The Daily Zeitgeist - The WeekTrend Report 9/5: Burning Man, Timothee Chalamet, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, Jimmy Buffet
Episode Date: September 5, 2023In this edition of The WeekTrend Report, Jack and Miles discuss the Burning Man fiasco, Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner hard launching their relationship, prison Swifties (and other Taylor news), a... new fight video from a Morgan Wallen concert, and the passing of Jimmy Buffet and other rock stars!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this long week trend, Labor Day week trend
episode. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, he back. Well, well well well
wellachy wellachy wellachy
or maybe more appropriately I should say
buongiorno mi amici
it's been a wonderful
time in Puglia
and now I'm back
I'm back
doing great
how was it?
your accent sounds completely authentic I mean thank you so much I'm back. I'm back. Doing great. How was it? It was great.
Your accent sounds completely authentic.
I mean, thank you so much.
I would say that, you know,
when you're spending time in what they call the heel of the boot of Italy,
little did I realize that I would find myself
being healed in a spiritual sense
from the beauty of the sun and food.
I just, oh, I'm back in the U.S.
In the heel of the boot, healed by the butte.
Thank you.
Thank you.
See, this is why I needed to come back, because I'm only half a brain without you.
Well, I'm Jack O'Brien.
That is Miles Gray.
See?
He's back from his journey.
Journeys abroad.
Yes. He will be pronouncing selective words differently.
Um, but not acknowledging that.
Thank you for saying differently.
Cause before you said in an insufferable, obnoxious way, but yes, you made a euphemistic
version.
I will be doing it a little bit differently.
Yes.
See, see, see.
Um, Fettuccine.
it a little bit differently yes see see see um fettuccine i believe you're gonna find a way to keep mentioning fettuccine for some reason um anyways uh this is this is the episode where we
get back uh tell you what trended over the long weekend yeah um oh what a what a long weekend what a long weekend we we had burning man we had uh some
rips to some real ones we had uh taylor swift owning the uh well first of all only owning the
uh prison yard yeah i was gonna say yeah and then owning the the studio leads uh a bunch of stuff
but before we get to any of it, Miles,
we do like to let our guests get to know us a little bit better
and tell them something that we think is overrated, underrated.
You want to kick us off with something you think is overrated?
Sure.
And this is apropos of nothing,
but I will say something that is overrated is focaccia genovese.
Because, you know, in the U.S., what we understand as focaccia is actually it's from Genova.
And it's the kind of focaccia you see at most Italian restaurants.
But as I spent time in Puglia, specifically in Bari, I realized that focaccia Barese is actually a superior focaccia.
It's doughier.
It's denser. It has way more olive oil in it like
if you have it wrapped up in a piece of paper it looks like that's like a sponge dude like when
homer had to gain all that weight and dr nick's like if you rub it on paper and it goes clear
it's good that is what that was and it was delicious uh and it's funny because a local was telling me breaking down how it's
apparently a very contentious thing in italy about who who got the good focaccia and who
you can say that now that you're no longer there you can yeah yeah oh no gotcha is uh
focaccio is that i believe how it's pronounced focaccia yes. Yes. Yes. Uh, but it's been, it's, it was,
I can't,
I can't stop thinking about it.
And I had,
I had all these sandwiches on it.
The amount of the sandwich game again,
you know,
it's,
uh,
what'd you put?
I don't know where to start.
Oh man.
I had one with,
uh,
you know,
as the Americans say,
Gabagool,
but Capacolo,
uh,
with some,
uh,
olive tapenade,
a bit of stracciatella cheese,
you know, rocket,
and some olive oil,
and it was fantastic.
I also had,
and this has nothing to do with my overrated,
but I said one of the best pastas
I ever had in my life.
It was a pistachio cream
with like crushed red peppers
with like tuna tartare on top
because you're by the sea in Puglia.
You simply must.
Tuna as a as a
stray ingredient underrated uh as far as i'm concerned when you go to the old country they
know how to do it over there absolutely absolutely so i will say sorry to genova you know the city
that gave us christopher columbus but not only is that man overrated but so is the focaccia. Wow. Yeah.
All right.
My overrated is knowing the words to songs that I've been singing for years. I don't know what I thought the lyrics to Hard Knock Life were, just that I thought the first part was...
It's a hard knock life for us.
For us.
Yeah.
You know, it's like...
I always thought it was steady something something
um but i've just been singing that song since it came out in my head out loud and just phonetically
and it just came up again because my kids are obsessed with it because it popped up in the Ninjago movie.
More on that later.
And they were like, what are the words?
They're clearly not the thing that you're kind of slurring through.
What are you saying?
And the lyrics are very simple.
It's like instead of also very dark instead of like kisses, we get kicks.
Yeah, instead of treated,
you get tricked.
Instead of kisses,
you get kicked.
We get kicked.
They're very simple.
Make total sense.
I prefer the blur of syllables
that I had going for years.
There's something...
Sing it for me.
Just give me your amorphous version.
Instead of you, man.
Instead of sinning,
we get sick. Instead of sinning, we get... Sing it for me. Just give me your amorphous version. I don't know.
I can't even do it now because I don't know what I thought it was,
but it was way off.
And there's something,
I feel like most lyrics are like that for me.
They are just,
I learned them phonetically and did not think about anything about like what was
intended what they were trying to say right right right the feeling of the syllables and uh yeah
that's like again i always break like so many rap songs are like that for me too until like you know
because some back in the day some rappers had the fucking lyrics in the liner notes if you bought
the cds other times you were
like i don't know what the fuck this is and you would go on like a janky internet site and get
like the wrong version too so i was definitely doing syllable screaming the one i always think
about too is and i've mentioned in the show is that fallout boy song sugar we're going down where
i'm like yeah like that that's easier in my mind to sing than what the actual lyrics are so yeah yeah that
but like that one i think is a famous famously like people are like i don't really didn't know
what that was for a while but like hard knock life like that's very straightforward my brain had to
do work to not know what they what those young children were saying right um but maybe i just
didn't want to know that they were getting kicked instead of
kisses oh yeah you're protecting yourself i was protecting myself from the horror yeah delicate
little baby um what uh what's something you think is underrated underrated and i've actually been
thinking about this a lot since you were talking about how you like to do something that makes you
uncomfortable a lot that if you if you stay in your comfort zone too long, you feel like you begin to like, you have to fight the inertia of comfort.
Yes.
Break the inertia of comfort.
And as somebody who, for the first time, took their young baby, you know, traveled as a family on a plane, Hermaski and I decided, yeah, let's try a transatlantic flight for the first flight ever we do with a six seven month
old uh it was very at times very uncomfortable or at times you know i had a lot of things in
my mind about how difficult i thought it would be and just persevering through gave me such a
deeper like appreciation for not only like her majesty and you know the geist child but also just being able
to trust myself in situations like that too or you're like oh this is gonna be a nightmare and
i'm gonna probably just break down i'm gonna be on my knees in the streets of italy just
not being able to handle anything uh and i just like i feel so much more confident and i really
like just i don't know i came back with such a deeper appreciation of
many things not just like our family unit but just like being home and like the shit that
being home offers me so uh i have to say i have to credit you jack for saying that because i really
i've been thinking a lot about you saying that about not about challenging yourself to do
something that not it doesn't have to be necessarily being like, you know, terrifyingly uncomfortable,
but just to move outside of your comfort zone in any way,
be it big or small,
because it's true.
It really does.
It does pay off in the end.
So yeah,
got to say massively underrated for something that in our minds,
I think we overrate pretty seriously.
I'm wearing underwear made of out of SOS pads.
That's how I approach it is just yeah
yeah i was like physical and then a shirt made of my own hair uh that just it's not oh that's
what that is yeah yeah uh okay so all right brian i do owe you 20 bucks i thought it was i thought
it was like a mohair mesh marina you were doing like a jamaican kind
of thing but that is super impressive that you guys were able to travel internationally with
the geist child such a young child uh yeah that's and shout out to europe or especially italian
culture for loving a baby like on site wow because you know in the u.s a lot of times we're like oh
babe fuck like it's
gonna fuck my vibes up because i'm on a conference call right now your baby's going to be crying on
the background of my conference call you're bringing your baby into this sharky's mexican
cantina right now i'm trying to do something serious but yeah like in italy man it's like
the way people stop you on the street and just like, oh, que bello, bambino.
They, it, it also made me much, I don't know, like I just appreciated life more and the idea of community much more.
So overall, fantastic.
Fantastic.
You do vacations, right, man.
You really like come back from your vacations with like a new view on the world.
It's underrated how great, how great you are at vacations.
I don't, yeah, it's, it's that,'s that or just you know by virtue of just trying new things like and i i guess i try to always really
find that in whatever you do because those are like the real memorable things you bring back
from travel like obviously seeing new things but if you can add to your your worldview and come
back a slightly different person, an improved person, then
I feel like then you get the most out of what you do.
Even if you're taking a trip to somewhere you've been already.
Again, that's why credit to you for like of really leaning into the unknown and the discomfort
because that's truly where the growth is.
It's not in comfort.
The growth is in the discomfort because hence growing pains.
Tell you one place that isn't fond of kids joshua tree
i feel like that we went we went there for like i think it was new year's my wife and our two kids
and we're just like sitting there playing chess like i thought being very like you know quiet
respectful but man people were just like what the fuck is this
oh that's yeah i think there's just i think there's just something like about sometimes
when americans are on when we go on vacation it's like to escape the shitty like hellscape of the
toil of our work lives yeah and so like you really want to expect this like very sanitized or like
very specific environment in order to achieve that.
And sometimes you completely nullify the rights of children to exist in your presence.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is not good.
Not good.
For my underrated, I guess the Ninjago movie.
Oh.
It's not good, but it's like there's a whole different type of like movie experience that
doesn't really like, there's not a way to research it.
There's not like, it's not represented in critical analysis.
I can't go to Metacritic and be like, yeah, but like, if I'm watching with my kids, what's
the, what's the score.
Right.
But, um, it's truly about like how much my kids enjoy it and how I feel about them
enjoying it.
Like if they enjoy it,
but it's a bunch of like nonsense and violence,
I'm not going to be enjoying it that much,
but when they love it and it's because it like gets them,
you know?
Right,
right,
right.
And it's like making wordplay jokes.
Like,
I don't know what Lego movies do a good,
do a good job not to be like so legos this
massive trillion dollar corporation shout out to the underrated yeah um the danish hit makers
yeah i am curious to hear like what what are people with young kids like methods for finding
out about like media that they fuck with that they can like watch with their kids
like the there's this website common sense media that tells you like this is probably like even
though it's pg-13 you're probably all right watching this one at like age 11 with your kids
right you know uh but i feel like it also has like some christian values bias in there so i'm wondering what do people use
is there like a good reddit for this shit right well i mean what so like what would you what's an
ideal movie review that is usable for you as a parent like aside from being like wow that's like
great you know like the metacritic or adult perspective review like what are kind of things
that like what are the degrees or categories you're looking for i mean i guess it's just like laughter like number of laughs
of from a seven-year-old yeah yeah age group right we also we also went to the hollywood
bowl for return of the jedi uh oh the live screening or live where they like the orchestra
plays the music along with the movie which was very cool um did
not appreciate how much classical music is in just all movies uh but like that those movies in
particular like in those george lucas movies um it is a wild experience to be able to watch as like
people's like nerd boners go up because like they give out these like
lightsabers or you're like you have to buy them i guess and like when han solo comes on screen for
the first time it's like zing like all they go up and they're like straight in the air yeah but
that was cool because like you know my seven- year old, it thinks he discovered star Wars,
you know?
So on one,
on the one hand,
it's like pretty cool.
On the other hand,
it's like a little disillusioning.
Um,
but it was,
it was a blast.
He found his,
he found his people.
He found his people.
That's star Wars show.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's take a,
let's take a quick break.
Okay.
And we will come back and we'll talk about,
uh, some of the things that were trending over the weekend.
A lot of music.
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We are.
And we are going to keep with the story that you were in italy
and leave out the thing about how you were stranded at burning man um yeah yeah i had to
rush back to get in there and get in there to the to black rock city you know yeah it's been
everywhere turns out reddit does work uh in europe so i was able to see a lot of interesting video posts from abroad
uh like the burning man not i guess debacle just nature doing its thing yeah yeah so what like why
do you think this took people by like so i feel like it's a lot of schadenfreude oh yeah people
are like i want to see the people who go to burning man suffer
and a lot a lot of the viral posts were like people being like as bad as this must be for
them it's not as bad as being stuck in conversations with them about burning man i want to step in here
and say i enjoy hearing from people who go to burning man about burning man i think it's a weird
experience that i have never and probably will never experience but like it hey don't speak too
soon it can be interesting to hear those stories i love hearing from michael swain about his burning
man adventures yeah i like my dad because you know, he, he used to hang out with some OG burners. I just
remember in the eighties, like when my dad's friends would like come back and like always
talk about it. And I just like the way the conversation was, it's like, I never understood
what they were talking about. And my dad's like, it's for adults. It's like an adult thing. And I'm
like, what, but why did, why does he have all these, like, what are the, all these pictures
of this interesting clothing? But the culture of it seems like it's just taken like it's like anything you hear those people talk
about how it's just changed over the years and as it became more mainstream just sort of began to
draw a different kind of of uh participant like chris rock um yeah who didn't have too good of a
time low i feel like it makes sense as a DJ.
Chris Rock, you know, it's like when Diddy went
a few years ago, that's when I think a lot of people were like,
oh no, okay.
Here we go. Puff Daddy's there.
I guess this is something else now.
Do we think that we found
out that Chris Rock was there because
would that have been
a thing that we didn't know about
but for the whole place turning into a pot of mud that everybody had to, like, escape from?
I don't know.
You know, I mean, I feel like you always, like, all those websites typically do, like, a rundown of, like, here's who went to Burning Man this year.
Especially as it became, like, kind of celebrity-focused.
Yeah, I guess I just don't usually care.
Not just the festival, but celebrities became focused.
Right, right. And I think in this version,
I think it's interesting
because I think it's a good
example of someone having the rich guy
freakouts. Because
the way Diplo was apparently
Chris Rock was
so frightened, apparently, as
things began to devolve.
He hitched a ride back in a
fan's truck. Bea mista get me
out of here i gotta go and he was saying things like he thought potentially that again it could
be obviously hyperbolic he's a comedian that like it could be devolve into just cannibalism and chaos
or that sounded like realistically thought maybe people were gonna like run up on their camp and
like take stuff which is like very odd because if there's one thing I know about burning,
man,
it's like,
that doesn't seem like the norm.
It sounds like all about like sharing,
you know what I mean?
And like,
you know,
relying on other people and being able to,
you know,
have community.
But for him,
I think he was like,
the pores are going to overrun our camp.
Get me out of here.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Anyways, glad that most people seem to have gotten out of there safely um like the like the thing that another thing that went viral from
burning man is like the sex plane thing i don't know it's just it is hard for me to like differentiate
what is i'm sorry what is the sex? There was like a plane that was basically
an attraction where you could book it
and it would take you up
into the air
and it was like a tiny
plane with just a mattress
and some red sheets and
shit in the back and then you could have
sex in... You could join the Mile
High Club, which
I've never
not interested in this for so many reasons but um people were talking about that on on twitter uh
and i feel like when you actually looked like who was writing about it it was like a lot of like
british uh conservative tabloids and stuff like that.
So it's just differentiating the schadenfreude of
the
conservatives who are like, and this is what
you get hippies for
doing this stuff. And then
people who I would agree
who I'm
more in line with that it's like,
God, if Elon Musk had been swallowed
by the mud there, that would have
been wonderful.
I'm still just hung up on this sex plane.
Is the pilot discreet?
Is he taking peeks back there?
Have you ever been on a tiny plane?
I've been on exactly one tiny plane.
I've seen like videos of people like on a single engine plane and it looks like it's there is no like
you're just fucking right behind the van yeah it's like a van with wings is basically so i
maybe they put up like a a separator a divider but it's pilot co-pilot and then couple having sex in a pretty like what what is essentially the size of like a a tent so okay well
yeah teach their own the the person who talked about it was like yeah they were discreet they
were great i made a lot of like you know they we didn't land until we reached altitude or a lot of like orgasm puns right right right it was fun it's also like the
a lot of the people like they look like the people from the real sex documentaries oh yeah
documentaries like it feels like this is where a lot of those people and their uh their descendants
i have gone yeah where do i in my mind i'm like that just sounds so
unpleasurable for me personally to be in a single engine plane with like a two-person audience uh
but hey again we're all wired differently so if you'd like to get your rocks off in a cessna i'm
sorry a sexna you know go do your thing go do your thing. All right.
Timothy Chalamet and Kylie
Jenner.
What?
Timothy Chalamet and Kylie Irving
are hard launching their relationship
at the Beyonce show.
Man, it was...
There's been so
much rumor about how Timothy Chalamet
and Kylie Jenner have been discreet, but I like all this. There's been so much rumor about how Timothy Chalamet and Kylie Jenner have been like, you know, they're discreet, but I guess not really just going to each other's houses and limousines and leaving or whatever.
But, you know, the Beyonce birthday show happened.
Diana Ross saying happy birthday to her.
I was unable to go due to jet lag, but it looked fantastic.
But yeah, apparently Timothy Chalamet and Kylieylie jenner just you know having a good old
time making out i was more impressed with that timothy chalamet just smoking a cigarette in the
sofa arena just like off in the vip area i was like wow this guy's he's guys really edgy with
his ciggies i like it that is the people are doing that again i know that's what i was struck by
in you know in in this weird fucking 90s brain way i
was like oh timothy chalamet is hot he's smoking cigarettes like and i feel like maybe i wonder if
that's what kylie jenner's into she's like he smokes cigarettes like some 90s scumbag it's so
cool his breath stinks like marlboro reds yeah i guess he spends probably a lot of time in Europe
where it's still
how's the cigarette smoking in
10 out of 10
they blow it right around your baby
they don't care
and I don't either
in my mind I'm like well this ain't everyday
yeah in a way like
it's funny like someone with a cigarette
in their mouth will come up to a baby
like it's like flapping in their lips like oh bambino bambino and i'm like bambino but please
don't want to have any kind of copd or something please just keep the cigarettes away but anyway
it was fine wow 10 out of 10 yeah uh all right uh taylor swift that so a couple taylor swift stories yeah the weekend
um this article from the new yorker went viral written by someone who's in jail for murder uh
who i'll just read the opening sentence the first time i heard about taylor swift i was in a los
angeles county jail waiting to be sent to prison for murder um and yeah it's you know it it's
interesting like you know the the access to media that he has in prison is a lot of just you know
like a radio station or like good morning america you know like one of the net network television
stations and so like he kind of learns about her and hears her music that way and then one of the network television stations.
And so he kind of learns about her and hears her music that way. And then
there's like a MP3
trading scene
and
people who smuggle in
boomboxes and CDs
and someone smuggles in
her new album for
him for
his birthday. And it's just a cool he
writes eloquently about like that relationship that you can have with something that like
represents home or like normalcy and right um like i don't know have you ever had that where
you're like homesick or like traveling and then it like you're just devouring something that
reminds you of home when i would be in japan as a kid because like if i wasn't in school like i i
was in japan to like be with my family there and in like in the mid 90s and shit there was not a
lot of like american tv you could just get on like normal like because my my my grandma and uncle
they didn't have cable or anything so i was watching whatever the fuck was on but late at night you could get beverly hills 90210 or csi
miami and i was on that shit every night from like midnight to fucking 230 watching that shit
because it was like the one little shred of american culture but i never fucked with 90210
till i was in japan because that was like just some home word
shit i could like stare at and i was all over that yeah i i do wonder like people talk a lot
about how like mcdonald's and other countries are much better than the mcdonald's in the u.s and i
think that's definitely true but i also think you like appreciate the mcdonald's in another country
more because it is that like tread of home jack like
that tread of normalcy when i was in when i was in body i went to mcdonald's did you and oh yeah
because i'm look i'm i'm nasty with mcdonald's all right i've like i can't i can't help it
something's wrong with me and even their majesty majesty is like, do we really have,
we're in Italy.
I'm like,
I just have to see what they have.
That's different.
And they have like big Macs that are with like the chicken,
like chicken patties and shit.
Like you get a double stack McChicken sandwich.
I was like,
okay,
these are all ingredients I know,
but they have a pistachio McFlurry.
Oh,
M God.
I,
it was,
it was delicious.
And that was like the one different thing I had to get just to try it.
And it was,
yeah,
it was different.
They take their food seriously.
You know,
what can I say?
Yeah.
There's a,
um,
there's a good section where he like writes about how he's like making
friends in the prison yard who are like clowning him for liking Taylor Swift.
But then they eventually come clean that they were clowning him for liking taylor swift but then they eventually come clean that
they were clowning him for liking i think it was red because i thought it was like a whack like
pop departure from her oh shit dude hamster swifters okay yeah i love that that's just
just like yeah no like i almost got beat up because i liked red it wasn't even like wasn't
anything on some like
gang shit it was just for my taste in taylor swift's body of work you better not have the
wrong taylor swift opinions you can like taylor swift in the prison you just can't have the wrong
taylor swift you know they say day one when you're in prison you go up to the biggest swifty
and you knock them the fuck out yeah that way they know not to fuck with you in the yard
that's right but yeah i mean i remember like living in europe for a couple months like in school and my thread to like just devouring like
nba like articles about the nba and just like basketball coverage like bill simmons in particular
like this was when he was like just first starting out like that was the most i've ever cared about anything was like how much i cared
about the nba when i was in ireland for two months like there's just like so much like
homesickness and like normalcy and just yeah yeah sometimes you need that cultural oxygen to breathe
in yeah exactly um yeah just hanging out at the internet cafe reading espn2
like you do um all right uh let's take another quick break and we'll come back
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And we're back.
Mm-hmm.
And so we got another Taylor Swift story. So we mentioned at the end of last week that Taylor Swift's Errors Tour is coming to AMC Theaters.
Yeah. So tickets went on sale at the end of last week and it's like already had a massive impact on the industry because it's just the
thirst is yeah so real yeah um they They, so the previous,
the previous record for ticket sales,
like pre-sales was held by Spider-Man No Way Home,
which earned $16.9 million through one single day advanced ticket sales.
She made $26 million worth of tickets in like three hours like wow just yeah and this is
for like the movie yeah because she's doing the hey i've got the movie version of my tour
that is coming out what this fall or it's october 13th it's coming i am okay okay and i know she cut out the the studios that's
the one thing i did i did hear about this was that she's like yeah i could i could do a deal
with the studio but i'm gonna fucking i'm gonna work my own distribution deal out so she yeah
she made a deal directly with amc because the studios she was talking to studios um but the companies were suggesting a 2025 release
which you know years after the tour had ended right and you know she and her people wanted
the film to come out while the tour was still happening um turns out they might have good
instincts about this stuff right and studios should maybe shut the fuck up and recognize when they don't know what they're talking about.
Will that ever happen?
Universal is apparently extra pissed because they were considering distributing the Heirs Tour movie.
And now they've had to move the release date of their Exorcist sequel to avoid being just completely destroyed at the box office
um
I fucking love that shit
yeah the exorcist
believer was coming
out on Friday the 13th
um but now it's coming out on
Friday the 6th oh shit
so she's squatting on
Friday the 13th yeah
wow good yo I like that's some villain shit that I can I can get behind yeah So she's squatting on Friday the 13th. Yeah. Wow. Good.
Yo, I like that.
Some villain shit that I can get behind.
Yeah.
I appreciate it.
Now it's going to come out a week early.
Okay.
Well, I'm sorry to that exorcist.
I really am. I'm sorry.
Their decision to get the fuck out of Taylor Swift's way happened literally hours after
she announced her movie release date.
It was like kind of immediate
yeah well i mean that's good you know you know the gravitational pull of fucking jupiter or in
this case the taylor swift concert movie yeah it's that's wild though how like just yeah i don't know
we might have to go we might have to review this one miles
might have yeah i'm saying it like it's a duty i want to go okay i'm gonna be you are but jack
you saw this shit live i want to see how it holds up on the big screen yeah after seeing it live in
the flesh okay okay yeah she has the ear monitor problem that she did my conspiracy you're taking
notes like she did it in this one she handled the technical glitch gracefully unlike
50 cent that's right um there's also a may ryan return to rom-coms um that got bumped because of
this uh what happens later why what is it with rom-coms about people who are aging that have like these titles that seem like they are a randomly selected
sentence fragment yeah and then there was that as good as it gets and and just like that
what happens later um i i attack i don't know i don't know i don't know why it's the same thing like when alec baldwin
uh something's gotta give i guess that's a phrase that's not like a randomly selected but
it also feels like it's in the same um the same family when harry met sally you know
crazy rich asians does that work no maybe not maybe not now you're just uh now you're
just naming now i'm just saying names yeah sorry sorry sorry just kind of i'm just getting back
into the swing of things brian suggesting a couple uh what's that thing over there
where's my hat look who's talking look who's talking is but that's not really a good one yeah yeah i feel
like there's one guy who's just like naming these movies that all like i don't know yeah there is a
genre of movie title i don't i don't know but let me find the one i'm talking about
oh it's complicated is the one that i was thinking of right right right miles we got another fight video yep we do um at the morgan
wallen i've been pronouncing morgan whalen uh and for good reason apparently because
oh man these morgan wallen fans are wailing on each other by the port-a-potties brother
another video in the category of no one knows how to behave anymore outside uh
especially at concerts where a full-on i was like a three person how many people were i believe it
ends up at four um like one peacemaker and then someone the the one in the white cowboy boots
just comes through just ripping people just ripping wigs um this this is like an eastern pro have you seen the movie
eastern promises oh yeah my favorite thing to do where there's like a knife fight where everybody's
naked and so like all the parts are exposed and just in the russian flopping around yeah this is This is a Eastern Promises level body horror. The way faces
in this actual
fight, not directed
by David Cronenberg, are being
pushed into porta-potties.
And it seems like someone might actually get
pushed down the hole.
Dude, I thought she was going to
kick her down like she was kicking
a cardboard box
to make it fit into a garbage
can we're like get in there like you're gonna kick her in the cesspit it really like there
i will not be using a porta potty again in my lifetime without thinking of this video
so and how someone could possibly go in there as much as i've come out and said like no more fight videos guys like this is the
culture like this is a part of culture that i can't unsee now um i like you're just putting
like david cronen like the cronenberg glasses on to watch that because there's so many different
analyses of this video we saw one that was like an mma guy who was talking about the fighting
techniques being employed by the different combatants, as you will.
Well, you see, she goes outside here, and that's a mistake because the one who has the inner angle is going to win every time.
Oh, yeah.
Now she's got control.
She's got control.
You're like, where have?
Well, this is where we are.
But I like how everybody are standing upright until the fourth woman who's comes in and is just
fucking wrecking people yeah looks like someone who like regularly delivers cattle or something
like the strength of being like like i wrestle tiny bovine creatures this is nothing also i like
how the aesthetic though the aesthetic though is so
consistent like if you're if you're you know going to the morgan wallen concert you better have your
little quarter cowboy boots on you know with your cute outfit because i feel like every i guess
because it's a country show like i guess do you look like a total herb if you show up in like
sneakers or some shit or flip-flops yeah i would imagine so yeah um flip-flops are for like fish
shows um yeah yeah there's also just a underrated um performance by one woman who like just sneaks
into one of the porta potties yeah they've been beating each other up inside like at first it
seemed like i thought she just had to like go to the bathroom that bad but it seems like maybe she
was like trying to recover something that was dropped in there um oh i like the idea of like
having to go to the bathroom because that i identify like just seeing as somebody who's
like back when i go to like a lot of festivals and just like that bank of porta potties and just
like scanning them all waiting for the next one to fucking open up yeah run in i identify with her just kind of being like yoink i got i don't care
what the fuck's going on i have to be i mean she does it very quietly under under the surface it's
just like i gotta i gotta get in there and whatever you guys are doing out here that's your thing
yeah exactly my name is paul that shit's between y'all. Alright. And finally, just a tragic weekend
for easy listening rock
stars. The main thing
is the passing of Jimmy Buffett.
Yeah.
Genre creator.
And
Jimmy Buffett music is its
own type of music.
He passed away at the age of 76
following a battle with skin cancer.
Oh no.
That's what it was.
Yeah.
Ah,
gotta wear the sunscreen folks.
I know.
And it doesn't,
it feels a little like tragically ironic for someone who's like whole brand was like getting out there in the sun and like basking in the beach and stuff.
Yeah,
man.
UV rays don't fuck around.
They do not. Yeah. oh dude i was on a
plane when i was coming when i was going back to catch my flight to come home i was sitting next
to this dude who was a parrot head and he was like oh no this is like the day it happened and he
mentioned jimmy buffett like in some other thing and he's and i was like oh dude i'm like you know
jimmy buffett like how are you feeling he's like he was kind of like didn't really want to talk about it
yeah he's like yeah it's sad man it's sad man like it's it's pretty sad and like his voice was a
little shaky and I was like you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna let you I'm gonna let you process
this however you got to his devote his fan base seems like they are capable of creating a um an urban legend or
something where he actually didn't die like oh yeah there's like that level of devotion you know
100 i think i'd imagine they're probably better organized and like could execute a plan better
than like even maga republicans like if the parrot heads like really wanted to fucking dial in on something,
they can make shit happen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause they're all like moving towards that same Margaritaville type,
you know,
Elysium,
you know,
like they have a shared vision of what Elysium is.
They do.
I mean,
so I didn't realize that Jimmy Buffett was a billionaire by the time he
passed away.
Uh,
he had not only did he have like Margaritaville chain restaurants,
uh,
but there were like homes,
there were bars,
there were,
uh,
retirement communities in both Florida and South Carolina.
Um,
and he was like a big owner in Warren Buffett's company,
Berkshire Hathaway.
Um,
so he did well there.
Just purely by coincidentally having the same name as Warren Buffett.
I think he was just like, we're not related, but it'd be funny if we were.
Could you imagine though?
I just read a story about how Warren Buffett's son is playing like, like evil oligarch in like Illinois small town politics.
So yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
We'll probably talk about it this week.
It's pretty,
it's pretty wild.
Like what his son is up to.
So,
yeah.
So just a couple of Jimmy Buffett stories.
One is this tweet from PFT commenter.
Great follow on twitter this kind of went viral and the new york times basically wrote an article summarizing it or like sourcing it out but the original tweet
is the best it says cool jimmy buffett story one time he was flying his own plane to jamaica with
bono as one does and the the Jamaican authorities misidentified his plane
as being a weed smuggler's plane,
and they opened fire on it with automatic weapons
as he was trying to land it in the bay.
He landed, and they boarded his plane
and realized it was Jimmy Buffett and Bono.
Instead of complaining, Jimmy was like,
no big deal, I've probably gotten away
with a lot of stuff I should have been caught for.
Instead of suing them, he just wrote a song called Jamaica Mistake about it.
Absolute legend.
Wow.
Okay.
Good for you.
I'd heard that song title and I did not know the backstory.
That's a real song, huh?
Oh, I like how it's
spelled. It's Jamaica
and the mistake is spelled like Jamaica.
M-I-S-T-A-I-C-A.
Wow.
Okay.
Good for you, Jimmy. Good for you.
There's also the
this tweet that I really enjoyed
from Bill Ryan at Face You Hate
retweeted the New York Times obituary, the headline of the New York Times obituary. this tweet that I really enjoyed from Bill Ryan at face. You hate, uh,
retweeted the New York times obituary,
the headline of the New York times obituary,
Jimmy Buffett,
roguish bard of Island escapism is dead at 76.
And he quote tweeted that and said,
did Mr.
Burns write this?
Cause it really is the roguish bard of Island.
Yeah.
Roguish. Bard. bard okay you can just yeah
Mr. Margaritaville you know that encapsulates
it a little bit better
Steve Harwell too
Steve Harwell from Smash Mouth
passed away at 56
and due
to acute liver failure
after a lot of struggles with alcoholism um and then gary wright
the guy who sang dreamweaver also so ah you know i remember that song from the wayne's world movie
so i first put it on my map and i was like what is this fantastic track yeah the best. Well, rest in power and margaritas and all that.
Yes, rest in smooth vibes.
You roguish bard.
The roguish bard of island escapism.
All right, Miles, I guess that's going to do it for this morning.
I guess so.
I guess so.
We're going to be back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to y'all tomorrow. Bye.
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