The Daily Zeitgeist - Boeing’s Self Regulation Not Working? Cruz Curse Continues? 01.18.24

Episode Date: January 18, 2024

In episode 1609, Jack and Miles are joined by author of I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt, Madeline Pendleton, to discuss... Boeing Is A Real Problem, Ted Cruz Endorses Trump... Continues To Jinx Texas Sports Teams and more! Boeing Is A Real Problem Blinken’s Davos departure delayed after Boeing plane malfunction Ted Cruz Endorses Trump... Continues To Jinx Texas Sports Teams Ted Cruz claimed on 'The View' that his wife Heidi laughed when Trump insulted her looks back in 2016 'Cursed' Ted Cruz Blamed For 'Kiss Of Death' In Embarrassing NFL Playoffs Loss Astros Fans Are Begging Ted Cruz to Stay at Home for Game 7 ‘Curse is absolutely real’: Texas sports fans want Ted Cruz banned from games after UT playoff defeat adds to slew of brutal losses he’s attended Astros Fans Are Begging Ted Cruz to Stay at Home for Game 7 Ted Cruz blamed for Astros ‘curse’ after fans begged him to skip game LISTEN: Up From the South by The Budos BandSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Miles Gray aka Oh I'm a dreamer I believe It's because I'm smoking Let's weed Shout out to the Dreams. They're still coming. They're still rapidly hitting me, and they're beautiful, and they're wonderful.

And thank you to everybody who I see. Dream-based AKAs. I will get to those. But first, I just had to get that. Where'd you journey to last night, Miles? Oh, man. I had another one. I was driving with Her Majesty down a street.

And I said something that cracked her up it was like so mundane but i just remember i woke up and i it was like one of those things like you were really liking that joke that i said she's like what the fuck okay you're talking about your dream again yeah i make my wife laugh all the time in my dreams only in my dreams yeah yeah. Sounds like a nice response. In my dreams. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a TikTok superstar and the author of the new memoir, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt. Please welcome Madeline Pendleton! Hey! Welcome, welcome.

How are you? What up? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me here, guys. Oh, yeah, yeah. Great to have you. Great to have you. How is the book-pushing world right now? We have a lot of people on who have books coming out, and it always feels like some version of I am constantly talking about it, doing stuff about it, and getting it off the ground.

I saw that you had a goal of usurping Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad. And I saw that you did accomplish that. Have you gone fully? Have you fully usurped Dick Kiyosaki? So what I've heard so far is that we are currently beating Rich Dad, Poor Dad and personal finance in a number of different charts, which is very thrilling to me because I have a personal vendetta against this book. Yeah. That's actually the only book I've ever read. Really?

What's your problem with it? What's your problem with it? I've never read it, but it's probably the book that I have neglected or turned down people's advice to read. People be like, oh yeah, you got to read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, man. It's fucking killer.

You are not missing anything. I remember I had the same experience to read people oh yeah you gotta read rich dad poor dad man it's yeah fucking killer oh yeah you are not missing anything i remember i had the same experience when i like first realized maybe i was really broke and bad with money and everybody was like you gotta read rich dad poor dad and i read it and i was like i'm sorry the secret is that i need to buy apartment buildings i don't really think that's feasible for me in my life so do i just die then and the book's like yeah pretty much you buy several apartment buildings or you die those are the two options yeah i remember my when my dad i remember when my dad got it and i had it gave me low self-esteem about my own dad because i'm like

are you are you the broke dude like what are you like this is this is like loser behavior kind of like why are you reading this shit like And it kind of made me panic. I'm like, oh, man, my parents are fucked up with money. I mean, obviously, we weren't the most financially literate group out there. But I remember at the end, he's like, Steve, it's all about that passive income. Got to have that passive income. And I'm like, how are you doing that? He's like, I don't know, bro.

I'm a professor. I'm going to just keep doing this shit. Never got to that point. Okay, your dad was the poor dad then because i remember reading it and i'm like i'm sorry the example of the poor dad is just like a teacher who has a good 401k and takes care of his family right this is my goal the guy exactly okay a loser madeline a loser my goal is to be a loser that's what i want i guess same sub loser status if i read rich dad poor dad and i was like i don't know the poor dad feels like he's really got it going on here right no for real right well so i mean is there anything that like the book intersected with you personally aside from just reading it that you had a vendetta or you

just sort of realize that he is sort of perpetuating a mindset that is slowly degrading the quality of life for millions of people? Okay, well, that's a big one. The thing you just said is a major one. But I also think that a lot of these guys, these like old school money guys, they're, I mean, they wrote their books in the past. They're living in the past. Like it's not the 80s. It's not the early 90s. You know, these things, these tips aren't even like economically feasible anymore. Like forget buying an apartment building. Like most people can't buy a house because all of a sudden single family houses are being bought by real estate investors it's just a totally different ball game so these books are out of touch they're ethically i would say evil i think evil i would say they're evil yeah they're morally unconscionable unconscionable unconscious i don't even know

that word unconscionable no you nailed it unconscionable yeah yeah yeah and so it's very very frustrating and I think like a lot of when you're trying to figure out money like if you come from a place where you're like my family wasn't super financially literate you know you're trying to figure it out so much of it is about personal accountability like everything you read it's just like well you're poor because you're a loser and you're doing anything wrong because you're so stupid you stupid loser loser stupid stupid and it gets really hard to read these things and you're like i don't feel like i'm a stupid loser i feel like maybe life is just hard right so maybe if you tried a little bit harder yeah quick loser test look in your garage right now are there three lambos in there no then guess what l-o-s-e-r. Fucking loser. Hold that. Sub three Lambo loser.

Yeah. Wow. Zero Lambo. Ouch. I know, dude. The only Lambo I have is maybe in like a video game that I was playing recently. And that's all I need. You know what I mean?

I don't have to maintain that. You just need the GTA. Yeah. I feel like finance people or like the people who read Rich Dad Poor Dad love to tell you they love to be like you know what einstein said the most powerful force in the universe is do you know the answer to that have you ever heard somebody say that i feel like i've heard this like five times and it's always from the people who tell me to read rich dad poor dad compound interest like i didn't say

that shit no i didn't say that shit man No, he didn't. Einstein didn't say that shit, man. Einstein was not weighing in on fucking investment strategy, you asshole. But people always attribute fake-ass quotes to Einstein because the definition of insanity quote that people always say, people are like, you know what Einstein said. You're like, that's not even true. And that's like, as a statement, that doesn't make sense. Actually, Einstein thinks lebron is the goat einstein said lebron is actually better than jordan so yeah what the fuck some shit einstein probably didn't care about but other than that but the book tour feeling good

it's doing well it seems like so yeah i start on the book tour on friday and i think it's gonna go well i think it's i'm this one thing i'm afraid of okay so tour on Friday and I think it's going to go well. I think it's, I'm this one thing I'm afraid of. Okay. So I like wrote this book and it's really interesting when I was like approached to write a memoir, it's called like a memoir with a purpose. So it's a story about my life, but it's a story about my relationship with money. Right. So every chapter is like something that happened in my life in chronological order. And then at the end is a lesson I learned about money during that experience. But it is really hard because all of a sudden you're talking about your family and you're talking about stuff like people in your family are maybe embarrassed to

talk about. And I have a mother that I'm no contact with. So when someone was like, write this book about your life, instantly the first thing I thought was like, oh, that's going to be tricky. And I took all this time to craft this really fair, nuanced kind of assessment of my family. And yeah, in the end, before the book even came out, it turns out it didn't matter because my mother's family already wrote an angry letter to the publisher just based off the book jacket alone. So the book tour is scary because I'm like, oh God, you have these people in your family. She neither survived capitalism nor got that t-shirt. Both lies. We right we legally dispute you get all paranoid

you know like i'm gonna show up at the grove in la and try to fight me oh no i mean great content for the follow-up memoir though you know yeah seriously yeah i've started asking my friends if they'll defend me from my mother at the grove and they're like am i expected to throw a punch and i I'm like, you're not not. Like if she goes swinging, like you got to get in there and punch my mom for me. This is the biggest thing, yeah. Just answer with whatever she's putting down,

like that's the key we're playing in and then we'll go from there. It's like jazz, baby. Right, right. That's right. All right. Well, 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 things we're talking about today. We got so much. We got too going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. We got so much. We got too much to get to. So I want to talk about Boeing at some point. They're on a heater. We'll talk about Ted Cruz, who endorsed Trump. And if his sports fandom history is any indication, that's a bad thing for Donald Trump.

So good thing for whoever wins, we all lose. But this guy stinks at endorsing things. So we'll talk about that plenty more. But first, Madeline, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, I have the perfect one. It's Ronald Reagan FBI files. who you are oh i have the perfect one um it's ronald reagan fbi files i was trying to find the declassified fbi files from the time that ronald reagan was an informant yeah during the

mccarthy era and this is like very god damn peak madeline it's not very current you know but i think this is like really the summary of everything i am interested in as a person sure i mean it was also i feel like we started talking about that too just as like the sag after strikes were heating up too because all of you can like you can draw a straight line from all the sag strikes directly to ronald reagan from like always being like yeah man so my manager also owns universal but like if i'm in this position that the president said you know like we let's just kind of keep this thing going and also like i'm gonna fucking rat out anybody who i think is a communist yeah yeah yeah right it's always interesting how like ronald reagan is

somehow like at the forefront of so many things like we're trying to figure out in this country yeah it's always reagan it's wild this is like i think like my life is just like sifting through declassified documents sure sure yeah have you read that i mean they're fun though you know especially when you're like they have this out here for everyone to just like fucking read yeah they don't think okay what was the video that you had where they took the audio down when you were talking i think wasn't it about the cia it was, yeah. Somebody was like, I'm going to need to know like the top five strangest things

you think the CIA has done. And I was like, oh, okay, yeah. You can read all about these in their reading room on their website. Yeah, these are declassified. Oh, and it was that? And then, yeah, the audio was removed from my TikTok.

Which I thought was funny. But yeah, the Reagan thing, the thing I thought was really, really funny, which I made a video talking about this actually online. So'm like this is just so wild the way the fbi recruited him was they basically pulled like a regina george mean girls on him and they were like all of the other really cool hollywood actors are communists and i heard they got together and had a party and they didn't invite you and they were making fun of you and that's just like so sad ronald reagan like you should probably snitch on them because they're mean to you behind your back

you're not gonna like let that happen to you right ronnie like that's that would be whatever i mean i'm not gonna tell you what to do i just thought bigger i just thought more highly of you than what you're showing me right now so right yeah was there factually a party that like he had not been invited to where people were making there is no way to know but guess i'm guessing not i'm guessing absolutely not because this is the kind of thing they do all the time when you're when you have strange hobbies like i do and you just like sift through the documents you're like oh this is exactly the kind of little like psychological warfare tricks that the fbi did obviously with like cointelpro and also the cia did all around the world so i just love that ronald reagan kind of little like psychological warfare tricks that the FBI did obviously with like COINTELPRO

and also the CIA did all around the world so I just love that Ronald Reagan fell for it though he like hook line and sinker not even hesitating he was like oh people said mean things about me that's yeah well well I guess I'm not I'm not a loser so I'll I'll tell you who I think's a communist he had he had three Lambos for sure. Oh, yeah. That's a three Lambo guy if I've ever seen one. He's three Lambo minimum. Minimum.

Called him Lambo Ronnie. What's something you think is overrated? Okay, this is pertaining to my book a little bit. But you know how people will do this thing where they're like, yeah, I'm getting good with money. I've been doing some investing. And then it just like the robin hood app or something like that right right you know there's like these apps where you like buy small amounts of single stock and i hate these freaking apps so much because i think like it almost perpetuates that kind of rich dad poor dad like girl boss energy where it's like you don't act nobody actually takes

the time to teach you it's like maybe a lower or middle class, like actual like person, financial literacy tools that could help you. Instead, it's like, well, just, you know,

you know, investing in stock is good. So just download this app where you invest a few dollars in these single stocks and you're not getting like the value of diversification. You're not investing in index funds or mutual funds. You're not doing the things that are actually good for lower income people, but it makes people feel like they're financially responsible.

So then they like never pursue the next step. Like they never actually look into what they should be doing that would be benefiting them more long term. Right. So I feel like there's almost

like a pop finance thing going on in the world. Like we have pop psychology, you know, we also have like pop finance. And I think that's kind of the same thing that goes along with like the rich dad, poor dad thing, the single stock investment apps on your phone, you know, all of these kinds

of things. Oh, also like the apps where they help you find your subscriptions and cancel your subscriptions. Like, don't get me wrong, that can be really, really useful. But showing people these apps, especially in like advertising and saying like, well, you're broke because you're actually paying $8 a month more for one subscription service you forgot about. It's just like so insulting to me that it's like beyond the pale. I'm like, people aren't broke because they forgot one $8 subscription service. Like, great. Yeah. You have an app that does that. That's so cool. But this whole world of pop finance,

kind of like in my head does the personal accountability thing and totally denies all of the systemic structural issues that actually affect people's real life and how they interact with money. Right, right. Eating too much avocado toast. Right. Exactly. It's like more manifestations of that same idea.

Exactly. Yeah. I mean, ever since I stopped eating avocado toast, my credit score has gone up. It was the main problem in my life yeah and i should admit how much avocado toast i was eating up front it was a problem both uh for my health financially and physically and for the local economy i was told right too much i was closing down entire cafes there's always some version of like being like yeah there's a problem with like sort of x industry or like societal threat or some existential threat we have it's

like but the solution isn't to interrogate the like their lack of regulations or the greed that got us here it's actually that you should buy this kind of straw and then that's the solution and then we complete like most people are just like, oh, thank God I've been offered this consumer solution to a problem. I'm just feeding the machine. That goes back to the Ronald Reagan thing too, where he was like the king of deregulation. We talk about like a lot of what's happening financially in the world, but also like socially in terms of that kind of like peak liberalization of the economy where you're like, well, the government's not going to do anything and we're going to have these private companies

come in and they're going to solve all these problems, even if they're problems that aren't actually the main issues we should be addressing. And they are, they're going to offer you consumption based solutions that it's, and it puts everything on the consumer, this like personal accountability thing. And it does, we become these pop culture kind of consumers of ideology as well. So it's like, okay, when you consume the special kind of straw, you're also consuming a special kind of ideology that goes along with that. And that's where we see like our social and political issues overlap with like capitalism, just like people trying to sell you things all day long. And I think people get fatigued from that

without even realizing that that's what's affecting them so adversely. Right. And let me guess, before we get to your underrated, I want to guess what it's going to be. The Stanley mugs. No. Aren't those so fucking dope? They're such a good investment.

No. They hold their value. No. Okay. I, like you i'm a humble person on the internet i saw the video where that chick's car caught on fire and her cup still had ice in it and i like you thought now that's a cup that's a cup it's an impressive cup i love that video though it's like she opens the door and it's clearly frozen outside of the car too. And it's like, it's not like you left it in the desert for fucking three weeks. You left it in a refrigerator for a fucking few days. And of course, there's still ice in it.

But yeah, the hype. Anyway, I'm sorry. I don't mean to obscure what your actual underrated might be. Okay, so my actual underrated one is, there's no way anybody could have guessed this. It's so underrated. I stumbled across this podcast that had seven reviews. And I'm like, this is the most important podcast I've ever listened to in my life. And it's this woman who you can tell, she doesn't, she's not a performer. She's not an entertainer, you know, is the nice way to say it. And she's just kind of like, I researched some things and i think people need to know about it and it's called the memory hole and i was like everything about this podcast is like not marketable like the name the memory hole come on like this is not a great name for a podcast and she is not an entertainer but when you listen to it it's so fascinating and it's about like the

memory wars of the 1980s so i'm not sure if you guys are familiar with us, but basically in the 1980s, these battles broke out between like research neuropsychiatrists and therapists where they were trying to figure out how much of our memories we actually can repress when we go through like traumatic things. And so the neuropsychiatrists. This is where the Mandela effect comes from, right? And so the neuropsychiatrist... This is where the Mandela effect comes from, right? Well, this is part of it, yes, but also the satanic panic was tied into this. And what we keep finding is that a lot of therapists are under the impression that memories are repressed very, very often. But the people who actually research the way memory works are like, you're not finding any scientific evidence of this. So it's this wars that's been going on, especially since the 80s with the satanic panic, because you would have people come forward and be like, I have these memories of my kindergarten being taken to a satanic temple and kids were sacrificed to the devil. And the adults are like, believe the children.

And then these research neuropsychiatrists are like, I don't, that's not even like one, some of these things these kids are saying aren't even possible. But like two, that's not how memory works. And three, the adults in their lives are like needing them, like implanting all of these things these kids are saying aren't even possible but like two that's not how memory works and three the adults in their lives are like leading them like implanting all of these thoughts in their head so it's really interesting because by the 90s we as a culture had kind of been like whoa that was a really bad thing that we all agreed that we would just believe anything a child said even when the adults in the room were leading them and implanting memories in their head and actually messing with them a lot but now it's been repackaged and it's come out again. So it's like this recent resurgence of this idea that everybody has repressed memories about everything.

So the memory wars have been reignited. And this woman did this really great podcast. She's like a Gen X chick. And she's like, hey, I was alive in the 80s. I was in college in the 90s when everybody was still talking about repressed memories. And we just keep like as a culture repackaging this idea and selling it to people in different ways which is super fascinating man yeah i have to put that one that's super interesting the idea that like memories are these solid things that can't be changed and you just like uncover them

like that you can like dig around in the mind and like find them versus memory being this like malleable thing that can be affected that you can like there's this this doctor who implanted elizabeth loftus who did a bunch of research proving that you can actually implant childhood memories in people's minds granted she didn't do like the dangerous ones she was like here's a picture of you at disney world with like bugs bunny and like the people are like She was like, here's a picture of you at Disney World with like Bugs Bunny. And like the people are like, oh yeah, I definitely remember that. And like have that memory

and answer questions about that memory for years. And then turns out like Bugs Bunny is not a Disney character. You know, she's- Got your ass. It's a Warner Brothers IP. Yeah. She was like an early version of Photoshop

to like create, yeah. or like a memory of a hot air balloon trip. And people, yeah, like memories are just stories that our brain tells itself. And you know, we've been talking a lot about dreams lately, like dreams are in there. And you know, there's a whole bunch of things that can fool you into thinking you have a memory that didn't actually happen. It's super interesting. Yeah, I kind of picked up things that can fool you into thinking you have a memory that didn't actually happen. It's super interesting. Yeah, I kind of picked up on that. Are you doing dry January and now your dreams are very intense?

Is that what's happening? No, I was. So I smoke a lot of weed, but I was in Japan visiting my family. And I just don't smoke weed when I'm in Japan just because of the laws. But so so I just wasn't smoking weed at all. And so I just had a natural like sort of cleanse while I was there. And very quickly, just my dreams just went to a fucking like level 13 out of 10 kind of shit. And I was like, closest I've been to lucid dreaming, I would I would say

because like, I could wake up and I would say like, I actually want to reenter this dream. And then I would just go right back into it. So I had never had that sort of ability or such vivid dream recall before. So yeah, that's just been a very interesting sort of dimension of my subconscious that has been dulled for a very long time. And just sort of like, yeah, reengaging with it has been super interesting and just a trip, to be honest. My boyfriend had the same experience. So he stopped drinking and smoking weed for dry January though. And he's been saying every single day, he's like, my dreams are so intense and gnarly. And I think it's one of those things you don't, you don't realize you're missing it, you know? No, for real.

Yeah. It's like a whole inner life that you're living. It's somewhat motivated me to sort of be a little bit more to abstain a bit more from smoking because like there's a part of me that like I'm becoming more and more intrigued by it that I just I feel like I want to be as conscious as possible for that kind of thing, like for whatever it may bring. So, yeah, I'm I'm on a bit of a journey right now, for sure. I appreciate it. But it all does. Yeah. It like ties in with the memory and the subconscious thing in a really interesting way. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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Yeah. But United Airlines was trending over the weekend because they found loose bolts on an undisclosed number of their 737s. 37s. There was just that the most hopeful I've been that something's going to happen here is Anthony Blinken's trip from Davos had to be delayed because of a Boeing plane fucking up. So maybe something will actually

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how you say, disclosed, maybe? But Twitter did its thing and tried to tie the failure of these loose bolts to United Airlines having a DEI program and being like, you know, look at the woke United Airlines CEO. He says he values DEI. That's why this is happening. and just massive power, military, government relationships to evade regulations in a way that is putting all of us at risk constantly. There's a great article on it in Democracy Now.

There's a Politico article. That one's about the Anthony Blinken thing, but the Democracy Now one covers just the history of Boeing rushing to update the 737 MAX series to compete with Airbus, the European consortium. And everything, like the guy who was in charge or one of the heads there at the time was like, everything was being rushed. We had a shortage of skilled employees. We were having all kinds of issues with quality problems. There's just incredible schedule pressure. There's a saying in the factory, they call it schedule is king. Cool. And then so that guy in response to two fatal crashes that happened as a result of this thing that he was like, guys, this is going to fucking kill somebody. Like if we just go forward

with this and because there's no regulations in place because Boeing is so powerful and had lobbied and people died, he left and started the Foundation for Aviation Safety and is now saying like this incident with Alaska, I'm sure is shocking to passengers. us who have been watching this for a while, it's really not a surprise at all. We've seen ever since the MAX has been put back in service over 20 serious production quality defects that have surfaced and the public is unaware. And yeah, like Boeing was criminally charged in the wake of the two 737 MAX 8 crashes, but just like negotiated a deferred prosecution agreement. But it's just, this is what we've got. Like the system doesn't even really try to work. It's like not doing any of the things that would effectively like protect consumers. But it's, you know,

these companies are so big and powerful that there's just like nothing that can be done at this point or nothing that is being done at least at this point. It's just like, it's just one that like this along with so many other stories in our country are just these perfect examples of like regulatory capture, you know, like we're corporate interest groups.

They lobbed, like whether that's through lobbying or just like the revolving door of like on Capitol Hill, like to the point where the, these interest groups, they end up being the ones regulating the regulators. And like with Boeing, the basically like the FAA was like, yo, we have people that we'd like need to inspect it. They're like, yo, bro, what if you actually just ordained our own employees to do the inspections

that you're supposed to do? And we'll let you know if we find anything like, you know, on the, like that might not be, you know, might be not on the level. And they're like, yeah, sure, go ahead. So it's like Boeing that did their own inspections on these planes too. And then just told, just gave the FAA their report to be like, all right. And that's what we're saying. So that's good enough. Right. Rather than having you come in as an independent body to look at like the products that we're making. And so, yeah, it's like the same thing with how like the opioid crisis ended up same thing with how like, just, you know, the SEC and our subprime mortgage crisis ended up like there's just so many examples of these things where the industry ends up being the one that makes the rules.

And then we somehow just like quite literally go into crash into disaster. Yeah. This also goes back to Ronald Reagan, doesn't it? Everything goes back to these deregulatory practices and the pro business stuff. But yeah, it is interesting. Once you start learning too about how the lobbying groups will literally write the laws that they want passed to regulate their own industries. And very often you'll find they're supposed to be sample bills, right? These are supposed to be sample language bills. And then when you compare the language, exactly. You're like,

this wasn't even a sample. Somebody just got paid to sign this, basically. And it is, it's really, really appalling. And it is something that happens, I think, in like every era of business, area of business in the United States now. And this is why when I'm Googling things like Ronald Reagan FBI files, I'm like, if only the FBI had not told Ronald Reagan

about a really cool party he wasn't invited to, maybe we would have more regulatory standards for business in this country. It's really appalling. Maybe listen to the things his parents were trying to teach him. You know what I mean? And be more in line with that. Because like, forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I thought like his parents were like sort of like had almost antithetical sort of beliefs philosophically as people. Totally correct. His parents were FDR New Deal kind of Democrats, but not just regular Democrats. They're like kind of what we would think of as DSA today. They were very much in favor of

government spending. His dad, you know, was an alcoholic who struggled to hold down a job. The job he eventually did hold down was a New Deal job. Like his dad was employed because of, you know, government spending. And this is something that we see like throughout his life, even as he's performing to the political right and doing all of these things that would be the complete opposite of anything his parents had fought for. When you asked him personally, like, well, how did you feel about the New Deal? He's like, well, the New Deal gave my dad a job, so I loved it. And it's just like this real conflicting kind of viewpoint inside of him poor ronald poor i don't know if i'd go that far well that's i i'm just i'm an empath you know

there's a great book called tear down this even miller both yeah oh exactly right yeah but there's a book about uh reagan called tear down this myth that was like sort of my entry point into really like examining the the the real mythology of ronald reagan because like growing up you're always like oh man everything's like named after him it's like it's because all these fucking people got so rich off of him they're like watch this dude i'm shout out to ronnie for taking away all the fucking guardrails that were there that just made me a hyper billionaire mr gorbachev tear up this ass he should have said that no you shouldn't apologize for that honestly that was no it was the other one was tear off my balls was the other one i think tear off my balls

two all-time great tweets that i can't uh source at the moment. Now I just think of Ronald Reagan kind of as like a general punk rock icon because, you know, like what other way, like I was born in the 80s. Like I know so much about Ronald Reagan mostly because of punk songs from like 1985. Right, right, right. But then, yeah, when you look into it,

you're like, actually, this is all still so, so relative to our life because the 80s really started that trend towards massive deregulation. And he was part of that movement of like the new right. And the new right was even different than what the right wing had been before the 1950s and 60s.

And it really coalesced with him in a lot of ways. And so, yeah, when you talk about things like Boeing's door flying off mid flight or like the loose bolts, you think that these things are just, and that's the thing like we do as consumers, right? We think these are individual incidents, but like our brains are also trained

for pattern recognition. And it's hard to miss the pattern that these things are increasing in rapidity. We see them happening across like multiple different sectors and all of it does tie back to, yeah, this massive period in the 80s of deregulation that allowed businesses to kind of start running the country as an oligarchy. A lot of Lambos are bought, though.

A lot of Lambos. They have so many Lambos. The Lambo guys are hurting us all. And the Boeing guys are Lambo guys, too. Yeah. We need to let the Lambo radicalize us. You know what I mean? Let's swap out Ronald Reagan, and now we will hold up the Lamborghini Huracan

as our way, our entry point into radicalization. Let that be a lesson for all the youth. I feel like one day there's just going to be a Lamborghini on our money. It's just going to be like we're going to be like praying to the God of the Lambo. That's what's going to be on the money. There's going to be like 16 apartment buildings just like in a cube around the Lamborghini, like the same way we have like the pyramid with the eye now. And it's like, this is,

this is our new religion. Underneath. It's like, dad, what does this say? It's like, it's Latin. I don't know.

Read it out to me. E pluribus Lambo. Oh yeah. Yeah. That means of many Lambo. That's right. All right. Let's take a quick break and come back and we'll talk about Ted Cruz

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square the circle of his support for trump in recent years by claiming uh that both his wife and his father laughed when they were slandered by trump clearly that clip these insults brought his family a lot of joy he said like it because he got first pressed i think on the on the view like in 2022 and the way he was like they're like well so what's up before you said donald trump was a vile man and now you're like he is the one to lead us into blah blah blah he's like so he was getting impressed like so are you lying then or are you lying now and he's like hey i reject that question i tell you howdy laughed when he said that and my father laughed by the way too he didn't just kill kenny he's got jimmy

hoffa's body buried in the backyard but i just love the way he tried to be like oh yeah like no l's taken here we were like he he he ha ha ha what do you call my wife ugly so i tell you what we loved it but please vote for him because oh man the amount of people bending the knee again is it's it's always fun to see like marco rubio he's back vivek ramaswamy is on the fucking stage with him in new hampshire uh like on wednesday morning like that shit went around so quick it was amazing um and then the babylon b said he would be running the white house 7-11 so i'm like oh wow um how was how's that proximity to why is it feeling vivek yeah how's that how's that working out for you The main thing, though, that my main takeaway from the Ted Cruz thing is that this is maybe a good thing for the country because his endorsements do seem to carry a curse.

I don't necessarily believe in curses, but I believe in people with fucked up energy that just like, that everyone's like, ugh, I don't know. This feels weird now that that guy is in the room claiming that we're with him. So recently he tweeted his support for the Dallas Cowboys that was over the weekend. Sure enough, despite the fact that they were favored by a lot, one of the biggest upsets in recent playoff history, they got rinsed.

They were down like 27 nothing in a like right away like right after he tweeted that everyone's like oh no i don't think he tweeted about the texans who this past weekend uh did the opposite and like beat somebody who a lot of people thought they were to lose to he didn't tweet about that. He tweeted about the Cowboys, and they immediately got destroyed. Fans have attributed the loss to Cruz because he has a long history of jinxing big games for Texas teams. A few weeks ago, he took a lot of heat for attending a Texas Longhorns Sugar Bowl game that ended in a loss.

And this started years ago. He went to the Houston Rockets Game 7 loss to the Golden State Warriors in 2018, in which the Rockets missed a record 27 straight three-point attempts. He was sitting down by the court. Historic futility. I still remember watching that and being like,

is something wrong? Like, is there something on the hoop? Like this feels like it is defying physics. How many shots these guys are missing in a row? I really like this because theoretically this means we could weaponize Ted Cruz's curses. Right.

And this is just a world of possibility. We got to figure out how to best utilize the curse of Ted Cruz. New research project for you yeah like because i think also too like the the 2019 texas tech one is also amazing he took a selfie at the ncaa championship game and texas tech was up by one point with 35 seconds left he posted selfie from the stands as 35 seconds one point lead go red raiders number one defense they lost and it was just everybody was like i blame you ted cruz for this and he just he is potent i mean like there's that's like not even that's like the just the start but i think this is where it begins

to wobble a bit right is with the astros now he's been he's been, he's always supported. He's always been a big Houston Astros guy, but like this year they faced off against the Rangers. And because he was there rooting on the Strohs, you know, people were like, oh shit, what happened? They lost the Astros lost game six, forcing a game seven. And then they lost. And people were like, Ted Cruz, please do not go to game seven. Please do not go to game seven because we want the Astros to win. Rangers fans are like, Ted Cruz, please come to the Rangers and Astros game seven. We would love to have you. Please, please, please, sir. Please make an appearance. And then when they, when they like Rolling Stone published a story about this legend of his curse of the Cruz curse on the game, on day of game seven he tweeted back he's like for

seven years katherine and i have attended nearly every astros home playoff game uh if they're gonna blame me for our recent home losses please also credit us for two world series championships okay well y'all cheated on one of those uh and seven consecutive alcs's we were there cheering the strows on so like in a way you're, I mean like, where were you on that one cruise curse? But he wasn't all came down to it. He wasn't like making it a thing. He wasn't making it about himself at that time. It's like when he

puts himself out there, he like energetically fucks the team because he is just the least inspiring human being possible. So he went to that game seven and they lost 11-4 and like it was a story heading into the game and they were like wait we're playing for this motherfucker right like that i don't think they lost on purpose but like that's gonna

fuck you up man baseball is a weird like mental game where like if you're pitching a no hitter no one's gonna talk to you you don't think that like realizing that winning will make ted cruz happy will fuck up your energy like come on or that ted cruz is like rooting for you you're like fuck bro ted cruz rooting for us yeah fuck okay i'm really gonna have to pull this shit together uh reportedly people betting on sports say that you will be 15-2 since 2017 if you're betting the money line against teams that Ted Cruz showed up to support in person.

To me, I'm just like... That's a lot of Ls. Yeah. We need like a cameo, but it's like an IRL Ted Cruz only cameo and you can like send him to your enemies. Right. You like hire a pox, but it's like an IRL Ted Cruz only cameo and you can like send him to your enemies. Right. Like it's like you like hire a pox,

but it's Ted Cruz. Like why isn't, what good is capitalism if tech isn't developing this as we speak? Right. Or just do the thing like if you're 15 and two betting like against the,

or betting like against the teams that Ted Cruz is supporting, like we should just put together a gigantic fund. Like a fucking hedge fund. Just kind of keep exponentially multiplying the dollars and be like, yo, this is a pretty good return. And we could do a lot of good.

Yeah. Thank you. Strongest force in the universe. Yeah, Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz's fucking sports tweets. Amazing. Well, Madeline, Ted Cruz's fucking sports tweets. Amazing. Yeah. Well, Madeline, I know you have to run. It's been such a pleasure having you on the show.

Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Well, I've got the book, so you can check out the book anywhere books are sold. And it is, yes, called I Survived Capitalism, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. You can follow me on TikTok. I'm Madeline Pendleton there, like the wool company. And if you want to hear more about things like Ronald Reagan, FBI files, and conspiracy theories, I have a podcast called Pick Me Up, I'm Scared, where we talk about stuff like that all the time. Amazing.

There you go. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Star Trek, Strange New Worlds, and Discovery. I'm a Trekkie. I'm a Trekkie at heart. I heard Patrick Stewart's coming back as Picard for something? There's a Picard show as well. But I think that I'm a fan of the Strange New Worlds and the Discovery because they do the world building.

And they do the post-money world building, which is relevant to my interests. That sounds very woke. Have people come for Star Trek yet on the right? I am confident they have. And I guess the real question is how many loose bolts are flying off of the Discovery as it flies through space with this woke agenda.

Because I feel like I would see some form of a tweet that like, man, Star Wars is too woke. That's why I'm a Trekkie. And you're like cut to them being like, and this is what capitalism did to this society. And you like like i'm sorry are y'all okay never mind never mind never mind yeah yeah i feel like they can't you you would be hard pressed to like come in and be like star trek used to be cool and misogynistic and i mean i'm sure there are old episodes but yeah for sure it has like pretty big deep

ideas yeah they do have big deep ideas but they did do an episode where it was like a horror episode in the original series and it's just they went to a planet and at first you thought all the women were hot but then it turns out that there was some sort of mystical illusion going on and when you got them back to your ship they were real u uggos. So that's the worst I've seen of the original Star Trek. Oh, no. But there was no money. The worst thing possible. Oh, we went to Planet Binge Drinking.

Oh, my goodness. Exactly. Miles, where can people find you? What's the work in media you've been enjoying? Find me Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Grey. Find Jack and I on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack. I'm at Boosties. And if you love trash reality like me to soothe the wounds of society's ills and you like watching 90 Day Fiancé, check out my other show, 420 Day Fiancé with Sophia Alexandra.

A tweet I like is from a friend of the show and great, one of the legends of the show, Andrew T. At Andrew T. tweeted, Costco should have like a separate lot where you can sit in your car for 15 minutes and have a little bite of your roast chicken. Like if you want to. And I like that. You know, like, you know, just because at Costco, people see you get in your car and like, good. When are you getting the fuck out? You know what I mean? It's like, yo, I'm in the chicken lot, man.

Like, you know what I'm about to do? I'm gonna have a little bite of this rotisserie chicken. Yeah, it's like the cell phone lot at the airport. Yeah, exactly. The rotisserie chicken. Yeah, it's like the cell phone lot at the airport. Yeah, exactly. The rotisserie chicken lot. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. The tweet I've been

enjoying for a long time now, Mr. Gorbachev, tear up this ass was Megan Amram. And Mr. Gorbachev, tear off my balls was Elon Mustard at Nice underscore Mustard. 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 look 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 do you think people might enjoy? I was going through some old, old playlists and I, man, I'm such a fan of this group called the Budos band. Cause I was definitely in like a little Afro B Felicuti zone in college. And they have this album. Uh, this is a track called up from the South. They're like a fantastic band. They're actually a lot of dudes there. They were like a dap tone band. So like, you'll know them from a lot of dap tone productions, but they came together to play their own kind of like swag their old kind of afro beat vibe uh so check this track out it's really good up from the south by the budos band

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