The Daily Zeitgeist - Losing Our Humanity…Over and Over 05.26.22

Episode Date: May 26, 2022

In episode 1256, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Amy Miller to discuss… Another Mass Shooting, Why The NRA Still Wants To Hold A Convention Right Now, I’m sorry there are HOW MANY varieties of Mtn Dew? And more! Why The NRA Still Wants To Hold A Convention Right Now Trump, Cruz scheduled to speak at NRA convention days after Texas shooting A secret tape made after Columbine shows the NRA's evolution on school shootings Loaded: how gun manufacturers and the NRA capitalise on tragedy US reels after massacre in fourth-grade classroom leaves 21 dead LISTEN: I Was Gonna Fight Fascism (feat. Alabaster dePlume) by Soccer96 Get Amy's Album California King here: blondemedicine.com/bm078-california-kingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 231 episode 4 of the daily zeitgeist production of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness truly a garbage pile it's thursday may 26 2022 my name is jack o'brien aka french fried potatoes o'brien remember when that was a thing sling blade who could forget fun it's a really good movie that was also one of those movies like i think came out when i was like 13 and we didn't see it we just knew we'd be like sling blade and without seeing it and then we saw're like, oh. It was like kind of a sneaky, like the Austin, like, yeah, baby.

Like it was, it was in the rotation for a little while. In a way that undermined the seriousness or like how good that movie is. You know, I'm talking about Austin Powers. How good that movie is. Yeah, baby. I feel like it was undermined. Jaggedelic. how good that movie is.

Yeah, baby. I feel like it was undermined. Jaggedelic. I feel like Billy Bob Thornton is my, like, adult person that I would have written a letter to. Maybe. That's your dear Owen Wilson? That's my dear Owen Wilson.

It's Billy Bob Thornton. I think I love Billy Bob Thornton. The best part would be Blair just tearing you apart for being like, Billy Bob Thornton? Yeah. I don't know.

She likes Billy Bob. Everybody likes Billy Bob. He's real watchable. And then there's that interview where he got mad at the guy for mentioning that he was an actor. That I've always respected probably a little bit too much. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Oh, it's Miles Gray, a.k.a. the Lord of Lancashire. You already know his name.

Oh, no. Well, Miles, we're thrilled to be joined by one of the funniest stand-up comics in the world. Her Comedy Central presents is a classic. She was voted Portland's funniest comic multiple times you know her from last comic standing and her podcast who's your god with fellow tvz favorite steve hernandez and you can see her headlining at a theater near you if you just go and check her dang website it's been way too long it is is the brilliant, the talented Amy Miller. Hey, Mary.

Oh, that was so nice. It has been a long time. Are you guys mad at me? No. Yes. I mean, you can tell me. I was furious. As usual, we occasionally check up through the medium of sharing pictures of babies that were just born.

Because we typically, yeah, Amy and I, we found that we are both, there's some, there's something bugs us sometimes when you take a, you post a pic of a, just slightly too fresh out the oven baby.

Yeah. You know, like I get the miracle, but the, it's a lot to deal with. Yeah. Miles, you have that chunk where you're like, new rule.

Don't take a picture of your baby when it looks like shit. No, I have that chunk. I'm sorry. On my current album, just released, that I'm here to promote. It did start with this show, though. That bit started with this show. That's wild. Do you have the background music going, too, before you said the new one?

What is the name of your album? California King. Hell yeah. Thank you so much. And it is about Miles, correct? A true California king? Thank you. But no, I am no king.

I don't respect monarchies. It's about me. There we go. Obviously. Have you ever slept in a California king bed? Oh, yeah, of course. Oh, man. You never slept with somebody that's doing good?

No. Typically, it was me, and I was only doing good because my mom let me still live at home. And I'm like, how about we sleep in my hand-me-down parents bed yeah plus you'll get the occasional hotel room that has the california king and it's like very luxurious but you know you can literally like eat dinner on the other side of the bed and not it's i leave the pizza box there and then sleep on this side you will discover like uneaten food if you eat in california king like for months oh my god. Lost a lot of socks in those beds, you know what I mean? When you have a kid, there are

just socks, stuffed animals, pieces of food just all scattered throughout that you find. Yeah, California King is a real family pile kind of bed. Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. I think that's what

Charlie and his grandpa were working with, right? And Willy Wonka. Oh, yeah. That's why I was like, what are they complaining about? They were in a California peasant.

I don't know what that was. California surf. All right. Amy, we're going to get to know you a little bit better. Surfing California. Surfing California.

First, we're going to listen to a couple of things we're talking about today. Obviously, we're going to get to know you a little bit better. Surfing California. Surfing California. First, we're going to listen to a couple of things we're talking about today. Obviously, we're going to talk about another horrific mass shooting. I feel like I'm out of reactions, but it's, yeah, we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about why the NRA is still holding a convention, like right now, I think, in Texas, which is something they did after columbine in colorado there's actually leaked audio of the meeting that led to that decision so we have a we have a sense of what they're what they're thinking about talking about my favorite line from that meeting is uh we're in deep shit on this deal is is how they described the Columbine shooting.

Oh, man. So we're going to ask the question, are the varietals of Mountain Dew out of control? You're not going to believe what I've read. There's so many, man. Look, it's going to test even what we think is even real when we get to that story. You know, I travel throughout these great united states and i've seen some crazy do's out there your next album the do's and don'ts of the road with amy all of that plenty more but first amy would like to ask our guest what is something from your

search history oh you know i i just got my first tattoo hello midlife crisis um and to the midlife yeah it's fine um but i got into a vortex of looking up people have these tattoos that are wrestlers as babies like they're cupid all wrestlers. And that's, like, a whole lot. That's, like, a whole thing that people have tattoos of. So, like, a Kewpie doll version of, like, Hulk Hogan or, like, Ultimate Warrior kind of thing? Yeah, so it's, like, this sweet little, like, Kewpie doll, like, baby doll. And then it's, like, with the Mankind mask. Or, yeah, Hulk, like, ripping his shirt open with, like with a big mustache and shit.

It's so cute and so troubling. And then that took me into just like a whole other... And then there's so many of them. I saw like, you know, Dr. Frankenfurter, baby tattoo, you know, David Bowie. That was adorable. Okay. David Bowie, baby?

Yeah, David baby. Baby Bowie. Baby Bow?ie, that was adorable. Okay. David Bowie, baby. Yeah, David Baby. Baby Bowie. Baby Bowie, yeah, I see that. David Bowie sounds like a baby is saying his name sometimes. Bowie. Bowie. It's one of the words that my four-year-old can pronounce flawlessly. It's actually David Borey.

Okay. It's David Bowie. The G is silent. Right. Yeah. So it's like this whole crazy world of just like people as babies on your body. Can you give me a search term that you, cause I,

I get like baby tattoo, wrestler, baby, baby doll, wrestler tattoo. And it took me to the, uh, like a FBI controlled landing.

Try Cupidos. You know, K-E-W-P-I-E. Cupido wrestler tattoo. Oh, there it is, autofilled. Wow, those are really cute. Oh, my God. These are fucking weird. It's really weird.

It's really creepy. Oh, okay,. These are fucking weird. It's really weird. It's really creepy. Oh, okay. I get it. So they're taking, like, the old school sailor tattoo style trope of the Kewpie doll. Yes. And updating it. Okay. Wow.

Okay. This is something. It's, like, adorable but troubling, right? Yeah. There's something about, like, a little KewB doll with their face fully tatted up. Yeah. That you're like, oh, cute. Or I saw a Razor Ramon one.

So it just had like that creepy, like greasy curl. Yeah. Like did it have a toothpick? A toothpick, yeah. And it's just like, that's kind of a sexual looking baby doll. I don't know. Yeah. Wait, but we digress.

What tattoo did you get? Oh, nothing. Don't worry about it. I'll text you guys. Just a Kewpie doll orgy scene. It's you guys as babies. Each butt cheek. Oh, thank you.

Prime real estate. Yeah, I'll send you a picture. I've always wanted to get a fresco painted on my wall that is me with a baby's body. Oh, wow. I don't know why. I just always thought that was cool. Angel wings or no angel wings? Like, I go back and forth on the angel wings.

I'd have to see different versions to see. Or maybe Little Devil. Little Baby Devil. Yeah, Little Baby Devil with wings. forth on the angel wings i'd have to see different versions to see but maybe little devil little baby devil yeah little baby devil with wings and a little ford yeah for message arrow tail okay got it got it got it okay i love it already and that's a conversation piece when people come over you know yeah oh yeah and then you can just leave it behind i mean it's obviously going to skyrocket the value of whatever apartment or home you're living in i yeah i think the idea we my roommate and i hit on the idea when we were you know just thinking about like what would be a fun thing to leave in a in an apartment as you as you're like you know leaving you're like yep cleaned everything

up uh we should be getting our security deposit back uh but there's a fresco on the wall beautiful it should be a secret fresco though where you also paint over that but leave like one little corner like peeling back and they're like what is this and then peel the whole thing back and it's haunted for life and then they change their minds about living there yeah they get a different house yeah wow i love that like that like yo how do we like turn up this apartment like energy is so me in my early 20s and it was me like yo you know val is sick with the hand style like that freehand style with the graffiti and shit have them blow out the wall right i had to do it to a wall piece like spray paint because i was like this

shit is so legit uh landlords love that yeah uh this time it was my mom wow she was like landlord that gave birth to me was so mad i know dude wow she like looks like my mom i call her mom because she's going through some stuff it kind of helps her adjust to her new life but uh yeah um but yeah that that was a i i really identify with like the little things like just a fucking like be sick to have a fucking mural in here yeah and it's me as a baby a baby devil right right yeah baby devil one time we were partying at a house that was about to be torn down and we were were like, we could do anything. It's amazing.

And I woke up the next morning and I had just written in pen on the wall, John Benet Ramsey. I think it was because we were playing the famous John's drinking game. And I came up with John Benet Ramsey anyway. But that's J-E-A-N. Yeah. It's a clue. And I came up with John Bonet Ramsey. Anyways, but that's G J E A N. Yeah. It's a clue. It's exciting. Yeah.

I think it was J O N. I might be wrong. Yeah. It's just J O N. Oh, I am transfixed by these Kewpie doll, like famous person as Kewpie doll. There's a great Mr.

T in here. Someone sent me the Rocky horror one and i'm like i guess because it was like cute and kind of chubby i was like did someone get a tattoo of rosie o'donnell in exit to eden as a baby yeah i'm looking at it it does that person's an icon. Wow. My friend was like, no, it's Rocky Horror, you psycho. I'm like, well, now I want a tattoo for Rosie. Now that I've gotten started, I'm going to get a koosh ball. It's wild when you search that, though. You can't actually scroll to the end of the Google image search.

It's like, look, there might be more, but it might not be what you're looking for. The rest of the results might not be what you're looking for. See more anyway, you sick fuck. Seymour anyway, yuck. Is everything all right? What is something you think is overrated, Amy? Oh, summer blockbusters. Well, actually, specifically Marvel movies

because I'm really excited for Top Gun. Yeah, that's great. You got me there. I'm in. I'm going to go opening weekend. But I don't know. The good movies, the little movies keep leaving or just like, you know, it's like every theater at the Grove is showing Doctor Strange. And I don't want to see Doctor Strange. I want to see anything else. And then now I'm hunting for any other movie like, no, fuck that. Stop taking over my movie theaters. other movie like no fuck that stop taking over my movie theaters i gotta give up my amc membership because i don't know it's all marvel it's just a tv show that they're showing there that like

hey new episodes out i went to a quentin tarantino's like theater where he shows movies and saw doctor strange in black and white and no i'm just joking but oh it's like oh my god but they because he does that with like some movies that he's like this is a classic and we will be showing it on film in black and white i think he did that with nightmare alley but that would be funny if he also did it with the marvel movies or maybe it wouldn't be funny you know yeah they they try to show original prints i think and they're all 35 millimeter i see a lot of stuff there because it's right by my house that's what i'm saying like why am i why am i even a list you know what i mean yeah yeah my son to see et there. And I had a great time.

You did. Well, I am so excited for Top Gun Maverick that I've announced each of the last two weeks that it's coming out this weekend. I swear I'm going to get it right. One at one of these days. But yeah, this I'm really pumped. It is. Yeah.

It's got to be twice before.. I've been burned twice before. I've been burned twice before. Just go strong and wrong. You know what I mean? As my old band teacher used to say, don't hold back. Just play it loud. Strong and wrong. Yo, and that's an exciting one.

That's going to be crazy. It's going to be sold out crowds and people are going to be pumped. I'm going to be yelling. I might wear a uniform. Who knows? I might keep my aviators on the whole movie it's gonna be dark but just keep that smile you're like you're like what's going on like amy just take off your fucking aviators fuck that i'm not gonna take the glasses off just tell me what's happening that up you're facing the wrong way yo, who's this black guy? Who's this black guy? That's Miles Teller.

Really just take your glasses off. I'm like, this popcorn tastes weird. Oh, that's just the bottom of your purse. That's a gum wrapper. Yeah, this popcorn is making my teeth feel all stingy. That's a foil gum wrapper. I am so curious for how that movie is going to do. Because obviously a classic.

I do think that they left VHS copies of Top Gun in every house. Like when you moved into a house or an apartment, they just left a VHS copy of Top Gun there. It was mandatory. I think probably the military industrial complex smartly did that. But every house had a Top Gun VHS. And but at the same time, it's a long time ago. So I'm hoping I'm rooting for this mega people. They need your help.

They think it's going to be finally the first Tom Cruise film that has a hundred million dollar opening. Oh, yeah. It's going to it's going to be finally the first Tom Cruise film that has a hundred million dollar opening. Oh, yeah. It's going to it's going to crash. I think no doubt, especially it's a long weekend. It's like, you know, every some every blockbuster has been a Marvel movie. So for everyone else who doesn't, you know, show up right away for those like, yeah, they're going to make a lot of money. And about twenty three of those dollars are going to be mine. It's

hard to believe he hasn't had a hundred million dollar opening. You know what the closest one he had was? With Mission Impossible Fallout? War of the Worlds. War of the Worlds. Weird. 65 million. Do they like do Mission Impossibles in limited release or those just aren't

like those? No, like an opening weekend. An opening weekend an opening weekend like right yeah no that's why i was wondering oh no i mean yeah mission impossible is always worldwide those that's uh that's surprising that they haven't hit 100 million but i guess i'm i just have high expectations for a tom cruise blockbuster yeah what's so weird people let's come together and vote with our wallets for Top Gun Maverick. Look, we can't vote for better outcomes in Washington, but we can vote with our wallets to show Tom Cruise we care.

Will you go out of your way, Amy, to see it in IMAX? I think so, yeah. I'm going to be in Denver, and I think, yeah, I probably will be in IMAX with David Borey. Okay. Oh, so that silent G joke was a great reference. David Borey.

When I was in Denver, I saw Toy Story 4 by myself and it was a great film going experience. Highly recommend seeing a movie in Denver. It's interesting to see a kid's movie alone. Yeah. When you're away from your kids. My kids were seeing it on that weekend.

So I wanted to be like, hey, I get it too, guys. I can make the references. All right. They're like, dad, shut up. You weren't there. You straight up could have lied and seen something, you know, for adults. Yeah. I actually wanted to see.

An adult film. Yeah. You could have gone to an adult film theater by yourself i went to oopsies movie house it was pretty fun i'm gonna wander in there on sunday and be like is this top am i in the right place for top gun amazingly you are but not the one you're looking for yeah hey maverick someone wants to see you dance is this is just to confirm and then we can move off this topic this is a crossover of top gun and maverick the mel gibson movie right yeah okay good what is amy something you think is underrated oh i'm sure you guys have talked about this guy on this show.

But, well, first of all, Arizona Iced Tea. It's delicious. It's Arizona Iced Tea season. I'm happy to give this corporation more plugs. Have you guys talked about this guy, the CEO, who's like, I'm never going to. This is the second time it's come up, but we've just kind of pushed past it

because I didn't know what the fuck the guest was talking about oh i just keep reading about him because he's the the bet i mean he might be the only good billionaire um i don't know he's just like i'm not gonna make it more than 99 cents i don't care how expensive expensive everything else is he's like i'm really rich how much money do you need and it's like yeah I'm really rich. How much money do you need? And it's like, yeah, I see all these other companies just like raising their prices on shit because they can. And people are going to pay it right now. But it's 99 cents. It's just 99 cents. And it's delicious.

And he's like, I'm never going to change it. I'm really, really wealthy. It actually only cost me seven cents to make a can. So I'm fine with that margin on there because it's just water and chemicals that we call iced tea but look we accept it i lovingly i drink so i would drink so much mucho mango like it tastes nothing like tea um in case the last person to ever try it is listening it's not yeah it's sugar water but it's it's very delightful with like a it's like sugar water with a tinge of rust i feel like i'm trying i'm trying

to like figure out what it tastes like something tastes brewed in there you know what i mean it's almost like like you're chewing tobacco and drinking juice at the same time. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, there's this tobacco-y, from-the-earth kind of. Yeah, like you've packed a lip in class in high school, but you can't spit, so you're just going to have to down it with a sip. What if you're going like, oh, I love Fruitopia and snus. This guy, his name is so amazing. Don Voltaggio. What?

Yes. Does he look exactly like Guy Fieri or just a little bit? His name is so amazing. Don Voltaggio. What? I thought, yes. Does he look exactly like Guy Fieri or just a little bit? Because that's who I want him to be. I want him to be Guy Fieri, except all his shirts are in the patterns of Arizona iced tea cans. Dude, he wears shorts. Look at that article I just posted in the chat of him and his sons who are- Oh, his very Italian like flanking him looking strong look he says when they asked him about the no price change he said to me the worst day as a salesman is to go to a retailer and say hey by the way i'm raising the price on that can today

good for him our point is what you can wait our point is what you want to do what does that even mean is have a customer come in and get fair value on a can of tea or juice and then buy other things in your store to offset those costs there's a true this is a this is an amazing picture because he he he seems to be he has his two sons flanking him behind him and he seems to be his one son on one side of his face and his other son on the other side of his face like do you know what i mean whoa yeah yeah because he's not the most symmetrically faced person yeah jack i'm sorry um it's by the way it's 129 in canada because that converts converts to 99 cents america i'm not going to try and take that from

Don Voltaggio. Don Voltaggio, please. You come to me on the day of my daughters. Soccer game, after which we always drink Arizona iced tea. He also kind of, he just directly calls out his fellow CEOs

and owners of corporations because he's just like, I've been doing this for a long time. And these guys are doing it like I've never seen before. Raising prices. And it's just. Yeah. We've been talking about that nonstop. It's cool to see somebody such an iconic brand to just come through and be like, yeah, yeah, no, that's what they're doing. No, I'm good here.

I'm fine here. Yeah. No need. No need to make line go up. Three billion dollars. Like, he's like, I'm old. I don't know. Yeah.

How much money do you need? And his sons are chiseled from granite. I mean, he's got it all. Look at those hairlines. I mean, God damn. I bet he does have a fresco of himself as a baby don voltaggio but like it's like that scene what is it with david and like and him and god's fingers are touching but then yeah arizona between yeah absolutely genius oh look at don i mean it is good

to see that i'm unless look if you ever knows, is Dom Voltaggio on some bullshit? Please ruin it for us if that's the case. But otherwise, you can't get mad at somebody who's very steadfast. Like, I don't need to raise prices. Yeah, and also don't ruin it. Because honestly, like... We're good. We need one.

We need one good one. We need some good news at all. Now, if you talk about John Farolito, the co-founder. Farolito and Voltaggio, the great schism. Yeah. You've seen the Renaissance painting about that breakup. It was pretty ugly, but there is some weird shit in that scene. Voltaggio got painted in hell by one of the Renaissance masters. All right, let's take a

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And we're back and had a nice spirited conversation about don voltaggio over the break uh that will never see the light of day but it was a positive story positive story another it was good don voltaggio's out here doing cool things for people and then be like hey hey don't tell anybody this is me don votaggio you don't hey it's me don votaggio anyways trademark zeitgeist pivot sadly so yeah another you know sandy hook-esque mass shooting at an elementary school i I don't, yeah, I feel like I'm out of reactions. Like my first reaction is like, how are we not treating every pro-gun lobbyist, pro-gun politician, like gun manufacturer, like we did the Sackler family,

where you're just like no longer, I don't know, this might be too strong of like how we treated the Sackler family, but like your name is no longer allowed on museum wings at least sewing your face lose yeah it's because the association is you are we associate you with unnecessary death yeah and no it's the same way like i like i told you this morning the the wildest shit about this whole thing was between the shooting in Buffalo, this I'm like, the only way I feel like I've been able to navigate this country the last, you know, a couple of years is to basically my heart to,

to become numb to a lot of this pain because it's so frequent. And I think that's the, that's like the most disturbing thing for me to realize is like I'm losing dimensions of my humanity because I'm living in a place that doesn't honor anyone's humanity. Because the thing that's being reflected back to me is that it doesn't matter. And in a way, like for me to even deal with it, for me even take in the news, it's just to be like, yeah, here it goes again. And that's really fucked up for me to realize because i don't like the idea that i could get used to something like this but it's happening so much and the response societally that we see every time is like it's it's it's just like accepting like oh it's like a bad it rained today and yeah i read an article last night that actually had like all of the

I read an article last night that actually had like all of the kids photos in it. And then it was like after a full day of, yeah, just being like, oh, this is awful. But I notice I'm not really like, you know, being affected by it in the way that I should. And then the photos hit me. I just lost it. And I didn't I didn't know, you know, it was like unexpected. And then I saw one and kept scrolling. And I'm like, you know, there's a part of part of me going like, oh, I'm I'm so dramatic, you know, that I'm like crying at these kids photos right now. But it's like, no, that's that's how we should all feel every time.

And that's at minimum, you know, and it was just like so, so, so sad. It's yeah, it's really difficult. And then like to add insult to injury, right? There were reports that like there were ICE agents near the school. This is like a heavily Hispanic area. And, you know, based on what I was reading on Twitter, I don't know how how real that is. But like to add another dimension to you having to navigate already, probably immigrating here from somewhere that you're on your way to a school where you're

trying to figure out if your child is alive and then, then have to worry about this xenophobic state apparatus that's there to also maybe try and get you at your most vulnerable. There are so many layers of fucked up to this. And it's like this with every single thing. And I know because it's so frequent, I think that's like the that's the fucked up part about being an American is that like we were you talk to people outside of the US like, how do you fucking wow fucked up and scary is about people are shooting each other. We're like i don't know what happens like that's our yeah that's the fucking the calluses that have built like on our souls spiritually is that we're just like i don't fucking know yeah it is i don't know is that

bad and it is and it's really disheartening to see that you know we have politicians just fucking doing nothing again. And I guess the only thing that could maybe be a positive is like, I feel like more people are angry this time. Like in the last couple of shootings, people have, it's been less like sad and just more like what the fuck is happening. But I mean, that should have been,

that should have been, we should have been there. And when Sandy hook happened or any other shooting, we've had decades to handle this. But the media, too, is like really running as at least as of last night with this like Border Patrol heroism story. And I'm not trying to take away from that guy like he was a hero, you know, because every time this happens, you're like, what? There was no one like actual law enforcement nearby that could just like run in and take this guy out. You know what I mean? And we all think that it's like people who don't do anything close to their jobs. I love cops, by the way.

No, but that's for that story to become like and Border Patrol guys are great. It's like, no, I'm'm not let's not make this a cop hero story like i'm i'm really grateful that he did go in and like you know potentially save many more lives but it's just it just like so frustrating like what the media like clings to too yeah turn it into an action movie where there's a protagonist who's on the Republican side. It can't just be the absolute failure of this

country. That should be the every single thing out of every person's mouth should just be that we live in a failed state. Yeah, because not only is he a border patrol agent, but then it becomes a good guy with a gun story where it's like, see? I told you if more people around all had guns, then, you know, we could save lives. It's so twisted.

Yeah, I mean, that that seems to be the narrative that they're going with on this one. You know, and then R.A. is, as of now, reportedly still holding its Leadership Summit convention in Texas this week with guests like Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump. Trump is scheduled to speak on Friday, so that will be a whole three days after the murder of 20 children. And incidentally, there are no guns allowed inside Trump's talk because gun control is all good when it's a wealthy elderly politician who is in danger and not say a school full of innocent children. And so a lot of people are saying like we need to gather and protest in Houston and asking whether the NRA will cancel. So they were faced with this exact scenario in Columbine following the Columbine shooting just days later. And also in Colorado,

there was an NRA convention in Denver. The NRA cut it down from three days to one, but refused to cancel it, even though the mayor requested it. I think Charlton Heston had the like, you can take the guns from my cold, my cold, dead hands. That was there. I think I think so. But he tried to turn gun owners into the victim of the situation in which literal children were murdered. there were 2,500 cheering supporters and you know he said we will not be silent or be told do not come here you are not welcome in your own land so i love that nativist bend to that yeah in your own land and then so there there's actually like leaked audio from the meetings behind the scenes of the nra deciding to go through with that and one nra higher up remarked hey we're in deep shit on this deal here guys which is just great business lingo euphemism like deep shit on this deal like the mass slaughter of children due to the policy that you spend your career fighting for like that deal right another worried that their members who are hillbillies and fruitcakes might embarrass them and that like that's that's the most illustrative part of the story to me

is that like they don't give a shit about any of the like things that their members are chanting at nra rallies they are businessmen who are protecting about any of the things that their members are chanting at NRA rallies. They are businessmen who are protecting a type of commerce because that is their job. And we are in a society where commerce is the only thing that it is the ultimate good. Like far, far outstripping human lives. Far outstripping human lives. Nobody gives a fuck about human lives. Like other than humans but like

the the people who make decisions the system is designed to completely devalue them and it's just it it becomes clearer and clearer every fucking day i do feel like people are waking up to it unfortunately there's no humanistic, like, sort of outlet as of right now for them to do something with their energy. There's, like, just fascism organizing. But, like, the mainstream Republican and Democratic parties are just giant machines

designed to protect commerce. And that, that is what they're going to do until they're forced to do something else. Yeah. It's there's there. We're, we're not affected by a body count here. You know,

we don't care if a million people die of COVID. We don't care if 19 children are killed. We don't care. We don't care. We just don't care because that's not it's just it isn't the priority to protect people and we just see this reflected back in the most horrific ways every time and we're like left in this like again cycle of people saying like well we need gun laws and people saying oh well california and texas already have gun laws

they're weak as fuck. These aren't fucking, these aren't the kinds of laws that you're like, oh, this is finally going to be a deterrent. Because realistically, when you look at all the problems we have, every epidemiologist, all of the research is like, yeah, there's too many fucking guns, like, available. They're just, like, they're just fucking anywhere available for anyone and that creates too much opportunity as we've seen for accidental discharges of firearms that end up

killing people for people taking their own lives with firearms for violent crime with firearms to go that's all a function of how many guns are in a given area and if we're still unable to just say it's the fucking guns yeah it's directly related like mathematically like sociologically it's directly related there's no like debate on the science there other than the fact that the nra has like gotten in there and like made it so the nra and other like democratic politicians and lobbyists have gotten in there and made it so the things like the cdc don't don't track guns as like a public health thing until fairly recently but yeah their lieutenant governor dan patrick told tucker

carlson that we really need to harden these targets that was his answer last night these targets being fucking elementary schools which i think means like putting like guns at elementary schools. Yeah. Security. Yeah. Well, that's the pattern of U.S. problem solving. Don't ever address the root cause. Right.

Don't. That's that's going to end it. You know, the answer to too much crime is more police rather than addressing the issue of the source of crime yeah all the solutions are like the in retrospect mark walberg solution to 9-11 just like here's what would have been good when that went down right it's like no i'll tell you what if i had been there but you weren't yeah you weren't and it happened. So that doesn't help us. So get to the root cause of it. Get to the actual, if it's, you know, if it's the guns, then really have, we need to have a conversation.

We have such a societal ill here of like our gun humping that, I mean, I think like most people like realistically like, yeah, it's probably a bridge too far. And I think like most people, like realistically, like, yeah, it's probably a bridge too far. So then in that sense, my God, what does it look like with more instability? Because we see the things that drive people, whether it's, you know, young men who get radicalized online with some ideas about replacement theory or people just in general, not having the kind of support or whatever, just like a stable home life that may render them in a you know a more balanced peaceful place we're just we're just putting we're just adding chaotic environments we're just we're only exacerbating them by saying and here's guns too if you need them yeah and also just kind of adding to the the possibility of mental illness for more people which then can

lead to more violence you know like my heart breaks for kids like back in school right now where they already kind of so many of them had this idea of like oh covet like there's something at school that could kill me and or my family so i have to like you know like we shouldn't be gathering here and then also now we have to do like shooting drills like like why is my school so dangerous you know i'm six like well i mean you know i did earthquake drills as a kid and that was terrifying but at least you're like well it's random and it's god or whatever it's not like uh right you know danger from another person it's just yeah it's just so heartbreaking and we don't yeah we don't realize the toll it's taking on kids too, right? I mean, I think we're going to see it.

Yeah, when this generation of elementary school kids are adults, it's really terrifying. I mean, if you think about it, the Columbine kids are our age. You know, they're parents too. their parents too. And yet there's, there's like no amount of carnage that can sway the factual decision makers in this country. And like, I honestly,

I don't know what else you can do except maybe force every single politician to look at crime scene photos or something, because they have this luxury of being completely disconnected from the violence that their inaction causes and most people in this country like yeah we got a fucking problem are y'all i mean y'all keep campaigning on shit like this but where's the action and it's it's fucked up to think that's why in my mind i'm like the problem with so many of the the decisions that are made in this country because the people that make the, they're so far removed from the impact of their action or inaction The senators were like, yo, man, we got to

get our shit together quick. We need to keep people the fuck away from the fucking ghouls in the Supreme Court that actually make the decisions that cause a lot of this death and destruction. But they're insulated and they get to do that. And that's how that's the priority of like leadership is like, OK, you get to this high place place of status but also we'll do everything we can to insulate you from the horrific shit that you'll do and then you don't have to really live with it deal great yeah i've had all these thoughts before we've had all these conversations before nothing happens like what i don't know yeah i mean i think honestly and if a politician's out here in general and no one offers a solution, like just just get the fuck out. But we're we're past that. I mean, I think it was Chris Murphy, who's a senator from Connecticut, who was begging people to do something about gun control ever since Sandy Hook, because I was in his state.

He was looking around the Senate and be like. How many of you are here to like do shit? Right. And, you know, it's kind of a, like, like I love that sentiment, but I,

you know, a lot of people are guilty of inaction up there, but truly like we're, we're not like, we're just not wrestling with these like very basic fucked up flaws that we have in our ideas of governance and what taking care of each other actually means or what that definition is because yeah we've completely incentivized corporations to get involved with politics at the cost of regular people having to be shot and killed or whatever

and live with those threats as you know just clock ticks on it's the same shit the steve kerr video i didn't know about his dad but i saw someone like in the comments and you know being like here's why he's so emotional i mean hopefully he's just also emotional about it because it's fucking tragedy but it is i was thinking like oh yeah it's just like a given that, you know, you're just going to experience in your life a lot of violence and death. And if you don't, you know, preventable violence. And if you don't, you know, count yourself very lucky. But it's just like, oh, yeah, like his dad died from gun violence. And so he's upset about this.

It's like, I don't know. They did still go on to play a basketball game though by the way like you know i'm warriors fan but i do think it's interesting to be like let's not talk about basketball because a horrible tragedy occurred no no we're gonna play the game yeah no we're still we're gonna be out there well i think yeah he's just also selling hot dogs and shit yeah pointing to the absurdity right is like we have to and i did appreciate that, we have to punctuate that. Yeah. We have to punctuate our lives with this shit.

And then we're expected to keep carrying on. Yeah. But it does. There is a debt that adds up on our psyches to look at this constantly. And for people who think there isn't, you're mistaken. Like it may be manifest in a number of different ways. think it there isn't that you're you're mistaken like it may be manifest in a number of different ways but to constantly look at how this society operates and have that reflected back to you over and over and over again does a lot to your idea of like like i said even my own sense of

humanity yeah is ideal i'm like you know fucking like having a reckoning with that because i'm like in a fucking like having a reckoning with that. Cause I'm like, I, I've, I think being desensitized was my only serve is my only survival mechanism at the moment other than who, who knows what to just completely crumble. And yeah, I, like, you know,

I'd love to hear somebody in a position of leadership, like actually take some action here but Steve Kerr they're you know they're right but I mean like that's what I mean like yeah that's all like Steve Kerr who's a basketball coach and people are like he must have had let's look into his backstory to figure out what made him snap it, no, this is the very basic human response to what happened. But nobody ever exhibits it. Like nobody does that. And so he's a standout in just having an emotion about 20 kids dying, you know, being slaughtered.

Like, you're like, and I even did it. I'm like, man, I fucking love this guy. You know, but he's like, yeah, that shouldn't be heroic. It should just be a basic response. Right. And meanwhile, we saw like, you know, there's like interactions with like Beto O'Rourke and Governor Abbott like that day when they're having a press conference. But like. It's just wild to even see how Republicans even respond to this, you know, like that you can tell they've completely given up on any idea of like a world where this doesn't happen because if they did they'd probably express more outrage i don't think i think a lot of the leaders believe like that's just not worth it and in fact it's like a good culture war piece to keep playing

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paint playing bully ball down here yeah I okay so pivoting in the in like NBA history Miles and Jack got mad boosties. Yeah, that's true. Check the receipts. With Mountain Dew, obviously, people know this is a Dew home. This is a Dew house. I was raised on the Dew. Jack was born in the Dew.

Yeah. Lives in the Dew. You merely adopted it, Miles. Here's my question. I like to think I know a lot about Mountain Dew. Amy, you said you've seen you've been across this cursed earth and seen many of the flavors off the top of your head about four liters a day in high school every yeah okay so everybody's got their credentials everyone's

established as an authority on this how many flavors of mountain dew do you think there are available to an american oh'm going to say 20. Okay. I was going to say 23. I feel like we're short. Like, this is all saying, like, knowing I'm going to lose this game. I think 23. Like, we got your, I'm just, like, thinking of, like, the number of colors I've seen.

Right. You got your pink. You got your white. You got your red. You got your blue. And you got classic do. Purple. Purple is the new You got classic dew. Purple. Purple is the new one that is apparently... Orange.

Baja Blast. Baja Blast. You know how many there are? 32. What? There are 32 flavors of Mountain Dew. This is both psychic and dyslexic. Yeah.

Like, I'm feeling 23. It was 32. Well, the numbers were there. And there's like, there's levels to it, right? There's Mountain Dew that are sold in grocery stores. There's Mountain Dew that you can only get through exclusive partnerships. And there's online only Mountain Dew flavors. Oh shit.

So they're like fucking Pokemon. If you had to go, if you want to try one you know like you can't get i didn't even realize buffalo wild wings has their own fucking flavor neither did i what flavor is it sounds good i'm gonna get it it's called legend legend mate at kroger they have an exclusive exclusive called thrashed apple oh Oh, right. The Dollar General has Maui burst. Like, each place has their own. I imagine the Buffalo Wild Wings flavor not being spicy, but tasting like blue cheese. Because it has to accompany the wings.

Right, right, right. Yeah. And it's blue also. Legend. Legend. If you're winging it. I love it. I had the, there was a Christmas varietal that was flavored as gingerbread. Let's not use varietal.

Let's not use wine terms for Mountain Dew. That's all I have. That's all I have, Amy. I will not give you this one. That's all I have. He's a sommelier for dew. And it actually was better than I expected it to be. I did feel sick after I drank it, but it was still,

that was probably just the fact that I drank a Mountain Dew as a 41-year-old man. Was it candy cane-y or apple cider-y? No, no, it was gingerbread. Oh, disgusting. Right? Yeah. I have seen those. I like the packaging.

Absolutely. Like, I got it as a bit for, I got one. Jamie Loftus had one with me. And we were both like, that is what that would taste like if they made a gingerbread Mountain Dew. Bad, but like not as bad as you would think. Absolute chemical shit. There's a Flamin' Hot Cheetos one, right? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Major Melon is, if you can just get past any thoughts of chapstick, Major Melon is really good. Wait, what? It is very watermelon-y, like watermelon candy, but there is like a finish to the flavor, Amy. A finish. A nutty, oaky, wet stone. No, it finishes with a waxy moment.

There's just a moment. What are the undertones, Jack? Melon. It's one big undertone of just melon. Wait, when you say that it's chap, you mean sort of like Vaseline, like petroleum jelly? I don't know if I just made it up. Lip smackers, I think, is maybe what you're talking about. Yeah, lip smackers.

Have you ever used watermelon chapstick, Miles? No, I was in a CarMax house. That's the worst i was a mother as a child eating some watermelon chapstick and this might just be like right hardwired into my yeah carmax yeah we always had it all my memories are my dad pulling out his pocket and unscrewing it and there's so much shit stuck on the cap like is this medicine yeah but you know i was that kid with like the chap ring around like i would look like crazy and then yeah they're like you have to use this it's it is medicine you look crazy you can't put watermelon lip smackers on your face wound just like on an outline they're like uh this feels like some

kind of clown makeup or something you do yeah i had that dry ass chapped ring yeah couldn't stop sucking on my lips like look as a kid too and i remember constantly being like my my mom would implore me like please just fucking use this and i'm like it hurts too much and i didn't have the patience to to let it work anyway i got past that my lips are less chapped these days but yeah carmax all day i think they're at their best when there is not a specific object a specific food item that they're trying to approximate apparently purple thunder is great i've yet to be able to you know find time to go to a circle okay that's it that's another thing they seem i don't feel like they have enough of a handle they're no they're not like the great nba players who are like i'm gonna save it

for like the finals and then just like put up 50 in the finals because they apparently, you know, Baja Blast, obviously, I think, widely regarded as the best or one of the two best Mountain Dew flavors. And apparently Purple Thunder is like has entered the conversation. They nailed it, but they did that for Circle K. Yeah. Like that. I feel like you don't use that on Circle K. Well, look, that's that's our regional bias coming in.

Because we're in a Circle K desert. That's true. I like the Circle K. I like the system, too. I think it's really cool of Mountain Dew to be like, hey, do you have a corporation? Do you want your own flavor? We got you.

I've never heard of that before. Hey, we're cool. Hey, corporation, want flavor? I want a person to do it. own flavor we got you like i've never heard of that before hey we're cool hey corporation want flavor i want a person to do it like i'm waiting for one famous person to have their own do flavor like how tight would that be i think honestly i want to see some i want to see some collabs with human beings well and they're like they're nice with the colors too because baja blast is now like it's like tiffany blue you know. It's like become like a thing. It's a beautiful color.

I see people dyeing their hair Baja Blast. Get an eyeliner. The whole nursery. The color story is just a circle K after an earthquake is what we have going on in here. I love it. They're scientists. But you know what, Jack? We might have to

make that sojourn to the circle K for that purple drink yeah amy what what is your favorite varietal sorry uh flavor as as the lay people call it oh i mean i honestly haven't had that many but i mean i have to go i love a diet baja blast it's so It's so refreshing. They've got Diet Baja? Yeah, Taco Bell, you can get Diet Baja. Okay, Diet Baja. Because I'm not trying to have all that sugar, but I do want the caffeine. For sure, for sure. I feel you.

Miles, do you eat Baja? I'm Baja. I'm Baja Blast all day. You know, I respect the culture, the Baja culture. If I had my own flavor, I think it was just, it was just tastes like red. There's red. You know, like when you're a kid, you know how, when you're a kid, your favorite candy flavor, just like whatever the red one is. Yeah.

Like that cherry off. Yeah. Like really lean the fuck into that. Like to the point where if you had to taste it, you're like, it has a nightmarish aftertaste that reminds me of sniffing those colored markers that came in that like, remember those scented, thick ass colored markers

we used to have back in the day? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Like they had like the little styrofoam tray and shit. You know what I'm talking about? Like that.

Cause I used to love sniffing that red marker. That would be the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. That's me. Just take that. Look,

collab with the marker people. Bring out the whole palette based on those markers. Except for the black licorice one. I'm not fucking with that one. They should do one with Sharpie. I liked the smell of Sharpies. You would. A Sharpie Mountain Dew collab. Let me get a

whiteout Mountain Dew. Can I get some metallic Krylon spray paint in a paper bag flavor wait hold on you just fluffed up the spray paint so i am a baja blast fan as well but i am also like i i don't know that it's that far ahead of the original and i do think that the original like people like if it was made available everywhere all the time like as available as the original I do wonder if it would

suffer a little bit from the McDonald's breakfast where like once they made it available it was like yeah it's still good but it like loses it's a little bit for me only like that's... Teach their own.

Yes. Amy, such a pleasure having you. Oh, so good to be here. Thank you. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? My website's amymillercomedy.com. My album, you can stream a couple places, but not all of them anymore, as we know.

It's called California King. Yeah, you can also buy it on the Blonde Medicine website. That's my label. Oh, and if you live in Indianapolis, can you come see me? That would be great. I'll be at Helium Indianapolis in the middle of June. And yeah, follow me on Instagram, Amy Miller Comedy. Hell yeah.

What's one of your favorite towns to hit besides Indianapolis, which I know would be your answer, but like underrated town to hit? Oh, underrated town. Well, I love performing in Omaha. I'm doing a festival there this summer. Omaha's always fun. I hear a lot of good things about Omaha. Yeah.

Shout out Omaha Zeitgang. Yeah. One of my favorite shows of my life in Birmingham. Also hear good things about that. Okay, B-Ham. Yeah. Yeah, look, I've been to Omaha. I had a friend of mine who was from out there, and I went just, like, on a whim, because I

was like, man, I don't think I'll ever have a reason to go to Nebraska, but he was going back for, like, Halloween. I was like, let me come me come with you and i was like this shit is like some fucking y'all really in a cornfield maze on halloween the fuck is this also shout out runza that like local uh like hot pocket food that they got that like local fast food chain in nebraska shout out that shout that out all day um is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying, Amy? Oh, yeah. I just want everyone to follow Sean Keen.

You guys know Sean, right? He's just Sean Keen, K-E-A-N-E, on Twitter. Mostly because he's, like, physically climbing Mount Everest right now. What? But still tweeting about the Warriors. And I just find that really funny. Wow. but still tweeting about the warriors and i just find that really funny somehow found a bar at the top of the mountain to like do a set i think that was a joke but he is holding a microphone yeah follow sean keen i don't know they're all funny i'm just like why don't why are you tweeting at all you're literally climbing mount ever. The only not lazy comedian I've ever met.

Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray. Basketball podcast, check out. Miles and Jack got mad boosties. An NBA podcast. Keeps chugging along. Comes out every day.

New episode. Or not every day. Every Thursday. New episode out today. Also check out 420 Day Fiance with sophie alexandra and i be like 90 day um some tweets that i like this one is from just so you know like i think et just turned 40 that film just just had its like 40th anniversary recently and at throne of blood tweeted in like a parenthetical grabbing et by the throat don't fucking touch me man like a very weird visual hey i told you my kid didn't like it so you know yeah

oh and then another one uh at pretty boy navi navi tweeted huh both of mine you took both oh i've been sitting on that one for a couple days oh, were you going to do that? I've been sitting on that one for a couple days. Oh, shit. So you're also saying that my pick was old as fuck? I had five I wanted to do yesterday, and I was like, I could save some of these for tomorrow. That's how that went for it. Okay, I'll let you do that.

Because I want to hear you deliver this one. All right. A tweet I've been enjoying from Navi. MFs in New York feel like I take the train to school. All right, Harry Potter. Nailed it. Nailed it. Wallace.

Nailed it. On the dismount. You're going to be at Helium also, right? Opening for Amy in Indianapolis. We're switching orders now. He's actually headlining. Yeah, I'm headlining. It's pretty...

I think we all know what's good. You actually just say, what else, for 30 minutes straight. What else? What else? What else? An absurdist set. So the news. People keep booing.

Have you guys seen this stuff, man? Boo. What the fuck is this What's he doing up there You guys know how many flavors of dew there are 32 That's right There's a flaming hot one

Can you believe it He's just saying stuff There's no punchlines Oh man our flag means death That's a show I'm pretty sure man But also death. That's a show. I'm pretty sure, man. But also, you know, to thank her.

Anyways, what else? What else? All right. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien, which you are all obviously rushing to do right now. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website dailyzeitgeist.com where we post our episodes on our footnotes where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy miles what song are we sending people to go

check out uh this song it feels playful but also really relevant at the moment. It's a track by Soccer 96 and Alabaster Deplume collaboration. The track is called I Was Gonna Fight Fascism. And it's a very catchy song. The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory about someone who's very apathetic. But when you listen to it you might be like yeah that's that's not a good look to say i almost did that so yes this is soccer 96 with i was gonna fight fascism i i ate harry potter oh fuck so oh please still trying to deliver it right

that was that last the second one was like an improvement. I'm not saying it was perfect. I, Harry Potter. Oh, that was better. Okay, cool. Anyways, The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts

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