Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 1: Real what is something from your search history? Oh well,
Speaker 1: it's funny you mentioned reading a single New Yorker article
Speaker 1: and then having to tell everyone about it because I
Speaker 1: did the same thing, but it was a different New
Speaker 1: Yorker article than the one you read, which meant I
Speaker 1: couldn't read the one that you linked me to because
Speaker 1: I'm not allowed. Yeah, I was locked out of the
Speaker 1: first private browser window. That doesn't work. You have to
Speaker 1: do some of you can't even be like reader mode
Speaker 1: or whatever. Oh maybe a reader mode would work that.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, uh, I'm behind on the hacks. I used
Speaker 1: to use twelve foot but that that doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1: But I did as a result of reading a single
Speaker 1: New york article. Um, my last Google search is Kendall
Speaker 1: Getty website. There was an article in the New Yorker
Speaker 1: about the Getty family, which is a super supermassive, very
Speaker 1: very rich family, very big California family, a lot of
Speaker 1: foundations and places and philanthropy things named after them, particularly
Speaker 1: in the state. And the article is about how their
Speaker 1: money manager had been fired and then had filed I
Speaker 1: think like an improper termination lawsuit, and so as a
Speaker 1: result of the lawsuit, all of their tax avoidance strategies
Speaker 1: are being discussed as part of the court record, which
Speaker 1: is really fun. And Kendall Getty is one of the
Speaker 1: Getty heiress is uh. She is a multimedia artist and
Speaker 1: I really urge you guys to google her and go
Speaker 1: to her website so you can look at her art.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think that I don't know anything about art,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's good or ad. But
Speaker 1: it turns out I do know. You have some sense. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you go to a museum and you go, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I like this one, I don't like this one.
Speaker 1: I don't really know why. I don't know what already
Speaker 1: is good and bad. I just know what I like.
Speaker 1: But then you see some art and you're like, that's
Speaker 1: bad art. You know, I didn't have to go to
Speaker 1: art school to to know this art is bad? Well?
Speaker 1: Was it? Was this the same Getty that like had
Speaker 1: that inexplicable like spread like cover story done about him
Speaker 1: in a magazine like in the last year, and people
Speaker 1: are like, what the funk is going on there? Like
Speaker 1: they're a Getty and there was like oh that yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The Getty family has like a lot of airs because J.
Speaker 1: Paul Getty, who was the one that made most of
Speaker 1: the money, had like a ton of children by a
Speaker 1: ton of different mothers, and so he cut a couple
Speaker 1: of them out of his will. Like it's very dramatic.
Speaker 1: The article gets into it. It's it's very good. So
Speaker 1: he's like shitty billionaire. Bob Marley kind of like you're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: of course you Getty's grants. Every everybody's fucking related to J.
Speaker 1: Paul Getty man. Yeah. So like, for example, Kendall Getty's
Speaker 1: Instagram bio includes the phrase bastard princess because she isn't
Speaker 1: illegitimate Getty airy game with Thrones or some Yeah. Also
Speaker 1: it's just she's in the Democratic Socialists of America. It's
Speaker 1: a great Artifer, It's good. It's all about how how
Speaker 1: money managers helped their millennial clients invest in more ethically
Speaker 1: responsible portfolios, right start one, really good. All the millennials
Speaker 1: have portfolios they're trying to diversify. It's the most exciting
Speaker 1: article about tax evasion that I've ever read. I'll say
Speaker 1: that right. There's there's a lot of that that that
Speaker 1: actually ends up being not not really tax evasion, but
Speaker 1: like complicated financial crimes that are just by designs so
Speaker 1: complicated that your eyes glaze over two sentences into the
Speaker 1: paragraph where they're describing it. It seems to be at
Speaker 1: the heart of this Murdoch empire. Yeah, it turns out
Speaker 1: that the whole money making money thing is like legal,
Speaker 1: but all of the lawyers that know about it are like,
Speaker 1: we got to do this as much as we can
Speaker 1: before it becomes illegal, because which people. Once people's eyes
Speaker 1: stopped blazing over and they realize what we're doing, they're
Speaker 1: gonna make it illegal. Yeah. The overall shape of it
Speaker 1: is them stealing money from poor people like that. That
Speaker 1: is what is happening, but as a just avoiding taxes,
Speaker 1: like avoiding taxes for generations and generations by passing things
Speaker 1: down in these trusts and pretending that they don't live
Speaker 1: in California so they don't have to pay California property
Speaker 1: taxes even though they do live in California, Like you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's succession ship for sure, right yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: they even have a funk up named Kendall. That's who Aspirations,
Speaker 1: that's that rules. They made their money though in like
Speaker 1: a really smart way where they just like had this
Speaker 1: brilliant idea that nobody thought, oh no wait, they just
Speaker 1: found a bunch of oil. Yeah, yeah, became you used
Speaker 1: their influence from finding some oil to find all the oil.
Speaker 1: It's called entrepreneurship Jack, Thank you dude. This one piece
Speaker 1: of art, it's like a deer with like a human
Speaker 1: face on it, is the one that's a video called
Speaker 1: Happy Birthday, Mr. President, which I'll just spoil it for
Speaker 1: you guys, is a shadow play where you see the
Speaker 1: silhouette of a girl sucking a man's penis and then
Speaker 1: he kills her. Wow, this website is a wild What
Speaker 1: do you think that's implying? Like that's deep. Well, it
Speaker 1: says that it wants to be a disruption of visual literacy,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what it is. This is. Have
Speaker 1: you seen that show, um Nathan Barley. It was a
Speaker 1: British comedy that came out in the early odds. I've
Speaker 1: heard of it, but I have never watched it. It's
Speaker 1: like presages all this kind of ship where it's like, dude,
Speaker 1: check out the newest art, and like this one picture
Speaker 1: she did is literally she clipped out a scene where
Speaker 1: like John Claude van Dam is holding something she like
Speaker 1: collaged di it in with like a porno where likeages,
Speaker 1: and honestly they're not the worst. Like the website, this
Speaker 1: was just a wild to look at. I'm like, why
Speaker 1: is Jean Claude van Dam doing this to this woman?
Speaker 1: But it's just the juxtaposition of like the things like yep,
Speaker 1: and this one's my two and my two D medium
Speaker 1: But anyway, it feels like this very like provocative for
Speaker 1: provocation sake kind of art, but it's really like a
Speaker 1: fourteen year old. It's really speaks to me. It speaks
Speaker 1: to me. You're in our fourteen year old yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, because like this, I mean I remember when
Speaker 1: I was younger, like it did not. I cannot understand art,
Speaker 1: cannot understand poetry because I just hadn't lived enough and
Speaker 1: wasn't in touch enough with like meaning of life. So
Speaker 1: this I'm like, yeah, this ship where van Dam has
Speaker 1: like a sword to this naked lady. Yeah, I get
Speaker 1: that ship's wild. That's the point speaks to me. Who
Speaker 1: prop Los Angeles is very long? Can you tell us something?
Speaker 1: What's something from your search history that's revealing about who
Speaker 1: you are? Okay, there's a number of things I thought
Speaker 1: about doing, like father theme stuff. I feel like everybody
Speaker 1: doing that, but this is this is I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess it's kind of dad energy. The one thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was two things. One that I did real quick,
Speaker 1: which was like how to wash your like blinds, windows
Speaker 1: shutters with like power washer? Oh wait, what huh? You're
Speaker 1: blind like on the interior the outside, No, the inside ones.
Speaker 1: You take them off and hang them up outside it
Speaker 1: and wash them because the dustin wasn't doing it. But
Speaker 1: that's not the main thing that I was like, really
Speaker 1: down the rabbit hole for. That's his dad images. One
Speaker 1: thing I was down down the rabbit hole on was butterboards.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like talk where people just do different spreads
Speaker 1: of kinds of butters and shams. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I know I've brought up I feel like sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't be trying to. But the thing is, I'm very
Speaker 1: if y'all don't notice alread about me. I'm very curious.
Speaker 1: I'm interested in everything. You know what I'm saying. Everything
Speaker 1: for me is amazing and interesting and a sociological study,
Speaker 1: anthropological study. So like a lot of times when I
Speaker 1: bring up White Ship, it's not to make fun of them,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Because I'm a Sufi and
Speaker 1: Stevens fan. You know what I'm saying. I wouldn't see cigarettes,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like, I like white Ship.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's like level sixty white people. I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta like, I gotta varsity level like white card.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like, I'm into this ship,
Speaker 1: but there are there are boundaries. And I was like,
Speaker 1: first of all, in my defense, I didn't I thought.
Speaker 1: I thought my wife made up the word shacouterie board.
Speaker 1: I was like, you made that That's not a word.
Speaker 1: That's I was like, it sound like you made that.
Speaker 1: That word sound like clitter ist and couder and couci
Speaker 1: all wrapped in on. Yes, you made that word up.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know what that ship was
Speaker 1: until like a year ago. So when I might have
Speaker 1: to pull your white card now, I was like there's limits, right.
Speaker 1: So then when I heard about this butterboard, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: first of all, I'm not really a big butter fan anyway,
Speaker 1: and then secondly, I'm just like, what's up with y'all
Speaker 1: and not liking to put food on plates? Like I
Speaker 1: just don't understand what you gotta get plates? Like you'll
Speaker 1: be seeing like you know, the tiktoks with like spaghetti
Speaker 1: just on the table. You know what I'm saying that.
Speaker 1: I think I'm like, miss me with this man, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with plates? What's wrong with plates? I'm proplate. I
Speaker 1: want to put out there. I love. Also, you're also watching,
Speaker 1: uh The Wire, which is some of the so I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if he's a good art.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm in touch with that like
Speaker 1: level of Middle America white where they're like putting spaghetti
Speaker 1: like you know, on a on an island that's made
Speaker 1: of marble, and like I mixed all food on here.
Speaker 1: It's like that is that I'm not sure if it's
Speaker 1: a white person thing or if it's like the food
Speaker 1: fetish thing. No, it's a food we were talking about
Speaker 1: all those messy recipes or people just mashing shipped together
Speaker 1: and people are like that, that's that's that's what chicktok
Speaker 1: is to like, you're you're somehow being fed other content.
Speaker 1: I don't know about. But the butterboard thing, I understand
Speaker 1: because that is like that is a that's just that's
Speaker 1: off the shottery board tree where they're like, you love
Speaker 1: its visual spreads. Yeah. So look like if you're okay,
Speaker 1: so we're in like West Africa or like Ethiopia, culturally
Speaker 1: there is a big cauldron of food and you have
Speaker 1: your like in Gera or whatever, and you eating the
Speaker 1: same culture, right, that's like cultural you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so there's a history of that. I totally understand.
Speaker 1: There's etiquette. They've been doing this with thousands of years,
Speaker 1: so they know how to do this. Y'all just taken
Speaker 1: butter and smearing it on wood and putting various seasonings
Speaker 1: in different parts of the butter and then just bread
Speaker 1: around the side, and we all posted to just dip
Speaker 1: into this. There's contest for it. That's what happened. Somebody
Speaker 1: can't one of the homies who was a homie like
Speaker 1: this is a homie, Like I'm not dissing this, that's
Speaker 1: the homie. All her podcast was doing this butter board
Speaker 1: contest and I was like, I say this with no
Speaker 1: baggage and no pretension. The fund is a butterboard like like,
Speaker 1: I'm honest, I honestly want to know what the hell
Speaker 1: is this board culture? You know what I mean? It's
Speaker 1: all about I think you know, I think America we
Speaker 1: perfected it with like the seafood boil. Just spill the
Speaker 1: s on the table, you know, get that. But that's
Speaker 1: not mixing, no, no, like and what you know what
Speaker 1: I'm doing. I'm taking my little pieces of crawfish and
Speaker 1: potato and I'm sliding it over to my player. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying over to my side, and y'all
Speaker 1: have you O. There's no content emanations. This isn't like
Speaker 1: it's like you're sharing. So for you, it's the germs.
Speaker 1: It's the germs really that you're I'm starting to do
Speaker 1: it for me, oh because oh that's why you made
Speaker 1: the reference of like West African food, Because yeah, you'll
Speaker 1: take something like foo foo, which is like your star
Speaker 1: cheating and you put it in your stew and everybody
Speaker 1: has that communally. But yeah, there's a way on a
Speaker 1: rhythm to it, versus you used to see loose butter
Speaker 1: on wood and you're like, are we just gonna all
Speaker 1: make out? Is that this is the this is just spiddles, skittles,
Speaker 1: just all in is it spinning? And they're like putting
Speaker 1: the bread on. I need to wait, Matt. You know,
Speaker 1: just just picture like a shark like a cheeseboard, but
Speaker 1: instead of cheese on it, they put butter, like different
Speaker 1: kinds of butter on. Hold on, all right, let me
Speaker 1: explain it. Okay, pause, some people don't know. I'm so sorry, Becca, Becca,
Speaker 1: please jump in. So butterboard, like Myles said, on a
Speaker 1: charcooterie board, it is like smashed and not melted, but
Speaker 1: like spread herle think when you're putting butter on toast,
Speaker 1: They've like put it all across the board. And they
Speaker 1: sometimes put like edible flowers, honey like things that would
Speaker 1: you would put on your own little piece of bread
Speaker 1: at a restaurant. But I must chime in on the
Speaker 1: spaghetti thing that is linked to fetish content. There's like
Speaker 1: a whole like pipeline of the most people Yeah no, no, no, nothing,
Speaker 1: the people that are like that weird camera angle and
Speaker 1: the guy is always speaking to the girl and the
Speaker 1: recipes don't make sense, and you're like, why is she
Speaker 1: spreading all this pasta sauce over the spaghetti on ac
Speaker 1: and is like p O B camera like at her,
Speaker 1: like sitting in on her hands which are like perfectly manicure,
Speaker 1: yet she's getting her hands all messy to like mix
Speaker 1: in spaghetti sauce with her bare hands with spaghetti noodles
Speaker 1: and meat. And it's like so crazy it is. You know,
Speaker 1: here's the thing, okay with you, like you know whatever
Speaker 1: for the most party whatever in but like whenever, it's
Speaker 1: just like adding like food elements to it or like
Speaker 1: uh like elements like stop, it's like human, how you
Speaker 1: got this to be sexual? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like I feel like there are there are moments that
Speaker 1: remind me of how happy I am. I'm out the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I'm saying, because like like and
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna king shame nobody if that's
Speaker 1: a thing. That's a thing. I just know if I
Speaker 1: was in the dating game, you couldn't keep up. I
Speaker 1: couldn't keep up. I would be like you wait you
Speaker 1: want yeah, you heard me? Do what I want you
Speaker 1: to put your hands through this tub of country crock Margarine,
Speaker 1: squeeze a ship out of it. You're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I take back all the game I was speaking. I
Speaker 1: think it all back. I was doing my best. No, no,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is overrated? Deep dish? Pizza?
Speaker 1: Which time? Did you just ask? What is that? No?
Speaker 1: Which kind? Like? Are you coming for somebody in l A?
Speaker 1: Are you coming Are you coming for a pizza rear?
Speaker 1: Right now? Are you just saying no? I don't do
Speaker 1: that coming out massa right now? I am not. I
Speaker 1: am not. I don't know. It just seemed like something
Speaker 1: that I've never enjoyed. Ergo, it is overrated. Some people
Speaker 1: like it right? First of all, why do they call
Speaker 1: it pizza? That things like a casserole, maybe a pie.
Speaker 1: Stop calling it pizza. I don't like that with topping.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I think well, I think if you called
Speaker 1: it a casserole, that doesn't sound more appealing, but I
Speaker 1: think it would be more honest. It should be. Man,
Speaker 1: you ain't eating more than two of these slices? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what Really. I've eaten half a Domino's deep dish.
Speaker 1: How much massa can you eat at one go. That's
Speaker 1: a good point because Massa that are like that's the
Speaker 1: you know, Echo Park Deep Dish Pizza in l A.
Speaker 1: That ship is like a fucking brick And when I
Speaker 1: eat it, I'm like, oh my god, Like I'd like
Speaker 1: to eat a lot of pizza. Is my thing with pizza,
Speaker 1: Like I want to have numerous slices and I end
Speaker 1: up just gorging myself. It's it's all about the fun
Speaker 1: ways you can toss it into your mouth. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Miles is a real showman when it comes to eating
Speaker 1: pizzas that I chipped my teeth. I chipped my teeth
Speaker 1: because it's pizza is so fucking dense it broke my mouth.
Speaker 1: But do you now do you hold this for Sicilian too,
Speaker 1: Like there there's a certain type of Sicilian that I like,
Speaker 1: Like Prime has a good I think they call it
Speaker 1: like a Grandma piece. There's this place Bleaker Street in
Speaker 1: New York that has a really good one too that
Speaker 1: it's I think the crust is like focaccio e like yeah,
Speaker 1: and I like that's more like like a real thick
Speaker 1: crust with a little bit of toppings, right as opposed
Speaker 1: to just like stuff on stuff on stuff on stuff Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, it's it's definitely it's not a little
Speaker 1: bit of toppings, but it's definitely normal. Yeah. The the
Speaker 1: cheese is not, you know, going to affect my digestion
Speaker 1: for the next three weeks, maybe just like a week
Speaker 1: and a half. I've noticed, though, a lot of Chicagoans
Speaker 1: now are trying to basically be like, stop thinking this
Speaker 1: is our pizza. You really been crust tavern style pizza,
Speaker 1: that's what the funk our pizzas. I learned this from
Speaker 1: Jackies Chicago, and then I start seeing it more and more,
Speaker 1: like on Twitter and like comedians who are from there
Speaker 1: who are like like, yes that we have deep dish,
Speaker 1: but like you want this tavern pizza And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: the thin crust see. But then Detroitors would say that
Speaker 1: the tavern style is their pizza. The pizza fight is
Speaker 1: so funny to me because I think everyone's working with
Speaker 1: different terms and definitions. To begin with, We're all like,
Speaker 1: we don't know what we're talking about when we talk.
Speaker 1: Isn't Detroit like in that old oil pants style pizza though? Too? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's tavern pizza, is it? Or what other people
Speaker 1: say that I have a Justin get on Mike right now.
Speaker 1: So producer Justin is over here in the from Chicago.
Speaker 1: Chicago pizza. It's more like a birthday cake where you
Speaker 1: only you do the deep dish once twice a year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Deep dishes a celebratory thing. It's like when you have
Speaker 1: a bunch of people. Chicagoans, like true Chicagoans don't really
Speaker 1: funk with deep. We're not ordering it weekly or whatever. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't ever remember using the term tavern style when
Speaker 1: I was younger. We always just used to call it
Speaker 1: thin crusts pizza. But it's something you order at like
Speaker 1: it's kind of like finger food where you're at a
Speaker 1: bar and the slices are really small and they're super
Speaker 1: greasy and they're kind of thin, and there's like a
Speaker 1: hundred of them and you just share them amongst a
Speaker 1: group of people. And that's what I'm used to more often. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's mostly what we were doing when we ordered Thank You.
Speaker 1: It was actually started by Dominoes with their thin crust pizza.
Speaker 1: That style that you were describing, it's pretty good. What
Speaker 1: is something that you think is underrated? Caitlin, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: another movie Puss in Boots. The last I heard it
Speaker 1: was really intense Rocks And every person I say that
Speaker 1: to their like, really, are you sure about that? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm I have a master's degree in screenwriting.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's well done. It is well done, at
Speaker 1: least I saw the first forty five minutes and it
Speaker 1: became too scary from my both my four year old
Speaker 1: and six year old. When when Goldilocks and the Three
Speaker 1: Bears get involved and they are just their presence in
Speaker 1: the movie is like Anton Sugar in No Country, Like
Speaker 1: it's just like they they are a force of nature
Speaker 1: that is coming. And I think it's stressed my kids
Speaker 1: out a little too much. So is a little bit
Speaker 1: more adult than your average children family movie. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's so it exists in the Shrek universe, which
Speaker 1: it's very Shrek, not yeah Shrek in And yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the animation style is very similar to the animation
Speaker 1: in Spider Man Into the Spider Verse, which is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite movies of all time. So it's visually
Speaker 1: really cool. The story is just like tight and solid,
Speaker 1: and it has good themes and messaging, and the characters
Speaker 1: are fun and and it's put some boots. What can
Speaker 1: I say? My my kids? Did it left an impression?
Speaker 1: I'll say that because we've had the conversation where they
Speaker 1: make me tell them all of the ways he died.
Speaker 1: So it's a lot about mortality. So he is on
Speaker 1: his the premises he is on his ninth final life
Speaker 1: miles and so he has to go to a retirement
Speaker 1: home and like just like back away because he can't
Speaker 1: be a cat of adventure when he only has one
Speaker 1: one life left to live. But they do a quick,
Speaker 1: very fun run through them all the ways he's died,
Speaker 1: and that blew my kids fucking minds man there, and
Speaker 1: then they kept being like, okay, so what was the
Speaker 1: third way putting boots? What was the fifth? And like
Speaker 1: they were disappointed that I didn't like have this committed
Speaker 1: to memory immediately, So am I, Jack? Do you have
Speaker 1: you got? One of the ways he died was that
Speaker 1: the running of the bulls? And then I had explained
Speaker 1: to them like why people do that? And then they
Speaker 1: were that there's no good explanation for that. But you've
Speaker 1: even been to a fun Yeah, so you couldn't even
Speaker 1: you couldn't even lead, like, let me tell you a
Speaker 1: little bit about Yeah, I got I still couldn't yeah,
Speaker 1: connected them because some people, you know, they want to
Speaker 1: feel alive by almost being dead there, Like what what
Speaker 1: do you mean? Anyways? Al Right, well, I'm glad to
Speaker 1: know that that has entered the cannon with you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying it's on the level of
Speaker 1: padding to to or you know, some of the Shrek movies,
Speaker 1: but it's history will determine in that. But it is good.
Speaker 1: I always love a good Caitlin Durante, like this movie
Speaker 1: that's being slept on and thought of as a non
Speaker 1: serious children's movie as actually need its own Criterion collection.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back, and so, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: that's the tone. Chris McCarthy, Lauren and Marjorie are fighting
Speaker 1: in the bathroom. That's what happened a couple of weeks ago, apparently.
Speaker 1: And like for all the ship talking we do about
Speaker 1: our elected officials in Washington, it's nice to get the
Speaker 1: occasional reminder that we aren't wrong and that a bunch
Speaker 1: of malformed eagle ego freaks do in fact make up
Speaker 1: the majority of con risk. But the latest gusts is
Speaker 1: it's quite literally out of the Capital bathrooms where reports
Speaker 1: are emerging of a friendship ending fight. Although it's debatable
Speaker 1: between whether or not these two people are friends. But
Speaker 1: between Low and I said, loan, hold on, hold on,
Speaker 1: let me get into my sleepover position where I hold
Speaker 1: it into my ear and I kicked my feet behind. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: hold on three way. They here's some other boards that
Speaker 1: rhyme with Corey story allegory anyway Simpsons reference um, but
Speaker 1: this latest gossip right there in the bathroom, it's Lauren
Speaker 1: gold Gert versus major league tainted fiend and they had
Speaker 1: to face off. And look the way this even works. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure these people even have a functional
Speaker 1: understanding of what a friendship is. But at the very
Speaker 1: least they will not be sharing clan robes after this
Speaker 1: bust up, I will, I can say this. So the
Speaker 1: showdown happened as the speakership vote kicked off and McCarthy
Speaker 1: was taken more els than a drug dealer who's plug
Speaker 1: is in Canari boom, please please bomb drop that? Did
Speaker 1: I do that? Right? In New York hip hop? Thank
Speaker 1: you so much? You know what I mean, take the
Speaker 1: elder canars anyway. Uh So, Margie Taylor Green confronted Lauren
Speaker 1: in the bathroom and the exchange goes as follows, based
Speaker 1: on quotes from the people that reported this in the
Speaker 1: Daily Beast. First, Margie Taylor Green comes up, apparently blows
Speaker 1: out of a bathroom stall like a fucking villain, and
Speaker 1: it's like, so, quote, you were okay taking millions of
Speaker 1: dollars from McCarthy, but you refused to vote for him
Speaker 1: for Speaker Lauren. Lauren turns around, don't be ugly, and then, allegedly,
Speaker 1: according to the witnesses that were there, quote ran out
Speaker 1: like a schoolgirl. Wait, there are other people in the bathroom. Yes,
Speaker 1: one was represented with Debbie Dingle from Massachusetts, Shadow Michigan,
Speaker 1: from Michigan. She's a Democrat. But she when they actually like, yo,
Speaker 1: were you in there? And she's like, look what happens
Speaker 1: in the bathroom stays in the bathroom. She kept the
Speaker 1: g code. She said, that's where we go to handle
Speaker 1: ship in the bath through them like a public high school.
Speaker 1: Like now, asked me off the record of the record,
Speaker 1: she ran out like a little girl. She may have
Speaker 1: been the source for this story. But yeah, this is
Speaker 1: like apparently this has been brewing for years, which makes
Speaker 1: sense because they're both like the same version of like
Speaker 1: a guano brained racist whose like reality is formed by
Speaker 1: Facebook ship posts. But I think what the problem was
Speaker 1: there could only be one, you know, like just completely
Speaker 1: out there right wing ethno nationalist spokesperson. Well, you always
Speaker 1: hate the person who's most like you, you know, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And on one side you had tough Marge, and then
Speaker 1: you had cute gun gun in the form of loan
Speaker 1: Lauren Gogurt. And I guess it makes sense that it
Speaker 1: came to to a head there. But a lot of
Speaker 1: people are still trying to figure out what the millions
Speaker 1: of dollars comment was because they're like, hold on, like,
Speaker 1: was Kevin McCarthy's pack sending Lauren Bobert money? They couldn't quite,
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, but it's just wild because the GOP
Speaker 1: is now entering like the kids being banished from the
Speaker 1: cafeteria so they have to eat their lunch in the
Speaker 1: library now phase yeah, which, if we remember that is
Speaker 1: the first cancel culture. When too much drama you get banished,
Speaker 1: when you like lose your social cash, like in high
Speaker 1: school and they're like, You're like, yo, they don't eat
Speaker 1: with them. Now they eat with them. Now You're like,
Speaker 1: they're canceled. I think the first cancel culture is the
Speaker 1: time out. Yeah truly. Yeah, I guess when you're little,
Speaker 1: you don't share, you get canceled. Yeahs line reads like
Speaker 1: it was scripted ahead of time and practice like just
Speaker 1: the way taking millions of dollars, So right exactly, door
Speaker 1: flies open to like, come on, this is true, and
Speaker 1: yet this is true the thing that people say all
Speaker 1: the time, and it's very gossip girl. Yeah exactly. I
Speaker 1: love it, but ran out like a little school girl.
Speaker 1: So it's getting it's getting ugly over there. But I
Speaker 1: would love to hear more reports of what goes on
Speaker 1: in the congressional bathrooms. Males included, Yeah, Donald just did
Speaker 1: an absolute paint job in the national bathroom. They're like, dude,
Speaker 1: have you ever piste next to Lindsey Graham at the
Speaker 1: urinal Dude, it's like he like he's given himself pep
Speaker 1: talks like his flows all weak. Dude. It's so awkward,
Speaker 1: and then I feel bad that I'm being all normal
Speaker 1: and then he gets all just down and out next
Speaker 1: to me. See, this is what people used to do
Speaker 1: before Twitter, is just be mean to each other in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. Yeah, and then right about it literally on
Speaker 1: the bathroom wall. Yeah, and then everybody would be like,
Speaker 1: did you hear what happen in the bathroom? Did you
Speaker 1: hear that he has a weak stream? That is one
Speaker 1: of the worst, Like when you're peeing next to uh,
Speaker 1: usually an older person, and it's just evidently very painful.
Speaker 1: That's like the that's like to the first moments you
Speaker 1: have about your mortality. I think as a man entering
Speaker 1: the workforce, because like I remember one of my first
Speaker 1: like big office jobs were like you interact with like
Speaker 1: one of the higher ups who's like seventy five, and
Speaker 1: then you both are in the bathroom and like I'm
Speaker 1: over here and be like and then my man's over here,
Speaker 1: like fucking the green mile like Tom Hanks. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: it's look comflict sounds like a trap song. It's like
Speaker 1: that a lot of breath happening. They've like discovered Kundalini yoga,
Speaker 1: like just having to piss all the time, and it
Speaker 1: became I remember this one job I had where Sidney Stones,
Speaker 1: You're like, whoa Sidney. But yeah, I just look, it's
Speaker 1: it's the passage of time and it comes from us
Speaker 1: all but anyway, prostate, yeah, hey, good for you. Anyway, guys,
Speaker 1: get your prostates check ye. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Murdochs. We we checked into this, like I thought
Speaker 1: it was murd All. Murdal is what it looks like.
Speaker 1: It should be pretty for this is an example of this.
Speaker 1: I was saying it wrong the New Yorker. I don't
Speaker 1: know what paragraph said Murdoch. And this will be the
Speaker 1: first time I've been pronouncing their names correctly, and I apologize.
Speaker 1: I should have put more respect on your name, the Murdochs.
Speaker 1: So this is a story that's been kind of had
Speaker 1: our attention and drips and drabs, going back to old
Speaker 1: people pissing as the as the details kind of leaked out.
Speaker 1: But the so so the New Yorker went down because
Speaker 1: the trial of Alex Murdoch, the sort of patriarch and
Speaker 1: main criminal defendant in this thing, is about to start.
Speaker 1: So basically, they they were just like running this town.
Speaker 1: They like were the most powerful attorneys. They were connected
Speaker 1: to all of the most powerful judges, all of the
Speaker 1: law enforcement kind of answered to them. The thing that
Speaker 1: kicked it all off. Their son got really drunk, which
Speaker 1: was kind of what he was known for, just always
Speaker 1: being hammered, got really drunk and crashed a boat into
Speaker 1: a bridge with a bunch of people on it, and
Speaker 1: it resulted in the death of a young girl. Sounds
Speaker 1: like a labor day crime. I I don't remember. It
Speaker 1: was like a few years back. It was impossible to say, sorry,
Speaker 1: what day was? No, it's it's in the article. I
Speaker 1: just didn't write it down. So they hire an attorney
Speaker 1: for him by the name of Dick harput Leon. And
Speaker 1: it turns out Dick harput Leon is a powerful state senator,
Speaker 1: a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: And I can't emphasize this enough. His named Dick harput Leon.
Speaker 1: And so he comes in it's looking like he gonna
Speaker 1: shoot holes in the case and like, get this dude off.
Speaker 1: And then suddenly that that young man, the chronically drunk
Speaker 1: son of this you know, huge powerful family and his
Speaker 1: mom are murdered in on the night of June seven
Speaker 1: that they're they're found dead outside the kennels on their
Speaker 1: seventeen acre hunting estate. And then sorry, d D seventeen
Speaker 1: hundred acre. Sorry, sorry, I was not in my H.
Speaker 1: Murdoch mindset exactly. The people will be able to hear
Speaker 1: them scream, oh, you only to have a fifteen second
Speaker 1: head start. No come, that's just that's just poor form,
Speaker 1: that's non sporting. Three months later, Alex so Alex was
Speaker 1: the one who found his son and wife and called
Speaker 1: nine on one. Three months later, he calls nine one
Speaker 1: one again and telling the dispatcher he had been shot
Speaker 1: in the head by a stranger while changing a flat
Speaker 1: tire on his car. And then people quickly realized, like
Speaker 1: an eyewitnesses like, it looked really weird when I drove by,
Speaker 1: Like it looked like a set up. Quick quickly, it
Speaker 1: becomes evident that he had someone like shoot him, but
Speaker 1: nobody can even like find the wound, so he like
Speaker 1: it might have just been that. He like asked the
Speaker 1: local law enforcement to like say he got shot. Oh,
Speaker 1: so he said he got Wait I remember this right,
Speaker 1: because then he was like, I'm on opioids, man, that's
Speaker 1: what's going on. But he didn't actually even get shot
Speaker 1: in the head. He showed up in court two weeks
Speaker 1: later and he there was no evident wound. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of other body parts you could pretend to
Speaker 1: be shot in, right, or just take a real one
Speaker 1: and be like, I'll just just get in the muscle,
Speaker 1: come on, let's go. But instead he did a fake
Speaker 1: come on, Alex, let's call. And and so the his
Speaker 1: like ne'er do well cousin Eddie, who was supposedly the
Speaker 1: person who shot him, according to Alex, like because he
Speaker 1: paid him too. So Alex basically went with the like,
Speaker 1: hey man, I'm on a lot of opioids, Like I
Speaker 1: need I needed the money for opioids. When the reporter
Speaker 1: asked harput le In about the fact that Alex showed
Speaker 1: up for a bond hearing with no sign of injury
Speaker 1: to his head two weeks after the incident, harput Leon said,
Speaker 1: good hair, that was his explanation. So these people just like,
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck. What is that? So fu I
Speaker 1: thin head of that? You couldn't see a bullet wound
Speaker 1: in his head? God, Yeah, there's something wrong with harput Lean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you were drunk man. Incredibly powerful, the most powerful
Speaker 1: harput Lean in the galaxy. He's the most like people say,
Speaker 1: he's the most powerful person in South Carolina. How do
Speaker 1: you get away with like becoming that powerful and having
Speaker 1: the name Harputle And I don't know it rings maybe
Speaker 1: it helps, maybe from the planet Harputli, which is so
Speaker 1: wild though that the most powerful Armenian American in this
Speaker 1: country isn't a Kardashian, it's this motherfucker Harputleian. I was like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I said, my client got shot in the head. He
Speaker 1: fucking did it fully, And I'm still banging out here,
Speaker 1: like why so the two new cases crop up, Like
Speaker 1: now that people are like looking at this, they start
Speaker 1: to assume that Alex was involved in the murder of
Speaker 1: his son and his wife, and in fact, now he
Speaker 1: is accused of being the sole gunman in the murder
Speaker 1: of his son and wife. And also two new cases
Speaker 1: have cropped up that were people who died on their property.
Speaker 1: That it's sucks, it's really suspicious. Like there's this guy,
Speaker 1: Steven Smith, who had been found dead in the middle
Speaker 1: of the road near their seventeen acre hunting a state
Speaker 1: with a serious head injury. Superficial appearances suggested he'd run
Speaker 1: out of gas begun walking home but accidentally hit by
Speaker 1: a vehicle, except there was no evidence of a hit
Speaker 1: and run or like any vehicle. There was no vehicle debris,
Speaker 1: kid marks, and then people are like, the rumor starts
Speaker 1: to spread that he was murdered by Paul and Buster
Speaker 1: the the oldest of the scions of the Paul. Paul
Speaker 1: is the younger one who would eventually be murdered. And
Speaker 1: but that is like the official state corner comes back
Speaker 1: and is like or or no, wait, it's the official,
Speaker 1: it's what. So some official comes back and he's like,
Speaker 1: he was hit by a car. Not nothing to see here,
Speaker 1: there's a normal collar, leave it alone. And so no,
Speaker 1: no m do No murdocks were ever questioned in that one.
Speaker 1: But there's like some rumor that Smith was gay and
Speaker 1: his name was linked to Buster is in the gossip
Speaker 1: mill or former high school classmates, and so it was
Speaker 1: like done to cover up any homos actual activity by Buster.
Speaker 1: I can't believe there's a real Buster in this tale
Speaker 1: of financial I know, it's it's wild. Uh. Then there
Speaker 1: was a housekeeper who died in the house and they
Speaker 1: used they basically he then reached out to her sons
Speaker 1: and was like, hey, you could sue me for five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars and then I will get collect the
Speaker 1: payment for you and pay you back. And the sons
Speaker 1: were like, okay, we're you know, we don't have any
Speaker 1: money and we are about to be evicted from our
Speaker 1: our mobile home. So they agreed to that. I never
Speaker 1: saw a penny. And like, as the local reporters were
Speaker 1: kind of going through all this ship, they discovered that
Speaker 1: he had in fact collected the five thousand dollars Alex
Speaker 1: Murdoch and just like took it and didn't pay the
Speaker 1: children of the housekeeper who died on their property. And
Speaker 1: so that then leads to them being like and in fact,
Speaker 1: that is really the only way this guy ever made money,
Speaker 1: Like that's all he did. Was his law firm basically
Speaker 1: was like really good at suing people for like that
Speaker 1: was kind of the main industry and that part of
Speaker 1: town because like all the factories that closed and you know,
Speaker 1: just capitalism, capitalism, capitalism all over the place, Like they
Speaker 1: had there was a bunch of farming that happened that
Speaker 1: just had no long term respect for the land and
Speaker 1: it like lead should of all its minerals and like
Speaker 1: so the place is just the only the only industry
Speaker 1: is this law firm suing people essentially and then taking
Speaker 1: their settlement money, and then he would find ways to
Speaker 1: siphon off settlement money. It's a tail as old as time.
Speaker 1: Jack Tom Girardi was The Real Housewives taught us all
Speaker 1: about this recently with another guy who is like the
Speaker 1: He's like, oh man, these people blew up in a
Speaker 1: gas explosion in the Bay Area. I'm also gonna keep
Speaker 1: the money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like people get down
Speaker 1: and like they talk about how it is still like
Speaker 1: a big industry in South Carolina. Like that's how the
Speaker 1: laws are set up, is that they will basically treat
Speaker 1: these settlement payments like you know, cash payday loans, and
Speaker 1: they basically take advantage of the fact that the people
Speaker 1: who are getting these settlements need the money, and they're like, here,
Speaker 1: we'll pay you thirty percent of that now and then
Speaker 1: we get the rest like as it comes out later
Speaker 1: on down the road. And that's on the books. That's
Speaker 1: not even like against the law and what this guy
Speaker 1: he can do whatever he wants because the Republicans are
Speaker 1: protecting them. No, no, no no. So we also get
Speaker 1: this interesting detail. Alex's attorney, still harpoot Lean as he's
Speaker 1: facing murder trial is super well connected. Harpally In, a
Speaker 1: former chair of the State Democratic Party, has talked of
Speaker 1: playing golf with President Joe Biden, and his wife has
Speaker 1: recently made US ambassador to Slovenia. Who has a great
Speaker 1: golf with Joe Biden? Jack, Right, I'm serious, We've all
Speaker 1: played golf with Joe Biden. He doesn't remember it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: but you can say it, and he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: admit that he doesn't remember, so he'll always say yes.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, how you been see I
Speaker 1: told you? Wow, so Joe Byron. I mean, look, it's
Speaker 1: just it's wild again. No matter where you can you
Speaker 1: get powerful like this, it's the game's the same. It's like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: there's rules for us, but if you know enough, people
Speaker 1: really can whoever funk you want. I said Alex got
Speaker 1: shot in the head, bro he didn't. Anyway, I'm still
Speaker 1: cooking out here, Like is this guy in trouble at all?
Speaker 1: Or is he actually still the attorney in this guy's
Speaker 1: because you said Alex Murdoch's trial is starting now or
Speaker 1: like he's starting in the twenty three of January and
Speaker 1: Puglian is his attorney. And that's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: Like the thing that I was talking about, like that
Speaker 1: there's something called factoring. That's that's the practice of like
Speaker 1: basically lending people money or like taking people's settlement payments
Speaker 1: are siphoning it off, and it's all just it's all
Speaker 1: just you know, the most immoral use of money to
Speaker 1: make money, as you said earlier, sorry, Like that's just
Speaker 1: they use the fact that they have a ton of
Speaker 1: money to take advantage of people who aren't capable, don't
Speaker 1: have like the massive staff to understand all the legalities
Speaker 1: and like business complexities that they're using to take away
Speaker 1: their money. And it's that that is the US economy,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's not isolated. Is we have way too
Speaker 1: many fucking fancy words for stealing from board people. Like
Speaker 1: this part is really amazing. Factoring companies can offer cash
Speaker 1: upfront to victims in exchange for part or all of
Speaker 1: their settlements at an average rate of cents on the dollar. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In one case, judge, have a lot of companies to
Speaker 1: buy a young woman's entire settlement in a series of
Speaker 1: deals culminating in the purchase of her remaining trench for
Speaker 1: about ten cents on the dollar. The woman had suffered
Speaker 1: brain damage and a train collision at the age of twelve,
Speaker 1: and the settlement was intended to support her for the
Speaker 1: rest of her life. A retired judge dryly underscored the
Speaker 1: state's tolerance of such practices by saying, we're all entitled
Speaker 1: to make stupid mistakes. Oh okay, so there's no such thing.
Speaker 1: There's no such thing as predators. Only stupid, stupid idiots
Speaker 1: that make mistakes, all right, your honor, thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: stupid idiots with their injuries settlements in their home and
Speaker 1: there you have a t V I when you were
Speaker 1: twelve years old. Come on, who makes a deal like that?
Speaker 1: Like what where is the MP? Like? I mean there is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, why would you take out this
Speaker 1: home one when you do? You couldn't afford it because
Speaker 1: I need a home, right, you idiot? Who would give
Speaker 1: that to you? You? You encouraged me, You said this
Speaker 1: was the one to take. This is the way I
Speaker 1: was going to realize my dreams. You fucking targeted me.
Speaker 1: It's just a bunch of like people, privileged people like
Speaker 1: golfing together and you know, let letting each other do
Speaker 1: this ship and when Alex Murdock like, well, we'll update
Speaker 1: you guys as the case unfolds. But when he appeared
Speaker 1: for like the before the trial, like there's a painting
Speaker 1: of his grandfather in the back of the courthouse, Like
Speaker 1: I love the South. Yeah, well I I don't even
Speaker 1: think it's just the South, like I think this it's
Speaker 1: not just the sound, but I think I think the
Speaker 1: South is one is one place in America where a
Speaker 1: lot of the generational like dynastic generations have stayed in
Speaker 1: one place. You know. Also this also really makes me
Speaker 1: think of you know that the no one wants to
Speaker 1: work anymore thing. And it's like, yeah, because we found
Speaker 1: out that the work that you were doing was just
Speaker 1: stealing from poor people. So yeah, no, I don't really
Speaker 1: want to do that. Wait, so you got all of
Speaker 1: this from just stealing? Yeah yeah, I'm yeah, I'm not,
Speaker 1: I'm not. Yeah. Yeah. It's like you become I mean,
Speaker 1: who becomes a lawyer, And then it's like, well, can't
Speaker 1: wait to spend the rest of my life sucking the
Speaker 1: blood out of everybody around me. But the reporter is
Speaker 1: like still, They're like I just can't get my mind
Speaker 1: around this. Person like killing their son. It just seems
Speaker 1: so far fetched because like he everything up to that
Speaker 1: point would have suggested that he was, you know, doing everything,
Speaker 1: like using the machinations of his power to protect this kid,
Speaker 1: and like it just seems it. But I feel like
Speaker 1: they're not taking into account, like what addiction can do
Speaker 1: to your brain and the fact that like on a
Speaker 1: broad scale, you know, you you have these people who
Speaker 1: are making all this money and you know just completely
Speaker 1: immorally have no like no any social currency here, like
Speaker 1: friends to to speak of. Their yeah, produce nothing, and
Speaker 1: then they are at the top, and they're like and
Speaker 1: then you can buy all the drugs that give you
Speaker 1: the brain chemical that is produced by the human interaction
Speaker 1: that we're that we've replaced with these capitalist machinations, and
Speaker 1: so like it actually makes perfect sense to me that
Speaker 1: this person who had replaced who would like become drug
Speaker 1: addicted as at this point where they were just like
Speaker 1: nihilistically stealing from everyone and knew they couldn't be caught,
Speaker 1: that they would get to that point, because that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of what happens, is just completely alter your brain
Speaker 1: chemicals to the point that you're kind of inhuman and
Speaker 1: that's like kind of the whole complete system that we've
Speaker 1: found is like you you have a system the completely
Speaker 1: siphons the humanity out of everything, and then your reward
Speaker 1: for that is like drugs that give you the brain
Speaker 1: chemicals that that used to get from interacting with people
Speaker 1: Like going sounds like a perfect system to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: perfectly self contained system. Sign us up. Yeah, it's regenerative. Anyways,
Speaker 1: it's a it's worth of read. Will link off to
Speaker 1: it in the footnotes, and we will keep you guys
Speaker 1: updated as the trial unfolds. He's gonna walk Jack, let's
Speaker 1: see under. It's funny that the reporters, like I was
Speaker 1: expecting everyone was like, Oh, he's this good old boy.
Speaker 1: You dropped him in any southern town, he'd just like
Speaker 1: come off as just one of the guys. He'd be fine.
Speaker 1: And then like he walks in and he's just like
Speaker 1: tall guy who looks like he just like stepped off
Speaker 1: of a yacht, and it's just like that that's who
Speaker 1: it is. He's And he's in a court room again
Speaker 1: with a painting of his grandfather in the back of it.
Speaker 1: Do you think he walks in and kisses his hand
Speaker 1: and then goes and then touches it to the painting, goes,
Speaker 1: that's my grandpa, My grandpa. Love you, grand love you, Grandpa,
Speaker 1: love pep love you. Gim gim alright, let's say you
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And Dolly Parton is trending as per usual, but this
Speaker 1: time a couple of reasons. She's expanding her partnership with
Speaker 1: Duncan Hines. So in addition to the Dolly Parton cake mixes,
Speaker 1: now there's cornbread, biscuit and too brownie mixes. Nice, nice, nice.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I guess I'm not familiar
Speaker 1: with the culinary aspects of Dolly Parton's legend, are are you, Katherine?
Speaker 1: What is that? What does Dolly Parton connote like southern
Speaker 1: southern cooking? Yeah, I mean it's got to be why
Speaker 1: they have Did you say to cornbreads two brownies? Actually?
Speaker 1: And did I hear that correctly? Was that two cornbreads? Indeed?
Speaker 1: It was? Anyway? Yeah, I don't think her her legacy
Speaker 1: really has much to do with food, but putting her
Speaker 1: name on box mixes sounds like a smart idea for
Speaker 1: both parties because everyone loves Dolly. Oh my god. They
Speaker 1: look at the box Barbie branding. I know, it looks
Speaker 1: they've animated her. The script is very barbiesque. It's a
Speaker 1: little infantilizing. She looks like Jim and the Holy Jam
Speaker 1: in the hologram. Yeah yeah, oh sorry, not to cornbread,
Speaker 1: cornbread and a biscuit. Yeah, bad bread, a biscuit and
Speaker 1: two brownies in addition to the cake mixes that were
Speaker 1: already there. I'm picturing everything being pink, and indeed the
Speaker 1: boxes are pink, but the brownies they've decided to keep colored.
Speaker 1: How different is this from other Duncan Hines mixes? Oh? Please,
Speaker 1: you know what maybe the say I'm saying, just with
Speaker 1: a new packaging on it. Just but the reason why
Speaker 1: it's good for her too, because there's no downside because
Speaker 1: box mixes are very very good. Yeah, they they're unfunk
Speaker 1: upable if you if you go by the letter of
Speaker 1: the lawn. It is what capitalism has produced. Like we
Speaker 1: you know, the none of the you know, transportation and
Speaker 1: all those things like great towns that we were promised.
Speaker 1: They fucked all that up. We now live siloed off
Speaker 1: in our homes, like talking to each other through computer screens.
Speaker 1: But the lab food, the food that they came up
Speaker 1: with in labs, nacho cheese, doritos, the box mixes like
Speaker 1: that is that is the height of capitalism. That's why
Speaker 1: I still stand by, you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: that is going to be in the America like Peak
Speaker 1: American Capitalism section of the Museum, like four thousand years
Speaker 1: from now, if the earth still exists, is the Cheesecake
Speaker 1: Factory menu, because that was like, like, we did that,
Speaker 1: we did that. It really did not funk around when
Speaker 1: it came to appropriating and turning sweet everything, any anything
Speaker 1: that humanity headed. But we digress, We digress album. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it is true that our best scientific minds are
Speaker 1: in food labs. They're they're doing the best work there
Speaker 1: because those are the places that can afford to pay
Speaker 1: the best. And yeah, and that's the most those are
Speaker 1: the most pressing issues of our time obviously. So in
Speaker 1: addition to this exciting new collaboration with Duncan Hinds, Dolly
Speaker 1: announced more details about her upcoming rock record. So we
Speaker 1: talked about the story that she was inducted to the
Speaker 1: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame withdrew her name from
Speaker 1: the nominations because she didn't consider herself a rock act.
Speaker 1: They were eventually just like, yeah, sorry, we're doing this
Speaker 1: one way or another. You can show up or not.
Speaker 1: And she said at the time she was inspired to
Speaker 1: one day put out a hopefully great rock and roll album,
Speaker 1: and the details are starting to emerge. She got right
Speaker 1: right to work on it, and it's like all it's her.
Speaker 1: She's treating it like a greatest hits album of rock music.
Speaker 1: She's going to be covering Purple Rain, Stairway to Heaven,
Speaker 1: and Free Bird, among others. Yeah, She's like, those are good,
Speaker 1: but I have notes like the big swing, that's a
Speaker 1: big yeah, you sure you want to go for Purple Rain. Dolly,
Speaker 1: I mean I funk with you. It's let's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, we can all we can all be great
Speaker 1: in our own ways, but I am interested. I mean
Speaker 1: part of me when I heard that, I'm like, what, like,
Speaker 1: what's the most rock Dolly parton could sound? You know?
Speaker 1: And I feel like heart kind of vibes, like like
Speaker 1: I would love to hear something like crazy on You
Speaker 1: or something like that. That would be fucking wild. But again,
Speaker 1: but a part of me is like fuck it. Let's
Speaker 1: let's see fucking free bird do Dolly Parton's Free Bird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's also gonna be guests such as Stevie Nicks, Jump Forward,
Speaker 1: Steven Tyler, and Paul McCartney. No, that's it, that's all
Speaker 1: she can get. She's just having a nice time. This
Speaker 1: is just for her to you know, sunk around a
Speaker 1: little in the studio with some pals, right, Or is
Speaker 1: this her like also being like ship man, I'm probably
Speaker 1: making the most money I ever had now, like somehow
Speaker 1: now because all of these like deals and like collaborations
Speaker 1: she's doing. I wonder if because she seems so charitable,
Speaker 1: she's like, funck it, man, let me let me ring
Speaker 1: out the fucking sponge that is my brand for every cent,
Speaker 1: so I can go on and do some ship with
Speaker 1: it on the way out and be more philanthropic. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's I love that. I love that idea. Let's go
Speaker 1: with that because it's so nice. Or she's like, no,
Speaker 1: motherfucker's I have a rocket and I'm the funk out
Speaker 1: of here. I'm sorry, y'all. Yeah, it is like that.
Speaker 1: I did have that question when we're talking about George Sanson,
Speaker 1: was like just the the willingness to change your name,
Speaker 1: like just use a different name with different people, just
Speaker 1: not just completely create your life, like if used for good,
Speaker 1: that could be interesting. And like I guess there are
Speaker 1: there are people who are, you know, equally inventive, who
Speaker 1: who do use it for good? Allah Dolly Parton, but
Speaker 1: it is. She's also going to do a duet cover
Speaker 1: of I Can't Get No Satisfaction in case the previous
Speaker 1: three songs were not clear enough that it's just the
Speaker 1: most played songs on classic rock radio. So I I
Speaker 1: do I have to wonder, like I want to hear
Speaker 1: the behind the scenes of her process for making this album,
Speaker 1: and was she just here like she just like doesn't
Speaker 1: really funk with rock music. She's like, all right, bring me,
Speaker 1: bring me the best ones, I guess, and then it's
Speaker 1: just going through and she's like, Okay, get the lots Stacks,
Speaker 1: get the Stacks band from that record. I'm like, they're
Speaker 1: all dead man, they could play though, who else? Who else?
Speaker 1: Do I remember? Jimmy Hendrix? What's he up to? More
Speaker 1: bad news? Yeah? I don't know, more bad news, more
Speaker 1: bad news. Dolly's sorry about that? Well, speaking of sorry,
Speaker 1: sorry cruise, So we have some bad news for Jeopardy
Speaker 1: because so there there's a little controversy around Celebrity Jeopardy,
Speaker 1: which our writer Jam called the t ball of the
Speaker 1: game show World Fair. It's still so like the the
Speaker 1: wolf Blitzer Andy Richter episode. Have you guys seen that one?
Speaker 1: Or like seeing the highlights of that Andy Richter is brilliant,
Speaker 1: or you know, just like Nat mowing the questions down
Speaker 1: one after another is like, you know, four times ahead
Speaker 1: of the next closest, and wolf Blitzer is revealed to
Speaker 1: be a full fledged dummy, like oh oh, prompter reader,
Speaker 1: no facts in that brain, no facts, not the first
Speaker 1: fact in the brain, and missing like the easy ones
Speaker 1: with comically bad answers. It's really he and um Mr
Speaker 1: not Mr Incredible that's from the Pixar movie. But what's
Speaker 1: the guy from Shark Tank, which one Mr. Wonderful or
Speaker 1: Mr you know what I mean, who got scammed but wonderful?
Speaker 1: He was also like just comically bad. And that's that's
Speaker 1: what I look for in Celebrity Jeopardy, is like just
Speaker 1: these exposures of of people who you know, through marketing
Speaker 1: have elevated this this image of themselves and then go
Speaker 1: up there and just can't can't get anything but one
Speaker 1: of these questions. I'm like this episode like upset, even
Speaker 1: like the Massholes, because mass Live was like there were
Speaker 1: Massachusetts related questions and no one could even answer those.
Speaker 1: This is the one the Patton Oswald in the episode
Speaker 1: that pets people off Patton Oswald Kandice Parker w n
Speaker 1: B a star, great NBA commentator, just basketball commentator in general.
Speaker 1: And then Tory de Vito funked up an easy question
Speaker 1: about Field of Dreams. I guess it's easy, Like I
Speaker 1: think I knew it, like I guessed the right answer,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't like confident in my guests. Here, I'll
Speaker 1: do it for you guys. In Field of Dreams, a
Speaker 1: question is asked, is this Heaven? No, it's this Midwestern
Speaker 1: state also known as the Corn State? Yeah, what what is? Iowa?
Speaker 1: Got it? Now? That that is? That is both correct
Speaker 1: and also the level of confidence I was taking into
Speaker 1: my answer, like and the fact that people are treating
Speaker 1: this as news like the It spawned multiple articles, each
Speaker 1: comprised of hundreds of words purely about how three celebrities
Speaker 1: like missed one question. Is just the world we live in?
Speaker 1: Set off a thousand ships. Oh can I just speaking
Speaker 1: of how easy these are? You know what the other
Speaker 1: the masses it's when they couldn't get I'm not answer
Speaker 1: me this. Brainiacs know that m I T stands for
Speaker 1: this Boston area school. That was the question. Wait, what
Speaker 1: does m I T Boston Area school? Yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: the the the wording is weird, like so it's Massachusetts
Speaker 1: Institute of Technology, right yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's just
Speaker 1: what they're just saying. I don't know this is that's
Speaker 1: not good patent. Okay, how about this Jack uh incept
Speaker 1: in September about fifty migrants from Venezuela. We're surprised to
Speaker 1: find themselves on this Massachusetts resort island. Oh, it's either
Speaker 1: an antigetor Martha's. It's Martha's finger there it is? What
Speaker 1: is Martha's. People were like they can't get these at all.
Speaker 1: But I mean those seem pretty easy. Our normal Jeopardy
Speaker 1: questions are for someone like me constantly. Like I said,
Speaker 1: the point of Celebrity Jeopardy is for us to be
Speaker 1: able to see in broad daylight that celebrities are dumb.
Speaker 1: You know that, or at least they don't exist in
Speaker 1: the same reality as the rest of us anyways, So
Speaker 1: there's also another thing that should have gotten more controversy
Speaker 1: than that in the same So apparently it was like
Speaker 1: a Kevin Costner category, I guess, and so Indigenous Canadian
Speaker 1: actress and writer Deveri Jacobs called out the show on
Speaker 1: Twitter for a question that had absolutely nothing to do
Speaker 1: with Kevin Costner, although I do think it was a
Speaker 1: reference to the Untouchables. So the clue was about the
Speaker 1: Royal Canadian Mounted Police the Mounties, which the show asserted
Speaker 1: were created to clean up whiskey traders from the United States,
Speaker 1: But as Jacobs pointed out, the RCMP was actually created
Speaker 1: to quote control and assert sovereignty over Indigenous people. Like
Speaker 1: that's a quote from the first Prime Minister of Canada
Speaker 1: that was like, we need a worse on horseback that
Speaker 1: is there too, control and assert sovereignty over like the
Speaker 1: Brits are doing to the Irish. We want that except
Speaker 1: for literally Yeah. So they were created by Canadian Canada's
Speaker 1: first Prime Minister, John A. McDonald as a colonial army
Speaker 1: to assert sovereignty over Indigenous people and their lands. And
Speaker 1: he says that he got the idea from the Royal
Speaker 1: Irish Constable Constabulary with the which the British created to
Speaker 1: keep the Irish people under control. But the Mounties are
Speaker 1: just you know, they have a long history in the
Speaker 1: U n u. S Pop culture of being sort of
Speaker 1: adorable and like like not cops, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: horrible armed dufas is who aren't. Yeah, they're they're always
Speaker 1: given sort of a pass as like innocent. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: how we think of everything Canadian. Yeah. Right, they're like
Speaker 1: there is no way they're like, wait what they're also
Speaker 1: a colonizer nation that displaced millions of indigenous people, whoa,
Speaker 1: we got a lot in common, it turns out. But
Speaker 1: I mean like in my mind right, like they've had
Speaker 1: such great pr to the point that I'm like they're
Speaker 1: not even a real thing. They just dress up and
Speaker 1: they like they it's Dudley do right stuff. But then
Speaker 1: you're like, what was their initial job again? What were
Speaker 1: they doing? Uh? The force of their initial job was
Speaker 1: to display some forceably relocate indigenous people and eventually to
Speaker 1: tear children from their homes to put in residential schools,
Speaker 1: which is euphanism for like you know, re education, child
Speaker 1: prison basically. Yeah, and then the reservations were basically prisons
Speaker 1: where you needed a past to leave, were policed by
Speaker 1: mount Mounties, and the Mounties were just like a tool
Speaker 1: for systemic oppression that continues to this day. Mounties routinely
Speaker 1: target Indigenous communities with violence and her stment. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this myth has been perpetuated by pop culture,
Speaker 1: like Hollywood made movies about heroic counties in the Canadian wilderness,
Speaker 1: which I was not familiar with. That was like early
Speaker 1: twentieth century saving damsels in distress from villains with foreign
Speaker 1: sounding names. But yeah, I think by the time I
Speaker 1: was ingesting popular culture, it was like their funny red outfit.
Speaker 1: They're simple mindedness, but like always in a completely non
Speaker 1: threatening way, right right. They were also part Pinkerton. They
Speaker 1: were there to disrupt labor strikes, accused immigrants of being
Speaker 1: Bolshevik radicals. So just chef's kiss. Yeah, it's so you
Speaker 1: always know his trouble. When like there's some euphemistic origin
Speaker 1: story for any kind of law enforcement, it's like, yes,
Speaker 1: it get those whiskey bandits, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And you're like, no, it wasn't. I'm like, y'all were
Speaker 1: slave catchers. Shut the funk up and its this other thing.
Speaker 1: It's like no, no, no, no, no, servant protect and
Speaker 1: brutalize the funk out of you. Yeah. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: Mounties have like those silly pant pants and like the
Speaker 1: gloves that seem overly fancy. So if you just dressed
Speaker 1: it up in goofiness, no one's going to notice. Exactly.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine like this fucking l a p d
Speaker 1: starts going on like cool locks or like weird writing
Speaker 1: pants or something. Look, we're not killing people at a
Speaker 1: disturbing tick. Yeah. Yeah. In the cop movies now, like
Speaker 1: they like I think it was One Jump Street or
Speaker 1: like one of the Jumps Street, they start out as
Speaker 1: like bike cops because you have to make them seem right,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Isn't that right? Like they started out as
Speaker 1: bike cops because they've been like busted down to that
Speaker 1: level or something. But yeah, you have to make the
Speaker 1: cops seem silly. That that is going to be a
Speaker 1: wild new like direction for propaganda to take where they're
Speaker 1: just mean, like made non threatening and goofy. Well that's
Speaker 1: why with the rise of you know, smartphones, that's always
Speaker 1: a steady stream of like yo that cop can pop
Speaker 1: in lock right, first, a purpose limbs out of their
Speaker 1: sockets and you're like, oh, but also can get down
Speaker 1: there used to be a b boy. Check out those
Speaker 1: moves or like, and I hate that copaganda ship because
Speaker 1: it's always like it's it's so funny because even when
Speaker 1: I watched them, like oh ship, look at it. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: you can see walk And then I'm like, wait, shut
Speaker 1: the funk up. This person put on that uniform to
Speaker 1: brutalize poor people and protect private property. This is not
Speaker 1: somebody who gives a funk about anybody, but it is.
Speaker 1: It just does goes, goes like it goes to show
Speaker 1: you like that image whenever it's doing something a little
Speaker 1: bit goofier than like violence. Then you're like, I love it.
Speaker 1: That cop can juggle and make cotton candy. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: rollerblade cop. That's can be like all cops are rolling
Speaker 1: around on roller blades. Yeah. Oh well look we'll wait
Speaker 1: and see, because I mean, these ideas may sound absurd
Speaker 1: right now, but yeah, I think we've seen anything. Look
Speaker 1: at they probably sounded absurd and are still absurd all
Speaker 1: these years later. All Right, that's gonna do it for
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