The Daily Zeitgeist - DEI Worse Than Oligarchy? ASTEROID 2032 For President! 02.07.25

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

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Yeah, my, all my family, well, my mom's from you got that. My, but my family is off in Tokyo. Excellent. Yeah. So I go there a lot. Yeah. I'm going back in the spring. Visit my dad.

Oh, nice. Yeah. Okay. Cool. I'm going in March. Excellent. Beginning of April. Yeah.

For the first time. So, wow. You're in for a big surprise and a treat. Yeah. Good. Good surprise. Yeah. Good. Good. Good of April. Yeah. For the first time. So, wow. You're in for a big surprise and a treat. Yeah. Good. Good surprise. Oh yeah.

Oh, you're in for a big surprise. Oh, they're gonna fuck you up, Jack. Yeah, right. They're gonna beat this shit out of you. You didn't hear about Tokyo? Yeah. Everywhere there's martial arts. Stay away from Kabukicho, bro.

They're gonna get you after Kabukicho. Don. They're going to get you out of the control. Don't fuck around all the way up. I had no idea we'd have this conversation. Don't go to Nambi Yokochou. Don't go to no Yokochou. They're going to fuck you up. Wow. Black History Month is here and we're excited to kick off season foe of I Didn't Know,

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Okay. It's National Fettuccine Alfredo Day. Fettuccine Alfredo, my favorite food for many years. It's National Periodic Table Day. Shout out Valence Electrons. National Wear Red Day, unless you know you're down with that other set and maybe not. But it's also National Send a Card to a Friend Day and National Bubblegum Day.

So look, we got a lot of bubblegum, elements, fettuccine, red, cards. Fettuccine Alfredo was my favorite food for like age five to seven Like whenever the age that my family was going to Olive Garden. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh My god, yeah, my god I think it's because there's some it's it was like the grilled cheese of pasta. Yes You know, I mean like back there I guess there's mac and cheese, but if you had to go to an Italian restaurant,

you're like, I don't know if I get tomato sauce everywhere. I don't like that. But this whole thing that's just cream and cheese. Each noodle, like, deeply coated. Like, three levels deep coated with, like, just cheese and cream and, oh my god. This became the way my face was shiny after I ate it you know. Apparently this was made because a restaurateur was worried that his pregnant wife wasn't eating

like enough or like there were things she didn't like so he was like what about this ungodly concoction and boom Fettuccine Alfredo was born. It is a beautiful concoction made for a beautiful reason shout out to the periodic table I will never know you but no God bless to all the people who do I said shout out valence electrons very very Sarcastic Lee because that's the thing. I fucking hated about cuz fuck valence electrons Yeah, I don't care how many y'all combined with some other fucking molecule. Ah, get it out of here.

My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. It's tricky to talk around, to talk around, to talk around UFC support for Hitler. That is courtesy of Hanner Chemikvue. Andrew T. bringing up how, you know, he spent some time loving the combat sports at UFC, but at a certain point was like, Oh, they're all Nazis. So many of them, the, the core like ideals behind that field, uh, behind that league is kind of Hitlerish. Yeah.

Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, it's Miles Gray, the Lord of Lankershim, the Viceroy of Ventura Boulevard, famously known as the Shogun with no gun. Thank you so much for having me back. Jack, it was real touch and go there. You're welcome. Yeah. I'm here now.

I was like, should we bring this guy back? I don't know. I was waiting outside. Let's do it. I was holding my lucky charm, just waiting for the call up and here I am. Y'all believe in yourself. It's wonderful to have you back. Yeah. It's good to be back. Well, Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by an actor educator podcast host of the shows Living Forward

and the creator of the podcast Caucus After the Fall, please welcome the very fucking interesting, Kaya Arboleda! Hey guys. Hey, what's up, Kaya? It's awesome to be here. What an introduction. Yeah. Well, I was quoting the great barge, Miles Gray.

Where did we get this very fucking interesting? This is amazing because again, so full disclosure, you know, when we look in, like read up on our guests and stuff, I discovered Taya also mixed race, also Japanese, I'm like also black, but also Filipino. I was like, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, what is going on? But Taya do this. Like I was like, you're like my mixed race. Oh, gee, you know what I mean? I love I love to have people there. We were just talking shit about Tokyo or not talking shit. But

you know, just talking our shit about Tokyo. So just it's nice. It's nice to have you don't talk shit about Tokyo. No, no, never, never, because they because Tokyo will fuck your shit up About a month and a half and have your head on a swivel bro, but that Dodgers hat will protect you because Sasaki and old funny now, so yeah, yeah, you're good. You're good All right No when I was there last time right after we signed old honey, you couldn't buy it. There were no Dodger hats available for sale. Oh, yeah. No, trust me.

That's a protective cloak, even though there is nothing you need protection from. I get it. All right. Well, Taya, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. But first, a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to talk about about They're just basically blaming the letters DEI for everything in the government right now We're gonna talk about how that's going and finally some good news

An asteroid could hit earth in 2032 so right in time for Trump's third bite of the apple Third consecutive term. Third consecutive. This would be his third consecutive term. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's hard reset time, baby. Yeah. Get those Theraguns out.

Yeah. In the past, we've talked about, you know, doing a hard reset with a Theragun, just like Theragun to the temple, but- Lightly massage your temple. Hopefully it'll jar all the bad memories. Maybe this will just do the job for us. Um, all of that that, plenty more. But first, Teja, we do like to ask our guests,

what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? I wanted to know how many feet there were in a mile. Okay, hold on. 5,280? Ah! I was gonna guess. And the reason I was searching it was because

I was doing some simple calculations. And having grown up in Japan, we don't use what's called the Imperial, which is kind of an interesting way to put it. Yeah, what's wrong with you guys? But the Imperial. Why don't you use the right one? Why don't you use the good one?

That's right, the Imperial. So it turns out it's 5,280. Yeah. So my question is why, why so complicated? And then I just started to do another search for how many ounces are in a pound. 16. Yeah. 16. I do know that.

Why is it 16? I don't know. Because? Cause that's how, that's how much it weighs when you put the weed on the scale. Well, I got to say 16 or the shit is light. Yeah. Yeah. Why don't you use intuitive measurements like 5,290 as the base unit?

I mean, did you guys see that, that sketch when Nate Bargatze hosted SNL like last year, the George Washington founding father, it's so funny because the whole thing is about, he's like, and how many feet in this mile and it's like 5,280 and they're like, what the fuck? Why? Yeah. It's so good. What's the purpose of that?

Yeah. That's one of the best recent SNL sketches I think. Taya, do you remember like any point where it was just agreed that the U S was in the process of transitioning to the metric system. And then it just never happened. Like, so I went to elementary and middle school and like, you know, late eighties, early nineties, and that was a thing that they were just like, and

soon we'll all be on the metric system. So you should be learning the metric system mainly, but you know, this is the old bullshit way of doing things. And then it just like never happened. Well, I came to the States in 1981 for college. My wife grew up in the States and she tells me that when I was not here, they had attempted to like in the back of the milk cartons, they had like just a comparison chart between metric and the imperial system. And then it just kind of went away. And then people were just like the monkey guys at the beginning of 2001.

They're like, no, no, I don't like this. And they threw their feces at the milk cartons. The question is, why is it so hard? Why is it so difficult? I, so this is a theory that I'm just coming up with right now, but I have noticed that one of the strategies for power and capital in the United States is to hide behind complexity, to make things so, you know, all the stories about what Elon Musk is doing to the government.

Like I trust that it's bad. I don't know what most of this shit means, you know, like it just requires a lot of homework and complexity and like all like the way that corporations and big banks have kind of fucked things up in the past three decades, like it's hidden in complexity. And I think that's the way that neoliberalism works in a lot of the time. You know, it's the tax code and how American taxes are super complicated. And other countries are like, here's your bill.

Thank you. I think they like to exhaust us to like make things complicated so that we don't fuck with how things are, how they're operating behind the scenes. I call it distract and destroy. Yeah, I think that's right. Distract, exhaust, just make it exhausting, make it seem like homework. And then the people who went to an Ivy League college and are just like so horny for homework, can just do all the homework and steal all the money.

I just read that the reason it's 5,280 feet is because the Brits in 1592 are like, a mile, because the Roman mile was 5,000 feet. And they're like, no, let's throw another 280 because they're like, we think a mile should be eight furlongs, a furlong 660 feet. Furlong sounds like some horse shit, right? Like not horse shit, but like something to do with horses. Shout out Eddie Furlong though, you know, from Terminator 2. All right.

One of the great furlongs. Did he die? He didn't make it, right? Did he not? No, Brad Remfro. I was thinking, yeah, sorry, guys, guys. Sorry. I was thinking Remfro. Yeah, for a long time.

Don't worry about it. Taya, what's something you think is underrated? Botox. Botox. Yeah. Botulism toxin. Yes. Under the very botulism toxin. So I had injected in my face this morning? Yeah, I was going to say, Jack, you look shocked. It's just your botox. Yeah, right.

Did you know it was going to happen? Yeah. So I inherited from my father the ability to squeeze my forehead when I'm thinking so much that I look like a Klingon. I think it just starts to bunch up over here in the middle. to squeeze my forehead when I'm thinking so much I look like a like a Klingon. It just starts to bunch up over here in the middle. Yeah. And a bunch of years ago my wife said to me, you know, as an on-camera person, as an actor, you might want to take a look at that. And I was like, ah,

it's part of my identity. You know, what the heck? You know? And then about a month ago. And then I say it it's not going to stick that way. Well, eventually it did. And two weeks, three weeks ago I had just a little injection over here. And now it actually feels like I'm not squeezing my eyebrows. So I just say there's a limit, you know, like, you know, yeah, right. So yeah, it's a little bit underrated. I wasn't going to do it for, for decades, but. And it does wear off, you know, yeah, right. So yeah, it's a little bit underrated. I wasn't going to do it for, for decades, but.

And it does wear off, you know, sometimes Nicole Kidman would roll in looking like just something had had like neurologically, something had happened. And, but then she has still maintained as like one of our finest actors. So it, you know, it, but it's not, it's not permanent. So that's another thing. It does feel weird. Like you're putting injecting poison into your face to fix things. But yeah, I think it's like eating Nutella.

It's, it's, it's not any worse. Right. Exactly. Nutella is poison. Uh, it is poison. It is wild, like as you age, that the thing, like that people told me when I was young, like, don't make that face, it'll stick that way, does end up being true a little bit. Right, right, right. It's like, oh yeah, no, you have wrinkles there now. Especially if you're like a scowl thinker.

Yeah, you frown so much, you have weird wrinkles. Right, you want to die with a smile. Yeah. That's the, that would be the optimum. Yeah. Or in your sleep. Yeah. Yeah. But maybe you're just like, you don't even know what's happening.

Like you're just like, wait, who, why is this like the end of Supremes, who pulled the plug on the TV? Or like you're in the middle of a dream and then, then they're like, Hey bro, come over here. Huh? Right now? Yeah. Right there?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come right over here. Huh? Yeah. Right now? Yeah, right there. Yeah. Yeah. Come right over here. Right over here. You idiot. That sounds really creepy. Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe that is the worst. And then you get like an icy like feeling on your spine, right? As the darkness closes in. That's the way to go. Yeah. And then the dream never ends. So it's just a never ending feeling of being unsettled and creeping chill.

Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. I think a lot about that. Like the, the badge death scenarios. Yeah. Looks like it's going to hurt. That's my main thing.

Looks like it hurts. Looks unpleasant. Taya, what's something you think is overrated? The Imperial metric system. Wow. Wow. Okay. Hold on. Point counterpoint.

Or, or selfie sticks. I think selfie sticks are overrated. Hmm. Oh man. Where's the last time you saw a selfie stick? Well, that's the point. Yeah. I mean, you know, they probably sold millions of them.

Right. You know, people are thinking, oh, I'm going to like enhance my identity on Instagram by holding out this big stick. And then you end up at a party and where's the stick? Yeah. Brando. Yeah, it's true. We've I'm like, it's funny.

I'm like, where did, where have all the selfie sticks gone? Where have all the selfie sticks gone. Yeah. I mean, that is, yeah, I feel like it's funny because you know, in, in Japan, you'll see like on the train platform, they're like, put that motherfucking selfie stick away. They have so many selfie stick warnings. Cause they think sometimes someone might get it so high. It'll hit like the fucking power lines above the train track or something.

What a way to go. Selfie related death. Yo, Shinkansen's about to come through. That's authentic. You can see the voltage connecting in the middle of behind his eyes. That's right. I got a photo of the guy. You could see an arc from the cable to the guy's selfie stick.

That's right. That is not AI. That actually happened. Right, right. Yeah. Yeah's right. That is not AI. That actually happened. Right, right. Yeah. Yeah. There's some stuff like that. That's just like invented by people with ADD who don't know, or who don't have ADD and don't know enough people who have ADD.

They're like, yeah, no, this will be good. And people will just remember them and they won't be clogging up our lost and founds for decades from now. But yeah, selfie sticks just couldn't be me having a selfie stick. Be careful. You never know Jack. You never know. Uh, I mean, it could be me for 12 hours and then, and then I will lose that shit.

I have noticed like, you know, I took my kids to the, uh, the, not the Redwood for the Sequoia, like national park over, over the holidays. And you know, we were, it's, it's just a big like line of people taking selfies in various locations. Right. And when I would offer to take people's pictures, a lot of time, they're like, now, like, I just want to like take a selfie. Like there's a weird like selfie culture, like purity of selfies.

Well, it could, it could have been, were you sweating a lot? I was sweating and being weirdly. Hey, I'm going to take that picture for you. I seemed a little desperate to take their picture. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it's that guy again. Hey, you want to help? We're in the car. You look great right now. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it's that guy again. Hey, hey. You want help? We're in the car, sir. You look great right now.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey. Just give me your camera. I'll give it back. I'll give it back. I'll give it back. You do all this. Is he in the back seat of our car?

Yeah. As they approach. Hey, I was gonna get, I was gonna get a candid. Yeah, I mean, people like a selfie more. I mean, I think it's probably generational because like when I see people my age and older, you definitely are doing that thing. We're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Because sometimes I don't, I think personally, I don't, selfies aren't the most flattering angle for me, but hey. When you see a selfie that was taken taken, like let's say President Obama, with like people around him, then it's like, wow, the president's taking a selfie. Right.

Yeah, that's really cool. That's cool to see because, and it's not a generational thing, I don't think. I think it's like a hubris thing. It's like a, it's a cultural thing, I think right now in the world where we're looking too much into ourselves Am I getting too metaphoric? Maybe I know no, I don't think this is this is the type of shit we do on this show I was like, or maybe it's faux populist for a politician to take a selfie like look

I am just like you poor people. Yeah, let me get my hands out of the picture Take the picture and I'll look like a selfie. The, yeah, but Gen Z like selfies because they're like, I don't know, it seems like I'm all alone in this world since you've poisoned it and created a system where we're just communicating to each other in isolation through social media. So why would I not take a selfie?

Right. Non-selfies are a lie. OK, dad. Wow. Dad, this is Mark Zuckerberg. Oh, oh, nice. Wow. You jumped that. Yeah, we went. Yeah. So we do do something, do something because we'll get in the cage.

We not like Elon. I'll tell him Mark Zuckerberg, do you think? Or like 510, 511. He looks tall. Looks not like Elon. How tall is Mark Zuckerberg? Give me a thing. About like five, 10, five. Oh, he looks tall. It looks like normal sizes. Yeah. Normal. Not normal, but like not.

He's not neither super tall or super short. It's just how tall is Mark Lake? Oh, where we actually this just in I thought five, 10, five, 11, five, seven, five, seven. Okay. Jeff Bezos. Z lucky his five Wow. Okay. Mm-hmm Steve Jobs six two really Not anymore Hey, did I if you measure down So, yeah Zuckerberg would be in like a pretty low weight class in the cage,

is what I'm trying to do. It would be a mismatch. I'm trying to do the UFC man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd have to see what he's walking into the ring, his weight at that point. Is that using the metric system or?

Imperial metric system. Imperial. We are a strictly Imperial podcast. He's 10 stone. We actually go deeper. He's actually 10 and a half stone. Measure height by like chickens. I don't know.

Whatever, whatever you have on the farm. All right. Let's, uh, let's take a couple breaks. Let's take a quick break. Hey, you know, it's Friday. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Everyone's forgotten who runs this valley.

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And we're back. We're back. And man, this DEI stuff, I guess it's pretty bad. According to the headlines I've been seeing. Holy shit. Everything's the every it's, it's the cause of all of all of the problems in the United States at the moment. DEI crashed that plane? That's wild. DEI crashed that boat into the bridge in Baltimore.

DEI is, what do they say? It's this destructive ideology. That's what they always say, just like a catch-all description of it. But it's been a gift to Republicans in that they use it, again, as a catch-all to describe anything that isn't to their liking. It's basically a shorthand for, it's those damn insert group here that are ruining the air traffic controllers.

Yeah. Okay. The FAA. Right. It's those dang insert group here, ruining the FAA and not the firing of the head of the FAA. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, that's been fostered over many decades. And so many headlines this week are crammed with references to DEI as it relates to the actions of the administration. So just for starters, right? The Pentagon was directed to be like,

dude, I don't even want to see the word diversity anywhere. West Point, you have affinity groups for the cadets at West Point? Get it out of here. If it has an ethnic group name, I don't want to hear about Japanese cadets or South Asian engineering groups. Get rid of all of here. If it has an ethnic group name, I don't want to hear about Japanese cadets or South Asian engineering groups get rid of all of it. So at the White House, they took down their Spanish language website. The FBI headquarters had their walls painted over for having banned words scrawled on it like diversity and I mean, I guess that doesn't feel like too much of a loss considering what the FBI was doing with Co Intel Pro

But hey look they they put the words up on the walls nonetheless and he recently fired the head of the US Coast Guard commandant Linda Fagan and Evicted her from her foot like home That's you know part of like that comes with the position with only like three hours notice So she wasn't even able to get like all of her personal belongings out. And Fagan is the first woman to lead a branch of the military. And predictably, the rationale for her termination was border security issues and a quote, excessive focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Yeah, this is just a very again, they're using all of this stuff, anything linked with DEI to then, I think, just to sort of transmit to their audience that, oh, she's out because of DEI. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can't do that because that's the new whatever, you know, the bad thing is now. Then this week, there was a report of a DEI watch list that was targeting federal employees. The list says it's quote, exposing the unelected career staff driving radical diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the federal government.

And on Thursday, secretary of state Marco Rubio said that he was going to skip the fucking G20 summit in South Africa because do I even have to finish this sentence? He says quote on X or fuck it was on Twitter. South Africa is doing very bad things, expropriating private property. Was this ghostwritten by Trump? They're doing very bad things. Very bad things.

They're expropriating private property. Not true. Using G20 to promote quote, solidarity, equality and sustainability. In other words, DEI and climate change. Rubio's claims are nonsense. but we've seen this logic from racists before. Wait, is he saying they're doing climate change or that climate change is like, just acknowledging climate change is bad? Sustainability.

Sustainability is like, you're not going to trick me. The only thing I'm trying to sustain are these corporate profits, baby. That's right. You missed me with all that environmental nonsense. So again, I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to like, you're not going to trick me. I don't, the only thing I'm trying to sustain are these corporate profits, baby. That's right. Miss me with all that environmental nonsense.

Yeah. So again, the South Africa stuff is something that Elon Musk was saying. He's like, they're taking things away from the white, the colonizers basically. Yeah, that's why it was so hard for him. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean, why'd you leave in the late 80s, early 90s, bro?

Hmm. Any news? Anyway, whatever. That's fine. It's usually fine when a white person leaves South Africa. It's usually for a good reason that has no shady undertones. No, not at all. You're horrifying human rights abuses hiding behind it. But like we saw this logic in the summer of 2020, right? Like any amount of rebalancing the scales to help people is seen as this zero sum game where everything

is being taken away from white people in an order to achieve some semblance of equity. And again, this is all part of the plan. Like it's meant to normalize hate and maintain the sort of like de facto white hegemony. And if people's sensitivities to hateful policies wear down enough, then this administration knows they can take things to truly unfathomable. Like, I mean, it's already unfathomable, like things that we're not even saying right now. Who knows what they have? I mean, we've read Project 2025. So we have an idea, but it's all part and parcel of this. And like, Taya, you have, you know, dedicated most of your career to equity, diversity, inclusiveness, like through entertainment and many other things, and you've spoken a lot about it.

How do you sort of see, I mean, I'm sure over the many years you've been doing this, you've seen this back and forth, back and forth, but how are you viewing this just rampant, just sort of like thoughtless attack on DEI? I've been doing this work, meaning diversity, equity, inclusion, been doing this work meaning diversity, equity, inclusion, even before it was called diversity, equity, inclusion. In fact, the name of my company is entertaining diversity. And when I was using that word back in the early 90s, people didn't even know what it meant. Prior to that, it was called race relations. You know, this was back in the in the 70s and 80s. So the whole concept of diversity and inclusion is, is, is very old.

And we've seen a lot of, a lot of pushback over the years. Never like this. Never in my 33 years in this business. I've never seen it like this. It is an outright attack. So I've never seen it like this. Yeah. Yeah.

It's, it's just wild to see. I mean, like for part of me feels like this is just sort of a reaction to, and we talked about this, I think on the yesterday's episode of just so many organizations going along with this concept without really believing in it. So it makes it very easy to backslide. We're like, like, it's like they were holding their breath. Going along with DEI when it arose. Yeah. They're like, Oh, thank God. Okay. We're okay.

Sorry, we can't, I'm, I don't even know how to do any of this and I really didn't care about it, so thank God we're not being told this is the norm anymore. But I don't know. Like it, it just to see this, like I see all the many ways they're targeting this specifically. It's like a way to speak misogynistically, homophobically, in a racist manner without using actual slurs or supercharged language.

It's like the perfect dog whistle for them to use to sort of attack all of these sort of these groups. But I also just see it too as they're really, just like with the stuff with trying to like dial back, like sexual liberation as a way to control people's bodies, like dialing back this, like the, the, the validity and the, like the noble cause that is trying to create more equity in our society to try to diminish that is all part of, again to make like racism the default or at least indifference to racism, like just sort of the law of the land and everybody said like, look, we're past this. So now let's operate from this understanding. Well, going back to what Jackie, what you said earlier about, uh, and then prompted the phrase, uh, distract and destroy. I forget what phrase you used,

but it's the distract part. It's the distract part. What is really happening? If this is what we're focusing on, there's something else going on. That's what I wanna know. Yeah. And I mean, I think this is all,

I think a lot of it has to do with a lot of the hijinks Elon Musk is pulling now in terms of really like while all of this sort of these policies are being rolled back, like what he's doing is truly unprecedented. Like we've never just had somebody who's not been elected, who's not even, you know, has no position aside from like a special office within the government to just pull up to the treasury and be like, all right, hand everything over. Give me this. I'm plugging in my servers here.

This is how it's all happening. And yeah, the damage that's being done there or the potential for damage, yeah, we haven't quite seen. Yeah. And I don't feel like it's only distraction because I think it's also like a overall plan of attack, which is break everything. And then when the thing is broken and malfunctioning and people's lives are getting ruined, find a way to blame DEI, a woman who has a job, a black person who has a job.

Finding a way to give the people a scapegoat, which they've found works incredibly well. They rode racism all the way to the White House. They have the data to show that plan of break everything, blame DEI, people will go along with that. Then as the thing is broken, you get to enrich yourself by figuring out how you want to build it back. Like that seems to be a pretty good summation of like their entire philosophy and like plan of attack at this point. Yeah. But yeah. I think the distraction part is that weird. America's like on the brink of levels of class consciousness that would make billionaires very nervous. Right. The Luigi Mangione thing was an absolute like warning to them. They're like, what the fuck?

People, people don't care if like the people who are at the levers of like a very predatory business, like for-profit health care, if something like what is going on? And I think being able to, because most people, most intelligent people would probably arrive to some conclusion that it's a combination of like oligarchy, kleptocracy, that the wealthy are funneling all of the resources that normal people need to live. It's going to them.

And so they're trying to explain away this phenomenon by just sort of doing this blanket sort of explanation that it's like, it's dude, it has nothing to do with the business owners. It has everything to do with diversity, equity and inclusion. That's why, but again, it's hard. It's, it's a hard point to sell. Like, sure. That's going to appeal to people who are just inherently have these like racist bigoted beliefs that of course they just as people, they

don't want to see other people win except for people that look like them. But there are also people who clearly are also sort of, you know, these like racist bigoted beliefs that of course, they just as people, they don't want to see other people win except for people that look like them. But there are also people who clearly are also sort of wising up on some level, not at a point to the kind of critical mass I think we need to sort of have something super meaningful happen immediately. But to the point where there are many people who are much more curious about talking about billionaires and wondering what their part is in all of this. And I think you just got to read their biography miles.

They get, they write biographies. So you just read their version of it. And it's always a really good source of how, how they built whatever, how they built their insurance company that they inherited from their dad in a garage by themselves while everybody was telling them that they couldn't do it. And they were stupid. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's, I mean, it's, it's super frightening. And I, I mean, what do you, usually when you try and when you speak to groups of people about like what diversity means and how that's a strength, what do you like, especially in a group of people who have never heard, like, or even given a thought, what's do you think what, like more underrated part that I mean, aside from that, like, this is the right thing to do, like that it's a source of stability strength, like what, what are the sort of aspects of this that we're not talking about that if you take away this concept, or at least the take away our interest and motivation to pursue more diversity and equity, like what that does to us in a negative way? Well, I think that the United States is in many ways unique and certainly certain parts

of the US, large cities like New York, Los Angeles are very inherently very diverse and diverse in so many ways. If you've ever been to New York City, you will hear many languages. You'll see people dressed in all kinds of ways, women in power, men in power. And there's an affinity that is very different in some ways from much of the country in terms of living next door literally and on top of each other with people who don't look sound, smell like you. It's such an interesting place. My mother lived there for 30 years. It was always eye-opening to know that in the United States, a place like this could exist. One of the things that opening to know that in the United States, a place like this could exist. One of the things that attracted me to staying in the United States when I came

here from Japan, Japan is a very homogeneous place. At least it was very much so back when I was growing up there, it's changed a little bit, but you know, it's going to take a long time. But the challenge is when there are opportunities that are restricted against certain people for their gender, their sex, their age, their race, their ethnicity, their culture, then there's no way for them to succeed in a country which promotes the idea of inclusion in everything that's written from the early, early stages, even if it wasn't carried out the way that it should have been, especially during slavery.

And it certainly took quite a long time for women to get the vote and for people of color to get the vote. The point of DEI in a training model is to help support the idea that people from different backgrounds and different experiences can work together in ways to, if it's B2B, meaning business to business, then organization, then it's so that the company can succeed financially and they can make a profit. seed financially and they can make a profit. So it is a, it is a somewhat of a capitalist nuance, but when it comes to things like, should you be able to walk down the street and not be afraid of someone who doesn't look like you, it is because we're prompted by, by the media and social media and the world and the news and people like Trump. You know, that, that to scare the scare tactic is what causes people to have

pause before engaging with people who are not like themselves. So DEI is not, is not a solution so much as it's a support for people to understand how to work across differences. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We've covered before, but one of my favorite soft sciences studies, when they tested these groups and they had groups that are diverse and then groups that are not diverse at solving a challenging problem, the two results are, one, that the diverse group does better at

solving the problem because you have more diverse group does better at solving the problem because you have more different types of minds coming at the problem from different backgrounds, different experiences. But second, that the non-diverse group, like the homogeneous group, is more confident that they got the right answer, even though they're more likely to be wrong because they're just, it's like less challenging, you know, it's more comfortable for them. And so they just comfortably, you know, strong and wrong, which I think matches would be a good summation of, of this administration where they're just, you

know, very confident, very comfortable in their privilege and in their shared experiences and just fucking couldn't be more wrong about more things. It just feels like any time... The fact is that this backlash and this backlash that we've seen historically every time white supremacy is challenged in this country, and like white male supremacy in particular, the backlash is just like, that's what they're reacting to is the discomfort that's caused when people are like, what if it's not just only you guys in a room smoking cigars and making the decision for everybody else?

What's wrong with that? What's wrong with that? Exactly. And that's what the push for everybody else. What's wrong with that? Exactly. Like that's what the pushback discomfort. It's the discomfort. And I think I've always like had this sense that it's also a knowledge deep down that it is superior to have diversity and like they're terrified of that. And so that's where the violence comes from the sense that they know they're

wrong and there's fear there. If the January 6th attack was all black people or all people of color or all gay and lesbian people, you know, that would have been a completely different response. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. Right? I mean, you know, to say that they were there for, you know, they were there as tourists or just to kind of visit is not just an understatement. It's dangerous because it was an attack. People, people died. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll see how well this works. I mean, this is, this is, they continue to hammer and hammer away at it. And to the point now where like people don't, it's like the same, like how that it was, everything was woke and they couldn't even like the people

had trouble really explaining woke. Woke is. Yeah. Cause in the end you're going to arrive at something like that's actually like a decent thing where, you know, not, not just be like, it just means they hate like white people stuff. It's like, no, no, it's, it's about actually being like respectful of other people's differences and trying to

create a world where we're able to respect all that. So everyone can live to be themselves in a way that they don't feel that they're under duress or threat because they are straying outside of whatever is dictated as quote, the norm. Uh, and guess what? For all the people, it's not gonna hurt you. It won't hurt you. In fact, that if that everyone is like living on an equitable play playing field, that's actually that's where

real stability comes from. When you have people that are like left left to just rot by the wayside. That's, that's, that's truly like the beginnings of how so many of our issues come about. But again, yeah, this is all about just sort of defending the concept of like, we're the most right people and anything that is contrary to that is an attack. And we will target you. Yeah. As, you know, being who I am, I have to say, I'm very confident they're going to get this right.

Trump and Musk. As a white guy, I feel like they got this. I just think we should just chill. I'm, I have a high level of confidence in the results. Someone asking Tommy Tuberville, a football coach, they're like, did you just field all white players? Why not? Right.

Why not? Huh? Why not? Why. Why not? Huh. Why not? How about that? Why don't you keep it a buck? Because that looked like, I mean, this is like, again, the logic is so fucking flimsy. But again- But somehow we went from the giggling Elmo to Jeffrey Dahmer overnight.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how that happened. Yeah. I mean- I will say one thought that occurred to me just as you were talking about like their, you know, treatment of commandant Linda Fagan, like somebody who the first woman to lead a branch of the military, despite being a woman, like not, not

because being like, despite a get up against one of the most sexist organizations in the history of a civilization. Like these are people that I have to feel like it's not wise of Trump and Musk and this whole administration to just be blindly alienating and making enemies of and then being like, all right, you're out on your ass. See you later. Like I feel like at some point that could come back and bite them in the ass. We'll see. But like, I just, you know, everybody's like, he's being strong. And it's like, yeah, I think he's like, not, I think he's like more like a

vandal with ADD feels like what, where he's coming from more than anything. That's a great cartoon character. Yeah. Right. The ADD vandal. A horse in a hospital is John, John Mulaney called it or yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The ADV handle. A horse in a hospital is John, John Mulaney called it or yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, I think, I mean, you just look right now, like Trump is just basically eroding all American soft power too. Like in this thing to be like, and America's going to be dominant. It's like, you think you're going to do that on your fucking own? You're not. And you're going to, other, other relationships are going to are already forming because of the actions of this administration that will put the U S in jeopardy, whether that's, you know, from a security standpoint or financially, economically, whatever.

But yeah, all of this stuff. I mean, that's, what's funny is when you, when you pursue a policy that's like, it only needs to be us and that's it. You're going to fail because inherently we do, this is all interconnected and we do depend on each other. It's not like America is its own fucking planet where it's not like, and it's like, and that's it, and we don't have to worry about anything because we're are, this is our own ecosystem and everything else that will just fall in

line because it's just us. Um, it's, it's very, very, very stupid. And I just wish, I wish they saw how stupid this is, but I guess not. This is their fantasy time. It's hard to see that you're stupid when you're stupid. Yeah, it is. That's true.

When I was at my stupidest in my early twenties, I was a fucking genius. You couldn't tell me shit. The most confident I've ever been. Oh my God. I'm my stupidest. That fall from, when you realize how stupid you are, that's the worst pill you have to swallow. Especially if you want to engage with that.

You look down and realize you're not wearing any clothes? What the fuck? I've never done that. Yeah. You've never looked down and realized you're not wearing any clothes? No. No, I have to. Hey, you simply must.

It's such a great experience. You simply must. It's such a great experience. You simply must be thrown out of multiple IHOPs in the span of one month. Come to from a blackout and realize you're not wearing clothes? Those pancakes are stacked. Yeah. Yeah.

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Oh yeah, I wrote, oh, thank God. An asteroid could hit earth in 2032. That's it. Reset time, baby. So 2032, the year Donald Trump's disembodied head that speaks using AI will run for its third consecutive term in office. But Hey, if Democrats play their cards, right. They won't have to do anything because an asteroid has the potential to smash into earth at the end of last year. So the asteroid terrestrial impact impact last alert system

at list noticed an asteroid that was making its way over to our little blue marble and its orbit had the chance of impacting Earth in 2028. But that was quickly ruled out. But on its next go round in 2032, they're saying there's about a 1.9% chance that it could hit the planet Earth states of America. And first of all, I'm like, why the fuck is this thing tied to presidential cycles? I don't like the idea that its orbit comes around every presidential cycle. They're like, we're 2036. I don't know about that. I hope you have a super PAC asteroid.

It's a big fan of the Olympics. Yeah, it just like roll through. Before you start cruising like deep core drilling companies, looking for your next Bruce Willis, it's important to note a few things. First, experts say that as they gather more data about the trajectory of the asteroid, they will most likely be reducing the odds to have

impacts to zero. That's usually what happens every time they're like, the first one we get a little bit but as we can see right now where it's at, we can kind of, you know, extrapolate that data to see, okay, what are our chances, but, but if there's still a chance that the asteroid could hit us, there are options on the table. This is from Ars Technica. No options.

Let it cook. Let the asteroid cook. Let the asteroid cook. If the data, this is from Ars Technica, quote, if the data in a few months still shows that the asteroid poses a hazard to Earth, it will be time for the world's space agencies to consider a deflection mission. NASA demonstrated its ability to alter the orbit of an asteroid in 2022 with a first of its kind experiment in space. The mission called Dart put a small aircraft on a collision course with an asteroid two to four times larger than 2024YR4.

That's the name of our next president and asteroid. And they were able to alter the trajectory like with this like impact. So this, this asteroid is about 40 to 90 meters. Okay, don't ask me what that is an imperial measurement, because I don't fucking know that could have a blast radius that could potentially take out a small city. But experts are saying but even if those like off earth interventions don't work, there would be ample time to evacuate the impact zone. Okay. So, you know, they're saying that like Joe Namath telling about the impact zone. I just want to kiss you. I just want to kiss you,

asteroid. So when pieces of shit tell you we don't need to fund scientific research, remind them that we could get Armageddon without things like NASA and other space agencies. And you know, science. What perfect timing to find out this information as Elon Musk is like taking over the US and like, you know, trying to privatize NASA, somebody who's like, again, whose incompetence is only outmatched by his confidence in himself. But he's also trying to take over Mars. Right. So I think why is it always Earth that these meteors are going to hit?

Like, why not Mars? Yeah, they do. They hit Mars and the moon like that's where the moon craters are coming from. Yeah, moon gets fucking the moon gets its shit rocked all the time. But also when the moon gets his shit rocked, like it just never goes away. Like there's still the footprints from the astronauts like just like they were when they left them because there's no atmosphere or wind or anything to

disturb it. So maybe it doesn't get rocked as much as I would have indicated a moment ago, but it does. Like in the course of its whole career? Yeah. Oh, the moons. I'm not talking about just our recorded time, dude. That shit is getting rocked. Moon's shit rocking data is pretty high, but also Elon Musk and like, those are people who would welcome this, like they, because they're not going to be in the fucking city, like evacuating people and they, like his whole thing is like, he wants to repopulate the earth with his own Dick. Like, you know, like that.

So like truly strange Dr. Strangelove fucking predicted everything. Like it really did like that. It's a dark comedy that came true, unfortunately, but like that is a real concern. I do think if this administration found out about a planet destroying, you know, asteroid that was coming towards earth. Like, first of all, just ask yourself, like, that would be a good gut check for Trump supporters. It's like, is this really who you think would be, like, you find out tomorrow an asteroid's coming?

Are you really going to feel good? You can be like, he's the guy to get it done. Yeah, the guy who looked so fast. Yeah, the dude who looked directly into an eclipse. And then it turns out that DEI is what saves us. Yeah, right. Exactly. Because I mean, it would take a multinational effort. That's right. Different agencies. Well, we're already the thing is, we're already speak like this, this group that convenes is like the Russians, China, us and like the European Space Agency, like that. When it comes to that shit, we know how to be like, all right, bro, we're all on this fucker together.

So we need to figure out what we're going to do together before, you know, the, the orange man finds out. But yeah, I found it kind of refreshing though, to read an article normally like every time, you know, like just these like headlines are like an asteroid is going to hit in 2032. But this article in Ars Technica, because there are people who are actively very interested in science and communicating science that it's like, well, look, there's this can happen or this can happen. And if it hits, it might only impact like maybe like a 30 mile radius and most likely it's probably going to hit the ocean if it were or some remote area based on where all of our population centers are. But I liked it because I think the headline, it was very good.

It said, what was the sub headline? More data will likely reduce the chance of impact to zero. If not, we have options. I'm like, oh, great. Great. We have options. Give people magazine, uh, people.com a crack at that headline. Like we talked about this lung cancer article from, uh, on yesterday's trending

from people, those like lung cancer increasing among people who have never smoked. Here's why. Why? Why? Yeah. Now you're going to have to click through to find out asshole. Go fuck yourself. They hide the dark heart of our civilization behind a clickbait headline. And that is why we love people.

Don't we folks? All right. Well, good, great reporting ours, technica and miles. Yeah, that I read a thing out loud and that is called podcast. That's good. That's reporting. Yeah, that's, that's, that's where the bar is for reporting. That is like, I remember covering the story where they like kind of nudged

that asteroid off its course, but I didn't really like, that's pretty cool that it like this one, which is a potential, you know, potentially catastrophic collision is like not even as big as the one they were able to nudge. Yeah. No, yeah, that one was huge. It was fucking huge. Yeah, dude. Well, we can't even nudge the unemployment rate.

Am I right? Yeah. Over here. Yeah. dude. Well, we can't even nudge the unemployment rate. Am I right? Yeah. Over here. Yeah. Yeah. That's, it's going to take an asteroid for us to do shit to save people. And it's going to take the metric system. Yeah. Yeah, please. The metrics at like our Imperial system clashing with the metric system has

caused so many fuck ups in the past. It's pretty wild. Yeah. Cause you imagine they're like, dude, we totally biffed that, uh, redirect mission. They past. It's pretty wild. Yeah. Could you imagine that like, dude, we totally biffed that redirect mission. I forget which one. Yeah, what is it? It landed on Mars.

It was supposed to land on Mars and it crashed. I think. I think it was the. Yeah, that's the one. So nobody died, but a robot. How NASA lost a spacecraft from a metric math mistake. This was back in 2023. Oh no, no, it was in 99. Yeah, it was a while ago. Anyway, we've gotten it together since.

Well, Taya, it's been a pleasure having you. Thank you so much for joining. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Sure. Go to entertainingdiversity.com. Or go to entertainingdiversity.com. Yeah. Slash media if you want to see information about the new podcast, Caucus After the Fall. Yeah. Yeah. And that's like a fictional world about a post-race war world.

Correct. Yeah. In this world, it takes place in the future. The United States is now segregated into race categories. Oh, like that season of Survivor. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That my sister-in-law was on. Really? Oh, wow. Okay.

Yeah, it's crazy. I drop that nugget all the time on Survivor fans. Yeah. I love, I'm like, yo, you know, my co-host, Sister in Law was on that, on that season. On the Race Wars episode. Wait, okay. So it's a segregated, and what happens to people like us, Teya, where we are multi-ethnics? Well, you have to listen to the podcast. There is a group who are mixed race, and part of the mission of the story includes a main character who I play, a producer who is mixed race,

who's traveling around the country to find some important people, to help end the crisis. Nice. Okay. Nice. That sounds great. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? You know, I watch a lot of Key and Peele. Okay. I love Key and Peele.

Not only because they're really funny guys, they're very insightful, very smart, very intellectual, but they're also mixed race. And I support anything mixed race. Not anything mixed race, but... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people not doing, not maintaining the brand like they should be. There it is. Not anything mixed race, but it must be mixed race. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, yeah. Yeah, nice. Some people not doing, not maintaining the brand

like they should be. No, no. And let's see, also, this is very different, but it's called, what's it called? We Crash Games. We, We Crash Games. All, it's this 3D animated cars crashing into things. It's just, you know, it could be anything. It could be Godzilla or a trailer or a 30 ton coil steel that drops

on top of the car. And then you get to see what the impact is. Like a Toyota 4Runner will roll over and get squashed, but a Yugo will just like, you know, in smithereens, you know, become dust, you know, that kind of thing. So it's when I'm bored, which is rare, but it's entertaining. Nice. Sounds great. Miles, where can people find you?

Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Uh, yeah. Find me on all the places that have at symbols at miles of gray. Uh, you can also find Jack on the basketball podcast miles and Jack got mad boosties and also find you talking about 90 day fiance on four 20 day fiance. Um, let's see a tweet I like is from at underscore Zeets tweeted, the CIA being overthrown by a far right wing government would at least be funny.

They must feel like they're in a Twilight Zone episode right now. Yeah, kind of strange. Wait a second. What the? Amazing. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien and on blue sky at jackob1.bsky.social.

Work media I've been enjoying is just a bluesk from Nate, soulmate, Mnate Shamalan, who tweeted, very funny to me that the Fantastic Four trailer doesn't show him stretching. Somebody in a suit said, don't you dare scare them off with that freak shit. It's too much. That's almost definitely a real note that somebody got. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We're at Daily Zeitgeist on Blue Sky. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com. You can go to the episode wherever you're listening to this and check out the description

where you will find the footnotes, which is where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, is there a song that you think people might enjoy? Yeah, we're gonna go out on a multi hyphenate, multi platinum selling artist, Winston Surf Shirt, who I've not heard of until recently. This track is called Ice Cream, and it's just nice kind of dreamy pop, but this person has like, you know, definitely like hip hop roots and just like other just good, there's just a lot of sort of genres coming together, but I like the vocals on it. It feels very uplifting.

So it's like the kind of music you want to put on to kind of bring your mood up, especially on a Friday. And who doesn't like ice cream except for those who are lactose intolerant, but y'all have options to and vegan. We all have options. We all love a bit of ice frozen dessert. So check out ice cream by Winston Surf Shirt. Is there any references in it to the Cuban links track?

Ice Cream? No. No. No. I know. I understand. It's hard. It's hard.

A little disappointed. Yeah. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this morning and for this week, we are back on Monday to tell you what was trending over the weekend, and we will talk to y'all then. Bye.

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