The Daily Zeitgeist - Mr. Incredible = Sex Symbol, Jurassic World 2 = Trump Metaphor 6.22.18
Episode Date: June 23, 2018In episode 175, Jack and special guest co-host Caitlin Gill are joined by comedian Brodie Reed to discuss the public's sexual attraction to Mr. and Mrs. Incredible, Melania's terrible jacket choice, t...he Texas non-profit that gets millions in federal money to run shelters for immigrant children, the millions of dollars in pledges to have The Last Jedi remade, how the new Jurassic Park film makes a poor attempt at an allegory about our current political climate, a quick world cupdate, synchronized NBA players, bloidwatch, and more! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 36, Episode 5 of Dead Daily Zeitgeist! Apple Podcasts, or wherever believe. Still believe. Having kids makes you lose your mind.
Because you're so tight.
With two babies, Jack O'Brien.
That is courtesy of Walter Chestnut.
We didn't rehearse that.
That just came naturally.
It was beautiful.
We did choreograph it.
Yes, the dance was tight.
The dance was beautiful.
I am thrilled to be joined by today's co-host,
one of the funniest human beings speaking into a microphone anywhere on this planet.
She is Caitlin Gill.
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A.K.A. Skateland Gill, the roller skating grandma you want to talk to.
Caitlin.
Yo.
I don't know why I used that.
That felt unnatural. Hi. Hi. Yo. I don't know why I used that. That felt unnatural.
Hi.
Hi.
Yo.
Hey.
Thank you so much for joining us and filling in for Miles.
We really appreciate it.
What a deep pleasure.
His shoes are warm and comfortable.
I can never hope to fill them completely.
Although my feet are very large, so I actually assume they might be too.
And we are thrilled to have in our third seat one of the great daily zeitgeist guests a wonderful
stand-up comedian he is mr brody reed hey guys what's up it's me brody aka wookipedia brown aka
baby magnets how do they work
why is it so much funnier with baby in front?
I don't know, but it is.
How's it going, guys?
That's good.
Oh, my goodness.
Those were both such wonderful and efficient AKAs.
We do what we can.
All right, before we get into who you are, Brody,
we like to give our guests a preview of what we're going to be talking about today.
We're going to talk about the fact that people want to fuck Mr. and Mrs. Incredible.
Who doesn't?
Not many people, apparently, don't want to fuck them.
We're going to talk about any fictional characters that were important to our development as sexual beings.
We're going to talk about Melania Trump's jacket a little bit more. We're going to talk about Southwest Key, which is not an
all-inclusive resort where your parents go to try to fix things. It is the nonprofit organization
that has been in the news recently for housing the children that the government is tearing
apart from their family. We're going to talk about a Supreme Court decision that makes it harder for the cops to track you.
We're going to talk about the man who has raised $85 million to remake Last Jedi.
He has raised $85 million in IOUs.
That is as close to legal tender as that comes.
We're going to talk about the Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom as a clumsy Trump metaphor.
And we're going to do a quick check in with the World Cup.
Quick check.
Quick check.
And, of course, we got Bloid Watch.
Because the Bloids, and specifically King of all Bloids, David Pecker, are all in the news today.
But first up, Brody, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are?
Okay, cool.
So I was like, Space Force is a thing now.
Yeah.
So I was just thinking of like, what are reasons that we would need a Space Force?
Because they keep saying that the reason that we need is to assert American dominance in space.
I'm like, from who?
From why?
The Martians, bro.
Exactly.
Are we afraid Martians are going to attack?
So the last thing in my search history was Mars attacks.
Mars attacks.
But for real this time?
Question mark.
No, it was the 1996 classic film, Mars Attacks,
one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid.
I rewatched it.
Based completely on a whim.
How's it hold up?
Oh, great.
Just as good as you think it does.
They go ack and their brains explode when you play classic music.
It's a great movie.
I never saw that.
Oh, what?
I know.
That is my fault.
That is not a statement about Mars Attacks.
But the premise of it seemed to be that it was like very campy,
sort of referencing 50s Martian movies.
Is that kind of right?
Yes, exactly.
That's exactly right.
Basically, the Last Jedi remake that these people want to make
is probably what Mars Attacks is.
But accidentally. What is something you think is overrated? Something I think is overrated? Last Jedi remake that these people want to make is probably what Mars attacks.
But accidentally.
What is something you think is overrated?
Something I think is overrated is,
I got these Hue lights.
You guys know what this is?
Nope. No.
It's just like, they're made by Philips.
They're like these lights that connect to an app
and they change colors in your rooms and stuff like that okay yes i've had them
for a while and um they're like fine but like my app has to update so much it's such a bizarre
feeling to in the middle of the night like want to like turn your own lights on and you can't
because your app is updating that's so weird it's so stupid there's so many menus and just like
updates in my life.
I don't,
I'm just going to go back
to regular light bulbs,
I think.
It's not worth
changing my lights
pink and blue.
Right.
That stuff.
How do regular
light bulbs work?
I've not heard of those.
You turn them on.
I only use LED operated.
Yeah, for sure.
There's a filament inside.
Right.
So what,
and the lights themselves, they're like things that stick to the wall, that sort of thing?
They plug into just regular sockets.
Okay, cool.
But I'm not even completely sure how, but that is with Wi-Fi connected to like a different little router that you have to buy just for the lights.
Are they like Christmas lights?
They're not like Christmas lights.
They're just like bulbs that change colors when you want them to.
And I think there's other different kinds.
My friend has like an orb that just like changes color.
It's just like, okay, that's all right.
I don't know why I became all QVC there.
I'm like, now tell me more about this thing you're saying sucks.
It's a limited offer for five different installments of 99.
I don't need to recommend other podcasts.
Just listen to more episodes from the past of Daily Zeitgeist.
Of course.
If you run out, I believe it's 99% Invisible that did an episode about the light bulb
and how as an invention, the way it changed everything after it is pretty crazy
because night was just night.
You didn't do anything at night.
Yeah.
And then suddenly you could light up the night.
And the advances in technology from medicine and our weird computers and flight and all
this shit that happened because we could light stuff up was pretty significant.
The light bulb is pretty important as a human invention.
And at this point, we've reduced it to like, I don't know, attach it to your phone and
you can push buttons and light and it turns into a different palette.
This invention changed the world and made our knowledge be so much larger and enabled us to do so many incredible things.
And so quickly have we reduced ourselves to like make it pink by touching a button.
Yeah, totally.
We should have higher goals.
It's so strange.
Like even as you say that, it's like, yeah, we used to have like total darkness at night.
Yes.
I've lived in Los Angeles my entire life.
I don't think I've ever experienced complete darkness.
night yes I've lived in Los Angeles my entire life I don't think I've ever experienced complete darkness yeah I've I've never seen more than a dozen stars in the sky at one at one point in time
have you ever like gone out to the country because it's a thing that I don't notice until I'm like
out in the country and I'm like I literally could have a tree two inches in front of my nose and I
wouldn't know at all and then if it's cloudy and then if it's not cloudy it's like oh the whole fucking landscape is lit up by all these lights that are in the sky
that I just never get to see yeah the only time that I've ever seen a full night sky is when I
was uh road tripping through Utah and I was road tripping we'll do it yeah and like people told me
uh when I was road tripping that I had to go through Utah it was like so beautiful and then
like I was on a schedule when I was road tripping that I had to go through Utah. It was like so beautiful. And then like I was on a schedule when I was road tripping. So I drove through the entire state at night in
pitch black and I didn't see any of it. And every once in a while I just see like some huge rock.
I don't know where to be like, whoa, beautiful stars. That's huge. And then you're like, yeah,
I know what you guys mean. Those rocks, they're big and black and wow.
They come out of nowhere.
There is still a light bulb that is working in California at a fire department.
They've had to move it.
They kept it on and they put it back up.
That thing is amazing.
It was installed in 1901 and has been turned off only a handful of times.
Oh, wow.
And it's still going, baby.
I'm so glad you mentioned that because not only have we made light more useless,
but we make it last less long.
Right, exactly.
We have light bulbs from 100 years ago
that still stay on
and we don't make them anymore
because you don't have to replace them.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, we're dumb.
We're so dumb, sorry.
I wonder how many-
I got there fast today.
Sometimes it takes me longer to get to everybody's-
We're gonna get misanthropic.
Complete hopelessness.
I'm dumb, we're all dumb.anthropic complete hopelessness I'm dumb
we're all dumb
everything's dumb
Brody what is something
you think is underrated
something I think
is underrated
on a very personal level
is there's this video
that I keep going back
to every once in a while
I'm a big Star Trek fan
and there's this one video
I found
I used to be a researcher
used to be in my old job
and I found a lot
of fun videos
there is a
Star Trek
Voyager
Frasier crossover
that happened?
that's
that
totally happened
that's a real thing
it totally happened
it's a real thing
it was like a bit
for like some kind of convention
or some kind of like
upfront or something
but they have like
Kate Mulgrew
and like a bunch of
other extras
and
I think the doctor
like all dressed in in Star Wars wear.
And then they have...
Star Trek wear?
Star Trek wear.
Sorry, I make that mistake all the time.
And people get so mad at me.
A few people just threw their phones.
Pick up your phone, everything's fine.
And it's just the cast of Star Trek Voyager,
definitely in the backseat of this bit,
trying not to roll their eyes
as the cast of Frasier
makes a bunch of sex jokes
about Star Trek.
Why?
Because that's what Frasier is.
It's really great.
I will tweet it.
Watch it.
It's totally 100% worth it.
Okay.
Thank you.
Wonderful.
That will be in our footnotes.
Yes.
And finally, Brody, what's a myth?
What's something people think is true that you know to be false?
I have something that I think that my roommates think to be true that I know is false.
This is a barb straight at my roommates.
Some tea just spilled all over the table.
That's really our target demographic for this show is your roommates.
Thank you.
A lot of people, a lot of dumb people,
like to think that if your soap dispenser is running out
and you put water in it, it'll just magically create more soap.
It does not.
It only creates gross, lukewarm water that I have to pour on my hand.
It's a bad surprise for me.
Just to let you know, the main thing that you do with soap is add water to it.
So don't preemptively add water to the soap when it's already out.
First of all, when the soap is down to, I would say, 5% of the original.
I got a lot.
I'm really angry about that.
I'm so sorry I'm inflicting this on you guys.
But that's just water.
That's just water.
Anyway, that's all I have to say about that.
I mean, I wouldn't drink it, but i also wouldn't use it to wash my hands it is no longer just water no but it is no longer
hand soap it is no longer useful to anyone i assume you have a pump dispenser exactly so
the pump dispenser is prepared to dispense a gel it has been calibrated for gel pressure
and what i know from being a poor person is that when you add water, it comes flying out
at you in a jet stream.
You get it on your shirt.
It's gross.
Yes.
Yeah, it gets a nice little extra laundry day, and your hands are still dirty.
It's a bad surprise.
I'm going to make my roommates listen to this episode.
And I'm not confident that there's no germs being introduced during the putting the water
in and screwing it back on.
Oh, that's a whole other level of fear check.
Oh, you can't even start.
I can't do it.
It feels like your hands are hurting.
It came from another.
It wasn't clean to start with.
If you were worried about that, then yeah,
nothing was ever clean.
You know what lives on your eyelashes?
Anyway, what's next?
Oh, God.
The things that live on your eyelashes
look like a 1950s sci-fi movie.
It is fucking crazy.
People look it up or don't.
But the stuff that you wake up with on your eyes
is their poop.
They're just pooping on your eyelashes.
We are host to colonies of life that we'll discuss.
I mean, that's a hopeful way to think about it.
I don't know these illegal immigrants nothing.
They all over my eyelashes i didn't
say you could cut there's a border what is an eyelash without a border it's just it's just an
eye not a lash anymore now is it them bugs gotta stay where they came from my pillowcase
go back to your shitty country bugs sorry off time all right uh, guys, let's get into the stories of the day.
Let's get into it.
The story of the day, I think.
Let's also get into The Incredibles, you know what I'm saying?
Am I right?
Deep inside of them.
Am I right?
Let's get into that husky voice.
Let's see if we even have to take off their costumes to fuck, you know what I mean?
Maybe you just like fuck right through their costumes.
costumes to fuck you know what i mean like maybe you're just like fuck right i mean the original review that brought this up talked about how it was basically their costumes are essentially a
second skin because of how tight they are so uh this started with a or it seemed to start with a
review by the new yorkers anthony lane uh you know he is the new york's main film critic, and he's also their main Disney...
Perf.
Yeah, Disney perf.
No, Disney historian.
He has written some really interesting articles on the history of Disney.
That's the same thing.
Disney perf, Disney historian.
Why else are you studying that?
But I've read a lot of his reviews, and he's never let this sort of thing...
And we can all agree that we want to fuck the Incredibles type of a vibe.
Oh, she's thick.
Snack.
Did you just call her a snack?
He's a snack.
So I'll just read the
offending paragraph.
Read it in a sexy voice.
Let's give a little
musical background maybe.
Take your seat at any early evening screening of Incredibles 2 in the coming days.
Listen carefully and you may just hear a shifty sound as of parents squirming awkwardly beside their raptured offspring.
And why, kids?
Because mommy just leaned over to daddy and whispered, is it just me?
Or does Mrs. Incredible kind of look like Anastasia in Fifty Shades of Grey?
You know, the girl in the red room with the whips and all?
And Daddy just rested his cooling soda firmly in his lap.
And like Mr. Incredible, tried very hard to think of algebra.
As for how Daddy will react later on,
during the scene in which
Helen and the husky-voiced
Evelyn unwind
and simply talk woman
to woman, I hate to think,
but watch out for flying popcorn.
And that is the end. It ends with him
imagining, asking children
to imagine their father getting an
erection so powerful and spontaneous that it
just bursts through the bottom of his popcorn and sends the popcorn flying with his hands like on
the side of the popcorn so the kids are just like what the hell just happened um i'll watch what
he's watching there it is there it is. So this seemed like
maybe just a one-off weird
thing Anthony Lame was going through,
but then a writer at the
Huffington Post was like, oh, I have a good
friend, the electronic
musician Baths, who
has, since the first Incredibles come out,
talked about how he
has desperately wanted Mr. Incredible to
fuck him, quote, up and down the goddamn block since he was a young man and first realizing he was gay.
And it was just an interesting, that article is actually really touching and sweet
where he's just talking about how, you know, seeing some of these characters in sexual situations on the Internet
was actually a good alternative to pornography where everything's just
Upfront and people you know having sex and it's all completely removed from any sort of human emotion
Yeah, he needed the sort of
Drawings and the people just being in normal human contexts to actually make it seem like oh
this is something that connects to me.
And so I don't know.
I think it's an interesting conversation.
I love that we're living in a time where animated porn is becoming like,
not mainstream, but it's like getting acceptance or something.
Yeah.
It's kind of bursting through the surface.
I mean, if we're going to be honest,
The Incredibles did great things for Rule 34. I mean, if we're going to be honest, The Incredibles did great things for Rule 34.
I mean, let's be honest.
Ms. Incredible, very sexy character.
She can get it.
She's got four hips.
She's stretching all up and down that movie.
Yes.
I mean, that's its own fetish.
I mean, she is a last girl.
I feel like they made the Stretch Armstrong character
a man because they knew, they thought about making it a woman.
They were like, no, that's too much.
What we would unlock would be bad for the culture.
All I have to say is I have two different folders where I put my naughty bookmarks.
One called things and one called stuff.
And yeah.
And I won't say anything else.
Stuff is where all the weird things are.
There you go.
I think it's not that weird.
I mean porn is an exploration of fantasy.
It is a visualization of something
that only lives in our head
and then we get to see it
in real life.
It is not the same as what we actually want to do.
And especially like when you look at what's trending in porn and how some of it is like
eyebrow raising or taboo.
Yeah.
Like that's the fun of it being a fantasy.
Yeah.
You do not want to do you fuck your stepbrother in real life.
This is the second time on the Daily Zeitgeist in which i have referenced uh step family porn yeah but it amuses me so much because what we're all
like jilling and jacking off to is bad acting like that's the part of it that we're really
into is this cohort like fake relationship and the animated stuff just is that um it seems even
more natural to me to explore that in a way that is art because it is just a fantasy.
Everything you're having about that sexual experience is an illusion.
And if you want to keep it an illusion, if you don't actually want to watch, you know.
Two coked out junkies or whatever.
Right.
Whatever thing you'd prefer to see animated in real life, but you do want to see it so that you can enjoy it and then go for it.
Yeah.
Makes a lot of sense. Plus there's a lot of talented artists out there these days.
There really are. I'm just trying to for it. Yeah, makes a lot of sense. Plus there's a lot of talented artists out there these days. There really are.
I'm just trying to support my...
No, seriously, in this gig economy of ours,
there's so many people who are just great artists.
I mean, have you been on Tumblr recently?
Right.
There's some great stuff.
There really is.
But yeah, I think just in general,
as sexual beings,
the modern human being is,
like Freud created this whole model of human sexuality
that was like you imprint your sexual desire
on your parent of like your mother or father.
Yeah, the hot one.
Yeah, whichever is hotter.
Or maybe you have a roller skating grandma
that you kind of like to fuck.
But I wonder how much of that was just that those were the only adult-formed humans that you got to see.
And now that we exist in a world where the first adult or human forms that we see are cartoons or characters in PG movies.
or characters in PG movies.
I just feel like that, and now presumably porn,
kids who grow up now, I wonder how much different that is,
how much what our ideal sexual being. Not different at all, I would assume.
Right.
I mean, have you guys seen, remember that girl from the Goofy movie?
That was my first crush for sure.
Yeah, the girl from the Goofy movie? That was my first crush for sure. Yeah, the girl from the Goofy movie.
I watched the Top Gun Beach volleyball scene with deeply confusing feelings for a long time.
Because I now date a woman, and I think what I was understanding is homosexual heat and power.
But I didn't know it didn't translate itself for many years.
You were just, I guess many lesbians are into volleyball?
Yeah, volleyball and strapped dudes.
I mean, honestly, none of it. It's all a straight line.
And I also appreciate boys.
Look, all of it came into a very complicated
and delicious do.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm trying to remember cartoons.
I think I love-
That you want to fuck?
Yeah, like probably Roger and Jessica Rabbit.
Oh, yeah.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Lady I Didn't Understand My Feelings About.
Yeah, lots of that.
For a long time, I felt a deep resentment at traditionally attractive women, human or drawn.
Because my own human form is unconventionally attractive.
And I felt a bitterness that has faded from my being, much to my appreciation.
But yeah, for a long time, even pretty cartoons or whatever would piss me off.
Pretty cartoons would piss me off more.
Yeah, fuck you, Shira. Yeah, I didn't.
You don't have a real personality.
You're just drawn that way.
Yeah.
Nobody can look like that.
You don't even look like that.
You're drawn.
How can I look like you?
You're a cartoon.
You're not even real.
I don't have earrings to make me famous, Jim.
Or I guess a super star.
He was already famous.
My best friend growing up had a very real and very long term crush on Misty from Pokemon.
Yeah.
That'll happen.
It was a short shorts for sure.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And the suspenders.
Now I'm thinking about it.
Yeah.
The girl chipmunk from Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Really?
I had feelings for.
Yeah.
That's fair.
As a child.
I forgot how.
She can nibble on my forgot how He-Man is
the most homoerotic
just universe
everything I loved
apparently
when I was five
you know those
you can draw on a piece
of paper
mail it in
and they send you
back a dinner plate
yeah
I did one of those
at like five
and it's just He-Man
like flexing
and then my scrawl above
that just says He-Man
on the top of the plate
so obviously a deep crush He-Man on the top of the plate. So obviously a deep crush.
He-Man is a naked ripped dude in fur underwear and there is a character in that universe
named Fisto who is just a naked ripped dude in I think leather underwear with a giant
like metal fist.
Hell yeah.
I'm a gay man.
We figured it out.
I'm a gay man in love with a woman.
This took a long time to get there, 37 years.
But I have arrived.
Welcome to my church.
There it is.
All right, we're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back.
I've been thinking about you.
I want you back in my life.
It's too late for that.
I have a proposal for you. Come up here and in my life. It's too late for that. I have a proposal for you.
Come up here and document my project.
All you need to do is record everything like you always do.
One session.
24 hours.
BPM 110.
120.
She's terrified.
Should we wake her up?
Absolutely not.
What was that?
You didn't figure it out? I think I need to hear you say it.
That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything?
You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people.
There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams.
There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.
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Hi, hi. And it's impossible to keep up with the latest on what the president is pushing for with regards to border security, as he calls it.
I think he is now telling the Republicans in Congress not to waste their time on a plan that he proposed in the first place, as far as I can tell.
So I think it's probably more valuable just to kind of be backward facing, look at what has happened that we know for sure has happened.
And the big story of yesterday was Melania Trump's bizarre jacket.
Yeah.
It was, so we talked about it briefly, mentioned it briefly yesterday.
It was a Zara jacket that said, I really don't care, do you?
Question mark.
I have to know where she got this jacket.
How does she even like in the like venn diagram of like people that she knows
and things that she does who is bringing a zara item into her life a zara item with a spray painted
back that says i really don't care do you like i wouldn't it's that's a i mean when i saw that i
honestly interpreted as like this is this is i hope you see this Donald, like she's walking in front of him,
she's like making a point.
Yeah, but I, I is the operative word.
Like she's speaking for herself there.
I don't, if it's a message addressed to her husband,
she has his fucking number, send a text.
I don't, like there are fashion blunders
or whatever word you're gonna use, choices,
that she could have made that would have distracted
from the topic of this atrocity of putting children in concentration camps to make them slaves
uh because you're a slave if your body earns money and that's what those little bodies are doing
in a tiny cell uh she could have like i don't know worn a midriff and then the news would have been
like weird choice yeah and you And our response as collectively worried people
with a sense of humanity would have been like,
don't be distracted by her midriff.
That's stupid to talk about.
She wore a jacket to Texas.
And that jacket looked like she fucking painted
I don't care on it.
And when she left, again, maybe that was the only jacket
she had.
Fine.
Turn it inside out.
Give it to a child instead of wear it.
How is that possible?
Wear nothing.
Literally wear nothing instead of that jacket.
Like, if you wanted to say, like, oh, it's just the only coat she had,
it doesn't help that when she left the facility,
the coat she decided to leave the children with was good luck.
Good luck.
Yeah, good luck.
Good luck, kiddo.
Good luck. leave the children with was good luck good luck yeah good luck good luck kiddo good luck if that was the only phrase i knew in the language of the country i was visiting kids in a camp in i would
say nothing instead and you can't say that she's not fashion conscious she's a model one of her
parents was like a fashion designer yeah and every choice she makes she does communicate
with fashion.
She uses fashion as an art very successfully.
She conveys respect.
She conveys gravitas.
She conveys power.
She conveys authority with her looks.
She's obviously chosen to use stark images.
Yeah, we've seen her winter formal empire, like Game of Thrones.
This is a woman with an eye for design.
If she's buying a $39 clothing item, it's to make a statement.
I get that she
may be going through a very apathetic
phase for the entirety of her marriage
like a teenager or something.
But you still have to represent this
country even though
you don't understand it.
Yeah, just
womp womp to that. Don't care. you don't understand it yeah just womp womp to that don't care
yeah um i don't care is the theme you have mr womp womp lundesky right uh whose name i don't
care to say right uh which is just a terrifying that's terrifying that clip is like legitimately
looks like satire that would scare me only it it's real, so it scares me even more.
You have Melanie with a jacket that says literally, I don't care.
You don't have your white nationalist face of government stepping into Mexican restaurants in two separate incidents on accident.
This is coordinated.
This is on purpose.
This is racist as fuck.
This is wild.
I am a first generation immigrant from scotland
my grandparents brought three white babies into this country and had one more it was real easy
to get in nobody had a real problem with us being here nobody ever asked me where i'm from right you
can't this is racism this is slavery absolutely the ceo of the company that we'll talk about
today southwest key makes 1..5 million a year.
Up from half of that 10 years ago when this guy was still doing this job, this system has been in place for a long time.
We were ready for these little tiny slaves.
We had an infrastructure to house them.
We do not have an infrastructure to return them.
That is a choice.
We made one plan and not the other.
return them. That is a choice. We made one plan and not the other. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the executive order that he just signed that is supposedly supposed to reconnect these families
back into Cato's together, it changes crossing the border from a civic breaking the law to a
criminal one. So it's just going to lead to these families absolutely being separated, like without a doubt.
Well, yes, it is doing subtle changes such as debatably whether or not it's making a civil problem a criminal problem for those individuals.
But it's forcing us into the position where we're saying like, oh, great, we've solved the problem.
We're not separating families and putting parents in one detention center and children in another.
We're just clumping them all up in one place.
one detention center and children in another.
We're just clumping them all up in one place.
So we are supposed to accept as a solution jailing all these people against their human rights
as long as they're in the same facility,
which also doesn't mean together.
Yeah.
And these chain-linked walls.
Right.
You can call the business that administers these facilities a non-profit
individuals profit from
this business
this is what slavery looks like
it's an institution to store bodies
and profit from them
I feel like this government is going to start
eventually they're going to institute gas chambers
and call them scent rooms
right, aromatherapy
yeah so the company is called Southwest Key gas chambers and call them like scent rooms or something. Right. Right. Aromatherapy.
Yeah.
So the company is called Southwest Key.
They have received over the past decade $1.5 billion in government contracts.
$1.5 billion to store human bodies.
Yes. And when they were evaluated over the past years,
they have racked up a whopping 245 health violations, 78 of which were considered high risk.
You know, the categories include a child who was clearly in pain, who was not given medical care promptly. Another child with a wrist
fracture was not seen by a doctor until three days later. Another child felt ill, was not given any
medical treatment. One employee quit after being told he had to enforce a rule that siblings weren't
allowed to hug. A report in the 90s talks about how one Southwest Key employee flipped the beds of kids who
didn't immediately respond to him and discouraged the kids from contacting lawyers and refused
their right to confidential phone calls.
Yeah, and it didn't give them mandatory field trips to the outside world.
And yes, the guy who runs the company, who is the CEO of this quote nonprofit, makes $1.5 million a year now, which he has tripled from 2013.
So, yeah, it's a business. When Trump was elected president, the private prison industry, like two of the biggest companies,
stocks shot up 30% the next day because, you know, it's a huge business to store human beings.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's funny you shouldn't.
It's a podcast.
We're supposed to be able to talk about this news, and this news will leave you pretty speechless.
It's difficult to look at, and this company has been doing it for a long time.
The way these problems have escalated and accelerated since the Trump presidency is terrifying.
But to suggest that we haven't been up to this and that this is un-American is totally false.
This is so deeply American.
It's incredibly hard to tweet about Kanye you know like kanye and stuff i
know concentration camps going on yeah it's nuts yeah and it's not okay and it's happening it's
actually happening it's real oh man yes it's hard um you know there's questions about whether or not
the image that moved everyone who saw it of a crying girl at the border is really a child being torn away from her
parent like what's the exact story right and those are valid questions to ask yeah is any circumstance
where a child is screaming next to law enforcement officers at our border in terror okay what
explanation for that photo is like no that's fine even the footage from the facilities that are like
that they're letting out they're letting out.
That they're letting out are still so bad.
Yeah.
It's just like, this is what you thought was good enough to show?
I don't know.
Show them where they have walls and blankets.
Well, sir, our walls are actually cages and our blankets are emergency tinfoil.
Well, you know.
Potato cage.
As they say
yeah and a lot of the
imagery that is
coming out is not that
dissimilar from imagery that
happened during the Obama administration
and conservatives are pointing to that
and being like well see and
yeah it's been a problem
for a long time it's been bad
nobody was saying it's not bad it's been a problem for a long time. It's been bad. Nobody was saying it's not bad.
It's just cruel to take that thing that was really bad and be like, and now you experience this by yourself without access to your parents.
And you don't, not only do you not have immediate access to your parents, you don't know if or when you will ever be able to see your parents again.
Yeah.
And that should be the parents' choice.
Right.
That's right.
Oh, man.
Oh, that felt good.
Yeah, how many of the parents down there
do you think are like...
There's one.
Yeah, there's at least one
who's like, oh, damn.
Maybe not even a set of parents,
but one parent is like, you know, all right.
Can you set me back alone?
Look, I traveled with two babies a couple weeks ago.
It's not easy.
No, it isn't easy.
By the end of that, I would have, you know, let the TSA do an extra check on them while I went to the bathroom in peace.
If the TSA offered to babysit at just the right time,
you might say yes.
Or don't.
Don't do it.
I would have tipped them off that he said something
about not packing his own bags or something.
I think he brought too much liquid.
Right.
I mean, maybe I'm oversimplifying.
But this nation was founded by religious weirdos
too weird to be weird in a religiously weird place, who came over here, decided it was theirs, killed everyone that was already here, and then proceeded to take another country and then make that country this country.
And we're really mad.
That is our history.
That's who we are.
We built this nation on free labor.
We stole it from someone else.
We killed everybody who was already here.
We are always moving up from there.
That's what we have to come up from.
Yeah.
It was bad in Obama's era.
It was bad in Bush's.
It was bad in Washington's.
It's always been bad.
We started this bad.
We're evil.
When are we going to look at ourselves and be like,
we just created a space force.
We are the galactic empire.
We're real.
That's so true.
There was a Trump speech last night where they were chanting space force, space force. That's so true. There was a Trump speech last night where they were chanting, space, force, space, force.
I said, so stupid.
Is that why they added a couple more billion dollars to the military budget recently?
Is that what that was for?
For space.
Yeah.
And it may sound like, well, gee, Caitlin, you must hate the stars and stripes.
Gosh, don't you just hate this country?
And I'm stealing this excellent paraphrase from someone out there who, if you saw this too, then actually quote the person who said it.
But this is about a debate between whether or not you see America as a set of ideals or America as an exclusive club.
I want to say it was, I don't know.
I'll get it right.
I'll retweet it.
So look for me on Twitter and I'll retweet it.
But it was really good.
And that's exactly what this is.
Just so the listeners know, I have an American flag fidget spinner in my hand
right now. So don't ever say I'm not a patriot.
But I'm totally fine with it in this instance.
I love so deeply the
set of ideals that this country is,
and I know it's the reality
of its history and how far we have to go to get
from that, and we are sinking
back down into
the dark of who we are. There's so much light
in who we could be, and that's what people are drawn to, and then there's this darkness. We're like an dark of who we are. There's so much light in who we could be.
And that's what people are drawn to.
And then there's this darkness.
We're like an abusive boyfriend who hasn't even done the worst of it yet.
Yeah, we're going to get there.
It's American.
This is American.
This is America.
This is who we are.
It's who we've been.
And if we want to be different, we have to look at it hard and we have to make different
decisions.
And the way we make decisions.
Someone should write a song about that.
Right?
Yeah, this is America. I bet it'd have a really great video. and we have to make different decisions. Someone should write a song about that. Right? Yeah, this America.
I bet it'd have a really great video.
I would watch it like three times a day.
The Supreme Court did something that is moving in the right direction, it would appear.
The Supreme Court has made it-
Has made cops illegal.
Made cops.
They have made cops less able to just use your cell phone to track you, which is basically, I mean, we now live in a society and, you know, this should have been obvious to me since I had a mobile phone, but we live in a society where cops can track you at all times if they want to because our phones do that.
Like we ask them to do that.
And the Supreme Court was just like, oh, yeah, that's kind of dystopian.
We shouldn't be allowed to do that anymore.
So now you need a warrant to access the data that, you know.
A warrant and a password.
That's right.
A thumbprint.
Right.
To say like, okay, their cell phone signal is bouncing off a tower like in this part
of the city or whatever.
So, you know, that's moving in the right direction.
And there are exceptions where the police can say,
oh, this person is an imminent danger to other people
or something like that,
which probably won't be too hard for them
to make that argument.
For sure.
Mr. Police, you could have saved them.
I texted you all the clues.
I mean, it's only a matter of time
until someone updates that movie.
It's an interesting privacy pickle.
Because in theory, like police can follow your car, right?
Your car has so many distinguishing features.
Maybe you put a bumper sticker on your Chevy Nova so everybody knows that that's your Chevy Nova.
I love Porgs.
Sue me.
It's just like, where does that length up where a cop can just observe you getting into that car
and then follow you in that car there's some principle where your cell phone is sort of that
car and like i want bad people to get caught when they do bad shit and also that's super
dystopian to just be able to follow us around all the time and i wish i could trust police
or civic institutions to use that information responsibly. And I don't.
Yeah, exactly.
I really don't.
Especially not right now when we're going all Handmaid's Tale before the fertility crisis.
Like, I feel like not the right time.
Yeah.
And fertility has gone way down in the past couple of decades.
I did see some weird report that the headline was jarring.
And it was like USA Today
like more white people dying than
being born as if it was
terrifying.
That's an acute relief.
I am actively trying
to kill my bloodline. I'm doing my part.
Yeah, let's get this going. I mean I also
saw a headline today that most
people love dogs more than
they love other people and i'm like all
right i gotta tell you that yeah if we were honestly separating puppies from their mothers
at the border oh my god yeah i can't that also white people are having less babies because their
economy is so bad let's like let's focus on the real reasons let's just not scare all white people no everyone's having less babies
it's a lot easier to just not look at let's no come on muppets are having less babies these days
let's horizontally hate each other don't look up yeah all right we're gonna take
another quick break and we'll be right back.
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And we're back, and it's time to check in with Star Wars fans.
They've already checked in with us,
because Brody earlier said Star Wars instead of Star Trek.
And ruined my childhood!
Star Wars instead of Star Trek.
And ruined my childhood!
And certain Star Wars fans were so upset about the movie The Last Jedi.
It really tickles me.
I know, I love it so much.
I love it so much.
They've decided they can do better.
And a guy is trying to raise, I think,
$200 million to remake The Last Jedi.
So cute.
Rian Johnson, the actual director of The Last Jedi, just tweeted,
please, please, please, please actually make this happen.
Please, please, please.
But yeah, so the guy is claiming he's not a men's rights activist.
And to prove this, he says he wanted Kelly Marie Tran to, quote, have a better role.
But his idea of a better role is to make her more like a male movie character.
He's like, she should have been a badass pilot who fought Poe and given him a run for his money instead of the character who I wasn't able to make do whatever I wanted to make her do.
Yeah. So still some toxic masculinity and his denial of being a men's rights activist.
My favorite thing about people who don't like The Last Jedi, never really give you a good, like a concrete reason why.
good like a concrete reason why other than like the casino scene was sort of boring and i'm just like yeah well yeah the prequels were all the worst so like the prequels were just nothing but
casino scenes and like way worse just admit you don't like women just admit that you just want
to see an all pork movie i I get it. Okay. Yes.
So he has created a Kickstarter,
actually not a Kickstarter,
a website,
remake the last Jedi.com.
And he is accepting,
he is accepting donations and $25.
You get a ticket to the movie.
And I saved star Wars t-shirt for a hundred dollars. You can be an extra to the movie. And I saved Star Wars t-shirt.
For $100, you can be an extra in the movie.
So you can pay $100.
Can you imagine?
$100 gets you in to be an extra.
Just picture that day on set.
In a Star Wars movie?
In an official?
That every walking bottle of body spray just converges on set at once. All them it's just a hundred bucks yeah oh man to be a fly on the wall yeah if every extra in the star wars universe was just a man
just a white guy with a beard right uh my favorite thing about this is that these people have no idea
how intellectual property works at all or how movies are.
Let me do it.
Just like give me the exact amount of money that you professionals made to make this movie
with a Disney and backing from LucasArts and all these kind of things.
Just like the best people who make movies and like sound and like CG and we can do all that.
I got a MacBook.
Yeah.
and like CG and we can do all that.
I got a MacBook.
But yeah.
For $100, he is offering to fly anyone in the world to the set of the movie to be an extra in the movie.
I don't think he's thinking this through quite all the way.
But holy shit, he has raised over $85 million
according to the website.
Now, one important thing to note is that the only thing he's requiring is for you to email him how much
you hypothetically would spend cool too so he's taking ious right as yeah and you don't have to
give him any information about yourself or a credit card or anything like that. You're just pledging to help cover the budget for the remake.
Why is he framing this as a remake?
Why wouldn't he just try and make a different movie?
This is definitely a common criticism.
There's a fan edit that's like an hour long that just took out everything everybody hates,
and it's essentially just all the ladies. And Luke. I won won't spoiler but it takes out the luke a lot of luke okay that's
weird it makes luke not die that's stupid yeah yeah the whole thing's really stupid yeah it's
nerds yeah it's the saddest kind of nerds just get over it i'm not sure why this hurts so much
for some people. Me neither.
But it is obviously a deep
and agitating pain that they feel
and I wish for them that that was
healed because The Last Jedi didn't do anything
to you. Me too. It didn't even. It's a movie
you don't control it. Disney
controls it. They're gonna make
a hell of a lot more Star Wars movies
so you'll have a lot more to complain about.
Yeah, enjoy that.
I don't know what you want.
One of my least favorite things,
one of my formerly favorite movie reviewer YouTubes,
this is called Red Letter Media,
and they did a lot of Star Wars breakdowns
that were really interesting.
Harry Potter.
Yeah, Harry Potter 2.
And then when The Force Awakens came out a couple years ago,
they did one on that eventually. And then when The Force Awakens came out a couple years ago, they did one on that eventually.
And then they spent probably like 10 minutes
complaining about there was too much diversity
in Star Wars now.
In space.
In space.
There's not enough white people in space.
Half the characters are aliens.
Why was this ever an issue?
Like, I don't understand at all.
Oh shit, I didn't even know that.
I did really used to enjoy those
reviews yeah i had to unsubscribe and it really does suck because i i did like them a lot up until
that point my in-universe explanation in my head was always just like oh yeah white people came
from alderaan and then got blown up right yeah there Yeah. There you go. That is my favorite
explanation for where
the fuck white people
came from.
And that always
has worked for me.
They really should
just put that
in the next movie.
They really should.
It would solve
everything.
Sorry guys.
It's like oh yeah
there's an Asian planet
there's a black planet
that'd be cool.
Yeah that was
loosely implied
by the Star Wars universe.
Another movie that's going to be triggering the right wing uh snowflakes only triggers they care about her on their ak-47
am i right you cry out of their dead clits what sorry that other caitlin makes me really mad
there's that conservative commentator's last name i forget but her name is caitlin with a k so she's
wrong from the beginning. Right.
But she's the one who did the college graduation picture
with her big old gun. Oh, is that her?
Guns and stuff, yeah. Who like
was on the beach eating Chick-fil-A
and was like, oh. Fuck your pride.
They say no Chick-fil-A during pride.
And drinking lip tears.
Being pride. Lip tears. Does this
trigger you? Triggered
lips. It's so boring.
And it's defiling my name.
There are good Caitlins out there.
She's not every Caitlin.
My younger sister is a Caitlin, who also misspells it.
That's okay.
Not with a K.
My girlfriend, this is not news, my girlfriend approached me last night, apropos of nothing, and just said, I think you spell Caitlyn right.
I think it is the most natural derivative of Catherine.
And then just like the K ones just doesn't feel right.
And then she walked off like, thank you.
She's a keeper.
Thanks, babe.
She's a keeper.
She'd been mulling that in the back of her mind for five years.
A minute later, like, sorry, I was just thinking about that.
Love you, babe.
So Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom comes out this weekend.
Such a good title.
Like, I know I'm going to love it.
This movie's going to be trash.
And I love that self-aware, they just called it Jurassic.
Just put the is in.
Jurassic World is a Fallen Kingdom.
Right.
Instead, they've used a colon.
And it turns out they built Jurassic Park on top of an active volcano.
It's about to erupt.
I think they're going full B-movie.
I think they're going just like full,
not Jerry Seinfeld's B-movie.
I think they're going full,
like we're just in a universe
where things explode for no reason.
Which I'm fine with.
Yeah, it's a blockbuster dumb action thing now.
Yeah, yeah.
So they have to get those dinos off that volcano.
And then all sorts of chicanery ensues.
And apparently they just get into a really muddy Trump allegory where there are multiple Trump stand-ins with bad blonde wigs in the movie.
To be fair, everything is like a Trump allegory.
Everything that was written around two years ago and when people didn't expect Trump to actually be president is coming out now.
That's true.
We're getting a lot of allegories like that.
I'm just like, what if the world was like this?
It's just like, oh no, it's actually worse that's so true yeah this was a timeline of writing a script and making a movie
you can't move fast enough to make satire yeah yeah this was written at a time when it was just
like god could you imagine we all were looking at the new york times page that was like 99% Hill's gonna win.
But so there's even a part where
one of the bad guys with a bad blonde wig
calls the young female hero
who is a paleo veterinarian,
he calls her a nasty woman.
Yeah.
More evidence this was written in 2016 yeah
exactly getting the nail right on the head there guys um yeah so i don't know it's uh also the main
bad dinosaur is uh bought by quote our russian friends like russians buy the bad dinosaur and
the bad dinosaur is introduced with like a bunch of like
blaring white lights behind it
like Trump being introduced at the RNC
so funny
yeah the dinosaur is going
down an elevator
announcing its presidential nomination
really stands like
upright with its knees locked for some reason
dinosaur mouth agape
but a kid mowing a lawn.
Right.
Yeah.
I don't know what they're doing.
It looks like a hot mess that I will excitedly watch.
Oh, yeah, me too.
I don't think there's anything you could do with that series
to rekindle the joy and excitement of watching Jurassic Park
for the first time because it was groundbreaking
in a way that you don't get to break ground again.
Its story wasn't groundbreaking.
Its story was always stupid and derivative.
It's a Spielberg picture.
It's people looking wide-eyed into a camera at something you can't see.
He's a brilliant director, unless you watch his movies twice.
But there's nothing else to wring out of the wonder.
So it's got to be spectacle.
It's going to be big and gross and stupid. And I'm going to see it, and I know it's going to be terrible.
I think Jurassic Park holds up upon multiple viewings, and I have seen Jaws 150 times.
I've watched both Jurassic Park and Jaws.
In the last week, I watched Jaws last night.
I love them.
Really?
Isn't that so good?
Spielberg's just a genius at leaving a plot hole that a truck could drive
through that you simply don't see the first time around uh he's great at leaving things in plain
sight because you're not gonna notice them great reference to his first movie tv movie duel oh well
done yeah uh reaching back so uh Jeff Goldblum makes an appearance here and says too many red
lines have been crossed and our home has, in fundamental ways,
been polluted by avarice and political megalomania.
And our writer, Jay McDuff, was like, wait, what?
What political megalomania?
That doesn't reference anything that happened in the movie.
That's just a quote directly about America.
It's just Jeff Goldblum.
They just put the camera on him on set
and decided to use the footage.
He's playing piano in that camera as well.
His beard is looking lush and fabulous.
Talk about fictional characters everybody wants to fuck.
Yes, yes.
Dr. Ian Malcolm.
Yes.
Yeah, so not to say blockbuster movies shouldn't shit all over Trump,
but let's do it better than this, maybe.
I mean, the fun part of the plot of Jurassic Park
the first time was this wonder
and wanting to reconnect with something
that brought you wonder
and then that having unintended consequences.
Those are themes still worth exploring.
You don't have to go straight to,
if you know your movie's gonna be released
two years after you write it,
maybe don't go for the direct topical reference.
You still have this sort of larger theme to draw on.
Like, not all of your impulses are good.
That you can be really tempted
by something that looks like it might be fun,
but then it is Donald Trump.
You see what I mean?
Like, you have it right there.
It was right there in your original message.
Yeah, dinosaurs.
We like dinosaurs.
That's it.
Keep it there.
And there's also a controversy, right,
about one of the characters
is supposed to be a lesbian character, and then they cut a line or something the main character
uh the oh she's the main paleo uh the new laura dern yeah the new laura dern uh actually more
the new sam neill uh is a young woman who i think was a lesbian in the original,
like they shot the shooting script,
and then they cut that quote for the sake of time.
To be, I mean, not to be fair,
I think representation is extremely important,
but from what I read, the line that they cut wasn't very good.
The line was, I think she was read the line that they cut wasn't very good. Like the line was
I think she like
was in the line
she was like
sort of hitting on
Chris Pratt
of just like
I'm not into dudes
but like
maybe.
I think that's what it was.
As lady and ladies
that's fair honestly
with the Chris Pratt
I get it.
Fine that they cut that
I don't care.
Right.
I mean
as a big old boosh eater,
I can say
fucking thank you.
I would love to see
the kind of representation
in media
where it's like
being a lesbian
or being a gay person
or being whatever
isn't your whole character.
Right.
Yeah.
It's not like Chris Pratt
needed a line where it's like,
I'm not into dudes,
but maybe you, Brody,
I would bone down with.
We just assume
everybody's straight.
It's not that big a deal if the character
is a lesbian and doesn't fucking tell you
it's a cool backstory to have
I think that's awesome
yeah no one said that
Vekman in the new Ghostbusters was a
lesbian but she's become an icon anyway
yeah cause you don't have to
you can look at me and know if I
have to tell you then you're not
gonna get it even if I did.
Oh, that hetero woman's wearing a great jean jacket.
The girlfriend and I joke about that all the time, that people think that we're just a very friendly professor-student combo.
Is it time for...
She's my TA.
Tits and ass.
There it is.
I believe it is time for a very brief World Cup date.
Do you believe it's time?
Oh, that was really quick.
That was very brief.
That's the update, everybody.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Super Producer Doug.
Not only is Miles out, but Super producer Nick Stumpf is also out
So we have sitting in for him
Super producer Doug
I miss you Miles, I miss you Nick
But Doug, you're doing great
And Miles, your chair is very comfortable
I'm happy to help anytime you want to go away
So Nigeria beat Iceland this morning
2-0
Which Nigeria lost to Croatia to nothing.
So this is all to, by the transitive property, suggests that Croatia is really fucking good
because they also beat Argentina 3-0 yesterday.
Everyone was like, well, shit, Argentina's whole World Cup is over.
But the fact that Nigeria won means that Argentina is still alive.
And also, I'm glad that Nigeria is still alive
because Nigeria has dope uniforms and travel outfits.
That's what I pay attention to.
And Brazil beat Costa Rica 2-0.
That has been World Cup date.
No, I don't have anything else.
Are you guys watching the World Cup?
I haven't really watched the World Cup,
but I have been watching some memes.
I will retweet my favorite meme.
When Mexico won, when they won,
I think they beat Germany 1-0.
Yes, they did.
There was this meme of just like this old Mexican grandma
who is, she's watching World Cup,
and as the TV is like showing all the players,
she blesses all of them.
Yeah.
It's doing the like,
like all sports fans know the,
it's during the national anthem
and it's like a closeup shot on one face,
then track to the side,
closeup shot on the next face.
And like each time it stops,
she just does the sign of the cross on their head
as if the shot is specifically for her to bless them.
Like it's just like, it's so beautiful.
And they won.
Yeah.
And the conveyor belt of papal blessings worked and they defeated Germany.
The godless Germans.
All right.
It is time for Bloid Watch.
Bloid Watch.
Nice.
What's Bloid up to?
So one just big overarching Bloid story is that David Peckar, a guy who we talk about every time we talk about the tabloids because he is the main publisher of American Media Inc.
AMI.
They publish, I'd say, like six of the eight main tabloids that you see.
They publish The Globe.
They publish The National Enquirer, Us Weekly.
I think OK and Life and Style are the only ones that they don't publish.
But he is also, in addition to running this whole tabloid behemoth, he is one of Donald
Trump's best friends. And there was a conspicuous absence of any stories about Donald Trump during the presidential
election.
The only stories you would see about him appeared to have been written by him.
Not only were they very complimentary of Donald Trump, but they were also written in his voice.
They would be like, this is amazing.
He's the best.
Most amazing thing. Best thing. Donald Trump had the best sex with the most women all the
time and when specifically like the headlines were filled with shitting on
Hillary Clinton also in Donald Trump's voice and just using like his exact
language anyways we just found out because of the raid on michael cohen's things that uh american media inc was
sending headlines to michael cohen before publishing them for approval it was not an
accident that they were written in his voice they were essentially written in his voice right like
by his people um so that's just something to keep in mind. I know you guys have been making all of
your political decisions based on the headlines you see in the grocery mart checkout aisle.
So just maybe pump the brakes on that a little bit.
It's like nobody believes the Inquirer. But when the Inquirer puts out her emails 30 million times
on every cover, then, you know, it's forced to become part of a conversation, even if the
conversation is like,
that's ridiculous. Why are you talking about her emails? As soon as that sentence comes out,
it's done. That's the whole point of tabloids. We know they aren't true. And yet that seed
still germinates while we're trying to not buy candy. Yeah. There's so many studies about how headlines work where even just seeing like I remember one of the big studies was about when Karl Rove did a robocall about how John McCain had an illegitimate daughter.
And when he was in a primary election against George W. Bush.
And then there was a huge retraction the next day.
But all anybody remembered was something
about him having an illegitimate daughter.
I forget who told me that or what.
We don't remember anything about where we heard
the information or what the context was.
All we remember is the little chunk of sticky information
that sticks in our head.
Like a brain tumor.
Right.
Exactly.
Otherwise, what did you guys see?
We always spend a little time kind of scanning the bloids on Friday morning.
I have some Carrie Underwood non-news.
It says, we almost didn't make it.
How faith saved her marriage.
They're still talking about her falling down and hurting her face. And it's more pictures of her looking identical to how she looked before she fell down. So that story still continues to baffle me. If anybody can find a picture where she doesn't look completely exactly as perfect as she did before she fell down. Please let us know.
She's a talented woman.
And I understand how important someone's image is to their professional career in entertainment.
But yeah, she hurt her.
We're fine.
People fall down.
She might even have a scar.
Maybe you can even see it.
I'm pretty sure she's still talented.
That's why we started talking about her.
It's just like, yeah, but how does it affect her talent?
The part we like about, oh, you just wanted, did you want to fuck where that scar was?
Is that why you're upset?
You wanted to fuck the part of her face that now has a scar?
Why do we?
I don't know if it's self-imposed or if she's just getting all the inbound inquiries as to interviews and she's just kind of focused on it or if they're just focused on it. there is an arrow pointing to her completely flat, normal human stomach that does have a little stamp of approval
that says, palace confirms.
And then when you read the article,
they have done no such thing.
Also, it's a boy and a girl.
We have already gendered the two babies
that are at this point like fish zygotes or something.
What do you guys learn on your Lloyd watch?
Brody, take it, baby.
I mean, I really don't have, like, news.
There's really just, like, a lot of pictures in here of, like,
Roseanne Barr crying, having a breakdown, which is great.
Feels good, doesn't it?
It kind of does.
I don't want it to, but I do.
There's also a really funny picture in here of Mel Gibson.
He has a pizza that he took out now, and the caption is just like,
oh, look at this pudgy little pizza boy
i'm like that's the kind of tabloids i like it's just a burn book
middle school burn book that's exactly what it is that's what i've found in the uh in the
inquirer from i don't know it doesn't matter uh i mentioned that top gun was sort of a formative
movie in my youth apparently uh kelly mcgillis, who was the heartthrob of Top Gun, released, I want to say, in like 1986?
Yes.
Apparently, she's aged something appallingly like 22 years.
Pass me the bucket.
I got to throw up.
I got to throw up.
Fucking disgusting.
It's almost like her body changed over time.
I can't believe I ever had a book.
Tom Cruise has stayed in the public landline in a way that Kelly McGillis has haven't.
And even Tom Cruise at this point in his life just made an entire movie about how he's getting too old for this shit.
Yeah, totally.
The most recent Mission Impossible, the trailer is just him falling down.
Just falling and falling and falling.
Like, yeah, we're all older.
So the Inquirer decided to let us know, these days the stout star looks to be bursting at the seams.
I'm just going to breeze right through this
because there are a lot of fat people puns that are pretty exciting.
You've never heard some of these sick burns.
This is some pretty original material they're firing up with.
One-time Top Gun sex pot Kelly McGillis
has been grounded by her massive payload.
Ha! Got her!
Wow. Boom.
Let's see.
The other stars are gearing up to be in the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 blockbuster,
but not her.
She's battled some booze and drug addiction, and now she's a compulsive eater.
Girl, take care of yourself.
Do what you need.
Hollywood is a tough town.
I would drink and eat pills about two sometimes.
Can you handle that?
Seriously.
And honestly, eating's good.
The 5'10 star.
5'10, 250. I'm 6'1. I was 230 earlier this year. and honestly eating's good uh the five foot ten star five foot ten two fifty i'm six one
i was 230 earlier this year that's like a normal human yeah body that's a normal human who might
say something like i don't know i could lose 15 pounds yeah it's just not she's five fucking ten
yeah it's just that's a normal amount of human poundage just describing my mom uh she's uh
kelly's inability to get back in shape.
Torpedo talks to bring her back for the follow-up film.
Back into shape.
Baby, she's like 50 or something.
She's in 50 shape.
She hasn't been in a movie in like, what, 30 years or something.
It's a shame.
An insider spilled of the 60-year-old star.
She was a huge part of the original film.
Now she's just huge.
Well she hasn't been
sleeping in a stem cell chamber
for the last 30 years like Tom Cruise has.
Yeah she doesn't suckle the stem cells of young goats
or whatever.
And just waited on hand and foot
by slaves. By David
Muscat. By young slaves.
Also Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston still not together guys. By slaves. By young slaves.
Also, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston,
still not together, guys.
Despite what all the headlines suggest,
they are not getting back together.
I don't think they've even seen each other.
But they will show you pictures of them standing next to each other from 10 years ago.
I can't believe that's still a thing on the tabloids.
It's official, they're getting married.
Yeah, I think it's just go with what worked.
I feel like when both of them finally die,
it's just like, oh, will Jen be buried next to...
Right, exactly.
All right.
Can you imagine being defined by the relationships you had
either in the 90s or in your 20s?
Take your pick.
Right?
If that's all anybody talked to you.
Like you tried with your
like you go on to
huge accomplishments
and still all that
anybody talks about
is like is Caitlin
still gonna fuck Kevin?
I don't know.
Sorry Kevin.
Hi.
Good to talk to you.
Also if anybody can find
a picture of David Peck
or shirtless
we should spread that around.
Should we?
Is that responsible journalism?
That is.
It's wildly responsible.
Show us some hard pecs.
Yeah, show us those pecs.
Unless he's like super ripped and hot,
which I don't think he is.
I don't know.
Either way, let's just put it out there.
Yeah, I want to see it.
All right, guys.
It has been a pleasure having you both here.
We have come to the end of the show.
Brody, where can people find you, follow you
you can follow me on twitter
at aobrobro
it's the only thing that matters I guess
just in a general sense
it's the only thing I check regularly
you can email me
and we also like to
ask our guests
what's a tweet that you've enjoyed
of late I feel like
I kind of burned it on that
abuela.
The abuela is great. People should
check out the abuela. We'll link to it
in the footnotes.
Caitlin. Yes. It has been
a goddamn pleasure having you
as my co-host. What a treat.
Thank you. The Zeitgang is always
so kind to me when I appear. I appreciate each and every one of you. To those of you who What a treat. episode is others. It's basically the strongest words I've ever gotten. So thank you so much.
Even if you've hated my grating voice, trust me,
I do too. So I sympathize. I'm
more likely to agree with what you have to say than a compliment.
So I get it.
But it's always a pleasure to be here.
Thank you so very much. Where can people find you?
At RobotCaitlin on Twitter,
at CaitlinIsTall on Instagram, and at
CaitlinGillComedy.com. Plus, on June
28th, Z Psych Gang in Los Angeles
can find me at the Hollywood Improv Lab
for Caitlin Gill's Lab Oratory,
my monthly exploration into stand-up
comedy goodness. Lab Oratory, huh?
I know, it's a good pun, right? It is a great pun.
Build a show around the pun. There it is.
Do you have a tweet that you want to share with
people that's good?
There are some gems lately.
Yes, sorry. Today's goal is to not look
at the news i will do that by cutting off my hands that's marlena regrez i really dug that one i like
that a lot um the other thing i like i can't tell you about but look up any um synchronized nba i
think there's a whole twitter account for synchronized like nba players are just always uh
commonly very synchronized in their movements and it is fun to watch.
I love those.
When they all take off at the same time.
There's a really interesting study that looked at
the number of times NBA teams touch
each other. Because you know
when they're shooting free throws, even when they
miss, they all touch hands almost
obligatorily. It's just like, well, we all
have to do this now. They found
that the Golden State Warriors,
like three years ago,
were the team that touched each other the most
right before they just rocketed.
Yeah.
And human touch, very important, guys.
Locks everybody in together.
I'm going to touch both of your hands as we say goodbye.
This feels weird and I'm clammy.
But thank you.
Thank you so much.
I am incredibly clammy always.
A tweet that I liked is from Demia Did You eBay.
He, quote, I hereby move that we stop calling Jesse Plemons
Meth Damon slash Budget Matt Damon
and instead demote Matt Damon to Messy Plemons.
It needs to happen.
You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.
You can find us at daily
zeitgeist on twitter 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 uh where we link
off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out
on oh my god there's no miles what are we gonna? I'll tell you what we're going to do.
Super producer Ana Hosnier has a song for us to ride out on.
Holy crap, I just started watching Synchronized NBA, and it is wild.
Isn't it incredible?
It is so satisfying.
It feels really good.
It's the Matrix.
Wow.
All right, sorry to come off so hot.
Okay, so this song, it's it's called i love california by this band become
honcho and they're out of san francisco and they're this great band i went to college
with the lead singer and potentially other members and it's a great song and uh they
refer to themselves as forest surf rock so i like it and if you love california you're gonna love this song
the lead singer shannon did a lot of spoken word in college so she kind of mixed that in and it's
done well it's not done in that way where you're like it's done well all right so enjoy this song
uh all right that's gonna do it for this week we will be back on monday
for more daily zeitgeist talk to you guys then bye so Along the highway
Cruising with the game again
We are another getaway
We are the best friends
And you are better than you think
Wish you could see what I can't see
You are better than you think
Wish you could see what I can't see
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Hugging the one like a Bible and smoking all the while
The girls descended down from the clouds of San Francisco
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Toasting the coast and beyond
And the sand they stood on was fucking bright
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I'd fall for it harder in the full moon
Meet me by the creek, I'll be
there all day
Waitin' in
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