The Daily Zeitgeist - GOP Caught Lackin', Rudy Giuliani = Actual POS 05.17.23

Episode Date: May 17, 2023

In episode 1484, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Michael Swaim, to discuss... James Comer losing track of his top Biden informant, Rudy Giuliani getting sued for sexual assault, Paris transforming into a car-free paradise, and much more! 1. Rep. James Comer Says He’s Lost Track of His Top Biden Informant (thedailybeast.com) 2. Former Giuliani employee alleges sexual assault and harassment in $10 million lawsuit - POLITICO 3. Paris to Cars: "Au ReVroom!" LISTEN: Barz Simpson WATCH: Papa Bear - A new movie from Swaim & Epperson of CRACKED. - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark (seedandspark.com)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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that that was something people did. Well, you always see people, I mean, people who are sentimental about that kind of shit. Not like, I don't know, for me, I'm like, just get rid of all the evidence that ever happened. Yeah. I still wear graduation hats just as a fashion statement. I think it's a cool look.

Anyways, my name is Jack O'brien aka i can ride my bike with no handlebars no handlebars no handlebar i didn't change this part because it's the fact about me not to brag just when i ride my bike i can ride my bike with no handlebars no handlebars no handlebars yes it's me jack ob aka mr never played no d my thighs are thick as tree trunks and miles has a pair just like me that is courtesy of fighter of the night man on the discord uh yeah shout out to uh being able to ride your bike with no handlebars shout out to my friend who gave me the and one nickname obi-wan play no d uh yeah which always always appreciated shout out like jordan pool uh and i'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray it's miles gray aka all i want to do

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clips fan right there yeah yeah uh featuring abliva mine was by flowbots the song is called handlebars and i had never heard it before but uh gave it a shot yeah all right are you familiar is that a wait flowbots is the band that did that song yeah yeah the song is called handlebars oh i thought you said like the aka was submitted by like someone named yeah yeah the song is called handlebars oh i thought you said like the aka was submitted by like someone named yeah yeah no it was submitted by fighter of the night man oh right okay classic discord aka submitter submit uh well we are thrilled to be joined oh yeah by a very funny podcast host a talented rapper my first co-host of all time in the podcast space one of my favorite writers actors uh made some of the great videos at cracked uh i'm thrilled that he

and abe yesterday's guest are teaming up to make a new film called papa bear that you can find out about and contribute to we will talk about that and link off to it in the footnotes please welcome back to the show the brilliant the talented michael sway i would swallow my pride i would choke on the rinds but the lack thereof would leave me empty inside i would swallow my doubt turn it inside i would find nothing but faith in nothing want to put my tender heart in a blender watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion rendezvous then i'm through with michael swain which is hard to fit on the birth certificate for real yeah yeah but you did but it is what you're also known as so yeah i love that because you guys are on top of Twitter.

So I'm sure, you know, and are like the wider crack diaspora has kind of gotten, I think, Cody. Like, I think they're aware of Cody and talk to them a lot. But Eve Six's official Twitter handle, they spit mad shit and they're really good at it. Like they tweet on dunks a lot. It's always like fun i remember like when it was especially during the trump administration i was like wait dude the eve at eve six is out here i think that happened live on the show we were like wait eve six that can't be like actually oh damn it is six. Flames. Michael, how are you doing?

I'm doing so, so well and not in the fake podcast way. Really bad, then really good. I didn't even intend to talk about this, but I'll plug a thing because it came out Monday. I do a series called Tales from the Pit where I usually interview people about mental health challenges. We flipped it and Soren Bowie, our dear friend, Soren Bowie, uh, hosted and interviewed me about, I recently went through what's called an intensive outpatient program, which used to be called the loony bin and, uh, learned a bunch of new skills that now I think like there is a honeymoon period and I have

reasonable expectations, but I'm still in the glow of like, I feel like a mind Jedi. Like life is just a state of mind and I'm great. Like ever since I went through this program, I'm great. Yeah. Yeah. That's great to hear, man. That's awesome. Yeah. IOP. I did one of those. Yeah. You know me. Yeah. Oh, did you? Yeah. I did one of those. Yeah. You know me. Yeah. Yeah. I did one of those. Yeah. Back when I was stopping drinking. Oh yeah. Yeah. And it was, it was very beneficial. I took two weeks off from cracked. Uh, and yeah, it was, it was hard to make that initial commitment, but it was, yeah. Learned a lot of lot of life skills and uh one of the best things i ever did for myself and they actually worked i went in really skeptical like my pain is so deep

and unique it won't work on me yes and other guys were like no it will if you give it the time i'm at the end of the process it totally worked and i thought it wouldn't work and now i'm the guy at the end going you'd think it wouldn't work but it did work right yeah some other skeptical youngin aka could could be somebody in their like 50s but uh coming in all skeptical and shit yeah anyways awesome man uh 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 uh we're gonna talk about some gop investigations that I guess they've maybe been looking forward to

on Fox. I was not aware of them, but they're starting to bear fruit. Oh, yeah. Yeah, baby. I mean, we're fucked, and by we're, I mean the Joe Brandon Crime Syndicate is fucked. I actually didn't see

this story until just now, so I'm excited to see what they've dug up for us. And then Rudy Giuliani is being sued for sexual assault and just all sorts of gruesome details, but also enlightening details about how he was thinking about his role within the Trump administration, such as admitting to selling pardons for $2 million. On tape.

On wax. We'll talk about Paris, which is as recently as like a decade ago, not a very bike friendly city, even though, you know, people riding a bike with a baguette in a bag is one of the international symbols of Paris, but it was actually a very polluted car choked city fairly recently and is now doing great. They've cut their emissions by 20%. They've made their city way more livable. One of those,

one of those happy stories that I like to check in with. I want that with i want that i want that how do i get to there yeah um but before we get to any of it michael we do like to ask our guest what is something from your search history yeah uh i had to dig back a little bit but i discovered something and i scared myself by going what was that and re-clicking it it's the words are prisoner fall out and uh there's this old 60s show that only ran for one season and was beloved in that time like how some people loved firefly as it was you know dying uh called the prisoner uh i mainly knew it from simpsons references like

the island is guarded by a giant plastic ball that smothers you i knew that already oh i remember that from like the trippy episode where homer goes on the island yeah when he's mr x journalist and yeah so anyway that is the premise i think it's magoon so anyway the the premise is just that uh a guy's trapped on a wacky island it's super surreal and trippy and he's trying to escape and a primordial terror of mine that still shakes me to my core was one night i was really young and stayed up way too late and was watching random tapes and i remember it was a high eight tape my dad had a high eight player this is like a thing that's not vcr that's not like so obsolete people have probably not heard of it it's not even betamax yeah but we like we'd watch rockadoodle do on

high eight and stuff so he had this high eight tape there was a documentary about great sci-fi shows and it showed the last episode of the prisoner and the last episode of the prisoner just this out of context scene is this guy going i will not be stamped spindled or mutilated i i i i i i i i and then like his face rips off and he's this gorilla monster and i'm like seven years old and i like shit my pants ran out of the room and i was fascinated with that scene forever. And I've been trying to find it forever. And I finally figured out it's the final scene of the prisoner.

So check it out. But I was always just like, what's that? I, I, I monkey man. Right. Nightmares about. Well, is that Charles? Yeah. I, I, I finally unlocked it.

Wow. We always talk about the impending conflict that we're all going to die in as World War I, I, I here on the Daily Zeitgeist. That's right. Can't wait. Miles Gray joke. Wait, how come it was a, how come it's like a

monkey bio weapon? What's going on? Is that a huge reveal? I don't understand how trippy and phoned in 60s TV was. So then in the, I was about to in the context of stupid as hell. So then he rips off the monkey face and it's his own, it's himself.

And this is the mysterious evil guy that they've been milking the whole series. Who's it going to be? It's him. And he just starts laughing and laughing. And our guy teams up with a little person butler kills everyone with machine guns and like gets out and that's then uh i don't fully understand the context but i don't think it would make it better if i did man you didn't stick around for the important uh payoff

where they murder everyone with machine guns that would have helped you so much oh as a kid yeah thank god he's dead yeah i love a good scooby-doo mask reveal and then second mask reveal they're they're just suffering under two layers of masks yeah and that they went through the trouble of just building a mask that would go on top of a mask that was a perfect replica of their own face that they had been wearing around. Yeah, it's the Mission Impossible latex thing. Oh, wait, so it reverted back to his original face? Right, and then the implication, I think, is who knows who that is. Like, it's open to interpretation.

It might not be, you know? They don't really dig into it. You're like, nah, I'm playing. It's me underneath. He beats him to death with a fire extinguisher if i recall what the fuck okay now now i need to watch this just last episode out of context oh man uh what is something you think is overrated michael right now all the shows that everyone loves oh come on uh i don't need to rail too hard about it but i haven't gotten to in public yet but i was watching succession like everyone and a few episodes ago even though it's so close to the end i just am so bored enough by it that i'm like yeah but it's literally not worth my time i just walked

away and there's been a couple like that. And I'm worried that I'm, I'm falling out of touch as they say, but I can't stand shows without dynamics. And it's like, every scene is, it's like always sunny in Philadelphia without jokes. And I know people have said arrested development without jokes, but arrested development was structurally complex.

Succession is like, I wonder if they'll fuck them over at the end of the scene i wonder if they have nefarious intent i wonder if they're gonna end up yelling at each other saying something horrible they can't take back um i think i had the same thing with game of thrones you gotta have a lot of dynamics for me yeah uh i forget i should have written more than all the shows everyone loves because there was another one that i had a whole cracked style thesis about but you know what you're not my boss anymore i don't have to do that to impress you content dad is it barry did barry lose i like barry i know i like yeah i figured you would like barry actually yeah and i like that uh i don't know if it was fully oh

ted lasso that's the one ted las Lasso sucks. I always thought it has. I think it's interesting that Barry went from season one has the highest proportion of jokes to shit is real. And then it's like smoothly season two is more real, real, real, real. I'm pretty sure Bill Hader is trying to hop permanently to I'm going to direct like real shit now.

Yeah, yeah. It feels like this is that transition for him. This is the first time I've seen that transition. Somebody going from TV and directing so many TV episodes so well that I'm now just... And I think a lot of people are now eagerly awaiting what his first film will be.

Yeah. If you count Jordan Peele. Directing sketches is not real, as I well know. Yeah. From Key and Peele, I wasn't then waiting for Get Out to Happen.

I was like, whoa. Keanu? You were like, whoa. Now, I will allow you to talk shit about Succession, but Ted Lasso, I mean, that is dramatologically, everything that happens on that is necessary, to quote Jeremy Strong. That show's perfect.

And there's got to be some kind of nostalgia goggles only because I really like Bill Lawrence, the showrunner. I've looked up to him for a long time. I really like Scrubs. Yeah, me too. Even though there's like, I mean, as you get older and older, he's not immune to highly problematic shit. If you go back and watch scrubs, but I still love a lot of the techniques. A lot of modern sitcoms use the techniques he developed in scrubs. And, uh, I don't know, maybe I'm just a sucker, but I watched Ted Lasso and I'm like,

I don't know. Maybe I'm just a sucker, but I watched Ted Lasso and I'm like, man, if this was a Scrubs, I'd be laughing out loud instead of just going, these people are nice. This is nice. It's nice because everyone's so nice.

Hey, maybe you need that energy. More power to you. I'm allergic to it. I just can't. When I see it, I'm like when i see it i'm like oh it's too nice for me like i'm i'm a lost cause don't like don't cry for me because i'm already dead and ted lasso ain't breaking through what is something you think is underrated i forget what the hell i had but as soon as you did no wedding planning oh wedding planning. Oh, wedding planning. Fuck that. Yeah. My wedding's in 12 days. Who gives a shit?

More importantly, the flow bots, bro. There's so good. Um, highly slept on. They're like a rap version of rage against the machine. Ethos wise.

Like all they rap about is how capitalism's bullshit. The farther we go forward in time, the more everything they say rings true. Like and Braden rise. There's a war going on for your mind. Same thing. Good soldier. So many great songs, really eloquent lyrics, great flow, like rappers with really melodic

flow and like the roots are like, I mean, I always love live band with live drums doing rap with like a horn section. You don't get that a lot. Right. The flow bots are great. Wow. There we go. I mean, I don't think you even needed to mention that they had great flow after people heard my AKA. Yeah.

And they're robots. Yeah. And they're robots. What do you think? Wait. So, I mean, but your your wedding just to touch on that as somebody who was married in the last year uh you're you feel good you're nervous i know you said the ring and screen very nice looks good yeah yeah yeah let it glisten let it let the

camera catch that but i know the feeling when you're just like less than two weeks out and all your for me all i thought about was like how is this event gonna go down not so much of like the marriage itself but the actual wedding and the shit going to be where it needs to be. Are people going to like what they and I did my head in until somebody like a family member was like was like, you look fucking tense as fuck. What you need to do is act like a guest. Don't act like a fucking host at your wedding. And that was the best advice I received in the lead up of to be able to like on the the day just put everything else out of mind and just switch to being like i'm a guest at this wonderful thing but are you are you close to feeling like that or is it still kind of like

oh yeah i feel that entitlement that's great advice that i have gotten and taken to heart because i feel like we did our work in the prep and that we're both workaholics. So we took X, we went extra extra. So like the gifts for the bridal parties are pretty specific and elaborate and will be like surprising delights that took a lot of extra work. I know no one attending. I think most people attending will not hear this. No,

some will. Oh, well we shot a full like cracked caliber sketch to unveil at the wedding that we star in with the world premiere pretty ambitious special effects and a full orchestral score and shit and had a crew out there two days of shooting uh and some other surprises so like we went went hard and there's costume changes involved. And, you know, some of the actors you helped bring up, Jack, are involved in some performance pieces happening throughout.

So we're doing a whole day of bullshit. And I would say on top of what I would call normal wedding planning, I mean, the sketch was like 100 hours of writing shooting and editing easily so uh now that it's done no i fully feel entitled i'm like on the day it's i've earned like i am king you said yeah yeah for sure i made a uh a playlist for my wedding um okay so yeah that was that was something the gifts i got for my wedding. That was something. The gifts I got for my wedding party were tank tops with the local beer logo on it

that I got the day before. I know we go way too hard. I mean, to each their own. I mentioned nervous breakdown. That's the main factor is that I can't stop doing cool shit all the time. Keep it cool, baby. Do they have a program program for that where they're

where they're like all right you're you're in this room with other people who just can't stop doing cool shit all the time too much ice cream and you get an ice cream headache that's what i like to use man uh i won't lengthen it but uh in the iop one of the last things because you like present at the end what you've learned i did it in the form of a rap yeah you did nerd and the people were like uh one guy and then they all respond like with affirmations and one guy was like i feel like i'm in on the ground floor of like this great talent man you're gonna be famous and i'm like don't say that that is why i'm fucking here that fixation that's what i'm trying to let go that's like I just completed AA and you're like,

you're going to get drunk, dude. I see it. You're going to be the funnest drunk guy ever. I can't wait. Trying to quit Hollywood, bro. Oh man.

I bet you'd be a blast drunk, man. We should go get a drink after this. Cool. We'd love to get fucked up with you, man. Yeah. All right.

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eagerly anticipated investigations. I mean, I guess it's not news. They're always like, oh, man, what about Hunter Biden laptop, though? Yeah. What about Hunter Biden? What about what about? Yeah. Yeah.

What about what else? What else? What about what? Yeah, they took the mic at the open mic. Yeah, they took what else? What else? What about what? Yeah. They took the mic at the open mic. Yeah. They took the mic at the open mic. You already did that one.

Oh, our house. And they're like, what about, what about, have you guys seen? The American does Hot Pockets a bit. A lot. So, yeah. Like, what'd they find, Miles? What did they unearth? We've heard the threats, you know, in the lead up to the midterms. And then after the midterms, when they took control of the house, they're like, yeah, like what they find miles, what did they unearth? We've heard the threats, you know, in the lead up to the midterms.

And then after the midterms, when they took control of the house, they're like, oh, just fucking wait, because we're going to bring the fucking hammer down on Joe Brandon. And they said there are all kinds of reports and things about how he took money as VP and swayed foreign policy. swayed foreign policy um the thing is james cormor of the uh the chairman of the oversight committee of kentucky uh doesn't have shit and he's doing the like investigation equivalent of when you try to rob a liquor store with a banana in your coat pocket being like i got that thing on me don't and someone's like man get the fuck out of my store uh and that's kind of what's happening right now as the Republicans go on news. Like, people are like, even their own media is like, huh? But what's the fucking evidence, man?

Like, I thought you're going to fucking embarrass this guy. They're saying stuff like this is going to end Joe Biden's presidency. So as he's been saying things like many people have been going around to Fox and, you know, giving little interviews. He recently confused the fuck out of a few Fox News hosts when he said he had the goods but can't show anyone yet. And then Senator Ron Johnson, he was on Maria Bartiromo's show. And then this is what he said about like, well, do you have evidence? He's like, yeah. I mean, here's the thing about evidence.

The classic legal strategy of here's the thing about evidence and money came from china and other uh adversarial countries by the way not just china but uh going into these llcs and then from there the money went from the llcs to to various biden family members what can you tell us about that what were they getting paid for yeah what are receipts again on the bank records you're not going to see bribe to change this policy you have to infer what's happening here you have to look at the bulk of the evidence you have to follow the money and realize well so what did this biden family member do to earn that amount of money i mean that's what we did with hunter biden in ukraine i mean what did he i don't know if you caught that he just said you have to infer what's happening here right and then at the end of it he's like you're not going to necessarily get

hard proof is how he wraps up this very long-winded soundbite and maria maria bartiromo is like what the fuck man okay uh then uh we have another one where uh comber himself goes on fox and friends very friendly environment and steve ducey's like hey man like you're laying this thing out about all these bribes and stuff where's can what the like but evidence uh and here's again just this very dissatisfied fox news host sources between 2015 and 2017. And and your party, the Republican investigators say that that's proof of influence peddling by Hunter and James. But that's just your suggestion. You don't actually have any facts to that to that point. You've got you've got some circumstantial evidence and the other thing is of all those names the one person who didn't profit is there's no evidence that joe biden

did anything illegally well if you look at the the laptop and the emails between the president's son and his associates they went to great lengths to hide joe's involvement they so this this like weird fucking merry-go-round has been happening for the last fucking week where even they're like what you're saying that shit's going on but you're not showing us anything that's going on and i just have to say this this continues again this is like never ending maria bartiromo is like hey comber man you gotta come with it like you're telling us about this where the fuck are these people you said they got people who are like can attest to this you have whistleblowers and all this other shit where are they and again uh it's it's it's not a it's not a great not a great show from james

more important potentially here and that is this cover-up you have spoken with whistleblowers you have spoken you also spoke with an informant who gave you all of this information where is that informant today where are these whistleblowers well unfortunately uh we can't track down the informant uh we're hoping that the informant is still there the whistleblower knows the informant the whistleblower is very credible and all we're asking the fbi and all we're asking the fbi so now switch to oh man i don't know where the whistleblower went here uh should oh actually he's just going to the bathroom but they're credible right so credible and just lastly just want to wrap it up because maria bartiromo was just like hold on bro what you just said that the motherfucker is missing? Like, what's going on?

Then again, not a great answer, but it's fantastic just in the context of that this person probably doesn't exist. Hold on a second, Congressman. Did you just say that the whistleblower or the informant is now missing? Well, we were hopeful that we could find the informant now remember these are kind of in the the spy business so they don't make a habit of uh being seen a lot or being high profile or anything like that we have basic information with respect to what the look at her face she's like what is this will say uh that saying that Joe Biden when he was. All right.

Anyway, so we've got to expect miles them to go on the hostile grounds of Fox News and stand up to the scrutiny that they always reserve for. Wait, no, actually, that those are the softballs. He's taken big pauses like he's on delay like he's coming to you from the middle east or something proxima centauri right yeah well um they're in the spy business so they don't really they're not really high profile that's not relevant really like you're that's like asking like well who are these people then you could be like they're not really high profile people but to say like where are they and they're like well they're spies so they don't really like hang out places yeah it's like what you're saying so it's a very it's one of the shittiest diversionary

tactics i've seen because like i mean i think they're what they're really trying to do they want they're running like the 2015-16 playbook all over again where they're trying to get like a year out get some really good scandals to stick uh like they would have with hillary clinton but apparently they don't have misogyny on their side this time and there's just i don't know they're they're just they're scrambling now and you have marjorie taylor green who's like followed up that uh interview and was like they're not missing actually we know where they are and it's like what the okay sure we just didn't want to tell you that because my dad's actually a cop right yeah what

no he's not well speaking of misogyny on their side and people actually saying the thing that you want to catch them doing uh which doesn't appear to have happened here you know you're just gonna have to infer things on that story on this other one it sounds like less inference so rudy giuliani is being sued for sexual assault by a former employee for 10 million dollars over allegations of sexual assault and harassment, wage theft, and other misconduct. The plaintiff was hired in 2019 with a salary of $1 million per year, which later turned out to be a sham, and the sexual harassment and abuse began almost immediately. Rudy Giuliani, by the way, is on tap saying that he wanted her, the victim in this case, since the day he interviewed her. Just horrible, damning, gruesome details about what he did to this person. But also just recorded alcohol-drenched

rants that include sexist, racist, and anti-Semitic remarks, claim that he could commit crimes because he has immunity and admitting and admitted to selling pardons for two million dollars with trump wow yeah and then split it they could split the money yeah money he and trump would split it's just it's really fucking wild i mean like i think he met her over facebook and then offered this job and it was like it's a million dollars a year, but you know, I'm going through this really acrimonious divorce. So I can't really pay you immediately all the money and strung her along like

this. Um, while also being like, well, since you're my assistant, you can record everything. And also I can help represent you in a case against an ex boyfriend that you're trying to sue,

who like also mistreated you apparently so he was like he was he was going in at every angle to try and manipulate this person man a gaslighting money laundering rapist if he committed a public shooting he would truly be america's mayor right that's all of our four quadrants dude yeah yeah completely they're really covering it all um never paid her claims because of his divorce specifically told her not to cooperate with the fbi and again you can do that i'm getting divorced man i'm sad i'm sad no checks this week that's right but don't go don't cooperate with the FBI either, please. Yeah, I did not know that. Demanded that she work naked in a bikini or in short shorts with an American flag on them that he bought for her over the computer.

He asked her to remove her clothes on camera, often called her from his bed where he was visibly touching himself under a white sheet. This is from a 70-page complaint, too. This is like a tip of the iceberg i think most people are only like reporting on a fraction of everything that's in this thing yes demanded oral sex during phone calls from high profile friends and clients because it made him quote feel like bill clinton and if you remember that scene with him on camera pulling down his pants and borat too uh that scene is specifically referenced in the lawsuit and they even included a screen grab from the movie noting that he acted in a similar manner with the plaintiff

so yeah it's just like but weirdly it's a screen grab where borat's 69ing with the naked fat guy on the floor of the convention hall like whoops he's just a big borat fan, I guess. Sorry, I shouldn't have left putting all the evidence in order to my wife. Bail if you get that person out of the courtroom. Clear this courtroom. The other thing is, too, like I said, he's representing her against like in a domestic violence suit against an ex. And he basically said, I'll pay you three hundred thousand dollars if you waive your legal rights against your like abusive ex

because it's like it's messing up like you're distracted from having sex with me jesus christ like it's fucking terrible uh and like just and on top of it all too the other thing that's probably making like other people sweat around dc is she had access to like all of his email his email yeah he was like you're my assistant so you have my email you're basically my email account now yeah controller of my check these out oh yeah maybe those will be useful for you in a lawsuit down the road um but yeah like i'm fucking everyone every single trump family member uh like the trump lawyer jay seculo kelly conway uh michael mccasey jeff sessions fucking the the ales family like every fucking every like anyone who has been in orbit of uh the trumps in that administration yeah got it all recordings emails so yeah we'll see um what's his defense

though is he he's innocent uh was he's reps deny the allegations because mayor giuliani's lifetime of public service speaks for itself so um yeah okay i mean just seeing himself yeah watching him service himself in public in films like yeah okay sure and like there's a lot i mean yeah this again 70 fucking pages is is like this complaint and like this is only like most it sounds like most journalists are like it's so fucking bad it's like not even worth talking about like aside from like the real nuts and bolts of this case but yikes also important to parse that giuliani's lifetime of public service speaks for itself and he will pursue all available

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of the Netherlands in the fifties and sixties, they took a bunch of funding from developers and filled in like their waterways with cement to build highways and shit. It was a real mess. And now they are known as a place that has very low emissions and is very bike-friendly and pedestrian-friendly. And it can happen for cities in the modern world. And so he has another thread about Paris. And this one is actually an even more condensed timeline.

All takes place basically in the last 10 years. And their strategy was basically go big on bikes. They put those free rent-a-bikes everywhere around town. Basically, Bird, before the tech industry, quote quote revolutionized the final mile problem. They actually just put those bikes everywhere. So anybody who needed to get somewhere could just swipe and hop on a bike and get where they needed to go. They got rid of a bunch of parking in 2020. They announced they'd be removing 72% of street parking for cars to accommodate cyclists in 2020 and closed some of the biggest, busiest roads and streets and highways and turned them into bike highways. on the sin like there used to be or the sin there used to be this like big highway right alongside and they just filled it in with sand and like a small lane for bikes i love it like a great place

to hang out it looks like a like a mini version of the venice boardwalk it's so strange to see it like that but hey yeah more more space for people yeah they and there's just a lot of like great side-by-side pictures of like you know what new york city looks like today in a lot of places or what la looks like uh all over the place and like side by side with just these like great little walkable communities um and like they've already cut emissions by 20 percent in just like nine years of taking these uh like passing this legislation also every change just like makes it a less horrible place to live and also addresses like one of the issues when i was talking about the netherlands people were like well but how are people going to get around like one of the things the netherlands did was try something called car free sundays people right

but that does that's not people work on sundays communities that like don't have access to bikes or any any of that stuff but if you put other options in place hopefully affordable options, then it does start to seem more doable. And obviously, it's not a complete fix to the problem, but a lot of just small changes and trying things out and disincentivizing people and businesses from building their lives and businesses and communities in a way that requires people to drive around angrily in our cars eight hours a day can be a huge win and can have these incremental changes where everybody suddenly stops feeling like this is inescapable a world built for cars by sentient cars i feel like is that that's a thing that we can't even like imagine our way out of i still like think part of the appeal of post-apocalyptic movies is that they offer the

first like walkable communities most people can realistically imagine in the united states because all the cars are just gone not the driving dead yeah it's not the driving dead tell you that damn much i think ever since we saw it happen in new york just like in the beginning of the pandemic yeah la fucking please yeah and like you see it in some places but it's mostly in the unincorporated parts of the city where like their small city councils can just decide unilaterally to be like yeah let's shut that part down just like a little nook over here but god what i would give to have like just a couple streets like where they prioritize bike traffic it would be oh just it would make my fucking life yeah there's a couple around me i'm in

emeryville oakland area in the bay and there's like a street that you can get around on with bikes you just made me remember like way back at the beginning of the pandemic we're like maybe this will be the tipping point for some societal changes we need like universal health care or more walkable cities because people are going to be or like if they don't go to a building maybe we don't need those buildings it's like right uh it's so funny to funny to look back and realize the major changes. No, now we just hate each other about masks. And like, there's a bunch of new conspiracy theories about viral mind control and shit.

And a little work from home. Yeah. So that's my thing is I work from home all the time ever since pandemic hit and all my jobs went remote i barely ever drive which is nice but i also barely ever actually have reason to go outside which is not nice right uh so i'm on the i'll be honest when i do get outside i like that like if everyone was walking or riding their bikes i'd be like there's too many people walking right now. Right. You know what I mean? What is this?

New York? What I really want is for other people to not exist. That's what I want. That's a real part of post-apocalyptic movies that people like. Or all segues. One or the other. That was supposed to do it. It was going to change the way cities were built.

Yeah. Yeah. 100%. I mean, they had the, like, again, it's like the thing that bird scooters came in and everyone was like these are revolutionary and it's like a lot of people have had this idea it's just now venture capital decided to fund it in the form of these dumb scooters that people just leave all over the place but yeah um yeah i mean new york has the rentable

bikes and stuff uh it's just you need to like do that at scale and also get rid of all of the traffic that makes it so that like riding your bike around requires you to take your life into your own hands i feel like because in la the tourists like i'm sorry tourists because there's bird scooters around doesn't mean it's fucking safe for y'all no because i all the time see tourists like in the most dangerous fucking roads being like oh i love this town i'm on a bird scooter and like people are flying by them like 40 50 miles an hour and shit yeah and it's like it's it's giving the impression that there's infrastructure that would keep you safe there's like also this like little stretch on the one 10 going into downtown that I see people like ride this narrow sort of sidewalk, uh, like right next to a freeway. And it's like, it's obviously not in the, like on the freeway. But like, when I see that, I'm like, oh my God, like these people are fucking like daredevils. Like what the fuck are they riding a bird scooter down the 405 with

a map open in front of you yeah 100 i mean like just convert like just start off with a couple fucking streets like two streets per neighborhood like that are like the main thoroughfares like just give us a little fucking bike action please yeah you spent a decent amount of money on a bike for the first time in my life while i was at crack just because i was like i'm only like three and a half miles from the office i should commute back and forth every day only did it for like four days before i seriously felt like yeah but if you die what's the point of this like there was no every day i got going three and a half miles. I got a multiple like people screeching, honking.

There's nowhere for you to be. Or you go on the sidewalk and people shout, you're not allowed to be on the sidewalk. Like what they really want is get a car, motherfucker, is the implication. I'm not going to die on Cloverfield, you fuck. But yeah, in America, it's like boring shit like the Chamber of Commerce that is secretly really powerful or the real estate industry that, you know, even though this would be good for the real estate industry, I just feel like there are massive capital infused powers that are making it so that these things that would make everyone's lives better would help at least do a little, like maybe make a small dent in the problem with climate change. And I think small dent in the actual, you know,

it's only reduced emissions by 20%. That's still significant. And just nine years, but also just like mentally, like seeing a mayor come in and like make these changes in a single decade like i feel like has to give people hope and like you know make it feel like there's a world where hyper capitalism and whatever gets you from one transaction to the next as quickly as possible with as little friction as possible.

Like that, that ethos doesn't have to run the world, which I think is hard to imagine for a lot of us who have like grown up in the world since like the eighties and nineties, you know, Jack, that's what, that's why you just got to embrace the apocalypse,

man. And hope that comes right. Right. Cause I can't imagine. It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of just blow it up yeah yeah and what you know that it happens it happens i feel like there's two forces that have gotten us in trouble that have just gotten out of control ever since interchangeable parts were invented we're like oh wow it's amazing

when shit gets more efficient everything should just always get more efficient until we're producing so much that shit is just spewing out of robots 24 hours a day. And then the other one is like, we all is the branding idea. Like, you know, there's great books to read about it, but Mad Men covers it fairly well. The origin of the realization that, oh, we could just sell the idea of something or package stuff.

Or instead of saying this is what the product provides, we can say cool people use this product way more effective. And then the news was like, we can do that, too. So I just feel like those two impulses have really screwed us up like pt barnum and interchangeable parts guy the cotton gin guy whoever it was eli whitney yeah but all the way through to like right the uh conveyor belt and then mcdonald's like we've applied it to everything how can we make this more efficient lower cost etc whenever you see replaceable parts reminds me of playing civilization when you get to that technology in Civilization,

replaceable parts for all my Sid Meier's freaks out there. But oh, the thing I was going to say is like, I guess the only thing you could do is like maybe trick the commercial real estate industry because they're suffering right now is to be like,

what if we turn the streets around all your commercial buildings into like walkable areas so naturally people will fucking come through there because you at least ran out your bottom floor for yeah cafes and stuff people will at least move towards there because you've you've created the infrastructure for people to move into that area and maybe that will do something but they're probably just completely you know i don't know they can't they can't be true i mean that we had like la had one of the largest rail lines like just miles and miles and miles and miles of

you know electric rail cars at the beginning of the 20th century and then cars and tire companies came through and had their way with it and we've abandoned it to the morlocks yes no one ever goes down there that's right man it's always a bummer to see like when you you come across the old la railway like infrastructure when you're like what the like you'll you'll like trip over like an old fucking you know like piece of train track right or if you've been nyc enough you'll see like a sign with a subway map and you'll go, oh, is some kind of New York City themed thing going on? Oh, that's right. We have a subway. Never mind. Well, Michael, what a pleasure having you on the show.

Thank you. Thank you. Where can people find you, follow you and find out more about Papa Bear. Yeah, I refrained from name dropping it so far, but I'm working on a film called Papa Bear based on the hilarious poignant true story of when my dad came out as a gay furry when I was 17. Fun fact, his real fursona is cyber bear and cybernetically enhanced bear. But as screenwriters,

we thought that was like a hat on a hat like real life that's too many elements right no one's gonna believe that um but the goal beyond just exploding some myths about furry fandom and having a an actually like positive representation of that community it's not a niche movie only for furs it's uh like a poignant coming of age comedy we're inspired by stuff like eighth grade ladybird book smart stuff like that if you like those if you like our work at cracked by us i mean me and abe epperson uh who sort of like forged the uh the look of cracked videos all the way from the scrappy stuff to the high value stuff and uh we're trying to do it

again oh also we have a pre-existing movie called Kill Me Now, which you could watch in its entirety on YouTube. And I only mention that because if all those things make you go, oh, yeah, these guys could make a movie. This looks good. They've made one. Yeah, go check us out at seedandspark.com slash fund slash papa hyphen bear. And learn all about the project. At the lowest tier, you can just give us like 15 bucks and it's just like buying a ticket right when the movie's done we'll send it to you

to watch and then it goes up from there yeah uh or you can follow me on twitter at swam underscore corp and i'll keep you apprised yeah praise that link will be in the show notes so you just like open the damn app that you're listening to look at the episode description you will find i wonder what the click through is on people who read the show notes in their app and click a link yeah we're gonna see it's big but it's unbelievably high um is there a work of media that you've been enjoying oh media oh i will say i wanted to say this in act one but i didn't find a good spot to slip it in but i think coomer comer whoever we're talking about the pundit in act one uh is still doing good work from his point of view in the

sense that it is a marketing thing it's just about repetition it's the coca-cola version of it doesn't matter if the follow-through is and it's not true and here's why you said it a thousand times and that leads me to a piece of media i'm liking which is foundation i'm a big hard sci-fi nerd if you are as well and if you watch the expanse and you're like this is good but not scratching that itch of like very intellectual sci-fi foundation is super good and there's a character named empire in that who says a line related to this which is uh they're like but that's not true and he's like but we'll just have every galactic news source repeat it until the air is made of it and there's nothing else to breathe. That's really good.

Miles, where can people find you? Is there work of media you've been enjoying? Man, you can find me on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok. I haven't posted it. Anyway, at Miles of Gray, if there's ad symbols, as I usually say. Follow Jack and I on our basketball podcast,

Miles and Jack on Mad Boosties, where you can hear, at least we're going to recap, Game 1, Western Conference Finals, by the next episode. And also check me out on 420 Day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra, where we talk about 90 Day and Love is Blind, but really high, if that makes it any different for you. This is a tweet from Ify, at Ify Wadiwe. makes it any different for you uh this is a tweet uh from iffy at iffy wadiway he just quoted someone took a picture of like a mickey mouse thing with like the viewmaster mickey mouse you know uh toy and he put ah yes dissociation training wheels those were the days amazing and yeah man the amount of time i remember there was one i had of just like california landmarks and i would just look at the golden gate like i would lay on I would just look at the Golden Gate like I would

lay on my back just look into the sun and just take it in. Well your parents are screaming at each other in the back to just see goals that's all you hear. They're like I never loved you and I'm like click and I'm at the Golden Gate Bridge. I just saw that dude and Tim Meadows and Carl Tartt

do improv. They're fantastic if he's awesome. Oh wow. Yeah. They're fantastic. If you saw that. Yeah. What a crew. Tweet I've been enjoying. Furby Hancock tweeted, processed food was literally designed for you to eat. Organic is just some crap they found on the ground somewhere.

Just good, good nutrition advice. But I think that is how my brain worked for a large portion of my adult life. It was like, well, the scientists have approved this with all their technology. 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, where we link off the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy miles what is a song that you think people might enjoy uh i think you know since we were talking about just rapping bars and things like that bars simpson is the track that we're going to go out on by sunny jim mf doom j electronica just a great good good old rap song but i just

love i love when anyone makes a simpsons reference and like the album art is fantastic it's like got homer just like on his back drunk and the album's called white girl wasted uh but anyway check out this track bars simpson uh sunny jim mf doom j electronica put it through your speakers uh well the daily zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for us this morning. Back this afternoon to tell you what is trending, and we'll talk to you all then.

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