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Hello the Internet, and welcome to

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this episode of The Weekly Zeitgeist.

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Uh. These are some of our favorite segments

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from this week, all edited

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together into one NonStop

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infotainment last

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stravaganza. Uh yeah,

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So, without further ado, here

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is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really,

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what is something from your search history that's

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revealing about who you are? Um?

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I googled our

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chastity belts real? Like

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now are like? Are

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they right? Who are they? And

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where can I get one? Uh? You

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know what what did you learn? They're

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not real? They're not They're not real that

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okay. So chastia belts

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in general are real. They're mostly used

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for fetish play,

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right, But the ones that we see, like

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the one in um uh

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is, like the the idea of a of

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a chastity belt was actually like really

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similarly used as in that movie as a joke.

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So basically people would be like, oh, put on

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your chasity belt. I'm going to war, and women

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would be like, how you're oppressing me and like let

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it lie, hope

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you're

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not. I'm gonna everyone.

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Um. So yeah, they're not like

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and the ones that you see in like

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uh, you know those like museums of a rock

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whatever. Yeah. Right, So they're either torture

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devices or they are devices

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made for the prurient, which

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is like people that Um

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it's kind of a derogatory term for people that

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are like sexually deviant. I guess,

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right. Um, so it's kind of like,

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um, they were either

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made for like conversation pieces where

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like a collector would be like, oh, look at my peace

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or whatever. But um, all

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of those were actually made or

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later and not during medieval times.

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So that's that's the kind of stuff.

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I think it's

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interesting, Like, yeah, there's a lot of

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things from history are jokes

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that we just forgot we're jokes.

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I think we forgot that his Historically

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people have had humor. Like we're just like, oh,

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well, to be real, but right, sex

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and humor. I guess we kind of make room

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for sex, but like there's a like

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yeah, and I don't think we make a lot of jokes.

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We we tend to put the little fig leaf over

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the sex parts. We think it's all uptight

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people. And like in actuality, Puritan

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society had to have all those rules

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because people were like fucking

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everywhere and periods like in the

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bushes, you'd be walking down the street and people would be flicking

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in the bushes. Uh. And

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yeah, Napoleon was not short. That was

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a rumor made to make fun of him. He

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was the average height. Really. Yeah,

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it's just like I feel like a chump. I've

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been believing this my whole life. Well, you look really

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ridiculous right now. I'm not gonna who

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should. It

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was my writer that I'm

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going to exercise the clause that says I can explode

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this episode and we don't have to do. Yeah,

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but I agree people like when you look

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back at graffiti back in the day, it's

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all dick jokes and stuff that could

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be out of you know, high

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school locker room now. Yeah, or even like

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um, like people that look

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back on things in history and try

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and look at through look at it through a super heteronormative

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lens when they're like, um oh,

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like King James had a very best friend

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that he had a secret like passage

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away from his bedroom to like

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your friend's bedroom. Yeah exactly,

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it was like that for real, And

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um, I was researching about this, and the

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King James Bible was actually made

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because the church was kind of like getting in his

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business for him being

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pretty openly gay with his lover

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and he was like, here's a fun thing

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that you can do that. Why don't you make

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a new Bible? And they were like that

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got him? So yeah,

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speaking of college, my college

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days, at least, let's talk about natural light because

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Nattie Light. Uh, I

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was not, but I Natty

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drank too much, but I was for

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as cheaply as possible. Yeah,

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or Milwaukee's Best. Yeah.

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Yeah. So they posted a job opening, uh

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and we have a quick clip from

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the video that they posted. It's very

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We're very gen z. Just listen to

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this. It's you know, it's shot sort of like that Dollar

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Shave Club video where it's like one guy long

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shot walking through and being like, Hi, I'm this

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guy. Imagine that without charisma

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or production value or a comedy r h.

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Yeah. Here Natty Light, we do things a little differ

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later. Well, some people put their resumes on paper,

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We put ours on a race car. It's

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a nasty cars. That's why

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today we're excited to announce the first

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ever national search for the Natty

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Like Summer. Now,

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when typical brands look for interns, they look

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for stuff like a ton of work experience, four

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point o g p A and amazing references.

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Maybe they want you to have made the Dean's List, maybe

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you need to know how to use a pro tractor. But

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here at Natty, we believe greatness is more than

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just a piece of paper. I don't need a reference

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from your aunt just because she has a different last name.

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How do you even spell pro tractor? Who the is

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dean? Anyway? I mean, yeah,

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man, you know for the for the

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sick kids, more like Natty litt

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Yeah, Natty tight. Yeah,

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they're the posting on hat

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u s now. But he's wearing a really cool Natty

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like graphic team. And then the

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office like looks like a parody of itself

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where it's like beer bo towers

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and just really cool young people figuring

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out how to get people. Yeah.

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But the way on indeed, like the job

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posting board, the way it's even described is

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in such like gen z talk. It's his Natural

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Light summer intern paid internship position description.

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Attend various events as an ambassador of the

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brand. Okay, create fire viral

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content across all natural

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Lights social channels. Keep the brand

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manager up to date on trending trends.

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Yeah, thank you, Guerilla

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Marketing. If you have to ask, you can handle

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it product research. Yes,

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it's what you think it is to

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sign some six swag that gives consumers

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all the fields and complete

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weekly log documenting the awesomeness on Twitter, Instagram

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and Facebook. So yeah, uh

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yeah, the the like you know

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when it says qualifications, that's uh

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also a pretty cool the

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desire to be part of the business and culture

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that is Natty Slash, live the Natty

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brand lifestyle, and be a Natty Brand

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supporter. Attention to detail? Did

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I notice I missed it? Pient?

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But detail is misspelled?

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D E T I A L. And then the next

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one says, did you notice I misspelled detail? If

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you did, please apply be

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outgoing but not annoying. There is

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a fine line be able to

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spell protractor call back to the

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video confidences must

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basic math and computer and me making skills.

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And also just be cool. Just be cool,

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that's all we want. Yeah, just be chill. So

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you know, good, good, good opportunity

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for gen Z kids to make the fire content

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for Ani. But then, how I mean

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is that internship actually gonna

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involve any of that stuff or is it literally just

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gonna be making photocos. I have a feeling you're just

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a straight up like social media internship where

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they're like, can you like steal some ship off Reddit

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and make it about beer? Yeah?

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Right exactly, And then they're like, oh, this could have been

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more fire, Caleb, more

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fire. You're on a tight rope,

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my man. It sounds like it's geared towards twelve

8:05

year olds. Do you even have to be in college to apply for

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this? Yes? I hope so. I mean yeah,

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I think so. I don't know, I mean brand

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research or whatever that's

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true product. But then at

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that point, if you're twenty one, you're basically going

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into your senior year of college where

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Natty Light Internship might not be the best choice

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for you. Does Natty Light care about the quality

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of their product, like it needs to be tested?

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I think they're all taste race cars.

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Yeah, I mean I think they get it. They're like,

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look, you drink Natty because you're in college

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and it's the cheapest thing you can get basically

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water. That gets you. What you have to understand

8:40

is Nattie Light is a lifestyle. Okay,

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yeah, please gross plain to her man. It's

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a lifestyle. But if

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you're a race car crashes because someone

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put a

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well just imagine the sort of internalized.

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They're like, just be cool, and they assumed that

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that's an objective quality that you can just,

9:02

yeah, just drive towards, rather than your weird

9:04

subjective opinion of like what's cool,

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and it is just be cool. I mean, like, don't call out of me like

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misogynistic or problematic racist ship.

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You might just fucking say

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nothing I think, and don't sweet

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about it. You're cool, right. I

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would be in the bathroom all day just looking at the mirror

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like cool, cool

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yourself, you can do it.

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Wasn't cool you

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guys right on a comedy show,

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prove it. It's a great comedy show. Uh,

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And we wanted to play a

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clip from another comedy show and just

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get your thoughts. It is

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the Mike Huckabee Comedy. I

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submitted to that and I didn't get Well,

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we know the head writer, Chip Hinkleman. So if you're

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listening to Chip, so yeah, I think fan of his work.

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It's good to have you because we always like

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to see you know. There's always these attempts from

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conservative media to have their version of the Daily

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Show or a late night show where they're like wait till

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we hit them with our right

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released their own Daily show in the

10:09

past couple of months, and it's

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actually impossible to watch

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and comment on, or at least we

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tried, and it's so I

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don't know. It was just it's

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so unrecognizable as comedy that we

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couldn't do anything other than just be like,

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gosh, it was like saying problematic

10:28

ship with like in the tempo of a joke,

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it's like, and I don't know about Alexandria

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Ocasio Cortez, but

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I think she's a socialist.

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And then Canada in

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front of a by Oh no, well, Huckaby does so

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on he's on TBN Trinity

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broadcasting The Name of the Father, the

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Son and the Tremendousism.

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Yeah. So his

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show is on Saturdays, and it's like a weekly

10:53

round up show, um where they

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talk about the shows like having inspiring stories,

10:58

a bit of fun and politics and values

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kind of thing. And it's basically your typical

11:02

show that has a monologue, some desk stuff,

11:05

a guest, and then like some stand

11:07

up who's like years old who's

11:09

talking about doylies, which isn't

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a joke. So, because we have the

11:13

honor of having the writers of Conan

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here, we would love your input on these

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monologue jokes just in general.

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What you think maybe we can punch them up or something.

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But it was in one of the most beautiful, clean

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and hospitable cities in the world. You

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knew I hadn't spent the past week in Washington,

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d C. All six of my grandchildren

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have been at my house during their spring break.

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They range in age from

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one to six. I've

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come to realize they're all Russians.

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They meddle in everything, not just elections.

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You should have said the metal part

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they're meddling and then say the Russian right,

11:55

Yeah, than that, I thought it was flawless.

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Well, it's funny because the

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live audience doesn't know where to laugh,

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so they're like laughing at the fact that he has

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grandkids through

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six were right, right, Okay,

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I'll see that. That That was a good note. So that was meddling

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before the Russian Russians,

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right, I'm going to reach out to them see

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if I can help. Okay, there's another one that was best of

12:25

Right now, we're looking at a clip that his show

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put out on the internet, call Mike

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Huckaby's best jokes of twenty Okay,

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so let's hear another one. Okay,

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Well, maybe my grandkids

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aren't actually perfect, but they're

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just closer to it than yours. Okay,

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it was a most economists amuse

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me, they really do. They're like Baptist about

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whom we say, where there are two

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or more gathered, there are at least seven

12:51

different opinions. That's

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more of an inside Christianity choke.

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I was going to say,

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I'm not around a lot of Baptists.

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I realized that

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might be that might be a Baptist,

13:08

Right yeah, I mean yeah, because there's so many I think

13:11

sects of Christianity, and then Baptism is is

13:13

its own. And he's comparing that to economists,

13:17

right, yeah, economists are like

13:19

that, and that they're very opinion

13:21

Yeah that like, even if you get two of them, they're

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gonna have seven opinions on the

13:26

economy or the fed or yeah,

13:32

okay, how about this one. Oh and North Korea

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says they might want to participate in the Olympics,

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But then again, everyone in North Korea who can run fast

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or who can jump has already run

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past the checkpoints and jump the borders to

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get out of that starving mass. Edit.

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Yeah, it's too many words. Yeah yeah,

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yeah, it doesn't need to over explain he

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does. Oh, so how would

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you so? Can you can we rewrite that one

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for him? Yeah?

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It would just you would just have to say everyone in North Korea

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who can run fast or jump has

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already has already left the country.

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Yeah, you don't need to say has already run past

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the border, jumped over them, made a quick

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right, and then did a tactical

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over the security chip. I'm hoping, I

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hope you're listening to this. These are good, These are good tips,

14:19

um, but then they'll need more jokes to fill the

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space, right, well, the shorter

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jokes and laughter, grandkids. It's

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also, isn't North Korea now? And one

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of Trump's allies? So I thought

14:31

taking aim at Korea? Well this was so

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you know, the things that change you know where. I

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guess this was a pre Singapore

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summit. Yeah, they did nothing

14:43

before, they pretended like they had some kind of agreement

14:45

over nothing. I'm pretty sure that's like

14:47

a joke, like a street joke.

14:49

That's a joke that I think has been made about

14:52

Mexican people. Act. Yeah. Yeah, so

14:54

he rewrote that and added

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words like he was like jo

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could be wordier and about and I

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got this joke from a racist Snapple cap.

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How are the ratings for that shows?

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Yeah, I mean all the

15:12

saved people are watching, I'll tell you right. And

15:14

he's also had his daughter on where like it was

15:17

a very painful thing. It's like, doesn't it

15:19

suck? Basically, it was like the vibe

15:21

of the interview and she's like, I know, Dad,

15:23

I love you, and it's like that was my daughter. Guys,

15:25

moving on, Yeah,

15:28

Yeah, I think most

15:30

of his jokes are the kind of thing that

15:32

you would see like written on

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a piece of driftwood, like

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a woman's kitchen or a

15:41

bumper sticker that like, my my grandchildren

15:43

are more perfect than your, right, What

15:45

do you think is the problem? Like, if if

15:47

there was advice for conservatives on how to

15:49

be funny, do you think it's their politics that actually

15:51

prohibit them from having the empathy to create

15:53

good jokes or well? Because

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the problem, I mean a lot of comedy is

15:58

punching up, right, that's

16:00

the whole that's right comedy.

16:04

Yeah, that Conservative Daily

16:07

show. He's like a you know, well

16:10

dressed, you know, conservative,

16:12

middle aged guy, and he's making fun of

16:14

Alexandria Casio Cortes and

16:16

he just says her name in a like funny

16:19

accent. So it's so it's like

16:21

that's just a yeah, it's like punching

16:24

down type thing, just like culturally

16:26

you're being racist and racism

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isn't funny. Well, yeah, I guess because

16:31

maybe they're humor is just about the culture war and

16:33

it's just like all we have to do is say liberals

16:35

suck, and that's the like the

16:38

north star of all that humors. Yeah,

16:41

I mean there's there's laziness on

16:45

every side. Are definitely

16:47

words you can say they get a big reaction

16:49

from a crowd. But yeah, yeah, I I've

16:51

wondered that why because because they've tried. They've

16:54

tried the conservative Daily Show a few times

16:56

over the years, and it always just

16:58

crashes and burns and limps

17:00

away. So I guess like if they get Adam Corolla

17:02

and like Nick DePaolo to

17:04

be like our in a room, maybe then they'll have a

17:08

who's the host of this new I don't even know

17:11

has he ever heard of before? He

17:13

didn't seem like a comedian, right, No, No, he's

17:16

just some talking head guy. And maybe he

17:18

is a comedian, but not the kind of comedian people

17:20

in comedy would have read about

17:22

he's like the funniest guy at the wherever

17:26

choose your place right at

17:28

the rally. Well, my cut could be as

17:30

a new fan in me. Ye, keep

17:33

those North Korea jokes coming. I feel

17:35

like every one of his jokes should end with maybe

17:37

there's something there. It

17:40

feels like it's always like, yeah,

17:45

what else he seemed to say?

17:47

Okay? He used the okay transition

17:50

at least twice in those clips, so I think that's his transitional

17:52

and it's like, Okay, well what about

17:54

this new thing I'm gonna say, right right, yeah,

17:57

Because I mean, there is stuff to make

17:59

fun of on the liberal side, and

18:01

I think liberals make fun of ourselves too for

18:04

being I think I don't know, like

18:07

I think that that you could poke fun at the sort

18:09

of elitism or yeah,

18:12

hi, hippocrisy, exactly selective

18:14

outrage over certain things that we don't see exercise

18:17

across all, you know, outrageable

18:19

moments. Right. But so maybe if

18:21

conservatives did that within themselves, that would

18:24

work better. Right, But then they're that

18:26

then they're making just live humor, right,

18:28

Yeah, yeah, that is a really good point.

18:30

I guess it's self awareness, and that

18:33

is that that's a really good point, because

18:36

people who make fun of themselves, you know

18:38

what I mean. Yeah, it's like

18:41

like Conan does a lot of Irish jokes because he's Irish,

18:43

and it's it's very offensive.

18:48

Yeah, we should know

18:51

you are not related to con I'm not related.

18:54

No writer

18:57

who was also not related to right, nor

18:59

my head writer back at when I

19:01

ran cracked Dan O'Brien. Y.

19:04

Yeah, just all the O'Brien's

19:06

unrelated to one another. There

19:09

was just one last name in I ye

19:12

or you're you are maybe probably are related

19:14

but maybe way back. Yeah, I've never

19:16

met another Sweeney. Yeah,

19:19

that's it, the only one I think, sadly

19:21

very common. Yeah, but I do think there needs

19:24

to be at least a baseline where it's like, oh,

19:26

this person can have a sense of humor about themselves,

19:28

right, yes, they can touch

19:31

it, like so it feels like that. It's

19:33

sort of you know, like, oh, I'm an equal opportunity,

19:36

right right, exactly exactly,

19:38

Yeah, because I don't think we're gonna hear Mike Hucky

19:40

you make jokes about it, like bass playing he

19:43

was like, oh I barely yeah, or their dog

19:46

abuse or those kids his

19:48

grandkids getting drunk at

19:50

his house during spring break, like

19:54

common grandkids spent.

19:58

He was like, there are each one through six, right,

20:01

yeah, yeah. I think spring break is

20:03

like an elementary school thing too,

20:06

is it. I think so, yeah, but I only

20:08

know it from like high school and college.

20:11

But I think there's like a spring break in

20:14

public schools now getting younger

20:16

younger. I just remember because I went to like Lutheran school,

20:18

there was always like the few days before Easter we'd get

20:20

off and that was about Yeah, that was it. R Lutheran

20:23

School. Yeah. Where where in North

20:25

Hollywood? Oh wow? One

20:27

of my classmates, Mary Kay and Ashley

20:29

Olsen. Really, what

20:34

are Lutheran's known for? What's the Lutheran

20:37

I don't know, as that's

20:41

right. Uh, they're a sturdy

20:43

people. I don't know. I

20:46

mean they love NPR. Yeah, they

20:48

liked NPR and they didn't like that I threw up the West

20:50

Side gang sign in a class photo. I

20:52

was refrimanded quite

20:54

severely. How did they know what that was? My

20:57

teacher just assumed I was sewing up gang signs as one

20:59

of the few children of color in that class.

21:01

They're like, that's a sign. I'm like,

21:03

man, West Side Connection album just came out, So why

21:05

don't you bow down? Cox? Why

21:07

can't you be more like the Olsen twins who

21:10

are never here? It's because they're shooting a show,

21:12

right, billionaires,

21:15

right. I have a theory of the child

21:17

actor. Well I don't know what comes first

21:20

in this case, but child actors when they grow up tend

21:22

to be tiny.

21:24

So is it because their

21:26

growth is stunted from all the world exactly,

21:29

or or they chosen

21:32

for these jobs well, often because they're older

21:34

than what they Yeah, they're older than what they're

21:36

playing, and so they have a thirteen year old play

21:39

seven. I prefer to believe they're stunted

21:41

by all right, exactly, all the onset coffee,

21:43

yes, right, and

21:45

the pills. Right. That

21:50

is interesting, though maybe it's their parents

21:52

being short of stature causes

21:55

them to want to put their children and

21:59

what about before that? Right exactly?

22:03

That's true. I mean in general they're

22:05

always and rock stars. But I always assumed

22:07

for actors it was because they

22:11

like it's the one place where they can appear

22:13

larger than life is like on the screen, like

22:16

they can you can stand on an apple box

22:18

and like nobody's gonna know the difference.

22:20

So there's like something like

22:22

extra attractive to the actor, Like

22:25

a shorter person can be five ten

22:27

in this movie, right, five men

22:30

can wear high heels and yeah, I

22:32

mean like Tom Cruise played Jack Reacher,

22:35

a character from the book who is specifically

22:37

described as like towering, and being

22:39

like yeah, he was like, that's

22:41

me. That's a movie I belong

22:44

in. That sounds like the

22:46

producer on it. Did he make that thing happen?

22:48

Probably he's the cruiser on every movie. Yeah, but

22:51

I'm wondering if he like read this and he's like, yeah, towering.

22:54

Finally a guy who's like acknowledging the source

22:56

materials being a towering figure. But it was

22:58

like such a bad fit that I just know this because

23:01

that's one of my dad's favorite like books here

23:03

like paperback series, and like he was

23:05

like this blue it like it needed

23:07

to be. Liam Neeson was your dad outraged?

23:12

He's like, you and your Hollywood weirdos

23:14

are ruining series.

23:17

Alright, guys, we're going to take a quick break and

23:19

we'll be right back. And

23:29

we're back. What is something you think is overrated?

23:32

Okay, I think it's really overrated

23:34

to be an expert on everything, Like there's

23:37

kind of this. I think it's

23:39

really cool to say like I don't know

23:41

sometimes, and I feel like we are so

23:43

trained to just like make

23:46

something up to be like, oh, I know

23:48

everything. I have to be an expert on everything because we

23:50

live in a world where information so like transferred

23:53

so quickly into accessible. But

23:55

like, ah, that bugs

23:58

the ship out of me, Like when people just cannot

24:00

say, you know, I don't know, I don't

24:03

I don't have enough knowledge about this thing, or like

24:05

I don't have enough expertise on this thing, so I don't know,

24:07

and instead it's like I I

24:09

know everything, I have to know everything. I think

24:11

that ship is so fucking

24:14

overrated. So actual wisdom

24:16

is very in admitting

24:18

what you don't know. Yeah, because yeah, I

24:20

think because precisely because I think we're

24:22

such an information heavy era and

24:26

everything is so readily available, it almost feels like,

24:28

well, all you have to do is look it up

24:30

to know, so that we feel like maybe we feel

24:32

this pressure that like, well then maybe I should know

24:34

everything because I could find out most

24:36

things I do. And I

24:38

think that for me, there's almost kind of

24:40

I'm a little hypocritical on it because if I'm

24:42

talking to someone like

24:45

over text or this was back in the day when

24:47

I was in law school over g chat,

24:50

where if you said something and someone didn't

24:52

know what you were talking about, and they'd be like, what is that typing

24:55

it into the thing with you And I'd be like, you can

24:57

just type that in the Google

24:59

here. Let me move that five inches this

25:02

window for you. But so I guess like resourcefulness

25:06

is like important, but like,

25:08

also, if you're not gonna be resourceful

25:10

about it, don't just make shu it up, just be like I don't

25:12

know, Yeah, totally. Yeah.

25:15

I feel like the

25:17

I mean, the more you learn, the

25:20

more you realize you don't

25:22

know and

25:23

right, And actually

25:28

I think that that is like Socrates

25:30

or something like that, like, uh, the

25:32

wise people know how dumb

25:34

they are or something like that. But um,

25:37

and I mean that even goes to like

25:40

the fact that you went to law school and like people

25:42

who get an education. I think

25:45

a quote I heard about like why a college education

25:47

is valuable from somebody is that it

25:49

actually humbles you, like because

25:52

you realize because you

25:55

have to like know a lot

25:57

to realize like that there's just

25:59

this in tire universe of information

26:02

out there that you do not totally shit about

26:04

well, like and even I went to law school and I practiced

26:06

law for two years and like that I

26:09

was bad at being aware, and like

26:11

I like learning that and being like, oh,

26:13

this is just not for me because A I really hate

26:15

it and be like I'm just not good at this

26:17

kind of job. Like learning

26:20

that there are things that you're not

26:22

good at and that's okay is like, I

26:24

don't know. I feel like that's as important as learning about it

26:27

also helps you sort of come in touch with

26:29

things that are actually like you are good at,

26:31

so then you can kind of look at those things. I'm like, oh, well,

26:33

I know I'm not actually have

26:35

these other skills. I do feel

26:37

like people are like

26:40

the way that conspiracy theories are. I

26:42

don't know if they're at an all time high, but they're

26:45

at least as influential as they've ever been. I

26:47

feel like people now are

26:50

are more likely to overestimate

26:52

how much they know than they ever

26:54

have been. Like, we're really bad

26:57

at knowing what we don't know as

26:59

a society, and that's probably a

27:01

result of the Internet and probably

27:04

says something about our overall wisdom

27:06

as a culture. Um, yeah, so

27:09

we're fucked yet what

27:13

is a myth with something people? I

27:16

think a myth that I recently debunked

27:18

for myself anyway, was that it is bad

27:20

and or dangerous and or depressing to travel

27:23

to Russia. WHOA, I I

27:25

just got back a few weeks ago. I was I was

27:27

in Russia for a week. I went to St. Petersburg

27:29

and I went to Moscow and I traveled a lot. Was

27:31

one of my favorite trips I've ever done. Really, it was

27:33

great that people were friendly. A lot of things are in English,

27:35

a lot of people speak English. Easy to get

27:37

around. Granted I'm a straight white male

27:41

who was not a journalist or a dissident.

27:44

That being said, it was you know, when you talk to

27:46

the people who lived there, they're very aware

27:48

of you know, all the all the stuff that's that's

27:51

not great of it, but it's so I was just so

27:53

impressed with Moscow when I can't wait to go back. It's just

27:55

it's it's vibrant and and fun and weird.

27:58

Is it's still one of the most expensive city's in

28:00

Well, that's the other that's that's maybe the

28:02

sub myth of it is that, uh, you definitely

28:04

can go there and and there've like assaultan and

28:07

spent a thousand dollars a night in a hotel and all that. But I

28:09

found it. I found everything that was in my

28:11

wheelhouse of things that I wanted to do and and

28:13

buy were much much expensive

28:16

daily lives the regular need to

28:18

day Russian people. Yeah, I mean no, when granted, you know,

28:20

there's the wages and there's you know, everything's relative with medical

28:22

care and taxes and all that kind of stuff, but no, as

28:24

far as as far as being being a visitor,

28:27

um, I was really prepared for. You

28:29

know, well, first of all, you know, getting scammed

28:31

and being dangerous and all that. None of that kind of stuff

28:33

happened. But everything was. Everything

28:35

was much much less expensive than night than I thought

28:37

it was going to be in I can't wait to go back. Yeah.

28:41

My first the hearing

28:43

about somebody going to Russia was like a group

28:45

of people I know who are like entertainers, and

28:47

it was a mixed group, people of color, gay people,

28:50

and they had not the best time there.

28:52

Yeah, and I'm aware that it was dangerous and

28:55

not to say that that you know, invalidates

28:57

your experience, but I think it's it's I think, and

28:59

any place can be many different things to me. No,

29:01

absolutely no, And I understand that there's some privilege involved

29:03

and whatnot, but um, you know, I definitely

29:05

felt like, you know, the people

29:07

they are also aware of that stuff. And and the

29:09

people that I met, you know, we're we're glad

29:12

to talk about and acknowledge all the you know, all

29:14

all the bad stuff. You know. For me, I

29:16

was debating about, well do I want to support this, you

29:19

know, with my money and with my traveling on but

29:21

I I I feel that being able to connect

29:23

with people and have that kind of one

29:25

on one diplomacy is is valuable and

29:27

to be able to talk about you know, they

29:30

I was talking to people, they couldn't imagine that a comedian

29:32

would go on television and say the president's a liar

29:35

or or make fun of the president's voice and all that, and

29:37

so you know, it does also make you appreciate for you

29:39

know, as much as our democracy is falling apart,

29:41

uh, you know that we still have that

29:44

that that right here for at

29:46

least another hour. Right, That's

29:48

amazing. You really like

29:51

travel the world? Really I'm running

29:53

from myself. Um,

29:56

is there anything that jumped out to you other than

29:58

the people being friendly as

30:00

something you weren't expecting. I kind

30:02

of wasn't expecting as much. Uh

30:05

Soviet kitch that they that they know

30:07

that they know that that's what people want to see.

30:09

There was in Moscow. There's a there's

30:11

a museum of Soviet arcade games that's

30:14

really popular where you can go and play these

30:16

you know, incredibly boxy. You know,

30:18

there's a lot of like shooting and a lot of there were actually

30:20

a lot fewer ripoff than I thought. I thought they were just

30:22

like done, you know, they would have done

30:25

like Comrade Pacman or something like that. But uh

30:27

uh, but but some of these machines, you know,

30:29

had like like two buttons and you were supposed

30:32

to like push one to match something that showed up, and

30:34

so some of the controls were crazy.

30:36

And then there was this pinball game that I was playing, which I

30:38

thought was like, oh, that's a nice like old old timey pinball

30:40

game with woodwooden flippers and lights

30:42

and a sort of a you know, a counter

30:44

that kind of scrolled up. And then I looked at the display

30:47

above it and it was from so

30:51

stuff like that, and just you know, they're there are tours that

30:53

cater to that and there's other stuff that kind of caters

30:55

to to that old Soviet kitch. But I also it was

30:57

also just interesting to see, you know how much

30:59

so be it stuffy, they either still embrace

31:02

or that they just kind of don't mind. Like you go into

31:04

a subway station and there's a big mosaic of

31:06

linen. And also

31:08

the subway stations were also I think a super

31:10

unexpected just how freaking gorgeous,

31:13

especially in Moscow. I took

31:15

some videos where I was panning down and you would think, oh,

31:17

you're obviously in a palace or a fancy

31:19

hotel ballroom, and then you pan down in the

31:21

train, the train pulls in and people are coming out absolutely

31:25

stunning palaces underground. H

31:28

yes, so vodka, the vodka was nice. Yeah,

31:32

yeah, I'm serious. Not like I

31:34

didn't go to mcdonal. We can talk about with donald and stuff

31:36

later right now, But I went to I did go to

31:38

a couple of places that were like fast order, uh

31:41

sort of fast casual places and yeah, you could

31:43

get a super a super ice cold glass

31:45

of with a lemon like with your burger.

31:48

So that that was that was cool thing. Um,

31:52

that's interesting that the Soviet stuff

31:54

is almost like part of a brand. It's

31:56

been like incorporated. Is it doesn't have

31:58

all the late capitalism

32:01

trappings that we have over here. But yeah,

32:03

you you know, it's interesting you especially St. Petersburg,

32:06

you wouldn't know it. Timpeter

32:08

stret just reminded me of oh, it's a very pleasant

32:10

sort of Western European town. Like it doesn't

32:13

look you know when you talk to people and you understand,

32:15

you know, what's going on behind the scenes and all that. But

32:18

but yeah, you wouldn't think, oh, I'm in

32:20

formally communist country or I'm in a place

32:22

that uh, you know, other

32:25

than maybe again some of the subway decor

32:27

and the fact that the subways are so deep under the ground

32:29

because they wanted to withstand a nuclear

32:31

blast. Um. Yeah, there

32:33

there there was hardly anything you would notice that would

32:36

that would that that felt like, oh

32:38

my god, this is you know, this where the Soviet

32:40

Union stuff happened. I mean, even being in Red Square,

32:43

you know there's this huge building that's been turned into a mall

32:45

and there's like ads up and stuff.

32:48

Not as much of that in Red

32:50

Square. It's still pretty pretty, it's still pretty reverence.

32:53

Yeah. No, it's not like there's a big

32:55

coke bottle. No, nothing, not like that. But yeah,

32:57

I took a lot of pictures of

33:00

the fast food chains, the Western fast food chains,

33:02

not because I was so surprised to see them, but just because

33:05

they were in the Russian writing

33:07

in the cyrillic but you but they were still in the font

33:09

and color of what you expect

33:12

from the logo. So that was weird to see, Like, oh right,

33:14

they also have fonts and you know, uh

33:17

so that kind of stuff. That's so interesting.

33:19

Yeah, I think you've

33:21

sold me on traveling there because just

33:24

the Soviet arcade games, the idea that you

33:26

know, their technology was evolving

33:29

in a completely different like silo

33:31

from ours, and like what video games

33:33

could have turned out. Well, it's also

33:35

fun because on this on the signage they have for

33:37

all the games there, which which you can play all of the games that

33:39

they have on display, they'll also say who made

33:42

it and what they were usually doing, and so it was you

33:44

know, this is the game when you get to hunt ducks and it was

33:46

made by people who make you know, radar for shooting down

33:48

missiles or you know, so like almost

33:50

all of them had like military applications and they

33:52

were they were just doing this while they were waiting for the

33:54

next you know, military order. Those are the

33:56

video games you could have been playing today

33:58

if Rocky hadn't one that

34:01

which might come up on Sunday. Just my

34:05

lazy you. You asked me like, did you hear about

34:07

that dad who called the police and

34:09

said the child was objected to get their car back? And I

34:11

said, what, yes? What? Just

34:13

what what happened? What? What happened? What

34:16

is going on? So they actually don't

34:18

have the man's name listed, which was so disappointing

34:21

to me because I want to like follow him on Instagram.

34:23

I want to be his best friend. Um.

34:26

But basically, the Ugland Police Department in the California

34:28

Highway Patrol is it issued an amber alert

34:30

notifying the media on their social

34:33

media accounts and everything to help find a three year old

34:35

girl. And this girl is cute. This little girl is very

34:37

cute. I will be looking for her but

34:40

early Sunday. Not that I don't look for your ugly

34:42

kids. Weren't you against

34:44

amber alerts? Listen, don't don't

34:49

do that. Yeah, I turned my amberre alerts off. Okay, turn

34:51

them back on. I remember, didn't see you turn them back down. Yea,

34:56

for all the tests and purposes for the court of public

34:58

opinion. I turned my amber larst back and

35:00

I'm looking for every rachel and and and

35:03

Tiffany. I'm

35:05

so basically so the girls. Early

35:07

Sunday, the officers arrested the girl's father

35:09

on suspicion of making a fake police report. According

35:11

to the Open Police, the man sold officers his daughter was

35:14

kidnapped so that they would find

35:16

his stolen car more quickly. Wait

35:18

so the whole Oh

35:20

so his thing was like, I think someone stole

35:23

my daughter with my car. So he basically

35:25

knew his car got stolen. And he was like, if I report

35:27

my car stolen, like the police just about to be sleep, They're about

35:30

to be eating donuts, you know what I mean, kicking it. But if

35:32

I say, like my cute little daughter in the car, then

35:34

they'll actually look for the car more quickly.

35:36

It's a great Mercedes Bens, I mean, it's an okay

35:39

car. Someone comments and was like, isn't

35:41

even foreign no more, that's a that's a citizen.

35:44

Um. The looked like a sea

35:47

class to Ben. It

35:49

don't even really look like something. They didn't have

35:51

a car seat though, Oh

35:54

I truly do not know the answer to that. I

35:56

feel like there was probably nothing in the car

35:58

that was indicative of his daughter being there.

36:01

Yeah, man, that's that's a bold

36:04

move. If I was a dad, I don't know if I could play around

36:06

like with my daughter's safety even like even

36:08

know when she's fine, to be like, oh she's kidnapped.

36:10

Right It worked though they got the car bat they

36:13

did. Ye oh is that when they're like, where's

36:15

the kid at the exactly like

36:18

here she is right here? That's crazy.

36:22

Oh see, that's one of those lines that you can't even

36:24

try to cover up later, Like what was he

36:26

thinking the long game was on this?

36:28

It's like, okay, I'm gonna get the car. Bat. They're gonna come

36:30

and be like, oh we didn't get you daughter, and be like, okay, well

36:32

at least I got my car. Thank you all so much. Right

36:36

after and they closed the door

36:38

and locking,

36:42

I think they're still here. Sh Daddy

36:44

could not come at the closet, said

36:49

I want some jews. I'll

36:51

take you in the Mercedes in a minute.

36:56

He didn't think that went all the way through. He truly didn't. But now

36:58

he's facing fell in each wait

37:01

what's the what is the charging? Fake

37:03

police report? I mean, and even that

37:05

like a fake missing child, because I'm

37:07

sure a lot of police resources the second

37:09

they say a child is missing. Oh yeah, they go into

37:12

full action. The child is so cute, so I know they

37:14

were looking extra hard for her. Um,

37:17

if you were in the police chief, you would be like, let me see the photo

37:19

first. I'm just saying, that's the photo that you

37:21

put that on the news? People are like, oh, yes, we got

37:23

to find that one. They

37:26

don't put all the girls. All the girls don't make it to the news,

37:28

honey, Okay, only the only the real lookers with

37:30

the promising futures. But

37:32

we just changed. Please, if I ever

37:34

go missed and put a nice photo of me, have

37:38

me looking cute? Should we just use your Twitter avatar?

37:40

Which photo would you like to just officially in case

37:42

you do go missing, we can have an agreed upon photo

37:44

that we put out there, which you ever one. Just make sure that's

37:47

nice lighting because that can always alter a

37:49

photo. You ever take a photo and you're like, I knew I

37:51

look good, but damn I got

37:53

me together. Yeah at one

37:55

time, Yeah, I think I took a selfie when

37:58

I used to do production. I was like, yeah, let me this

38:00

sofie like this is a dramatic and

38:03

I didn't know how. I'll tell everybody turned

38:05

towards you always want to put the light behind the camera,

38:07

baby, put that sun. Even if you have

38:09

to squint, that's gonna be okay. You put

38:11

the light behind the camera and you'll

38:14

get a lovely pho. You don't want to going

38:16

out. The last thing I want to say is I'm kind of upset

38:18

that they didn't release his name because I want to help this man.

38:20

I want to link him up with whoever. Just

38:22

these people are you know who got him

38:24

off for the same charge. Look,

38:29

it's not it's not right. Listen, if

38:31

you want to just these people out there, you hear this, y'all

38:34

go help my man's out and I'm

38:36

gonna touch that one. All

38:38

right, Well, listen ida on that. During the break, we'll

38:40

be right back, and

38:49

we're back. Let's talk about

38:52

this new pole from a

38:55

social media outlet that I will say

38:57

the name of. Shortly, it broke

39:00

America down into thirty eight different accents

39:02

and ranked them by sexiness

39:05

according to a poll

39:07

of I think it was like they have one

39:10

point five million social media followers

39:12

and they surveyed I think

39:14

all of them. The group is called Big seven,

39:17

and the answers they found

39:19

were somewhat surprising. Who

39:22

did they Okay, so they're asking people

39:24

on their social what's your sexiest

39:27

accent? Yeah, I think they

39:29

gave him a list and asked

39:31

them to, you know, order it um

39:34

and Boston was ranked number

39:36

two as the number two

39:38

sexiest, which made me wonder

39:41

if I don't know if it was a

39:43

more more women than

39:46

men answering, because I just us

39:48

have more women, like a man's a

39:50

man's boss night. Well, if you think about like I always

39:53

use movies as like my proxy for

39:55

understanding, like The American Unconscious,

39:58

and like movies you've had like Ark Wahlberg,

40:00

and like it's like a rite of passage

40:02

for like a male lead to come up

40:05

with a Boston accent, like play a Bostonian,

40:07

whereas the only women

40:09

who have Boston accents are portrayed as like

40:12

townies. And you know, I'm trying

40:14

to think of the last time I was like, oh

40:16

the town where like Blake Lively

40:18

was like a Southeast Yeah. Yeah,

40:21

and even then it's like portrayed as

40:23

like a heart but

40:25

maybe this is what this might be more telling you

40:27

what people are into, right, it's not about the

40:30

standard as like, yo, you know, I don't like that. So

40:32

number one was Texas, which makes sense because

40:34

you can kind of the people like

40:36

the Southern draw if you're using movies as

40:38

a proxy, Like there's been sexy

40:40

men with Texas accents and sexy

40:43

women. But Boston was

40:45

surprising me. Philly being number eight was

40:47

really surprising too. Well. Also seventh

40:49

is Hawaiian. Right, That's what

40:51

I'm saying, like you must have such an ear

40:54

for nuanced accents to even be able

40:56

to rank these right, because if you told me, oh,

40:59

can you between a

41:02

Northwestern accent and uh

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like a yoper, I'm like, what's ayper

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Yeah, I have no idea. It's not seemed to be the most scientific

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a polling. I mean, it's possible to people they were polling

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happened to live in those places. But also

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I think they probably were asking do you think Hawaiian people

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are sexy? Not necessarily the accent, ye,

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people are just picturing They're like, yeah, I

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remember I was in in Maui and these really

41:23

cool guys came up to me and they're like, get the funk

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out of here. Hold like

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it was so hot, who are you? But

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and also like sexy is so subjective.

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There, there's no way to really rank this ship.

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And I think this is important scientific work

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that we're talking about here, guys. Yeah,

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look, I think I'm just mad because valley

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California valleys. Yeah,

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and first of all, it's long islander

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up. Yeah, I like that long

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islander's uh

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Pennsylvania Dutch. I mean like Pennsylvania

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Dutch. Yeah, oh those set see amish.

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No, that didn't make it hard, yeah, I mean it right.

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What you think about an accent is completely subjective.

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I find a Southern accent attractive. But

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I lived in Kentucky when I was going through

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puberty. I'm sure those two things are like related

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in some way. But like, and

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it's also yes, not the methodology

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isn't strong here, but I just I

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do find accents very

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interesting. So which is but

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they have Chicano on here, but there's

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no like is there, like like African

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American vernacular? Yeah

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that's another question, is like they don't have cultural

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they just break it down regionally, well

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just the region of Yeah,

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I'm like that's very specific, right,

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Yeah, But Okay, I'm whoever

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did this pole hit me up as

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I'll rearrange this. If I could describe

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my accents, I assume it would be very

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high in the list. Yes, sort of generic

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Midwestern that is on the list. Yeah,

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they said, I think it's like a General

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American American favorite

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General

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General made a good serial. General American

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was ranked thirty second on the list, right

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in the middle between Atlanta

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and Hudson Valley. Like what's

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the Hudson Valley? Oh, you don't know the Hudson

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Valley. I know, I know it exists. I don't know what this sounds

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like. It sounds like beaver trapping, sounds

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like I'd rather be in New York City, right. Uh

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Stephen Colbert was the example they used

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for the general American. But I think it's anybody

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who speaks on TV. I

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guess. Also, Zetgang helped me understand,

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Right, what's the difference between a Cincinnati

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accent in southern

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Ohio accent? Right? Or like, uh,

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new, what's what's the new Mexican accent?

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Yeah? It's it's interesting, like if

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you talk like Walter White, I

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don't know, Jesse Pinkman, is that new Mexican

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