The Daily Zeitgeist - Kenosha This Time, GOP Platform? LOL 8.25.20

Episode Date: August 25, 2020

In episode 701, Jack and Miles are joined by district commissioner, rapper and Waiting On Reparations co-host Mariah Parker aka Linqua Franqa to discuss the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the RNC kicking off with no platform, Trump's 2nd term agenda, Kellyanne Conway stepping down, Kim Jong Un being in a coma, the coronavirus cases linked to the Sturgis motorcycle rally, how Halloween may work this year, the box office, and more!FOOTNOTES: Police in Wisconsin shoot Black man in back multiple times, sparking protests The GOP Has No Party Platform. Literally. TRUMP CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S 2ND TERM AGENDA: FIGHTING FOR YOU! Kellyanne Conway announces she's leaving the White House and George Conway is stepping away from Lincoln Project Kim Jong Un in a coma, ex-South Korean official says Nebraska links seven coronavirus cases to Sturgis, SD, motorcycle rally Motley Crue Tribute Band Rocker Blames ‘Karma’ for COVID Case at Sturgis Saloon Thanks to Coronavirus, Americans Looking at a Stay-at-Home Fall Season, Survey Suggests PARTY CITY: 96% of Parents Plan to Celebrate Halloween Terrifying Drive-In Haunted House Gives a Peek at What Halloween in Quarantine May Look Like Mars Wrigley Launching Digital Platform Treat Town To Drive Halloween Candy Sales Worried that kids won't trick-or-treat this October, Hershey's is sending Halloween candy to stores a full month earlier than expected Box Office: A Huge Opening For ‘The Eight Hundred’ Is Great News For ‘Tenet’ WATCH: Metro Area - Strut Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's Tuesday, August 25th, 2020. My name's Jack O'Brien, AKA the Jacks of Zorro Brian. That is courtesy of Hannah Soltis. The Jacks of Zorro Brian. That is courtesy of Hannah Soltis.

And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Uh-oh. There's some chores in this house. There's some chores in this house. There's some chores in this house. I said certified clean. Seven days a week. Spick and span.

Make that whole house neat. Yeah, you can come in here. It's neat and tidy. Bring a bucket and a mop. Make that hard floor shiny. Okay, shout out to the people who are coming out with the Kidz Bop version of WAP when we were deciding what is the Kidz Bop version. But yes, there are definitely some chores

in this house that need to get done. So shout out to at DZiteGang. That's the Discord ZiteGang. That's where the people in the Discord come together to make wonderful AKs like that. So shout out to y'all. Thank you. That was beautiful. I can't wait to see what they actually do. Probably nothing, right?

They can't do a kid's bop first. It's like, why? Chores in this house is pretty good because parents will value that. I think I'm going to use that in the house uh well we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the brilliant the talented commissioner mariah parker aka lingua franco hey what's good all what's good ladies and

gentlepersons how How are you? I'm doing great. I'm doing, you know, I don't mean that. I'm doing fine. Yeah, yeah. It's great to be here. I'm really excited about that. But otherwise, I'm like hanging in there, you know. Yeah, we hear you. It is what it is. Yeah, it is what it's, as we say.

That's right. Yeah, so dope to have you. I think, you know, now we can say that of the many illustrious guests that we've had on this show we can add a local commissioner a leader a legislator to our guest panel so i think it's always dope to to do that so thank you for honoring our humble podcast yeah yeah i am a rapper a linguist a commish uh all of the above all right yeah yeah uh all right we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment but first we are gonna tell our listeners the stories that we're talking about today uh we're gonna talk about jacob blake another unarmed black man uh shot in the back

we'll talk about the rnc kicking off without a platform don't need one it's racism why would you need uh kellyanne conway is leaving the white house bye felicia yeah and we'll talk about what halloween will look like this year uh but yeah what a weird even thought like what will halloween look like i mean like every day is some form of halloween so yeah so strange so strange uh but first mariah we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are yeah so i think my i looked up my most recent search query and i was looking up the georgia institute of transitional justice because i was doing a live stream yesterday with a senate candidate here in Georgia who is running on a platform of single payer legal care for all.

And so as a part of our discussion of criminal legal reform, I wanted to look up some data on racial disparities and sentencing in Athens, which my friend Avery Murdy with the Georgia Institute of Transitional Justice's a really good statistical analysis on last year. And so things like the fact that in Athens, Hispanics are less likely to get arrested, but more likely to be sentenced to longer confinement. Stuff like the fact that Black men are only 13% of the Athens population, but 45% of those sentenced to confinement in state court and 60% of those sentenced to confinement in superior court.

And that Black men serve longer sentences than any other demographic group when that data is adjusted for charges faced in defendant criminal history. So even if you've done a similar amount of shit before, and even if you're charged with the same thing as like a white woman or a black woman or a Hispanic man, you're going to get in jail longer. So, you know, that all led us to uh talking about how guaranteed quality legal care for all is an important part of disrupting the cycle of mass incarceration so that's kind of what i that tells you a lot about me i think i mean i think for

people who are the uninitiated you are a commissioner in district two correct yes that's right so for two years now i've served on on the Athens-Clarke County Commission, which is akin to a city council in a city of larger size. And so dealing with local ordinances, the way we make budgets, all that kind of stuff, right here in Athens, GA.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You did not get into that because you were a lifelong politician. Hell no! You come from a dynastic one of the uh fuck ups and uh you know yeah share one of the pod save america guys didn't come up to you and go through your phone and check how much donor money you had in your in your phone correct not yet if it ever happens feel free to shoot me in the back of the head because that means i'm over it's not i'm not i'm out they got to you yeah but can you tell us a little bit about how you

kind of came to be a commission are you one of the youngest commissioners ever i am i well uh there was one younger than me before but fuck him he was a white dude whatever uh you know whatever um but so i'm the youngest right now i'm the first openly queer elected official in athens history as well um but i got into politics i'm a hip-hop artist i'm a rapper and i started organizing hip-hop shows but through that learning a lot of the skills of like political organizing getting all people hyped up getting them you know attention wrapped um call and response sharing these stories of struggle and so i met this cat like through a hip-hop show who was running for office at the time and took me on first as

field director later as campaign manager and then in the spring of 2018 i decided fuck it i'm gonna run for office myself because we need a full slate of progressives running in order to achieve the progressive change that we had run on knocking on doors on telling the city about running in order to achieve the progressive change that we had run on and knocking on doors on telling the city about um in addition to that in my district there was a guy who had served before me for 25 years run unopposed for 25 years was about to be replaced by like someone when he had handpicked who was running unopposed and i was like that ain't democracy baby win or lose win or lose i going to come in there and talk to the people about affordable housing, talk to people

about fair, free public transportation and defunding the police back before that was popular. And so, and yeah, I just ran and just went for it, you know, just as a rapper who like knew other rappers who had been treated unfairly by the police or couldn't find places to live because

of gentrification or couldn't afford childcare or making or making 725 working at Dairy Queen and like thinking about all the problems we talked about in our music and how to alleviate them not through just organizing culturally you know and bringing community together through music but actually bringing the community together policy change yeah that's I mean it's just it's it's great to hear stuff like that because I think so many people are finding themselves in situations too where you look at the leadership locally you're like who the fuck are these people and like what why am i surprised that nothing's changing with these people there and just to even you know stories like yours of just how you organically you're like you know what a leads to b leads to c leads to me in office, I think is a great, just a great like tale and story because I find,

you know, the more people I talk to, even in my own friend group, they're like that idea of being like, dude, like, do one of us like have to run or something? Like people just not get it.

And like, yeah, if you find yourself asking yourself that, that means you've probably looked at who's out there vying for power and it ain't it. it ain't it it ain't it yeah these people aren't that smart you know they might have a lot of money or like connections but like they're really not that good at this and no one challenges them so many people run unopposed all the time right and so i advocate all the time like win or lose if you get these

ideas out there you raise the bar from what the community expects of their local governance what they you know imagine for the future of their community by pushing uh your challenger the people the incumbents right to actually have a town hall to actually listen to the people so there's nothing but you just there's nothing to lose but your chains there's everything to gain uh i better see both of y'all on a ballot. Yeah. I don't see both of y'all on a ballot. LA City Council. They're going to come for me, but I'm like, bring it. They're like, you're not ready for my podcast

or mouth in these debates. What is something you think is overrated, Mariah? So I actually think taking down Confederate monuments is kind of overrated. I mean, to put it in, like, not in all contexts, but like specifically, we just spent $400,000 in Athens to have our Confederate monument relocated. And that's not even like destroyed, melted down to make gold coins or something. It was going to get moved to like a field somewhere.

$400,000 that could have instead been spent on like quadruplex for a homeless family or economic development to put like 50 struggling mothers through a CNA program. Right. Could have created countless community gardens. And instead, it's like simply to erase the site, the daily reminder when you walk downtown that like the Confederacy is like, was a thing. It has like, you know know vestiges here today and so i mean if you and your friends go to lowe's and grab some like chains and some rope and do it that way i mean i ain't gonna be mad at you but i think there's a lot better things we can spend our money on as local governments and these symbolic gestures of like erasing white supremacy by actually like

putting material resources into the communities that have been impactedasing white supremacy by actually like putting material resources into the communities that have been impacted by white supremacy then like sort of like rehoming uh like a like a puppy like this like well let's take this confederate statue to a new like place that's on a farm where it can live out the rest of the state yeah right right right so was the 400 000 like merely just to like remove it like patch over the like the disruption of the statue being there or like what the cost to relocate? Remove it, you know, put it in storage until they can like get it worked out. Like, you know, the new place they're going to put it and then the reassembly of it. Oh, my God.

In its new location, piece by piece, and then put it back together in some distant field so yeah four thousand dollars infuriating like what is that like rodan's the thinker or some shit where they're like well we gotta do some we gotta take we gotta make sure i mean if you're already gonna if you're already gonna agree that it's not it's time has come and no longer has a purpose to be on public display, like going these other efforts. Also last time I checked, you could store a motherfucking sculpture outside. Right. So like,

you never know. In a ditch. Right. So you could get rain on it or the sun. It's like, yeah, that's sort of the, eh,

whatever. Okay. So take it out to its field for 400 K. Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Something I think is criminally underrated if not totally thrown under the bus is soup in hot weather it's starting to cool down it's starting to cool down here in georgia it's about to be soup season again and i'm gonna be very happy because i like live for soup but like it's almost like a sauna like effect

you go into like the pho shop in the middle of July and just like piping hot and you're sweating, you're breathing heavy, and it's like cleansing. And so I really think that these menus and these restaurants in the summertime need to stop discriminating against super aficionados like myself and just let people have that cleansing experience of like a boiling hot bowl of soup in the middle of August. Two questions.

Is gazpacho offensive to you? Yes. Okay. And what do you consider that? Like, you know, as a soup lover, when someone brings up gazpacho, what do you call it? Salsa smoothie. It's like a smoothie. Yeah.

What is that? It's piping hot. It's the critical element in any soup. Right. the critical element in any soup right uh and then with the when it comes to soup you say you like the cleansing sauna aspect now i'm my whenever i eat ramen pho whatever my face just starts draining like i just can't help it and on top of it i have sweat a lot because i run hot so adding the summer i'm talking about a little bit more of an experience of like just full drenched like post meal and i think jack's the same way so i'm curious if you feel do you

sweat the same or you kind of sweating once i start that's my problem i also thrive on just sweating all the time i'm like wearing a hoodie right now it's like probably 80 degrees outside like i just yeah wait and that's soup weather what's soup weather? What's soup weather? So what's your threshold for soup weather? You're around soup. See, I just want full inclusion of soup people in our food economy by letting all weather be soup weather. Wow. What's your favorite soup? Ramen, like some chashu, get some bamboo shoots in there. Yeah, memma.

Yeah, sure. Fantastic. I love ramen as well. I just can't. I just think of how many times I'm constantly wiping my nose when I eat it because I'm just like, just drained. But I love it. Bless it. So good.

Ma, when you say your face drained, it's just everything. My nose is running. My eyes are wide. I don't know. My face just purges everything. Like, my nose is running. My eyes are wide. It's like, I don't know. Like, my face just purges everything. The inside of your head liquefies. Yeah, it's like this steam, like, just loosens everything. It's like, all right, open the exit doors.

And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? The myth I'd like to debunk today is that the police keep us safe as we saw in kenosha wisconsin over the weekend there was this man who was breaking up a fight like doing his duty to his community to help maintain the peace and you know he got shot in the back seven times but in addition a 1972 study in kansas city examined how different policing methods specifically the amount of police patrols would would affect the crime rate. Essentially, they sent more patrols to the normal to one area. They did only reactive patrols to a different area, and then they kept one area the same.

And they did this for one year and found that there were no significant differences among the three experimental conditions concerning recorded crime reported victimization citizen fear of crime citizen satisfaction with police service police response time arrests traffic incidents like all these major indicators so like when people are like scared of like what we gonna do when we defund the police it's like we literally have data saying that like they're gonna come to us as quickly and like people are just gonna be as satisfied with the police and there's just gonna be as many arrests and like victimization rates gonna stay the same we saw this in 1972 right we did this already uh so yeah yeah i think it looks so different based on whatever side of that equation because like the people who are like well what are you gonna do when the police come because i'm

my version of defund the police is violent young brown people black and brown people and that's now the boogie person i've created there's also i saw a recent study that was saying how uh conservatives when looking at protests view the protesters as more violent than uh like people on the left may who would see that as like exercising a civil right there's also like this immediate thing like oh that's violence and that's coming for me uh yeah that whole i mean you hear it even now especially like in la with with the defunding movement gaining more and more steam and like listening in on calls with city council uh the board of supervisors things like that it's always the concern people like but what's gonna happen when there are no police and it's like you're not even looking at it the same.

And the thing you call crime is just called poor people being left behind. Exactly. Let's put that money into housing. Let's put that money into education, mental health care, community gardens. Let's make sure everybody's fed. Make sure everybody got a roof over their head. That's public safety, baby. Yeah, because for the people who are like, I couldn't imagine committing a crime.

It's like, let me guess, you have all your needs met probably, don't you? Yeah. You're not worried about busting in the car to steal the change out of the cup holder because you're trying to buy an ice cream sandwich at the 7-Eleven because you ain't eating in three days. It really is like, just take that moment to even if you have the blessing of having a stable life and your needs are being met just imagine how much less stress that causes the entire everybody else if they're living in the same situation just because we're looking for something called you know equity hey tell them i feel like the idea of like the the version of broken window policing that like came down to us through malcolm gladwell's the tipping point and yeah uh rudy giuliani's like self-mythologizing uh of like i cleaned up new york yeah it's it's just wild that there's this

like very anecdotal spurious you know idea of that the police on every corner will stop crime and be good for a city and that really took hold for i think in the public consciousness and then we have actual studies and actual cities that abolish the police uh and have had like demonstrable you know benefits and you don't hear about those as much. I don't think I've heard that 1972 Kansas City study at all. Right. We need sentries on every corner and that's what will prevent the crime because the cops are watching versus like, you know, they're fed so they're not out here looking for trouble

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Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times in front of his children. His children were in the car. Like, you know, they could reach out and touch him. I haven't confirmed this, but I read that it was one of his children's birthday. Jesus Christ. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's the rhythm of the country continues.

You know, it's transgressions, murders like this lead to some superficial show of support and solidarity and empty promises of doing something. And then we do it all over again and then we keep doing it. But, you know, the responses are just people are still just as fed up. And I think you see that with the the protests that broke out just immediately being like, wow, we still have it. You really thought it was a joke in June and May? You know, the demands are still the same. the protests that broke out just immediately being like wow we still haven't you really thought it was a joke in june and may you know the demands are still the same that we begin to re-emphasize investment in our communities away from just militarizing these like these patrols that go around and brutalizing poor people uh and you know i'm i just i want i'm hoping for

all these people who are like incrementalists who are into this incremental nonsense that what they really mean, like what that actually means, because while people are out here talking for real serious reforms, the incrementalism just means that we just put the boiling pot of racist policing that's boiling over, we just set that to simmer. And all the while, it still gets, it has its time, like when you cook a soup down or something, it gets time to morph and develop new nuances in other ways. But during that time, it still allows for the body count to still go up because we're not actually doing something because we're just setting it to simmer. And the governor of Wisconsin, you know, did the did the i guess showed us what the new bare minimum is uh when something like this is done because you know this language is nice uh as he said quote while we do not have all of the details yet what we know for certain is that he is not the first black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state

or our country okay now let's see what this investigation i'm glad we're all living in the same reality that we can at least acknowledge those facts right we're like okay great in the right direction we found the floor yeah okay now now let's see what the actual results are of how they're going to resolve this what kind of what the investigation yields or it'll be somebody just going on a vacation and sorry, but you can still collect your pension, whatever that outcome is going to be. I mean, luckily Jacob Blake is in serious,

but stable condition. The last time I checked, he miraculously survived. And that is not the intended outcome. Usually. Well, when you shoot someone seven times. Yeah.

And it's another instance of something that for all intents and purposes probably might as well have not happened if someone didn't happen to catch it on video. Oh, yeah. There was no official dash cam footage or body cam footage. We're only seeing, I mean, Miles, you have referred to it as like Narnia, like people won't believe it until they actually, it happens to them firsthand. Like we're only seeing the parts of America's fascist,

racist police state that get caught on video. And I mean, this is just like statistically, these are just the random cases that happen to be caught on video right right because over the weekend as well there was a gentleman in i believe louisiana yeah lafayette yeah lafayette um tayford pellerin i don't know if there's video of that but i've seen far fewer people talking about it perhaps because the video is not circulating as widely if it exists at all and so those names get forgotten yeah those names get forgotten and so it's like yeah i mean it's so it's it's like a sad kind of gratitude i have for like camera phone technology but it is

this that otherwise we would not even be having this rise in this country in this moment in time because people would be able to sweep these things under the rug still yeah yeah i just i you know if if you're ever on the fence uh somebody who's looking at this debate that's happening about law enforcement and the reforms you need please understand that we do not what we need is more emphasis in supporting the people we have left behind and again that the policing is just a secondary industry to profit off of the failed safety net that we have for people because now you can spend all this money on these trucks and swat gear and all this stuff that they pulled up with in wisconsin la any chicago anywhere and be like all right well now that great we have the

money for this there's budgets for that because there's outrage here because we don't solve any problems and the cycle continues and gets bigger and then we can keep spending more money and keep brutalizing people when really like the it's a real short path to stop pull the plug on funding the police and putting the plug back into our communities and giving that some energy giving that some life yeah um all right well we are in the week of the republican national convention kicked off last night but we're recording this before uh before it started uh so we got some clips so far we've got some clips and we also have the platform uh of the party which is literally a single sentence like yeah usually i mean i i i usually don't pay too much attention to like platforms because it seems like it's all like you know heavily

focus grouped language but it is like how long is a platform usually i mean enough that you understand what their thoughts are on things like foreign policy, health, the main tenants, as well as what the party seeks to do on a broader level. The way this statement reads from the RNC basically says, look, go here, I'll just read you what they got. This is the day before the convention was supposed to begin. The statement says, a resolution stating that, quote, the GOP has and will continue to enthusiastically support the president's America First agenda. And basically saying they would not be adopting a new platform until the next convention in 2024. It continues, quote, all platforms are snapshots of the historical context in which they are born, and parties abide by their policy priorities rather than their political rhetoric.

And they also said it did not want a small contingent of delegates formulating a new platform without the breadth of perspectives within the ever-growing Republican movement. So fascist. That's just straight up, dear leader leader whatever dear leader says is is our platform that is the most elaborate way of just admitting look we as a party have hitched our wagon to this racist predatory comet that is headed directly for the fucking sun where we will vaporize on impact so is it even worth bothering to try and pretend that we haven't just airbnb'd our party to a fascist basically like that's all it is so whatever he says i don't know we don't really have much we can do at this point we didn't have much of a spine anyway so i mean i think it just shows

they've given up it's like this is his thing we don't know what the fuck we can't even do anything anymore right are they understaffed like this this seems this reads like people just realized that they had to do something at the last minute and we're like uh uh oh wait you were gonna do it wait yeah let's get the intern on it right right or if it's like where they tried to do the thing where it wasn't because clearly right all the rhetoric has just been a pedal to the metal racism and fear-mongering that's all they and also it's trump's worst habit so and he's old so all he can do is lean into his worst fucking habit now and that's just doing this shit like the suburbs they're gonna come for their affordable housing

and then your kids will be doing the savage challenge on tiktok like like you never known like it's just all this like nonsense just really like it appeals to a very older generation in terms of like the fear he's trying to stoke and this agenda that he has the only place you can see some semblance of like what the direction is is on the website and it reads like a fucking last minute project of like you're in like a civics class and your teacher's like come up with the most fucked up platform for the worst president in the history amidst a global pandemic right what does that platform look like and it's what this is it's got six bullet points so you know i mean it's got more

than that okay this is just the these are the ones i pulled but like just if i'm some of the worst ones right education there's two bullet points i would say us let's just for all of us right now if we said let's give four good bullet points on how we would reform education jack what would you say is one defunding the police and putting funding into public education okay well we can get to police later oh but just general for for teaching anything else increased funding comprehensive sex education comprehensive sex education anything else that sounds good so far those are those seem tangible this is what this is what donald trump has on his website two bullet points first provide

school choice to every child in america that's racist that's just that's deracialized racist shit that they developed in the 60s and 70s for moms to be like, school choice. Without saying, I don't want my kids to go with people that don't look like us. Next point. Teach American exceptionalism. That's... Y'all playing with me right now? Those are the two fucking agenda items.

That's it. That's it. Okay. Teach American exceptionalism. Like, that's like saying teach american exceptionalism like that's like saying teach like hey it's that's like me saying like yo teach our kids about that one that one game i had in high school where i shot the lights out of the gym but it's like that's not relevant to anything except you and it doesn't help us grow but i like to talk about i've never heard it as anything

other than a critique of like a mindset of like where americans think this is a serious thing people like yeah right nobody's the it's yeah it's almost like being like yo like increase toxic masculinity yeah exactly that's probably buried in the platform somewhere yeah it would be yeah like the depussification of america it's like whoa okay uh the other american exceptionalism how about this other bullet point under eradicate covid19 that's an agenda item eradicate covid19 okay fine i mean vaguely but what are we saying here? First bullet point, develop a vaccine by the end of 2020. Boom.

Okay, thank you, science community. It doesn't matter if it works, if it's going to kill people that they couldn't recruit for the medical trials, which is a problem. Yeah, second bullet point, fuck efficacy testing. What the fuck? No, I'm joking. The second point.

The second point is literally return to normal in 2021. Boom. What? What? Return to normal. How do you even begin to... What does that even mean? What metrics are we deciding what normal was?

Yeah. Excuse me? So then I also want to get into the this is what they put defend our police okay for the very clever first one fully fund and hire more police and law enforcement officers okay increase criminal penalties for assaults on law enforcement officers prosecute drive-by shootings as acts of domestic terrorism. Well, that would definitely affect your side of things a lot more. Bring violent extremists like violent extremist groups like

Antifa to justice. Also, end cashless bail and keep dangerous criminals locked up until trial. This is just again, we're not talking about real reforms. We're talking about stoking just these racist

fears and people yeah that's all it's really uh yeah and the other one is just like it goes on for the future but it's like or it goes on down the list too but it really the bullet points are so like hollow it really makes you realize you know how i mean we've known that the game has been up for the republicans now for a long time now but like this is really just they're just like operating on like vaporware i mean it does seem it does read almost like they went through and figured out what progressive people are asking for and just said not that the opposite of that that. They went to the DNC's democratically elected platform that everybody voted on and they were like,

if we're going to be fascist, how do we just negate all the big words that they put in there? Cash bail? I don't know what that is, but I don't like it. We should keep everybody locked up. Right. He's like, end the Minnesota bail fund. It'snesota bail fund right what are you talking about

blowing up on twitter i did screen cap a an ad so that uh i think you maybe don't need a platform when you have dope ads like this it's uh it's like a mortal combat uh screen cap with uh trump's head on a jump kicking person and joe biden's head like very poorly photoshopped on another uh fighter's body and it says finish him paid for by trump make america great again committee and they're like fighting under like the newark bay bridge yeah like it's so the whole scene is very like specific it's like yo we're out here fighting under the lights of headlights of trucks at the new the newark bay bridge like in our karate geese yeah y'all for real what it really does feel like trying to reason with a four-year-old like it's maybe that was that thing where they don't have steve bannon anymore like

doing the whole cam Analytica whispering. And they're like, didn't he say something about video game guys and how we need them to just do some some of that Street Fighter shit? I'd even be so funny. I mean, as if he knew what Street Fighter was. But yeah, that really it's like almost follows that logic where they like, wait, video game equals support for Trump. that logic where they like wait video game equals support for trump therefore make a video game ad with him jump kicking biden in the wherever the fuck right trump's energy bar all the way up biden's is just about out so it's interesting because it reflects a version of reality that no poll or anything is you know telling them yeah yeah it's possible that i'm hoping he's completely insulated from reality and that affects their strategy yeah they're trying to

meme it into existence right right maybe we meme hard enough you know we can manifest it yo meme so hard they want to put me in the white house that That's what I'm going to do. That's my whole thing. Just memeing so hard right now. That's how I'm going to get in the White House. Yo, that's going to be... I'm going to... If I may appropriate that for some rap lyrics. Memes so hard they're trying to put me in the White House. Yo, coming soon to Spotify.

There we go. There we go. Yeah, yeah. It really is. I mean, that's the thing. He forgot that he was doing like this like fake ass populist shit in 2016 and that actually got people fired up because he at least tapped into something that conservatives couldn't articulate which was like the corporatocracy has completely taken all my job prospects away and then i'm on a diet of blaming black and brown people for what's actually happening uh but

now it's just like the populist shit isn't even there it's never like hey we're gonna bring these jobs back i remember when this town used to now it's just like yo keep these black people the fuck out of the suburb like what okay so now you you gotta do a little bit more if you want to get even the the most racist of racists a little bit more excited i mean you know surprisingly they're not doing a great job of because richard spencer just came out and said he was voting for biden oh no he did not oh yes he did i mean whatever that guy's not nice so they're not so they're even losing the hardcore racist somehow i'm surprised the dnc didn't give him a speaking spot. Right? Yeah.

Richard Spencer, he's like, hey, man, like, even I see it here, man, Biden all the way. But what I think over two dozen former Republican senators just, you know, announced today that they were

siding with Biden. Everybody jumping ship. Everybody jumping ship. But like, too late. I mean, it's interesting uh trump is speaking every night at the uh rnc which is loves to listen to himself talk so much that's right that's what it's all about yeah and that is a feature of dictators throughout history is like castro would speak for like three hours. Stalin once spoke for,

uh, and like made people stand for his speech until people were like passing out. I mean, narcissism we've been saying is like the cheat code for this version of America. But I do think narcissism just flares up and creates a, a massive unstoppable dictator every once in a while. And that's what we're seeing. That could have been seeing that could have been

the little tagline on this weird ad he pulled narcissism is the chief code for America finish him with your narcissism alright let's talk about another one of Trump's brain trust that will

no longer be contributing the finest people simply the best one of Trump's brain trust that will no longer be contributing. The finest people. The finest. Simply the best. Kellyanne Conway is going to be leaving her position at the White House, which I. Hey, goodbye.

What was her position? She was. I don't even remember what she did. Advisor. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Like legal advice.

It was like one of those non things where it's like, Hey, the most articulate person who's willing to debase themselves regularly on tv like yeah that's all that's really all it was because she really was like the most articulate like i'm smiling and i'm talking about fascism and straight up white supremacy but if you're white you're just looking at my white face smiling and you're gonna take that as news while everyone else is like how can this person say all these things out loud and not think that they're doing satan's bidding uh on the regular but you know if you've been following her and her husband they regularly have it out well not they have regularly have it out on twitter but her husband george who

works for the lincoln project uh you know regularly cosplays as one of the good conservatives on twitter who's like oh man trump's so full of this is disgusting anyway kellyanne conway's my wife and it's all good uh we'll do this just to create some kind of cool get some clicks uh and sell some books and you know then recently their daughter who's i think in high school claudia got like blew up on tiktok Twitter, just regularly dragging her parents being like, they're fucked. I don't agree with anything they have to say. I can't believe this.

And then she said she wanted to emancipate herself and that kind of seemed, and like a few live streams she did, that seemed to be the catalyst for this out of nowhere being like, Kellyanne and her husband being like, we're quitting to make sure our family doesn't fall apart yeah now is that really what's to lock our daughter in a dungeon so that she'll stop

dragging us on tiktok she was like she was actually trying to she's like hey anybody who's watching this stream connect me with some legal services so i can emancipate myself uh it'll i don't know what's what's in store for that part of the uh saga but like it makes me wonder you know like yes it could be that they are concerned about their family and you'd hope that if your child was really out here being like my parents suck i don't want to be their kid anymore you'd be like okay maybe i need to pay more attention uh with them at home but this is a statement that Kellyanne Conway gave when she announced. She said, I will be, quote, I will be transitioning from the White House at the end of this month.

George is also making changes. We disagree about plenty, but we are united on what matters most, the kids. Our four children, our teens, and tweens starting a new academic year in middle and high school, remotely from our home, and for at least a few months. As millions of parents nationwide know, kids doing school from home requires a level of attention and vigilance that is as unusual as these times of course you would blame it on pandemic learning right instead of the fact that she's a shit troll right or is it the fact that you know like because she always has to defend what the president's saying like she wants to have enough distance so when it starts getting into super crime time,

when you're like, this is fake. These results are null and void based on whatever this man had a dream about during his Diet Coke fever dream. I wonder if you don't want to be the face at that point and just like Kaylee McEnany do the rest. Yeah, yeah. So it feels like a very fortuitous moment to suddenly be like, I care about my children. I care about them.

The one thing that I've heard rumblings is coming during the RNC is that they're going to announce like a big breakthrough between Israel and Saudi Arabia. And like, that's going to be the thing because they keep talking about this big surprise that's coming. And I think Pompeo is doing his address from somewhere in the Middle East. I think Saudi Arabia. Oh, thank God. Yeah, because that will help all the water in Flint, Michigan. Right. Yes.

Real miracle. Thank you so much. I think they're overestimating how much this is going to show up support. You could have announced a factory reopening in fucking pennsylvania and gotten way more cloud off that yeah and then being like hey jerry did a shitty arms deal behind everyone's back and then we got them to sit for this photo op don't ask what that's going to look like in about eight months but that's for the next president to deal with power the orb yeah got that big orb energy yeah yeah uh all right guys

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The news cycle went to a boil earlier in the year that he was in a coma, possibly dead, because he wasn't making any public appearances after a scheduled open heart surgery uh but then he did make an appearance and people are like oh we are bad i guess we had that wrong uh and now there's chatter picking up again uh that those videos were actually old and repurposed and uh he actually didn't show up at a lot of like he's been they're like releasing videos of like psych he did make an appearance here's the video we took of that but he's not appearing at any of like the big statewide events that are scheduled that people

would be like watching independently so it's just people uh are suspicious and think that he might actually be in a coma and his sister might be taken over so is he isn't he will they won't they who will it it's like they're kind of keeping their fingers crossed that maybe he is in a coma you know like it's like the it's like what like like our thing with brad pitt and jennifer aniston is like they say it's like the foreign policy version is like is kim jong-un actually dead i don't know we think he is he's probably in a coma based on these clues someone was holding their ear during the press conference we mess it's like okay i don't know man like either way it's bad over there it's bad man being a couple of days They're like, is his sister really running things?

Get the T-Report on TMZ. And you're like, what? TMZ? Why are you reporting on this? Yeah, this does feel like it should be a TMZ story. Sturgis, the motorcycle rally that we had been talking about a couple weeks back, went through. It happened. 480,000 bikers got together like it was 2017 and it ended on august 17th and all good no no cases uh everybody is healthy the end right

yeah exactly as you thought when you get a bunch of people who are aggressively anti-science together to ignore it. No. I mean, look, it ended the 17th, so we're probably going to get into that phase where we see more reports. But so far, they have a lot of cases tied to about three states now, like Minnesota, South Dakota, and I forget where else. Wasn't it Florida also? uh and i forget where else wasn't it florida also i mean i think we could always that's always a safe bet uh given like sturgis and the state of florida and things like that overlap but in nebraska that's what it was nebraska okay so they were saying they have a few cases of people who were they said from one of the public health district officials there were saying that they

were able to tie a few of these cases of people who directly like were at Sturgis and were like, I didn't wear a mask. I was at this bar. I was with these people. There was a bar one-eyed Jack's, uh, which also had a customer had tested positive, like right after on the 11th, while the, uh, like biker festival was still happening. And there's like a whole article about one-eyed Jack's because like in the daily beast, they talked to like a, their story on it was about this Motley crew tribute band who had drove from Ohio to do the festival to, to play at one night jacks. And then when they got there, they got like completely, uh, like fucking swindled. They thought, they thought they were going to get meal tickets and drink tickets.

They didn't get any of that shit when you're like, well, Hey, we're supposed to get our fee. They got like laughed at them and they only just they barely had enough money just to have the gas to drive home like we would have been stranded but like their attitude was like they're like you know what though like that's their karma that like they had an outbreak there because like they could have treated us better but then they were like but weren't you afraid of what do you mean like you were going to perform there. Some could say that was your karma. Don't pretend like you weren't. Don't pivot on this karma shit as if you believe that was negative.

Because prior to that, apparently, when he was raising the money for his band to get the money to get to Sturgis, he was like, look, man, it is what it is. You're going to get it at some point. So life's too short. Life's too short to live long. So try and abbreviate it and make it as short as possible by doing wild reckless shit and then call it karma when you don't get your way like okay sir thank you uh that's one of the stages of covet 19 coping yeah yeah right everyone's gonna catch it yeah coping 19 i live in a college town i'm a phd student at the university of georgia and we've

already heard reports of like within Greek life, people are telling each other to like, keep it quiet if you get COVID because it's bad PR. They don't want it to get out. There's these infection clusters, you know, within like the pan-Hellenic society. And so like, I would not be surprised if some people got it, but they're like, keep it on a low low.

So the media don't find out. And then they all get laughed at publicly and nationally for their uh complete ridiculousness right oof yeah and then i mean who like people don't have to tell if they do get sick right so i mean i'm sure a lot of the people who get sick from this won't be running to the newspaper to be like, I was wrong. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what is just the general atmosphere on campus? Are people on campus?

People are on campus. So we at least got a mask mandate out of the summer, but classes are in person. Wow. And so I teach in person tomorrow. And actually, according to epidemiological models by like scientists at the University of Georgia, based on the protocols in place to keep people safe and the campus population, they have surmised that if we continue with the reopening plans, we're likely to have half of the campus population,

about 30,000 people infected in the next two months and so uh people are trying to do the whole like social distance thing on campus and spread out wear the mask but the bars are going crazy right now like the house parties the beer pong the sex in the pool all that shit is like on full blast right now and so to do what we can as a professor, like trying to like, you know, space my students out and like wipe everything down,

classes over or whatever. Like it's still not going to, Oh, it's, it's not looking good, but I'm really thinking it's going to be a bait and switch kind of situation. They're going to get that tuition money,

get that dorm, that room and board money, you know, get a week. Yeah. I drop period. And so they're like, Oh,

got to do what's right by the kids on our base they're gonna be like the risk of the protocol so we had to shut down as if the protocols themselves weren't irresponsible in the first place put in place by the administration like they're gonna put it on the kids kids are gonna be pissed kids are gonna have all their money and uh yeah hopefully the cycle continues for higher education. Alright, so our writer JM was wondering what Halloween is going to look like in 2020.

All the big celebrations at theme parks where you get chased by people dressed as zombies and all that good shit have already been cancelled. Trick or treating. I think a recent poll found that only 27% of parents are planning on taking their kids out this year. There's actually an app that was created by, I think, Mars

that is basically virtual trick-or-treating where you go around on your phone and get IOUs for candy from your neighbors, which sounds... Okay. Are they legally binding? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You're like, I don't know, man.

Here's a thought. This is how we save the post office. We get the IOUs for the candy. We put it in the mail. Ship it to the children's houses. Save the UBCS. Everybody get a little bar bar, a little Snickers. To the children's houses.

Perfect. Everybody get a little Snickers. Huge rush on shipping the last weekend in October, going into the beginning of November. Oh, man. Yeah. Oh, wait, I take it back because then it's going to be harder for the absentee ballots to get counted. No, I like this.

Yeah, watch. Trump is like, this is what you're going to do. We'll work it out. It's just an initial, yeah. Hold it for after the election. You know what I mean? The new Halloween, November 28th. Great.

Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Halloween Sunday, or Halloween Saturday. Just turn November all the way up. But the way the app works is basically neighbors buy credits for their candy, kids collect and redeem at participating stores. So there's never any interaction. Then how do you judge the neighbors for the kind of candy they give? collect, and redeem at participating stores. So there's never any interaction. And then if you...

Then how do you judge the neighbors for the kind of candy they give? Can you leave comments? Like, notes? Like, man... Right. Oh, yeah. Like, I'm about to redeem this coupon for toothbrushes. Like, on Yelp or some shit?

Right. And you send them gifts of eggs and toilet paper if they have the whack candy. Yes, yes. With, like, three M&Ms in a little fun size bag all right this is my 80s stand-up routine what's it what's the deal why are they called fun it's less candy i don't have fun who's it fun for home it's not enough candy to have fun you want the whole thing old seinfeld bits of us did you read his op-ed in the new york times i can't even begin to imagine it was so weird because it was like sort of adopting this

attitude of like for the people who think new york's dead look at yourself this whole city it's built on people picking it up from the ashes and making it better when i moved here in the late 70s before the dogs pooper scooper laws there was dog shit everywhere i didn't leave i knew it and i loved it and it was like this whole thing about the resilience of new yorkers which is true but like it was it was also aimed at somebody who had said that like new york's dead and like i'm going to florida and that that really that really uh really got him fired up but then it's also like my man like you you have so much money like you have a like a gilded palace in the sky in which you look down upon manhattan like from versus like you're not elbow to elbow with people like

on the metro or some shit like that you know so uh but i think for many new yorkers doesn't get to view everybody as ants you know right there are people it turns out so but yeah it was interesting because i i while i was like okay i get the feeling like i felt like new york twitter like it was very split like a lot of people like this is the shit man thank you and then like jack posobiec the fucking right wing troll was sort of like uh jerry seinfeld's a billionaire and it was like what okay granted but like okay so now you found the same take as leftist twitter congrats uh so yeah yeah they accidentally hit on the truth every once in a while yeah it's always funny when they're like right it's usually in response to like a hollywood like celebrity doing something

right but it's like somehow the other billionaires you're like no they're okay like what they're trying to do is create liberty in this country right yes one trend uh that originated in japan and seems to be at least people are trying it out here, drive-through haunted houses where... That sounds kind of lit. Yeah. I mean, judging from the pictures, it basically looks like a reverse car wash

where people just smear your windshield with fake blood. But they... I don't know. I would be freaked out. I actually went to... That was what I did with my kids this weekend, is took them to a car wash, and that was thoroughly entertaining. Oh, yeah, the drive-thru. Yeah.

That's a thing. A reverse car wash would be even better. Who, when you're in there, I also feel like if you're real jumpy, you could be like, sir, turn your car off, and please put the keys in this plate, so you don't errantly run over the characters be like you like for sir turn your car off and please put the keys in this plate so there's you don't errantly run over this characters during the drive-thru reverse car wash yeah yeah because all it takes one person to not really be on top of shit and you have a real fucked up haunted

house situation like it would need to be like a a car wash where you're on the like a track but even then in neutral yeah and even because i remember one of the first times in high school i got in one of those things i was like don't i leave it and drive like it's not going and i could sell it i was like oh shit i almost rear-ended this escalator i was like no no no this ain't it yeah based on the pictures that looks like you just drive into a little uh storage container people just roll up to your car and act like zombies and paw at your window. And then it's like,

all right, you can leave now. Okay, so it's like having a BLM sign in your car going through like a conservative rally or something. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, all lives back the blue. Uh-huh. Okay. Thank you.

You're smearing my car with your hot sauce and mustard. And real quick, we usually check in with the box office back when that was a thing. So Chinese and South Korean box offices had massive reopening weekends because they had a big movie called I think it was like 300 Soldiers or something like that. They had a big Chinese blockbuster come out that is the biggest movie of 2020

already after like a week and a half. Well, how hard can it be? Right, yeah. It's beating Sonic the Hedgehog. So, yeah, that's Sonic. It's a new eyes and teeth. Yeah.

But yeah. So, I mean, they have at least had leadership and a consistent message in those countries so i know south korea is like starting to see a slight uptick but people i think know where they stand whereas in the u.s like i i just don't know that it's going to be a one-to-one thing where suddenly in the u.s they put a movie in theaters and everyone just goes to the theaters like it's normal because i don't know i just feel like on both sides people are like yeah i don, I don't know what to think. I've heard people talk about who aren't right-wing anti-vaxxers, but be like, I don't know if I trust the vaccine when it comes out because Trump has branded it as the Trump vaccine. Right.

And then you're like, I don't want that shit. Right. Trump anything. No. Yeah. Trump fountain of youth? pass hard pass you don't think that makeup would work for me so you go into you just come out orange and like you got a comb over what the fuck is this like but here's the deal you will be a old angry piece of shit and live till about 103 oh Oh, man. He is going to live forever. Mariah, it has been a pleasure having you on The Daily Zeitgeist.

Where can people find you, hear you, experience you? Yeah, so I also have an iHeartRadio podcast called Waiting on Reparations that comes out every Thursday. We talk about hip hop and politics. So you can follow us

on iHeartReparations on Instagram and listen to us on the iHeartReparations on Instagram and listen to us on the iHeartRadio app wherever you get your podcasts every Thursday. And then you can follow me on Twitter, on IG at Mariah4Athens. Mariah F-O-R-Athens. Yeah, that's me. Thanks for having me.

It's been a pleasure. Yeah, it's always a pleasure. Hopefully this will be a regular thing. Yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry. Is there a tweet or some other active social media you've been enjoying um i picked out two i don't know if y'all saw this one that was like do y'all speak spanish first of all spanish speakers a little bit a little bit of high school spanish here okay so there's one tweet uh i don't know wait maybe should i just put

it in the put it in the you can read it chat so i can read it well it's a video it's a video okay so the the caption of that when your spanish teacher asks how to say tree in spanish it ain't our ball it ain't our ball it ain't our ball it's our ball ain't it it's our ball hey it's our ball It's our ball! Hey! It's our ball! It's our ball! James has laid the ball up down there. It's our ball! Yes!

I cried. The first time I watched this, I cried. So I don't know if you can put the audio in the... It ain't our ball? It ain't our ball? It ain't our ball? That's our ball! That's our ball! It ain't our ball? It ain't our ball? It ain't our ball it ain't our ball

it ain't our ball it's our ball perfect perfect by the way shout out to the Sixers season over end of an era presumably

but shout out to the Lakers, man. Lakers are looking good. That's my other team. Yeah, we're doing all right. Yeah, yeah. Miles, where can people find you, and what's a tweet you've been enjoying? Me, Twitter, Instagram. Where else?

My other podcast. But first, Twitter, Instagram, Miles of Gray. The other podcast, 420 Day Fiance. Talking about 90 Day Fiance sophie alexandra uh we had a great live stream shout out to people who stopped by the twitch stream it was a good time basically devolved into me uh impromptu dj set where we were going through our favorite hits of the aughts uh shout out to the calise there was a lot of calise tracks being played uh for my tweets now let's see some of the tweets that I like. First one is from...

Okay, so John Gabrus, at Gabrus. He's been on the show before. His father passed away in the last few years, but he tweeted, I rarely say shit like this, but I wish my dad was alive so I could send him this video. And someone else said,

this was the climax of a recent Steven Seagal film. And Steven Seagal is so slow moving in it yeah it is it's like it's such it's like sad to see uh but it's just such a fall from grace and you know he's doing his thing in russia so you know god god bless steven seagal do your thing uh one four is from uh at thea lux uh the tweet, anyone else's parents tell you after the fact that they had a medical scare? Like, oh, we didn't want to worry you. We died last week.

No, for real. Nah, all the time. I hate that. We like that. Don't stop. And then you're like, oh, yeah, yeah, it was bad. Like, almost lost the half of my limbs.

But it's okay. Worked out. Real touch and go there. What's half? Yeah. Doctors still can't tell me, but I'm half of my limbs. But it's okay. Worked out. Real touch and go there. Which half? Yeah. Doctors still can't tell me, but I'm all right, though. So, come get your laundry. Yeah.

Some tweets I've been enjoying. Emily Andras tweeted, the thing about Batman is, does anyone know what happened to his parents? Eliza Skinner quote tweeted that and said it's nice to have some mysteries left and then Alicia just tweeted two clowns kissing and their noses honk I needed that image in my head

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Miles, what are we riding out on today? This is a track from the group Metro Area. And look, this is someone just always discovering new artists. This is like a band that was doing their thing. And I guess since the late 90s. But this track Strut by Metro Area. It has like this like gap band, you know, boogie, like disco funk feel to it. And it's just great.

I just love it. It's early in the week you need that big toe energy so tap into this one let your big toe shoot up out your boot uh this is metro area with strut good strut music the music destructive oh yeah uh all right well we're gonna strut out on that the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from my heart radio visit the iheart radio appio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for this morning.

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