The Daily Zeitgeist - Inflation NOT The Poor's Fault!? America's Amazing Disappearing Covid Tests 11.23.21

Episode Date: November 23, 2021

In episode 1036, Jack and Miles are joined by TV writer Anna Salinas to discuss Inflation? It’s called profiteering!, Thanksgiving Highlights America’s Rapid Test Quagmire and more! Inflation? It���s called profiteering! Thanksgiving Highlights America’s Rapid Test Quagmire Here’s Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard to Find Why is the FDA Funded in Part by the Companies It Regulates? Where Are All the At-Home COVID Tests? Why You Can’t Find Cheap At-Home COVID Tests Listen: Love That Never - IMANU Remix Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, or whatever you're into. But I've noticed a lot of these days, like, you can scroll down and you realize there's, like, they just submit to this calendar and you can get it. So I feel at some point maybe we will submit our own day. Maybe, who knows? We'll see. Yeah, Daily Zeitgeist Day. International Daily Zeitgeist Day. Well, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Getting Cheugy With It.

Mo, mo, mo, mo, mo, mo, mo. Mo, mo, mo, mo, mo, mo. That is courtesy of Ensign Jensen. He was like, this has probably already been done. I don't know. i don't get it so i don't know what what the mo is for maybe it's like because i say mo instead of moam or something maybe i don't know but it it was less obvious thing you thought it was ensign jensen and uh we appreciate you man and i'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! I see seas of me.

Lots of red guns, too. Bad Facebook takes from white and blue. And I think to myself, what the fuck? Shout out to Lockaronia on Discord. I just like the setup. Yeah. And I think to myself, what the fuck? That was the original version of that song yeah they're like louis

man we might we might have to change that yeah we will get to it but what the fuck indeed uh well miles we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny tv writer comedian filmmaker artist and creator of the viral web comic bad comics by anna currently a writer on the apple comedy series loot her half-hour comedy pilot inside cunt about a vagina that starts transmitting spy signals was named to the 2020 latinx tv blacklist please welcome the hilarious the talented anna selena hi guys what guys! I feel like I... Thank you. I'm not on the show loot anymore.

That writer's remanded. I'm on another show. I feel like if my coworkers hear this, they'll be like, what the fuck? Yeah, well, hit us with a new show. It's the Big Mouth spinoff. Oh, dope! Yes, it's been announced, so it's not like secret.

That's the black one, right? I mean, it's about the monsters it's not like secret that's the black one right i mean it's about the monsters oh wait what's i'm okay i'm confusing many different deadline articles there is a storyline on big mouth where they follow missy and stuff no the show is called human resources and it follows like the hormone monsters and the anxiety mosquito and love bugs and that kind of stuff oh that's right up your alley yeah i was just gonna say that's like perfect i'm like did you pitch that are you running this room it was so crazy i mean they definitely saw my comic and uh i was like in in the meeting i was just like yeah mean, that is what my comic is. And it's yeah, it's interesting to see all the ideas I ever had about my comic explored in this show.

And I'm like, OK, cool. Yeah, that's dope. I'll figure out something else. Are you I'm imagining you're excited because I couldn't. This seems like such a great creative fit for someone who regularly like will anthropomorphize or you know manifest physical or emotions into characters i am it's it's really fun we're actually recording my episode right now so it's great i i love it and yeah animation is so fun because you get to like immediately move into production so right you get to be a part of it a little more. Well,

how's the turnaround for a show like that? Cause like, you know, like for people who I know work on like the, like Fox animated shows are like, Oh yeah, it'll premiere in 14 months. Yeah.

This comes out in a billion years. So, okay. I don't know how much I can say. Cause it's not that much has been announced, but it comes out in like two years. What I am writing comes out in two years. The episodes of The Simpsons

they're releasing this season were written in the late 90s. I was surprised to hear. Yeah, it's just the process. The predictions were spot on. They predicted COVID. Alright, Anna, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.

First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about. We're going to look at inflation, which is becoming a big buzzword, and talk about why it's happening. CEOs and financial analysts who have done time on Wall Street firms tend to shy away from this because they think it's their fault for earning too much money, which is what the corporate people tell us, or they feel like, ah, it's too complex. And it's really not that complicated. So we're going to talk about that. And we're going to talk about the rapid test quagmire because, you know, a lot of people are looking to be able to test themselves, test relatives heading into Thanksgiving. And that is not possible in these United States, which might be news to people in other countries. Since France, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, you can just order a free test.

Yeah. So we'll talk about all that, plenty more. But first, Ana, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Okay, so the last two things I searched for were Randall Park wife and Catherine the Great husband. Ooh. Okay.

Some matchmaking going on? Some match Okay. Some matchmaking going on. Some matchmaking. Some epic shipping going on. Honestly, I was recording with Randall Park and very creepily was like, this is a good looking guy. He seems so nice. What a great guy.

He probably has a girlfriend or a wife. Let me just check. I should just check. And I checked, and he very much does and seems happily married. There you go. But, you know, those things, I was like, why did I check? What was going to come of that? Yeah.

I got to know. Well, I mean, it's interesting because you definitely, that sounds like you're like, let me just see. So at the very least, you were, he was a very charming guest it seems like oh my gosh so charming but i think in my head i was like well you know what but but anyway are we in love right yeah and i sit on the records muted with my camera off so i'm invisible to him i'm just like maybe he senses me but he could sense the vibe. Yeah, for sure. He know. And then I was looking up Catherine, the great husband.

I mean, this is less exciting, but have you guys been watching The Great? No. The show on Hulu? I know about it. So season two just dropped. And I feel like everyone I talk to who's seen the show loves it and thinks it's so good. And I feel crazy because i don't think it's that good i don't know what it is about l fanning but it feels like a bunch of white women

just like celebrating themselves i don't know it feels so white feminist and i feel bad saying that because i i don't know there's aspects of the show that are cool. And I'm sure talented people made it, but it's just so pop feminism. But anyway, Nicholas Holt is the best part. And I was like, how much of this is based on real life? Let me look it up. And spoiler

alert, not a lot is based on real life. Did the actual husband look camera ready? No no he was very not handsome the actual husband was this like tiny little squirrely man who just looks like a goober like a fucking goober and she apparently when she took over his throne and forced him to abdicate she like killed him right away. But there's all these rumors that she kept him prisoner.

And it's like, of course, the show is going to try to keep alive Nicholas Holt. He's the best part of the show. So they. Wow. I didn't know Nicholas Holt was. Is he the little boy from about a boy? Yes, he is. And he grew up to be a charming, handsome man who probably is married too.

He's also the main dude or the not the main dude, but like the best character in Mad Max Fury Road. This is the first time I thought about Nicholas as a as a person other than being like, damn, that dude's really doing it in Mad Max Fury Road. But yeah, he's also Beast in X in Mad Max Fury Road. But yeah. He's also Beast in X-Men, right? And pretty handsome. That's the one he is. Without a bunch of makeup on. Yeah.

Pretty handsome dude. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And is he married? Did you look that up? I'm sure. Like, I don't even need to. He's too good looking not to be.

That's kind of my take these days. I'm like, oh, if someone's a catch they're taken or and if they're not then you're like okay so what's going on here yeah exactly i'm like ah something's wrong which of course is me projecting on myself right you know what i mean like what's wrong with me and i'm single so then what's their thing and i'm i should i should stipulate i'm not single but i i was single for a little bit. So that mentality is still kind of there of just like, you know, you want to check. You want to see people's status.

Look, I'm in a very committed relationship. And sometimes you got to do a quick heat check. Right. I mean, you're like, am I just on fire right now? Let me see. Nope, I'm not. I'm not. But good to know. Yeah oh god i mean i think

anyone who's like going to act like this isn't the most universal thing like when you google anybody's name like the very first thing that comes up is girlfriend boyfriend wife husband yeah i've actually taken a lot of pleasure in following people I think are hot on TikTok and Instagram. Like, I've really gotten into it. Now I get it. Like, when I see someone really attractive on a TV show, I'm like, oh, I'm going to follow them. Right. And just, like, get their...

Because it's... You know what I mean? I don't know why it took me so long to be this person who's like i guess a creep but i started following porn stars on twitter because it's like why not you only live once yeah there's nothing wrong there's nothing amoral about you just this is another person you're their artist you say what's your art about okay cool yeah you know it's i think it's beautiful and simple And there's some sort of taboo around women doing it. But it's like, screw that.

Yeah. No, I mean, yeah. Nicholas Holt Space brings up Nicholas Holt wife, Nicholas Holt girlfriend, Nicholas Holt height. So. Oh, he's tall. He's a tall man. Six two. There you go.

Oh, wow. Definitely not single if it's six two. Six two. Yeah. because it's not the online dating red flag height of 510 exactly where it's like you know they added on four randall park space first thing that pops up randall park wife then randall park net worth so they're like okay but maybe what space no if you you do Randall Park and then put a space in it, it starts auto-completing shit. I thought it got real heady for a second.

It's like Randall Park space? Yes. Yeah. We're all in space when you think about it, Miles, just hurtling through the inky darkness on this blue marble that we call Earth. What is something you think is overrated, Anna? This is a little dark because of what happened recently in the news, but I'm going to say it

because I do think it's true. I think music festivals are very overrated. And I say that because I went to Outside Lands in San Francisco over Halloween and there were all these amazing acts you know like The Strokes Tyler, Glass Animals, Nelly was randomly there, Lizzo was the headliner and on paper that's really cool it's like yeah I want to

go see all those artists but the shows suck because and man I feel like I figured out the scam and I'm pissed. So like Glass Animals goes on to perform at 6 p.m. And I'm like, this music is pretty soft. And everyone is watching Glass Animals because they're really popular right now. So the whole, like all 50,000 people in this park or however many it is are crowded just to see fucking Glass animals while some poor acoustic singers on the other

stage that no one cares about and you couldn't hear you couldn't hear the music and that music is meant to like encircle you yeah and then lo and behold lizzo goes on at 8 p.m and the music is blasting all through the park so they have the capability to turn up this music. So you don't have to squish yourself to the front. They could just turn it louder so people could fucking space out. But they don't. And that is a scam. And I am not okay with it.

And so because of that, I ended up not going to see a lot of these artists. Because I was like, I don't want to deal with the crowd and whatever. And I missed Nelly, which was maybe the whole point of going to see Nelly. Oh, man. I guess they didn't hear a lot about him being in the news much recently. But hey. Oh, yeah. You always have to find a lineup somewhere.

We let our nostalgia dictate. Yeah. I'm curious. So in your mind mind is this a conspiracy like you're saying like they're turning glass animals down because maybe they are trying to help a nut like i'm trying to pull up the set time to see like who was playing when glass animals was playing because it was like the organizer's daughter was on acoustic guitar yeah like in the like circus tent but like yeah because i I really love Outside Lands actually as a festival.

I was just talking about that because we had a guest who was just there. But I like it because of the music festivals. It's like the most space and the most bathrooms and the most like and more of like the things that like trouble me about a festival. It's like I got to hold my pee in for nine hours because like the lines are too long and then you can't get a good spot whereas there you can be pretty like leisurely but i'm i'm sticking more to your point my point yeah that i went to the best of the best the most space the most bathrooms they had a whole weed space where you go and buy weed and smoke it there. Yeah. And still, it fucking sucked. And I was so tired, and I tried so hard, and everyone was so drunk and college age,

and I have never in my life felt older. Right. But let me tell you something. Look, it may be a scam, but I cracked the code. So they had this, like, club club in a tent and the line was like three hours long it was that's another thing what you're you spend three hours at a music festival a fucking line give me a break but so i was like i was like i'm never getting into that but i went during nelly and it was the only time that that tent was empty and you could go right in so that was the price

to get into that stupid edm tent everybody who was playing man that fuck that was a lineup on that day krungbin went on before glass animals and then k trinada was after glass animals yeah and then that led into tyler or you could have caused Sango at the house by. Wow. I look, I'm trying to find a conspiracy here, but it's a lot of heavy hitters. But it's too much.

It's too much. You should know that miles is sponsored by outside lands. So this is crazy. You're going to get any time. And I hope you got that VIP ticket because actually the savings in time alone make it worth the extra $400. Now, you know, I'm just a fan, but shout out to Ranger Dave. I think that's absolutely true about music festivals based on my experience of going to Coachella once.

It was just like a total crapshoot. And probably the most disappointing live music experience I've ever had was seeing OutKast live for the first time. Their first like reunion show on that on that. Oh, 2014? Yeah. Hey, I was there. You were there first week or second week? Second week. Because my strategy is always to buy second week tickets because everyone wants the first week tickets or back when I used to go.

So first week, the sound was all fucked up for the outcast show like you really and then like i think andre started get like getting sort of assuming that the audience just wasn't into them and like so he started like kind of yelling at the audience but it was just like the sound fucking sucked it was so bad like for their show they They just hadn't dialed it in. It's really tough. And it's a tough thing for an artist because unless you're the headliner and they blast that music

and have it all figured out for your set, plus you get the setup on stage, like Tyler was in a fucking boat on stage. That was really cool. But unless you have that, it is a lot of space to fill up with your like presence and 070 shake who i love went up and i guess she goes by 070 shake which i didn't know until i saw that show but put on a great show but it's like this big ass stage

and it was at the very beginning of the festival day one so not a lot of people were there and she did the same thing where she was kind of yelling at the audience like come on be excited right and you just saw everyone just like not into it and i was like fuck this place i'm gonna go smoke some weed and grasslands there you go maybe they'll turn the volume up. I know. Yeah. Same stage. Kid Cudi at like one in the afternoon was fucking incredible. It was just a total crapshoot.

They just knew. It is. And also he was out of his mind on, I think, the same drugs that the audience was on. So it worked out pretty well. That's perfect. The scam, I think. Yeah. audience was on so it worked out pretty well that's perfect the scam i think yeah i mean like i think what's tough the benefit is like i like the idea of like spending an entire like multiple days seeing just great live music but i think that's where things get a little muddied where like you run into the things that you know like would plague any sort of profit-driven

operation which is like yeah they spent more money and like made it very comfortable for everyone it would be such a great experience but like really that feels like the the guiding principle for a music festival is how many fucking sweaty kids can we cram into this parking lot yeah right and and still pay the artists what they need and still for us make the money that we need to make as the organizers. Yes. And that kind of leads into the Astroworld thing where it's like that was just too many people with too few strategies for how to control just that many people in one place. Yeah.

Yeah. Or none at all. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and hear your underrated. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and hear your underrated. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series, Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

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Listen to Dream Sequence on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And, Ana, you know, we do like to ask our guests to balance out the overrated. What is something you think is underrated? Well, there's no way to sound cool about this, but there have been some great period dramas coming to television recently. I did talk about The Great,

which is technically a period comedy, and I don't put it on this list. The Great is something else, you know, whatever. I did watch it. But I really liked this show on Amazon called Pursuit of Love with, I want to say Lily James. I always confuse the lilies. But it's a beautiful period drama. This other one, Howard's End, was on Starz, just came to Amazon.

And I think period dramas get a bad rep for being like for old people or boring but they're beautiful wait Howard's End that was that was like a film right they made that a series they did I mean I know it's a novel but I mean like yes they've made it a series and it's

it's Tom from Succession isn't it what I know. Yeah. It's hard for me to see him just doing roles where he's speaking with his normal voice in a British accent. I can only imagine

just having all that Tom stuff rattling through my head and trying to see him be like... Was he like Paul Wilcox in Howard's End or something? Yes, he was. to see him be like, was he like Paul Wilcox in Howard's End or something? You know, yeah, yes, he was.

And it works because he plays a snob in that too. And he has that snobby energy because he was in Pride and Prejudice too as Mr. Darcy. So he just plays like snob. Right.

Like flawed snob very well. Okay. That was supposed to, like when that Pride and Prejudice came out, like it was a big deal and like that was supposed to all right like when that pride and prejudice came out like it was a big deal and like it was supposed to people were like he's the next big thing and then it didn't really like blow up that way his career didn't blow up that way and then yeah now like just by being a british person who can see all the things that are wrong with America and channel them as a business person on Succession and another indie movie last year that I have now twice blanked on the name of. I think it's The Intern.

Oh, yeah. The Assistant. The Assistant. Yeah. He was great. And again, played kind of a snob in that. Right. Yeah.

So. Yeah. Dope. Wait. So I'm sorry. What's Pursuit of Love? What's that about? I think it's based on a book, but it is this series and it's what's his name from the affair

who had literally like had an affair on that show in real life, too. Well, now I'm blanking on his name, but he's the male lead of the affair. Right. Andrew Scott. I don't know. No. From The Wire. Yes.

Oh, Dominic West. Dominicic west how could i forget the wire yes yeah so he is in it and it's just this very sweet weirdly sex positive for a period drama show but it's not like soapy it's just like earnest. And that shit made me fucking weep like a baby at the end. Yeah. And no one is talking about it. And I'm like, that was a great show. We're just going to ignore it? Because we have too many shows out.

Like, it's wild when you said that. I'm like, I've maybe, when you said these period dramas that are out, I was like, well, I think I've heard of what's out there. And I was just like, I have not heard of both of those. No, if I come at you with an underrated show, I'm going to give you an underrated show. 100%. Which period are we talking about? Like what part of history are we?

It is World War I, I believe. Between the wars, it looks like. Yeah, that is. And I don't. Howard's End is late 1800s. Maybe the same. Or maybe it was. I don't know. Got was... I don't know.

Got it. I don't know. I get a little confused. You know, there's a time where all the clothes look the same for a little while. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's like, look,

they're wearing derby hats. They're like, we already got these. Yeah, you got the big skirt. So let's just run with it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. They got that big underskirt that they wear

to make the skirt bigger underneath the skirt. Oh, yeah, with the wires and hoops. Yeah, that's like World War I or something. Or a Victorian. I don't know.

Around there. They got cars around there. Right. Pursuit of Love does sound like a Netflix dating reality show. Yeah.

I think that... Oh, my God. I might have heard somebody talk about that and been like, oh, another Netflix dating show that I... Right.

Love is blind from the creators of that. Right. Childless, loveless millennials on the brink of their 40s. There you go. Yeah. The pursuit of love. Oh, God, that's depressing.

Well, speaking about depressing, let's talk about inflation. Uh-oh. So it's the buzzword of the season. It's been used to explain everything from the labor shortage to why turkeys are more expensive this year. And, yeah, it's just a convenient. I mean, it's happening. First of all, it is happening.

Things are getting more expensive. So the explanation that we're getting, though, is that it is all because of the labor class being paid more. Yeah, that's one. If you follow Stephanie Rule or if you're watching Tucker Carlson, it's just to be like, Joe Byron is trying to make you poor. Or at the other part of it, corporations are also kind of loving it too,

but on a much more subtle level because they're loving it because they're using this to actually just raise prices on people because they can't because they see people are paying for it very cynically nothing to do with stressed supply chains they're just like let's let's see if we can squeeze out a couple percentage points because this is a very interesting statistic that was in the wall street journal nearly two out of three of the biggest u.s publicly traded companies had larger profit margins this year than they did in 2019 okay and that means nearly 100 of these massive corporations report profits in 2021 that are

50 percent above profit margins from 2019 pre-pandemic. So they're making money right now. And a lot of it is being revealed in this article in the New Republic. You know, people were sitting in on shareholder calls just to be like, I wonder how this is being messaged to the people that own the stock of some of these companies. And what they're hearing is things like from this article, quote, in these calls, business leaders employ fancy financial lingo to tell large shareholders how they are engaging in, quote,

pricing improvements and, quote, successful pricing strategies. They tell you they are experiencing customer, quote, elasticities to price increases at historically low levels. When you decode what they're saying, it's nothing less than a euphoric articulation that they're able to pass off price increases to consumers. Bull stop. And there's like, you know, on one hand, you'll have places like, like in the stock prices are

going up because of this. They're like loving it. Like, oh my God, wait, what? And you're making more profits. This is fantastic. You look at a company like Target who had come out and said, you know, we're actually not going to be raising prices. Like we're able to kind of maintain what we have and have like a healthy financial outlook by not raising prices. And shareholders started dumping their stock and sending the stock price down. So people were like, well, I don't want to be on board with some company that's not going to raise their prices to make more money. Are you fucking dumb? That's so sad. Yeah. That's so depressing. And, you know, there's even on CNBC, Jim Cramer was talking about how like Home Depot and Lowe's,

they're raising prices because they don't give a fuck. And also they're literally in a mentality of who going to stop me, boo? Like who going to check me? Because the two of us run the whole shit. This is from Jim Cramer talking about how these two companies, Lowe's and Home Depot, can, quote, do no wrong because they're passing on rising costs to the public and the public has no choice

because these two chains have single-handedly wiped out the competition already. So is what we're seeing, like the, you know, the pandemic caused the government to send out aid to people who'd lost their jobs more people had more like government assistance than they'd had in a long time is that where the quote-unquote elasticity goes comes from and like the government aid those payments that were supposed to like help people get through a rainy day like are just immediately getting like hoovered up by walmart and like all those corporations like yeah yeah i mean potentially but i mean like but you did have a lot of bennies you know benefits run

out and for certain people all over the country starting months ago so even now like just even when we talked about that one dumb CNN piece with like, my milk's 90 bucks a gallon now, and it wasn't. But I think they really like this idea that prices it's just like, that's the thing about this. There's a lot of nebulous data that is able to be sort of harnessed for the aims of at this point corporations, because I think at the end of the day, more than like, obviously, the wealth extraction from consumers is a huge thing for them.

But more importantly, this is feeding this narrative about what it means with Biden in office and what he aims to do with some of these infrastructure, like with Build Back Better. A lot of that, like the financing from that is to be like,

yeah, we just got to charge corporations like their fair share in taxes. That's how we pay for a lot of that, like the financing from that is to be like, yeah, we just got to charge corporations like their fair share in taxes. That's how we pay for a lot of this shit. So this is helping them create a little more instability and uncertainty in consumers by raising their prices. So they make more money while also saying, hey, man, if Joe Byron is going to start passing all these other laws, inflation is going to be even wilder. Hold on to your whole butt and paycheck. other laws, inflation is going to be even wilder. Hold on to your whole butt and paycheck. And so that's also their aim at sort of being like, now we can kind of stoke an anti-infrastructure movement that will protect our tax rates. Yeah, right. It's like inflation has always

been politicized because it's what they were saying before the stimulus passed that first stimulus, like, oh, it can't pass the stimulus package because it will spike inflation. And that's bad. And then all these economists were like, no, it's not really like that. Like you're overblowing this risk. Right. Wow. But I think that's where you see like sort of like the vested interests when we have debates like this of like, do we help people or do we raise corporate taxes? And there are many people who are just on the human ground level who are like, yes, please. That sounds great.

Unfortunately, the messaging and the access to all the levers of like mainstream communication have vested interests in the same way. Be like, we're not paying more fucking taxes. You fucking kidding me? We're just going to talk about this inflation and start banging that drum and look the other way.

Yeah. There's also just with regards to the supply chain, an explanation I actually heard on the It Could Happen Here daily show. They interviewed somebody who works at a soda manufacturing plant and has worked in various manufacturing jobs over the past four or five years they were talking about how the big change that's happened is that corporations have now embraced this thing called just-in-time production which means that right what like you don't start producing something until there's a demand for it and like you don't it's it's like there's no there's no you're not like storing anything there's no overhead it's just like okay so they ran out of this and we're hearing they need more now we produce it and like that basically creates it's cheaper for the companies it gives them

better margins because there's no overhead and there's no producing something that then doesn't get sold. The problem is that there's no elasticity in the supply chain. So you don't have extras if suddenly there's a bunch of... This person worked as a casket manufacturer in the past. So if there's suddenly a need for caskets, suddenly the way that they deal with that is they just work people inhumanely around the clock until they can get that supply met. Just the values of the market, of quarterly earnings calls, of CEOs who have just extracted the humanity from the workers and from the laborers and turned it into just, you know, values on a spreadsheet. And, you know, that is what economics is. That's what the modern version of capitalism is. And like market logic is just like remove the humanity think of everything as like look at the numbers are the numbers good yeah yeah so that's not great

but again it's it's just the overall system it's the same overall system that we were talking about with regards to the inflation right and i i mean at a certain point, you know, like you're slowly seeing more and more people take up for themselves and organize themselves to have better outcomes for them, you know, for themselves yet again, to use that word, you know, as it relates to their employment and what benefits they get. And I can only see I don't think just in time production habits are going to necessarily extinguish those flames. I'm curious what they're looking at, too. At this point, all the forecasting that happens, whether it's risk they're worth taking because they say, well, this thing is faulty and we might get sued, but we can afford it as long as we make enough money up front. up front like what kind of stuff they're already looking at in terms of what the unrest will be like with their employees and how to navigate that and see like well we could scab it up for this time just skate through q4 and then call in the pinkertons well the really insidious thing that he was talking about is that by making it such a like flexible system where you need to move around and like, okay, I'm going to put this person on this job. It actually makes, like he was saying,

that he's in a union shop, but the people who are in a non-union shop actually were in slightly better working conditions as of this moment because they had flexibility, but that's all because of the inhumane orders coming down. They're better able to deal with the inhumane orders coming down like they're better able to deal with the inhumane orders coming down so it's like the just in time production is creating a system where like it makes it harder for people who are unionized which is fucking bullshit right yeah that's it does feel like that's the trend though like

i don't like it's harder to be unionized working for a corporation like amazon and i feel like walmart was maybe the writing on the wall where it was like walmart was union busting and people were trying to stop walmart's from being built in their town now it's like fuck it we don't need stores in our towns we can just have amazon yeah right yeah yeah oh well this is uh i mean we're we're living in a very historic time especially yeah like even more than ever i can't like i just look at things and i'm like how do these people with like who have all the capital really think that at a certain point like that that you can just run someone down to the point like okay i'll just die on the factory floor yeah like i mean and it does happen places absolutely yeah but at a certain point enough people are going to real like i i'm

just it's it's always fascinating to see how disconnected those people can be from like what the what the actual reality is of the situation they're in it's fascinating but the show succession exists for a reason and it's beautiful well-written tv but i mean it's like you don't have exposure that's our status like our stratified society where you don't have exposure to the working class if you're in that corporate class. Yeah, right. Yeah, the poorest person you know is, what, Greg? Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. And you find his problems amusing, right?

Right, right, right. And you laugh about it. And he's only poor because his grandpa doesn't want to give him his inheritance. Right, right. Yeah, like one of the things that I've just been, and like I'm continuing to think over, I'm reading that book Debt by David Graeber, which is the history of it's basically a new history of economic systems like throughout human history. based on economists you know like people who study economics and like subscribe to the adam smith idea that like well everybody is a financial actor who is like acting in their own self-interest

and this book argues that like that is actually like that ideal of humans just acting in self-interest being like the most basic thing was like introduced by Hobbes and Leviathan was seen as like super cynical at the time that it was introduced and like not an accurate description of humanity because we existed in like small communities that helped each other out but within like a hundred years it was the default like assumption because it is so profitable it's so it's so helpful to people to make money and it's going to be assumed and it like makes a sort of shrewd logic or a sort of shrewd sense and it like feels like the sort of thing that's like tough and like realist but it's actually not how humanity has been for the vast vast majority of our history as a species for the

majority of our history as a species we've been you know that the idea that you would just extract as much value from humans as you possibly can is rightly seen as like uh it's the yeah it's the foundation of colonizing yeah oh here's this group i can push them around watch this now i'm there they're making me money great move on to the next town of weaklings and i'll rinse and repeat and to dehumanize in the process all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

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Hey, look who it is. And Just In Time. I just, I. There was actually a Stanford student who created a streaming web video called Just In Time. I remember that's where I used to watch a ton of pirated sports.

It's definitely a well-treaded name. It's also the spec script for a sequel to Nick of Time that I've written. Have you guys seen Nick of Time? That's the one with Johnny Depp. Christopher Walken and his most over-the-top Christopher Walken.

Oh, he's got to like murk the senator or something? Yeah. I absolutely have not seen this. To get his kid back or something? Yeah. It's like my friends in college, the most quoted movie, like back and forth. Okay. Quoting Nick of time.

Constantly. That sounds like you guys were fun to hang out with at a bar. Or not. Yeah. The table who had not seen that movie. There's a group of dudes that are just like by themselves doing inside jokes the whole time. They're the hottest guys at this bar.

That's us. Also. Also, so Miles, you were saying you got funny jokes about your name being Miles. It's just like metric shit. Yeah. Metric system jokes are fucking hilarious,

I have to say. Right. Yeah, they are. Exactly. And they're really effective because they're effective at demonstrating you don't know shit about being funny. Damn, did someone go, Miles, are you inches? And then you were like, that's it. I don't like it. Did I remember like in like third grade, there was like, there were like, like witty teachers would begin to like do stuff like that.

I'm like, I don't even know, dude. Just go on with the lesson about how, I don't know if I can't recite this Bible verse, I'm going to get an F. Yeah. Fortunately, as a child named Jack at a time when not many children were named Jack, I never got anything about jacking off or helping my uncle jack off. Did you ever experience fifth grade? Yeah. No, I'm joking. It was all anybody.

Okay, good. Yeah. Because even I mean, they got creative with my name. experienced fifth grade yeah no i'm joking it was all anybody okay good yeah good because even i i mean they got creative with my name they skipped my first name and went straight to my second name my last name and said selena selena's my penis and i was like that doesn't even rhyme but you know it was uh it was it was brutal out there they can't even hit you with a Selena type joke? Yeah. You'd think, but I didn't get those jokes until I turned 26 and someone was like, anything for Selena. Yeah, right.

Maybe that's since you're a little bit younger because we were all in on anything Selena. But I feel like that wave took a second to come back around again. I was watching the J-Lo movie on VH1 when it would play every day. second to come back around again i mean i was watching the j-lo movie right on whatever like vh1 when it would play every day but no one got there until later in my life and now i get it every few days every few days someone's like selena's anything for selena's and i'm like

please anything else yeah all right well speaking of our childhoods many are returning to childhood Yeah. Does not have enough rapid COVID tests. That's the most sought after kind of Thanksgiving item this year. Aside from all the liquor we need to deal with. That is things were already. These were already hard to find. And now they're basically a tickle me Elmo in 1996 levels. Hard to find. Yeah. What the fuck?

Someone was like bigging themselves up on instagram they're like fuck i got the last two blah blah i was like what are you talking about yeah but i didn't realize it's really it's like that now yeah and i mean it makes sense we're going to see elderly relatives or they're coming to see us you wanna you to get tested they cost between 14 and 50 and often limited to just one per customer just tell that to my friend on instagram yeah well yeah we've got three wigs on yeah but yeah and then because there's a as with like the sneaker market because people can't find them in the store they're being listed for crazy amounts by third-party sellers on sites like amazon you guys heard about that which is just you know

inexcusable also like but it does seem like the very most basic thing like okay you guys claim this like market will solve all problems, so solve it. Yeah, get at us. And it's just not happening. When it's such a basic thing too, right? It's like, do you want to give the population the ability to know if they have COVID? Yeah.

I think that's a fundamental first step people need to take in their decision making with anything. And to be like, oh, yeah, we kind of dropped the ball on this. Like, well, then this whole thing's a mistake. If I was president, I would send every single person a COVID test. Just like, didn't they send us all like some masks, right? Didn't they all send us a mask? I would do that.

Everyone would get a COVID test right before the holidays. And it would be so easy. If everyone had access to that. Yeah. Salinas 2024, I'm there. I know. And I say that as someone who just flew through LAX. And it's the most crowded.

Maskless. Yeah. I was just kissing people left and right. I had my dog. I was kissing her. She was kissing people. Yeah. I had my dog i was kissing her she was kissing people i was sampling people's drinks on the flight just to make sure they tasted good and then spitting them back out so they could drink them yeah yeah but i mean that's a like that's a nice thought but like that what what is this 2050 like is it's not you're not going to be able to send everybody a free rapid test delivered to their homes unless you're in Britain right now, which is what they're doing.

People can get a free rapid test delivered to their homes in many parts of Europe. The tests are plentiful and cheap. So what the fuck happened in the US? Yeah. So the U.S. policy was mostly focused on vaccination because we love a big last-minute save, a big solution that's going to wipe out the problem. And other countries focused more on screening. But meanwhile, the FDA's approval process of these tests moved painfully slow. slow. There are only 12 approved tests, even though the FDA received more than 4,500 emergency use authorizations and related requests for COVID tests. That's way behind other countries. They have 39 rapid self-administered antigen tests authorized in the EU. But I also want to just

kind of put a note in here because I do feel like, well, the FDA sucks at their job. Brief note of explanation for the fiscal year 2021. Defense budget was $753.5 billion at a time with no major war. Just major wars were trying to wind down, I guess. During an unprecedented global pandemic, the FDA's budget is $5.9 billion, nearly half of which is from user fees, which is the companies

that they're supposed to be regulating paying them to be able to do their job. Come up with those fees real quick, because we won't exist without them, please. Right. Critics argue that the high standards that the FDA is putting in place are at odds with public health demands, which is true. But it's probably, you know, they have corporate donors like everything in America. They want our tests to be too accurate in a pandemic.

This is bullshit. It should be like one in five times it's right. That's good enough, dude. Then you can buy five fucking tests and I'll make more money. But that is... I guess that's kind of the logic and I kind of agree with it. They are being too withholding and too slow. People are like, if you just had enough tests,

then some tests that are you know 90 accurate are better than no tests that are zero you know i guess that's true yeah but god at the very least why aren't we we have to like it's like at every time every turn we just ignore like the wisdom gained by other countries and how they've battled the pandemic. Like, you know, like with especially when you watch that pandemic documentary that came out last year, that was like on Hulu and like everything under control or whatever. And they talked to like the Korean epidemiologist who was like in charge of like South Korea's response. And he like was living with the pain that like like something like less than 40 people died and during like a previous outbreak and he was like i wasn't gonna i'm not i didn't fuck around this time and like testing like the testing regime became a huge factor and at least understanding

what was going on whereas here it's just like the vibe strategy of just like yeah i don't know if like do you feel like you have it if not then like yeah don't come like for sure yeah and like don't test if you don't want to ruin your plans you know like that's shit i hear right now of like well i don't know dude if i test positive then i can't go to this thing yeah i'm like then what are you doing then fucking don't do anything to ensure your safety don't just do the thing because you're like well i don't want to be verified that I'm now a contagion. Right. Yeah. There's a lot of interesting.

It sets off a lot of weird stuff, too, I think, because we don't know our own status half the time because testing isn't that easy. How did I how was I allowed to fly across the country on one of the busiest days of flying without having to show any proof of a test or vaccine? Like what? without having to show any proof of a test or vaccine. Like, what? What? I have to show proof of vaccine to get into my movie theater, and I don't have to show it to travel across the country.

Yeah. See, that's where we see that tension between the state and the feds. Oh, my God. Yeah. No, I'm... I went to a Chinese restaurant, and I got my shit checked up like right away. And I forgot we were in that new phase in L.A. where it's like, oh, no, you got to get your ID, too. They're not around. Yeah. I was like, damn. And then I know one dude.

I remember another customer there like their their name was like a shortened version of their full name. And they're like, is this you? And they're like, it's yes. And they're like, yeah. All right. name and they're like is this you and they're like it's yes and they're like yeah all right i like i love it i fucking love it yeah be strict like check the name really good they were like calling his name from over his left shoulder to see if he turned around hey mike check bring it on but yeah i mean it it makes sense as like just generally a part of this broad american value of like you know finding out that you're covet positive bad look you know a lot of not like people testing positive for covet bad look for the government so but like getting vaccine it's almost like america as a corporation is like trying to pass our quarterly earnings reports like with, you know, with voters and the world.

And we're just like, all right, so let's just put those in Q1. Now this vaccine and it'll all be done. But like we're finding that the vaccine is an ongoing process that we need to like keep getting them and that there's going to be ongoing outbreaks and it sucks that america is always going to be lagging behind because of this just half-assed uh system that doesn't give a shit about the humans in the country yeah the thing i don't understand is like even when trump was president and biden. They had these big things where they're like, I'm with the people of Walmart and Target and we're teaming up to fuck COVID straight up. This is going to be out of here because we're going to make sure they can get tests, whatever you need. And I'm like, right. I remember that was said. But now we're talking about a situation where it's like, I don't know,

you can knife fight over a fucking athome kit at a Walgreens now. So in September, the White House announced its bold plan to make testing more available to the masses, proclaiming that Walmart, Amazon, and Kroger would sell COVID-19 tests at cost for the following three months. So three whole months of not being screwed by some of the largest corporations on Earth. Until the pandemic ends, dude. It's going to be done in three months. And also for most of the first two months, the tests were sold out in stores and were sold at

heightened prices by third-party sellers on sites like, oh, Amazon and Walmart. Oh my God. Self-owned because people can use their e-commerce infrastructure. Yeah. Or not self-owned or like that's how it was supposed to work all along.

Oh, right. Yeah. The FDA process, you know, it's not just that the FDA has high standards. There have been reports that their approval process is arbitrary and opaque. One company submitted a rapid test to the FDA in February and didn't hear back until June, at which point the FDA sent them a list of questions with a deadline of 48 hours to respond. They didn't make the deadline and the application was, quote, sent to the back of the line, which sounds a lot like, you know, any like wildly underfunded

government bureaucracy, any sort of, you know, if you want to get any sort of government aid, you have to like basically become a bureaucrat and like make it your full time job to get the help that you already need, even when not working a full time job as a fucking government bureaucrat. And this sounds like the same thing. They don't have enough people. They don't have enough money going into this massive fucking global catastrophe and so everyone's everyone in the government is shitty huh all right that was eye-opening wow yeah i don't know i i happy thanksgiving yeah thanksgiving hey you know uh and also i'm selling bootleg tests hit me up on twitter yeah yeah they only tell you what you want to know it's there yeah i'm like what are you you trying to get out of

this thing you're trying to go right oh you're trying to go you're good you're negative they're pregnancy tests you just stick in your mouth and so either one you get it's good they're like yo miles you having me spit on a fucking comes Comes with your very own COVID mood ring. Yeah. Except if it's purple, it's unclear which it is. I feel like we're not far off from that kind of shit. Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure.

I mean, you already see what the anti-vaxxers... The new Apple Watch is going to figure it out. Just bathe in this borax. Just bathe in this borax. I think Apple Watches and Oura Rings were helpful in determining because heightened heart rate was a symptom of COVID. So they actually were a diagnostic tool. Oh, wow. Okay. My bad, Tim Cook.

Yeah. That's on me, Tim. That's on me. But, you know, just one last point of comparison. Other countries not only approved more tests, they also contracted companies in order to provide millions of them free of charge to individuals. And that's just not something that the U.S. has done until now that they're getting pushback in the Biden administration. The company that is the main provider of these tests, Abbott, so this is a good example of the need-based, just-in-time production model. So when COVID cases in the U.S. dipped in the springtime of 2021, this company literally threw out a bunch of their products, stuffing them in garbage bags, and then they laid off 2,000 people because because according to one of their managers, numbers are going down. This is all about money. That's a direct quote. When cases surged not long afterwards, the company was scrambling to hire back hundreds of workers. The company was going through trash. Yeah. To dig up those tests. Oh, my God. So the market is logical and it answers all the problems in a timely

manner self-regulating well done yes but yeah then and we're still begging to any any regular person who'd turn on the tv if the media would even have a reckoning with this kind of thing like yeah the story would be like this is scandalous how how greed is running roughshod through the country and creating completely. But again, like I already sound like someone who would be laughed off of a CNN segment. Right. Yeah. It shows you how well people are conditioned to even hearing things of like very logical, like impassioned pleas to like be like not immoral. Just sounds like you're you got birkenstocks

growing off your hands or something look people make fun of greta thunberg but all she's doing is being like what the fuck are you guys doing you know it's climate but still like it's just impassioned plea to not ruin our planet okay child you're like i don't know if you heard what she said the clock is fucking ticking and in that building they're just circle jerking laughing it up because they're not gonna be around to see the worst of it like okay she's so fiery yeah you're all right turn her into a meme anna it's been such a pleasure as always having you pleasure truly a. Where can people find you and follow you? You can find me on Instagram and Twitter

at Bad Comics with an X by Anna with two Ns. And the show I'm working on now won't be out for a while, but I wrote on a show called Flatbush Misdemeanors on Showtime. And you can watch that now. It came out a little bit ago. Nice. So I was like two shows behind in my intro. No, no, no. Just one. That show

just happens to be out right now. Got it. You know what I mean? You could go see episode 7. That's the one I wrote. Hey. I mean, don't just watch. You should watch them in order or it won't make sense. Nah. My parents only watch the one I wrote

yeah it was okay but it was a little confusing like you should have told us the plot for the whole show yeah if you have an hour I'll go through it it's a series but no I want to see the one you did

yeah is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying yeah you know gosh i have been i i have to okay i don't remember the handle but i'm gonna find it there's an instagram that puts cat faces on different animals and in a dark world it has been bringing me a lot of simple joy like i was literally looking at it um on the plane and i laughed out loud and that's so stupid like i'm getting so old that i'm laughing at cat faces on giraffes but it's beautiful man it's beautiful that's awesome i like that too yeah but. Cat face is on giraffes?

Every animal is better with a cat face, it seems like. Yeah. Yeah. Or it's definitely worth that just quick thought experiment. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That does work.

Okay. It's, she's Russian, I guess, so it's hard to pronounce. It's Koty Vest. It's spelled K-O-T-Y underscore V-e-z-d as in dog e there it is all right check it out yeah and it's just cat faces on other animals that's it i love that's the whole thing it's the simplest thing sometimes you know yeah miles where can people find you what is the tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, man.

You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. And also the other show for 20 Day Fiance where Sophia Alexander and I talk about 90 Day Fiance off of that herb. You feel me? Some tweets that I like. This one is from at Joshua Potash, whose display name is Reed Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. Fantastic. And in this one, it's just a picture. It's like he says, God, this is bleak. And it's a photo of apparently an ad that is on like outside of a Burger King. And it's a bunch of like old senior citizens and it says who says you have to retire at Burger King we welcome your experience in leadership if you're energetic friendly and service-oriented we have a full or part-time position on your on our team and I hate that Burger King is so cool they're just like so cool they sound fun I mean like and this like it's funny though too because this group of elderly people it looks like what i like i remember when i was like applying to colleges what college

brochures used to look like like you'll get the most diverse motherfuckers at this school on the front of this motherfucking book yeah and it's like it's like a benetton ad but for people that were adult diapers so shout out to them look i'm not mad at them, but, uh, Oh no, the tweet I like got taken down. So, okay. This, but the other tweet I like is from at underscore underscore incandescent. And she tweeted it. What I love about Gen Z is they'll take an L and immediately post a TikTok about it. It's very good for my love of mess. And damn this tweet that was there.

So I was, they linked to a TikTok video that Twitter, I guess they, they got the video down, but it was this girl sitting outside of a like a in an apartment hallway with like her luggage next to her and she goes like my stupid ass went to go visit like visit this guy and he's like and a woman answered the door and just beat the shit out of me now i'm stranded and she was like but she was like someone was filming her and she like had like a track going on and it was very like making a tiktok out of your like terrible mistake and i was like this someone was filming her and she had a track going on. And it was very like making a TikTok out of your terrible mistake. And I was like, this is so real. But yeah, credit to that.

What I love about Gen Z is they'll take an L and immediately post a TikTok about it. I love it. It's so true. There's so many crying TikToks of people just being like, these are my tears. This is what happened. And you're like, oh shit, okay. I'm like, for me, someone who my gut reaction to people crying in public

is to be uncomfortable. It helps me soften, you know, my terrible habits around expressing myself. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Go look at Ana's recommendation, please. The cat photoshops are so fucking great.

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Myles, what song do we think people might enjoy? Oh, my goodness. So this is a remix of a Tokimasa track. Shout out Tokimasa. Get into it if you like good music, some beats and electronic or otherwise. But it's a remix by an artist named Imanu, I-M-A-N-U. And it's a remix of the Toki Monster track, Love That Never. And this is just one of those tracks where it's pretty layered and very like electronic.

But you want to listen to it with headphones because like as somebody who likes to make music, I'm just really impressed with, you know, the synthesis that's going on there and just kind of the overall mix of it. So it's good headphone music. You know what I mean? Not necessarily blasted out of your thin phone speakers. So this is, again, Emanu's remix of Toki Monster's track, Love That Never. All right. Well, we will link off to that. Go check it out. The Daily Zyka is a

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