The Daily Zeitgeist - CUOMO OUT, MTN DEW About Nothing 8.11.21

Episode Date: August 11, 2021

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Where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Tuesday, August 11th, 2021. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Jack. Jack in the New York groove. That is courtesy of Suburban Panic Attack. A man after my own heart. And I am thrilled to be joined, as

always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Oh, thank you so much. It's Miles Gray, a.k.a. the vape cloud tornado, Hideo Noho, winding up for another big ass hit. Great to be back. Great to be back.

Thank you so much for having me, Jack. Thank you so much. Yes. Good to see you. Back as co-host. Yes. After some other guy was filling in for me as the host. Yeah.

That guy crashed the show into a ditch. I know. That's what I heard, man. I heard it was real. I heard he was all kinds. Yeah. That guy crashed the show into a ditch. I know. That's what I heard, man. I heard it was real. I heard he was all kinds. Yeah. Anyway. Moving on.

But back from New York where I actually got to witness the people start wearing masks again. No, unfortunately not. But I saw the shift as kind of the world. Of mask free to being like yeah yeah yeah so shout out to new york city well miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat uh by a very funny stand-up comedian writer and producer one of our all-time favorite tdz guests you've seen her on mtv e comedy central central her stand-up album opinion cave debuted at number one on iTunes she has performed everywhere from a basement in

the ominously named Whitesburg Kentucky to the stages of the Kennedy Center she is the talented the hilarious Brandi Posey! What's up? Brandy! The Scott-ess. That's what I'm talking about. You know what I mean? The Scott-goddess. Yes. Thank you so much. Oh, man.

What a high honor. I love hearing shit said to me because I'm like, oh, yeah, I have done some stuff. Comedy that makes you feel... I feel like that's been the responses

to the new revamped intros that Jack and I have been doing. People are like, holy shit, that's right. You know, because uh revamped intros that jack and i have been doing yeah holy shit that's right you know because i feel like most especially comedians are so self-deprecating like when you hear all that you're like oh yeah it's kind of like what my therapist was saying what if you guys called my dad and read that list to him uh with the same energy yeah yeah exactly coming to the stage we should just start selling that as intros. Miles and I do intros for just anybody who wants to pay us a couple hundred dollars. It's nice.

Yeah. And look, full disclosure, it might not be us. We might outsource it. Oh, for sure. We're just talking about passive income. I'm reading this real cool book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Really great stuff in there. Really great stuff.

Really realizing my dad's so poor. Also, the mileage may vary if you haven't performed on the stage at the Kennedy Center multiple times. The intro might not be quite as impressive. I might not be able to sell it with as much enthusiasm. But, you know, we'll do our best. I will say, in the tradition of being a self-deprecating comic, the second time I played the Kennedy Center, I had to come back to LA

to start my three-week shift as a mall Easter Bunny in Eagle Rock. So... You don't get paid to do that shit sometimes, guys, and unfortunately... How's the Easter Bunny bunny job pay though pretty good well it's mostly for 17 year old boys so 33 year old women shouldn't be doing it it's okay if it's like a summer you know i'm not a summer a spring a spring job right right

spring fling yeah which brought a certain energy to the role that I feel like many people recognize. Oh, I made several kids cry. I crushed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. Because they get in your lap, you're like, what are you doing? You're all shit. You're like, I don't know.

This kid's sensitive. Weird. They tell you specifically you can't speak to the child or make noises. You have to be silent in the bunny costume. And if the child, multiple times I had a kid would look at me inside of the mouth and be like, I see you. And then what you're supposed to do is take your bunny hands and you cover the mouth of the costume and just shake your head at them like this. Oh, no, you didn't.

No, you didn't. No, you didn't see me. There's an adorable version of that, but there's also, like, a Donnie Darko bunny version of that where it's just, like, unbroken eye contact, shaking your head. Maybe do a little throat slash after you. You put on like ghoulish fang makeup and all kinds of character makeup underneath the helmet, so when they look in there, they're like, I see you, and you're like,

and they're like, you have a blood capsule that starts leaking out of the mouth. Yeah, absolutely. The eyes. It's fun because what you're doing is the mouth is the only source of light and oxygen inside of the costume so you're just enclosing yourself into the darkest darkness that you've ever seen and then just denying your very existence to a small child and the dry sucking air through this sad pathetic hole yeah yeah it's uh why does easter

bunny have such a gaping mouth was the eas Easter Bunny, like, horrified at something? I'm just trying to picture this Easter Bunny's... Just a silent scream. You know, it's just... Your standard Easter Bunny. Where's the sound? You died long ago, young man. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. Hey, but most Easter Bunniesnies the parents send the kids the kids don't come back wizened and you know more ready for life than they do when when they come see you as the easter bunny no no just a little bit more world weary and ready for whatever life throws at them yeah i don't i don't really know why we have an easter bunny to sit take photos with because there's more fun holidays i think have like there should be like a halloween thing or something i'd love a halloween photo i guess because it's so you know wrapped up in christianity because i mean he is risen if you forgot that part brandy and you need your photo

to prove it you need to prove that jesus was the son of god and had risen from the tomb but i feel like at that point like i'm why haven't they just done it feels like with the way capitalism works eventually it would just be a statue that people sit on and take a photo of because it's it's a it's a moment you know what i mean and then yeah go sit on this inanimate easter bunny thing and pose with it and then be on with your day i don't know we'll get there if we don't if society doesn't collapse or you know turn into ball of fire we'll we'll make a statue of an easter bunny yeah we'll figure out how to get humans out of that easter bunny don't worry a couple bullet points down the list there's a nice little chunk when kids like my five-year-olds out of it but my three-year-olds heavy in it where if they see a you know costumed

character they believe it's the character from tv and are like insulted if they don't like interact with them and are like think that any interaction or game they played to that point like that they've earned some respect and like friendship yeah but my friend had a batman dress up at his birthday when i was like four but he was like two years like my cousin so it was like older kids slightly. And I remember being so pissed off because this dude was so like stringy and like lanky in this tight ass

janky Adam West Batman costume. Batman looks like shit. And I was like, no, motherfucker. Where's my fuck? Where is the fucking OG Tim Burton one? Where's the Michael Keaton Batman? This motherfucker got me fucked up. His belt buckle doesn't do shit. And I remember it was like

really hard for me to accept that someone could don a costume and not like pull it off. You're like calling his name from the side and when he was able to turn his head around, you're like, see? That's not a real Batman. He just answered to Andy.

What the fuck is this guy? Tim Burton Batman, famously, That's not a real Batman. You're not supposed to see. He just answered to Andy. What the fuck is this guy? Garbage. True garbage. Tim Burton Batman, famously, his head couldn't turn to the side. Yeah. It was something Andy. Just fused plastic. Just fused plastic on his shoulder.

But also, those boots were Jordans, if you remember. Yeah. Part of the costume, they were Jordans that he wore. He made all black. Before you get into it, i do want to tell people miles this this all happened when i was away yeah well your live show bombed me we were scheming though we were in the lab yeah yeah yeah no i'm super excited to announce that we will be doing a live show on august 25th 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. You can catch the live event.

If you aren't available at that moment, you can always watch it later. But we would love for you to be there live. Kick it with us. We will have lots of surprises, special guests. It's going to be a blast. This is the show that we were planning to tour with before the pandemic ruined that plan uh one of the worst things the pandemic did i think we can all agree um sure okay yeah i mean you know maybe that's too much risky take but you know what i'll go with you as your co-host fuck yeah it was yeah it was dude

anyways you guys can check out uh get tickets at momenthouse.com slash the daily zeitgeist. That's momenthouse.com slash the daily zeitgeist. Get tickets. It's going to be a moment. It's going to be a moment. All right. Let's tell the listeners a few of the things we're talking about, and then we'll get to know you a little bit better, Brandy. First up, Quono.

Quono. Oh, no. Quono. He has has resigned so we'll talk about that we'll talk about why my phone is going off right now no i kind of like it resigned yeah exactly oh yeah that was just my alert was my alert for when uh cuomo was gonna resign sorry i'm back from uh back from the East Coast. All my times are thrown off. No, no, I thought you guys had music coming in underneath the summary. I was like, production kicked up a notch.

Hell yeah. Justin, let's leave it. We're going to talk about Obama's birthday party, just like watching from a distance. That story was kind of fascinating to me. We'll talk about whether AOC is running against Chuck Schumer. She's not. No.

But CNN wants you to think she is. We'll talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene. We'll talk about alcoholic Mountain Dew. All of that. Plenty more. But first, Brandi, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? The last thing I actually looked up was Laurie Kilmartin wiki feet, because I'm going to text thread with Laurie and she was really down on herself

the other day. And I was like, girl, I'm going to see if you got a wiki feet and she does and she's doing great. She's got like, she got like, she got all sorts of beautifuls, all sorts of pretties. If you're a female comic, you have a w wiki feat i don't know who the hell is doing this but it's a a common refrain with a lot of our guests talking about it they're like i don't know how it happened there's only two pictures but it's there oh i've got i've got a lot i've got somebody that definitely listens to my podcast and posts and wiki feet goes through my stories because i'll show up like a couple hours

after i post it's whatever sometimes i'll i'll bait it because like i i like a i stubbed a toe last year on a hike and i like posted a picture and i was like i dare you to put this on wiki feet and he did and it's just a disgusting photo wow they really are getting caps of your ig story yes yeah yeah absolutely bringing my rating down i don't give a shit i'm wild i'm gonna hook you up i'm gonna hook you up right now i got a bunch i got a bunch of sock puppets i use to get these get these ratings up thank you but yeah it was a wiki feet super user yeah it was just letting la know. I know, who would do that? Who would know you and go on your Instagram stories like that and then post on WikiFeet? I have no idea.

I've tried to figure it out because I've looked through. I'll post a story with a foot in it, and then I'll look hours later and be like, oh shit, it's somebody that's in the Watchers. But then it's like there's too many at that point that they won't show me all of them, so I can't cross-reference. I got a lot of red string over here trying to figure out who the fuck is screencap on my feet right and yeah like i wish there was a way to simply just like

with a couple tweaks you could instantly identify who it was yeah but that's the struggle these days yeah i mean that's gotta make i feel like that would make you self-conscious if like people were commenting on your feet and your job is to stand with your feet at eye level to an audience. I mean, of all the things that should make me self-conscious, that's on the lower end, unfortunately. My feet are good as hell. Whatever. I just. Yeah.

I'm strong. Yeah. Thank you. You know, also, I wish that they. Yeah. Thank you. You know, also, uh, I wish that they would Venmo me more than anything else. I'm like, you've got all this free foot content at the very least. Randy Posey.

Your feet are so good that, uh, some people have speculated. It's the reason you got into standup was to put your feet at eye level. Exactly. Exactly. A bunch of admirers. What is something you think is overrated?

Okay. I'm going to use this as like a personal manifesto moment for a second i'm gonna i'm gonna try to put this into the zeitgeist the 12-foot skeleton is overrated wow because i want one and i don't and it's they're all okay i was i at a home depot yesterday and i saw it in the rafters and I asked, hey, can I have that? And they would not give it to me. Yes. They've been delivered at the Home Depots, but they haven't been on the floor yet.

I thought you meant like you saw it creeping around on the ceiling. Oh, I guess. Hey, can I get that one? Oh, you don't want that. That's Bill. He used to work here. Now he haunts the rafters. Rafters like some

Phantom of the Opera show. So I'm putting it out there. 12-foot skeleton is overrated. It's hacked. Don't get it. Especially at the Glendale Home Depot. Don't even try to go there and sweet-talk a manager

into giving it to you early. Not going to work. No, it's bullshit. It's it's stupid the burbank one by the five freeway i hear their plum out of them but anyway exactly exactly exactly you've been pretty consistent with your love of 12 foot skeleton if i recall i love them so much there's one in my my neighborhood nearby that they dress it up for a different costume for every holiday all year long. It's so funny. Oh, it's a consistent skeleton display? Yeah, it's just been consistently up all year.

It's so funny looking. It brightens my day every time I see it. Me and my neighbor want to put one in our yard and we're going to put one mini golf hole underneath of its feet so you can shoot. Oh, I love it. Just put right into it. But I need to get one this year.

I'm in a 12-foot skeleton Facebook group because they're so hard to get. I want one so badly. And you can't buy them online, right? Because they're hard to ship, I'm assuming. Well, no. They're completely sold out online to the point that, and they were also limited to two per order because they're showing up on eBay

for like five times what they're actually worth. So they even took down the link from the website because they aren't going to stock them online anymore. So now you can only get them at the store and each store only has like eight to ten of them because they're such big boxes. So you have to know the day that they drop on the floor. Yo, site gang, help her out.

I know somebody. And look, I get Home Depot, the owner of the company, not the greatest guy. But if you got the inside track, please help Brandy out. Yes. You deserve a 12-foot skeleton. Thank you. Look, it's the only thing. I go to Lowe's for everything else.

I promise I do. I hate Home Depot. I just want a goddamn 12-foot skeleton. That's all I want. And they got just the market locked, huh? Yeah. You can't go anywhere else. I think this is something the Senate needs to take up. It sounds like some kind of a monopoly. Chuck

Schumer, ring, ring. Yeah. Suddenly they're like into antitrust shit because it's the lowest stakes and it's just basically being like, no, Home Depot can't be the only place that does that. See, we know how, we know what fairness is. I'm going to get Diane Feinstein on the phone and be like, you, Home Depot can't be the only place that does that. See, we know how, we know what fairness is. I'm going to get Diane Feinstein on the phone and be like, you like skeletons because you are one.

I got a 12-foot skeleton. Yes, she's like, what? I have melanin? Oh, no. Never mind, Diane. Never mind. What is something you think is underrated? Okay, also going to use a manifesto moment for a second here. The fourth wave of ska is alive and well, and it's not getting covered the way that it should be. So it's extremely underrated.

This summer, we've had amazing new albums from We Are The Union and Cat Bite and Ska Tune Network and Half Past Two. They're putting out amazing new albums. These are more like diverse ska bands than ever before. They're fucking awesome. They're like all fronted by ladies and they're the shit. And nobody's talking about them,

and they're extremely underrated, and if you want to feel cool, Ska's back, baby. Okay. I'm just putting it out there. I remember asking, this makes me reminisce again, whether it's 12-foot skeletons and fourth-wave Ska. I only like five things.

I only like five things. Skeletons, Ska. They're still cool things. I only like five things. Skeletons, ska. They're still cool. Anything with an S-K. Yeah, exactly. Wasn't there a candy bar called like Score? Like a score bar? With an S-K-O?

Yeah, with like an umlaut over the S-K-O-R. It's probably delicious. I did notice that you got a big wad. You're dipping some skull right now yeah so i'm into throat scancer and scofield revolvers but okay so and what's what's the what's the version i grew up loving like what's the op ivy aqua bass that's like that's like third wave that's third okay yeah that's third wave second wave is like the two-tone that came from like the uk once like

the reggae artists like right over there like that yeah so now we're kind of we're coming back around to like a lot of the new bands have like they're much more focused on like racial unity and like they're anti-capitalist and like they're they're fucking awesome and it's exciting to see and they should be supported. Hell yeah. Just throw it out there. Give us one fourth wave Scott song that people need to check out to act as an ambassador.

God, I don't know the names of songs. We'll write out on that song. Right now, give me a second. And then you'll hit us with a dope fourth wave Scott track. Cool. Thank you. Thank you.

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You didn't hear them shouting from the windows. Hey, I'm governor. I was kicking it with him, but he wasn't really bringing it up. He kept talking about that book deal he eked out at the last second amidst the pandemic and how to, you know, obscure death counts in elderly facilities, elder care facilities. But yeah, yeah, look, in case and I know, Jack, you're being serious, so I will explain what happened. So Andrew Cuomo, he's the governor of New York and he's been embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal. Tish James, the attorney general of the state of New York, released last week a scathing report with all the findings. It was essentially saying, like, it arises to criminal sexual harassment

at the state and federal level. And I think at that point he was like, because the thing is, everyone was like, this is bad. I wonder if he's going to resign. And he went down a fucking weird road on his way to resigning first i haven't been following this but did he go with uh my parents taught me to be handsy and then here's a highlight of uh i'm not perverted i'm italian i believe was yeah yeah one slug that we saw on tv my hands are just flopping and flipping i don't i don't know what

they're touching it's like a perverted bart simpson of like i'm just gonna walk this way and grab whatever comes into my hand what do i do with these hands if they clasp like this and there's a something there i don't i can't do anything about it so he had these like first of all his lawyers said some real dumb shit that they're like do you think that the governor would actually molest someone in the governor's mansion where he is constantly being observed? That would be absolutely ridiculous behavior. That was like their defense. And most people like, right, that is ridiculous behavior. And that's what he engaged in.

So I don't think that I don't think that negates. OK, sorry. Then he did the mixtape. He put out the mixtape of him violating people's personal space where he was like yep i do it all the time in an attempt to try and dodge the accountability and then pelosi joe biden they were like hey you need to give it up his close his executive assistant who's also kind of implicated in this shit melissa derosa she resigned then britney camiso who was another person who worked for him, she

gave up her anonymity to come out and bring more allegations and then demand that he be held accountable. And just when you thought the state legislator was like, I guess we're going to have to impeach him because he's not doing the right thing. He's like, I'm out. Yeah, finally. I mean, he also listed off every different

kind of person that he's molested. He was like, I've molested old people, young people black people short people yeah yeah if you got skin i've touched it baby like if there's a parade for you i touched you yeah yeah exactly like in defense of himself and you're like buddy this is none of this is not the defense you think it is. Yeah. And, you know, I think the all of it came together. He realized it. There was the jig was well and truly up. Like, there's no way you're going to dodge this. And I think the other thing, too, is that the people, you know, Democrats, too, they were like willing to impeach him and not only just look at this like explosive report but

they're also like you know we also are really curious about the nursing home deaths in new york that you did a good job of covering up and i think that created a bit of a a log jam for him realized that he didn't maybe want that public but there's a lot of stuff that it's just weird how much this shit swung because last year motherfuckers were so horny for this dude. It was like, yo, I wonder if he's chill and has nipple rings. Remember when that was some shit we were talking about? I was like, yo, does Andrew Cuomo got nipple rings under there? He's like, he's like, he looked like it, though.

Go for that. Oh, you seem like, unfortunately, yes, that's the problem. Right. And I think his like reasonable guy bit looked really good when it was set against the backdrop of Trump's absolute absurd handling or mishandling of the entire pandemic. So we had these Cuomo tinted glasses on. I mean, I think most people were like, this still is not great. Well, the media really wanted to paint him that as the savior because they also were like i mean at that point too they were also like anybody that keeps bernie sanders out of the white house maybe andrew cuomo

will be the answer right i do i do love fucking joe biden being like you touch a lot of people inappropriately you're gonna need to resign buddy yeah and a sexual harassment allegation i think you should resign i'm sorry joe interesting coming from remember tara reed or is that is this we're being really selective here yeah but this is the other thing that was really wild too like this also got people in the times up organization caught up yeah roberta caplan who's one of the founders of times up you know it's like that group that was created at like the height of the Me Too movement to sort of act as this organization to provide legal advice and representation for people who were being harassed at work. You know, she was also she argued the same sex marriage case in front of the Supreme

Court. She resigned after it was revealed in these in this report that she was advising cuomo's office on how to publicly discredit lindsey boylan who was one of his accusers so chris and again this is the same time's up to say oh sorry tara reed we can't help you because we don't want to lose our non-profit status by going after someone who's running for office yep and a lot i feel like a lot of things were revealed very like quickly with just it's not just andrew i feel like a lot of things were revealed very like quickly with just it's not just andrew cuomo but a lot of the failings of you know these other organizations as well oh absolutely well i mean it's so it's as long as i agree with your politics then you know it's infuriating and it's also just like it really undermines there's there are a lot of really good nonprofits out there but so many

nonprofits also sort like serve as a place that the the will of the people and the energy to people just like get sucked up into it stop because they exist to like just serve the status quo in a lot of ways and it's really frustrating especially with something like this it's like how many you know

times up like me too things have like just died because you know okay well that organizations is is on our side they're taking care of it and it's like how many you know times up like me too things have like just died because you know they're like okay well that organization's is is on our side they're taking care of it and it's like not really because they are ultimately beholden to the power of that they agree with right and also that's the class that they're from too these are all elite people who who are the founders of the organization and at the end of the day like when you're fundraising that's part of being a non-profit yeah you got there's a lot of navigating you have to do. And it's not just Roberta Kaplan, who had like, you know, this kind of stuff come out, there was an also thing Esther Chu. She was also like, there were 18 members of like this healthcare organization.

They're like, yo, you, you like you just failed to report a sexual harassment claim at the hospital that you worked at. Yeah. So it's, it's definitely, you know, it goes to show you the limits of sort of what some organizations can do, especially when you think of like how the leadership is composed because

they're, you know, looking out for each other, essentially. Yeah. It's like class will never betray class will never betray itself at a certain level right unfortunately and that's a lesson smear an accuser yeah absolutely the the neoliberal sort of centrist position has just been the status quo for so so long that it just fucking infects everything that is not like, does not define itself in opposition to it.

And so. Well, and it also points out, I think something that has always been an issue with the Me Too movement and Time's Up is also like, there is no element of like restorative justice. There is no second step, which also makes it so hard,

I think, to like, once somebody has been accused, then they get canceled, then go away. But these organizations have never been like, okay, well, how do you make amends?

Like, what is the way to still exist in a society with these people in some capacity? Is that removing them? Is that like, you know, there needs to be a second step acknowledged

and they just have never wanted to talk about that next step because they're also all financially comfortable and they also don't think that it will ever affect them directly, you know?

And that's it so it's always Had like a second problem and it's especially True in cases like this because it's like We can't cancel Cuomo because then He'll just we won't have him As a pawn on our board anymore Right Well yeah now New York has their first woman governor

Because of this And the other thing is it's like the couple of things that A lot of people point out in our absolute love affair of the the guy who sat down in front of powerpoint presentations every day to be like this is where we're at and this is what we're trying to do there are a lot of things that he did that people just sort of overlooked like he was first kind of being like the pandemic's not going to be that bad saying you know underplaying the severity of it also just didn't want to lock the city down i think you know that's i think that's would have

happened to any leader because they were not well i mean it is what that is but yeah definitely a misstep but then in march of 2020 what like ordering that nursing homes accept COVID patients from hospitals, that was a huge, huge disastrous fuck up. That was the first act of the cover-up of nursing home deaths that I hadn't fully let enter my brain as part of that story. But that was why he was so... It wasn't just keeping New York's numbers low. It was because he made a controversial decision to let people who were leaving hospitals due to COVID related things back into nursing homes. So it was like covering his ass for an earlier, highly questionable decision. we have how many empty apartment buildings are there in New York right now?

I mean, I look around LA. I can't imagine. It's probably comparable to how many just like fancy high rises just are, just are open. How many hotels? Nobody was in hotels. There was no reason you couldn't accommodate a hotel and put people in that for like recovery.

It's a capitalist plants taking care of itself. Yeah. Cause it's like the, with like this sort of neoliberal thinking, the charity only works to a point, and that's when it could potentially cause a business owner, like a mega business corporation,

they're like, we're not paying. That's not our problem. And we need that fundamental shift where people go, no, it is all of our problem, actually. We're trying to have a just society, so we have to figure out how to support each other and make sacrifice won't someone think of the hiltons won't someone think of the hiltons exactly i mean wasn't one of them recently was like

she's like i hope she almost died of bee stings god for god's sakes so please yeah exactly anaphylaxis is not a joke but please please think of the Hilton. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. I know you guys covered the Obama birthday party a little bit when I was out, but I just like kind of thinking to me as like like just the overall the fact that an event that featured hundreds of unmasked people wasn't canceled the fact that the list seemingly was curated to be just the most famous people when too many people became an optics concern the fact that there was like logic inside his social circle like somebody from martha's vineyard came out and was like it's not a problem because it's going to be a sophisticated guest list who

like knows how to social distance. And then the fact that like at the actual event, the people working the event had to wear masks while the guests, it was optional. Yeah. Which is hilarious. This is hilarious because the comedy stories have come out in the last couple of weeks of like rich and famous people that like, are just like just don't bathe i just don't do it right and i'm

like uh just because you're rich doesn't mean you wash your hands bitch right but i i like it made me think of like this like what has happened to obama post-presidency being part of a design of our society when someone is a generational talent with good ideas and an amazing skill set and even if their whole message is change and empowerment, they become immediately, by becoming famous and by the nature of fame that exists in America, they're immediately ensconced in a layer of wealthy people and famous people and billionaires. And they just never have to come into contact with the unpleasantness of the human condition condition basically ever again it's just like we've created this

drug of fame that's just like too good for people to like pass up and and so they just like it really saps the the talent pool of people who are you know trying to help other people with like the actual problems that affect human beings like in our modern world like it just saps that of some of the best talent that that they should be like that should be feeding into it absolutely well even like on a smaller but just as important scale to some degree, a lot of colleges, our scientists, our biggest minds coming out of colleges and stuff right now are being like, what's the word where you go and you look at them? I don't know this word. Where you go and you look at the kids and you want them scouted.

Jesus Christ, we got there. Look at the kids. I want that one. Scouted. Yep. Found it. Found it. But a lot of our most talented college kids

are being scouted by oil companies and Wall Street and CIA. So they're being pulled from, these are people that could be making a difference, but they're being inundated with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of student debt. And they're like, well, I guess I'll just go work for Chevron for a couple of years and pay off my stuff.

But then you become insulated in this world because the dangling of years and pay off my stuff. But then you are, you become insulated in this world because yeah, the dangling of, of money and, and everything over you, it just, it makes it so hard for talented people to, to say no to it a certain way.

It's infuriating. I mean, to quote real big fish feels like a bit of a sell out move, you know, corporations will give you lots of money and everything's going to be all right. I got a 12 million mansion in martha's vineyard fucking shit's 12 million dollars his house in martha's i mean that's you know like when you're doing shit like that yeah it's i don't know anybody

who could keep their shit together oh yeah i don't like i really do think it's part it's like either it's a design like an intentionally made design and system. Like, I, but that's what, like, I've heard people being like, he was, like, rotten from the start. And, like, you know, this is just and like turn them into, you know, a fucking commercial for like good feelings. A baller ass hologram. Yeah. Yeah. It's so hard to because it's like for a while post-presidency I was like, you know what?

Some motherfuckers made death threats against you and said horrible things for like eight years and I'm so sorry. You get to do as much as you want with Richard Berenson. You have a fucking blast. Now you get to go have fun. I mean, I'm going to give you a little bit of time because as the first black president

in this country you got treated worse than anybody else. But a lot of shit has happened and it's like a voice of a leader like him and like what he is capable of orating and like what he is capable of saying like would have been so helpful and it is so hard to lose that like power vacuum in this moment even i mean even now it's like i haven't heard biden speak and since inauguration um right i don't know there's a documentary uh that i'm drawing a blank on but that looks at tupac chakur's mother versus like him and like the like his strategy of going through entertainment and like the world of celebrity to like try and have an impact versus like hers of like back when I think this was more possible of like doing a more revolutionary,

you know, approach and like actually like attacking the problem. And it's just, you know, if Tupac was still around, like who knows, but like I, you know,

it just seems like this world of like commercials and billionaires and billionaire friends and google camp and like whatever just swallows people up and it's like almost too good to to resist yeah and i think yeah and everything reinforces that message because there are people who have rejected that and just don't get covered or don't get right yeah yeah mom like doesn't get covered even though she right like defended herself and like just had this miraculous like underdog story and in court like and defended the black panthers and like should be an oscar winning movie movie, and nobody told that story. Oh, for sure.

I mean, it's like, you know, presidents are repped by CAA and stuff. You know, I mean, it's all a profit centered at a certain point. Entertainment will defang you no matter what point you were trying to make because at a certain point, the people that rep you or above you

are interested in maintaining that neoliberal status quo because they, once again are of that same class and they want to just maintain it you know and it's it's it's infuriating to to see happening but you know at least that i guess that what they do is like look put all your fucking values aside and ideological beliefs aside you're gonna party with beyonce and jay-z and fucking martha's vineyard bro are you ready and it's like right like i guess that's cool like i don't know yeah also i'll say this like his house is tacky as fuck like i've seen pictures of it and i was just like i know you had you used to have better taste than this i know you did and now your house looks tacky as fuck it's like you also get rich and you lose your taste because you're not around interesting artists or people that are interesting

at all anymore right that part of this is i mean it's all very upsetting but like that part upsets me too i'm just like really god you got all this money and no swag what the hell's wrong with you why are you so fucking tacky right rich people always got tacky shit it's so all right and one other story that seems like i don't know it seems like at least cnn is trying to make it a story and there's just nothing there yeah aoc running against schumer yeah i saw that and i was like oh okay let's see what what this is about and the article it's promoting this new interview special that she has coming out on cnn and like in it she's just talking about like her overall political goals and you know other interesting stuff in it too like you know balfox is obsessed with her yeah but like there's nothing

where she's like unequivocal about how she's going to be running against chuck schumer like in fact she says like she's been working with him on some stuff and that's been great. The couple of things that she has said, which are like, I think kind of to your point, too, Jack, about this whole thing, like, oh, is she going to run for president? She said, well, I struggle with this because I don't want little girls watching or anything like that to lower their sights or anything in that direction. But for me, I feel that if that was this, if that was in the scope of my ambition, it would chip away at my courage today. I think what happens a lot in politics is that people are so motivated to run for a certain higher office that they compromise in fighting for people today. And the idea is that if you can be as clean of a slate or as blank of a slate, that it makes it easier for you to run for higher office later on.

So you're like, oh, okay, that makes sense. And then when they said, okay, what about Chuck Schumer, like, you know, trying to get her to say something there said, I know it drives everybody nuts, but the way that I really feel about this and the way that I really approach my politics and my political career is I do not look at things and I do not set my course positionally. Right. Yeah. And there's a lot of people who do not believe that but really i can't operate that way i can't operate the way that i operate and do the things that i do in politics while trying to be aspiring to other things or calculating to other things oh chuck you're gonna let her say that

shit damn oh dude you're fucking cooked bro and you know this it goes along with like a lot of the because she's done on the progressive wing of party, like a lot of people like see, she's just grandstanding. Like she just wants to do this or that. It's just I don't know. It's just really tired. Well, it's cool. Cool job. It's bullshit, too, because it's like this is like actually the way this country was like kind of set up as like our politicians are supposed to come in for like one or two terms and get the fuck out like career politicians because then you you do have that like fearlessness to actually push in

everything versus like if you have your sight on like oh i'm going to be in here forever you know you're supposed to be like i'm going to come here do what my constituents want for like four fucking years or whatever the hell and then i'm going to go back to my goddamn farm afterwards you know and then just go be a person around people again but you know it's once you get ensconced in that world it becomes it's yeah it's hard and it's and then to her point about like the triangulating that people do like it's so true like people go in there like his big brother or survivor fucking the challenge or some shit where they're like all right you got to keep your head low in the early rounds yeah and then so nobody can really put a target on you and then

you're gonna come up out of nowhere because you positioned yourself perfectly to get into office not to change outcomes for human beings yeah and i think those are hopefully we're seeing more shifting away from those the triangulating types but i don't know the way the way the system's set up i don't i don't seem like it's so hard we just if it is then they're gonna run shit like this about you and be like oh my god like what's she really saying here she's like right i don't know that i'm trying to improve things for people first like yeah it's like i was saying my job sandra should have attacked biden from the right flank during the campaign and that would have been the like that's the you know people like having the ability to do that makes you better at whatever this fucking game is yeah well and it's funny

because also like using like bernie as an example it's like this was bernie's career was just like i'm gonna do what is bernie's career still it's like i'm gonna do what i believe and keep doing it and i'm not gonna try to seek higher office or whatever the fuck but if it happens it fucking happens and then he was he's extremely he's the most popular politician in america and like family members of mine that are conservatives are like i don't agree with him but i do respect him because i do like him because yeah which is weird consistent the entire time and you're like damn like hold on so you're willing to say that just because of consistency it's like you know how inconsistent the people and never mind i mean i know then you just disassociate and you're like all right i'm just gonna stick to that first sentence and then

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Keep going. You got this, girl. She's living on the edge. So she got banned for a week right now. It's her latest ban because she went on a fucking yeah another week-long day a week-long ban week-long vacay i want to see you be brave twitter i know seriously she was she was saying like you know the vaccines are failing and the fda shouldn't approve them because people are still getting sick. So wait, hold on. Like, are you outraged because you believe in ethical, like, like effective vaccines? And that's what you're worried about.

It's you don't know what she's getting at. And also, like, again, I think for most listeners, they should understand that there are breakthrough cases for vaccinated people, but they aren't even they are rare when when you compare them to what is happening with unvaccinated people and how much danger that unvaccinated people are with this new Delta variant. And yeah, a couple of things is in her home state, vaccination rate is about 39 percent and her district. It's even lower. So their whole thing is like, yeah, this isn't just like this is so cynical. Like, you're not just questioning things. You're actually out here trying to get people to, like, you know, work against their own self-interest in terms of their physical safety. Yeah.

It's also like you're killing the people that voted you in, you dumb bitch. Hey, I mean, look, I'm not good at math. That was a Daily Beast article today that said something like the death count in florida now exceeds desantis's margin of victory yeah and that's not all republicans unfortunately it's a lot of all kinds of people but yeah that is kind of what's happening where it's like you know this this isn't a good idea even just like rhetorically or just from a pure statistical from like an extremely selfish cynical standpoint even just for your own personal shitty reptile brain self-preservation maybe don't advocate for the killing of the people that put you in office yeah that's okay well some people are just stuck

on troll mode yeah i mean i mean that's like that's fully it yeah that's where it leads you like when you when you exist for no other reason except to be contrarian and to troll and to pwn the libs that's not a that's not a logical rational route that you're going to take to the heights of success like it's going to you like you see how it's happening with every single person especially with the stop the steal stuff it. It's turned into this thing like, fuck, man. I'm getting sued. I can't even practice the law. Is this working the way we thought it would? I know I was getting retweets and shit,

but it's not really doing anything for me. Yeah, retweets don't really do too much. You don't get paid for retweets. She also won't tell people if she got vaccinated right it's a hip it's a hip violation if you ask me okay just like you definitely got by you so she's also definitely been vaccinated is what that says i mean yeah maybe but yeah i don't know but that's a hip violation allegedly right and they're like that no that's not how that's a HIPAA violation. It was like, that's... Allegedly. Right.

And they're like, no, that's not how that works. A journalist can ask you. They're not an employer asking for your medical records from a hospital or something. But go on. The thing that's also really interesting is, like I said, she's close to being permanently banned because Twitter has like this five strikes and you're out policy, I guess. Yeah, that's the saying, right? Five strikes and you're out like policy, I guess. Yeah, that's the saying, right? Yeah, exactly. You know, T-ball rules. It's fine. Yeah, exactly. Cheating partner rules

where you can't draw boundaries. Look, five strikes and you're out this time. Yeah, exactly. But this is number four. So the next one, perma banned, permanently banned. So $100 to the first listener that can get her into saying some dumb shit that will get her perma banned

okay I'm curious how that fifth one's gonna come man I don't know do we know what she's what the tweets have been is it all like anti-vax stuff or is it like yeah and like stuff that like you know some like anti-semitic

sort of like nazi trope shit yeah yeah so i feel like if you come at her like pull-up form or like her crossfit something oh my god yeah she'd lose her mind over that yeah like it seems like that's her personality she takes a lot of pride in that also she's gonna rip her shoulders out of her damn body so wait what is the pull-up? I'm not familiar with the side of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Remember we saw that video where someone edited in farts when she was doing pull-ups? She was doing the wildest pull-ups you've ever seen.

It's this weird thing that you're just like, I don't, you're not. She's like thrusting her legs to be able to do a pull up. So it's like this just like really weird floppy pull up style. So I know I'm good. I'm healthy. Look at these pull ups. Who needs a rotator cup?

You know, who cares? That's fine. Somebody should be. She'll be gone. Criticizer, but pull ups are so hard. You just

got to be angrier, Jack. If you saw the way she does them, you're like, oh, those aren't pull-ups. No, she's just using equilibrium and velocity. I don't know how much muscle work is actually happening. Just swinging.

Yeah, it's mostly swinging. Swing-ups is what we call them. It's like how a preschooler plays on the bars. You know what I mean? It it's kind of swinging swing is what we call it's like how a preschooler plays on a on on the bars you know what i mean it's that kind of just like ah it's not good i guess it will be interesting to see if she does get like if she just can't help herself because oh she can and we'll know that she actually believes some of this shit, right? And that it's not just calculated, which it seems like she's fully in it. Right. I don't even know if it's belief so much as it is

the, like, it's like the oppositional defiance of it all, about everything, where it's like, what are you gonna be like, the sky is blue, and she'll be like, no it's not, it's gray, or whatever, you know. Right. She just, everything is an attack when you're in such that position. So somebody, it'll probably be for some dumb shit. I mean, all'll probably be for some dumb shit.

I mean, all of it's dumb, but. Yeah. They're like, all right, bye girl. See you later. All right, now to important news. Yeah. Hard Mountain Dew. It's coming, folks.

They have announced PepsiCo and Boston Beer Co are collaborating on Hard Mountain Dew, which is Boston Beer Company. Sam Adams, baby. Sam Adams. Mike's Hard, people. Mm-hmm. Okay.

So Hard Mountain Dew has a 5% alcohol by volume, comes in regular Mountain Dew flavor, plus black cherry and watermelon flavors. Yep. I am just thankful that I stopped drinking. I know. I was going to say, say, this sounds like a thing that if there was a Terminator type film, Jack, future you

comes to stop you from hearing about this. No, no, no. You have to lead us in the revolt against the cybernetic organisms. I have to assassinate the mother of Mike from Mike's Heart Lemonade. I'm sure it never happens.

What's wild is these cans for this fucking drink, they look like tattoos on somebody you would run away from. Oh, for sure. This eagle, there's like a screaming eagle for the Mountain Dew flavor. Some like rabid blood covered bear for the black cherry and watermelons, like blood-covered bear for the Black Cherry. And Watermelon's a poisonous snake. It's so aggro that it completely turns me off. I love the idea as a meme.

Like, hard mountain. Ha ha ha ha. But the packaging is so fucking aggro. I can't handle it. It just looks like Sturgis. That's just what it looks like. It's so intense. That's just what it looks like. It's so intense.

It's just... I'm all for... We've got to do whatever we've got to do to get through the day. You know what I mean? Mountain Dew with a bunch of booze in it. Just don't hit anybody with your car, is all I ask. But it's just... It's bringing two things that

at different points in my life different friends have been horribly addicted to together for the first time and frankly it's just more efficient the number of people that i've known guys also guys i've never known a girl to be addicted to mountain dew but the number of guys the number of guys i know i think it's because of gaming or at least with the people that i know that had to go cold turkey or mountain dew like gaming was such a big part of the mountain dew jack is just a fucking chad of a fucking man dude that's right dude not fucking with the toy games yeah i just need it in my veins just love the caffeine honestly in the yellow five but like mountain dew one of my favorite things about Mountain Dew besides the taste and the caffeine and the sugar

is the drinkability. Yeah. Just how easy it goes down. I know. It doesn't have the same throat feel as a traditional, like a Coke

or something like that. Yeah. It just, yeah, it seems like it was designed to just leap into my belly as fast as possible. I mean,

I think the Baja baja blast mountain dew is a perfect beverage no for sure i love it i go to taco bell almost exclusively for a baja blast that's the scientifically proven it's delicious i wonder if they came out with just hard baja blast like if that would have just shut down the entire internet more than this like if they just went dude fuck all this other stuff fuck fuck everything you heard you want but you want to get baja blasted motherfucker check this shit out hard blast for that ass i feel like that would be the true that's like what the internet is clamoring for but then it would be like for a local or like it's disgusting don't drink it unless you you truly hate yourself or you're in college. For sure. Yeah.

They should put the vaccine in this because I think they would really get a lot of people. Yeah. Let's do that. I think that might be a good way to get a whole bunch of people vaccinated that otherwise are not going to. Speaking of Sturgis,

yeah, they just pull up. It's like, yeah, just coming out of the faucets, man. It's really cool. Yeah. Just try it. See what happens. I got the chip in you. Take the chip. It's fine.

Who cares? Anyways, be safe out there. Also, it's zero sugar, which makes me, that's the one pause I have in this, other than that if I ever tasted a drop of it, I would be drinking them until I was dead. The other thing is that zero sugar seems like

meh. That's not as good. You don't want to just have blood, you know, your veins pumping with aspartame? Aspartame? Aspartame? Aspartame. Yeah. Okay, but, you know, that's the other thing. It has to be zero sugar or whatever

to compete with all the other ones, but just embrace the fact that it's trash Mountain Dew. You're Mountain Dew, baby! This isn't a hard seltzer, dude. This is Mountain Dew. This is hard dew, bruh. No, you're not going to get the wine moms with this one at the pool. It's just not. That's not your audience.

Your White Claw gals are not going to pick up hard dew. It's just not going to happen. The Bachelorette Party with the matching No Way Rose t-shirts aren't going to be grabbing this one. No, that is not your target audience. Your target audience are your 21 and plus basement boys. Yeah, biker basement boys. You've got this.

They should have sugar in it because it's like you're already getting overdosed on caffeine and alcohol. Add sugar to the mix. Why are we fucking around Mountain Dew? This is a joke. If we're going're gonna go hard let's go fucking hard all right absolutely i would like to have more options of what i am dying of just add a third thing to the mix yeah exactly like with like is there no fat and salt in it too like let's just hit the whole salt sugar fat

trifecta in there and we serve it in a class. It's just a glass of meat full of hard-do. When we pour sizzling beef fat over the top. Exactly. Can design really does make you feel like the fourth flavor is going to be like blueberry lives matter. Yeah.

I was going to say January 6th. It's just a flip version. Absolutely. You have to also, looking at this can, you have to own holding this can in public. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah.

Because it looks like a bunch of rejected Ed Hardy designs. No, yeah. This is... Whatever. It has abusive stepdad energy for sure. Yeah. Absolutely. Not good. Yeah. whatever it has abusive stepdad energy for sure yeah absolutely not good yeah another guy is not going to give a shit that there's zero sugar and we'll probably be insulted

exactly like you know i there's going to be somebody that adds sugar to this drink to spite it like that's the level that's like a new level oh no or just a couple heads the real heads are gonna show you how to make your own with traditional mountain dew because they're like dude this shit isn't even going hard enough you do ever clear with fucking mountain dew well brandy it's been such a pleasure as, having you. Where can people find you and follow you? Sure. I'm on Twitter and Instagram at Brandazzle. B-R-A-N-D-A-Z-Z-L-E.

And in theory, I have a fall tour. We'll see if it happens or not. Everything is vaccinated at those places. Who knows? We'll see. BrandyPosey.com for all that information. And then my podcast is called Lady to Lady. It's very fun with a past guest,

Barbara Gray and Tess Barker from your show. And we're every Wednesday and it's just a real good, silly time. But yeah, find me and I post about all my shit and I'm fun. Come on, guys. And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying?

Yes, I wanted to. There's a tweet by Wendy Molyneux who made me laugh a lot. I cleaned myself by merging fully nude into my backyard, rubbing watermelon slices upon my body, and then letting the bees sting me until I'm dead. They washed me at the morgue.

Just in response to how celebrities are just not bathing themselves. That made me laugh so fucking hard. I was like, yeah. Yeah, it is that ridiculous so and wendy wallano also a writer for bobs burgers she's amazing check her out yeah so funny miles where can people find you what's a tweet you've been enjoying uh you can find me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray also the other show for 20 day fiance with sophie alexander check

that one out it's about 90 day fiance my passion like other than weed and mountain dew um some tweets that i like first one is from david aston walsh at david aston walsh tweeted we are facing looming ecological collapse in no small part because in the mid-20th century united states white people did not want to live next door to black people that's very true. Let's see another one from Dan Chamberlain. Dan Chamberlain at AMFMPM tweeted, covering up my Cuomo sexual tattoo with an even larger DeBlasbian. And Taylor Guerin, one of my favorite writers,

especially for her work at Reductress, but at Taylor Guerin tweeted, so many songs about sex. So few songs about how fun it is to get a little drunk and go grocery shopping. Sounds like a challenge. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Sophie at Jill Slander tweeted. Hi, guys. This is Sophie's mom

Unfortunately she got raptured by the lord And is in angel heaven now Do you guys think she was hot or funny Brody Gupta just tweeted I'm sorry but how hot was Freud's mom You can find me on twitter At Jack underscore O mom? 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

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wave ska song that we know you will enjoy awesome that we know you better bands on check that shit out brandy what what fourth wave ska song are we gonna suggest people go check out let's check out the song uh boys will be girls by we are the union it's a great song uh the lead singer is a awesome trans woman and it's about her transition and it's fucking great oh yeah that was awesome what's the name again the band again you said we are the union we are the union okay yeah all right so fourth way coming at you fourth way baby hell yeah all right go check that out the link will be in the footnotes uh the daily zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

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