The Daily Zeitgeist - Billionaire Sub Disaster: THE SEQUEL, RFK Jr = Civil War Historian 05.30.24

Episode Date: May 30, 2024

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we've talked about that uh cocaine guy right who on this show which guy the uh miami dolphins coach who's doing cocaine in his office and being like hey babe hey i'm thinking about you thinking about you right now and how much fun we had the way he does coke it fucking is so weird man see that's where that's where like i feel like rfk would fight for a future where that guy doesn't lose his job you know it's like it's just about it's your freedoms man it's your right to do cocaine and cringy selfie videos to you thinking you. How about me go into a meeting and do this before I go? There's those big grains falling,

but I miss you. But I miss you a lot. I miss you a lot. What did he say? There's those big grains? I got big grains falling, but I miss you. Big grains?

Yeah. What do you think? Crazy? I miss you. Big grains? Yeah. What do you think? Crazy? What do you think? Crazy? I don't know, babe. It's going to be a while before we can do this again. Because I know you're going to keep that baby.

I forgot about that part. What? I know you're going to keep that baby. Yo! I'm so focused on the choppy cocaine. I didn't realize there was a child in the mix. I know, because you're going to keep that baby. Yeah, and you're going to keep that baby.

So I guess we can't have fun anymore. That's on you. Oh, wow. Big mistake, babe. I think it's really fucked up that God would create a drug so good like cocaine that it would harm that little baby. I just want to commend you for your sacrifice babe i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit netflix documentary series dancing for the devil the 7m tiktok cult and i'm cleo gray former member of 7m films and Hey, I'm Gianna Pardenti. I have followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jermaine Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 340, episode 3 of Dirt Daily's iGhosts, a production of iHeart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, and it is Thursday, May 30th 2024 oh my god dude it's matt national creativity day it's also of course it is national hole in my bucket what the fuck is that even supposed to mean we're talking about that song there's a hole in my bucket wait what were you about to do mr bucket the Bucket, the commercial? There's a hole in my bucket, Mr. Bucket. You got to go to my bone, Mr. Bucket.

Were the lyrics to Mr. Bucket, put your balls in my mouth? Yeah, I think so. I don't think because the balls didn't go in the mouth. They went in the top of the head. They shoot out of his mouth. I'm going to shoot your balls out of my mouth. He says, Mr. Bucket, the balls pop out of my mouth. That gonna shoot your balls out of my mouth the balls he says a mr bucket the balls pop out of my mouth oh no that's kind of bad the ball out of my mouth toss your balls

in my top your balls in my top or is that yeah your balls pop out of my mouth that's amazing that they were just like yeah i don't know it some people out. Yeah. I can't be near kids. You're like, what is that? Edited lyrics. It's also National Mint Julep Day for all you southern fancies out there. You missed it. You missed the Kentucky Derby National Mint Julep Day. Oh, yeah.

That's National Mint Julep Day. And it's also Loomis Day, which I guess it's the man who received the patent for wireless telegraphy in 1872. Cool. Yeah. All right. Shout out to Loomis. Yeah. So shout out Loomis, man.

Was Loomis like just an inventor who did the Madonna thing and Cher and was just like, I'm a one word. I'm just Loomis. No, he was actually a dentist by trade. Milan Loomomis m-a-h-l-o-n but yeah there we go yeah he was in electricity man it was low bar back then dude they were just starting to fuck around with electricity and they're like i don't know maybe i can fucking do shit with this kite and then you're like you've won a patent i can do shit with this kite famous words of abraham i almost said abraham like yeah no we got it with this kite. Famous words of Abraham. I almost said Abraham Lincoln. No, we got it with this educational system in this country.

You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, man. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. You need to lay down or maybe run around. What kind of bear is that? Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. I need to run now.

Wait, what is that sound ow that is courtesy of Hanoramic View it is Taylor Swift being confused by the advice about what you're supposed to do when you see a bear brown lay it down big black bear

run make him scare I can't remember any of this shit but one of them you're supposed to shit but one of them you're supposed to get up one of them you're supposed to lay down and in this in this song taylor swift doesn't know which is which uh anyways i'm thrilled to be joined i said that was courtesy of hannah ramick view on the discord i'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray hey it's miles gray aka a.k.a. Are you getting sick?

Are you getting sick? What you know about me? What you know? They say my lymph nodes be popping. My lymph nodes be best. All the boys keep jocking when I'm at CBS. Also, they say my lymph nodes is swole. My lymph nodes be popping.

I'm sitting in the Zoom, and Jack has stopped gawking because my lymph nodes, they are popping still. You might hear it in my voice, but they're doing their job. They're fighting the good fight and they're not bigger, so we'll take it. Shout out. That's actually two people came up with that lip gloss. Lil Mama inspired, aka Zach Van Nus and Kev, whatever. Thanks for that.

I think a third person was like, I want to Google these lyrics right when they were talking about it. So that really popped into people's heads. Yeah, yeah. The way that your lymph nodes are popping in my head all night long, man. In your head. I'm not looking in the Zoom because I just can't.

Hey, eyes up here, Jack. It's too much of a distraction. Eyes up here, man. I'm up here. Oh, boy. Look at those things. Look at those nodes. Look at those nodes. Look at those thicky-thicks down there.

The side of your jaw. Oh, shit. Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat once again by a very talented zine maker, lost art, podcast host, one of the hosts of You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies. Welcome back to the show, Alex Steed. Alex! Oh, thanks for having me.

I forgot until you just dropped those modified lyrics that I met Lil Mama once in a high school auditorium. And all that stood out from that interaction was she is so small. She's such a tiny person. So it's not just a clever name, huh? No, she really is. I was like, it's right. That's correct. Name correct.

Yeah, I guess we have to look up her height now. Wow, she's 34 years young. About to be 35. That happens so fast. Yeah. Oh, she's 5'1". Okay. Yeah, that counts.

And I'm 6'5", so it makes any interaction awkward. Yeah. And what were you doing in this high school? Were you guys both performing? To be honest, I was just trying to remember that. You got to come up with a reason, man. There was some like national volunteerism day and I was working for like a nonprofit. And she was the person who was trying to make volunteering look cool to the kids.

And did it happen at a time when her relevance was at its height? Oh yeah, it was within a year of that. Oh shit. And she was so, I think, I don't know, she was so young at that time I think I thought that she might have been. I was not with the Zeitgeist

so I'm happy that you're still having me here anyway but I thought maybe she was a student but it was revealed that she was a star, actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. They're just like us. I recently learned from somebody who had an encounter with Doja Cat that she is very short. But listed officially at 5'3". I think that in the listing of your height, there should be a modification

for your attitude. And I think that's why I thought Little Mama would have been 5'11". Yeah, she has like 5'9", 5'10", 5's. Absolutely. She's 5'1". Exactly. Alright, Alex, we're going to

get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. We have another billionaire sub-tragedy in the making, possibly. I mean, they haven't even gone in the water yet. Fingers crossed. They're making noises. I don't know. I'm loving this as a trend.

So we're going to talk about that. We are going to talk about the trend of Nepo Bebe. Northwest had a performance as Simba in The Lion King, the Hollywood Bowl over the weekend. Speaking of Nepo Babies, RFK is coming through, both sides in the Civil War. We'll talk, of course, about the world's first airline for dogs has arrived. It's a blast. All of course, about the world's first airline for dogs has arrived. It's a blast.

All of this, plenty more. But before we get to any of that bullshit, Alex, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I was looking through and I was so bummed at how not riveting my search history is. And the last interesting thing that I looked up was Ric Flair Paisanos because he got into that thing a couple weeks ago where he was angry at the Paisanos pizza restaurant for him being drunk. And then before that, and this is related to our show, I had Googled,

was there supposed to be a Batgirl movie starring Alicia Silverstone? And the jury is out. And then finally, what time does Cassell's hamburgers open for breakfast? Which is the saddest thing in my Google history. Oh, man. Cassell's is great. When I used to live near there. I love Cassell's. Yeah, the fries are good.

Oh, so good. Yeah. They got the mushy mush? No, they're not mushy, but they're just like a good texture to them. But they're more natural style. You know what I mean? Yeah, they're not mushy, but there's just like a good texture to them. But they're more natural style. You know what I mean? Yeah, they're like real potatoes. Yeah.

Like you can tell. I mean, obviously all fries are potatoes, but like there's something. There's a good amount of crisp and flop to it. Yeah. Okay. That's exactly. That's the perfect description. Yeah.

The crisp to flop ratio is absolutely dialed in. Sorry. There was another thing you said flair your favorite yeah the pizza place paisanos p-i-e i like being mad that a place got you drunk i think well i think he was trying to pass it up like he was mad at them for like a a reason but if you know enough about rick flair you're like you were drunk that was the problem right i like how like one guy was like oh he's so fucked up i'm actually gonna challenge rick flair to a fist fight the one guy's like do you want to go outside bro

like wow i think someone saw him they're like yo this might be the only time i could be my ass yeah yeah because he's so fucked up screaming about, like, can I get another drink? I can bring my family here. And just giving it. Because he was, like, giving such shit to the servers. Like, this one bar patron, like, had it in the video. And he's like, what up, dude? I can do something. I don't work here.

And he was like, what? And, like, Rick Flair was so drunk, he was actually confused by the challenge that it didn't end up in any fun way. Oh, Rick. Get it together, buddy. way. Oh, Rick. Get it together, buddy. It's like doing wrestling is bad for your brain or something. It turns out Jury's still out on that. Jury's still out. But he's like one of

the healthier ones. The fact that he survived this long is pretty impressive. Survive is... Have you seen him? He's still alive. He looks like a fucking Nazgul from Lord of the Rings. He is, I think, disintegrating before our eyes. But hey, look, he's the nature boy.

I love his persona so much. Not so much the man behind it, but I love his persona. I like that his response was, he's like, I spent $1,500 only to be, quote, disrespected more than I ever have in my entire life because they cut you off from alcohol, sir. Well, his problem seemed to be where it turned in his social media post. This was a couple of weeks ago, but where it turned was he seemed to be very frustrated that the manager took a long time in the bathroom. Right. Yeah, yeah.

Very strange series of complaints from him. Yeah. Oh, my God. Well, look, Rick, you're all right, I guess. I think you're doing all right. He's doing great. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated?

So this is always my go-to, and it's such a dipshit answer, but I think kindness is underrated? So this is always my go-to and it's such a dipshit answer, but I think kindness is underrated. I think especially now. We should be kinder at all times. But then the other... Dipshit alert. No, I'm just joking.

The other in this... I appreciate it. No, you're right. It is a dipshit answer. But the other, which sort of goes along thematically with what we were just talking about, is I think regional wrestling is underrated.

Wow. And there's a promotion in Oakland, which I love so much, called Hood Slam, which is like an amateur... No, it's not amateur. It's regional wrestling. So it's not like pro at the WWE corporate sort of thing, but it's like a professional local wrestling uh and it's got so much vibe and personality and it feels gritty like the early 20th century i imagine uh and i love it so much yeah yeah like local like wrestling they i mean while the production value may be one thing the dedication of those people is wild.

Because I feel like I see the wildest wrestling clips, or at least clips gone wrong, are at these local wrestling shows. Or someone's like, oh my god, that guy literally went through a patio glass door. That wasn't a stunt glass. you know what do you like 20 25 feet from like 20 25 feet high and like land on other people in a way where i don't know how it's possible right for everyone to be moderately okay and yeah yeah there's no way that like when it's a person landing on a person there's no safe version of that there's no like oh well yeah actually because this part of their body like actually landed on this part there's like too many variables at work there there's just like no way that's actually going to like work every time and i feel like that's the other thing

that i always find out about wrestling that i can't believe is like yeah it's our 100th show in may it's like wait what what fuck do you mean dude if I sleep wrong I'm fucked for a week like I can't move my body correctly but these guys are like doing this you know a dozen times a month launching themselves off stuff and I also

the thing I like about hood slam too is it's like pretty queer like there's a lot of queer representation there which is great so it's like it's all around it's like fun for the whole family right right yeah those guys are always wild when they're like yeah man i take about 15 fluorescent light tubes to the face a day yeah i don't know if there's any like knock-on effects from like that's actually just my one yeah that's how i get out of the bed in the morning makes Makes for a nice pop, but it's safe for us mostly. Just some light scratches. When you say it has early 20th century vibes,

what specifically? Well, I'm really into the history of wrestling. And so before Vince McMahon came into the game and did particularly in the early 80s sort of this like corporate entertainment consolidation thing, wrestling from the late 30s through the 80s was of this like corporate entertainment consolidation thing wrestling from the late 30s through the 80s was extremely regional it was like very gritty it had local personalities it had you know it was like it felt dangerous uh in a way i'm not saying that wwe does not feel dangerous

in very specific ways but like it just felt i don't know it's like it feels like one of the last truly state like standing uh local or regional phenomena and i like that a whole lot it's like a c it's its own scene yeah and in like the late 90s like early to like when ecw was like there was like there was wwf and then there was ecw and they're like are you ready for ECW and I was like no I'm a baby I do not want to see RVD bloody this other man I'm still getting ready from the last thing I'm not ready for this new thing

no I truly I truly enjoy it it feels it really feels like it's from another time in the most positive way yeah like we like to say uh yeah you know the true american art form is like movies or rock and roll it's wrestling wrestling if you can check it out if you don't know about it josephine reisman's book ringmaster about vince mcmahon and his ascent and all the stuff that he did is the best book that

explains American political culture I've ever read because it sort of it maps one for one he and Trump were like best friends in the early 80s and continue to be close like there's so many similarities and it is I do think that wrestling particularly the the sort of like culture of it is the best and easiest way to understand American politics. That was the first thing that like Abraham Lincoln stood out as. He was like a great wrestler. Like he was like people, like back then it was like you would go in and like grapple with someone until somebody got like knocked off their feet.

And he was just just unfuckwithable in that. He was just throwing people around. Shout out to Dan O'Brien. A lot of wrestling presidents. I didn't realize. Taft.

That's what Biden's missing. Teddy Roosevelt. Calvin Coolidge. It's almost wild how many of these people are like, yeah, bro, the whole thing is overpowering another human being. Do I have a will to be president? Gotta have a wide base, if you know what I mean. Yeah. What is something you think is overrated? This goes along with the kindness thing. I think cynicism is overrated. I think it's not helpful as, you know, cynicism, which is a trap that I fall into on a regular basis. And I have to remind myself that whether or not I am cynical about this moment

isn't going to change anything one way or another. So that is a thing that I constantly have to remind myself, even though it feels like every day I get at least 10 to 20 examples about why it would be okay to be cynical right sure sure yeah i get that that's interesting because i feel like reality actually bites so like i'm kind of fucking cool like that bro i think i was i was steeped in Gen X popular culture, which makes this undoing difficult. Right, right.

I just say things the opposite of how they are. So, yeah, cynicism's real bad, Alex. I do think it's like why I was so, as a kid who grew up like loving Steve Albini it was so surreal to me to see a bunch of people come together and be sad about Steve Albini dying right he's like so irony drenched and like cynical but I'm actually sad and it spoke it spoke to i think it spoke to something in many people to see somebody who was once known as that who like seemingly did some work on himself over

time and like he didn't change fundamentally but he's it seems like he was like hey i was wrong on some things and i think that that's part of why you saw a bunch of people come together and be like oh this sucks this guy kind of ruled. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't seem like he was reflexively cynical. Like he seemed pretty earnest about a lot of things that he believed. Yeah, absolutely.

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heard this one folks a billionaire who thinks he is invincible due to his wealth thinks that he can help build a submarine that can safely take people to see the wreckage of the Titanic. Sounds so familiar. Yeah. They're calling it Billionaire Sub-Tragedy 2, Titanic Boogaloo. And we're not talking about the Ocean Gate disaster from last year. This is a new idea from a different billionaire, Larry Connor. He said, quote, I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life changing if you go about it the right way.

Wow. I guess not life changing in that it ends your life, I guess. But the wild part is that this dude was fucking inspired by those five people who died in that other homemade submarine last June. To the point that when he saw it, he called his friend who owns a submersible company with his better idea. Go see the Titanic and not die. He said, quote, you know, this is apparently what the builder said. not die. He said, quote, this is apparently what the builder said, quote, you know what we need to do is build a sub that can dive to titanic level depths

repeatedly and safely and demonstrate to the world that you guys can do that. And that Titan was a contraption. A little bit arrogant. The Titan was a contraption. Is he using contraption like a claptrap? Yeah, he's like, this isn't a submersible.

That was some bullshit that he threw together. Swiss family Robinson-ass like a claptrap like he's using yeah he's like this isn't a submersible that was uh that's like a tom sawyer together swiss family robinson ass submarine yes it's weird to sell this as like a way to illustrate that it was a contraption like they're all not sold on that yet right right right they're like the thing with the video game controller that everyone was laughing at. That imploded and killed a bunch of innocent people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just like the idea that this is just the call of homemade submersible to the Titanic. Like that specific idea is just irresistible to billionaires. They just like can't stop themselves.

they just like can't stop themselves like there's do you ever hear about the my way killings like the there's this trend where anybody who's saying the song my way by frank sinatra in the philippines like got murdered there's like a ton of murders where it doesn't really make sense but it was just like they the singing of that song for some reason in that culture like infuriated people and there were multiple murders that were blamed on that and it's just like this weird like what something about that specific culture and that specific song just didn't mix or mixed in a very specific way and like caused people to die i feel like maybe we found like the hack for killing billionaires. It's just this idea, the call of the deep, the call of the homemade. Like, hey, you pulled yourself up by your own bootstraps with your own bare hands.

You should build a submersible with those same hands. Yeah. And go see the Titanic. Don't use your wealth to like help anyone build a fucking build a fucking really strong tin can to go look at some dead stuff at the bottom of the sea and maybe die in the process i'm just saying yeah i mean but this guy so he's actually of, he's not a noob at this kind of shit. It turns out like he has already been to depths that far surpass the Titanic site, um, alongside his friend who has like a submersible company. Like he's gone to the like fucking Mariana trench. Like he's gone below 20,000 feet in a submersible. So I'd say like, he definitely, it stands to reason that he may survive but like when you

look at his wikipedia he's like does all these like auto races he's fucking he's like had this goal he's like i went to the mariana trench i now i want to go to space i want to do that within one year go to the deepest part of the sea and then out of like into outer space as the extremes i can reach with my wealth yeah the tit Because the Titanic is around 12,500 feet. So, I mean, he's, so I don't know. Well, I, part of me just thinks like, maybe it's the law of the sea that if you're a billionaire at a certain depth,

like it just, the sea just consumes you. Just takes you back. It calls you. It calls you to it. It's really, that's where like the siren myth came from. It's like just people, it's like just calls them to the bottom. I truly, I know

it's a cliche to even bring it up, and you just touched on it, but it's like, I don't know why they don't think fixing climate change would be the coolest thing. Like, we would all celebrate you, we would all not joke about you for a day,

just fix the fucking problem. Right, yeah, exactly. We'd all be so psyched and Elon, we would not make fun of you for a full day if you fix climate change. Yeah. Put your money where your wealth is.

You could actually solve world hunger with blah blah. It's like, okay, then fucking do it, genius. What are you afraid of? Like $2 billion? I'm going to live to 200. cares yeah the fuck yeah but i think the way you get to be a billionaire is being pathologically selfish exactly so but you know it's interesting i read this other thing about his not greed exactly but when the pandemic hit he made like 1.6 million dollars in profit because like stock volatility like that was after taxes he gave it all to his workers that were making

like less than like 100 grand a year like spread it out of like amongst his like employees but then it's also like sure like you're a billionaire and you're like oh i just i fucking farted like i farted out uh 1.6 million dollars billionaire and you're like, oh, I just I fucking farted like I farted out one point six million dollars on accident. You're like, yeah, I guess they can fucking have that shit. I mean, I don't know if it's but and then like other people like I was reading this article like he was also had like, you know, was paying for all the extended child care that his employees need. So he does like the bare minimum to not look like an absolutely craven billionaire. But at the end of the day, know you're still a billionaire at the beginning of the pandemic like we were there was like a conspicuous feeling where everyone was just like looking around like wait so these

fucking people have like what money yeah it was like that that imagine song they released that imagine song right yeah we fucking hate you guys. Right, right, right. And so, yeah. He might be very smart. He's like, you can have my money. Like throwing his wallet, essentially, when he's being mugged. Yeah.

Look over there, cash. Fucking losers. And runs for his life. Yeah. But I do. If we're going to give up on them fixing climate change, which I'm almost ready to do. I don't think it's going to be a cynicism, man. A single individual billionaire of his own accord.

Maybe like at gunpoint, they might help fix the problem. But if they're going to do projects with their own money, I love doing projects where their sense of invincibility takes them to the bottom of the ocean or into space in something that they tried to build themselves. And I'm glad that they're taking it out on themselves because the converse situation of them helping fix climate change is they put the contraption

in the air and it brings us back to the Ice Age or something along those lines. So I'm glad when it goes wrong, it usually only takes them out. But I don't know. Jury's out on AI, though. we'll find out soon yeah that is wild that they like we would read we would like make name christmas after you

if you fucking fixed climate change we'd be like nope this one's about mary connor now i don't know yeah i don't know if god loved the world so much that he gave his only son i think this billionaire gave up a lot of his money and saved the planet dude i don't know if God loved the world so much that he gave his only son. I think this billionaire gave up a lot of his money and saved the planet, dude. I don't know, Jesus. I think you might have to fuck off on this one. Move over, Jesus. You could have Boxing Day, okay? America's due to take up Boxing Day.

We'll give that to you where everybody trades their presents. Don't you think we should have that? That's kind of funny. No, dude, I ain't giving up my fucking gifts, dude. What the fuck are you talking about? I wanted that shit. You just said that because you want my gifts. Because I get better gifts.

Because I have better gifts because my parents are better than yours. My dad's in the CIA. My dad's in the CIA and I got three Mr. Buckets, fool. Back the fuck up. You should see all the balls coming out of his mouth. Out of his mouth. The balls pop out of my mouth. Out of my mouth.

I like how he had like a southern drawl a little bit. Yeah, yeah. Like an older southern man who keeps talking about popping balls out of his mouth. Let's talk about Nepo babies oh yeah new one yeah we gotta yeah so northwest kanye and kim's daughter i just want to say like at the outset i'm not here to criticize a child i am here to criticize that child's parents. Thank you, Jack. I'm here to fucking trash this.

I'm here to trash a 10-year-old girl. I've always told people Jack would never criticize a child, and I'm glad we're hearing it here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Well, just not Kim and Kanye's child. Other children? Ugh. They don't get a fucking excuse for that.

I think Northwest might have a future in this industry, but they don't have it if they don't get a fucking excuse for that yeah we'll keep that i just but i think northwest might have a future in this industry so i've gotta i've gotta you know be careful yeah yeah yeah be careful with your words for sure uh so i mean yeah she recently like landed one of the starring roles in this like 30th anniversary performance of the lion king not like the broadway version it was just more of like songs from the from the movies like nathan lane was there and jeremy irons was fucking there and like you know even people from the the recent remake and their performance went down over memorial day weekend and a lot and you know sadly because the internet is a fucking shitty place there's just so many people talking wild shit about northwest performance i'll play a bit of it here just so you can kind of hear what,

what we're talking about. And this isn't to be like, yeah, man, fuck. Yeah. Fucking right. They got to tear her down.

And then it goes around. All the professionals come in and are like okay we're dancing around you we're dancing around you you're okay you're okay um but yeah i think you know to be honest i think it's an above average performance for a 10 year old in a school production uh yeah just keep it up keep it a buck here and look she's having her fun she's doing her best but like most people just decided to tear her down because you know like was saying like there are so many kids with actual vocal and dance training that would have done such a better job and yes while that's true your anger should not be directed at a child get mad again at her parents for putting her in this situation because nepotism ain't going

away baby it's all around and in los angeles it's it will never go away ever ever ever the land yeah truly there's nothing you can do but like i get it does suck for like kids that dedicate themselves to perform on stage and then they just get swept aside because the kid of like a celebrity couple like wants the role but yeah it is interesting just to see like there are i think equal i think after most people are just like saying a bunch of wild shit on like tiktok instagram and like twitter most of the people's writing is like is this was that kim and kanye really setting their kid up for success by doing stuff like this because i don't i didn't know that northwest was a aspiring stage performer it just felt like she's meant to do a lot of stuff that her parents are

like yeah try that try that i didn't know they had a child at that age like i if you were like guess what how old their child is i'd be like i don't know one five i have no idea and then and apparently they're old enough to sing at the hollywood bowl uh to the lion king yeah because like i just think of like how kim had the booze like removed from her appearance on that netflix tom brady roast so oh really yeah she must understand i mean it's people don't know why a lot of people are like she probably did not like that most people were just talking about how she was getting food so at least on some level she knows what it's like when people don't take you seriously at least from like an ego egoic like perspective but like putting your kid in that same position

it just feels a little bit fucking wild like i like i also we're also seeing this like with lebron james and his son too right now where there's a little bit like just let your kid do what they do don't get overly involved and create outsized expectations much in the same way if you're going to use your celebrity be like we're jumping the line at this audition and this is the new child simba for the production just Just kind of. The LeBron James Bronny thing. This whole thing just stresses me out. Makes me feel bad for the kids. Makes me feel bad for the kids who would have had a better chance were these people's parents not like cutting them to the front of the line.

So, yeah. I mean, and I get it. Like, I think that's why it just kind of freaks me out because like as a parent like i think my own kid is a living fucking god but you know what i mean like this kid's fucking what are you talking about yeah like he can't walk the worst judge we are the worst judges but he could be simba in the hollywood bowl performance you know like i think i believe that now my kid on the other hand would have nailed that. Right. But like, you know, but then also part of me realizes like part of my role is to like nurture their interests and also give them like a foundation to like operate from where

they realize like dedication and commitment are like the ways you can like improve your skills or like your craft or whatever, not shortcuts. But I think that might be impossible for kim especially who has not who has basically ascended very passively and probably thinks like that's normal and like that you know like that's fine man she'll just get fucking made fun of a little bit but at least she was up there on that stage because that's my daughter the number one number one kim didn't ascend passively kim like got out of like i feel like a household that is the equivalent of like when they talk about vladimir putin coming out of like a prison in russia like where everybody like murders each

other and he's the only survivor she's like the bane of american popular culture like american popular trash culture i think she's a she's a survivor i think think she'll be. She earned a lot of the attention. Yeah. Well, hey, and then Chris did a lot for her career. So maybe there's also that too, where she's like, the mother will also assume a lot of responsibility in getting their child their own sex tape. Yes. I just think, I mean, this is just, all of that is, I think, beautiful and rational. I just think, you know, this is yet another circumstance in which there's no one around you being like, hey, maybe not.

Maybe don't do this. It's been 20 years since you've had anyone say no to you. Right. I wonder what happened if someone, everyone's like, did you ask North if she wants to do this? I don't. She wants to do it. Okay. I know her.

She said no, and she was crying all the way to the audition, but she wants to do it. She know her she said no and she was crying all the way to the audition but she wants to do it she wants to i know i know i know but yeah it's uh i mean because that's the thing it's like for getting mad at a kid who like if they have any sort of desire to perform it's like they're gonna be like i don't know if i'm ready to be simba and this like really cool thing that's happening of course every kid who has a remote interest is going to say yes so being like what's wrong with northwest it's like dude she's 10 okay right yeah yeah there's nothing wrong with not it look at this look at this part of her performance yeah and that's why i keep saying the same thing about rfk jr like guys he didn't choose. Oh, wait. How old is he? He's 60.

But he has the mind of a spoiled 10-year-old. Oh, he's 70. I'm sorry. Wow. He's 70, eh? He's 70. Wow. That's crazy that he's the young one. I know.

He's a young 70. A spry 70. Oh, yeah. Very spry. Very spry. Very spry. But, yeah. So, there's been a lot of talk about who RFK is going for in this.

Like, is he trying to appeal to the MAGA people? Is he trying to steal the Joe Biden voter? And he kind of gave us a little bit of a better clue recently. Yeah. When he feigned outrage at the removal of confederacy statues yeah it's i'm trying to figure out who this venn diagram of voters is where that sweet spot is rfk you know like right there in the middle because like he's into bitcoin brain worms ending forever wars ending vaccines I think it's

Alicia Silverstone. I think she's a doorstone. I think the middle of the I love it. It's one person. Don't get me wrong. It's Alicia Silverstone and Jessica Biel kind of on the low, but she won't really say it out loud. She's not against vaccines. She's

against the injuries that vaccines may cause to children. She's not against vaccines. She's against the injuries that vaccines may cause to children. And she just loves statues. Four statues. I'm all about artisan work and artisanal work and copper, the use of steels to create forms.

Think of the artisans that we're silencing. Exactly. But like, yeah, in this recent podcast, he let people know, man, this is just quote, I have a visceral reaction against, against the attacks on those statues. There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn't have slaves. And you know, I just, I just have a visceral reaction against destroying history. I don't like it. I think we should celebrate who we are, who we are. Yeah. Slaveholders. That's your that's all y'all. That's on y'all. I mean, hey, he said it. Not me. Quote, we should celebrate the good qualities of everybody. If we want to find people who are completely virtuous on every issue throughout history, we would erase all of history. Love that tactic. I love that rhetorical tactic. So he wants them up not as a reminder of how bad slavery was, but as an opportunity to celebrate the good qualities of Confederates. Yes. Wow. So this is important to say in this content.

It's like earlier I said kindness is important. I fully believe that. But this is also a good time to reiterate that you can be kind and acknowledge that this is so fucking stupid and irresponsible yeah I am similarly

genuinely curious I mean outside of just like appealing to people who love podcasts that are heavily advertised by supplements like that's who he's appealing to people who love podcasts that are heavily advertised by supplements like that's who he's he's appealing to here yeah people who love the podcast the supplement pushers yeah like because they're like robert e lee that's like when it said like it's all based on this fucking just weird rewriting of like the civil war where a lot of these people like to be like robert e lee wasn't a slave owner and then it's like the fine print is like uh okay it's like he inherited slaves through his marriage or some shit very

reluctantly and he fought numerous legal battles for his right to own slaves but he's a goddamn hero okay don't get focused on like the bad shit and yeah like this whole thing is about you hear this all the time with like you know even the way people or kids are being taught about the civil war like it's more and more it's not about like it wasn't about slavery just about guys who like love their homeland and they're just defending their culture that's all this whole thing was about and then like but don't look in on why these statues were erected or why these like forts were named after it it's like these were a salve to the hurt feelings of white supremacists that felt fully defeated after they were going to arrest teachers yeah they're erected during

the ascendancy of the kkk like so yeah and we're going to arrest teachers that like actually tell you the story of what happened in the civil war but it's not about that it is not about that they're erasing they're erasing history um i i know i think no it's your statue that is i think to try and make these people out to be some like these virtuous martyrs for for just who loved their town man that's all it was well i think that you know and also also like the contradiction, it's so interesting because it's like, there's always like a big truth

and a big lie being told simultaneously. And the truth is, this is who we are. Like it is part of the history that this has happened and that's an important thing to acknowledge and sort of like what it represented. But then the lie is in being like,

these people were good actually. And it's like, no no we have to acknowledge that there's been a lot of bad yeah yeah along the way yeah these are the uh people who fought for the rights of the south to own slaves we don't want to erase that history so here is a statue of them looking fucking awesome on horseback. So cool. Look at how many pushups you can do. Look how fucking barrel chested that dude is, bro. Oh, my God. Look at his kind face.

Look at his arms like Christmas hams. So big. So big and strong. Yeah, I mean, like, so like Trump, RFK is also opposed to the removal of these metal hunks of racist ideology. So, yeah, I don't know if he wins any biden voters with this but again this seems to be more of a contest of who can do the worst job in office rather than the best so yeah yeah go off go off rfk let him know let him know do you think he and heinz are going to get divorced after this like why is what's happening i don't know i

mean i've had that thought for like eight years now like well surely this must be the point at which she's like what the fuck right clearly clearly not like i remember in early days she was like kind of distancing herself but now she's like you know part of his campaign to run for president i don't know maybe october maybe that'll be the october surprise it'll be the most biggest dud of an october surprise is that she divorces him yeah she just kind of seems to be like i don't yeah you know he says stuff but you know we agree to disagree i think was like the one of the last things I saw from Fox news, March 10th stuff. Yeah.

You know, one of the things that I've learned, especially about politics is you're not going to agree with somebody about everything and it's okay. So, you know, we've, we've learned to talk through it, talk it out, listen to each other, sometimes agree to disagree or say, oh, I'm going to think about that.

I hear what you're saying. Okay, I'm going to think about that. That COVID seems to not affect the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews. Yeah, thanks, honey. I'm going to, let me take a second on that. Who do you think started it then if it doesn't affect them is this the worm talking or are you just being

anti-subjective I've recovered from the worm okay that was back then when I was going through a divorce and it suited me to be affected by a maiden she has like this very strange very specific superpower to be like really endearing as the partner life partner

wife of somebody saying like outrageous shit yeah like it's just she's used it she took that and used it for the worst ends like i you know she she went from larry on the show to just being like and now i apply that same kind of smile roll your eyes and just be like this is who i married i guess uh energy to somebody who would fucking end the world i think it's a like it helps him a lot to have someone who's on the surface seemingly as sane as cheryl hines beat to do like be good cop to his like whack job cop yeah you know act yeah it's like it's like his fault first and foremost i never want to be like well the spouse in this situation is sort of you know whatever but like she her not, guys, this is fucked and irresponsible is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Right. Yeah. It's but hey, it helps because part of me, I remember for the longest time I was like, well, Cheryl's like I liked Curb so much. I'm like, well, if Cheryl's I mean, like she didn't put up with a lot of Larry's shit, you know, it kind of got to a breaking point with Larry. So this can't be it can't be that bad with RFK Jr. So credit to that, because that, that protected him in my mind from any real criticism for a long time until I

started to be like, wait, what the fuck is he actually saying? Robert, that's just what I picture her saying a lot. Robert, what are you saying? What did you just say in there on your interview?

Just, babe, that, you know, Robert E. Lee was a good man and he didn't own slaves. Honey, he did. She's like, I'll think about that. I'm going to go think about it. I'm just reading this book. It's a biography of Robert E. Lee, the definitive one. It's a biography of Robert E. Lee, the definitive one. And it said that, quote, between owning a handful of slaves from his own family and then managing his father-in-law's 200 slaves, Lee was very, very involved with slavery during his life and up to the end of 1860.

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Oh, yeah. Fuck, man. Thank God. The world is full of scary problems. Fucking hate dogs on planes, man. But at least we can rest easy knowing that dogs can fly first class on this new airline called Bark Air. That's real? That's real.

airline called bark air it's that's real that's real so like the whole thing feels like again like they've figured out that they will get coverage in the media if they do something that seems like a joke but is actually a product that they're trying to sell this is the fire festival of airlines it is it's it's pretty wild Their promotional video asserts that, like, you know it's a good product when they have to say this in the promotional video. This is a 100% totally real airline for dogs. Yeah, let's see a little bit

of the visual. The future of travel is here. I'm sorry, what the fuck? We're leading with the future of travel is here, bringing fucking dogs on planes? What, do you doubt it? You doubt it?

Oh my god. Oh, it's so stupid. It's a sneaker underneath it. In-flight entertainment. So, one thing that's important to note is that the so-called dog airline also allows humans and i'm guessing they don't show this but i'm guessing the pilots aren't dogs either no what the fuck are we doing man yeah that would have been cute as hell but yeah they're like giving them like they call it champagne in like champagne glasses but it's chicken broth and the dogs are just going nuts for it. It's really real, though, right?

It is really real. It's so hard when they're like, it's real. For their promotional video, they rented out some billionaire's private plane, and it's over the top. There's a doggy playground in like one section and presumably you know it's the beginning of the flight because it's not covered in shit but they uh no no flight attendants are bleeding yeah no flight attendants have been mauled but

then like you see pictures from the actual flight, and it just looks like an airline flight with a seat for the dog next to shockingly unembarrassed owners. But what's crazy about it is I was watching that video that you just showed us, and it looked so much like the promise of air travel in the 80s. You know, like it looked comfortable and fun. And I was sold for a quick second. I was like, this looks great. Like they're serving food on platters. Yeah. Laying down and there's like there's lay flat seats and then cut to around a little just chartered flight.

Yeah. It reminds me of the difference between like that. There's that icon of the seas, like the biggest cruise ship ever. And all the promotional videos looked amazing. And they were like, just take a slide down from your room to the dining area. And then like,

when you see it, it just kind of looks like a series of hotel rooms that like one of them has like a small slide pulled into it. But it kind of looked like shit when in practice. And that feels like what we're getting here. But yeah, it's a Wonka experience. It is. It's a Wonka experience. Ask.

Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Is the I mean, obviously, flying on a jet is not cheap so i'm guessing it's already a fuck but this one's dogs so i mean i'm sure they take into account like dogs they're gonna rarely work full-time jobs they oh for that pay is kind of wages the dogs are right right i'm gonna assume this is fairly affordable. Let me just... Okay, so a one-way flight from New York to LA.

A one-way flight. Okay. New York to LA costs $6,000. Huh? Whoa, whoa, whoa. $6,000? You know, this is not... I'm now understanding what this is for.

This is to get celebrities and people who have... Celebrities and leaders of industry when they are bi-coastal, they have to get their dog back and forth from one way or another. This is a dog courier service.

Right. And it's fucking annoying to have the rich people with their dogs on the plane. I do have friends who, like, you know, they dog sit for people who are doing well, and part of their job is they have to fly the dog to New York from LA. Holy shit!

Yeah. And this is what this is. My friends are going to lose their jobs now. Right. Oh my god. Well, maybe they can fly Bark Air now. I hope so. That's a good Jason Statham movie, by the way. A person who's taking the dog from across the country

and then loses it. And everyone wants the dog, though, too. He accidentally takes LSD halfway through and the dog begins talking to him so that you can put the talking dog in the trailer, which is important. You want to mislead people into thinking it's a talking

animal movie you can already i can already tell how this idea came to pass where it's someone speaking like you know you know hey babe you know you're always talking you wish there was a sky uber for dogs just to get your little pup to you i just just came up with it. Barking. I don't know if we used that video in the cold open, but we are referring to the Miami Dolphins offensive line coach, I think, who sent a video to his girlfriend. I'm sure his wife did not appreciate it. Where he was like,

I'm about to go into a meeting and doing these lines of cocaine thinking about you babe just thinking about you babe and it's gonna be a long time until we can do this again together because i know you're gonna keep that baby do we know if he talks like that otherwise or is that just coke talk i don't know i mean it'd be wild he was trying to be quiet yeah with everything except the loud snorts that he was doing it's okay if my boss if the miami dolphins coaches know that i'm just railing line after line of poorly chopped up cocaine in here uh but i just don't want them

to know that i'm talking sweet to my uh yeah to my lover mistress yeah i mean yeah kojima's like don't worry babe i'm in my office i got full privacy he's like in a conference room but he's only set up like little folders around him to be like nobody knows hey chris man we can all hear you man chris this is wildly unprofessional, man. One second, man. I'll be in the meeting in one second. But yeah. Yeah.

Dog airline has huge cocaine energy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The CEO like road like put himself in a dog crate and flew from across the country and a dog crate like in the belly of a plane allegedly again i think this person is just he's on cocaine if he said that he's on cocaine he's also like a low level like you know media influencer like marketing person i think right just like kind of smart about getting media attention but it's uh i don't know i think the worst a worst night nightmare for any marketing executive is to have a podcaster with an audience call them low level right and i love that

yeah he's like my my teenage daughter is really into tiktok so i utilized her for inspiration yeah like you couldn't have the dogs running loose in a plane right like that feels dangerous doesn't it if you hit fucking turbulence with the stories we've heard about turbulence with people just getting floppy rag the new turbulence reality yeah those dogs are know. Those dogs are going to be like popcorn. Yeah. Thank you. Popcorn. Popcorn.

Adorable. Popcorn. We make your dog popcorn. Oh, that's cute. They give them popcorn? No, no. We turn your dog into popcorn because they're flying all over the fucking place. Into unrecognizable fragmented bits of them.

But it's fun. It's fun. It looks like the strawberry stuff i think but yeah i i wish them all of the cocaine that they wish for yeah endeavor yeah the the people fly like there's multiple people who are willing to be i'm guessing they are the interns at pause airlines or whatever the fuck this thing bark air bark air i'm sure they're the interns at pause airlines or whatever the fuck this thing bark air bark air i'm sure they're the interns at bark air because i can't imagine somebody like they're these like young women who are posing as like dog owners who just spent six thousand dollars on a one-way flight with yeah part of me is like i'm sorry what do you do for work please because i want to do

that if you're like you can piss away six grand for a fucking one way. Yeah. Internet barking. Also, imagine the energy of those fucking passengers. It's not even the dogs I'm worried about. It's the fucking humans that have six grand to piss away. And they're like, I can bring my dog on their flight. And they don't give a fuck about anyone or anything. I agree.

They should be able to do this. This is their right as wealthy people who have earned more money and therefore are better than us. I just think they should have to build the plane themselves. Just like they're building the submersibles to go down to see the Titanic. But isn't it perplexing to you

that for six grand you get your dog in there, presumably you need to spend another six grand to get your ass on the plane. Who is the person who's wealthy enough to do that, but is also willing to be on a dog plane? That might be the

RFK audience that we're trying to figure out. Where's this Venn diagram? And again, it's Alicia Silverstone. We love you, Alicia. We are huge fans. We are huge fans. You taught me how to feed my children by baby birding them. Yep.

So that is a thing that she advocated. You taught me that I should never touch plastic. Never touch plastic. We will never forget. She might have been right about that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do not look at my testicles. Turns out I have so much microplastic in my scrotum,

but you are not right about that, Alicia. I have so much microplastics in my scrotum. My scrotum looks like a McDonald's ball pit. All plastic spheres flopping around. That is exactly how I picture it, unfortunately. Like a hacky sack. Not yours in particular, but yeah.

Just what that microplastic scrotum sounds like. It's like, man, you're carrying a bunch of little plastic play balls in there? Yeah, I think so. I think my man's got a sack full of BBs or something. Well, Alex, truly a pleasure having you as always. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff?

You are good as a feelings podcast about movies, and you can find it wherever you listen to podcasts. And then you can find me on social media at Alex Steed, where these days I post a lot of photos and stuff from zines. So find me there. Amazing. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? I just, oh yeah, absolutely. I know we're all huge Jamie Loftus fans.

So her new show is 16th Minute. Love it. So good. I don't know how she has the bandwidth for everything she does, but it's another classic Jamie Loftus joint, and I love it. Another banger. Great recommendation. Miles, where can people find you?

Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yeah, you can find me on Twitter, Instagram, and the like at Miles of Grey. You can also find Jack and I on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack up at Boosties. You can find me talking 90 Day Fiance on 420 Day Fiance. And you can hear me talking about the Rainbow Party conspiracy about teen sex parties gone wild from the early aughts on My Mama Told Me.

That's Langston Kerman's podcast with David Borey. Let's see. A tweet I like is from Scott G at S-C-T f r n k s f n k s oh boy i hate when people just put a fucking smattering of letters uh as their handle it's probably scott franks anyway the tweet was occasionally i'll hear a word aloud for the first time having read it a hundred times in my life and pronouncing it wrong in my head all the while today it was viscount and i think for anyone who's watching Bridgerton, you're like, yeah, what's not Viscount?

Fuck. It's Viscount? It's so relatable. It's not Viscount? Which is weird because I maybe only read that twice in my life, but for this person, I've read it hundreds of times. I'm like, what did you read? Just a lot of period romance pieces?

Or you're really into the history of the upper class? Viscount. Viscount. Fuck that. Fuck that. Fuck you, bro.

Viscount, bro. Let's see. A couple tweets. I've been enjoying Troy Murphy's cousin uh at was blind now the letter i see oh your favorite basketball team isn't in the nba finals it's probably because of your own moral failings as an individual work on yourself and i didn't realize that that's what my brain believed uh prior to reading that tweet yeah Yeah. Where'd you go wrong? Where did we go wrong? Oh, my God. Luis Verchetti at 97 Verchetti tweeted the picture of the guy whispering to George W. Bush that a second planet struck the tower.

But it says, no rush, but I'm ready to dip whenever you are. Yeah. Enjoy enjoyed that. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page, we think, and a website

dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy miles what song do you think people might enjoy uh i think you'll enjoy this just a light bop uh from dear silas it's been blowing up on social media and it's an earworm that i can't get out of my head so guess what it won't get out of yours either it's called Michaelton. M-I-K-O-L-T-O-N. Parenthetical. That's my dog.

And it's a song. It's just Dear Silas is the artist. It's just his love letter to his pet Chihuahua. And it's just wholesome. But it's also just got a great R&B groove to it. And when you listen to the lyrics, you're like, yeah, okay. We're just talking about a dog. Nothing more.

How hard do you ride for your dog? anyway this is michael tip by dear silas pretty sure that earworm is a parasite based on the description of your uh motivations like yeah you have to and now you have let's pass it on to you dear listener anyways uh we will link off to that in the footnotes the day the production of iHeartRadio for more podcasts from iHeartRadio visit the iHeartRadio app apple podcast or wherever you listen your favorite shows that is gonna do it for us this morning back this afternoon to tell you what is trending and we will talk to y'all then bye bye i'm jess casavetto executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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