The Daily Zeitgeist - Courts = Oil Industry Savior, Disease X = NOT REAL 01.26.24

Episode Date: January 26, 2024

In episode 1614, Jack and Miles are joined by host of The Bitchuation Room, Francesca Fiorentini, to discuss... Exxon Shows Us Why The Courts Are The BFFs Of Corporations…, Israel Quietly Admits That Gaza Health Ministry Numbers Are Accurate, Another tale of DESERT THIRST from Nancy Mace, Bullsh*t News of the Week: Tom Hanks Doesn’t Own Any Trump-Themed Shirts (And His Head Doesn’t Look That Weird, Either), “Disease X” Isn’t A Thing and more! Exxon Shows Us Why The Courts Are The BFFs Of Corporations… Israel Quietly Admits That Gaza Health Ministry Numbers Are Accurate Israeli Intelligence Has Deemed Hamas-Run Health Ministry's Death Toll Figures Generally Accurate Gaza Health Ministry says Palestinian death toll from Israel-Hamas war has passed 25,000 Another tale of DESERT THIRST from Nancy Mace After two Trump wins, congressional Republicans again fall in line Tom Hanks Doesn’t Own Any Trump-Themed Shirts (And His Head Doesn’t Look That Weird, Either) Image of Taylor Swift wearing anti-Trump T-shirt is altered | Fact check “Disease X” Isn’t A Thing World health leaders warn of pandemic 20 times worse than COVID Disease X Will Be 20 Times Deadlier Than COVID-19: WHO Warns Countries Of Potential Pandemic 20 times more menacing: 'Disease X' unleashes pandemic fears LISTEN: We've Got To Work It Out by AKASee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Happy Friday. Happyuary. Happyuary. January. Happyuary. You know what I mean? You know what that is. It's National Big Wig Day because it's the last Friday in January.

I think you just put on that big wig and just wig out, y'all. It's National Green Juice Day. National Spouses Day. National Peanut Brittle Day, and guess what? My spouse. National Fun at Work Day. Also the last Friday in June or January, whatever. Fun at Work Day. Jesus. Peanut Brittle Day.

A day that all the worst people at the office have been waiting for. Yeah. Do you know what they do? Apparently they did. They said the best way to celebrate. That all the worst people at the office have been waiting for. Yeah. Do you know what they do? Apparently they did. They said the best way to celebrate. Jump on the boardroom table and pretend to surf. This is some HR ass shit. They did a poll of people of like how to celebrate the day.

And they said, oh, what's like, what's the way you celebrate National Fun at Work Day for you? 16% said beanbag toss competitions. 18 or 22% potl luck lunch cook-off and then 44 the big the runaway one was crazy dress up hey come on now little flair yeah i truly i mean the beanbag toss one is so grim it infuriates me it's so bad it's so bad I truly hate workplace cheer like I understand like you want to make things better in the workplace fucking four-day work week yeah that's go home early just go go be with your family and friends don't yeah everybody gather in the break room for the beanbag toss oh my god get there and there's just like middle managers there's one fucking beanbag we want to remind you that they only

have one fucking there's fucking 58 of us your turn waiting can be fun too yeah please don't speak until you get the beanbag and i would like to go first and just say that, you know, here we're a family. And, you know, we don't need any outside unions coming between us. Right. Because we understand each other. Then we don't have open communication, you know. And I always felt like this beanbag really represented, you know, our shared heart. If you unionize, management will not be able to afford beanbags and have fun days like fun at work.

And imagine if we didn't have this day. And also, I'm sorry, but Francesco, we said that Keffiyeh didn't count for fun dress day. It's just a little too... Free Palestine, bitch! See? Oh, no. Okay. Oh, dear. She's done it. My name is... Well, now it's not a safe space i'm sorry

we can keep going this is just the whole episode is us acting this out fun at work that's an aggressive fun at work day jesus uh my name is jack o'brien aka he dashed by me and painted on jeans and all heads turned cause it looked like he peed in the blink of an eye I knew those plumpers and his name he said there's some water eyes he wanted to tame

Ocean City King that is courtesy of La Caroni that we're sharing the same pee. And our dicks, they pee as one. No urine on the run. That is the full La Caroni on the Discord.

And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Miles Gray, a.k.a. Oh, Dream Weeder. DJ Khaled is driving way too fast. Oh, Dream Weeder. Me and Shane Gillis on the same podcast. Shout out to Shawnee Pawnee. Come on, Shawnee Pawnee.

Come on, Shawnee Pawnee. I seize you. You hit me with the dreams with Mac, a.k.a. I said I need Dream Weaver. You came through with that one. Bless you. Thank you. And you listen to the updates. I had the weird Shane Gillis dream.

It's all happening. Miles's rich dream life. We're all living and dying with it. Yeah, truly. They still coming? They're still. They're starting to wobble. The dream weaver's still weaving his.

They're wobbling. They're wobbling. I'm doing the thing now where I'm like trying to document, like immediately, like when I wake up, I'm like, wait, what was that? What was I doing? What was I doing? What was the vibe? What was the vibe? Oh, yeah.

It's coming and going right now. And that probably has to do with the weed being being smoked a little bit yeah but hey and also once you get used to them you know they're not as memorable i think that is probably the other part too because i went from zero dreams to just fucking dream weaver and now like i think i'm i don't know maybe i'm taking them for granted i'm i'm trying to that's that's for myself to do some work you know yeah yeah dj khaled we're all dreaming i feel like we are all having dreams where dj khaled's driving way too fast on the highway yeah and he's being way too casual about it that's right because we all are metaphorically being driven around by dj khaled yeah through our lives from moment to moment that's definitely like a high like me like really really high in the

backseat of dj khaled's like car just like fuck i need to get out right now i feel i'm gonna die i feel so unsafe yeah and he's like no it's all good bro watch this and you just like hitting fucking the turns are way too aggressive anyway that dream is over what does it mean when you know because you're in the backseat of a car and there's no one driving. That's sort of about loss of control or feeling stressed. And I have those dreams a lot. But like you look in the front seat and DJ Khaled's driving. I don't know what to make of it.

DJ Khaled. Yeah, that means a whole nother level. That's like. Yeah. Have I reached a level where he is like serving me and somehow I have to examine how DJ Khaled is no longer serving me in some sense. I don't know. It's like I said, this is for me to figure out.

The unconscious part of the world of your mind telling you that you should write him in for president. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Cause I've already had a great experience with him in control of something already.

I want to extend that now to the entire government. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I see that. Francesca, do you have the recurring nightmare where you're out of, where there's no one driving? You're in a car and no one's driving? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was my growing up. I never had that one.

It was the first dream that I had over and over. You never had that one? Because my mom would always leave me in the car went to like run in to do an errand or something and like no yeah i would have the dream where like the car takes off and you know it's wild nobody did that in my family because my grandmother tried to do that once and i put she had the car running and i figured out how to move the shifter and i put that shit into into neutral and we started cruising and she almost yeah and then they're like no this motherfucker can't be in the car anymore

the lesson wasn't just turn off the engine right it was like yeah no he's figuring it out because it was a pretty young age that i was like oh step on that thing to move the other one like i was like three or four i was like four it was bad anyway well miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant comedian, writer, journalist, activist. Yes. You know, from places like Al Jazeera, MSNBC, The Young Turks. Yes. And from the great podcast, The Bituation Room.

Yeah, yeah. Which has a live show coming up. In two days. Sunday, January 28th, 7 p.m. Co-starring one Miles Gray. Indeed. Yeah, my mother's. Yes. I'm so excited. And it's-starring one Miles Gray. Indeed. Yeah, my mother's, yes. I'm so excited.

And it's sold out. Sold out. Thank you. If you get there an hour before the show, there are tickets released the night of, so you haven't missed it completely. You know, it's a perfect little, like, schedule to go there. Schedule? Yeah.

Like, go there, get your tickets, go have dinner, and then come back. Yeah. So, you don't have to get there that early. but, but like, yeah, an hour before the tickets will be released, you can see miles gray in the flesh. You can, you know, stalk him IRL and it'll be great. I'm so excited. And that is what, yeah, we're, we're suggesting you stalk him IRL. That's, that's, you know, I feel like i'm giving y'all enough of

my personal life on a daily basis we can just probably the stalking alone but hey yeah yeah i've got plenty yeah it's francesca puritano aka hey francesca nice chest there you got there frca, that was literally something that a dude on the street in downtown New York said about me after he was like, I'm going to freestyle off your name. Wow. How do you learn your name? Hey, Francesca, nice chest you got there. Francesca, okay. Yep, yep, yep.

All right. Anything else? No, I just do two bars. That's it. Two bars of Ryan. That's what I got. I don't think he'd ever been hit with Francesca before. Yeah.

And that's how you met Matt. Yeah. Indeed. We've been in love ever since. The rest is history. Wow. How are you doing, Francesca? I'm okay.

I'm a little tired because I had late night pasta and it kept me up. If anyone can relate, thank you. Yeah, I'm sorry that I was acting so insensitive to this. But is it just that merely the act of digestion at too late a point in the day completely disrupts your sleep? That's the deal? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a little bit of, if you remember from A Christmas Carol. Yes.

Ebenezer, when Marley first appears, is like, it could be that you're an undigested piece of meat, you know? That moment, you're like, oh shit, like an undigested piece of meat keeps you up or you're having weird dreams and whatnot. Turns into a ghost. I mean, that's just science. Exactly.

Visited by three ghosts and I emerge the same bitch as yesterday. Even worse. I definitely sleep much better if I emerged the same bitch as yesterday. Even worse. I definitely sleep much better if I don't eat right before I go to bed. Yeah, same thing with alcohol. A couple hours.

Yeah. I sleep so good with a full belly. You're like, I don't know why. It's very sumo wrestlers, you know, they think,

I'm so jealous of their life. They just get up and eat like a Donbury, just like tons of like whatever meat or over like a thing, my massive thing of rice. It's called Chankonabe. That's what they eat is like that big, they eat a big ass communal bowl of just calories.

And then go night, night. Yeah. Got to, got to. Just because they can't expend the calories. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. If they have a day where like like a day like i have on a regular basis where i'm feeling like pretty late what most people would describe as pretty lazy they're like oh my god i'm falling behind i need to be like yeah in a fucking coma today to catch up for on all the energy i expended yesterday exactly absolutely absolutely what a life. Holy shit. Good life.

All right, Francesca, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today. We're going to check in with the good people at Exxon to see how they're dealing with just the slightest, the whisperiest hint of climate accountability inside their... Full shit your pants mode. Yeah, yeah. Israel has quietly admitted that the Gaza health ministry numbers are accurate. Wait a second. That's not...

But I was told, even from President Joe Byron, that he doesn't believe those numbers. What happened? We're going to check in with Nancy Mace. We'll also look at some of the stories that didn't happen this week, but that you might have heard did, or at least some people on the internet are saying did, such as some pictures of Tom

Hanks wearing various political slogans. Disease X. Disease X is the big one. That's the one that even I saw, and I keep my eyes closed for most of the day, as mentioned. Yeah. All of that, plenty more. But first, Francesca, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history?

Okay, so I was listening to this podcast, Radio Ambulante, which is in Spanish. It's like an NPR storytelling podcast. It's really good. And they're doing a series on Nayib Bukele, who's the president of El Salvador. and they're doing a series on Nayib Bukele, who's the president of El Salvador. And I didn't know this, but Bukele is of Palestinian descent. Like his family is Palestinian. He's part of like, yeah, an Arab Salvadoran population.

But, and I was like, oh shit, you know, could be an incredible moment for a Palestinian or a president of Palestinian origin to say fucking something in this moment. Googled it to just make sure, like, obviously this podcast is doing their research. I was like, oh, I had no idea. And of course, what he said in this, you know, time of genocide is anyone who stands with the Palestinians is a terrorist. So not only is this dude, you know, trying to run an entire country off crypto, not only is he routinely just imprisoning and massively sweeping up any man, you know,

between the ages of man or boy between the ages of like, you know, 16 and 50 and imprisoning them preemptively calling them all gangsters, but then he's also like, has no, any kind of, you know, solidarity with his own people, which is actually pretty surprising given, I think like Palestinians in the diaspora are generally like, will speak out in favor of their people. Cause their parents were the ones who were like displaced in the Nakba. Cause nobody else will.

And because nobody else will. So it's just very interesting. It's like, oh yeah, because he's a right winger. So of course he's going to It's like, oh yeah, because he's a right winger. So of course he's going to throw his people under the bus because he's a right winger. He's like, yeah, that cancels out. He's like, I have no identity except

the right wing. Yeah, except many. But yeah, that's what I was looking at. What is something you think is overrated? Award shows. Oh, come on. We love them here. We think they should be covered breathlessly. People are getting robbed, Francesca. Just robbed.

I can't believe it. I just, let's just call it what it is. Let's just do a fashion show. Let's just have a camera in the Vanity Fair party and watch, you know, like. Right, like Big Brother style. Yeah, watch Margot Robbie, like, be cute and off the cuff like watch ryan gosling like loosen his tie a little bit like i just that's all we want to see is pretty people doing like doing fun things everything is i just hate award season and award shows and i guess i

may be a little bit salty because no one's using their platform to say fuck all about you know genocide even folks who i know are down i know are cool are still shook as hell yeah i'm just tired there's so many and i like want to be the person who's like yeah i'll come over to your house and we'll watch the shit i don't give a shit about yeah it doesn't mean i don't value acting writing directing all that stuff but like the awards the award show it's it's such a it's so obvious and at the and off the back of the you know the strikes show. It's such a, it's so obvious and off the back of the, you know,

the strikes, the SAG and WGA strike is such a like participation trophy. Like let's, it's the equivalent of corporate fun day in Hollywood.

It's, we're going to give you little prizes and a party. So you forget about all that other shit. Even though we're going to like, like routinely underpay you and no one's actually going to talk about how much they made because you got half of what he got.

Right. Anyway. Yeah. I mean, I was really heartened by that Hillary Clinton tweet. It gave me strength to get through the news cycle. The way, my goodness, the way she's able to center herself despite everything as much as anyone get it yeah okay you wanted the you wanted the box office or ballot box it's like jesus please yeah no that was awful also she stays being so cringe like i have to hand it to her like no like to be so consistently cringe is

not easy no that's an art form it is yeah she should win a best original something for her ability to constantly remain in character at the most unexpected of times and just find a way to insinuate her very specific brand of cringe. That was up there. I mean, one of my favorites was hot sauce in my bag. That was like... So try hard, yeah. I was like, yo. So we should say...

She knows a moment, you know? So we should say specifically what happened, she tweeted at Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie and was like, girls, I get it. While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. You're both so much more than enough. Hashtag Hillary Barbie, which isn't a thing. It wouldn't be Hillaryary barbie you idiot it'd be like pantsuit barbie or political barbie or you know um robot barbie or warmonger barbie or you know centrist barbie or fucking never gonna be president barbie like that's what who you know regime change barbie right right right

oh yeah i digress i mean no she's it it caused the it got the reaction i think she wanted you know i think it did you are enough more than enough jack more than enough yeah this is so much i mean let okay just just like two cents on this i saw the movie i love the movie i am i was wondering i wonder if there's like regime change warmongers in this all-female you know uh congress and whatnot there probably are i guess sure but my guess is not like i think under the matriarchy we'd have a lot less war i truly believe that but i did walk away going you know who really crushed this guys on popular opinion fucking ryan gosling he crushed my takeaway too he crushed it's not only that he was and and look greta should have

been a nominated for best director greta gerwig was totally snubbed that was a snub margot robbie was good i'm not sure it was at best actress level but ryan gosling was like hilarious also like sad weak but angry but like machismo and then he fucking danced and sang i don't know what more we want like he truly deserved to be nominated best actor like he came away with you and we're like yeah he was the best he truly was the standout performer of it yeah yeah yeah more on that later but what is hillary clinton thing yeah that is the question that was on everybody's mind thank you queen for filling us in i i 100 agree with that i think greta gerwig was a snub but ryan gosling was the performance that i walked away from being like that. I mean, he probably won't win best supporting actor,

but like, I think he should like, he won't because it's like too funny. And the Oscars are like, that's not serious, but he, that show is hilarious. But Hey,

at the end of the day, it won't even matter. At the end of the day, whatever, you know, whatever. Francesca, what's something you think is underrated, though? Okay, so I have to correct something that I said last time, which was underrated not sleeping with your cat or your husband in bed.

And I realize I've, you know, it caused some pangs of panic. Nobody knew how to respond. Put everyone on blast that, yes, sometimes, you know, we have to sleep in different beds so everyone gets a good night's sleep, even though I had a terrible night's sleep last night. So underrated is my loving, wonderful husband, the father of my daughter, Matt Lieb, who is great, who even though we sleep in different beds, we have a very robust, we have a perfect sex life, to quote Alan Dershowitz. And that is who you want to be quoting when you're talking about your sex life.

No, no, but just to say, look, it doesn't mean that you're going to get a divorce. It doesn't mean you don't love each other. Everyone should feel secure out there. Don't you hear the security in my voice? Yeah. Why is Matt crying in the background, though? Yeah, yeah. What's he doing back there?

Yeah, Miles and Jack were very... You guys were both awkward when I said we were, like, not sleeping in the same bed. You guys were both like... I did. But I'm here to say...

I'm here to say that it's okay and that I love him no matter what. And one day, we're going to get one of those king beds that are like actually separate

yeah I don't know Jack this sounds like damage control to me fam it 100% is it is all the times I just kept saying trouble in paradise yeah yeah yeah this is no this is 100% damage control and it's directed

at only Matt Lieb. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, I definitely need my own blanket. Yeah. The more I get to that, that Scandinavian style, it's like, bro, you need your own blanket. Because the fights that occur over the blanket tussling, nah. Occur?

No. Occur. Wow. Especially because you're taller. That was my Hillary Clinton. Oh my God. Wow. The fights that O-cur between me and Bill over the sheets.

Oh my God. I'm surprised she didn't do a tweet like that. She's like, you know, despite what is a cring in power time, it's like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, put the Barbie down. Yeah, I think it's great. I've definitely taken some time to sleep in a separate room. I think it's wonderful for your sleep sometimes it just depends you know yeah really does just depend well i mean also like i think if for anyone who like actually reacted to that

like being like oh my fucking god they sleep like it's the fucking death knell that's a fucking death rattle for a relationship it's like come on y'all like no it isn't well no it's not and that's why i think it's but but it's okay to hear it. Because here's the thing. If all the audience found out after, like, or if you guys found out, anyone found out after, like, I didn't say it,

they'd be like, oh, now you're like, why are you keeping it a secret kind of thing? That's why I'm like telling my friends so that when they, you know what I mean? So it's like, so that they don't find out later and they're like, I didn't realize you guys have been sleeping in separate beds. Like that, it's not about that. It's like, no, no, this is like- Did you hear? I mean? So it's like, so, so that they don't find out later and they're like, I didn't realize you guys have been sleeping in separate beds. Like that is not about that.

It's like, no, no, this is like, I know I'm getting very warm. Even just, it's like a pro sleep move, you know,

it's just about sleep. Yeah, of course. I mean, that's not, there's not the real, for me, I get into bed like this second I'm about to sleep.

Like I'm not one of those people who hangs out in bed and does a ton of shit. So it's not like, that's really not a venue where like my relationship with her majesty is like we're making like dreams and memories and shit like that it's more just like yeah here's a place i sleep exactly rest of the house sleep the problem is that i think also it's a little bit of a flex it's like saying you have like seven kids or whatever or like sleeping in separate beds or separate rooms it's like you guys have two rooms like who has the luxury to do that you know right yeah that's called the time out bedroom yeah exactly but you know it's uh it's good my cat's still pissed she's been peeing all over the place luckily matt does not pee all over the place uh to protest so but the kitty

and that is a flex also that you have a husband who doesn't pee all over the place isn't it though yeah yeah congratulations wow because yeah jack and i are like looking nervously at each other right now yeah yeah no my wife would say the same thing right now i do not i don't pee in the linen closet and she's very proud of me for that yeah we're going to dave and buster's later to celebrate i've been about that would you like to go to dave and buster's later to celebrate. I've been about that. Would you like to go to Dave and Buster's, babe? She said, I can play whatever I want. I can play the Jurassic Park game.

I can play Halo for like five hours in a row. It's fucking awesome. In the arcade? Yeah, dude. Halo. That's the big game. You can play that there? Yeah, you can play Halo now. They've got this this giant like wide screen experience oh they do have that big shooter game you're right yeah you play that with your kids

i don't play it but my uh seven-year-old will play it until i like drag him away because he is suffering from malnutrition like he will just play withering away yeah like yeah oh man i just imagine a seven-year-old with like a beer a very long beard yeah so wispy but so it's good though because i always know where he is you know just follow the trail of the long beard yeah all right we're gonna take a quick break. We're going to come back and we're going to check in with our good friends at Exxon, who we can trust to solve this climate thing. NBD. We'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.

And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration.

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She's been listening. And she has questions. So I'm just saying, dude, I was telling you off mic. Same with my mom. She got questions, too. She's she has again. She does analysis, which is hilarious. That might be a podcast.

Your mom should get together and do a podcast. That's just like the after show. It's a rewatch of this podcast. Right. Or like live commentary. podcast. Right, right, right. Or like live commentary, right? Where they figure stuff out. They break it down. And she's like, I wish Miles would wear something other than a t-shirt.

That's probably what my mom would say. He always likes t-shirt. Oh, man. I love t-shirt, Mom. What can I do? Let's talk about Exxon, though. I believe they were, were they the ones the first to find out about climate change back in the 80s they were among they may have been at the forefront of that yeah absolutely but they're currently right now they're busy suing a group

of activist investor groups uh arjuna capital and follow this for attempting a hostile takeover wait no it's a bad hug actually. They're suing them in court to prevent them from even proposing to other shareholders whether or not the oil and gas giant could do a little more to curb greenhouse gas emissions. So this spring, the company will have a round of proxy voting where shareholders can weigh in on company operations. And this specific proposal that is being forwarded by these activist investor groups, they're just basically saying,

first of all, this thing is non-binding. It's a non-binding resolution. So fragile. And they're just being like, man, maybe take a look at what the emissions are in terms of when the products are burned and also how the products are cultivated and extracted. Maybe look at how you can cut back on that and maybe do that in a little bit more of a slightly aggressive pace. But the thing about it is it's non-binding and also barely

has a chance of being passed. Like the last time these groups got a proposal like this in, it was rejected by nearly 90% of the fucking shareholders. So this is what makes this story interesting is normally, right? A company can go to the SEC and have a proposal like this removed through like a special request. But apparently the Biden administration has been less accommodating to CEOs who try this kind of thing. And so basically what is an earth fucking company to do? That's right. Go to the courts that are pretty much bought. So they are filing a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Texas, which is famously being manned by two Trump appointees, one who is doing the whole Mefaprestone thing that is basically going to make its way to the Supreme Court eventually, and the other who is the person

that blocked the White House's student debt relief plan so they're they got lucky enough to get that judge judge mark pitman who's also a huge federal federalist society creep yeah the same federalist society that receives funding from exxon my god so all this because they can't stand that a group uh would be just so audacious to even ask for, you know, increased consideration about the state of the earth that they're just destroying in real time. So it's just a really wild thing where everyone's like, damn, like you just really just, just go straight to the court.

Like you don't even want to bother with the SEC for something that isn't even like, again, it's a non-binding resolution. They don't have to do shit. They can be like, okay, we heard you on that one, but we're not doing it. I think probably because their whole argument is like, they're trying to destroy our business and the way we do everything. So, no. Right. If we investigate in this, to say nothing of if we disclose this to our shareholders, it could cost us profit.

So, therefore, it's illegal? I don't fucking think so. mean yeah with this i guess with this judge yes but right but from an objective perspective it makes sense that if the person is investing in your company they should have more transparency they should understand and there should be basic investigation into yeah the impact of fucking yeah fossil fuel emissions well we did that a couple decades ago and it freaked us out because it said it we were fucking up so bad so we just decided to be like shut the fuck up man just let's fucking yeah we buried it like a bone in the yard but never to

dig trust us we got this yeah right yeah but yeah they are the energy companies are going to fight and claw for every last decision. Like, I mean, they're so far out in front of this, just trying to make, fight, win, win battles that will make it so that it never even like crosses your, you know, attention. so early on in the process of like before a non-binding resolution on their board even like comes up like raising the possibility they're like actually we're gonna sue you and ruin your family's fucking lives uh if you even bring that up like it's it really is going to take an all-out war on these people to turn this around. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's what Bill McKibben always says, right? Like that we have to treat fossil fuel companies like the enemy.

Like we have to treat them because they treat us and life on the planet as enemies and they treat the earth as expendable. And it also shows, I mean, look, I think it's really nice that, you know, some people really focus on corporate boards, just the way that folks focus on statewide legislatures. Perfect example of another place where we're like, all right, we're going to do, you know, small d democracy at the statewide level. But if your corporate board or your statewide legislature is run by a bunch of powerful right wing goons, and you do something democratic, or you try to make those attempts, they will override you. They will, you know, and again, I don't want to make it's not a one to one, but they'll override

the will of the people when it comes to, you know, any kind of like ballot measures that get passed that state legislatures don't like. And the same with the shareholders. So it's like, truly, there is a role for government to play when it comes to climate change it's the only thing that is going to work is real regulation and come on withdrawing the amount of subsidies that we give them meanwhile you know this is like what we've never been extracting more oil than right now in like recent memory yeah i was like wait i thought we didn't we hit peak oil yeah no no i love when we discovered that we were never gonna like that we were gonna die before we hit peak oil because like 15 years ago i was like well so it's all gonna be fine because there'll be peak oil and it just won't work anymore

and the energy for peak oil dude i don't even fucking know bro this shit keeps going i have no they were like they're more like then then they discovered natural gas. And it was like, no. And it's even worse for the whatever. Call it CNG. Let's call it CNG. That sounds a little more fancy than just saying out loud compressed natural gas. Oh, yeah. CNG.

Yeah, it's even more of a greenhouse gas. Yeah, it's a CNG-powered car. Yeah, CNG-powered bus. All right. Yeah, it's a CNG powered car. Yeah. CNG powered bus. basically saying that the number of dead in Gaza is coming just from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. And so can you really trust those numbers? We sure don't. Oh, wait, we actually do. Turns out the Israeli intelligence officials have confirmed that their government uses those numbers,

the numbers that they've been saying. They themselves are like, we have been using those numbers ourselves in our intelligence briefings and have determined them to be credible. So when you hear from the Gaza health ministry that, you know, thousands of people are being killed. The Israeli intelligence officials have determined those numbers to be accurate, despite what they want you to believe. So when you say we just crossed the 25,000 death threshold, that that's, they, now they're even like that, that maybe that's credible, despite what like Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would say earlier. I mean, anything out of Hamas, honestly, should just be treated with skepticism, even though you guys are seeing actual footage of the decimation. And I know it just looks like concrete buildings and stuff and rubble, but I guess there's people in there.

I guess there's people in there. And now we're just coming around to the fact that it's like, so it's such an embarrassment again, like just with having to even be an American and look at this and have people being like officially like guys, guys, guys, it's not that bad. Tens of thousands of people are not dying.

What they're saying is a lot. Oh, okay. What? So, okay. Yeah. Okay.

It might, it might be, it might be. I mean, that's exactly, you put your finger on it because it, it's all about perception and it's about American voices and American leaders and Joe Biden. And often what happens, what gets admitted by the IDF, what gets admitted by Israeli officials in private is never openly said. And when they speak in English and they do their pressers and they give their talking points to Joe Biden, it is no, you cannot rely on these figures because it's a Hamas run, you know,

health ministry slash the only people who are allowed in there to help anyone. And oh, by the way, there's no functioning hospitals anymore in Gaza. So the point is, it is. And also by let allowed in there, they're still killed by the Israeli military too. No, exactly. If you want an independent, I mean, so there's twofold. It's one, the propaganda is such that they're going to still say Hamas run health ministry. Yeah. Number one, but privately they will, they will admit and know that, yeah, the numbers are 25,000, if not more, however many thousands are buried under rubble. But yeah, it's the other part of that is, well, you could let in international observers, just like you could

let in international journalists. Oh, you don't want to, or you don't want to protect them, or you're going to kill them. All right, fine. Well, that's a whole nother thing. Right. And we even just saw too, like how people were blocking aid trucks from even entering also, like it's, it's such a disgraceful situation and like every time like i just think about it it just it's just like so i don't know it just it makes you feel like you're in some kind of parallel twilight zone universe where like there's clearly groups of people who are so deeply affected by just witnessing what is happening and others who are doing bending their minds into pretzel shapes to act like this is justified or

okay or just treat people they're like oh those people are brainwashed if they think what's happening is a genocide without even considering the fact that there are many people who understand the tension of like the imperial west and what oppression looks like and what liberation looks like and maybe those people see some dimension of what is happening there and say, that is very similar to something I have experienced or my family has experienced or the diaspora I come from has experienced and not taking any of that into consideration. It's just so easily dismissed as it's fucking tick tock. It's this, it's that it's let's, let's help conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism or people who are speaking critically of the Israeli

government with wholesale criticisms of the entire religion. And yeah, it's just, and to see how that is just, you know, seemingly gaining more and more momentum, it's exhausting. And yeah, but now Joe Biden is fully trying to ignore that now and he's just running on row. And that's all's gonna i think that's like the main thing dinner bell he wants to ring going into november row row row despite all the people that were speaking out at that last rally he had exactly and like what's the plan for row anyway and it's it's yeah i mean the election aside what's crazy about as we find out you know more and more of the talking points are just that they're just lies when it comes to this assault on Gaza. We don't attack hospitals. Oh, but you literally systemically targeted them. And now none of them exist anymore.

Well, we don't target civilians. So we don't all this. Oh, well, the numbers are lies. The goalpost keeps moving because the next line of, okay, so 25,000 civilians have been killed and 7,000 are under rubble. So? Like, that's literally the next line is, so what? It is. Or it's some version of, it's war, you know? It's war. And that's just a shame, you know? But that's just the reality. But that's just the reality. No, I'm sorry. Like to call this a war is so fucking funny. Like it is like this is some coward ass shit. This is not a war.

And even if it were. So let's just go with the idea. And this is the last I'll say about it. Let's go with the idea that it is a war. You have to abide by the rules of engagement in war. Yeah, they have laws. And there are laws around war. So it actually benefits israel to say no no it's not a war ergo i get to kill as many civilians and doctors and journalists and you

know uh uh babies and incubators as i fucking want to why because it's not a war it's a genocide it actually helps them to say that if they admit that it's a war they say that it's a war well then you actually have to abide by the rules of not killing those people. So it's they they constantly move the goalpost on us. And again, it's all just a justification, which, yeah, man, after this, I don't know what I don't know what's next. And the thing is, after it's like it's when is after. Right. And it's just disheartening, too, to see people who have been so sheltered in their lives and know nothing of what it could mean to be completely disenfranchised that they have absolutely no ability to like empathize or understand that, like, you know, you could you could just as easily be very specific worldview where you're like, I live in America where that shit will never happen and I'll never need help. And like people who need that's just not me and I will never be needy and I will never need anything. Meanwhile, when there's a blackout for like two hours, you're like, oh, my God, how do I charge my phone?

Like motherfuckers have no idea how to live. Meanwhile, like women are using tent scraps as period like pads in Gaza. Like they're getting C-sections without anesthesia that means death but like literally as someone who went through childbirth and thought i was gonna throw myself out the window and just shouted dracarys and waited for a dragon to light me up like like that is death that is just straight up you cannot survive that kind of surgery without anesthesia no yeah and it just like it makes it very like whatever the whatever the next you know global horror event is going to be like the way

people are going to insulate themselves psychologically it just it just freaks me out like how we're completely wanting to be like like what like we're trying to fucking play like we have some sort of like amorphous definition of what humanity is and what someone deserves as a human being and that is really one of the most unnerving parts about all of this is just to see how quickly people can like like to your point change like move the goalposts or just merely change the definition of someone who deserves or doesn't deserve to die right yikes. Just trying to blank it all out as much as possible. All right. Let's take another quick break and we'll be right back.

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I'm not hugely engaged with the day-to-day happenings of the House of Representatives. Leave that to the former wonky people like me who are just like, what? What? What? What? Because, yeah, a few weeks ago we talked about Representative Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican, and her just her desire for constant attention. She will literally do anything for attention from contradicting herself, constantly flip flopping to get on TV or giving her staffers the actual mandate to be like, y'all need to book me for at least 15 appearances on the television per week. And that's a fucking order. Yeah. At least.

At least. Are you James Carville? Come on now. Yeah. I mean, come on now. Too many appearances. Start a podcast. Start a podcast where you talk about secondary syphilis.

You know what I mean? That's what happened. That's what Nancy Mace needed to do. And get down there and get with the alligators. That old boy got to clap. That's what happened. That's what Nancy Mace need to do and get down there and get with the alligator. That old boy got to clap. Got to clap, which is funny because he got it on his hands. And then we use hands for clapping. So that's double clap.

That's clap squared. But anyway, most recently we're talking about it because she when Hunter Biden showed up to like an oversight hearing. She had a meltdown and then said he had like no balls because he was doing white privilege or some shit. I forget. Controlled meltdown. Yeah. Or she said, you're the definition of white privilege, Hunter Biden, and you have no balls. And it was really hilarious.

And she got on TV. But now we've just found out there's new reporting that when she was a freshman, OK, on January 6th, she had the ultimate plan to get on TV and send her stock rising as a then aspiring anti-Trumper. sensed at then president donald trump that she brought up the idea of approaching rioters head on in the in the capitol in the hopes she would get punched in the face and become quote the face of anti-trump republicans she explicitly told them that the multiple people gave quotes that she wanted to quote get punched in the face for quote media, media attention. Do it. Yeah. Do it. This is like Mike Pence being like, I mean, if I just gave him a little bit of my neck to hang me like a bit,

but then I was like, you know. Not that much. Okay, you had your fun. I'm on TV, right? Like that. I don't hate this, you know, because at least it seems like she's willing to, you know, stick her neck out there. Although I guess she wasn't being called to be hung. But her face out there for sure. Yeah. Like she. Why not? I mean, you saw Josh Hawley run away. It seems like Nancy Mace was like, no, let's go. And also to be like the face of the anti-trump republican even though would have been so what's so funny about this story is if she had gotten hit which immediately everyone

would have made fun of her it doesn't matter it doesn't matter if she'd gotten unless she was like killed right they'd be like okay slow your roll but if she got like slapped or punched maga would love it they would think was. And then she would kiss the ring. Like three years later, she'd fucking kiss the ring. Like she is now saying like, Donald Trump's got to be the nominee. All good.

Even though she don't decried January 6th. Yeah. And now she's like, and I, you know, I'm about my girl and Nikki Haley. Cause we're Palmetto gang out here. You know what I mean?

It's South CAC all day. Oh, actually no, I'm with Donald Trump. And i believe that he is truly the the mind head and god figure of this party but i like to your point it shows how down she is like when your thirst is that extreme that you're like yo yo yo let me get duffed out like that'll like that'll help i'm ready to eat that there's plenty of opportunity i mean like you like you mentioned with josh holly like i mean he was running for what he thought was his life you

know he was scared a lot of the people were scared it seems like she would have had the opportunity to follow through on this plan they but they were begging her to not is who was the her staffers they're like they're like no girl that's they're like that could be like some hold me back shit what you think i'm sure for those staffers they're like they're like i don't know man like what okay i'm just like thinking about how she seemed like in the hunter biden thing like you it was you know very clearly like planned choreographed but she was like you don't have ball like she just seemed like a little oh i don't know she doesn't seem fully about it in the moment in your safety she would have run away and left her staff to get hit for her but i got hit slash

my staff got hit right and by the way that was me also i think it was a massive misread i think her staff clearly understood this. Like, these fools didn't come in through the entrance. They didn't go through the metal detectors. Like, they came in through the window and they were most definitely armed. So, yeah, you want to just get hit and slapped for a viral moment? Nah. The other thing is, I'm sorry, Nancy.

They would have been like, who is you sorry nancy they would have been like who is like we are like yes it's me nancy you're not you're not in con get the fuck out my face lady i'm saying stop as an anti-trumper they're like what are man just leave this this lady is distressed leave her alone where's nancy pelosi's office you know what i mean that's which probably would have hurt her ego even more so who knows what would have actually happened but again it's just like it just under underlines just the sad state of like congress you know it's like we're we barely have like maybe three people who understand governance or legislation anymore and now we just have all these like wannabe fucking influencers who are

like yo dude dc has like the best content really feels like influencer shit at this point yeah like especially that kind of shit we're like yo if i get punched it's youtube prank video shit exactly exactly social experiment so sad and yet it is the last place in the country where you can still hold a job and be like a sexual predator or a thief or yeah like conspiring with foreign governments and getting bars yeah you like you can't work at avans if you have any of those hanging out you can't be a war criminal at avans well you know depends on i think in northern virginia there's a couple of specifically they actually only hire war criminals, former war criminals. It's pretty woke, pretty progressive.

It's the Langley to Kroger pipeline that they have, yeah, for certain people. It's like, oh, you ran a black ops site? Okay. How are you with the stocking stuff? Yeah. All right. Let's check in with this. There's a new trend of, you know, the the ap has a segment a section of their website that's like stories that didn't happen this week

reuters has like a debunking section so we're just gonna do a little smattering of the fake news from the week and these will these will be like different genres some of them will be like yeah you probably heard about this and like this first one is just a series of pictures of Tom Hanks. Like in one case, he's wearing an anti-Trump t-shirt. In another case, he's wearing a pro-Trump t-shirt. These are apparently going viral. This is not one where I'm like, I feel like we need to debunk this because I'm worried people believe it and think it can do, you know, this is going to do damage. I'm more people believe it and think it can do you know this is gonna do damage i'm i'm more like find it interesting that we are desperate for tom hanks to be like wearing

political slogans on his t-shirt like why do we need him to weigh in on this via t-shirt it just it's very specific well because like the first image where he's wearing like a nope not again with like it's like the o on the word nope has like the donald where he's wearing like a nope not again with like it's like the o on the word nope has like the donald trump cloth with a red tie sort of thing and you have like right wingers being like if you ever needed another reason to vote for donald trump in new hampshire today here it is and it's tom hanks because i think for them they look at him as like the fucking like proto lib you know what i mean like he is like he represents like this hollywood thing where it's like yeah maybe he's not controversial but this is like this is the

kind of people that we're talking about yeah everybody wants approval from dad i know i was gonna say like it really is like daddy issues this is like it's like tom hanks imagine thinking he was some kind of evil pedophile gremlin dude. He just looks like he would hug you and tell you he was proud of you, a la Joe Biden to Hunter, which is the worst thing they could possibly imagine. He's like a supportive father. Like, oh, that's why our nation's weak. Yeah. Also, the t-shirt connection from forrest

gump remember how forrest gump was always inventing t-shirts oh yeah have a nice day like shit happens have a nice day so maybe there's something there because it does seem like there's multiple so most of these t-shirts are actually from t-shirt like making companies most most of these like viral fake pictures are from t-shirt companies that are trying to sell these t-shirts is it tamu i think it's a bunch of different ones okay yes tamu is my fave keep america trump i mean the shirts kind of suck i will say so there's uh keep america trump list and then there's vote for more like so some people are trying to make it seem like he is pro Trump.

Like it's all different versions of Tom Hanks wearing political T-shirt. And the slogans like vary based on like whether he likes Trump or not. But yeah, I'm like, there's also like a Taylor Swift one. But Tom Hanks, for some reason, is like the choice of people who want to sell their political T-shirts. Tom Hanks is too rich to be wearing a graphic tee. Exactly. That's just how that shit goes. And I'm sorry.

The only T-shirt I would believe him wearing is like something that said like Bumbleclot or something that his son got him while he was in Jamaica. Yeah, he would just support his son's T-shirt business and just like wear that. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I vote for no bomb but not Trump, no. And you're like, oh, okay. Well, maybe that's Colin's new hustle or something. The big one I did see in headlines was disease X. And it did seem like the headlines were misleading around this.

So you could have been led to believe that there is a new illness called disease X that's 20 times more deadly than COVID and that it's being discussed in Davos right now. So disease X was being discussed in Davos. It is just a word that they're using for a hypothetical pathogen that is used to help plan for future health crises.

It's not a real disease. And by plan for they mean make money off of. Yeah. And yet some of the I mean, this is what's fucked about like our for-profit healthcare system and pharmaceutical system is like, like, I don't trust the people at Davos to talk about like pandemic preparedness at all, right? You do trust them to be like, well, how can we actually like turn this into a profit for us? You know, are we selling space on our little floating island or bunkers?

Are we going bunker yet? Or because I got bunkers or are we just making money off of any and you know breakthrough scientific breakthroughs and it's just so upsetting because you know disease x is like oh they're all the davos all the elites are talking about how to get another vaccine into us and all that shit and it's like it's like no you're almost close all these rich motherfuckers are there but they're figuring out how do we make get our coins exactly the next one it has nothing to do with like hurting you or hurting your pockets but they're not interested in that they're like yo when that shit hits again and this one goes harder

than fucking covid what are how do we get our shit together so we can man like you can't just be bezos and fucking must getting all these fucking coins like we need all them too like they were made those people billionaires did make a shitload of money during covid and off of covid but i mean they made the money from the united states government they got in on those fucking loans that i'm still mad about like i'm still mad that my podcast didn't get a loan like i'm mad that like i don't first of all i got to incorporate obviously number one yeah any idiot knows you gotta have an llc and i guess i'm an idiot but it's like everyone got some of that money everyone got some of the loans and didn't have to pay it back yeah chloe kardashian yeah i mean you know mad she was hurting so i mean just to like some of

the headlines that talking about disease x are pretty misleading like the hill had the headline world health leaders warn of pandemic 20 times worse than covid like shit what that's reckless that's a little reckless disease x will be 20 times deadlier than covid 19 w-h-o-1 countries of potential pandemic that's the the health site so yeah i don't know it's but it's so not even a new term what's the new covid strain called it's got like a mill it's like xc wow all that like they're all weird com like you know whatever bad password combinations auto-generated passwords so like when you disease X, you think it's an actual thing. Right.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. They need to clarify. Just for all y'all, it's JN.1, which is now the dominant strain in the United States. 60% of cases are now JN.1.

That could just as easily be a variable. Yeah. JN.1. JN.1 sounds like, like a white dude's like rapper MC name in like college. You know what I mean? N1 JN.1 sounds like a white dude's rapper MC name in college. You know what I mean? Dude, don't call me Jason Norris, bro. Call me JN1, bro.

Jason Norris is done banging the same way. I don't really go by Jason anymore. It's so weird that you keep calling me that. Yo, it's either Jace or JN1. Why one? Because I'm the first of my name even though i am jason norris jr but i fucking hate my dad who's paying for my tuition and that's how i rebel that's why i also got these dreads that are very dry

very smelly shit yeah i don't know how to do them to be be honest. And I knew, like low-key, I felt bad having this kind of black hairstyle. And so I didn't want to ask them. So I just kind of rolled it up with some sand and shit. Are you black? No. Jason Norris? I mean, Jason Norris? Jason Norris, no.

But JN1 does have two- thirds black friends and is aspirationally black. There you go. Like Elon Musk with his Judaism. Two thirds. And I do keep a detailed spreadsheet of the racial makeup of my friends at all times. So I just know my percentages so that I can put them back to anybody pointing out that I'm being racist. Exactly. Actually, let me have you,

let me point your attention to the 6L spreadsheet real quick. Look at my pecan pie chart of my black friends. Why did you have to go that far? Francesca, as always, what a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow follow you all that good stuff yeah um find me at franny fio on all the socials twitter

instagram tiktok but um you know all specifically youtube where you can find the bituation room podcast as a video stream or you can listen wherever you get your podcasts all right is there a work of media that you've been enjoying by any chance? So this is from Gen Z White House, kind of like a lefty Instagram account that has a very non-PC quote from Bhagwan Rajneesh from Wild Wild Country,

the guru in that, who is saying this about democracy while simultaneously there's an exit poll from YouGov that shows that 82% of Republicans have a favorable view of Donald Trump. 82%. Okay, here's Bhagwan.

Because democracy basically means government by the people government by the people of the people for the people but the people are retarded oh my god fucking Bhagwan it's God. Fucking Bhagwan.

It's truly the most Bhagwan-ass, like, quote. He's so high. It makes so much sense at the end of that fucking dog-greep series when they're like, oh yeah, he was on heroin the whole time. I need to re-watch it because I just remember, I was like, I don't feel like anyone did anything wrong. Right. It was just more like. Other than they put poo in those like on the salad bar.

Or just ground up beaver, you know, the beaver, the like beaver blood. We're like a beaver in the drinking water. That was bad. But yeah, so that's just a classic Bhaguanism um even though he was you know said that word and that's bad but it is it just there's no way that will not make me laugh every single time uh miles where can people find you is there working media you've been enjoying find me on the app-based platforms at miles of gray hey and if you haven't gotten a ticket, I'm sorry for you, but I am going to be in San Francisco this Sunday with

Francesca and many other guests at the Gateway Theater. Maybe show up a little bit early. If you're having ticket problems, I feel bad for you, son. Yeah, exactly. There's still tickets available at the door, but you've got to show up. Show up. Pull up. You know what I mean? Help me not have a dream later

that night if you catch my drift. And let's see. You can also find Jack and I on our basketball podcast, Miles and Jack. I'm Matt Bustis. And find me on my 420 Day Fiance podcast. That's the one we're talking about 90 day with Sophia Alexandra. A tweet I like is from Kate Morrissey at Pony Baloney City that tweeted, Gen Z rebranding Manhattan as Work Island is so healing

and I hope it takes the rental market. That's amazing. Fucking great. Work Island. Work Island. Jesus. That's so true. It's either it's that or like selfie island.

Right. Tourist island. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. To quote pusha sorcha nia tweeted oh my gods what an annotation and it's the beginning of an interview with a vampire i think which opens i didn't realize how this book was written but it opens the vampire

list at here i have a story to tell you It's about something that happened to me and somebody just hand wrote above it. Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. The vampire list at here. So shout out to Sorcha Nenea. It's not a great film, but that's, that's so funny.

It's so good. Hey guys, welcome back to the YouTube channel. Lestat here. Anyways, you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com,

where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy miles what song do you think people might enjoy on this friday i was re-watching the seminal comedy south side uh and i was just man there's this there's one episode that put me on to a new band and it completely blew my mind the band is called aka and they're an indonesian like hard psychedelic funk band whoa and this track that they play in this one scene it's like it goes so fucking hard it's like hendrix and someone in the comments like it

mixed with cream and it was just a really really dope track it's called we've got to work it out um it's from an album called hard beat it's very difficult to find on certain streaming platforms it's definitely on the youtube uh but i'm telling you guys if you like like psychedelic rock like funkadelic kind of shit but like indonesian swag on top of that aka with we've got to work it out. Go. Go. Let's go.

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