Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Miles enough beating around. We were thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious enough with the ship out of you being an impending father or whatever.
You've seen some art. We gotta we got a heater today. Yeah, hilarious stand up comedian, comedy writer, actor, fashion icon whose shirts are available at Guarante Shirts. Yeah. One of our all time favorite TVZ guests, one of y'all's favorite TTZ guests, the Brilliant, the raw, the major caitlin Y. This is me being the zeking. I hope you can everybody just got it. Consensual hug only those who want one. If you're not into that door being hug most of us,
you're fine. Most of you are problem. I feel like it's a huggy crowd. As I knew, Miles that you had excellent handwriting. I knew it. I felt it in my bones that your handwriting was cultivated and exquisite. Thank you, that was correct. It's hi, what wonderful. Praise is a pleasure as always to join you in your lovely thirt Thank you, it's wonderful. Your handwriting looking like fast, it's hurried. My handwriting looks like I am thinking about the next
sentence already and would like to get it on the page. Please. You have, like, do you have like hybrid cursive printing handwriting? Because you know how people like when I hear people who write fast. I've always envisioned like that hybrid cursive while also printing. Is that you that is? Yeah? Okay, yeah, it's a little a lot of letters I've just trained to run together in something like normal. They're not the shape of a curves of letter. But I'm not looking
at pencil. Who's got the time? Right? Right? Right? I'm busy. You will show you a to do list that has my handwriting on it. Yeah, I was just taking notes about what a guest needs to know on this stamed book, and I feel like, even backwards, you know that that's
exactly what it would look like. Yeah, this is a to do list that I discovered while cleaning out my closet from over I think probably two years ago, I've accomplished half of the things on this You didn't specify what find multiple mountains, but one of the one of the items on the to do list is just Havana syndrome. Get to the bottom of Just how high on the list is that? Can? I ask, how how long have you been writing a list before you were like here, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten item have syndrome? Just enough, said future self. You know what this means, ship It's like shitty memento. It's like what havana syndrome? Figure it out? Figure it out, solve the jfk assassination, Havana syndrome, climate change area if you are one of my favorite jokes in the world. Shaun Kine wrote himself so he would remember it because he knew he was not in a state to remember
it when it occurred to him at the time. And it is a list of soy cheese names that make me laugh like like a child, like I hear that, I've heard that. I request that joke anytime I can make Shaun Kine do it for me. And when next time you talk to comedian Shaan Kina or listen to him, I highly that you shout out so soy cheese is. I will just cite my favorite Monterey John I never heard, but that was in a note he left himself and discovered the meeting, of which I'm so thankful he retained.
Can you imagine just opening your phone to see the phrase Monterey John and having no no frame of reference? What are you thinking? Why has this been written? What past self decided that that was a necessary note? I remain never thankful that Sean held on to just enough shreds of that memory put together one of my favorite pieces of stand up material of all time. It also relies on our knowledge that Jack is a nickname for John, which the majority of the United States does not have.
I will I will have you know as somebody who is a born John who goes by Jack. Most people, why the hell do you do that? That's straight? Can I'm like Catherine derivative, I can go so many ways I think Katie and whatever I can't. Yeah, I just can't stop starting with cats. But all the kate ones are allowed to somehow. I feel like Courtney sneaks in. I could just do it if I wanted. Why not? If you're feeling sassy that's right, and Myles, you just
have a cool name. So you're you're like, yeah, I'm good. I told I think I've said it before. I always wanted to be DJ in the nineties. Oh god, yeah, I was like, why don't I d J? Man? That felt like the sickest name. I'm remember. I'm like, yo, this name is bullshit. Why can't that be? Yeah, there's other kids this Oh yeah, this one kid DJ was like the coolest kid like in my grad Like at the time they're like, oh, she's surfing and ship like he's like, you know, he's like a good surfer when
we were like ten, you know what I mean. So that he was killing it. Now he's like a like a storied lifeguard in Oahu. Like he he never strayed from his like beach path as a human being. Now, like this is what I'm good. AD always a DJ, that's you have to swing in too hard. Yeah, came back down from your choices as a DJ exactly in a way. I'm glad I did not. I did not pursue that name switch, and I stayed with Miles and that led me towards them. That kept me on my
musical path. So yeah, yeah, very well, DJ could have kept you on a very different music would have been two on the nose. I feel like, you know, here's DJ DJ like now, come on, personally love it, but that's not a great indicator. I think yea, truly DJ names now are like the best. Like there's a guy named Trillbo Swagons who I've seen on bills and like l a DJ Yamba Yobi is another one I love. Like those are just funny, like I would lean into that.
But yeah, as a kid, like I remember I was DJ under the name Prime with a one with a one for the eye. Okay, yeah, what a time to be a live truly the really nineties. I have a long thing I want to talk about that we don't have time for, about the name Michael in the late eighties early nine and why I was having such a run. I don't have any answer. When I was in college, we had to have multiple mics. There was Maccus in Mike's second floor. Mike. There was tall Mike, there was
short Mike. We had to delineate the mics. They got a prefixed handle. And also the most famous humans in America were all named Mike and then the Ninja Turtles came along, and the coolest ninja turtle was Michael Angelo. It's what why? And then since then, no, like, not a lot of cool mikes got Mike Pence. This is a stand up that I'm working out. Yeah, yeah, go off king alright? Uh about that? Is your guaranteed to have a mic in every audience? Yeah? Ready, have put
plenty in your pocket for that you get on stage. Hey, So where's Mike Cat Your name's Mike, raise your hair right now? Alright, Mike the fun Daddy. What is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I was just looking at my history from yesterday. We had caper vinigrette, which I was trying to figure out how to make for dinner. And then uh, and also racist Dutch theme park was doing uh my friends podcasts.
And there's a theme park in the Netherlands called Efteling that recently, after a long battle, changed some very racist rides that they had, So I needed to bone up on that theme park. International theme park controversy. Wow, there's there's a couple of theme parks dealing with some racist controversy that they're having to undo. Are the are the Dutch like crying over the fact that they had to
change their theme park like they do it. They were really holding onto it, and this stuff was way more outwardly racist than anything that that was, so like monster Cannonball, Okay, yeah, you found it. This is fucking violence, Oh my crazy. And it only changed like very recently. Yeah, And uh, I mean it's a whole it's a whole different culture they have over there, I suppose, but they also have like a very racist rip off of It's a Small
World with scenes of like Africa and Asia. I mean, just like crazy stuff that this still existed, but and then they changed that, but they kept Msieur Canniball. They were holding onto that one. They finally changed that one, but I wanted to make sure I have my facts, right, So yeah, that's yesterday. Yeah Monsieur Canniball For people who
don't even if you're not googling. Basically, it's like a tea cup ride where all these like pots over fire are rotating around a central like racist figure of what I'm believing is to be some kind of African person who is going to eat the people. It's the most shockingly offensive thing, Uh, that you've ever seen. As ever, I'm surprised that the photo of it is in color,
Like that's how racist it is. I'm like, this is before color cameras, right, yeah, and that and their excuse was like, well, you gotta understand this ride was made like thirty years ago. It's like thirty years ago. This was not in the eighties. We made this back in the late eighties, so you have to understand. This came out right after soul Man was released in theater, so this just can't be too offensive. Yeah, right, what the funk? Oh my god? I wondered was the ice cream cone
always there? Because he is eating an ice cream cone? Are you saying that makes it okay? I'm wondering if they tried to make it okay by being like, he's not just eating people. He also like, that's not like African, Like ice cream not necessarily doesn't mean he's an African because he likes that, But it feels like police reform where it's like, let's change this one thing. And it was like, that's not the fucking problem. Like I don't know was that he wasn't eating ice cream? What is
something you think is overrated? Vince I think canceling plans is overrated. I don't know at what point, like it became a thing to brag about how much you enjoy canceling plans online. But I don't know. I personally hate when people do that, and I don't think it's that cool, and I think you should. It's more fun to meet up with people. I think it's it's cooler to just say no, right, yeah, I don't cancel them, say you want to nah, because then the person knows how much
food do you get? Yeah? Exactly? Oh yeah, No, that's that's poor form, you know what I mean. If if there's a head count and you've got to provide or whatever, and then people suddenly like of the guest list, like you know what actually nah, yeah, and everybody has that one friend who doesn't like to disappoint people. So there there maybe is like an automatic no, and there and there yes is actually you translate it back to a
maybe in your mind. Yeah, they're like, look, John is gonna say yes, but it's a no. I know him. Two days out he's gonna be like, hey, actually, I'm like I already know alight, no, sorry, we we didn't even buy enough for you man, it's I don't know what you said. I've known you since pre school, man, I know what, I know what. Yes, I got frozen pot stickers and Casey decided to show up. That's gonna
be your food. It's a very good point. It's it's a thing that I think it's been an underrated on our show, and I vehemently agreed with that because I do have social anxiety and sometimes it feels like a lot to show up to a thing. But usually when I show up to a thing in after the fact, I'm glad I did right. But I think more than
I think more. The thing that we liked about the canceling plans thing was just was more so saying no to offers of plans, because I feel like that was the big pandemic shift for me, was you say yes to everything pre pandemic And then I was like, nah, like being able to like have my own boundaries actually
really important to me. So then on the other side of it, I was like, yeah, you know what, I I don't think I'll be able to make it where I used to be like I might, you know what, let me check, let me look, And now I'm just like, man, I ain't gonna work maybe next time. I did have a friend who was like an aggressive, aggressive invite turner down there, where he would not only say no, but like reply to the group email with all of the reasons that he would not be doing that, and you
know what had to respect it. Oh yeah, that's brilliant. Were the reasons, like, you guys aren't my favorite conversationalists. I mean it was usually no, it was not like it was not like the Benchees of initiare And it was usually more like he didn't want to drive more than ten minutes, and it would be like, oh, sorry, I didn't bring my uh my East Bay passport because I will not be doing that. Ben What is something you think is underrated? Oh? Uh? Specificity of the English
language see above the word clindrical what pretty good? Actually, it was pretty good. I like the specificity of it to the earlier statement about the German language just cramming a bunch of ship together and saying, you know, that's that's just the thing. I think we wrote about this like back in correct, like just the wildest words that exist in foreign languages, and I think one of them, I think it was in German and it might have been in Russian. Was like a child like giving birth
while standing in an alleyway, like out of shame. There's a word for that. Yeah, there's a word for that, like just like the process of like it's not even laying down to give birth because you don't want anyone to notice. How come no one finish strates? How come falling out a window is definistration. Yeah, nobody always there for for when it happens. You know. I just think it's I I think it's funny. I feel like I get do not do not google German giving birth in
an alley way by standing up? Yeah, that's no, that's a good note. That's a good note. I keep my safe search on because I google some weird ships. Yeah, it's just between you and the n S A Jack, that's right. So they're like, we got he's completely off the end of the jfk assassination. We got them all looking up at German words and we just in his brain. They have their own doomsday clock for how close I am to the truth about the jam five second boys. Oh,
there's a specific word for it. It's like, uh, jack chronologic. Helen directs you don't think. Yeah, yeah, for sure. All right, let's take a quick break. Wait, but just to that point though, I'm sorry because Jack, you talk about a feature of the German language which I think does have this specificity, and I don't know, I feel like we don't have a lot of specificity in the English language.
Like we we use a lot of words from other languages sometimes to like encapsulate something, but we don't have like these kind of like what we do. It's like mash up ship, you know what I mean, you know, the English language I feel like is we have we have to use a lot of different words to get at a concept. A lot of the time, the English language is a bunch of people freestyle e for fucking thousands of years and just going with stuff, you know.
Like so someone was like, like, imagine how weird it is. You know, you're learning English. Sometimes you're close to something, sometimes something's about to close that's fucking confusing, and no one's gonna fix it. We're all just sort of vibe in off that anyway. I love it. I feel like I'm still learning this language. That is one of the things that comes up constantly when you have a kid.
The calendar less so in my experience this far. But the spelling and how completely fucking arbitrary it is, especially because like my kids are also learning Spanish, and so Spanish just follows rules, so it's just like, oh, yeah, that's how you spell that, and then English is yeah, it just seems before he except you're like what they seem to get distracted like halfway through words sometimes okay,
a level with you. English is a colonizer language where we steal a bunch of other words from other people. That's why the spellers are all over the place, like shampoo is like like from the Indian, like an Anglo India, like a Hindi. Words from the Philippines. You know, like there's so many things where it's like what does that means? Like, look, we kinda once we got our boats up and round and we just started jacking other people's words an idea,
didn't I didn't ever best people on it. I do wonder like do other languages, like is there some sort of like centralized body that is like that's fucking stupid. Another colonizer France has a national body to just keep their ship buttoned up on language on the language front, true story. Well, I don't know if it's interesting. I
don't speak French. I just walked around Parish, you know, doing like a white over bite, you know, like yeah, like I look like I say my os right, you know, right right right there, you go, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back and we're back. And Okay, it wasn't everyone, but it wasn't New York Times. New York Times got this wrong as fun a lot of like the l A Times all like these mainstream media sources that love the people just immediately trust and
they're seeing their Trump coverage. They're liberal. Okay, yes, granted their liberal. It's like, no, they're not. They are right of center. Anyways, So the shoplifting epidemic that was sweeping the nation, one of the big people crying foul and actually crying wolf was Walgreens. Like I remember this being a big story, like before any of them kicked it off, was Walgreens. Was like I can barely keep them Dann
doors open in San Francisco because was a shoplifting. It's just it's just the wild West tearing this family apart. It's yeah, and it's like what everybody thought there like, so, what's it like in California? Like you just don't have to pay for stuff, You just walk in and smash and grab everything you want from a Walgreens? Is that how California is new? I mean as a shoplifter, Yeah,
I mean you can do that everywhere. Though it's not just California, free live, free, sovereign consumer as I called him. But yeah, there was this whole thing of like it's destroying the economy in San Francisco and like they have to close five stores because of the lack of law and order. And this guy, the CFO, got on this call and he basically said, they quote cried too much last year about the supposed problem, and they've and as a result, they've overspent on security to try and stop
the non existent bleed. And in fact, when you look at the numbers, they said things got better this last year for the company in terms of losses. They said that as they call it, the charade of shrink, which is like lost to to theft, fraud, damages, miss scanned items, etcetera, fell from three and a half percent to around two and a half percent, which is not good by industry standards.
As I've read but we knew this, and we were saying this along with many others that don't rely on the words of police and the c suite of companies to shape their worldview. Like and the thing that pisces
me off is that the data was there. Like there was a San Francisco Chronicle article that was like, I mean, and other earnings calls they talked about how just the cost of doing business in San Francisco is really fucking difficult because of the real estate costs, and they expanded too quickly and they're kind of like and that also helped like make the decision that they were going to
close some locations down. So on top of it all, like again, all of this was like there for most people to see and just say, I don't don't know if it's quite rising to this, but we were just fed this steady stream of like videos of like people like shoplifting at pharmacies and you're like, oh no, what's
going on? And now like the places like CNN in the New York Times are writing articles that are critical of Walgreens and like, my god, crunching the numbers in their reporting to show the US that they were lying. This whole time, Like, I've been to those Walgreens. Do you know how hard it is to shoplift gum from there? It's impossible. Yeah, they have like cameras, they have like metal detectors, they've got security guards everywhere, and then they
have the mirrors all over the place. Right. The also the shrinkage, like they use this term that's like lost from theft that like I feel like always from George Costanza. Yeah, I thought it was cold water, but I think the like they're always lumping it in with something else that is less sexy, but it is actually the thing that
is causing them to lose more money. Like I remember there was a Walmart story about this where they were like blaming theft for a huge loss of like inventory, but then people actually looked in and it's like more more likely you're just bad at tracking your inventory. And also you're trying to replace clerks with all of these automated self checkouts and people are inadvertently not paying for things or just like conveniently forgetting to scan something. Yes,
for me, it's inadvertent and convenient, and they're not. You know, they just don't want to admit that because they just it's a it's a cost saving thing that they knew was going to be a problem coming into it. But because the media, because these mainstream media outlets were so gullible and so just willing to, you know, be credulous that like, yes, theft is out of control. The pores are coming and they've they're breaking down the doors and
stealing all our stuff. The pore little billion theres worry about the great big poors. It's the same reason that they love that, like those doorbuster sales where everyone's like, you know, pushing each other out of the way to get the flat screen TVs. It's like, look at these like poor consumers. That's there, you know. They love they love a zombie movie. The local news, the mainstream media.
They love to make it seem like the poor people are out of control and hungry masses coming in tsunami waves with our claspers ready to take your detergent and tide pods and other things. But yeah, it's it's just all self created. It's just it's the thing that really
fucking takes my like mind, like blows my mind. Is that, Like they actually quoted out Carrick and Santis in The New York Times like he's been going fucking head to head on Twitter, like every time they post one of these dumb crime way of pieces, and now they want to fucking hit him up for a quote about the media's lack of like attention on this or just like kind of going you know, really casually along with the narratives that were being put up by these companies and
the police. Like come on, he's surgically disassembled every one of these articles that you have like published like in real time, you publish it an hour later he has explained, like what, okay, So this quote is from a cop, this quote is from the Better Business Bureau in your city, Like this quote is just pulled from a Walgreens earnings call where it was like conveniently lumped in with this other thing that you're losing money on. And just like he told you in real time that this was bullshit.
And now all of a sudden, you're I mean, I'm glad they're coming around to the reality of their fucked up reporting, but I'm I'm sure that's that's not how they're going to you know, portray it or even like
perceive it. Yeah it's yeah again, I mean, this is all again like you're saying all of the policy or political points that were scored with getting the media lockstep with this narrative was basically to push back against a lot of the progressive d a's, Like Chase of Boudine in San Francisco was ran out on a rail because of precisely this narrative of like and there's no fucking nothing in San Francisco, get them out. But you look at the primaries and what happened in November, A lot
more progressive d a's got elected. So it's like this, you know, you just you can kind of you it's always, you know, it's it's when these these stories come out, you're like, oh, of course, y'all everyone, you're all working together because the same ame. This is like a real and Order episode now right, we need like that? Yeah, Like in the in Mark may have twenty twenty one California Today New York Times San Francisco shoplifting surge. They
got a picture of Walgreens. Walgreens has closed stores in San Francisco. San Francisco because of shoplifting. Is your fucking sub headline on like the front image, Like and now you're like, wow, what happened. Man, shut the shut the funk out of here. And that's also your best picture if like hordes of shoplifters are invading Walgreens, your best picture is just like a closed store. Yeah, just the exterior of one. And where where are all the poor zombies? Yeah?
It's just really anyway, so well done. The New York Times and CNN and others that breathlessly just paraded this on and then now you're like, oh, that guy was just talking bullshit. It turns out, yeah, they only caught the like five times I've done it. Yeah, I mean, nobody checks anymore. I wonder if the if it was a bad strategy for them to. I mean, I don't
know what their other option was. A their strategy really seemed to be like California is a socialist failed state that has you know, the socialist d as have lost the city, and so everybody elsewhere in the country is like, man, California has really like gone to ship and you know what, we're fine here, it turns out, and oh, not not my progressive deal like that, because everybody seems to be voting progressive when it comes to he is They're not everybody,
but at least the people who vote. So they love doing that with California period, right, Like we have wildfires and they're like, it's because of all the gays rubbing class burst. That's California and they're terrible and it's God's hand. Yeah, I mean it's like, no, actually, our money is all being funneled into the Midwest and that's why we have no infrastructure. Emily, I look at where I think, like you're saying, it helps to have this like boogeyman to
point to it. Like, you know, I always use the metaphor of the m Nights Almalan movie The Village to be like, you don't want to go out there. Yeah, it's all fucking weird and spooky, like you never you couldn't even fucking fathom. But then, oh my god, don't
tell me the ending. Miles, don't tell intend ending ending. Alright, but a plane flies overhead and that it all up anyway, all that to say, you know where we we helped fulfill that sort of myth for a lot of the conservative myth makers who want to you know, do everything they can to be like no progress is so fucked up and bad, like it leads to Walgreens closing because they actually aggressively expanded and relied on not paying like
proper wages and automation. Do I get that right? But truly it is bad out here, So don't move that here. Don't move to Los Angeles especially, stay where you're at. Traffics fucking horrible, no front, that's that's real. They got one, I know. That's why I'm telling them to funk off this. This is the worst that's ever good traffic. I don't know what's got back from the holiday. It's it's bad.
I've tried to go to that fucking Griffith Park Observatory like three times, and every time it's like a fucking it's like space mountain. You might get a three hour line. Yeah, you have to like lark by the studio in Hollywood, so close to walking up the hill. That's why you gotta come to Medesk though nobody goes anywhere, And it's it's so dumb to like keep going to the same place that is that you know, just as beautiful as
like twenty other things. All I need to I ended up just finding a bunch of other better parks and take him up to the mount Wilson Observatory. Man, Hey, so anyways, fuck you Griffith Park Observatory. I don't need you anyways. I mean just skipping down to somebody who is has actually gone on the record in court, being like I am a professional wrestling character that you know.
Alex Jones, our writer jam was pointing out he was doing some research watching the thing and noticed that like one of the logos was how nine thousand like, but it was is like kind of sweaty. It didn't make sense as a as a reference, and so we looked into it. And Alex Jones apparently is weirdly obsessed with Stanley Kubrick and making the case that Stanley Kubrick is like a right wing profit. A few years ago, they published an editorial about how the World of a Clockwork
Orange bears an uncomfortable resemblance to our own. The film is too bold, too brash, too brazen, and it's honest yet stylized depiction of the foibles and failures of humanity and our society, and too unflinching and its artistic honesty and insight for like our soft modern world, which is funny.
First of all, it's funny to like take the entire point of a dystopian sci fi movie, which is to like show you a world that seems different, but then the more you watch, you're like, ah, but I see the similarities and you know, and just like say it in a tone that makes it sound like it's a conspiracy that they've done this, like that it's a secret
message that they're sending you. Reminds me of like the Da Vinci Code, where they like took symbolism in art and like reduced it to the level of like a crossword puzzle where you're like, when you look at her hand, she's actually pointing at a word jumble that's written over here in invisible link that you have to solve to to find out the clue. But also it's just ignoring I don't know fact, like it's too woke for our world.
And it's a movie that was incredibly controversial when it came out in the seventies, like it sparked massive protests and like Stanley Kubrick banned it in the UK like decided not to distribute it. But yeah, it's just wild to again, like the weird confirmation Bias set to nine million or whatever. It's just like like every like, yeah, oh,
I can see it now. But again it's always having to be, you know, bending towards whatever you needed to meet to mean, and in this case, I just love it's like exactly he foretold all of these issues, except I'm not quite sure which side of this equation I'm
actually on. Yeah, And then he had Stanley Kuber's daughter, Vivian Kuber on and apparently she's a huge Alex Jones fan now and is yeah, I don't know, like violent art, far right memes on Twitter and publicly proclaimed her admiration of Alex Jones when she came on, said I've been listening to Alex Jones for many years. I know how accurate he has been about what's going down on this planet.
And also she's wearing a headlight and a go pro camera onner head and said that enemies of humanity are running the world the world, and they might be extraterrestrials and that was like in the first five minutes of the show, which is just it's such a bummer, truly, is that, like, I don't know, that's it's getting to everyone, you know, right. Alex Jones also thinks Stanley Kubrick had
psychic powers, and that's where he got his movie ideas. Again, just like Wild, just attempt by someone who's not creative to understand the creative process. He must have been had some someone sending him psychic messages like how did you come up with Dr Strange Love? Five years before you know, the the Cube missile crisis or a decade before the Cuban missile crisis. It's like that there was It was based on a dramatic novel that had already been singled
out by the Pentagon for its accuracy. Like repeatedly, he just kept confusing. Really like Stanley Kubrick did really careful and intense and broad research for all of his movies, like the He the other thing, he's like eyes, why should like I've seen master orgies in my time? By that he like dropped that as an aside. He was like when I was a teenager, I went to some Satana massed orgies and just like didn't didn't go further
into that. But he took the Eyes Wide Shut orgy as like a sign that he was telling on actual like orgies that Stanley Kubrick had been invited to, when in fact it was like this deep historical research into actual you know, rituals from the eighteenth and nineteenth century,
like how those things actually went down. Also, their conspiracy is that Eyes Wide Shut was about like the real illuminati and that like powerful celebrities had Kubrick killed because he died right after completing the movie, which is just doesn't really hold together as a like why would he He had been working on that since like the sixties. Yeah, they should have killed him before she showed him, before
he completed it. I like that. They're just like, yeah, just the assassins are like, hold on, let him cook. I want to see I want to see what they're like. Yeah, I'm a big fan. Wait, no, we gotta finish it. But then we got to punish him. Yeah. And also again, yeah, the question of where he got the idea for Eyes
Why Shut could have been solved with Google. Like That's the thing is so many of these kind of long running conspiracy theories, and this kind of this comes up in Poult Goldman as well, like the so many of these things can be solved with Google, like just a little bit of Google. Not even you know, prolonged and detailed research, but just a little bit to be like, oh,
there are these four other explanations that also makes sense. Yeah, I mean what you guys are talking about in terms of confirmation bias, it's like, yeah, it's kind of the backwards. You decide what the truth is and then you make every bit of information you find line up with it and kind of willfully ignore anything that contradicts that or adds complexity to it. But yeah, I mean, you see
that happening everywhere. Well, and then I did wanna, you know, just follow that story up with a story about why that will be the last time that we ever talked about rich people or corporations, because now they are suing us. Yeah, not us specifically, but they're going after people who like to connect the dots out loud on the influence of money and better will work or also known as skateboard b uh is being that. I just decided to do that as a Farrell reference. But we all know, we
know he gets down on that skateboard. We saw him get down in that word Burger parkmon um. But you know he's being sued by this natural gas magnate in Texas. Why did he do something criminal? Oh? He pointed out the fact that the natty gas pimp gave Governor Greg Abbott one million dollars right after the governor signed a bill into law that created a loophole for natural gas operators to be able to opt out of mandated winter ization of their infrastructure. Well, what does that even mean?
It's not like that could ever harm chains on my tires? Should be like, how bad could winter in Texas? Did anything bad happen? A couple of winters ago were properly winterized infrastructure could have prevented the death of hundreds and led to the robberies people, that's right, not dyeing their homes. There was And then Abbott signed a bill like a few months later that made it seem like he was addressing the issue of like the winter storm, and he was like, I want to make it look like I'm
advocating for Texans by saying we got it. We actually have to get serious about mandating are like mandating like the proper winterization of infrastructure and like not allowing these operators to to price gouge people. But again he left a loophole for the natural gas gang, which is why the Tech and the Texas Tribune points to the natural gas operators as quote the primary cause of outages during that time. So what the funk is going on? And
what is this distraught man to do? For better Or Rourke saying things like this guy's influencing the governor or bribing him. Oh well, he pointed that out, the Greg Abbott thing. He was just like yeah, he's like yeah, he's like looking at it. He's like he's carving out loopholes for his buddy. This guy gave a million dollars. You think this isn't connected. This is directly relates to his business and way of making money. And this is
this is the kind of corruption where it got. You know, like any any person who's like running for office with that sort of set of ideals is going to articulate. Well, his lawyers now are saying like, well, you know what they said, the this natural gas tycoon experience quote mental anguish from comments ads in social media posts in which a Rooks campaign suggested that the money was a reward for Abbott going easy on him. What else? Tell us
what else, honey, let's soothe your words. Quote better Or told millions of his followers that Warren engaged in bribery, corruption, and extortion and that he profited from the death of his fellow text and simply because Mr Warren gave up perfectly legal campaign contribution to the candidate of his choosing, Governor Abbot. When you look at the comments that his followers put in on his tweets, they believe him. They believe that Mr. Warren is a criminal that is engaged
in profit over the lives of Texans. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so your profits. See the reason is if you spent the fucking money to properly protect your infrastructure and prevent the power outages for people which wouldn't have led to
their deaths. And you know, seem after the after the people, that's the wild thing is like a thing where it was like, hindsight, we would have really addressed that fucker they are doing this and like paying him a million millions of dollars campaign contribution after they they're funk up, has already led to people dying, has already led to like a national news like just disaster, like something that everybody was talking about, and they're like, yeah, okay, so
the next thing we need to do is, uh is make sure that nothing no consequences are ever felt from this right, I don't know. I'm looking for some silver lining. Remember that are perfectly balanced judicial system is it runs on a on a system of precedent. If we could establish a precedent that mental languish is enough to sue a politician for, then perhaps perhaps we're onto something here. Uh maybe even cover I've experienced mental languish from every
overgraphee that I've ever experienced. Maybe a little class action suit in that direction is in order. I've experienced, you know, mental languish, and well, I remember, you know what, I was in college and I had to get all those loans because, like we we made tuition in a student feast in the California public wersity system. Why don't I
don't remember that being sourced mental languish. Maybe the half million students a year that were in school with me in the state of California would like to get together and see if there's a little something we can do to compensate ourselves for what we suffer. You know what I'm saying. I just but if we could start suing people for mental languish and that I I just think that maybe we're onto something here. The mental languish and if the judicial system wasn't run by billionaires in business,
you never know, let's let's open the doors. But again, like many people are saying, like, obviously it's a bullshit slap lawsuit, and it's you know, meant to chill the speech of candidates or anyone who's wanting to point out that we live in this fucking oligarchy. So you know, there's that, and it could be a great blueprint for other you know, very sensitive earth fuckers who don't want to hear people accurately describe their actions. But yeah, it's
it's it's a little dystopian flip the language. Five. Yeah, you told the truth about me, so I'm suing you. It's just sent And I mean when you also look at it to this guy, like this gas guy, like he's in every he's making sure everybody's paid, you know what I mean? Like Ken Paxton, the Attorney General, after the storm, he's like, we got to look into these gas companies, man, what the funk was that storm about? It looks like they were gouging the price gauging was
out of control. But since then he's refused to say, like what's going on with that investigation? And then if you look at the donations, the same guy, Kelsey Warren's given at least two hundred thousand dollars to Paxton throughout his career, so it's like he stays on the good side of him. And then also the Texas Railroad Commission, which is the body that oversees like oil and gas and stuff in the state, you know, and like talks
about price caps and things like that. He's given like over three nine thousand to like Texas Railroad Commission candidates in the last decade. So you know, I mean, if anything, it's just one of these weird things where you see how it works. But again they're like, we have to prove the intent in court, you know what I mean, Like he was just giving to like and it's it's this nebulous language that is allowed to for them to
have the defense. We're going, I'm merely participating in the civics prod the civic process here and just giving money to a preferred candidate without really you know, but we're not gonna actually analyze what that means, right, And I think that's what this is what this lawsuit could end up boiling down to. Anyway, he's being better at work. He's being suited for a million dollars. Yes, I think that works just mad. He's not a baller like this guy,
you know. Yeah, that's and I think that's what this guy is saying. He's like, it's just all these haters they hate that we're ballers. Call this alb I feel like we're this is the I mean, Chad's are finally stepping up to assert their dominance in court, which it's about time. I can see by the visual representation that this is the apex of the white mail. This is this is it, this is uh. Yeah, we're not getting every Every billionaire looks like flaccid wet sausage. But that's
it's just something that happens. I guess when you have that much money. Speaking of flaccid wet sauce, do we got we got a fucking flaccid wet sausage, all star. Don't look at this guy's picture. And I misunderstand. I I saw in the document which you so kindly prepare for guests there you've you've included a photograph of a certain gentleman. And I'm still him for a billionaire because he has billionaire body, which is about the compliment I could give him, which I think we all recognize is
not printy. And he has like he has like that vibe like when you're so privileged, like you still look like a baby because you've never had to live still like you, because you're not surprised to hear the stories about with his haircut, that dodgy haircut. Haircut, Oh my god, yeah it looks like, yeah, I got it. Who's the owner of the Raiders. Who has the bowl cut? Yeah Davis with the haircut? Yea, not Al Davis? Yeah, Al Davis. Is I think it's Al Davis's son maybe, Oh yeah, yeah,
he's got that. He's got that really wild edge up, like he's got a Caesar with bangs basically, yeah, like real really yeah, guarantee he wasn't like giving an edge up. But yeah, yeah, the person I'm talking about, Mark Davis, Al Davis, this one so worth looking at him and the gentleman we're about to talk to when we come back, not talked to talk about. No, we got him, we got him, We got got him on the horse. I love your worldview, man, I've got to have you on
the show. All right, We'll be right back and we're back. And I did confirm during the break there is no confirmed new Outcast album, just rumors. So yeah, an he from just googling or about to google? Come old, I don't. I can't tell the difference between when Miles was joking and on anymore. But let's talk Oscar. Look like I said, I'm a great liar, like George Santos, breathless. They will say things like out he has a new album, but
he's a bad liar. That's the amazing that he's a bad god Republicans come is how the exactly let me tell you about the scourge of biracial people. You better with no except for mess misfortunate by racial person. I wish I could change things that I could, y'all. But yeah, I mean, luckily, I'm right. I'm right. So we're so we're saying Santos is probably not up for an Oscar. You know what we should we should just sucking ask him.
I bet he's got a supporting role in something. Yeah, he's probably claim he was Jamie Lee Curtis actually and everything everywhere all at once. One of the performances at least was inspired by and he's like, you know, the hot dog, those sausage fingers, those glass fingers. That was me. Yeah, I gave that to Daniel. Did you never forget what
Daniel looks? But I told Daniel. But I think just generally, as we talked about before, like the direction that America wants to move, like the that like the mainstream American culture, Like you can tell a stupid lie in the direction of like right wing fascism and like right wing fascist talking points and it's going to work for you. You can throw a coup that tries to overthrow the government
and they will bury that ship. If that had been a coup, the business plot in the early thirties, if that had been a coup like to try and do a communist overthrow of the US government that got as far as it did, like we were, the heads of the plotters would still be on pikes like in every US city, and their family members like that, they would still there would be museums to that ship. Yeah, they're big country songs about it and ship. Yeah alright, Oscar
Nam's best picture. So it's a fun category. We got. We got some hits. We got Avatar, The Way of Water, Banshees of Inner Sharing, All Quiet on the Western Front, the German film that came out on Netflix. Shout out to my middle school teacher who made where you read that book? Yeah, it's a it's a classic of middle school teachers. Shout out to spark notes on that one. You just gotta live in it for a second. Yeah, Elves, which I think is part of the Santa Claus universe,
and I think that's Alvis Elvis. My brain, my brain is refusing to acknowledge that els is in the Best Picture category. But all right, man, we're in the year of maximalism. It's on the list right there, next to Everything Everywhere, All at Once, which deserves to be there. The Fableman's which I haven't seen, Tar Top Gun, Maverick Triangle Sadness, which I need to see still, that's like kind of the one on this list that I'm I'm
like excited to see. And Women Talking That Seems, which is the title of a film that's not just some random thing. Jack said, yeah, dude, that you have you heard about that film? That one? I mean women Women Talking? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to see that one too, for sure. That's Sarah Polly, Yeah, exactly. For Sarah Paulson, No, Sarah Polly,
Sarah Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, there's some snubs. The best director category is all dudes, right, you couldn't even get Sarah Polly in there, Like you're bothering to nominate Women Talking for Best Picture, but then you can't even be like, and you know it might be one of the best directors too, that made one of the best pictures. Yeah, they were like women directing, that's too far. You know,
women talking will allow it's yeah. With The Women King, which was pretty dope, kind of got shut out, like there's it didn't get nominated for Best Picture, didn't get nominated for direc Actor. Viola Davis was viewed as a front runner for a nomination for The Woman King and got snubbed, So that that one's pretty frustrating. Let me ask a question, though, because you guys are way more plugged into this sort of stuff than I am. Who the fund is Oscar? Like, I I know, there's the
Academy Awards. It look. I think the old myth is that it resembled someone's uncle named Oscar, and that's how that that name got like put onto the statuette. I mean, I trust you, but this sounds like some Santos level stuff, looking up, looking up. I believe you, I believe you, But I just like the Academy Awards. Can we say I knew we were going to talk about this. There's a lot of great film out there, but it feels kind of rigged. Dare I say, like, I'm not plugged in.
They're not. I'm not in the Producers Guild of America or whatever. I'm not getting anybody checking in on what I think about films, merit, But like, how can you? Hey, hey, but they do ask us about the I Heart Podcast Awards, now they do? They are we are involved in some award giving that's all internal. Yes, yeah, we're kind of big. But but the thing is like, is the Academy award process? Is it something that you guys would say is is fair? Or is it something that's more like changing in the
wind of opinion. I just don't know. I'm clueless on this, I think more than I think. The one consistent thing that I remember Jack saying early on it was like, like, include movies that do well, like stop looking at it through this narrow lens of like cinema, because now like this is like the first year that we're like, oh, look at these blockbusters that are fitfully like part of it.
But I mean, on some level, all of these things are easy to influence because for the longest time, the criticism was levied against the Oscars that they're just copying the Golden Globes because the Golden Globes nominations would come out before the Oscars, and it was informing how those nominations worked. And then like they were starting to like, we're actually gonna announce our nominees before the Golden Globes like months out, and people like what just to prove
You're like, that's not going hand in hand. But I think on some level, there's like a I guess there's like an internal momentum that it brings people to say, you know, like that like how they're voting. But I don't know. I mean, it's it's it's a it's an industry that's like like rife with parties, fucking gift bags, like you know, there's just ship like this all the time to you know, create goodwill for a film. Yeah, it's an industry award show. You know, it's like industry
insiders rewarding one another. There's like a weird thing this year, like I think a lot of people are calling out this movie to Leslie, and like it got there was this big ground swell on social media of people supporting the lead actress in this movie to Leslie, and it was like Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a screening of the film and like it made twenty seven thousand dollars in the box office, so like nobody saw it, but like all these celebrities suddenly like we're on board and like pushing this.
And I know some I know a good friend of mine who is invested in like Best Actress the Best Actress Race, like not not professionally, but just like cares about that stuff, is like, yeah, she's actually like great
like it. You know, it makes sense that she was nominated, but it does feel kind of suspicious like that there's some skepticism that a bunch of celebrities all just decided to start supporting their friend and that it wasn't like some sort of pushed from an agency or you know, some you know, some agent or like behind the scenes machination because they want to cast this actress and something in the future, or like because somebody is tied to her career in some way that makes it beneficial for
that to happen. But you know, yeah, I think there's always interesting stories behind the scenes that don't come out come out for years on. I will say I always say that they should be nominating movies from five years ago, and I do think that they completely left Nope out of any of the major categories. I think what's gonna
be what's going on with that? Nope was amazing? Yeah, I think that's gonna be one of those things where that's one of the movies we remember from this year and that people still talk about and like it's still a Halloween costume like years from now, and you know it's but the Oscars miss it because they always miss because all these people who are assigned to C. A. A. Decided to sing the same from the same hymnal suddenly and be like, hey, man, you hear about this Andrea
Rise bro oh she's the next thing. You're about this Tobias Bluth, Like it's like what the funk? Like arrest of developments just going around me, like, hey, you're about this guy? Yeah, it sounds a little bit like conspiracy. I know, it's it's kind of on the nose for
me to say stuff like that. I mean, but there's I mean, look at just even like the celebrity crypto thing, there's a dissorted web of connections with all that fucking n FT garbage that happened, and like you're like, man, it looks like the connective tissues seems to be Reese Witherspoon's husband, right, but you know whatever, yeah, you are are I think also the movie that people my my theory on that one is that they didn't nominate it because that they were they were jealous of how much
of a movie it was. So they were just like, no, we can't, I can't have people seeing that. But well, we'll see five years from now what what holds up? I do want to talk real quickly about the Razzies because that continues to be like a major headline like that. This year they nominated movies like Blonde, the Marilyn Monroe biopic, which also on a Day arm Miss got nominated in Best Actress category for that. Also More Bious, which you know, was a bit that people liked to do. It was
a it was meme. It was fun meme for a little while. They also nominated a fucking twelve year old. Yeah, that was fucking that's what what if that's not you know, like that's it's you're supposed to do it like adults. Yeah, I like going after the fucking adults in their own I'm like, who is that for? Is it? It's just for that like Reddit forum where people like hate children because you do ask like, well, what what was the institutional like intent behind ridiculing a twelve year old performance?
And first of all, they've been doing this for years, like they've they nominated Brookshields when she was thirteen, Macaulay Culkin like three times, Jake Lloyd from Star Wars The Phantom Menace he was eight. He was eight at the time, and later later revealed that like bullying, that's traumatic, that's that's bullying. Yeah, there's not really another word for it. You know. The Razzies are complete garbage for a number
of reasons. They published transphobic jokes. They repeatedly referred to Transformers Age of Extinction as trainees number four like that. So that was like recently and they thought that was like funny and worth putting it putting out there in a national like a story that they knew was going to get national attention. But at least they do the thing the Academy won't do, which is nominate more black people. Yeah,
the worst actor of the year. What the fund is that. Yeah, they've given at least fourteen Acting Razzies to black actors, where in the same time, thirteen black actors have revealed received Oscars for their work and in the same time, so that's cool. They seem to really have it out
for black actors, which is cool. I mean, it's like when you look at it all like the hatred of like a boy who was Anakin Skywalker like racism, you're like, oh, this really is just like the Internet found a way to give awards basically, well, so that's exactly what it is. So you you sit back here there, all right, what is this like bizarro Academy of racist creeps? And it turns out it's anybody like to vote on the Razzies.
You just have to pay for an annual membership online, which starts as low as forty dollars, and you can also pay five hundred dollars and then I'll like try and rope in twenty five friends into like joining your voting membership. Yeah, yeah, and then they pay and then
they find friends. Well I'm assuming you're paying for them at least on that first one, right, But then yeah, they become your downstream and they're next the next year they're like, hey, really, the Razzies are wondering if you're going to re up with me to be part of my Razzie's team. We're actually having to get together in my place. A little later on, I thought of you because you hate kids and black people. This is terri It's like, where did they get their screeners? Like someone
server where they screeners? There's it says specifically in the by laws there is no requirement to have seen the movie first. Yes, time to be alive. Yes, we win, We wait, we win. The whole things started out as a joke by one publicist and his friends during an Oscar party, which, by the way, if you know any publicists wolf that that's exactly where people sort of hellish
origin story I would expect from this. But then it got picked up by CNN and eventually spread around and for some reason, these publications still of this ship Oxygen when it clearly just needs to be killed. But like, like, what's that I know, how much fucking revenue are they like, that's the thing. Like they're like, man, we got a cash cow of fucking internet A. Yeah exactly. I mean it's a it's the perfect award for our time. It's so aggressively stupid and like just zero thought put into it.
And yeah, that's about right. It's about right. I like how they the founder Maureen Murphy, said that they're like, you know, we wouldn't have we wouldn't have nominated Shelley Duval if we knew how hard she had it on the set of The Shining. They nominated Shelley Duval for
her performance in The Shining like one of the great performances. Wow, yeah, you know, you're dumb as ship, But like you're like, if you you know, the fact the fact that they recognized her performance is better than the Academy Awards, I guess yeah, you know the absolute worst reasons. So wait, what we're saying then, is that we could you guys and our producers and me and all of us listening at home, we could fucking hack the razzies right for money.
Yeah yeah, jeez, that's the way they do it. I mean it's like, yeah, go ahead, like you can try and change some ship. We're getting forty bucks every time. I think the most efficient one is to buy five, because that's votes, and the math works out better than
buying memberships. So you would have to like do a go fund me or something and then just really drive towards some voting that And now someone who is in the midst of all this chaotic, terrible stuff in the real world in is like I'm gonna slide my five there, you know, like it's very important to me that starvation, climate change feminists. Yeah, let's fix this. I'm looking at this. Oh wow, this art teacher with like new supplies for their classroom that that we're putting out the time on
the board. Also, Babylon appeared nowhere on the Razzies, So I think they made a mistake. They know better than to touch police academy. I hope that's a great point. I bet I wonder if any police academies were nominated for a Razzie. I feel like that's the sort of thing they would go after. No right there, because they would be jealous that somebody else like wrote those jokes, because like those are the sorts of jokes that they seem to prefer oh, interesting a part of me just
things like no, that's sacred material. Man, I'll talk ill about Police Academy. I mean, as you got big for their britches, gentlemen. Police Academy for that called out, which is a shame because it's clearly the culmination of the franchise is that Miami Beach. Look, I'm not a doctor of Police Academy. That is oh that Citizens on Patrol, Citizens on Patrol with the hot air balloon on the VHS cover. Yes, sir, I believe we have the cartoonish film covers. When when can we go back to that?
I know the House Party reboot did it, and I was like, I'd like to see that that style come back, please, Academy five assignment Miami Beach the rare two colon double Cullen movie title five assignment colon Miami Beach. We need to the audience to know what they're getting into, guys, say the producers, Right, all right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys, please like and review the show. If you like the show, uh means the
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