Weekly Zeitgeist 291 (Best of 9/11/23-9/15/23)

Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. 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. Well, Miles, we're sure to be joined in our third seat by the original super producer. She's the host of Ethnically Ambiguous, the producer of many of

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Hi hi phrase hi hi hi hi hi branded. I think I think we should be just transparent up front here, well transparents. See, in the moments before this episode episode was scheduled to record, we did have a special expert guest booked with a with a very particular set of skills, and they canceled like fifteen minutes before family emergency. We're not going to say who it is, just you know, sending good energy there. Way it is Liam Neeson, but

And also, yeah, also been steadily being like Golden Bachelor. When are you always talking? When are we talking about Golden Bachelor? Yes, said you know what, let's swap one expert out for another.

Yeah, it's funny when you said just now and you said super producer and then my name, I felt like a like a chest pain pain anyway, I don't know, it probably isn't related. Sometimes I just sometimes someone says my name and my heart stops because the idea that I now have to respond to something is just too overwhelmed.

Spot Lights on you, Spotlights on you?

You ready?

So this is life? Huh?

Yeah? Yeah it is turn out yep. How are you? How are you doing? You're still getting out there whacking the town's balls around?

Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely definitely definitely you did the.

Cocoa Goth title? Were were you watching?

Yes? I was watching Legend Dairy Leon. Oh God, I have a question for you. Yeah, my esteemed partner said. I said, she's a legend, and he said, but she's not dead yet. And I said, I'm sorry what? And he said, you have to be dead to be considered a legend.

Now.

I don't know where this opinion came from out of him because he doesn't really say much, So I like, is that true? I don't think so.

No.

You you respond with this legends never die.

Yeah, oh yeah. I responded with I'm sorry, are you stupid? Just joking? I'm not that crazy. But I just was like, really sort of taken by this opinion of his.

No, you don't have to be dead to be a legend.

That's what I thought. I was like, I literally say, everything is a legend.

Yeah exactly. It does feel like the sort of thing that if you called like a great comedian who was like in their sixties a legend, they would be like, screw you. That that makes me feel old, That makes me sound old, you know what I mean? Like that that sort of thing. So I could see that, but no, it's there's nothing that says you have to be dead to be a legend, and of course legends never die. Yeah, exactly.

And also if we mean in the more like colloquial way that Ozzie's use it, like.

Where it's like, oh, fucking legiond legions, You're just you're just tight as fuck. Oh yeah, we rock with you. What is something from your search history?

Well, a lot of it's medical, So it's a lot like do I have a tumor? MRIs in cancer? How many pounds are in a stone? I recently looked up that's fourteen pounds?

Fourteen?

Yeah, I don't know why in America you go to your doctor and get weighed and they put it in stones, like they do stand.

That your doctor put it in stones.

Yeah, maybe it's a woman thing, but like you get on this scale and they put it in stone, so you have no idea. I don't know whether women have just ran from the room. I don't understand what's happening. So I had to google how many pounds in a stone, which turns out to be fourteen.

How many stones is it? Then? Love? Yeah? Sorry, I'm fifteen stone in a fish?

Wait?

But so that is so weird because I just that to me is such a like British weight like measurement metric for weight that is really okay, I guess I don't I probably don't know anything where doctors like, yeah, a lot of the scales just have both on there maybe but like they're writing it down.

I don't know how they write it down, but I have no idea. You're like, okay, I don't know what that is, but sure.

Right, huh so I have both in it. I keep doing this.

So I google a lot of medical stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is weird.

Stone always sounds very primitive to me and dumb, like oh they just like said how much a stone weighs? Like they found one stone and we're like, the you weigh this money? But then I realized that we use feet. It was just like even dumber, like all right, right right, just our length is like yeah, that's how many, like how many feats that like somebody if you've stacked people's

So then that's how it's like, well, this god person's foot is this big so that's how we measure things.

And did your height change when one king died and a new one was born? Oh I don't know, Like I'm seven to three now that the baby king has taken.

Over, now that Prince Henry has assented.

Well for a long time, you know, you shrink as you get older. And I went for physical and they're like, you're you shrunk by an inch and I'm like, I'm so young to shrink by an inch. And then I told my mother and she's like, you've never been that height. You've always thought about your height, You've always been that height. And I was like, oh, okay.

You've never been that. You've been such a wild thing. This thing is you've never been that hight. So yeah, let it go. Yeah, just like has this flashback of you standing on your tippy toes of the doctor's office, like when you're growing up.

I guess we always knew I was lying.

Yeah, right to myself.

You know.

The origin of the stone, it's because they needed a like they were exporting. England was exporting so much raw wool that they needed to create a standard. So the Royal Statute fixed a stone of wool at fourteen pounds and then a sack of wool had to be twenty six stones.

So it's all because of the wool export.

Well that transfers to weight.

I don't yeah, yeah, I don't know. They're like, I don't know. It's the first thing back wool by the way. Humans, Yeah, yeah, what what's something you think is overrated?

Overrated? Capitalism? We know everybody was not tired of living in this system.

Okay, we're huge fans, but okay, tell us what's wrong with capitalism?

I guess I don't know, just the way. I yes, it exploits human beings, animals, nature, is destroying the planet, is grinding us, all, crushing us.

All.

Yeah, completely anti democratic, unequal. Now listen, do I.

Have a solution?

Not quite, not exactly. I'm halfway there. I'll tell I will tell you what's.

Away from it is I think a solution?

It is capitalism. Yes, then don't do that.

Giving me hip skin cancer presumably from my fund twelve.

Absolutely, you gotta do what I did. You gotta skip from the ten ten straight to the fourteen. You got to get on your ex's family plan wow, and ingratiate yourself to her parents and just stay there what.

A ten to forty grade. I mean, I'm about to go twelve to fifteen, but maybe maybe I should wait. That's three years feels like a long time to wait, and I was kind of taking pride in the fact that I've waited so long to upgrade, and it turns out the only thing that that has got me is excess radiation.

Okay, counterpoint, stay with it longer, more radiation. What powers might you accrue?

Exactly?

What cool things might happen?

Yeah, it's just a lot of unwanted body hair, like on your hip, like from where your pocket is.

Probably it's a real tuft of hair here that smoke away.

Where my case just like a perfect rectangle of no hair because oh right, like everything else is hairy, but just a yeah, weird, what's wrong with you?

That's where you'll get your matching do too a.

Little bit, I know, I am wondering on the tattoo thing. Is forty three too old to get your first? No?

No, not at all. That's a perfect time. Actually, you've lived so much life, you know what you like? Your body's in the second half quite frankly, like you're you're committing, but not for so long.

Yeah, and it'll exactly less. It'll look good in like twenty years still, you know, right like versus like a lot of tattoos get when you're young and then you start being like I gotta kind of maintain some of these or they just end up looking like sailor energy.

Yeah, exactly.

What's I think. What's exciting about that is you could go really big and bold for your first tattoo. I mean I started at eighteen. I was getting little tiny stuff, piecing it together, you know, little stickery type of stuff. You could just go, I'm going full sleeve. I'm getting the chest tattooed.

Whatever.

Yeah, Ben Affleck, Ben Affleck, phoenix backtat phoenix backtap.

Have you seen that, Dan?

I don't think I don't think I have.

Yeah, Ben Affleck has the wildest phoenix back tattoo. Here. I'm gonna i'll bring it up. So have you ever seen the cover or the movie poster for the film Red Dragon?

Oh my goodness. I was about to say I couldn't imagine that it would be good, but it is terrible. I mean it's not great, but it is bitter. When I thought it might be, it looks.

Like it's cracking a little bit in places for some reason, I don't know.

Yeah, oh, I couldn't be like that part of the design.

I think there must be some yeah, because it seems like consistently going through. But hey, look he's a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Listen.

I'm I'm body positive, and I will say there's something about that tattoo that really accentuates the muffin top.

Yeah. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. Also does make fun of people's tattoos count as being not body positive?

Listen, I think that it's I think, at the end of the day, all tattoos, and I have a bunch actually look kind of stupid, Like they're all kind of bad. There's really no such thing as like a great tattoo. They're still fun to get, I think, and it's like a fun way to decorate your body. But I think, yeah, I think we gotta make fun of tattoos, your own tattoos.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not to say that I mean bad, but let's have fun.

Look, this is going to be flaky.

Yeah, I'm gonna show you my most recent tattoo. I got this in my forties. You guys, it looks like it came looks like I'm a huge fan of jam band, and I got it in the nineties when I was like nineteen. I just let the artists do what he wanted. And then I was like, eh, I don't love it. It's brand new, it's a brand new this this mushroom here.

Oh wow, there you go.

Mushrooms are definitely having a moment. They're having a moment for sure.

Mushrooms are all right, but there's so many more, let's say, beautiful mushrooms than this jam band space age whatever is going on. Yeah, black light poster, thank you. And it's like, is this my personality? Not really, but people are going to think so now and whatever.

You have to adopt a mushroomy kind.

Of yeah, I got to. I mean, to be fair, I have weaned myself off anti depressants. That is my mental health care plan is to just do mushrooms like every three months in the wood.

There you go.

Yeah, yeah, there are benefits. There are proven benefits, so you're not far off.

You guys.

Micro dosing you macro dosing it all.

Yeah, I do it all micro to macro, but mostly micro because that's been the I've I Yeah, it's been like wonderful, but even like for like socially on the weekends, like where I used to maybe like want to drink a ton or like do shit like that.

I've found just a little bit of psilocybin gets me vibe.

Oh I like that idea. I've never I have never experienced it in that way.

Yeah.

Yeah, like knocker before beer, never fear. Little psilocybin gets you back your vibe. You know, there you go, but you don't go quite.

You go a little bit over, you know, like what a microdose would be, but not enough to go like you know, asking like is this forever? Yeah?

Yeah, I did not get to it for this is is this forever?

Place?

But last time that I did mushrooms, like a month or so ago, I definitely found myself wrapped in my hammock in the woods, weeping, but in a cleansing way, like an inside shell love cry then and then kind of emerged from the hammock as if from a womb reborn into the world, which is ray.

It's one of the one of the things that capitalism doesn't afford us, is like that that we're probably missing most as people, is just like a good cry wrap in the woods. I feel yeah. Probably before everyone was keeping track of your time and stuff like that, people were spending you know, twenty percent of their time just weeping. Just get it.

So what are you saying, should I start a wellness retreat in the woods? I'm doing it. I'm charging nine hundred nine ninety yeah, exactly. Just capitalism just immediately eats everything.

Right, right right, and like yeah, and they got the mushroom.

Oh no, I am committed to the lifestyle now.

Yeah, look you could.

You could easily grift with that tattoo for sure over someone who's a little overly trusting.

Man, I don't even remember if we have we done on rated yet. Now this overrated and underrated and search history has been I forget where we are. What is something that you think is underrated? Man?

Oh, I'll tell you, Miss Rachel.

Okay, do you that's the name of the horse, lady.

That's the name horse? So big. They're as big as I wanted them.

As big as I wanted. Dude, you're about to pivot so hard by explaining you, Miss Rachel.

Yeah, big pivot. Miss Rachel is a kid's YouTuber. She makes content for like babies and toddlers in which she likes sings songs and she's in front of a green screen and it's animated and she's you know, live action, and she's you know, she's singing things like what's in the box? What could it be? Do you want to take something with me? Pulls out a toy, explains the toy, does the sign language for, like the color does you know?

I'm sure she is. Like what kind of views is she getting on?

Dude?

Million? Yeah? Kid? YouTube? Like YouTube content for kids like that's monetized is insane. It's the amounts are absurd sometimes when you like to how quickly like a video goes up in one day it'ce like has three million views.

It's because and I realized the reason is because you just play that video over and over and over because it's the one that makes them shut the fuck.

Okay, and she does have a master's in music education from m YU, So okay, that's that makes me feel good that it's not just because there is some children's entertainment on YouTube that is purely guess in check. Like we we put a thousand AI generated videos up here. Most of them are disturbing and look like the inside of someone's brain as they are like having a bad

It's someone who's not like just gaming the algorithm with AI. Because listen, as much as I love AI, because you can make the boobs as big as you want, thank you, I don't want my children to make the boobs as big as they want. That's right, because I guarantee you that like Karina, she wants to the boobs way because she wants the milk.

Yeah, those feet, yeah those are yeah, that's called by it's called evolution. What is it called, uh, the evolutionary psychology.

That's what I was gonna say.

Yeah, so we learn everything.

Yeah, I was gonna say those words.

It is nice though, like when you're like, oh, thank god, this person isn't just a failed improviser, right because you think about like blue beets.

Yeah, you're just seeing the sadness behind every single time they sing patty cake, Yeah, patty cake, Patti cake, bakers Man, I never made a back up plan. Yeah, no, she's she is like wonderful, and uh, you just get like this, uh you know this like camp counselor energy that I remember back when I was like, you know, a little bit older kid. I used to just cringe at this. You know, like these adults who sang these songs right

And for doing this, have you ever turned your back for a second and the YouTube algorithm starts feeding your baby nine to eleven videos.

You can actually with AI. You can on the twin towers. You can make the boobs space you want.

Well that's good, dude. Her biggest video is four hundred and ninety one million views and it only came out a year ago.

Jesus Christ, Well one hundred million of those views are me so yeah, no, so far we have not let the YouTube algorithm run it. Of course, she can only last about like I think, forty minutes before she is just like, you know, she.

Wants yeah, yeah, yeah, totally quarters are getting a yeah yeah yeah. I'd like. It was weird how happy I was when my kids started, like having the attention span to be entertained by an iPad during the length of a flight, Because is that changes everything?

Yes? Yes, I mean it's it's already changed our lives.

Uh.

And it's so funny how quickly we went from United front of like, we're not gonna just plot them in front of a screen. You know, we're where you know, we don't want to iPad babysitter. We're gonna try, We're gonna read it books. It's so funny how quickly we're just like, turn.

Rachel, she's crying. But Rachel, there's something very difficult about seeing your child on and knowing that a thing that you have, a thing you can pick up a very a very light thing, doesn't one hundred pounds, very light thing and press a couple of buttons and your child will be happy. I know, put their brain on pause.

I know, I know.

Yeah, they got our ass with skinner boxes. Yeah, skin o boxes. All right, if you say it cute, it's not as disturbing. Let's let's take a quick break and come back and talk about boom face, y'all.

Yeah, bomb bomb.

And we're back, and we got we got a new a new dispatch from the guy who told us that millennials wouldn't be broke if they didn't eat so much avocado toast. Yeah, I thought I thought that guy just went into hiding. But he's with an even shittier take. Uh he basically, I'm just gonna play this guy's clip. He's at a business conference, and he's basically saying out loud the thing that most billionaire business owners are always thinking.

I think the problem that we've had is that we've you know, we have people decided that they didn't really want to work so much anymore. Through COVID and that has had a massive issue on productivity. You know, tradees have definitely pulled back on productivity. You know, they have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years. And we need to see that change. We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump forty fifty percent in my way, we need to see

We've got So he goes on to say, we got to kill that, We got to kill that attitude.

Like, I'm sorry, wow, what I.

Was wondering earlier?

You said something about trade ease, and I was like, what is that? Trades? Trades people? Yeah, yeah, trade. Yeah. He seemed cool and like he's in touch and just looking out for the common man. Yeah, what a monster. Holy shit.

I mean, but this is the kind of thing we've seen this way of thinking play out in our own economy, like with the Federal Reserve as they try to quote tackle inflation, which is really diluting worker power and fed chair and private equity mogul Jerome Powell gave this very euphemistic description of how they intend to tackle inflation, and when he said, basically over the past few weeks, he said, fixing inflation will quote require a sustained period of blow

Wow. So he means people need to get kicked in the teeth in the labor market, so they'll take lower wages because the thinking here is that higher interest rates mean companies can borrow less and to still make profits, they have to lay people off, as we've seen this happen over the course of the year, and if more people are unemployed, then they can pay lower wages and then presumably lower the cost of their goods.

Allegedly, that's the concept that they they point to, but all of the research shows that the wages are not driving inflation, despite every billionaire wanting to kind of keep this narrative going. It's like we got to pay these people so much now that I don't know what to do except price gouge the customer. It's everybody knows it's supply chain issues. It's arising energy costs, a fucking housing crisis, and profit hoarding by corporations.

That's what it is. Yeah, so we're just sort of.

Caught in this like very like they're really trying to like say these things out loud. He's now that guy who just spoke Tim Gerner. He's like, ah, sorry about that. Didn't mean to kind of a hot take from me. It's just really he apologized for saying, Wow, it's it's

Yeah.

I did not expect him to be Australian. I've seen the headlines. I've never heard him speak before. I didn't know exactly who he was. Australians generally are the most laid back, chill people and I've been there a bunch. Their avocado toast is super expensive, but that's because in part they are actually paying their Like cafe workers make like twenty five dollars an hour. You don't tip over there. It's just not part of the system because for the

That's all that's right. Yeah, he's the least chill azzie.

I know.

I don't know why he can't just be vibin with some psilocybin.

Yeahlicyb but everybody enough.

I wonder what kind of revelation he would have on a mushroom trip. Though, I wonder, like he is.

I know a lot. There's like a lot of Silicon Valley people and people like that who do take psychedelics, and I think that they do show the limitation of that because it can be just like bent to whatever is of interest in your interests.

Yeah, I don't think it can cure psychopathy or whatever's that guy just greed.

Yeah, the story and ones like it always frustrate me because I will be like, it really seems like the reason prices are going up is because they're raising prices and that feels bad because they're not raising people's wages to go with the prices. And then when they have to talk about the fact that they're raising the prices on the things we have to buy but not paying us anymore. When they talk about that, they say that

But you know, I am so glad you brought up revolution. I didn't want to have to say it. I don't want to. I don't want to have to say it needs to be violent, but I will say it's all these people seem to respond to in terms I don't know that it has to be so complicated. What freaks me out, and I'm taking this conversation completely sideways, but what freaks me out is how capitalism has kind of eaten our modes of communication or how I don't even this is these are new ideas and I'm saying them

And we need to scare the fuck out of these people. But they're just going to be like then I'll just go deeper into the core of the earth in my bunker.

Absolutely No, they all have bunkers in New Zealand.

Yeah, exactly. Uh.

But like this is just like this perspective of the ruling class, like market forces are not right, Like this idea that like workers should be grateful that they're paid sub subsistence wages while they get to fuck off to a tropical island. No, that doesn't fucking square with me, and not a single one of these mutant fuck jobs would ever dare say that maybe they are the ones should take a hit to their fucking wages.

Never do you think you're a million times better and like smarter than us because you have a million times more money than any any of us have. You have all are a million times you know how to assemble this fucking automobile. Right, go ahead, asshole, get on the fucking line. You're gonna fuck up and hurt yourself because you know what the fuck you're doing, because you've you know, lacked your way up to the top, because of the class that you come from or the place you've were

Yeah, no, exactly, And because the whole because what they're saying is the whole game is that you should aspire to get to that point. You don't want to stay at this low point because that's for that's like, that's the worst, and we're not interested in making the lives better for people who have to work like wage jobs or whatever. And it's just the Yeah, and I think that's the part that a lot of people they just

Yeah, Kevin McCarthy, that's right. That doesn't sound right. That's that's his name, Kevin McCarthy. Let's go with that. Kevin McCarthy has announced that the House will open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite the fact that their hearings and investigations haven't really turned up any evidence against him directly. I'm gonna go take a nap. Yeah, it makes me tired. Well, we kept talking about how they would do things.

They're like, we got a whistleblower okay, but they're too scared to testify. And then people like is there a whistleblar? They're like, I don't, honestly, I'm not even sure whistle before they're like, what are you doing actually with the fine whistle?

Yeah?

I mean I know somebody who was willing to say some bad stuff about Joe Byron, but other than that, I don't know. And like he's also doing it without taking a House vote, which before he was like, I'll take a House vote and we'll see what happens. You know, the polling in a lot of battleground states has says most people are like, you know, fifty six percent, like an impeachment would be just a stunt, like a partisan

Yeah, like I'm out of mood. Was here man?

You know the term Hoover flags where your pockets are inside out.

Man, they got nothing. That's amazing. It seems to be based on the logic that they like, well, the last time they did an impeachment thing, they found stuff, so there's probably stuff here. It's like, yeah, well they found stuff because like they did an investigation and there was like a lot of ship there. There's a lot of smoke and fire, and the time before that, like you know, I guess maybe maybe they're hoping for like a Clintonian

Yea, I think it was lied to Conger like something, but it was really about Monica ultimately. But the thing is like, I don't know, it's like we listen to the crazies now. Like growing up, my mother was always like, don't listen to that person. They're crazy here. And now it's like, oh, they're crazy, let's let's pacify.

Them and know.

Yeah, I mean, there's just like a massive will to try and be like, well, you impeach Trump, so we're gonna get you for what We'll figure it out, figure it out.

Yeah, but we're gonna do it because he's gonna get mad if we don't. And then I don't know how to stand up to him. So we're caught in this fucking spiral till November, so we'll see where it ends up. But yeah, it's just like there's there's just starting off with nothing and asking for more power to just manufacture something. And I'm yeah, but and I'm here for it and I'm hopcorn eating me. I am ready spill the tea

I think that it's just a tactic because the ill election is coming up, so now we're like he's super old. That's in my opinion. And I also think like the whole Hunter Biden stuff, like every family can knows has a family member who's messed up. Yeah I don't think that like most Americans are like, oh, he has a son who's a mess like we all have somebody and.

He still loves him. Yeah.

It appeals to like this like minority of like men who are like I don't love my kid because he's

Like, I mean to.

Biden, Like that's like the energy of a lot of Democratic voters are like, I don't know, gotta be him.

And I think now they're kind.

Of like, ah shit, like is are we fucking up by like by just like riding with this guy to the end. But I don't know, I mean, like it it's one of those things where despite I think a lot of Democrats may be saying I wouldn't vote for him. It's like this thing where when push comes to shove, they're like fuck.

It, and like I would literally vote for him if he was dead, like yeah, I don't care, Like I just don't want the fucking fascist in office, like yeah, like truly if if that happened, like yeah, well i'd vote for him if he was dead. And I vote for like a three D projection of him totally sandwich.

I mean I don't care.

Yeah, Subway tuna, Yeah, vote for subway right candidate our new president, Subway tuna.

Somehow. To the point about like there being a push from various sides to uh make it seem like he's aging rapidly as the election approaches, there was that Hawaii story where I'm sure that this isn't the only time that people have been reporting shit like this, but there's the thing where people were like Biden fell asleep on stage and that was actually like officially debunked because like the footage that they used to spread that story was like a close up of footage that was I guess

Right, except for like excuse the bad behavior of airlines.

Yeah, he's like had a bad few years since not being able to beat Joe Biden in the election. Like that. That feels like the case with a lot of these, right, Like that Harris like was like lost the election to great primary and has not had a good run since then. Same with Buddha judge. So the only ones that are like new untested are Newsome, Michigan Governor Gretcham Whitmer, and AOC they have on here because she would be old enough in twenty twenty four.

I think Whitmere is probably your best bet there. I've heard good stuff about her.

The most different like kind of cameon a lot of like yeah, a lot of Democrats like have been sharing a lot of the stuff that she's been doing in Michigan. It's just it's it's just I think the thing is that the DNC they're kind of processing this information in like a weird way because what the I think the polls, what they're not articulating, is that people want a different type of candidate. Like all of these come out of the same sort of like ice tray of candadate. It's

Are like, WHOA, that's different. Yeah, not to say that that's better, I feel like has that a little bit something?

Yeah, No, she does. She does, but I have a few. I mean, I can't imagine the establishment.

Circling around her. Yeah, so I would tear her to shreds. Yeah, like the New York Times.

Yeah.

The second she'd be like, I don't I think we need to end qualified immunity for the police. They're like, well, they're going to all your union fucking endorsements. Yeah, Like and that's all.

It's like a fucking balancing act of how to keep certain people in, you know, your coalition, but also trying to present something that's a little bit forward thinking and if that's just I think an impossible feat for them right now. Yeah. I view it as like two separate things. There's like the you know, what I think is good for the country and what I think like the country,

Like?

How are what are the saber metrics people say about her right, So from that, like, that's kind of hell going to this election as I'm just like fuck it, you know, let's but yeah, the whole thing makes me.

Yeah, because we're in dire need of something really remarkably different and revolutionary. But yeah, all of these my fall flat year.

I mean, I sort of feel like, you know, there's perfect and then there's what we have to deal with. And I think Biden's what we have to deal with right now. And it's like when you're fighting like real evil, you have to suck it up and do what's the best alternative at the time to fight that evil.

Why is he gotta be so old though.

He can't help it, He's grown to be that because he was born eighty years ago. Yes, that's because his parents had sex eighty years ago.

That's all. That's the only reason why I did thinking about Joe Biden's parents and the Great Depression.

Oh god.

But yeah, I mean, like Newsom has said that he wouldn't run against Kamala, but I think he's just being diplomatic because they've always kind of been in this competition, like they entered the political scene at the same time with him becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor and her becoming San Francisco's da in the state's first black district attorney in two thousand and five. And they've always kind of

You want me he does. But yeah, literally one person asks me to.

Yeah, like I've been called Yeah, he's doing the thing of like reluctant guy where he's like, no, man, I've told all the donors. We're getting behind Joe, Like it just is what it is, folks, We're moving on. I wouldn't run against common then all it's gonna take is like the slight you know, vibe shift And he's like, yeah, I mean I should.

Have been president this whole time. Yeah, yeah, so you know, I run the what is it like the fifth largest economy basically of California. Its true boy energy, where he's like, I couldn't. I really shouldn't, but I couldn't unless you want me to. Yeah, oh totally, do you really want me to? I shouldn't though we really shouldn't. We really, I'm married, we really shouldn't. But okay, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk

Well, let's be real, that show would not really have a resurgence if it wasn't for once again, our people's princess, Megan Markel Sorry, hate to.

Say it, Yeah, how and she would she was on it for most of the seasons, right except for like, yeah, she.

Signed for the majority of the show. I think she got written off later on to go do her duties as.

The people's princess obviously, yeah.

Her duties to suffer under a racist, fucking monarchy.

As every as every person dreams of. Eventually will it come for me? But again, this is one of those things where because streaming is like such a weird business model, like nobody pays nobody really pays attention to the fact that this is like the most popular thing on TV other than the NFL. Like, right, just everybody's watching this.

I'm a fan, Okay, I must understand to the viral tiktoks of people watching Suits because it is now on Netflix. I succumb to the algorithm, saying top ten shows in the country right now, Suits even though it was on a million years ago.

I was someone four years ago.

A million suits rewatch mode.

I'm on suits rewatch mode. Okay, I watched it on cable television when it was out airing every night.

It is fun.

Okay, it is a fun, good time if you're like me who likes to watch disassociate of television aka television that is not current because you cannot be tasked with the weight of keeping up with something.

So it's just great.

It's a great television. It just takes you out of your body and makes you feel like you can just sit there.

Yeah, it's I watched it all last week as I declaimed my apartment. It's fun to see the shenanigans the team gets into. It's very weird to see Megan Markle now that we know her as the people's princess Mega Markole in like such a very silly evening television show with like a a love interest that's like, oh my god, you're better than Mike. And her hair is poorly done because they didn't know what to do it.

Wait, they get into on this, They get into absolutely did you know this before you came out with your hard anti suits stance.

You don't actually have to speak to me during this segment. Just don't worry about me.

All right, Well, we needed I'm not here, becha. We appreciate you coming in to speak on behalf of it.

I needed to a million my people's princess, Megan Markle aka the best pairalegal to ever cry.

Rachel Zain, Rachel Zay, Yes, Rachel Zain.

The because like, Okay, from reading a little bit about it and watching trailers for the first couple of seasons, the thing that I gleaned from it is that, like, I'm trying to understand why people are watching it, and I know that based on the sheer numbers. Jack, You're like, something is happening, but is it happening? There's something about the show or it just says to us right now that people are like I just need to fucking get

Yeah.

I I feel like a big part of it is Netflix was really promoting it.

They're like, we now have Suits.

You want to rewatch that shit that you haven't seen in four years, and everyone was just kind of like, you know what, all of Netflix's originals kind of suck right now. I absolutely will watch Suits, and I think there isn't a lure to it of like, oh, did they scrub that from the internet. It just felt like it was kind of scrubbed because she was becoming the princess, like we couldn't watch any of her former work, or like the Royal Family.

There was a conspiracy on behalf of the Royal Family.

Don't keep it.

From us exactly like she because she was being when she was in the Royal Family, you know, rebranded as this person who is you know, solely out there doing humanitarian work, you know, fighting for you know.

People's rights, all that stuff.

They're like, we can't have her making out on television, you know, because she'd be having some raunchy scenes.

Yeah, that's noting some guy who didn't go to Harvard Law school and pretends.

To who is not Prince Harry.

Yeah. So in many ways, we are all Megamarkle because we were being kept from our true love by the Royal family. In this case, our true love is Suits and absolutely amazing, Thank you. I just don't. I still don't get it.

You don't get it though, Like I get that like if heel like from Big yeah wow timely reference, but like it just feels like I get that it's not challenging plot lines or dialogue, and I think maybe there is like sort of that like if you have a secret or you've like there's an imposter syndrome element to it that's like relatable. But like at the end of the day, I'm like, people really just I feel like people just have this shit on in the back run they do, I guess are people?

Yeah?

Right, so you're not being like, yo, we gotta watch it and we gotta go through every little moment. So it's basically audio visual wallpaper.

Yes, absolutely, And you can chime in and you're like, oh my god, TII that was a fun joke or you're like, oh, really is gonna make with this guy right now? And all I can think about is that she's married to Prince Harry now while I'm watching this show, was she ever really gonna know like, oh my god, I'm marrying Prince Harry eventually?

Like you're just watching this is such a time capsule.

Yeah.

In American television.

Okay, the acting it would take to be on a show pretending to be Rachel Zane without just breaking into laughter and saying, fuck it all, I'm going to marry Prince Harry is pretty That's crazy. It is weird that so many of our shows that we you know, we're in a time where like work is killing us and there's too much work, and work is driving a lot of unhappiness that like we end up gravitating towards the

Right Because with the Office, I thought it was something to do with the time it came out and people are getting nostalgic for that, But this shit only came out four years ago, and it's not even like like I know people who are you know, like like in laws who are like are you watching suits? And I'm like, wait, you're on the scream too?

Yeah?

Yeah, all right, well, all right, the mystery continues. We should get back to super producer on a hose a stream Are you there, Anna, Yes, thank you Becca Grazie, Thank you, Beca. But this is this is not America's streaming corner. This is on a hosey a streaming corner where she's going to tell you, well, so what what should we be streaming? Everybody is streaming suits? What should they be streaming?

The television they need to be put put their eyes on.

So you know, there's a lot of great shows that are actually ending this year, which is sad. It's sort of an end of an era. But I just want to give some shout outs to what we do in the Shadows. Okay, we finally find out if Germo is going to become a vampire or not. You know, we'll find out anything could happen. Yeah, yeah, Anyways, she love saying that how to what John Wilson ended this show is so good man devastating. Honestly, that show could have

I like how when you went to the own Emmy party for HBO, he wasn't on the list. I have a show on the fucking network. They're like, sorry, Josh Wilson, we don't have to.

He's ah, like what the early episode about the penis enhancement guy is one of the craziest things I.

Ever the foreskin rejuvenation.

Yeah, foreskin rejuvenation.

Yeah, he's always there was some incredible episodes. You know, I really enjoyed the one where he ends up at a sort of Avatar convention.

Oh.

I thought that.

One was so beautiful at the end. It's just like, you know, I don't personally fuck with Avatar due to the aggressively racist undertones, but I I like that these people were able to find something to make community.

Yeah, if you're if you're looking for my co sign of the episode, I'm gonna give it to how To with John Wilson. It's like its own genre of media, Like it's totally its own thing.

But for Nathan Fielder, ye yeah.

It's but like he has such an incredibly unique narrative voice, Like.

Yeah, I can't wait to see what he does next.

Yeah, what else we got? What else we said by to.

Physical Is Ending, which is a very sort of surreal but fun dark show about suffering from you know, eating disorders and body dysmorphia. I thought it was very entertaining. Rose Burn, Brynn Burn, Brinn, I don't know, so good, she's so good. I think she has such range.

Rain I don't know.

You guys don't agree?

Oh yeah, you know?

Do you guys not agree?

I agree with that take. Why is she making a slashing job from Australia?

I really, I mean I I've loved her for a while, from her days on Damages, God, God, Damages was great. Damages is what you should be watching, not suit sorry to say it. And then also, you know her and Seth Rogan in Platonic, Holy shit, they are so funny together, from their Neighbors' Days to this Platonic. Guys, you haven't watched Platonic. I gotta say Apple TV really stepped up and put out some fucking content this year, from Platonic to Shrinking, even the after Party season two, who was

He does.

I mean, it's like one of those things too. Chances are you probably get it for free. With there's so many things you realize you get for free just from like being a member of some other thing. Now, like it's I'm surprised. I feel like I don't have to pay for streaming anymore because I'm They're like, oh, you have this insurance, will you get Netflix?

Huh, yeah that's true. Oh you have twelve sandwiches on your subway card. Oh you get Hulu now for a year ad free.

Oh anytime you buy any Apple product they give you a year of Apple TV free.

It is a little thirsty where they're like, here a man, six months, bro, do you want that? It's like, no, just needed a case for my iPhone. Okay, check it out.

Those well anyway, So that's physicals ending. Reservation Dogs is ending sad. Such a great show.

This is the third season.

Now third season. Yeah, they unfortunately canceled Single Drunk Female after only two seasons. Even though that show was so good. I really loved it. Shout out to former guests Madison Shepherd, who plays one of the funniest characters on that show. Amazing the what is it was the person that you have to check in with after you like go to jail po not because she wasn't a par officer, so maybe like maybe probation officer, more more probation officer because

Filmmate Jack did you come around to it? I did, Jack did.

We had knives out for it for Jack when he's like, I don't know about this one, but again, your.

Goddamn mine, that's the greatest episode of television.

Some reason, like because we were like binging it going from season like whatever the penultimate season was to the last season there's like a tonal shift that like fucked me up a little bit, but I did end up coming, but the.

Tone just was like, hey, you like the other two, well this is the other two times six thousand, Like we are going full pure chaos where you don't know what's real and what's not.

I did.

It was so good.

I love it.

Apparently South Side is ending, which I haven't heard this, but I saw it online and that devastates me because it's so funny. Yeah, and also they canceled Seaway after two seasons, which.

Is big mistake, big, huge mistake.

But other things to watch that are still going on. Real quick, I'll do a quick one. Is this fool on Hulu? Oh my god, Frankie Sostrata, don't miss it. It's so incredible.

Ah.

Soca New Disney.

Plus Star Wars.

Star Wars show follows to women of colors, so get in on it, okay. Also Soca legendary character. Of course, we have to give love too. Only murders in the building. Baby, they came for Martin short, they came for.

The whites.

Were like, absolutely, y'all came out of the fucking portals to defend that man.

I saw an incredible tweet the other day. I want to shout out from at YC when they say white people have no culture. I remember the day they mounted up for Martin Short.

And we both shouted that tweet out and shouted you out for sending it yesterday. This episode, oh.

I definitely don't listen and okay, yeah, shout out only Mambers and building great show. And then of course I have to give really quick some love to some reality TV. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Season four, I believe has started.

I have not watched a single minute of this and you showed me a trailer for the upcoming season, and it gave me a pen.

That wasn't a trailer, honey, that was an opening.

That's how the show opens.

That's how the show started. Yeah, they were like, oh you wanted reality TV. This is theater. You're like, oh wow.

This is Shakespeare. They're bringing your kids like a child choir singing underneath it.

That's the whole show is like. And you're like, what is happening? What are these women are arguing about cheese? You know you're going on, but I gotta say nonsensical Bible quotes that don't go together. Like everything about this show is pure camp. And I really recommend if you want to watch a reality show but you just don't know where to start, and you want to get into some true nonsense, start watching Real Housewives of Salt Lake City because they are No one is doing it like them.

Yeah. Yeah, they like a bit of fraud. Turns out they love fraud.

They love to accuse each other of being in the mafia. They just genuinely have There's no shame in their game, and that's what makes good TV.

But yeah, I think the real reality show that even I've been anticipating ever since you but you said it was happening, Yeah, go on.

What you real believe? Love after Love?

I don't remember that lyrics, but do you believe?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, we're talking about the gold I'm not going.

To take turns sort of singing it lyrics by lyric.

Oh no, there's no way I could do The vocoder version of share right there, man, I don't it's hard.

That's like you can well, I don't need anymore, I don't need all.

There you go, there you go. He's got to do that little little wind pipe action. But yeah, the Golden Bachelor is coming out, and this is like taking exploitation to the next level. But this is exactly the kind of exploitation I needed to see because we have a seventy year old widower who is now looking at how many contestants does he have? How many eligible bachelorettes is there?

Us?

Like twenty sex I believe there's twenty women.

Vying for this man's heart. Yeah, but like the difference being to excuse me, of course, but the difference here being that we've moved on from like, dude, anybody over thirty two is gonna make us puke to saying this is this is purely a group of contestants between sixty and mid seventies ish for this seventy year old man whose name is spelled like Jerry but pronounced Gary too experience the whole bachelor process with.

Yeah, so they've spelled j e r r wild no j or.

Spelled g e r r y but pronounced Gary.

Does that Does that read is Gary or Jerry to you?

That's that's definitely Ja, that's Jerry, right, it's.

Looks I mean, who knows again, that's that's that's for him to figure out. But I mean, and you watch enough Bachelor to know that, Like, I think the thing you always worry about with contestants on it, with like the youthful contestants is like they know there's like this Bachelor to spawn con pipeline that you've definitely put me onto ever since I've come on to will you accept this rose? But it feels like with this these are truly like women in their sixties and seventies who are.

Like, I'm ready to be in love again.

And there's like a weight to it that just feels, I don't know, the stakes feel much higher.

Yeah. So they've been promoting this like Senior Bachelor for a while, being like, oh, we're trying to get us, you know they do listen. Yeah, they've been like sign up now for the Senior Bachelor for like two or three years now, and we've all been like, yeah, right, well believe it when we see it. You keep teasing us, but you won't give us anything. So they finally did.

That would be an episode that's like instead of going to meet with a family, you were going to meet with the ex wife. Oh boy, you're still paying alimony. Yeah.

Yeah, it's real tough, but yeah, like I think, yeah, the widower aspect definitely gives it a little bit of oomph for sure.

Yeah, I give it some oomph. It gives you know, uh, it makes Gary Jerry a sympathetic character. He clear did and cheat on his wife or like, you know, I don't know, start some situation that's negative that the ex wife can come out and complain about, or the daughters can't be like he left mom or whatever. So it's kind of perfect because he's like, oh, I'm sad even though his wife died six years ago.

There is sort of an energy that he might not be ready, but you know, I hat I'm here to watch too, That's what I'm saying. Exploitation to the level. I'm here for because I'm not even sure Gary is Like when he talks about how his wife passed.

Away, it broke my heart, just like that entire studio audience did when they were hearing his story for the first time about like they were retiring together and they picked out this perfect lake house and then like within days of like getting this house, she just like succumbs to like a terrible bacterial infection.

Oh my god, you're passed on.

And she was the love of his life, like child or high school sweetheart's been together, you know, a thousand years, however old they are. And but you know what, now he's got twenty two eligible senior women, all sixty plus. There's a great trailer where they're dancing to shares. Do you believe in love after love? I don't even know what the right after love is? Yeah, And let me tell you they are. They are dancing like a like a big pharma. I just discovered a medication that's gonna

I've I haven't seen somebody put on hosiery since the eighties. And they have like a scene or she's like rolling it up her leg I'm like, that's a visual trope I have not seen in a while. Yeah, it was something, and I think, yeah, this is exactly. This is kind

Their fun facts are incredible. Like one of the women, Christina's her first concert was the Beatles in nineteen sixty four. Like you know, Edith is building an eighty U in her backyard and she's the project manager. Like one lady's like I love Christmas.

They're like, of course you right, do right, because I feel you're just gonna like teach Americans how to live better because they're all retired and they just like have amazing like things to do with there time.

Well, they're like Sandral is very proud of her high credit score.

Wait, Sandra, of course, Sandra, Sandra. That was the seventy five year old woman who is like an ageless Wow.

Yeah, I got a woman was a former aerobics champion. That's not a thing anymore, right, because an aerobics champion.

You know what's there? What's everybody's favorite hobby?

Though?

Uh, pickleball.

They all fucking said they played pickleball, which is also.

Guess what, Marina not too master's degrees. She's got three master's degrees. Why why Marina?

Because I got to the master's degree and what do you do with that? I'm a professional pickleball player.

And they're all like, I love Bruce Springsteen and you're like, of course you do. It's incredible. They're like, I watched Judge Judy. Honestly, you really it doesn't get better than this. It's like, I've never related to people on The Bachelor more.

Yeah, the pickleball thing is interesting because they all are like, and I love to play pickaball and I loved it, Like they cut it together. Everybody talk and then one of them like does a flirty thing where they're like, I'm bringing a pickleball. He can we'll see if you handle it.

If you like my pickleball.

That's like the three masters degrees, but a pickleball is just like a whiffle ball. It's not like a sexy thing. It's such a weird like flirt. They're seventy I know pickleball code.

It's it's code for senior orgies.

Here's why Teresa taught herself all about the stock market. Like it is. This is next level, baby, we are here. We're the golden era of the Bachelor. Literally, they're all like.

Hey, do you know about four oh one K's and Gary Jerry's like oh, She's like roll it overfield so heated, you know, like they're just like gay.

Jerry really looks like he is just what a bachelor with agent too, Like he looks so stereotypically like a bachelor, right right, right, there is something strange happening with whatever his self tannered solution is. But overall, I'm here for it. The fact that they've gone with a golden rose as the like kind of central symbol of this makes me uneasy that that feels like it is as likely to be a murder weapon as anything. But it's pretty.

No, it looks pretty flop's aesthetics.

Bro.

I saw him pick it up. It's gonna be the new clue.

Well, I will say real quick, there's some mysterious things about Gary Jerry's bois past.

You better watch it, dude, don't come for Gary Jerry.

Larry.

Uh there was great.

Uh.

Well, he he was on the Bachelor finale, like after the final rows and all these all the new bachelors were like giving him advice and they were just saying like all this stuff. I don't know. The way they were talking, you could just tell Gary Jerry had no idea what was going on. Like he genuinely was just like I don't know what any of this means, Like he just has no sense. I think they're really trying to media train him to be like kind of like hip and cool, but like his energy's like hah yeah.

It's just so, it's so.

You know.

I think that's just kind of a freshing is that he doesn't have like he doesn't seem the best on camera, but he does seem like he's genuinely interested in having his skin look darker.

Yeah, they're like everyone's gonna slide into your dms And he was like, oh no, what what.

Well do you remember the promo? They're like his dms have postage on it and his thirst traps are in a leather Bound album and they're like, okay, we get it, Like, don't don't fuck us up with your bad copy, right, just let Jerry do his thing.

O traps are these to catch lobster.

Here's the thing, though, how many people from this cast are gonna get found out? Because whenever there's a season of The Bachelor Bachelorette, people always find a way to be like this person was actually the former Grand Wizard of the kkk oh and they're like.

Ooh, sorry, true.

Now here's the thing. Gary's from Indiana, so we do have to kind of be like, carry Jerry, We're gonna have to see who you've been donating to for the last.

Like twenty years. Yeah, because uh, I'm just I'm I feel like we're gonna have some some people are gonna slip through the cracks, and I feel like inevident loafer is gonna drop, Yeah, exactly, one's the other foam shoe gonna drop?

Yeah that's true.

Oh boy, what do you think the chances are? Is it pretty much guaranteed every season? And you watch enough to know if every season they are like y'all fucked up again?

A lot of them more recently, as like the Internet has become, you know, easier to find everyone's goddamn everything that they've ever done. Like I know exactly how much you donated to Trump and when you.

Know, like you can find that out. Yeah, it's called OpenSecrets dot org m.

Yeah, I'm just checking to see if anyone is from Palm Beach, Florida. Most of them seen from pretty progressive hubs, so let's fingers crossed. I also do want to give a shout out to Matt James, our first black bachelor. His mom, Patty is one of the women.

Oh wow, oh yeah, yeah shit. Okay, Well everybody's gonna find love. That's gonna be interesting though. The family episodes will be interesting with like young like kids like you, like, what's your fucking problem?

Gary?

Gary?

And I spell your name Jerry, but you spell it Gary. God, we have to get our moms on this.

It could go either way, Gary, because it's g E R R y, so like I keep forgetting which one it is, like which one I thought it was when I first saw it, and which one it actually is because it's neither. It's just a It would be Gary if anything, but he's really fucked us with this name. Spelling, pronunciation, impressive. Impressive stuff from the Golden Bats. All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show. If you like the show, uh means