The Daily Zeitgeist - Banished Words, Spring Equinox > New Years Day 01.14.25

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

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Where are you based, Tori? I'm in Portland. Oh, cool. Yeah. I've heard you on like a bunch of episodes, but I feel like I don't know much about you, except- That's fine. Yeah, that's probably for the best.

We shouldn't discuss it. He's a cipher. It's the worst representation of me is me on these episodes, I think. My actual personality, I'm a pretty easy person to get along with. Of, you mean Portland, Oregon, right? Yeah, it's not Maine. Yeah. Yeah.

I feel like it's up to the Maine people to say Maine. Yeah, it's really on them. On them for sure. Which wasn't the case when I was a kid. When I was a kid, everybody, whenever kid everybody whenever you saw Portland like in the newspaper Or anything like that. It was always Portland, Maine Interesting I was bitter because I was like, I don't know anything about Portland, Maine The internet doesn't exist and I'm convinced that my Portland is cooler

You're still doing anything about Portland, Maine. I have no knowledge of Portland Maine came first It did know your history. I'm sure Portland Oregon was named after Portland, Maine. I have no knowledge of. Portland, Maine came first. It did. Know your history. I'm sure. Yeah, Portland, Oregon was named after Portland, Maine. It was a coin flip between Portland, Maine and Boston. And for its namesake. And they ended up with Portland and thank God.

Because I don't think we could have dealt with two Bostons. That would have been brutal. New Boston, slightly newer Boston. Slightly more white Boston. Yeah, even whiter Boston. They do have a lot in common, don't they? Yeah.

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Production of my heart radio. This is a podcast where we Take a deep dive into America shared consciousness Now have a YouTube channel YouTube slash at daily zeitgeist pod You can go check out what we look like saying words like this on YouTube. Uh, it is Tuesday, January 14th, 2024. My name is Jack O'Brien, AKA. Thank you for being zeit gang. Plumpers, wood or ice scat, scatterings.

Your sky is blue. You're a Discord respondent. And if you threw a podcast and invited only goofy fools, you would see the AKAs would be on me and hashtags attached would say hashtag thank you for being Zeitgang. That one, courtesy of HalcyonSalad on the Discord. Kind of a sweet one. It was nice. I want to thank you, HalcyonSalad, everybody,

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Well, other than that, I'll leave it to Miles to talk about when he is back, which is probably going to be surprisingly soon because he's itching to come back and talk to us and you guys, but obviously a lot going on. So I am thrilled to be joined by a very special guest co-host, a brilliant comedian, writer, actor, who's known as special daddy long legs, is a must watch. You can go check it out on YouTube. He is the coiner of the phrase plumpers to describe his thighs. So we apologize for that, but please welcome back

to the show, one of our favorite guest co-hosts. It's Blake Wexler! to the show, one of our favorite guest co-hosts, it's Blake Wexler! Hey, thank you so much for having me. This is Blake Wexler, AKA. When you spot my wet plump step aside, wet shit. Daddy long legs are heavy from my thighs, wet shit. In Jersey boat drones on my mind, wet shit. Blake Wexler means I'm plump in long time. Wow. That was from Halcyon Salad. That's Halcyon. Halcyon. Halcyon. I prefer salad days in the Halcyon day.

Yeah. Yeah. You know what? It's probably another word you've said for you. To be honest, it's probably Halcyon. Yeah, that that was the person who wrote my AKA also. And I really correctly. Oh, that's near moments ago. Maybe this is a regional. Really?

Really? That's fascinating. Shocked by that. My God. Blake, thank you for being a friend and for being a co-host. It's interesting. Miles is coming back so quickly. I was under the impression he wouldn't.

And then he found out that I might be having an extended guest hosting. Yeah, yeah. And he was like, you know what, I think I can apologize. He keeps being like, I mean, I don't know. I'm so sorry that this is happening. I'm like, no, what are you talking about? He's like, I mean, Blake is the guest. He just bought a microphone out of Lake and everything. Yeah. Wait, I was mentioned first. Yeah, before everything else. He didn't mention the tragedies? Yeah.

Jesus. All right. Let's talk stuff here. And everything else going on. Blake, we're always thrilled to have you. Thank you. I think Miles just has the sickness called that dog in him, that grindset. Oh, he's got the dog in him.

Yeah. It's just like. I saw his x-rays and it's just a pit bull just a pure pure bread yeah that's right Blake we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our favorite guests a brilliant anti-racism educator activist writer and creator of the acclaimed podcast white homework it's Tori Williams Douglas It's Tori Williams Douglas. Hi, guys.

Thanks for having me. It's been like not that long. I know. I'm very flattered. It's great to have you back. I got invited back. Good riddance, Miles. That's awful.

I would never. I love Miles. Oh, wow. That was the quickest I've ever heard someone go from saying something horrible jokingly to, yeah. I would never. Who's yeah, I would never. Who's great? I would never. Not to Miles. I would to other people.

I'm not to me. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Jack. Yeah. Jack's catching strays for sure. Oh, yeah. Fuck out of here. Well, I feel bad for all the horrible things I've said about Miles recently. You know what I mean? Like, it's just the amount of shit I've talked on that guy behind his back and to his face. Yeah.

Over the years. Just in public on podcasts. Yeah, I mostly just talk shit about miles. It's most of my social media. Uh-huh. Yeah So many letters to the editor Tori how's it going up in Portland? It's going it's uh, you know Just mostly sitting here in the dark in the cold feeling really bad for everyone in LA. Yeah. Honestly. Yeah, my sister's down there. She thankfully didn't have to evacuate, but it was just touch and go for a minute. So, yeah, just trying to like check in on all my people and, you know, do what I can. But yeah, there's like, I don't feel like there's anything going on in Portland

compared to like, there's snow in Atlanta and like LA is still burning. And I'm just kind of sitting here like, how can I be helpful right now? Yeah. Atlanta gets those like every once in a while, they get a snow storm and like, you hear the stories of people's cars being trapped

on the highway for like three days. And, uh, I lived in Kentucky for a while and when there was any snow on the ground, it was like, I mean, I mean the horses skidding around out there. Uh, no, we had cars, but the, yeah, it just, they, they were not prepared. They had one truck that had just a, you know, Olive Garden salt shaker that they would roll down the window and just sprinkle on the roads. And that was it. People with huge forearms just cranking salt onto the road.

There was, I was in Minneapolis once for standup and they had, they were like, Oh, tomorrow we're going to get three to four feet of snow. And I'm like, all right, well, I'm fucked. We're not going to be able to get anywhere. And it's just nothing. It's nothing to them. Yeah. Yeah.

It's nothing. Yeah. Completely nothing. It will tunnel. They will build a city through tunnels of snow just to, yeah, they, it matters not to them. And then, uh, and then some people are trying to build an entire like snow removal apparatus, like it's the first they've heard of snow every time it's Uh, and then some people are trying to build an entire like snow removal

apparatus, like it's the first they've heard of snow every time it's there. All right. We'll get on this now. Yeah. Oh, what is the, Oh, right. I've heard tell of this. I've heard tell of winter. Yeah.

All right, toy. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners. We'll be right back. The worst time for a break. Sorry, go ahead. Couple of things we're talking about. Just taking a look ahead, a couple stories that are happening this week. Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing, I guess, is starting today. It's probably happening around the time you're listening to this. So just look at the stakes of that. And also the TikTok ban is, I don't know, I don't have a ton.

I haven't done the deep dive research into that one yet to know why it's going to happen, but it feels more and more like it's going to happen that TikTok is going to be banned within the month. So we'll talk about that. We'll check in with Matt Gates at his new job being a Ivermectin pitch man on one of the channels is like two right wing for Fox News. Good to see you landed on his feet. He's doing so well. We'll talk about the business of prosecuting Trump. It's a bad weekend to be in the Trump prosecuting business.

We'll talk about that. We will talk about Lake Superior State University's list of banished words, words that they think we need to get rid of. All of that, plenty more. But first, Tori, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? I'm trying to find books about the history of the Panama Canal because of Trump, obviously. What is happening?

Can you fill me in on that? He wants it back. Yeah. Okay. The French started it, well, there's a long history, but the French made the most progress in the late 1880s, and then they gave up on it because they were killing too many people.

Yeah. It was like, we're actually really good at that. We're good at this. Yeah. Labor that kills people? We are not into our thing. We found how we fight fires in the year 2025. This is like, we have the perfect plan, you guys.

We have so many disposable people. We'll throw human lives at a problem like we're in 1930s Russia. Don't mind us. Yeah. Yeah. So then we came along, you know, like 10, 15 years later, like 1904 to 1914 or something, somewhere around there. And like finished the work, right?

We did what France couldn't do. Shocker. I think that's anyway. Wow. Like, come Shocker. I love this. I like this energy. I'm coming for miles. Listen. I like a joke that would be at home on this podcast and the Joe Rogan experience. Exactly. Finally. Thank you.

You guys figured out your format. This is our niche, okay? Yeah, that's right. out your format. This is our niche. Okay. And yeah, so we like we got in there, we did the job. And so Americans are like, this is ours. Obviously, like we own this shit. Yeah, Panama didn't love that. You know, but we were like, we were in our like expansionist empire era, right? And so we were like, well, fuck you, we're the US, like, we are gonna keep it. So fast forward several decades and Carter gives it back. He plans to give it back. He signs a treaty and is like, in 20 years, we'll give this

back to you, it'll be yours. And Reagan, real pissy, that was something he ran on, was getting the fucking Panama Canal back. Right. Unbelievable. Which is hysterical to me. And yeah, but it was like, the treaty wasn't even set to go into effect until 1999. It didn't. That's when they got the canal back. I think they deserve it after all of the people we killed at Sentra. It was their people. It wasn't like the president was like, well, I have some friends and family members who I could send down there to help build this thing. It was never that Panamanian PR. OK, got it.

I mean, they were Roosevelt had some disposable men, I'm sure. But like, not for that, not for that job. Yeah. And yeah, so now I'm just like, OK, I feel like I'm missing some pieces here because Trump is now like on this shit about we need to get it back because we're getting a bad deal. They're charging us too much. China is taking it over.

I mean, nothing he says ever makes sense. And so it's hard to know like, you're playing whack-a-mole and it's hard to know like where the prize is going to be, like what the purpose is. Right. you're playing whack-a-mole and it's hard to know where the prize is going to be, like what the purpose is. Right. He's just throwing a flurry of somewhat contradictory ideas out there to see which one is going to- Yes, constantly. To see what sticks. Totally. Because once the truth is no longer a concept that holds any water in a human and then now, consequently, in the entire country, what's the point of having

a coherent story? Why not just do a word cloud of reasons and then just be like, yeah, whichever one of these like gets the biggest because people click on it, we'll go with that. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. So that's kind of that's kind of where we are. And I am like, I just I need some more information. So I'm trying to find, because Panama Canal used to be really fucking sexy. Like it was like one of the coolest things. And it was like, it's considered like one of the modern wonders of the world or whatever. Like people were so proud of that shit.

So when Carter gave it back, I think a lot of like real Americans were very upset. Right. We were real Americans were very upset. Right. We were real Americans as opposed to these fake ass people who are having like Jimmy Carter. All the woke mind virus lives. Carterites. You think that Panama should be a sovereign country and not just like something we kind of own and treat poorly. So, whatever. It is pretty impressive.

When you look at the Panama Canal and like, watch it operate. Like that's one of those things that I could like, I'm sure I've seen it on like 60 minutes or something like 60 minutes. It's been like they 60 minutes loves the Panama Canal. Oh, they fucking love to show you how the Panama Canal operates. Yeah. Holy shit. They have like a story that vaguely includes shipping. And they're just like, we went down to the Panama Canal There's Bob Woodward lurking around near that little fucking mode again

Fed some very specifically worded statements to the people we interviewed there So the canal is kind of a work of art you could say the canal is kind of a work of art I would say this is how the 60 minute interviews Not it's this weird iambic pantameter Just wild that they show themselves feeding the statements to the people I don't feel that way at all stop saying that to me. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I want them to know I came up with that shit It was the Suez that got jam. Yeah, yeah. Well, I want them to know I came up with that shit. It was the Suez that got jammed up during COVID, right? Right. That's correct.

Trouble in the Suez. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. God, I love that song. Yeah, yeah. Any piece of 20th century history, I am scanning my memory of the lyrics to We Didn't Start the Fire, try to figure out. That's great. Yeah. And it's great. And it's aged well.

It's, it's, it's, it's, you should read that Tori. That's a great, those lyrics. Why read this Panama Canal book when you just know everything from that song. I'm on the site gang. I'm on the discord. If you know of a book about the Panama Canal that I should read, please hit me up. I would, I'd need that. I'm struggling.

There's not very many, it's not sexy anymore. So people aren't writing about it quite as much. It used to be in the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated. The front cover was just the Panama Canal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Theodore Roosevelt and a little Speedo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The little hat. KFK blown away. What else? That's how I found out by the way. That's such a, such a rough way to find out that the president was taking from us. Yeah.

I hadn't heard anything from him. I lived with the first nine years of my life, wondering where the hell that guy was, what Tori is something you think is underrated? Um, so I think spring equinox is underrated, obviously. We're like in January. So I'm just feeling like, you know, New Year's Eve. I love me a good New Year's party. Like don't get me wrong.

I'm like, I don't go as hard as some people, but I like it. But it's not a great time for starting your New Year's resolutions. And I've been saying this for a couple of years and apparently like, I like it, but it's not a great time for starting your New Year's resolutions. And I've been saying this for a couple of years and apparently TikTok recently found out about it. And they're like, guys, you guys, did you know that like spring equinox is actually when the new year started for like most people for most of time. And so, it's like, this is when you should start your new journeys and like new year new me That's not that's not gonna happen in the dead of winter. Are you fucking kidding me?

Like come on, you're supposed to do it in the springtime when you're like not constantly sick or like caring for a sick Love or needing to sleep 12 hours because it's dark for 72 hours a day Like let's change this up and do our New Year's resolutions in the spring. So I'm trying to get people on board with that. That's where that's great. That's where I'm at. Great idea. Don't start stuff in the dead of winter.

Yeah. Not cool. If anything, double down on old like bad habits. Yeah. Yeah. For a month or two. Totally. You get your little, you get your whiskey or whatever your little drink is and you

just, it's whiskey. Yeah. Fine. Yeah. Fine. Get, find a new hobby that you can do while sitting on your ass in front of a fire. Soaking wet January instead of dry January. I am doing dry January, but that's different. Yeah. I mostly just, I mostly don't drink the first half of the year, to be honest. I save up for the backup so I can party on New Year's Eve.

For the economic. Yeah. Invisible alcohol vapors coming off of me January. Yeah. I'm late to work. Sorry, guys. All of January. I needed to sober up.

Yeah. No, it makes sense. I've been doing a dry jangler for a while now. What Tori is something you think is overrated? Well, I never would have said this before as a two online person myself, but I'm going to say social media at this point. It's just like going down the tubes and I don't know what to do. We just don't get that.

The internet is made out of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The glass tubes that make up the internet are now filling with shit. The inside of the internet looks like Krypton. It's just like glass tubes everywhere with various colors. It's beautiful. It's like filling with actual human shit.

That's right. The glass is clear so you can look at it. I think that's what's beautiful. That's the really yeah. Yeah, that's the really beautiful part about it. No, I'm I'm a little bit confused about why Zach wants meta to stop making money and it's just like let's do what Elon Musk is doing when he lost all of his money on Twitter by making it accessible. So yeah, I guess I'm just like RIP social media this week is how I'm feeling. It's been bad, man. Following the fires and then like keeping one eye on social media and the way that Twitter platforms and like gives extra juice to like people who are, you know,

saying the wildest shit possible. It's really, I've had the same exact thought is like, I know it's too late. I know the genius out of the bottle, but this is a bad way. Like this is fundamentally worse than media, than legacy media. Legacy media was bad. This is watching people try and blame the fires on the poorest among us when that's like the opposite of the truth has been so incredibly frustrating. And it's just, it's not just the people saying it.

It's that the, when they say it, it gets an incredible boost because it's like, that appeals to what people hope is happening because everybody's to a certain extent bought into capitalism and like the way America is currently organized. So people like hope that they can blame it on like a few unhoused people. And then every response, like anyone who contradicts that in the comments is just gets no, no energy behind it. And everybody who is comes up with yes. And with like some even less founded rumor gets so much.

It's just like all of the worst possibilities of social media are now how the information economy has run during a huge crisis. You know? Yep. It's I picked this is this first part is not a cool thing that I did. But we were at a bar watching football the other day and people were having drinks. There was some asshole sitting at the table next to me,

just a piece of shit. And he went to the bathroom, I had a few drinks, and I grabbed his phone and started looking through his Twitter account, which is not a thing that you, that was not cool that I did that. Yeah, yeah. And, but it was like-

It's not okay, this is actually satire, he didn't actually do this. So, right, right. And yeah, but, but it, but I did. And it was like, I've never seen a person on the rights algorithm, I guess, before, like in person. Oh boy. And it was all like cyber trucks come into the rescue in LA shit. Like Elon has sent fleets of cyber trucks

and there's nothing about like incarcerated people fighting fires, you know, like the actual toll. And it was so scary. I just put the phone, it was scarier than that guy. Like that guy was such an asshole. And I'm like, his phone was, I think, a manifestation of his head and it was just so messed up. So to your point, social media is bad for us.

And we have stuff that's as close to what we agree with as possible. And it's still a disaster. It's still the worst thing in the entire world. Yeah. And also like people, everybody is dealing, like has a version of social media that is, like, shaped around them. And so even if what you believe is true, now that we live in a world that is so formed by this, everybody can just be like, yeah, well, that's just like what the people you follow think. Like, everything's just relative and nothing is true. And yeah, I don't know why this particular, like for a long time, I feel

like it's been fashionable to just be like, it's not the internet's fault. It's like all the political forces and, you know, the class consciousness, lack of class consciousness. And I'd say, yes, all of that. And also social media is really fucking poisonous right now. And I don't know where that's going to change. I don't know. Maybe Zuck is going to turn back to his old personality. No. Which one? Which version? Which update was that?

The fighter one? Which one? I consider this the fighter one. UFC's is what this is. I miss barbecue sauce Zuckerberg when he was just recorded like a 20 minute video on sweet baby Ray's sauce. Do you remember that? It was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Yeah. He like the, I think this all started like first started when he started getting

really into smoked meats and then like, yeah, he had a video where he said smoked meats, like 35 times. And then he had a video talking about sweet baby rays, which I think is like widely available at Kroger, right? Like, that's just a video. Yeah, they have it playing. But anyways, uh, bad, bad times in some places and good times in others, as people continue to help one another on a like human to human basis, it's just the big institutional, you know, the things that encounter humans as like values on a

spreadsheet to move around and manipulate are doing their worst work yet. The most successfully they've done it, but the people continue to be good and help each other when, uh, when they can, when they're not being moved by those big forces. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Catch John Stewart back in action on the daily show and in your ears, We'll be right back. companion to stay on top of what's happening now. Plus, you'll get special content just for podcast listeners, like in-depth interviews and a roundup of the week's top headlines. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jason Alexander. And I'm Peter Tildenen and together on the Really No Lily podcast Our mission is to get the true answers to life's baffling questions like why they refuse

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So he was nominated to be secretary of defense. A bunch of stories immediately flooded out from people who had worked with him, both sides of the, you know, former military people, existing current military people, not like left-wing journalists doing hit pieces. Just anybody who's encountered him being like- His mom. Yeah, his mom. Yeah, his mom.

For instance, talking about instances of sexual assault, racism, open alcoholism on par with a cartoon alcoholic, having to be carried out of places constantly. Like the only thing that's lacking is like, he never, as far as I've been able to find and I've looked into it, he never hiccuped a bubble that then carried him away into the sky. But everything else that like a cartoon drunkard does.

The thing he drinks out of just has Xs on it. Xs on it, a big jug. A big jug of Xs. Fortunately, he did promise to stop drinking if he gets the job. I love that. That's always worked. Anytime somebody's had a substance issue.

For sure. You know, this thing that has a complete hold over me and my life that I also love to do, apparently, well, I'll just stop doing it if I get this really important job, cold turkey. Yeah. Anyways, his, so at first it seemed like he might go the way of Matt Gaetz, who we're about to get to, who had to be withdrawn as a nominee for attorney general. And but then they were like, not to that would make President Trump look bad. So we can't we can't let two of them go down. So suddenly, they're going

to make him go through with it. And let us take all the heat. Yes. Okay. And he is going to get confirmed. Like, that's something that I feel like has been missing from a lot of the coverage of this. At least I'll just give the full context. I think there's been like, there hasn't been somebody who got to this stage where you're doing like Senate confirmation hearings and was not confirmed since I think George W. Bush's administration, like, and that, like, there's a lot of cabinet

members who are, who go through this process and they're batting a thousand since George W. Bush's administration. Like once you get to this point, it's really hard to stop the, the Hague, the Pete train, which is, I don't know, like the way it's being reported is like this guy's like a, an underdog and it's like, no, it would be shocking. I mean, it would obviously be deserved if he got found not able to do this job because it seems like everybody who took a objective look at him, including Republicans, were like,

whoa, no, no, no, no, no. Good God. What is it? Senator... He should be on trial, not a confirmation hearing. He should be on trial, not a confirmation hearing. He should be sentenced. I guess the one thing that you can take some solace in is, yes, it's very uncommon for people to not be confirmed by the Senate.

Granted, he is an uncommonly bad nominee, like just truly everybody, you know, the people who are currently backing him like he is the best pick possible when they were told about it. We're like, who the fuck is that? What? The guy from Fox News who says stuff that is like controversial for Fox News is going to lead the fucking US military. But yeah, so he's an unprecedentedly bad pick. The Republicans are unprecedentedly on board with the Trump cult. So I'm personally not on the edge of my seat over here, but I don't know.

Well, how are you guys feeling? I mean, I feel like it's good to remember that Trump had a 92% turnover rate for his first term. So Hexeth isn't going to last even if he gets confirmed. Crazy. You know, like, I just, I think he's going to be one of the first to go. I think you're right. It probably will get confirmed. I feel like they are kind of in that panic mode of like, oh, we can't lose another ship. Can't let another ship go down here, right? But I think that it's so

Pete's energy is so antithetical to like top brass Military to me that I don't think I think those people are gonna have a hard time taking him seriously Right you want to know he wants to be trusted with military secrets Cartoon drunk like yeah You want to know if you want to be trusted with military secrets of full blown alcohol? A cartoon drunk. Yeah, yeah. It has to be carried from place to place. I mean, I will say, reading history books, a lot of the military brass themselves, like a good, a stiff drink in the morning.

Self-medicated, I think a lot from some trauma, let's say. Right, right. Yeah. No, Ulysses S. Grant was, had a dry, didn't have a dry January in his life. Yeah, yeah. Was, they're just like, yeah, I like this guy. He doesn't try to stop drinking.

Yeah. Like he's just like us. Yeah. I will say, you know, Trump's first administration, he didn't think he was going to win, didn't really want the job. It seemed like at first. And so he wasn't like making picks that would be a fit for him. Like as we talked about, like his first administration was a group of people

around him, basically trying to insulate the world from how bad a president he was, and now he's nominating these people who are seen as bad picks because they will do the sorts of shit that Trump will ask them to do. So I don't know that it will be like that quick a turnover. I like it. I hope so. I hope it's as like, it's going to be incompetent, but is it going to be incompetent just from a, like what it does to the world or will it be

incompetent in the sense that like, nobody can agree with one another and everybody keeps getting fired and quitting like the first time around, which would be by far the preferred outcome, But it does just seem like they're at least a little bit more like that because his choices are 100% coming from loyalty. Like that being the only value that he's doing. The only qualification. I do wonder if like, he's going to be like, as these people are ending the world, like he's, he's going to be happy as a clam because you know, they're doing what he told them to do.

Oh, man. That Yeah, that reminds me that like, Hegseth is connected to this like cultist preacher out here my way. He's actually in Idaho. Doug Wilson. Oh, yeah, who's in Moscow, Idaho and is just like a really horrible person, but like has a lot of his theology is pretty fucked up like he's very he's like very like misogynistic as like a point of like as like a theology is like a theological point But also like the Bible is pro slavery So I am pro slavery like that's how fucked up this dude is.

He like says these things out loud. And like, this is the dude that like Hegseth considers to be like a spiritual mentor or whatever. So like, I'm not saying I'm not scared. I'm very scared. Cause like the influences in Hegseth's life that he's chosen are malicious people who want to harm others.

Yeah. You know, like, like, even setting the Trump loyalty piece aside, like, he has these really sort of horrific influences that he's chosen, clearly chosen to have in his life. And so, you know, I think that, like, he could potentially do a lot of damage. But he also he's just not he's he doesn't have any of the like law and order energy that I feel like the military sort of expects. Right. Which seems weird. He just doesn't feel like a fit in the culture to me.

I agree. I think maybe that's a reason. I mean, none of this will work out while he will be confirmed. But to try to be optimistic while there's still a brief window to be optimistic that he won't. I think that so it's no one being confirmed, or sorry, everybody being confirmed since George W. Bush, I think, also, my hope is that, yes, he's the least qualified event, he's the worst candidate. But also, it's very in your face how bad he is and how often, I mean, even

his energy, even if we're like reaching for that too, or he's on TV constantly. So it's not like you have to read an article to be like, Hey, is this guy a piece of shit? Like you can just watch him pretty quickly. You can just watch him. Yeah. And so I wonder if maybe that because of how readily available his whole image is. And I mean, still no, cause he's been nominated. Everybody knows that he's been nominated.

So he'll still probably be confirmed. But I do wonder if now, because that stuff is so much more obvious that, well, I guess like, what's the difference between him and Gates is that people actually. But Gates was a pedophile, you know, like, is that where we're drawing the line at this point? I mean, maybe that was it. Like, yeah, I think it was the, like the Gatesophile, you know, like is that where we're drawing the line at this point? I mean, maybe that was it. Like, yeah, I think it was the like the Gates report, which I feel like people have really kind of metabolized and moved forward with pretty, pretty quickly was like, yeah, he

was paying for sex with children. So for like a number of years and doing and doing drugs. Yeah. I mean, I wonder how much of it is also like drugs instead of alcohol, you know, where like alcohol, that's what this what we expect. Like Nixon was hammered for most of his presidency. Yeah. Like his kind of weird youth and like right wing influencer, Groper shit, like it feels like a really bad version of like first kid. Is first kid the one where like a kid is president or is that just like son of, I forget which. Son of first kid.

But yeah, yeah. Where it's just like, what if this guy, no, no rule says a Fox News host can't be president. You know, can't be head of the military. Anyways, I need to go back and if I seem distracted, it's because I'm trying to read the plot synopsis of first kid. And it is, you do this all the time, dude. You're always a little blank check dude. You're always waiting. Last week it was blank check. Yeah, that's right.

All right. Just really quickly, over the weekend, I think some people were still waiting for this outcome to be better news, because Trump had his sentencing hearing for, you know, he's a convicted felon now because he broke election laws in order to end regular laws in order to be elected president first time around, a like Watergate level scandal that people just now take in stride. So the judge, Judge Juan Merchan's sentence came down and it was a quote, unconditional discharge, which legal experts have pointed out is quote, virtually nothing in terms of punishment, end quote, which were the terms that I was interested in. The punishment terms was kind of what I was looking for. Can we get a punishment? In. Yeah, can we get a punishment term?

Could we get one? It turns out, no, you cannot have a punishment because he is about to be president and the idea like he might be president from fucking jail, dude, was never going to happen because of the way power and money work in this country. One of those phones, like him, you know, doing press conferences through the little phone in the glass is just not feasible. So, yeah. Cause he's too cheap and those things cost a shitload of money.

Thanks to private equity. That's actually true. The private equity industry took over those phone systems and like charge you like $5 a minute to talk to your loved ones from prison or you Could fight a fire. It's up to you Fight one of those dangerous fires. Yeah, meanwhile Jack Smith handed in his report and then promptly resigned from the Department of Justice So, you know Is that true? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. This is so bad. Yeah, I know. That's what it reminded me of. He promptly resigned. Well, Trump was like, I'll fire him within 15 seconds of taking office.

So he knew he was going to get fired. It's still like, I don't know, take the firing, man. Like, like, nobody was surprised by this, considering that Trump said he would fire him within seconds of taking office. But remember, like the first administration, when the first big national scandal was that he was willing to fire Comey because Comey was investigating him. Like it was like, at first it was like, he fired Comey and Comey's investigating him. That sure looks suspicious. And then he like went on an interview with Lester Holt and was like, yeah, I fired him because he was investigating me.

I didn't like that too much, right? And everybody, I still remember that being like the most, like everybody was so outraged and like, holy shit, like this is, we finally got it, right? Like this is, he just admitted to doing the most illegal thing. And then it was just like further, like just made pointless by like a thousand more awful things he did right after that. Yeah. It's, it's tall and annoying.

What am I supposed to do? He's tall and he keeps the fucking looking at my things But yeah, but you want someone like that working for you but now people like preemptively fire themselves because there's no chance of there being any sort of outrage on behalf of Like him firing them. So I would For him, I would still want I would still want to be like, yeah Trump fired me like yeah for him. I would still want I would still want to be like, yeah, Trump fired me. Like, yeah, I don't know. I feel like a person with integrity would have a great reason to be like,

yeah, I fucking got fired by Trump. Give me a book deal. Like, I feel like he could get something out of it, you know? And he was just like, oh, OK, I'm scared by deuces. I was report. Hey, look over there. You can't fire me. I quit. Yeah, exactly. It's just a petty thing. As for the report, which is supposedly pretty damning for anybody who doesn't, isn't already accustomed to just like imagining the worst possible thing.

And then that thing being true and then nobody giving a shit. Merrick Garland has been trying to release part of it publicly, but it's being held up by Trump's co-defendants who are saying like, you know, they still might go to trial and they can't like release this report because it would be prejudicial against a jury that might eventually decide their fate. Oh, interesting. So people are just saying Garland should drop the cases altogether since Trump's about to take office and that will free him to release the report anyways.

Or, you know, who knows what Trump will do with it, but bad weekend for anything approaching justice in general, especially with regards to this administration. But there is that cool Mark Zuckerberg, Joe Rogan interview. So we can all look at that. And if you listen to it multiple times, you hear new things each time I've found when you listen to it. So, yeah, it's not a one and done.

Yeah, it's definitely not. It's like a good concept album. I don't have a lot of time. I gotta listen to it on like 2.5 speeds. So I miss a lot actually. So then you gotta go back and yeah, yeah. Tori, we just met each other. You seem like someone who would love to listen to it at half speed. So I miss a lot actually. So then I go back and yeah, yeah. Yeah. Tori, we just met each other. You seem like someone who would love to listen to it at half speed.

I'm going to take notes. Yeah, it's gonna be great. Yeah. It's easier for notes. Yeah. He was talking about like the feminization of the workforce or something. I don't know. Women working? Yeah. Zuckerberg, that's like what his whole thing. He's just like fully like been replaced by a maggot chub. Like it's wild. I wonder. Yeah. I saw people speculating as to whether he's getting divorced. I am curious how that's all going over in his household. Brutal.

Anyways, brutal for him. I worry about their relationship. I know, brutal for the sanctity of marriage. That's what I was talking about. Yeah. I like that. That theory is like, ooh, his wife, a billionaire is going to be so mad at him. I don't know.

I've stopped. He probably hasn't seen him in two years. Yeah, I've stopped counting on billionaires to have normal human emotions. Let's, uh, let's take a quick break because I want to tell you guys about Lake Superior State University's words, banished words list, and also tell you that Lake Superior State University is a real university, which I didn't know. Are we sure? Accredited.

Yeah. You know this? Okay. Okay. If you say so, Jack. We'll take a quick break. We'll actually look into that. We'll be right back.

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And we're back. All right. So I'm on the website for Lake Superior State University and the headline is Superior Education, Superior Experience, Superior You. So they are really leaning into that. A little too hard. That's too much of a lean. You need to back up a little bit. What is the thing that we have going for us more than any other university? The fact that

we have superior in the title. I can't believe I was wait listed here, but go ahead. Anyways, they do have a good editorial gimmick though. We have that show on our network. This is important with the cast and creators of the show, Workaholics. And they talk about this board that they had in the writer's room for Workaholics, that was a list of like retired, like jokes to banish, including, he's right behind me.

Isn't he? Like that's the one that I always remember. Like people like saying something really bad, like bad about somebody. And then everybody looking at them and then going, he's right behind me. Isn't he? I want to show that's just that. Like that's just the war, like the most like played out. Yeah.

But so Lake Superior State University has that for the English language. Basically they 20, they have their 2025 list of banished words, words that need to go away this truly Lake Superior State University could just be a blog with like one good gimmick. I, I don't know. I feel like it might be a degree mill. I'm just saying like that name is throwing me off. I've never heard that phrase before.

I love that a degree mill. Yeah. Yeah. Like a pay for your degree situation. And then you just get a little print out. You're like a PDF and you print it out and you put it on your wall in your office. That's perfect. A lot of times people have gone to degree mills don't have not heard that phrase.

Blake. So they try and keep that one out of your vocabulary when you're going to. That's funny. I do remember Emerson college offered a course called monsters actual class at my college, so yeah, maybe that was a degree mill. Yeah. It was just, you just watched Monsters Inc and then Monsters University over and over.

I minored and Mike was asking. All right. I do want to read through the list, see if there's any in here that we want to back Cosign. So some of this just seems like older people being like, I don't like the way young people talk. Yeah. For instance, cringe is the number one banished word. I feel like I don't know. I'm voting to keep personally. Yeah, it's just, it's fine. Whatever. It's fine. It's fine. Is over, maybe like 80% less use, but it's fine. Game changer.

I don't know why now. Like, right now, this is not a new term. It's probably overused. So let's reduce. I would lobby for a 70% use reduction on game changer and that one's on its way out. Not yet. I feel like, yeah, maybe 90% use reduction on Game Changer. And that one's on its way out too. Like I feel like, yeah. Maybe 90% use reduction when it comes to people working

in tech and finance. Crypto bros? Yeah, crypto bros. Yeah, yeah. Era as in I'm in my flop era. She, you know. This era is just a word. It's just a word. and people are using it correctly.

Okay, sure. Get rid of it. I think this one's fine. I don't need this to be removed. I'll allow era to continue, dropped for something being released. I don't need that one to go. If you know, you know, I don't need that one to go. If you know, you know, I don't need that one to go. Now we're getting into the territory where I kind of have one foot in with

a Lake Superior State University. Sorry, not sorry is I'd never feel good when this one's used. I feel like. I think this can go. Yeah. It's past its prime. It's really past its prime. Like the sell by date was many years this can go. Yeah. It's past its prime. It's right. Like the sell by date was many years ago.

Yeah. Yeah. And it's generally just used for rude behavior. Yeah. You know, it's like, yeah, sorry, sorry, not sorry. I swore in front of your grandmother, you know, it's like, okay, well that's yeah, a little bit, a little bit rude. Yeah. Or something you don't need to apologize for.

Sorry, not sorry. I have an allergy. It's a close relative to somebody being like, I am not racist at all, but you know, it's like, sorry, not sorry. Yep. Yeah. That's yeah. Good point.

So sorry, not sorry. I've never liked, I would be fine to see that one go. We're gonna, we're going to treat this list as, uh, you've nominated some potentials Lake Superior State University, we'll tell you which one actually works. I think that's gonna win personally. Sorry, not sorry. Sorry, not sorry. Up next is Skibity, which is like a thing that eight-year-olds say. You can't come in and be like, eight-year-olds shouldn't say this, It's stupid. Cause they're right up here.

This viral word may have resonated with a younger crowd, but for many, it is just noise that just means you're old. That just means like, I don't like when people are talking about skibbity shit, but like that, that just means. It's also your kids. Yeah, that's kids. Like nobody is saying skibbity to me except my children. Yes.

It's a children's thing and this is not how language works. You can't be like, stop saying this kids. Nobody cares about a skibbity toilet, skibbity fizz or skibbity Ohio phantom tax. At this point, this is a direct quote. At this point, nobody even knows what it means and it just annoys people. I think you're using people as a stand in for yourself. I don't know what it, I even knows what it means and it just annoys people. I think you're using people as the stand-in for yourself. I don't know what it, I've never heard it before. I don't have kids, but maybe, yeah. You don't need to hear it. It doesn't matter. I don't know, but like kids

are obsessed with it. But yeah, like Skivity Toilets, Skivity Ohio, like, and my kids still have, it's been around for years at this point, my kids still fight over what it means. What's the definition of skivvy? Interesting. And that's how you know it's art. Uh huh. Yes it is. Yeah, for five year olds.

And I also know it needs to stick around because when Blake just admitted that he didn't know what it meant, I felt so much superiority over him. The only reason I know anything now is because I have a 12 year old. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's my only connection to the youth. I live near a school and when recesses,

I just open up my windows so I can hear new words. Yeah. They're immediately told that you have to close it. The neighbors are like, Jesus Christ, who is this guy who's watching our kids every recess? This is getting weird. Not watching, listening. Just one of those big ear phones.

Just listening. Ear horns. Yeah. All right, this one, I agree with the sentiment. This is one that I have noticed over the past year. It can't be fully banished, but people saying 100% when they agree with something, 100%. Oh my God. Or 1000% as like I've heard conversations where that's all people say back, like

back and forth, just repeatedly just peppering other people's statements with 100% and 1000% and then thus and then returning the favor. It's just. 2000%. 3000%. I do say 100% a lot and this sucks. This is worse than you knowing the other word.

Skibbideeth. This is bad. You feel called out? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I feel helped actually, like I feel like this is a good note. Like I received a note 100% 100%. I don't know if I use it that often. Honestly, I'm thinking of like all the economists who like can't do their jobs anymore.

Because we're canceling 100. Yeah. I don't know. I don't I bet I've never heard that dynamic of like people just sitting and saying 100% back and forth to each other. That feels like, I don't listen to Joe Rogan, that feels like a Joe Rogan thing. Dude, 100%. Yeah, 100%. Zuck, 100%. Oh God, okay. Maybe I'm anti 100% and I didn't know it until it's, yeah. Again, it can't be fully banished. Uh, we need 100% for my spelling tests.

Yeah, that's right. Otherwise we don't have all the percents. Yeah, exactly. But, uh, I agree that this should be flagged for people, for, for people who need help, not leaning on the same phrases over and over again, like maybe make yourself your own workaholics writers room cliche board. And just keep an eye on it. You don't need to stop using it 100%. But you can say, I agree. Maybe say, totally.

I agree. Yeah. I concur. Right. Fersh. I agree. Yeah. I concur. Right. First. I like to close. I like to shorten for sure to first and other people like it too. I'm sure they don't.

100%. People like it. The most defensive person. Everybody likes it when I do that. The last two kind of suck utilize.ize, what are you talking about? I get that use works just as well, but it's kind of up there with like Game Changer as a thing that's used too often in business speak and also cops. I feel like love to, like it was at that time that I utilized my taser to.

Oh yeah. Cops writing reports. Okay. Yeah. Sorry, not sorry, but I utilize my taser on a child. And then period, point blank period. I still like period. I, I, I fuck with period.

Like, it's a good way to not let the other person speak after you've said something. That's helpful. Say something, say period, and then they don't get to talk. No follow ups. Yeah, exactly. Period. God, this list reminds me of all of the like, these are the, remember all the blogs that were like, these are the words were canceling this year from like 2004 on like MySpace, probably MySpace era

of like all basically, and it was just essentially all of the like AAVE and like youth general slang. And they were like, we're not using any of these anymore. And it's like, that's not how language works. Interesting. You've chosen those particular words. But it was like that was like a yearly thing, like end of the year. That was what they did for the wrap up was like, here's all the terms were canceling. This was before we said canceling that way.

But yeah, that's that was the energy of it. And I'm just like, wait, why are you? This is a 20 year old, like format. Like, what are you trying to bring this back? This makes me wish I attended this school. I think that's the biggest takeaway from this is I'm like, all right, if this is the kind of research this university is doing, then I want to be involved. Do they have like undergrad? Because isn't this a way to just make all of your students constantly say cringe erudite drops while they're in class? I don't know. I feel like kids when you tell them not to do a thing like to do that thing because you didn't

give them a reason not to. It's not hurting anybody. I don't know Okay, i'm looking back through their archives, by the way This is on a list of lake superior state university traditions Along with the snowman burning which uh that okay sounds interesting. I'm a unicorn questing So those are the two unicorn questing snowman burning and a witch word banishing Yeah, so this tradition a tradition unlike any others Goes back to 1979 Well, but it does feel like a lot of stuff is just right like cliches for writers to look out for

Mm-hmm. Like last year's wait for it. Side hustle, Riz. Yeah. It's just like trendy things. Young people say. Slay to your point where they're like, uh, we don't like it. It makes us feel uncomfortable. Don't, don't talk about slaying.

That's weird. We don't know anybody who actually uses this. We've just heard of people using it. So. That's weird. We don't know anybody who actually uses this. We've just heard of people using it. I also feel like it's kind of antithetical for a university to say certain words shouldn't be used. I don't know. If this is so very strange.

Any other university, Tori, I'd agree. Lake Superior State University, I feel like we can count on them to be the arbiters. Sure, sure. Yeah. What words are and aren't allowed? 2022, they tried to retire. Wait, what? That's just a thing.

What is your heart here? Yeah, that's a clarifying question, statement. So is no good. Karen, of course, they tried to retire in 2021 because they retired of people calling them that. Definitely. Yeah. Wow.

All right. They seem fun. They seem nice. They seem like a fun time. Check out Lake Superior State University, L-S-S-U. That's right. They've also probably been getting by with being confused, being confused with LSU for a long time. Probably.

Yeah. I got a heavy ring finger on my left hand. Or I keep looking up tiger scores. I hit LSSU. I can't believe they got a dot. Yeah. You good for them. Yeah.

Well, Tori Williams Douglas, what a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist as always. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? I am still on the internet, on social media. Like I said, I'm on the Discord also, so I feel cool and official now. Hell yeah. But I'm on bluesky at tor glass dot. What is it? Be sky dot social. I think is how they have that formatted, which is silly.

Um, yes, Kentucky social. Yeah. That's how I remember it. You can change it to whatever you want. So I'm really, I'm trying to think of like the right thing to like change, change it too. I, yeah, I have a podcast called white homework. You can check that out wherever podcasts are and the, I have an Instagram page for my podcast, which is just at white homework. So you can check that out. January is poverty awareness month, which is not a thing I knew existed. So we're talking about

poverty, homelessness, and how to combat those things. So at the end of the month, we talk about stuff like UVI. So if you want to if that's interesting to you, you can check that out. Yeah, just white homework homework wherever you listen to podcasts I have another podcast that I forgot to mention last time called go home Bible. You're drunk So if you are a former like religious person, you might enjoy that We just reread the Bible from like a post religious lens and see if there's anything good in there and sometimes there's good stuff and sometimes we make a lot of terrible jokes. So that's where I am mostly. That's where you can find me. Go check Tori out. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Yes. Yes, that is. This is from looks like Jesse L.

Taylor got the sky social. The year is 2027. The Daily Wire releases its next children's cartoon, which is just the racist crows from Dumbo trying to get welfare payments. The crows are all voiced by Gina Carano. Oh, my God. That was like one of the first like Twitter level skeets I've seen. I was like, yep, saving.

There it is. There it is. Blake, what a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? Is there work immediate you've been enjoying? Yeah, this was so much fun. Tori, you're awesome, Jack. And I-

Jack, something about Jack. Here's the work. Oh, um, work is a, uh, from pixelated boat on blue sky. The real lesson of Zuckerberg and Musk is that some people are just born with a loser stink on them and no amount of wealth or power will ever scrub it off. Just the whole time we were talking, I was thinking about that. Cause it is just, he's just a loop, like a, however you want to use the term loser, like Zuckerberg is just a loser.

Like the feminist, whatever fucking horse shit he said, like the feminine workplace or whatever he was talking about. And then like his heel turn, not even a heel turn, because that would imply that he was a good guy at some point. It's just, um, just some guys, they just like want to kiss the ass of like whoever they think is the cool guy at school. And right now they think it's that pig who's going to take office. So like, it's, it's just embarrassing. And I think they're losers. You can find me at Blake Wexler

dot com, uh, at Blake Wexler on social media stand updates. I'm going to be in Fort Collins, March 13th, March 15th. I'm in LA and then March 4th through 5th at in Minneapolis. There you go. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien and on blue sky at Jack number OB the number one dot BSKY And on bluesky at Jack, number ob, the number one dot bsky dot app or some bullshit. Jesus Christ. Oh my God.

Just don't even promote it. Don't even promote that. A bluesky I've been enjoying. Siege at siege.online on blue sky tweeted, the two things I believe most strongly in this world are that public services should be wholly replaced by the private sector and that the government should intervene instantly. The second I personally feel a little bit scared. Have been seeing a lot of that.

And then Ethan Jacobs dot blue skyky.social, just a true thing. LA Fire is a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck. Hmm, damn. Yeah. Damn. 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. You can go to the episode wherever you're listening to this, check out the description of the episode you're listening to where you can find the foot

notes, which is where we link off to the information we talked about in today's episode. We'll also link off to Miles Family's GoFundMe and we also like to link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Super producer Justin, is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah, so this is a vibey, dub plate inspired track with some funky bouncing bass lines and tight percussion, some smooth vocals. It's like this floating Spanish guitar type arpeggio that comes in later in the song. It just really puts me in a good place.

If any of that sounds like you're jammed, then you should check out this song. It's called Three Eyes Open by Green Tea Pang. That's green tea, one word, pang, the UK slang term P-E-N-G. And you can find that in the footnotes. Footnotes? There are. Dub plate I'm going to nominate to be replaced just because I don't know what it means and it makes me scared. Oh, yeah.

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