Weekly Zeitgeist 261 (Best of 2/6/23-2/10/23)

one of our favorites. Hilarious stand up comedian actor writer has written issues of Batman for a little outfit called DC Comments, and dropped a new stand up special called Burry Me Loose a year ago. Please welcome back to the show, the Brilliant, the Talented, you do TRAVA. What's happening? I'm back. It's me. You're doing a A k A. I didn't prepare a bunch of nicknames. I wish you would sit something upfront before we got to this point.

And now I'm embarrassed, almost embarrassed myself. That was off the top of the dome. I stumbled a little bit, but we got it. Yeah. I do feel like that's a that's a lofty endeavor to take on off the cuff, you know. Yeah, that's a big risk you took. I respect that. Hey man, I'm here too. I'm here to take risk. That's what I do. Sorry, my voice cracked when I was shouting her name. I apologize. That's okay, I have that undignified. Yeah, I just get I get nervous,

you know, it's okay. That's okay. By the way, I'm coming to you live from my Batman chair. You probably can't see it because it's dark as hell, But I got the Batman death Batman lighting. Oh yeah, yeah, I got the little you know, I got the screen shot from into the Spider Verse. Behind me, we're all black nerded out over here. Yeah, you got a bisexual lighting situation going, yeah, right now, definitely going. Yeah, if Batman was in high school, all right, yeah, I'd love to

see it. Are you pitching something? Oh, it's already pitched in your work. All right, let's talk after the after the recording. Let's go. Are you is the DC stuff ongoing? Are you still still writing Batman stuff or at? What? And what was that like? You know? I yeah, it's ongoing. I just uh, I just finished my second one end of last year. You know. It's one of those things. It's cool. It's a badge. They're out there it's it's a very it's a very exciting thing, but you know it, Uh,

it also doesn't pay the rent. So I'm like, you know, it's fun, it's cool, but I'll do another one. When I do it, let me. I might be putting you in the hot seat here, But what comic books did you really gravitate towards when you first were coming up in the game. I was a manga kid growing up, so I was reading like Naruto and One Piece and all this stuff. I actually grew up on like comic

book cartoons more than anything. I was like watching the the Spider Man animated series, Batman animated series, X Men. That's like what really got me into it, and so like you, Yeah, it was a little weirder that they asked me to do this up front because I was like, oh, I read them, but I don't, like, I'm not a huge nerd like that. Well, how how did they find you? Because I was doing anime videos on YouTube? Got you?

Got you? Oh wow, that's really cool. Yeah. I I also came up similar the the X Men cartoon, the Mask of the Phantasm Batman film. I probably wore that copy out. Yeah, a lot of that I wasn't super into the comics. Um that was more of my sister's bag.

But now that I see they're coming back with the James Gunn slate of the Brave and the Bold title in there, that really got me excited because you know, the for you know, the comic book nerds out there, you guys are familiar that Brave and the Bold title coming from the Silver Age and Golden Age of of comics is really harkening back to like the foundation of comics, and I kind of I'm missing that with you know, the popcorn flicks and and Marvel and you know, I

kind of I kind of enjoyed that, but I want to get back to the roots of like, you know, not just the entertainment factor, but the philosophy of comics. Yeah, I mean, bro, I just I feel like, like a lot of people, I'm living the life that I wanted to live as a teenager right now, you know, where we're still semi in a pandemic and I'm just I

tornted it. But like the entire X Men Batman catalog, just all of these kids wanted to read My whole life torrented very legally obviously, you know, for you know, for the law purposes. Yeah, I'm just like finally getting to to like a baseline level of knowledge that I wish I had my whole life that I felt like I didn't have access to. You know, I feel like there's a bunch of nerds that that grew up that like didn't have access to the ship that they liked.

I was. I was just gonna say, there's so many people it's it's hard to keep up now, especially as a nerd now. I mean it's the you go online, there's so many takes. I I can't keep up. People are bringing up, you know, superheroes like oh, I've been a fan of this guy for thirty years. I'm like, I never heard of this dude in my life. The research is intense nowadays, for sure. Yeah, you know, it's

one of the craziest imbalances of power. Is like going out as someone who's now written Batman, and I like, my my view on Batman is that like, dude is

a fascist. He's a whole fascist. He's a I think that's very obvious, and it's and it's hard to write for for him and sort of think about the themes of it rather than like diving into this brooding character, like romanticizing him, and then like going out and tweeting stuff like that and getting responses from people that I know have read more of the comics than me, but they still think, like, no, he's not a he's not a cop are you talking about? Doesn't know he does it,

and so I can't like argue with them. But even though I know the real world politics more than they do, but they know that they know that fake world politics more. It's so like it's such a bizarre Batman asks the question, what if there was a cop that was competent, didn't sunk up every single time that he tried to do. I mean, he sucks up, He fokes up a lot. Yeah, yeah, Residi, the recidivism rate of Batman is through the roof. Yeah,

it's ridiculous. Yeah, everybody's just right back. He also kidnaps children and puts them in harm's away like all the time, so you know, yeah, that's not super fun either. Yeah, there's a deep, deep commentary about Batman that is not even getting touched on. What if there was a cop who was like all the other cops except you dressed as a bat That's the question that, Batman, Yeah, what

is something from your search history? I was looking at I looked through them, and the only appropriate thing to talk about is uh, I was looking for Beyonce tickets. Yes, I can't do it. I'm out. I'm out for a concert, Chrack. What was this time you went to a concert? The last time I went to a concert was it might have been the jay Z Beyonce show. How about you? Dan? How about you? I went and saw the Lovely Carly ray Jepson at the Greek Theater not too long ago.

I think it's about a month and a half. Oh, that's great. I love that. It was lovely, it was fun. I'm I'm completely prepared to cash out. I lost my ship during the Taylor Swift uproar. I'm a huge Taylor Swift fan, and I tried to get into the first I've seen it three times. The shows are always amazing. I I got kicked out of the Capital one like pre sale thing, and then I just quickly looked at the things, and I looked at my wife, and I just went to StubHub and I bought nosebleed seats for

four dollars each. Yes, and it's not saying, I'm proud of your listeners. May not know this, but I'm an older Latino man. I you know, I were a bartend and covine. Uh, I've got a face working class Filipino and Mexican men all the time and tell them the same stories. That's wildly embarrassing. But I looked at my beautiful white wife in the face, and her and I have never been to a Taylor Swift concert together, and I told her, this is the last time we're doing

anything like this. Forget it. There's no more concerts after this, and I pay for that. I looked at Beyonce. It's the very exact same thing. You could tell everything. You're getting access to pre sales and all this kind of ship, and I am simply out there's nothing that you can experience. I think at a Beyonce concert where it's gonna cost you a thousand dollars, twelve hundred dollars, fifteen hundred dollars, it's just not ever going to be worth it. That

That's how I feel about it. And I love Beyonce, yeah I do too. It really seems like the whole I mean, it is a industry that is controlled by monopoly, and I feel like that's sucking it up for everyone right like that. That just feels like it's it's really made. Put a Sara taste in people's mouth. Yeah, I can't do it anymore. So I don't know what the future is for the concert industry, but it doesn't bum me out not to see the Queen, you know, holding hats

with my beloved, you know, looking into her eyes. Uh, singing songs from Lemonade, you know, cheating songs, Yeah, cheating. Why are you so into this? She's just looking at me, crying, weeping slowly. I'll never forget when Lemonade came out, I um, it was on HBO Max for like three hours. I don't know if you guys remember this. And I had Chatterbox on my Sunday night show and Covina that I was gonna go to. I had an hour to take a napp. I was like, let me just start this thing,

and I was like, so taken. Aback. I did cry, for sure, but just I just took in the whole thing. And I was so deeply moved just thinking about jay Z cheating on Beyonce. Yeah, yeah, he fuck up it really up. I mean The best thing to come out out of all that is that to find out the reason why Solange pushed him in the elevator it was beating on him. Is like the coolest thing I've ever seen that we have on tape. To have beyonce sister beating up jay Z for cheating on her. How cool

is this? It's great. I feel like that would have been a lot of people's responses to hearing that he cheated on Beyonce, like it didn't need to be her sister. Like I feel like if his homie had found it, was like what stupid? Yeah, so you are going though, if you will be absolutely not, absolutely not, You're not going. I will not. I will. I probably will like the day or two. Uh, if there's something, I hate what I'm about to tell you, but it's it's sad. Everything's

gotten so expensive. Did I have money? Okay, I'm not rich or anything, but I'm a wildly successful neighborhood bartender. I get I get a few commercials a year, so that's like a windfall of money. I don't have to worry about money, and I'm very grateful for that like that, but uh, you know, going gross, I do the grocery shopping in the family. Every sandwich, now if you go somewhere, if you go somewhere to pick up a sandwich, is

twenty dollars out the door. There's obviously I'm just I'm just feeling taking advantage of Okay, I'm trying to feel like this is too much now. Granted I'm getting older, so I wonder if everyone just feels this way, which is if the thing is to just talk about money like this, but I can't. Yeah, it's the it's the inflation. Yeah, it's like they just raised the prices on everything and

there's nothing to stop them from from doing that. And they call it inflation, but it's really just corporations realizing that they face no consequences if they just charge more money. All they face is more money, which is good like that that gives them their friends during their earnings calls. Think they call them geniuses for doing that. Ship So it's you know, I know there's more complicated dynamics involved, but that seems to be the main one as far

as I can tell. Sandwich inflation. Yeah, they're making a dollar for a smaller sandwich, which is infury. And I'm telling you, we went to a place and I don't want to call it out anyway. It was a fine sand which is even very tasty. But we spent fifty dollars the other day. This is like just walking out with the things and you know, hey, well you know, well, how lucky were we to spend the fifty That's all I got to say. Okay, okay, this is what happens

when you're a wildly successful the ablehod bartender. Guys, all right, I have helped built that bar for fifteen sixteen years. Now, what's something you think is overrated? Either? I put a list, so it's either Harry Styles finding Nemo once you all were talking all zombie content, so y'all can pick which one. Okay, I want to hear about all the I mean Harry Styles. I think it is pretty I think we get that one, right.

I am had no beef. I want to be clear that that young man has never crossed my mind in my entire black ass life. Not one time had I thought about Harry Styles. But it only took a few nights ago for him to become my number one enemy. I have to now retroactively go back and hate because I listen, I disrespect. You know, I'm not even get started to kind of beh I remember, I am. I'm surprised, y'all ain't hear me hit the ground from I can listen when listen, I knew the minute Trevor Noah, because

he knew better. I was, no, I'm not talking about that enough unless respect of m Trevor no I knew the black community was not gonna let him say and then that was the fiance. So the minute you walk over to that white woman to ask her to say it, I was like, oh, no, I didn't. I didn't see it. But that's an amazing move by him to be like you literally and he was like, hey, you want to say this in a minute. I was like, what's going on?

What's going on? With what's going on? I was like an old white lady, and I you know what, you know, it's crazy. I was prepared a little bit like if they had said bad bunny. I want you to understand, I would be I would be talking ship like, not not the same way, but in my home. I'd be talking mad ship, but not online in the same way, because I would understand I can't intellectually defend it from the same position. I get it. Global impact, undeniable, yes, yes,

highest grossing tool. I can't deny these stats. But Harry Styles, Yeah, it's just such an industry award where it's just like the music industry rewarding itself, like the people that they want to be, like, we look what we built. And when my man said, did you had a speech? He said? He said, he said, this don't happen to people like me. He said that, and I was like, if I jumped through this confused and tackle this child, I am curious. I was like, I know you're not saying that. Look

at Beyonce and how Black House pays. It's like, literally every phrase of that sentence needs to be interrogated. What what do you mean by things like this? What do you They were trying to defend that. You know, they're like, they're like, oh, he means because he was four. I was like, what, man, but even that is bullshit. Poor fucking anyone who grew up poor doesn't have Grammys. That's yeah, Like, there's never been a poor white guy. Why you showed it?

Get it out the mud? Harry Okay, so him, I'm now officially a Harry Style heter whatever. Finding Nemo. You're out on Yeah. I've been finding Nemo haitos hater since day one, Like as a child, it was one of the first movies. Like, it wasn't the first time I walked out of the theater. That was as Moses Jones, um, I like that. You're a young person just walking out of movies. Like, listen, I remember I was, I was trapped. I would have walked out. What happened was you know

I have I have five siblings and my parents. You know, they were tied us and they sent us to a movie theater all day. They thought it was like a full set of tickets. It was like Lelo and Stitch finding me all these things out. I get to finding Nemo, and I'm like, what is this incredibly stressful movie? And I have felt that way every day. That is the most stressful film. So dark, like the anxiety is not flared up. I'm like, okay, So his mama, dad, he's disabled,

His daddy is a single, daddy's struggling. His dad. He don't listen first and almost I never liked his little lie right, don't listen. I I can't stand anymore. His daddy gave that man one instruction, No, don't go there, don't go there. He can go happen a little ching up there now, Daddy stressed out for the entire filming because now you're stuck in a pet shop and yeah, Daddy's only what did they what did they give him as as a companion, as comic relief Fish with the

men shop, I've never Dory breaks. That is the most stressful, and you know what, you know what upset me. That's what I don't like about the gas, like the pixel who I was responsible? Because I'm like, how is this not incredibly depressing and tragic to people? Why does nobody but me see this? They love Dorry like this is cute.

I'm like, you are not stressed out this outside? But then they had the nerve to come up with Finding Dory and I never I didn't finish it because I didn't make it past the first It's admirable you put it on honestly, even try even starting it, I was like, so terribly traumatic, sad backstory to explain why Fish has the mencha almost like you know it's tragic and sad that the mention why am I watching this? Why am I watching it? So Finding Nemo terrible. I don't know

why people like that. I don't know if people are sick. It's not even like a musical. I don't even understand it, Like I don't understand why my generation clung to with the way they did. It's not like like Lion King and all these other people of soundtracks, a little Mermaids soundtracks. Finding Nemo has nothing but I lost fish, a single

daddy and a fish with the mencha. I feel like a Pixar has like a white floard that's just like the like a pool going for who can get the most depressing ship into a children's food And they're just ramping it up each time. Y'all set up, y'all see up. Then I just saw the opening thing and I was like, get an opening where up wall he lose his wife, and his wife it together and love, they can have kids.

They can have kids. Yeah, you like cry three different times like the first five minutes, like why is this like this? Yeah, so that and then all zombie content. I'm saying it for the same reasons I don't. I don't understand me to be like vampires. I get well less so for Maids makes sense. Zombies what about what about that the cay and people doing feet, Like, why do you want to see a bunch of the Sarahs walking around place? What does this tho be? All? Like,

I don't. I will say the one thing that I finally watched the last of a show this weekend, and what I will say is it is actually really mercifully light on actual zombies on the screen. That thing I was like, Oh, this is it's like better than the game, which is just like all fucking zombies all the time. Not all, but it's like it's good about regards. But then in the same van, I think that's the whole point. I think that's the whole point of zombie content is

it's not the zombies. It is an excuse like they're the most unobtrusive, easy to evage like monster. But the whole thing is that society has crumbled and people are like dying to live in a world where society has crumbled. So and I also to keep coming out with zombie content after COVID is crazy people who would kill themselves. We won't even people don't wanna wein masks you think people do when combattle and fighting the surviving zombies? What do you even what are you even fighting a little?

What do you want to? Why do you want to do this? Do you want to be in a zombie world? The minute they tell me, if they come and tell me there's zombies running the streets and the zombies looking for you, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna end it and them take myself up the game. I'm not I thought letting zombies what and I gonna be rounding. And also I don't like the way the zombies have to work. Why and everything zombie related? No, for real? Why zombies

won't never be dead zombies and just be chilling? Why does zombies have to be like like working for the night walking Dead? Why is it like that? Why are you trying to Why aren't trying to recruit that even have an agenda? What's the what's the purpose? So? What do you do? Yeah? Yeah, The dating apps have started to do dumb ship like making you answer like quirky questions and my favorite one that I've ever personally answered

iss like what is your zombie apocalypse plan? And it's like my plan is to keep eating people's brains until someone kills me zombie right, No, I'm zombie from day one. I'm like, yeah, I don't even the one getting bit. I'm like, yeah, I'll try that that or whatever. Yeah, y'all will go be a zombie. Not me, I would. I would, honestly. I would probably engage in mass destruction. Like no, honestly, I would, Like I think that's that's why people like, yeah, that's people they're uh, yeah, it's

the zombie Land. But I feel like there's a part in that movie where they're like riding dirt bikes through the White House or some ship, like it's that's that's the dream that people have is just like society falling down, no longer having to go to your job, and like the whole idea that, yeah, but the the idea that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than

the end of capitalism. I feel like it's just that's the only version of a world without capitalism that people can imagine, so they just they just go with that. They're like, this is better than the soul sucking, you know, soul withering day to day grind. The more you talk, the more convinced I amn't going into end of Blood.

Like I'm listening out this is where we're at. I think it's like, but it's it's also like a version of capitalism people can comprehend, which I think it's like, it's just like when your only job is to like run from these dudes and like get enough calorie, is to survive one more day, and that's it, Like people can understand that competition. Of course, yes, don't get me wrong.

Yesterday I was getting to my uber and I realized I left my key upstairs and I had to run up the stairs fast to get my key and run back down and I was in the uber fighting for my life, like trying to breathe, like stressed that. I was like, this isn't how life is supposed to be me being rush like this is a little run with a lot on me. Now you're talking everyday obstacle course, and from zombies, zombies that are expanding their army get every day. People that want to be apocalypse are like

cross fit people. They're just like this would be fine, I could do a lot of pull ups. I think it's just the idea of like a walkable city, like a walkable like Suburbs, is so outlandish to people that like that's what they need to invent to make it possible. They're just like, man, could you imagine just being able to walk down the middle of the street. That would be That would be amazing. It's like, man, that was that was, you know, seventy years ago people could do that. Undepressing.

What is something you think is underrated? What's underrated is just smoking flower, just smoking grass, smoking actual weed, no infusions, no diamonds, no t h And I'm a fan of

all that ship. But there's something pure about just having a Manta pucciano versus like a twelve different ingredient cocktail, Like the idea of like someone put the energy into growing this flower and to making a top shelf, and then you grind it, concentrate it, slip it, flap it, fuck it, jam it into something, you know, a banana flavored fucking paper or whatever. All that jazz that happens, all fun and games. But I think I've I think one part I'm saying this is because I fucking blown

my tolerance out my asshole. I can like can't afford to be a stoner anymore. And there's something like I got into weed because it was like it's natural, man. And now I'm smoking, like this is the distillation combined, you know, and it's like I'm getting a little outside of natural now, I get a little more science. It's not this is not the weed that whenever you talk about like Willie Nelson smokes weed and is still like,

you know, live forever. It's like he's not smoking like twelve different infusions on top and like and so in my head it's I've been trying to do that with food too, you know, going back to more like whole foods. Like the thing you're eating, the ingredient is the name of it, Like, oh, I'm having chicken, what's in it? It's chicken, chicken down vibe. I haven't look, I haven't gotten high, and maybe two years however, I will sell no God, it's well also, yeah, my partner's sober, and

my partner we're talking about that later, is sober. And so I just don't want to be the only one high, you know, in the house, unless you know, when the baby can get high, then we won't hang. But I love flowers. There's no high, like just good flowers. That's it. I am so convinced of this fact. Well, the fucking shatter and what's the other one, the dabs and all

the things to get you too high. I'm someone who doesn't have a high tolerance, but two or three hits of really good flower, and I'm not talking about vaping, and I'm not talking about I mean, yeah, I'll smoke, not a split, like I don't want it with tobacco, but just straight flower is so beautiful. It's just perfect.

It's a perfect sucking high. Yeah. When I I I am sober, and but when I was smoking weed, I I don't think any of those things existed, and the flower would get me way too high, really, like, oh my god, everyone hates me. Well, that wasn't the flower. That was your personality, persity exactly. I wouldn't blame the weed for that, Jack, Yeah, it wasn't just in my head. Everyone,

sometimes you are right. But yeah, I feel like Willie Nelson was smoking some ship that was like grown on a farm in Kentucky that was defended by those sharp sticks with poop on them. Yeah, like that just like the real Yeah, well like you like when you I went to like New Zealand for a few weeks once with my wife and like nothing is labeled organic there, and like a kiwi was like told us it's like, oh, nothing's organic. Everything's organic, so we don't have to write it.

And it's just like, oh, it's a get Like that's a possible world where it's like, oh, the default is the safest way that everything has grown and processed and ship the kiwi. Wait was it a fruit kiwi or a person kiwi? It was a fruit kiwi that was talking to me, but they were from New Zealand, so

technically it was a kiwi kiwi. Yeah. It's like a delicacy there to like get something that's like grown in it, like the American version, like they're uber wealthier, Like I have a section of the like these are from farm cows. They're depressed and the meat is bad, and it's like, oh, just like the Americans. It's like eating like flag Rod. It's like the animals treated so poorly the food taste better.

Like yeah, and we're back and the media like I'm mostly observing this through headlines that I just like see shuffling across the New York Times drug report CE and then there's always like an update on like no classified documents and Biden's beach house last week and now they're looking for classified documents and pencils, and I haven't given

a ship about this story, like from the start. And at first I was like, and that's because I'm anti Trump, and like, you know, I was like critical of myself for not giving a shit about it. But it's just like, I don't know they there. I couldn't be less concerned that Joe Biden is like hoarding documents to sell them to other countries, like because he's like trying to make money off of being the president. Like that's what we were interested in from Trump, and that does sound like

some ship Trump would do. Joe Biden is not that cool, Like he's not doing that ship. He's not that interesting. He he is doing this by accident. It doesn't matter. It's just a talking point for Fox News to be like, well what about this? But I feel like the mainstream media just I don't know. They they like have this logic puzzle in their brain where they're like, well, if president also has documents he's not supposed to, then other

president who did it gets away free. And it's just I don't know, it's not I think it's kind of like in a Nurse of Machine too. Once you have like a headline that you know, whoever is running the website or producing the show, and they're seeing, like, oh, ratings go up when we mentioned this thing. We didn't expect the documents situation to go where it went with Trump. We expected it to be like a one day story.

And then it's like, oh, hey, here's some more. Oh hey here whoa, this is looking nefarious, this is looking weird, and you know, and they're like, oh ship, President Biden, oh ship, and it just becomes more of like a like, oh, well, this story got mentioned and it gets headlined. So now here's another thing. We'll just bridge these two things together and here you go, here's another story for tomorrow. It's

so lazy. Yeah, I just don't understand what the president can do with classified documents at home that he wouldn't just do at the office like he's not in Yeah, I'm picturing him just reading Ninja scrolls and doing the same drouote to for five episodes. But beyond I don't know. I don't understand what what the concern is and how much of this is just old men having poor record keeping. Like I just I don't where's what's a story here? I just don't give a thing. The Trump one is intriguing.

That is vaguely because they were like, hey, you have these documents. He's like I do like get him back and he was like fuck you. And then he was like I it's like I don't. I don't have those documents. And then they're You're like, hey man, we're here, like look, the documents are right there. You were holding them. That that was weird. And he's the type of person he does have like nefarious relations with like the Saudias and

all all sorts of wild ship. So like it's just it's a it's another one of these things where you're like trying to pretend that Trump is like other presidents, and it's just like that's that's not that's never going to be the case. I mean, bro, I I got a frame magazine cover Rustle from the Vice Offices in is that bad? You know? And I should I give that bad? I don't understand, Like what's the problem. They

canceled the show? Yea. So now the way these searches are being conducted is like they're confirming with the person and the persons like, okay, coming in, I think Pence might actually plant documents so that people think he's more interesting because he's so whack. Like the the idea that they're searching in pensive is just like so sad the way this motherfucker's up to anything, or is like not

so careful that he would actually do it. But like I feel like, to like get the pop and to get the headline, I think Pence might like plant some documents and there just like hey man, these are from j store. What is it? They're like research papers? These are available. Yeah, alright, on the subject of kind of relearning stuff, scientists believe they've just discovered the secret to Rome's self healing concrete, which I didn't really know that's

what was going on with Rome's concrete. I didn't know that there was like a recipe that Rome had figured out and that we like that just got lost and that like, oh man, we should have should have hung on to that one. But yeah, it's always interesting to me to be reminded that like we forget ship all the time, like we lose books to history, we lose important secrets recipes. Yeah, it's something with limestone, right, some

like crazy yeah, recipe situation. Yeah, it's like hot a lot like hot lime it seems to be, which I think that's also just like a flavor of toastito, but like I think it's like hot, Like yeah, it's something that like interacts with it in a way that like creates heat and that like they thought that what they were seeing was like an error and and they were like there's all these like white chunks throughout the thing.

I guess they didn't mix it well enough. And it turns out that was like the signature that they should have been using to be like, oh no, they were really onto something. And when this ship cracks and that like all you need to do is get it wet and it reforms. Right, we lost so much cool ship

to history, like we don't even know about. Like wasn't there like a like a birth control plant or something existed around the time as well that we're completely extinct and like something what was that, something like flamethrower technology or some ship that they Greek yeah, Greek fire ye

yeah yeah. Just I mean I'm I constantly wonder like how much cool ship like because this stuff is equivalent to what we're you know, I mean, maybe even more technologically advanced than what we're dealing with today, and I think we kind of have a bias of like if it's old, it's not worth it. But this is fascinating. It's like, Okay, so so we got this cool technology, and I know, I see, I understand that it's cool

and practical and all this stuff. But what we could do is let the mafia infiltrate all the workers unions we can, and we can just build infrastructure that's that's destin the crumble in like two to five years, and you know, we just will stimulate the economy by having these people. That's what I think. That's really it, though

I do. I I like, even like without the mafia, Like you sell more concrete if you know, like you sell more iPhones if they break after a couple of years, like after the fourth update, Like yeah, phone, like I think. And also, like I just realized, so making concrete accounts for seven percent of global emissions, and concrete is the

most consumed material on Earth, second only to water. Yeah, I uh read or watched or something very recently that we could cut down of all production and consumption and have plenty for everybody everybody in the world, right, But we don't want to. But we want to it's not creating jobs, you know it. We're not creating jobs, and that's what's most important. You've got to create jobs that don't meet anyone's needs very well. Either you need three

or four of them just to live. But you yeah, they them busy so that they have to work, so that they never stopped for a moment and be like wait a fucking second here, we got to deify the state. We have to deify the state. That's what it's all about, everybody. Yeah,

I really do think it's important. Like my understanding, even even the fact that they've known that there was this better form of concrete and they just haven't been able to like figure it out, completely blows up my understanding of like our scientific capabilities, which admittedly is driven mostly by movies like Face Off an Iron Man. But like, you know, I just assume you take a little chunk of the Roman concrete and you put it in like

a little machine, you analyze it. Yeah, like my we've looking matter analyzer and it's like this, it is this and this and this, and then you're like boom. I mean it's like you said, they just thought they didn't mix it well and they never tried to like just do it that way. It's just like recreate this. Yeah, I don't know, man, I think that's the military industrial complex Shi, because you know, all sciences, the military and whatnot. Like you mentioned iron Man every like every couple of years.

I feel like the biggest science news is they're making a real Iron Man suit, and nobody is like for who? Not one time is I have I seen an article that's like for who who is that for? Yeah, they're making real they're making Gundams. Though they're making real Gundams.

They did, uh the last like Boston Scientific robot that they showed everybody like it they the way they the context they put it in was a construction site, but it was like it's like massively powerful bipedal robot that is like that like came from a sitting position like leaped to its feet, did a backflip like through this massive like bag of weights onto this platform over its head, left onto the platform, and it's like they built a gazebo in twenty minutes. Like that's not what that was for.

You don't need that for the fucking constructions like that, Like what is that having killing? Like had it going through a you know, obstacle course with machine guns or something, if you like, just be honest, what you're building this ship. And even even when it comes to this concrete ship, I think they're gonna, like, even if they figure it out, like the way you know, we're gonna get the water

down version of that, it's not gonna heal itself. They're gonna make it so you have to replace it even more, you know how they give us the cheap ship where it doesn't work right, right, yeah, right. They got the police dogs already, uh, the little black mirror police dogs out there, and I've seen people push those over right, you know, they're very vulnerable. That's the thing. That's what

That's what I was saying about. Like, so I had a big thing like earlier, like a few weeks back, where I was talking about how amazing, like somebody figured out something about the second bounce in our in the human gait, like the the human like how we walk is this incredibly complex thing, the like defied scientific understanding

for a while. And I was making fun of all the robots that they've tried to make walk on two feet and like they just always seem like they're not good at that, and somebody sent me this video of the new Boston Scientific Construction killer robot to to like just prove it. But yeah, I feel like when you get them in the field and it's like not you

can't program it. So so they're like they know where everything is, and you know, it's like the Testlas self driving car unless they've like scanned the course and like cleared it ahead of time. You know. But there might be a banana appeal in in in its path right ends everything. Think about all all of that, and they they figured out how to make the titties bouncing debt or alive in like two thou two, but we're still

but we're still stuck on walking. Yeah, this shows you where he where our priorities are as a nation, you know what I mean? That's right. I put the second hitch in my step to afoid crease in my my Jordans. I think I think that's before That's what I Yeah, by the way, you do a great Jordan's and your special Yes, oh hey, thank you? You wear uh the blue the greats? Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people shop on mids, but those are fired. Yeah. No, I'm I'm a big fan of those they were actually, uh, they

were stolen when I was in Oakland on tour. But you know, I had a good run with him. Yeah, here you go, never got him creased before beforehand. Yeah. The problem with those is the Swede you know, the colors, like the crease on the you know, we don't have to get into all that. Yeah, yeah, but they do turn greenish, yeah, yes, they do. Yeah. Right, and then there's uh. In the last week, Labor Department announced a

surge in new jobs. Biden is taking credit for the job boom, arguing that it's now crystal clear that his economic package was rock solid. But rock solid package from okay, that's right, Yeah, he's he's very rile. But it was actually led by bars and restaurants opening back up after the vacancies start sparked by the pandemic. And it's there's also a vast downward trend in so like technology, finance and manufacturing firms are laying off workers, and then like

leisure and hospitality is adding jobs. So that that's what we're seeing. But like the quality of jobs is going down, but there's just like more of them. The quality of life you can live with between like the tech job and the leisure and hospitality jobs is like the it's a shame that Again this goes back to our point earlier.

They seems like just there's an active push to just preserve jobs that will grind you into dust, so you have absolutely no time to think you might need to have two or three, four of them just to make it by. And I truly do think we brought this up a number of times on on the podcast, but I think they really do not want to have what

happened in happened again. And it seems to be in the system incentivizes you know, this this immune system you bring up a lot jack of like just there's like a sentient capitalistic organism that just wants to preserve the jobs and the things that are going to grind us down to the point where we just cannot think, yeah, make the most money. It doesn't matter if it's make

the most money for the most people. This just make the most money, so the most money needs to be changing hands, Like that's what the system is designed two. You know, drive towards, grow towards, and then protect once it once it has it. Yeah, I can't I don't

remember who the specific exemple is. But I feel like there's been a big spike and people kind of going mask off with that rhetoric and explicitly saying this is the time we need to punish their working force and whatnot, and we need to limit the power of the buying power of the working class and all of these things. And I mean, I feel like they're being a lot more explicit about it because people are stuck in this mindset that there's no alternative to capitalism, even though we

have this critique of it. Which is why I which is why I talk about domer ship up top. I think people are so stuck in that mindset that this is the way it has to be right, And you know, there are obviously barriers to finding our way out, but there are barriers to just being in it as is.

So you know why this is uncomfortable. So yeah, you know, it's it really is impossible for like that there's this I forget who said it, but it's that it's easier to picture the end of the world that it is to picture the end of capitalism, because we're like capitalism is so thoroughly you know ingrained, and not only our society, but like just in everyone's mind set, so so like it's either like a modern day world like where that a movie takes place in, or it's like the apocalypse.

It's like, you know, everything has fallen apart that nobody can imagine some alternative where it's just like now things are things are actually better here. Yeah, I mean, I do know who said this that capitalism seems just inescapable, But so did the divine right of kings. That was Ursula Lagwin, you know, and that's realist fun that I I feel like there is a way out market that you only said that should in the eighties. You know,

that's not that long ago, you know, I don't know. Dog, they said I couldn't write on the Garfield reboot, and I feel I feel like, what do we need a Garfield reboot for? There's another way, there's another Let's take

a quick break. We'll come back and talk about balloons and other fun things, and we're back and yeah, in the context of the conversation, we're just having the Super Bowl, and in the context of like just everything the state of professional football where people die get injured, you know, die on the field and are brought back to life and then everyone's like, oh, we're good because they when he woke up, he asked if his team one and then like the other big draw of the Super Bowl

is the ads. It's so humbling, it's so dark. It feels like we're cheering for commercials. We're like so excited to be sold stuff. It's like it's we're all like as Super Bowl is just a big clusterfuck tag sail and we're like and I have forty people over my house to watch it every year. It's like, holy sh it. It is such a dark crystallization and it came from like a good place where it's like peak competition. We you know, this is good for us, and get some steam,

blow some steam off. We don't have to fight each other in the streets because we could say funck Philly or whatever. But now now it's become so fucking crazy. People are people are like literally dying not to mention like the fucking butterfly effect of what happens to players

post playing in the NFL. But like we are still going ahead with this, like uh we we we we take our shoes off to get on planes because like I know that to someone something people say all the time because one time a guy like had a shoe bomb on now one time, not just one time. People have died play football or paralyzed and we have not changed.

We're like, we go, all right, we asked them if they're concuss now when we make them wait seven days, but for they sacrifice their body for for us again and any instance like this, because they activate like the money right wing people who are like they're getting football players make a fortune. They can fucking deal with whatever.

And it's like football players make good money, but it pals a good parison to owners, people who sell the ads, like the people who build the stadiums, the people like all that ship is where the real money is. Yes, if a player is making ten million, if if a team is willing to make pay a player ten million dollars,

imagine how much money they get from that. Like when you hear the Friends, all the Friends cast all got paid a million dollars an episode, while I guarantee NBC was making way more than six billion dollars in episodes. No one will lose money, like no executive will choose. You just can't. But the idea that it's like if if this quarterback is getting paid twenty million dollars. We need to make at least twenty one million dollars to say solid ticket price just go up. Advertising sales go

through the roof. Everyone's got fucking Gillette on their helmet or whatever. You know what I mean, Like the ship is we bury ourselves, like we put ourselves in the hole to begin with. Sorry, this is just coming from a guy who was like a levin Super Bowl boxes and fingers a cross. Something happens for me and I finally afford Cobra Health insurance this year. No, I think that's a really good point. I mean, I appreciate it

just because my analysis of football is effectively that. Just like I tried to watch try to watch the Niners Eagles game because I'm from the Bay, and I turned it on for a second and I was like, oh wait, I fucking hate football because it's just ads. I can't deal with this. I would like to just see the plays. I don't want to see the ads. And also it's insanely violent. I mean, football is, it's not gonna end.

It's only gonna get worse and worse and worse until you're like, oh, it turns out there was like you know, like like some kind of I don't know, fucking underground ring of trading cheer leaders or some ship like something discussing keep going because you know, you've got so much yellow king shit, Like from the True Detective Costa we went to we went to Jerry Jones's ranch and off. Yeah, yeah, you know, we juice on like baby toes or something like, I don't know what what what is it going to be,

but it'll keep on going and going and going. Goodell will be there the whole fucking time. He's still gonna be there, not not going anywhere. But I do think you could to suggestions how to change football. One bring back to touch, not bring back start the two touch tag football touch. They did that at the Pro Bowl. Actually they did flag football, and the players were like that was actually really fun. Really I didn't feel like going to that. Yeah, yeah, they did something with two

hand touches. I'm like, yeah, that that is absurdly different cult and requires a lot of athletic grace to be like, get the get the flags off people. And then the other is just you know, season means of production, democratize the entire thing and have players have buy in and not Yeah, they they own it, They will own the NFL. Yeah, bring up, fucking players should get revenue share and that

will motivate them to play better than anything else. If players get revenue share and residents get revenue share of like tickets, or it brings money into your city that like the MetLife Stadium is sold out or whatever, if it helps at all that we have in the community, yeah, we don't have it. Can't just keep going to guys who don't even live anywhere. Millionaires, billionaires who was like, yeah, I sold the naming rights to this stadium, and now your fandom has to stand in a stadium named for

fucking health insurance. The thing is that those are fun taxpayer funded in a lot of cases, like this building projects we pay for and then they take that end and charge you to park fucking six miles away and watch. The entire system is just meant like built to siphon money upwards. I pray that like, in like fifty years, we're talking about football and cars the way we think about smoking and drinking and driving, you know what I mean.

I really hope that like fifty years from now, people are like, can you believe we were doing that, Like, like, how many people weren't paralyzed if you were to take a bet in fifty years? What what goes first? Football or cars? Um? It's hard. I honestly believe they're like weirdly tied. They're like in trans together. They're like that's like heart and lungs of the American body. You know,

I don't fully know. I can't imagine a world. I think football can go first because cars are too individualistic and like anything that's like can you stop doing this thing? There are a non zero number of people who will do it more just because they were asked to not do it, right, Like the amount of people I know

personally who said I'm not taking the vaccine. You know, me trying to tell me to do something I ain't gonna do that, ship the amount of people I I have, like six people I can count that didn't get vaccinated because someone said they should, right, that's insane. Like I agree with disagree I agree with disagreeing. I agree with disagreeing on fucking someone telling you what to do, But I don't think like you should be like, no, I'm not going to wear a seatbelt because you want me to.

Each you know all this country is about. It's about tricking us into having solidarity with one another. It's like tricking us into thinking doing the individualistic thing, but actually we're just helping each other. Right briefly, on just a rundown of the there there will be no crypto ads.

All the crypto companies pulled out, which was like that was the big feature of last year's Super Bowl, was that, like it was all crypto and people are like, this is the new normal, this is get ready for the era of crypto, and then everybody got so drastically fucked over by that. Again, it was just it was what we were talking about, the upward siphoning of people's money, but just without any product around it to like disguise what was happening. So it's just like, hey, give us

all your money. Hey, that money's not here anymore. And yeah, so that didn't have a long shelf life and those are those ads are all gone. Do you guys remember the QR code that was just bouncing around for like three minutes. Fourteen million dollars they spent to put that QR code up. There was the Larry David one for

which he has been sued or is being sued. Matt Damon coming out telling us like he got roasted for the like yeah, read the fucking room, people like yeah, Like fortune favors the brave, and the brave thing to do is give me all your money. And there's so much ship at play that angers me in this and so I'm just gonna rattle off some of some of

the things I driving me crazy. First, all we know, we were just talking about how everything in America is like how much money you have, obviously, and that's because if you don't have money, you're more likely to die. Like money, unfortunately, equals staying alive in this country. So you're a person with a couple of g's, and Matt Damon says, hey, give me a couple of g's and you should be able to take out ten g's in a little while. And someone goes, that's amazing. I could

stay alive longer if that works. Now, Matt Damon is taking this ad. He's getting a huge pay day. He is a millionaire, and he's getting a huge pay day because he cannot even fathom being without money no less, and to him, without money is x amount of millions of dollars. So he needs to take that ad or else he will have less money and be at higher

risk of dying. People. And then people harness that energy in the crypto company, and people at the top are making money off of all these people who know they need the money to live. These people are going to live. They're getting the stem cell dips and fucking norc out whatever the funk they do, and all that ship is at play, and they just know money is the only way we could stay alive. This is you know, this is just like you know there we really need to

redo Glen Garry, Glenn Ross. But with Crypto, you know, like the whole it's just the whole thing, because it is because my mind just keeps coming back to, like it's men. It's men who are gullible as funk when it comes to money. And speaking of like Lemming mentality, like the only way you can convince a lot of dudes to do something everyone else is doing is if

you trick them. You tell them they're going to get rich by it, and trick them by saying, like you're on the inside, I know this is a Super Bowl ad that millions and millions and millions of people are watching right now. But only you, sir, Ian on the couch. Only you know the real truth. You're going to invest

right now. It's just like it's like, it's like what happens when I see Jennifer Aniston in a commercial, Like I'll fucking do anything she wants to sell me, like I will buy literally, well, you just touched on another layer. Fuck Matt Damon and Jennifer Aniston for doing commercials. Commercials used to be the place where a broke ass actor could get their health insurance or they could feed their family for a year. Now Jon Hamm's doing H and

R block commercials. Matt, he's got a fucking Einstein costume on trying to sell me Verizon. These guys that those jobs you. It used to be corny to sell out, and it used to be don't sell out. Do art. You're an artist. You're an artist, Cecily Strong, artist, fletch. But but now it's no longer about art. We equate qualitative success like financial success. With qualitative we our banks. He is considered a great artist because his ships els for a lot of months. Like it's like that doesn't

mean he's good at art like people are. Like Avatar is a good movie because it made a lot of money, and like no, Avatar made a lot of money because it is a good movie, like like it's it's not. And so now we there's no judgment to someone who's like, I'm in an ad like Larry David, the fucking king, fucking I'm not gonna sell sell out the King of I'm just myself on my show, and then he does that,

that's what does he need money for? You? Seinfeld residuals could build a fucking school, a school in every city in America. But it's so great, like we have the last laugh, guys, because like last last year, it was like ship this is our reality. To Jack's point, like this is just gonna be it. And then Sam Bateman free to lose his fourteen billion dollars and oh he'll

be fine. But it implicates so many people, including all politicians on all sides, and the fact that we were all just sort of walking down this primrose path together and no one was like adequately warning us, Like there's absolutely no kind of again for the gullible dudes out there, there's no kinds of protections around something like crypto and what Bank and Freed actually want to do was to make it all legit basically be a legitimate bank and

then get all of the assistance that banks already do. So we want to replace banks with these things that are not banks because they have a different name, but are essentially banks exactly. We want to replace these banks with banks that I'm in charge of, so that more money. Oh that's an interesting disruption, what a fucking tech disruptor. I want. I want to sell you pizza instead of

these assholes. Hey, thanks pal. Yeah, the met Damon commercial I was just like we might have been able to see the everything you guys are talking about in this ad. I had forgotten the details. But that Damon strides through a c g I Hall of Adventurers past one a man who might be Christopher Columbus is probably Christopher Columbus, So great, great choice on your hero. There to a mountain climber. Three, a right brother for a man attempting

to kiss a woman at a bar. So like, if there's like some Chad ship in there, like you want to be a Chad, don't you? Bro five a group of multi racial gender balance futuristic astronauts. So wait, but that's all except for the last one. It's again all

foddered for gullible dudes. Yeah, I swear I got Francesco you saying that made me think, like if they just didn't add of like you want to get rich and get pussy, give send a thousand dollars here, and I think I think that company would make fucking ten million dollars immediately and way more honest. You're gonna be explorer, You're gonna discover a content. Shut up, just like get rich, get pussy, You know what I mean. That's way more honest.

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