
Speaker 1: it cost to reroof a house. There have been a
Speaker 1: couple of videos where there have been people saying like,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's abandoned, and I'm anyway, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's what I've been up to, have been watching like
Speaker 1: these abandoned and also just the question is the place
Speaker 1: abandoned if it has twenty vloggers in it? There's a
Speaker 1: mental hospital abandoned if there's twenty loggers in it. That's
Speaker 1: like in l A there's like two like abandoned hospitals
Speaker 1: that like everyone shoots in like to do like gorilla
Speaker 1: style creepy shoots or photo shoots. And at a certain
Speaker 1: point you're like it completely isn't weird anymore because it's
Speaker 1: a got like a bunch of leftover modern trash, and
Speaker 1: you're like, this just looks like some fun building. People
Speaker 1: are just like ship look at that Dorrito rapper. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's the old kind of Doritos that they
Speaker 1: used to have before it was clear when it was
Speaker 1: seat through in the front window, right, yeah, like a
Speaker 1: year ago. Yeah, when they did the retro bags. Oh ship,
Speaker 1: that's so creepy. I remember that shot from Grey's Anatomy,
Speaker 1: when Grey's Anatomy shot here in season two. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: let me pose here. Is that a surge? Is that
Speaker 1: a twenty ounce bottle of Surge unopened? There's a lot
Speaker 1: of that, A lot of like I think that's old.
Speaker 1: That happens. I mean, that's most of those I think
Speaker 1: that's old. Yeah, I think that's old, or maybe it's not.
Speaker 1: They always say, like there's three things they say. They said,
Speaker 1: I think that's old, or maybe it's not, but I
Speaker 1: think it is, and then it's yeah not again. It's
Speaker 1: a kind of the same genre, like that big Foot
Speaker 1: hunting and ghosts, like where you kind of got to
Speaker 1: pretend like it could be, but also you've got to
Speaker 1: be kind of real and be like, but it also
Speaker 1: could not be. But I don't want to ruin the
Speaker 1: whole illusion, So I'm gonna pretend a maybe it could
Speaker 1: be a gig though mostly waffling. Yeah right, yeah, because
Speaker 1: it's all about the mystery, so like by not knowing,
Speaker 1: that's like part of the fun. Yeah. I like watching
Speaker 1: Old I love Old Ship too, So it happens to me,
Speaker 1: and it happens. It happens to me all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm always like, I think that's old, but then maybe
Speaker 1: it's not. But I think it is, but maybe it's not.
Speaker 1: That happens. It's like all day for me. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all day bro. Finally, what is a myth? What's something
Speaker 1: people think it's true? This is crazy because I wrote
Speaker 1: this down before I knew what we were going to
Speaker 1: talk about today. I have two again, but one of
Speaker 1: them I couldn't debunk, and that is that I think
Speaker 1: my nails are growing faster now. Um wait, why what's
Speaker 1: going on? I don't know. I don't remember having to
Speaker 1: trimm them this off in but maybe it's because I
Speaker 1: have I used to be all go outside, Um, but
Speaker 1: I think they're growing. I'm having to trim them I
Speaker 1: feel like multiple times a week, hmm. And when that's
Speaker 1: too many? Yeah. But and I tried to look it
Speaker 1: up and there's mixed results, so I couldn't debunk it,
Speaker 1: like Megan Family guy when that was her power or
Speaker 1: just her legs or her nails has got super long
Speaker 1: for a second. It's just every time because I play
Speaker 1: guitar and you notice quick when that and even because
Speaker 1: we all type so much, you notice on your keyboard
Speaker 1: when they're longer because you're like, am I worst at typing?
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, a lot of weird shread buzz here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know that was the first time I
Speaker 1: couldn't debunk that. Maybe if I know that there's definitely
Speaker 1: people smarter than me that listen to this, because that's everyone,
Speaker 1: and so let me know if you grow faster as
Speaker 1: you get older. The internet has mixed results. I have
Speaker 1: a feeling I've had a similar thought. I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: my nails got long with suddenly. I think it's because
Speaker 1: it's like one of the few things is keep helping
Speaker 1: me keep track of time, is my fingernail, Like like
Speaker 1: I've lost every other marker, Like you know, Pumping Spy
Speaker 1: Slot A season happened five days or early. The NBA
Speaker 1: Finals just ended. You know, there's a I don't know,
Speaker 1: she's going at two pm on a Monday for their
Speaker 1: Thursday night game. Yeah, it's like I don't know, so
Speaker 1: I have like those normal things, like the only that
Speaker 1: in my allergies are the only thing that I've been consistent,
Speaker 1: And I think because I've lost those other things, I
Speaker 1: forget like how much linear time has passing, Like you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like Uma Thurman and kill Bill when she
Speaker 1: come out to coma and she's like looking at her
Speaker 1: hands and she's like four years or whatever that is.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's interesting because like when you when you
Speaker 1: I just remember when I used to uh park in
Speaker 1: the same parking lot every day, Like at a certain point,
Speaker 1: it just they all started blending together because like I
Speaker 1: just couldn't distinguished that morning from every other morning that
Speaker 1: looked and felt exactly the same. And I just wonder
Speaker 1: if like a similar thing where we're just like kind
Speaker 1: of um, you know, our brain is actually far more
Speaker 1: nerves going from our brain to our eyes than vice versa.
Speaker 1: Like our brain fills in a lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: that it already knows is there, and your eyes are
Speaker 1: only taking in a very small portion of it. And
Speaker 1: I think that's just generally true with our world, Like
Speaker 1: we when they're whenever there's something that our brain is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the same every time. It
Speaker 1: just like starts filling that in and memory holding it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's like cookies on the internet. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Your brain is cooking the world around you because we're
Speaker 1: in a very routine. Is like that when you see
Speaker 1: those paragraphs where every word is misspelled except but the
Speaker 1: first and life and then but you can read them properly.
Speaker 1: Brain is doing all the fill in work for you
Speaker 1: where you just understand how everything's supposed to be exactly.
Speaker 1: Come on, brain, you gotta get better and work harder. Uh. Um.
Speaker 1: The other thing I wrote down to debunk is uh,
Speaker 1: you and I like I said this, I didn't know
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about today. You'll be okay if you
Speaker 1: delete Facebook. Uh, you're not gonna lose connections with your friends. Um,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna miss It's okay. You can keep in
Speaker 1: touch with people without it. Now. I know that a
Speaker 1: lot of people hang on because they're like, this is
Speaker 1: how I keep in touch with what my like cousins
Speaker 1: or I I deleted it. I just I've been forcing.
Speaker 1: I just text people sometimes and say what's up. Hope
Speaker 1: all all as well, Like that's like high school friends
Speaker 1: or things like that. You can kind of just put
Speaker 1: in a little bit different work and it's not like
Speaker 1: replacing Hey we're all having a dialogue about a funny
Speaker 1: photo or something. But yeah, it's I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: ship are the star quarterback of my high school? Is
Speaker 1: like just a racist troll now, and like people into
Speaker 1: it justis you know, you remember back then, like there
Speaker 1: were no protocols, and I really I remember his helmet
Speaker 1: was a lot lighter than everyone else because he was
Speaker 1: more of a you know, it's kind of scrambling quarterback,
Speaker 1: and he took I remember that one game against Bishop
Speaker 1: bat It was pretty fucked up, and then he still
Speaker 1: got back in. I don't know. Maybe that's what I'm like,
Speaker 1: Maybe just racist. I don't know, maybe he's just been
Speaker 1: racist the whole time. Maybe that's just maybe he said
Speaker 1: he wanted a lighter helmet because white people's brains were bigger,
Speaker 1: and you need to look it up, like maybe maybe
Speaker 1: that was the sign he was racist and not the
Speaker 1: getting hit by the football. I just think I have
Speaker 1: lost nothing. I have I haven't. I have missed out
Speaker 1: on nothing because I deleted it. Um I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have a Facebook fan page that I don't know
Speaker 1: how to maintain without having a Facebook. Um, but I
Speaker 1: don't really know what to do. I know that some
Speaker 1: people hang on because they're like, well, yeah, because it
Speaker 1: is a really At its inception, it was a really
Speaker 1: good way to rate women on their hotness. And then
Speaker 1: the second thing it was good at was you could
Speaker 1: keep it kind of you don't need a high school
Speaker 1: reunion anymore, right, And it's like, well, I don't think
Speaker 1: we're meant to be this in touch with this many
Speaker 1: people and have no intimate relationships with any friends anymore.
Speaker 1: Like it's I don't I'm not supposed to have a
Speaker 1: one percent tab with the thousand people to have the
Speaker 1: most annoying thing that those thousand people do every day
Speaker 1: just bubble up to the top of your consciousness to
Speaker 1: make so if you're thinking about it, here's here's what
Speaker 1: I can say. If you're listening and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't like what it's doing, log out
Speaker 1: and delete the apps for a little bit and see
Speaker 1: how often you just open a browser and type F A,
Speaker 1: B or every It's really it makes you feel crazy.
Speaker 1: When I logged out and the lead the thing. I
Speaker 1: would just open Chrome and type F A C and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, oh no, like my uscle, And then
Speaker 1: you'll slowly stop doing that and you'll slowly get better.
Speaker 1: It feels like I'm like getting rid of like a
Speaker 1: sugar addiction or something. Yeah. Yeah, I think you don't
Speaker 1: to your point though, by texting somebody, I mean, like
Speaker 1: just being on Facebook. I think people massively like overrate
Speaker 1: or under rate how passive it actually is. Like you
Speaker 1: may think, well, how do I keep ups? Like, but
Speaker 1: are you interacting? You might just be scrolling. Oh that's
Speaker 1: what they're doing. That's what they're doing, But it's not
Speaker 1: you're not connecting. And I think even to your point,
Speaker 1: by even texting someone like hey, what's up? You good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's after a little bit, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: It's like a one way connection we all have with
Speaker 1: each other. Yeah. But and then I hated who I
Speaker 1: was going in and being like my muscle memory is
Speaker 1: to go to these things, and I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: where did I get toward? This is a thing I
Speaker 1: check off a hundred times a day because Zuckerberg, bro,
Speaker 1: you can do without it. I'm yeah, I know people
Speaker 1: who say, and I I who you know? I need
Speaker 1: it for this, I need it for this. I use
Speaker 1: it for this. You don't. You can figure it out.
Speaker 1: I'm now zoom bombing for my personal interaction on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. Random, yeah, random logging numbers, family reunions, you know,
Speaker 1: just corporate meetings, and like, suck. See what you do?
Speaker 1: Is you just you just crawl? You just look on
Speaker 1: Google and you just search for people who are pub
Speaker 1: look you posting zoom meeting ideas and I just go
Speaker 1: in video off and I'd just like to be a
Speaker 1: fly on the wall. Oh I had to zoom stand
Speaker 1: up show get bombed by And this is what I
Speaker 1: missed live stand up so much because at least Heckler's
Speaker 1: had to have gumption when it was face to face.
Speaker 1: Now bomb a zoom meeting. And these kids are so
Speaker 1: not good being racist. They're so they pulled up, they
Speaker 1: took the they bombed the meeting, they stole the screen chair,
Speaker 1: and they went to the KKK's Wikipedia page and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do you do? Why you The page says they're bad, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're trying to get across. What
Speaker 1: a lazy racist. At least if you were heckling me
Speaker 1: in person, you had to call me a slur while
Speaker 1: I looked at you, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Right right, there's a little more his risk and ball
Speaker 1: come on back in my day year old they just
Speaker 1: all zoom bombed and they like googled penis do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And a picture up there and
Speaker 1: you're like, I got one, like I don't know your
Speaker 1: medical diagrams yourself actually sounds like you were zoom bombed
Speaker 1: by like a fifty five year old dad or mom
Speaker 1: or something. You don't know how the internet, this being
Speaker 1: Monday is the Amy Coney Barrett thing, like over or
Speaker 1: do she My understanding is that it was three days,
Speaker 1: three fits in and out? And then I write, is
Speaker 1: that yeah, like wasn't there a thing where like Kavanaugh
Speaker 1: did the same thing, like he had three days, but
Speaker 1: then we found out that he was a serial sexual
Speaker 1: abuser and so then like and then they were like
Speaker 1: we gotta get back in there. I don't really, I
Speaker 1: don't really know. Over time, as as I was watching
Speaker 1: honestly half watching the Amy Coney Barrett like sessions, I
Speaker 1: guess I was like, oh, I guess I have never
Speaker 1: really paid close attention to like a fairly uneventful Supreme
Speaker 1: Court because I just was like, the only one I'd
Speaker 1: really ever paid attention to was like the high drama,
Speaker 1: high trauma of the cow An not hearing. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: maybe this is how it goes. I have no idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't know. The thing that it
Speaker 1: made me realize just watching it is like how full
Speaker 1: of ship the whole Supreme Court thing is, like the
Speaker 1: because by the time an argument gets to the r
Speaker 1: a law gets to the Supreme Court, there are going
Speaker 1: to be multiple interpretations that you could conceivably be like
Speaker 1: sided with, like they're equally valid, and every time a
Speaker 1: case comes before them, it has two arguments that are
Speaker 1: going to be equally persuasive and correct, and you just
Speaker 1: choose the one you want to go with based on
Speaker 1: your pre existing politics and the fact that she kept
Speaker 1: getting out of it, and that there's even this like
Speaker 1: pretense that she that that any Supreme Court justice like
Speaker 1: has no pre existing beliefs, and it's just like this lawyer, philosopher,
Speaker 1: priest that is just like I will then like descend
Speaker 1: upon the bench and give the one true answer is
Speaker 1: just so full of ship and it seems almost outdated
Speaker 1: that we still like even give lip service to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean she was very Uh what I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess what Supreme Court justices are allegedly supposed to be doing,
Speaker 1: but it's so clearly untrue, like for every justice of like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to read the Constitution and whatever the constitutions
Speaker 1: has to do, that's what I'll do. And what I
Speaker 1: think the Constitution, I will whisper to the Constitution and
Speaker 1: what it whispered. Fact, that's what I'm going to vote on.
Speaker 1: And like I only listened to the Constitution, which is
Speaker 1: like whatever. Putting aside all the issues with the Constitution
Speaker 1: is also like not true that Constitution is misinterpreted for
Speaker 1: like partisan reasons every day all the time I did.
Speaker 1: I found it. My least favorite part was when Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz was getting all flirty that I hated extra. He
Speaker 1: was like, so what are your hobbies? I was like,
Speaker 1: what is this? And she was like they rather fucking
Speaker 1: bumble day. Yeah, they're just like He's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: so you're married, you got kids? Like we can work
Speaker 1: around that. I'm like, sick man, a sick man, like
Speaker 1: there's not some new piece of evidence or like a
Speaker 1: new footnote in the Constitution she's going to notice and
Speaker 1: be like, well, I'll be damned, a woman does have
Speaker 1: a right to choose what to do with her body.
Speaker 1: Like that's just not going to I don't know. The
Speaker 1: whole thing just seems like a farce to me. Hot
Speaker 1: take this tack stuff is a farce, real circus. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it, Jamie. It's someone put a tent
Speaker 1: on this circus. Someone it was. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: was honestly in and out on it because I'm engaging
Speaker 1: with the news at this point where I'm like, if
Speaker 1: I truly can do absolutely nothing and my opinion will
Speaker 1: not alter what is happening in front of me, I've
Speaker 1: just been engaging with it slightly less because then you're
Speaker 1: just like, well, this is depressing. I'm just like watching
Speaker 1: someone who if things work out, we'll just definitely try
Speaker 1: to take reproductive rights from people, will definitely try to
Speaker 1: take health care for people. And then and then what
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to just like drop everything on a Tuesday
Speaker 1: morning and watch no thank you. Alright, guys, let's take
Speaker 1: one more break and we'll be right back and we're back,
Speaker 1: and I want to talk to you guys about Phil
Speaker 1: Collins personally, uh, professionally. On this show, we typically don't
Speaker 1: cover much celebrity gossip or public divorces or Phil Collins,
Speaker 1: Phil Collins. We rarely cover uh Peter Gabriel fans here right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we do have the Gabriel block that we
Speaker 1: do every Friday, but um, he would actually do Good
Speaker 1: Guests All Talk, Charlie just we couldn't just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know where he'll be after this situation, but
Speaker 1: maybe he would. Yeah, I think he is. Um It's
Speaker 1: it's one of those stories that um even in it's like, God,
Speaker 1: I wish I had more bandwidth to devote to uh
Speaker 1: to just following this story as it developed simpler times
Speaker 1: this year. Um So a headline for Vanity Fair, Phil
Speaker 1: Collins is now suing his ex wife over quote an
Speaker 1: armed occupation and take over of his mansion. Um So
Speaker 1: that's real. So if you haven't been up to date
Speaker 1: on Phil Collins, this romantic history, uh, he married Orion
Speaker 1: Sevy back in ninety four when she was twenty one,
Speaker 1: he was forty four. No problems there, got it feel
Speaker 1: like coming in the end, Phil Collins. Yeah, yeah, perfect,
Speaker 1: nailed it. Uh. They got married in ninety nine, they
Speaker 1: divorced in two thousand and six, but then they got
Speaker 1: back together in sixteen and then yeah, when she when
Speaker 1: she had grown up a little more, uh in she
Speaker 1: went to Las Vegas and married a younger man and
Speaker 1: informed Phil of this in the form of a text message,
Speaker 1: which is harsh. Yes, maybe karma at work. Since Collins
Speaker 1: was famously Mary a man younger than her, because that
Speaker 1: was fifteen years her junior. So how old was he? Well, no,
Speaker 1: that was so she's now I think in her forties right,
Speaker 1: because she was so she was twenty one, so she's
Speaker 1: like forty three Mary and a guy in his twenties
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Let's fill no via text. Phil was famously
Speaker 1: rumored to have broken up with his second wife via
Speaker 1: fax machine. So there's a couple of ways that karma
Speaker 1: maybe uh like rearing its ugly head here and is
Speaker 1: it like handwritten to like oi, Yeah, Phil, I don't
Speaker 1: know much about the again, like this is this has
Speaker 1: always been a blind spot, Miles. We've talked about this
Speaker 1: when we're thinking about doing a news podcast. Was like
Speaker 1: I am notoriously blind to Phil Collins's romantic history. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, it's just I haven't done the work,
Speaker 1: you know, but what I did in college. So now
Speaker 1: his ex wife Cvy is living in Phil Collins's Florida
Speaker 1: mansion with her new husband, uh, and Phil Collins is
Speaker 1: trying to get rid of them. So it sounds like
Speaker 1: kind of a straightforward like squatter scenario, where like someone's
Speaker 1: trying to kick somebody out of their house. Um. But
Speaker 1: that's easier said than done, because according to Collins, uh
Speaker 1: Severe and her husband have implemented a bold plan to
Speaker 1: sees control of the house using heavily armed guards. Uh.
Speaker 1: So she has hired uh a team of armed security
Speaker 1: guards who now patrol his house. Noted all the all
Speaker 1: the security team or fifteen years younger children that is
Speaker 1: important to keep razor scooters. Um. She also had the
Speaker 1: alarm system changed so that Phil Collins didn't know the code.
Speaker 1: And there's a detail in the suit that is pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: She so she contacted the company that provides the alarm
Speaker 1: service to the property, told the owner to come to
Speaker 1: the property. Uh, and then her, her husband and one
Speaker 1: of the armed guards. Basically like forced him, coerced him
Speaker 1: to do like lock Phil Collins out of the home. Uh,
Speaker 1: And they're like, you can see the details of this
Speaker 1: coercion attached to an exhibit ten. So it's yeah, like
Speaker 1: there she had a guard with a gun on their hip.
Speaker 1: Change the code so Phil wouldn't know. That's not intimidating.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, sir, please go with this armed guard and Frank.
Speaker 1: I love how. I love how in the affidavit it's
Speaker 1: like by a quote unquote guard named Frank, but it's
Speaker 1: half R A N c K so fancy German. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I have changed the codes. Speaking speaking of German,
Speaker 1: it does feel like they're definitely like some die hard
Speaker 1: vibes going here where they've like taken over. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is like war the Roses turns into die hard taping
Speaker 1: over the security camera lenses to they've taped over the
Speaker 1: security lenses. It's so wild. Uh. I feel like I
Speaker 1: feel like it was just like one night they got drunk.
Speaker 1: Let's just here, you know, like kind of like it
Speaker 1: started like good, whimsical fun and it just got a
Speaker 1: hand and now they're like now they're dug in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like her new husband's like babe, where are we gonna go?
Speaker 1: I thought you had money. She's like a funk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: working my ecstasy dealer to come with his gun untill
Speaker 1: he'll make the alarm company people change it at gunpoint.
Speaker 1: The only thing Philipinson and doing is just like faxing
Speaker 1: like crazy, not realizing that they don't have a fax machine.
Speaker 1: So she's like, please, there's a fax machine with just
Speaker 1: like a three ft pile of paper at the bottom,
Speaker 1: and his like media closet that also has like a cassette,
Speaker 1: a cassette player and CD. Uh. I feel bad. I
Speaker 1: feel a little bad for him, but not really. It's
Speaker 1: just people create what it insane like they're because I
Speaker 1: have a messy divorce. Worse, like, what is the what
Speaker 1: are the demands of these the people who set off
Speaker 1: this coup de ta? Yeah, so there she's threatening to
Speaker 1: release damaging allegations, which he claims are false if he
Speaker 1: doesn't basically just let them stay and pay up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the kids involved, I really need to know, as
Speaker 1: a parent or the kids. Lily's mom, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: that Lily's mom might have been the one who they
Speaker 1: did have to they fed two kids together? Oh they did. Um,
Speaker 1: so I'll answer my own question. Yes, Brian, there are
Speaker 1: kids involved. Really, Oh my god, that's so troubling. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean a strong parental forest is important. How do
Speaker 1: you even go to therapy for that? When you're like
Speaker 1: in your thirties, when you're like, so, what was your
Speaker 1: childhood like? And you're like, well, funny, remember that Phil
Speaker 1: Collins armed guard takeover. There is not right of passage.
Speaker 1: Every kid goes through where your mom takes armed control
Speaker 1: of the house and you're just looking at your parents
Speaker 1: like what's going on? And that's when I knew I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna get married ever. You know. Now, if that's
Speaker 1: how it ends, yeah, well, let's all let's keep him
Speaker 1: in our prayers, guys. Yeah, seriously, really really, and hopefully
Speaker 1: have him on ball Talk so he can work through
Speaker 1: some of this. Yeah, oh my god, if we could
Speaker 1: bring if we could get Phil Collins to come on
Speaker 1: ball Talk and cry about like I just wanted him
Speaker 1: to cry. Oh my god, imagine and you guys just
Speaker 1: trying to like shoot this ship with him, and he's
Speaker 1: like I was looked out of my house and we
Speaker 1: just drop in an audio underneath the damn just thing
Speaker 1: is I never felt it coming in the air that night.
Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeit. Guys,
Speaker 1: please like and review the show. If you like the show,
Speaker 1: uh means the world to Miles. He needs your validation. Folks.
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
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