The Daily Zeitgeist - FaceTiming While Driving = LEGAL!? Working For Elon = DEADLY? 11.15.23

Episode Date: November 15, 2023

In episode 1582, Miles and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by comedian and author of Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation, Sarah Cooper, to discuss… Republicans Cope With Being Wrong By Being…Wrongest? Our Laws Can’t Keep Up With Our Driving Habits, Truth Social Lost $73 Million Since It Launched, Working At SpaceX Is A G*ddamn Deathtrap, Andre 3000 To Release First Solo Album (Of All-Flute Music) and more! Republicans Cope With Being Wrong By Being…Wrongest?  Our Laws Can’t Keep Up With Our Driving Habits Truth Social Lost $73 Million Since It Launched Donald Trump’s Media Company Wants Pro-Gun Programming, Cancelled Shows and ‘Non-Woke’ Content for Streaming Service Working At SpaceX Is A G*ddamn Deathtrap At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk’s rush to Mars Elon Musk says SpaceX should receive clearance to attempt second Starship launch this week Andre 3000 To Release First Solo Album (Of All-Flute Music) LISTEN: Almost by RugawdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 313, episode three of the Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it is wednesday november 15th 2023 what's november 15th that's easy it's national education support professionals day it's national raisin brand day national spicy hermit cookie day i don't know what the fuck that is national bunt cake day i know what that is uh national clean out your refrigerator day

national philanthropy day in america recycles day or do they because in la i see them putting I know what that is. National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day, National Philanthropy Day, and America Recycles Day. Or do they? Because in L.A., I see them putting the recycling and the trash in the same truck, and it goes. And I'm saying, well, I guess they separated at some point. But that's where we are. Blake, do any of those resonate with you? Yeah, Clean Out Your Fridge Day, I think, for me, is every single day. I subscribe to 46 meal kit companies.

So it's a constant. It's a real mess. You always have a bag of rapidly spoiling spinach for some reason in the back of your fridge. It's a race against the clock. Well, you already know what time it is. My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. the Blazion for any occasion. The Lord of Lancashire. Your boy Kus Gray, a.k.a. the Blazion for any occasion, the Lord of Lancashire. Your boy, Kusama, obviously.

And you heard me pull my guest host in. It's the Lord of Chaos. One of my favorite people. And I believe one of your favorite people, too. Please welcome my guest host, Blake Wexler. Hey, thanks for having me, Miles. This is Blake Wexler, a.k.a. I Want to Blake Free. I want to blake free i want to blake free

i want to blake free from jack's lies he's so self-satisfied i don't need him it's great to be here thanks for letting me co-host oh yeah i'm psyched it's a lot of responsibility no no not at all no. We don't do anything. We're worthless. I just don't say that. We're mere voices. We're mere voices. We're mere voices.

But yes, let's move on to our guest today. First time guest, but someone I've definitely known about for some time. I'm sure many people have as well. Not only is this person a very talented author, they're also a comedian. They've worked in tech. They gave us many memories throughout 2020 on social medias. I think it's safe to say that their debut memoir, Foolish, is out now because it is out now. That's why it is safe to say.

And you should pick it up. Please welcome, and obviously I do want to give the subhead to that title, Foolish, Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation. I think words many of us that listen to the show can live by. Please welcome to the third chair, Sarah Cooper! Oh, my God. This is the best intro I've ever gotten. This is amazing. Really?

You're amazing. Make it easy. It's top 25 for sure. I mean, it's up there. We'll take that. We'll take that. I mean, the singing, the yelling, the jerseys in the background. Really, it's a lot going on here.

Yeah, it's a lot going on. Well, all the rack of jerseys behind me is because I don't have proper soundproofing. So this is kind of like baffling. And it's also baffling to my partner why I have so many jerseys as someone who's almost 40 years old. Yeah, that is a cost-efficient way of doing it, is buying authentic jerseys instead of just padding.

They're my kids' jerseys. I've had these for so many years. I just saw you were just showing off. No, I mean, I do show off my new Wu-Tang New York Knicks jersey. I am proud of that one. That's in the front for a reason. You put that there. Absolutely.

Absolutely. I spent way too much money on it. But anyway, Sarah, thank you so much for joining us. I know you've been, you're traveling, you're all over the place. So thank you for making the time, for stopping by. Really appreciate that. Oh, anytime. Anytime for you.

Oh, thank you. This is getting started so well. I feel like we already know each other. And like book, how's that been putting out your first memoir? Because this isn't your first book, right? This is this is something you've done. This is just your first memoir. Yeah, this is my first memoir. I had another book called 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. And then I had another book called How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings. And I had another book called How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings.

And then I had a few other things I did. But this is the first one with like words, lots of words, you know, and sentences and like paragraphs and like chapters and stuff. So that was like, yikes, you know. So you can't color in the images on this one because that's like a traditional book. No. And they were going to have a little section with pictures and stuff. And then I think we decided not to. So it doesn't even have that many pictures in it, to be honest. Oh, wow. That's huge. Are you on a tour for it now? Is that why you're traveling? My tour kind of ended already. The book came out in October, but I'm doing another event here in Boston. So

that's why I'm doing a little traveling. But I spent too much money on clothes this month. So I was going to take myself on a trip to London and now I don't have money for that. So now I just, I'm in Boston for two days. So instead of London, I'm in Boston for two days in the middle of November. So that's smart. At least you're in New England. Boston is the London of New England. What a good connection. Yeah. Instead of England, I'm in New England. Yeah. Do you ever do that thing? Like when you look at all the clothes you bought that prevented you from going London and you look at them, you're like, that's London. I'm looking at London right now. This reminds you of when I would do shit like that, buy shit I didn't need. And I'm like, oh, now I can't do this other thing. I'm like,

this pair of soccer cleats that I bought for, I don't know why, I haven't played in a year. Yeah. I think the thing that kills me is when I spend a lot of money on one outfit. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm just like, I could have gotten eight outfits for this one outfit. Yeah. The math isn't mathing. I get it. For me, it's not it's it's like medical expenses that i forgo because i'm like oh there's a pair of back surgeries that i have on the ground but instead i went on stock x and purchased something so no i hear you yeah travel wait you need back

surgery like i i am uh currently you have two backs you need a pair of back surgeries yes to making the beast with two backs. Yes, I'm getting a back reduction is what I'm getting. Because I have two and I'm told I only need one. Yeah. Well, it's good to know. Thank you for being honest. We appreciate transparency here.

Anytime. We've got your back. Yeah. Backs. We've got your backs. We've got your backs. Sarah, we're going to get to know you even better. But first, we've got to let people know what we're going to be talking about today.

Republicans, got to talk about them. They're coping with being wrong by being wronger, it sounds like. They're just doubling down on a bad hand. You hate to see it, or maybe you love to see it. And also, finding out our laws aren't quite keeping up with our driving habits. Our laws aren't quite keeping up with our driving habits. And we're going to look at how a law from about 20 years ago haven't quite kept up with our cell phone technologies and how people are not being very good about being safe on the road. Truth social, you hate to see it.

They lost $73 million since it launched. And it just turns out as they try and bring the company public, more information comes out as part of the process of merging. So we benefit from seeing just how the art of the deal actually works. And maybe that Jeremy Renner has a better app than even Donald Trump. Then we'll talk about SpaceX. They're trying to launch a Starship rocket again this week, but there's a lot of safety violations that have been going on at SpaceX I had no idea about that are very troubling. Even if you are an Elon stan, they, well, probably

not. But for those of us that aren't, very troubling. And if we get time, we'll talk about Andre 3000's new album that's coming out Friday. It just dropped out of us. We'll have time. We'll make time. We'll make time. Yeah, that's the late story. Even if we scrap every other story we're going to talk about. Before we do any of that, all of that, Sarah, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

I was doing a deep dive on Suzanne Somers today. Okay. Hell yeah. And I don't know. You all are probably too young to remember Three's Company, but it was… Hey, I know about it. I agree with the sentiment. Jack Tripper was my first celebrity crush.

Oh, wow. John Ritter? John Ritter, yeah. And anyway, Suzanne Somers, she recently died. Yeah. I mean, she died, I think, a week ago. Or no, a month ago. She died a month ago.

October 15th, she died. Oh, yeah. Anyway, so she wrote 25 ago. October 15th. She died. Anyway. So she wrote 25 books. Did you know that? No. Wow. I mean, I think my knowledge of her went from obviously there's a knock on my door. They'll be waiting for you. Like I was old enough to watch three's company reruns. And then I was like, Oh, and then you became the thigh master lady. And those are kind of the two like pinnacle or like big standout moments in my elder millennial brain. Right. She wrote.

I didn't know she was a prolific author. She wrote 25 books. She left Reese Company and didn't talk to John Ritter for 20 years because she kind of ruined the show because she wanted to be paid as much as he was being paid on the show for like the fourth season or fifth season. Yeah. paid on the show for like the fourth season or fifth season yeah and then she had like a follow up sitcom that like called she's the sheriff that just was rated 44th of the 50 worst shows ever made but then she came back and she was the mom on step by step or one of those like you know third friday whatever shows and she was married to her husband for 55 years and he's still alive he's 10 years older and he's still alive and they had this like really explosive sex life like into like their

70s like they were having sex multiple times a day and i'm like i just i found out a lot about suzanne summers that's yeah i mean she always had a bit of, you know, sex appeal to her. So I guess that doesn't quite strike me as surprising. But yeah, it's good to have like goals to be like, you can have sex multiple times a day in your 70s. Truly. Your body won't break. Yeah.

Man. Like were her books like sort of memoirs or was she also like, was she getting into like kind of interesting niche stuff? Her first book was a book of poetry and the first time she did late night was talking about her poetry her book of poetry and in the book of poetry is about touch and how important it is to touch people and she got like johnny carson and edmund man to hug each other because they never she was like you guys never touch each other and like they touched each other for like the first time it was like really funny and then she wrote a few memoirs and she wrote like self-help books she had

some weird medical theories that were like questionable oh yeah i'm just reading one right now that she thinks uh fluoride may have caused mass shootings or stuff in household cleaners okay you know we can't bat a thousand dude we can't bat a thousand yeah yeah but she did get breast cancer 22 years ago and very aggressive breast cancer and she survived for 22 years. So, you know, maybe it works for her, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wow. Suzanne, you know, what a legend. What a legend. Were you a fan before? Oh, no, go ahead. What were you going to say? Do you want to know what I was getting? Yeah, you're going to shame yourself in front of everyone.

Go ahead. I'm not shaming myself. I'm telling you a real story is that I knew that she was a prolific writer because in school and like elementary school, we used to do something called summer's reading where each summer we would read Suzanne summer books. So whatever you were going to say now, you can say it. Wow.

Are hysterical. So whatever you were going to say, now you can say it. Wow. You are hysterical. You really sat on that. I hope that you will start a movement across elementary schools. I think summer reading needs to be a thing now. Summer is reading. Yeah, absolutely.

And have all these kids talking about like, is there fluoride in our water, teacher? We need to talk about this. I read something very interesting. I'm never going to brush my teeth again. Yeah. Like, damn you summers um i don't even know what i was gonna say yeah i didn't know what i was gonna say blake you completely neuralized me with that with that amazing top tier joke um sarah what is something you think is overrated i have a few things if that's okay yeah yeah yeah we'll allow it yeah the first the first thing I

would say is astrology I had this conversation last week where I was telling a friend that I keep I can't figure out like what I want I keep going back and forth between things like do I want to do this do I want to do that and he was like are you a Gemini and And I was like, no, I'm a Sagittarius. And he was like, I knew it. Exactly. And I was like, wait a second. You knew that I was a Sagittarius, even though a second ago you thought I was a Gemini. Like, leave me alone. Like, why is everybody like, I'm like sun rising, like Scorpio falling, like whatever it is, like, what is it? Like, why do people, why do people believe in this? I just don't understand it. It's, it's why do people why do people believe in this i just don't understand it it's it's a way to i mean for i i always give this anecdote because i was always interested by astrology but it was usually at my loneliest i got into it because uh shout out

susan miller's astrology zone uh she would have like love forecasts and be like you're a virgo you need to keep your eye open and that was a way for me to give myself some kind of hope that i would be like this thing is telling me some shit that i don't believe myself but i need someone who i believe is tapped into something larger than i can understand to help me understand that and then yeah cut to things where people have been like are you uh scorpio i'm like no i'm a verb with like exactly and i'm like come on now like you sound like one of those like like those uh those psychics that get busted on tv where they're like yeah yeah but brother yeah yeah but also like when you were a kid like when i was like a boy crazy and you used to do those

like you know paper things oh yeah like fortune tell yeah, the fortune teller thing or the mash thing, like, which also made me remember this idea. This is what Facebook needs to do. Okay. They have so much information and data on every single person. They could figure out like all of my data, who I am today. And they could match it up with someone who's very, very similar demographically and like mentally to someone who's five years older than me. And they could literally tell me where I'm going to be in five years, probably. Right, right, right. Yeah. They could do that. That would be wild. Could you imagine, like, that feels like such a double-edged sword because on one hand you could see it, all it would take a couple to be accurate and then people to completely give it all,

like all their agency away to like the meta fucking right yeah exactly but i just read that we don't have free will anyway so who cares yeah exactly we're fine meta took it away yeah that's why i don't fuck with the matrix you know that's why i don't that's why you stop you're in the matrix no no a fish can't tell it's in water, dude. I've been out. I've been out. It was a real bad mushroom trip, but I'm pretty sure I was out for a little bit. What else do you think is overrated, Sarah? Personal growth.

I think knowing yourself. You know, self-awareness. I feel like the people who are most successful aren't self-aware at all. Truly. Yeah. They have some. Yeah. Yeah. So why are we getting to know ourselves?

Like, I feel like I've really gotten to know myself so much now that I'm basically who I was like 13 years ago. And like the sayings that my mom used to say that I used to think were so stupid. I now find myself saying them like it is what it is. Like, why am I saying that? Right. It's so scary when you start repeating what your parents do. It's horrifying. But also.

No free will. Also, it's true. How do you argue with it is what it is? Yeah. You can't argue with it. It's this. This is present. You're like, of course course that's an observation right

pretty objective hey my dad used to say don't step in the oil constantly whenever we'd walk through a parking lot like if a car was leaking oil and i'd be like god why does he always say that and now i'm like yeah i guess i was stepping in it and dragging it through the carpets of our house we had a carpet we had carp. Gotcha. And it ruined his life. So I'm like, yeah, thank you. It's been a good few years. But yeah, I'm a lot of nepotism. Yeah, tell them about your grandfather,

the carpet king of South Carolina. He was the carpet king of South Carolina. Yeah, no, he laid them. So he was originally labeled a carpet bagger and then he turned lemons into lemonade and called himself the carpet king and opened up a multi-b bagger and then he turned lemons into lemonade and called himself the Carpet King and opened up a multi-billion dollar business. He turned lemons into lemonade and became

a Carpet King. That's fascinating. He opened up a lemonade stand and sold carpets as an adult. Oh my God. And when he called himself the Carpet King, did he spell carpet with a K too? It is almost as if I think it was a Calvin Klein logo,

right? It was like a CK. It was exactly that. Yeah, it was 100%. You know exactly what's... Are you like scraping my Facebook data? Because I've posted about this a lot. I'm the Oracle of... I can't tell what's real on this show. I really can't.

That was a joke. But this is not the Matrix, though. We're in the real world. I want to say. I want to argue on behalf of the real world there. Okay. But you'd say, you think, I mean, you haven't had any personal growth. You said, like, I'm the same person I was 13 years ago.

Well, I had this, you know, the first joke I ever wrote, ever told on stage was, a year ago, I was single. And today, I'm no longer single. I'm now desperate single. I'm not desperate. That's really funny. That's a great, that's great. Thank you. And I it's like true again. Oh, I've been married. I've been divorced. And now I'm like, right back where I was 13 years ago. And it's just like, and I've done all this work on myself. I've had all these relationships that I've had all this like introspection and i've looked at everything and i've overturned everything and i've digged it and i've hunted and i'm right back where i started so what was the point what

was the point i think i think it's you know we're all paying our tuition to the school of experience i think you will now that whatever this next you know juncture the next venture is romantically it will you're going to use all of these learnings you know juncture the next venture is romantically it will you're gonna use all of these learnings you know i fuck that like what the fuck was it all like yeah that sounds all wait what are some of your first dates like sarah like oh i don't even have dates that's the one thing i did change is i got off all the dating apps like 13 years ago i was on all the dating apps this time i'm not so i did change that that. Okay. And what's your methodology now? So you learned something there.

You are different. You're no longer an app. I'm literally just waiting. I'm literally just like a spider in a web, just like waiting for somebody to come along. Perfect. Perfect. It's coming.

Yeah. When you meet that person. I'm waiting to suck the fucking oh sorry you'd be a husk in a carpet you'd be a dried up husk when i'm done with you um what's something you think is underrated sarah a fake plants i really love my fake plants um they make me feel like i'm taking care of things but then i don't actually have to take care of anything but it's like it adds all this greenery i don't know i really love fake plants and i really feel like people look down on me for not having real plants and they keep trying to get

me to like get a cactus or get a succulent or something that like shut up just i have fake plants and it's okay you know shut up the plastic plant people i i have more judgment seeing somebody with dead ass plants than I would fake plants. So, yeah. Aside from the air quality being different. Yeah, why not? That's such so indicative of your friends knowing that like you're a busy performer, writer, comedian that they're like, oh, don't get something that you need to nourish and take care of. Get something that doesn't require water or any care whatsoever that you can just leave in your home now i think fake plants are amazing because now they look real like this isn't the 40s back you know many times yeah you know this is definitely not the 40s yeah this is not back when they used to look so fake and like yeah thank you well you're like it's gotten better with each decade

which is decade it's really improved. My grandfather was the fake plant king. Oh. I was going to say, I'm like, go on, Sarah. Let us know, you know. Did you come from meager upbringings or were you the princess of the fake flower industry? Now, I find myself, when I'm with my partner, her majesty will go out. I'll like touch shit because I'm so convinced. I'm like, is this shit fake?

This shit looks too good. And then I'm like, or like I'll end up breaking a leaf on a real thing. And I'm like, oh shit, my bad, my bad, my bad. And then other times when I find them, I'm like, I knew it. But that shit looks real good. That looks fantastic. Maybe this speaks to our whole thing about what is real. Right, truly.

Things that are fake look so real, and some things that are real look fake because they look so real. And then at that point... That's such an Aquarius thing to say. Yeah. Oh, wait. Are you an Aquarius? Oh, Sagittarius?

Yeah, yeah, I knew that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not an Aquarius? Okay. Yeah, Aquarius was probably... It's somewhere in your chart, though. It's a Aquarius? Oh, Sagittarius? Yeah, yeah. I knew that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not an Aquarius? Okay. Yeah, Aquarius was probably, it's somewhere in your chart, though. It's a moon. It's a sun. It's a, yeah.

It's a moon. It's a mood. You know, that's what we all say. It's a vibe. Yeah. It's all vibes. It's all vibes. All right.

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. Want to check in with the Republicans because last Tuesday they got a bit of a shellacking, I think some people would say, in elections across the country. Someone caught wake-up call number maybe 73, 75, that their full frontal attack on abortion rights and protections for transgender people is not a winner somehow.

It just doesn't. There's not a lot of data to back that up. We saw losses for moms for liberty candidates across the country, and in Ohio specifically, candidates that ran under like no rights for anyone except cis dudes lost 73 percent of their races. OK, that's that's not a good it's not a good success rate when you when you control the entire state election maps and things like that. And you're going you're getting around a 25 percent success rate. election maps and things like that. And you're getting around a 25% success rate. And so for a second, I thought maybe they would realize that this is one of the worst platforms to run on in the modern era. But pretty much everyone, except for a handful of Republicans,

basically doubled down on this. In Ohio specifically, again, the response from Republicans that lost their fight to stop abortion rights from being enshrined in the state's constitution figured that the immediate response should be going after trans rights again, even though that was a losing formula for their candidates. And like in this very sadly transparent act of desperation and hatred, state legislators put hearings on the books like immediately after tuesday to discuss new bans on gender affirming care bathroom laws and fucking drag shows and these are all things that we've seen like drag show bans have been struck down in courts across the country and we're like what what is for real what is going on again for the people in the back 73 of the candidates running on this kind of shit lost but again that hasn't stopped the other losers 73% of the candidates running on this kind of shit lost. But again, that hasn't

stopped the other losers to deny the reality that they are very, very, in fact, wrong. I mentioned on Monday about the RNC chair, Ronna McDaniel. She insisted that they are right. And it is reality that is wrong about why we should keep running on this terrible terrible platform we play this for you this isn't true listen i'm proud to be a pro-life party but we can we can win on this message the american people are where we are and they want common sense limitations they want more access to to adoption we want to make sure that there's pregnancy crisis centers these are things we can win, but we have to talk about it. And you can't hide in a corner and think abortion is not going to be an issue.

Oh, OK. So for the record, we can win on this message. Did you hear her literally almost say people want more access to abortion? Yeah. And say adoption. She literally almost said it. She knows she's she's lying through let me let me do that one more time yeah i didn't quite catch that and they want common sense limitations they want more access to a to adoption a great adoption adoption aboption yeah get one of options that's

what i meant everyone gets a free bop it yeah it's horrible yeah let's go further right you know like oh people don't already want this far as far right as these policies are let's keep going further see if they're turning the dial i say let them do it yeah i mean they keep losing go ahead it makes it very easy yeah it makes it very easy that knock yourself out as if you're running against a republic you need to have to be again like we've said you just gesture to them and be like so there's this person just so you know okay yeah and i'm not gonna tell you what i believe i'm just i'm just telling you i'm not this person yeah yeah and you know sure i get helping adoption outcomes is fine but you need a couple that with like actual care for people and like kids that are in foster care like actually look at it holistically

if you're talking about adoption but that's not it is. You just throw that out because it's an alternative. And I'm so bored with this shit. Like, it's so boring. Like, right. It's so frustrating, too. It's just like it's all of these buzzwords just to get people like riled up. And no one's riled up anymore. I think people are just dead inside at this point because it's just like the same shit over and over and over and over and over again like and even with their own base like you have to remember it's your own base that's also voting to enshrine fucking abortion rights in the state constitution that's not just because the libs came out that's because even your own your own base is like well i don't that shit sounds just fucking wild to me but yet they

insist right and then they're like oh of course we want common sense limitations. Again, those are still limitations on healthcare. So miss us with that shit. And crisis pregnancy centers are not someplace you go for compassionate care. If you're having trouble with pregnancy or you're conflicted, you, they are bait and switch operations aimed at discouraging people from having abortions like and keeping the pregnancy no matter what through the power of prayer or whatever they want to offer you there so yeah i've read i've read something about one of those crisis uh centers that they show you like a fake ultrasound where the baby like god actually looks bigger than it actually would would actually be and then it also like has a little like thought bubble, like, hi mom.

No way. It's like its first NBA contract, like in the womb where it's like, this baby's a cash cow. Yeah. You don't want to abort this one. It's going to be, it's going to go places.

This is going to be your Sandra Bullock vehicle right here. Right. You go in there and you're like, I just came here to fuck with y'all. I am not pregnant. So what was that? They're like, fuck! I need surgery because I don't know how. Did I swallow this thing? What happened?

Get it sideways. And also this is a wildly unprofessional sonogram machine. If it's giving me thought bubbles, please. Please, please don't leave me. And only in English. Only thought bubbles in English. Right, right of course of course yeah because those those fetuses better they better they better know what time it is no country you're in fetus yeah so we produce

american fetuses here that speak english in america okay oh i'm sorry i don't that the thought bubble can only do the official language of the united states if the thought bubble is in is in spanish we're like yes please abort it like that they actually are okay with it yeah they're like they're like we're gonna we're gonna have to call ice now because this is this is also what this place does yeah jesus okay i want to move on to talking about uh our laws uh around distracted driving because this is kind of, I didn't, so I think all of us, we were there, the era. I was in high school and college or in the aughts where we were filled with stories. We were just told constant stories about distracted driving.

Like, don't, people are getting into serious, sometimes know, because of this thing called the cell phone. People are texting and calling each other while driving. And that was sort of the big threat back then. But now, like, like, I'll just just for the record, it turns out every state except Montana enacted some kind of texting while driving ban, which is very interesting. So, hey, if you want your freedom to fucking drive and crash into whoever the fuck you want because you're distracted uh go to big sky country but technology has evolved and nowadays i feel like we all see it i've been catching people watching full-on movies on their phones while driving like holding it watching like a movie or a motherfucker's

facetiming and driving or watching youtube and not only do we have like dashboard mounts that can now just like fully put a cell phone screen in our eyeline but like a lot of newer cars also have big ass screens as part of the dashboard and some of them you can hack to basically be a fucking tv or like or play games off of it while you're operating a motor vehicle. A recent survey showed that an embarrassing amount of people are casually driving and watching. About 25% of drivers reported watching movies, TV shows, or video clips while driving at some point in the last 30 days. About 15% of them said they do, or 15% of respondents said they did it regularly.

They do, or 15% of respondents said they did it regularly. 20% said they made video calls regularly in the previous month and 15% recorded and posted video and millennials 25 to 34. I aged out of that group. What's wrong with y'all? Get it together. They have the highest rates watching videos, playing games and scrolling social media while driving for the record. Sarah, have you ever recorded and posted video while driving?

I just, I don't know. I don't want to put you on blast, but are there? Yeah. I mean, driving's boring. You got to be doing something else while you're doing it. Like if you're not drunk, um, which you shouldn't be drunk, you know, you should be posting a video obviously of you driving. I don't know. I've never actually, I never done that before. Um, yeah, I just think that there's a lot of people that feel like they can handle it. You know, they're like, I can do this. Oh, yeah.

Because they grew up with screens. And so I just think that then they get into an accident. And so it's just an awful situation of Darwin physics. Yeah, right. Like you were watching like Great British Bake Off like while driving on Mulholland. That's a windy road. You shouldn't do that. Sadly, like a lot of the laws on the books across the country, they're so vague that watching and driving are perfectly legal in some instances.

Because some states just like some states have laws on their book that just explicitly ban watching TV broadcasts. So you can So literally anything. You can't watch CBS, ABC, NBC. You better not be watching local broadcast television. Oh, you on the CBS app? Yeah, yeah, that's good. That's fine. Oh my God.

Corporations have taken over everything. And so like, and only 18 states have laws right now that actually ban it while the rest of the laws in the country are either so vague that it could go either way or just like not banned at all. So banning means that like an officer can pull you over if he sees you doing that. And so that's a good deterrent. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. If it's banned, then they'd be like, they're on your phone. You can't be like, well, I wasn't watching broadcast TV. They're like, it doesn't matter what the fuck you were doing. That's right. Paramount plus some states like in Texas. I think you could be like, this is Netflix, fam.

So I was watching Texas Rangers. Oh, okay. That's fine. You're in Texas. So it's okay. Certain shows are okay. Like while you're watching the World Series, like, hold on. Was that being broadcast on television?

You're like, fuck, you got me, man. He's like, but hey, we just won. So you're free to go. Now, are people playing video games while driving that would be interesting like that's why i've seen some candy crush like swiping ass activities from people driving it did not look like they were punching in an address it's like you were playing a fucking puzzle game while driving can i tell a story that might get me in trouble go ahead we all We all have stories that might get you in trouble. I think the statute of limitations is over on this, but I actually did rear-end somebody while I was looking at my calendar on my phone.

This was like 15 years ago. Yeah. You had to go through all the appointments. And I got out of the ticket by leaning over enough into the cop's car that he could see most of my breasts wait you were leaning into the cop's car wait what do you mean so he was right he was he was in he was in his um in his cruiser or whatever writing the ticket and i got out of my car and i walked back there and i like he opened the door and I was leaning over and I was like, this really wasn't my fault. And I could tell he was looking like right down my shirt and I was

just like letting him. And he was like, well, maybe we could go out sometime. And I was like, yeah, I'd love that. And I got out of the ticket. So, wow. Well done. Yeah. That's a skill move. Mr. Far right. Yeah. Yeah. Mr. Far right. Exactly. But I don't think that would work now. yeah that was mr right that's a skill move mr far right yeah yeah mr far right exactly but i don't think that would work now yeah i mean obviously like you know like laws won't change the problem right away but like to your point sarah like knowing something's illegal does usually help someone's like risk assessment to know like i put on a seatbelt all the time in the backseat. Yeah. Cause I know it's illegal not to.

Also, I've just seen like, you know, just people not wearing seatbelts. Like I know a few who were trying to be cool, got into like light accident. If had they been wearing a seatbelt, they wouldn't have just been like,

you know, boggled in the backseat, like a pair of cheap dice. But I think, I think young people just don't think that anything's going to happen. You know, I just didn't think I was, I think young people just don't think that anything's going to happen. You know, I just didn't think I was, I thought I was going to be fine.

So I just don't think there's going to be any consequences. I'm definitely guilty at an occasional low key look at something frivolous, but it's wild how, because in my mind, like, yo, you can't be on your phone. Like I keep that shit real low,

which is actually worse because like, then my eyeline is completely down that I've had to definitely reassess now that like I'm a parent. But I'm Blake. I think you were you're telling me like you have no temptation ever. You're so so good about this. I'll only like record videos to promote road dates. But other than that, I won't I won't do anything like road dates. Yeah, my stand up dates is the only time I'll use use the phone when I'm driving, but I won't watch broadcast.

I would never watch something on broadcast. Like I would never watch a live event. Okay, good. Ever, ever on my phone. Rory Scovel had a really funny joke. I think this was almost like eight or 10 years ago at this point where on conan he was talking about how states were starting to ban texting while driving and rory for some reason was using a southern accent for no and didn't address it on conan he just did it in a southern accent the whole time he goes like but we're just getting good at it he goes like why are they banning it just when we're getting you don't look at it the whole time you just look down up down up and it was just such a funny such a funny

joke so that's what i'm here to promote uh rory scovilles from 10 years ago it is true there is like that sense of confidence of like you're like nah bro there's other people that need to get their shit together but i mean the worst is when you're in a lift and like the driver has like three phones and they're looking at what directions on one and they're texting on another and you're in a Lyft and like the driver has like three phones and they're looking at directions on one and they're texting on another. And you're like, what am I supposed to do about this? Yeah. You know, what's interesting? They said for people who are like, especially gig workers, like in the gig economy, we're like four times likely to engage in distracted driving. And like, you know, you hear anecdotally like they're like, yo, bro, like a fucking Uber driver had-on ipad on like watching tv while we were driving

around he's like but i i was also watching that show so i figured fuck it and it's how they're supposed to get like for uber drivers lyft drivers it's how they also make additional money where while they're driving you they'll get a notification from lyft or uber saying hey do you want to take this ride? And then it's like, boom, boom. They have to do the math. They can see on the map where they're going. So it is just inherently distracting to be able to do that while you're working.

Like, that's the game of it. And yeah, I don't know what they should do. Do you remember when they would sometimes bring like a friend in the car with them? Did that ever happen? You were early Uber. Yeah. Yeah. They would just, some of them would just have a buddy.

Like in the front seat. They're like, yeah, yeah. They're like, oh, this is my friend Rachel. That happened to both of you? Yeah. It definitely happened in LA. Like a bunch of times. Yeah.

It was in LA. At first I was like, is this shady? But like, I don't know. It was like a short ride. So I was like, whatever. Like, I feel feel like you know i could i could handle myself well justin is saying his sister just happened that happened to his sister yeah it's bad it it happens it happens sometimes and do you report it because that

seems weird uh i mean i don't know i'm like it's it's hard enough like yeah trying to try to fucking get your like you know grinding it like that i'm like whatever man like yeah if i catch you again doing that then maybe i'll be like do you have like does your does your friend have to be drinking wine out the bottle straight up there is he paying to be in this car or if they bring a baby and they're like hold this baby while you yeah at that point i'm like something yeah like i you have terrible judgment me fine i mean this baby looks cute. Yeah, fine. I'll rock the baby to sleep.

But yeah, please stay safe out there and don't try and wiggle your way through the laws. Distracted driving is bad. Okay, that's the official. That's my hot take today. And that's why this is only an audio podcast because we're saving lives. Exactly. Exactly. I certainly don't want to distract you

with my grizzled visage. Certainly not. Okay. Let's talk about someone you know a bit about, Sarah, Donald Trump, and specifically, though, Trump's social media company. What if I didn't know anything about Sarah and I was like,

oh, I didn't think this was Sarah's politics at all. Did you work for him? Oh, that's kind of a curveball. I would love to just have it erased from my brain so I could be like, who is Donald Trump? Yeah, right. Who is that? Never heard of this person. Oh, my God.

I guess kids are having to learn about him as a president, huh? Yeah. They're just learning about him. Yeah. Some kids that are just for the first time. Like, wow. Yeah. Seriously.

It's, oh, my God. Yeah. Like, it's like when I was, like, Reagan was the president when I was born. And I just remember, like, my dad all the time would be like, you don't want to know about Reagan's ass. And I'm like, I'm four. But, like, sure. He's like, you know what he did to people that need help? Fucking left them out to dry.

And I'm like, okay. All right, dad. I'm so hungry. I have my, my, I wrote like a journal when I was like 13 and Bush, Bush was president. And I put this in the book, like, and it was like, it was the Iraq war was starting. And I was, I wrote like, oh, Bush made a speech and it was really good. Like I was such a little Republican. Right. Yeah're like we have to support our troops yeah and protect kuwaiti interests you're like wait what the fuck i don't know what that is you're parroting state

department talking points now but like truth social specifically right uh we've like we've heard how just like much of a disaster it's been, that they needed to merge with a company in order to survive. And they needed a bunch of the shareholders to vote to approve this merger. Well, that happened and it bought them a bit more time to survive. But Kirkland Signature Twitter, as we know it, is not quite working out as a business entity. So this deal that they've been planning with Digital World Acquisition Corp, which is a special purpose acquisition company, basically companies that are meant to take private companies public, has given us a few details into what's happening.

And what we found out is that, quote, since early 2022, Truth Social, which is owned by Trump Media and Technology Group, made $3.7 million in net sales and lost $73 million. Huh? But they made the rest of it. You're going negative. They made money. Yeah. Focus on that. That's a lot of money.

Yeah, that's a lot of money. So you've made almost $4 million? I'm like, well, no. Don't talk that mess about Truth Social. You know what I mean? You can't make money lot of money. Yeah, that's a lot of money. So you've made almost $4 million? I'm like, well, no. Then don't talk that mess about Truth Social. You know what I mean? You can't make money without losing money. That's just math. That's true. You know, it is true.

That's also how degenerate gamblers think at a table when they're like, dude, you got to lose $6,000 to win $9,000. And you're like, oh, no. I sure, sure it is, man. Can you let go of my wrist, though? But yeah, apparently they've just been constantly hemorrhaging money from the first six months. They lost $23 million in the first six months. Is it Trump's money? I think it's money that's been put in by Trump and other investors.

Yeah, who are like, yeah, we'll back you because social media is so woke and they're censoring free speech. They're not that we got it. We need a place for our own. And I don't know if you remember when Truth Social was announced, it was part of like this, like, like six headed hydra of like a media entity that Trump was like talking about. Like there was going to be TM. What is it, Trump Media something group plus, what do they call it, TMTG plus, which is like their answer to everyone putting out a streaming service that said to offer programs including, but not limited to, blue collar comedy, canceled shows, Trump specific programming, faith based shows, family entertainment, shows that embrace the Second Amendment and news. You know who's cleaning up? You know who's really cleaning up? Who? People who know HTML. Yeah. They're just like, you know what? Yeah, let me build you a site. I can do that for you.

And these idiots are just like, yeah, okay, let's build up. Anybody can build a social media site now. Anybody. Right, right, right. Exactly. they're like yeah yeah uh let's see my cost will probably be like three million yeah okay yeah exactly okay no problem actually you know what the bill this month is 80 million sorry oh wait hold on how many people did you want you did you want millions of people using it oh yeah millions okay so it's a dollar per user that you think will use it so what do you say about 40 yes let's do it for 40 um it's yeah it's fucking wild but apparently trump media and technology group plus tmtg plus also completely it gone it's it's it's

it gone it gone it it what it's you know what i mean it gone.com it gone yeah go to it gone.com where you can watch canceled shows canceled showsceled shows is the fun. And it's not like community, you know? Like, with like little cults. Yeah, but like, what would it be like? They have a cult following that cults follow them. That first season. It's the Roseanne reboot. Yeah, the first season of the Roseanne reboot, basically.

They're like, after that, no. No, basically not. Or they'll have like, we'll have outtakes from community when Chevy Chase was saying racist shit. If that's it, we can make that a show. But yeah, canceled shows is so, it's funny because it's so vague. I just want to be in the room.

Like when they were pitching this and I said, we're going to call it truth social. It's like the truth, but it's also social. It's going to be great. Where did you find this person? He sells Coke to Don Jr. Oh, great. We're going to find Hunter's laptop on this thing. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm telling you, bro. We'll find that, dude. Fucking find everything, man. But we're going to call this TMTG Plus, man. Yeah, fucking canceled shows, dude. Fucking guns and shit. Fucking God, dude. Family hat.

It's fucking sick. I'm going to invest. I'm going to invest. I think this is a great idea. These young guys, man. They have ideas. I mean, you've spent some time in the tech world i'm sure you've seen some you see you've been in rooms when people have been in it

yeah like i mean what how do you think it's actually working out like when people come up with like what transparently bad ideas and like yeah yeah okay cool let's go that's a go that's a go i i just feel like trump and all of these guys they're just so stupid you know and i don't mean to use the word stupid in just a mean way but they're just and so i i that's when i say like people who know how to build these things are cleaning up like i think that they are agnostic like they don't actually care about the the politics it's a chat they're just there to be like hey yeah like we can build you a site. Yeah. Let's call it true social. No problem. You know, it's, it's got no security. It's got no privacy. It

doesn't work at all. It doesn't work at all. Okay. Um, it is held together with like spit, you know what I mean? But, but, but truly Trump is like, okay, let's keep funneling money into it. You know, it's like they found the mark. They found the guy. They found the guy who would pay for it. You know, right. Yeah. And I think because then everybody is so hypnotized by the IPO that that's why they're like, dude, I'm holding on, man, because hopefully we take this thing public and I can cash out on this uncashable check. Oh, my God.

True social IPO. That'll be the day. I know. But this is what I can't wait. What's interesting, too, I just found out is the special purpose acquisition company, the SBAC, that is meant to take Truth Social public. There's also a new agreement that was just brought to light between the two parties that they can terminate this deal now at any moment starting from like october 31st like november 20 something so i don't know if like these these this trickle of stuff right now is meant to be like yeah actually we're we don't want it we're now we did we had some additional

due diligence and yep it ain't diligence so yeah it's the it's the tech bros cleaning up and now it's the finance bros cleaning up it's just cleaning up yeah the different lovable bro just a different lovable cross-section of bros but i mean but you know elon is has ruined twitter too so i'm just like every site is just falling apart every social media site to me is just completely falling apart yeah i mean we're talking about this like last week about how like millennials especially are in a weird place like for you know being there for the beginnings of using the internet whether that's like aol and shit like that or tumblr you know what i mean like we've seen everything come and go myspace and like now we're watching it all fucking just

go to shit and like it does like at least for me we were saying like personally i was like yeah it completely i'm not really interested in using it like there's no magic to it that there was initially and i don't know that's because there's a bunch of like weird ass you know hateful people and bots and shit that are ruining or like because we're just seeing it evolve in these weird like profit centric ways they're like oh man just fucking shitty you know i was gonna say it's like interesting to where i think you see or from my point of view, you hear about like acquisitions on the news, you read about them, but like, they don't really affect you on a date, like on a day to day level. And then when Elon took over Twitter, I think that's the first one that's been primarily like front and center in my life, where obviously you see the hate on there and how you know like that's been perpetuated and even from something as small as just because he fired so many engineers there just some stuff like you were saying there it just doesn't work where i'm like oh like let me look up the the

analytics on this and it's like yep sorry this doesn't work right now and we're like what is going on oh maybe it'll work tomorrow and it's just there's just things in the app that technically don't work anymore because he made so many cuts in so many brutal ways the search the search the trending terms like the other day trending god hitler death yeah like i mean what is why are these things trending you click on you can't you don't even know why they're trending anymore it's just such a yeah... Yeah, right now, Will Smith and 99% Hitler are trending. Hitler's been trending for a year and a half.

Hitler is always trending. Oh, Hitler is so in, especially with that last Trump speech where he's calling his enemies vermin. But anyway, yeah, we will see what happens. It turns out, though, like if the merger doesn't go through, Truth Social and TMTG may not survive.

Oh, my God. I'm going to have to delete my account. Yeah, I know. I know. I got to move my stuff over to somewhere else. Hey, download all your data. Remember when everyone was like, download all your data, man. Just get it all off there before they get rid of it.

Get all your Truth social data off there. I was thinking about delete. You know, I really do want to get off social media at some point. Like, I really do have this vision of just not being on anything. But, like, I love my handle so much. And I've had it for so long that I wouldn't want someone to take it over, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, just, yeah, just do just do like maybe we should have like the right to

have like uh internet posthumously squatting on a handle kind of thing i love that idea we just need to we're gonna retire this handle and it will not be used for evil and we can use it as a you know a reserve for fantastic thoughts and musings okay let's take a quick break we'll be right back to i guess talk talk about Elon again. Or at least how bad of a boss he is. Right after this. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.

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SpaceX, speaking of Elon, they just announced that they may try launching their starship rocket for a second time this friday if they get approval from the faa and this comes fresh off the heels of an extremely damning investigation from reuters they uncovered quote over 600 previously undisclosed workplace injuries at SpaceX facilities since 2014. This is including everything from like cuts, lacerations, fucking head injuries to amputations. People have been in comas and tragically even death. One employee apparently died recently after sitting on some cargo that was being hauled on a trailer with no straps and the guy said oh no straps i'll just lay on top of this insulation

so we can get it from point a to point b and hopefully my body weight will keep this from blowing off the the fucking truck tragically a gust of wind blew him and the insulation off. And he was, unfortunately he was killed. Like he was pronounced dead at the scene. OSHA basically, like I think, or any,

anyone who just heard what happened, uh, found that SpaceX had quote, failed to protect the employee from what they say was a clear hazard. But it turns out like, that's just kind of just a sample of how bad some people are getting injured there. One man was smacked in the head while they were testing an engine in 2022. Apparently, like they were doing a pressure test of a Raptor V2 rocket engine. That's a tongue

twister. And like like a piece of the rocket blew off and fractured the skull of employee Francisco Cabada, and it put him in a coma. And reportedly, SpaceX has, quote, ignored the family's attempts to find out why he wasn't protected. And just I know I said 600 injuries since 2014, but it's really important to note that that is only a portion of the total case count. of the total case count because while osha requires companies to report injuries annually since 2016 spacex facilities have quote failed to submit reports for most of those years so this is like when things were just bad enough and like the punishments are as we say all the time fines don't deter billionaires especially when the fines are a few hundred dollars to $7,000. Like the fine for the guy who lost his life, they only had to pay a $7,000 fine for that. And it's not like, you know, I know people be like, well, maybe working on rocket ships is like a fucking hazardous gig.

Not like when you compare this to the space industry average they are blowing records out so in 2022 the injury rate at their brownsville facility in texas was 4.8 injuries per or illnesses per 100 workers that's six times higher than the space average industry of 0.8 per 100 workers and the reason for this this is where elon comes in is fucking elon and his hatred of like regulations like he believes that employees should quote be responsible for protecting themselves how i'm sorry how does that work and also like when he would go to do like safety visits to sites he would tell people take, he didn't want people wearing safety yellow vests because he dislikes bright colors. Oh, for fuck's sake.

And would also be, like, walking around sometimes with one of his dumbass flamethrowers during a fucking safety visit. Like, what are you talking about? People think this guy's a genius, by the way. I know. I know. It just shows you what hair plugs and a few billion dollars can do. And suddenly you're the new

fucking Tony Stark or whatever the fuck it is. He also doesn't like airbags on cars because they're too round, he said. Seatbelts will wrinkle your shirt, actually. So I don't like them. Do away with them. It's an aesthetic thing. What were you going to say, no i was i was gonna say i have a uh my a chapter in my book this is a joke i had about how like when we were at google like we had like an ergonomic chair

to protect your body while your soul was dying inside because like they were so obsessed with ergonomics they were so obsessed with carpal tunnel syndrome. They didn't want us to get carpal tunnel. They didn't want our posture to be bad. They had standing desks so we could stand and sit. You know, it was so, they were so obsessed with us protecting our bodies. And so like, this is wild to me,

the trajectory of tech in general. I feel like, yeah, this is bad for SpaceX and Elon, but I think a lot of industries, they've really started to care less about worker health in general. I feel like, yeah, this is bad for SpaceX and Elon, but I think a lot of industries, they've really started to care less about worker health in general. Oh, I'm sure. I mean, I think, yeah, because with Google

and places like that, it seems a little insidious too because they're like, no, we need you healthy so we can get every motherfucking ounce of life out of that corpse. Yeah, all the perks that were there were so that you would stay,

so that you wouldn't leave the building. Yeah, it's like when people talk about how they make like stay, you know, so that you wouldn't leave the building. Yeah. It's like when people talk about how they make like Wagyu beef and they like, they fatten them up. They give them massages. They spit beer into their coats and rub it in. So they get to the point that their flesh is worth more than any other meat out there. Right. Right, right, right.

It's for the slaughter. It's for the slaughter. right right right it's for the slaughter it's for the slaughter but so apparently he like elon musk defends this attitude because like in tech it's always like move fast and break skulls or i think that's break everything oh break everything yeah break every bone in your body he says because spacex is quote on an urgent quest to create a refuge in space from a dying earth please can you go do that can you go first? Put him there first. And him and Grimes can populate Mars. Yeah, exactly.

Right. And those other weird billionaires who are like, I need my sperm everywhere. All the billionaires. Yeah. Or the guy who's using his kid's blood to keep him young. Have him go there as well. Yeah, please. That's fun. There's no amount of therapy.

Yeah. We actually need refuge from billionaires so yeah please go there because actually i believe with all the private flights and stuff like the top one percent are going on i think that would help tremendously along with other things but anyway i guess i guess they don't have a union i guess spacex and any of elon's companies none of those workers are unionized i'm yeah i wonder is there a i bet not because i mean i don't think you would ever allow that yeah right yeah i feel like anyone would yeah they're like i'm so proud to be hostile towards unions is usually like the take of right these kinds of guys sarah i thought you were asking

if there was a billionaire's union where it's like we've unionized as billionaires so we can have our rights finally acknowledged by society dude i think that's literally in our future that's gonna happen it is that it feels like it oh yeah it says employees were were fired for speaking up about elon musk or talking about you okay so so that sounds like, yeah, par for the course, par for the course, par for the course. But yeah, like also because of this like rush to get us to fucking Mars also meant that like employees have been taking like Adderall without prescriptions to like be able to fucking pull like wild hours and then falling asleep in bathrooms. Also to speed up the work, the company has literally been getting workers to weld rocket parts in a tent on the beach. And then like when the beach got too hot, they just hooked the people up to an IV and then sent them right back out there. And also in this like tent welding shop, apparently when the wind was blowing, they had to shut the flaps and basically enclose everyone in a tent with like carcinogenic dust.

So it's all very, it's all very, it's all very Elon. So we'll, we'll see what happens. This is wild. This is a billion dollar company and they're treating employees like this. This is,

I mean, I, I totally expected in the Congo where they're trying to get diamonds out and stuff like that or whatever, but it's, it's, it's, uh, yeah, you are merely, uh, automatons meant to help us generate capital. What is the end game? Okay. What's the end game. Okay. So we have all of these people addicted to

social media. That's not working and they're all upset and their jobs are killing them. Like there's not going to be anybody left to buy the products that you're making. Okay. There's going to be no one around. Everybody's going to be gone. We're all going to be dead. So what's the end game. You're going to build robots to buy your products. Like you're going to build robots to make your products and then you're going to build robots to buy your products. And it's just going to be all robots, I guess. I guess. Or, or it's the other one where they're like, well, you know, AI is going to be doing a lot of the work. So that's why, like, you know, you hear the very like cynical version of like, we need a U, AI is going to be doing a lot of the work. So that's why, like, you know, you hear the very, like, cynical version of, like, we need a UBI. We need a

universal basic income. And that's not because they believe that people, like, we should just move to that and give, like, we have a basic income to live off of. But because, like, but then when the fucking robots or AIs take their livelihood, they'll still have a little scratch to give back to us in the form

of consumerism or something like that. It's all it all works out in a very dark way or they're just they build their fucking bunkers in new zealand and are like i'll hide we had a guest on a couple weeks ago douglas rushkoff who like would talk to the billionaires who like build bunkers and the way they talk is all like how do i get them to not want like rebel against me? Like and take all the food. Can I like put like a like a detonator on their throat or something to keep them in control? And they're like, you actually haven't thought any of this through. Like you're.

What? So they're scared that their workers are going to rebel. So they're figuring out a way to have their workers. So in the context of the apocalypse bunker, like where they said they have like some billionaires are like, I have a team of like, oh, the military, like the people who protect the people who will inevitably protect and labor for the billionaires in an apocalypse bunker. They're like, do I like make the code to the food, something only I know. So that way, if I die die they also don't get anything and it's also like it's i mean and to your point sarah it's that way of thinking that somehow helps you aggregate the kind of wealth to be a billionaire and also makes you a not human so oh my god and

that's why that's why like zuckerberg and all these guys are trying to build this like city this like city that no one else can get into this like commune because they know this shit is going to hit the fan yeah or that or precisely that like they know at the end of the day it's like this relentless pursuit of wealth and making the lineup go in infinitely is only destroying the earth destroying the fabric of our society and they're like i don't know we're responsible for it but at the same time let's build a thing to insulate ourselves from it yeah the good thing is like every man for himself kind of yeah mentality i mean the good news is those plans will not work like it feels like no matter what you do because even the people who are like and i'll build this and i'll build that blah blah

blah it's like okay well what if a part goes out for your your your hvac you know what i mean you have no ac do you have someone on staff that can like manufacture the part that you would need to fix it? Or do you have someone with that capability? And then what if that has a knock-on effect on your grow house that you say will provide your food? Because if that isn't temperature controlled, then what do you do? And then if you don't have the food growing or the water purification system, not just for you, but for your plants, and then they start going like, this is very helpful. I do plan to be a billionaire.

So it's good to know all this stuff going in. Yeah. Yeah. Just, that's why I just, yeah. Just be one of those people that no one wants to like, well, the first person they think of when the shit goes on, like, you know who I'm going to pay a visit to. Right. Yeah.

Like just be on the, be on the good side, please. I'll be on the good side. Also maybe just like be a billionaire, but like but don't tell anybody that you're a billionaire. That's probably a better way to do it. Yeah. Secret billionaire. I like the idea that in this billionaire city, there's still a version of a poor billionaire where, oh, you only have $1.5 billion. It's like you hear what Carl has an above-ground bunker.

Yeah. In Michigan? It's in Michigan. Oh, oh my god you didn't get to new zealand oh poor guy poor guy because that's the other spot everyone's looking at is michigan because all that fresh water but anyway let's move on to something just to wrap this up something a little more pleasant andre three stacks andre 3000 He is releasing his fucking debut solo album. True. There's like just, just me doing my thing.

This is Andre Benjamin. Here I am. The album is called new blue sun. And before like myself, I was like, Oh my God, Andre's back. Yes.

Yes. Gotta let you know. Yeah. It's been so long flew by um this man this is again this album is quote entirely made up of instrumental woodwind music it's just him on the flute which i'm like that makes sense i've seen him like he's always like i've seen i feel like most of the videos i've seen of him recently are playing some kind of flute which so people wouldn't be totally shocked.

I apparently I didn't realize that the track She Lives in My Lap, he played flute on that. Like he's playing woodwinds on that. Yeah. And also Where's the Catch with James Blake. He played woodwinds. So I was like, oh, I had no idea. I was not familiar with your game, sir. And there was like a couple of viral clips of him playing like a flute in

the airport but it's funny because like i think he knows how much his fans like love him as a rapper vocalist and he's like a little apologetic like the first track of the album is this is the literal track of the first album quote this track one i swear i really wanted to make a rap album but this is literally the way this is literally the way the wind blew me this time is the first track and he said even on the cover there's even a label that says warning no bars just to let you know there will be no you will not hear his voice you will just hear maybe you'll hear a breath here and there as he's playing but i'll take i love it i mean yeah i think it's sweet i think it's yeah i think it's cute like let him

let him do his thing he's not baiting anyone you know i don't yeah let him play his wood ones yeah i think it also at this point too like it's been so long where i've like i stopped holding my like i i caught them when they had like a reunion tour, like in 2014, I was like, I was there for that. I saw that I got my fill, but also it's nice because I feel like so much of that work is like, it's perfect. I'm like, yep. Don't I don't, we don't need to augment this if you want to sure. Go ahead. Like, you know, like I like big boys, other projects that he does, but with like Andre, I'll yeah. Yeah. He's always been so vibey that I'm like, I can't get mad. And I feel like most people feel the same way.

Like I know some people are playing a flute, but whatever. I just as an artist, it's so brave to do something so completely different. I mean, it really is. It's very inspiring. And it's also it's also just like the that just little bit of consideration for his fans who know him as a rapper, vocalist, or he's like, yeah, like the first track,

I swear, I really wanted to make a rap album, but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time. I'm like, that's fine. And he's really funny. Yeah. But yeah,

I mean, I am. I don't know what the music, I personally have never listened to an album of just woodwind instruments in my life, but maybe this will start a whole new trend. I don't know i i feel like i want to see him and lizzo do like a little thing oh yeah a lot of flutes a lot of flutes going down yeah i think we'll see i mean i i've seen people say they've heard bits and pieces of it i'm not sure like if maybe they're

at a listening party or something like that but it's i don't know i mean from the people who claim to have heard they're like it's it's pretty cool it's like trippy and i'm like all right i'm gonna get high and listen to it yeah i couldn't imagine andre like he comes out he's just playing like hot cross buns like with no backing track not good yeah motherfucker playing a recorder the fuck is this then i might feel like bro you had a lot of time to fucking get that recorder right but but i mean i think this will start a resurgence of recorder interest yeah i remember i had a recorder we all wasn't it like was recorder not like like a part of the curriculum for a certain part did you play recorder blake yeah that was my primary instrument yeah no i'm serious i'm serious no did you have no bit recorder no bit yes i did yeah that was my primary instrument yeah no i'm serious i'm serious no did you have

no bit yes i did like that was because we had music class and i think that was the only instrument because we had to buy it ourselves i remember but it was yeah in terms of instruments the most you know affordable instrument that you could possibly get so yeah yeah no we played like b-a-g b-a-g like that was uh hot cross buns of course everybody you fucking that's the first track you learn on that shit that's right you know what i mean but apparently i didn't realize that like it's like the reason too is that it helps like with creative thinking skills, like finger dexterity. Oh my God, I didn't know that. Yeah.

I was like, what the fuck? I was like, my teacher is just a weirdo making us play this shitty plastic flute. But no, there's, it turns out there is a reason. There's more than just Mary had a little lamb. I'll have to look into it. But anyway, Sarah, thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Zeitgeist. It's been a pleasure. It's been wonderful talking to you. Where can people find you, follow you so much for joining us on The Daily Zeitgeist. It's been a pleasure. It's been wonderful talking to you.

Where can people find you, follow you, get your book, all that stuff and hear more from you? Yeah. I mean, my book's available wherever books are sold. You can get it anywhere. It's on Kindle. There's an audio book that I recorded myself. So, you know, if you want to listen to it, you can do that while you're driving. So, you know, if you want to listen to it, you can do that while you're driving and you can go to Sarah CPR dot com for all my other info.

Great handle. And is there a work of media, social or otherwise, music, arts, anything, something that's inspired you that you'd like to share with the class? Yeah, I love Timothy Chalamet's kind of white SoundCloud rapper impression on SNL this past weekend. I've watched it like 50 times at this point. It is so funny. It makes me crack up every single time. I don't know if you guys have seen it. No, no, no. I've got to watch it.

Yeah, now I'm going to watch it. I haven't watched SNL. The way that he has just captured like dead eyes, but also just like just mumbling and just bars i mean and he he says yeah i got this new track it's a it's a it's about capitalism but he doesn't say capitalism he says capitalism capitalism and then he's like people be capping all the time it's so funny it's so funny uh you got stop the cap stop the cap y'all stop the cap break Stop the cap, y'all. Stop the cap. Break. I said break.

Blake, where can people find you, follow you, and all that good stuff? I'm at Blake Wexler on all social media. And then my hour special, Daddy Long Legs, is still streaming on YouTube. December 1st, I'm going to be in Asheville at Catawba Brewing. And then December 16th, someone from the Zeitgang, which is the fans of the show, helped me set up.

I'm going to start doing a monthly show in Brooklyn at Strong Rope Brewing in Gowanus. So December 16th is our first show at 8 p.m. And John helped set that up. And happy birthday to Paul Garaventa, who is a listener. Yeah, we know PG.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, PG is down with all the shows we make. Always appreciate all the support from Zeitgang. And guess what? We notice. We appreciate it. We notice.

We really do. We really do. Because it allows me to continue to tell my family that I am a podcaster. And yes, that is how i support myself that was the goal this was so much fun you guys are so much fun i do have to i do have to say that this was enjoyable oh amazing you are a legend thank you so that does mean a lot to us because you are very talented and exceptional and like i said uh your reputation preceded you and it's really great to have you and it turns out you are a cool person

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might be something to do with Sagittarians, said the, quote, you don't owe anyone anything generation is the loneliest generation to date. Shocking. Shocking. Totally. Totally.

Totally. Yeah. And also, let's say, let's see a song that we're going to write out on. Obviously, that's going to be in the footnotes. Is this from this artist Ruga, R-U-G-A-W-D. I think they're a bassist, but they have like this, this track is called Almost and like the album art for it is like a Hello Kitty, but like a Gundam. Uh, but the music is really kind of funky, futuristic. So if you like that kind of thing, check it out.

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