The Daily Zeitgeist - Bipartisanship = Smoke Screen, Ross And Rachel?!? 8.12.21

Episode Date: August 12, 2021

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 197, Episode 4 of Dead Daily Zeitgeist! It's a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, and it's Thursday, August 12th, 2021. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. This is a podcast that I host. And yes, my thighs are white as a ghost. And I may speak too fast about coal gas. I also talk Havana with Sir Miles. That is story of a girl. Courtesy of Uncle Brew.

And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! I said, please get the vaccine! Tell them you've been foolish! Please get the vaccine, y'all! Please get the vaccine! Tell them it's a danger without the vaccine! And that's Michael McDonald, the Doobie Brothers, you belong to me.

And he submitted that himself. He submitted that. Dude, Michael McDonald, huge zeitgang. I didn't realize that. He's like, please tell them about the dangers of not being vaccinated. And that's how he speaks. But anyway, yes, shout out

to me right now because I've just boosted a lot of Michael McDonald the last 24 hours. And Miles, before we get to our guest, let's tell them what's happening. Two weeks from yesterday. Be our guest. Be our guest. Be our guest. August 25th. Yes.

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and you can watch it from wherever you are. Comfort of your own home, an Arby's. But yeah, this is your last chance to witness history, y'all. It's a big deal. So come check it out. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny stand-up comedian, writer, actor, producer.

He is the creator of Boast Rattle, a compliment contest. Never seen it, a podcast where famous comedians rewrite classic movies they've never seen. He's appeared on Comedy Central Fuse at Just for Laughs, where he was called a breakout star by Time Out New York.

He created and hosted the podcast Faking a Murderer, where he talked with eight comedians for eight hours about the show Making a Murderer, but didn't tell his guests that he'd never seen Making a Murderer. and put on a satirical play, Glengory Glenn Beck, was the writer behind the Twitter hashtag Roof Breakup, which was a viral sensation that was read by 10 million people and haunts them to this day. Please welcome to the show, the hilarious Kyle Ayers! Hello, Ayers. Thank you for having me again. Welcome, welcome, man.

I tried to come up with a song, but I couldn't think of any. I was just going to go, it's been one week since I got in a fight with someone in a Twitter reply. But it hasn't been. It's been like three hours. It's been way... Ironically, their avatar was a bare naked lady. So that's probably...

There you go. I find it hard to believe that you would struggle to come up with a musical, a.k.a. You seem very musical, Kyle. I see the instruments behind you. We've spoken about your love of music I do was it really that hard dozens of accordions it was hard to come up with one that wasn't one week by bare naked

ladies I guess oh yeah you've got that's the only song I know how to play on all of these harmonicas I have a blues traveler singer vest but just to play the first four seconds of one week by bare naked ladies on all my harmonicas. So the,

have you talked about hashtag roof breakup on, on this? I don't know. I don't know. It is such a bizarre thing in my life. Yeah. It is a Twitter thing that I did that went wildly viral, but superseded threads and retweets and like it was hard so it was just like a series of tweets of people breaking up on on my roof in

brooklyn and it like got picked up by like buzzfeed and like jerry springer was doing reenactments and like ellen was calling me to come do like weird side shows. It was crazy. What? But it was like before threads and before, you know, virality happened 800 times a day to everything. And I worked at the Apple store and people were coming in. They were like, you're the face from the BuzzFeed thing I saw today. Wow. And I'm like, yeah, you spilled water on your computer. And this is going to be $800.

Yeah. And it was so it was just a very you know got a lot of twitter followers lost a lot of them the moment i tweeted about anything else and um robot purges always hurt me because i think you know they robots follow these like viral people and stuff and right it's great but yeah it was a crazy thing and every once in a while still pops up i don't even remember what year it happened. 2015, 2016, maybe. But every once in a while, like it'll hit a new pocket of the Internet and everyone or like a tick tock will recap. those i think that it would probably circle back into that every once in a while i love 2015 yeah yeah exactly that's very cool it was just it was just a a twisty turny breakup like just some people screaming at each other and i was just tweeting

what they said and on a rooftop right on a rooftop where i live people sent me like a pillow like merch they made with like quotes of it embroidered in there and like it became just Do you ever work really hard for a really long time and think any of that's what'll pay off? Do you ever work really hard for a really long time and think that's what'll do it?

And then instead it's not I like work my whole career to like get on conan right and do this late night set and i see it's like oh i got 70 000 views and i'm like well that's still what buzzfeed gets from quote tweeting me nine years ago or whatever right right right that's amazing it's never what you think. Yeah. All right. Well, Kyle, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, just a precap of a few of the things we're talking about. We're going to check in with the states of Texas and with Governor Ron DeSantis.

I don't know. I was trying to make it work. Yeah, that's what I see on the internet. They call him Ron DeSantis now. And Florida and just how things are going there. Where the vaccine is not even really encouraged, but definitely not mandated. We're going to talk about where we are with kids getting vaccinated because the vaccine is still not approved for kids under 12. They're going back to school. so we'll talk about that it's really

like the the anti-vaxxers are about to really start fucking things up makes me angry joe biden got 69 votes bro on his uh bipartisan infrastructure framework so that's tight we'll talk about just another story of lapd being completely unaccountable we'll talk about whether ross and rachel are boning in real life i need this to be true uh we'll talk about we'll talk about that that simbad genie movie that everybody thinks happened and how it has affected the lives of his children. They have family friends who insist that it happened to them. They're like, no, people who know our family insist that they saw that shit. All of that, plenty more, but first, Kyle,

we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? The last thing I searched was, did Jackie Kennedy really hate the Queen of England? guests what is something from your search history the last thing i searched was uh did jackie kennedy really hate the queen of england you're just watching the crown just now making it through the crown yeah could not be more fascinated by the fact that i'm watching a show that takes place over a whole century and this person it's based on is still around, like just could not be more blown away by how irrelevant they've known the monarchy is the entire time it's existed. Yeah.

Yeah. At the start of her career, people are like, yeah, no, this doesn't matter anymore. It's like it's dumping you into like two years per decade of people saying we have to keep tricking everybody. Right. And then i watched what was the last episode she's like you know what'll make sure i'm queen forever if i dance with a black person right yeah wait what season of the crown is i've only seen the princess diana one because for the most part i don't care one or two i can't remember if it's late one maybe early

second season where she needs ghana is talking about you know not being part of their whatever giant little conglomerate of countries and so she their empire yeah their empire yeah i'm guessing that's what they ghana was independent in 1957 so it's around then yeah so somewhere around because it's like right when she meets jackie kennedy and so jackie kennedy everyone's like she's so charismatic and the queen is like notoriously not and sort of takes offense and so this thing with gone is happening and she goes against all the everyone's instructions and she's like i'm gonna go to ghana and everyone's like what and she's like i'm gonna go to go there and then she dances with like uh i don't know what the name of the head of state of ghana in the 50s was

but she dances with them and it becomes like front page can you believe the queen danced with this african person yeah they're like she's woke as fuck y'all they really get about you really forget about imperialism with ghana either they're like she danced with this black guy so that'll show russia and i'm like what is that there's too many or the soviet union i guess it wasn't i'm sorry if i offended any uh soviets the whole thing's crazy it's all so fake the real world is like happening behind them in the show and i don't think and but i want to know if jackie kennedy and the queen really had like a little tiff and did they and no one really knew yeah but she danced within krumah she danced within krumah we know that part i read all these articles and everyone's like, could have been.

And I'm like, I learned nothing from this. That's great. Thank you. Yeah. In the show, Jackie Kennedy gets drunk at a party and is just talking about how pathetic the queen is. She's like, the funniest thing you could say is, I was at Buckingham Palace. The art is so old. That's like what she's like, yeah.

That's a huge part of it. That's kind of the point. That's like what she's like, yeah. That's a huge part of it. That's kind of the point. She's like insulting it. She's like, that queen is so traditional. Yeah, man. She's named after a chess piece. Yeah. They don't have last names.

Because of the way narrative works, I'm like, she better shut up about the queen. I know. I'm like waiting better shut up about the queen i know i'm like for the queen all the time i hope that i hope the queen gets a little more attention right she's trapped by the monarchy you have to understand what is something you think is overrated i overrated i wrote, tweet dragging political pundits. Because then I got to see it, but I still do it. But then I got to see it. It's like a throw in a softball, dude. But I don't know. Can we just relax? Can I if if I go forever without Ben Shapiro being direct? I just don't think he's. Is he going to read one and just be like, that's a good fuck're right that is a good point i am short or like whatever yeah no i i do it i i'm guilty of it and trying to not do it as hey man it's like look you're you're a slugger man when you got that bat in your hands it doesn't

matter if it's just a fastball right over the plate or a nice underhander for you to crush out of the park you're swinging baby you're sure but i would say a ben shapiro tweet would be steroids in this metaphor then let me just continue to try and have the first half of barry bond's career right right instead of needing these and crushing a ben shapiro tweet is you on performance enhancing drugs with a corked bat right and like a rubber cord ball that will just travel and then like someone I grew up with seeing his tweets and agreeing with him, that's like Mark McGuire in front of Congress. Or that's the home run ball bouncing off of Jose Canseco's head. Right, right, right. Just an unasked for consequence of the entire thing.

Yeah, wouldn't it be great if we just never saw another tweet from him and then in like seven years people treated it like the sinbad thing they're just like yeah no nobody named ben shapiro ever existed yeah they're like what he's like no i'm i'm very much real i'm i'm the guy with who said wap was bad remember wap and me and wap no right it's an outrage anyway i'm here at home depot to buy my plank of wood. Do you remember that part, too? Okay, that one we had some fun with. Yeah, we had fun with the plank of wood. Wait, what was the plank of wood?

I missed that. He went to Home Depot on some stunt because Home Depot donated to Trump's campaign. So everyone was like, don't go there. So he went to Home Depot and bought one plank of wood and carried it out in a plastic bag, like a literal like a shelf, like an unfinished shelf, not a human being. And was like, I went I went to Home Depot and you have to support this business. Support a patriotic company. And he holds up a board. Yeah, like you couldn't.

It's just weird how. OK, like I get you have to. I'm not no shame and not knowing what to get at a Home Depot or that you've ever been in a Home Depot. But, like, the thought process is so funny. He's like, I will demonstrate that I'm doing shit at Home Depot. Oh, my God. They sell just pieces of loose wood here? Okay.

Yeah. You know he called it one loose wood. Yeah. Can I get a loosey? One wood? Let me get one of those looseys real quick. I i gotta get a pack yeah the tax is on the backs oh you're saying guys are selling lucy's around the corner all right maybe i'll just do that can i get a bag then just a bag so i can put it in there then it's just in one bag and he's holding

the plastic which it doesn't fit at all because it's a giant board and it's in right it's in a you know if you carried like it i can't even use another example to describe it because we can all picture this and is absolutely nuts and he's just like you got to support him yeah hey and he's keeping he's keeping that young plucky upstart home depot in business the other thing is i'm actually now that i'm looking at it it's just this plank of wood that he can't even use the bag handles to carry it. It's just like a dick tip condom on this fucking piece of wood. It's like the first third of it has a Home Depot plastic bag, and he's just holding it on the other end. So it's like, what is this bag even accomplishing?

It really looks like how people in LA wear beanies in August. It's just sort of out there on the edge,. They're like, this is an aesthetic beanie. Right, right, right. It's more of a yarmulke than anything. Yeah, it's something. But it's definitely not functioning as a bag. And just like the grip of it, it's just, oh, bless them. Yeah.

I had too much fun negating my overrated here by doing it immediately after. Windmill on the wood plank. What's something you think is underrated? All right, underrated. And then I'm going to let you guys know, I wrote one thing that I think is under and overrated simultaneously. Ooh.

Perfect. Underrated, liking popular stuff. That's all right. You could like Marvel TV shows. You could like the stuff that everyone likes. That's fine. Keep doing it. You could like, I can't think of music.

You could like Lady Gaga was going to be my example. Billie Eilish Lady Gaga. But you know, I mean, it's fine. You can like Billy Joel. Yeah, you guys could like the popular stuff. You guys could like Elvis. You guys could like this new artist, Dolly Parton. You could like whoever, but it's fine. Just like the popular stuff.

It's fun to like because then you get to talk about it with everybody. You could like the NBA finals. Watch the NBA finals and Just like the popular stuff. It's fun to like because then you get to talk about it with everybody. You could like the NBA Finals. Watch the NBA Finals and like the thing with everybody. It's fun. What's a specific thing that sort of inspired this designation of underrated? I think it was like everyone was immediately turning on, and I haven't watched the new Marvel, but everyone's like turning on the Marvel TV shows. And there is a lot of comic book stuff.

And it's like, but that's okay because everyone likes it. And it's kind of a nice story. Right. And, you know, there's probably a reason that we're turning to like a fantastical version of our own world that does get saved. I think there's probably a reason that we're all excited about thinking there's some sort of one thing that can save the world. And, you know, that's all right. Let them keep making it. People like it enough.

It's fine. Yeah. And it's interesting because it tells us something about people when it's popular. That we feel absolutely powerless. Some great work of art that nobody pays attention to. I mean, there's definitely something to everyone's fascination right now. You know, the fact that superheroes are so popular is clearly something's going on with everybody. Yeah, right.

It's all of our parental issues, our feelings of hopelessness, all wrapped into one. It's got to be something, too. You watch a superhero thing, and it's completely out of your control, and something you've never seen shows up and fixes it. And you're just like...

If there was a Marvel What If, that's their show, right? The new one where it's hypotheticals that other stories... Like a Marvel if we're like like tony stark fixes climate change or something like that and he's just like oh i found this actually this new carbon filter i think that's sort of what everyone is like there's got to be like that thing where's that unknown science or an unknown entity like thor or something that just shows up. Sadly, there's only been known science that's been telling us for decades. I know. Some sort of like reverse magnifying glass.

Right. Like a big old fan or something. I don't know. There's that Simpsons where they blot out the sun. You know what's funny though i feel like if there were in an mcu film like part of the story was about humanity taking this like just gigantic undertaking of like changing human global infrastructure to combat climate change is like a narrative that like that little bit of imagination would kind of like so we got to work together to do with them something radical to save our planet huh let's let's keep going with this let's keep going with this but then you have to

they'd have to have the devil's advocate in there because you gotta have them right that's a necessary thing that makes everything better is someone making sure the devil has a seat at the table yeah right who's advocating for the devil here he couldn't make it he tried to call in but he's in a tunnel right now right i don't know this just feels really this feels really wrong to be having these conversations without satan present but or even a proxy if he could even just have a proxy here even if someone can give us a phone that we can he can text into and I can just act as an agent on his. OK, whatever. I remember I felt OK about climate change for like a month when I read there was like this.

I think it was Freakonomics. The Freakonomics guys were like, you know, people used to think that the end of the world was coming because of horse shit being everywhere. And then they invented the car so we'll just have like some invention that's gonna like save us and they used like the example of putting things in the atmosphere that like reflect the sunlight back and then like a few months later snowpiercer came out in which like that very thing is like the idea that turns into like a ice planet apocalypse. Right, the catalyst that pushes us beyond any return. What's your overrated and underrated thing? So I wrote nuance.

I thought nuance was underrated at first. And I was like, you know, because we spend so much time online. Everyone's like hyper online, especially now feels like super hyper online. And there seems to be no nuance, but really then you meet a person in person. There's like nuance involved. And then I was like, nah, maybe there's no nuance. Just get a vaccine. I don't care. Cause then I started thinking about, you listen to all these people who are anti-vax folks, like we'll be like, well, and, and, and this happened with this and this. And if there's like some tiny nugget of truth involved in something that becomes like the pulled thread of not getting a vaccine then i'm

like nah there's no nuance just get the vaccine i don't care if you're like grasping onto the tiny end of the straw at the bottom of that it's not relevant yeah and so i couldn't figure out where to put nuance and so instead i i uh we talked about the uh crown for seven minutes yeah uh natalie sure who's one of my favorite like kind of reporter researcher people and just a great follow on twitter was pointing out that there are like a small small small number of people who like can't get the vaccine but like the there's also a lot of people who are claiming they can't get the vaccine based on like junk science and basically like within the world of chronic diseases like there's a lot of junk science being circulated and so like almost

everybody can get the vaccine like there's a about live, like if there's a live vaccine, like a live culture in the vaccine that is like not compatible with people who are have like immune issues. But this is not one of those. So like that it's actually like basically everybody can get synthetic RNA. Right. With a nanolipid layer? Jack, do you know what happens after three months or three years with that nanolipid layer? I don't know if you saw that tweet that was blowing up. We're making a TikTok that's going to get stitched.

Right. I'm learning about TikTok. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely do deeper research. Don't do research, actually. Reach out to a doctor. Your research should be finding the smartest person who's devoted their life to this and trusting them that's my a lot

of my frustrations lie in this sort of like uh no longer having a favorable outlook of education and it's it it seems very bizarre to me and i have jokingly said but i honestly think if you distrust it. So the nugget of nuance, if someone's like, I don't trust the government, I kind of get that. But if you're using that to not get a vaccine, then I'm like, actually, there's no nuance. Just get the vaccine. It doesn't count. Right, right.

I have said in jest and honestly believe if you hate teachers and you hate nurses and you don't trust doctors and science is fake. What do you want your kids to be? what are they supposed to do what do you want your kid to like also just like have a hateful youtube channel like i just want it to be or like and we didn't go to space and the moon is fake and i just don't understand like where what are the jobs what do you want your kid to possibly be doing besides just being angry like you and and i don't think you can like yell at a barista on for work so it doesn't pay that well i don't understand maybe he'll get a sponsorship from black rifle coffee to yell at people in public spaces i don't know i mean i think to your point about education right like we've done such a great job of making it impossible for people to get educated that by virtue of that becoming the

only way into the middle class or having any kind of upward social mobility in most instances that that's just created a natural resentment for it and without understanding that by design many people are being shut out of the opportunity to be educated so then it just turns into this thing over time of being like well that's for these fucking people who think they're so smart that that that that that. And that's like, truly, we're seeing like all of the machinations and the manifestations of like this very concerted effort to defund public education, because now it's become so unattainable people fucking hate it and now you have people on tiktok to say or wherever claiming to know all this shit or whatever and be so contrarian because you know that's just the way that this cruel fucking society's set up too so just like at every turn you're like oh my god everything's just a reflection of how we're failing people it really seemed like it could just fester just below the surface as long as we didn't need everyone to agree on something ever

again right and unfortunately we do and even the way that conversations happen about it are so is so wildly frustrating because it's it's almost like robots are having the conversation so i saw the video that i think you were referencing where it's like a someone giving this crazy terrible information like a scientist where there's like porn playing in the background yeah and a scientist is sort of like then there's like the it's like stitched next to one of them with a scientist who's saying that's true this is not like fact checking it but you read and i hate this like you read the comments on the scientist fact checking it and people are like well you're allowed to there are two sides to what you believe and there isn't right i mean yeah but everyone says like well an area of like right

or wrong this person's entitled to what she thinks about it. But you're not if it's facts like that's what's right. Everything has just become equal weight and it just isn't how it works and it makes it insane. And you can tell I don't talk to a lot of people most days. Yeah. I'm curious to also figure out like at what point then they they're able to trust something about science. Like you're using a microwave. You use Wi-Fi. You use a self. So like you got a lot of vaccines. If you're going to keep exploring that you're eating processed food. At what point do you put your sort of lens or spotlight of suspicion on these other things. And if you're not, I'm trying to understand why you don't do it in those instances too, because you could, you could open up all kinds of theories about many of the things that we have

to interact with on a daily basis, not just medical advice or, you know, research that at which point it goes, yeah, well, I trust that. Like I trust AT&T.

I know, I get that. I trust corporations. I just don't trust this&T. I know. I get that. Come on. I trust corporations. I just don't trust this. Right. I think that the beginning and the end might have just been one loud man who's not around as much anymore telling people what to do and not do. I don't know.

Yeah. covered that there was a lot of vaccine skepticism and resistance after the 1911 flu that killed more people than this one is and they were just willing to like go door to door and be like let me see the vaccine scar on your arm all right you have to go you have to get the vaccine let me see your arm

yeah well the thing is that anyone telling me what to do in any way is exactly the Holocaust. So. Right. Oh, are you a are you a European historian? Right. Yeah. Well, I did my own research. And where was that? Where did you do your research? I wrote this down. I just sat down. I wrote my feelings down on the back of this Arby's receipt. But that is like, it just has become so, like, history is now weaponized in an inaccurate way.

And simultaneously, people believe it didn't happen. And also that it's the reason we can't do that. It's like, I just feel crazy. And so, you know, that's why sometimes i don't i'm like let's get rid of the nuance and make everybody get it but you do feel a little weird saying that yeah you feel weird yeah and it's just because it's we've never been at it and lived like this before where we're looking at clear some biological phenomenon we're like this is going to take radical action to actually keep people safe and when people just aren't used to that or don't have the mind for any kind of like reciprocity or sense of community or owing something to each other or feeling part of a larger community, then yeah, people suddenly immediately go into their self-interested corners and figure out whatever rationale they, or lock onto whatever rationalization

they need to preserve. They're like, well, I don't want to do this because of this. Yeah. Right. I love when people tell me what to do. Yeah. I get more time to do other stuff.

Well, that's because you're a sub. Right. Yeah, that's fair. I was going to say that. I was going to let you know that you're a sub. Like, just from the start, I just wanted to, yeah, make sure you knew know now both tell me i am at the same time well hold up now hold on now that's not very submissive behavior fan you're right you're

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And we're back. And so I guess that this news just isn't reaching the people who we need it to reach. But it's just very clear, like the states that are like, yeah, you can't tell me to get a vaccine, like you can't tell my people to mask up, are doing very badly now. They're running out of hospital beds. They're having, after telling the federal government they can't tell them what to do, they are then having to ask the federal government for ventilators. And yeah, it's just objectively a bad look for for those people, a very predictable bad look. But I guess I guess it's just not reaching them.

Yeah, it's I don't know. This is in Texas and Florida. They have the very unfortunate distinction of having governors that like almost seem like, I don't know, like they had some fucking vision from God to like be on the side of COVID. And like, like it's like almost truly they're on the side of COVID. Like if COVID had a seat at the table, they'd be like, hey, man, don't make them wear masks and shit. Then I can't get my shit on. Then I can't get my shit on. Then I can't get my fuck on. They're like, oh, yeah, I got you. I got you.

I got you. Like, that's quite that's the logic that they're following. Like, they are caping for COVID. So in Texas, they've stopped elective procedures because the hospitals are getting overwhelmed. They're like, dude, we can't even bring people in that aren't like we have to focus on the people that are so sick with this Delta variant that that has to be the priority. ICU beds are slowly running out at the current rate of hospitalization. And there are even less beds for like the pediatric intensive care units. Only two beds were available out of the 285 in the North Texas area. So in the Dallas area, they only had two pediatric ICU beds available.

Additionally, only about 28 adult ICU beds were available as hospitals reached 90% capacity on Tuesday. So this is, it's getting worse and worse. And now they're saying 15% of COVID cases are now children in Texas. Not to say that 15% of hospitalizations are, but 15% of the positive cases now are children in Texas. Not to say that 15% of hospitalizations are, but 15% of the positive cases now are children.

Yeah. There's something too soft about the terminology and people can ignore it. And this is, I don't even really mean this as a joke, but it sounds like I'm making it. Pediatric ICU wouldn't resonate with people as much as like almost dying kids. Child death warrants.

I know it's absolutely, I don't think people understand the severity of anything. And, you know, not to be insensitive, but if I read one more article about a person who died and wished they had got the vaccine on their deathbed, I'm probably just going to shut my mouth. I'm losing care for that. Yeah, because our empathy goes towards people who are trying to stay safe and maybe are unable to be vaccinated or just

are built bodies are built that they might succumb to the virus and not for those who are just stunting on instagram to say like i'm getting the fucking shot yeah and florida also you know fucking desantis like you know at the beginning of the year he's like declaring flawless victory over covid when he's like hey dude i didn't shut down anything look at the unemployment like we're doing all right look at me like i think i think i kind of do something right here and a lot of people were like what the fuck is going how but then the delta variants coming through and now it's clear that it's just burning through the state. The number of people that are requiring hospitalization, that number looks pretty bleak now, which like you're saying, Jack, it got to the point where the state was like requesting from Health and Human Services, from the feds, like we need more ventilators and breathing machines for people.

ron desantis he acted again he knows that's not a good headline saying we're running out of machines that help people fucking breathe because their health is so poor that at a press conference he started he decided to feign ignorance over the whole thing he said quote i've not heard about that so i have to check to see if that's true or not that's what quote i would honestly doubt that that's true but i'll look we have a lot of stuff that we stockpiled over the last year and a half through the department of emergency management i have not had any requests across my desk i haven't been notified of that well that might be true because they know you are caping for fucking covid so you would probably say we don't need it can't we just get people to hook them up to leaf blowers or some shit?

Why does that sound like Tim Robinson in the hot dog costume? Right. Sort of being like, I mean, I don't know. Who knows? It really feels like that exact speech feels exactly like a Tim Robinson. Really? Really? What could you think? Why are we always on our ventilators? Why can't we live life? Yeah. As he's like putting federal dollars into a suitcase in front of everyone. Can't we all just, you know, worry about what's important?

We're really looking for the disease that did this. And he's like in a giant COVID particle costume. And then he takes off on like a bike with like a sidecar with COVID. I assumed it would just be any cruise ship. Right. i mean and so you have these situations now where like doctors in these states most even like some even republican officials like what the fuck are they doing saying what the fuck is this to the point where now you have counties that are going rogue despite what the governors are saying or saying like you can't mandate masks you better not make people wear masks they're like fuck that dude we're

looking at what is actually happening and we can't do that especially as it relates to schools so the school boards in like austin dallas fort worth houston san antonio they're all about to vote on requiring masks despite governor abbott they're saying, you can't make people you can't mandate masks. I don't care. You're going to be in trouble if you do that. Because a judge has granted a temporary restraining order. So allowing counties in two counties now to make their own decisions. But the same is also happening in Broward County in Florida. They don't care what the fucking governor is saying because they know what the real outcomes are.

And they're like, what the fuck? Like, we don't give a fuck this is so this is absurd and you see videos of people standing outside of these school board meetings like yelling at nurses who are testifying about covid being bad and i cannot and i get enraged my sister is a second grade teacher in missouri which is probably the bronze medal on your podium of this conversation if Texas and Florida are bringing home the rest of the medals. And if you are screaming at a nurse for talking to a school board, what happened? How did you get here? I mean, I know none of those people are listening

because I don't think they can get this on their iPod shuffle, but I just want to know how people are listening because I don't think they can get this on their iPod shuffle. But I just want to know how they are. Listen, like, I don't know how you can get to such a point where you're screaming at a nurse. Because they've the right has very and I'm not deftly crafted a narrative, but they've tied economic chaos to the shutdown. to the shutdown. So any threat of acknowledging that how bad the disease is and that action needs to be taken begins to resonate in these people at a frequency, which is like, oh, my, my job or my livelihood or these other things, rather than like, this is what we have to do to be safe. There's some people go, this is what we have to do to be safe. Other people go, this is what they're trying to do to fucking get us out of our houses or whatever, because everyone,

no matter what side of the political spectrum you're on, is feeling the crunch of American capitalism on some level, like where they don't feel that there's any moment to rest or that they can feel that something is going to be provided for them. So they've really tied this idea into the acknowledging how bad the disease is as being like it's going to create more economic hardship remember the shutdown remember all those businesses and it's it's about this like completely other thing because clearly the the science aspect is just completely decoupled from it to just be more about this like larger existential like hegemonic you know like thing that they're all glomming on to i think we're

so far down the rabbit hole of like social media just creating you know the the reality where you were talking about earlier kyle just like there is no objective truth that i i just think that like that that is such a such a huge part of this and so surreal if you just go back 10 years and look at our present reality like just the desantis response i have not heard about that so i have to check to see if that's true or not like the i i'm gonna do my own research in the face of somebody like showing him oh Oh, you don't have to. Health and Human Services confirmed that they sent hundreds of pieces of machinery to the state. I guess I'll just do some other research then.

They had to call last Friday when you guys had 200,000 cases or whatever the number was, 20,000 cases or something. I would honestly doubt that's true, but I'll look like it's just do do your own research type shit. It's all, you know, I keep going back to the how much the Trump ban changed things and just like social media is so deadly to like it's really, you know, Biden got a lot of shit for saying that it's killing people. But it's legitimately at this point, killing people and going to start killing children soon. I don't even think it is a, that's like a known, I mean, this is even separate of everything. If you're talking about the vaccine or COVID at all, social media is also like, what do you call it? Like simmering and then overboiling, like boiling, like the insurrection and, you know, uh, coups

and like terrorist activity in countries just all to to create ad revenue and own people's data and that's you know that's even separate to like yeah everything that's happening with misinformation and covet and things like that yeah and again like for places like facebook and youtube they're like man i know this covid video is getting 90 million interactions like in three days that you know people are like what is this thing still doing up there but they're like man that's a lot of impressions they're really getting a lot of people to watch eight seconds about stream yard yeah because we're because we're in a fucking culture of infinite growth business there's no end to it they can't turn

it off because it's absolutely antithetical to like their mission as a you know like a capitalist enterprise it's not to be like our mission is to get to a point and then whatever extras there are we'll kind of reinvest that down the ladder it's just like no no we just want to go to the balloon fucking pops yeah and we've seen a lot of times oh no go ahead we've seen facebook ignore massive panics that resulted in riots that killed people in other countries until right up until it becomes a news story, a media story. And then they will do as much damage control as they can without actually fixing the problem until just to make the story go away. But like that's literally the only thing that they respond to is negative press but so it's hard to take videos down while you're kite surfing you

know what i mean it's kind of like it's so dude on a fucking hydrofoil bro i'm happy my boy's face didn't get burned oh yeah everyone made fun of him for that but i kind of look similar and yeah i got scars i'm trying to not get permanently sunburned on my head you know yeah yeah yeah well unfortunately you don't have access to the skin that mark zuckerberg can just buy right that wasn't even sunscreen that was just someone else oh yeah put on there yeah yeah that's someone's complete epidermis that just wore it as a mask, like some fucked up, water sports loving Hannibal Lecter. He just watched 20 minutes

of Silence of the Lambs, agreed with the guy, turned it off, and was like, all right. He paused and was like, that. Give me that.

Why is Zuckerberg staring at my face over there? He's been over there staring at me all day. He's eating all those beans out of a can. I love this guy. He makes eye contact there staring at me. He's eating all those beans out of a can. I love this guy. He makes eye contact and yet feels nothing. That's my hero right there. Yeah.

So, I mean, we were talking about kids. The fact that this is the Delta variant is shown to be more deadly and more infectious with children than any version before. FDA administrators are starting to sound the alarm. And I think Pfizer's planning to submit data for kids under 12 to the FDA in September, at which point it will need to go through the approval process. So that's as soon as we're going to be able to get kids to even have the option to get vaccinated. So it's just this is the point at which, you know, this whole thing. I just feel like we've been watching somebody have an embarrassing temper tantrum for the past five years, just over and over and just waiting for them to shut the fuck up and now they're

starting to like put kids at risk and i don't know it's i don't know the answer but we'll have to see the math on uh whether it was like the kids versus the dow jones you know what i mean what's more important right if it's like two kids per point you gotta then be like you know what I mean? What's more important? If it's like two kids per point, you got to then be like, you know, what were the kids' test scores and do we care about that? And figure out if it's okay if they live. It's their future profitability. The NASDAQ, which affects me and I know you guys on a daily basis, we can't really let that go. If that goes down, that's bad. Yeah. If I sound down on the dumps, it is because of my NASDAQ portfolio. Yeah. Putting the Dow down on the dumps, you know? My my nasdaq portfolio yeah you're putting the dow and down on the dumps you know yeah my endorphin levels are tied to the stock market right i got

a robin hood referral that i'm really hoping pays off so uh i if these kids die i mean who who really is that on yeah it's everything that you see like it's it's but from especially republican governors you don't know like if they understand the concept of the value of human life or like what it would mean for a parent to like lose their child to this like because there's not that's almost that thought process is completely absent from this decision making like asa hutchinson of arkansas seems to be the one like one one republican governor who's like, I pretty much, I fucked up, like not in those harsh words, but he's definitely like voicing regret over certain things that has happened.

Not to say that that excuses anything, but on some level it feels like for him, he's like, yeah, it's kind of hard to like, keep, keep this up. Like it's, it's getting bad folks. hard to like keep keep this up like it's it's getting bad folks and yeah when you see that this you know mindset is now seeping into the realm of parents trying to protect their children i mean i feel like that's probably where we're gonna see more people start coming to the side of like we need more mandates we need more vaccines because yeah it's one thing when you feel like well i'm an adult and there was like this fallacy like and kids are immune so we're good like that's not a danger but now when you're seeing that cases for kids are going up and up

and up and you have doctors like in florida like crying in these psas like because they're trying to tell people like it's getting bad and we're seeing more kids yeah yeah and i mean there's lawsuits right now where parents of disabled students are like suing the governor to to be like i my kids need to be protected like i don't the fuck you think this is like it's not a game for me as a parent right but i even find like people who are like we when you're talking about how this this a lot of this is a fallout of like hyper capitalism not being a viable solution and the people who let's like these people who hate masks and these people who want to ignore everything even they are screaming about it because they're like well i have to drop my kid off at school because i have to go do this work and i want to take these people and be like so you are so close. You are like, I need school to have no changes because otherwise I can't do my job in life.

I require it. You're so close to being like, so yeah, we need to just get rid of this. This system is what is holding a lot of this back as well. Yeah. The fact that you, without school, you will lose your job because you can't go in because you have to take care of your kids. And these are people who are like, so that's why we shouldn't wear masks. And I'm like, but you're just so you're so close.

Yeah. And you are right at the door. The most propagandized people on the planet like, no, that's the problem. It's not that displacement. Yeah, there's nothing. Shout out to Freud. There's nothing like that, too. You know, there's nothing that's connecting the dots because it's just been so effectively hijacked like this, you know.

And I'm not smart enough to like even what I'm trying to talk. I don't feel like I'm fully getting across what I think even now while I think about it, let alone if I'm trying to talk to someone I know who I think maybe I could get through to. I don't know. I feel frustrated about it. And I think a lot of people do where you just like you just want to be like, no, like, but that's not enough. You're like, give me six hours and let me find smarter people and but i just i can't even i get frustrated myself like i can't explain well yeah now the ideas and how i feel about it and how and all this sort of stuff and the one time i got into it with like a guy was just like i don't know man

there's been a lot of i've heard from a lot of people who said, like, I just couldn't be, like, I know it's not an effective way to win an argument, but I just, like, got so pissed off. It was just like, it was just over, like, immediately. But it's the most important thing we, and I know it wasn't in the doc, but if one NFL player player kneels during the anthem this year i am going to be so fucking pissed hey uh real quick do you think joe biden said when he saw that his infrastructure bill got 69 votes do you think he said nice that's something i need to know he would he would never 69 he doesn't know what that is okay he'd be like what 60 what imagine explaining that to joe but oh come on jack people don't do that gross stuff put your mouth down there okay what are you a veterinarian it's not an ice cream cone yeah i don't i mean yeah i mean he he definitely he pulled off his bipartisan

fucking magic show and like oh the washington post is like joe biden stuns again he surprises us again with his bipartisan infrastructure framework yeah it got 69 votes it got over that uh filibuster proof you know i got to get over that 60 60 vote mark and at 1 trillion dollars the largest bill of its kind 19 republicans got on board uh but don't worry it's not for good reasons i think many saw this as an opportunity to support like to throw their support behind something that just broadly pulls well it's like hey man you want less fucked up roads you want a bridge you want a better airport okay good right i mean there's still people who think that's the what the government's whole purpose is a pothole you know what i mean they're like look at this

outside my building yeah like exactly and so that was definitely like a plus for them like okay i can vote for this because it's also popular and also the 19 that supported it they were kind of like in this place where they felt a little bit more insulated from like the MAGA outrage mobs of constituents that would normally be like the force that was like no actually I can't because Trump is yelling at us to not support this because he doesn't want Biden to have an optics win but I think the real reason behind it is that they wanted to pretend bipartisanship works to sort of take the fucking momentum out of the filibuster reform talk that's happening right now because if they do that and go you see

like we figured it out we did a one trillion dollar we voted for that but then we have this 3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation bill that has the real shit in it like the real real big programs that people are like saying like yeah this is the kind of investment we need in people that they can come around for that time like oh this is too much this is too much you saw we were we were able to do that but this stuff there's a line with it and don't say it's not bipartisanship because we were there for that vote yeah and they're sort of loading the the whole deck for that kind of showdown because right now now, yeah, this $1 trillion thing goes to the House. Pelosi says, we're not going to vote on it until you also pass the $3.5 trillion bill

and see what happens then. But already we have Joe Manchin on his fainting couch being like, I don't know, it's a lot of money. So there's a lot of work to be done. And it's just, again, frustrating because there may be to figure it out. But, yeah. Look at what happens when Democrats actually take the filibuster seriously.

That scares them. I just feel like this is Democrats behaving like Republicans in the good way, that it's shrewd and just forcing people's hand a little bit. I wish, I wish they were like that all the time. Yeah.

I think about the, I don't know. I get freaked. I think about the filibuster. I think about how the whole, I wish we could just take a look at it. Like, would we invent this today or is it just already here?

Or we just want these guys with wooden teeth, ghosts with wooden teeth to tell us what we want from centuries ago. If we came up with healthcare today and you walked into the room and you said, okay, first off, what's your job? I know you want to go to the doctor. I just have to know what you do for your job. How long have you been there? How often do you work?

Also, your job is now at least part-time dealing with a health insurance company. Right. And how little your job spends on you makes other people money. Right. Okay. So you guys are writing this all down. This is how healthcare is going to work. So you have to tell your doctor where you work so a company can talk to a company.

That way, if you've paid every month, you can pay a little bit more. And then if you pay enough, you won't have to pay as much. Sounds like a lot of paying. Oh, your taxes are the same. It's a good question, though, in the back. Good question in the back. Your taxes, we have 30 helicopters that need to circle at water village so um we got to keep those up or would someone just say maybe taxes make people feel better yeah and i think the

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where people thought Ross and Rachel were bon hours there a beautiful 24 hours where people thought ross and rachel were boning in real life oh man so good it's a glorious time it was it was a great day people i don't know people i feel like right now we're so fucking hopped up on nostalgia you know yeah benifer they're back together and like house hunting and a rod is just pathetically trying to get her attention with his instagram stories that i think it makes sense that a lot of people just immediately just jumped on any rumor that jennifer aniston and david schwimmer might be dating and i don't know if did any of y'all see the friends reunion at all okay well i saw that i saw most of it and there was this one part think, that fueled a lot of this speculation is that because

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So instead, we just focused all that horny into the performances on the show which is why i think y'all felt it it was hitting a little bit differently because underneath it we were really vibing and then they were spotted together in santa barbara and then all it took was one like fake fucking quote someone quoted someone was like yeah she has been cooking dinners for him and he traveled all the way from new york to visit her that then immediately i was like oh my god they're together thank god they're like you can't deal with global warming but tommy ross and rachel will be happy i'm okay if he took a private plane if it was to santa barbara right right to see her i sometimes this was a story i missed the time where we all thought they were together. It felt like I was binge watching Breaking Bad and couldn't talk about it week to week.

I was late. I knew the end. And I wish I was in the little happy world where everyone was like, had the hypothetical, even if it was just for a day. Right. Yeah. It's then like all it took was just one of his like sort of PR people be like, yeah, that's absolutely not true.

It's not true. They are just friends. But that would be the perfect cover though. Right. Especially if they said they are just friends with a little trademark symbol after the word friends and they're just talking about friends. I have this poster that I want to believe but it's

just a picture of them having graphic sex instead of a UFO like in the X-Files. Another thing I want to believe in is Shazam, the Sinbad Genie movie that we... I don't know. Did y'all have this memory that Sinbad was no i was alive yeah i was no i didn't no no i this should have been foreshadowing that we couldn't agree on the vaccine right i don't believe i'm not saying i believe it happened i think it's just interesting that all of our

collective unconscious created the same image of him with his arms folded in a genie outfit that never never happened yeah i i mean it's i am kazam and that's shack baby so is it because because simbad wore like genie-esque pants a lot yeah so i think that's part of it you know as somebody who like he would do a lot of vests and sort of like pattern vests and pants. Yeah, pattern vests, big billowy, you know, genie pants. I mean, Hammer wore what were called genie pants at the time. And I don't know. So his son, so his kids are kind of the front line of this.

They're saying that people the closest to us who know everything about our family have sometimes second guess whether the movie exists and they have to be like no motherfucker again the people are saying that the movie kazam starring shaquille o'neal and where he is a genie it was actually there was a movie called shazam with sinbad and they're saying stop lying to us you fucking feet this is what if we all found out uh the movie deep impact never happened and it was just armageddon and some people were misremembering details and like faking this entire second right right no and so she also said my dad and shack people confuse them all the time people do not look the same they do not look the same and not only do they not look the same one of them is the

most distinct looking person. And their delivery cadence couldn't be more different. Right. You know what I mean? There's nothing even like sonically, audibly where you're like. Nothing about them is the same. They're also not even remotely the same age. Like none of it's the same.

Right. So this is a quote from his daughter. it's the same right our debt so this is a quote from his daughter our dad has been mistaken for shaquille o'neal more times than makes logical sense uh that's so fucking true so well put that would be once or twice is more times than make logical sense yeah yeah yeah but i that's people just are they really doing this thing or they just think black people look this thing because there's no way you're looking at the two of them i'm like the how the fuck are you mistaking these two unless you're truly on some other weird ignorance shit you're like i don't i think that's are you shaquille o'neal it's like i'm fucking sin bad i think it's just that he sin bad should have been in that role it doesn't really make sense that shaquille o'neal

would play a genie right and like that shaquille o'neal is just very like charming in person and i think he gets put into things that don't always make sense for him like there i i think i've told the story about that show where people were trying to beat Shaq at various athletic feats. That was actually supposed to be Steve Nash. Because Steve Nash can beat people. He can just do insane stuff. He can make 33 pointers in a row with a softball. He's just one of those freak athletes.

There's two people that look the same. No, thank you. But because, like, when the ABC producers were hanging out with Steve Nash, he was on The Phoenix Suns with Shaq, and Shaq just, like, kind of wooed them over to his side and made the show about him. So I'm wondering, like, if we just recast Kazam as Sinbad because it just like makes more sense. Like we just thought he should have been in that role.

I don't know. I don't know. It's a lot of twisting and turning we have to do to make it all make sense when it's just. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It's a it's a completely irrational thing. I just think it's interesting. Sinbad also

so funny i don't this has nothing to do with it that man is so funny oh my god still if you can go you know i don't need this is where you want to risk your covet exposures to go see sinbad but someday if you like stand up and you might think i'm joking because he's not the generation you like he's so funny oh i remember like back on airplanes when there was no back in my day. Remember the old headphones that were just like air tubes that you would like plug into the side. They looked like a little stethoscope. And the only entertainment on a fucking plane was like the 10 radio stations like that would just play music. And I remember as a kid kid i would always listen to

whatever the stand-up comedy one was like that was like my favorite thing i remember hearing simbad for the first time like on an album and i could i was fucking killing me and like that was and so i've always had really good memories of his stand-up to the point where yeah i just always kept watching it because he's always been kind of this like wholesome comedian dude but yeah i i i second that suggestion even young miles who's listening with his weird rubber tube headphones became a fan very early one of the first stand-up shows i ever went to was like to go see him at some when i was like 18 or 19 and he only did stand-up about the cab ride from the airport to the casino in kansas city for an hour and talk to people in the crowd and just crush so hard that you're just like this is it's like a different

sport it's like it's an absolutely different thing happening anyways i don't think he was naturally the funniest person i think there'll be like a thesis there'll be this will be a was isn't the berenstein bears another example yeah yeah the mandela effect this is the one that is very that actually got me that i definitely have the image in my head of him on the in a movie poster folding his arms like a genie in a genie outfit for some reason but yeah it so this is where it turns from i feel like this is a good metaphor for the the current state of America, because then they say at the very end of the article, even when faced with facts, people don't want to be told they're wrong. When they debunk the Shazam theory, people get upset, claiming the movie was, quote, so influential on their childhood, says Adkins. Strangely, Adkins said that in order to prove their point point some of these same people will later claim the

influential movie was so bad simbad wanted to get rid of it like the fucking et nes game or something right like that there's someone's going to discover a stockpile of old simbad shazam tapes like in a dump in arizona or something that's the thing about stuff is you can't get rid of it anymore. Right. You can't hide. So they, rather than admitting they're wrong about this completely inconsequential thing, they will accuse

people of being part of a vast conspiracy. Yeah, I can see where that would apply to other stuff. I just can't come up with any examples. Kyle, it's been a pleasure having you, man. As always, I can see where that would apply to other stuff. I just can't come up with any examples. Kyle, it's been a pleasure having you, man, as always. Where can people find you and follow you? I'm at Kyle Ayers on most of the stuff, so you can find me on there. And that's when I'll post if, you know, stand-up shows and things like that are happening.

But, you know, at Kyle Ayers on Instagram. Nice. And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? I saw this tweet. Someone said, if you've seen one bear attack, you've seen a mall.

And I laughed. It was, it's fro underscore vo, VO. It made me laugh a lot. If you've seen one bear attack, you've seen a mall. I like that. They apologized for it immediately too,

which also made me happy. Miles, where can people find you? What's the tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray. Also, um,

if you want to check out the other podcast for 20 day fiance with Sophia, Alexandra, we talked 90 day over there. Some tweets that I like, damn, I fucking like so many right now. First one is from soul Nate at MN, Nate Shyamalan saying, can't believe the only

political options in America are we have to catch and spread a deadly virus to defeat the satanic pedophile elite, or we spent nine months trying to make the bus $5 cheaper and we did not succeed. Thumbs up. Yeah. Sadly, that is the thing. And then at the way of the id tweeted, today's generation will never know the sweet embarrassment of your mother picking up the phone and interrupting your conversation to tell you it's time for bed. Which I remember like, oh, Mike, it was crushing. My mom picked up the phone, speak Japanese and people, what the fuck was that? Dude?

I'm like, I don't know. I think my house is haunted. I gotta go. I didn't hear anything. You heard something. Yeah. Uh,

the, the other annoying thing would be when somebody picks up the phone and just like starts dialing and like, you're like, Oh, Hey, Hey, they're just like not listening. She's like, I have to send a fax. And you're like, hello, hey, hey. They're just like not listening.

She's like, I have to send a fax. And you're like, fuck. That used to be when there was fax machines. I would try to use that as my phone line. Yeah. But then my mom's like, I have faxes that are coming in. I'm like, fuck. Okay.

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'brien a tweet i've been enjoying at sam gritner tweeted i've officially been diagnosed with havana syndrome i can't stop havana good time and i i like anything havana syndrome but except you're like you shouldn't joke about that shut up you really shouldn't joke about that you you shouldn't joke about that. Shut up. You really shouldn't joke about that. You really shouldn't joke about that. That was from Alicia tweeted that at me. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com,

where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song that we think you might enjoy miles what song are we sending people to check out okay the song that we are going to go out on um recently uh dt from cool in the gang uh the saxophonist from Cool and the Gang, Dennis Thomas, he passed away. So I wanted to do this one track from Cool and the Gang from the album Wild and Peaceful. It's the titular track called Wild and Peaceful. You know, a lot of people obviously know them from like their big hits, but Wild and Peaceful is just like a really nice, big song. It's like a very ambitious track with all kinds of textures and rhythms and good musicality. And it's easy listening in the background. That will keep your attention.

So check out Wild and Peaceful from Kool and the Gang. Very cool. All right. Very cool. Very cool. All right. All right. Well, we're going to suggest you go check that out.

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