The Daily Zeitgeist - Brain Rot Is V Hot! Cheryl Hines You Absolute Monster 12.03.24

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

In episode 1785, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Zahra Noorbakhsh, to discuss… Blame Game Continues Among The Democrats…, “Brain Rot” Is Oxford’s Word Of The Year, Cheryl Hines Please F**k All The Way Off… and more! Blame Game Continues Among The Democrats… “Brain Rot” Is Oxford’s Word Of The Year ‘Very demure, very mindful’: why everyone’s jumping on the modesty bandwagon Celebrities make ‘manifest’ appear as 2024 word of the year ‘Goblin mode’: new Oxford word of the year speaks to the times Cheryl Hines Please F**k All The Way Off… LISTEN: 4 For 2 by Elephant TreeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I always giggle when people post those things are like my cat took a dump on the floor the Roomba spread it everywhere and that's the part where it's not the smartest thing now is it? I didn't think about those kinds of casualties. Oh yo there are like people posting L's of like zoom room I said. I said Zumba Roomba, like just scat scattering, scattering. Scat scattering. Yeah. Scat scattering.

Scat scattering. The new head of the DEA. It sounds like someone trumpeted a point. Oh, scat scattering? The new head of the EPA? Hell yeah. Some dude named scat is probably going to be fucking... Oh yeah.

That's scat. That's scat scattering. Dude named Scott is probably gonna be fucking... Oh yeah, that's Scott. That's Scott Scatter. Scott Scattering, running for... Yeah, yeah, exactly. Gonna be in the cabinet. Is he the guy that like bit that rabbit's ear off? Yes! Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's Scott Scattering. Yeah, yeah, him. Former UFC fighter? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Former UFC fighter, scat scattering. He's a, he's the new head of the department of education. Wasn't he doing a bunch of HGH?

Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Didn't he make all his money selling supplements? Exactly. And then lost him on that lawsuit. Yeah. And he got in big trouble because it was just meth.

Yeah. He's like a major business mogul. Yeah. Right. It was just like not very profitable to sell an actual drug. Yeah. He was just found a way to repackage ephedrine into like other things that people could buy to do their own home.

You had a cave full of ephedrine. Ephedrine is great. I think it's called ephedrine here, but I, I watch so many weird drug things with Australians that are like, yeah, he's got a big pile of methamphetamine and you can see it right there. He was smoking it off aluminum. You have a lot of effigy and you brought back with you from Vietnam. with you from Vietnam. What's the purpose of all this imagery insert? We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow, very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative

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Sure to be a December to remember, Miles. Yeah, truly. A December to remember, and it's in the way that Lexus intended. It's also World Trick Shot Day. It's also, it's Giving Tuesday. Let's not forget, we just had Cyber just had a case of the Cyber Mondays. Now you should get a case of the Giving Tuesdays

on its National Roof Over Your Head Day. Now I don't know what that means. It's probably something, let's see. Oh, so it's really about acknowledging people that don't have roofs over their heads. Okay. It says to celebrate, pick your name. In a weird way, it might be like, National, hey, look at me. I'm balling over here dog

It's it's like a way to just it's like giving Tuesday sort of like hey Hey, hey remember that there are people less fortunate than you want to do something about it. All right, there you go I always think giving Tuesdays like it's giving Tuesday. Oh, yeah that wasn't that a tweet that we just was killing us. Yeah. Yeah or anyway Anyway, anyway, anyways, anyway, however, you want to say my name is Jack O'Brien Ak today is just another day that the zeitgeist will give you the news By now you're scrolling on down trying to sort the clickbait from truth. I don't subscribe to

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Hey, it's Miles Gray, AKA straight off that Miles of gravy, gravy-induced sleep coma. It's I ate some gravy and fell asleep. Got so excited and I'm in too deep. Whoa, gravy.

And I feel all right. Baby, it's Thanksgiving at the Daviesite. Okay, shut up the picture man. That's a new, that seems like a newcomer to these Discord parts. The picture man. I will get to the other people requesting invites to the Discord that were hitting me up on Blue Sky.

Just took a bit of a breather from the social media. I will get back to sending out the invitation. Thank you for that wonderful Britney Spears inspired AKA. That was beautiful. I actually couldn't remember who sang that song. I did recognize it, but I couldn't remember who sang it. It was me. I thought it could have easily been

a Backstreet Boys song or an N'Sync song. That's what it was. It was giving in sync. It was giving Tuesday. Anyways, Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by an award-winning comedian and co-host of the Good Muslim, Bad Muslim podcast featured on Oprah Magazine. She is the pop culture collaborative senior fellow on comedy for social change.

It's the brilliant, the talented, Zara Norba. Zara. What up? Yes. Zara. Hi. Yeah. How was Thanksgiving? Hi. Good?

Oh my God. Hi. Oh my God. Thanksgiving was delicious. We had turkey. Wow. I love to hear that. I was curious what people eat on Thanksgiving and it is turkey, it turns out. I also had ham for the first time. Not for the first time in my life. Oh, okay.

I'm the pork eating Muslim, but ham for the first time at Thanksgiving. Yeah. That was like a side meat along with the turkey. It was a side meat. Why do we eat turkey? That was like a side meat along with the turkey. It was a side meat. Why do we eat turkey? Mmm, I think the turkey pairs better with the savory sides So I do I do two plates my first plate turkey stuffing

Massey potates and some grave and then on the ham one I like to go with like the sweet potato casserole on the side there because that like has the feel like ham goes well with the sweet hands a little bit of a sweetie. It was super sweet. It was all a buttery and delicious and very salty. And I'm still puffy. Yeah. Are you? Yes.

Yeah. I feel I'm going to be bloated for, I don't know, a couple of months. This dang wedding ring won't come off. That's why I don't wear mine. And that's a problem because it's not mine. Yeah, because I'm about to go to the club and ball out. Thank you. What do you think? I feel like for all the guff that Turkey gets,

and we give it a lot of guff on this podcast, I'll tell you, the dryness, I feel like like is the thing that made people come out of their comfort zone and invent gravy and stuffing and mashed potatoes and all those wonderful moist and rehydrate. Yeah. It sounds like you're talking about my vagina. Come on now. The dryness. You got to have that with a side of mashed potatoes. Like what? Vagina

Do you know what I want to talk about clear your calendar yeah Agenda I Celebrated this year 20 years of marriage with my husband 20 years Even realize y my husband. Congratulations. 20 years? Holy cow. 20 years. I didn't even realize y'all were together that long. Holy shit. 20 years. Yeah. Congratulations.

Yeah. You're canonically 28. Yeah. That's what I'm, canonically. Right, right. I mean, canonically, I don't know what that means because I don't do mental math, but it's a long time. Yeah, it is a long time. Yeah. As a bisexual woman.

I know. Yeah. This long, monogahomously. Yeah. The monogs, Patrick Monog is over there. Dedicated to one dick. Yeah. Wow.

And? That's what I'm going to go around saying. Yeah. Just get a t-shirt to celebrate your anniversary. Dedicated to one dick for 20 years and counting. I'm not one of those people that needs to like celebrate her husband's dick for everyone. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.

I don't need to talk about like how big it is and how hard he goes and how I'm just orgasming all the time. I don't need to do that. Is that like a consolation thing for the penis haver to like always talk about it? It's like, so thank you so much for talking about how hard. My husband's dick is like that present shape. You're doing the Spock live long and cross-marking with your hands.

I'm like, hey? His dick is so big, it's split. Wow. I get shocked. it's split. Wow. I get shocked. It's been 20 years by the one day. Wow. That's pretty impressive and strange, but kind of with like an STD from like 2004 that we never investigated.

Yeah. Yeah. It kind of runs them, ruins the marriage to ask questions. We had that for Thanksgiving. That's just an added feature. Yeah. Yeah, it ruins the marriage to ask questions. We had that for Thanksgiving. That's just an added feature. Exactly. It's pretty great. That's pretty great.

All right, Zahra, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to check in with a couple of the Blame Game Democrat articles, and we're going to talk about Brain Rot being Oxford's word of the year. The Oxford English Dictionary. Brain rot. Yes. And, and we'll also check on Cheryl Hines, who is cool and good and we love her, don't we folks?

All of that, plenty more. But first, are we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Okay. I was looking up Lassie. Lassie. Oh, I see. No, Lassie. No, like a mango lassie. Like a mango lassie, like the drink.

Okay. Yeah. Because- Sorry, my whiteness got in the way there. I was like, Lassie. She's saying Lassie. Someone stuck in the old mine shaft? My daughter, who's a toddler now. Yeah.

I know. Yeah. She randomly out of nowhere grabbed a glass of water, grabbed her yogurt and poured yogurt into the water and mixed it and drank it. Oh, OK. Fucking genius over here. Yeah. And she just genius over here. Yeah.

And she just made herself a lassi. Is that what a lassi is? I mean, I know it's yogurt-y, but is it a mad center? It's yogurt mixed with water, yeah. But I mean, that's the base. Sure, sure. And then you base off culture and also preferences. Right, right, right.

You mix it with other. So I was like, what kinds of lassi are out there? Because the Persian lassi is just like yogurt and salt, and it's like usually carbonated water. Ooh. A little bit of an egg cream. No egg. Yeah.

There's a drink called egg creams. That's just chocolate milk mixed with carbonated water. And everybody thinks it's going to be delicious. And it usually actually. Yeah. I remember the first time I bought that at a supermarket as a kid and I'm like, yeah, this is going to be good. And I was like, what kind of boomer poison is this?

One of the great names that over promises so fucking hard. Yeah. Like, oh my God, is this going to be like a Cadbury cream egg? What are we doing here? It's like a way to get your protein. Yeah. It's like someone who worked at an ice cream shop burped into your mouth.

It really seems like an accident. It seems like what you, the thing you do where you like try mixing milk with various things, six years old. Yeah. Yeah. She's just straight up was like, I'm going to do yogurt invented thevented the mango lassi. Yeah. Well, I mean, there's no mango because the Persian, the South Asian diaspora has the mango lassi. Right. Right. But then I was like, wait, so what region?

So then I was like Googling. Yeah. Have you had a rose lassi? That's what I found. Like rose lassi is, cardamom lassi, mango lassi. But then Persian is like salty mint lassi. So everyone's got their yogurt water turn up drink. Not that you turn up on it, but you know, it's a nice, it's a fun drink. It was fascinating.

Yeah. My children just had their first experience with a pina colada this past Thanksgiving and they're, can't get enough. Really love it. What do they prefer? Like Dominican rum or Puerto Rican rum? I love Dominican rum.

Yeah, they're like dark spiced rum. Yeah. Oh, okay. Cool. Yeah. Hey, it's good for them. They enjoy it and daddy gets a little break, you know? Because they're drunk and they're wasted.

Well, they go fuck shit up somewhere else. They're all sad Appletons. Hey, when they're drunk, they're legally not my problem. What is something you think is underrated? Okay, the leaf blower cartel. Go on. What do you mean? Is this a thing? That's all I've got. Wow. Those are just three words that came to me in a dream.

Nothing? Nothing there? All right. I'm going to need you to investigate and really look into this. Okay. You can't you. I found out that there's this whole process to how leaf blowers get hired and that like you can't cancel a leaf blow.

What do you mean can't cancel a leaf blow? So like I looked into this because they're everywhere and they're all the time. And even when there's like a storm and wind like crazy wind, they're still leaf blowing. Yeah, they're just out there battling the elements facing down as a windstorm with a leaf blowing. Yeah, they're just out there battling the elements facing down a windstorm with a leaf blower. I'll counter your wind with my wind. Why? I know this way. Why? And like, even during the wildfires, I mean, this might be a specifically California

problem, but this is what I want to find out. This is what I want to know. My podcast, Leafblower Cartel, is going to dive in. Be careful now. And bust open. Be careful now. My podcast, Leaf Blower Cartel, is going to dive in. Be careful now. And bust open. Be careful. I'm not afraid. OK, a lot of people have tried this idea as I told you off mic. A lot of people got too close to the LBC.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I was a little bit scared. Yeah, you should be. You should be. Then you know the task ahead of you. Yeah, nobody's fucking with the LBC like that. Not even I'm not gonna quit. Yeah Wait, but I don't understand like you're saying that you like don't what doesn't that something gardeners do people hire specific leaf blowing? So, okay. This is my one of those things Where like you can't there there's like a contract in place and they're like sacred pact is what we call it But that's why I think it's like cartel because the level of power

There's so much power. We can't get rid of the leaf blowers I mean even to the degree that like they couldn't it would remember how hard it was to get rid of the diesel exhaust Emitting leaf blower for like the battery powered shit. Yeah, that's still that battle still raises in L.A. where they're like most most people they're like, yeah, all right, I sold more on that later. I'm still using the gas. It doesn't make sense.

It doesn't make any sense. And I think corruption is a. It's got that like same thing. Have you ever smelled a wave runner? Like it smells like both gasoline and exhaust. Wave runners twice in the last week. It's bad for everybody. It's bad for the guys working it because the sound and their sinuses and they're like,

you know, they're not having a good time. I think that's why there was a lot of pushback on those ordinances in LA because they're like to switch technology is like a lot of money. And you're asking people that already make very little money from doing gardening to like suddenly be like, all right, well, now I got to throw this thing out and buy this new thing that also works as well. There's always, I always see this. I thought it was like state, wasn't it like state?

Um, there could be, I just know some like parts. Wasn't it like state? There could be. I just know some like parts of the city, like certain parts of like, you know, the unincorporated cities of L.A. would go harder on these kinds of things like in Santa Monica or like Pasadena or something. It's going to be electric. No, I love him. He probably does cut down on pollution. I don't want to, you want to ruin the little man's,

the working man's- That could just be cover for this cartel. Like livelihood. I don't want to fuck with their equipment. I just want to end the entire practice and industry and put them all out of a job. Thank you. But not the little guys.

They can remain. Everyone else, you're gone. I'm here for the California laborer. But not the little guys. They can remain. Everyone else, you're gone. I'm here for the California laborer. And while I'm at it, those little scanning guns at the grocery store can go get fucked. Okay? Those should be illegal. I don't want to hear that beep noise anymore. That's horrible.

Yeah, leaf blowers are a lot of a lot of exhausts. Like you could like smell them from a long ways away. You can hear them from a long ways away and they do seem to just be spreading, spreading shit like from one person's yard into another. They're like, yeah, well, we have the leaf blower. So now these are your leaves. You know, the funniest part is like, I'll be riding my bike and there'll be someone like leaf blowing, like all the shit off of someone's like yard and into the street.

And inevitably I fucking like I'm in fucking Dune or some shit in a leaf blower storm. And I'm just taking full blown breaths of that shit. I'm like, fuck, could you wait two seconds for my bike to pass through this shit? Yeah. Just eyes that don't open anymore. Yeah. Right. I'm not going to give up.

You are, you are marked. You're there. They're going to take notice of you. The LBC. I'm just, I'm more worried about the LBC than I am the Trump administration, to be honest, and I'm, I feel bad saying that on Mike, because I don't want to reveal the power of the leaf blower cartel, but I don't want to be associated with Zara. I'm just saying, y'all I'm on your side. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Can I just say something off record? Yeah for me. I chose the wrong underrated.

Let me back it up. Underrated gum. Gum. This stuff's good. You ever try this stuff? You sound like a Democrat who's just been elected to the House of Representatives. Here's the thing. I know I said all that stuff on the way here.

I'm like a big coward, big time. You, I can't, I won't stand on any of that shit. By the way, have you ever tried a leaf blower? No. Do I need to? Is it like a gun? It's like a gun. Yeah, it is.

It's a great feeling to just clear an entire yard out. Like, I don't need to cause I've got 20 years of husband. You're you're you're compensating, Jack. I got you. Yeah, yeah. I'm constantly peeling the label off my drinks and going into the backyard and just go nuts with a leaf blower. Hold it between my legs, blasts the leaves from one side of the yard to the other. Hot.

It is a lot of fun. I mean, one of the things, so we don't have a gas power bomb. We have a plug-in one and you can. A2. You turn it. Yes. Me too. That's probably not how it was pronounced.

Me too, Brute. Me me, me too. That's probably not how it was pronounced in me too. Brutal. One, one Brutus guy canceled me too. Brutal. Such a specific audience for that. But when you can leave the switch on and then plug it in and the thing just due to, you know, jet propulsion will just like fly across the art. Holy shit. Which is kind of fun.

Fun for the kids. Fun for the kids. And that is basically my only aim. What is, Zara, something you think is overrated? Okay. I'm really not going to make friends today. Oh, Instagram horoscopes. Oh, shit. And now you've pissed me off.

I'm sorry. Go on. What? I changed my mind. I'm a coward. Again, I'm a coward. I think they're actually good. You guys hate them. Yeah. You love them. I love them, too. Except that they're bullshit. OK, here's what Instagram this this kind of makes me a little bit. Like. All right, we're all like,

I'll see activists that are like so hardcore, you know what I mean? But they're like whole platform is Instagram. And I'm like, do you know who runs it? Oh, just like the dissonance of like, yeah, the platform that you're using. And I mean, not because it's evil. I mean, of course there's that. But like everything's tied to evil nowadays because of all the monopolies. Right. So it's like impossible to circumvent evil.

But because of how activism is derailed and controlled with echo chambering and careful pocketing, like what are we doing? You know what I mean? Like the dissemination of information on this platform, they are watching and making sure that you don't do anything really useful. Right.

That it's not getting outside of like accounts that are like, you're not going to convert any of these people and it's not going to be fed to people that could potentially interact with this information. Exactly. And there isn't any kind of like activism that I'm seeing, I mean, not no kind, but there isn't a kind that is accessible to folks out there that is something else other than like sub stack, honestly, where you can like reach your own crew

and not be sort of shepherded by the algorithms that are already being paid a ton of money by conservative parties to make sure that you don't actually create any meaningful change. And there's so much biometric data that Instagram is able to function off of from reading how your face flushes to your pupils dilating,

to also being able to listen to your pulse and your breath. And this biometric data has been available and getting better since like, I think it's like, I don't know, when I first heard about it was 2019, so I know it's longer than that. Right. And then people will see horoscopes that are like so specifically catered to them

and feel like astrology is like so, you know, so really clairvoyantly accurate. And I'm like, no, that's your fucking algorithm at work, man. Instagram is on top of its shit. Yeah. God, AI is the one thing. Like, this is going to be the thing that AI is good for. Like, what are we going to do?

Is it doing that harder? Pairing with the algorithm and do it and like telling you exactly what you want to hear. Exactly what you want to hear. Like you just got off an angry text exchange with a friend and you're pissed off. And then now you're on Instagram scrolling and like it tells you, you know, are you in an abusive relationship? And it like, you know, gives you everything you need to feel reinforced and validated and to spike up your BP.

Yeah. You know, and then you get handed that horoscope that's like, this is a time for you to ghost and disconnect and do you. Right, right, right. Yeah. Cut off all your friends who are not me, Instagram. And then meanwhile, the rise of fascism. You know what I mean?

That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. I'm saying that your horoscope on Instagram is just a tool of fascism. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think the writing was on the wall when people were like, you know, you have to go in your settings on Instagram to like make sure you're seeing like political content.

Because by default, like for a lot of people, yeah, it's just like, ah, remember, remember, that's what's happening there. And I think people, you know, even looking at like Twitter, same thing was happening too, where they very much were like, people were just talking to each other and thinking there was other engagement. I think it's the same way, like you see like liberals to be like, what the heck happened? It seemed all fine.

Everything was going great according to this like algorithmically curated feed I was looking at every day. But OK, real talk. My views in stories went from five thousand four thousand two thousand floating up in there to eleven. Yeah. When I when I started. Yeah. A lot of people. Yeah. 4,000, 2,000 floating up in there to 11. When I started. Yeah, a lot of people's, yeah.

Yeah, when they instituted the quote unquote political censoring in 2021, that was supposed to be because of the Capitol, that was supposed to be targeted at white supremacists that were trying to kill Congress people. But here I am with seven views. Then now with shadow banning and any talk about Palestine, forget it. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. I feel like that is a pretty common experience these days across a lot of social media. But that's not what I'm complaining about. Yeah, it's the horoscopes, first of all. Yeah. But I do think this is probably underrated and it will continue to be underrated for all of, like, I've talked before about the inventor of the loudspeaker blamed himself for the rise of fascism in the 30s, which seems ridiculous to us now because we're like, what,

like, why would that have contributed to it? But it's like when a technology comes along that brings us things that we're like not prepared for that we haven't like been able to like mentally like remap our brains around people, like there's chaos and people can get away with a lot of fucked up shit. And I do feel like- Well this is the other thing. Oh no, you didn't finish. Please finish.

I do feel like we are in an is the other thing. Oh no, you didn't finish. Please finish. I was just gonna, I do feel like we are in an age where technology is moving so fast and we don't quite know how to deal. And so this is- Right. When I think of that- I'm seeing another rise of fascism. All right, sorry, go on Zahra. Thank you.

I will. Furthermore, what I would like to say is you just have to listen to me. Oh, easy. Thank you. I will furthermore. Is you just have to listen to me. Okay. Thanks. Yeah. But your shadow band. I don't even see none of your stuff anymore. God damn it.

Yeah. Come over like, go like MAGA angel 19 or 1776. And then maybe your content will get footed up. That's kind of fun. No, so there's actually a study that came out about cognition, like our, not cognition, but like our cognitive ability as a nation has significantly decreased.

And the way that we used to say, I mean, surprise, years of Betsy DeVos, here we are. And we used to say, like, you know, are you smarter than a fifth grader? But now like the national level is about third grade. Right. Yeah. And one of the things that comes with that is our inability to do algebra in our head, like mental algebra, not like literal algebra, but like

being able to think about systems and not just one for one. Everything is like, who did this to me? You did this to me. It's like blame game pointing fingers and there's no conversation about like systems about the algorithm that we all house our conversations on regardless of its politics or ours, you know. Yeah, right. Anyway.

Yeah. I do feel like we're being actively deceived by like vast, very sophisticated systems. There's like an Iago in our head all the time. Yeah. And I don't think it's a irrevocable like change the way, like when people compare us to idiocracy, it's like, I feel like the culture is pushing us in one direction and a lot of technologies are pushing us in one direction.

But I don't think that like humanity by design has just gotten dumber. The brain hasn't changed in millennia. It's not changing right now. You don't think we have brain rot? I don't think we have brain rot, but what a great transition to the next act. Holy shit. Wow. We're going to take a quick break and then we're going to come back and we'll talk about continue talking about all this shit. We'll be right back. Skylight frame is more than just a photo frame. It's the perfect way to keep loved ones close no matter the distance. With skylight, you can share the joy of a special moment,

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And, Miles, like once a week, we like to gird ourselves and just take another peek back into the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, all the places where people are like, wait, what happened? Who did this to us? Yeah. Who did this to us? Us, the people that control the thing.

The hot dog suit guy. Yeah, just trying to figure out who did this. I mean, yeah, the finger pointing fest continues for Democrats. Most of the pieces, again, I read doing varying degrees of like, the progressives fucked us. And then like the more I guess, like sort of balanced ones are like, was it the progressives that fucked? But there's a piece in Vox specifically that speaks like, you know, it's like some Harris campaign staffers, other Democrats and things like that. And they're all like, we didn't lose because anything we did. It's because of the groups, as they say. This is now the like, did like a lot of people talk about the groups,

meaning progressive activists, like even they're even talking like Planned Parenthood or the ACLU. They're lumping into this shit as like, it's the groups, man, that are just making us do all this stuff to like, they're pulling us to the left. And I guess they were just saying like in this election, they just listened too much. And this is one of the paragraphs in this Vox piece quote. And of course, Harris lost. How much blame, if any, the group should get for that has become a matter of intense debate.

Progressive group defenders point out that Harris tried to pivot to the center and that, uh, that the Biden administration's record on inflation and immigration were her two biggest vulnerabilities. The group's critics say Harris's group influenced positions from the 2020 primary weighed her down and Democrats ran into political trouble on inflation and immigration in part because of the group's bad advice. The group. So they took like so many of these thoughts or ideas are so disconnected like one was like it's because of what she said in

the past was I guess what they were trying to say it was like she got too influenced by the groups in her past so then that gave Republicans the sort of ammunition to run on their attack ads. Again, you didn't take anyone's fucking advice because if you look at what was actually proposed or even articulated in the Democratic platform, you took fragments of ideas that made you look potentially like change agents, but didn't follow through on the actual change part. So I think that's the most crucial part of all this dumb fucking analysis that isn't being talked about was like, we just took their advice. It's like, the kid. Well, did

they and to what extent and to what extent were they actually following through on the things that the groups were saying we're going to benefit people or motivate people. It's like the Democrats are saying like, okay, we get it. You're saying we're gonna benefit people or motivate people. It's like the Democrats are saying like, okay, we get it You're saying the genocide is bad and then secretly like we will continue to arm Israel. Okay, that's fine Or you say, okay We get it saying that immigrants are part of this country and deserve the respect of being offered a pathway to citizen citizenship I guess that'll motivate people and then in the shadows your rebranding is like Kirkland signature

out to motivate people. And then in the shadows, you're rebranding is like Kirkland signature nativists, like what, in what fucking world did they take any of this advice? So again, the final sentence I think is interesting is a quote. The groups might not be so effective at winning Democrats' votes, but they still might be able to drive some away. Oh, wow. Wow. Well told.

All right. Status quo defended. Those groups. Yeah, I just love how media outlets are able to be like, let's try and understand the mind of a racist homophobe and normalize that. But again, completely unable to contend with like sort of explaining something

that's remotely progressive and how that would actually be beneficial without having to always like sour those articles. And like, and a lot of experts who are, you know, mile, like years beyond their prime, they're saying this is actually really bad and we should listen to them. Yeah. And the fact that they changed their positions on those things from 2020, like suggest that you are trying them on as a costume that you think might fool people. Yeah. Which is the Democratic party's problem is that they, you know, also the

establishment Republican party before Trump came along, like they were willing to say whatever it seemed like was going to get them the votes. And that people became caught onto that decades ago and no longer are going to fall for that shit. Yeah. There even, so there's this podcast from Ezra Klein on the New York Times where he interviewed Bernie's 2020 campaign manager. And the podcast is called like, would Bernie have won? And, you know, it's trying to get at these big conversations because the

democratic party seems split between the idea of like, should they be, should they have been more progressive and like had convictions and stuck to them? I would argue yes. Or should they have actually, should they just like give up on ever having convictions and just continue to try on whatever voters seem to want? And in this case, just like, you know, try and become Republicans, which seems to be the solution, that seems to be the solution, That's what we did, yeah. That seems to be the solution the mainstream media is going to go with. I mean, it doesn't seem, it is.

It's what they're going to go with. It's what the candidate that they're all going to say is winning, heading into like the 20, 28 primaries will be for, and it's going to require like somebody to come out of nowhere and to actually just have the courage of their convictions and to actually target the status quo in some way. But even this person who was Bernie's 2020 campaign manager, he's still so thoroughly a strategist. He treats telling people that the system is rigged against them like it's a martial arts move.

He's like, martial arts move. He's like, now see, I'm walking you into it. Here's some stories specifically that I know are challenging in this modern economy, but that I have constructive solutions to. And then he's like, I'm going to tell you the story up top. And then I'm going to, and it's just like, I don't know, it feels like they are. Treat again, like over complicating it and making it all part of some strategy for deceiving people as opposed to just having these main central convictions and not being able to be shaken off of them just because you're being criticized by the New

York Times. I think whoever or whatever this new position is, is going to have to open the conversation at neoliberalism is the problem. Therefore, the Democratic Party and the mainstream media are the problem. They are lying to you as our corporations and the wealthy. These are the bad guys. Every solution they raise needs to be viewed suspiciously because that is how people are viewing it now.

But they also talk about how Bernie Sanders in the most recent election ran behind Harris. And I think that's actually instructive. Like his support, I think is waning because he has become part of like the mainstream democratic party in like since like when people are talking about how like a leftist sort of anti-establishment solution needs to be what, what people battle Trumpism with, I think it needs to be like 2016 Bernie and not like Bernie, first of all, not Bernie, actual Bernie Sanders in 2028 when he's like 90 years old, but also like also not somebody who's like, I don't know, like he was also tainted by the

fucking Biden administration. He definitely would like things he was pretty vocal about would get pretty quiet about and you're like, what happened here? But again, it's like the maneuvering of like anyone, you know, on the hill right now. But I think even then, like, even it's like saying neoliberalism, like that's too far of, that's too far for most people. I think when the easier thing is like billion, it's built like we need to go after billion, it's billionaires billionaires.

Why are there so many billionaires? All roads lead back to Bill. Y'all get that right. Y'all probably work for one. And they're not sharing anything with you, right? We can all kind of agree with that. Yeah. And not only are they not sharing anything with us, I just found out recently that the

way insurance is structured now, your employer is the one that's opting out of certain out-of-network like practitioners, your employer is the one making them out of network because they get a kickback. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. All health insurance is like part of this thing that I think people are innately like responding to in all these political scenarios where it's like, it's intentionally complicated. It's intentionally designed to fuck you over by like making using it incredibly difficult.

And the people who gain from it are corporations and extremely wealthy people. And then they're like, this works for you. People like this. Yeah. I mean, there's so many directions I could go with this, but like the, I feel like we needed Bernie 2016 back in 2008. Right. Right. Yeah. Like the, these, the, the anti-trust laws, like the monopolies, the, the, the amount of like data mining that's happening that like should be illegal. You know, like the anti-trust laws, like the monopolies,

the amount of like data mining that's happening that like should be illegal. Like you should have to pay me for how much information you take from me. That used to be the case, you know, like there's so many things that because of how rapidly technology is advancing, we just don't have regulation on. And then big business gets to be like, well, if you regulate us, we out, you

know, and then everybody's scared. And at the end of the day, I feel like the average person is exhausted and broke. You know, and in, and in need of like medical care for them and their kids. And like, you just want the person who's going to make all of that go away. and in need of like medical care for them and their kids. And like, you just want the person who's gonna make all of that go away. And I don't like, I feel like to me, the thing that we point to and say, like, you did this,

the only person who should get that finger is the Democratic establishment. That was your job. Your job was to win. Whatever reason you have. This is Monday night quarterbacking. It's too late. You were supposed to have the conversation with Biden sooner. You were supposed to get your candidate out there sooner. Like you were supposed to do this groundwork and get these quote unquote groups together. That's your job. Everyone else has a job. We all are trying to keep our jobs. We're all busting our asses. We got our kids or we

don't have kids and we're trying to climb ladders We're just trying to keep our head afloat You have one job. That's to get reelected Nobody else has that job. It's you man Yeah, it's it's interesting even in that piece that vox piece in the end They're like, but even though like the groups are kind of like the problem it's like it then it sort of admits like the Democrats need all of these groups like enthusiastic and energized to win elections. And you're like, well, then what the fuck is this whole thing about? Like this one sentence? Dang convincing. Yeah, it's about quote unquote, these groups, right? But like, it's like 60% of white men voted for Trump go after that. Like, why is the blame on like the 4%?

Yeah, this was the thing. I mean, I was saying like in the lead up to the election too, and there's all this hand like what are black men gonna do something talk about white people? That's a bigger, that's a numerically a bigger group that you need to contend with that can actually sway an election rather than being like, well, we've given up on white supremacy and anything we can do about that or misogyny or whatever. So it's like, let's find these other people to sort of make the the main actors. And to your point

also, like, like with our comprehension, it's all, again, we're people blaming and not fucking system blaming. And that's right. And that's the thing. If we keep, if we continue the cycle of people blaming, then the system continues to thrive. And then we, that's the part we need to zoom out on. And I think that's unfortunately the people that are in positions of power that are the editors of these places and other things. They're like, bro, we're not doing

any system blaming right now. Like, come on, bro. The system, you know. Shut the fuck up about the leaf blower. Well, this is where I get annoyed too because like That if what they're saying about all these like quote-unquote groups, you know is like you just want more democratic fascism. I'm on board Do you just need us the the liberals to be more fascist in our liberalness like okay We are all like yeah, okay. I'm against anti-blackness.

All of us, even you, Steve. You know, I don't know what Steve is it, but. Get fascist about making people's right to healthcare and birth control law. If I was a fascist dictator. We'd have more BART parking. People would fucking love it. More BART parking?

If I was a fascist dictator, we'd have less street parking. More parklets! More parklets! It's good for you! Hell yeah. More bike lanes. Oh hell, what is this? More physical therapy that's covered in network and longer.

A podiatrist can be seen at a moment's notice. Man, man, her majesty once had to go to the podiatrist. That shit took so long for an in network podiatry like appointment. How was your 2027? Yeah, no, for real. For a sec. I think my like the ball on my foot's like cracked or something. I don't know, man. If I was a fascist dictator, we'd look at your pelvic floor.

I would say all that shit, but the second I get, I become a fascist dictator. I'm just all of the people who were ever mean to me start disappearing from pictures, just photoshopped out. We've always been friends, right? Magic glasses. So specific. Yeah, I don't even do anything to them. They just started.

It's like back to the future. They're just no longer in photos. Right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we will talk about Brain Rot. We'll come back and we will talk about brain rot. Hmm. Skylight Frame is more than just a photo frame. It's the perfect way to keep loved ones close, no matter the distance.

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It's unpredictable. What are we talking about? Last week, we had dictionary.com going with demure. Yeah. C plus, guys. Oxford has announced its word of the year and it's brainure. Yeah. C plus, guys. Oxford has announced its Word of the Year, and it's Brain Rot. Mm. Which is two words.

Like, they even acknowledge it's two words. So there's space in between. They didn't, like, try and one word it. They didn't hyphenate it? Yeah. So I try harder. I didn't go to Oxford, Oxford thankfully because they seem like fucking idiots They say

So that it could be a word It's burnert Yeah Baron it The okay the definition the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material, now particularly online content, considered to be trivial or unchallenging. So just a little background, Oxford in the past had words like climate emergency, another

two-worder, but more recently have gone with goblin mode and Riz as their You can almost map it out climate emergency fuck it goblin mode Even in that dictionary calm like raw dogging was even like a finalist Fuck it. Dude, just a raw dog. Let's a finalist. Yeah, fuck it, dude. Just let's let it go. Yeah. But it's funny. A lot of people have been pointing out that actually brain rot was not first used this year is actually first used by Thoreau in Walden, Walden, where he

criticizes society's tendency to devalue complex ideas And how this is part of a general decline in mental and intellectual effort It leads him to ask while England endeavors to cure the potato rot Well, not any endeavor to cure the brain rot which prevails so much more widely and fatally fucking bars dog Sick burn god was so easy to be a writer Widely and fatally fucking bars dog. Holy sick, sick burn. God, it was so easy to be a right. Correct. But how am I going to tell if I have brain rot? Is it like a stroke? You don't know.

I feel challenged by everything. Yeah, I mean, like, you know, the safe like you've I'm sure you've seen TikTok videos where someone will be like doing a recipe, but on top it'll be like some fucking mobile game or someone playing. You'll just see goo being stretched like on the margins and you're like, what is this? What am I looking at right now or even like the skibbity toilet stuff is is pretty Peak brain rot stuff too. You just don't understand art But I just I do think it's funny that in the context of the Oxford word a few years ago being climate

emergency and now it's gone to Riz and goblin mode that his definition was the devaluing complex ideas and how this is part of a general decline in mental and intellectual effort. Well, now we know who won in the client. Yeah, don't we? Yeah Yeah, it's like Did not I got a toilet men right toilet man. Wait, what? Climb emergency. What about skibbidi, Ohio? No, the earth earth death No, I'm not sure what that show is about is that brat is that bread?

Brat was also on the I think actually Oxford. No, so somebody did Brett I think it was Cambridge. Yeah Cambridge word of the Brett Oh No Collins the Collins Dictionary Cambridge dictionary with a brats Cambridge did manifest. Cambridge did manifest. As in like manifesting? Yeah, but in that very passive way of just being like, if you think a thing, it'll happen. So quit your job and picture yourself living in Bali forever.

And you're like, oh, okay. That's even the most charitable version. There's a little bit more work that has to go into that. But yeah, I mean, that tracks. Let's just manifest our way out of Earth death. If you change the word from, if you put a new word in front of the secret, the book, the secret, right, then it becomes becomes okay again. See, even manifesting is a denial of systems that go into play.

Yeah. When I'm right, I know I'm right. I know I'm right. Yeah. But I mean, I did manifest like a free eight pack of LaCroix sparkling water. Did you really? Yeah. I was like, I wish this was free.

And then like the UPC didn't work. And I think the checkout person missed it. Got it for free. Wow. Manifested that shit've said, manifested that shit anyway. But that's like the kind of stuff you see like people all the time. Like I used to work. I, there's a former coworker I had it like many jobs ago who like on Instagram has completely changed their whole thing into being like a

manifest or professional and they're just feeding people the most nonsense ideas like they are independently wealthy, like their family come from money. But they have this. Yeah, but their whole thing is like, look at all this shit I created with my mind. I'm like, you are a fucking snake oil provider right now. What is this? Yeah, you're like, Oh, my god, I just met I was feeling like I needed to center myself. So I manifested this like amazing trip to go to, to Oaxaca or some shit. And you're like, you're not like, you didn't manifest this. Like you just paid for this and you're living in a fantasy world. But anyway, I had a friend come out

of the trust fund closet with me. Oh, really? Yeah. And I was like, dude, you made me split all our dinners. Is that how they came out? Were they like, and just do you have this one or when does your trust fund payment come through? Is it at the beginning of the month? What?

Wait, how did they come out with being a trust fund kid? I can't remember what it was like. We were having a conversation and then they sort of like slipped it in there. And I was like, I think like we just like become closer friends and then they mentioned it. I think they were asking me for like career advice or something like that. Like, I can't believe you. I think I'm so sorry. Yeah.

Wait, I should have known your last name is general Mills. You know, right there. That was an official designation in the general Mills. I've got this brain rot and I miss these things. Yeah, I get it. I thought that was an official designation in the Cleveland General Mills. I've got this brain rot and I miss these things. Yeah, I get it. They all do. When your last name is Walgreens. Walgreens is the possessive too.

I'm not David Walgreens. David Walgreens with an apostrophe S. Yes, that's right. I should have noticed that your name on the checks at CVS. Yeah. I thought it was like one of those things where people use initials to shorten their first name, CVS Walgreens. That makes sense. All right. Well, speaking of snake oil sales, we do want to check in with Cheryl Hines.

Girl. Of all the people in the world who should be able to pull off this role. Lovable wife of person who is a true fucking monster. It, you know, and yet. Yeah. And yet, and yet she's dude, she's like a social roach. You know what I mean? Any other person being married to RFK junior, you'd think they would be like in

a perpetual L cycle, but she's bobbing and weaving at the right time. She's like, well, I don't agree with my very, I don't know. You strongly disagree with what my husband's saying. Like in getting away with like the Senator Susan Collins way of like distancing yourself from a thing you're totally all in on. It's like, it's very alarming what's happening. You just know how to use a sound bite, which I feel like is what Cheryl Hines does.

Well, and also, wasn't this dude just caught engaging in some extra marital affair too? Did we just- It was emotional. It was not a physical affair. Oh, emotional. Okay. But he still articulated all this stuff and the texts are pretty gross But anyway fine, they're still together. She has like a line of Maha branded candles creams and body sprays again

This is the MAGA adjacent make America healthy again, which means by that let's bring back preventable illnesses No, is it really? America healthy again, which means by that, let's bring back preventable illnesses. No, is that really bad? It's America healthy again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what like, oh, that's how they bring in like RFK into the fold by being like, we're making America great again. RFK, ma ha ha ha. Anyway, ha.

So she, I don't know, is now trying to sell these products and did it in the most un whatever. This is a clip. She's trying to hawk her new products with RFK showering in the background, but her head is strategically placed to block any nudity and is the most contrived fucking thing I've ever seen or heard. You can hear it even without seeing it because this is not a video episode. But this is Cheryl Heinz in her like social video post selling her new skin creams. You can't take a shower. I'm doing a video.

She's holding products right in front of her head so awkwardly. You've got to give me a second. I'm doing a video for Heinz and Jan. This is, honey, the 60% off. That's I mean, so it Honey, the 60% off. That's, I mean, so it's 60% off. Well, hold on. Oh, wait a second. She set up her shot and then he like ran into the back and started showering. It's like any, any version of this is just like, she is in the wrong.

If somebody's in the shower, you can move. They can't shower somewhere. What is happening? It starts off presumed. I don't know where this video starts, but it looks like it just starts off with him in the shower and she's trying to be like, what are you doing? No, what are you doing? He's already in the shower is like, what are you saying here?

But she's like, Oh my gosh, can you? I guess, Oh my gosh. Anyway, 60% off. Here's an old man who used to do heroin, who had a brain worm and sawed the head off a whale and also hit a dead bear in a park and also groped, allegedly groped the, the, the babysitter anyway, here's my hub. Bye bye. Here's Sherrilyn, Sherrilyn Heinz Young or whatever this company is called.

That she started with her daughter. Make America healthy again. So she made a Make America healthy again company. That I mean, yeah, that's what she's, she's draft. She's sort of drafting behind that to sell these other. She's already had this company called Hines. Shout out to all the mahas out there I Yeah, I feel you mama blogger. Yeah. Oh my god. No like real women named maha. That's a real name

Yeah, yeah, it's they've they found a way again to even just sully a perfectly wonderful name. But yeah, now body couple. Right. Oh, my God. I think she was all she thought it was so funny that he was showering back there. It was so funny. He gets in the shower randomly. How Biden ask. I love also the hallmarks of you just like those social videos were clearly the person just hit record and their hands coming away from the camera

Like yeah, like and I hit record. Oh my gosh, honey. It's like honey. Oh my gosh. What are you doing there? Do you know anything about lying at all? Buster like a famous improviser. Yeah, I know exactly. She's not the deal with the groundlings right or second city better That's her background. Yeah, I know exactly she's not the deal with the groundlings right or second city. That's her background Yeah, I know well, but she does she does a great fake laugh and by that it's terrible and it Makes my skin cry. No, honey. No What is even supposed to be happening? Oh my god, you can't take a shot

You can't take a shower. Oh, my God. You can't take a shower. Oh, jeez. Well, just one note. He should have been opening the shower door and walking in if you need that bit. Yes. But again, I'm not giving him a shower as. Yeah. Anyways, hire us, please. My like, you're going to have a lot of money. Zara, what a pleasure having you on this episode of the Daily Zeitgeist.

Such a pleasure. Where can people find you follow you all that good stuff? Leading the fascist democratic movement behind Nancy Pelosi. She's a nice fighter. If I was a fascist dictator, you would find me at ZaraComedy.com. Dot com. Dot com.com.com.com. Wow, beautiful. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?

Okay, I sent it to Miles. Yes. It is. It's a white man, one of the good ones. Should we listen to what he has to say? Oh, yeah. Do you want to set it up? This is just called Why young men are turning Republican.

And the other thing is, it's no secret why white men, I think this is just the caption or the closed captioning. It's no secret that young white men voted disproportionately Republican this past election cycle. And that's not new. That's a continuation of a trend that's been going on for quite a few years. But I want to talk about a few things that I think really ramped it up recently. The first one is the self-improvement industry slash gym culture in general, right? So these things have skyrocketed in popularity since 2019, 2020. I think TikTok has played a major role in that, but they focus heavily on individualism

and they kind of reshape your worldview to think that you know everyone needs to pull themselves up by your bootstraps you're the only one that can make a change in life and you know when it comes to your your your own personal health yeah that's right but you can't apply that standard to society at large because everybody has their own disadvantages everybody's coming from different backgrounds and when you become entrenched in predominantly male spaces whether it's the gym or a jujitsu class or whatever you're not going to make a lot of friends who are women that's just the way it is and even if it's something that's more equal like a running club a lot of guys join

those with the presupposition that they're going to meet someone to hook up with so they're just backpocketing every girl that they meet it is so immensely important to have friends who are women, whether you're single or in a relationship, because if not, Thank you. If the only time that you're ever interacting with women is non-platonically and with the intention of trying to hook up,

then that reinforces the patriarchal notion that women are only objects of desire for men and that not actual people. Oh, damn, sir. Yeah. Well, well, well said. I was I was not saying that as a young man.

I mean, everything is about how guys get put in a friend zone. Right. And it's like, yeah, how about you be friends? Yeah. But that's a zone I don't want to be in. It's called the equality zone. Being held here against my will. Please help.

Miles, where can people find you? Is there work of media you've been enjoying? Find me on the at based platforms at Miles of Gray. That includes Blue Sky. Find me there. Hit me up for a Discord invite on Blue Sky also, if you're looking for one. I want Blue Sky too. Yay.

You gotta be on the Blue Ski-Z. And no particular work of social media I've been liking, but you can follow Jack and I and listen to us in our tortured basketball takes as we watch our teams do whatever they do on Mousin Jack. I'm at Boosties. As well as hear me talk about 90 Day Fiance

on 420 Day Fiance. All right. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien on Blue Sky at Jack OB1, the number one. I've been enjoying, let's see, John Boyce who writes about sports, pretty funny, roach, skeeted, bellowing, too rich for my blood, and standing up from a poker table 0.4 seconds after sitting down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Miles, is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah. Shout out to my homie Mike, who put me onto this rock band called Elephant Tree. And there's an album called The Long Forever that recently came out. Specifically, the track I wanna call out is called Four for Two, the number four, F-O-R-Two. Like you're getting Four for Two. And it's, I don't know, it reminds me of like the deaf tones

and sort of like Soundgarden, Audioslave kind of stuff. And I just, I don't know, it was very nostalgic, like hearing something like, kind of like that. And they do it fantastically. The whole album, I was, I just kept it going as I listened to it. But this is Four for Two by Elephant Tree. Hell yeah.

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