The Daily Zeitgeist - ACAB Includes These Robots, Xmas Decorations = Satanic Plot? 12.01.22

Episode Date: December 1, 2022

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Yeah. Yeah. December. December to remember. Me and Honda love this month. I thought Lexus is December to remember. That's right. I don't know, man. It's That's right. It's Happy Honda Days.

It's Happy Honda Days. Happy Honda Days. Happy Honda Days. As the Honda chords keep singing. Happy Honda Days. The U.S. Top 100 songs, like, the Christmas songs started invading. Like, not just Mariah, but, like, there's, like, eight Christmas songs. There's, like, old-ass, old-ass, like, Dean Martin Christmas songs are now in America's top 100 songs of the day on Apple.

There you go. All written by Jews. Everyone needs to know that. Absolutely. Yeah. Some of the best Christmas songs. Also, December 1st is Rosa Parks Day, National Pie Day. Jack?

National Eat a Red Apple Day, a day without art, and bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day. National Eat a Red Apple Day. Yeah. Day without art? Yeah. I don't know what that means. That's interesting. I think that means we need to throw more

soup cans on, you know, precious artwork. It's just a day need to throw more soup cans on, you know, precious artwork. It's just a day for art haters. It's like, thank God. Could you please just stop it? Oh, you know what it is? It is a day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. Oh, yeah.

That's good. Anytime we try and like have fun with these. Yeah, you always look at it it's so dark yeah other ones i'm like what's that and then like canadian listeners are like that's actually like a day of remembrance for like indigenous channels oh yeah yeah for sure for sure for sure just it didn't we're just honoring orange hats orange hats are stupid and it's like actually for everyone who lost their parent while they were a toddler. Right, exactly.

To a drunk driving accident. Let me just make sure that eat a red apple day is okay. Good. It does mean to eat a red apple. All right. That's great advice. And it leads directly into my AKA. My name is Jack O'Brien, AKA when I want to find some tasty apples, Jack O'Brien comes to me speaking words of wisdom, sugar bee.

And when the red delicious apples taste all mealy and bland as bland can be, there's a better answer, sugar bee. Sugar bee, sugar bee, sugar bee, yeah, sugar bee. Fruit that tastes like candy, sugar bee. Yeah, Rob Cunningham, avoiding last Christmas. That's his Twitter name. Rob Cunningham, comma, avoiding last Christmas. Okay, the movie? So good luck with that, sir.

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okay thank you to elise navidad talking about young youngian dream theories and shit like that yeah yeah you know when you said young talked to i thought you meant trey young yeah and i was like really interesting shit to say about car. Carl Jung. Yeah. Yeah. Have you met Carl J? Hey, Carl Jung, dude? Has anyone? I'm waiting for that. Carl Jung? One of those, I don't need school. I got YouTube. Who's like,

yeah, man. Carl Jung, dude. Have you read any of that? Yeah. Oh, for sure. That's what Carl Junger is named after. Anyways, Miles, we you read any of that yeah i'm like oh for sure it's what carl's jr is named after carl yeah anyways miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very talented journalist activist and stand-up comedian you know her from al jazeera msnbc the young turks and the podcast habituation room and from stand-up stages across this great land, please welcome the hilarious, the talented Francesca Fiorentini! Francesca!

A.K.A. Milk Truck just arrived. What's up? How are you? How are you, Mom? Congratulations, Mom. Thank you, yes. I'm just taking a break from nursing to, you know, not nurse. To nurse these hot takes. to nurse these hot takes to nurse america it's so much nursing guys it's just like can you believe we were all this fucking helpless so helpless like that is the defining characteristic of humans is as babies we are the most helpless of babies yeah that's yeah they're like yeah it's actually like we come out like

five months too early and we're just a lump of nothing yep with big old heads and no neck muscles yeah i just think that there's an alternate universe you know we're like are there aliens on other planets you know are there other humans yeah there's a planet out there where like humans are exactly the same but have no neck muscles for their massive heads so we're just like yeah rocking around and then occasionally like every week like a few of us die because we just snap our necks yeah it falls off yeah i believe it we're all just in those big head traction like cages like a halo yeah the halo halo yeah a lot of people don't know that's what that song's about mobilizing halo mobilizing halo yeah yeah the the theory

on that is that like we it's good because humans spend extra time out and around their family. And that leads to stronger socialization. Sure. But I feel like we could have kept the babies in for an extra year. And they come out a little bit stronger and able to cope. First of all, don't say that unless you can get pregnant right that is an extreme excuse stick that baby back in there no no i want that baby back baby back baby back in there that's right i actually do i kind of miss having you

know given birth a couple months ago or seven weeks ago i missed the little kicks it was very adorable yeah and i missed a little bit of that feeling but oh my god it got it gets real towards the end and uh no yeah i'll shut the fuck up about that but but it's true that you're like oh you were so portable before and so much cuter when you weren't you know you know yeah uh and all that and then like i would just like wear cute things and be like look at my baby bump and now it's like look at my screaming baby you want to come over for five minutes when the baby's not screaming oh wait no the window's closed sorry see you next thursday yeah do you think to that point right like was Like, was it, is that like an evolutionary trait?

Like, were there some babies that came out like wild, strong neck muscles, like a little more independent? And then like parents like, man, like, fuck that baby is too independent. And then like, it just, the floppy babies were the ones that got more attention. So then floppy having babies, that trait is the one. Because they were cuter. It's like Munchausen's, but like for Homo sapiens, where we're like, we're gonna make you. Evolutionary Munchausen's. Yeah, we're gonna make you helpless

because you're cute. Right, because I'm just saying like, if it was to build stronger social bonds, presumably, right, there would be babies that could be ignored. I don't know if there's any causation there. I think a big part of it is that they're massive heads, like Francesca talked about.

Yeah. And also we're not fierce enough. So like we need meaning like we can't protect ourselves, I think, on our own from like the saber tooth tiger. So we got to like stick together with the fam. Yeah. Yeah. Because we're basically prey without our intellect. Yes.

I think, you know, to make weapons and shit like that. Yeah. I think we should bring back the saber tooth. You know what I'm saying? Just like have, just half the year, it's the purge

for like prehistoric animals. Bring them back. They can off us. We've. They're as common as squirrels. Like that. Yeah. Oh, fuck.

Can you imagine? They've replaced the rabbits in Minneapolis with saber tooth tigers. All right, Francesca, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in San Francisco. They're scary. We're going to talk about Biden's Christmas decorations and why they're definitely hiding clues of Satanism. Before we get to any of that, though, Francesca, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Okay, so I have been holding a baby a lot and i'm like well this will just make my arms

naturally like chiseled and my forearms will be strong because i'm holding a baby yeah not happening uh not happening fast enough so i was it's more just repetitive strain injury and like it's like tendonitis is happening real fast so i'm i'm looking up forearm workouts oh yeah and like they're pretty easy because you can just stay stationary and i haven't even done them i've just looked them up and i think forearms are probably the hottest part of well men i'm straight and like dudes but uh but i don't know anyone maybe i don't know i've never really admired forearms on women but i think it's just like lifting, putting your arm. So I'm looking at forearm workouts.

That's what I'm looking at. Yeah. Nice. You could get one of those things like tennis players in the 80s would use. It was like an arm brace with a tightening rod. And you just flexed your wrist. And it was like a machine that you just kind of flex your wrist over. Miles is revving a motorcycle motorcycle an imaginary motorcycle i think i just want to be

able to lift the baby with one hand like oh i just have your shit yeah wait so where are you most feeling it you said like are you like you get an elbow pain i already have i have repetitive strain injury from a lot of computer use and other bullshit but yeah like right in by the elbow it hurts yeah it's because the head the goddamn head yeah so big how am i supposed to run from the saber tooth with this head just like this floppy headed baby right so yeah that's what i've been looking up also i was looking up and i i feel i looked up chloe grace moritz the actress and like whether or not she was also florence pew and i don't understand why those are two different people and i think florence should just like like subsume chloe grace moritz just like i think dallas howard should subsume jessica

chastain like i don't think we need both of them both of them yeah too much yeah speaking of like forearms we should just there should be an arm wrestle one can survive my money's on pew and howard oh you got pew and bryce dallas howard in those ones yes face offs okay cool i was actually gonna put money on that bryce dallas howard i just said dallas how just said Dallas Howard. See, clearly I don't know actors. And people will be offended. They'll be like, they're very different. And here's why. I don't think they look the same. Francesca, you're embracing the fact that you're a parent.

This is the true mark of a parent. You start saying actors' names wrong. Dallas Howard. I've always done that, though. I'm the worst person in LA because I do not remember anyone's name at all dude i'm surprised you're still working you've been fucking up saying dallas howard oh i'm not working as well give me a yeah okay i'm done first of all floppy had a baby good good rapper name

you know yes yeah there's been a lot of baby renditions but yeah i that is one of my favorite things to think about is like when a person who is like similar looking just comes through and subsumes that like consumes the career of another person yeah it's just yeah there's there was just room for that particular face like for one actor we've talked about it before and i'm completely drawing a blank on like which actor it is but i mean there's another one like when fucking jenna fisher got murked by amy adams that's it yep remember when amy adams pulled up on the office as katie as like the alternative to pam people were like and even in the show people were like going up to Jenna Fisher's character Pam they're like yo check out the new the up like the hotter version of you that Jim's fucking with and yeah to this day I feel like that was like another thing where they both arrived at the same

time and that was part of the bit that was part of the bit yeah it's part of the bit but like yeah but I think at that point Jenna Fisher doing fine fine. She's like, yeah, yeah, I'll get these checks. You go ahead and you fuck with the aliens and shit like that. I'm going to just sit back and give looks to camera. Like, hmm? Yeah. Pullman and Kevin Kline, I guess,

have both succeeded while looking somewhat similar. But I think Kevin Kline is like... Not at all. Oh, my God. Kevin Kline has like a square-shaped head somewhat similar, but I think Kevin Klein is like... Not at all! Oh my god, you're just like, Kevin Klein has like a square shaped head, and Pullman's like a very strong

oval, totally different. Huh. Alright. You can cut that. Yeah, please. That was censored. For some reason I associate them, but they don't have... They're a bad example of this do you remember who we were talking about Miles

like it was some actor who just like came through and ate someone else's career because they looked similar but I can't remember who it is I was just talking about Amy Adams the other day that's why that's the top of my mind but like I remember at the time when Keira Knightley came out they were like oh she's gonna give natalie portman a run for her

there's always like things that happen like this but i feel like they're similar but they're just like one is stretched out though one is like taller natalie portman but still not as similar as dallas howard right and jessica chastain and my i do not like jess Jessica Chastain. I do not like Jessica Chastain. I'm sorry. Yeah. Do not. My brain has room for one red-haired actress at this time. Thank you.

Yeah. Florence Pugh and Chloe Grace Moretz is also a really good example. What is something you think is overrated? So, I don't know because I had never seen this movie until this week. And I still haven't finished it because it was so bad. And everyone will have opinions. But Love Actually is overrated. But I also think people know that it's bad.

So that's part of it. But I even think at what point was it ever was it ever good like did it was for like two years people were like this is good we love it it actually is because i the other day right after thanksgiving i was like you know what i want to watch a harmless sweet rom-com can i just watch a fucking rom-com right now and i was like love actually i maybe it's a good rom-com and no it is the worst and now they're doing like reunions and shit and they're you know uh emma thompson is like you know because love really does matter and like love is love you know and and uh love is in it and um all you need is love right and you're like you know this movie is crap can you all admit this movie is crap it's like littered it's just a me too landmine and just like a corny like speaking of

i know you guys probably talked about gaslighting being the the word of the year like the most gaslighting heavy quotations love stories that are like also all mediocre like pick one of these mediocre ass fucking stories, preferably the one with the boy, the little kid. I just want to know that little kid. That's it. I just want to follow that little kid. Was that him? I am fully on board with this take

and also have had past guests, Daniel O'Brien, who I really respect, really respect his thoughts on film and you know he this is one of his favorite movies like he loves this movie and it's yeah it's i've i've come to the conclusion that there's just like no no accounting for people's opinion on love actually it's just it's it's some people love it it's a drug It's not a movie. Like people are like hooked on. I know people who just like the momentum of holiday media consumption. Like it just has to be there for them.

And like they watch it and they'll be like, oh, my God, this guy's a piece of shit. This doesn't make sense. I'm like, why are y'all watching it? And it's like, I don't know. We've just been doing this since 2003. Yeah. And I'm like, OK. How is it not canceled at this point?

Seriously, it is nothing but stereotypes. It's nothing but creepy bosses. It's nothing but like silent, subservient, like women who don't speak English. Hey, Portuguese lady, you into me? Yeah, exactly. I love you. She's your domestic worker.

We've never had a conversation. Yeah. Yeah. And also she like strips naked and it looks like she's kind of got like a 17 year old body it's weird i don't know like 2003 was that time though when everybody was like so like women were so skinny and like that was just what was demanded is crazy well and also there was nothing problematic about a boss and their like you know co or uh employee having a relationship and but it's nothing heartwarming even the ones you want to be like kind of sweet are super manipulative dude who's actually got a like massive crush on

his best friend's girl uh wife yeah and then it's like yeah that that whole scene that has been well the scene exactly yeah with it with the cards or whatever really works out well like he's really like don't say anything i feel like she should have screamed at that point yeah go away and also yeah when the guy reveals his feelings for his like is she his housekeeper who has never, like, spoken English? Yeah. Has never, like, spoken. They've never talked. Like, her response would be, like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Like, we've never communicated once. Like, it is such a toxic movie in terms of like dude expectations yeah like yeah this is this is what this is how it's that easy folks just like that because just because you have the feelings that means that you should express them to the person because they're probably you're and you're entitled to against all odds yeah uh i mean look we're going the iraq war just kicked off earlier that year you know i think a lot of people were just like people needed it right yeah just yeah but it is like one of those things where like whenever i go back to watch it it just angers me more like it's better that i just never watch it again

because sometimes people like yeah put it on and then everything just comes rushing back it's better that I just never watch it again. Cause sometimes people are like, yeah, put it on. And then everything just comes rushing back. It's so bad. That's why I just lean into Hallmark movies that are meant to be bad. I'm like, yeah, it's just bad. Okay. It's true of like Christmas music.

Like I'm listening to the same. I don't, I don't ever like listen to old music. Like I do when it comes to Christmas music. I'm like, yeah, but this one's got bells in it. So yeah.

Okay. Christmas music. You stick with motown christmas mariah carey and uh handles messiah those three you can't go and stevie wonder which is part of motown christmas but like he's got a whole other album i think so there's a bunch of good i mean i don't know or there's a bunch those are not annoying yeah yeah the rest are bad yeah but i i still love them there's a good sharon jones there's a sharon jones holiday album too that's good too there's a new ariana grande i mean it's not new it's like 10 years old but now it's like being taking it's the santa tell me one that i can't i can't do it it's not good it's just a bad song but it's it's being like played like it's one like it's underneath the tree or the mariah one oh it's like come on we're not there yet have you guys seen i think it's camilla cabello has a christmas album or

christmas song and she says Christmas like Kwai's Moss, but it's because she's trying to do the sexy Christmas baby voice that singers do. So she goes, I'll be home for Kwai's Moss. Oh, no. Baby. Kwai's Moss. Oh, boy.

Sexy Christmas baby. Sexy Christmas baby. Gotta love it. I mean, that's the whole point. Jesus was the reason for the season. And he was a sexy little baby. One of the sexiest babies. That three fucking dudes pulled up randomly with gifts for him.

They're like, oh, my God. So hot. Do you think he had a six pack already? Or was that like more? If anything, if anything, Joseph painted one on him with some like charcoal. Hey, tighten them up, tighten them up, make it look like you got abs. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bring the Magi in.

On the baby? My baby's got to be hot for the Magi. The Magi are like, yeah, that baby look good. Like, whoa. Alright. What is something you think is underrated? gotta be hot for the magic the magic like yeah that baby looked good like whoa all right uh what is something you think is underrated okay so sticking with movies the sex scene and 90s movies or i guess 2000s movies when did this come out the sex scene from meet joe black is one of the best sex scenes ever ever on film it is the like nameless actor actress who i can't you know i don't know her name she looks like fiona apple

claire forlani right there you go yeah sure sure let's go only reason i know her is because she was in mall rats she was she was she had her, but she's like not that great of an actor and not that memorable. And she was kind of like Kroger brand, like Gal Gadot before she came out in a way. And speaking of like hyper skinny, sort of like, yeah, 17 year old. Like that's, well, I mean, Mallrats, I guess they were supposed to be young. But yeah, that sex scene in Meet Joe Black is good. And Meet Joe Black, actually, other than being two and a half fucking hours which was like one of the first times that we were subjected to a movie that long that didn't have a marvel character in it i guess now we're

just used to it but we were like why did it have to be that long yeah but that brad pitt claire forlani scene there's just a lot of good pit back. Oh, wow. Pit back? Pit back. I don't know about that. Pit bull's cousin. That's hot.

But it's a good sex scene. It's like one of those, like, you always kind of want sex, in my opinion. I always kind of want, like, the hot, like, sort of sex scene to go on a little bit longer without being like gratuitous or like I don't need to see like. Like I felt like the Lion King did it a little too much, you know, when like Nala and Simba, you can see like their hind legs actually interlocked. And you're like, damn, dude, you just went. Oh, really? Yeah. When they're there, like flopping over each other is some hind leg action.

Just like I wanted that to be a half hour long. That's what I need. I didn't need that much. I was ready to put off when the word sex appeared in the dust. And that one scene, which it totally does. And I paused it a million times as a 14 year old. Yeah.

Edge Lord has been like, you want to see how they got on? They got dicks on the little mermaid cover. That's why we're horny today. That's why I'm horny. Thank you, Simba and Nala. So this is going to be yet another scene from Meet Joe Black that I will watch out of context. Have you never seen Meet Joe Black?

Because the death scene I've seen hundreds of times. Yes. I'm a weird person, but it's one of the best deaths in movie history. It is. And then his Jamaican accent scene. Oh, this? I've only watched that a couple of times, but it's so embarrassing. Everything's going to be irie. Oh, okay.

Miles is pulling it up. Brad, will be evil or not evil, Omar? This is Brad. And what you is then? I'm from that next place okay brad i from that next place wagwan yeah i've seen so much meet joe black but never the complete movie well there's so much of it everything won't be iry two hours and 30 minutes and i'm saying you gotta watch the sex scene though like it's good i'll add that if only things i know are the patois scene and the sex scene then fine and the death

and the death scene right i haven't even seen the death scene i've always seen yeah you've always seen the patois scene you've seen the death scene you've seen the death scene you just didn't know it was from me joe black what have you ever seen somebody get hit by a cab like five different ways? It's two cars. He just gets like a mannequin. Oh, maybe not. But after a very beautiful and cute sort of walk away scene between two lovers who are like sort of interested in each other. And they keep they keep turning back.

They keep looking back. Did you just see it? No, I'm just I'm just hearing how you described it. It's one of those things where it's like goodbye and then abrupt vehicular smashing. Yes. The most abrupt. And the sweetest music.

Again, speaking of rom-com, the most rom-com moment. And then he stops in the middle of the road and gets hit by two cars. Yeah, which he had coming. He did. Yeah, enough of 90s. Oh, look, yeah, this is cool. He's just crossing the street.

He got his luggage and stuff. The van crosses. Everything looks great. Everything looks so wonderful. He is walking between. What's wrong? She didn't even see that? Oh, he looked back.

Oh, so she's gone. Oh, she's gone. Good thing they're paramedics, though. Yeah. Someone tells me they don't notice either oh oh no joe yo come on come on you've never seen that before not i didn't want i didn't give a fuck about this movie when it came out. I didn't either.

I didn't even get pulled into like, yo, this. Wow. My dad was really into this movie. He was just chilling in that sidewalk. Yeah. Wow. Pits back. My dad calls him Brad Pits.

Brad Pits. Pits back. Pits back, baby. Wait, quick question, question, Franny Field. I've got to ask you, best Brad pick back in a film? Is it that scene? Is it Fight Club? Is it him as

Mickey and Snatch? Is it him as fucking What's-His-Face? I don't think I ever saw Legends of the Fall or whatever the fuck that movie is called. Is it called that? I don't think there's any back in there. I don't think there's any back in there and I don't Legends of the Fall or whatever the fuck that movie is called. Is it called that? Yeah, you got it. Legends of the Fall. Thank you. I don't think there's any back in there. I don't think there's any back in there.

And I don't remember seven years in Tibet if it had enough or any. I will say that One Night Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has some really nice shirtless. Oh, yeah. When he's like work. Yeah. When he's like working on the roof and shit. Yeah. And I even think, did he go shirtless in 12 Years a Slave?

Or was he just, he was like sweaty in 12 Years a Slave. He appears in it. I believe he appears in it. Am I totally mixing that with, no, no, yeah, he appears in it. He's like a good white man. Oh, is he? Briefly, I believe. But no, I think this is definitely the hottest.

Peak Brad back is the meet your black sex scene. The funny thing about this movie is he is just hot. He's just so hot even though he's death. Death decides to inhabit the hottest body. The entire plot would be

dead in the water if he weren't... If he were schlubby. Like if it were Jonah Hill. I'm sorry. I don't know why, but like. It wouldn't work as well. It wouldn't work. I'd be like, get the fuck out of here.

I'm calling the cops right now. He's like, no, but I am death. I just want to live a bit. I just want to. That's the plot. Death wants to feel what it's like to be alive for a little bit. Yeah. And he gets to eat a bunch of things,

which as we know, bread pit is the best at eating things on camera. And so he like gets to taste peanut butter and be like, whoa. Yes, exactly. And then you're like, slather that all over me.

What? Yeah. All over my back. Just give me a peanut butter back rub. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about Death Robot. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer

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My assumption, my feeling, my hunch is that a lot of us are actually looking for a way to disagree and still be in a relationship with each other. All that on the Happiness Lab. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And we're back. and we're back and the san francisco police department is back at it again baby inching closer yeah tech dystopia uh we talked a few months ago when they got an ordinance passed that allowed the cops to tap into private surveillance cameras during a quote-unquote emergency and then many people were like oh you have this definition of an emergency is like it's to tap into private surveillance cameras during a quote unquote emergency. And then many people were like, oh, you have this definition of an emergency. It's like it's a very loose definition.

It sounds like if the cops maybe killed an unarmed person and people decided to protest, you would consider that gathering of protesters also an emergency, in which case you would be tapping into ring cameras. Is that what got going on? They're like, that's not going to. They were like fine it's fine those loopholes it's okay it's all good so people were a little bit like oh shit well now they're on the verge of getting the green light to use fucking killer robots at this point they may have already um but the board of supervisors they approved a rule change that authorizes the police department's robots to be

used quote as a deadly force option when risk of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available available to sfpd they tried some shit that was they tried something similar in oakland but the cops backpedaled when the public basically collectively collectively asked if they had lost their fucking minds and then so that died right there but the sfpd shit that is still cooking it looks like it's it's on its way to actually becoming like fully approved and when they when the sfpd was asked like how do you even envision using a fucking killer robot like in like please help us understand why you're like we gotta get this rule change, because this is this is about to make everybody safe.

They said, quote, the department does not have any sort of specific plan in place as the unusually are in place as the unusually dangerous or spontaneous operations where SFPDs need to deliver deadly force via robot would be a rare and exceptional circumstance. Right. But I'm like, when is a cop's life in danger like that? Because for everything we see is them shooting a bunch of unarmed people in the back they're like once i you know i grab my taser i mean my gun i mean my wait which side is it okay so left is taser the right is oh god this is so hard i said taser when i pulled the trigger though yeah yeah well they're shaped the same, but one is bright yellow. So once they've used both of those on the unarmed homeless man having a mental health crisis, then they have to send in a robot because they're super scared.

Robots don't get scared, although robots will have a very robust union. So watch out. Yeah, seriously. Who will argue that they were scared when they just had to blow up the unhoused person because that's what these are doing. They're not even armed with firearms. It's they just explode. The times we've seen them yet, like the one time this has been this has happened, or at least the first like officially recorded instance of someone being killed by a police robot is in 2016 after a shootout and a standoff and the cops loaded up a bomb disposal robot with its own bomb and just cruised that shit into the area where the suspect was and blew him up yes yeah that was by the way the shooting

of the police the like dallas police officers after the black lives matter protests it feels and then they've also of course used this a lot in iraq and like war on terror shit so and that's where it came from too yeah that's where it came from that's that's where they got the idea and the technology and the hurt locker but someone who's reverse hurt locker baby formula from a Walgreens. Yeah. You're like, we got to go in there. Yeah. And it, and it feels like you need to, to,

to make this not terrifying. You, you need to be able to completely dehumanize the person who is being blown up by a robot who's being, yeah, attacked by a killer robot. So they were able to do it in dallas because it was a you know scary the record we see is the police have the whenever police bomb people it's potentially

black people yeah it seems like it seems like it's always people of color which weird yeah that happened in philly you know when they dropped a straight up bomb on an apartment helicopter you know what i mean like i just feel like i I mean, it's, it's like, what is it? Do you need more toys or do you need more training? Pick one. Right. Because we're constantly told that, oh, they need training. They need training.

They're training, man. Whatever happened to like being any kind of like any kind of negotiator. Right. Remember the movie with Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson? Obviously canceled. But no, Kevin spacey just got cast in another movie recently there we go he's back at it like yeah he's back at it again 16 year old me would be happy yes i did have a very long obsession with him don't at me it is weird i

know um like you you thought he was attractive or you were just like obsessed with him as an actor? Both. Wow. Interesting. Four years. But I digress. Oh, my God. We'll talk about that in detail. My email was kevinsangel at hotmail.com. No, it wasn't.

No. You were covering your mouth like that shit was true. No, but look, when I would look up at my poster of The Negotiator, the movie, on my wall, I'd be like, look, this is what we need. Good police to negotiate their way out of these high-intensity situations. Yes. And why do you need to send in a fucking robot bomb? And, like, you have SWAT teams. Like, you have all kinds of manner of weaponryry and you need this. No, you don't. It's whatever whoever the contractor is, whoever is making money. The SFPD don't even get me started on the shit that they don't need. They are the worst. And meanwhile, they play into the entire narrative that crime is on the rise in San Francisco, that it's untenable, that yada,

yada, yada. And people's windows get smashed and their shit gets stolen from their cars all the time. And guess what? That's super helpful for the cops. They know exactly where they know who breaks in. They know who is breaking into cars. They know where they break into cars.

They have the cameras set up on those streets. I used to live in San Francisco. They said, have the cameras set up on those streets. They know. And do they go after those, those very particular people? very particular people no no no they don't at all and it plays into the narrative from folks who like are like my car's gotten broken into we need more money for cops to not go after the person who definitely broke into my car maybe address address

address the motives for someone having to break into somewhere to take something of value well then there's that but these folks are like professional i mean they're professional they should they do this shit all the time it's not you're it's not you're like sort of strung out person who definitely needs some help addiction treatment mental health services etc that's not who's breaking into cars but then yeah let's recall chessa boudin i say all this to distract from the fact that i did have a four-year crush on Kevin Spacey. Yeah, and I get back to Kevin Spacey. You know, everything before that was straight back.

But I do think, I mean, I feel like San Francisco is, and the fact that it is the center of this right-wing and even like mainstream media talking point of like crime out of control in California. They've lost the city and like the police are the are this sort of occupying force like that. It's already kind of the peak of that of like really, really wealthy people who treat the surrounding society like it's, you know, some foreign country that they need to be protected from. It's like very Elysium vibes there and so it makes sense that this would be the first place where they are openly adopting this technology that was like used on in the war on terror in quotes to like just bomb people just like send a bomb by remote control to blow people up because or you know you know, like the next adaptation is a,

is a robot that has firearms attached to it. That can be, yeah, of course, you know, yeah, they have those already. Yeah,

exactly. And I, and I think just like a slippery slope, all these little rule changes add up to, you know, again, the next time people decide to protest, you're going to have killer robots on the corners and every ring cam can be used as

like a surveillance tool and it's just like just like that so was it american beauty do you think or was it like what was it usual suspect because like i know you know i had a weird crush when i was a kid i was like paul abdul was like my the most attractive person to me for like the first 10 years of my life. And I, but I know exactly where it was. It was the cold hearted snake video on MTV. And just being like, I think that was around the time my body was discovering that sex was a thing.

And I was just like, Whoa, wait, what, what about the rush rush music video? That one that came after but i was already way on board for that come on now yeah yeah we're talking to we're talking to a fiend here but but francesca tell us what was it about chris yeah what was the movie what was the

character in the good night no i remember his name i mean i think it's i think uh it says a lot about who i'm attracted to like no no no don't read into it but for sure it was la confidential la confidential is a great fucking movie and kevin spacey is it looks very very nice in a lot of those scenes and he's just he's just a good looking dude in the shut up everyone everyone right now everyone um you want to know how deep i had a our spare key in our family house for our front door had a kevin spacey keychain on it wow and i had a poster of the grasshopper in a bug's life because he was the voice of the grass yeah no it was bad like if I were my parent, I would have been like,

so, honey, let's... Let's unpack some of this. Yeah. Wow. All right. Yeah, I mean... No, but then when I saw American Beauty... Okay, so here's what happened.

American Beauty, I was like... Because I would follow up on all of his movies, you know, like, what's coming out next? This one was like, all right, man in midlife crisis has crush on 16-year-old girl. like yes christine like i'm mina right that's what i was wondering i'm 16 and i was like you're a child this is great so then i go to the movie theater and i watch it and i was like oh yeah that is kind of wrong this was not meant to be this is wrong right

this is an age inappropriate okay and it cooled? it didn't cool it it didn't end it I think K-Pax ended it for me but yeah that was it was the beginning of the end yeah

hit us with your weird crushes. I want to know about them. That's my favorite that I've heard. Like, the fact that you had the keychain, the email. I went to New York to see him in a play in the Iceman Cometh on Broadway, and I waited outside. Which was supposed to be very good, yeah. It was good.

I waited outside for his autograph, got his autograph good. It was good. I waited outside for his autograph. Got his autograph. Lots of... Oh, and then went out to... Did you send him your email address? No, I did not. But I did go out to dinner with a group of 30 mostly women,

mostly middle-aged, to a Angel Fire fan page meetup for kevin spacey holy and we all ate dinner before the show i'm not even lying like this is yeah that's just so yeah it's so like 1999 no yeah 97 god i don't even know how old was i uh there's way more there's way more you don't even i would make like i would do like photoshop collages because that's when photoshop was a big thing and i would put like his face on the spice girls and instead of spice up your life i wrote space up your life no yeah it was the most like 90s crush i can't even it's

the best thing i've ever heard otherwise you're the greatest improviser i've ever met in my life yeah no you can't make this shit up an angel fire fan page dude and space up your on the spice girls bodies yeah hell yeah yeah i love that anyway uh a cab includes killer robots yes yes all right let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

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and still be in relationships with each other. All that on the Happiness Lab. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And we're back. And Christmas is back, as we mentioned uh it's back at the white house we already talked earlier this week how fox news is up in arms that joe biden is disrespecting christmas by putting up christmas decorations yeah i guess he did it too early for them even though they're i don't know who the fuck knows but the so jill biden's theme for the decorations is we the people which is defined by just some vague bullshit about

unity which only exists as a flimsy pretext to put a bunch of christmas trees and lights which yeah just should just be the theme of people like christmas decorations and we do too yeah like dr jill look you don't gotta you know you don't owe anybody an explanation be like i'm the theme of people like Christmas decorations and we do too. Yeah. Like Dr. Jill, look, you don't got to, you know, you don't owe anybody an explanation.

Be like, I'm putting decorations up motherfuckers. What are you talking about? A theme it's December. How about that? Yeah. Wow. I don't know.

I feel like there's a lot of disrespect happening for both the constitution and Christmas right now. I got it. I loved it. I, every photo I liked. Yeah. it just looks very classic christmas shit classic you know yeah it looks like christmas shit it looks like the kinds of houses like i i wish like my like immigrant mom and black father would make our house look like when i was a kid i'm like why don't we have all this cheesy shit up they're like man we don't fucking with all that so when i see this i'm like oh wow

to be white during christmas yes i my i have a step mom who uh is white and my mom is chinese and my family in like my main home we kind of did like wooden like nutcracker things and sort of like a little more sort of like the wooden train underneath and nothing to like presentations are like that's nice though i like that a lot yeah it was a lot of like swedish stuff it was like a lot of again a lot of classical music and then going to my white step mom's home it was like the stockings were like faux fur and everything was sort of bigger and like bigger bulbs on the trees and much more like, you know, like all the like Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock.

You know, like that was it was a different kind of Christmas. It was a whiter, in my opinion, a whiter Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. And I thought that was fun to experience both. Yeah. And there is nothing unwhite about the Biden family there. They are extra, extra white. It's funny.

So part of me is like, yeah, but I remember when Melania put up her Christmas decorations and we were all hating on them. So, like, is this just the equivalent of them? Those were objectively screwed up. They were like the blood forest. well it was just like good it was the it didn't it didn't bother me because i don't give a fuck but it did feel it felt like the sort of like it just really exposed hypocrisy of those people because it is the exact thing that would cause them to set their own hair on fire. Somebody doing a modernist

frigid take on Christmas cheer is the exact thing that they would be so fucking pissed about. That's such a good point. But because it was Melania, they couldn't say shit. The blood trees? The blood trees.

It looked like some mythical forest creature had sick But because it was Melania, they couldn't say shit. The blood trees. Yeah. Blood trees. What? Yeah. It looked like some like mythical forest creature was having like had sickly bowel movements. Like those didn't look like trees. They look like piles of weird shit that were red. Bjork. Like Bjork inspired. But not by Bjork because Bjorks would be way cooler. Yeah.

But anyways, people. This is actually an age-old tradition of people like looking for hidden shit or conspiracies in the christmas decorations i think a lot of q people thought that there were q anon messages in melania's christmas decorations even though as we heard from leaked audio months later, her Christmas decorations were just like, who fucking cares? I don't give a fuck about Christmas. I work my ass off and now I have to do the Christmas decorations and I don't give a fuck. Yeah, it really felt like that.

So Biden's White House had been kind of free of those types of controversies, but now we got theacknowledged like love child of don jr or something i feel like people would call it out and that does seem to be the case here right like hunter biden is a dirtbag who tried to wiggle out of paying child support for a kid that dna testing proved was his back in 2020 not saying saying they should have a stocking, but it at least gives you a good chance to point that out. If you're trying to call them the same on either side, sure. I think that's what's going to be interesting is for all of the outrage about the Trump family. I don't know. You already tried to shrug off the fact that Jared andared and ivanka were just took off with hundreds of millions of dollars from their time there and like this is kind of like and this guy's got problems

and i can't realize like what that's gonna end up sounding like but you know go do as you will republicans with your majority there's also the secret satanic messages that are in the decor. Get to those. The satanic icons. Yeah, that's right. There's a satanic goat head hidden among the trees and wreaths, according to some people. Could you ask Flotus why there is satanic stuff in her Christmas decorations? Said Teresa Longwell. said Teresa Longwell. What it is, is it appears to be

a deer head. A deer head with deer antlers and a golden mirror that is in the state dining room which was first donated to the White House in 1946. Oh!

That shit does not mean you just wheel in for Christmas. Right. Hey, switch that you just wheel in for Christmas. Hey, switch that eagle out for this Satan head. I'm sure there's all sorts of weird shit like that hidden all over the White House, though. Masonic, you know, Illuminati shit. That would be fun

to just go on a little satanic treasure hunt around the White House. I feel like in five years when whatever not five maybe ten but when stephen miller is president or you know there will be q anon led tours of the deep state and the white house is one of those stops. Right. What's even spookier about that place is it was built with slave labor. Ooh. I won't mention that much. Yeah.

Shh, shh, shh, shh. No, no, no. We don't mention that. We don't mention that. Just a quick tour through some of the past controversy. So back in 2009, there was a freakout about how Obama hid a Mao Zedong ornament on his tree. Hid? Because, yeah.

How did he be hid hid it was hidden i mean okay it was on the tree that he let everybody take pictures of uh but you could tell like he had this look this like nervous look on his face that was like he's trying to hide it because obviously a he's a secret communist and b he liked to leave clues to the fact that he was a secret communist all over the place what in a place that was going to be photographed millions of times and also like that portrait of matt that's the andy warhol map like yes turns out y'all didn't fuck with art yeah people did people just looked it up and it is a Pittsburgh ball, Pittsburgh like Christmas decoration because Warhol was from Pittsburgh and it was a celebration of Andy Warhol. I see. But, you know, look, I mean, this is definitely one of those. It was hidden because it was on the backside of the tree. It's not the prettiest ornament. And you've got to put something on the backside where there's going to be less photographs. And that's that's what it is. You put all the janky ones or in my case all of

them are janky because they were just bought from target in one fell swoop oh yeah yeah i always collect ornaments oh do you oh wow oh my god that's amazing we actually have a christmas tradition here in this household francesca i'm just kidding i'm just hating on you i haven't i haven't i'm like crying i'm, why does she have to stay there? I haven't lived enough adulthood to do that. I feel like. Or like I have, but not, you know. Okay, to be fair, I always forget.

And then my wife, Her Majesty is like, we got to get another thing. I'm like, that's right. Yeah, let's get. And I'm always like advocating for like the easiest thing. And she would like something very ornate. And I'm like, nah, but see, this wine cork can be put in a paper clip and then become the ornament from this dress that's but that's but that's how you gotta think you know you could take one was i took like a hotel like key card and i was just like fuck it there's no well that's a bridge too far

hey look and that goes on the back of the tree. Sounds communist to me, actually. Very little money being spent at Target. Sounds communist. I could decorate an entire tree with all the hotel key cards I have. Oh, my God. Accidentally or just kept. No, of course not. But I'm like, oh, look at this. I have a weird thing with like, I never return them.

But then I come back home with them. I'm like, why the fuck do I? Why did I keep this? Exactly. I don't mean to take them. But then I come back home with them. I'm like, why the fuck do I? Why did I keep this? Exactly. I don't mean to take them. Oh, I do. I run out of the hotel laughing maniacally. You'll never fucking catch me.

Like I got this. I didn't put it in the box. Got him. I put a different. I put a credit card in the box to fool them. Fucking idiots. I lost a shitload of money on that. Also, back in the 90s, just to give people a reminder,

if you haven't already had enough of a reminder what it was like to be alive in the 90s from our Kevin Spacey crush stories. Back in the 90s, a former FBI agent claimed that Hillary Clinton decorated one White House tree with drug paraphernalia, condoms and cock rings. There is a conspiracy theory, very unbelievable conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was cool in the 90s. And I think we all know now that that was not true. It's the same thing with Hunter Biden.

Like how I mean, yeah, maybe he was a POS to his B-A-B-Y. But they make him out to be hella cool. Like all of the Daily Wire's movie about him. Yeah. Whoever super cut all the videos of him just like shirtless with, you know, a couple of women in bed. Smoking crack in a sensory deprivation tank. Like next level partying. Come on, y'all.

That guy would have got Maxim Baller of the Year in 1990. You know what I mean? Oh, no. you know what i mean like but oh now but yeah also the trailers for that hunter biden daily wire movie make it's the most competent i've seen joe biden look like he seems like he's capable of running a country in those trailers yeah exactly yeah rather than like making up like black people he was friends with back in the day right anyways keep it keep an eye by the way the all all of these uh think these conspiracies are debunked because you can look at photographs of them so like people are able to look at the photograph of the Mao Zedong ornament and be like, oh, this is a Pittsburgh ornament

that you can buy lots of places. Here are the five Christmas trees that were up in the White House. None of them have cock rings on them. Ah, boo. Damn it. Yeah. There are cock rings, though, at the foot,

at the foot of every stocking. Yes. Or a little anal bead just like drug paraphernalia condoms and cock rings is such a like who would just what an imagination of like and what is that like i love when fucking cops are like paraphernalia like get vivid here bro we talking stems we talk just fucking hypodermic needles those like tiny little like novelty bongs. Yeah, like little neon green acrylic bong

earrings. Yeah, but it's like the little gnomes that are made out of clay but then also on a pipe with little googly eyes. Exactly. The cutest paraphernalia. Yeah. Well, we'll get to what Water Somalia

is tomorrow, but I think all our listeners are going to be fine with the fact that we instead diverged into stories of the Spacey crush. Yeah, I'm so sorry, y'all. Francesca, such a pleasure having you, as always. Where can people find you and follow you? find you and follow you yeah follow me on all the things at franny fio f-r-a-n-i-f-i-o and listen to the bituation room or watch it live tuesdays 1 p.m pacific 4 p.m eastern uh youtube slash franny fio we have great comedian guests and experts and activists every week yeah yeah and is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying oh my god so the japanese communist party just put out a video which features a uh obviously a cartoon woman who seems to be like a housewife dancing and explaining communism to you and it is really good. Nice. She's basically like,

look, you should be able to work eight hours a day, but it's all in song. Work eight hours a day and still be able to provide for your family. You should be able to have a family without being overworked or going bankrupt. Yay! And it's like really,

she's got cool glasses and a cute little haircut and she's wearing heels. It's the most adorable sell for communism I've seen. Wow. I like that. We're gonna get a cultural shift through anime, please. Yeah, exactly.

Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on places with at symbols, but put in miles of gray and chances are I'll be there. Let's see. And also, obviously, you can come check Jack and I out on our basketball podcast. Miles and Jack got Matt.

We also got the other, you know, I'm do the other show about 90 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra for 20 Day Fiance. Some tweets I like. First of all, shout out to everybody uh is tagging us in their spotify rap it's always nice to see that people do listen so appreciate all of that i would do like let's see one tweet first one is oh this one is wild it's from uh at put a sing on it and it's this tiktok video of i think this woman taking a driver's test in the uk and yo this she is struggling to get the car but she's doing it she's keeping her cool the whole time she's trying to start the car she's trying to get the she's got the blinker on she keeps putting the emergency brake up and down

and the dude in the passenger seat is like trying to be cool trying not to be an asshole and this video goes on for i'm not joking a minute okay we're halfway through that's amazing she's still just wobbling the gear shift and then let's get to the part where finally the instructor's like hey i gotta say something this is my handbrake what she said it's my handbrake on? Is the car still off? Oh, that's it. Oh, makes sense. Thank you. She said, is my handbrake?

She's like, the car is still off. Oh, that's it. Thank you. I think she just continued with the bit that she was actually driving and that they are driving. Brum, brum, tong, tong. Looks over her shoulder. And what's next? Moves the gears around.

What would you like me to do next? Yes, I'm stopping at this. Oh, do a negotiated left turn yes okay or right turn i guess in the case of the uk the repeated checking of the handbrake and like putting it up and putting it down and putting the car into gear putting it back is just like such a great like i i've watched half of that this morning but it was was too good. A pro like a, like, it just really reminded me what it feels like to have the very type of anxiety I have.

Yeah. Like, did I actually do that? Oh, did I do that too? When you're like, I'm fucking up, but I've still,

I, we haven't reached that point where I'm gonna tell the person I'm with. I've completely fucked up. Yeah. Like part of me is hoping like, well, as I watch it, I was like,

yo, the dude got to say something. He's got to say something. I didn't know. Yeah. First of all, to her credit, I think it's very difficult actually knowing when a car is on or off these

days when it's just a button and everything's so quiet. Yeah, that's true. Oh, more than that. I, that's true. Oh, more than that. I just love for me. I love the, just the act of also like,

fuck it, man. I'm gonna check my mirror again. Yeah. Checking the mirror. It also reminded me of the time I tried to drive with my dad in the car while I was way too high. Yeah.

Like, you know, and you're just like checking everything like just doing and there was another time when i tried to park a car while my dad was like right there while i was too high and i was just going zero miles per hour into this thing just it's like everything all right man yeah yeah yeah oh the car's off that's the problem another tweet i like is from kelsey mckinney at mckinney kelsey tweeted i'm forming a union for people whose spotify's

are connected to household speakers that their partners use and therefore have fucked up spotify raps please let me know if you'd like to join my union i i definitely felt that and then finally sean keen pass guess he just like quote tweeted this video of joe biden he just said joe biden is fully turning into a fred willard character and i i do like this video of Joe Biden. He just said, Joe Biden is fully turning into a Fred Willard character. And I do like this description of Joe Biden talking to people after like the USA World Cup match. USA, USA. That's a big game, man. Well, I spoke to the coach and the players.

I said, you can do this. They went, they're going to. They did it. God love them. Anyway, just thought you might want to hear it. That was peak Willard. That was peak fucking Fred Willard. They got it all.

God love them. They did it. My God, they did it. God love them. All right. All right, let me play this organ for you. Amazing. All right. All right. Let me play this organ for you. Amazing. All right.

That is a good look for him, though. Fred Willard. Joe Biden is Fred Willard. That is it. Yeah. He needs to steer the fuck into that. What he should do is be like, look, these other people are running it, but Joe Biden is the face and he is now doing Fred Willard.

Yeah. running it but joe biden is the face and he is now doing fred willard yeah i do think we need some deep fakes of him as fred willard but just the same same words coming out of his mouth same non-words coming out be careful what you wish for let's see kate at punished underscore kate tweeted you watch any dateline and you learn real quick there's nothing more dangerous than lighting up a room it It's on every episode. That's why I don't light up anything. I make places worse when I get there. That's just good advice.

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy hey miles what song do you think people might enjoy oh well well well if it isn't my good friend jack asking what i would play it's this track by this artist 80 perp p-u-r-p-p-p and i could tell you were panicking looking for something because you didn't do the footnotes footnotes

i was thinking i was you know it's funny as francesca said that i was trying to find something to deep fake like joe a Fred Willard video to Joe Biden and I completely lost the plot but yes footnotes and to that end I say Uni UNI by this artist 80perp UNI yeah but not

I know who you calling a bitch wow that was a fucking track. But you and I is dope. It's just like kind of, you know, like 2022 R&B. Like the production is a little like it's forward thinking. But the stylings are fantastic.

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