The Daily Zeitgeist - Elon Musk King Cringin’, Hallmark Gets Horny? Sex Scene 12.01.23

Episode Date: December 1, 2023

In episode 1590, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, writer, journalist, activist, and host of The Bitchuation Room, Francesca Fiorentini, to discuss…King Cringin’ Retains His Crown, Lifetime Christmas Movies – Now With More F*cking and more! King Cringin’ Retains His Crown Elon Fumbles His Anti-Union Stance Elon Musk vows to wear Israeli 'dog tag' until all hostages are freed by Hamas Lifetime Christmas Movies – Now With More F*cking Jana Kramer stars in Lifetime’s first Christmas movie with a sex scene Get Your Tickets For The Live The Bitchuation Room Event @ SF Sketchfest 2024 Here!--SFSketchfest2024.sched.com/event/1VUtt Get Tickets To Trauma Response Here! LISTEN: Good Lies by OvermonoSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ah! Ah! Ball looks like a dude scrote! Ah! Ah! Ball looks like a dude scrote! Okay, shout out to me just thinking about it again.

It blows my mind that this fucking dude looked at a dinosaur bone and was like, that's a guy's ball sack. That's a giant scrotum. That's a giant scrotum. Bone looks like a dude sack? Scrotum. Dude scrotum. Yeah.

Anyway. Was there some confusion about that? I don't know what scrotastic now I have to see this it's not even a thing you know how the end of a bone has like two little ball knobby

things on it? like a femur? before people knew what dinosaurs were they found one of those that was giant. Oh, look, a giant testicle. Yeah. From a large man. An English doctor looked at that and said, that is a giant scrotum.

That's my best guess. Over here. And that was like, that was where we were at. Like, shockingly recently, that's where we were at. You know, there was like some woman who had been also studying anatomy who probably couldn't speak up because of horrible pay jerk. He's like, that's not a fucking scrotum. No, exactly.

She was like, yes, doctor, we'll have it again. Yeah, it's a dude. A brilliant doctor. Yes, a dude's scrotum. What's the other side of the scrotum? Like, it's just... Because my scrotum's huge like that. What kind of giant is this?

He's just... They're just hanging. They're dragging on the ground. So dumb. And there's a bone on the end of it? Yeah. It's such a vast misunderstanding of, like, how bones work. Or a scrotum.

Or what a scrotum is. I mean, imagine if you had, like, a hard scrotum like that. Maybe he did. Maybe he did. Yeah, that's like... He's like, what do you mean? Here, knock on my scrotum. One of these guys. Yeah.

Anyways, Miles, who's that voice we keep hearing? We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant comedian, writer, journalist, activist, you know from places like Al Jazeera, MSNBC, The Young Turks, and from the podcast

The Bitchuation Room, it's Francesca Fiorentini! AKA, not your girlfriend, but your best friend. And here for Friendsgiving. I fucked up my friends, but not your girlfriend. Your best friend. And happy to be here on Friendsgiving. Thank you so my friends, but not your girlfriend. Your best friend. Your best friend.

And I'm happy to be here on Friendsgiving. Thank you so much. Friendsgiving, Mary. Thank you for having us here on Friendsgiving. Amazing. Yes. Yeah. It's been way too long.

I'm a little upset how long it's been. Entirely too long. That I've been on the show. Are you mad at us? Yeah, a little bit. No, no. I'm just missing you guys. But when you're here, you're family.

When you're here, you hear your family you hear your family like any bad company or olive garden when you're here you're really we're uh we like to think of ourselves as a family here that's because we are going to predate on you and do unlimited bread sticks and hot takes we call it uh geist battagliano don't you remember hospitaliano that was like their whole thing at olive garden oh yeah i don't go to the garden like that i have not been to an olive garden i've never been to a red lobster and i've told myself maybe only been to a sizzler once okay i like that you know people say they have photographic memories but it's say they have photographic memories, but it's usually they have photographic memories for certain things.

Yes. Like chess prodigies, they can memorize just a quick snapshot of the board and they will remember exactly where all the pieces were if they are in positions that they can technically be in in a game. It just makes sense to them. And the equivalent of that for Miles is Olive in in a game. Like, it just, like, makes sense to them. And the equivalent of that for Miles is Olive Garden marketing lingo. Any 90s marketing, it's fucking...

It's in there. Hospitaliano. My own birthday, dude, 1998. Y'all don't remember that? Y'all don't remember Hospitaliano, dude? Oh, that shit was fucking dope, bro. This is like a lapse of when you didn't have a babysitter for like a certain time. Yeah, right.

It was like, that's how much television you were watching. Oh my God, dude. Do you want to talk about raised by TV? That's fucking me. What does it mean being Italian? We talk Battagliano. What does it mean? Battagliano.

That means let me grate you some cheese. And oh, you gotta taste this. And we can't do enough for you. Enjoy Hospitaliano. Yo, that shit was from 1998! Dude, this is anti-Italian discrimination. It's violence. Shit is violence.

My name is anti-Italian discrimination as well, so I know. Takes one to know one. It's sort of comically Italian. I like that they're trying to claim that grating fresh Parmesan cheese on your food is like next level hospitality. It's like,

isn't that all Italian restaurants? But I guess, I don't know. For all of our new comedians. No, that's not hospitality. Hospitaliano is leaving you the bowl. Alright? That's true Hospitaliano. I mean, I don't actually know. I feel like in Italy, they're like, no, you don't get a one shred more. This is all the cheese it needs.

And that is it. Like, that's, you know what I mean? Like, my dad would never. Like, if you like over cheese, he's like, what's that for? If you don't eat correctly, my dad would be mad. But like, for me. Put the cheese in my mouth. Exactly. Real Hospitaliano is just like, leave it would be mad. Put the cheese in my mouth. Exactly.

Real hospitaliano is just like, leave it on the table. Do it yourself. Hook yourself up. You know what I mean? Exactly. Real hospitaliano is they will do it directly into your mouth after each bite. I think that's it. Hospitaliano is just like standing over you and making sure you're eating the food correctly. And like, you're not, you got to undo the lasagna, but eat it as a straight down bite with, you know what I mean?

It's like, you can't. Use the spoon, use the spoon. Exactly. Let me make sure to like lap up all the sauce. Scarpetta is called scarpetta. You know what that is? You know, you take bread and you go with sauce. Scarpetta.

That's scarpetta? Yeah. Do you also know Italian has three words for farts? Three different words. Oh, good soft, a scarpetta. That's scarpetta? Yeah. You also know Italian has three words for farts, three different words. Oh, good for them. I mean, you're shaming me right now because I should know this, but geez, there's three words for farts? Yeah. So there's loffia, scartoffia, and ventrecchia. Loffia, what do you think your loffia is?

That sounds like a lovely soft one. Right. So it's a silent but deadly. Okay. Loffia. Yeah. Okay. Beautiful music in the background. is that sounds like a lovely soft one right so it's a silent but deadly okay okay beautiful music in the background we have to do this whenever we're doing an italian culture exchange like scartofia is actually arguably like the nicer one but it's the sound no smell oh yeah i love that yeah that one's like oh it's cute like a little two you know oopsies I love that. Yeah.

I was like, ooh, that's cute. Like a little toot. You know, a little toot. Oopsies. Or a full-on rip. But yeah. And then Ventrechia is the real deal. That's like the sound, the smell, the fire, and the fury.

Wow. Ventrechia. Yeah. It sounds bad, too. Ventrechia. They nailed it with those three words. Eh, Ventrechia. Yeah.

That's your last name. Anyway. That's my last name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Hey, Paul Ventrechia. Francesca. Fi's my name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Hey, Paul. She is Francesca.

Fiorentini. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to talk about ear or like how it'd be great if you could jack off your ears. No, we're not going to talk. That's what we were talking about before we started recording was how like, if you could clear the earwax out by jacking off your ears and having the earwax just shoot out of your ears, that would

roll. And it felt good? There's not a ton more on that, so we won't go too much more into it, but it's just a true thing that Francesca said before. What is the most efficient way to clear wax out of your ears? Because we were talking about, is it candling?

You go to the doctor, like, don't use Q-tips. I'm like, what the fuck? I don't have like, I mean, my mom has one of those bamboo picks that like for like Asian bamboo picks. Oh, the scrapers. Yeah, but see, I don't have the Asian earwax. I got like, I got, I got American earwax.

You know what I mean? It's not flaky shit. American earwax. got like i got i got american earwax yeah it's not flaky shit american earwax yeah i got that thick goopy goop and uh no you guys we have special earwax you guys maybe even more so which is podcaster earwax yeah you know you got the ear earbuds airpods i don't know they're just steaming your ear canal so anyway if i know there's got to be someone who has like the hack because i can't please reach out to either jack francesca or i let us know what is the best way that isn't q-tip based okay yeah i feel like though all those that's one of the things that i get like banner ads for you know

like what once you've like gone been on the internet for a while and they start being like this is the type of belly fat that you want to avoid and right it's like one one page view before they start telling you that you want a free ipod you know it's like wait what is this from 2003 yo they got one that's like a fucking camera that you use a long yeah this is too much i don't need a fucking camera man we actually have that i don't want to see it oh you have that yeah i i don't fuck with it because it hurts really bad but my my wife loves doing this to our youngins oh yeah doing the little camera thing in the ear in the ear there's like a little camera and like connected to a little pick and you go in there and scrape it away and my kids don't mind it as much as i do

my daughter really likes the feeling of the booger suck but she only thinks she just thinks it's funny but if it actually really goes deep like gets anything a lot she's like ah but she like likes it like he tickles and it's funny to her right until like she's feeling it like from behind her eyebrow pull shit out no if she ever feels that she'll freak out yeah yeah yeah the eye just starts twitching a little bit do a sir like yeah no we're gonna talk about elon fucking oh right yeah yeah yeah king cringing god, tell that to Earth. Oh, my God, dude. Tell it to Earth, bro.

He has derailed. Yeah, we might talk about the first Lifetime Christmas movie with fucking... Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. All that, plenty more. But first, Francesco, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history?

Okay, so I know what you guys want. You want the embarrassing stuff. Yes. You want that real shit. You don't want something like, you know, a new sleep sack I was looking at for my daughter. What's wrong? The Wolino?

What's that? The Wolino? No. No. No. This is like a Guru Numu or something. All that baby shit is so fucking yeah, like it turns me off. It's actually baby

baby babies have named them. Mini Numu. Oh, the Numau one. Organic though. Organic? Yeah, the organic one. Of course it's organic. That looks like a potato sack with straps on it. Like, I don't know. I'm sure. No, I did look up Matt Rife chin surgery.

Yeah. Jaw surgery. Because you're looking for that for your Matt, right? You're like, how do I get him? So, I don't know how much you guys have covered Matt Rife's rise. Not much at all. Okay, so, I mean, I'm, look, I just want to state, I am not

mad at him. I haven't watched any of his clips at all. I truly cannot stand his face. He's just not someone I would listen to generally. But he's worked hard on that face, apparently. He's admitted, from what, again, this is one of my like can i take a break from the news deep dives he has admitted to getting botox and you look at him and you're like

yeah that's there's a lot that's a lot of george santos uh energy there like you see it it's like too smooth but then apparently his plastic surgeon went on tiktok and and posted something like oh that feeling when you've created the most perfect chin and then the person gets canceled because Matt Rife opens his special with like a domestic violence joke, like some dumb joke. He's fairly bottom of the barrel.

Yeah, it's very old timey. It's very bottom of the barrel. It's very blue. It's just like not, I mean, you know, he rose to fame off of TikTok and crowd work clips. And it's like, again, and being hot. Exactly. And so and part of that is this chin surgery.

And he replied to this person, this surgeon, and was saying, like, you know, spreading lies will get you in like a lot of trouble or you could be sued or some some kind of reaction, which sort of tipped off to a lot of folks online that seems like it might be true, but he's not willing to admit it. And it's funny because one of his opening jokes, I did watch this, was also something like, I have a jawline that looks like it could cut through whatever, something, something. Like just cut through a board or whatever. Wow, sounds hilarious.

Yeah, it's really really tough top look here's a joke about how hot and like conventionally handsome well right and he kind of you which is fine to do if you yeah like truly like i've heard comics get on stage and be like you know i look like a guy who you know you're always like if you're you know i look like a guy who's gonna ask you you know do you know who my father is and that's another way to sort of say i look very white bread and, you know, blah. But and so I think he leans into it. But it is funny that I guess he had plastic surgery and used to be super insecure about his chin before.

And that's a monstrosity. I mean, arguably, being insanely undeniably hot gave him an like his jawline gave him an edge. That's where I wanted to go with that it gave him that edge you think this an edge that he could cut through glass with this shit exactly bad this jaw looks criminal you think so miles miles miles come on this is what y'all want that's this motherfucker look like i don't want that this looked like He looks like he was drawn by one of those 90s Superman comic artists. He just looks like an AI recreation. You remember in The Mask, the bad guy Dorian, when he gets the mask and puts it on?

Hot. He looks like if Cillian Murphy put on the mask and turned his big old head into some weird cinder block shit. I don't know about that. That's what people want. That's all people want it's okay cool i mean whatever yeah look so yeah i was looking that up that that is my search history yeah yeah that's such a wild back and forth of the surgeons like talking shit he's like hey buddy like why don't you fucking hey man that could get you in trouble saying the truth out loud in this day and age but i also like isn't that not the move isn't the move to just be like yeah i had surgery and don't i look great and then

my other thought was like i've had so i had my wisdom teeth removed this is a long story when i didn't really need them removed and so i had some like jaw rupture and jaw stuff. If you when you get jaw surgery, they have to break your jaw, right and realign it. Do you know how risky that is for the rest of your body? Like since I have had my like wisdom teeth removal that I didn't actually need. It fucked up my entire shit. I had like repetitive strain injury. I can't I couldn't I still can't use a regular mouse like all of my nerve endings and shit in my arms and my forearms. It really, your jaw is so crucial to how your whole spine and your body are actually

working and connected. And if you break that, it's just like, that is really fucking serious. Anyway, just to, of all the surgeries to get, it's incredibly serious.

Yeah. So he's willing to suffer for his art pay for physical therapy his art is having a fucking sick job i haven't watched him so i yeah i shouldn't talk shit either but it's just everything i hear about him is very very funny to me and not like his jokes yeah like everything i hear about him is like that guy why are they giving this guy a hard time someone said matt rife looks like Phil and Lil's mom from Rugrats, and now I can't understand. Yo!

That's a fucking shot. Oh, no. What's something you think is overrated? Overrated. Oh, okay. With the headband and shit? I'm not trying to... He does, man.

I guess maybe it's perfectly rated. Okay, but here's... I think champagne is overrated. Maybe I've said this before on the show, but it is too sweet, always. Gets you too drunk, always. And it's just... It's too expensive, I guess.

And it's stupidly seen as a status symbol. I think champagne is gross. I prefer an Abruzzo. What's it? Abruzzo? What's the sparkling red? See, this is another Italian moment. I always wondered if there was a sparkling red.

There is. No, there is. There is. And you can have it chilled too. And I used to get, oh man. No, Abruzzo is the region of Italian. Lambrusco. Abruzzo, Lambrusco.

Excuse me. I'm sorry. Lambrusco is, fuck yeah. Lambrusco greater than champagne.brusco excuse me i'm sorry lambrusco is oh yeah lambrusco greater than champagne for sure i'm just not that into champagne no it is interesting too how it is like the default drink for being like and we here we are get the champagne like we still have this the momentum of like cracking open barrels of champagne from like centuries ago that is like have you ever gotten drunk on champagne it's the most like puking the whole time. It's like it gives you acid reflux immediately.

Yeah. And if it's not like that's why the whole bottomless mimosa thing. Oh, I don't know. And I've had like I've went one of my Valentine's Day with my ex went to like a bottomless champagne bounce. I was like, Oh, this will be cute. Found it on Eventbrite. Never do that. I ended the night puking, having puked in a doorway of a bank

and then crying in the shower about how I ruined Valentine's Day. It was so perfect and so champagne. And champagne doesn't, you're just the steep climb to being drunk and then it'll drop you super quick. No one has a good champagne drunk story. No one's ever like, I love champagne because every time i drink blood everyone's like man i fuck i fucked up again i went to fucking bottomless mimosa brunch the hip-hop the trap brunch again we drank nine bottles of white clef the fucking cheap ass sparkling wine and i'm fucking sick

in fucking koreatown again like i imagine champagne is good if it's, and I don't, I guess maybe, what is it, Don Perignon or something? Or like, Mum, or what's the other? Like, I guess if it's top, top, top, top. Mumford & Sons. Yes, Mumford & Sons. If it's top tier, and that's why I guess, if you spend, you know, thousands of dollars

on a really incredible bottle, or I don't know what, whatever champagne, then I think maybe it's good, but 99% of the time it's bad. Combined with berries, for some reason, strawberries with champagne, like those two complement each other better.

And like, it doesn't, didn't make sense to me that they would complement each other as well as they do, but they, okay. Bruno Mars. Yeah.

I get most of my culinary ideas from Bruno Mars songs. That's what you, that, that is what I like. This one's you like, bro. This one what you like. That is what I like. That's what you like, bro. That song's about me. Have you tried it, though?

I don't think I have. It makes champagne taste way better for some reason. Anyways, what's something you think is underrated? Closing the door on your cat at night so they cannot sleep with you. Not sleeping with your cat.

All right? Because the cat doesn't understand that there's no ins and outs. You're either in or you're out. You know, they wanna go in, they wanna go out. They wanna meow and bring you the toy. They wanna like, and then I get so, like every time I go pee,

you're like worried you're gonna wake the cat because then, and then you gotta slip back into the same exact like contorted position you were in when you know and then it's like a landmine in your bed yeah and i'm just like you know what you're out you're out of here no sleeping with me and the other thing i'll say instead of co-sleeping is also overrated co-sleeping with your partner overrated over. Overrated. Yeah. We're currently on an experiment, full disclosure.

We're sleeping in separate beds, in separate rooms, and it is wonderful. It is so good. If you, look, a lot of people have similar sleep schedules, similar sleep routines. They all,

you know, everyone reads their little book and then they go to sleep and then they're like, good night. Some people are like holding hands. Some some people cuddle that's not me yeah i don't know if i only go to sleep holding each other's hands with just big serene smiles on yeah it's like you're about to like you're about to die on the titanic yeah exactly every night every night we do a whole couple from the old couple you. You're reading that book to your kids?

But it's like, you know, I have to get up in the ass crack of dawn when the baby wakes up. And that's my job. That's the thing, you know, my shift, I guess. And I can wake up early. But not if I don't sleep well. So Matt Wright says that is your job. Okay. Yeah, that's your job.

Yeah. That's your job. Explain to the manager. But Matt Lieb and I, yeah. And it's been good. We've been sleeping in separate beds and it's nice i get that because sleep well yo her majesty has the cat the cat would try and sleep with me and i'm like you get the i'm sorry i'm trying to sleep and i know your

fucking ass you want to take up all this fucking space no because i'm also very like i'm very like empathetic in that sense i'm like oh shit they shit, they fucking sleep and I don't want to fuck that up. And then I don't sleep well. So it's been an eternal argument between me and Her Majesty where I'm like, yo, get that cat out the bed or I'll do something. She's like, you woke the cat up. And I'm like, why the fuck is the cat in the fucking bed?

Just get the fucking cat out. It's fucking three in the morning, man. I gotta go to the bathroom. What do you want me to do? I can't do a whole fucking... You won't even open now I'm awake. Like, I gotta go to the bathroom. Like, what do you want me to do? Fucking, I can't do a whole fucking, you know. You won't even open both your eyes at the same time when you go to the bathroom. Hell no. Barely. Now we don't have a fucking argument.

You know about me. I like, I have to stay full max sleepy when I'm going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. How do you do that? Because I have to cross baby's room. And so I'm like, doom, doom, doom. And you can't be creepy quiet and stay asleep. Yeah. Because there's something very wakeful about trying to not make noise.

I got that sound machine blasting like it's fucking summer jam in there. Oh, me too. So there's no way. Like if the little, if the Geist child heard my shit, then they call the Pentagon because we have a human weapon on our hands. Same, same. But, you know, in my head, I'm like you they heard the creek oh i do that they never wake up but yeah uh new parents shit we love it don't we folks we love it but cats are like nocturnal right or at least part nocturnal so they they just yeah that

sounds like 18 hours a day though they. They sleep 18 hours a day. Yeah, they sleep during the day. It's like you get to, if you don't sleep right now, you have another chance. A whole day is your chance. Me don't have chance. I need to sleep right now. And I feel bad. She's outside of the dorm.

And then she's loud. That's what headphones are for. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Earplugs, white noise. We've got everything. If any intruder came into our house we would never hear yeah

they're like trying to wake you up to know your value hey hey hey where the fuck is this shit I got a gun to my head all this white noise yeah just wake up the house is gone you're just in a bed in a field down to the studs somehow

alright let's take a quick break and we'll be right back and talk about in a bed in a field swimmer. Yeah, just down to the studs somehow. All right. Let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back when we talk about Elon Musk. Fuck it. Meh. This summer, the nation watched

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And also looking like he's just fresh off a new facelift of some sort. Something going on. People on Twitter are saying he looked like Vincent D'Onofrio when he was Edgar in Men in Black. He does look like someone. He looks like somebody is wearing an Elon Musk. Yeah. He's like, yo, shift the face part a little bit on the phone. Is that better?

Twist that shit around. Yeah. But like, yeah, we have to apologize. And water. Yeah. Sorry we don't have to mention this fuckwad again. But he put in the performance of a life. He's somehow besting himself with the outrageous, outlandish behavior and fully jettisoning himself from planet Earth.

So at this like New York Times book deal or whatever event, shit, I don't even know what I was feeling when I watched it. It was like sad, weird, uncomfortable, omni-cringe cringe i guess is what to call it when the topic of his recent love of anti-semitic conspiracy theories came up because you know for those that probably or probably no look on november 15th he basically announced that he was like a card carrying anti-semite and like doubled down on it and the replies like clarifying it and that led to obviously the advertiser exodus and it's been the biggest thing hanging over the site ever since and when he was asked about it he was like you know it's been the biggest thing hanging over the site ever since. And when he was asked about it, he was like, you know,

it's probably the dumbest post I've, I think I've ever made. But then he's like, okay, well, you know, you went, you took that trip to Israel, you know, then maybe that looked, that looked like a, you know, flaccid apology tour. This is when he absolutely took off. So here is him. This is the question that's being asked is, is in reference to, you know, what was that Israel tour? And are you what's going on with the anti-Semitism going on?

And his answer isn't like offensive so much as it's like just he seems like he's losing his grip on reality. Right. Yeah. Well, just keep that in mind that throughout all this, he's sniffling weird and looking at the audience like it's for cues or something but anyway here he is talking about what was really going on with with me right now but there's a public perception that that was part of a apology tour if you will that this had been said online there was all of the criticism there was advertisers leaving we talked about i hope they stop. Don't advertise. You don't want them to advertise? No.

What do you mean? No. If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. The whole audience is like, go fuck yourself. A little laugh.

Okay. I hope it is self-satisfied hey bob sharing the audience i'm talking straight to bob eiger because disney fucking pulled that so he's like what's up bob eiger well well let me ask you then he's doing this weird don't advertise head nod to the audience dude the audience is even like yo what is this like people are doing the uncomfortable after like oh he really he's torturing us right now he looks like if Kermit the frog like you know like peeled off

his green skin and revealed like do you know what I mean like I don't know he's sitting and he's no Elon Elon's very Kermit right now he's just kind of like and he's no Elon. Elon's very Kermit right now. He's just kind of like, and he's turning his head very like go fuck yourself. Bye.

Like, I don't know. He's got a weird, like, he's got, remember how Kermie's little cousin was like pink. And you're like, why are you pink?

This is weird. Yeah. That's Elon. One of the most pink. He's very red. Anyway, whatever. It doesn't matter.

He's more than just how how stupid he looks right i love that though too the the fucking the interview is trying to be like right and i get that you can just say that but in reality you need money to run a site if part of the underlying model at least today and maybe it needs to shift maybe the answer is it needs to shift away from advertising um if if you believe that this is the one part of your business where you will be beholden to those who uh have this view what do you do f y i understand but there's a reality too just whisper g GFY. Right? Yes. I love how he's like, right, assholes. There's a reality, right?

That's the question. Who thinks this is cool? I'm just like, oh, the 12-year-old boys. But I gotta, you know, mention that there's a reality, right? Yeah, and I love how he even has to be like, like, bro, bro, like, you got, watch. He's going to bring up Linda Iaccarino, who's in the fucking audience who's in charge of doing embarrassing i mean linda yaccarino's right here and she's got to sell advertising absolutely so oh absolutely

so no actually what what this advertising boycott is uh is gonna do it's gonna kill the company and then he does like a head turn video the other and the whole world will know that those advertisers killed company and we will document it in great detail what but there are those advertisers i imagine are going to say they're going to say we didn't kill the company oh yeah they're going to say tell it to earth but they're going to say what i say elon that you killed the company because you said these things and that they were inappropriate things and they didn't feel comfortable on the platform. Right. That's what they're going to say.

And let's see how Earth responds to that. What? Tell it to Earth, Francesca. Tell it to Earth, fam. This is, I mean, it is like, again, when billionaires are karens it's not just the manager it's like tell it to earth right yeah i want all of earth to know and like this is still not on mars you're not on mars we fucking can't wait for you to get there go right we can't wait for that interplanetary disaster to unfold live for all of us to watch but like

it's I don't know when he says like when he goes they're gonna kill the company and we're documenting it in great detail is like that's that's when you're like oh this is like he's having a mental health crisis like that

this does not make like the fact that the interviewer is like there, it keeps having to be like, but reality exists, doesn't it? No, tell it to Earth. But that's a,

No, it's, I know. He's making not only his midlife crisis, but also his mental illness, all of our business. Yes. And it's awful.

And he's truly spiraling. And there's nobody who can, has ever been able to like pull him business. Yeah, and it's awful. And he's truly spiraling. And there's nobody who can has ever been able to like, pull them back. Yeah. And it's also like, just try to act like, you know what, like a businessman, someone who's smart, just try to act smart a little bit, you know, and he can't do that. Because I think again, it's not important to him. He doesn't actually have any admiration or respect for anyone who does make money or anyone who is actually a smart investor or businessman. He wants to be cool. And he wants to be a Nazi. He wants to be a cool Nazi. And that's it. Yeah. Yeah, no, I agree with you, though. I mean, he's a child. He's ever he's I mean, I also think like, wealth and racism. I hate when people say that their mental illnesses, but they certainly are. I think they can be. Yeah, yeah. But I'm just like, it's, I just want this. He's gonna fucking run for office at some point. You know what I mean? That's where I feel like the Elon Musk story is headed.

But I don't know, guys. You guys have talked about everything. The most he can do is Senate. It's not going to be the White House. But I mean, he's already one of the most powerful people in the history of the planet. Why would he need to run for office? of the planet like what why would he need to run for office no he i guess he but it's like from a personal perspective it feels like maybe he needs i think that's too risky that would yeah that's too risky because that would actually require getting votes and like that's measurable like

i don't think he could handle taking that out so cannot speak publicly like i'm sorry and i know he's neurodivergent but i know the community does not claim him. But he cannot speak in public. He's terrible. Yeah. And then later in the interview, do you see the, you watch the part where he doesn't remember the dude's name? Called him Jonathan. Right.

And he's like, that's your friend? I thought. Maybe not. He's like, it's Andrew, but I mean. Yeah. It's just so brilliant. It's Andrew Ross Sorkin but anyway go on sir but then right after that he then talks about how he has this other really fantastic take about

unions and what like what the problem with unions are it's again this is someone who is not just just saying whatever the fuck they want to out loud i disagree with the idea of unions perhaps for a reason that is different than people may expect is which is i just don't like anything which creates kind of a lords and peasants sort of thing and unions naturally try to create negativity in a company and and create a sort of lords and peasants situation there are many people at tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There is no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Yeah, everyone eats at the same table unless you're a person of color.

And then there's a whole other section for you to go to called the jungle. And that's where you will work. They hide you from me because I don't like seeing you. It's not lords and peasants. It's more like an overseer-slave relationship that I like to have. Yeah, 100%. But it's so fun when you see a so-called free-thinking billionaire just sort of parrot the exact same corporate line

that CEOs have parroted for a time immemorial. That would make it feel like there's friction between us, person I completely underpay and will fire if they at all try to form a union. It's like, you know, it would seem as if there's a power imbalance. There fucking is a power imbalance. Right, right. It's like instead of being like, no, I like to think of us as family, you know. But they tell me about that thing that I like to ignore, the power imbalance. Exactly. And just pretend isn't there and pretend that we're all a family.

Yeah, have a horse. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I'm very excited, right, that the UAW has announced that they are going to be unionizing non-union workshops, I mean, factories, auto factories across the country. And Tesla is absolutely included in that. And I know actually that workers are trying to unionize. And they are also, and this maybe sounds a little weird, but they're embarrassed because they like the company they work for. They believe in Tesla. They like the EV world and they think it is cutting edge and they're engineers and whatnot and whatever else it

involves. And they fucking want him gone. They truly want him gone. And so, I mean, I just can't get over, like, I think truly, I know you guys have talked about this perhaps, but the stunt to go to Israel, which The Onion had one of the best headlines, which was, you know, he is so thankful to return to an apartheid state, kisses the ground. Elon Musk kisses the ground of a new apartheid state. Beyond that, I think it's incredibly cynical. And you're like, the ADL is not an honest arbiter here. They don't have ending anti-Semitism in their interests. And the fact that Israel welcomed the likes of Elon Musk, also should tell us that they are also not honest actors when it comes to truly stopping anti-semitism in israel and around the world yeah like if you're gonna welcome elon musk fuck that right you don't need that ally right and then also to say like well i can excuse his anti-semitism because in this one narrow way it's overlapping with something i believe so yeah that's we love it and then he was wearing just you know that outfit he was wearing a dog an idf dog tag too that was like saying that was about like releasing

all of the hostages so it's like so everything was so like empty gesture optic shit yes it's embarrassing for fucking everyone and yeah i that that interview i don't know what the state of the company is right now, but my God, that did not help fucking anything. No. I mean, yeah. That's the thing is we're still there, though. Like, I'm still there. I know a lot of women, people of color, trans people, queer people, they've all left.

But, like, I don't know. I guess I'm still, like, I just don't know what, like, I guess we're all kind of waiting for maybe him. You're like, just like a, this big, him to get tired of his toy, you know? Right. Right.

Right. Like just wait it out. Like, is it going to happen? It's like, who knows? I mean, but I mean,

we're close to something. They're going to kill the company. They're going to kill the company. The wait. And we're going to document it. That's like some shit. Like when, like,

like, like a Karen has a meltdown where they've clearly fucked up in a public place but then they get their camera out to record the person recording they're gonna take video guess what now they're gonna know about you it's like no motherfucker it's you what the fuck are you talking about okay tell them what i did i'm reacting to your shit this is not a fucking move like what the fuck are you talking about tell that to earth tell that to earth okay yeah all right will smith welcome to earth yeah that's did he i mean i that felt like that was him his brain trying to improvise in that moment yeah but that was that was interesting tell it to earth uh all. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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has there ever been crossover have they ever like suggested that maybe these all take place in the same weird universe where people reproduce via meaningful looks that i wish there was because that would be the most fucked up writing i think i could have ever imagined trying to weave it all together but just when they're like plaids on their shirts like match up that's when like the baby is made yeah right yeah that's how cuttlefish reproduces like they like start having patterns that like match one another as they're mating with each other that's how they made like yeah all right wait hold on i gotta ask again and then the is that fish fact from cracked or a fish fact from being a parent from being a parent okay i've got to always ask i'm like yeah i was before we

started recording i was talking about the efficiency of how seahorses are some of the most efficient hunters. And that is, these are both facts from being daddy. So then when you talk about cuttlefish mating, do you have to talk about what mating means? Yeah, kind of. Is it four now? Oh yeah, what do you do? Yeah, just like that's how they have babies. Make more.

Yeah, exactly. Okay. When one cuttlefish... You don't talk about the cuttlefish's giant clit. Yeah, or a big ball sack. Check out the sack on this cuttlefish. They just learned. There's like apparently some new research about dolphins' clits.

Dolphins have massive clits. Massive clits? Yeah. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was something recently about I think it was a snake clitoris That literally Male researchers could not find And it took female researchers to be like Yo man, the clit right here, bruh

They're like, we know not what this fucking thing is. We were looking at the end of the tail. We thought the little rattler thing. Oh my God. Anyway. So there is a new Lifetime Christmas movie that is breaking new ground. Yeah.

Country singer and former One Tree Hill actress Jana Kramer is starring in an upcoming Lifetime Christmas movie called A Cowboy Christmas Romance about a real estate agent who I think real estate agents should be the protagonists of more films, guys. Just have like a wake-up call. They're cool. Yeah.

I just feel like real estate agents are always cool. Well, she's going to give up her job by the end of this film, obviously. Of course, for a simpler thing. You better fucking believe it. I hate that every, like, as someone who watches a lot of these shits, it always starts off with lady or guy from the city goes to

smog every fucking time. Is it guy, though? Is it ever a guy who decides that all he wants to do is just, like, not chase money and just sort of settle down? There is an occasional one, yeah, where, like, fast-paced living dude comes in and he's, like, a fucking hotshot, like, earth fucker who's gonna destroy a town and then realizes at the end he likes Christmas lights, it turns out. And I don't like venture capital. With Frosty the Snowman.

Yeah, exactly. It's like always the same, but I'm always back. I'm like, well, how's this one different? Oh, it's a pretend Notting Hill ripoff. It's all, I mean, that's sort of like the mystique and magic of Christmas is, yeah, like it worked for Scrooge. It's going to work for everybody. It's basically just Christmas Carol over and over and over again. There's something about the magic of the lights and the cinnamon. Yeah. And then suddenly I don't want to be Henry Kissinger. It never worked on Henry Kissinger, in fact. Not really.

They really tried. They dressed him up like a christmas tree man yeah they turned him into a pumpkin spice latte they had ghosts visiting him every night throughout the seven oh yeah and he was yeah he's like yo i'm all carpet bomb these fucking yeah bro get them the fuck out my mind he he hugged the old jac Marley, and then as he was walking away, Jacob Marley realized he had planted a grenade on his chain. But yeah, so this one's about a real estate agent who returns to her hometown in Arizona. Well, it's Arizona.

To reclaim land belonging to a rancher. But get this. The two of them form a connection. Oh. Hell yeah. As she reclaims land? It's kind of loaded. Yeah.

Yeah. He's going to get the deed to her ranch. That's right. Now, normally, that is the only sexual content we would get would be implication, basically. Oh, yeah. yeah usually these films like their sexual climax is at the very end we're like they are together and they kiss and it's like the end yeah not so which is not good because sex can really make or break you know whether yeah exactly where's the follow-up and they're like yo they're such a mismatch sexually

really bad he was looking at looking dead in my eyes when he's going down on me. And I was like, bro, please. He kept winking. Yeah. Doing his eyebrows like this. Wiggling his eyebrows while going down on me.

Like you should have known this guy was going weird the whole movie. He called me mom in bed. Oh God. And not in like a sexy Spanish way. Not called me mom in bed. Oh, God. And not in like a sexy Spanish way. Not like, I ain't mommy. Like, no. Mommy. Mommy.

Mama. Yeah. Kept his high socks on. Was looking a lollipop. He left his socks on. Yeah. You know, he actually left his cowboy boots on. He was in bed.

Standing on my bed. Covered in cow shit yeah but anyways so she has announced guys there there's gonna be fucking in this one there's going to be a sex scene typically sex along with swearing drugs and fun in general do not exist in these ultra conservative holiday movies also magic like santa claus doesn't really exist right i mean is jesus watching in the corner like as long as jesus is there watching i think like baby jesus yeah as long as baby jesus is like oh but like early on the hallmark wouldn't fuck with like a magic even advent calendar like you know what i mean like if

the calendar had powers that would normally be bestowed upon christ our savior we don't want that here but isn't that i mean i guess is the magic is that's changed nature of christmas the magic of christmas is it jesus like is that what everyone's sort of implying like home alone too like was the sort of like the jingle jangle and the special stuff was that christmas or was that just homeless people who actually save your ass every single time? I think there's, you know, I think there's, like, a secular Christmas magic that is best expressed in Ghostbusters 2 where it's just like happiness and joy of like groups of people and like the way it's expressed and culminates is by like people singing together right thank you for explaining happiness yeah and this is i i don't understand humans uh but as best i can tell via ghostbusters

2 and elf um this is how they operate sparkly sparkly is not really jesus but it kind of miles would you say it is in lifetime and hallmark movies because i haven't no i know jesus shit in there they don't i mean there are ones that they're they do but like for the most part i honestly think the the biggest like the purpose of all these films is like there is like a psychological like downshifting that happens at like around this time of year people like okay like we're going it's christmas or it's the end of the year and like i just need to look at something that reinforces the fact that it's the end of the year and it's not challenging narratively and yeah it's like i can look away and still know what the fuck happens

or know exactly how this shit is going to play out it's not it's fully predictable so even as a viewer i feel fully in control of what I'm watching because the fucking, the holidays are already wacky and shit. I think that that has a huge impact. That's one of the big reasons why these movies are so big. It's like, they're just so fucking easy to watch. Like that's it.

That's it. Inoffensive. Yeah. Yeah. But she said it's the first lifetime Christmas movie that has a sex scene on an episode of her podcast, Wind Down. Is it doggy style? Yeah, he just takes me from behind in a coat room. Wait, is she pregnant?

She said, when I read it, I was like, well, this is going to be interesting. I'm like, how are we going to do this with the baby belly? Oh, yeah. Maybe she's pregnant okay preggers my eggers okay so what oh oh shit so he had that shit on the kitchen counter yeah it wasn't me wow on the kitchen counter uh they like do the thing the movie thing where they like clear off the stuff on the counter like throw it cleaning that shit up? No. Oh, and they have counter sex? Oh, so she

definitely didn't come, I guess. That was for him. It was like two and a half minutes, if that. He was like, oh god, thank you. Here's my ranch. It's just uncut. Uncut 35 seconds. Oh god. It's just uncut. Uncut 35 seconds. Oh, God.

Oh, no. He's 70. I meant to do that fast because people might come back. Are you coming? I might be able to get a few more in before it's fully useless. God. Oh, no. Yeah, like, I would have thought that the first sex scene in a lifetime film would have

been you know soft focus in a bed beautiful sheets come on now yeah i don't know where people depends just coming all over where people eat yeah yeah i know you're asking me you're like when you first brought this up like if this is affecting like my perception or how i look at these movies yeah because you famously like do you're not joking you've watched a lot i watched a lot and i've said it before i've tried to i've tried to sell scripts of this shit because i'm like yeah it's so easy bro and you can either yeah you were a thinker on this y'all want to fucking hack use chat gpt and it'll give you a whole motherfucking holiday movie idea you just got to give a dialogue i'm telling you like half the time like give you a whole motherfucking holiday movie idea. You just got to give a dialogue. I'm telling

you, like half the time, like give me a three act structure based on Notting Hill, but holiday themed involving a police officer who realizes that he's anti-capitalist and is in love with his partner. But like, well, that sounds tight. I know it's good. It's always, but yo, cause look, we have some AI tools.

He's going to get killed though. There's going to be some corruption at the plate. That's actually an action movie. That's 21 bridges. But these, I'm like, I don't for the same reason. I just want wallpaper. I don't need fine art. You know, I don't need. And by fine, I mean, I don't need like sex scenes or none of that.

Like, just show me the person who moved from the city or was living too fast and need to slow shit up and realizes what blah blah blah is that's it i get offended by this is i mean this is me just being so allergic to trash i'm like i'm so judgy but if i if i see something that like if i see that or i hear a line that sounds too corny or or like horribly written or so predictable, I will like convulse and turn it off. Like I will, if a show that everyone's like, no, no, this is a really good show has a bad line or a bad actor immediately. Like, I'm just like, I'm out, I'm taken out of it and I can't. So it's, it's so opposite, but like, I don't know, what do I have? I don't have anything on necessarily, but I do like Great British Baking Show. That's sort of my speed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe, but I'm like, even... See, I look at it like almost like how I watch Fox News, where I'm like, are they for real right now? And I watch it. It doesn't make me angry so much. I'm like, y'all, they really make this shit. It's like a sociological experiment. But it's a little bit like when I would watch The Little Mermaid

and then rewind and watch it again immediately after. I think it does something to your psyche where the conditioning, the heteronormative weirdo, you should meet your love at a hoedown, a Christmas hoedown, that's doing something to you. I do agree with that. And maybe I have watched too many of these, but yeah,

I do think that a relationship, a marriage actually isn't right in the eyes of God, unless you know. Are you serious? It doesn't make me vanilla. I had the wildest missionary style sex after watching one of those. It was crazy. It was crazy.

On a haystack. On a haystack, you know, next to a fucking manger. Okay. Fucked in a nativity scene and shit. So freaky. Live nativity scene.

But we go all the way through the process. They're like, ah, the three wise men are freaky. Y'all, what y'all looking at? Why's your business? But like, this does feel like, to your point, Francesca, like what we were talking about with like the TikTok dating advice, like you can get so ground down by like whether it's capitalism or dating apps or things like that, that sometimes there is just like this weird thing of like, look how simple this dumb shit is. And in that way, there is like comfort, even though you might not really aspire to that. But there's something about like, wow, this life. Wow.

In this world, housing crisis doesn't exist you know like wars of imperial wars like all this shit is like gone so like some of the dark shit because we we watched one of the one of the oh actually i guess it wasn't a holiday movie but it was a netflix movie that was like in the hallmark kind of genre. Right. And the Josh, what was that guy's name? Josh. Yeah. Yeah.

Duhamel was the love interest. It was like the, one of the number one trending movies on Netflix, like during the pandemic. And Josh Duhamel's character was like a fucking like Trump QAnon person. Oh God. Just like coded that way. was right right right he was giving that like he was like oh i'll tell you what no no no no no no he was he was the one he got yeah

basically like she came to him from the city where she had like you know things hadn't worked out for her and then she you know came around to his way of thinking did we okay but what i will say is maybe if i watch these movies i would like i wouldn't stop because last year i did watch last christmas with emilia clark yeah i think it was maybe two years ago and i was you watched last christmas like three years ago yeah that shit sucked so much. Like, I mean, Michelle, yeah, I was in it. I was like, okay, that was a weird choice. But then like, Emilia Clarke and this dude, who is this dude, Henry Golding? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's awful. Like he's he skips at one point in the movie the beginning, like, and she's like, why are you skipping? Because I'm happy. And you're just like, ew, ew, ew. It was bad.

And so I'm like, but I was really excited because I did kind of want to watch like, you know, cute Christmas meet cute stuff. Right, right, right. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Because doesn't she work like with unhoused people or something? And like, there's like a, they have like, it culminates culminates with a pageant scene, I feel like, at the shelter. I don't think I finished it. Oh, shit.

Yo, I'm not going to lie. I saw this shit in the fucking theater when it came out. You did? Yeah. Oh, it's terrible. I'm telling you. This is what I do. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with me.

That was in the dead heart of COVID, Miles. Yes, it was. Yeah. Anyway, I need more Lifetime films. Yeah, scamdemic. No, no. It was right at the end of 2019, Miles. Yes, it was. Yeah. Anyway, I need more Lifetime films. No, no, it was right at the end of 2019, I remember, because it was like, honestly, I think it was one of the last films I had seen for like years. Oh, you saw it in the theater?

Meanwhile, this is how much I'm up on. I'm like, I just saw it last year. Four years ago. There's some repertory theaters that are staging screenings of it. That movie, so it cost $30 million to make, and it ago what the i mean there's some repertory theaters that are staging screenings of it that movie so it cost 30 million dollars to make and it made 123 million dollars well you're not

the only person who saw it in theaters miles it's i'm telling you there's something like i get some people they do it for it's like visual value you know what i mean yeah that's why they fuck with it i'm like half into it for that the half, it just feels like these movies are made with zero taste or quality in mind. Yeah. And then, like, it's wild to watch. Like, these people know better than this. But this is what we get. And it's just so weird to see how the standards shift so dramatically for a holiday film.

But if they had sex. I think that's what's also interesting. Yeah, man. I think they kind of get naughty in that, don't they? Well. I think that's also interesting. Yeah, man. I think they kind of, they get naughty in that, don't they? Well, I didn't finish it.

He's a ghost, right? Is he a ghost? No. Oh, sorry. Shit. Oh, he's a ghost? Spoiler. Oh, I love that.

I mean, I don't love that, but thank God, because it makes his insufferable character, actually. See, that's the thing. I'm impatient. That's why you go to films

instead of stream them, because you can't leave. Although have left theaters yeah he's he's actually somebody who donated his heart his heart to her yeah and so he's the manifestation of like some weird like physical there's like some weird like materialist like physical you could you could like build an entire religion off of the back of like the mythology of last christmas it feels like dude but like by giving a heart you are part them and therefore their reality manifests itself into your physical reality and then you can fuck them and then that's the true christmas spirit yeah yeah like your donor always is like they

get one fuck you know yeah yeah right how'd i get it in one time yeah all right all right tiktok holy ghost oh that's good um i you know what if they had done a little bit more like a little more foreshadowing but in 30 minutes i was like this is bad this is bad no trust me when that shit the reveal happened i remember looking at her man she was like yo the fuck was that i almost choked out the person next to me somebody's gotta take somebody's gotta answer so's got to go to sleep right now. Somebody want night night over this terrible plot twist. Yeah, it does end. I'm just, this is all based on the Wikipedia plot summary,

but it does end with organizing of a show, utilizing the talents of the people at the shelter. That's right. Exactly. And Kate delicately performs a solo of the Wham song Last Christmas, intertwined with flashbacks of her time with the dead person's ghost who she fucked while their heart was beating in her chest. That's wild, man. So weird. Yeah.

So weird. I love it, though. Oh, that's right. Because she tries to have sex With him and he says no and they just kiss And then he literally ghosts Right Wow amazing

Francesca what a pleasure having you as always Oh my god Where can people find you follow you All that good stuff You know where you can find me You can find me with Miles Gray Oh shit tell him At SF Sketch Fest on January 28th. That is a Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Gateway Theater.

You can get your tickets at sfsketchfest.com. 2024. We'll put a link. Hopefully, you guys can put a link. Who else is on that? Who else is on that? It is a live edition of my podcast, The Bituation Room. We've got Miles Gray, comedian Nato Green, and Emma Vigland of

The Majority Report. Just such a banging lineup. I'm very excited. So please come get tickets if you're in the Bay. It's a chance to stalk Miles IRL. I'm sure he's excited about it. If you're not in the Bay, that's worth flying in for.

Oh yeah. January 28th. Yo, wild side story and I have to tell you, Francesco, my brother-in-law knows Nato for like years. Really? Yeah, for like over 25 years. Are they friends? Yeah, they are friends. Sworn enemies.

You know, because he was like, yo, Nate's like, yo, I came up with him in the Bay like 25 years ago. And I was like, and yeah, they're friends. That's great. Well, he better be at the show, goddammit. He will. No, he's, look, that's great well you better be at the show god damn it you will no he's okay look that's my plus two all right amazing is

there a work of media that you've been enjoying I did like the IMEU which everyone should follow which has been reporting and doing great has a is just a great resource for Israel Palestine information has Israel's 2023 wrapped

15,400 plus Palestinians killed. 6,300 Palestinians' children killed. 1.7 million Palestinians displaced. 7,000 plus Palestinians arrested. Yay! I'm enjoying it. Enjoy.

Wrap that up with a bow. Miles, where can people find you? What is the work of media you've been enjoying? At Miles of Gray, wherever they got the at symbol. You can find Jack and I on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack got mad boosties. Great episode with Sarah Todd, who writes about the Utah Jazz. My favorite Utah Jazz reporter.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sarah Todd is always fantastic. You can also find me on 420 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexander, where I'm talking about 90 Day Fiance. And also, just want to shout out again, my friend Kim Cooper's one-woman show, Trauma Response. If you're in L.A., please check it out December 5th. I'll have a link in the footnotes. Please, cop tickets, check that out. It's about being a transracial Korean adoptee to a white family in Iowa.

And all of the fun identity crises that come along with shit like that. And a tweet I like is from John Penniman at Historia Grafos tweeted a picture of a student emailing him. He's a professor. And this was said, I will never recover from this student email. Good afternoon, Professor Penniman. Hope you had a great break. I was wondering if it would be acceptable to use sources from the late 1900s for our final paper. I found an interesting paper from 1994.

Is there a cutoff date of publication? See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow, you old-ass motherfucker. If you're not dead of old age by then. He said the late 1900s. Fuck y'all. The late 1900s. Like I'all. The late 1900s. Like I'm a fucking driving a Model T and shit.

This is a Marjorie Taylor Greene mistake as well. Like I actually think there are people who think the 1900s, like, are they wrong? Like, why would you, the 1900s, isn't it the end of the 1900s?

Technically, 1990? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's just so funny. No, it's correct. You would never say 1900s. No, it the end of the 1900s? Technically, 1990? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's just so funny. No, it's correct. You would never say 1900s. No, it just sounds so dated. Well, they will. Increasingly, they will be in the same way that we were like, yeah, late 1800s.

What is that, from the 1800s? Yeah. Do you consider yourself being born at the end of the 1900s? This guy was born in the late 1900s. He's so fucking old. This dude was born in the 1900s. My shit isn't even that old, that late. I'm not going to lie.

Yeah. Oh, no. Like, yo, fuck out of here. Don't act like that shit's prehistoric. So funny. It's unbelievable. Predates the written word. Come on, you were three when 9-11 happened.

Fuck you. You can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien uh tweet i've been enjoying shirts that go hard tweeted a t-shirt that says henry kissinger died on spotify wrapped day november 29th 2023 and that would just be a cool cool thing to have written on your chest also Floor Baba tweeted social media is like hey man let's hang out at the news I don't know how else to say

you can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist we're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram we have a Facebook fan page and a website DailyZeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what's a song we think people might enjoy?

What's in your raft? I need good music. Sorry, Miles. Go. I haven't even opened my raft yet, actually. Good. Thank you to remind me also shout out all the fucking apple done that shit yet do they do that oh yeah they do have their own version huh yeah i don't know yes they do it's probably gonna say unless it's gonna be all kinds of stuff because we use our spotify to play all kinds of shit through the house but let's see a track that i like it's getting chilly you know the air is crisp i like to go on bike rides right now when the air is crisp uh and this is a track just a little electronic like not too hardcore electronic music like

something light with a good beat and feels like it goes with the crisp weather that's this track it's called good lies by over mono o-v-e-r-m-o-n-o check this one out go on a bike ride take a brisk walk whatever breathing some oxygen from the outside and listen to this and you will feel marginally better? I don't know. But hey, teach their own. But check this out. I was trying to do the Apple one, like fucked my computer. Crash it. Yeah.

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