The Daily Zeitgeist - Fancy Ice Cream Fail, Broken Social System 2.22.21

Episode Date: February 22, 2021

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lays down on the floor. That is courtesy of Chrissy Yamaguchi-Main, and I am thrilled to be joined by today's special guest co-host. She is the scam goddess herself, Miss Lacey Mosley! Hey, what's up? It's Lacey Mosley, a.k.a. And I am telling you

I'm not going nowhere. This is the worst time I've ever known. COVID has me staying at home. No, no, no, no way. No, no, no, no way. I'm dining out with you, babe. I'm not dining out with you, babe. I'm not dining out with you. Wow.

That came from Dad Hound. Dad Hound. All right. Yeah, Dad Hound on Twitter. Thank you guys for the AKAs. I grabbed the first one, but I saw that was fun. I'm sure they're all great. Yeah, yeah.

Everybody, I mean, you are somebody that I feel like AKA writers would love to write for. Very limited range for me. They're like, it could be, he could do maybe the pretenders and then like nursery rhymes. Well, Lacey, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented Sarah June. Wow, thank you.

A.K.A. I got A.K.A. I got A.K.A. I got A.K.A. Yes. A.K.A. YouTube channel, A.K.A. Corpse Flower, A.K.A.

Let me try this one. I'm Sarah. I'm Sarah. I love you i'm sarah you're so far away that's for you guys damn that single tear that you had running down your face that was beautiful yeah listeners can't see it, but I am crying. Sara, Lacey, how have you both been? I feel like I need to check in with both of you. Let's start with you, Lacey. How have you been?

Sara was giving me this hand, though. I was trying to see what was up with this hand. What was the thought that came immediately? The thought that came immediately is I am in such ups and downs. That's why the fingers were doing the movements, the movement of the middle. It's because I'm constantly reading the news and I'm going down,

and then I'm going to my yard where I have a bunch of baby chicks, and then the mood is going up. And then I am thinking about the news and then back down again, and then back to the chicks, and so much joy, and it's bringing me directly to neutral.

So I am at neutral. I learned before and I forgot this lesson that I should not ask people how they're doing because that is rude during the pandemic. It's just... How dare you? Yeah, that's not a fair question to ask. That's a personal question. Hey, judge how... Yeah, exactly. Content warning. How are you? What the fuck do you think? But what have you guys been up to? Let's do that one. Is there anything new going on? And if that's also a personal and unfair question, just tell me to shut the fuck up.

This is a hardball interview. Honestly, Jack, it really feels like how are you is like, so when's the last time you got laid? Like, right. Like, yeah, yeah. Question. No, yeah. I will say I'm actually feeling pretty good. I've gotten on it. I've been working for almost half. I would say most of the pandemic and some capacity and then at one point shooting full time. So there was some really, really stressful bad points. But now, honey, I'm into

like treating L.A. like I used to treat New York, like in New York. I was never scared to like go to a movie by myself or go to the restaurant by myself or like do anything by myself. And obviously I can't be in a covid box watching, you know, the latest features, but I can't go to the park. So I took myself to the park yesterday wow love park and I sat on a blanket that I had had in my car after I shook all the sand off it the last time I used it and then I um got one of those uh duck boats you know at Echo Park you know the people who are like boat boats swan boat you know how it's two people it's very hard to boat by yourself uh my legs are sore today but I boated in a swan boat alone.

Did you did you boat in a little circle? I did. I looked up. I did the whole park. It was very cute. I crashed into some rocks a few times. No ducks were harmed as far as I know. Thank you so much. But you were turning at such a speed that they might have just gotten chewed up and spit out the back of your uh that's beautiful that's like a uh like a rom-com montage but uh for self-care you you were taking care of yourself you were getting yourself out y'. Because I know how it is right now.

If you live alone, I do. I'm so tired of myself and these thoughts. Lacey mostly can go somewhere. Yes. Yeah. My friend and I talk about our girlfriend. You know, it's like you got to be nice to your girlfriend. Yeah.

And your girlfriend is you. So you got to take your girlfriend out on a date sometimes. Like sometimes the sex with your girlfriend that you are having with your girlfriend is is just not fun anymore. And it's just, you know, you got to you got to treat yourself like you have a hot girlfriend who you want to stay dating you. Right. You got to get dressed up for your girlfriend. Yeah. I lit a candle the last time I made love to me. Yes.

Wow. I bet your girlfriend loved that. Make her feel special. Yeah. And sorry, June, the chicks are doing good? The chicks are doing great. The little chickies? Yeah.

That's my Google search. My last Google search was assisted hatch because I had one little chickie that was like half out, but he couldn't get the shell open all the way. Oh, no. And he was like peeping in there and he was breathing. So I knew he was okay. But it was like a day of him just like kind of being stuck in the shell. And I was worried to help him out because when the chicks are developing in there, they're

attached to the inner membrane. You know how the egg has this skin on it outside of the shell? You have the shell and then the little skin. So they attach to that. They have blood vessels in it and stuff. So if you just open the shell, they could get hurt.

So I was like, I'll leave him in there. But then I was like, what if he can't get out himself? Anyways, I did help him. And now he's fine. And and he's peeping and he's with all his brothers and sisters peeping he's probably the smartest one don't right he's he's the loudest like I don't want to come to this raggedy bitch is where are we America yeah oh no I'm gonna stay here like yeah I get you dude I get you yeah stay with the membrane. It's feeding me.

It's got all my needs met. It's warm in here. But yeah, they're good now. And they're just like little peepees. And I hold them. And they're fluffy. And they're cute as fuck. And yeah, they make me real happy.

And it's nice because there's a lot of bad stuff going on. I love an emo pet. Our dog, the first dog that my wife and I bought when we first got together, we went to the airport to pick him up. Did he fly to you? Yeah, he flew to me. He's first class. That's so cool. You know, as you do, go to the airport the airport pick up your dog so the dog crate uh my dog flies jet blue yes yes always uh his his frequent flyer miles are um but he uh he was in a crate with another dog and the first dog like jumped out and ran out and we were like oh what

what's going on then we like looked in and our dog was just like in there like we we always got the sense that he he was like a a junkie in a past life like he just was always uh something blue feeling something blue he always uh had the little you know he's got a little hole avoiding him but uh but then he was the most uh he was very very loving because uh because he was so sad uh anyways and you helped him i don't want no yippy ass happy ass dog right let's go outside all the time like no bitch we are watching netflix and crying you are here to emotionally support me and i am here to emotionally support you yes get in scruffy let's cry yes you know that dog's name was miles uh

interestingly enough and now he co-hosts your podcast and now he goes turned into a real yeah at midnight um all right uh sorry jim we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners just a couple of the things we're talking about uh we will talk about the wisdom of letting the markets uh take care of our fire safety and our energy system upkeep in texas and californ California, and also the shade that China has thrown our way and other Russia has thrown our way. Well-deserved. We will talk about this sort of mainstream media account that there is a rising tide of white supremacy that we need to get out of the system, and just the fallacy of that idea because the system itself is white supremacy

uh we will talk about a parlor parlor's back we can finally get back to putting up our par parlies or whatever um so we'll talk about that fleets apart or parles parles yeah there we go parles we'll talk about the worst uh pandemic housing situation i've heard of uh and the new netflix show coming for the people who made game of thrones uh and the backstory they're in it's why are they letting them do that i know they would not good both of those's need to sit all the way the fuck down. Are their names Matt? Both Matt's? Matt and Jeff. Jeff and Matt.

I thought they were the same name. Jeff and Matt. Those are the same name, I think. I think they're David and David. Yeah, it's like something like that. Yeah, that's right. That's what it is. I was like, they do have the same name. I'm not making that up. It's basically Matt. It it's matt male names suck it's just it's they don't have to yeah they

don't have to but for the most part they have just stop stop naming your kids after apostles that's all i ask just get creative think outside the apostle box ah man the bible the bible name slap okay that's that's the staple right there okay a solomon okay solomon's good saul i love yes simon andrew james matt luke we're done yeah we're just done well like there's there's a handful that are like the top five that just need to be retired for a century just give us a century off i know a lot of andrews andrew michael david john when you're talking like billboard charts of biblical names those are all up there they've been seeing that number one through five for a minute i think you're right we gotta i want i want some orpus that's what oprah's name was

supposed to be let's get some orpus out there y'all oprah's name was supposed to be. Let's get some Orpas out there, y'all. Oprah's name was supposed to be Orpa? Yes, they fucked up on her birth certificate and then she became Oprah, but it was Orpa. Why was it Orpa? Is that biblical? Yeah, I think so. Somebody named the girl's name as Orpa. Google it. Oprah is so much better than Orpa.

Oprah is... Can you imagine? Oprah would not have a career for... It is. oh my lord she's in the book of Ruth oh wow okay Orpah and her sister-in-law Ruth wished to go to Judea with Naomi however Naomi

tried to persuade both Ruth and Orpah to return to their people and their gods but Orpah got everybody a car and a cat raised for a turkey Orpah chose to return to her people and say i am god that is what she did that's basically what oprah did all of a job oprah is my god when i pray yeah the name of oprah oh shit she was killed by her own spindle. Right. Not you reading this like this is TMZ. Oh shit.

Did you guys hear? Not sure if you heard. That's how I read the Bible. It's all new to me. So when I read these Wikipedias of the Bible, I'm like, she did what? Midrash did what? Midrash.

The invention of the name Oprah is like the invention of microwaves. Like just like an accidental thing. That was perfect. Yeah, they didn't realize they were inventing microwaves when they invented them. They just had a microwave in their pocket while they were trying to do something else. And it like melted. And they were like, oh, shit.

I don't think she would be a huge star. No, definitely not. If her name was Orpah? Yeah. Orpah. She was like, I'm Orpah, and I'm here to deliver the 11 o'clock. They'd be like, get the fuck out of here, Orpah. Orpah sounds like you're describing the dead body of some

sort of sea mammal. Like, a dead whale is known as Orpah. Wait a second. I'm seeing here, and I'm just getting word from our reporters in the fields or Wikipedia field here that or that or pas Jesus Christ that Oprah's name is Orpah oh shit and people started calling her Oprah and now she go and she goes by Oprah but but it is telling me here that her name is Orpah Gale. So you can always...

Orpah Gale? Yeah, which makes me think, who's Gale? What the fuck? Is Oprah like verbal kint? Are we just like pulling out like all the details that like she was making everything up

all along? Mm-hmm. Orpah Gale. Oprah's not real. Gale's not real. Wow. I was about to say, is she Gale? not real. Gail's not real. Wow. I was about to say, is she Gail? Has she been Gail this whole time?

I think she is Gail. Orpah Gail Stedman Winfrey is her full name. And everything else is made up. When you get that rich, you deserve three bodies. Yeah. Yes. All right. But before we get to any of that, sorryune we like to ask our guests what is your search

history uh i think we already heard that is that correct yeah yeah um so what's something you think is underrated friend underrated i'm gonna i wanted this today's underrated to uh to go out to my dad it's his birthday soon um so in in honor of him i'm gonna uh give what i believe would be my dad's underrated my dad's underrated is having a plan having plan you have to know where you're going and what you're doing where are we going and then number two underrated shahram nozari who i've sent you guys a link to play us out some of his very cool persian yodeling um it's really good shit three underrated pink floyd old iranian men love pink floyd because it sounds like classical persian music is that true that is true yeah so you know

how like the wall is like yeah they love that shit. Wow. Yeah. That's so cool. Yeah. So Pink Floyd, Shahram, Shah Jarion. If you guys want to go on a little search of Persian classical music, go to Shah Jarion.

What else does my dad think is underrated? Making him tea. He thinks that I should make him tea more. My dad calls yeah but he loves he's always like where's the tea chai kujas i'm like it's do you want me to make it are you asking is that what you're asking me he's like where is it i don't know man it's it's gone um but yeah that's a great way to ask how am i doing that where's the tea have you seen my tea yeah where's the money y'all where's the money where's money where's my stuff stuff for me um and uh yeah that's that's all my underrateds that one's that one's for my baba

that's that's great um what is something you think is overrated okay i've been seeing um on on tiktok i guess the zoomers are into 2000s fashion as an aesthetic oh yeah do you guys know about this is that early 2000s fashion is coming back this is the first time oh god okay so there are a lot of great things about early 2000s fashion i'm not here to you know to say that you shouldn't well a sweat pant that says juicy on the butt yes rhinestones on things yes but here's here's what i need to tell you guys about 2000s fashion and lacy you know this jack maybe you know this but um every every young girl who was a teen in the early 2000s was scarred for life because we were told that what we should wear on our butts was low-rise

jeans. Yeah. And low-rise jeans give you a thing called a muffin top unless you have an eating disorder. unless you have an eating disorder. So if you did not have, like if you see pictures of like Britney Spears wearing these low rise jeans, she is a professional performer and dancer. She's got abs.

She's doing fine in those jeans. But me in sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade, I was wearing sweatpants every day. Now we call them joggersgers but at my time we called them sweatpants that you wear to school because uh just having that low rise waistband cutting into my soft little belly it's i can't tell you guys how much how much pain every time i put on a pair of jeans i was like is my body shaped like this? Right.

Because it's normal. Is low rise jeans, is that one of the trends that's coming back? It is. Okay, so here's the thing. A lot of 2000s fashion is coming back and you guys are like, oh, I love 2000s fashion, it's so cool.

But you know what 2000s fashion was? Skinny low rise jeans and you don't want those. Now you want the wide leg pants with the elastic waistband and a little pleated part at the top for your little tummy so bring it all back that's what i'm saying is bring back all the 2000s fashion but not the low-rise jeans because it's not worth it you guys like gen z they're so lucky they know that being thick is beautiful they know that fat is a gender neutral descriptor they know that you can be beautiful at any size any color so just like please don't you're not

gonna like it like go ahead with your paris hilton go ahead with your you know bedazzled phone case chihuahua in the bag whatever but pick and choose pick and choose leave the leave the pants in the past we have better pants now i'm so proud of all of these young people for demanding wide-legged pants with a soft stretchy waistband and high-rise jeans you couldn't find high-rise jeans in 2002 nowhere yeah no i will personally fist fight everybody in arapa style if i see low-rise jeans come back like me me me me at the abercrombie we both gonna smell like uh patchouli and 14 year old boy when i finish fighting you no it's it's not it's not happening oh yeah just like trying to find jeans in like a dark ass store

like remember when they just turned all the lights off in the abercrombie it was just half the lights were off because they were like it's vibe it's. It's ambiance. It was like, I can't see. I had a strong smell. And a shirtless dude. Two shirtless dudes out at the front and I was like, what is my sexuality? So hard. So hard to know. 2000's fashion was

scarring. So scarring. So are people going to start wearing bootcut jeans again? Because I have been waiting for this jack it's happening bootcut baby by the front door with the yeah very tight flared below the knee you know what i'm saying now jack can finally wear his cowboy boots and now look we've got we got lacy's wearing her Ashton Kutcher trucker hat. It's like 2004 all over again.

Bondage, baby. I gotta get one of those shirts that's a tattoo, but it's also a shirt. You know what I'm talking about. The shirt that says, I'm about to get in a bar fight tonight. Tap out. It's a body glove for men and it has tattoos on it. Yes, Ed Hardy.

Ed Hardy's like, I'm gonna drink four long island ice teas and i'm gonna fight this guy for a woman that's cheating on me sure oh boy has ed hardy just been like kind of waiting just being like yeah because you it is like yeah he's just like you rang uh the because this is like, I was nodding when you said 2000s fashion is coming back on TikTok. But this is the very first I've heard of it. It's just, it's like fucking clockwork. It's just every, like once you hit the 20s, people are going to start fetishizing the 2000s fashion. And it's bad, you guys.

It's bad. Not to sound too much like an old person. I mean, it is one of the ugliest decades of fashion oh yeah memory it was like we saw the 80s and we're like we can beat that yeah right yeah let's one up those fuckers so you know you go from the like kind of cool color block windbreaker 90s ski pants sort of vibe like big you know daisies and things and then you go into the just like every part of your body exposed

every part of your body just encased like a little sausage and we're better than that now we have natural fibers you know yeah I feel like we're just getting figuring out the good parts of the 90s and like getting our hand around that and now we're gonna move on to the 2000s and and fuck it all up again but yeah

like there there are so many bad trends there was like a a thing where like having dirty blonde hair like not dirty blonde like kind of blonde but like your hair looked dirty was like a thing that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were rocking everywhere. Yeah, you had to put a bunch of shit in your hair, like wash your hair, then put a bunch of snot in it. Right, to make it dirty. Or it's blonde on top

and black on the bottom. I don't know who said Christina Aguilera, you ruined a whole generation. And also, there's one thing though that every woman will be ready to come back with from the 2000s. And that is thin eyebrows. Because some of us never recovered. That's so true. Some of y'all's eyebrows look like three ants walking in a line.

And listen, it's not your fault. It's the eyebrows. I'm very lucky because my strong, strong hair genes allowed my eyebrows to return. But this is one of those things where like the zoomers do not understand that it is such a mindfuck to me that people draw on extra eyebrow hair now. Like these white girls getting microblading in 2000. This was unthinkable. It was was like take the whole thing off shave the whole thing off draw it on with a little with a little pencil the idea that people would want thicker eyebrows just the opposite literally the opposite and i know this is like i'm i'm old as

shit now sorry um but yeah 20 years suddenly it's back everything's back and it's different appreciate the 2000 what year is it appreciate 2020s fashion the thick eyebrows leave them you have a mustache now doesn't matter you know wear a stretchy pant you can wear sweatpants there's formal sweatpants i just i'm so happy for these kids now and I don't want them to get sucked in to the... The eyebrows also, leave in the early 2000s. Yeah, leave those there. Leave the low-rise pants

there. We don't need it. A natural brow. Let's keep... Brows are beautiful. Progressive brow growth. I'm going to start brow shaming because I'm chaotic evil. I'm going to get the thin brow back in.

I'm going to start running late night commercials. Like, are your brows too big? Yeah. I remember one of, like, I've always noticed eyebrows for some reason. I think it's because you got some great ones, Jack. You have really good eyebrows. I game you need to give them over uh one time relinquish them but like i i always remember first of all i've like been able to notice like if a magazine was old because like the eyebrow like fashion changes um. But I do remember scenes in A League of Their Own.

There's a line where she's like, eyebrows. There's supposed to be two of them. And to somebody who had a unibrow. Yeah. Eyebrows are subtly influential and powerful. If you have thick eyebrows, it is a great way to dominate every single person around you without having to do anything right if you if you have a unibrow let it grow because everybody's gonna be scared of you because they're like this guy's fucking crazy

yeah anthony davis i mean he's he's made it uh cool again um they can make you shave for work but they can't make you get rid of your unibrow. Yeah, that's for sure. Very true. I'm very excited for lower back hair to become fashionable because then I will truly be the hottest woman in the universe.

Yeah. Maybe 10 more years and whatever comes after Zoomers will be like drawing on hair on the lower back with a little pencil, like going to the laser place to get it lasered on. Right. Can't wait.

We gotta get you some braids. We gotta get you some, some quirls. Lower back braids. Yeah. Some little beads on my lower back hair. Cute. Cute.

Oh, the lower back tattoos. We can also leave in the 2000s, I think. Cause now you can just get one anywhere. Let's just like give them two things that we will allow them to bring in the 2000s I think because now you can just get one anywhere let's just like give them two things that we will allow them to bring from the 2000s they have to be two bad things though

they have to be two bad things um uh fucking uh I'll say juicy couture we can bring back juicy couture because that was alright you know those are comfy clothes and they say juicy on the butt yeah the velour suits were very comfortable uh look like shit but hey i'm gonna keep it chaotic and i'm gonna say y'all can bring back outfits i want to see a whole jean outfit again okay yeah

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And, you know, it's time to just speak in broad generalities we're recording this uh days in advance of when you're hearing it so just a kind of a a digest a digestion of last week's news uh one of the stories that i kind of kept uh running into is just how inadequate like the the market is at at preparing us for anything there was a story in the New York Times that talked about how Texas and California have both had big issues with their energy systems and the New York Times was like, but it's not as easy as the ideological arguments make it seem. But the two ideological arguments were both based around the idea that the market was going to solve everything.

And it just doesn't seem to work. If I can quote for you, Jack, somebody from this, a couple of years ago when I did, I came on this wonderful podcast and I read the Reddit comments sometimes. I go to see if people have liked me or if they thought I was stupid.

I am brave. And I was, you can't hurt my feelings. I have some very mean family members. But somebody in those comments was saying that they didn't like how upset I was about capitalism because, yes, capital, and I quote here, yes, capitalism is a bad said that to just reconsider in light of the current moment. Is it the best bet idea we have? Or are there other ideas that, while not perfect, are better? Right. Just a thought. I do love you quoting that back to them at the worst moment for capitalism.

Is it the worst? Is it the worst? It's been pretty bad. Or has it been worse? Yeah, that's true, though. It's probably been worse so yeah i know i mean you're looking at i'm not gonna go off i promise but we still have kids in cages and those kids are now freezing to death yeah yeah yeah and you know what's funny

is that when here's the thing about capitalism is it already was trash when we started, but it's like, Oh, this chair is a good chair. As long as you don't sit in it. Okay. Everybody, this is the capitalism chair. Don't you put your ass in it. It will fall apart. And then everyone decided to take a seat over the past 18 months. A pandemic came and said, let me sit my ass down. And then Texas goes over and they're like, you know, we don't sit on the corner of the chair. The chair is already on the ground. Like, you know what I mean? Like anytime capitalism is challenged, anytime things don't just work out perfectly and we're not super lucky, it falls

apart in a grand scale. And then every day it falls apart in little ways because it fails everybody except for the extremely rich. And then extremely rich love to be like but we're making the jobs y'all and it's like no sweetie in 2008 my tax coins had to go to you because y'all were fucking up so if the market works why didn't we just let it heal itself and y'all go out of business because that's that's healing right capitalism is healing we never let it heal we always fix it before it implodes upon itself one of. Capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction very effectively. It is very good at that. One of the things that they talk about in this New York Times article is an issue they keep seeing is that people, these energy systems will project based on average temperature rather than uh taking into account

that it gets colder than the average temperature and uh just you can't just average all the temperatures and be like well it's gonna work at 45 degrees during that month so we should be good it's always september around here the weather it doesn't change. But it's it's a thing that like that. That's not a thing where they're too stupid to realize that the temperature goes up or down. It's that you're focused on putting the best face you can forward for your company, for whatever the thing is that you're working on, because you're constantly being judged by like wall street or whoever your shareholders are, uh, like it's like, you're always trying to put your best foot forward, put on a happy face,

uh, make it seem like you've got things under control and it ends up, you know, that, that just isn't the way things work well. And it ends up fucking people over and killing people like we talked before about enron they were uh creating boys yeah shout out to enron that's my crew but they were basically putting out like projections of what the energy market was going to cost and how

successful how successfully it was going to perform and using that to like set the costs for what the energy would cost in the future and that just allowed them to basically print money for themselves and it had no bearing on reality it was just they made that much money because they said that's how much it was going to work. But it's just a complete clusterfuck of a system when you are that reliant and that trusting of market dynamics to solve all your problems. GameStop. Yeah. GameStop? GameStop. That was the market at work

and it was seen as a as a you know by by wall street as a failure of the market that so many people could band together to artificially inflate the price of a stock and uh but that was the market at work and it was considered a problem. And it was, you know, certain stock trading apps banned buying GameStop stock for their users because that's not how the market is supposed to work for those people. The market for them is supposed to work such that only rich people can do that. And poor people cannot do that. That was the only problem with the game stop whole fucking issue it's just that capitalism has an excellent pr team yes you know what i mean so it's like we we love talking about the invisible hand but i'm like that hand is

visible as shit i can see the hand i can see the hand me yeah every time the hand comes in to fix bullshit with my money it is like my money has to fix it yeah um so it's trash i'm so tired of that and i'm also just so tired of everyone and i've said this a billion times on this show but y'all do not believe daddy capitalism okay there is a reason that there is a one percent and that richness and that you know obscene wealth is exclusive and that's because they don't ever want you to get their girl, but they're going to keep telling you to keep trying, but you will never make it. So maybe try to live a good

life instead of sucking on the boot your entire life and dying with your pride. You could just have a nice life. Have you covered the business plot on Scam Goddess? No. It's a long... It very a very old story but i would love to hear your take on it but they basically when fdr was like trying to put into place socialist

practices to help america during the depression like the richest people on wall street approached a general uh and tried to basically stage a coup uh to overthrow the government um and it just like got written out it was like unsuccessful because the general they approached uh his name was smedley butler and i think that was the only research they did they were like well clearly this guy's evil so um very evil name right and he was like uh actually i'm not i'm not like going to do this and i'm going to tell on you guys uh and it just got immediately written out of history because it's like too much the too obvious on the nose yeah it's too on the nose and it's just too, it puts the lie to everything we relied on during the Cold War. Right. Which is also the thing. We curate too much of the education. So it's like the propaganda starts when you're a kid. And I've always said that, you know, what's your dream job? Bitch, I ain't never dream about working. So like, you know, like they got us from the get go.

Yeah, go. Yeah. One thing that's sort of recently been really depressing me is when you're a kid and they're like, what do you want to be when you grow up? And a lot of the time kids will be like, I want to be a teacher because they have a teacher in their life who's great. And they're like, I want to be like that. And then they get older and so many of those people end up not becoming teachers for the very, very obvious reason that I know you guys know, which is they get paid shit. Yeah. And that's also capitalism.

Just making a choice to not do something that you think is good and that you want to do and something that you think is a net good for society because you know that you can't live, that your survival will not be guaranteed. That's capitalism too. It's just going, well, I guess I got to learn to code. Yeah. Right. guaranteed that's capitalism too is just going well i guess i

gotta learn to code yeah right and that's also it never ever ceases to amaze me that we underpay teachers like that because i consider teachers and babysit anybody who has to be around your kids when you are gone should be paid fairly because if you like i ain't enough money for this shit then i might i don't know let little jimmy stay stuck in the tube slide for a little bit i'm on lunch a teacher is an underpaid babysitter for 30 to 60 kids and yeah that's why they're spending their own money on shit and that's why they're pissed that's why they're fucking trying to unionize yeah yeah and you don't want your babysitter pissed okay you don't want them shaking on little timmy that's right they hate teachers yeah you don't imagine if you had a babysitter come over and you were like here's my 10 children

i would like you to look after them for eight hours a day i will pay you basically below minimum wage i would like you to bring your own food and um i'm gonna i'm sometimes i won't pay you right like you're they're gonna kill those kids. They're gonna kill them. The kids will kill themselves because they're very good at that. Kids love to try to die. It's their past time. Yeah, it's their past time.

You need somebody who's motivated. That's the profit motive I have heard so much about. God bless the teachers for still doing a great job even though they're underpaid, because I don't know how y'all do it. That's why I'm not a teacher, because I would be like, let him stay in the closet. He got to learn.

Get this lady out of here. Yeah, my brother was trying to I was arguing with my brother about about capitalism. And he was like, well, you know, like collective ownership doesn't make sense because like if there was no money, like if then like I wouldn't work, you know, collective ownership doesn't make sense because if there was no money, then I wouldn't work. If I didn't have to make money, I wouldn't work. I would just go fishing all day. And I was like, yes, yes, now you're getting it. There you go. the things that we work at in this current system are just finding victims finding people to dupe

to like take the money to it's just a predatory system the smartest kids that i went to high school and college with went into fucking hedge funds because that's where you make money yeah that's where you make money crime yeah yeah it's just finding yeah that whose life are they making better by by doing that you know like there there's definitely i don't let's talk about another broken system my digestive no go on yeah actually my digestive system of late uh thanks to all the bad news uh not feeling great but um so it was announced at the end of last week that six capitol police uh officers who were there during the insurrection have been suspended and 29 other others are under investigation um one of the suspended officers took a selfie with someone who was part of the mob that overtook the Capitol.

What is with them? Why can't they not poach so hard on themselves? Another wore a Make America Great Again hat and started directing people around the building. He was a tour guide. Yeah. around the building um he was a tour guide yeah and so there and there's still i mean 35 of the it didn't even look like there were that many capitol police officers there uh when you when you look at the footage and 35 of them were uh are being investigated for they were all inside being in on it yeah yeah and also um shout out to the the fbi wanted me to shout myself out i was

running an insurrection photo booth and that's where they found a lot of the people. They stepped aside the box, and we said... You had the big funny glasses and the little mustache on a stick. Yeah. It was cute. It was a moment. The girls couldn't help but to post. But you know what?

Those memories are worth it. They are. All right, do one silly one now. One silly one. One silly one. One silly one. Okay, hold the grenade up. And then there's another study that just came out that it's a Pentagon report that reveals

that white supremacy has made inroads into the military. What? No way. In America? Inroads? But testimony from people i know so that's the thing is both of these stories the way they're covered suggests that we are having a new white supremacy problem in uh the police and in you know national defense and like military. And it's like, those are white supremacist institutions from the start, like from the very start and how they inception baby.

Yeah. Like police were slave catchers. That's how they started. What do you mean? All this stuff is new, but you know what? I do love this as a grift for, um, complicit white people where you can just be like, wait a minute.

You could do a Chris Harrison and be like, okay, but being on the slave ranch and having a party there, that was fine in 2018. Look, racism started in June 2020. And we all know that. That. Okay? That's when it started. Racism was like, here we are, girls. So was it? In such a was it the reason george floyd's death was such a big deal was because no police officer had

ever killed a black person before right they had never once we saw that once we saw that we as a nation rose up and said no yeah exactly i didn't know rodney king was black right y'all just coming up with anything i love it for you though but i mean it must be like crazy year for me but for people who just found out about racism wow this must be a big wow uh real hard 2020 for them damn do something about this right i feel like that's what you're hearing from like the democrats i mean wow this is um i mean this is crazy this is so what i mean that's great if they if they can get that to catch on that like people are like oh shit this is a huge problem like let's let's fight against it like that's great but it well i

don't i'm gonna say i don't think that's ever gonna happen because like if you if you admit that racism is at the foundation of this country what you're doing is calling the constitution into question and people hate it when you do that oh they do not you know they love to go we love to go back we love to go back to We love to go back to things, back to when we were based, a nation based on beautiful, pure ideals. And unfortunately, that's never been the case. There's no home to go back to, guys. Yeah. Like, please stop.

Also, like, why we got to let these old dead niggas tell us what to do? Like, is this like the thing? If I work really hard, I can make some shit up. And then 500 years from now, they'll be like, no, we still listening we still listening to lacy dead ass like i don't care what's happened i think today you need to start a cult to do that i think there's all these dudes these uh billionaire dudes moving to uh puerto rico and also not even billionaires just like rich youtubers moving to puerto rico trying to start a little yeah jake pa, like literally a colony on Puerto Rico. And I think this is,

I mean, I am sure they are inspired by our founding fathers who did the same thing. They were like, here's a cool land. And I think we should create our own government on it. And you didn't have like colonizer trading cards as a kid. Cause my favorite colonizer was Ponce de Leon. Yeah. De Leon rookie year. De Leon. Ponce de Leon. Yeah. De Leon, rookie year, De Leon.

Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah. You ever whip that out against a Christopher Columbus? That's a good fight, okay? Vespucci was my guy. Vespucci and the other one. What's that guy? The one who went to Mexico.

You know, the one, Cabeza. Oh, Cabeza. I know who you're talking about. I know who you're talking about i know you're talking about something um but just that's a rare card that's a rare card yeah i mean i'm selling that one on ebay so there's this uh pentagon study uh you know conducted interviews and found you know a bunch of um extremist white nationalists uh within the military and they were really surprised to find out that they weren't like it wasn't a secret thing where they were infiltrating they were open about it to their fellow soldiers and uh so i'm just going to read the back and

forth they have in this report uh the guard member said he felt free to be a neo-nazi in the u.s army uh are you worried at all about being found by your mates or someone now being in the u.s military he was asked to that the soldier replied i was 100 open about everything with the friends i made it training they know about it all they love me too because I'm a funny guy. I'm a funny guy. Who is that? Is that Milo? Is that Milo Yiannopoulos? No, that's...

They love me. They love me because I'm funny. Yeah, he's hilarious. Yeah, he's really funny. But that's... So now they're coming with this Pentagon report that's like extremism is a threat and of unclear dimensions uh in quotes uh in

the u.s military that sounds cool unclear dimensions that sounds like a twilight zone episode right right it kind of sounds like it's everybody they were like unclear dimensions they have barbecues they have racism brunch like bigot brunch on uh every other saturday yeah i mean they make little tokens for themselves they make little uh like jackets you know and they get their little tattoos yeah their buttons their little kill buttons so that amazingly the tattoo thing is kind of the focus of this article they're like well they're trying to stay up on what the tattoos mean.

And if anybody knows what the tattoos mean, please let us know. It's always so interesting that they need so much help when it comes to white supremacy. They're like, we don't know. Could you do some internet research for us? Especially when it seems like these guys are more than happy to talk about it to you.

Yeah, absolutely. And I'm tired of the FBI acting like they can't apply themselves when it came to killing freham all the black leaders you know y'all worked so hard where's that work ethic you know what i mean because now y'all like hey internet it's us the fbi again could y'all girls let us know who's you know who's doing this right crowdsourcing they're like can you guys find out who is a nazi and it's like you guys you you are look within baby yeah the like what watch judas and the black messiah and then keep in mind that the storming of the capital is being investigated by them by that bureau the fbi that's the same uh the same people um that's who that's the same the same people that's who we're putting in charge that's the weird thing about white supremacy is it's very

supreme and the best at everything according to them except for when it comes to like helping other people fixing problems then they're like oh girl it's us the FBI we don't know how the internet works somebody get on tiktok right right

comment if you know any nazis just drop their tag in the replies put their handle there and we'll follow up from there that's all we need we just need a little bit of help we don't know how to google and it's so much easier to find people now than it was in the 60s so y'all telling me back then we had to write letters to send information and shit like come on now all right let's take a quick break and we will be right back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project all you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session.

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Ample Hills. It does sound like a porn from the 40s. Like a cottagecore porn. Right, like a like a porn from the 40s when like a cottagecore porn right like written by a farmer uh yeah oh yeah ample hill and her ample hills uh yeah so what's the deal with that i i do i feel like this is just like such a like a of the moment like trend that we will look back on and be like ah yes that was a very 2021 story uh you did say like an india 2018 india ice cream shop from brooklyn so yeah this is already yeah this is very dated right they so they just basically crashed and burned they overextended became

friends with bob eiger and uh orpa uh otherwise known as Oprah. Well, Bob Iger and Oprah became fans and they expanded to LA, then Disney World, started becoming obsessed with things like Square Pints, which they called Squints. Stop. Once again, guys, you don't need to do that. We have writers. We have writers, so many writers who can... And once again, guys, you don't you don't need to do that. We have writers.

We have writers. So many writers who can. Also, how do you write that without it looking like squints? Yeah, it does look like squints. And maybe an accent mark. It's squint, guys. It's squint. Right. They created Disney license flavors with watercolor art and bankruptcy followed quickly.

licensed flavors with watercolor art and bankruptcy followed quickly um they also just to make it fully uh just a fail uh a failed venture of the moment they also have a podcast now um do they still have the podcast even though they're bankrupt yeah do they have a patreon keep the podcast yeah so podcasts are a lot cheaper than ice cream talking about ice cream like y'all look i know in 2020 everybody was like i don't know we stuck at home i shot into the void i'm making a podcast but a podcast about ice cream bitch wendy's has a podcast i can't i'm looking at ample hills right now and i will say this i think think that 2020 killed Ample Hills. I think that if they had had a time and place where we were all free, then this would have worked.

They would have been at Coachella giving the girls, you know, watercolor creams. It's very Coachella. And Instagram moments. They would have a tie-dye flavor by now. Yeah. Everyone would have a mini Ripper 10 photo by now with the ice cream cone melting in their hand, and it would be getting cute.

They would also be wearing an Afro regardless of race. And they could have had that. And I'm sorry that 2020 killed them Ample Hills because that's what did it. Right. But you know what? Sometimes businesses deserve to die. Yeah. I will say this.

They did expand quickly with Oprah's influence and stuff. But for a long time, like ever since the Oprah show and she used to do Oprah's favorite things after the first couple of years, they would demand that if you wanted to be in Oprah's list or if you wanted to be in Oprah's company, that you had to expand. Because what would happen was is she would talk about a product and then everyone would want to go buy it and it would be gone. So I wouldn't be surprised if they were like, oh, we're working with Oprah now. Let's open all the ice cream stores, y'all. Get the scopers.

Yeah. Right. They didn't really have any other choice because when Oprah mentioned something, it just immediately like sells out for a decade. But that's really amazing that she demanded that instead of uh i'll recommend your product to my fans and then they'll buy buy you out to the point where you know you're sold out that she would instead demand that they expand that's very interesting that's yeah because she didn't want to like put a bunch of companies

out of business by or you know like break them uh well i mean you know if you go if you sell out you can just yeah i guess that's you know that's that's a business that's performing very well like selling out is kind of the goal you know yeah but it was like the fan base because her reach would be so large because you know she made javi amas pop she made greensburg turkeys. She was like, y'all better get out there and start killing more turkeys. That was her? Mm-hmm. She was like, this is my favorite flip-flop.

And then everyone was like, everybody got their toes in those. Javiama's. I never knew what that was before her. She turned a lot of businesses out. And this whole time, I've been calling them Havina's. Havina? You might be right. I've been calling them Havina the whole time.

I don't know. I'm not looking at your foot to read what's on there. You got, you better look at the labels on my foot. I spend money on these. I like to say Havina. Havina. Poor Ample Hills.

Another RIP to the pandemic. Pour out some melted ice cream for ample hills but check out their podcast um all right the jack i will that's a lie uh i don't think anyone will um no it's so true jack it's so true, Jack. It's so true. So the Game of Thrones guys, the Benioff and Weiss, the Davids, the Daves-id, made a $200 million deal with Netflix

that killed their deal with Disney. People were just like, they fucked up that last season so bad. We got to get a piece of these guys. So there was like a bidding war. They had a deal with Disney to make... A bidding war? Yeah.

They had a deal with Disney to make a Star Wars movie. And then they were like, sorry, we got too busy with this $200 million Netflix deal. So we're going to have to take a step back from star wars uh disney might have actually encouraged that because it was also around the time that they totally uh fucked up the landing on on the end of game of thrones so disney might have been like oh

maybe these guys aren't worth it um because the girls the star wars girls would storm what's the equivalent of storming the capital but for disney they're gonna storm the epcot like you can't don't mess with the star wars girls yeah storm the uh castle what's the the cinderella castle um right but this is wild to me you You know, talk about failing up. Because Game of Thrones was heavily reliant on the plot of its books. And because it was so successful, I think Dave and Dave started feeling themselves like, okay, George RR, you did whatever. But, you know, we're going to take it from here. And they were terrible without the books leading them.

Really bad. Laci, they made a... So one of the things you hear them say when they talk about game of thrones is we had never done this before we were just learning as we went we know right yeah and they made a pilot shot an entire pilot turned it into hbo hbo was like you guys this fucking sucks and it costs like it costs like, it costs like hundreds, I think it costs tens of millions of dollars. And then HBO was like,

take another crack at it. Like recast, shoot another pilot. And that one worked. But that's how much they failed up. They just keep being given chance after chance after chance. Anyways. It's absolutely ridiculous how much we are willing to rely on white men even if it means like we're gonna sacrifice so much the story the content like just millions of dollars millions of dollars they were allowed in our reboot culture they were

like oh the browns have made new things no No, no, no, no, no. No, thank you. We're going to do this movie we've done six times over the past 20 years. Let's do Cheaper by the Dozen 8. Right. Because that's like 12 white kids. 14, perhaps. And that movie came from like the 50s?

Like that movie's been redone. The original remake that we all know is steve martin is a remake if we don't get a black parent trap in the next five years i'm gonna scream right we'll get it but it'll be half black we can't have too many blacks on screen at once unless you're tyler perry it'll be two mixed kids and which who will be white the mom or the dad oh i don't know see that's where it gets interesting it is where it gets interesting it is where it gets interesting i think it's gonna be the mom is gonna be black and the dad is already doing that that's gabrielle union and zach braff they're

doing cheaper by the dozen and gabrielle and they're gonna have yeah, yeah, Kenya Barris is writing that, so that's happening now. Oh, Kenya. Yes. Listen, I work in the industry, so I'll keep my mouth closed, but you know, just get on Twitter. The girls will tell you. He's one of my favorite actors. Black AF was very fun. I enjoyed Black AF. Well written,

for sure. Like I said, he's one of my favorite actors him and chris paul and those state farm commercials are i'm dying so but so the game of thrones guys actually like hit on a very interesting like they have good taste in novels so the thing that their 200 million dollar netflix deal is about is this thing called the three body problem it's a chinese trilogy that is about uh humans contacting with uh extraterrestrial life and intelligence and you know what happens it's very like richly imagined very like detailed um there's all sorts of intrigue people getting assassinated because

of like all these like secrets and shit and the story of like how this is coming to screen also involves like assassinations and shit so like after they bought the rights last december one of the main people uh at the company that was also like a co-owner of the rights died at 39 and it was found he was found to have at least five different types of poison in his blood um they're not fucking around not five different types they wanted to make sure and then two other employees including the president, were poisoned with mercury and lethal doses. And it was recently reported that the Chinese authorities detained a suspect who hasn't been charged. But allegedly the suspect is a lawyer who is working on the three body problem. And it was like possibly jealousy, but like it doesn't fully like we don't have the full story

but in the novels like the creative people and scientists are all being poisoned because they like know this secret and so it just like they know about all the bodies right they know about three bodies yes the three all three of them. But it fits. This could be a plot from the novel. It's really interesting. So again, way too interesting for these two dudes to be in charge of adapting it. Don't worry, they will simplify it. Right, right.

Well, I am a little bit more hopeful because this is like a complete trilogy. They won't have the opportunity to like go off prompter. They won't get to freestyle. Yeah. I wouldn't put it past them. I think they're going to do whatever they want. I think they're going to go off book and they're going to. But you know what kind of makes me sad about the whole the Davids, the failing upwards thing is not just that they get opportunities that other people don't get, but like a lot of Game of Thrones is really great. You know, like the fact that those guys got chances means that we got a show that, you know, millions of people loved and like really fun show. And that's you're losing that every time somebody doesn't get to fail up.

We're losing something that that you could have loved for for years you know something that that could have been like that for you you know it's not always bad to give somebody another chance that's true right and that's true so it's like it it just means that like the problem you know when you think about wow what if that hadn't happened that applies to like every deal you never saw because it fell through you know that applies to every like young director who directed uh you know young female director who directed one movie and it did okay and then never got another job yeah right right exactly it's also a different culture now in hollywood writers want to be celebrities like they want to be like actors

and they kind of have always wanted to. A lot of my good writer friends who've been in tons of rooms will be like, most of the writers that I've dealt with, like at table reads, they'll like hate the actors who are reading their scripts. They'll be like, oh my god, she fucked that joke up. That's why it didn't work, especially like in comedy and stuff where you're like turning jokes. It's like, if the actor doesn't turn your joke, they'll just blame your writing, writing right so because she doesn't fucking try we hate that bitch so it's so funny now to see these so many shows where they have an after show where it's writers or head writers like sitting down in front of the camera like so this is what we thought when we

we really wanted the audience to see and i'm like y'all girls want to be on the carpet so bad don't you okay because like david and david who told y'all we needed to hear from y'all after them game of thrones episode yeah right i don't need to know their names right that's funny um i always love when they're when they're commenting on a scene and and they're like well we really wanted people to feel you know xyz and i'm like i didn't get that at all like that was you wrote that scene pretty bad because that is not how i saw it if you want to find out the least interesting take on a piece of art uh ask the artist like what because it's coming from a place they don't understand that's's like them trying to make sense of it is the process of the art a lot of the time. So like the worst person to hear talk about,

yeah, about the art is a lot of times the artist. Well, Sarah, Lacey, it's been a pleasure having you both. Sarah, where can people find you and follow you um i am back on uh instagram so you can follow me on instagram uh my instagram handle is is corpse flower f-l-o-u-r um and uh on tiktok you can find me at uh you underscore tube underscore channel. And is there any work of social media you've been enjoying? There is.

I would like to play you this TikTok audio because, yeah, I love TikTok now. Oh, but before I do that, I want to say please also follow High Priestess Comedy

on Instagram. That is my show. We have not been doing shows during pandemic, but we are going to be doing a Zoom show on Friday the 26th to benefit Texas Mutual Aid. We're going to get a bunch of

Austin Comics to come out and raise money because, yeah, it's really fucking bad over there. But fortunately there's a lot of places you can donate to. So I'm going to now play you this extremely good TikTok. And I'm going to hold the mic up to the phone. It's pronounced Angela.

For context, this video is titled, If Mexican Food Was Made by Italian Americans. Manona, she makes the best quesadilla. Hey, you better put some hot sauce on this burrito. Italian Americans. It's perfect. It's great. This is by Owl Owl on TikTok. If Mexican food was made by italian americans and uh it rocks uh lacy such a pleasure having you as always where can uh people find you and follow you yes okay so as always guys if you like robbery if you like comedy scam goddess

podcast wherever you get your podcast um if you want to follow me it's d--I-V-A-L-A-C-I, Diva Lacey on all platforms except for TikTok, which is Lacey mostly because there's a little child who is Diva Lacey. Wow. She beat me to it. I had pretty solid branding for a while. I was really hurt and disappointed. And a TikTok that I've been enjoying. One, okay, well, tweets. tweets one i have to just shout out um

ryan ken acts it's ryan underscore ken underscore acts if you want really funny tiktok mashups and videos and stuff he's been doing a wild shit and it's amazing like they did a whole malcolm and marie where their neighbors bit they were in black and white in the house next door. Like, they still yelling out there. Like, it was very funny. And then I'm just going to grab my own tweet today for something that I was liking. I like myself. I wish people would stop refilling name brand hand sanitizer with bootleg concoctions.

I'm tired of my hands smelling like a margarita. Yes. Thank you. And that's also a PSA. Yes, please. Thank you for that. Tell me it's not Pirell. Yeah, they were like,

well, let's spray this on your hands. I smell like a whiskey bar. It's like they didn't mean real alcohol, y'all. Like it has to be a book. Put some glycerin in there. Like why are y'all in the back with a bottle of pop off? Like, no, it's going to work. It's going to sanitize. Put some glycerin in there. Why are y'all in the back with a bottle of pop-off? No, it's going to work.

It's going to sanitize. Tweet I enjoyed. Natasha Leggero tweeted, one of the most unique qualities about my husband is he uses nine knives to make a sandwich. And that rings true. Is that you, Jack? Are you Natasha Leggero's husband?

I might as well be. Married humor. Shout out to the married girls. Hashtag couple goals. Are you Natasha's real husband? I might as well be. Married humor. Oh, yeah. Shout out to the married girls. Hashtag couple goals. Hashtag husband and wife. Hashtag wife pranks. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. Where we link off. Wow. We got to capture that and make that just something that always drops

on. Where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode. And we will also link off to a song recommendation. And Sarah, you had a song that you wanted to recommend to us or an artist yes this is a gold sad bag is the one that i linked you to that's a shahram nozari uh that is a one hour track so settle in guys because we're gonna we're gonna play the whole thing that thing. This one's for my dad.

That's for him. This is what I listen to. If you go listen to it, just imagine me, seven years old, in the back of a car for eight hours being forced to listen to this very sad, spiritual yodeling. And you'll understand a little bit more about me. Yeah. Or smoke a little weed like it's a Pink Floyd track, you know? Yep. Just a...

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