The Daily Zeitgeist - Escape From Texas, The Very Weird Frasier Reboot 7.14.21

Episode Date: July 14, 2021

In episode 950, Jack and Miles are joined by The Worst Idea Of All Time Podcast co-host Tim Batt to discuss voter suppression in Texas, Newsmax fantasizing Trump as Batman, the Frasier reboot, and more!FOOTNOTES: Texas Democrat on governor's threat: 'I have not committed a crime, so I can't get arrested' Texas House Democrats flee the state in move that could block voting restrictions bill, bring Legislature to a halt BREAKING: Trump Nothing Like Batman Kelsey Grammer says ‘Frasier’ reboot may not include original cast Frasier star addresses return of original cast members for reboot Frasier Reboot Isn't Based in Seattle Kelsey Grammer Back As Dr. Frasier Crane As Paramount+ Confirms ‘Frasier’ Reboot Partners: Grammer and Lawrence break first law of sitcoms – be funny Hank - "Pilot" From Gossip Girl to Frasier to Sex and the City: are reboots driven by nostalgia – or desperation? Kelsey Grammer Defends His Support For Donald Trump Infinity culture war: what now for Trump's Hollywood supporters? Kelsey Grammer: My Republican Views Cost Me Emmy Nomination Kelsey Grammer’s pro-Trump politics risk tarnishing the Frasier reboot And Just Like That’s First-Look Image Makes Us Feel Samantha’s Absence The 'Fuller House' Cast Wants To Come Back For Another Reboot In 10 Years LISTEN: Sofia Kourtesis - 'By Your Side' (Official Audio) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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too no you need to follow through with it so you can get to full efficacy please and you're reading that at the same time that you realize vaccine rhymes with vaccine yeah exactly three times in a row i'm like i'm like fucking 2005 beanie seagull where i'll just say what i'll just get one word over and over and over again anyway shout out to me shout out to you generating aka terrible rhymes what was yours uh to the tune of uh that the louis theme song oh okay yeah was that not clear i'm sorry no i just i need to take that again should i take that again hadn't heard that one in a while I guess that's a real song Called Brother Louie By a band named Stories

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He's a very funny stand-up comedian, TV writer, producer, host. Welcome to the show, the hilarious and talented Tim Bass! Yes, brothers! I am loving this morning zoo energy. It is 6.51am my local time. Here he comes with the Kiwi Report. Everything's upside down here, topsy-turvy, and we're living life because we have not been ravaged in the exact same fashion as the rest of the world, for we are a tiny island nation. Yes.

Are you a big Test Cricket fan as well? Nah, dude, I'm not a big sports guy. Okay, because last time Guy was could not extolling the virtues of text test cricket um and and gave us all an education it's so see a fucking stupid where you online it's so stupid it's like have you guys ever seen cricket yeah it's the worst like brief clips it's yeah it's like everyone's dressed up like they're in the kkk you're head to toe all in whites it is i mean i mentioned last time i was like i don't have enough white clothes to be interested in this game and then it takes like five days to play a game and often there's like drawers and shit i don't even understand it i

don't know it just all of your laundry detergent commercials take place like after cricketing i feel like cricket matches would be the setting of all laundry detergent commercials i actually now that you've said it it makes perfect sense to me that laundry detergents invented cricket and it's just big detergent hell yeah man follow to the bottom of it already yeah exactly see this is why i'm glad we guy was like you should have tim on because you're coming with the real shit not just being like i love touch crooked no no no i see the real conspiracy is behind it yes you see in the matrix i love it tim what time is it where you are it's uh about five minutes to 7 a.m haven't had a lot of sleep either yeah i just

always like to remind listeners of the of the sacrifice you are putting in. Yeah. And also the vastness of the world and how tiny we all are. And none of this matters. All right, Tim, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. We're talking about the wild stuff happening down in Texas. The Texas voter suppression bill has forced the Democrats to flee that state. Their governor has threatened to have them arrested. Real Texas shit happening in Texas politics right now. We're going to talk about the big lie. We're going to talk about Batman. Specifically, Newsmax is fantasizing about Trump being Batman,

which we think is a pretty apt comparison because we're not Team Batman here on this podcast. We're going to talk about, well, we'll talk about inflation, maybe, I think, probably. The Frasier reboot, definitely. definitely all that plenty more but first tim the real batman just trying to keep that morning zoo uh viable uh what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are most recent thing i googled was gwyneth paltrow flight attendant movie yes which i found out was a movie called A View From The Top. A View From The Top. I was watching it.

Do you guys know Richard Aody? Iody? I always fuck up his name. A-O-I-D? Yeah, there's too many vowels all in a row. And like a Y. Yeah, the English comedian? Yeah, you got it.

IT Crowd and Gadget Man, et cetera. He's like one of the funniest dudes alive. He had an interview with Russell Brand and I was watching that and Richard got obsessed with that movie, with A View From The Top because of how interestingly bad it was. You know how some movies are bad in a way where they're just bad and there's nothing to latch onto, but he was like, this is so interestingly bad. And he was just getting into the weeds of why that it was so poorly cast

for Gwyneth Paltrow to be this kind of lower class person aspiring to be a flight attendant. And it's just so uniquely unbelievable that that would be a motivation for this woman and how it almost, it was like class betrayal. It was just so condescending. The whole tone of the movie was like, what the fuck is this? These people aren't real. Yeah.

That's funny. Gwyneth Paltrow's conception of blue collar America. Yeah, exactly. When I used to work at one of my past jobs, I did a shoot with her. Really down to earth.

Really? Yeah. But her like her handlers, like she's really chill because like we had a really tight schedule and like, yeah, we get this done and this and like, she's really fine. She's like really low key. She's like really, really laid back. And I remember like, I guess the way at first she seemed like very chill and that she was tired and didn't speak to anyone but then suddenly she's like i have to have lunch and like i was like oh we have to shoot two more things

she's like i have to eat right now like okay and then she ate and like they brought out like all these glass tupperware containers of food she's like i hate plastic and then ate it and then left like wrapped her like quick bite went back to work and then like left the shoot wrapped her, like, quick bite, went back to work, and then, like, left the shoot. And I was like, oh, her glass stuff. They're like, she's really chill. It's okay. And I'm like, so she leaves expensive glass Tupperware? Oh, my God. Is this what the description was?

In a field? Just, like, around? Okay. Cool. I mean, as the plastic thing, it's probably not the waste, right? It's the impact on her personally she strikes me as the kind of person who would be obsessed with plastic how it affects her directly yeah oh absolutely i think it's more like do you know about the leeching of plastics and i'm like okay

well you just left a ton of glass here can i also say that the sentence her handlers said she was really chill is a really funny sentence. Yeah. I mean, that's how we, that's like LA speak for the advanced team that shows up before talent of like the publicist manager or whoever. Yeah. Because like those are the ones who are usually the intermediary between you and talent. Nothing screams totally like chilled out, like having a team that has to communicate to the great unwashed. Right, exactly.

Versus Zach Galifianakis who will pull up in his exact same Subaru and just be like, hey, what are we doing? And I'll bet he will work from dusk until dawn and he will eat lunch when lunch is scheduled. And he probably eats out of a plastic container. Yeah. Yeah. Of a wrapper. he probably ate it out of a plastic container. Yeah. Yeah. Of a ramper. One of my favorite moments in internet history also involved Gwyneth Paltrow taking the Gwyneth Paltrow approach to blue collar life. She, uh, I think Graham, the picture of some groceries she bought, she was

like, you know, people who live on food stamps have to just live off $29 worth of food in a week. Look what $29 buys you. And she had like seven limes. I remember this. I was like, she had like some staples, like brown rice and black beans, but seven limes. It's like such a,

like her thing was that she needed to make fresh guacamole she's like i mean once you buy two things of burrata that's most of your money right there how are these people living on just six limes a week six limes a week and not even a half a bottle of black truffle oil? I mean, come on. Have you seen, by the way, Submarine, Richard Iota's, the movie he directed? No, I've not. Is it awesome?

That's very good. Comedy? Yeah, it's like a comedy sort of Wes Anderson ish young person movie. Uh, Indy 2010. I highly recommend. Okay. Used to be on Netflix.

I don't think it is anymore, but, uh, what's on there anymore. Except for B. Am I right? Next week when sexy beasts come. Oh,

I have to review that for an outlet here. Is that like airing in America now? Is that already out? July 21st is when it, it, it airs on an outlet here. Is that like airing in America now? Is that already out? July 21st is when it airs on Netflix out here. Damn. It's a shame I haven't watched it yet for the review because I could like break my NDA and give you guys the inside thoughts. Because I've got it sitting on my queue at the moment. It looks crazy.

Yeah. It looks. I don't even know. Part of me is just like, do we get to see them smash with the prosthetics on? And are the prosthetics, like, do they extend down? Yeah. What are we talking here? What are we talking about?

Like a whale dork? You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. It matches the vertical eyelids. Yeah. I want to see some freaky junk on screen in full K. Come on, man. Yeah, exactly. Or it's all for naught. Yeah. I want to see some freaky junk on screen and 4K. Come on, man. Yeah, exactly. Or it's all for naught. Yeah. For listeners who aren't familiar, the worst idea of all time is a podcast in which you guys watch things that aren't easy to watch, that it's not not the greatest cultural offerings of all time. And you watch them over and over again has that turned into like do people just want you to watch the worst shit of all time like all the time we're like um

you know i think not enough people say this but we're like jesus in some ways we're taking society's cultural sins so that people don't have to experience it themselves you know we're like taking that weight off them but i'll say it we are basically podcasting jesus i love that and you're our salvation yeah you've offered us yeah they're apparently during the uh black death there were like one of the big attractions that went around was like a traveling circus of people who just whipped to themselves and like sold out shows to watch these people just whip themselves and basically take people's like very straightforward version of it's catholicism man yeah like my my brushes with a catholic upbringing which thankfully didn't sort of last too long when I was a kid, but that,

that just screams Catholicism to me. Yeah. Yeah. You were born, you're in debt to your God, feel like shit, you asshole, take it,

take the whip. And that like, like the biggest act in town is a group of goons just engaging in self-flagellation. They're just like, ah, you love it. Can I make a book recommendation? Yeah.

The whole concept of like debt and religion. This book, no shit, took me two years to read because I'm a very slow reader, but I stayed with it. It's called Debt, the First 5,000 Years.

I can't remember the guy's name, but he died a couple of years ago. But I found out after I read the book that apparently he's like this hardcore anarchist communist. was just yeah yeah yeah that dude nice and it's about like the idea of debt from like a spiritual perspective yeah it goes through the whole like origins of the concept and how it relates to human interaction and spirituality and how religion kind of built this temple on top of the concept of debt. It's really interesting.

Very cool. All right, I got two years. Yeah, man. I was literally thinking this morning trying to figure out what our modern version of those people whipping themselves are, and then you came on and volunteered yourself as as that so it may be casters i guess we have our answers there it is what is i feel like we're kind of like that miles we we go through the news so other people don't have that is true yeah people can just get

our distillation through it and yeah that's it and then you can our new podcast is listen to my therapy sessions i get the full full and then we just age like uh presidents you know i'm aging at a speak for yourself man 4x 4x rate uh but it's good it's fine yeah jack you look like shit but miles you're looking good as hell man i know yeah baby you know what i mean it? On the islands, just chilling. And that Botox, baby. You know what I mean? I haven't changed my expression for about three weeks. You don't need to when you look that good. Nope, don't need to. You just seemed

real casual about everything. Or shocked. Tim, what is something you think is overrated? A good night's sleep. You don't need it man i'm living proof i'm right here do you know what happened i so last night i was up till like midnight and i had to get up at 6 a.m to do this anyway but at four o'clock in the morning we've just moved into a new rental house my wife and i and there's these very cheap smoke alarms because legally you have to put smoke alarms in now and so they got the cheapest ones and they keep just randomly going off but they've got a

built-in fucking battery you cannot take the battery out so yeah so four in the morning this thing kept going off and i'd hit the button and then it would keep going keep going and i was like jesus christ and then i was going to hit it with a hammer. But then I remembered in the back of my head somewhere that smoke alarms have radioactive material in them. Because I remember, like, I'm pretty sure some dude in America, like a kid, like some 16-year-old, made a reactor out of smoke alarms or microwaves maybe. Anyway, I was like, I probably shouldn't smash it with a hammer.

So I just dropped it into a glass of water, but then, and I thought it died. I thought it killed it. Cause it would just like short circuit the thing and it stopped going off. I was like, sweet problem solved. But then I got up to record in the goddamn flashing light,

still flashing. So that thing has been alive, totally submerged in water for two hours. Just waiting, waiting for you to give up. I want to hear what it sounds like though, underwater. The ionization chamber smoke

detectors contain a small amount of americium-241, a radioactive material. That's why I didn't want to hit it with a hammer. Yeah. Probably smart. I mean, wait, did you say now we have to put in smoke detectors is that is that a i i caught that word and i and made me think is that a new law in new zealand miles

things we've been playing it pretty fast and loose with regard to rental accommodation here for a long time that everyone talks about how like beautiful new zealand is what they don't talk about is that we have basically descended into a landed gentry here. There is like 1% of the population that owns all the property, and then 99% of us are under their thumb. And the government only listens to the property owning class. Oh, I've heard that tune. Yeah, yeah. Is that familiar?

It actually sounds pretty familiar. Hey, man, y'all doing that down there too? Hey, all right. The landed gentry all over the world. We saw that neo-feudalism and we were like, break me off a piece of that good, good American living. Oh, shit. Oh, so it is a new mandate, essentially, where landowners being like, oh, what do we got

to do now? Make sure there's no lead in the paint and stuff. Come on, man. Exactly. Oh, next thing. Yeah, we know this one. What's's next you're telling me i can't build with asbestos for god's sake it's gonna bankrupt me what's next we got to make sure that we use building codes that are uniform and safe for seismic activity come on now it's so messed up man if whenever people come here from like canada or the uk they say the same thing if people come here from like Canada or the UK,

they say the same thing. If you come here and it's not summer, they're like, what the fuck are you guys doing with your houses? Because we just do not insulate them. They're so cold. They're so cold. And it gets cold here. Yeah.

LA is similar, actually. Having lived multiple places, LA doesn't admit how cold it gets in la like the pacific ocean is fucking frigid for most of the year and yeah anywhere near the pacific gets pretty cold at night and then you just freeze because there's rarely any heating the houses are built out of they they've never heard of insulation. Yeah, just good vibes. You know, Santa Monica house is worth five million.

The bad news is we didn't put any fiberglass in the walls. The good news is we got you two quartz crystals to keep you warm at night. Oh, right. Yeah. And the door knobs are made of shungite. What is something you think is underrated, Tim? Nothing.

Nothing is underrated. Everything rules. Everything's great. Everyone just needs to embrace shit. Can I be honest with you as well? Like, I'm so uninterested in talking about myself because that tease you gave of the news rundown, it's got me thirsty, boys.

Like, that was some intense stuff. Get me in there. Yeah. Nothing's underrated at all. Nothing is. Well, I don't know, man. Nah, nothing's underrated. I'm going to stick to my word.

I just think everyone needs to be a little more positive and recognize that we're above ground. If you're hearing this, that's cool. You've got a functioning brain and likely some ears. That's fucking cool, man. That means you could listen to music if you want. What a gift. Of course, because you are in the Southern Hemisphere,

things are reversed. So for you, underrated means overrated and overrated means underrated. We should explain that to the listeners. And when you joined us on the call, you were upside down literally in the zoom gag i'd ever seen yeah so yeah inverted i would love to lay claim to that being intentional but that was an accident but it was it was perfect i'm a perfect comedian you might say what can we say

yeah i'm a jesus of podcasting and perfect comedian just to force an answer from you uh what is a food that you feel that is from new zealand that doesn't get enough recognition i mean i think savory pies is one of our great gifts to the world because we're really we're serious about them here meat pies in america it's weird because there's certain words that we kind of get twisted a little bit because a pie in america is what we would consider it's not quite a cake but you know if you say pie down there i don't know man like a tart you go to a bakery you're like let me get one of those and they're like i know what do we call it our bakeries don't really have apple pies they've got like meat pies you know like we just we don it? Our bakeries don't really have apple pies. They've got like meat pies. You know, like we just, we don't eat a lot of apple pie.

Right. So pie is just a more American thing. Like the way we know pie, which is like a no crust on top sort of thing, dessert thing versus, you know, what maybe the Brits would call a pasty or something. I would call that a tart. If there's no crust on the top, is that a tart? Oh, right. So then maybe, yeah, a tartlet, a tartine. Yeah, okay.

So I guess they have like fancy European words and we're just over here being like, it's pie. Yeah, but also just the concept of meat pie. You guys don't really embrace it. Right. No, and it's funny because we love those two words in America. So that combination should do dollars. It's a billion dollar idea. Embrace it. Right. No, and it's funny because we love those two words in America. So that combination should do dollars. It's a billion dollar idea. If someone introduces a franchise of like New Zealand meat pies into America, I think it could really tear shit up.

Because we love chicken pot pie. You can put really low grade meat in there too. Yeah. Like it's a winner. Yeah, yeah. Cat food pie. Cat food pie cat food pie yummy yummy yeah i like that miles you're like but what do you call the just caked in processed sugar cake pies yeah like what what do you how do you get your dose of you must have a different way of

getting your dose of uh processed sugar that floods your brain with enough. How are you guys delivering diabetes to the population? What do you call that? Oh, it's called we have high fructose corn syrup in everything. That's how we do it. All right, Tim, we are going to take a quick break and we will be right back to get to those news stories. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life.

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Maybe in the fucking 1830s. Yeah. This is so bad. We might be being too hard on the 1930s. But the, yeah, you know, they see the demographic changes that are coming their way and they need to protect their, you know, white supremacy. Yeah. So they are doing everything they can to make it so that, you know, the population as it exists in Texas can't vote. Yeah. So they are doing everything they can to make it so that, you know, the population

as it exists in Texas can't vote. Yeah. I mean, that's that's the that's the easiest way to hold on to power when you have a platform that is unappealing to most and it completely doesn't acknowledge, you know, the the humanity of the people that live in your state. So, you know, the bills we've talked about this because a lot of Republican controlled states after the presidential election and because of the big lie, they're using this premise of like, we need more voter security to essentially strip away all the ways that makes it easier for people to vote. And that's how they're, you know, potentially combating the voter security question, which is a total fallacy. So in Texas, they want to ban drive-through polling places. They want to just severely restrict absentee voting and 24-hour

voting, which helps if you have a restrictive job schedule that you have the ability to vote at any time of day. And even most fucked up is give poll watchers like the ability to just be at a polling place and intimidate the fuck out of whoever they want. And really, again, create a create scenes that we haven't seen since, you know, say Jim Crow. And this isn't the first time they've tried to do this. The last time they tried to pass the bills, Democrats left in protest. They left like the Capitol to, you know, prevent them from achieving a quorum to actually have a vote. And then this time that the governor called a special session, they wanted to force a vote. But now over 50 Democrats, they chartered planes to leave the

state again to this time to prevent them from achieving a quorum to have a vote to go to D.C. to lobby their federal counterparts to pass some fucking bills because right now in the senate we see like with the for whatever reason the intent to hold on to the filibuster is preventing you know hr1 and for the people act like the robust voting rights bills that we're trying to pass that would make it easier for everyone to vote not just democrats republic fucking everyone just to say hey this is how it works right we vote here and hey may the best thing win yeah exactly so one of the state representatives martinez fisher he said quote this is a moment that is going to wake america up we have to decide if we're going to stand for

democracy we want the nation to join us and we want the U.S. Senate to hear us and act because this isn't this isn't, you know, them saying they just don't agree with the legislation like they're there for votes that they're constantly outnumbered in and they still vote for them to leave. They're trying to show everybody this is so outside of the norms that people need to be paying attention to what's happening here to the point that they're risking, quote unquote, arrest. And I use that term loosely because Governor Abbott is like doing WWE style commentaries like, and I'll keep doing special votes and special sessions until we get to Election Day and I don't care. And if they come back, I will send the sheriffs or whatever to arrest these members and cabin them.

Yeah, essentially, they will be arrested and horseback them yeah essentially they will be arrested and arrested and cabined until they vote but again there aren't any laws on the books that actually like that would make that legal what they're doing say they're it's a crime but they did just vote to authorize the sergeant at arms to go out and arrest the legislators but again that's something their jurisdiction is restricted to texas and would you know it's a lot of it's a lot of blustering but is happening it's so crazy to me that texas is the state that culturally is like don't tread on me small state get out of my affairs liberty for all and then it's like okay uh what about me I'm a woman and would like to have control over my body. Shut the fuck up.

No, not you. Get out of here. It's like, what about me? I vote for a different party. No, fuck you too. It's just like. Look at the fine print, asshole. Terms and restrictions apply.

It's so naked. It's so like, it's crazy that they can get away with it. And it's so naked. Can I, I just, I had to Google this because it's too perfect. there's a quote by hunter s thompson which is like so prescient the republican establishment is haunted by painful memories of what happened to old man bush in 92 he peaked too early and had no response to it's the economy stupid which has always been the case every gop administration since 1952 has let the military-industrial complex loot the treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of wartime economic emergency.

Nixon quickly comes to mind, along with Reagan and his ridiculous trickle-down theory of US economic policy. If the rich get richer, the theory goes, long before their pots will overflow, it will somehow trickle down to the poor, who would rather eat scraps off the Bush family plates than eat nothing at all. Republicans have never approved of democracy and they never will it goes back to pre-industrial america when only white male property owners could vote yeah yeah that's it it's still the same thing still the same agenda just new characters new costumes it's but it's like it's if it didn't affect so many people in such an

awful way it would be interesting to observe from a scientific point of view because the group of people there you know taking the rights away from is increasing and the amount of people that they represent is shrinking so they have to do these more and more tyrannical things and like just nakedly anti-democratic you know borderline authoritarian law making to suppress the vote and it's like at what point did they trip over the line where people are actually like yo what the fuck you can like this is crazy it's hard i mean it's it's bubbling up because right now a lot of especially democrats and progressives and and anyone who's interested in voting rights are looking at what's happening in the lack of movement from especially the Senate, because we have this stupid arcane mechanism called the filibuster in place. MSNBC, you'll have people like Casey Hunt say, call the filibuster the tool of the minority rather than a relic of the most racist times. But OK, MSNBC, thank you for your really cool coverage. But like, you know, they won't do away with it because that is one of the biggest roadblocks to passing a lot of these bills to have, like even with the just, you know, math, slim mathematical majority that the Democrats have. And hopefully, I think these legislators from Texas are hoping to put more pressure on these senators and people in Congress to do something because they're saying, if you don't handle it up here, we don't have the

numbers to do it at the state level. So this is the only place where you're going to ensure any kind of outcome, especially for your federal offices as well. This affects everyone. And I think a lot of us here are looking at the president and Joe Biden and wondering like, oh, you at this point, it just seems like he's refusing to really take this seriously, because I think like, you know, without the filibuster in place, a lot of real progressive policy could come through that would change things for you know the i guess the status quo in dc well it'd be it's necessary like that that's the thing that i think people are ignoring is that like you said tim like because the demographics are changing the republicans are going to like this is only going to get worse and more blatant their authoritarianism is only going to get more extreme and there needs to be changes to the laws to to protect against that but i think people are just because trump lost the election they're just less less concerned about it paying less attention but like the central like

republican party has only grown more and more like startlingly authoritarian and nothing nothing's really being done about it do you remember i think it was the second obama election and the republicans got their ass handed to them. And then they came out with that report about the changing demographics of the country and how they needed to basically extend an olive branch to the Hispanic community. Yeah. And like they were, you know,

you get these little, I mean that maybe that was, that was it. And then they ignored it. But there are these little signs that every now and then they kind of know what they need to do. And then they just go and ignore it. And that's why I say like it doesn't have to be you don't have to walk down this road of absolute tyranny.

And I think they're only doing it because they're so entrenched in the system of just fulfilling the wishes of these billionaires that fund the party. And not to say that the Democrats don't do, you know, their own version of that. And not to say that the Democrats don't do, you know, their own version of that, but it just seems it seems like such a smaller, richer, more evil minority of people who are calling the shots with the GOP. how many uh different times you have to make sure that you are registered and then which ids and proofs of address do you need to bring to the poll to make sure that you are registered to vote in our last general election which was last year yeah we had attached to the general election where you you know pick what party is going to be in power and what politician will represent your area that you live in we also had a referendum on cannabis law reform and i went to the polls stoned with no wallet id or anything and cast my vote that's how it like it literally could not be easier to vote in new zealand do you just fill

out you just sort of you self-identify like on your ballot so they know who the vote is attributed to or how does it how do we've gone um we've actually got some pretty good systems so there's like there there genuinely has been a massive effort in new zealand to make it as easy as possible and we've got i can't remember what they're called but they're like an easy vote card so you register you know a little bit early or you make sure that your details are correct on the electoral roll. And then they will post you just a little business card size slip of paper that's got a number on it.

You go, you go and you take that to a polling volunteer at the polling station on the day. And like, that's a, there's a sheet of paper you put, I think it's actually may even be pre-filled with your name. And then you just take a couple of boxes and that's your, that's a sheet of paper. I think it's actually may even be pre-filled with your name. And then you just tick a couple of boxes and that's your ballot cast. And the lines are really short. Like, I don't want to rub it in because I see the news footage of, you know, especially minority communities just waiting in the cold for 12 hours and people delivering them food just to cast a ballot. And it breaks my fucking heart man and again it's one of those like huge disconnects between america exporting the story of itself

being you know the greatest democracy in the world and the birthplace of modern democracy it's like you fucking kidding me no yep we just have the best pr machine ever it's great to have dreams it's great to have goals but you gotta kind of be real about your current situation and what you're going to do to to hit them you know but it's like an x-factor judge where the u.s is doing their act as great democracy like we love what you did but i know i had to hit the buzzer on that because it was falling a little bit short in the accuracy department just keep working at it and we hope to see you next season yeah can see the intent though the intent is there and i and i appreciate that but the i feel like americans don't even acknowledge like how simple the government could make it if they wanted to like it is super

intentional yes if i can tell you one thing from new zealand it is and it's like i imagine really expensive to do that like it seems to me just intrinsically like it would be cheaper to just give people to allow people to vote and not put these roadblocks up because all of them represent a barrier that someone's gotta you know force in like these id checks and that someone someone's actually got to be there doing those id checks where there's got to be a system or whatever. It's right. You know, everyone's heard this a million times before.

It's not about voter fraud. Voter fraud does not exist in any statistical way in America. It's not. And when it does, it's typically, it's been Republicans that have been hot over the last year. We've been like, I'm sorry,

man, I'd made my dad caught out. Then like half his family vote in a different state to where they reside to try and like swing shit i mean i think they were just errantly vote i mean it's again it's like it's like these stupid little attempts from people thinking they're going to be heroes by doing this really light voter fraud but yeah that's all that you know this whole, because to your point of like, it's never just it's if the white ruling class and that balance of power begins to be upset, this is when the bills start coming in. This is when state houses start gerrymandering. This is

when they start restricting voting rights, because, again, they like voting only if it serves their purposes. And now we're seeing them like, oh, OK, there's too many of them. We got to pull up the we got to pull up the ladders. We got to make sure that it's impossible now because this thing's going to get away from us. And the freaky thing is the Republicans have understood for a long time how to do this,

the structural stuff. Organizations like the Federalist Society, they understand the power of state legislatures and getting judges on the benches. All this shit that like i imagine typical americans don't really pay much attention to because you're living your goddamn lives you know you're keeping the lights on you're trying to pay rent look after your family and the republicans are like putting all of the most dastardly people in these roles where they can

just tweak shit enough and a little bit here and a little bit there in this court and you know the sheriff's department. And then all of a sudden, yeah, you've got like a third of the state that can't cast a ballot. It's so crazy. America loves to brag about how we have like the best colleges in the world,

but all our like educated, all that education is going towards like educating people to be in the federalist society to like come up with convoluted ways to make voting harder. And I gotta say this though. like educating people to be in the federalist society to like come up with convoluted ways to make voting harder and i gotta say this though and advertising the advertising industry i get i get swept up in this stuff when i'm on podcasts like this and i've i've got to just put it on the record i fucking love america and i love americans okay okay yeah i mean nothing you said please and nothing you've said would indicate otherwise i

mean that like the only thing you've criticized have you been on podcasts where you said something you made an observation about america be like this guy fucking hates america man it's very easy to get into a death spiral about how bad the democratic process is over there people like oh yeah no welcome to this show no welcome to this show. No, welcome to this show. It's called the daily death spiral. Yes. Yeah. I was listening to your standup about how much more progressive the,

uh, healthcare system and grand theft auto is than the U S healthcare system. Uh, I thought that was a really good observation and no lies, not, not a single lie, uh, detected. And no lies. Not a single lie detected. Even that game has a utopia of a medical case. It's wish fulfillment.

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And Newsmax has a theory that they're working on that Donald Trump is actually a lot like Batman, bro. I don't know. When you think about it. What do they do? First of all, when I saw this, I'm like, what are we, what is going on here? Right. Like Steven Robinson and Wonkette, he wrote this thing up just because like, just bringing our attention to this.

Benny Johnson, who spent in, this is apparently a whole segment of his show, The Benny Report, essentially being like, hey man, Donald Trump is a lot like Batman. Y'all, I don't know if you guys know about this. And I'm not even going to play. You know what? Here, let me let me play a little soundbite just so you can hear someone out loud trying to extol the virtues of Donald Trump as Batman. Welcome to The Benny Report. I'm Batman. Actually, I'm Benny Johnson. But as many of you know, we are enormous Batman fans on this show.

The Dark Knight is America's finest superhero for obvious reasons. He is tough. He has the best tools and villains to fight. And unlike those villains and many of his fellow superheroes, And unlike those villains and many of his fellow superheroes, Batman has no special supernatural powers. He has no DNA mutation. He wasn't born on an alien world. Batman is just a guy who loves his hometown. That's his superpower. His motivation is not trying to protect the galaxy. No, Bruce Wayne's motivation is simple and local.

So this is how he starts it off uh-huh let me get to the part where he starts talking about trump as it relates to batman mr trump yes are you batman i am batman i love that clip i love that clip was there no more a fortuitous clip in 2016? Amazing. A classic. And in a way, it's true. Both Trump and Batman are rich, mysterious, unpredictable guys. They own skyscrapers in Gotham.

They have a cult-like hero status for throwing their privileged lives away and getting their hands dirty. I'm done. I'm not playing anymore. What the fuck is this guy going on about? I've never heard that guy before in my life, but it terrifies me that people were like, that guy's mimicking Tucker Carlson's intonation.

Like his whole speech pattern and rhythms is just a... Here's the point. Yeah, I mean, Tucker Carlson, one of our great intellectuals so you gotta you gotta follow in his footsteps but yeah you know he said after the privilege throwing their privileged lives away he says both have a helicopter and a plane shut up ben the only thing they have in common is they've both got severe issues with their father and that drives most of their dastardly deeds. And I think that's the start and end of it. of batman as a hero right we look at batman as shitty billionaire with daddy issues who thinks he knows what's best for everybody and he's going outside of the law to create some world that he

thinks is best in that sense i think they're very similar and shitty rich dudes but yeah it's just another thing that he was pointing out in this article is that like one of the writers of the batman comics in the 80s he was actually like it's funny is i based my lex luther character on donald trump like when i was like creating this like like plot line in the in the batman series i was writing so it's like wow fucking guy anyway i'm curious to know what this does i'd never thought of batman in that way that you just laid it out miles but like now that you sort of say it my my brain sort of ticking that over he's like the worst version of a a guy who works with the cops but will go even further yeah he's a libertarian he's like a violent libertarian who refuses to

like give any money to social programs like does not create it like if he funded the schools of gotham and the health care system in gotham and like created jobs for gotham or just like fucking paid his taxes who was the um secretary of education betsy devos what's her brother's name who runs like eric prince eric prince he's he's more he's like eric fucking prince he's a localized prince yeah exactly so who who do you reckon trump is like though from the comic book world like if you had to pick anyone i mean lex yeah he's not cool enough to be lex luther in any way shape or form right he's like uh he's like Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles like a big weird dumping villain

and he's like hiding in a larger body that can be like hiding behind MAGA worlds to be like

oh I may be a creepy little wet brain but check out this big old baby that's a monster that will break shit called my MAGA crew

exactly he's like shitty master blaster or something yeah i mean some versions of lex luther are very like transparently insecure and like working from a place where they're just like he he's just mad that he's bald and also like just comparing himself 100 to superman and unable to like fill the hole that Superman has created inside of him. And in that respect,

I feel like he's not, he's not a bad luck. Lex Luthor. It's true. He can't exist without a antagonist. Like if you like Trump's existence is railing against it. He's not for anything. He's just against a bunch of shit.

Yeah. And I'm curious to know, like, I mean, obviously this is intentional. He, against it he's not for anything he's just against a bunch of shit yeah and i'm curious to know like i mean obviously this is intentional he he feels that this is worth saying to his audience this benny joker guy but like i'm curious if in it they're like yeah man what we really need to do is get more people to see donald trump for the the batman that he is like rhetorically i'm curious what the aim is because i don't think these people need more reason to deify Trump. Like it's already fully become a death cult. So maybe this is just to keep that momentum up. Like and remember, he's also Batman, too. And he's also

Jesus and Santa starring in a new action film that you're going to love coming out. As someone who did call himself the Jesus of podcasting earlier this very episode i will say that it's it's pretty terrifying because it seems like they are gearing up to run him again oh he's like oh yeah yeah i think they they want to yeah do you who do you think i mean is biden going to run again do you think because i honestly think trump would beat kamala harris like pretty handily i i don't it all depends on what happens you know in in the build-up because there's certain like there's campaign finance laws that people think he's already running a foul of like he's been really weird with his fundraising there's some things that may slightly affect no no trump oh just like in the long term. But I know I think based on how strong his brand is, they it's looking that way. The unfortunate part is because the whole party is just a bunch of grifters.

as being like someone that he will endorse or to potentially immediately take his place the second he falls out of grace or something with like MAGA world. So it's a very it's just a very cutthroat world on on the right and the left. But like over there, like there's so much performative, like MAGA tree, as I like to call it, happening for people to sort of make their case on if Donald Trump doesn't, then I should be the person. person but yeah i think at the end of the day it's probably the easiest person to run that already has a ton of name recognition but also a lot of people you know may come out against him again yeah i mean his performance in the last election was still like shockingly strong and i yeah i don't think there's any chance that unless they can somehow get like high up republicans to turn on him in a way that like actually makes it so he can't run i i don't think there's anything that's stopping him from running again they are in a bit of a like

a weird place too because rhetorically and what their agenda could be is like they're running on a platform saying the election was stolen and the january 6th insurrection wasn't a big deal and they're using that to you know get get more of the base sort of whipped up into a fervor to be able to take that energy into midterms and then eventually a general election or presidential election but a lot of the pollsters who work on the right are like, that's not a good message if we're trying to expand the base in any way, like going full on. It was a lie. And January 6th was done by Antifa. Like that, that's going to sort of narrow the field. And a lot of candidates who are running as Republicans are weary of that being like, I don't know if that's like the best thing for me to say based on the people I'm going up against.

So there's a lot to reconcile. But at the end of the day, I don't think they really give a shit. Yeah, no, not at all. Well, I don't want to go from the future fall of American society to something even more serious but we have learned a little bit more about the fraser reboot and it's not looking good fellas can i can i freely admit something yeah this is the very first i'm hearing of a fraser reboot this morning was the first i had heard of it as well what the fuck is going on is did you watch the show at all yeah i did okay i did i barely watched it i mean i know tangent or very sort of uh from a

10 000 foot view who some of the people are but yeah i love chelsea grammar big grammar head though yeah i think that him being cast as hank mccoy in x-men was like one of the greatest casting decisions in the cinema but in terms of fraser like one of the greatest casting decisions in cinema. But in terms of Frasier, I've seen it as in I've seen the wallpaper in my house. It's there, I've observed it. It's omnipresent. Like Jesus.

Like me. All around us. And when we thought we were alone, Frasier was actually carrying us on his shoulders. So this is less a reboot of Frazier and more of a reboot of the theme song of Frazier

in the sense that it's only Kelsey Grammer. It's clearly only Kelsey Grammer's idea for him to do it, and it's kind of embarrassing that he's doing it. What do you mean it's only him? Let's get into it. your sleeves up two weeks ago fraser was saying we have a story to tell and

you know that can actually be told with or without them honestly talking about like the cast but i want them back because that's what i always dreamed of. I thought we should explore all their lives in their third act. And so that is my hope. And I'm fairly confident they'll come back. And then most recently, we have learned none of them. All of them said no. But we're also learning Fraser's going to change cities again. So that's interesting. That's going to be exciting. Wow. You know, we've seen Boston. We've seen Seattle. Where is he going to go next? Another detail that we've learned is, all right,

so grammar revealed that Fraser's life, quote, takes him in another direction, and he becomes rich beyond his dreams. Is he writing it? Because he did not write the original show it's like right an actor they played a part enjoyed it it went away for a long time but now he's writing fan fiction for himself that's exactly right uh and this and this and this version of dr crane fucks big graphically and uh all on camera yeah so the guy, like, I think that was the question on all of our minds is, like, what does this guy who lived in a luxury condo and drove a BMW and spent a small fortune on lattes and fancy French dinners, what would he do if he actually had money?

And we're going to find out the answer to that. That's just, like like such an amazing, I can't imagine. It's so out of touch. As someone who's seen the Sex and the City 2 movie 52 times, which is a film that came out in 2008, just as the global financial crisis was happening. Like in our lifetime lifetime the greatest pinpoint of when the whole

economic house of cards that the elite had stacked up and fucked the rest of us the Sex and the City 2 movie came out where the gals go to the Middle East and it is just dripping with this disgusting like

gold plated, grotesque, you know, baubles of, of, of wealth everywhere. I mean, this sounds on par,

frankly. Right. In terms of how out of touch it is with the moment. And isn't Kelsey Graham is like a bit weird politically now. Oh, a bit. Oh yeah. A bit. What's his deal so he has

basically he's a like libertarian republican he's a vocal right winger and while he never explicitly campaigned for trump he offered some supportive comments about how trump's disruptions in the u.s were a good thing he sounds like he would have been a john mcafee voter yeah he claimed in 2016 that the reason he didn't get or no i guess it was 2012 you know we we all remember the big snub in 2012 when his performance in his show boss didn't get nominated for an emmy and we were all looking at each other like, wait, where is this series at? What,

how, how is boss not nominated? And he, he actually went, this is so sick. He actually went on the tonight show and said that the reason was because he, uh, isn't out of the closet Republican in Hollywood.

Uh, so, you know, appropriating the oppression of, you know, the LGBTQ plus community towards being a rich, out-of-the-closet. Yeah. The victim mentality of these fuckers is cool. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, also, and then this version of the Frasier reboot is like such divorcee fan fiction too oh yeah didn't didn't his like all of his marriages and relationships recently crumbled too so he's like yeah and like now dude he's like so rich and he can like look at a woman and then her clothes fall off instantly yeah i took that from extras and i love that bit where patrick stewart is able to do that i kind of folded that into the lore of dr frazier. Now instantly her clothes come off and she's trying to cover up, but it's too late. I've already seen everything.

Plus I'm rich. Okay. So, I mean, I didn't, I hadn't really followed along with Kelsey grammar since his, since Frazier, I guess,

uh, since boss. When we all, you know, I was just too disturbed by it's not getting an Emmy nom that I stopped watching it, but apparently he's been making lots of shows that have all been canceled within episodes.

There's the sitcom Partners where he and Martin Lawrence are partners. That was a thing, and he was a wacky racist guy. Ooh, there's a show Hank about a rich guy who, and I'm guessing Kelsey didn't like this too much,

loses all his money and has to move into a very large house in Virginia. Uh, so he's still living fine. Uh, it's like, it's like they tried to make Schitt's Creek or Arrested Development, and he was like,

no, let's not go crazy. He's not going to live in a bad place. It'll still be a two-story house with all the accommodations. A plantation home in Virginia. Okay, very classy. Yes. A little spooky, though.

It would be cool if, because it was called Hank, it was like a retconned version of what leads to Beast. Yeah. Becoming Beast in the X-Men. Like, this is Hank McCoy's origin story, where he gets slighted by society and then just locks himself away doing self-experimentation. X-Gene comes out.

But this is going to be a complete clusterfuck. Like our writer, JM, was saying it might be a Roseanne-like clusterfuck, but I think that is best-case scenario for this. But some of the past cast at least participated in that first version of the Roseanne. Yeah, and then when she left, it became a good show, apparently. And people actually watched it. I get the sense. What are they going to like?

What's he going to you know, like that first like that, whatever the pilot episode of this reboot is going to have to do a lot of housekeeping in terms of what the narrative is now. And he's going to have all that all those housekeepers to do it for him because he's so rich now. So rich. And they're all naked their clothes come off instantly and they can't cover up because i've already seen everything but like his whole like is he gonna be like oh you know niles and roz you know they were dealing meth so they've they went they're out they're out and doing time in leavenworth like what what's gonna be the explanation you know because i remember fuller house they were saying like

the reason that the olsen twins weren't in it was like you know michelle's doing her fashion thing it was like a quick throwaway line to sort of explain what the absence of the olsens like what you do when it's only fucking kelsey grammar and yeah only him what do you say then how do you set this up to bring fans in i'm sure they'll get bulldog the like sports radio guy i'm sure he'll be already in for the paycheck the dad passed away recently right yeah because he was fantastic yeah very the dog was really cool i think the dog died sounds like daphne's not getting involved daphne ross and uh niles niles not none of them are back according according to Kelsey. It'll be great. He's just shit-talking them all.

You'll know how much of a hand he has in their writing when everything's just ripping down those other characters. There's no way this will make it to EO, though, right? I would love to see this. Oh, it absolutely will. Do you think it will? Do you think this will see the light of day? Because it's on Paramount+,

so it's not like a thing where they're going to have to go through an elaborate piloting process. I think it'll probably be more like, right? I mean, I don't know. Maybe Paramount+, has a higher standard than I'm imagining, but I feel like it's easier to get something to a full season of episodes that we can watch and enjoy than like on a streaming service like Paramount Plus that's just starting off. Yeah, I mean, if, you know, if Paramount Plus is out here, it's ViacomCBS, so it's their show. Like, they're're gonna do it i can't imagine i mean that

would be such an embarrassment to do all this press announce it and then be like you know what we i don't know what the fuck we were thinking man like how we thought it could be a reboot with one guy and the story's completely different it's not even the same show and nobody's watching but i don't know what we shall see we shall see but i think i do think that this time of like reboots of previously beloved shows is kind of coming to a close fuller house was recently canceled after five seasons even though the cast was all like i mean we do more you want us to do more we'll do more right here for you. Like, come on, man. I don't know if Bob Saget's got a lot of people knocking down his door at the moment.

And, like, Lori Loughlin's like, yeah, man, as soon as I get out of jail, I'm good, man. And the Sex and the City thing, like, the most attention it got was by just photoshopping other characters into the Kim Cattrall spot when they released that like still say other characters we all know it's Vin Diesel yes Vin Diesel over and over again there's also Paddington come on oh that's true yeah or the one from the I think you should leave sketch when he's wearing all

the hot dogs no have you seen season 2 god damn that sketch fucked me up I don't even want to be around anymore I don't want to be around anymore that one I think Anna sent us or she sent us one of the

memes about that with the sex in the city plus that character and I was like yes I'll watch that alright well Tim it has been such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist uh where can people find you follow you hear you all that good stuff um it's been a delight thanks for having me on i wasn't anticipating after all the chat of the fall of democracy in america that phrase it was

going to be the thing that depressed me most in the news rundown but here we are i'm i'm online i'm an online boy i'm on twitter tim underscore Tim underscore Bat, B-A-T-T. The podcast is Worst Idea of All Time. And yeah, I've got a little bit of stand-up floating around online. Of that bit that you're referring to before, Jack, about me likening GTA's healthcare system to America's to great comedic effect. That went crazy on TikTok. But TikTok kind of scares the shit out of me.

So I just put a few clips up and that one went nuts and i was like i don't like this shit but i don't know i'm on there right yeah i mean it's weird it's like the most plugged in to like a hive mind of it's literally a chinese company training an ai like right and i'm not exaggerating or have a tinfoil hat on like the company that owns tiktok are are an ai company and they just made this as almost an experiment to train like a deep learning algorithm and it took off and uh the implications of that a little bit freaky to me yeah yeah but hey that that means that that's that's good material right there. I went viral though, baby. Sorry, I'm throwing it all away. There you go.

So it can't be that bad. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying? Okay, there's a guy, a friend of mine called Sam Brooks, who writes for an outlet called The Spin-Off. He tried to stay 24 hours in a denny's and he chronicled his experience and he got sadly kicked out by the manager after about 10 hours and it was just it was a an adventure and a journey that spoke to my heart as someone who like punishes himself with these voyages of bad media and it inspired me and like i want to see if maybe i could achieve something similar

so check that out sam brooks is his name um if you look up like denny's 24 hours spinoff it'll come up it's a beautiful tale that sounds amazing miles where can people find you what's the tweet you've been enjoying find me twitter instagram at miles of gray also the other show for 20 day fiance where we talk 90 day fiance very seriously. And a tweet I like is from at 51st Tate's. And the tweet reads me pulls into gas station, Google Maps. And just what in the fuck do you think you're doing? you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien a tweet i've been enjoying jamie loftus at jamie loftus help tweeted a pitch said in case anyone's starting fifth grade soon this might help

it is a list of do's and don'ts for fifth grade by Jamie Loftus. And there's 11 of them. I'm not going to read them all to you, but there's such greats as if you want to talk to a boy, don't be shy. Speak up. And number three, substitute teachers.

Don't give them the time of day. Number five, which is so like, what? Four, watch your regular shows, but add a couple mature shows like Friends and or The Cosby Show. Five, improve your wardrobe. Wear some sparkles and glitter.

More attitude shirts. I don't know what attitude shirts are, but it's just like she was writing in the voice of Barb and Star, like as a fifth grader. It really makes me happy. Don't give them the time of day. Don't give the substitute teachers, don't give them the time of day is my favorite thing that I've ever read. You're a panicked actor who passed just a really easy test just so you had someone to fall back on.

Don't give them the time of day. That's what substitute teachers are in LA. And then Al at the library tweeted, get in the boat, loser. We're being born back ceaselessly into the past. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page

and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy? This track is, you know, just again, we like stuff that is going to make us, you know, feel like get the summer vibes or winter vibes for my Southern Hemisphere friends. But just something that's just upbeat, you know, something that'll get your toe tapping. And this is called By Your Side by Sophia Curtis. K-O-U-R-T-E-S-I-S.

And it's just a good little, you know, house EDM kind of track. But it's like it's it's real easy. It's not like overly aggressive. It's like you feel like you're in a coffee shop where it's just a good little, you know, house EDM kind of track. But it's like, it's real easy. It's not like overly aggressive. It's like you feel like you're in a coffee shop where it's way too expensive. But the aesthetic and decor is really nice. So you'll take a seat for a little bit. And in that, I think it's worth listening to and playing around the house or in your earphones. However you get down.

Unless it makes me feel like I'm being rhythmically punched in the chest. I'm not interested. Okay. Well, okay. We'll play some Flux Pavilion next time. All right. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio,

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