The Daily Zeitgeist - Anti-Vaxx Sperm = Bitcoin? Jeopardy Gerrymandering 8.20.21

Episode Date: August 20, 2021

In episode 973 Jack and Miles are joined by host of the Pod Yourself A Gun podcast Vince Mancini to discuss a terrorist trying to blow up the library of congress, Anti-vaxx sperm being as good as gold, people losing their shit on planes, Fox News to have employees reveal vaxx status, the Canadian election shit show, the new Jeopardy host and more!FOOTNOTES: TDZ LIVE SHOW TICKETS! Terrorist Threatened to Blow Up Library of Congress, Stands Down Anti-Vaxx Sperm is the new gold People still acting like feral cocaine hogs on airplanes Fox News to employees: REVEAL YOUR VAXX STATUS ASAP The Canadian Election is Already a Shitshow The New Jeopardy Host Suuuuuucks LISTEN: Masayoshi Takanaka - "BREEZIN" Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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talking about vaccines, who knew Usher was doing the right thing with vaccinations at his Vegas show? Shout out to me. Again, right there, doing some Usher vaccine-edges, aka's. The old Ursh. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, you didn't mention the fact that vaccine-adjacent AKAs. The old Ursh. Yeah, I mean,

you didn't mention the fact that it's going to make my semen less valuable on the open market. We'll debate that later on in the show. Okay, alright. I'm just saying, don't leave out the most important part of the story. Yeah.

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mancini guess who just got back today oh was i not uh forced to do the singing like you guys i didn't like i didn't prepare a parody but i was right sounded like the vince is back in town that was great man how are you oh i'm good i'm just uh you know breathing in a lot of wildfire smoke and and hacking up flimballs it's great yeah yeah taking wild hits of forest ash. Yeah. Yeah. It gave me a headache yesterday.

I was like, wait, it's my, I was like, is it my allergies? I'm like, no, it's the wildfire headaches I get. Yeah. You know what? You know how they put like fluoride in the water to keep our teeth nice and wet? I feel like they should put like nicotine in the pine trees. That way. To chill us out a little bit. Yeah, when the wildfires happen.

And then at least it's like, you know, we get a little cigarette high off of it. I do wonder, is there THC content to the air in Los Angeles these days? Just because of all the weed farms that are burning up? I don't know. I mean, I think like eighth grade, me would have been like, dude, I bet if we drive close enough, like we get so high just from reading the air. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I doubt it. Wouldn't be enough for you to notice, Miles. But if I start having panic attacks and thinking everybody's talking about me, I'll let y'all know. That'll probably be a good sign

that I'm getting a little bit of a contact. All right. All right. I'll let you know. Or let me know. All right, Vince, we're going to that I'm getting a little bit of a contact. All right. All right. I'll let you know or let me know. All right, Vince, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,

we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about. We're going to check in with Floyd Ray Roseberry. I mean, that is the most mega name possible. I don't think you could fucking workshop that any better. That's the dude who was live streaming his standoff with Capitol Police outside of the Library of Congress with his in his pickup and with his finger on a detonator. Just another little surreal scene from this modern world of ours. world of ours. We're going to talk about anti-vax sperm. It's the new goal. I've been saying this for a long time, but finally the world has caught up. We will talk about the FAA is having to, you know, deal with airplane passengers in a new way where things have just gone too far,

it seems like. So they have updated their, I don't know, what is it? Their passenger bill of rights or something? No, I mean, they've announced that they just were like, oh, we've given out a million dollars in fines already for people fucking around on planes. And we've done it faster than ever before. Congrats. Congrats, America. We'll go into some of the fines and that everyone's acting like a feral cocaine hog on an airplane. We'll talk about Fox News vaccination. They're about to have to reveal their vaccination status.

We'll talk about the Canadian election. We'll talk about that new Jeopardy host. election. We'll talk about that new Jeopardy host. We're getting new details of what that search, in quotes, looked like and what kind of dude he is. All of that, plenty more. But first, Vince, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? I recently searched Jonathan Taylor Thomas. I wanted to know what he looked like, you know, get from Home Improvement. Yeah. That's a common search, actually. I think we've had that before. So you were looking for present day JTT?

Yeah. My stepson was watching an old movie with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and I wanted to know what he looked like now. And I guess he had been photographed for the first time in like eight years recently and it was uh it didn't tell me much it was just him in a hat and some glasses vaping while he walked a couple poodles oh wow yes damn that picture does make me feel old yeah i gotta see this now wait he's wearing hat? I mean, it's a double-edged sword, because it's like, you don't want to be a public figure anymore, which I respect,

but then when you get photographed once every eight years, every time people are like, oh my god, he's aged! Right. Oh, man. Well, yeah. His kick and jean game are offensive. Those knee balances are on tight,

my guy. Wow. Yeah, he's got the beat up old new balances. Are those boot cut jeans? I guess those are more straight leg jeans. He knows better, but they're still baggy as fuck. No, I was saying, is he cool?

Does he have boot leg jeans like the coolest among us do? Are those cool now? Are those cool again? Don't please. I hope so, man. Don't. This guy's upside down.

He bought upside down on some bootleg jeans. Yeah, I got. He bought a whole shipping container. He's heavily leveraged. It was only 70 grand for this whole shipping container packed to the gills with boot cut lee jeans oh man so cool though because you know you gotta let them know tight up i'm still not convinced you're not gonna convince people with that that very low energy pitch check oh man you're sick vince what is something you think is overrated?

I mean, this is an easy one I don't know if someone's done this yet But, I mean, the Afghan National Army You weren't impressed? Yeah, a bit of a paper tiger there, seems like Yeah, well, you know What the fuck I mean, right now, there's people They're reclaiming parts of the country

So this thing is just all over the place. That whole thing was just so wild. Like, along with that, I mean, talk about the U.S. military, like, being completely overrated after that as well. Like, when you're thinking, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're fine. This thing is unwinnable and was just a big old military, you know, fire sale slash spend-a-palooooza and then we get this now yeah yeah and did we pay any of the people in the afghan national army i feel like it was a lot of uh well you don't want to pay them because then they'll get lazy i thought there was a i thought there was like pallets of money going around to warlords kind of thing well that was how they

were trying to get people to agree to the, you know, like new policies of this government. And it was just sort of basically like, what if we give you money to agree? And they're like, yeah, great. And that's just not a sustainable way of doing things. Right. And then we're like, why are these people so corrupt? We paid them to do what we wanted. It's weird.

Right, right, right. Yeah. And that's why I think everyone now who's looking at it, who before wasn't like, this is an absolute waste, is like, wait, it was what? Oh, well, that sounds like an absolute mess. Like, yeah, it was. What's something you think is underrated, Vince? I mean, on that note, I got to go with the Taliban.

You know, they just seem like they wanted it more. Had a lot of grit. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they had to. Going for all, getting all the loose balls. Yeah. Taking out the lunch pail and going to work, you know.

They're grinders. I've always said that about the Taliban. That's what, that's what, y'all sound like Donald Trump. He said like, yeah, they're great negotiators. He was saying he was, he's big. He was bigging. Donald Trump. He said, like, yeah, they're great negotiators. He was saying he was he's big. He was big enough. The Taliban. Uh huh.

But again, this is I think and that's why I think you saw a lot of conservatives who are like suddenly like Team Taliban all of a sudden. And you're like, what the fuck is. Yeah, they kind of like I saw some right wing guy tweet about how, you know, the Taliban is pro abortion and anti all these liberal things and he's like why why were we on the other side again and it was like yeah i mean we've been calling you guys the american taliban for like 10 20 years now like it's weird that you just noticed the similarity right yeah like oh you were. Y'all weren't kidding. OK. on the front doorstep of the Library of Congress with a detonator and live streaming his negotiations

with Capitol Police. Just a nice little snapshot of like what we got festering just below the surface on in the right wing portions, the right wing echo chambers of the country. Did you guys catch any of any of his his commentary no i didn't watch it i saw someone who had a written description of the main points of his live stream yeah i mean it's this is you know this is this seems like a natural extension after january 6th of people who don't see any sort of uh repercussions for doing shit like this and that that this is a way to do something but this guy didn't even it seemed like he wasn't even clear on what he wanted aside from saying i want to speak to joe biden but he can resign i also don't want to harm anyone he

wants to talk to samson that's what i heard yeah exactly he really came to speak to the manager of dc in the weirdest fucking way and it was just it's right on some level i'm like this is all i mean this dude's pump faking or whatever but also fuck like this is so real now that this is yeah you can tell by the way the language he's using he's trying to say like some of you are calling yourselves patriots but you're golfing and doing this other stuff we need to do shit i i fuck it seems like the official ideology of like the the trumpist right is incoherent rage now and uh and so like every time one of them gets up to shout it's just like a stream of consciousness like set of grievances and i'm curious how this negotiation goes because uh i haven't i haven't heard what he wants yet, but I'm sure it's super, super coherent.

Well, right now, right. He did. He he gave it up. Yeah, they did take him into custody at the end of it. So he didn't blow anything up and ultimately got whatever he was looking for. So, I mean, he's probably in a meeting with Joe Biden right now. No, no word on on how those negotiations are going but we'll see you know probably just his his sizzle reel for like a newsmax show that he will do from prison yeah that's the main thing that we all want is just a media career but i mean like you know with all even all jokes aside you can tell the way this guy's talking this isn't

gonna stop and yeah it's it's just gonna get worse you know what i mean and like i as much as i'm like i'm also like it's you know everything is unfolding in a way that seems very predictable where there's still these people who call themselves quote- patriots who are trying to rally each other and embolden each other and i'm i don't i'm curious to understand what the end game is like in terms of what this i don't know like what domestic this domestic terror problem and how that's going to play out and ultimately be settled or not or embraced it's uh yeah a lot going on a lot going on then there was like a there was a another bomb scare in like time square too at the same time and then there's a truck on like the bay bridge that was like on fire this there was a fucking wild morning yeah yeah our understanding of what like liberty and all the things that we talk about uh our understanding what that means it

gets like narrower and narrower and more scattered to the point where it's just like well i ain't putting on no mask man this is america and if uh you asked me to do that i'm just a patriot yeah yeah yeah liberty is me being able to do whatever i want in this moment right now regardless of consequences seems to be the going definition in some in this moment right now, regardless of consequences. Seems to be the going definition in some circles. Right. Yeah. I mean, there's just the world is painful right now. And we've got a lot of people who are making a lot of money, giving people convenient scapegoats and lies and targets. And I don't know how it's's gonna get better before it gets worse because he even said something about his health care you know and like not getting able to get like shots for his back i

don't know if i'm on the cortisone or whatever but something and like you realize too that like all so many people are feeling the squeeze of how fucked up and just inhumane this country is but but people are get squeezed through these media machines and come out the other side thinking like oh it's because of this that the other thing that is the reason why my life experience is like this and yeah and then it just manifests into this real world nightmare shit yeah they're all mad about, like, real shit. And then it just gets, who they blame gets really scattered and weird. It's like, oh, man, I can't believe, can't get the shots I need. And it's like, oh, is it because you don't have health care?

No, it's because, like, immigrants and maskers and stuff. And you're like, okay, I mean, sure. But I mean, that's the brilliance of how these like the media apparatus, apparati machines are working to keep people on a steady diet of misinformation to just based on what's going to keep them, quote, engaged the most. And so it's just it just generates from whatever they want to hear is is what what reality becomes yeah vc has ruined the internet first and then now they're ruining the actual uh world yeah it's fun it is uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Fantasy football fans. The NFL season is here and now is the time to get ready to dominate your leagues. The best way to crush your opponents this season is to listen to the NFL fantasy football podcast.

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putting it, but essentially anti-vax guys are saying their sperm will become one of the most in-demand substances on the planet because those of us who got suckered into taking the vaccine are now going to be sterile, sterilized. I think that's a big part of the the anti-vax this isn't anything texas gold they called it texas texas pearl they say essentially the logic it's fuck this is just a confluence of so many weird things but the logic is that because the vaccine is experimental, that their fears about, you know, like what it means because it's experimental and unsafe and like the great herd thinning of the, you know, the global elite, that essentially their fears will play out in this

way that the vaccinated population just falls apart because everyone is poisoned and then those that want healthy offspring are going to be breaking down the doors of unvaccinated men and it's just going to be just it's going to be raining and like all conspiracy theories this is a combination of a couple things that are true along with some total bullshit but their red string theory shit doesn't doesn't even come close to being related in any significant way but it's just enough like you could put three articles in front of someone be like, and this is the theory. So the first part is they think the Red Cross is asking for unvaccinated blood. They're saying the Red Cross says unvaccinated blood high in demand and also turning away vaccinated donors. Not true at all. Absolute horseshit. There's nothing even remotely close to this statement being true. But they want it to be true. They want it to be true. Like with Cliff, Floyd, Ray, Roseberry, it's, you know, whatever they want to be true creates.

It just becomes the reality. Then the next part is that sperm banks apparently have like low reserves at the moment. That is true. But all of them say it's because of COVID. It's just slowed down donations. It's not because of anything else going on. It's just because it's a pandemic. So some not everyone's priorities to go on down to the sperm bank for a donation at the moment. Then you have like their subreddit of like wall street bets vibes that has people on some

fucked up monetary speculation tick or kick so they're like okay man this is like the new game stonks amc shit to the moon but my cum and right that's my cum long on wing that jizz right so you see like there's this in this vice article they say that there's a screenshot from like this headline of an article from a crypto blog uh that says quote is unvaccinated sperm really the next bitcoin and that is being passed around no context even though the if you read the article the answer is no right so yeah it's it's a very very odd thing you look at some of the comments say mark my words that unvaccinated sperm and blood will be in high commodity in a few months to a year okay but yeah and then the

other thing is the irony here is that a lot of studies have shown that COVID has been detected in penile and testicular tissues as well as sperm. And some of you have found it could possibly lead to erectile dysfunction and infertility if you have COVID. But that's again, they take a lot of the stuff that you see as research into those things as causation or correlation to be like, yeah, you know, I mean, they're looking into it. So it must be that vaccinated sperm could be poison.

Well, I feel like every new thing, like the go-to conspiracy is that, uh, like, like, oh, this,

this soy is going to make me gay. Ain't it? Or, uh, you know, the vaccine is like, oh, it's about my dick again. And, uh, it's about my dick again and uh it's about

my dick again it's the yeah it's the it's the go-to thing it's like you know i mean yeah who would have thought that the the way into a toxic man's heart is to threaten their peepees and then immediately they're on board to be like oh no oh no threaten our nation's most vital resource which is you know our masculinity i've heard psa hasn't seen some online that are like with doctors sort of going that route to be like you should get vaccinated because covid could potentially give you erectile dysfunction so come on think about your peepee yeah and like they were really leaning into the like hey man peepee care but get the vaccination but yeah this you know, the always checking in with what the conspiracies are, because first it was like they were wearing masks because they were worried about getting covid from vaccinated people. And now we're at a place where the sperm is gold. is gold.

I just like, it's about my dick again as like a just stand, like somebody reviewing their thoughts. It's about my dick again! Or like going to a therapist. What? I had another dream. It's about my dick again!

Anyways. So, yeah, I mean, you know, hodl that sperm as they say on Redditdit hold on for dear life so oh that's what that is yeah hodl yeah hell yeah is that so it's like sting gonna be our new king he's just holding on to this sperm forever right i don't know i don't know. I don't know. I, it's, it's, it's, yeah, this is, this is where we're at now. Where sperm could be the new crypto, or at least we have people really mentally,

emotionally invested in that idea. They should go mine for it. They should do some jizz coin mining. Watch. Someone's going to start that as a joke, like jizz coin. And then it's, and then let the internet do its thing.

All right. Let's talk about the FAA. They recently announced that they've reached a new milestone in record time after going through 3,889 reported incidents. They've now charged people with fines that have gone over $1 million. So I think that we should just take this as a report card and say congratulations to America. We did it. Killing it. Absolutely. No one knows how to act. Everyone is on some other about to snap type energy,

no matter what. Yeah. There's like a sort of collection of some of the fines that have been doled out. And these aren't just like little slaps on the wrist. Some people are like $45,000 fine against a passenger in May of this year because someone was allegedly throwing objects, including his carry on luggage at other passengers, refusing to stay seated, lying on the floor in the aisle, refusing to get up, then grabbing a flight attendant by the ankles and putting his head up her skirt. The passenger was placed in flex cuffs and the flight made an emergency landing in Virginia. Another one is $42,000 for a passenger in May on JetBlue from a flight from Queens

to San Francisco, allegedly interfering with crew members, failing to comply with the face mask mandate, making non-consensual physical contact with another passenger, throwing a playing card at a passenger and threatening him with physical harm, making stabbing gestures towards certain passengers and snorting what appeared to be cocaine from a plastic bag, which the cabin crew confiscated. The passenger became increasingly Ice mallets sound like it sounds like a like Marvel Universe weapon. I'm assuming it's just mallets to break up the ice. Yeah, yeah. It's the little ones because when they get the bags of ice on board, you gotta... Right. Well, it used to be an ice pick,

but you can't use that anymore because it's a weapon, I guess. Right. Oh, that makes sense. Do they have ice picks on the flight? I mean, I don't know, but I assume that's why they... I've never heard of an ice mallet. I assume that's just the thing that they had to invent for a plane. Right. Yeah, yeah. Because, I mean, if you're breaking up ice... Well, I don't know why you would have to break up ice at your house, but usually you'd use something it i assume that's just the thing that they had to invent for a plane right yeah yeah because i

mean like if you're breaking up ice well i don't know why you would have to break up ice at your house but usually you'd use like something like an ice pick right you don't use like a meat tenderizer what's it for like isn't that an ice pick like old school like if you just got a block of ice you know like yeah and you're just like hey you want to get in there and chips it apart and you're like hey you want to you want to cold the scotch on the rocks? And you're just putting the fragments in a glass. Ice experts, let me know how this works. But whenever I get a bag of ice, you just slam it on the ground. Yeah, but I think if you're a real deal bartender, or sorry, mixologist, I think you still have to pick your own ice.

You have to have bespoke ice cube shapes. Right. Of course you do. The other thing, another fine was over $30,000 for someone in January, allegedly assaulting passengers around him because someone in his row would not change seats to accommodate his travel partner. He told his travel partner he would need to bail him out of jail for the physically violent crimes he threatened to commit. The captain returned the flight to the gate where law enforcement met the passenger southwest banned him from flying and then it says the fa does not put passengers on no fly lists so whenever whenever that happens on my

plane i like to turn to the guy next to me and go i wonder which vaccine he got yeah i mean like this this i feel like this stuff is just a huge indicator for how angry, stressed, depressed, how little fucks people give at the moment. It's a little jarring, you know, like to the point where the last couple of times I was on a plane, I was bracing myself for shit to kick off. I'm like, please, like if I hear someone like laugh loudly, I'm like, oh God, they're about to go down well we just keep we keep adding more and more rules to plane travel while uh offering less and less service so it's just like you get in the airport and you're

immediately having to do the whole like tsa exam and now it's like you know have your mask on at all times and this and that and then then meanwhile, like flights are like canceled, delayed. People are spending like, you know, three days on an airport and then you shove them into a plane after all that. Like, yeah, it's going to be some bad stuff happening. Yeah. I mean, there it seems like the airlines are understaffed as well i had to change a flight and spent five hours on on hold five hours on five hours like i have the screen cap because we were like wow this is record we were just like doing it as a bit after a while we were like there's no way they're gonna like come on and like help us and then they did. They ultimately came on. They were super helpful and rebooked our flight for us. But literally five hours of hold time.

And so I have another theory here that because aren't flights not serving drinks right now? Like during in flight so i'm wondering if this is people realizing they're not going to be able to order drinks on the flight and like overshooting the mark when they get drunk before the flight and like so they're just extra extremely because this all seems like shit that i would have done when i was blacked out that's at various points not you would have stuck your head up a flight attendant's skirt on a no i guess not all of this stuff okay you would have sn your head up a flight attendant's skirt on an airplane? No, I guess not all of this stuff. Okay, you would have snorted cocaine out of a bag?

Doing drugs in the open? Yeah, I feel like that one felt like, oh, no. I could see that. Oh, no. What's the date on this? 2021, thank God. Yeah, you got to pregame, and then sometimes you pregame a little too much yeah and it ruins the actual game because some of the fines are also for people drinking

outside alcohol on the plane like they're bringing it on board and things like yeah i mean yeah it's a combination of things but in general i think there's also this like thing when we're just reopening and things like that meant we just don't, we are, we're feral. Some of us are just out here wild, you know, like, I mean, I got in trouble at the Staples Center. You know what I mean? Because I was too wicked against the Suns in the playoff game. So. Oh, really?

Yeah. Remember, I took, remember, they took my name down and shit. Because I was screaming. They're like, hey, man, you can't be screaming shit like this from the stands i'm like i'm sorry oh my god i'm sorry i it's a it's it was 2020 i'm having a hard time and i i decided to get cathartic at the laker game okay okay yeah i mean once you just like marinate in your own house for about a year while all the news uh is like you know teaching you different ways to

hate each other turns out once you stick them back together right yeah it's not a great situation yeah no absolutely yeah have you seen any have y'all seen anything on flights i know dj danil was telling me he saw something recently when he was coming back like his flight took a minute to get to the gate because someone was wilding out but But I don't know if you all encountered unruly flights. I haven't been able to fly. My wife is very pregnant. So our last trip we had to drive to Montana. We did it as a road trip.

And then our in-laws were taking a flight on the way back and they got the flight got delayed like three or four times in the space. I mean, it was still the space of driving it was still a faster drive than it was a flight but uh yeah something about like knowing that you're gonna do that drive seems preferable to you know having the the goalposts push back over and over while you're just sitting in an airport somewhere right yeah this dude i was sitting next to like shit his pants was like throwing food all over the place you know punched me it was my three-year-old but it was still still a pretty pretty dynamic performance by him yeah I mean he's gonna be on the no-fly list god willing after that but yeah it's I I have

a hard time noticing anybody else when when i'm traveling with a with a three-year-old it's just head down every flight is chaos apologizing to people yeah i mean he's actually not that bad but yeah do you ever give uh like is that there is that normal where people like are like i have a baby here's like here's apology gifts yeah yeah i'm pre-empting or the uh yeah your plugs yeah yeah what like we're usually trying like make contact with people around us and sometimes they're just like why are you talking to me and sometimes they'll they're like oh i get it you know, I have a kid or I have a nephew. And yeah, it's good just to like have,

because otherwise you just feel like if there's silence in the internet, like you haven't interacted with them, you're just assuming the absolute worst about how they feel about things. So yeah, it's always good to just like kind of make brief contact. That becomes like a new, like little bit of decorum from anti-maskers

or on flights. Like, hi, just so you know, I'm going to refuse to wear a mask. So I'm really sorry. Here's some gift cards. Right. But it's just my freedom. And I understand that's probably going to inconvenience you. And that's not fair to you.

But here, just please take these earplugs and these flex cuffs. My family, just we can't weather the price drop on my semen. It's important to me that my semen goes for top dollar in the year 2022. So, well, let's talk about let's talk Fox News real quick, because they are going to have to announce their vaccine status probably just internally. Right. Like we're not going to get to know their vaccine status are we no i mean oh man hippo laws yeah hippo hippopotamus is going to protect them and i'm sure look you know what's going to happen somebody there's going to leak this shit and then it'll be all on wax i don't know maybe it will maybe it won't but that seems like that's what could happen to take the wind out of some people's sails. Maybe it'll get, I don't know. Look, but here's the thing that's been passed around.

If you worked at Fox, they got this real nice alert. It says, Dear colleagues, as all of you know, the health and safety of our employees has been our priority at Fox News Media since the start of the global pandemic 17 months ago. Whether at work or at home, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on all of our lives. Here are some of the steps we are currently taking given the recent rise in COVID cases nationwide and the spread of the Delta variant. One, we have asked all, and it's like underlined, employees, whether on-site as part of our essential workforce or working remotely, to upload their vaccination status into Workday. That's how I know this shit's real. They just said, hey, please put it in Workday. And then it's like, this is being done for space planning and blah, blah, blah.

It says all employees must enter their status in bold no later than today, August 17th, by the close of business. So that's a little, that's interesting. A lot of people are like, huh, that's not what's on the air, though. Right. Yeah, are they doing it just to make sure that's not what's on the air, though. Right. Yeah. What are they doing it just to make sure that people aren't falling for this vax bullshit? You think that's what's going on?

Because I could actually see the person leaking it being either, you know, somebody who's like, ha ha, Tucker Carlson sucks and I'm going to show that he's full of shit. But I could also see somebody leaking it because they're like, they betrayed us by getting the vaccine type shit. So either way, I don't care why you're doing it. Please leak this information. It's probably the anti-vax people don't want to be around all those vax employees and they're worried about what to do their sperm. More gelins or whatever they're worried about. Yeah. Larry Kudlow is like, I can't do it.

I can't be around people like that. Just I'm all in on come futures. But is Fox News even that popular anymore? It feels like it's kind of like diet soda to the real hardcore Q. Yeah. I mean, they're still doing numbers. They have been, you know, people have been migrating to Newsmax and OAN, but it still seems like it's still part of your full, your complete and balanced right wing diet is you got to have that hit. Just snort it in the flight and then fight all the passengers. But, I mean, it's funny because they clearly know, right?

Fox News clearly knows as a business that the only way to operate safely is to do this. Because they know that COVID is serious shit. But then, at the same time, it's like, well, we just want to make this place as safe as possible for our goons to go on camera and then be like, it's not then. Don't worry about it. Fuck Joe Biden and vaccines. Just go out there and be free because we know what the people want, because we're all in Manhattan. We know what red America is thinking. It's like, yes, fuck is this?

Hey, they're in enemy territory. You know, they're just plotting from behind the lines the yeah i i don't know it seems like fox's ratings are still pretty dominant but we're just like not really paying attention but they're just as popular as ever and then you'll also have the oann and shit like that yeah and then they're in weird like but it's funny because all of those networks have like double speak going on where like some people will be like no like it's serious and then like 20 minutes later they're like telling you like it's gonna turn your arms to like lizard tails and who knows what the fuck yeah i did develop grayscale

after i got the uh vaccine but that's just to be trying to attack people in a boat you know is that why your hand was wrapped in that rag i was like what happened trying to keep that on the low but yeah a little grayscale never have you tried sacrificing your child to the fire god oh yeah the one that punches you yeah yeah i my consultant my grayscale consultant has recommended that. We're just kind of looking at various options. Let's talk Canadian election real quick. Hell yeah.

Yeah, baby. North of the border. Let's go. Canadian election coverage. The thing that the Zeitgang has been clamoring for. This is just, it's always interesting. It's like finding out about the laws of physics on another planet. It's like this is like they can, for instance, call a snap election. So Justin Trudeau just was basically like, hey, we're having an election on September 20th because he thought he would regain a majority in the House of Commons. So it's like an impromptu election. What a dumb system. It's like they don't even have some right-wing talk show host to spend millions of dollars making a new election. They can just call it.

That's so dumb. Snap election. Dissolving parliament. Let's go. Let's go. Let's do it. Let's go. It was supposed to be October 2023. So we're going off two years, one month early.

Is that? No. Yeah. That's how math works. The conservative party tweeted out an ad using a jib jab animation from the year 2004. It's very wild. From the year 2004. It's very wild.

They basically just like. Copy pasted Trudeau's face. Onto Veruca Salt. From Willy Wonka. To be like he's complaining. He's a complainer. And people are just pissed at Trudeau. For calling an election at all.

Like it seems like the worst thing that he did. Was call this election. I love how polite even the attack ads are in Canadaada like i remember when i was in toronto when this election in the lead-up to the election when when trudeau got elected and like the attack ads on them were just people people in bars and like other places were being like we just don't think he's experienced enough and that was like right i don't care for just attack ad yeah right i don't think he has the right ideas to be qualified to be quite honest with you and here it's like he's a fucking demon who eats fucking puppies like wow i think the slogan was he's just not ready so this is a bunch of people being like he's i just don't think he's ready wow and which like leaves the possibility it's like i might consider him if he

was ready but he's just not so i guess i'll be voting conservative this year yeah and the other thing is like to your point of like why are you calling an election right now because it's a very like you're saying there's a there's another wave of covet happening because the delta variant is also making its way through canada and a lot of people are like this isn't the right time like it just shows a disconnect between the politicians who are like well i know true dose sort of logic is i did a great job with covet so maybe if i call a snap election they'll come back they'll help vote liberal and give me a majority and then that'll help me out without realizing people are fucking just exhausted and drained and then you want them

to vote in person during another wave of the pandemic and they're also like vote by mail isn't a really popular thing in canada either so it seems like a bit you have to vote by moose. Oh, boy. There it is. Hey, all right. But yeah, just. Yeah. And they're saying like his numbers aren't even like strong. Like they think that he's probably going to get the same. Like he won't even get the thing he was hoping for. Right.

At this point. So shout out to Trudeau. Kind of a cell phone. It seems like this reminds me a little bit of the Brexit thing where they were like, okay, let's do the sensible thing and hurry up and get this over with. And then it turns out people aren't as rational as the liberals think they're going to be. I've made a terrible mistake. But yeah, a ton of money to

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like but then like many news stories in the modern era just like hung around for us to get used to the awkwardness and like stench of it enough for it not to seem that strange and so by the time and then also by the time he announced that he was the choice they had already like seeded the media with like reports of like how the ratings were bad for these other much more popular guest host options like LeVar Burton. But anyways, just kind of taking a step back, when he first guest hosted, he felt the need to give a weird preamble where he's like, hey, sorry, Ken Jennings canceled last canceled last minute so guys i'm just doing this to help with the scheduling issue i know it's a little embarrassing since i'm no host but you know the show must go on it's like when you when you ask a model their origin story it's like

oh well you know i was just going with my friend to an audition exactly they chose me because i just happened to be there it's total coincidence right so it turns out ken jennings like had a scheduling conflict that was easy to overcome like and everybody who worked on the show was like yeah no we'll work with ken whatever his schedule says and he was like no i don't think we can do it We better. So just like that's how he like forced his foot into the door to get in there. He has like people are now pointing out that he said multiple times on this podcast. He used to have that. He wasn't a trivia guy. That's what he told Ken Jennings.

Ken Jennings is was like Alex Trebek's pick for like Alex Trebek left him like his cufflinks. Yeah, that was pretty crazy. Like leaving him cufflinks in the will. Yeah. Like he was basically like, this is my chosen successor. Right. This dude is this last season was his first season as the EP of the show. So he has like it's not like he has like a great relationship

with the people on jeopardy and in fact he's been sued at or like as part of a suit for just discrimination and harassment so one suit this is all from a report by the ringer that's a pretty great read that people should go check out we'll put it in the footnotes. But so this woman who was one of the models on Price is Right in 2010, he had recently laid off several models and then she went to him and said, hey, I am actually pregnant, so I'm going to need some time off.

And he said, go figure. I fire five girls. What are the odds? Which she understood to mean that he would have fired her if he had known she was going to get pregnant. And then after giving birth, she learned that her contract had been terminated. And then he also just like, he made them wear shorter dresses on the Price is Right. Talks a lot about like women's appearances and a very like cavalier and like 1960s 1950s like just shitty misogynistic way on his podcast and people also said like from the start of him taking over

for the price is right as the ep he was trying to become the host of the price is right this is just like he's so that's his mo yeah that's his mo he's just always wanted to be the host on tv i'm like it's it's funny because it's like the the entire like this expectation that someone be a game show host which is kind of like this very 1960s ideal of you know like the handsome right inoffensive guy who you don't know his personal life because that was like impossible to do in the back in the day it's like we're still expecting someone to be that but not realizing like all the weird retrograde baggage that's going to obviously come along with anyone who has that persona now like of course this guy's a weirdo right and then yeah

his life's goal was to be a game show what do you think he's gonna be like and now like everyone's like they found some remarks on his old podcast too where he's like talk he's just saying some even like worse shit was calling like women like what was it the the co-host or one of the presenters on the show that he was referring to like is it like a booth hoe or something yeah he called her a booth hoe and uh i i don't know the world of game shows enough to know what he's even implying they called her a booth stitute i mean there's like booth babes like that's kind of a thing at any like sort of tech comic book gamer

thing like a convention right yeah yeah they used to hire like you know hot girls to be the face of whatever to attract people to whatever booth they had i said i mean i i took that as him trying to do humor but being again like this weird sort of Seacrest kind of guy where they can't really do humor convincingly because they're in that weird post bot mode. Yeah, the host bot mode. Exactly. And just the thing he falls back on are like criticizing women's appearances. He used the R word for somebody with a disability. Yeah, kept calling this woman a booth slut and a booth

hoe made fun of a woman's weight in horrifying terms said she was so giant she wouldn't be able to fit out the door and huskadoo and fat and not good and then just has like complained about people being on food stamps and unemployment benefits just like what else do you fucking need he was like saying some other stuff like people with big noses are jewish yes he's got it's almost like yo what what more does he need to say to make this clear that he should not be the fucking host he's like i got some more i got some more podcasts that didn't come out you can listen to if if the case isn't made enough but then on top of that too you saw someone did a poll that showed that like by like a huge margin more people wanted uh lavar burton over mike richards like it didn't even matter it's like even people were like this is who we'd like or prefer and he was still like barely making

any kind of waves in like a poll of like actual jeopardy fans yeah but let me just read from the ringer article about just what the process was like they say richards the guy who ultimately chose himself for the for the job controlled nearly everything about jeopardy's uh most recent season sources say this led to a myriad of conflict of interest uh quote he was the one rehearsing and giving directions to all the guest hosts who may not have realized they were competing with him for the job. He could influence the promotion of those shows and the respective guest hosts. He had personal relationships with the executives involved who had entrusted the show to him a year before. And then it's not

hard to see the structural advantages that such a candidate would have. Would he vigorously advocate for the strongest guest host as an EP normally would in that situation? Huh? Oh, yeah. What is he going to the higher ups there and go, look, I got to tell you, you know, I'm the EP LaVar Burr. He crapped the bed, huh? That was bad.

That was, whoa. I don't think we can do it. You know who would be sick is me. Hey, Ken, you know what people love? You know, you just go out there, you just rattle off a few racial slurves. They love it. They eat it up. It's just, you know, that's our audience here at Jeopardy.

I got this cast I want you to check out where I was just kind of crushing it. Or like sabotaging them. Called Random. That's what it was actually called. Even though it was supposedly a behind-the the scenes of the Price is Right podcast. Which everyone was clamoring for. Right. He called it Ran Dumb, D-U-M-B, because that was his comedy talk radio show from his days at Pepperdine.

Oh, my God. He was at Pepperdine? days at Pepperdine. Oh my God. He also, as we've talked about, scheduled LeVar Burton, who was like people's, it was either Ken Jennings or LeVar Burton, like in most people's hearts. That's what people wanted to see. People have pointed out that

he aired LeVar Burton's episodes in the midst of Summer Olympics, which caused many of them to be preempted on NBC affiliate stations. And then somehow, even though the ratings for that shouldn't have been put on par with like non-Olympics episodes of Jeopardy, somehow it got out that the ratings were really bad when LeVar Burton was on. So I feel like this article was so extensive and brutal that I almost sort of questioned it after a while.

I was like, oh, my God. Next, they're going to be like, oh. And he also he kicks his dog. He doesn't wash his hands after he goes to the bathroom. He's always double dipping in the salsa bowl. They were going brutal. Right. Yeah. His toenails.

I mean, where does it end with this guy? Honestly. Yeah. But wow. It's like it's so much like it. But he's like he's he's just being an american you know like how you gerrymander the fuck out of a district to win he was just gerrymandering the fuck out of whatever whatever he had he was at control of enough levers that

he could make shit look a certain way and then be like hey it's me and my embryonic who like don't look at her past comments on whether or not she believes her kids should be vaccinated but anyway here we go i think that's why like this is such an interesting read is because it is like how america how decision making works at a high level right like absolutely straight yeah just the the like kind of getting his foothold in by announcing himself as a candidate being like hey but i'm withdrawing myself and from the uh you know selection process because i don't want to like tilt the scale because i am obviously a serious candidate it like there i'm reading this book about robert moses that's a thousand pages so i'm still reading it and will be for the next three

years but they talk about how he would get projects approved by basically starting them, even though he didn't have the funding for it. And then once they were started, people wouldn't like go back on it because you already like had the foot in the door. You already had like the momentum started. And like once a project is started, it's much harder for people to like pump the brakes and put the brakes on it so just like getting himself like mentioned as a candidate that was like the thing that he had to do to like get the momentum started and then after that he was just able to fucking control all the levers to and just shamelessly exploit the situation hey Did you guys watch any of his hosting? Not my greatest ones, no. No, I haven't seen it for a while. It's one of those shows I have on my DVR that I just binge at certain times, and it's been a while.

So when Bob Barker left Price is Right, he tried out to be the host of Price is Right. And at that time, he wasn't powerful enough to choose himself. So they ended up going with Drew Carey. But one of the producers who was part of the selection process at the time said he knew all the right words to say, but he did not bring anything special personality or performance wise to the test show his performance was compared to that of an eager student performing in a college show and putting on his best impersonation of what he

thinks a game show host is if you which is brutal but if you watch him as the jeopardy host it is like so spot on that's exactly what it is it's like every word is equally enthusiastic and i love jeopardy yeah it's just i mean that's like the kind of crap that we've been wanting from these people for for years where it's just like we want this like eager like you said like a seacrest bot like we want this squeaky clean person who has a hollow a hollow hole at the center of their personality and uh yeah and it's it's it's kind of poetic that someone would try to be that for like half of their adult life and then when he shows up people are like man this guy sucks fuck you man yeah what a scathing review though my god it's so brutal

now to be fair he did and who knows if this was because he didn't select him, but the prices right it was like the two named people in the lawsuit were michael richards this guy uh no relation to kramer and adam sandler no relation to the actor right commoner comedy luminaries wow this is so i was okay so as you're talking i was trying to find a video of of him hosting the prices right but, but in looking for Mike Richards' Price is Right host, I found this video from five months ago on ABC, which just reeks of fucking propaganda. It's ABC News saying,

a Jeopardy interim host scores rave reviews. And it's Mike Richards, and you're like, oh man, so this has been a fucking just campaign oh yeah just months in the making who is mike richards he's a fucking robot cypher yeah all right and then real quick we do want to talk about you know we don't always mention when new movies are announced but there's this new movie coming that i think we're all pretty excited about

it stars emily blunt as a pinkerton agent the so if you don't know from when like a modern pinkerton no no no no no so she is the first woman pinkerton agent and we're acting like that's like a Yas Queen girl boss moment. She was like the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of people who rat fuck civil rights leaders. Yeah. So people don't know what the Pinkerton agency is. It was founded in the mid 1800s and it was basically like a hired army for tycoons to bust strikes and terrorize unions, which included hurling dynamite at peaceful labor protests, engaging in a 12-hour gunfight with striking workers during a strike at a Carnegie steel mill. Homestead strike.

They still have them. Like they were a few months or like, I don't know, less than a year ago, they were advertising their services to like Facebook and Google saying that they would send undercover Pinkertons to Silicon Valley coffee shops to spy on people that were leaking information from Facebook and Google. What's so amazing is the one kind of mega company that we do know has used them in Europe is Amazon. And you'll never guess what massive media conglomerate has decided to buy the rights to this movie. Amazon? It is Amazon. Yeah.

I also just like this because, you know, Emily Blunt is married to John Krasinski, who makes like pro-CIA propaganda for Amazon Studios. So there's like kind of this nice little group of people just doing the bidding of capitalism, violence on behalf of capitalism. She also played like the relatable, what was she in Sicario?

She was like either a relatable DEA agent or like a relatable ICE agent or a relatable FBI person. I can't remember which it was. But yeah, she's good. When you want to put a nice face on something, you just send in Emily Blunt. Yeah. So, I don't know. It's

interesting that Amazon is bankrolling a movie that is going to put a girl boss, yes, queen face on Pinkerton. Do we know when i mean like i feel like the only thing that gave them any positive press was when they thwarted this like this dude from assassinating abraham lincoln like that was like that was the thing that put him on that like sort of let people that's softened people on pinkerton's like well you know they did

they foiled an assassination plot and then they also just fucked up a bunch of people who were striking for better wages but then i mean weezer wrote a really good album about him too which was cool that's right i mean rivers cuomo has always been pro pinkerton the the president lincoln account The President Lincoln account is also mainly based on the accounts of a guy named, let me see if I can get this right, Alan Pinkerton, who was, quote, known to be an exaggerator and also was the founder of the Pinkerton agency. A little bit of an early Mike Richards. The bar for like an exaggerator in the 19th century had to be really high really fucking because that was i mean i mean swing for the fences when there's no way to fucking verify anything the kings of the world were like explorers who were just like basically professional liars they'd be like yeah i went to a place where people walk on one leg and they have one eyeball and it's on their ass.

And people were like, thank you, Marco Polo. You are our king now. Yeah. P.T. Barnum. And then you had like Thomas Edison, like electrocuting an elephant and be like, see, this is why the other guy's thing doesn't work. Yeah. So I guess what's the what's the film called? I don't. Let me see if I can find it. Well, I guess it doesn't really matter, but it what's the what's the film called i don't let me see if i can find it

well i guess it doesn't really matter but it's gonna be called like american detective or some shit right her tongue yeah oh my god right hey yeah i don't know it is being ep'd by 2024 President Dwayne The Rock Johnson. So, you know, that's real. He's producing it. He's producing it, yeah. Dude, wait till we see The Rock gym ticket. It's The Rock and gym from the office ticket. I guess he was in Jungle Cruise with her, so maybe they're like BFFs now.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, maybe there's something steamier there. Hmm. Hmm? I can't picture The Rock ever having sex. Oh, that's the only thing I can picture. That's so weird.

It's like this weird thing. You said that for a long time. I've been talking to a neurologist. I'm like, I can't envision anything in my mind except for The Rock just fucking smashing. He has to do like the people's cunnilingus in the middle of it. Right, exactly. And then I've hit rock bottom emotionally. All right.

Well, Vince, it's been a pleasure as always having you. Where can people find you and follow you? I mean, obviously, I am the film and culture, senior film and culture writer at Uproxx, always on Uproxx. And, you know, if you like listening to my voice, I've also got the Frotcast. And we do a Sopranos podcast called Pod Yourself

a Gun, which is available wherever podcasts are sold. And that's it. Vince Mancini on Twitter. And, yeah. Many, many recognizable guests. If you listen to this show too. Mm hmm. We are,

our guests are handsome and distinguished. I got to do the Pine Barrens episode, which was, I'm so jealous. I remember when you said that, I was like, they fucked me. That's my favorite.

And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying oh yeah yeah this was like i had to find a tweet that wasn't like a video one but i thought this was pretty good it's uh from someone i don't follow but i think i started after this m nate shamalan says can't believe the only political options in amer America are we have to catch and spread a deadly virus to defeat the satanic pedophile elite. Or we spent nine months trying to make the bus five dollars cheaper and we did not succeed. Nailed it. Love that one. Miles, where can people find you?

What's the tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray. And if you like 90 Day Fiance, check out the other show for 20 day fiance i was sophia alexandra a couple tweets i like first one is from at javrar r-a-w-r saying february 22nd 2022 which is 2 22 2022 falls on a tuesday so we will be able to call it Tuesday, which is really keeping me going. What a low bar, but I get you. And then another one, Doug J. Balloon, New York Times pitch bot, tweeted, we wanted to make sense of the new scientific paper on the origins of COVID-19, so we talked to some

QAnon enthusiasts at a Sbarro on Staten Island. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Brian Lynch tweeted, the Supreme Court is just a regular court, but with sour cream. And Amy at Lolanui tweeted, my body is not a temple. It's a spirit. Halloween. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.

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Miles, what song are we sending people to go check out? Okay, this feels appropriate. This is like a Black and Nees crossover. George Benson, who does the song Breezin', and I think a lot of people, if you're into yacht rock, you've heard this instrumental track. It's very easy listening well this is a cover by a japanese artist named masayoshi takanaka and it's his cover of breezin so it's just got this like it's a familiar easy listening track but it feels like i say this a lot like it feels like a video game menu from like an early playstation game or

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