Weekly Zeitgeist 451 (Best of 10/5/26-10/9/26)

0:00 Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one nonstop infotainment laughstravaganza. So without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. What is something that you think is underrated?

0:28 So I'm somebody who sunburns very easily. So what I love are big floppy sun hats. I'm not talking about just like a bucket hat. I'm not talking about a Jamiroquai situation. I'm talking about like a giant, it has the wingspan of a bird level sun hat. Yeah, like like something like that. That's like also got like the back flap guy. I've just accepted that. Like, I'm never going to look cool again. So like, let's just go. Yeah, let's just let's go.

0:59 I noticed more and more people walking around with umbrellas in these heat waves like around Los Angeles. And I feel like that did make me have the thought. I feel like, guys, let's just let's just accept it. We're Australia now. You know, we're going to be wearing that.

1:15 It's just the base level acceptance of UV rays will fuck your shit up.

1:21 You know what I mean?

1:21 And also like the, the idea of like the people we used to think look cool, man, those people were getting like melanomas and shit.

1:28 Like, man, what happened to like.

1:29 Those old timey movies where guys were just out there in the field, just sunbaked face.

1:34 Yeah. They aged terribly and probably had terrible skin also. I mean, that's why I share with me your skin.

1:40 I carry with me an umbrella, a big floppy hat, also some sunscreen.

1:43 And a gun. So the sun knows what's up. You got to lick off a couple of shots at the sun. Straight up at it. Fucking test me, bro. A melanoma coming for me. That's right. I'll shoot him off. I don't know about that. Yeah, got to.

1:59 I mean, it's also the thing, like, it's funny, because my, my mom growing up, you know, like a lot of especially like Asian women in the like, late 80s are really being like, bro, don't the fucking sun is our worst enemy, being fair skinned. this shit will cook you. My mom used to fucking dress up like a beekeeper and shit, picking me up from school. And I remember, the people had jokes for my mom, bro. And now look at my mom. People are like, damn, bro, your mom looks so fucking good for aliens. I'm like, yeah, because guess what? Her biggest op was UV rays. And she did battle valiantly with them. And now she's laughing.

2:35 As she stays indoors. Yeah, she won.

2:38 Yeah.

2:39 My wife has a mask that looks like Darth Vader's mask that she just like drives around in. But it's like, it's like one big, like the thing that sunglass lenses are made of just one big visor of sunglasses material that fucking rules.

2:56 Yeah.

2:56 Optic lens.

2:57 Yeah.

2:57 Yeah.

2:58 My girlfriend makes, we were talking about Dracula shitting himself earlier. So my, my girlfriend makes fun of me because I try to like plan most of our dates at night just because like, I don't like being in the sun.

3:09 Yeah.

3:09 And she's just like, are you a fucking vampire?

3:11 And I'm like, maybe. Oh my God. I do go toilet a lot. Go fucking make a deliberate and hasty toilet so we can get to our date. Vampire. We were talking about Dracula inviting someone else to take a shit and not shitting himself. Although it does raise the question, what, whose blood makes Dracula shit himself? You know what I mean? Like, is there... Oh, like what's Taco Bell blood?

3:33 Yeah.

3:33 Yeah, is it Taco Bell blood? Is it like, oh, God. These American diets. It's probably American blood. It's like Taco Bell blood.

3:41 Yeah.

3:42 He's like, what about me, Dracula? Oh, I don't know. Maybe later. I ate earlier, but thank you. What about me? I'm watching my macros.

3:52 Yeah, right.

3:55 I ate his blood and wake up with indigestion. I fucking lured this fucking Taco Bell blood. What was that, Dracula? Nothing, just... He's burping chalupa burps after eating someone's blood. Anyways, big floppy sun hats. Shout out to them. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated? Absolutely.

4:18 I've experienced this in real time this year, and that is... Taking a hard risk and leaning into something you are extremely passionate about. Obviously, the Dolly Parton situation, you know, renaming that airport was a big risk. Like, creating that petition and putting that online was basically signaling to the world that I was mentally unwell, right?

4:39 Yeah.

4:41 And I stood on two feet with it. You know what I mean?

4:43 As the kids say, I stood on business.

4:46 You know what I mean?

4:46 I stood on business and I said it and it came back around and it ended up being something that was so much more than I ever managed it being, you know what I mean? And able to bring joy and prosperity to people and be able to like, light up the light and be able to give basically a little, a rhinestone on her legacy was incredible. And that wouldn't have happened if I wouldn't have taken a wild risk and if I didn't lean in hard into something I was passionate about.

5:08 And I feel like.

5:09 So frequently we're so scared to like be passionate about anything. You know, everyone's very nonchalant. Nobody wants to like anything too much.

5:16 Be chalant. Go hard. Go hard on your obsessions. Like some shit hard. If that's what you're into, get into it. Who cares? Like really, really love it hard. You know what I mean? Why not? What's going to cost you? Do you mind if I ask you a question? How tall are you? I'm 5'9. That's crazy because when you stand on business, you're seven feet tall.

5:37 Wow.

5:37 Exactly. And I can't believe it. That's what I'm talking about. People need to know that, okay? Ten toes down. Which does make flying very uncomfortable, unfortunately. You're going to have to stop standing on business when you fly. She stands on business class. She lays down in business class.

5:53 I lay down on business class. I lay down on business class. Okay, that's how that works. But yeah, that's so true. We're in such an era where cringe is the word of the day and younger people are so... so risk averse and not willing to just like open up to falling into whatever their desire is and to really go full force with it and it's really too like i just saw a clip of chile the creator talking about this where he's like i see a lot of younger artists like they they put out a new song and then they just post it once and then they're done because they don't want to make it look like he's like he's like bro.

6:26 How much time did you put into that song to only post it once Like.

6:31 Let people know that you put time into some shit.

6:34 I mean, it's just whatever. It's not that big a deal. It's just whatever. It's just, you know. Okay, well, then that's the result you're going to get. It's just like the sound that God put in my heart. But yeah, man, you have to be proud of something that you do, right? Like, get out there. Be proud of it.

6:50 Say whatever it is that if it's, you know, something you say. I mean, obviously, if you... I mean, if you're passionate about some wild shit, like, that's a different story.

6:57 But hey, go off. Be passionate, I guess, you know?

7:00 Just be careful because there will be people who will also stand on business in opposition to you.

7:04 And then it might get a little dicey.

7:07 But with Dolly, like, I was a little worried. I was like, God, I hope nobody takes this the wrong way. Like, I hope nobody takes this and thinks that I'm trying to do this to, like, go viral for me or to be, like, I was really concerned about, like, offending her family you know what i mean because i didn't want anybody to think that i was trying to take advantage of her death yeah was really in my head about it and i had to like talk to a couple people and they just reminded me like no man this is really good like this is dolly and it came through in the comments like i was waiting like waiting for something bad to happen in the comments and like literally all of the comments were positive there was

7:40 only like five or six comments on every single post in total after like.

7:45 Over a.

7:48 Right.

7:48 She was the one that is just everybody.

7:51 Yeah.

7:52 Everybody, no matter who was just like, yeah, we, we fuck with Dolly. We love her so much. And then there was one of the most instructive parts of doing the Dolly research was that like, there was a moment when a right wing grifter on like one of those fucked up sites, like got decided to write an article that was like, why Dolly Parton is actually like a fucked up person. And like, That article lasted a day and a half on the Internet. And then the person like wrote an apology letter like they had committed murder. Yeah, exactly.

8:26 I was like, I'm so sorry. I actually love Dolly Parton. This was not the right way to make this point. Right.

8:34 That person can post about eugenics and racism and like nobody's to say anything third rail don't fuck with dolly parton that's.

8:42 Yeah no i laughed because like there was like one string of comments from some lonely bot that was like uh about in reference to what i looked like and it was like she's over 175 pounds and i was like yeah 289 pounds what do you think of course you know and then it was like just other comments of like oh you know she's so fat she's gonna die early and then i just had fun with it because like i'm so confident in who i am like that shit doesn't bother me so i just was like having so much fun i was like yeah like let's hope i die early like being a woman on this planet is exhausting like i just you know it was like every time they posted something and then people started seeing it and like people fucking pounced on that person

9:18 and then the comments like magically disappeared you know but it was so funny to me that i was like wow even as a fat woman like literally talking about the most beloved thing in the world, there's always going to be at least one fucking loser.

9:31 Yeah. One fucking loser that's like, but she's fat yeah she's a she's fat though i better weigh in here yeah all the more to fucking eat you with my guy like.

9:47 All right like i am the big bad wolf i will come over stand on my business seven feet fall and fucking shit on your face like.

9:54 Yeah i'm disgusting you know yeah.

9:56 Yeah exactly it was so funny to me but yeah man stand up be passionate don't worry about.

10:01 Being cringe to yourself and be passionate about the thing that matters to you uh.

10:06 What is something you think is overrated cream top on a on a coffee cream like i i i i sort of referred to this slightly early with the whole frappe thing, but like, we just have to like be cognizant of the fact when we're drinking milkshakes and pretending we're not right.

10:23 I think we'll be more free if we stop trying to reinvent the milkshake wheel with like coffee. It just is what it is, man. And like you put a cream top on a coffee, you like you, you are one blender away from, you know, like being a child at the fair.

10:44 Yeah.

10:44 You know?

10:45 And so I, I, I just think that, I just think that we need to just nix all that. We need to like the, the, the drawing MC, you know what? Actually, I'm going to change my nurturing your inner child.

10:56 Let it go. Let it go. I know too many fucking adults with Legos. I just got to say it's over. It's over.

11:04 We're calling it like, like, like they're like, Oh, I need to protect my inner child.

11:08 Let it, let him go. Yeah. That kid's gone, man. He's lost.

11:12 Yeah.

11:12 That kid's tired, man. The kid's tired. He wants to go to sleep. My inspiration for my adult life? Josh Baskin from Big. I just want to have that inner child that never dies to an annoying degree, to a degree that puts people off. He was sort of a literal trial. In a way, he was sort of an inner and outer trial to a degree. Yeah. But yeah, that's true.

11:34 Like everything is just a fucking milkshake from every time there's like a new viral like Starbucks thing. I'm like, yeah, he's drinking some fucking milkshake. It's just like some blended nonsense.

11:44 People are like, my coffee is so delicious. And it's like your coffee is is ice cream.

11:49 Yeah.

11:50 Yeah.

11:51 It's just though it's like they're like, oh, it's a it's a it's a cold sugary cream. And it's like, I know what that is.

11:58 Yeah. You can't trick me.

12:00 I think the way I have like because I had like a cold foam drink for the first time like a few months ago and just loved it for the reasons we're talking about. I'm like, yeah, oh, this is like dessert. But I was never like I was like I knew I liked it. I'm like, I like it because it's like a big like glop of like creamy stuff on the top. And then I get to the adult part, which is the coffee. But I wouldn't for a second act like it wasn't that I came home and was like, you can just put like fucking melted milkshake on top of your fucking coffee.

12:27 No, it's great.

12:28 I accidentally– I'm just, like, unrepressing this now. The first time I ever met my agent, I accidentally ordered, like, a cinnamon latte, a cold foam. Like, whatever they gave me wasn't what I thought it would be. Yeah, they had, like, a pinwheel in it. And, like, I, like, halfway through was like, I just need you to know I am a professional.

12:49 You know, like, don't let this drink throw you off. You know, like, I– I do my taxes. That is your agent. That's not, they weren't like, get this child out of my fucking face.

13:01 Right, exactly.

13:01 Yeah. Well, it was an uphill battle from there.

13:03 Yeah.

13:03 It was sort of, they were ready to sign me and then I had to. Yeah, it's not so much the drink choice. It's just the like, spinny, like, thing on your hat and your overall that you stuck in it and the.

13:15 Giant lollipop i just constantly afraid you'll be kidnapped.

13:19 You just draw on like freckles with a marker it looks very aggressive like it's like a like you're doing a theater play being a child or something yeah i guess.

13:28 You're right i've been a bad boy all.

13:33 Right like listen listen we all agree you're adorable but yeah Can you rub off whatever you're using to black your tooth out? It's just like super childish.

13:42 All right. You're right. You caught me. I'm a 30 year old man. I wanted them to think that they could get a lot of years out of me. Yeah. I mean, I did a lot of research on what you Hollywood sickos are into. This is going to work.

13:56 Yeah.

13:56 I think I could read for like 13, 14.

13:58 No.

13:58 Yeah.

14:00 No.

14:01 Like they're redoing Glee, huh? Not with you, man. Not with you. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we will talk about whether you should or should not bring an iced coffee to a job. I think I know what Kyle's going to say. And we're back. We're back. We're back. And AI Slap has taken over.

14:29 Yeah.

14:30 The world, our minds, our lives. Our parents' Facebook feeds, especially. Yeah, they seem particularly. Why is that? Is it just because they are not very media savvy? Yeah, because they're all from the that's neat generation. You know, like everything's been neat to them. And like, oh, wow, that's neat. Look at this video.

14:53 That's like it's not really about interrogating if it's real or not. It's like you just you're presented a thing and you go.

14:58 Wow, that's neat. That's happening is neat. That's interesting.

15:01 That's why we have an entire generation who just, like, watches Fox News and goes, oh, that's neat.

15:05 So it's all immigrants? Yeah. Oh, that's neat. Oh, okay. Don't need to do much more investigating there.

15:10 But yeah, now, I don't know how much you have dealt with older relatives who are into AI. I've had to regularly shame my mom, sometimes my dad, when they'll be like, have you seen this thing? And it's not like a news thing. It's just some weird thing. It's like, this movie theater's got Waterpoint. I'm like, that's fucking AI.

15:27 Yeah.

15:28 There's no fucking movie theater where a tidal wave is coming in and potentially drowning people in the audience.

15:33 That's a video I see a lot. But maybe there should be. I know. Wait a second.

15:37 Hang on.

15:38 And people go, this 4DX theater is next level.

15:41 Right. For Titanic? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah.

15:45 But the shot on the screen would just be a wave coming at the camera. There's no narrative sense. You're just like, this isn't a movie that I've ever seen. And for my mom, if it's a.

15:54 Cat video, it doesn't matter if it's AI. Look, it's like this cat's got a chef's hat on. The subtext of this conversation is Miles had to do this for me one time when I showed him all these videos of raccoons jumping. I think it was an audience. I think the listeners were like, check on father. No, it was Super Producer Cat.

16:12 Oh, yeah.

16:13 Super Producer Cat was like, I think that those videos that you shouted out of. Such a kind way to tell you. raccoons jumping on trampolines. I was like, did raccoons have discovered trampolines? All of a sudden, there's all these videos. Isn't that neat? Yeah, that's neat. Got my ass, so who am I to talk? It's hard. It's difficult.

16:33 They have a new... It's very hard for some of us. They have a new fave that is just so.

16:41 Strange, kind of uncanny. It's hard to really figure out. Jezebel pointed this out in an article they just published. about this like crying toddler video trend on AI, but not just like, like a baby had a boo-boo or something. No, I'm like hyper eloquent toddlers who are expressing intense grief at like a funeral, an open casket funeral, open casket or open bed funeral. Because again, AI doesn't know what the fuck is going on where it's like kids crying over a, and it's typically a dead father who is in the military.

17:15 Yeah.

17:15 Um, So I think it's I think let's let's show the class one of the first examples of the little boy with the plastic hammer. And it looks like the dad is just in a hospital bed, but his blanket is the American flag, not quite a casket.

17:29 But also they're outdoors. It's a dead soldier on. On a gurney. Oh, yeah, it's a cot. It's a hospital cot with an American flag over him, and they've just brought him directly from the hospital in full uniform, put the American flag over him, and then put him in front of his three-year-old son, who is then going to give this speech.

17:52 Daddy, I brought.

17:53 My plastic hammer. We have to fix my wooden bed.

17:59 Get up and help.

18:00 Me, Daddy. And he puts the... So... so yeah so all right so that one like again i brought i brought my plastic hammer we have to fix my wooden bed i don't know yeah that is just you know getting a little poetic yeah but it's very strange because it's a bunch of adults standing like in formation behind.

18:23 Him yeah in a weird way there's no seats there's no real funeral i don't see like a.

18:28 People don't seem to be dressed for a few years. It looks like they just stepped in from spring break.

18:35 It looks like the avatars of people that would be in my replies in the summer of 2020 on Twitter.

18:39 That's what it looks like. It's all like wraparound sunglasses, tank tops, jean shorts, and just like solemn, somber Americans. So this next one is my favorite because it's another it could be the same kid in a church. So they were like, let's make it more funereal. They're in a church. The casket is there. They've gotten a lot of the details right. They have full uniform military people behind them. The dead soldier is full uniform. But his torso is rotated 90 degrees. He like cranked that shit hard, you know? Well, that's how he dined.

19:18 I mean, that would be like the jokey Mel Brooks version of depicting a soldier blown in two.

19:23 At a funeral.

19:24 100 percent, 90 degrees and like such a weird like his head is hanging off the side of the fucking coffin side of the coffin. Also, the mother or wife partner is holding his laundry as if that's the flag or something. Usually they give you this uniform, a flag. But but he's also like based on this, his uniform suggests that he's eight feet tall. But here we go. Daddy, please wake up. I miss you. Don't leave me alone.

19:55 OK.

19:56 Yeah.

19:57 Yeah. Daddy, don't leave.

19:58 It's like all of it's all so cynical and like really playing on some psychological shit to a like I feel like you're you're basically using the leverage of like the war dead, which I feel like boomers they respect.

20:12 They respect American soldiers.

20:14 Like, you know, there's clearly an inbuilt respect for people in uniform and sacrificing their lives.

20:19 And then there's also like this thing of like a child crying, which.

20:23 I'm, I'd imagine a lot of them are grandparents or something, parents themselves. So that's going to work on them. The other thing I think of too, is like, It also feels very JFK Jr. at JFK's funeral.

20:35 Right.

20:35 Where he's like saluting that little boy saluting the casket.

20:38 Yeah.

20:38 And I feel like that's another texture that boomers would be like.

20:41 That's their 9-11.

20:43 Yeah.

20:43 Yeah.

20:44 Like to me, I kind of see all the pieces, but somehow it's all turned into this hyper focused form of slot that gets a ton of engagement.

20:52 It's also it seems kind of like the cousin to those videos where a parent, usually the dad has left on some tour overseas of whatever in the military. And then they come back and they've been gone for two years or whatever. And they come back and then the kid doesn't know that their dad is there. And then he pops out and it's like, oh, my God. So it's just like something like. The father son relationship. Everyone's got daddy issues for sure. There's not one mom dying.

21:24 That's what I do know.

21:25 So and it makes sense.

21:27 I feel like the people who raised boomers, not the best men who had their shit together in a psycho emotional way. Having things like Trump from World War Two that they just manifest and be like, he just sat in his lounger all day and say anything to me.

21:43 There's also a good chance that these are being shared and liked by people who aren't allowed to see their grandkids, you know? Yeah, right now. Yeah, as we've learned a lot of this generation.

21:53 Okay, I was talking to somebody and I was trying to talk about the Michael Jordan fuck them kids meme that they have.

21:59 And I googled fuck them kids Jordan meme.

22:02 There's a book called Fuck Them Kids that is written by like a psychologist or like a therapist.

22:08 Wow.

22:08 That's written for parents who are estranged from their children and being like, man, fuck them kids that.

22:13 Are ignoring you. The like meme literate boomers. It's called.

22:18 And I'm like, what the fuck book is this? It's like for people who don't understand, like it's truly just written for the parent who has been left and trying to get them deeper into their like cynicism about their children.

22:27 It's like, yeah, man, fuck them kids anyway. So with these videos, though, they get a ton of fucking engagement. Oh, yeah.

22:34 And the thing is, like, you know, in the article in Jezebel, they're pointing out the main thing, right, is like the comments are full of bots and people looking for marks to scam.

22:42 And this is actually the best way to like go.

22:46 Fishing for marks. Put up a video that makes no fucking sense visually. So like he is rocked like that. He's at a 90 degree angle. And if you're like intentionally, I don't know in a way that they don't care because clearly the quality never mattered. But if you're engaging with it, then they can start being like, oh, let me reach out to this person and see.

23:05 If this thing works.

23:06 Someone with a really bad eye for detail. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

23:09 So these people are taking the bait.

23:11 Yes, they are.

23:13 And there's a clip, there's another clip I think we should just play that shows another version of this video where it's a child under arrest at a McDonald's or something by a cop because they don't have enough followers. They do this other thing too for a kid's account. They'll be like, you got to follow this kid's account now.

23:31 Because he's going to get fucking arrested. That's like a Black Mirror episode.

23:36 It's the second clip. You are under arrest.

23:40 Why? I didn't do anything.

23:42 You don't have enough followers and shares on your videos.

23:44 Please give me one more chance. I don't want to go to jail. If the person watching this video follows and shares, then you will be free. Please share and follow. Now, look at the... You are under arrest. Just look at the comments underneath here. Hold on, I just need to see what his name is so I can like and follow. Yeah, you don't want him to follow. But there are so many people who are like, let him go. One said, I'm here, sweetheart. And officer, please let that girl go. Now, some are bots. There are other people who are like, don't worry, I just followed. Those are like legitimate responses.

24:15 And again, if you're a fucking scammer, you go, spider caught a fly.

24:21 Get on the phone. is exactly like what's big spider caught a fly energy look.

24:29 Out for just do not tell warn your fucking elderly parents do not engage with this shit at all at all because it's also like they're they're filtering potential marks with these videos so it's uh yeah this is like i mean it kind of feels exactly where we thought we'd be with like ai generated video yeah is that like first the whole thing is like, people aren't going to know, be able to discern the difference between AI and real videos.

24:53 Right.

24:54 And slowly it's creeping into more like political propaganda, but like the lowest hanging fruit is stuff like this. Cause it's completely unregulated. And it's just like, I don't know. I'm just making fun stuff and seeing if people, you know, cry for the soldier that was blown in two, who's been rotated in the casket.

25:09 He just sloppily put his body back together.

25:11 Also, if you look at that first video where the shape of an elf, where the kid had the plastic hammer, the soldier's also crying.

25:18 Yeah.

25:19 It seems like he was breathing, too.

25:20 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all, again, it's all AI. That will happen, actually. If you're crying over a casket, the dead body will cry. That's true. Clapton wrote a song about it. That's right. Tears in Heaven.

25:30 My mom is very smart and discerning and would not fall for the likes of any of this. But her mother, my grandmother, who is now dead, may she rot in hell.

25:38 Oh, wow.

25:40 She is.

25:41 I'm sorry. And you're saying that purely because of how media illiterate she was. I have a fucking podcast about fucking movies. And she didn't appreciate it. She didn't buy a single ticket.

25:59 That cop should have fucking arrested her. She did not sign up for my Patreon. No, she was a horrible person. She was homophobic and racist and just a god awful person.

26:09 Abusive, etc.

26:11 So, but, and maybe it's related, but she got several like debit cards and credit cards canceled.

26:19 And my mom was like, why, why did this happen? What's going on?

26:23 And it turns out she had, this was like pre AI, but she would get all these like robo calls or just different like spam phone calls and fall for every single one.

26:33 It happened like five or more times. They have her name on a list.

26:37 Yeah.

26:37 Yeah.

26:37 Yeah.

26:39 Call her up.

26:40 Yeah.

26:41 A core user, a power user for scammers.

26:45 We just want to secure your Apple ID account. I'm calling from Apple customer security.

26:50 Oh, no.

26:51 Anyway, humiliating for me to have been related to her and have the same, like some of the same genes and stuff.

26:57 Yeah, sure, sure. You'll be fine. You're fine.

26:59 You're doing fine.

27:00 Thank you. It is funny that the story about AI that we heard heading into AI was that, like, they're going to be able to clone your grandkid and then, like, have your grandkid call and be like, I've been kidnapped. Send money. But, like, it's actually because they're so fucked up and they don't have relationships with their grandkids anymore.

27:19 They just have to create a composite grandkid for them to be like, I'll give.

27:24 Yeah.

27:24 I feel You'd imagine there's a market for that, for like a synthetic FaceTime call with a relative who you have no contact with right now. What if that's what it is? Yeah, they're like, yeah, actually, I want the AI. I want the girlfriend experience. The AI girlfriend experience. I want the grandchild experience. Jesus Christ. Hey, great idea, scammers.

27:43 I mean, honestly, just do that. Just sell a fake grandkid. Then you don't have to scam them. They'll pay you like thousands of dollars. Yeah, yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it. Just fucking robot Thanksgiving dinner.

27:55 I mean, it's like hard. It's like, it's like hard to square it either way. It's like, do you use AI? It's like, then do you hire living actors? It's like, no, I don't need to rope living children into this.

28:05 Yeah.

28:05 Trying to do it. I'm trying to do this scam above board. Yeah. If possible.

28:08 Yeah.

28:09 Ethical. Ethical scamming.

28:10 Yeah.

28:10 Yeah.

28:11 Exactly. Get into the rehearsal territory.

28:13 Yeah.

28:13 Season two of the rehearsal. Season one. Let's talk about Steve Hilton, because this is one who, like Caitlin with Clavicular, had kind of missed me. And I was like right on the verge of just having him sail on by. He's probably going to lose the California gubernatorial race. Pretty solid chance. He's not looking good. And he was about to just lose the lose the election. And then he was like, make a little noise. Yeah. He's like, let's do something interesting here. Let's see. Let's see what we can fucking get. Let's do something that will not save my election, but will make me horny when I watch it. Yeah. So, look, this billionaire Brit, Steve Hilton, again. He's British? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

29:00 What the fuck?

29:01 And he's running for California governor?

29:03 Come on, you idiot. Is this allowed? Yes, what do you mean? What do you mean is it allowed, you idiot? You don't have to be born here to be governor. You can't be president.

29:12 Um, so his latest ad is getting a lot of criticism, especially from his fellow Republicans, uh, because it's a creepy hyper-sexualized garbage ad fantasizing about AI too, right? He, someone in, uh, uh, like on, on a tweet that he posted of it said, this is AI. And he said, no, it's actually not. I paid people to do this.

29:36 I don't even know. It doesn't matter. I was going to pay them to do this anyway. So, I figured why not film it? Well, he said, he's like, no, this is actually a real, I used a fantastic production company. Although, who knows? It feels like it.

29:48 The version that we're going to play has the music filtered out so it doesn't get like copywritten or copyright struck. That's why the filter makes the voices sound a little uncanny.

29:57 Okay.

29:57 Because when I watched the original version, it didn't have that sort of like active filter voice on it. Either way, it's irrelevant because it's the rest of the ad that's fucking disgusting.

30:07 Don't use that word. Well, sorry. But again.

30:11 A hyper-sexualized scenario of fantasizing about a world where women are voting against their own interests, but in a sexy way.

30:25 Okay, one woman is wearing a shirt that says resist.

30:27 Don't be nervous.

30:28 It's not that bad.

30:31 I've just never done anything like this before. Like, what if my dad finds out? Just try it. Look, give me your hand. So it's like two women. Close your eyes. She's grabbing this girl's hand. And now it's like, what are they doing?

30:43 And I'll do all.

30:44 Hand is going off screen. Off screen, below screen. She's kind of wincing, unsure.

30:50 See?

30:53 And the reveal is she's literally bubbling in her ballot, says.

30:58 Steve Hilton, Republican.

30:59 I think, I think I liked it.

31:04 Wait a second.

31:05 I don't like it.

31:09 Wow now lick.

31:10 It now look at the envelope and it just said you know just give it a try i hate it just try it.

31:18 It doesn't make any sense as an appeal to voters in any way what's like.

31:23 No it's just stupid it's it's it's a fucking it's just an idea that a dipshit had for a video right it's not to communicate like Dude, again, this shorthand of people always having that fucking blue hair is so stupid. Again, because both women in this have dyed hair, pink and blue, facial piercings.

31:43 Now we know.

31:44 Right.

31:45 Now we know we're in liberal California because of their blue hair. But again, resist T-shirt and just merely being like, dude, imagine if they were just coerced into voting for a Republican. I still don't understand.

31:59 There's no logic whatsoever.

32:01 Yeah.

32:01 Yeah, it's just salacious for the sake of it having like this double entendre of like, right, just try it being. I thought it was drugs at first when I first like saw it. But then, yeah, it was clearly the sexual approach and in. Either case, it doesn't make any fucking sense whatsoever.

32:19 Yeah, and the response, like, okay, so a conservative Southern California school board president who's running for state superintendent, hates it, said, this is creepy, weird, disturbing garbage, and said that the spot represented the kind of messaging that could push people away from the Republican Party. I'm glad she understands that.

32:38 It's like, no, no, no, no, this is fucking weird. And then another one, Republican Attorney General candidate Michael Gates said, Also objected to the ad criticizing what he described as its sexualized portrayal of young women. Hilton doesn't see the big deal here because this is now a part of a series of ads that's going to come out of the Just Try It. I can only imagine what other problematic scenarios we see. Also, it's fucking illegal to be like, give me your hand. I'm filling in this ballot for you there.

33:09 Oh, yeah. What is that? That's voter fraud. That's something. That's something. That's bad.

33:14 And I don't want my I don't need these sapphic characters doing engaging in voter fraud. This is a bridge too far for me. He also, as I again said, it's designed to reach Californians who may never have considered voting Republican.

33:28 Yeah, for good reason. Miles, that's probably the problem. They just actually didn't know you could do it. Yeah. We just needed to be taught by these sexy ladies.

33:37 Like getting in a same-sex relationship.

33:41 Same gender. What the fuck are we even talking about? Just got to fucking try and just see where it goes, man. You might like it. You might like it, which is so odd. The whole premise is, you might like it. Right. I know your instincts are saying, fuck no.

33:56 Yeah.

33:57 But come on. Without any reasoning of, like, why you might like it. No, no, no. It's literally... Completely removed. Just try it. Content.

34:05 Yeah.

34:05 Any logic, any messaging.

34:07 Yeah. I mean, again, when you literally have no chance... I mean, you might as well. You're like, fuck it, man. Like, what are we going to do? Like, we're going to get fucking killed anyway.

34:17 So, the... throw up some cool ads. I bet he thought it was cheeky knowing him as a British guy.

34:23 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

34:24 As I do.

34:25 Those Brits are so cheeky.

34:27 I bet they were like, let's do a cheeky one.

34:29 The worst kind of Brit is a Brit who comes out here and becomes a fucking Republican billionaire.

34:35 You're just like the most disgusting fucking... My five worst kinds of Brits. Yeah. Come in, number one.

34:41 Those are the only people who you can be like, go back to where you came from.

34:45 Get the fuck out of here. Go back to where you came from, Orange County.

34:48 Yeah.

34:49 That guy in another life was the dad from Mary Poppins. Or the dad from Mary Poppins' boss. Right, right, right. Sure, sure. But yeah, now he's just hawking these terrible ads.

35:00 I mean, they.

35:02 Not good luck to you, but I'm glad the fucking consultants who talked you into spending all this money, they're fucking laughing their asses off. Sure, sure. I just fucking just did like $ 2 million worth of ads with this idiot. I wonder if he like went to a Democratic consultant, like the consultant who worked for Kamala Harris and was like, what we need to do is have a fashion week party where it's like Kamala Harris games of Jenga. But with your rights.

35:27 Yeah, yeah.

35:27 Precarious. Yeah, tower that are about to crumble. Did you ever see that, like, election 2024? It's pretty viral, like, in the buildup, but yeah. I never look at the internet. Oh, that's good. That's why you... Have you noticed? Caitlyn's got a spark in that eye. I don't know what happened. There's a light on her eyes. The light hasn't died in Caitlyn's eyes. Wow, thank you so much. Is that true?

35:49 Is it because you're not looking at the internet? I gotta try that. Yeah, goddamn. I got, like, a shark's eye. We got a shark's eye.

35:56 Dead.

35:56 Dead.

35:57 Distant.

35:57 Yeah.

35:58 Far away. But yeah, I wonder if this was them being like, I'll tell you how to, you want to know how to reach Democrats? I've been working with Democratic candidates for a long time. Talk to a young lesbian. Is it true?

36:09 I mean, clearly they're doing something with the idea of like sex sells.

36:14 Yeah.

36:14 But they're also, I guess, are they trying to appeal to like young queer people?

36:21 It doesn't matter.

36:22 They're so out of ideas that these are the ideas. We're like, we're even looking on like, I'm not sure what you think this is doing. And even your fellow MAGA freaks.

36:33 Yeah. Also are like, I don't know, man, this is kind of, man, kind of fucking weird.

36:38 Right.

36:38 Wouldn't MAGA people see the like pride flag and be like, or just the content of the whole thing.

36:44 We don't want them in our party. Oh, yucky. It just reflects such a lack of thought put into it. Encounters Democrats as like not actual people.

36:55 Yeah.

36:55 Right. Like, what do I know about them? I'll show them that they can fill in the bubble. Their wallpaper is a pride flag. They all wear resist T-shirts, facial piercings and have blue hair. That's right. And they're all pressured into lesbian activity in college. So we'll use that.

37:12 Yeah.

37:12 Approach. That's the thing we also know. That's right.

37:16 Gay.

37:16 That's right.

37:18 What?

37:20 Nailed. Nailed on. Great. Great work. They're already gay.

37:23 They're just being coerced to being Republican.

37:26 Yeah.

37:28 Shrug.

37:28 I don't know. That's the thing. It's like a Rorschach test. You can you can you can see your own thing on there.

37:34 Wow.

37:35 Yeah.

37:36 All right. Let's take a quick break and we're going to come back. We're going to talk about some similarly top notch tent and top notch content, specifically at the acting work of one David Ellison. who now owns every company that makes movies. Almost. Yeah, almost.

37:55 We'll be right back.

38:06 And we're back. And we've talked a little bit about how the right has learned to make movies and Hollywood is terrified. Of course, Ben Shapiro's run, hide, fight, Infidels came out a couple of weeks back and has just some of the most ridiculous, unintentionally hilarious scenes of action that we've seen in a long time. And he's already in works on a new pro ice movie. Again, like that's such a weird and bad idea. That's so out of step with. kind of mainstream beliefs that like when they got the clearance, they were like, we're making an ice movie. And everyone's like, oh, thank God. Like it's about time that someone had like an anti-ice movie. Right.

38:53 They're like, no, no, wait a second.

38:54 Yeah.

38:54 And then they saw what they were doing. They saw what they were making. They're like, oh my God. What the fuck is this? And they're like, is that Danny Trejo? Yeah. Yeah. Also, some names have been I don't know if this is wishful thinking or if they're also hiding who they are from the people that they got involved. No, this is it.

39:13 Yeah.

39:14 It sounds like this is a real call sheet they had. A call sheet from the shoot reportedly lists Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel, and Henry Thomas, the boy from E.T. Elliot. Call ice on me, Elliot.

39:29 Exactly.

39:31 Fought to keep E.T. away from the malevolent government agents and is now taking the federal government side with time. Now he's got second thoughts. Yeah, I've learned. I've learned.

39:43 I mean, Danny Trejo, he was in like that. that cartoon that they did before. I'm not surprised there, because this is not his first time doing something with Daily Wire.

39:53 Yeah, well, no, for sure.

39:55 I think that, like, looking into this article and looking into this, something the article kind of mentions is that this is being filmed in a small town, presumably kind of, I think, in Arizona or something like that.

40:05 Montana. Yeah, yeah, Montana.

40:07 And they specifically call out that the small town that this is filming in has one food bank And the food bank has been inundated with security personnel working on the movie, going to this food bank. And it's become kind of a problem with the city. And, you know, like Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel and the kid from E.T.

40:27 doing this movie like that, I could totally buy is like, OK, the phone's not calling a ton. This is like a money move. You know, like you're probably getting paid a good amount of money to do this. Trying to keep your health care.

40:37 Yeah.

40:38 But it's like I understand that. Whereas these security guards are being so little that they have to go to a food bank in the town, which tells me they're just doing it for the love of the game. They believe in this project.

40:48 Wait, were they actually going to the food bank? Yeah.

40:51 Yeah.

40:51 It's mentioned a couple of times in the article.

40:52 Yeah.

40:53 The food bank in the town is being just inundated with people working on the production going there because they need food. And it's specifically security personnel, which tells me like they're probably not being paid great on this movie.

41:05 They're not doing it for the money. They believe in this project. I mean, the first time we heard about Run, Hide, Fight Infidels was when they were like doing stunt work that was just like not acceptable. It like didn't have any of the steps in place. Like people were getting injured. So they're doing everything in a real cut rate way.

41:23 Everything is anti, like, IATSE picketed that film because they're like, you guys are going to kill crew people.

41:28 Like, what are you fucking doing?

41:30 Wasn't there, like, a video that went viral of, like, the star of them falling out a window during a take or something?

41:35 Yeah, that was the stunt that, like, basically got the production shut down.

41:39 So.

41:40 This time on Saturday, Livingston, Montana's city commission unanimously passed a motion suspending production in response to concerns raised by citizens over the disruption to business and the city's only food bank, as you mentioned. They also cited. So one of the disruptions to the city's only food bank is that because they're not paying crew enough, the crew is having to eat at the food bank. So that's an interesting insight into how they treat people. They also cited the, quote, lack of notice regarding some of the production's more dangerous stunts. So, again, they're just like doing things illegally. Yeah. Yeah.

42:18 Well, a lot of time, too, when we first talked about it, there are people who just like turn a corner and see a bunch of armed goons and they're like, oh, there are characters in a movie.

42:26 And they're like, what? They have guns, like prop guns and stuff. There's not even guns. It's not even clear there's a film being shot here.

42:33 They also mentioned in the article that, like, all the security guards in the movie are dressed like fucking paramilitary people.

42:38 Yeah. So it's like they all have machine guns. Anyway, sorry I interrupted you. No, no.

42:43 It's just, like, the whole thing, everyone's like, what the fuck's going on? But then the other part, too, is that, like, it's... All the protests that are going on are actually also really fucking up the production. Because we talked last week about how people were out there singing Ben Shapiro is a cuck to London Bridge is Falling Down.

43:02 Ben Shapiro is a cuck.

43:06 It's muddying all the fucking audio that they're capturing from the production.

43:10 So they're like. Fuck dude we're gonna have to spike that take because.

43:15 Everybody like we can hear them here's another clip of them like trying to shoot the film and hearing people just protesting this again them doing some kind of scene where our cars like i don't know driving into a crowd but there's fake gunshots just know that but also the whole time you'll hear protesters just making it complete making the audio completely unusable for this production.

43:37 So it's like a car moving around. They're like trying to shoot.

43:43 I thought it was going to be like subtle in the background.

43:50 No, because they don't have enough like of a crew to.

43:54 Actually have doing it real.

43:56 Yeah.

43:56 Yeah.

43:57 It's so unfortunately because you're, this is such a stupid production.

44:02 Yeah.

44:02 You're going to be also, uh, Things will be affected by people that are displeased with the bullshit that's going on.

44:09 I also love, based on context for inclusion in this clip, it feels like this feature is a scene... It feels like this clip features a scene of an ICE officer heroically driving their car through a group of protesters.

44:20 Yeah, it's not sure. Yeah. Whose side is it?

44:23 Yeah.

44:23 Like, what the hell are you doing?

44:25 Yeah.

44:26 Yeah.

44:26 Well, they're all Antifa and they've all made the mistake of trying to protect an MS-13 gang boss.

44:31 Yeah, it turns out that the person that they recreate the Minneapolis shooting. of renee good oh i've heard about this yeah yeah yeah but in this like she's she has murder in her eyes yeah she has murder in her eyes and she's protecting an ms-13 person and also notably at the behest.

44:51 Of antifa antifa and let's not forget that the depiction of anybody who is against ice is somehow they either have to be overweight or have blue hair or both Or white, blue hair and effeminate or something.

45:03 Bumping NPR. Yeah. They gave everybody fangs.

45:07 Yeah.

45:08 It's like, oh, they're basically monsters. We did talk about how vampires represent what Republicans fear about Democrats. They're like, you know, European, sexually ambiguous, blood sucking. Anyway, let's talk about Barbie. Because, so... The way that they're trying to paint over the Warner Brothers Paramount merger is by, first of all, just changing the name. So you'll never hear about Warner Brothers or Paramount again. We'll just have Skydance for it all. They're going to keep those brands, right? Like, they have to keep those. They're just the new entity.

45:45 They're forming a new company that will ultimately be... Okay. Well, that's better. It's still going to be fucking bad. And then they have to start actually making movies all of a sudden. And his... bold idea is green light, a sequel to one of the most popular movies of all time. He's trying to make Barbie too. And this is a crazy idea. Like, I don't know where he got this idea from. It's again, one of the most successful movies ever made, nor is it a new idea. Warner brothers already spent months trying to put together a sequel for the movie because again, the original movie made $ 1. 5 billion.

46:22 And then David Zaslav made, wouldn't pay Greta Gerwig and the stars. They're asking prices, which he called too generous. So he's, he's desperately in need of a hit to prove the merger. Isn't a giant clusterfuck and fill the, uh, Father's love-sized hole in his soul.

46:43 I'm really so interested to see what all the changes they're going to do to make Barbie more of a conservative movie.

46:48 Right.

46:49 Like, I'm sure they're going to, like, do a redo of that America Ferrera monologue where she says, now, actually, I don't like feminism.

46:57 She's going to actually wake up. The movie starts with Barbie waking up and go, what a nightmare.

47:02 That was a crazy dream.

47:05 Back to trad world. I love it here. For sure, for sure. I don't know.

47:09 I mean, like, I can also just see them thinking they understand what the juice is of that and just going just completely going heavy handed in the wrong thing. Because, yeah, at the end of the day, all these people who are making these decisions at this level at like Warner Brothers, Paramount, Skydance are not they're not creatives.

47:27 They're just pure creatures. In this one, you know what people want to see. A hot, masculine Ken that has burning eyes and feels like a Mustang. You know what I mean?

47:35 Yeah, he talks like a lion. A huge horse cock, all the things.

47:41 The Mustang thing is definitely about the cock. I feel like that's really what he kept coming back to. He's like, the energy of a lion. If he didn't need to do the cock thing, it would have just stopped at lion. But he had to come back to lion. He's just like a real, I don't know, stallion, you know what I mean?

47:56 Yeah, like a shorthand in, like, American man discourse. Like, you're not bringing up a horse because you're like, oh, man, there's such a powerful animal. Right.

48:04 Some depraved thing about either how they've had their, like, their gelding or, wow, look at this. Look at that horse.

48:11 Yeah.

48:14 He's got charisma like a horse. He's hung like a horse. Look, it's also the mane. I'll say to the Taurus's credit. If it was a hair thing. He has a real shiny mane. He didn't mention that.

48:29 I know. He has a real taper fade. Not even that long, sissy hair. Just a nice taper fade like Travis Kelsey.

48:37 Yeah.

48:38 You get him out in the field and just open him up and he can really gallop. And then you've got to water him a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.

48:44 Instead of feet, he's got hooves, which is weird on a human. But for him, it was hot. And also biblically problematic. But again, I don't read the Bible enough to know if it.

48:53 May have had cloven hooves. I can't remember what he was walking around on.

48:58 Oh, man.

48:59 And then the other movie news from over the weekend is nobody went to go see Digger again. That's crazy. Nobody? Like, $ 8 million worth of people at the domestic box office. It cost between $ 160 to $ 180 million to make.

49:12 Wow.

49:12 I did not realize it cost them like that is that's a big that was a big bet they were taking on what is essentially a pure art film.

49:25 What is that like the word i feel like tom cruise has never failed this bad so he did that.

49:32 Mummy movie which lost $ 95 million and killed the dark universe franchise. Like they were going to do a whole dark movie franchise, like universe, the cinematic universe with like, and they started with the mummy, which I feel like was not the right choice. That was the one that had like Sophia Boutella in it.

49:50 Right.

49:51 I think so. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

49:53 Yeah, you do Frankenstein or you do Dracula and have him go toilet. They all stink.

49:56 Yeah, he invites people to go toilet. They're all stinky. They all stink. That's your fucking problem. But yeah, this is a big one. This is a... People... Also, they're estimating... The internal estimate is $ 8 million. And the rivals are like, we actually think it's closer to $ 7. 5 million.

50:16 Wow.

50:16 For the record. Just so you know. We'll know by today.

50:20 So I got to say, hot take, it bombing so hard makes me want to see it more.

50:26 Same too, kind of. Yeah, I'm probably going to go see it.

50:29 People hate it so much. And I was like, at the trailer, I was like, I think Iñárritu is a great director.

50:34 I think it's definitely interesting. It's odd. I'm like, yeah, let me see some shit.

50:41 I think that the reviews are like, wow, they took a real big swing, and mostly it misses, but sometimes it hits real well. So I think it's one of those things where it's not boring bad. I think it's just divisive in a way.

50:55 What am I watching?

50:56 Yeah, divisive in a way that kind of makes me want to watch it more.

50:59 Well, yeah, because I think people are like, it's just smashing you over the head with its messaging is one consistent thing I've seen. And then I've heard Iñárritu just be like, Yeah, that's kind of the point. That's the way I'm trying to tell it.

51:14 Kind of an important message, I would say. I don't know. Call me crazy.

51:18 But I think it's probably the difference in a maximalist artist painting a scene of people having a conversation one way versus an impressionist and what you get from that.

51:29 We'll see.

51:30 It could be total shit, though, too, and that's what I'm excited for.

51:34 Yeah, I think it's like this.

51:36 This reminds me a lot of the mid 2010s Johnny Depp movie Mordecai, where it was like, where it was just like, you watch that, you know, you look at all the promos for this and you're like, what the fuck is this? Not in an intriguing way. Like, it's like, I think that. I think that oftentimes the Hollywood system is so, is so stuck to the idea of like.

51:56 People will show up for a star, but it's like, right. That seems to be the only argument here. Yeah.

52:02 Whereas like, I feel like with Digger, I mean, I hear that it's like an interesting, artful, cool movie, but I'm not getting any of that from the fucking promo shit. I'm just getting, Oh, Tom Cruise is going to do an old man impersonation voice.

52:14 Yeah.

52:15 You know?

52:15 And it's like, Oh, I need more other than like, Oh, it's a satire or whatever. But like, I think that like every article about it says basically stuff like, you know, they would have promoted more, but that would have ruined a twist. And it's like, yeah, the movie having a twist in it and Tom Cruise is not enough for me.

52:31 Right.

52:32 Yeah.

52:32 The Sixth Sense managed to do that all the time. On a twist. Well enough. Right. Well, I guess I guess we'll have to. We'll have to see it with our own eyes, with my own eyes.

52:44 I'm just saying Skydance can't take over soon enough.

52:48 Thank you. We're all thinking it. Oh, my God. Our writer, Jan, pointed out that it made $ 3 million less than Mercy, which was that movie where Chris Pratt argues with a computer while strapped to a chair for 90 minutes. Yikes. Which was also itself seen as like a big flop. And also heavy handed. Oh, boy.

53:10 Well, did you watch that one? I saw part of it. I tried to watch it and I was like, it's exactly what I thought it would be. I had an easier time getting through the runner, the Gal Gadot film. Well, that was more like exhilaratingly bad. And by exhilarating, I mean like just bad enough that you're like, ah.

53:27 Keep going. Keep telling me you're shitty.

53:30 Yep.

53:30 All right.

53:31 Yeah.

53:32 I think that I have this like theory with bad movies where it's like, I think that watching a movie like that, like I'm sure the runner probably takes a lot of crazy swings, uh, Even just like Gal Gadot acting.

53:42 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

53:43 Oh, it's like... The directing that's jarring more than anything. Yeah, for sure, for sure. It's like... It's.

53:49 Really fun to watch a director take a bunch of big swings and whiff it.

53:53 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

53:53 It's boring to watch a director... Kind of try to bunt it for.

53:57 A whole movie.

53:59 And it's like, oh, you made a bunch of choices. They were all the wrong choices. We're playing small ball.

54:03 Yeah.

54:04 Nah, I don't need no button ass director, bro. Fucking swing for the fences. Even if you whiff, you know what I mean?

54:09 Yeah, land on your ass. I want to see that. I want you to take a swing and spin around and your legs twist up like spaghetti. Yeah, for sure. And then you unwind the opposite direction.

54:18 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

54:19 All right.

54:19 And then we do have an update because last week, clips of the alleged first ever MMA fight between a human and an actual humanoid robot went viral on social media. We did call it out because that robot looked tough as hell. The guy with the fake dumper. So the company behind the fight has received a cease and desist order from the California State Athletic Commission, who ordered them to immediately stop hosting and promoting human robot cage fights.

54:48 or else face a misdemeanor charge which appears to be like the person who got who received it said we made it boys california sent us a cease and desist for unsanctioned human versus humanoid robot cage match but it's make it yeah you didn't really make it and also the humans weren't trading clutches with an autonomous t800 the the robot was controlled by a human handler the entire time so it's It's just real steel on a smaller scale.

55:15 It's not Terminator boxing. It's real steel.

55:19 How long do we think it's going to take before Trump makes humans being able to fight robots in a cage match ring his main platform?

55:25 I don't know. He's thinking about it. He's going to get those big, strong Oklahomans out there against the Terminator.

55:35 He's probably like, I've tried folks, but the muscles are just, they're not believable on the robots. I just can't, they don't look the same and I'm not as interested.

55:43 They can't, they can't figure.

55:44 And also just like, again, being like, dude, this, the state told us to stop. Isn't the flex it is that they think it is also like you can get, you can get a cease and desist for just for many kinds of things, including just doing wildly reckless shit.

55:57 They're just describing what you described yourself as doing. Right. We made it, guys. We're going to get in trouble with the state for this dumb idea. We made it.

56:07 Yeah, the state said, hey, don't do a robot fight.

56:10 Hey, knock that shit off.

56:11 Slam dunk.

56:12 There's also, like, they weren't saying, like, because this is dangerous and soon the robots will rise up. They were saying you didn't, like, pull any of the right permits for any sort of, like, you can't have full contact martial arts event without the prior approval of a commission. This is the next Supreme Court case. Very standard stuff.

56:31 They're going to take this all the way to the Supreme Court.

56:32 They're like, this is not an athletic bout between two human beings.

56:39 Actually, Your Honors.

56:41 This is a humanoid versus human. And what if this robot's rights?

56:47 You have none. You have none.

56:48 Also, like, state athletic commissions are so weird. There are a couple of states that pro wrestling companies like WWE and AEW do not have events at because, weirdly, the state athletic commission... still oversees those events so it's like they'll have to get a state yeah yeah like as if it's you know in pro wrestling like it's predetermined but they're very athletic and dangerous blah blah but it's like there are a couple of states that like look over it as if it is a competitive sporting event and like so yeah like there are a lot of like i think that like like oregon i think is one of them and there's a couple of other states where it's like there are things like if a wrestler starts bleeding you gotta stop the fight like and it's

57:23 like yeah that's part you know Right.

57:26 And like needing like licenses or something. It's like, well, this is like a licensed match then. Like, guys, this is the Undertaker.

57:34 Okay. Yeah.

57:35 It's the Undertaker versus the Boogeyman.

57:37 Yeah. Yeah. Versus this guy. They have fangs in their mouth. They're called the Brood, bro. I don't know what he wants to fucking do.

57:46 Yeah.

57:47 Joey, such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you, see you in person, maybe?

57:53 Yeah, thanks so much. Yeah, this has been so fun. I definitely mentioned it earlier, but definitely please check out my book. We've been here the whole time. And that's a sacred guide to all things Native America. It's a comedy satire book about all the Native history, culture and notable people they don't teach about in school. Kind of like if The Onion or The Daily Show wrote a book about Indian country. And it's available in bookstores today, like all your favorite bookstores and online shops and all that.

58:17 If you want, uh, easy places to buy the book, go to joeycliffe.com slash book. And that'll give you a bunch, a bunch more info and, um, play, you know, links and stuff like that. And then I'm going on tour starting tomorrow and going all across the country, like New York, Oklahoma. So I can see some of those big studs in person.

58:32 Yeah. Yeah.

58:33 Yeah.

58:33 Like, uh, they'll be next, um, you know, a bunch of shows in LA, Washington.

58:38 Basically, if you live in America, I'm probably doing an event near you in the next two months. So, uh, if you want more info on that, um, I've got a link tree set up. You go to joeyclift.com slash book and scroll to the bottom. It'll have all that info. And then you can follow me on Instagram and threads at joeyclift with five or six eyes because a 12-year-old took joeyclift with one eye, so I just had to deal.

58:58 And then joeytainment on all the other socials. And, you know, other than that, I just got to promote the idea of, you know, if you're a Dracula out there, invite someone to toilet.

59:08 Invite somebody to toilet, guys. deliberate a deliberate let us know if you're a dracula what was drac really are.

59:15 You a dracula let us know and let us know let.

59:17 Us know what your deal is with inviting people to go toilet.

59:20 Yeah which what's what's the taco bell of blood for you please let us.

59:23 Know yeah well is there blood that gives you indigestion and also how do your fangs work are they hollow tubes that suck up the blood Or are you just biting the vein and then sucking on the vein? Of course they're hollow, my friend. Look at the Reese's peanut butter commercial. Stay hollow, my friend. All right. That's going to do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show if you like the show. means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a great weekend, and I will talk to you Monday. Bye.