The Daily Zeitgeist - ExisTrendtial Crisis, Pt. 2: UAPs, GlitchTok, Commander Biden

Episode Date: July 26, 2023

In this edition of ExisTrendtial Crisis, Pt. 2, Jack and Miles discuss the surprisingly boring Senate/UAP hearings, Miles' thoughts on GlitchTok, and Joe Biden's new dog biting everybody!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Existential Crisis. Again, we're going to do that again because I feel like the world's going through an existential crisis right now. In a couple of ways ways not just at the movies with barbie um i'm jack that is miles yeah um and and there's fucking aliens man there's fucking aliens bro that's one of the existential crisis existential crises that i feel like people are experiencing yeah being covered on the hill like minute by minute, there's a hearing happening on Capitol Hill and Congress is doing, you know, the minute by minute stuff is funny because like,

they're like, yeah, we, we found crashed UFOs. Uh, I worked for the Pentagon. I was like super high level clearance. We found them.

I know where they are. And then, um, Congress, like Jamie Moskowitz came through being like, so you're saying we gave the Pentagon funds for weapons and they used it for this other thing? Right. Like American taxpayers deserve answers. Like it's just the most like boring congressional.

Like he said, so does this mean there is money in the budget that is set to go to a program but it doesn't and it goes to something else? Dave Rush was like, yes, I have specific knowledge of that. Yep. Do you think the U.S. corporations are overcharging for certain tech they're selling to the U.S. government and that additional money is going

to the programs? Correct. Rush. They just found the most boring angle i'm not really uh whistleblowing on the price of the uaps that they're selling or where them uh it's it's the fact that we're it's all being hidden and i we'd have no idea where this is headed that's the reason i'm here today yeah so like what what kind of deal are we getting on that and so like how does it fit into the budget because you know mainly i have a lot of i have a lot of service men and women in my district that i represent and i like to know that we're setting them up for success and if now we're

using things that could go to their uniforms so they're you know their flat vests and things like that and it's going other things i have a problem with that i do so how can i make this as boring as possible let me see truly yeah this guy's out here being like i know where the shit's at do you want me to drop a pin fool i can do that um they also brought in uh the star witness who's the guy who fucked my shit all the way up the uh naval pilot off the us oh that guy that beat you up at tgi fridays yeah just fucking destroyed me um no he's the guy who's like out in a military fighter jet and like came face to face and eye to eye with the like tic-tac thing right right right that did like a couple impossible things and then like

fucked off at impossible speeds um that was the one that i was like wait why is why are these four naval aviators deciding to just ruin you know their credibility with this but it's also it's also weird so there is like as it comes in front of congress it is becoming this thing where they're like, so how do we profit off of this? I think there's a good question of like, okay, we have access to examples of this amazing technology.

They don't seem... When you see the UAP technology, the sightings seem to indicate that they're not burning fossil fuels. You don't see a stream of smoke coming out of the back of them. Hey, that UAP is rolling coal.

Cool. It's a good question of like, we're facing an existential threat here. The temperature of the ocean in Florida is literally like hot tub. Your children can't be in it because it's too hot of the ocean in Florida is literally like hot tub, but your children can't be in it because it's too hot, too hot of the ocean.

Yeah. Um, but like, so his quote was that that got pulled by the hill, uh, is it was amazing to see. I told my buddy, I wanted to fly it.

I'm not like a UFO fanatic. That's not me, but I will tell you that what we saw with four sets of eyes over a five minute period still there's nothing we have nothing close to it and i think there's like a lot of i think there's like part of this the way that they're getting people to pay attention this is the innate human and american instinct to be like give me that yeah give me that i want some of your tasty burger propulsion systems please how how do i have that yeah i don't it's very i mean i i'm really looking forward to hearing what else we hear and

what what the response will be but god yeah again it's a it's a very interesting time right now to have like these people out here saying this like in such unequivocal terms and more not even being like and i'm you know and i'm also like launching a new electric vehicle company that you might want to invest in it's truly like no i'm doing this because yeah exactly alienware brought to you by dell Computers and Alienware. Check out my new set of power tools, Alien Workshop. Really cool shit, dude, using, like, really cool space tech. But it is just, again, wild to think that we're now at this point where we have these people who are just out here saying this, being like...

But the issue is, I'm not doing this for self-promotion. I'm doing this because we need this to make sense of our place as a, as a, like as humanity. Like we've, yeah, we've seen whistleblowers now for a number of decades. Like best case scenario,

you like get a pat on the back from the mainstream media and then your life is ruined, you know? And yet like that is what they're identifying themselves as. They're using whistleblower protections to come forward. I'm very curious. I'm guessing they will not be addressing it, but I am just curious what the people from SETI and NASA think about this.

Because they've always been very dismissive of ufo sighting like their their thing is like we're you know out here detecting for radio waves or like any indication of intelligent life and you know kind of they they really want to distance themselves from the kind of wacky ufo stuff that gets dismissed so quickly um nasa obviously had the press conference earlier in the summer where they were like we're there are some things that we can't really explain like these orbs that are just like kind of hovering around the planet and so we're going to be investigating those as much as we possibly can um but i i'm curious like i feel like i'd love to hear you know the the head of seti who the jody foster character from contact is based on like just get her on

wax talking about what she thinks is going on here yeah i will see it i think for them they're always typically like well there's a lot of anecdotal evidence but i think they just they'd be like if anything they'd be like if anything they'd be like okay take let me see this shit then yeah you know um let me see this and then i mean another thing that we're talking about right before we start recording is you know that ties into i think all all of this like just this i mean there's an existential threat to humanity with the climate, and there's this weird information that seems to change everything we know about our existence in the universe. And then a trend that Superduser Becca and I talked about last week that I'd be interested to get your thoughts on is this trend of glitch talk, I think is what we were calling it last week i remember that but yeah it's like you know people being like look this woman is frozen for five seconds and then

she like comes out of it and she's clearly a non-playable character from a video game and this is proof that we're all in a you know simulation uh there's the actual trend of like people playing like acting like npcs the ice cream so good yeah yes yes yes yes yes yes woman like gang gang there's there's people who now have conspiracy theories that like there are non-playable characters all around you i've even noticed, like I've heard on multiple podcasts, like I think Chuck Klosterman on the Bill Simmons podcast and like one of the guys on last podcast on the left,

like the woman on the plane who was having the mental health crisis and was like, that person is not real up there. Like they were like, I'm really intrigued by this. Like, and nobody's been able to find that person. And like,

what, what is going on? Was there a not real person? I just think we're at this like very weird place where everyone's just kind of looking around and being like, I don't know what real anymore. Yeah. And I said this last time, you're experiencing the ills of living in a fucked up world and being disconnected from everything and disconnected from your sense

of self-worth, sense of value, sense of community, what you can offer if you matter. And what better way to reinforce your feeling of importance than to say that other human beings around you are actually non-playable characters and are texture to your main character narrative or whatever yeah and i just think it on some level because it is really disorienting people like there's no way this world can be so fucking cruel and fucked up and like awful that my only option is to toil to live and if that's it like it there's got to be something there's got to be something else then about this that i can have to be able to wrap my head around. And I think that gives you the kind of I mean, when I was in my fucking like late teens and shit, I used to be really like interested in all kinds of wild shit like this.

In my head, I remember even as a kid, I used to be like the Truman Show fucked me up. I thought I was the only motherfucker walking around. Yeah. You know, like when I'm 10 years old, same thing, something like that. or walking around. Yeah. You know, like when I'm like 10 years old.

Same thing. Something like that. But again, that was also on my journey of understanding who I was, what my relationship is to the world in a broader context. So,

I don't know. I just feel like there's some very seductive explanations that are just kind of fun. And it's like the same way I used to tell people, like,

you know the Illuminati handshake when I was in junior high and shit? You know, it's like, yeah, you got to put your pinky there. That's how they know. But no one can see from the outside. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back with some other news stories. Fantasy football fans, the NFL season is here and now is the time to get ready to dominate your leagues.

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And the big story on the right is Joe Biden's dog. Yeah. Commander. Yeah. Commander. Yeah. I love the name Commander. The dog that replaced Major, who was sent to live with some family far away from the White House following numerous biting incidents. His replacement, another German shepherd specifically brought in to like not bite. I'm assuming brought in commander and it's apparently not going well yeah i don't know it's so stupid how there have been numerous biting

incidents with this new dog like what does it mean he's the the language on fox biden's dog terrorizes white house with extremely aggressive rampage biting hey whoa robinette biting twice biting um yeah i don't know i it's just again this is all part in the backdrop right now is the full court press of the gop trying to make donald trump look good and also try and make joe biden look bad and right now it's really shows you where the shit's at where on one hand you have like i don't know trump might get hit with the rico and then you're like biden's dog is like it bites people sometimes yeah i think goes on rampages so we should impeach him a website like a conservative activist group that just you know used the tactic of stealing the name of like something that shouldn't be conservative.

They're called Judicial Watch, which we need one of those, a judicial watch to protect human rights. But this is actually a conservative group that uncovered details of the attacks through a FOIA lawsuit. that uncovered details of the attacks through a FOIA lawsuit. That's what they're using, the Freedom of Information Act, to obtain emails pertaining to a literal dog. And how bitey he is. Yeah.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how, like, sure, uh-huh. Fox News said the dog went on a rampage of terror. I know they could be talking about aliens, but instead they're... joe biden for that like that's a weird motherfucker's not telling us this guy's high what else is he hiding okay he's hiding alien technologies who is joe biden you know and what technologies is he using

to look so damn good um joe biden's communication director responded to the report by claiming that the white house complex is a unique and often stressful environment for family pets like which okay i feel like is that that feels like there was a conversation behind that where she was like it's not a good place to have a fucking dog and he went through with it anyways right right right it's like it's not a great yeah not a great environment dogs don't react well to it which seems to be like now self-evidently true but you know the right is biden's white house stressful environment for pets joe dog commander bite secret service agent 10 time like the attacks sound pretty serious yeah

i don't i'm not discounting that. I'm just saying yeah, okay. So Joe Biden is bad at picking dog. The New York Post, I'm disappointing you. You don't like this? You don't like this little bit of creativity here? You could have done

Joe Biden, and maybe they have, and that's why they didn't go with that, but they went with Commander in Chomp the subhead there's an easily startled confused creature in the White House prone to fits of anger there is also a German Shepherd okay you got

you won me back folks and you pull me right back in you fucking ghouls you yeah but I don't know I hadn't realized this but you know the mainstream media did love to point out that trump didn't have a dog and we're like does donald trump even like dogs does he have a soul um which i don't i don't think that's true but i guess the reason that was such a big deal is that he was the first president to not have a pet. Like it's,

it's a necessary thing. Like they're like, well, okay. So what's your like white house pet going to be? That's why he got impeached twice. That's what people don't know. That's right. Yeah.

It's all, it's all to do with his lack of dogs. Yeah. But like Obama's dog bit a teenager in the face. W Bush's dog bit a reporter. Um, FDR's German Shepherd bit four dignitaries including the British Prime Minister in 1933

like it is a bad place it's just a thing that they're like yeah it's not a fucking house yeah there's gonna be mean dogs here and you're gonna have to deal with that I can imagine too it's like a stressful environment where it's like this stressful environment is like world leaders or powerful people walking around stressed the fuck out all the time and that

energy must is i can't imagine it isn't just totally palpable to a fucking dog and it's like where the fuck am i man just let me be outside all right well we're gonna cut it there we we have to run to a meeting. Full transparency. I love that. Love that about you, man. It's a short episode because we got things to do. Yeah. But we are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.

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