The Daily Zeitgeist - Biden Bulb Blowback, GenZ Now Cheugy AF? 08.02.23

Episode Date: August 2, 2023

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Trust us, it's out of this world. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 298. Is it still Tuesday? I feel like I'd be closer to 300 by now. Anyway, it's episode two of The Daily Zeitgeist. This is still a production of iHeartRadio. It's still the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023. And happy celebrations to you if you celebrate National Coloring Book Day and National Ice Cream Sandwich Day.

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For coming up with that plump up the jam Talking about my hams, my hamstrings, my hammies You know what I mean? Because they're getting plumper And I am thrilled to be joined by my guest co-host today I feel like you already know If I have a guest co-host It's like you already know who it's thrilled to be joined by my guest co-host today. I feel like you already know. If I have a guest co-host, it's like you already know who it's going to be. It's the God from Chicago, okay?

It's the man with the golden voice. It's the host with the most. It's the improviser who's also my supervisor. Please welcome to the stage Mr. John Keyes Neal! Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. I lost my voice. I'm not gonna sing. But I'm singing right now.

I know. What are you doing? Hold on. Don't, don't, don't. Before you're like, hey, I lost my voice, man. I don't know. And then you just came in

with a fucking falsetto. Ooh, ooh, ooh. What up, man. I don't know. And then you just came in with a fucking falsetto. I get it. What up, niggas? We back. We back. We back. What's up, man? It's hot, man.

Yeah. It's hot. And it's hot, too. And it's hot, too. It's hot. The block is hot and it's hot outside. That's one of my favorites in Poodie Tang. And it's hot, too.

Yeah, and it's hot, too. And he's just like, I hate you. Yo, what other black movies that are just so fucking ridiculous that have been made? Probably like Sorry to Bother You. Right. Yeah. That's one. Just so fucking ridiculous.

But that's got some real subtext to it though you know what i mean was just like and like let's let's forget the person who actually penned that film but anyway yeah yeah yeah let's move on uh to talk about our guest today in the third seat again one of our favorite guests that we have on the show we know i mean we know you as oh shit almost knocked my bong over we know you as as an activist, a poet, and don't you know it. You're also a visual artist, a podcast host. I don't know what this talented human being does not do. I'm only surrounded by talent today.

Please welcome to the microphone, Taza Mudd! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yes, thank you so much. I don't have a day job. That's what I don't do. But I do everything else. Hey, you got those things going. And you just had your first art show, too.

I did. I had an art show in L.A., solo art show at L.A. Art Corps. I was really excited about it. It was thrilling. I don't know what life is anymore. Yeah. Where do I go from here? But, yeah, check out aunties with deadly stare you

know what i mean yeah that was serious yeah i love the laser eyes it's my favorite like bringing that into it and you know what else is new i mean what else you got going on how you been that was that was a lot i like didn't do anything in my life except paint for like three four weeks no three four months uh the show ended mid-july and then I went to Palm Springs in like 115 degree heat. Just hung out in the pool. I know. It was really cheap though. And then I went to Arizona.

Wait, were you just chasing the hottest fucking places in the country? I guess I was. The Arizona trip was like a consulting job. But like, it was really hot. Were you in Phoenix? You were in Phoenix, were you? I was in north of Phoenix.enix i was at the clear water or was the kindness or carefree that was the name of the area carefree were people also did you read about how like people were getting like terrible burns

from falling on the blacktop during the heat wave in arizona the cactus are falling over in Arizona because they can't deal with the heat, which is wild. That's insane. That's too hot. Too hot for a cactus. I remember in Chicago, the first year I moved to L.A. and I went back, it was 2012. It was the polar vortex. Oh, yeah. And, you know, Chicago has wind.

For those of you who don't know, Chicago has windshield. Chicago has wind. For those of you who don't know, Chicago has windshield. And if you don't know what windshield is, that means as God's way of saying the temperature is what it is. But fuck you more. It gets colder. And the windshield was like negative 50 degrees. And it was so cold in Chicago that the polar bears that lived at the zoo in Chicago had to be taken inside because it was too cold for them. Outside in Chicago. Polar bears. It was too cold for them outside.

In any normal Chicago winter, the polar bears just kick it. Is that the norm? Yeah, the polar bears can be in or outside. But this time it was like. It was so dangerously cold that they had to take them inside to keep them alive. They didn't trust that they could to take them inside to keep them alive. They didn't trust that they could stay overnight in that fucking cold.

See, see, see Republicans and climate deniers. We got polar bears wearing jackets, people burning themselves. I saw a video of someone baking cookies on their dashboard. Yeah, that's a thing. That's anyway. So we're all just trying. We're all just trying to make sense of this climate crisis. We're in an ecological disaster. But hey, we're making we're spending a lot of this climate crisis we're in and ecological disaster.

But, hey, we're spending a lot of money to try and get out of it. So keep your eye on that part. Taz, we're going to get to know you even better. But first, let's give people a quick preview of what we're talking about. Yo, the Biden bulb fucking backlash is in full effect. I don't know what the fuck that is. You probably don't either. But we will talk about how people are somehow mad about efficient light bulbs because, you know, we love a controversy. Then just want to just want to lay some flowers at the gravesite of Gen Z, you know, who has just found out that mortality does come for all of us.

And eventually we do become the washed ones as younger people enter the world. So we will talk about this is like really there's a meme. I fucking don't know what the fuck is going on. I fucking don't know what the fuck is going on. Gen Z don't know what the fuck is going on. And Generation Alpha, who's the younger, the youngest right now, they can barely explain to those old folks what the fuck it is. So we'll talk about that in the Gen Z response to all that. And then we're going to talk about Elon. He found a fucking another person to blame really quick.

That wasn't himself for the absolutely predictable downfall of twitter so we'll talk about that so before we get to any of that we gotta ask you our esteemed guest tazamed what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are what you're into you know it's funny i was just looking at it i was looking at the moon we're in a full moon right now august is gonna be i think there's two full moons in august so we're in a blood moon oh that is the hippie dippy world that i'm in where i'm googling the moon yo uh my partner her majesty she's going to some full moon shit tonight i went to a full moon shit last night or sunday night wait is there like an official day can you do it is it is it like more lit today than sunday or is

this like i think yesterday was no actually tonight tonight's the biggest one but sunday i went to this is like the most ridiculous thing i've ever done i went on a hike in topanga canyon topanga canyon yeah yeah which is like hippie dippy central 35 minute hike to that like place i forgot what it's called lookout peak or whatever and they had a dj set up and we did meditation there was a meditating patient person we had disco headphones on we like welcome the moon with a silent disco dance party wait so the dj hike up like a 35 minute hike with all their gear. Yeah. That's fucking dedication. I felt like I was like at a rave for like grownups.

Yeah. Yeah. And it was nice outside too. I bet. It was, it was hot. It was a hot hike. Yeah.

Yeah. But adults that respect the lunar cycles, obviously. You know what I mean? Now I am a college educated man, but I did go to art school. So I don't know a lot. I thought there was only one full moon a month.

I didn't know there was like more. I thought like, is that not true? Is that legal? That's not true. Taz, is that legal to have two full moons? No, because the moon cycle is different than the sun cycle. So the moon is every 28 days. Oh.

And the sun is like, you know, the month is like. There is only one full moon per cycle. Yes. But there possibly could be two within a calendar month.

Yeah. And the only reason why I know this is because I'm Muslim and then we like fast, you know, during Ramadan. So we go by the lunar cycle.

I got you. Yeah. Okay. All right. It's not because of college education. It's because of eating. Yeah. Because Islam. Okay. All right. It's not because of college education. It's because of eating. Yeah. Because Islam. Okay. You know what I mean? That's how I got

educated in the lunar cycles. Yeah. I don't... I remember studying that kind of shit in school and that shit just went over my head. I'm like... You know what I still don't understand? Like last or Sunday night, the moon was up and the sun was up at the same time. I still haven't figured that part out. know i see you see that pretty often here in california

at least i remember like when i was younger whenever i would notice that i would be like oh my gosh and now i'm like i noticed that shit like five days a month yeah it happens quite often it happens quite often like at least on this side of the country i'm sure like your listeners are going to respond explaining like how the moon revolves around the earth and the sun is yeah it's just like if i did the research i still don't understand yeah i was like it's not night this is the devil yeah i'm going to church and for all those people that are going to explain it maybe you can explain other life mysteries to us like why do dogs and cats live together exactly and why do dogs and cats live together i wonder that all the time and why are

the receipts at cvs so long please tell me god why and why are there aliens coming to our planet what's uh what's something you think is overrated i was thinking a lot about like aunties but i don't know if aunties are overrated as much as the way that we talk about aunties is overrated i think we're in the new generation of your definition of aunties yes right so like the auntie my so my art show revolves around like this idea uh it was actually inspired by a hate crime incident that happened in 2016, where two Muslim women were kicked off of a plane for staring too hard. And the flight attendants were like, we didn't like how they were looking at us. So we kicked them off of the plane.

And that's what inspired my series on aunties with deadly stares. And I don't know, I think that part, like aunties are just out there to get you is kind of like like me making the art was like retaking the power the auntie has like yeah of course the aunties are going to stare at you like that that's what they do this is like an auntie's stare is a terrorist act

what you going to do about it you know what I mean like that's how we aunties are and now and you are and just for those who are not familiar with the auntie term, it's not like your mom or dad's like sister. That's not the auntie you're talking about. That is not the auntie. The older generation of women who we colloquially call aunties too. Oh, I know.

I'm dating an Indian lady right now, and I've been schooled on all her aunties and all. It's a beautiful thing. Auntie culture. This one white lady came up to me at the art show, and she's like, oh, so this happened to your aunt? I was like, no. Talking about the universal auntie. Come on now. Yeah.

I think that's a problem people have. In Black culture, aunties, that doesn't have Yeah. I think that's a problem people have. Like in black culture, aunties, that doesn't have to be a thing to be a literal aunt. Sometimes it's like your mom's best friend and that's just like your auntie or whatever.

Your auntie. Yeah. Even uncle. Or cousins. Exactly. Or your cousin. Family terms. So many people are my cousins

that are not my cousin. Yeah. That's just what it is. And I think in America, sometimes it's viewed a little bit more rigid, but that they're like, when they hear it, they're like, so this is a sibling of one of your parents.

Bro, I have like I last year I went to my cousins, like the whole family descended. OK, your actual cousin? My actual cousin. OK, just clear. And the whole family. But my actual my actual cousins, the whole family descended onto Vegas for my cousins graduating from med school. We were out and my younger cousin who's now in her early 20s or whatever. I was there when she was born.

Literally, I was there when she was born. We were out having a drink, having a smoke. She turned to me and she was like, Jackie, are you our real cousin? Or like, how are you related?

And I'm like, girl, our parents are first cousins. Yes, we are as real cousins. But like, it's so like ingrained that like you can, cause we're family,

but it's so ingrained that like you can be related by blood or not, but you're still cousins, uncles, aunties. Like it's a beautiful thing. It's the same level of closeness that you don't really examine half the time especially when you like lit like you come up with these people

all the time it's just it is what it is Taz give us something that you think is underrated are we not talking about aliens invading planet earth like I feel like oh we've been talking about it I feel like it's not in the mainstream as as I know we've been talking about it. I feel like it's not in the mainstream as it should be.

I know. We've been talking about this on the show, right? Because when I see somebody under oath talking about some recovered non-biologics from a fucking spacecraft and there's a program to retrieve and reverse engineer it, I'm like, hold the fuck up. Because I've been getting high for so long i've been waiting to hear this shit please let me see this and we talked a little bit about like what a lot of skeptics have said i think the one of the more compelling arguments i've heard from skeptics is like hold on these motherfuckers got ships that are like a sphere and a cube that can move at light speed but they them shits just crash everywhere they're like what the fuck is going

on maybe they're not that it's like holographic, multidimensional. That's a bridge too far for me. I mean, like let them be here physically. But yeah, I don't know. I mean,

I think I've always said like, I'm very open to this idea. I would like to see something a little more tangible in terms of like evidence, but like, I'm not immediately going to be like, man, fuck out of here. That ain like evidence. But like, I'm not immediately going to be like, man, fuck out of here.

That ain't happening. Cause again, I've just spoken way too much weed to not be open to some fucking aliens being here. That's just, it is what it is. I believe it, but I just don't understand why no one's talking about it.

Like, like no one's talking, no one in the mainstream is talking about it. And I'm like going into every party going like, Hey, did you hear about the aliens and how Congress is talking about it yeah i was like whatever right whatever this is like what it i just like man it four years ago i felt like there would be like a few things that would universally bring us together as a human race sure and after And after the pandemic, I no longer think that.

And now it is even more evident that there are, we are literally talking about aliens and nobody gives a shit. That's how, that's how much news and bad shit is. Our world is so fucked up that we are like aliens,

man, I wish we could talk about that, but we got some other shit to talk. It is wild. It's wild. Not to get killed by police, but yeah, there are a, I think the other part too is like,

it's, I get, cause if right, if, if true, then we have to have a serious talk about how we view our life on this planet, who we are in relation to each other what fucking god is or is not you know what i mean like there's a because i remember the catholic

church a few years ago was like yeah you know if aliens out there that's part of god's plan like i'm pretty sure the catholic church was sort of like preparing for this kind of shit to be like yeah and christ was fucking with aliens so don't think that that's like not part of god okay like we're cool with them that i think it does it does make for a lot of introspection that is so abstract at this point probably people probably aren't wanting to engage at that level that's why like for me i'm just like what the fuck did they say go on now let me see more please and then we'll see there because to your point jackie's like that hearing i've never seen something more bipartisan in like my life, like in D.C., like where Republicans and Democrats are like on task trying to like get all of this information out in the hearing. But, yeah, I don't know.

I mean, I think there's it's going to take some time, I think, for this to be like at the point where people are like, OK, maybe this is, we're seeing enough things or there's enough hearings, enough evidence to really begin to reckon with this. But like the people who like actually believe in the aliens, even they were like, are skeptical of this hearing. You know what I mean? Like the people that were like, are the ones that send you the alien memes? Right. Those are the ones that were like, yeah, but they're just trying to distract

you from something. I was like, well, I believe that, but like, still. Yeah, I was like, this is quite the psyop i don't know if you had to swing this big if you're running a fucking op on everybody right but i but but it's the one no one's paying attention to either so is it like a totally total l of a fucking op to be like damn nobody's fucking going for this shit like yeah i'm talking about it i guess they're gonna realize bydonomics isn't a a real thing. I think we are in a culture now where movies mean too much. Because, you know, it's also like, all right, man.

Yeah, y'all can see some aliens. But if Will Smith ain't punching that motherfucker talking about welcome to Earth, I ain't going to be scared. Like, you know, we like at this point, I'm like, where's the alien invasion? Yeah, that's me. I want a cigar in my mouth saying, now, where's the alien invasion? Yeah. Like that's me. I want a cigar in my mouth saying, now that's what I call a close encounter. Yeah. You know what I mean? We were talking the other day about fantasizing.

Like I'll go downtown to the former first interstate bank building, which was the one that gets gotten downtown L.A. and Independence Day. I'll get on that. I'll get on that roof. I'd be like, yes, come bring them. Bring them. But it's to be seen. I'd be like, yes, come bring them, bring them. But it's to be seen. But yeah, I don't know. Do you have you?

So I'm guessing you were like me the first day. I was like telling people, I'm like, this is a quote that a guy just said. Decades long spaceship, like alien craft retrieval and reverse engineering program. Yeah, I was like biologics. Did you guys hear biologics? Yeah, exactly. I'm like, man, I just I wrapped my Dodger fitted in tinfoil. It was dope.

You know what I mean? Just letting people know. I wonder, are there people out there that like I have no interest whatsoever in becoming like president of the United States or any. But I would solely like drop everything right now scrub my search history take every podcast i've ever done off of the air so it can't be used against me in the future and start to run for president just to learn secrets that we don't fucking know yeah i hear that what i would do nothing in the white house but just learn secrets.

Like the Pentagon's budget. You're like, fuck a budget, man. Let me see these fucking aliens. Let me see Area 51, baby. There's a montage I saw where somebody cut together a clip of when late night hosts have asked former presidents about aliens. And it's interesting how they're always coy about it like george bush like come on man i can't tell you he's like well what do you mean he's like so i mean you can't tell me because there are some he's like i couldn't tell you either way i just can't talk about it and he's like that obama was the same way

clinton was the same way it makes you think i'm like come on now like just they know there's something let us have a little bit of let us have some extraterrestrials as a little treat man the earth is fucked up enough you know i mean there's something fun about knowing like i am one of 10 people in the entire history of this planet that knows about something yeah instead like in hollywood we like we know kinds of secrets're like, when's this person going to get exposed? That's a fucking creep. Those are the closest we get to alien sightings, I think, in LA.

Do you think it's a world thing? Can I ask both of you? Because if the world has to be in on it, this is the one thing that world leaders across the world agree to. A global coordinated thing that's what they said in the congressional hearing that guy the witness he said that

there is some international treaty that everyone agreed all the world leaders agreed to like not to keep it under wraps yeah it's the only thing that we can agree on as a as a planet is to not tell people right could you imagine it's like like, one crash, like, even, like, between Israel and Palestine, they're like, yo, man, we're on the same page with the aliens. I can't talk about it. That's sacred. That's sacred. An apartheid state, constant human rights violations, I mean,

like, you know what time it is. That we can talk about. But the aliens? Shut the fuck up. Okay. Yeah, it's a weird time. It's like they're holding that meme with, like, the red bandana and the blue bandana but over alien spaceship but over alien spaceship wow wow the one true the one true balancer of everything who knows but again yeah i think i thought you were asking

about culturally you know because i do think that there is something to the fact that americans are seeing like like we i we want to see aliens like in england they see way more ghosts than we see ghosts yeah we see more you know they've killed more people yeah but i think also like i'm surprised they don't have that fear because i feel like it's like the fear of an alien is about imperialism the boomerang of imperialism coming back your way. And that we obsess with this invasion of foreign forces onto our lands or whatever. Right, right. How do we protect ourselves against these?

Yeah. Same. You know, America has so many ways to feel guilty, whether it's about chattel slavery, these other things. And they manifest in our media in weird ways. I see that as like made potential underpinnings of it. But then at the same time you're like but the brits ain't seeing that shit the brits yeah come on now i know y'all are feeling that anyway so we will see we will see there's more hearings on the way um and there is yeah like because apparently like these they got to talk to they got to talk to more people tom Blink-182 is like having a field day right now he's like

just wait he's like this is just a taste I'm like well what do you know anyway I just want to know what AOC is gonna discover cause she's the only congressperson I trust she was also on some we gotta figure out what's going on I was like oh really okay well you want to see him too I think anybody

that's how you know somebody smoked weed in congress if they're like yo I gotta know about this a little bit more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see you all. I see you all. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk about our dear leader, Joel Byron, right after this. In 1982, Atari players had one thing on their minds. Sword Quest. This wasn't just a new game. Atari promised $150,000 in prizes to four finalists.

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And we're back. So people might not know, but yesterday, Tuesday, August 1st, America's ban on most incandescent light bulbs went into effect. Basically, the rule says that light bulbs must emit a minimum of 45 lumens per watt the traditional incandescent do 15 lumens per watt so we're talking about you know minimum three times more efficient but you know what of course we can't just say like oh that's good we're gonna help our energy consumption and things like that with our light bulbs. No, Republicans have already gone on X or Twitter, man. Fuck saying X Twitter.

And yeah, that's saying Biden has quote weaponized federal agencies to push liberal fantasies. And the States quote must fight back against the light bulbs. Were you about to say something to us? I don't get it. I mean, like,

is it, aren't the Republicans like the, like, you know, party about money? Like, aren't they the, like, you know, like, this is just going to feed into capitalism? You could sell a bunch of my bulls. Yeah. It's hard because, again, it's anything that's now seen as efficient or, like, talking about energy consumption is them trying to say this is like some tree hugger climate change fight stuff which guess what assholes we that's something we need to be doing although at a much larger level not at the consumer level with light bulbs but anyway that's another point but again this shit is so stupid because this ban goes back to 2007 when i was just graduating fucking college

and it was passed with bipartisan support under the Bush administration. So the thing is, there was this part of the law that required most light bulbs be 60 to 70 percent more efficient than the standard incandescent bulb by 2020. Donald Trump rolled that back. So that was like it was kind of like a minor story in that, like the chaos of the Trump administration. He was like, wow, he just killed woke light bulbs, I guess. And that's fine. We're just delayed the chaos of the trump administration who's like wow he just killed woke light bulbs i guess and that's fine we're just delayed the implementation of this but the funny part the reason trump even said he was down to roll back these regulations was because he claimed to quote look better under an incandescent light he's a quote i look he said i look better when there's less light go Go ahead, sir.

At least you know your angles, which is low light. I say this every time I'm going to say it. I hate that he's such a terrible person because if he wasn't, he is the funniest president we've ever had in the history of this fucking world. If he was just so ignorant and not uh such a vile hateful racist misogynist etc it'd feel but i don't know how you could it's it's hard to be a i mean i guess george bush is one of the stupidest presidents but i just do love it so much but to even think that we'd be like no not those bulbs because i look better when there's less light it's so funny it's so funny you know it's probably the people who like saw a monitor of him

like on a like a shoot with like the the lighting on him he's like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa just turn it down i don't want to be seen but again this ban is just on the manufacture and sale of these bulbs because here's a this is a fox headline this is biden administration torched for banning incandescent light bulbs. So much for getting government out of our homes, which would lead you to believe that there's going to be like the fucking bulb bureau and shit kicking down your door and unscrewing your shit. Making shit LED. Is it 45 lumens per watt? But again, that's part and parcel of their rhetoric on that thing.

But again, switching to LED led light bulbs it will cut planet warming carbon emissions by 22 222 million metric tons over the next 30 years which is a small drop in the bucket but again something that should just be done you know what i mean i mean look to it i i i don't understand karen about like i don't understand i don't understand caring about light. I don't understand. I don't understand it. Yeah. And not from a micro level because like, yeah, man, there are some light bulbs. I'm like, oh, man, give me that daylight white. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, yeah, I got my preferences and shit. Oh, you don't like a very warm light?

I like the daylight white, although now a lot of the lights in my house are like smart lights. So I can like adjust the lights to whatever I want it to be. The color temperature. Right, right, right. You know, the temperature, the color, the brightness, everything. And then even like when LED lights first started becoming a thing, I was like, Ooh, these motherfuckers is bright. But like outside of that, who gives a shit?

Who gives a shit? And now they're they look pretty they're putting out the same fucking light as the other ones if if you were like someone who's like i don't need the hyper white light it drives me wild or whatever they have they got they got warmer colors they got warmer colors don't worry you won't die under the leds and life is expensive like don't we want to like make life cheaper for people this is basically in the end it's going to make like energy use cheaper for that yeah oh i mean over yeah it'll it's going to save you know overall like billions in people's light bills by just doing this combined or

whatever but again they gotta find a way to be against efficiency of any kind because it's it's just wild it's progress across the board of any kind there yeah truly it's like man i don't even want a fucking light bulb to be better than it used to be when my grandfather was in the clan and also a senator like that kind of shit they're just clinging to because same thing with fucking gas stoves it's like anything that's like all right we're doing stuff that people things can be more efficient you you know, but again, it's, it's all woke shit. Just like when the Xbox put in like a power saving thing into like the software and people like Xbox has gone fucking tree hugger on us. But Hey, do what you got to do, man.

Those are Xbox. Can't heat up until it gets the three rings of death. Yeah, that's my right. That's my fucking right. Fucking right, bro my fucking right fucking right bro all right let's actually move on to let me move on to elon real quick because again for what do you do now well hey for the people in the back who that may not have heard elon musk is continuing to set records for killing a once powerful social media platform doing everything he can to make this we talked

about how when he had it the value had halved like a couple of months ago. And then when he changed it to X, they say the brand value had halved again, just from switching it from X to Twitter or from Twitter to X. So he thought it was going to make shit happen. It did not. He thought putting a huge lit up X sign at the top of his building would help with brand value that have it did not. And this man is flailing before our fucking eyes and just demonstrating with painful clarity that he is far from being some kind of marketing or sales tech genius of any kind so the latest uh it sounds like elon is blaming pretty much everything that is wrong with

the business on a non-profit organization yeah he's suing the center for countering digital hate based out of the uk for like observing his actions and talking about it this is what he tweeted on the 31st free expression is fundamental to a healthy functioning global side blah blah blah that's taken away it's impossible to get back he said free expression and platform safety are not at odds despite our continued progress the center for Countering Digital Hate and its backers have been actively working to assert false and misleading claims about X and actively working to prevent public dialogue. That's why X has filed a legal claim against the CCDH and its backers. And I'm just going to read a little bit from the lawsuit, this legal motion or legal claim that was filed. I was talking about this countering digital hate and activist organizations masquerading as research agencies funded and supported by unknown organizations, individuals, and potentially even foreign governments with ties to legacy media companies have embarked on a scare campaign to drive

away advertisers from the X platform. So ridiculous. Taz, let me ask you something. I'm convinced that he's doing this on purpose. Oh, 100% doing this on purpose. Because I refuse to believe anybody...

I don't refuse to believe it. But I don't believe that you can be this inept or this like obtuse to not realize what you are doing like is he there he's doing it on purpose because somebody made him mad and he was like this is my long con to end this shit or something but like good lord also so do you am i am i alone in this do you think that's do you think this too part of me is also i have to i also have to acknowledge my own blind spots as a not wealthy white guy who just had who could just fail upward infinitely true True. Because you see this a lot. I mean,

with anything, right? If you, if you're surrounded by sycophants forever, you will never hear an idea, a critical idea that might resonate with you. And people are going to be like, Oh yeah,

yeah, that's right. Elon, it's these motherfuckers that are like fucking shit up because it's not, and not one single business move has been good or positive. So did you, were you following when he was over at, was it PayPal? And he tried to rename PayPal to X. And they fired him.

Yeah, and they fired him for that. So this is just his ego, right? He's just trying to... It's Fetch. He's trying to make Fetch happen. You know what I mean? Fetch ain't happening. But I will say that I've worked with the...

In my activist life, I worked at a digital media activist organization and we used to do work with the U.S. version of all these organizations. And it's just it's so ridiculous because I think there was a quote. There was a quote between Elon and his wife where he was so upset by whatever was happening at Twitter. He's like, I'm going to buy it. I'm going to run this shit to the ground, basically. That's what he's doing here. I think everything he's doing right now is very intentional. He's trying to destroy this platform that activists have been using to organize protests around the world. Now we don't have any space. It's not like, I don't know what's happening on Blue Skies Threads. Like, we don't have the community that we once had at Twitter to organize the way we once used to be able to. And I think that's what he was trying to do.

He was trying to get rid of the digital space. I guess it's hard, right, to be like, if you wanted to just dead it, just buy it and dead it and be a supervillain. You know what I mean? Like, if that's the case. It's a public uh what's it called like he's like it's on the you know his stock yeah publicly traded company so he can't technically do that well yeah i think i mean he can also like also you know to do that and then to just end it would realistically in my opinion like that way if i was any other businessman i would be like i'm never trusting you yeah exactly but you can buy it and fuck it up by making move after move that the move that move and still have the trust

of your fellow white man and other people well Well, that's what's wild to me is like, cause if you're, if you are just sabotaging it from the inside, why also use like your pet project that you've been trying to make happen for years, be part of it. Like, why are you letting your ego get wrapped up in it? If this is like a, this is a very clear operation to do bad. I, it could just be, you know, six or one half dozen of the other but it is clear to your point taz like it is it is it's it's it's shaking it's the wheels are coming off it's hardly you can hardly use it and nazis can just kick in a subscription fee to get like sort of showcased on the website and i totally get that like maybe there's there might be a version where he was

hoping to invert like the sort of ideological balance of power on Twitter and be like, fuck it. I'm going to scare these motherfuckers off. And then I can create a business based off of all these fucking wannabe Heinrich Himmler's I got out here. But yeah, that's not going to work.

Yeah. At the end of the day, that's not going to work for business. And I think this, the other part I will add is like, if, if he is really going through with this, it's going to be a hard one for him because like this lawsuit is being filed in California where we have like really powerful anti slap anti slap law lawsuit like regulations on the books, meaning like you can't just come after somebody and try and sue them to silence their First Amendment rights and shit like that, which a lot of people are being like they're merely looking at your ad business what you're doing and rightfully just said it's like twitter is becoming

toxic and like that's you kid but you actually their whole thing is he's saying that they access some data improperly or whatever but that's hardly anything but it just does sound seem to see it does seem to be that the narrative he wants to get out there is that the ad exodus is not because of his doing it's also because of these other people which i guess yeah whatever do your best do your best uh is is space x considered a success yeah it is i think so yeah okay i mean they're doing real shit i mean like that like that's they have, you know, people with expertise doing things. I don't know the ins and outs of, you know, the space industry. But, you know, this is he gets a ton of money for these he's doing all of this because he thinks people on the left have abandoned him and made first time he's inserted himself into a business model that his decision making is directly affected to the success or failure of a company. Same with Tesla, though, right? Like there we just talked about a story about how there is a there is a subdivision within Tesla that is meant to gaslight car owners when they say the range isn't what it actually is that shows up on their dashboard. with the software that was displaying mileage to give you a fake fucking actual range distance on your dashboard till you hit 50% battery. And then it showed you what you're really fucking with. And so a lot of people are like, how the fuck did I lose three miles after like going down the block?

And then, so this, this group within Tesla was made to say, oh yeah, you just driving the car wrong, whatever, man. Like, and if they could get and basically get them to cancel a service appointment at one of the Tesla service centers, because those service visits cost the company a thousand dollars. And their whole point was to fucking gaslit the customer. So they did not go into a service center. And they also had ways of like blocking you from making an appointment on the app.

If they're like, man, this motherfucker is one of those range complainers. Like it's his hands are all over it and and you can see like right now it's starting to get wobbly too like i think like in la in la you see so many and i'm sure this is other places too so many people with teslas who have like some kind of sticker or some shit where they're like look i know i'm in a fucking elon car but fuck that guy like i've seen a few versions I've seen anti Elon

Tesla club bumper sticker I heard it says love my Tesla hate Elon like it's I don't know it's getting a bit out of hand but I think and I will say that like when Tesla and SpaceX started we didn't Elon was like a not a

figure that we heard from like he was there but Twitter gave him a voice. And I don't like his voice. People don't like his ego. Now we get to see his ego in this very real way. Where as before, he was just kind of like a mythical. He was mythical. And people didn't know much about him.

So we just equated some of these really cool things at these companies. Because look, yeah, electric cars are great and self-driving car. Look, I used to watch the Jetsons. I want that shit. Right. All right. And going to space is fantastic and space exploration. So like, these are very like cool things and these are very forward things.

And we just automatically, and this is a lesson in society too, for all of us. We just automatically put that progressiveness or that, that coolness onto him when we didn't know much about him. Oh yeah. Yeah. And then, you know, and then we pulled the curtain back and saw Oz wasn't what he was. It was funny. Cause I remember over the course of doing this podcast, we went from barely talking about Elon Musk and then Slade being like, man, man, fuck you.

I'm pretty sure. Fuck this guy, actually. You know, and now we've reached, you know, critical mass now where he's gone from Tony Starks in people's eyes to Stoney Farts or whatever the fuck you want to go by. Hey, man, don't be talking about my brother, Stoney Farts, Stoney Farts, you know what I mean? A.K.A. Stoney Farts, the fucking fireman.

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And buckle up, folks. It's time for us to take a deep dive into the world of the internets and be utterly confused. I will admit, before anybody, as a geriatric millennial, I'm not sure what the fuck is going on. But I do know this. millennial i'm not sure what the fuck is going on but i do know this for the last few years i have thoroughly enjoyed the absolute roasting uh of millennial culture from gen z it's mostly on point and at times it's fucking transcendent it's eye-opening uh to be seen through the younger generation's eyes about like what the fuck is wrong with these people um some millennials took it a little hard you know as it was a reminder to us that it was no longer 2006 and we when we were the cool kids out there uh with our weird ass outfits but can i say yes as right as you are the other half of me was also like motherfuckers just wait just fucking wait they're like we didn't have

the internet to cook gen x like i'm sure we could have like yeah i mean now we do it retrospectively but yeah i was like time does come for you as well time is coming for you time does and guess what we have arrived there generation alpha which is the kids born between like 2011 and now, they are sending Gen Z, some of them into an existential panic. And I say that lightheartedly based on the commentary around this meme. This meme, brace yourselves. It's like, gang, you may know, you may not. And this is the first time I heard it. It's called Skibbity Toilet.

And you say, what the fuck is Skibbity Toilet? So basically, I'm going to play a little bit. And just so you know, there's a remix of this track, Dom Dom Yes Yes by Bizer King, who, if you remember TikTok, there was like this Turkish dude who would be like kind of gyrating his hips

around like plates of food and stuff. It was like, skibbity up, bop, bop, yes, yes, bump. Anyway, for people who are terminally online like me, you know and stuff. It was like, bim, skibbity up, bop, bop. Yes, yes, bump. Anyway, for people who are terminally online like me, you know that track. There's like, it's like remixed and there's a dude coming out of toilet. And I'm just going to play a little bit for,

for us just to feast our eyes on it and try and give you some kind of running commentary as we look at it. Um, and it's a visual thing for everybody. I mean, I think you guys should, when you post online about this episode, have a second

slide and show in some of this. Skibbity toilet. Yeah. Check out, well, check this Skibbity out. What the heck is going on here? There's an elevator with urinals and heads come out the toilet. Yep. And there's big giraffe necks. The necks.

The necks. That was it. that was it that was one full up that was one post about it and I'm like what the fuck was that we got heads coming out of toilets we have people with surveillance cameras on their heads there are people with TVs on their heads and they fight in some of the videos

I cannot I don't know what the videos. I cannot, I don't know what the meaning is. And what's funny is I don't understand. I know. I don't either. I think we've, I think we've reached a point where the generations that are born like Jen,

Jen, a and or alpha, whatever you want to call them. And generations that are going to be born after that. Yeah. We've reached a point where their brains are born broken yeah yeah yeah because they're like on screens as soon as they're on screens as soon as they are fucking born yeah like it's like i like i know there is a four month old baby in my

life not mine but like that i know and and you got a kid miles like they know immediately they know how to look at you pull a phone out they know how to look at it they can follow it there it's like they are and i'm saying this lightheartedly that their brains are broken but like it's a different yeah it's a completely different reality for sure yeah i want to play this so somebody one of these people uh who had like a younger gen alpha sibling they posted on tiktok of being like just be like hey can can like their little brother they're like can you break down the skivity toilet meme for me this kid is like nine years old and i'm telling you it's i can't even follow what this kid is saying that's like what's so frustrating about it i think for other people okay wait, wait. So like, why are skivvity toilets and cameramen in the war?

Because. How did it start? Because after, before they saw each other, like, what? We got to take over the city. Oh, okay. The skivvities or all of them? The skivvities. Okay, so the skivvities are trying to take over the city and the cameramen don't like that?

Yeah, so the cameramenbities are trying to take over the city and the Cameramen don't like that? Yeah, so the Cameramen are trying to save the city. Uh, hmm. Oh, so we're talking about two different peoples. Like the Cameramen... There's the Skibbities, the Camera Heads, the TV Heads, they got the suits. That's like one. Then there's the Skibbity Toilets, which is the

heads that come out the toilets. Okay. The urinals. And the Cameramen people represent like corporate America skibbity toilets, which is the heads that come out the toilets and urinals. And the camera people represent like corporate America or like the bad people in the world. You're going too deep, too deep, too deep. Too deep, too deep. The skibbities want to take over the city. The skibbities want to take over the city. As this young man said.

So then skibbities take over, but the TV heads and the camera has fight them to prevent the takeover of the skibbity toilets to fight them right because yeah yeah yeah and like the cameras are on their heads because they see all again that's too much going too deep okay okay it feels like okay again i don't know again like these kids are going to be they're the most online generation of all time and i think it's just it's probably going to be one of these most online generation of all time and i think it's just it's probably going to be one of these things where like even if it doesn't make sense to us it the aesthetic is probably going to be what like spongebob simpsons memes and shit are to us wait i have a i have a question yes in the back yes is this related to minecraft at all and how

these kids are all into minecraft minecraft popular again? Oh, shit. Minecraft? I don't know. My nephew plays the fuck out of Minecraft. Yeah, I talked to a 10-year-old last night and she plays Minecraft on the internet with someone else. Look, Taz, we are washed and old and if we said that to them, they would probably laugh at us and then vaporize us. They did laugh at me

when I asked that. Oh, whoa, whoa, Victor. Well, producer Victor in the chat victor what come on hey come in here come in here if you if you're about don't you act like you know what's going on uh sorry for poor audio quality no don't worry producer victor come through the building yes yes please yeah so back in the day people would use gary's mod to mod video games and make little machinimas, which is just basically making a TV or a movie around video games, essentially.

I think that's what it looks like here. They're making the memes off of I'm butchering it, but I think it might be Unreal Engine 3. So there's a software where you can screw around with video game characters, and that's how they're

making it. And then animate it and do all this. Okay, but Victor, now thank you for the technical part, but what the fuck is going on, Victor? I don't fucking know. This one's new to me. I don't know. So,

again, like, we're trying to figure this out, and i get that this is just sort of what this is so for whatever reason the audio visual aesthetic that they love and it's just again like going back to this i just love that the last few years zoomers have laughed at us for being chuggy cringe you know we fucking love skinny jeans and charcuterie boards and shit we're washed but they this is like one tweet from someone this is hilarious they quote i just heard oh i just overheard my sister talking about how gen z is old and stupid and how they don't get their jokes hello i am right here i am only 15

she was born in 2013 then she asked me if i knew what a skibbity toilet was please help me what the fuck is a skibbity toilet i feel feel old. Other commenters like on these videos have said they already feel, quote, outdated. Some are horrified that they don't understand what this meme is. And I'm like, that's why I'm like, don't worry, y'all. It's just being washed is pretty comfortable at a certain point. You know? Hey, listen, man. You know, I went to bed last night excited for sleep.

I was so sleepy. Couldn't fall asleep because the insomnia eventually did and woke up and was like my body hurts so like you know that that's coming for all of y'all you know what i'm saying well you just sleep wrong oh you wake up and your whole damn body hurts and you gotta get up and walk through the day to like relieve your pain wait until you have to do morning stretches yeah because you can't walk without the morning stretch hey don't don't sit on that office seat with your ankle tucked under your butt like that which you get that it band pain like i do but yeah again i just love that there's also like

just this whole i don't know there's like lack of acceptance around it but i get it and i and what i tell them is these kids, the oldest ones are 11. So Gen Z, you're still firmly in the driver's seat. Don't worry about that. But just some stats about Gen Alpha, just quick hit off the census. This is going to be the most diverse generation ever, which makes sense.

I think just subsequently, that's just what it's going to be. Because hey, we're going to be living in a brown country soon, baby. Generation Alpha will also be the largest generation, over 2 million by 2020, 2 billion by 2025. 73% of U.S. children

under 12 use the internet. 73% under 12. I didn't start using the internet until I was 12. Yeah. Miles, how old is your baby? My baby is about to be 6 months old. How does it feel to have a baby entering

this shit yeah also your baby may not be generation alpha yeah you're i mean technically i think it's babies born from then until now like okay but i'm but you know they change that shit like yeah yeah yeah in retrospect they'll go back and be like actually this generation was 2023 like i'm gonna tell them i'm like you're a millennial. Like, you're dead. That's what we do. Because when we were first born, we were Generation Y. Like, Y. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were Generation Y.

And then it changed. We changed to millennials. Yeah, because it was just more, I think it was easier to follow. But anyway, so shout out to y'all. I get it. The slow creep of death comes for all of us. But just accept it and you will be saved. All right.

Well, thank you so much, Taz and Jack keys for joining me today. Appreciate us taking a journey through our evolving culture. Aliens, Jen, a Elon Musk, Elon Musk,

yo, and a, and if anybody can like, give me some kind of like sociological, anthropological analysis of Skibbity Toilet, please. And I understand what Victor's saying. This is like a natural progression of Gary's mod. And that's how we got this like visual. But like, what are we saying with this?

And if you are Generation Alpha and you're listening to this. Yeah, shout out to you. And you want to like let us know. Don't. Don't come into my DMs. are and if you are generation alpha and you're listening to this yeah shout out to you and you want to like let us know don't don't don't come into my dms but you know what i will say this you know we could team up and gang up on gen z together we go oh shit oh yo yeah the millennial gen alpha yo listen we do have proper names for our generations. We're not just no fucking letter. You know what I'm saying? We got names. That's that mural where we tie our flags together.

Gen A and fucking millennials. And we go to bully Gen Z. So stupid. Taz, where can people find you, follow you, and all that good, good stuff? Yeah, I'm

at Tazzy Star on all the socials. Podcasts. Not making new podcasts, but you can look at our archives for Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. If you want to see my art, I'm going to have some new pieces posted this week, I think, from the art show. It's up at Etsy, Tazzy Star Shop.

I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing with my life, you guys. You can find me somewhere on the internet. Not in the skiddity boobop toilet thing. Yeah, not there. What would you do if you showed that to an auntie? I think she would hit me with a shoe. Right? Yeah.

To be like, what the fuck are you trying to do? Trying to corrupt my brain with this shit? Hit you with that sandal flip-flop. Yeah, the sandal flip-flop we get up the head right there. Real quick. But does it where they just flick it up off their foot? That's how I knew, too.

Like, if they were sitting cross-legged when they got access to the fucking house slipper right there. Yeah. Get ready. They were ready. They were, like, in pose. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And is there, like, any work of media, social media, anything that you want to shout out that you're liking? There is an Instagram person that I've been following. Her name is Auntie Matrix.

And she just reads glitches from the Matrix and people submit like letters to her, which are like glitches in the Matrix. Right. And I don't know, I'm like a little obsessed with these because she goes either talks about like like people being uh what's it called nft not nfds like npcs aliens uh just time glitches so um i'm slowly turning into a conspiracy theorist i guess is what's happening wait you're wait so nice so you're on that glitch talk shit too you think there's npcs walking around i don't know about the NPCs part, but I like how people like submit alien stories and ghost stories to her. Oh, yeah. I'll fuck with that because I tell people the people who believe we're in the Matrix. I just keep saying you're just suffering under capitalism.

That's yeah. Those are a little bit more sketched about. But like the woman who was on pause. Yeah, yeah. I saw that one. But then I was like, that's just like that was probably just like camera work. Yeah, yeah. I don that one. But then I was like, that's just like, that was probably just like camera work. Yeah, yeah. I don't,

I also, I threw water on that too. But anyway, whatever. I get it. I get it, kids. But I like, I like watching her account

because it's just kind of seeing this other world. Yeah, I think there's, you know, I feel like when I was a kid, it was all about the Illuminati and being like, you'll see Illuminati,

Illuminati, Illuminati, Illuminati, Illuminati. And now kids are like, it's the Matrix, Matrix, Matrix, Matrix, Matrix. So we all have our thing. And now it's skibbity toilet, skibbity toilet, skibbity toilet. Jacquees, where can people find you, follow you and all that and appreciate you co-hosting today, man. Listen, you can find me in these streets, baby, but it's a little too hot in these streets.

So you can find me in the air-conditioned room you know what i'm saying and when the temperature drops about an extra five degrees i'll be back out in these streets baby and also at jockey sneal on any social media that you can find me on any work in media anything like that social media you know you know what i love about like there's one thing i do love about being online is that the shit that you think only you do somebody will make a meme of and you realize oh shit everybody do that and there's a meme from boner wizard at boner wizard and is i don't know if you've seen oppenheimer yet but there is this isn't a spoiler but there is like a part of the movie where he killian murphy is just sitting on

the couch like butt ass naked with his legs crossed sitting on the like love seat and so that's the picture and the thing says me at 3 a.m. trying to decide if I want a spoon of peanut butter or a handful of shredded cheese as a snack. And when I say that is so real, how often I will go to the fridge and just get handfuls of cheese and just eat it and go back to bed or like a little scoop of peanut butter. Oh, yeah. It's so funny i love it that's why like i as an adult i like switch to block cheese because oh yeah what do i look like getting all these shredded cheddar flakes everywhere like you can just lock me off a fucking end and be like i say yeah do you eat do you eat it straight from the block or do you cut off a little see that's where like that's where my mother's my mother's voice echoes in my head where I can feel me getting smacked upside my head if she caught me doing some shit like that.

And so now I keep it consistent. I'm like, consider that other people might want a bite of this block. It's not just your block. Okay, Miles, can I say something for tomorrow's episode? Yes. The fans are going to love this. I want us both to do this. I want us today to just eat

a bite from a block of cheese and report how it feels tomorrow. I actually got to go to the store. I'll buy non-sliced, non-shredded and just take a fucking rip off of that thing. Just take a bite of a block of cheese.

Already part of me just feels like, fuck, man, that's a lot of fucking cheese. I got to fucking chew. Anything like soft cheese, hard cheese, like not a pecorino, maybe like a cheddar, a gouda. Oh, like, yo, it got to be like a cheddar. I mean, any cheese, but like a cheddar or something. Yeah, yeah. Something that's ridiculous for you to eat the block.

Goblin mode is eating like a pecorino Romano. That would be wild. Like off the fucking wheel. Yes. It's like Tom and Jerry. How the mouse used to just like take a bite out of cheese. Yeah. And then his whole body shape would just turn to the other side. Yeah, like a triangle and shit.

Yeah. Tom would get mad. Yeah, I'm going to have a rectangle in my windpipe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't have to eat the whole block. I'm just saying like instead of slicing up like pieces. Yeah, just have those like teeth marked. Yeah, we got to have a bite of a block of cheese

and we'll report back how it feels tomorrow. Oof. All right. I'm fucking sweating. I've got the cheese sweats just thinking about that. But I'm going to do it. You seem legit nervous. I didn't try shower orange,

but I will do cheese block. Maybe I'll do that in the shower too. Let's see, a tweet that I like, you know, just more, just tweets from the picket lines. uh helen shang at helen shang tweeted whenever i pick it at a gate with just a few people that's when i get the fuck you and get a job yells but never at the highly populated gates why not yell it to several hundred people in one go instead of just trying to like find the lonely outpost to unleash your ire which is like yeah or maybe

you know it just shows you strength in numbers too oh you don't have anything to say now and shout out to everybody that's still pig man fucking three months now and so hot not easy this is not fucking easy out there it's warm yeah um and yeah you can find me at miles of gray on twitter and instagram threads all that shit uh find me on my new podcast uh the good thief talking about the search for the greek robin hood basilis palio costas who would you know steal from the rich and give to the poor like in irl though we love a read a wealth redistribution king and find us on our basketball podcast miles and jack i'm at boosties and 420 day fiance with sophie alexandra okay and then you can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter, The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We've got a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post all of the episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes? Thank you so much. As well as the song we ride out on. I want to go out on this track because I'm feeling old, okay? I want to remember that I'm a geriatric millennial from you know going out from people under the stairs the next step album there is a track now i get a san francisco nights like a heat track off there but there is like a one minute instrumental called

slow bullet on that album which i love and it's just like a great just a great little interlude the producers are putting together with like nice electric piano over like a nice break beat. And it just feels good. And it's like, again, I know I've been hitting out with a lot of like one minute, 20 second tracks. But just enjoy this. Slow bullet. People under the stairs. Okay.

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