The Daily Zeitgeist - Florida Vs California On Covid, How Kavanaugh Cheated His Confirmation 3.17.21

Episode Date: March 17, 2021

In episode 838, Jack and Miles are joined by Revision Path podcast host Maurice Cherry to discuss the FBI background investigation of Brett Kavanaugh, the Derek Chauvin trial, Tucker Carlson's reaction to the Grammys, California versus Florida anti-mask behavior, a voter fraud case at a high school homecoming, deep fake moms, and more!FOOTNOTES: Democratic senator suggests FBI background investigation of Brett Kavanaugh fake Derek Chauvin attorney asks for trial delay, change of venue after Minneapolis settlement WATCH: Tucker Carlson - Candace Owens Reacts To WAP Performance At The GRAMMYs Writer for Tucker Carlson Resigns After ‘Abhorrent’ Online Posts Are Revealed Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum Coronavirus Today: California vs. Florida High-schooler and her mother hacked school records to steal homecoming queen election, police say A Bucks County woman created ‘deepfake’ videos to harass rivals on her daughter’s cheerleading squad, DA says LISTEN: Krs. // Waiting in Vain Edit Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, Miles, this can't fuel my stove anymore. That is courtesy of official dickhead. And y'all, if you want me to stop talking about the British coal gas study, you can't imply in your AKA that that study is about British coal gas being an unsafe fueling alternative for ovens. It is about second degree suicide. It is the means reduction. The means for someone killing themselves a lot of suicide is second degree it's heat of the moment and if you take away the weapon they use uh then they

will not kill themselves in a lot of cases that is what that i'm just gonna call it the british second degree suicide study uh it's not just that a brit British coal gas turns out as stinky. Anyways, but thank you. Great AKA. Thank you, Abstrusal. I am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Also, we put the joint down in the PlayStation Burnquist, a.k.a. The Green Campbell, a.k.a. Rune Spliffberg, a.k.a. Chad Pufska, a.k.a. Jamie Chronix, a.k.a. Puffy Lassick, a.k.a. Jeff Brawley, a.k.a. Andrew Hand Rolls, and shout out, finally, Alyssa Steamroller. And that one comes from the brew, you know, straight into my late 90s consciousness, early 2000s consciousness with that Tony.

I mean, Tony Hawk's back on PlayStation. Were those all like playable skaters on Tony Hawk? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chad Muska, I don't think was in the second or was didn't come into the second or third one. But like, you know, you know, Bucky Lassick, Rune Glyphberg, Bob Burnquist,ist alissa steamer they're on the first one they're ogs shout out to uh all the listeners who sent us pictures of themselves uh pointing out that they are they uh are also lanky six foot two adams apples who are easily mistakable for tony huck yeah more than more than I thought there would be. That is a whole

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Thanks for having me. Thank you for being here. Thank you. And on the day before my birthday, I have to say this. Hey. I could not have thought of a better way to ring in the last day of my 30s, so thank you. All right. March 18th.

All right. Yeah. Because today is St. Patrick's Day. Oh, shit. What are we doing today, y'all? The official pre-birthday turn up. Exactly. Wait, so Maurice,

what was that like for you? Because we spoke to you, I think in the summer, late for fall-ish and before the pandemic. So that means, did your birthday last year get completely upended by pandemic? Absolutely. So you're going, this is too, is this about to be, do you think you can carve out a slight thing, a safety backyard thing this year? What's your, what are your prospects? You know, I'm just going to have to delay it. At one point in time's your you know i'm just gonna have to delay it i at one point in time i said i'm just gonna turn 39 again i'll just be 39 plus one or whatever but now that vaccines are coming out and it looks like some i want to say social restrictions have been relaxed but i live in atlanta where everyone has pretty much come to play since we've only had three weeks of lockdown. So I don't know yet.

I'm going to plan something out probably later in the year once the vaccines are more out there to people and the immunity is greater. But right now I can wait. OK, good. Yeah. Yeah, that mugginess that is usually not so pleasant turns out is saving lives in the in the southeast of the United States. Well, we'll actually talk about that in a little bit. Wait, for real? Yeah.

Muggy humidity is good for basically if the air is drenched, then the droplets drop down. Air breaks on the droplets. Exactly. And breaks on the droplets exactly and we've already got pollen like pollen is already crazy in atlanta so someone will sneeze and you really don't know is it covid or right right right could be both could be neither you don't know yeah meanwhile like my sneeze from two weeks ago is still just hanging out outside my house because the air out here is so just dry all right well maurice we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about today uh we're gonna take a look back at something i had forgotten about i had assumed it was B-fucked, but the Kavanaugh FBI investigation from all those decades ago during the Kavanaugh hearing.

We'll talk about that because we're starting to take a look at it and it looks like it wasn't fully on the up and up, shockingly. Yikes. We'll talk about a possible change of venue for the Chauvin trial. Chauvin. Fucking whatever that guy's name is. The murderer cop trial. We'll talk about how bored Tucker Carlson is. And I want to talk about the John Oliver thing about him being a white supremacist.

And then we'll talk about California versus Florida. The aforementioned, you know, comparison between the two that a lot of anti-maskers are like, yo, Florida won because they only had 11% more people die than California on a per capita basis. They're really spiking the football on that shit uh which is weird but because they kind of kept things open they're like see this is fine we we

did it better uh we're going to talk about some mitigating factors in that comparison uh we'll talk about the doting mother update uh we have a couple dedicated mothers who really went in uh all of that plenty more but first we like to ask our guest maurice what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are or where you are as well yeah i guess i mean you know in terms of right now the main thing I've been searching for is Atlanta COVID vaccine availability. They've just opened it up to larger groups here in Atlanta, which is great. That means I now qualify. Shout out to Team Chunk.

So I qualify now to get the vaccine, which is great. Finding a time and a place to get it is proving to be very difficult because Georgia is last in the country when it comes to vaccine rollout. So they've opened it up to more people and have yet made it infinitely harder to get. So it's sort of like trying to find Beyonce tickets, I would suppose. It's just not that easy. So I mean, yeah, because at least you can hang out outside the venue and just overpay to get in the show. Right. And I mean, it's not like that with a vaccine. Look, I mean, I would imagine people are probably doing the same for vaccines.

They're just hanging around like, you know, you got to have a vaccine for 20, 20, 20. At the end of the day, you know, you got another shot left in that bottle, you know, which I've heard some people actually are doing. And then, of course, there's a number of people that are just like, yes, I have comorbidities and I'm older and I, too, will get the vaccine. And right. You know, so just trying to find it is tough. I know people who just got it within the past week just waiting around for leftovers. Yeah. Or calling doing the random, you know, pharmacy phone book sweep and just be like you got any got any got any got any but yeah i've got like five windows open it's like minority report i'm like let's see cbs we got here walgreens you got something gestures and shit right yeah expand this one map enhance yes yeah there's a real like kind of head fake they do because you become a that you become qualifying for the vaccine.

And then it's still just like you just enter a new realm of Dante's circles of hell where it's just like now you have to figure out how to navigate this labyrinth. Right. I wonder when I mean, I'm still waiting for la to expand but it's gonna take some time because there's a lot more people here but i think like every state it seems like there are if you are unsavory or let's say you lack some moral scruples you're an unscrupulous character that there are ways to get that um and for those people who are acknowledging the disparities that exist and the inequity in the country, you're like, yeah, yeah, that's not that ain't that's not time for me right now. No,

no, no. But yeah, it's it's it sucks to hear that no matter what it's for the people that need it. It's still very much like a wait and see type thing. Well, didn't Biden have the recent sort of talk where he mentioned that he would try to make sure that every adult would at least have a vaccine by the beginning of May or something like that yeah that it would be the doses would be like available there'd be enough but then it's the rollout you know we'll see ludicrous uh how you roll that out gotta get those in arms yep yeah because like his whole thing is like 100 million shots and 100 million checks like in pockets. But, you know, unless you're over that $80,000 cliff and then we can talk about how many checks that might actually be compared to Trump.

But, you know, let's move on. Let's move on. Yeah, we talked yesterday about how Israel has had some success with their 50 percent of their population has it. 50% of their population has it. And I mentioned a couple of the things that they have gone for them, such as universal healthcare and this green pass thing that basically makes it so you can do stuff once you get the vaccine. So people are extra motivated, but something we didn't mention that is also a mitigating factor is that netanyahu is possibly going to jail and the only way that he's staying out of jail is by like staying in his voters good graces

so i think that might be something we want to kind of investigate is like governors go to prison is this netanyahu guy above board i'm hearing here on the zeitgeist you know as a guy i'm from philly you know i don't want like you casting aspersions on my character and yeah maybe i'm trying to get the vaccine out to avoid the clink but hey saying it is what it is let's let's threaten all uh politicians who are in charge of life and death things with uh prison see how how much quicker we get those vaccines they'll be knocking on our doors yeah because apparently re-election isn't enough so yeah what are that how do we raise this well they got that locked down they got you know that's that system is fixed

maurice what is something you think is overrated oh my god um the coming to america sequel oh is it bad it's so bad and the thing about it is that it didn't have to be bad right i think you know of course there's all this stuff about reboots and people want to bring back these sort of you know very popular franchises from before. And the movie does some things around. Well, let me be completely honest. They do a lot of shit around the old movie. It's almost like they had an intern write down every catchphrase that has caught on in the past 30 years.

And just like threw darts at a board to figure out where it could go into the movie off the top of my mind do we get a in the face uh something like that is there sexual chocolate uh yes sexual chocolate is there is there that boy good yeah that's it oh no is there a yes fuck you too i mean i think the fact that a large part of the premise is based on date rape uh rather casually so i should mention what is is a is a harbinger for just how off tone the rest of the movie kind of is it's it's star-studded cast don't get me wrong wesley snipes tiana taylor eddie i mean great cast yeah horrible plot kenya burris wrote it so it's i know sort of coming to america ish right that's funny part of me like was really i look i knew it came out but part of me was like

i don't want to watch it and it not hit the same and me just ruined my weekend so i've been avoiding it's not gonna hit the same i don't care how many edibles you take how many joints you smoke it's not gonna hit the same because the first one i say that from personal experience but it's just not gonna hit the same there are there are laughs though i've heard there are laughs like there's i mean it's a it's a comedy so ostensibly there are laughs yeah but actually yeah is this okay but is there there are there's some people that saw it that loved it i mean you can suspend disbelief and plot holes and flimsy characterization it's probably a very funny movie i'm not saying you have to go into it like thinking about it but it's also just not that good.

Right. I mean, the original was an R. This is a PG-13. So that kind of gives you a bit of a sense of how toned down some things are. It's just not that good. Right. I mean, I saw like a clip. Yeah, I saw a clip that they put on social of like the barbershop and seeing all those characters come back.

And my first thought was like, yo, they alive yeah first of all they're still alive and also they didn't age because with their old makeup but then you look at you look like fucking semi and uh keem and you're like these motherfuckers got old right and the barbers are the same age they're still at the same shop like gentrification hasn't wiped all of that it's ridiculous where he's like i'm gonna sell my brownstone 10 million dollars and i was like okay i get it we got some gentrification humor in there but it's it's not it's not good is kenny barris from new york because it's a very new york movie i don't know the first one at least it was like a very he's from la i think yeah yeah i mean come on man but they bring

back pretty much every character except for lisa's sister and samuel l jackson other than that i think every other character from the movie is probably in there i don't think i don't think the deadbeat landlord is in no he's not in it but is eric lasalle in it no no eric lasalle is not in okay and he made some interview about why he was not going to be a part of it or whatever, but it's probably for the best given how bad the movie is. Right, right, right, right. Yeah. I mean, Daryl was like, you know, the iconic bad guy, you know, with his soul glow and

getting his Jerry Crow juice all over the fucking couch. Yeah. Man. Those kinds of jokes do not exist in this movie right because those are like super on point that so you're saying it kind of just got overly broad or something like it just they they introduced a lot of new characters there is a lot of it was filmed i think in rick ross's mansion um it's wait is that like a joke or you're saying literally no no it's not a joke it's not a joke it's like the literal musician rapper rick ross in his mansion like oh because

of like covet things no this was this movie was supposed to come out in 2019 they've sat on it for like a whole year wow okay man that that is a real bummer to me that frankie faison doesn't come back as the deadbeat landlord because real like people who really like coming to america like those are some of those are some of my favorite lines right he's like yeah it's a real shithole you're gonna love it and the reason that i the reason i'm saying it's overrated because like i see a lot of promotion around it i'm seeing a lot of interviews around it i'm not seeing a lot of good i mean twitter people on twitter are like oh this is hilarious it's not a good movie yeah i mean it seems like everything when you even just search review like it's

universally it's like either tepid or they're slamming it yeah lots of musical performances for some reason which are not really, I mean, there are musical performances in the first movie. Of course, you know, she's your queen to be all that, you know,

soul glow theme of course, but like Gladys Knight does a rendition of midnight train to Zamunda. That's like, why? We don't need to do that. Damn. The description fucked me up. That's the second detail in a row that I'm like,

why is he making shit up? No, Maurice, stop smearing with this slander. This is all made up. And the thing is, of course, the Queen to Be song that I think the chancellor or one of the consorts sing is in the credits. It's not even in the actual movie. It's in the credits, sung by John Legend pretty well, but it's in the credits. Yeah not even in the actual movie it's in the credits sung by john legend

pretty well but it's in the credits yeah it's just not i think it's one of the things too like are we like because we were so close to the original thing too where do you think it will invite a new audience because i know it's i feel like it sounds like how i would feel like when the star wars prequels came i'm like they don't need to fuck with it like that they had something going but i don't i just think the comedy was perhaps edgier i think that's true of a lot of comedy like when you go back and watch some of the like true lies is one that like when you when you go back and watch that like there's no way they have that bill bill paxton character saying ass like a 10 year old boy like in a modern movie yeah like the vet gets him wet yeah it's the 90s man because it was basically we turned up the 80s even hotter but like did it with some like nice sheen and cg effects basically

yeah it felt like there was more sort of picking at black culture i think a little bit because the dichotomy that's set up in coming to america is like rich affluent africans meet regular people from new york right and coming to america coming to america that's another reason why it's bad yeah um sort of does this like Yankee and King Arthur's Court kind of thing with Akeem's bastard son. I mean, I'm ruining the plot a little bit, but it's not good. It's just not good. Shit. What's something you think is underrated?

Underrated? I mean, I would say right now I am really enjoying the current season of Queen Sugar. It's in season five on uh the own network um really good show that i don't think a lot of people know about one because it is on this sort of fringe cable channel but created and executive produced by ava duvernay oprah winfrey's also an executive producer it It's just a really, really good dramatic series. It follows this generations of this family on the sugar cane farm in Louisiana. And season five right now, they're sort of going through the the covid storyline.

But it's not like how you've seen the sort of Hollywood squares of vacation of other shows and movies when it comes to depicting time during covid they do it in a much it's it's so good they do it in a really realistic and honest way it's heartfelt um it's just really really good and i know a lot of people probably aren't checking out because i'm not sure what other streaming services it might be on like it might be on i think it's on hulu yeah yeah it's probably on hulu uh so if people want to check it out from the first season uh certainly do so because they do carry over some things from season to season but i say it's underrated because it it rarely gets reviewed you certainly don't hear about it in like emmy nomination runs or something like that but it's a really good show. That feels like one that if it came out on Netflix, it would like blow up.

Absolutely. Right. Because you're captive and people just immediately go, Netflix. Yeah. Okay. Actually related, somewhat related to that. Another show that was on Netflix that is on, I'm sorry, that was on OWN that is on Netflix now, Greenleaf.

Really good show. It's, it follows like a black mega church family so that probably will turn some people off just just off of that concept right but um how many seasons five seasons really great show really great show lynn whitfield keith david it's so good oh wow yeah i mean shit the righteous gemstones we always talk about that show on this on this podcast so yeah if you i think anything if you've been to a church like i'm always interested to see like dramatized church narratives uh because i've seen it from nearly every angle at this point but like i mean in real life but to see the descriptive versions that is

always intrigues me. Yeah, and it's good without being super churchy. Right. Is Keith David, what's his character like? He's the pastor. He's like the Pastor Greenleaf. He's the patriarch of the family. What's his list?

Is he a man of honor? Is he kind of fucked up? Yeah, kind of man of honor. Lin Whitfield plays his wife. So if you've seen A Thin Line Between Love and Hate from the 90s, just imagine that turned up to like 20. You know, like Lin is like the sultry but shady matriarch of the family. May Greenleaf. So she's the one who's. Well, she's got her secrets.

And then Keith David, like the pastor has his secrets. And then there's their children. Each of their have secrets it's it's really good secret fest okay i like yeah rick fox rare rick fox appearance rick fox yeah yeah wow okay uh always like rick fox cameo or appearance uh all right we are gonna take a quick break We'll be right back to talk news 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

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And get ready for a blast from the past, guys. Remember that fun period where Brett Kavanaugh was being, his confirmation was being challenged. Yeah. And just we all went through it for like a week, week and a half. Month. It's hard to know because this is like 2018. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's life has been going through it ever since.

Yeah. been going through it ever since yeah uh but so one of the things that i think we were all suspicious of at the time was that uh they unleashed this fbi investigation into uh her allegations right and they they were just like all good let's let's move it forward nothing to see here and you're like what all right But there's like 900 classmates signed to a letter being like, oh, this dude's trash. Right. Like, and your FBI, the FBI. But y'all are really good at framing people of color who just want equity. Okay.

But, okay. So let me just go down here. Well, so Sheldon Whitehouse is a senator on the Judiciary Committee. He wrote this letter that is essentially saying, yo, that fucking investigation was fake. He says it fake. He says, quote, the the investigation, quote, appears to have been a politically constrained and perhaps fake process in the letter. He says, quote, In this matter, the shutters were closed, the bridge drawn up, and there was no point of entry by which members of the public or Congress could provide information to the FBI. He alleged that the agency refused to hear testimony from witnesses, ignored members

who inquired on behalf of witnesses and criticized the agency's use of, quote, a tip line that was meant to accept allegations. This tip line, quote, appears to have operated more like a garbage chute with everything that came down the chute consigned without review to the figurative dumpster. with everything that came down the chute consigned without review to the figurative dumpster so he will now be asking ag merrick garland who famously got his supreme court robe just tossed in the fucking trash uh to look into how this unfolded uh but yeah i mean the whole pro the whole confirmation hearing was just fucked up, gross and traumatic. And just nobody wanted anything to do with it.

Dianne Feinstein was like the beginnings of us seeing like, what is she doing up there? Does she know what she's doing? She knows exactly what she's doing. Yeah, but to hear this now, it's like, okay, yeah. I think this is going to be like a thing that every month we're going to hear like, remember that thing from four from the four years of bullshit? Yeah, that was also trash. It's going to be more stuff that has come out from the past administration that were like, remember when they said that? Yeah, that didn't happen.

Or no, that's fake. Or, you know, actually, we didn't have a plan. It was all blank paper in those binders, you know. Go to Staples, get a bunch of sheaths of just blank just stack them stack it up and kind of crumple up the top pages so i love stacking paper um i feel like they might have gotten away with this because there was still the muller investigation going on and people like in the mainstream press still wanted to like believe that the fbi was their buddy and so i don't know like that i think that people were just like kind

of put in a weird position who were still uh counting on the muller investigation and the fbi to be like uh the resistance right that was probably uh definitely misplaced the other things with kavanaugh was remember all those fucking washington senators baseball tickets and shit and they were like we pay for those and he's like somebody is like what uh fbi go go on now fucking dig up the receipts and also even like people were you know casting doubts over even when justice kennedy announced his retirement like what was going on there this seemed like you know there's just a lot of the i mean i remember the second my phone lit up and said justice kennedy announces retirement i was in denmark and i was just like my day is i don't know what to do

yeah what are things looking like in terms of the Supreme Court at the moment? Like, there's justices who we're looking to step down fairly soon, right? Because of their old age and we need to get some new blood on the court. Who's the next to step down? Is it Thomas? Well, Thomas would be ideal, but I doubt that he'll be that seat up. Right.

I don't think there's a, yeah, no single conservative that would do it. Although like word was, Thomas was thinking about stepping down before, but yeah, I don't think it's the least he could do. Right.

Like literally the very, literally the least does it fuck off from the supreme court oh man all right let's talk about the derek chovin trial uh his attorneys want a change of venue uh since the city settled with uh george floyd's family yeah they're they're saying what that this is like a sign that the city is already like made up its mind. I mean, essentially, how can I get a fair trial when the city council is already blah, blah, blah? Like, because I think the city council was able to acknowledge how horrific that video was and was like, yeah, that's sorry that the police of this city took your family members life. Right. Legally, that will be sorted in this trial.

But yeah, he thinks it will. His lawyers think it's just going to it's going to be harder for my client to get away with murder, guys. If he's in the same city. What does the change of venue even really solve? I mean, if the case will still go on, right? Because it's in the city that had a settlement. Therefore, like the news, it's it's really it's kind of an odd argument um and you know his like the prosecution was like okay like i i kind of get what you're saying but

that's really not a a reason to stop everything because they wanted to pause proceedings and a venue change and one of the prosecutors said uh schleicher he said quote all i can say to the court is there are some things the state of minnesota and this prosecution team can control and there are some things that cannot control we cannot control the civil aspect of the case we cannot uh we cannot and do not control the minneapolis city council and we certainly cannot and do not control the news cycle and so the judge was like okay well i mean that's your your point about like the settlement maybe messing things up is legitimate but they kept on with their jury selection and he said he'll consider the venue change but if they change venues like would that

change the jury would they have to then like select a new jury from the population of wherever they change it i'd imagine if it's being impaneled in the county you know what i mean like that they would want it in a different county therefore different people you know because that's the whole idea is like well in that area where the murder happened people are too aware of the case to be so you want people who are ignorant right it's just so it's just so fucked up and like even when we were talking about the surveys potential jurors had to fill out you're like this is here here this shit goes i mean it still all feels very like suspect in a way i mean like you say if they're changing the venue to try to you know appeal to a populace that may not know that much about the case it almost feels like they know what the outcome will be not just the outcome of the case but that there will be subsequent protests

and so maybe if they move it out of the city, then people won't protest in the city. They'll protest somewhere. That's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. It'll be everywhere. Yeah. It all feels just, I don't know. It's a distraction.

I think that's what it is. So we'll see sort of what happens. But it doesn't feel right. It doesn't feel right. No, nothing ever feels right when i mean especially when as it relates to over policing and the you know murder murders of unarmed black people by police but when you start looking at something like this that was just so abundantly clear like you don't that's what makes it so offensive like it was unfortunate that that graphic video

was the thing that a large number of people in the country had to see to fucking figure shit out suddenly um and that still with that knowing all of that this idea that's like well you know we don't want people that are are gonna you know understand what justice is as it relates to policing because that's like a dimension of the case we're trying to remove and just be like yo did his is his knee evil like i don't know what the argument's gonna be and that's what's so fucked up is that to everybody it's so clear but there are all these ways to try and you know skirt justice and that's the theme of this nation at the moment like who is who doesn't already have

their mind made up on this if you don't already have your mind made up from watching the video which everybody has seen then you are by definition biased against justice you're like it's impossible for somebody to watch that watch somebody commit murder on video like from beginning to end and not feel outraged so i mean your honor how can we have a fair trial if a majority if if not 10 out of the 12 jurors, are sympathetic towards racially motivated police violence? I mean, honestly, Your Honor, this is not going to be fair. We need people who are firmly on the side of white supremacy to adjudicate this case. Therefore, we can let it rock for centuries. I don't know. It worries me that the prosecutor

is even giving this ground is even seeding the well i can't control the city council like i don't know it feels like he should just be saying yeah well the city council is doing that because it's obvious and an open and shut case and like it's impossible not to come to this conclusion but that's turn up court jack where the lawyers talk like that now fuck that your honor everybody saw that video it's like well hold on this isn't the time to do that yeah i'd be a bad lawyer let's talk about uh tuggar carlson uh we have to outed white supremacist recently outed yeah yeah color me shocked um to anyone who's never seen anything he said his whole career yeah but you know he's a song one he was bashing women in the military

and then got verbally stomped out by the military and ted cruz was like don't treat him like that like it was just another sad back and forth um but this time he's just really he's pretending that he's not horny as fuck for the WAP video. And he's just he's just going full throttle on this one now. And I'm not sure why this is like, you know, the cancel culture thing is back up again, probably because, you know, it's hard to poke holes. And maybe some of the policy things Biden's doing, considering like how it's polling, even with Republicans, like the like the relief measures and things like that. Or maybe it's because you don't want to talk about Trump's case in Georgia kind of getting more severe by the day or Trump's, you know, CFO's ex-daughter-in-law is apparently cooperating with prosecutors in New York.

There's many things. I don't know. But the whole thing here is rather than pointing to like you know racism and greed from a runaway capitalist system uh and what that's done to the country they've chosen to point to cardi b and megan the stallion as indicators of societal collapse y'all and who better than candace owens to come on because that's how tucker crossy see he wised up he's like see i can't have white people attacking black women, but I can have my black woman attack these other black women to avoid any accusations of impropriety. So he had her on and she starts off her whole sermon with just a cancel culture in memoriam.

And the host of Candace, she joins us. Thanks so much for coming on. It's hard not to conclude they're intentionally trying to degrade our culture and hurt our children. That's a strong setup. It's real strong.

Okay. Wow. Please go on, Candace. Professor Owens, rather. I mean, absolutely, Tucker. I mean, Dr. Seuss, gone. Mr. Potato Head, problematic, not enough genders available. We've seen going through the supermarket as a traumatizing experience.

We lost Aunt Jemima last year. We lost Landon's butter last year. We lost Uncle Ben and his rice last year because everything is so traumatizing for children to look at. But this, this spectacle, virtually what we were looking at last night was a lesbian sex scene being simulated on television and this is considered feminist so that's good momentum i mean pour one out for all the racist caricatures y'all so meanwhile when the thing is as she's talking they're looping the same thing over and over again of them like when it looked like they were scissoring and stuff on stage. That's like the clip they have just on loop on the side where it's like, is it that it's that offensive that you have it on loop? Mm hmm.

OK. Potatoes don't even have a gender. What the fuck is she talking about? Right. I mean, I know the whole Mr. Potato Head toy, but like there's a lot. There's a lot of heavy lifting. Yeah. Try to link those things together.

There's a lot. There's a lot of heavy lifting. Yeah. Try to link those things together. It just sounds hard when you said like there's no way you can say we lost Aunt Jemima last year. You know, we lost Uncle Ben last year. What? That sounds like a Chappelle show sketch, like a line from a Chappelle show sketch. That would be a Chappelle show sketch.

Yeah, exactly. Like racist caricature, you know, fucking graveyard. Yeah. Like, hey, Uncle Ben uncle ben man it's been a minute i thought you'd be here way sooner like no they're stalling some bullshit down there um so then candace owens i just want to go on this other thing about how this is pointing to you know the end of america academics anymore in school right forget about mathematics and science you can trust the science and trust dr fauci but you have these kids learning about critical race theory

you know they're learning that they should aspire to people like Cardi B. You see that fundamentally we are seeing the destruction of American values, American principles. And it's terrifying. I think parents should be terrified that this is the direction that our society is heading towards. And again, we are weakening America. That's really what we should be talking about. This is a weakening of American society. We are setting the stage and it feels like we are looking at corrosion, like we are about to see the end of an empire that's true that's true but not for any of the reasons you just said has nothing to do with these two queens doing their fucking thing on stage and just putting on a great show it's not that's not what

the corrosion is you are the corrosion the show you are on is the fucking corrosion the greed that this country just accepts without really questioning and wanting better outcomes for each other in our communities that's the fall of the empire not these people but you know but do go on professor owens yeah it's also just interesting that this starts from a assumption that we are a monoculture where everybody is watching the same things and not like that. They went and got that to put it in front of their viewers who they know did not watch the WAP like performance from the Grammys. They did. They're all lying lying it's the same shit there was some uh state legislator in texas or something who voted on an anti-trans bill for like kids to compete and then they caught him looking at uh transgender porn right his computer yeah there's

a there's a duplicity but that's just what all this two-faced shit is you know all the time it's just disgusting when it's like they you know that's flimsy as fuck you know you're smart enough but but this is the pattern you're caught up in with your audience of just being like parents should be alarmed right right yeah and when has that line worked right like on the news last parents need to be prepared for this. What's happening now? I mean, only on Fox, probably. Yeah. Only on some Fox show or InfoWars or some shit like that. Right.

Part of me hopes they keep going down this path because I don't think people like I think people are smart enough to realize that this is bullshit. And like at least when it comes to voting, will not vote for like anti-canceling dr seuss agenda yeah hey just wait till those midterms i'm sure we'll see some weird ads like i went to bat for aunt jemima i went to bat for uncle ben i went to fucking bat for dr seuss what they're like yo the unemployment rate is out of fucking control in your district did you guys watch the uh john oliver thing on on tucker carlson being a white supremacist yeah i saw that it was like it was good they they definitely like dug up some old clips that i had not seen before um one thing that i was waiting for them to bring up that we had covered before on this show

on this show it's not on HBO but you know somebody needs to recommend that John Oliver listen to the daily zeitgeist yeah exactly Dan O'Brien hook him up with a three episode

no but the story about Blake Neff who was his head writer I think mean, they do a good enough job of talking about like how good Tucker Carlson is at putting their hateful beliefs into non offensive language or language. Yeah, exactly. But this I don't know. they found that his head writer of the past forum five years or four to five years i had like they just found him posting anonymously on this racist uh forum and it's just i don't know it's like the most the smokingest gun like i've ever seen where this person was posting things that you would then see in the Tucker Carlson show. Like there was bleed between like the things he was posting, but he was posting it in threads that had, you know, just like straight up racist, like wild shit, like written in the title of the thread. the author as they were like hey this you to fox news and asked him for his comment on a thursday night and uh fox news announced his resignation friday morning so like they know right they know

what they're doing yeah they know exactly what they're doing they know that they got caught and he also like basically engineered uh harassment campaigns against women who he was friends with on Facebook, who he was mad at for writing about their love lives and one for freezing her eggs. Just committing the sin of, you know, exercising reproductive autonomy. And yeah, I don't know it's just it's yet another example of like this dude's a racist the people who write what he says on his like the the guy blake neff was like uh interviewed for dartmouth shout out to dartmouth great great alumni uh you you've produced there but in the dartmouth alumni review uh he was like anything that uh tucker reads off of the uh off the teleprompter came from a first draft that i wrote

and that's this dude is a straight up avowed white supremacist racist i mean misogynist that's what's so even wild about like the the news of like the headlines or they're like John Oliver, like out. Yeah. Tucker Carlson as white supremacist. And it's and I and I get that like the function of that is great because it's a very easy to follow main story that inspires critical thought and analysis. And it does put it out there for people what scares me is that like many people before this have always been like this is so fucked up and bad yet we're still at that point where you can look a white supremacist nazi in their eye on the tv screen but networks still can't get shit to move there's still no there's still no way to figure this out and i think the closest thing has been this campaign to defox your cable um trying to pressure the cable networks or the cable providers to not, you know, subsidize. Because we all pay like a Fox News tax, essentially, if you subscribe to any kind of cable network. Cancel Fox.

More than that, this guy, Neff, was also he was also supporting like war game exercises at the Marine Corps War College. So he's also with these crazy white supremacist views influencing future military members through war gaming exercises. He had been a war gaming subject matter expert since 2016 for the college. 2016 for the college. And it was only after all this came out and he ended up leaving Tucker Carlson's show that the Marines were like, you know what? We're cutting ties with this guy. Like, oh, now you want to cut ties with him. Well, that's our policy. Once you're sloppy with it

and with your racism, then we got to cut ties. If you can keep it low, then you can stay. The studies of the amount of open white supremacists in the military even the capital do you see the capital police thing recently one of the see the capital police officers had a copy of the protocols of the elders of zion out in the open oh come on man i mean that's a that's just a good read open this This is Russian manufactured anti-Semitic conspiratorial material.

That's like the foundation of so much of modern anti-Semitism. There's a Capitol police officer with that shit out on the desk that a congressional staffer saw it and was like, uh, what the fuck is this? The people that are secure. Well, I mean, we knew that, too. The people that are securing this building are we knew that too the people that are securing this building are also in on it okay they were taking fucking selfies yeah yeah i mean it's just like but it's but it's that it's that just it's just that out in the open you know where like people are having to see that and that sucks for people like to already work in that that place

to be there on the sixth and then be like oh like and the staffer was jewish she was like what the fuck is this like i'm supposed to trust these people right also blake neff just i i found it noteworthy that this dude's like he he graduated college in like 2013 he he like had all the success in his 20s so just anybody who like they are just dying for any like writing talent who will uh who also is a nazi like they they are so hungry for that so anybody who's like who doesn't believe that that's like the easy way that people go in entertainment like that's you you just just google a picture of this dude it's it's pretty amazing all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back i've been thinking about you

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I think their unemployment went up like five percentage points and California's went up nine. So they're like, ha ha, we still have our lives. You guys, you know, they're basically making the point. Cool metric. Yeah. Like even some scientists are like, so California's system wasn't necessarily clearly the winner here. But other scientists are saying that you have to like take into account

a couple of mitigating factors. California population centers are much denser, has more high occupation homes than Florida. Like we mentioned up top, the humidity of the air. I feel like we talked about a graph that showed that temperature is directly related to how fast the disease spreads and another thing that it like the hotter and wetter the environment as the less it spreads so that obviously makes florida a better place for just covid statistics in general uh they point out that arizona is more similar to California, both in terms of demographics and climate. And they had Florida like restrictions, like much looser restrictions. And they had the fifth highest death rate in the country.

So I don't know, just like anything where people are like acting like, well, the precautions that we that scientifically must have helped don't actually help i i think you have to take with a grain of salt and wait for people to learn more look the second somebody with no mask on is trying to tell me about mask anything i'm like are you a fucking epidemiologist right then shut the fuck up especially a year into this i don't know if you all saw this uh this was a video where this guy was with his kids at trader joe's and he basically like strong arms his way into the store speaking some mix of english and french

talking about why you know you guys are still acting like this i'm here with with uh with my children uh les enfants um in the store and i can't believe that you all really believe all of this about covid we have been a year into this whole panda express right like why are people still acting like this around mask it's ridiculous i remember last year it being sort of a talking point around temperature and the coronavirus. Like saying summer. Yeah. And I distinctly remember Trump saying it about, oh, well, you know, it's going to get warmer and so it won't move as fast because it'll be the summer. Clearly, that was not the case.

Yeah. No, it definitely it has an impact, but it doesn't have such an impact that you can do all the wrong things and just expect it to go away like he did um well that's a negative frame of mind jack right we're never gonna get out of pandemic with that kind of thinking yeah i mean my theory has always been that it's all fear-based and uh coronavirus comes from fear and it's an exercise in confidence, y'all. God. And that's why Trump almost died, despite being the most. Another story. They don't really. That kind of went out like a slight dribble.

They're like, yo, he almost died when he had COVID. People don't. But OK. And then you think he's denied. Did he deny he got the vaccine when he got the vaccine? Yep. Or is talking shit? Yeah.

So you know what? This is. No. Whatever, man. seen yep or it's talking shit yeah so you know what this is uh-huh what man but whatever like infusion of teenagers blood that they gave him to just get him right back after he was like on death adrenochrome bro adrenochrome yeah i mean yeah if if we're keeping with the pattern of everything they accuse uh the other side of they're actually doing then yeah adrenochrome the cube conspiracy that all hollywood elites are just like vampires milking like young people for

their adrenochrome like i guess we gotta look into that yeah all right let's talk about motherly love you guys um there's a couple doting mother updates that we wanted to check in on these are such 2021 mom drama kind of things but they're so amazing because like as both of these stories we're going to go through they make me realize how old i am too and like what i thought was a scam what wasn't so we'll go from severe to more severe. The first one is a mother and daughter duo in Florida. They were arrested for fraudulently accessing confidential student information.

So you say, what's that? Okay, so this Tate High School, there were 2,000 students. And on the October 28th of last year, they were told, hey, go to this program, Election Runner, and you can go cast your vote for the students that you want to be like in the homecoming court. And this is like what you need to do to vote was put their school ID numbers and their birthday.

This woman's daughter was crowned queen on October 31st. You know, beautiful homecoming ceremony. She had the roses and everything. But then a few days later, the program election runner hit the school up and said there were dozens of votes that have been flagged as fraudulent. Approximately 117 votes originated from the same Internet protocol or IP address within a short period of time. Then there was an investigation. The feds or the what is it, the Federal Bureau of Law Enforcement or whatever they called FDLE or something. The feds or the what is it, the Federal Bureau of Law Enforcement or whatever they called FDLE or something. They looked into it. They found that it was all coming from this mom's cell phone and computer. And they said, what the fuck is going on? So it turns out she didn't even use a VPN.

No, we advertise on here. We do. You can get it Norton or Express, however you want it, baby. But you can protect your ass when you're trying to ride or die for your daughter. And this whole thing is wild because the mother was a faculty member like within the school district. So she had access to this larger program like this organizational informational infrastructure program that you could summon up these records, grades, medical records, fuck around with the fucking votes and shit. And this and this this is the other thing is too they said around the same time of the investigation quote the school student council coordinator learned that the student was telling people she quote utilized her mother's account to cast votes she's she was sloppy with it very sloppy god very sloppy i mean the whole thing about multiple voting from one device is like some american idol type of shit yeah that's that's

so ridiculous michael cohen type of shit he got caught voting for himself as like uh what was it it was like some like handsomeness poll or something no yeah i think he had his own twitter account where he was like yo how hot is michael cohen y'all or something like that and it's like you're making your own yeah and then he was caught yeah he was caught uh juicing the boat for himself but this shit apparently has happened before like in this Washington Post article they say in 2017 faculty member at a Southern California high school resigned after allegedly rigging student government contests in 2019 a high schooler running for class president in berkeley hacked

into the phone of 500 email accounts to cast hundreds of folks for himself i mean this is like 21st century shit like i remember when marking your scantron answer sheet as the answer key was the most high-stakes scam you could pull like academically they're like yo i'm going for it when they run my shit they're gonna say that's the answer key i'm gonna get a hundred percent when i when i was when i was in college we used to print uh barcodes on like plastic transparency tape and use that to like sneak into the calf like that's yeah it's high tech kind of scam i mean this is this is some other shit and like for me this is interesting because like i i ran an award show for several years from 2004 to 2011. So this kind of like multiple vote thing is one very easy to fix.

Like it's a, it's almost a, a mandatory security protocol. So the fact that this, uh, what's it called? Election runner. Right. The fact that the software was so basic that they didn't catch that to me just feel sloppy on on their end but the fact that the mom's like yeah i'm just gonna keep voting and keep going to like i don't know i could imagine her driving around town connecting to different wi-fi spots voting realizing okay let's go to the wendy's you know sit in the parking lot and do it you know yeah but she messed that up but yeah so they both got arrested is a crime yeah

i didn't think they would lock these people but yeah she the mom had to post bond the daughter went to juvie wow and it's because of like security right like they they were accessing yeah like the charge was fraudulently accessing confidential student information. Like this thing that they were getting into that the faculty had access to just it had oodles of sensitive information, like all that shit. So also the sheriff's daughter was the runner up. So that that might have had something to do with it. I'm looking into this. Right.

And then there's an OK Okay so then there's another one This mom Which this is dark But it was also kind of a matter of time This is more advanced Yeah to deepfakes So Raffaella Spohn Who is 50

Last year she decided to go on a digital harassment Campaign of her daughter's cheerleading Rivals So it says the affidavit says Spohn last year created the doctored images of at least three members of the victory vipers a traveling cheerleading squad uh there was no indication that her high school age daughter who is not publicly identified knew that her mother was doing it according to court records so what they did was that after analyzing the videos detectives determined they were quote deep fakes created by mapping the girls social media photos onto other images.

So they were making them look like they were vaping or doing like wild shit like, you know, kids shouldn't be doing. Detectives traced the phone numbers to a website specializing in selling them to telemarketers and followed the data to an IP address that showed activity from within Spohn's house. to an IP address that showed activity from within Spohn's house. And after searching her smartphone, they found the evidence leading her to the numbers used to send the harassing texts and images. This is wild because when we were first hearing about deepfakes hitting the mainstream, like around 2017, we were like, this is going to get fucking bad.

Like, you can really upend people's reality. I mean, the tom cruise shit that went viral last week that was slick i mean you have to i mean most people if you really look you're like okay i can see it's kind of off but you got i mean it's getting really i'm i've already put money down in vegas that deepfakes will factor into the midterms so oh yeah absolutely i believe that i mean i think it's it's really interesting the fact that the technology has progressed to the point that like a mom. Right. That's what I shout out to moms, by the way, not to disparage moms, but like this 50 year old mom is like, I'm just going to make some deep fakes.

Yeah. So like the technology is that pedestrian that anyone clearly can utilize it. Which is so, yeah, so fucked up. It's like, yeah. You know what? I'll tell you what, honey. The Vipers aren't going to win sweepstakes at the next competition if their best flyers aren't in the fucking game. You know what I mean? Right.

Also, mom looks like the mugshot. Like, she looks like she will fuck somebody up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. She looks like a mom who just needs to pull up with her words. You know, I remember when the most a mom would do is like they were they were waiting for your ass after school to be like can i talk to you really quick yeah like oh shit you know what i mean like not deep fakes she's not wearing morpheus glasses so she's not a hacker or anything like that she just looks like although her eyeliner is in is

inspiring a morpheus glass yeah uh to some level and her criminally thin lips uh indicate someone who cannot be trusted but yeah the deep it's just i don't know you know like where this ends to your point maurice if a mom can pick it up uh we're seeing what's how what the what congress is beginning to look like by the hour yeah right it's only a matter of time they come through with some sloppy dumb shit and it completely fucks up the perceived reality of the country where people are firmly in a firmly believing in a deep fake that may be verifiably fake merely because it serves a purpose of like furthering a narrative that they need for their partisanship so this is someone who doesn't know how ip addresses work who is able to pull off a deep fake like that's uh yeah that's unnerving a republican yeah yeah yeah democrats are a little bit slicker

when they're with their fuckery and sometimes they're not but i think at the end of the day it's just down to you know if the means are there then people are going to fucking do whatever they can and in this case like we're seeing two versions of like moms just really being like i want the best for my daughter and you know what if uh laurie laughlin aunt becky can fucking defraud an admissions process who gives a fuck if i do some deep faking or vote fraud right and they're doing it for such mundane reasons like i want my daughter to be homecoming queen i want my daughter's cheerleading rivals to suffer like it's not even for some big shit like lying to get into

college you know it's for right very mundane high school level type stakes that won't mean anything once you graduate right yeah yeah man what's the what's like the most your mom did for you that wasn't like that like or a parent did for you a loved one like i don't know anybody like my i remember my mom yelled at another kid once like for just being shitty to me that was i think that was like the most i but i i think potentially my mom would deploy a deep fake in my honor i think my mom has probably cussed out a teacher or two right yeah if this were her now do you think do you think our moms would dabble in this kind of next level you know uh no my mom's a total luddite she wouldn't do it oh wow so so she's also she'll

pull up to the school yeah she'll pull up yeah yeah school Yeah she'll pull up We're from the country she'll pull up Yeah yeah exactly she has time She has time for that My mom was once implicated In a Hiring a hitman To take out one of my Basketball rivals

This kid that pants me at a pool party in 6th grade Yeah he's missing still that's i mean that's the old version of this like i guess that's probably better that they're doing uh these sloppy uh psychological warfare than than uh actually trying to hire a hitman to take out the cheerleading rivals how how long until we see the sundance film version of these right oh yeah oh my god yeah i can only imagine yeah that is true that like sundance is the new like the sundance indie version is the new lifetime version it's like now it's not lifetime anymore they're gonna they're gonna art it up and make

it like yeah we'll go highbrow with our uh true crime maurice it has been such a pleasure having you again as always uh where can people find you and follow you uh you can find me online at mauricecherry.com m-a-u-r-i-c-e-c-h-e-r-r-y or you can follow me on twitter at maurice cherry yeah yeah and uh is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying so yes there is and i i don't know how i discovered this i was probably high one day and and was just browsing through twitter but um there there's this this troupe of Brazilian street dancers known as Carete for a Cow. And I've got a link to the tweet here. But it's these people that dance throughout the streets of like Sao Paulo and other parts of brazil and they're dressed as different cartoon characters like kyle from south park or mickey mouse or mario or goku and one of the the main characters is this like long-haired furry-handed person called fafal that has like these big like pendulous

distended jaws and a pig snout but they do all these acrobatics like they're dancing in the street fafau does this like thing where like it runs up a wall or something like that and the tweet that i that i have here is like it's sort of like a fan cam video that i guess someone put together of a popular brazilian song and like it has clips of them dancing throughout the streets i have been obsessed with it ever since I've seen it. All right, we will link off to that in the footnotes so you can check that shit out. Miles, where can people find you?

What's a tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, PlayStation Network, Miles of Grey. Also, the other podcast, 420 Day Fiance, where you know we're talking 90 day married at first sight all that trash up in your veins let's come check that out uh tweet that i like let's see uh this one this tweet is from hybrid at hybrid original underscore it said i'm not ugly but if you see me on my mom's facebook then i don't know what to tell you

because you know parents will post some fucked up photos of you and you're like, what the fuck? Don't tag me in this shit. That's why I'm on Facebook, because I refuse to see those old photos. And that was just very relatable. Also, Deb Holland at Deb Holland and thank you to the U.S. Senate for your confirmation vote today as secretary of interior. I look forward to collaborating with all of you. I am ready to serve. Hashtag be fierce.

Great to see a Native American woman just running the interior now. We got less. Let's just let's keep going. Let's see. Let's see the more and more improvement, please. A tweet I enjoyed. A couple people abolish RPD tweeted this at me, a couple other people did. At WeeWeegoo tweeted, today I learned my 94-year-old grandma spent her year in isolation studying the NBA and filling a notepad with her favorite players on each team.

And she's like, it's a photograph of her 94 year old grandma showing off a legal pad with three teams written on it and their favorite players underneath. Toronto, Toronto Raptors. No players. Not not a fan of any of them. Brooklyn, Brooklyn Nets. She has two of the people you'd expect. Kevin Durant and James Harden. Philly, Philadelphia 76ers danny green

she also calls it toronto repton i think the way she's called raptors is like yeah toronto repton nobody but danny green love it yeah anyways that's adorable awesome uh dave horowitz tweeted post-co COVID plan equals open a family guy themed shawarma place called. Oh, PETA. Oh my God. Oh God.

And K wholesaler tweeted. Every baby boomer knows someone who was in a car wreck and the doctor told them if they had been wearing a seatbelt, they would have been killed. Which is so true damn that's so wow my dad loves talking about and i found out if if it had been a half an inch to the left he would have been a goner seatbelt would rip my head off right there you'd have been pouring out pouring one out for me along with Uncle Ben and the Land O'Lakes lady. That's right.

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This, this is a track from KRS. It's just not KRS one. Just a producer named KRS with a period at the end. Had to use your name first. Yeah. Waiting in Vain Edit is the name of the track. And it's only on SoundCloud because this is like when you got to get in the indie producer vibe. But it's just Bob Marley's Waiting in Vain.

But it's turned up to be a little more modern and vibey. And if you smoke weed or you like to dance, if you have a toe that likes to jump up in your boot, you got honey in your hips. Then you should put this on and do something. But this is weight. But again, this is KRS with the weight in vain edit. We got to find it on SoundCloud. Or the footnotes. Footnotes.

Footnotes. All right. We recommend you check that out. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for this morning. We're back this afternoon to tell you what's trending.

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