The Daily Zeitgeist - Dems To GOP “ANOTHER ONE”, Daylight Savings Kills 3.14.18

Episode Date: March 15, 2018

In episode 104, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Dani Fernandez to discuss the passing of Stephen Hawking, daylight savings, special elections, conservatives gas lighting themselves, UFO's, student walk outs, & more! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The hilarious comedian And podcast host Of an upcoming podcast Got to drop on This year's How Stuff Works Network She is Dani Fernandez.

Dani Fernan of your beeswax. Oh, shit. All right. Sorry. Never mind. I won't ask. Thanks for having me. That's a hell of a thing to tell me before I start asking you,

what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are as a human being? Oh, God. Well, last time it was kind of intense it was i think it was like my marvel it it was that i you know am single and looking at dudes mainly the marvel net oh yeah single um so my search history uh last night was the big baby from rugrats and if you if you're a 90s kid, you will totally remember that Angelica was afraid of this terrifying... Just literally Google big baby from Rugrats. It's terrifying.

But it also looks... And this has to do with your single thing? No, no. You're attracted to the big baby from Rugrats? It keeps me single, seeing babies like this. No, my nephew, who I was showing you a picture of, he's five weeks old. Adorable. He's cute. But he fits into his three

month clothes. Giant baby. He's thick. He's thick as hell. He's a thickum. You're lying. Giant baby. Giant baby. He's a big baby. Dani, what is something you think is underrated? Underrated? Street cart hot dogs. I think people shit on them

and it's like protein on the go. They're always good. You can normally get like grilled onions and other vegetables with them. They're like $2, maybe $5 tops. $5 if you're out of like a club with a lot of money people. Or out by the Staples Center.

But yeah, street cart hot dogs, I think get a bad rap and they're so good. And you can get who wrapped in bacon for an extra dollar sometimes so these are the ones that are on the grill now our New York listeners might be thinking that we're talking about the New York street hot dogs which are just soaking in water all day oh no no no no out of the water my people don't do that that's actually wrapped cooking on the plancha right there yep right with the fucking jalapeno and

shit you get oh my god who's Right. With the fucking jalapeno and shit. They still have that little snap to that. Oh, my God. Who's talking shit about the fucking Danger Dog? I think... I mean, it's not the name itself, but we embrace that name, the Danger Dog. We do, but I feel like some people are like, yeah, they're greasy or, you know, like street... Yeah. You know, people that look down on street carts.

What is the Danger Dog? The Danger Dog is like what we call the bacon-wrapped hot dog that they sell on the street in L.A. But I feel it's a lot of people who move here, and they're like, oh, you would eat that? And you're like, what the fuck are you – I eat mostly shit off the street. Right. No, literally off the street, like on the ground. Yeah. No, this is something – anytime you go to an event in Los Angeles, it doesn't matter if it's a concert or a sporting event.

There will be – Protests. if it's a concert or a sporting event, there will be a number of people standing outside with grills, just grilling up delicious hot dogs. But now they're all like underneath one company. Have you noticed? There's a lot of them have like the same signage. Are they monopolizing? I think it may have been.

And I have to have my friend Mike Dennis quote me who like I have a buddy of mine who I used to work in politics. He was advocating a lot for street vendors in L.A. I have a buddy of mine who used to work in politics. He was advocating a lot for street vendors in LA. And I think they may have had to sort of organize a bit more to get the proper licensing. Because a lot of people were trying to not allow people to street vent. I watched that video with the cop who took the guy's money. Yeah.

No, that shit happens every time I've seen them. It's a shakedown. The cops walk up and they just run away and then start selling it down the block. Right, right, right. Because that's what's wrong with our country. Yeah, people just trying to make an honest living. Unlicensed hot dog sales have gone far enough. Plus, they're delicious.

Get your nitrites and nitrates or whatever the fuck. And protein. Yeah. It's good for you. Get your 20 grams of protein. And there's a couple of places, a couple of markets pre-wrap them for you. So if you're trying to have the authentic LA party, you can make them by yourself at your own leisure.

Dani, what's something that you think is overrated? Trivia shows. Y'all need to chill out with all these trivia apps and trivia, like, oh my gosh, I can't tell you how many auditions I've been on now that everyone wants to copy that HQ trivia thing that took off.

Wait, you're auditioning to host yeah yeah like our good friend lacy mosley oh yeah sorry not to like also iffy if he does like not it's a check it's a check it's not that but it's the gatekeeping that comes from not necessarily those apps but a lot of the youtube like i'm in the movie review youtube world and there's so and nerd world and there's so much gatekeeping with those like nerd trivia shows where it's like, Oh, she didn't know the third member of Star Trek.

Yeah. And I've literally watched my friends go on it and they're like, this isn't fun. This is supposed to be fun. And though their mentions will just be torn apart because they missed one question about guardians of the galaxy. So to me, those like the gatekeeping surrounded by being able to obsessively call back facts from

from nerdy tv shows and and film is annoying to me and i think that's overrated you're going through a lot with people yeah yeah you know i share my mention sometimes but especially being a woman in the nerd world like if he gets something wrong because you know we do we've done a lot of podcasts together if he gets something wrong it's like oh he just messed up if i get something wrong it's like i don't deserve to be there i'm pretending nullifies yeah yeah i've seen that just at conventions with you know uh katie willard who was on the show uh recently you know she was a youtube star of our series after hours and and dudes would come up and quiz her. Yeah, I hear the same thing from girls who are internet famous.

Women. Women who are internet famous and get quizzed, get called on shit. Yeah, because I thought – didn't you tweet the other day, Selma, about how people are trying to be like, oh, who is she having sex with to get on there? Yeah. Too hot. Are you posing a a hypothetical like what if we asked men this right yeah yeah i said um to write yeah to write the nerd guys and tell them they're too pretty to be playing video games because that's what i hear so too pretty you're too pretty you guys are both too pretty i am too pretty to play video games and i I'm proud to wear that badge. You should smile more, Miles. All right.

Let's get into format. We're trying to take a sample of what people are thinking and talking about right now. And the way we like to open up is by asking our guests, what is a myth? What is something people think is true that you know to be false? That Kenan and Kel aren't friends. Well, one, that Kel is dead. That was a myth that was going around. He's not dead?

No. Oh, thank God. No, that's not true. But they just had a reunion not that long ago. They've had a couple of them and they also had a Fandango thing. They had a reunion a couple of years ago on Fallon and then they had a commercial more recently with Fandango. And that was also in my search history was just looking up the current relationship of Kenan and Kel. Monitoring, yeah. Well, because I think it's a good time with nostalgia that they bring the show back.

They are bringing all that back, but I think that they could do like a Good Burger 2 or something like that. Right, and for some of our older listeners, can you explain who Kenan and Kel are? Oh, God. Okay, well, Kenan and Kel were two actors slash sketch comedy kids that started out on all that. They became friends, and they had such good chemistry that they got their own TV show called Kenan and Kel. And I was reading through. And so after that show, it was very successful, very funny, had an opening theme by Coolio, as you do when you're – Exactly, when you're peak 90s. Yeah, when you're peak 90s.

And so what happened was is that after that show ended, they both auditioned for SNL, but Keenan made it and Kel didn't. And I guess Kel just had some not great choices. Like I think he did an impersonation of Michael Jackson, but, like, it didn't quite – I don't know. I'd have to – it was like Michael Jackson in a treehouse. I don't know. It was, like, something weird where it's, like, you're trying to, like, impress SNL and, like, take risks, but it didn't work out. In front of stone-faced Lorne Michaels. Yeah, but Kenan did, and so Kenan has – he was also the youngest cast member, so – and he's been on there ever since.

How old is Ken old is he? I don't know. You know, he doesn't age. He is 39. Kel is 39. And he's a stand up comedian. Like he's on tour. He is currently on Nickelodeon.

He's on a show. And but I think a lot of people think that they're not friends anymore. And they squash that beef. Well, that's not his fault that he got on SNL, you know? The beef would just be sort of like... I think they had beef, but I don't think they have anymore. A little jealousy?

Well, I think that Kel probably wanted to... I can't speak for him, but I think that he probably would have been down to make something else and I think Keenan was like, no, I'm too good for that. I tweet at least once a month that there needs to be a Good Burger 2 and nobody is listening to me. But if they make a Good Burger 2,

you guys think of me, please. I won't watch because Abe Vigoda can't be in it because he passed away. He was the best part of that movie. You said for our old listeners, who are they? I think that might also be for our young listeners too. That's true. Well, no, uh super producer nick

stump aggressively held up a whiteboard and said who was like listen here stump um well this is important because they were both on trl like so kel was on trl um and like keenan called in and so they had this you know they were friends and they were joking about the their past and stuff together they had like michael uh magic johnson and isaiah thomas moment yeah i wanted to squash the myth that kel is dead um which he has talked openly about that people always like that'll come back around on on the internet and that they are they are friends that's gotta suck right yeah that's interesting always just be saying oh he's dead yeah there's certain recurring like uh people urban legends yeah because it was for i think our parents generation was like mikey the kid from a life life cereal

commercial he likes it yeah people were like yeah he died and then for my generation it was uh the cha-ching guy uh even though that was the cha-ching the guy? It ends up being Seth Green. But he was in this ad. Oh, it was rallies actually. So it might have been only like part of the country. You also heard about Bobby McFerrin that he like died, jumped out of an airplane. Like there are like certain people that generations just want to believe are dead. And then the other recurring rumor is Blank had to have a pound of semen pumped from their stomach. Oh, God.

Have you heard that? Yeah. About Lil' Kim, Britney Spears. Oh, Lil' Kim, yep. It started with Rod Stewart. Who was the guy? Who was they saying was having gerbils up their butt? That's Richard Gere, and it's only ever been Richard Gere.

Right, right. I'm not saying it's true. I'm just saying it's Richard Gere. That was like another thing where they're like, Richard Gere has gerbils in his ass. You're like, what the – those are the great rumors that were able to flourish, especially in our era of being in school because no one has smartphones. And you had to go to the computer lab to verify something. So there was that and also like how Korn got their name was a weird one that we used to talk about. Right, 311. All right. So there was that and also like how Korn got their name was a weird one that we used to talk about. Right.

311. All right. Let's get into the news of the day. First off, sadly, we have to talk about the passing of Dr. Stephen Hawking. Passed away yesterday. So he was born on Galileo's death day. And he liked to talk about that when he was still alive. And then he actually ended up dying on Einstein's birthday, which is crazy.

So he's linked to the – Yo, if your child was born yesterday, all right. Fucking raise them to be a genius. Seriously. He may have just passed the torch to one of your children. Right. That's like millions of people were born yesterday. Yeah. I try to think of, man, do you ever think of who died on your birthday and then think of like, did anyone famous ever die on your birthday?

I don't think so. Because that's like a cool, I don't know. It's not that it's cool or logical. That you're like, I might be this person reincarnated. But you know what? I don't even think he believed in that. Right. He's such a scientist. No, that was his one thing. He was like black holes and then reincarnation. I don't, but you know what? I don't even think he believed in that. Right. He's such a,

no, that was his one thing. He was like black holes and then reincarnation. Almost definitely. Yeah. No, but he wrote the book.

I'd be interested in seeing if a brief history of time, like if when that book was released, like STEM scores in the United States, like started going up or if,

you know, because it definitely made anybody who i know who was just like academically interested at all like in that period of their life like as a young person or a young adult they all read that book and had their fucking mind blown so you know and it's one of the rare books that makes science accessible and pretty mind-blowing. So, yeah, man. Rest in peace. Rest in black hole.

R.I.B. R.I.B. Rest in black holes. And then we also wanted to talk about daylight savings. I'm personally sleep-deprived and enough. I did not need to lose an extra need to lose people have pointed out on twitter i know enough guys enough i know i look like shit all right leave him alone mostly parsley yeah she's like yeah man jack i love you take some time off uh miles can handle it i was like damn

i took a whole week off anyways uh and then we lost a whole nother hour of sleep this past weekend with Daylight Savings Time. And Dani, you were actually saying you were also having a similarly difficult time. Yes, but I didn't just have a baby. Like I also look like shit and I'm so tired. I don't know why I haven't been able to kick it since Daylight Savings Time. Yeah, I've had the hardest time adjusting. And I know that you and I were talking before this, that, um, there's actually been multiple studies where there's an increase in heart attacks every time that there's daylight savings. Yeah.

It's really interesting. Yeah. Why? Because people were like, is that time? Oh no. I'm late. I'm late for church. The amount of stress that goes through your body when you lose even

one hour of sleep damn um in fact i just right now is typing into google um how important is and it auto filled with sleep right like that's like the top thing yeah our global consciousness is just like that's what everybody's thinking about right now is, man, I'm fucking tired. And, you know, they've done studies where an hour of sleep has it's like taking a couple shots of vodka before you get in the car. Like it's it's not good to be sleep deprived when right when driving or when doing a lot of things. And, you know, I mean, there are people who are on the brink of, you know, heart attacks or whatever. And having less like one less hour of sleep attacks or whatever. I guess that makes sense. And having one less hour of sleep, it just makes it that much worse. It makes it 5% worse.

That's enough. The other thing to watch out for other than being sleep deprived and driving worse because you're slightly sleep drunk is the light difference. drunk is the light difference. You're driving home and driving to work. I guess you're driving to work and it's brighter, but you're driving home and it's darker. No, no. We gain more daylight. We gain more daylight at the end of the day. So it's darker in the morning.

So just watch out for people on your way to work. Oh, yeah. Because, yeah, just the light difference, like having that drastic of a change in the light difference makes it so more car accidents happen, more pedestrians. You have to adjust, because I can kind of just tell from the light that's coming through my blinds sort of what time it is. Yeah.

And then with this, I'm like, oh, yeah, I could sleep another hour. And I'm like, wait, no. That's why you need those blackout curtains. That's what I have. It feels like a hotel. If I did, I would probably go into like a cryo sleep where I could time travel. But I mean, the whole thing is like, you know, Arizona doesn't have daylight savings. That's the other thing is like if we have this evidence that there's not really much benefit to having it

and it's not really like wasn't what we say in the past episode like ben franklin was like kind of behind daylight savings yeah it was mostly like to save people money on candles i think because candles used to be a big expense that's something that uh i was reading about like the most interesting part about this uh the most recent steven pinker progress book is this chapter where he talks about all the small ways that like, we don't, uh, take progress into account. And like,

one of them is like how much money people used to spend on candles just to be able to like read at night and like how, like much better life is now that we just have electricity. And also like people used to spend 50 hours a week on housework and now it's like 10 hours a week um but yeah i think i think the daylight savings was tied up in an outdated world didn't florida lawmakers just vote to stay in daylight savings time all year round did y'all see that there was something on the books who i know they were concerned so they they did vote to be like okay it took the state senate less than a minute tuesday to pass the

sunshine protection act i remember someone tweeting gotta protect sunshine guys nobody's gonna vote against i mean fuck the earth but let's protect this sunshine but i mean that's how capitalism works right like so this is benefiting someone right the the way the system currently is those people are making money off of it and then they have enough money to spend to spend money to get a bill passed or to influence the system. So, you know, the system is going to stay the same for the most part unless there's something, you know, that's causing change that's really motivating people to make a change. Yeah. Well, look, I guess some people credit some scientists in New Zealand.

For daylight savings? Yes. George Vernon Hudson and British builder William Willett. They first presented a paper on it, but a lot of people also talk about how Ben Franklin was just kind of like, oh, we can make better use of the sunlight. And he kind of meant it as a joke, but then people embraced it. Wait, so the New Zealanders are releasing books? was kind of like, oh, we can make better use of the sunlight. And he kind of meant it as a joke, but then people embraced it. Wait, so the New Zealanders are releasing books?

So in 1895, they presented Hudson, the New Zealand Kiwi. He presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour shift forward in October and a two-hour shift backward in March. There was interest in the idea, but it was never followed through. Two hours. Two hours would have been great. Fuck New Zealand. We could have died.

New Zealand is the first country that the day hits, I think. So they feel like they're ahead of the game on time, so they have to- They're just like, we don't even need this time. We have so much time. We don't even need it. Right. They're like, first of all, what time are you in? Okay, well, catch up, brother.

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And how you have to give them vitamin D drops. That's a sign of the devil. You have to give them vitamin D drops because their skin is so fair and thin that you can't let them see the sunlight. So you have to – How long until a baby can start suntanning and shit? Until we can get them in the – You got to get them little baby sunglasses. To get them in a convertible whip.

You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't know. I think it's supposed to be like you don't let them see sun for years or something. Vampire babies. Yeah. At least until they're 14. Yeah. But we started going out and – Breaking the rules. Hitting the tanning beds pretty early.

Yeah. I mean you can't have your baby looking all pale at the beach. Yeah. Not here in LA at least. Yeah. Exactly. Child Protective Services will take your kid away because they're like, this child is not tan enough. We got to get ready for spring break season. Oh, yeah. Spring break. Spring break. All right.

All right. So yesterday there was a special election in a heavily dark red district. At least it was the last presidential election, right? Yeah. Trump won by 20 percentage points. So red that Democrats didn't even run a candidate for like two congressional cycles. really yeah they're like fuck it bro like we don't need to bother but this year uh they ran connor lamb and he is a former marine and i guess he's somewhat conservative in his uh stance on like guns and stuff but it doesn't matter he's a democrat in a district where you

know the guy who is running against second is like just straight up uh he he claimed he like one of his sound bites was i was trump before trump was trump like he was just yeah he was no yeah just like you know what whatever you guys liked about Trump, that's me, man. I was that, man. So let's just – let's see how you feel about Trump now. I was eating stuffed crust pizza before Trump. Less than two years after you voted for him in record numbers. How did that go? Yeah, I mean, look, the demographics of that district are really what's crazy. It's a 93 percent white working class.

And like you said, I think trump won by 20 points or something uh so the fact that this democrat eked out a victory means a lot of republicans were like oh i'm willing to vote for this democrat and that should alarm the gop uh and and most conservative like think tanks and and and special interest groups because i think outside groups spent something like 13 million dollars on this race because they just you know they knew this was such an important race because it's a deep red district and connor lamb yeah like he obviously wasn't uh super progressive because you have to kind of take into account what the district is like but either way like he still campaigned on like universal health care uh like expanded background checks for guns he was he's pro-choice he supports medical

marijuana you know all the things conservatives do right uh because you cut to today and after this like really embarrassing defeat happened everyone and their mother on the gop is like well you know he ran like as a conservative that's why he won right and they tried the the mitigating has begun yeah so um you know fox news last night, I switched over to them as, you know, CNN still hasn't called this as we're recording this. We're recording this on Wednesday morning. Right. CNN still hasn't called it. New York Times still hasn't called it.

But the latest is that Lamb leads by 627 votes after all the absentee votes have been counted. So he leads by 627 votes with all the votes counted. So barring any sort of recount. I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I think that means he has more votes than one. Right. But I don't know. There could be some kind of vortex. For some reason, nobody's calling it, even though everybody seems to be implying that he won. I wonder if because they think it might be a lawsuit situation or something.

Yeah. Like with Al Gore and Bush. Yeah, it could be. But I don't know. Especially because this is so embarrassing for Republicans that they – that would cause a lot of red flags to go up. If, you know, you're basically holding the votes back until you need those votes to see how all the other votes are counted. Right. Which is kind of a shady thing. And these were in heavily red districts. So people were maybe thinking that something was going on there.

But as of right now, it looks like all of the absentee votes have been counted and the Democrats are still leading by 627 votes. So I flipped from CNN over to Fox News and it was being downplayed like a motherfucker. I couldn't believe it. Wow. The best was Fox and Friends this morning. What were they doing? Because you know that's daddy's favorite show. Right.

And already the rumors were that if Conor Lamb connor lamb won like heads were gonna roll right because like again trump picked a fucking loser uh and you know clearly that fucking rousing rally that he gave over the weekend where he called uh chuck todd yes chuck talk on him a son of a bitch and you know mocking maxine waters and all this other shit mocking the idea of him being presidential. Yeah, exactly. Where he was like, oh, I love the troops. Like he literally said a line like that. It's like, yo, what the fuck are you saying? That's that is a sentiment you should hold sincerely as president.

Anyway, so that didn't work because this guy, Saccone, he ran on that like liberals hate God kind of message. And, you know, they hate our way of living. And yeah, cut to today so on fox and friends they were like they're like yeah he basically ran as a republican you know he supported the republican tax plan he did not he did not that's i mean that's just a complete that's completely falsified he said he supported the president's uh like immigration policies he did not he was like like supporting dreamers and undocumented people ran on the tax cut yeah exactly and no one gave a shit because there's a lot of polling to

suggest a lot of people who are not wealthy do not give a fuck about the tax cuts because it does not affect them i'm telling you guys people aren't stupid like you can you can pretend like they are but they they know people start to figure this shit out and then the last thing was like oh you know he stood with the republicans on abortion. I mean, because he's a Catholic. He's basically a conservative. He said, yes, I am Catholic and I'm opposed to abortion. But I believe that a woman has a right to choose what they want to do. So they sort of took that and molded it.

As a candidate, he's not going to impose his religious beliefs on the people that he's – What a novel idea. Yeah. Also, he's 33. Yeah. So he's a former Marine. And now – wow. I need to get my – Easy on the eyes, I would say. I. Also, he's 33. Yeah. So he's a former Marine. And now, wow. Easy on the eyes, I would say.

I need to get my life together. Yeah, seriously. You got to stop hitting up those Marvel characters on Twitter DMs. You're sat down by Luke Cage. Look, I need a superhero and not a regular man. Yeah, exactly. Well, this dude might be as close as they come because former Marine who just knocked off. I know.

Is he single? That's going to be my next Google search history. Go ahead. I would guess not. That's the favorite of Democrats right now to run a conservative districts is get a veteran in there. Yeah, for sure. It's much easier for people to kind of trust.

They're like, okay, you may be a guy who knows how to handle a gun. Right. And I mean, there's nothing wrong with, you know, that I say that is something that's smart. I mean, if that's what you need to do to bridge the gap and make people understand that you can also have this shared common ground or shared core values and also be like, yo, you might also fucking progress. I think the thing that we saw the most this past year, at least that I saw the most, was especially on social media and Twitter was the assumption that all veterans are Republican. Right. That is a big thing.

I think him being a former Marine is probably – You don't have to be a Republican to love your country. And I mean, I and serve for your country to like that is an incredible like sacrifice that people, you know, give to fight for their country and sacrifice themselves. And yeah, well, yeah, but conservative. They weaponize that during all the Iraq war shit, too, because they want to be like, oh, you're like you're against this like illegal war. But you you know, you don't support the troops. It's like, no, come on. That's not what we're talking about. But I guess the other thing to talk about with this, too, is the district. The reason it was vacated is because the the former congressman who had it, he's like an anti, you know, abortion guy and was like leaning on his mistress to have an abortion.

And then that got out. As they do. And so that's why. As they do. That's why the seat opened up. But the other thing to talk about, too, is that this district is not going to exist next year. Right. Because of like the redistricting.

That was what Tucker Carlson was saying last night. He was like, and just so we're clear, this isn't going to exist pretty soon, right? Yeah. But either way, the fact, even if Conor Lamb, they find that he loses, the fact that he even pushed it to the line. And I mean, the thing Tucker Carlson was saying to try and undercut the seriousness of this devastating loss for the Republicans was that when this is a district that's not even going to exist here in like 11 months. So but uh, but super producer Nick stump was pointing out that this is a district that

isn't going to exist because they are redrawing it because it was so unfairly slanted to the Republicans. The Republicans drew it up themselves to have an unfair advantage. And so they weren't even able to win this district that they drew up like to cheat. Essentially, they had the game genie invincibility code on and they still died in the game right i mean deep cut video game you guys

should just yeah i don't know i'll post a picture of tucker carlson's face on twitter so you can see what like you can tell that he realizes deep down like his insides are uh digesting themselves because he knows he knows what's really going down he's just uh he just isn't willing to say it out loud and i will post a picture of the game genie by by galoob oh crap this connor lamb kid is not kid mr 33 he's cute oh you better okay i think i might see somebody sliding the dms but um hey we can talk about health care but this district it you know they could it won't exist because of all the redistricting, because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that like the gerrymandering heavily favored Republicans. So now they broke it up into new districts. So he's going to if he wants to stay in office, he's going to have to run in a different district come November.

Like both of these guys potentially could be in Congress by 2019 if they run in different districts again. But he will hold this seat at least for this session of Congress. Right. But yeah, to go along with the whole like, oh, he won because he's a conservative. So the people who are really scared are obviously congressional Republicans. So today, Paul Ryan really tried to fucking do a little spin job to try and frame Conor Lamb as a Republican. I don't know that there's a big surprise. I think the candidate that's going to win this race is the candidate that ran as a pro-life, pro-gun, anti-Nancy Pelosi conservative. That's the

candidate that's going to win this race. So this is something that you're not going to see repeated because they didn't have a primary. They're able to pick a candidate who could run as a conservative, who ran against the minority leader, who ran on a conservative agenda. Yeah, a conservative agenda of universal health care, background checks, medical marijuana. And pro-choice. Yeah. So I'm a Republican. Yeah.

So I'm a Republican. Yeah. So, I mean, Paul Ryan is just it's hard for him to get his mind around the fact that his main, you know, the way he defines being a conservative and a Republican inside his mind is we give as much money as we possibly can to rich people. Like we we just give all the taxes and we get rid of all the entitlements for people who need help. And there are just no, you know, safety nets in America. That is what being a conservative means and the fact that people would be disagreeing with that. And I still don't understand where he thinks the numbers are coming from, like why he thinks anybody would think that's a good idea other than him and the billionaires who he works for. But yeah, he's never going to get his mind around. I mean, around that idea. Sweet, sweet justice would be the house flipping

in November and Paul Ryan losing his gavel. And we get to see him, man, if he got even voted out of office, that'd be amazing. But I would love to see him lose his speakership. Well, because I mean, he went when you look at like, how different counties voted, his county wasn't like plus 20 Trump. It wasn't that high. I think it was plus 11 Trump. So, you know, when people are seeing a plus 20 Trump county flip, then it seems like anything can happen. Anybody can go down in this next election. Which is why I think they're panicking. That's even Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends.

In this next election. Which is why I think they're panicking. And even Brian Kilmeade on Fox & Friends, his tweet was, Democrat Conor Lamb's great showing in Red District shows Dems the way to November success. Support Republican issues. Right. What the fuck are they – what are they telling – I don't understand how a Republican would read this and be like, oh, yeah, okay, so the Democrats are Republicans now. Yeah.

Panicking is uncomfortable. It causes your heart rate to shoot through the roof. And I think they have to justify it in some way. Right. And nobody likes to panic. And, you know, the Democrats were the victim of a little bit of, you know, gaslighting themselves in the last 2016 presidential election. And now it's republicans turn to tell themselves that everything's all right right it's all going to be okay man it was russia that's what they start saying about uh all right and we also wanted to talk about so we're seeing a effect of the trump presidency that people are running for office that are either celebrities or, you know, like Rob Ford's brother up in Canada.

So one of our writers, J.M. McNabb, is a Canadian. Oh, I know. Believe it or not. Is that gang? Believe that. And he was talking about how Rob Ford, who was Trump before Trump – fuck what Saccone says. He really was Trump before Trump and was like running.

He was Trump and Mary May. Rich guy who railed against the elites, who constantly attacked the media, who appealed to voters outside the city, seemingly immune to a laundry list of scandals including like smoking crack on camera and uh you know was it was a setup right so he uh he passed away and his brother is sort of just a him on steroids type guy oh god just like crazy uh you know over the top has some crazy opinions really weird gaffes, calls his political opponents monkeys at one point. Just really a strange dude. He's running again and appears to be in good shape maybe in the election. I really like that he was apparently allegedly a major hash dealer in the 80s. Right.

So you know these guys know how to hustle. Right. But yeah, I think he had a failed mayoral campaign. And then he kind of like came back because he just became the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in Ontario, which is pretty interesting because he sort of won in the same way that Trump won the presidency, where he was running against this other woman. She beat him in the popular vote. But the way the like the point system works in those nominations, he edged her out with those points basically. He also announced that he was running for the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party from his mother's basement. Yeah.

And the photo is really cool. I feel like that's very on brand though. Yeah, I guess so. I mean I don't mean to shame anybody's mother's basement, but – It was a nice basement too. It was. They're really rich. That's what's great about this guy is because so the other guy rob ford was just a guy who grew

up rich and did crack and cocaine which like that's that's a dime a dozen lots of you know trust fund kids end up being coke heads but like this guy dealt hash for like the whole 80s that's like that's commitment to just being a fuck up you know like being a trust fund kid who's a drug dealer like i don't know i i admire he was still struggling to get his father's attention even in the 80s he's like dad i'm still dealing hash you still haven't said anything i admire the commitment to being a fuck up um yeah so that's happening and you know he hasn't won yet but we'll keep an eye on that and uh looks like andrew cuomo is being challenged in the upcoming election by

miranda from the city cynthia nixon she's out here she's doing it they say yeah they say she was toying with the idea of running for governor. Like a cat toying with a mouse. And at first, Cuomo, he was really acting like he was really calm about the idea when it was brought up to him. But he also kind of looked a little bit shook because he's sort of like fame-shamed. He's like, well, I'm hoping that Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Billy Joel don't get into the race. If it's just about name recognition, that would really be a problem. I love so much that he's such a New Yorker that his escalation of fame was Brad Pitt to Angelina Jolie to Billy Joel.

Top of the heap. I had someone tweet at me when all the James Franco stuff came out. I had retweeted something. Someone was like, yeah, well, would you be saying this about Jeremy Piven? What? Would you be saying this about the god Jeremy Piven? Yeah. It's funny when

they throw in random people that they think are heartthrobs to the rest of us. Yeah, wow. Is that what they thought? Yeah, that's what they meant was like, oh, where were you when this was happening to Jeremy Piven or something? I don't know. The hair transplant god? Yeah. Yeah, so, what they meant was like, oh, where were you when this was happening to Jeremy Piven or something? I don't know. The hair transplant god?

Yeah. Yeah, so she hasn't really actually said that she is running. But I guess over the weekend, people spotted her in New York with a camera crew. And they're like, what are you filming? She's like, oh, I don't know. But someone spotted that she was with a very prominent Democratic media strategist. She was just taking pictures for a dating app i think yeah taking full video walking through the streets of new york just a dating to paint herself as a new yorker i don't know what for uh maybe yes

she could be running and i she probably will but you know cuomo like you know he pushed for things like legalizing gay marriage and you know he'll argue that he's a progressive. But he also – like if going into this primary, there's a lot of things they could hit him on because he definitely failed to follow through on a lot of the progressive ideals he pushed as a candidate. And people also really do blame him for the state of the New York City subway also, like how that thing is just in really bad shape. Yeah. It used to be like very reliable. Like when I lived there probably six, seven years ago, it was very reliable. And now talking to people, they're like, man, you can't even count on that shit. Like there's a good chance it just won't arrive.

Yeah. They just don't have funding that's going into it. And I think, yeah, the New York subway system is 113 years old and has an annual ridership of $2.7 billion. Jesus. They can't put any money. Because I know the signaling systems in there are from 1903. Yeah. And there's a video, I think it's in the New York Times or something, where they have guys who are being like, once a part blows, this equipment is so dated that they have to self-fabricate replacement parts.

Yeah, they don't have it. Yeah, they're like, I just learned how to make the fuses for this or whatever. So Como, he proposed a 65 million funding cut to the MTA. Yeah, for the 2018 fiscal year. Right. It's just one of those things where it's been serviceable, like two and a half to three stars for enough years that people are just like,

ah, it'll be there. We can take a little money out of the MTA can take a little money out of the MTA, take a little money out of the MTA, and pretty soon it's fucking literally underwater. Yeah, for years. How bad was it when you were living there, Jack? No, it was good. It worked.

It was perfect. I was there in the 90s. Yeah, exactly. I mean, it was still kind of dirty and shitty. Yeah, well, we expect that. I'm talking about the mechanics, baby. I saw someone masturbating at least once every couple days but you know a lot of the times that they what they say yeah you haven't really lived in new york till you've seen someone

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You know, UFOs still a thing. But before we get to that, there's a new story sort of developing as we record this. Teens across America are staging a walkout to protest the lack of gun control in America. Yeah. I mean, it was crazy to see like how sort of it's all over the country, which is great that there is this like sweeping momentum. But there's just this eternal cynic in me. Just clearly the White House doesn't give a fuck because we've seen Trump walk back so many different versions of gun control he proposed. But I just really I don't know if the Hill will do it.

You know, I'm not sure if we're going to get to a point where we're really running people out of office because of their gun control positions but yes i'm very proud of these kids because shit i i don't think i would have been doing this stuff i don't think i hear what you're saying about the white house not caring and they're also trying to say that it's like oh they're being put up to it like there's no way you know when i was younger that i could have like done that and i'm like, there were kids in my debate class that were like AP level debaters. Right. So but I do think that it helps other teens realizing that they're not alone. For sure.

I think this is the future of our country. So I think that's really important. These are going to be future lawmakers. So and they are actually reaching adults. They might not be reaching the ones that were're necessarily, that they're trying to get to, but I do know that they're reaching other people who are going to be running and then them themselves, hopefully,

also future lawmakers. Yeah, I mean, I hope this is a generation of voters who, it becomes a part of the discussion because the voting block, a lot of these kids, as they come of age, this will be an important issue for them, especially when they figure out who they want to vote for. The front page of CNN is talking about this.

I mean, first of all, we should just say 3,000 schools across the country, right, are doing this. They are walking out for 17 minutes to represent the 17 students who were killed. It seems to be really well organized. There was a reporter who posted a picture on Twitter this morning of a media packet that she was handed by an 11-year-old student who was organizing her sixth grade walkout. She was like, here is some literature for you. Here's a press kit. Right, press kit, exactly. It's a digital one. Do you have CD-ROM or do you need a USB thumb drive version?

She just airdropped it, and she was like, now you have my press kit. Now you can't act ignorant. But yeah, I don't know. The way it's being covered is a little frustrating, like on CNN right now. So they have students walk out over guns. And then the next story is these students didn't walk out to protest tougher gun laws. And they went to some school where there were like seven students who are like young republicans who chose not to walk out and they're like see it we're covering both sides and well one of the students was an actual gun with just a hat on right just a little yeah one of those spinny hands it's like see this student doesn't gee whiz and then there was a girl gun and you knew it was a girl gun because she had eyelashes right on the barrel um but fox news

isn't covering this yo at all exactly this morning i actually took a screenshot of it i was watching tv on my phone uh as millennials do and on cnn it was coverage of the students walk out to protest lack of gun control then i go on fox news literally like i just changed the channel to fox it's fucking video of a home invasion robbery. Right. Of like, oh, like with clearly it would be like, see, wouldn't you want to protect yourself from this kind of shit? Like it's really, really wild how the coverage is so lopsided. Right.

And just kind of weird how they're just kind of like doing the opposite thing of just, you know, creating more fear or something in people. And clearly there are many robberies you can report on, but there's real news to report as well. I grew up in Texas. I went to Frisco High School. And to me, it's just so terrifying that this is a drill that they have to have. We had tornado drills. Right. Like that was what we had. And here when I was in Orange County, we had earthquake drills. But the fact that these students, that this is a real thing that they have to deal with on a daily basis and going to school wondering if they're going to get shot is terrifying. And I can't believe that people think that they would have to be motivated in some other way than the fact that they just want to be able to live and want to be safe. Yeah, right. That they feel they have a right to not worry about being shot.

Yeah, in their school. Yeah, in their school. But this just goes back to my thing about, you know, people say, well, Fox News is the counterbalance to the mainstream media. But no, the mainstream media is, you know, always trying to do like the both sides thing, like even to the point of absurdity, like covering seven students who didn't walk out in a nationwide 3000 school walkout. But Fox News is just its own unequaled, you know, right wing talking point. It's like a propaganda factory. So I do want to say if I could just put this in perspective, like my alma mater, the University of Texas is open carry now, but you can be banned for having a dildo like in class if you have like a sex toy or something like if you had it out or if it was in your backpack it's another form of a strap that's yes yes but that's why they had this whole movement called cocks not blocks cocks not blocks no that is a huge movement that happened at UT because you could be banned now

again this isn't teenagers but I'm just saying you can have a gun in class on my campus. Right. Because think about who is the gun threatening to? Not white men. Who is the giant dildo threatening to? White men. So the white men are like, you know, they are very thin skinned and we do not like to see those things out. You know, that's going to bum them out.

I don't want to see a purple dildo. Right. It's too big. It makes me feel bad. What happened, not to take it off from this, but this was a big movement that happened last year there. And obviously they are adults. They're over 18. But what a lot of them did was they were just like, you know where your water bottle can go in your backpack?

They just put a dildo in there. And went to class like, oh, are you going to ban all of us? But yet you can have a gun out in class right so so we just need something to happen i just really don't like these really fucking watered down bills people are proposing because like it's clearly just a distraction to be like hey we did something right and without really fucking tackling the problem and i think that's what we all want to see i think that's what these kids want to see is something really meaningful, something that really is like a market shift away from,

you know, business as usual on the Hill. Yep. And state houses everywhere. Um, and the, uh, cricket media people brought up the suicide thing again,

uh, on their most recent episode of pod, save America. Oh, so they stole that from you. Uh, they didn't steal it from me because they keep forgetting. Nobody brings up the British coal gas study.

So just as you hear about suicide and gun control, just remember to look up the British coal gas study and use that in your argument because it's always missing in these arguments, and I think it's the most compelling case you can make for gun control. All right, and we want to talk about UFOs because, you know, we talked a few months ago about the fact that the New York Times was just like, oh, yeah, UFOs are a thing. By the way, we haven't been talking about this because we thought we'd sound crazy. But now we have this dude who used to work at the Pentagon who just left his job and was like, yeah, so my job was to monitor UFOs and they weren't taking me seriously enough. So I've left my job.

I'm starting this thing with the dude from Blink-182, which makes it sound weird. But he's no, it makes total sense. He's just a really smart guy who has always been about this. And he's like, yeah, no, they're UFOs. So in case you thought that they had just been explained away, the Washington Post just had an article that came out that was like, the military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn't the Pentagon care? And they pointed out that, you know, I think this was an op ed. It was by a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.

And they were like – they have insight into how the Pentagon operates. And the point they were making, which I thought was really smart, is, OK, so let's say they're not aliens. If this is Russia or China, they have technology that is like decades ahead of ours. We need to fucking figure this out. Yeah, that's what's crazy because obviously Sputnik was enough for us to be like, okay, fuck that. We're going to own space. And that created something. But now it's like – it's weird to think that if this is actual technology that another nation is wielding, like, wow, we are really fucking behind.

Yeah. And this was accompanied by another video of a tic-tac-shaped thing, like the New York Times article. It's a tic-tac-shaped object that is moving and flying in seemingly impossible ways. And you can hear the, like, naval aviators, like, on the thing being like, holy shit, what the fuck is that? And they, you know, because nothing is supposed to be able to move. They sounded a little bit too excited for me. No, they were fucking psyched, which I would be too. And another reason why this guy had came out with this piece is because he was saying he meets with a lot of people in the military who see this and like they just get kind of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we hear you, we hear you, we hear

you and nothing's really happening. And that's – that is a little concerning because they've gutted – like apparently they really have no budget dedicated to this unless it's so secret that they just don't want to talk about it. But I mean I feel like this is something we need to seriously discuss. Have you seen the monsters are due on Maple Street episode of the Twilight Zone? I always have to reference. I have not.

OK, well, it was essentially that aliens don't actually have to do anything that we will just destroy ourselves. So that's what I would like to think. Why doesn't the Pentagon care? Because there's so much going on here that we're like already killing ourselves here. So like the aliens don't even have to. This is like a bigger picture. To come fuck us up. Yeah, they don't even have to come and fuck us up.

Also, did you see that somebody made the Golden Girls theme song over the X-Files opening? Did you see that? No. Oh, man, it's so good. We're going to have to post that. Wait, they like so they took the vocals they took the golden girls theme song and put it to the x-files opening and it actually works wow that sounds amazing no but that is my like i don't know yeah i agree that obviously we should be focused on on this but what you're saying makes more sense

as far as it being um another country here as opposed to actual aliens right right oh my god but what i'm saying is if it is actual aliens i would love the fact that they're just sitting back and watching us destroy ourselves right they don't have to do anything right i think when jakees was here when this story first came out we were saying like i think they probably just come watch our planet like it's reality tv yeah yeah this motherfucker holy shit this guy is the leader of that that mound of earth yeah uh oh the other thing they're saying is like there's just kind of like a real stigma of being like a the quote-unquote alien guy in the national security bureaucracy like no one really wants to be caping for aliens but like what

the fuck like if you're looking at this like really this irrefutable evidence whatever it is there has to be some kind of legitimate interest put into this and you can't just be labeled like a heretic or something because you're concerned yeah but there's such a negative connotation with believing in aliens i mean when you look back in history of people that said they got abducted yeah you know their anal probing and stuff like that. Those people are normally seen as being crazy. So. What do you think of the bombings in Austin? Are you are any of your friends from that area?

I think it's terrifying. It's something that I haven't dwelled on too much because it's just such a sad part of humanity, especially that it appears they are targeting people of color. I don't know. Austin is such a precious place. It's a very progressive town, and it's terrifying that obviously anywhere this can happen to you, but particularly in Austin, which I just feel is like a city of love. They embrace being weird. They embrace being different.

So it's really difficult to see that. Keep Austin weird. They embrace being different. So it's really difficult to see that. Keep Austin weird. Yeah. Everybody should Google Fox News coverage of the first bombing because it is unbelievable. Why? They were like, this guy probably did it to himself and showed a picture of the first guy. Oh, was killed by the bomb. Just like tried to frame himself in a weird suicide.

I guess. I don't even know. It was just very, uh, yeah. Very dismissive. Uh, all right,

Danny, it has been a pleasure as always, always one of our favorites to have on the show. Somebody should give you your own podcast. Uh, yeah, which I actually have that is dropping with iffy. Yeah.

Yep. Yep. Yep, yep, yep. It's called Nerdificent, and you can catch it here on HowStuffWorks. When's it coming out? March 20th. 320. That's my homie Mike's birthday. And what do you guys talk about for people who don't know? So it's a nerdy deep dive for everyone.

We're going to be covering topics like VR and cosplay and Comic-Con and Reddit. We're going to be covering the history of a lot of these things, where they're going, and also our personal experiences with them being in the nerd world. It's super interesting. It's stuff that I didn't know about these things that I thought I knew about. I thought I knew everything I needed to know about conventions, and you guys made the history of conventions so interesting. But also the future of them. And you guys made the history of conventions so interesting. But also the future of them, you know, like Disney pulling out of Comic-Con and making its own convention. And just, yeah, the history of that, where VR is going, which is fascinating that now schools are using VR, museums.

They even have documentaries that use VR as far as it's going to change our television and film, how we view theater as these 360 degree experiences. And also medical students getting to use VR. So yeah. And of course, porn, which is driving it as well. Porn drives everything. Porn drives so much, which we also tackle on the podcast. So yeah. So that's called Nerdificent and is dropping March 20th.

And yeah, when you say it's for everyone, it really is. Even if you don't consider yourself interested in anime or cosplay or conventions or, you know, nerd culture, it's a very easy entry point for you. Even if you're just trying to get up to speed and not to be totally out of loop, it's good. And listen to Danny's voice. It's soothing. Ify's voice is soothing. And nerd culture drives the rest of the culture. It really does. So you are finding out about stuff, like like way before your friends know about it.

So it's really dope. We're really excited about the show. Use it to one up your friends. Exactly. Danny, where can people find you other than on the upcoming podcast, Nerdificent? I'm at Ms. Danny Fernandez. It's M-S-D-A-N-I-F-E-R-N-A-N-D-E-Z. Don't at the other Danny Fernandez.

He's a Spanish boy band singer who has blocked me. Oh, no. Yeah, I asked him like years ago if I could buy his handle and he got mad and blocked me. And then I asked my followers to ask him and he blocked them. Wait, what does he do? He's in a boy band. Like a successful one? You got more followers?

I did. I think I still do, but he has me blocked so I can't see. And the other Danny Fernandez is a magician. And he actually has, well, there's several of us, but he actually has a decent following on YouTube. But you want the at DNIFERN. Yeah, don't write him. I don't want him to get mad. What's he going to do?

He's not going to give it to you anyway. We might as well fuck with him. I don't know. Maybe one day. You know what? I'm going to go. I will fly to Spain, and I will figure this out when I do my tour of Costco with Jessica Gabbard.

Miles. Yeah. It's coming. It's coming. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me at Costco. All right. Getting a chicken bake.

Supreme Pizza is also very good there. I don't know about that. But yeah. What other social media? Just at Miles and Gray on everything. You can find me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. You can find us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We have a Facebook fan page. And we have a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. We link off to the information that we used on today's episode. And that is going to do it. Miles, what are we going to write out on today's episode and that is going to do it. Miles, what are we going to write out on today? We're going to write out

on a little song by Donovan because, you know, the GOP kind of doesn't know where they're at right now and I think they need to sort of figure out where they are in the world and get their bearings.

So this is a track from Donovan called Get Thy Bearings. So please, everyone in the GOP, please listen deeply so you can get thy bearings. Or don't. I mean, you wonings. So please, everyone in the GOP, please listen deeply so you can get thy bearings. Or don't. I mean, you won't. Either way, buddy, y'all got a losing strategy, you know what I mean? So just play that out.

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