The Daily Zeitgeist - Bezos’ Cock Rocket, Texas: KKK Over Critical Race Theory 7.21.21

Episode Date: July 21, 2021

In episode 955, Jack and Miles are joined by Waiting On Reparation's Mariah Parker to discuss Jeff Bezo's leaving earth in a giant penis, the Republicans joining the January 6th committee, Sean Hannity's thoughts on the vaccine, Texas protecting the KKK, the shitshow that is the Tokyo Olympics, and more!FOOTNOTES: 'Road to space': billionaire Bezos has successful suborbital jaunt McCarthy Picks 5 GOP Men For Jan. 6 Select Committee Before this clip, Hannity criticized a university for mandating vaccines. Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “Why does it matter how many COVID cases we have in this country?” Texas Senate bill removes classroom requirement to teach that the KKK is ‘morally wrong’ Tokyo 2020 Reporters Say They’ve Been Forced Into Hotel Isolation Without Food Tokyo 2020 chief Muto does not rule out 11th-hour cancellation of Games This deaf-blind Paralympian was told to navigate Tokyo alone. So she quit Team USA. Paralympian Olivia Breen says official called her shorts "too short and inappropriate" LISTEN: Park Hye Jin & Nosaj Thing - 'CLOUDS' (Official Audio) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Jack Cheugy Wonderland. That is courtesy of Suburban Panic Attack and Earth, Wind & Fire. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Please get vaxxed in the U.S. Vaxxed in the U.S. Vaxxxed in the U.S. Vaxxed in the U.S. Vaxxed in the U.S. of A Woo Just thought of that right now

And you know what? Please get vaccinated Okay They're even saying it on Fox News Maybe probably preaching to the choir on this podcast But please get the word out to everybody You know If you can

You know We're starting to see the numbers And your shot looks better if you're vaccinated. I'm just waiting to see, like, what the effects are, you know, of the vaccine. I just want to, like, make sure, you know, maybe give me, like, a couple years just to make sure, see what the effects are. Because, like, I'm all about the scientific process, bro. And so, like, I got to see. Oh, and you're a scientist? No, but like, so I saw this thing on Facebook, actually,

where they were saying that, like, this girl got the vaccine and then her heart stopped for like 15 seconds, dude. Whoa. Yeah. Follow-up question. Do you listen to a lot of Joe Rogan? Oh, man. You listen to Rogan of joe rogan oh man you listen to rogan dude oh man it's just poison all right bro yeah i guess i am kind of a scientist when you

think about how much rogan i've done like i actually did the math and the hours of rogan i've listened to is the equivalent of a graduate degree you know there are there are people who really believe that too most frightening It's the most frightening shit. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the very talented hip-hop artist and host of the podcast Waiting on Reparations, who at the age of 26 ran for and was elected Athens-Clarke County Commissioner in Athens, Georgia. She took the oath of office with her hand on a copy of the autobiography of Malcolm X. She's a community organizer and a PhD candidate in linguistics at the University of Georgia, where she also finds time to be a graduate teaching assistant. Please welcome Mariah Parker, a.k.a. Lingua Franco.

Yo, what's good? What's good, my people? It's so good to be back. Yo, it's so funny hearing all my titles and things to do. I feel tired listening to that list. I'm exhausted. And I do the things. I got so intimidated. It's really not all like that. It's not that cool. Okay, you're humble. I see you.

Okay, Kendra. I don't believe that you don't think it's that cool. It's pretty that cool. It's, you know. Oh, okay. You're humble. I see you. Okay, Kendra. I don't believe that you don't think it's that cool. It's pretty fucking cool. It's fun. Get a lot of stuff done. Yeah, yeah. How much longer until you get your, we call you doctor? Well, what's funny is, so I was supposed to graduate in August, and this is new since

the last time I was on the show. I'm having a baby. What? Oh, congrats. Next month, in fact and so are you serious of uh finishing my dissertation over the last eight months didn't happen okay so uh we gonna we gonna get out of school when we get out of school i don't even i don't really know anymore it's cool okay but yeah so Yeah. Life comes at you fast. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. Suddenly I'm like, yeah, how's it?

Oh, I'm about to be a mother. Oh, great. Fantastic. Yeah. That's what's up. That's what's up. Wow. It's been that long.

It's been that long. Isn't that crazy? I know. I'm like, in this whole time, you're going to come back. You're like, oh yeah, I'm a mom now. Oh, surprise. Add that to the resume. It was good.

Yeah, absolutely. Wow. Yeah. Well, congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you very much. It was good. Yeah, absolutely. Wow. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you very much. What's good in Athens?

How's everything down there? Ah, the verdant greens of the many walking trails. One thing in the city government we do really well. You know, we might be struggling up against Brian Kemp in the state state law a lot but we can build some beautiful parks out here plenty of open natural spaces for the people to rewind unwind rewind if they want if they need to reflect on their lives frequently we can all use that yeah and uh get some sunshine what's the best park in athens if you say this is the pride of athens in terms of our outdoor space jewel of Athens.

It's got to be Virginia Walker Park. And I'm not just saying that because it's literally right behind my house. I promise. But it's got mountain bike trails and concrete trails. I'm going to be pushing a little baby stroller out there on a little concrete path. You've got little hiking trails. That becomes so important when you're having a place to walk with the baby is so yeah do y'all get outside do you all enjoy uh fresh air sunshine y'all get outside enough

yeah what the hell see la is so messed up because we don't actually properly tax anything out here i'm looking at your parks and i'm like what is this disney world you have a rugby uprights for rugby i'm like the fuck what is this splash pad you love to see it you love to see it all right well walker park here i come i'm reading uh the power broker the biography of robert moses and he's just getting to the part where he starts building some parks in new york city for and like on long island and by like he has to take over land from you know the bezos's of the day it's pretty cool this is nice gives you good appreciation for uh local politics before he turns into a racist piece of shit later on but you know pretty pretty cool uh pretty cool book it's also like a hundred hours long uh i'm

listening to it so it's yeah that's dense all right mariah we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about so jeff bezos left the planet in a giant dick uh people were kind of already over it the second it happened because like the way social media just churns through jokes it's like yeah somebody made that joke 20 jokes ago but i i just want to take a moment to stop and appreciate how much that thing looked like a dick that he was trying to just really fuck out of space with, like just really bearing out any arguments that this whole thing is a rich guy dick measuring contest. So we'll talk about that.

We'll talk about the picks for the January 6th select committee. The Republicans are not really doing the good faith effort in making sure they have people who are actually interested in the truth. We're going to check in with Sean Hannity. We love to check in with this guy, our man on the street when it comes to vaccinations. We'll talk about this new Texas Senate bill

that got rid of the requirement for teaching that the KKK is morally wrong, among other things. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Tokyo shit show. All of that. Plenty more. But first, Mariah, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? So my last search was CIA intervention in Latin America. What? I've never heard of such a thing. And here's why. And so context is that,

so on my podcast this week, which comes out Thursday, we talk about a 2004 mockumentary by the name of Confederate States of America, in which it's imagining the Confederacy had won the Civil War and they proceed to then

implement slavery across the United States. And they actually go and conquer Latin America as well and implement slavery in latin america and one of the things really interesting about the film is that that it's like it's supposed to be funny like oh haha wouldn't it be hilarious if that happened but that does have really strong historical parallels to like things that really did happen so the whole thing about like conquering latin america is like if you look at the amount of

meddling the united states has done in places like Chile, pretty much like every Latin American country with regards to like regime change with democratically elected governments. You know, it's not too far fetched, not too far from the truth. And so that was the last thing I searched this morning for a little additional research for my show this week. for my show this week. Yeah. We bring that up a lot given what was happening like in Haiti and just, you know,

how many mercenaries are trained by the U.S. government. Exactly, yes. And we talk a lot about the School of the Americas and how now they've wonderfully rebranded it

as like the School for like Western Cooperation or some stupid euphemistic name rather than assassin day like summer camp assassin summer camp yeah you think we all know yeah what in cuba when there's like a protest for like a protest for bring capitalism here give us a democracy like that takes over the the media but in colombia when there's left-wing activists protesting and

getting murdered in the streets we don't we don't talk about that didn't even happen yeah might as well not happen yeah don't talk about embargoes or sanctions either we're trying to give any kind of context to any country that's you know being destabilized by the u.s with their foreign policy and they're like oh my god what's happening over there in that place where we cut off all the flow of supplies and things yeah how could this possibly be it's like troops troops yes we get on the boat go it's like those old school movies where or i guess not movies but it's the only place i've seen them uh like battle strategies where they just like cut off all supplies to a town and then if instead of that just being a straightforward military strategy they were like man your king is really

fucking up by not getting you guys enough food it's just like yeah yeah maybe off with his head huh right off with his head am i right like i guess off with his head we got all these hamburgers just sitting here i mean i love to share them with you but this king you got is so greedy huh oh my gosh yeah y'all ever had a happy meal peru just elected a leader who's like a outsider leftist oh yeah pedro castillo yeah i just had the thought like he's in danger yeah he's in danger like somebody needs to protect him silver running for president in brazil he's in danger yeah all these cats better have like sick security and even then like they need to like you really need to check their search histories and they like you know

see yeah check their cvs did they did they spend a summer at the school of the americas yeah what is this sabbatical you went on you went to summer camp what kind of camp was that oh it was just sort of near fort bragg it was kind of cool there were like rope swings by the lake and then you know monkey bars that we would climb on with our ak-47s and well i guess not not AK-47s. Improvised explosive devices. You guys really take me back. Yeah. Those were the days.

How to sabotage a single-engine plane. Anyway. Mariah, what is something you think is overrated? Man, precipitation. Bruh, I just told you about all these beautiful, lush, green gardens and rolling hills though I generally every day I'd be out walking like three hours

a day just listening to podcasts getting caught up on phone calls for politics whatever and the rain just completely thrown off my day to day completely you know what I know we need thriving ecosystems whatever you know the plants but i just i just want to go on a walk man and i can't because it's because it's just

torrentially pouring out there today yeah i'm saying it and you know there's that flooding in germany that killed like 150 people so that's real so it's a real shit and we need to like really watch it with the precipitation uh right now i mean it's not just it's not just ruining my day apparently ruin a lot of people's day and then horrific out here we might as well be on a different planet because we are in the midst of a drought and when you go back wet like my kids thought they were like when we went back east to to pittsburgh they just like couldn't believe how green everything was it's just a different like it seems like you're on a different planet when you when you go just yeah yeah you rather than a desert that a bunch of people forced into being a city at the beginning of the last century. Plant a flag in the sand.

Just steal the water from up north. This looks like a great one, guys. Got it. We'll live here. Where's the water going to come from? Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Shut your mouth.

We'll fucking reroute to Colorado if we have to. Yeah. Did they ever get around to that? Did they? No, they just forgot. They just kept building the city. I mean, well, now, like, you know, the big thing is, like, all of the river fighting that's happening where, depending on how, if you're upstream or downstream, like, the control that certain municipalities have over how much water is flowing. Oh, damn.

And it's, like, causing another thing because, especially if it goes to, like, tribal lands, too, there's, like, another layer of, like, racism and, like racism and like inability for them to advocate for like the rivers that flow through their territories and things like that it's just a very climate change i'm telling you it's just it's just it will always cause more chaos and reveal how just inefficient and backwards many of our systems are but yeah the the the increasing stuff in europe'm sure, is very, very disconcerting because a lot of scientists are like, this is what happens because of our hubris, which is true. Ain't nobody listen to them. They're like, oh, are you sure, bro? It's like, yeah, bro. Unlike our friend Jack.

No offense. Real scientists. PhD degrees. Out here running around with beakers and test tubes and lab coats. Doing some science. They know. They know. They publish science stuff. degrees out here running around with beakers and test tubes and lab coats doing science they know they know they probably rogan rogan knows some science okay rogan he's he knows how long it takes you to to pass out from being in a rear naked choke exactly empirically yes yeah very rigorous based on your neck density he can figure it out within a half second

he's pushing new boundaries on like how wide a human can be at the same time like as being he he's wider than he is tall pretty soon which is kind of kind of impressive start looking like one of those mucinex characters yeah yeah which that's science man you don't get that way without applying science a mucinex is science man that's true um rye what is something you think is underrated uh staying hydrated so both of my but my both my over and underrated are both water water related yeah so falling from the sky very much whack drinking from a cup first thing in the morning like two glasses of lukewarm water especially. You just absorb it immediately and you feel more alert.

Your senses are all percolating. You're ready to go out there and kick the day's ass if it weren't raining the other way because now you're trapped in your house and you got to get all zoomed in or whatever. But yes, stay hydrated. You really can't. More people need

to embrace it just embrace it don't don't shy away there's a there i remember there was like a debate for a while like should it be like warm water or like ice cold water remember there's like like some people swear by like ice cold water in the morning but most people are like no you're it's better for your digestion if it's lukewarm. But I just love ice water. Same temperature as you. No offense.

I mean, that's cool if you like ice water. I mean, it's kind of fucked up and weird. Same temperature as me. But yeah, you drink that lukewarm water. It's like I'm home. It just jumps in and it's amongst its people with the rest of the water in you. Because it's all the same temperature. Yeah, there's no friction at the door no friction at the door they're not like checking ids and i like oh dress code no

it's just like oh what's up mommy it's you again what's good looking like iceberg slim okay blend in blend in yeah i'm trying to break myself from like cold water now i just do cold ish water but not like ice water because Cause I just, I just feel like the, all the old world, like information, like all the, like a Spanish mom I lived with for a while was like, thought that cold water was, I actually had really bad allergies. She thought that cold water was making me sick. My mother-in-law from Korea is like, thinks that cold water is like, you might as well be just like laying around in cold water. Like that.

Yeah. That's how my mom thinks too. Yeah. It's just like cool Japanese lady. She'd always be like, why are you drinking stuff? So cold. Like you're going to die.

Yeah. I'm like, you just grew up drinking tea all the time. Yeah. And also a child, also a childhood without ice because post-World War II. But whenever I'm drinking ice water, there's always like this thing. She'll like shiver watching me drink ice water sometimes.

She's like, oh, God. Bored. What you sipping on? What you got? What's that brown stuff? Ice coffee. Nice. I'm also drinking black tea right now.

I'm drinking. Okay. There you go. Yeah, I needed some cold brew to get my blood circulating. I like to just shock my system with cold and then hot coffee. Cold water. Hot coffee.

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and it's go i don't know why he's british suddenly but yeah yeah because of richard branson the last one who took off oh that motherfucker little british billionaire residue yeah it's but it i just it's one of those things that we our uh online social media metabolism we just like burned through it real quickly but it's like years from now people are to look back on that and be like what the fuck was happening why you're real yeah actually that's yeah the irony should have been it crashing into the earth because it would have been more of a metaphor about how he's fucking the entire planet right yeah but you know whatever but instead it was the metaphor he was uh hoping

to appropriate which was was fucking space. That's how he lets the world know. I like to believe that his engineers or whoever got hired to build the thing were like, how can we just subtle fuck you? Be like, yo, bro, no, listen. The aerodynamicism of the phallic shape is the way to go. We promise. It's nothing weird. And he's like, oh, sure. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

And they're like snickering as they pull all the levers to make it go up because i got you bitch they're like dude look at the top dude look like you're straight up dickhead you're like yeah he's gonna get in there like yeah exactly they're like he approved this they're like yeah he doesn't know he just threw cash at it who knows yeah i really like that theory that they did because there's also the fact that he kind of looks like dr evil already and like there's the reference to the austin power spacecraft that like motivated a three minute long dick joke and this actually looks more like a dick like that the austin powers one had two balls which kind of helped

with the overall joke of it but this one actually like just looks more like a dick than uh that i'm sure i forgot about the awesome powers similarity like how more cartoonishly evil could you be right yeah there's like a literal cinematic parallel of a evil villain in a dick ship yeah yeah they should honestly just like blurkle that thing out like it should be blurred out like yeah i feel violated seeing it it's indecent look away and he actually went to the space right because he's did he actually break whatever he went and stayed whatever dome or whatever he said to be like it's just different than what fucking Branson did. He went orbital.

So you ain't got shit, Bezos. Okay, orbital daddy, go out there and fuck this guy. Yeah, this was, I keep thinking of when you're a kid and you touch the bottom of the pool and then come right back up. It's like that's what this is. He touched the barrier and was like, Whee! I actually have a direct quote from him.

Mission Control did a status check after the crew members buckled back in aboard after they got to float around a little bit. And his quote was, Ask her not Bezos in my seat. Happy, happy, happy. So it's cool. What about his clone brother it's a good world that we live in did the brother that's a clone make it back too yeah i believe so did they

eject him from the ship yeah it's just out in the void of space the other thing was wild is when he came back you know he had that press conference and he's like i'm giving a hundred million dollars to jose andrez and van jones right okay to do whatever they want and it's like for what and i think again he's like see i gave away 200 million dollars please don't make me pay taxes right yeah like roll back the guillotines like i gave it to a black man and a brown man and whether or not those people are you know jose andrez i love his work van jones yeah it's little i have a few question marks over but i think the optics he's like this is going to be great this is great and they will decide what to do so i don't have to be the one that decides and just in keeping with the you know ham-fisted melodramatic political cartoonist who's been

writing reality for the past six years i just want to check on a couple headlines that were trending at the same time that he was going into space in a dick-shaped rocket. We had, how bad is the bootleg fire? It's generating its own weather. So that's a fire that's caused by and creating climate change. And then U.S. renews public health emergency due to COVID-19 pandemic. So yeah, that's Things are going well down here. Until Bezos is like, why don't we just put concrete over all that stuff if it's

going to burn every time. Don't give him any ideas. What if he listens to the show? He does. He is a fan. Hey, Daddy Bezos. Hey. He's the Finstead. Always put hater comments in the thing.

We know. It's Jeff. All right. Let's talk about that January 6th select committee. We're finally going to get to the bottom of this thing. Or not. Yeah, will we? I mean, yeah.

Kevin McCarthy, he has picked five men to be on the January 6th committee, because if you remember, we talked about how the formation of this committee, you know, Pelosi doesn't have to accept these five picks. Screamy Jim Jordan from Ohio And a few other people Including Troy Nails who is a former sheriff Who helped Capitol Police hold back Insurrectionists during the attack So but here's the thing Three of them also voted to overturn election Results so this is Going to be a very interesting group If Pelosi accepts them

Again she doesn't have to but I'm sure McCarthy's being very intentional By having you know jim jordan be part of that because why would you have someone that many people like uh he was like you know getting people fired up like as much as anybody that was actually a seated member you want him to be part of this committee i mean i'm sure if you know if pelosi declines then they'll have their ammo to say, this thing's so partisan. Look, they have the person who's it who was like a insurrectionist.

You just cape in for insurrectionists. He can't be part of the thing that investigate. And if you remember, the Senate Republicans shot down a proposal to have an independent body investigate because of the, you know, they're like, look, it doesn't have to be people from the Senate or whatever. We have an independent body investigate this. And Republicans said that that was too partisan man so what it's it's it's just a very i don't know we'll see what happens um i know liz cheney is one of the people that nancy pelosi did ask to be as part of the committee of a few with like you know many other democrats but we will see with this because the other thing is too republicans they were putting up such a fight with this whole investigation because they know it's probably going to incriminate a few members not gonna look good

bro they get because they were like oh this is nonsense they completely walked away from negotiations so they gave away their power like veto and subpoena power if they were to if they had actually like committed to being part of this. So now it's just like I don't know a clown show. Was Jim was Jim Jordan like part of the these election results aren't trustworthy

type shit like he was on he was on that thing. Oh yeah. He's on a big lie. Okay. Oh yeah. Okay. Oh yeah. He's a big lie supporter. He's a big old big lie big lie guy nice which again i don't know how that how anyone could like that doesn't i don't know i don't know why i'm trying to like apply like logic or like i'm like you can't have someone who's implicated in the attack also be one of the investigators like it feels like that tim robinson like i think you should

leave sketch with the hot dog car drives you the thing that's what we're trying to figure out who did this it's like you motherfucker and why are you here leading the questions it was you yeah and the other thing they're trying to do is you know they're if if these people get on i'm sure the other thing that they want to do is hijack the agenda to make sure that they're like, well, if we're going to talk about political violence, we need to talk about the summer of 2020. Oh, yeah. What was going on with all the George Floyd protests. That's really the thing that they want to offer as a counterpoint. But again, I don't know what you're going to see in terms of I don't know what the truth they're trying to get to unless it's some kind of conspiracy theory he's gonna water it all down and so whatever results ultimately emerge from it should it you know move forward as you know

in the suggested composition like what are we gonna do what are we gonna do with it like oh great like oh we found we found we did no wrong can we move on now like the same way with like you know trump's many crimes he ain't going to jail he ain't going to jail he ain't going to the other shit that's what would be interesting to see what happens if Hal Pelosi plays this. Like if she does have Jim Jordan on, whether that's just a move where she's like, all right, I know you're just trying to get me to say no to him. So you can already say this thing's a fucking sham from the beginning. Or let him go in, make a fool of himself, leak that stuff, be like, this guy sums up with this dude. We need to get him out, actually.

I don't know. That's why I like to be a podcaster instead of a politician. Or you can do both. Do both, Brad. Sick. Yeah, fine. Fuck it. Alright, what are we running for? I'm running for governor, man. Everybody's running for California governor right now.

Apparently, the bar is low. The bar? The. The bar. Oh, yeah. The water's great. Yeah, Jack, you're running too, right? Shit, I'll run. I don't care.

I don't even live there. Yeah, come through. You can use my address to say you live there. Yeah. But there's, I feel like there's a motivation on the Democrats part, like I've just noticed this with Biden and like how he's talking about the infrastructure and like the filibuster reform that like there just seems to be a like they're as bipartisan to the degree that like nothing actually gets done like that. That seems to be where we are at as there comes a time and when if you are not willing to play dirty, put aside decorum and all of that stuff and fight and just get nasty. You are considered a fascism straight up period point blank that's it that's it yeah and you can't and i think they're like well there may

be a way that we can do the democrats version of fascism that like is fine for people it's palatable and you can talk about it on tv and most people aren't going to get the nuance of it republican version yeah exactly and we'll wear a kente cloth when we're in here saying hey come through you're gonna love our version of fascism but like the whole thing with even with that you know like it just rings so hollow when you know biden is just like completely ignoring what progressives are saying like we will not support this other dumb fucking bill you want if you don't actually address things like paying essential workers and climate change like this isn't just going to be a roads and bridge fucking deal here like we have real shit

that has to be addressed and the version like and it's starting to ring hollow too along with the increasing threat of this just some just ridiculous cynical undemocratic play that the republicans are trying to make in every state house of them just sort of acting like, oh, this is so bad. It's like, well, then do something. It feels like the bit that I'll do, Jack, we used to go to lunch and I'll be like, oh, I forgot my wallet. When the bill comes and you're like, oh, man. And you're like looking around to see if people are buying your bullshit. It's clearly such a bullshit thing. And that's how I feel. And every time I hear Chuck Schumer Biden talk about the difficulties they're having while at the same time being like we need to pass this bill it's like well if you know that then you know what the fuck to do god damn it on him bro it

sounds like you don't you don't have your wallet because you don't have money and you don't want to pay you don't want to do anything because you don't want to change anything right all right want to change anything right all right let's talk about uh fox news is continuing evolution but they must have gotten a like a seasoned assist or something i don't know i feel like there's like something legally has changed because suddenly suddenly they are open to admitting that vaccines work yeah well you did y'all see that reporting from Ryan Grimm of The Intercept, which showed that Fox News has vaccine passports? Vaccine passports, yeah.

They'll work at Fox News. You have to upload that you got the vaccine, and if you didn't, then you gotta wear a mask or social distance or stay in your office by yourself. Negative tests and all that. Negative tests and all of that. After all of the shit they've been saying and so i think they're like what we gotta cut guys and like now they're like oh actually you know

so it seems like there's been some overall change in direction or at least like there are these moments where they're acknowledging the efficacy of the vaccine but they'll say it like right next to some bullshit that like implies the vaccine doesn't work or is dangerous like not just like somebody in the morning will say a thing about getting like how you need to get vaccinated and then tucker carlson's show later like this hannity clip comes right after he is saying some like anti-vaxxer shit yeah he's he's getting angry that a university i think the university of indiana was mandating vaccines for faculty and students because of pandemic. And then he pivoted to interviewing a young woman whose legs like went numb after getting a vaccine, but not the COVID vaccine, just someone who had a vaccine injury. And this is where it gets wild. Right after that, he says this.

Just like we've been saying, please take COVID seriously. I can't say it enough. like we've been saying, please take COVID seriously. I can't say it enough. Enough people have died. We don't need any more death. Research like crazy. Talk to your doctor, your doctors, medical professionals you trust based on your unique medical history, your current medical condition, and you and your doctor make a very important decision for your own safety. Take it seriously. You also have a right to medical privacy. Doctor-patient confidentiality is also important. And it absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated. I believe in science.

I believe in the science of vaccination. Bro, what? Yo, Blink's like, you're being held hostage, Mr. Hannity. That's what I was saying like it sounded like you guys that did not sound like and also the thing where he said like we've always been saying like we've been saying like bitch you ain't been saying what the fuck no what that sounds like something you're trying to get like out there just so like if there's a trial you can say like oh no no i went on my show and Play the clip, play the clip, yeah. Yeah, like I've always been saying, we've always been saying, or some people at the network have been saying.

So that's been like a huge, a lot of people were like, this is a big head scratcher. But to Jack's point, it's not always the same thing. It's not consistent throughout the day. But to your point, Mariah, like the news about the vaccine passport came out and that they're enforcing these same sort of draconian policies that they scream about on their shows. And also the thing is that, like, it's very likely that many of these people, if not all of them, are vaccinated. They're just not acknowledging it publicly. And but but again, before we give Fox like a round of applause for having a change of heart, I just want to check in with Brian Kilmeade, who, if you remember when we played the clip from Fox and Friends yesterday, when Doocy on Fox and Friends was like, hey, I believe in the vaccine, like Kilmeade was like, whatever.

He had his own little opinion segment that he did. Keep in mind that Brian Kilmeade is vaccinated. OK, and listen to this take he has. Let's get this straight. OK, and listen to this take he has. So let's get this straight. Ninety seven percent of covid hospitalizations are unvaccinated people who, by the way, made their own choice not to be vaccinated. And if you need a reason to get vaccinated, I guess you just got one. But since when do we count on the president United States for health care advice?

Let me answer that. We do not. But that isn't stopping him from offering us his unsolicited unscientific input okay um i i think you were like all preaching about hydroxychloroquine at one point because the president yeah speaking of your unscientific ass opinions about shit right to kill me which is wild essentially like his point there is that like hey man if these motherfuckers want to die because they're getting vaccinated that's their choice like yeah i'm not sure what reason but no huh okay well media matters was doing like a like you know they looked at sort of just you know all of the mentions of vaccination and like what the takes

takes are and they said around 57 of the stuff that you hear on fox news when it was talking about vaccinations would was like anti stuff you know just sowing more disinformation or doing the thing where they just pose these questions like tucker carlson does like i'm just merely asking if it works all the time and if it does then why aren't more, you know what I mean? Just that sort of cynical journalism. I mean, journalism. Yeah, not even journalism. Shit hot takes.

Unfortunately, I feel like even the positives that they're squeezing in there, for whatever reason, whoever's holding them hostage with, like, sexual assault revelations, they're like, yo, I'm tending. I'm gonna tell them. I'm gonna tell them what you did. If you don't start talking about the vaccines he's like i'm getting them all right now all three oh yeah i uh unfortunately it's just too little too late bro i mean yeah they're just continuing

to intersperse it with scaremongering fearmongering and it's just like it's easier to like see that and be like huh that's an interesting take when they're like promoting them and then just sit around and do nothing and just like and not go and just passively not go get it nonetheless so it's just like the damage has been done they could they could wholesale change their tune now and it wouldn't matter because those viewers would just they'll go to oan and they'd go watch newsmax they just go watch whatever even loonier, more right-wing outlets are out there. It's like, oh, they've abandoned us. They've become some chumps.

They've got the Bill Gates chip in them, and it's making them talk weird. They're lost. Also, they're like, Siri, find my iPhone. It's like, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. They're like, great. They're like, it told you within 20 feet where your phone was. Well, that's the tracking device. But the other thing, yeah, it's there.

There's a thing on OAN where recently somebody came out with like the wildest, like just outlandish anti-scientific claim against vaccines. Like OAN like was publicly like we believe in vaccination science, blah, blah, blah. Like that person is they're speaking for themselves so it's weird how the networks i think probably in in light of all like the dominion voting lawsuits and things like that may be realizing that there there could be possible repercussions for just screaming that out but i mean imagine how many lives would be safe saved if fox was saying this from the beginning but again like because it's all about fracturing the country like they couldn't even find a thing that would be the

easiest thing for everyone to agree on which is like hey man america's in trouble the country we need to take care of you we need to do the right thing because this is america versus being like i'll do what the fuck i want yeah but that's america and then you hear the stories about i mean it's like the families it's your family man it's not just like if you hear the stories about, I mean, it's like the families. It's your family, man. It's not just like, if you don't care if you live or die, like, you know, YOLO, sick. Love that for you. But what about your fucking parents? What about your kids?

What about your pets? What about your coworkers and your classmates and your, you know, everybody that fucking loves you? You know, like, do it for them. People. But people just don't even care about them. They're like, I don't want to feel things. I don't want to it for them people but people just don't even care about them they're like i don't want to feel things i don't want to feel yeah it is a little bit of one of those like frog in the pot like where the the water's slowly getting hotter and hotter until it's boiling but you don't notice because it yeah just when you take a step back and realize they're willing to hurt

people like they know the vaccine works they're getting the vaccine but they're willing to hurt people like they know the vaccine works they're getting the vaccine but they're willing to let people die in order to continue to you know send send that message bury their head to make profit off an audience that wants to hear that yeah exactly i mean could you imagine like this like there's like a terrible wave of like COVID deaths and it's like they hollow out their audience. Like, would that be like the scientific experiment that they're looking at? It's like if you feed these people this diet that is diametrically opposed to their safety, like eventually, are they going to reap what they're sowing in the form of like just, I don't know know it's really dark the people that you profit from so maybe change your business model a little bit encourage those that buy the products that advertise on your shows to live what if that's what they're responding to like a somebody put a chart in front of them

that was like uh we're seeing a viewer dip uh or all our viewers are going to hospital rooms they're they're just going to tvs that are in hospital rooms now so we might need to uh you know switch things up a little bit it's just yeah and it's just sad just sad the amount of people that are susceptible to misinformation like of many different ideologies because you get the woo woo yoga crowd who probably vote for obama three times type people who are like out here now fully like, oh no, I can't do it, I can't do it, I can't do it. But yeah, this is the world we're in.

It is. This is the world. Profound, profound observations from my experience. I heard we live in a society. I don't remember where I read that. It could be misinformation. I'm glad you went there. I'm glad you went there.

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if i am teaching this as a as like my own decision because like parents are are not wanting their kids to hear that like in in these yo this is a lot bleaker than i thought i'm not gonna lie i like when i heard the school boards passing resolutions announcing critical race theory etc like i understand i like i can't understand why people's resistance to being told that like they're part of the problem like i get how that hurts honey like i understand sweetheart like that's really hard even though it's a conversation we need to have but like seeing its actual instantiation and like we're not going to teach about the suffrage movement we're not gonna we're not gonna teach about like cesar chavez we're not gonna teach about mlk it's like oh oh no this is a whole nother level of like

oh oh y'all really trying to make y'all ignorant ignorant that only history is white history and white male history and also like all of these things right it's like you know because one of the first things i was taught in college like america is a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and i was like what the fuck class is this and then and this is precisely it they are trying to erase anything that would give someone the critical functions to understand the systems of oppression that work in this country. Because like, fuck, man, we we got too loose with this teaching people history stuff that now we have to. I mean, granted, they're not saying it's banned, but they're saying it's no longer required. So then, you know, fucked up school districts can make their decisions that way.

But, yeah, it's it's just it shows you like clearly that the level of progress just in general is just such a frightening prospect to conservatives that to now even be like, oh, yeah, we're not even teaching history anymore. Like we can't even do that because, I mean, I already had my critiques as someone that says education partially about like the limits of civics education today, where it's like, oh, they teach about the civil rights movement as if, like, oh, we beat slavery, we beat racism, it's over. But, like, if y'all not even going to teach about how they kind of sort of started to begin to beat racism, period. Right. To acknowledge. Ooh, we in trouble. This is, ooh, we in big trouble. Like, big trouble like big trouble they're gonna be like

i remember like they're gonna completely take away stuff like you know maybe alexi de toqueville or these other like nuanced things or you know uh talking about mlk or wb wb du bois or things like that and be like uh when tom brady won his seventh super bowl children with the tampa bay buccaneers people thought that was impossible. But he had a dream. And you're like, what the fuck are they teaching now? Somebody raise their hands and be like, what about Serena and Simone Biles? And they get in school suspension.

Get out of here. Do you think this is going to make history the edgiest shit for teens now? Because if they're not teaching it, you know how kids be like, oh zoomers oh yeah real shit you know what i mean and then they're like yo read this howard zen real quick man just fuck your head up like you're not on opening in the during recess be like yo i got so many pamphlets we got them okay what you want what you need you want some susan b anthony you want some little cesar chavez in here i mean you want, what you need. You want some Susan B. Anthony? You want some little Cesar Chavez in here? You want to know about physiognomy or phrenology? Yeah, kids like, if you tell something's banned, something's taboo, something's not included, they're like, oh, word? They'll be like, we actually just learned about phrenology in class.

Oh, word. No, but like as if it's science. Right. Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah, no, no. No no not like that not like it's really cool i want to be a phrenologist mom it's like wait what the fuck i mean i know about the pursuit of you know banned materials like i said the original atlians that had a different cd art

on it i remember trying to get that cd yeah because again kids if you if you say there's a different version or something's banned or whatever i don't know like it's just in my mind i just see like this weird world where kids are like yo check this book out right it's like it's just history it's just history yeah it's just a textbook yeah i mean this we had talked about like the gop kind of weaponizing the words critical race theory as a talking point because i i think it had pulled negatively with the base and you know they're using it to rile up the the racist but this proves that you know like mariah like you said they're they're dead serious about making this part of of the future like white supremacy is a protected

value of american children's civic education like that's that's the goal yeah it's gonna be hard when over half those kids are not white yeah you know but i mean that's specifically what they're worried about i think yeah i mean because look it's coming, baby. Look at the demographics. It's coming. Yeah. Okay. And it's funny, too, because on Monday, there was a, in Missouri,

they had a legislative committee, like an invite-only hearing on critical race theory. Didn't invite one black person. Huh. For this hearing on whether or not it should be taught. So, you know, this is, you know, this is where things are headed. It's really grim.

So, hey, if you're a parent, make sure that you tell your kids about the importance of history. Yeah. Because every time I see this, I'm like, damn, I'm glad that's what I was the most interested in as a kid. Like, because it felt like the closest to watching a movie for me. Like, history was easy to study because it felt like a narrative all the time. Yeah.

And not like science with equations and shit. And I was like, did that and i made them do this and that's why it's like this now okay i like this i like so a little bit of hope is to pass this bill passed in the texas senate does that mean that it's not yet passed in the texas house that's right yeah thanks oh jesus oh fuck right yeah i can breathe a little bit lord j Jesus, I was nervous. This is them showing their hand of what they want to do, where they want to take things they haven't officially said they needed. Yeah, and then they do the thing where they then, you do the most inflammatory bill first,

and then you dial it back and go, okay, you're right. We just want to teach that the KKK isn't bad. That's it. We'll just do that one now. Compromise? yeah yeah we're all three-fifths compromise partisanship bipartisanship was beautiful time baby all right let's check in with the tokyo shit show that continues to unfold in the run-up to the 2020 olympics in 2021 the newest bad news, aside from the raging pandemic, is that the people who are being quarantined and being forced to self-isolate are not being fed. They're stuck in their rooms. Journalists are stuck in their rooms and then like there's no food being delivered to them.

So they're like, you know, starvation conditions, basically. Yeah, I mean, it's like it's to the point where, you know, like the protocols apparently from the Olympic Committee is like if something happens, then you'll be so you'll you'll self isolate and you'll get three meals a day like brought to you. So like the first day people like, where's my food? And they're and they're like oh we don't we're not that's not our department and they're like oh we said that oh yeah i didn't mean that and they're like well so then like a lot of journalists have had to like rely on their colleagues who are in the area to bring them food because like the overall olympic you know body is not actually doesn't have a hand in that for some reason or the municipal government so on top that, it's just like it's bad enough that that these like journalists are like, I'm going to miss the opening. So I'm going to miss a lot of it if I'm here for 14 days. Like

I might as well have just not come here and watch the same damn TV that everybody else was and just done my reporting like that. Yeah. But on top of that, this is from the Daily Beast Daily Beast quote. Some of them say that they were exposed on the same flight that were. So apparently this would happen where they were exposed on a flight and they said, hey, sorry, you're on a flight with somebody that had that tested positive. You have to self isolate. So they said some of them say that they were exposed on the same flights that were carrying athletes to Tokyo. But those athletes have been told there's no need for them to isolate. The reporters say they are fully vaccinated and have returned multiple negative tests,

but will spend the next 14 days locked up in their rooms regardless. So it's like, okay, how is this being applied in a consistent way? It isn't because this also happened with the entirety of the BBC Scotland press corps that was traveling. They've also had to self-isolate because they were on a flight that had a positive case on it. But the athletes on that flight, not so much. Quote, the BBC has confirmed that although British Olympic athletes were on the same flight as the isolating BBC Scotland team, they are able to carry on with their preparations as normal if they keep returning negative tests. McLaughlin wrote in an article for the BBC, quote,

I would be lying if I said there wasn't also huge frustration about differences in the rules, end quote. They're just so desperate to squeeze the entertainment out of the athletes so that they can, you know, do the Pepsi commercial, sell the seats in the stadiums, get the tourist money. Well, they can't even have, they don't even have tourists, though. That's like the other part of it. They don't even have tourists, though. That's the other part of it. I don't understand. What is going on? It's all about delivering. Toyota pulled out as an

advertiser, but they still have all these advertisers that they are trying to deliver value for. Of course, they have to let the athletes be out and doing their preparations, the the journalists aren't driving you know advertiser value so they're fucked they're going to be treated like

shit i mean it is the olympics are the most capitalist like kind of event it's like capitalism the super bowl of capitalism uh which is itself probably the Super Bowl of capitalism. Yeah, the World's Fair. Yeah, the World's Fair of capitalism. It's like all these advertisers. And it's just one of yet another example of how when things are off and when there's a lot of inequality and when there's a crisis situation, our like hyper capitalistic kind of organizing principle that we've been going with for the past 40 years, like doesn't, it just doesn't work.

It's a, it's a shit show. It's disorganized. People are treated differently based on how valuable they are to the people who are exchanging the most money. Like that's, that's what it comes down to. And it's just not it's not it can't function. can't have them do anything. The athletes, that's fine. Because if a close contact is enough to isolate a journalist, surely you don't want the athletes who you're saying were in the exact same environment to then go and pull up to the Olympic village and just start mingling with thousands of

other people too. I don't, even like if you're, if you're, if it's really about safety, then you have to actually be consistent with how you're isolating people to make sure you're limiting the spread. But again, it's not about that. And and it's just so it's just like so transparently disastrous that it's just so frustrating especially now that every like almost every country is having like oh man two players in the mexico baseball team uh got covid like just wherever you turn like the reports of cases aren't declining especially in athletes that are about to compete and i really feel like this is yeah this is truly emblematic of the olympics as an organization as well because i remember back what was it 2014 2016 sochi shit was a mess yeah and they wanted to blame it on oh russia and like i'm sure people this time we're gonna try to say oh japan they talking up it's

like the least common denominator here is that it's the olympics bro yeah i'm pretty sure this is endemic to their you know the institution that like they're just willing to do whatever it takes to pull off this massive sporting event for yeah to you know get that get that out and get those advertising dollars etc at the expense of human life or you know whatever anything whatever it takes to get it done sadly yeah it's uh it's it's really bad and on top of that too uh there's like this paralympic swimmer who has a condition where she's deaf and blind and needs like a primary care assistant to help her you know navigate her day-to-day situations which is her mom and you know, she had a terrible experience in Rio where she wasn't able, like she wasn't able to have her mom around for like this short segment and was like having

trouble, you know, getting food because of her condition. And, and in her trying to go to the Tokyo Olympics, they said, oh, your mom can't come because the rules are too strict with like outside people. It's like, this is the Paralympics and I need this person to even be able to get to the venue. Like what's going on. And because the Olympic committee is like oh our hands are tied she tried to go to the government of like an ambassador to Japan to try and speak with the Japanese government they said oh that's not on us they tried to speak with the Olympic committee they said oh that's on the U.S. team like they can just ask for more credentials and she's like what the fuck is this so she's pulling out of the games because she's like, I refuse to subject myself to this because last time was so traumatic for me.

I'm not even going to do this. And how dare you have people like allow people who are dependent on the help of others to just go up, like go through their lives and even compete that you're going to bar them from coming. Like none of this makes sense. So, you know, she's this swimmer is like completely said i'm out of this too so it's like that's legit everything just sucks about about the olympics and i hope at the end of this like because of this one especially people go man we need to seriously rethink this shit like just put it in one place forever and you can you can maintain your facilities rather than always bilking like local governments for their funds to sort of pay for stadiums and things like that just keep it in

one place because this shit feels like the the monorail from the simpsons it truly like you come around be like hey man if you get the olympics here like we'll do this and this and this oh the people will be fucked but the local the local contracting will be booming all that for nothing and i just it's just like i and i used to really like the olympics like i really like watching people compete who are at the height of their abilities but like this just puts such a stupid fucking just i just can't now i'm just like off this i will say i i don't know i saw a tweet somewhere somebody was like i need to see one of these motherfuckers like the sprinters run against like a regular person

to truly understand like how impressive you know like put me on the slalom put me let me do the shot to it real quick so i think i so i can truly understand because it is impressive to watch but out of context of like seeing how dumb ass the rest of us would look trying it's just like oh that seems pretty cool it's sort of like it's hard to grapple with the true amazingness of what they do out there sometimes but even that aside just institutionally this whole thing is fucked up and maybe you know bosh olympics yeah it would be hilarious so just to be like okay for those people who don't like get the get the guy who you think is the most fit guy from your town yeah right okay and we'll have one we'll have one dummy spot in the olympics so you can just see what the fuck this looks like

because this man will blow their hamstrings out the blocks yeah you can be legitimately impressed by like the other motherfuckers like yeah that's why i also like with the simone biles stuff because she's just next level and everything she does and i've just gotten spoiled i'm like i don't know that's the fuck simone i had to like a lot of people were like watch the gold medal winning performances from shit in the 80s and early 90s just so you can really understand how even then even not even comparing like an amateur just how far she's like progressing the. And you always need those little context things. Have you ever seen the measurement of Usain Bolt's stride length?

Nah, what? It's so wild. Is it like a wingspan, effectively, of like six feet or some shit? He takes 41 strides during the 100 meters. Excuse me? Yeah. Other, like, sprinters need, like, 48, and he covers it in 41. Like, I would probably need, you know, 80

and a break in between. And a break, yeah. So one thing that I don't know if this is going to happen or change anything, but the head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee on Tuesday. So yesterday did not rule out a last minute cancellation of the Global Sporting Showpiece, which starts on Friday. So, son. Yeah.

That guy's fucked. Yeah. Oh, my God. He's having stress diarrhea every morning. Every minute of every day he needs the same uh security detail that the new leader of peru needs yes yes oh yeah when that olympic hit squad comes yeah what did he do to deserve this like same thing the olympics they like had some sort of sex scandal and they were like oh you want me to tell everybody what you did and they're like no please so they're like all right we'll go

send send homie and send little homie out there telling me my cancel it yeah i don't know what they're gonna do that's so infuriating to even read that headline given everything else we've been reading and hearing about these games like yeah i mean it could get canceled i might decide that wouldn't it be a nice little bit of schadenfreude like y'all done all this fuck shit you sent home yeah you made the deaf blind swimmer go home after she's like the most impressive athlete and you know all the shit was she carry all this fuck shit with the journalists and it's like ha ha go have games i would kind of enjoy it if that happened. That would, yeah, that would feel good.

But then it sucks for everyone else. But then you're like, honestly, it's the pandemic. And the Olympics were fooling everybody by even saying they could do it this year. So shame on them for even giving you hope. Shame on them, they deserve it. Yeah. Mariah, it's been such a pleasure, as always,

having you on Daily Zeitgeist. Every time, every time. Where can people find you and follow you yeah you can find me on instagram and twitter at mariah for athens if you into some politics or lingua franca if you into some music l-i-n-q-u-a f-r-a-n-q-a uh i got a new album coming out early next year so you can see him check out somebody wait, wait around for a little bit of that. It's going to be real good. And I'm going to have a baby soon.

So that'd be cute. Baby pictures on the TL. Come see that. A new album and a new human dropping. A new album, a new human. Yes. Can't tell which one I'm more excited for,

but now, yeah. Catch me on the internet. Mariah for Athens, Lingua Franca. You can also check out my podcast comes out every Thursday, waiting on reparations, wherever you get your podcasts.

Yeah, yeah. It's been great to see y'all again. Thanks for having me back. And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Well, actually, I mentioned one before we were recording that was funny, also weather related. Someone tweeted, I was like, oh, every time it rains and then it's hot afterwards, like nature's trying to steam us like a bag of crabs.

Yeah. Kobe Bakari tweeted, after it rains in Georgia, the sun immediately comes out to steam us like a bag of crab legs. There's no other in the history of weather anecdotes that has anything captured the experience more perfectly. But other than that i recently i watched the former mayor of atlanta get dunked on real hard um for like he like planned so he's running kasim reed he's running for mayor again he's got all these corruption charges against him

like federal corruption like like proceedings against him i don't know why he's running but uh so he planted a yard sign of his in like some random person's yard who like tweeted at him like yo homie why'd you put this in my yard and then he was like it's kasim reed former mayor of atlanta tweeted this guy like well why do you follow me and then he just got like ratioed so bad by the good people the good people in the city of atlanta who were like homie you were vying to become one of the most powerful men in the South. Can you just please have a shred of dignity? A little bit? Miles,

where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey, and also the other show for 20 Day Fiance. If you like 90 Day Fiance, come check out that podcast, because I love trash TV. And I hope you do, too. Some tweets I like.

First one is from Bailey Moon at BaileyMoon15 tweeted Susan B. Shopping Anthony. Just thinking about the suffrage movement and yeah, just that coming out. And then another one from at Stan Fritz tweeted, how do you say

I don't give a fuck professionally? Yeah. I'm thinking on it. Share your thoughts. I don't know. Let's see some tweets I've been enjoying. Kelgore Trout at Kelgore Trout. A little Kurt Vonnegut reference tweeted.

My kid crying, just losing her mind as I explain why she cannot sleep with a water balloon. That just really struck, hit home. I have very similar conversations every night. Trey at Trey Dayway tweeted, I carry around flour tortillas just in case I need to turn something into a taco, which is just good policy. And Eden Dranger tweeted, I'm just a girl standing in front of the fridge wishing it was a boy you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can find us on twitter at

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No Sedge Thing, and this Korean MC Park Heejin. we went out on one of her tracks like maybe a couple months ago but this new track i mean i'm really i don't speak korean but i feel like i do when i listen to these tracks because uh they just they go hard and the production is really cool i just like seeing sort of more forward-thinking beat production over k-hip-hop so this one's called clouds by park hee jin and No Such Thing. All right. Well, go check that out. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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