The Daily Zeitgeist - Make Executive Time Fun Again; AVATAR IS REALISTIC, STFU 2.14.19

Episode Date: February 14, 2019

In episode 329, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Blair Socci to discuss new innovations in indulgence, American's not being able to pay back their car loans, Trump's new golf simulator, a current day measles outbreak, Ihlan Oman's comments about AIPAC, GOP removing Colin Kaepernick's name from Black History Month bill, a check in with Howard Schultz, James Cameron's thoughts on Aquaman, the new movie Yesterday, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. I tried all of the Häagen-Dazs boozy ice creams and they were like alcoholic versions of childhood treats2. The Internet Is Irrationally Hyped About Panera’s Double Bread Bowl3. Just Released: Auto Loans in High Gear4. Trump installs new 'golf simulator' at White House: report5. ‘A Match Into a Can of Gasoline’: Measles Outbreak Now an Emergency in Washington State6. Measles Outbreak Swells to 49, First Adult Over 30 Diagnosed7. MEASLES INVESTIGATION8. Parents Are at War Over Measles Outbreak9. ‘It will take off like a wildfire’: The unique dangers of the Washington state measles outbreak10. The rise of anti-vaxxer bots: Fake news is going viral — & it’s bad for our health11. Omar: 'I unequivocally apologize' after backlash over new Israel tweets12. Join AIPAC's Congressional Club13. WI GOPers Blocked Black History Month Bill Until Kaepernick’s Name Removed14. Howard Schultz on the Starbucks racial profiling incident15. James Cameron slams Aquaman, a movie where sharks shoot frickin' lasers, for its lack of realism 16. WATCH: Yesterday Trailer #1 (2019) | Movieclips Trailers17. WATCH: James Blake- Mile High (feat. Travis Scott and Metro Boomin) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Or Lacey gets it. Do it. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 69, Episode 4 of The Daily Zeitgeist. The podcast where we take a deep dive into where we share consciousness. It's Thursday, February 14th. Happy Valentine's Day. It's 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Ready or Not Daily Zite.

Taking over the Buffalo Podsters. Low-cut clownsters. I, Jack O'Brien, my man's Miles Gray. Cut your pod short like Anna Hosnier. Courtesy of Infinite Content on Twitter. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. I'm Ed O'Brien, and he hit me to the zeitgang to simulate and activate the left and right brain.

Said, baby boy, you only funky as your last cut. You focus on the past, your ass will be a has-what. That's one to live by or either that one to die to. I just tried to throw it to you, determine your own adventure, Miles Gray. Okay, wow. I had to sweat through that one. It's been a while since I sang that one,

but thank you to Matthew Cummins for that. Rosa Parks, because it's Black History Month, outcast, inspired, a.k.a. Well, not because it's Black History Month, but it just happens to be Black History Month. No, that was good. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you to Matthew.

Bad news for my wife. When I read that it was Valentine's Day, that was the first time that I thought about the fact that it was Valentine's Day since we did that story a couple days ago. Yesterday you were out in the field. I was out yesterday in the clouds. Fighting for your meal.

Alright, well, we are thrilled to be joined by the hilarious comedian and performer Blair Saki. Hi everyone. Hello. How are you? I'm really well the hilarious comedian and performer Blair Saki. Hi, everyone. Hi. Hello. How are you?

I'm really well, thank you. Those raps are so cool. I'm so impressed. Rank one. Who's better, me or him? Yours was obviously better. Oh, my gosh. Don't poison the well, Jack.

Okay. That's a really cutthroat thing. I'm not trying to rank anyone right now. I'm thinking about Valentine's Day. Yeah. What are you doing for Valentine's Day? Not to blow your minds. Oh, wow.

You are cracking up. But I have a show. You have a show? Yeah, but I also love Valentine's Day. It's my favorite holiday. It is? Is it really? Yeah.

Oh, wow. You strike me as someone- Of course. That's why we had you on for Valentine's Day. Oh, really? You strike me as someone who would be like, man, I don't really fuck with Valentine's Day. But you really, I see your manicure is in the spirit of the season. Oh, yeah.

No, I love Valentine's Day. I love love. Like, big fan of it. Oh, okay. Yeah. That's a controversial take. Yeah. Oh, thank you.

What do you like about love? I think it's just the reason that we're put on earth and it makes you feel good. It's fun. I think it's just the reason that we're put on earth and it makes you feel good. It's fun. I think it makes sex better. You get to do fun things on Valentine's Day. Have you ever had sex on Valentine's Day? Yeah. Whoa.

Yeah. It makes it so much better. What's the thing about Valentine's Day that you're like, oh, I finally, because it's Valentine's Day, Valentine's, wow, I'm in sixth grade, Valentine's Day. Yes. That sounds like another rap. What's the thing you do like, oh, I finally, because it's Valentine's Day, Valentine's. Yeah, Valentine's. I'm in sixth grade, Valentine's Day. Yes. That, what's like the thing you do? You know what I mean?

Like that, like you go, oh, it's time. This is the thing I do because it's Valentine's Day. Well, I'm single right now, but usually, historically, I've had really great boyfriends that have always like done wild ass Valentine's Day things. What's the best? What's the most elaborate? Take it, oh, Take it on trip. Last year, my ex-boyfriend took me to the spa,

and then we went to dinner, but then we got in a fight. There you go. We were going to go see him. That's how you know you're a real couple, fighting on Valentine's Day. We got in a fight because he said he wanted our wedding to have 500 people, and I said, no, bitch, we're having a small wedding, okay? Wow.

And so then we got in a legit fight about that because neither of us backed down. But we're not together anymore. Yeah. Is that because of that? No, no. Because you couldn't agree on how big you wanted your wedding to be? It ended that night. No, no, no.

It ended way later than that, but yeah. 500 is a big-ass wedding. Was he Indian? No. Oh, okay. Yeah. He was like... Slightly Catholic. If he had it his way, he would have, I don't know,

fucking Skrillex performing and everyone be on Molly. He was like, look, I don't know fucking Skrillex performing and like everyone be on like Molly. He was like look I don't believe weddings are like about the girl. He was like a groomzilla. 2018 take. Groomzilla is amazing.

That should be it's own show. Just find the only men who are like this has to be perfect for me. Skrillex performing and we all cheers with Molly water. Literally, that's his dream. He's like a jug of Molly water, but it's like low dose. So you could go ham on it, and if you're really trying to roll hard, you could drink a lot. Anyway.

Groom thoughts. Blair, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about today. know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about today. We're going to cover a couple new innovations in indulgences. That's a new segment. Thank you, Martin Luther. We are going to talk about some bad economic indicators that are popping up, some Trump golf simulating, just new additions to Trump's executive time. And then we're going to talk about anti-vaxxers and the fact that there is a measles outbreak here in 2019.

All of that and more. But first, Blair, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, my last Google is Richard Lewis. Richard Lewis? Yeah. What's he up to? Well, someone noted from my show last night, they're like, hey. Richard Lewis? Yeah. What's he up to? Well, someone noted from my show last night, they're like, hey, Richard Lewis is here. And I was like, oh, no.

Who the fuck is Richard Lewis? Oh, fuck. Really? Oh, man. He's Richard. I wrote about, sick. That's so tight. And then I Googled it.

And then I was like, oh, he's on Curb Your Enthusiasm and a famous comedian. Yeah. You guys have very similar enthusiasm and a famous comedian. Yeah. You guys have very similar energies. Oh, yeah, yeah. I was going to say, you're the 2019 Richard Lewis. Oh, I love that. I love that for me. Yeah, you're so dark and neurotic.

Yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Oh, Mary Poppins movie. New one? Yeah, Mary Poppins Returns. Also yeah mary poppins returns also crocs okay oh hell yeah let's talk crocs okay what is underrated about them do you well you're a cozy i we need to get into your face just changed when you just said what's underrated about crocs you're a sunny disposition to a fucking scowl you're like the, what the fuck do you mean underrated by me? Wow, Blair. Are you rocking Crocs?

Oh, no, I'm not, but I thought about it, but then I was like, not good for the rain. Yeah, it is raining here and cold here in southern Los Angeles. But you just like them. You like the breathability, the comfort. The cushioning. Oh, yeah. Also, sometimes I just like things that everyone hates because I love an underdog. You know what I mean?

Like all my friends, I'm like, why are you going so hard on Crocs? Do you even know someone who wears Crocs? Have you even seen someone wearing Crocs in your life? Have you even thought to understand what that person's life's like? Have you even walked a mile in their Crocs? That person's life's like? Have you even walked a mile in their Crocs? Right.

And so recently I picked up a pair with my mom and their platform Crocs, which they said it couldn't be done. They did. But I found them. So I'm living a really good life in them. I love it. I feel like Crocs is one of those outgroup things that the liberal elites just decided, like, ah, the only people who live in the middle of the country wear Crocs. Let's all shit on that. I know a lot of liberals who wear Crocs. Really? I don't know why.

It did become a thing to make fun of. Like Anne Hathaway, just for no reason. What'd she say? Oh, like just hating on Anne Hathaway? Oh, you're saying Anne Hathaway. I thought you said Anne Hathaway hated on Crocs. She's the Crocs of people. Yeah, Anne Hathaway is a great example of somebody the world turned on because of that one bad Oscar hosting thing.

Or I don't even know if it was because of that. Just one day, they're like, yeah, I hate Anne. And someone else is like, yeah, I also hate Anne. And it's like, fuck you guys. Actually, wait. Does everybody else? Oh, fuck. I'm still mad at everyone for that.

I think it's just, okay, this is what everybody's agreed on, so I can get out my jokes about bad things, basically. And it's an inherently uncreative and insecure way to be, where you're just taking other people's opinions, basically. You said it, Jack. But you know what? Croc powered everybody out there. Yeah, yeah.

Crocking it up and the new mary poppins is good the music's good if when i say wow it's changed again you just went somewhere ethereal wow it was magic i didn't know i could feel that way again at this age i encourage everyone out there to see it i I mean, Emily Blunt, spectacular. Right. It was so good. I loved the fucking acid, trippy, wild magic parts. So good.

Okay. I didn't even know there were acid, trippy, wild magic parts. So now I am excited and going to watch that. Just full disclosure, you are a producer on the film that does have points on the back end, right? No, I wish that for me. Wow got super hollywood to kids show business there's so many things that i endorse so full-heartedly you know um that i will receive nothing back from but you know that's okay maybe someone out there from the crocs world is listening i mean i hope so what's something you think is overrated?

Oh, matcha. I fucking hate matcha. What are we doing? Everyone agreed here? This shit is disgusting. One day I walk in and I was like, I'm gonna get on board. I'm gonna be healthy with this green shit in my body. Literally tastes like toilet dirt. Why are you guys all lying to yourselves? Wow. Is toilet

dirt a clean word for poo? Right. Toilet dirt is a- I have to go toilet dirt in the potty. I made some toilet dirt. What do you mean by it? So you mean just green tea? No, no, no.

No, no, no. Two distinct products. But I mean, yeah, but matcha powder to make green tea. I mean, I'm thinking of Japanese green tea. Is that what you're talking about? No but matcha powder to make green tea. I mean, I'm thinking of Japanese green tea. Is that what we're talking about? No, matcha, like, actually, I don't actually know the whole background and origins and history and connections. So how did you have it? Because matcha is green tea.

In Japan, yeah. Yeah, but it's like, so it's just too, everyone is, like, going wild about it, these matcha lattes. And I think they do have, do have a lot of health properties. But they taste horrible, and all my friends act like it's the truth. And they get these $7 matcha lattes, and they're like, it's so fucking good, I can't even start my day without my matcha latte. And I wanted a try, and I was like, I'll try anything. I'll try anything.

It's weird to have it as a latte. So I'm assuming they put powdered green tea into a normal latte? I tried. I was like, I'll try anything. I'll try anything. It's weird to have it as a latte. I mean, like. Yeah. So I'm assuming they put green tea, like powdered green tea into a normal latte? Yeah. Is that what's happening? They have them. I tried at Starbucks once, but like the powder doesn't fully dissolve.

What's that? Starbucks? Yeah, Starbucks. Oh, what is it? I'm not familiar. Did you like it? Wrap in? What is it?

No. Yeah, what did it taste like to you? I like drinking like just like matcha with like hot water. Yeah, I like actual green tea. I love green tea, but I don't think they taste anything alike. I can't even find, besides the green part. Right. Yeah, I think just because the way they process it is maybe a bit different than green tea we're used to.

Yeah. But yeah, if it tastes like totally dirt, don't drink that shit. I can't. I can't go back i gotta be true to myself yeah but shout out to shamrock shakes which were the original green beverage creamy green beverage or old milk yes the true the one and only the true green green drink it's the one piece of irish heritage i'm proud of is the shamrock shake that mcdonald would make every once in a while uh what. Finally, what is a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false? Okay, I want to put this out there, but everyone thinks that short guys have small wieners, and they don't. All right. All right. Let's talk about it. Go on. Go off.

Go off, Kings. Please go off for the short Kings. Okay, sorry, my mom, if you're listening to this but um in my own experience and the data and evidence that i have empirically collected um that's just not true like i've seen some short guys with huge dongs and they're out there just living their lives and no one knows what no one expects it um so sometimes i don't think that they get the credit or the people um they don't expect that and tall dudes too there could be some mishaps there yeah no exactly there's a jack there's all right i wasn't gonna i wasn't gonna say any names in particular

how the hell is he on every commercial ever, then? Don't matter, man. He's so tall. Don't ask about the D, though. But yeah, I think that that is, like, sometimes your body size doesn't have a lot to do with your penis size. And so, or you could have, like, Shaq could have a normal-sized penis, but because he is the biggest human being ever, it looks like a normal-sized penis on a truck. So it's just gonna look small. Right. Imagine truck nuts on an airplane.

Right, exactly. They look tiny. But with small dudes, like, I'm sure a normal-sized penis on them looks big, you know? Relatively? I'd like to say even on the more macro level, like, I'm an advocate for short dudes. Okay. Yeah, like, a lot of times I short dudes. Okay. Yeah, like,

a lot of times I think they have big personalities if it doesn't swing too far the other way. To like a Napoleon complex? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

exactly, because that can also happen, but. Although Napoleon would have been fun to date. I think they're nicer to girls, like, they're probably better boyfriends

because, you know, and I think they have good sized dicks for the most part. All right. Stand up for short kings. Shout out to short kings.

I got your back, guys. Yes. Awesome. What's short? What do you consider short? Like six foot. Is it compared to you? Six foot one. You're like, yeah, six three.

Look, I played volleyball. So to me, that's short in the volleyball world. When I dated a few like huge dudes from college, like the girls on my volleyball team would be like, dude, fuck you. How dare you? Oh, because they're like, I need that. team, would be like, dude, fuck you. How dare you? Oh, because they're like, I need that. I'm a middle blocker.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, I need somebody at 6'5". Yeah, exactly. But my last boyfriend was 5'7". Okay, yeah. Yeah. Would also be a defensive specialist, probably. Yeah, probably.

There you go. But he likes juju, too, so. Oh, Jits Mob? All right. Jits Mob. Yo, Jits Mob? All right. Jits Mob. Yo, Jits Mob was a gang in high school. Yes, in LA. Used to go around fucking people up using jujitsu, breaking people's arms on arm bars.

Oh, my God. And they're like, yeah, man, we'll go to fucking BHJJC, Beverly Hills Jujitsu Club. Whoa. BHJJC. Yo, Jits Mob. Beverly Hills gang? Whoa. Well, they were like, I think they're people from different, I'm sure people, if you're from LA, you remember Jetsmob, holler at me about Jetsmob, but like, that was like

a thing. They would pull up to parties. Dang, I'm glad you're okay. Oh yeah. They mostly picked on like white kids. Oh. I was okay. Oh.

I was like, get away from me with that dumb shit. Oh. Let's talk about some new innovations in indulgence. Mm-hmm. So we have two new innovations to talk about. Super producer Ana Hosnier this morning sent the group a message about alcoholic ice cream, boozy ice cream treats from Haagen-Dazs. What is it? It is.

Just booze ice cream. Yeah, just booze flavored ice cream. There's one that's like stout. That's like a stout flavored. So there's the ones you would expect, like Irish cream. Irish cream brownie. Yeah, Irish cream brownie. But then there's stout chocolate pretzel crunch.

So it's like Guinness flavored ice cream with chocolate and pretzels in it. Do you need an ID to buy that? I think so. I think there's's literally alcoholic content. It's less than 0.5% ABV. So you're not going to get drunk. Yeah. Unless you melt a bunch of them shits down and beer bong them.

Dang, that sucks. Rum tres leches. Tres leches? Is that something we went to high school with? Yeah. Tres leches. Oh, my bad. Was it with Tres At It's Tres Leches. Oh, my bad. Was it with Trace Atkins?

Trace. And then Amaretto, Black Cherry, Almond Toffee. Okay. I mean, all that sounds decent to me. Is there a need to... Is it really actually changing the flavor because of that little bit of alcohol? I don't know. Yeah, maybe.

Have you ever had Rum Raisin? It tastes better if there's a little, a little bit of, like, when it tastes authentically alcoholic. I think it's a little bit better. I remember high school, my homegirls, they used to bake Kahlua brownies. And just because you could taste a little bit of Kahlua in them, they would, like, sell them to people like they would get you fucked up. Right.

And that was, like, a side hustle. Shout out to Maggie. Oh, my God. On the volleyball team. You know what I mean? Yeah. Wait, what? That would, I'd be so bummed.

Like they're selling a lie. Like, cause you think alcoholic ice cream, you're like, oh, I'm going to get buzzed from this, but the alcohol content is not enough. So that it's just like you're adding more calories to your fucking ice cream. It's an infusion. That's what they just call it. An infusion. Cause they have like adult milkshakes where they are throwing like shots in there.

Right. You know what I mean? But this is just morehakes where they are throwing shots in there. Right. You know what I mean? But this is just more like- And I do think they're selling a lot because the Amaretto Black Cherry Toffee Almond has a literal shot of liquor on the label. Right. They're just like, yeah. So you want to put this down?

With just the right amount of sweet, this non-dairy ice cream is a delight for anyone who prefers fruit-flavored ice cream to the traditional chocolate or vanilla base with a strong nutty flavor balancing out the black cherry amaretto swirls. This creation was so smooth and creamy I couldn't even tell it was made without milk. Oh, my God. Beautiful. I do need to give a shout-out to Insider, which is apparently a lifestyle website, for having the worst title in the history of articles that I've ever seen. They said, I tried all of the Haagen-Dazs boozy ice creams and they were like alcoholic versions

of childhood treats. It's like, that is... I think they're just giving you the information in the headline. Yeah. Like, so you don't need to click it anymore. But that is the premise of them.

It was just restating, nah, nevermind. Like, because even this one, from the same website, an Instagram fitness model with 13 million followers was bitten by a pig while trying to take photos

with them in the Bahamas. I don't need to read the article anymore. Right. You could have been like, Instagram fitness model gets in hog wild. Fuck it.

Right. Man, I'll leave them to write the articles. I love that. I love that, though. I want to find out more about her. That title, for me,

is like saying the new Mary Poppins is like a remake of the old Mary Poppins. Right. It's just like, yeah, motherfucker. That's what we knew it was. Paris is the most romantic city in the world. Here are 10 ways to celebrate love and travel. Uh-huh. Yeah.

You know I'd click on that shit. I'm clicking that. How do I celebrate love and travel? Miles, let's talk about double header bread bowls. Oh my, yo. So Panera Bread has lost their damn minds. They put out a double barreled bread bowl soup fucking loaf nobody on earth asked for. What it basically is is like a rustic loaf.

They cut out two big circles in them and it's like a dueling bread bowl that I guess they want it to be like if you're sharing a milkshake with somebody or like a sundae where you can both scoop out of it. I'm not even sure who this is for. I am absolutely their target demo. Would you? Now, okay. Oh, great. Blair, are you going to eat that with someone else, or you have a spoon in your right hand, a spoon in your your left hand and you're just alternating hands scooping out the bread bowl honestly i can see both scenarios happening very easily yeah i would love i am the person i'll sit on the same side as the at the

restaurant with my boyfriend yeah yeah i love that i think it's cute i think that would be really fun to share i also love sharing food i'm italian i love to share i think that's be really fun to share. I also love sharing food. I'm Italian. I love to share. I think that's gorgeous. Mangiare, mi amici. Yeah. You would never do that? No, I don't know. It's just weird.

I've never had a bread bowl and been like, damn, you know what? I wish I could have a double barrel bread bowl to share with my friend. I feel like bread bowls, and maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like bread bowls are one of the most universally loved things. No, don't even. I love a bread bowl. Yeah. It's just that, like, I'm like, yo, I think the bread bowl was peak bread bowl to me.

Right. And now we're jumping the shark with the two. Oh, yeah. You think they're taking it too far. Like, when they try to mix, like, chocolate with bacon and you're like, they're both perfect separate entities. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, I don't mind chocolate bacon.

I don't have a problem with this either. I don't have a problem with it. I'm just sort of like, I don't see how this is going to take Yeah, yeah. But I mean, I don't mind chocolate bacon. I don't have a problem with this either. I don't have a problem with it. I'm just sort of like, I don't see how this is going to take off though. You know, I don't see where this is actually filling like a void

in a market where people are like, oh, thank, okay, great. I'm getting this. Miles, it's a normal indulgence innovation. Find a new slant. Maybe it's a stunt

like the McRib. You saw how that took off. Yeah. That's true. Well, I think, you know, they're dropping it around Valentine's Day so they want to be like, yo, split a bowl of broccoli cheese soup on one side. Oh. That's true. Well, I think, you know, they're dropping it around Valentine's Day, so they want to

be like, yo, split a bowl of broccoli cheese soup on one side. Oh, that's what I can do. And tomato. I know where I'm going tomorrow. Yeah, it looked like the biggest fucking asshole. What'd you get, babe? Oh, close your eyes, my dude. Oh, my God.

I'd take her to a Panera with her blindfold. Yeah, satin blindfold. What's that? Would she like that? What does she like? Oh, I don't know. Your wife, yeah. She would be like, I'm taking the kids.

Fuck out of here. We're moving to Pittsburgh. No, she would be happy with anything. She is a great wife. Wow. That's so nice. Because I would be out on the street. Let's talk about some negative economic indicators.

Yeah. So this is news to me. All I've heard is just fire stats about the economy. Dude, economy's blowing up. This Trump economy can't be stopped. It's a runaway train going out of control. Yep. I don't know.

No, let's keep that train going. Look, I pay a lot of attention to economic indicators. And so you were saying, Miles, that one of the indicators back in 08 was that 5.5 million Americans couldn't pay their car note. Yeah. And were more than 90 days behind on their car note. And that was like, right before the crash, some people were like, huh, that's weird. People can't keep up with their car.

Anyways, bye, bye, bye. Hey, keep it going, baby. Let's keep lending people money. Well, right before 2008, five and a half million were more than 90 days behind on their car payment. In 2019- Are we getting close to that? Oh yeah.

In 2019, Federal Reserve of New York just said there are more than 7 million car loans that are more than 90 days past due. Now, it's, you know, apparently the auto loan business has been booming. And, like, they are approving people who probably might not be able to, you know, don't have the credit to actually get a loan. Right. But, you know, people have to get around, whatever. I mean, that could have something to do with the fact that the, you know, car buying and car leasing is probably going down because millennials I hear are killing that.

Yeah, because we're broke as fuck. Right. And also because of Uber and shit like that. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. So, I mean, a lot of people are like, yeah, I mean, they're starting to slip. It was more that they weren't sort of sounding off alarm bells, but a lot of people were like, oh, this was a precursor to another recession and big event. bells but a lot of people were like oh this was a precursor to another recession and big event uh but you know if the auto loan industry collapses it's not as you know a huge threat to the economy

like the mortgage industry collapsing yeah with people's homes but still i mean it's definitely a sign that many people are unable to manage their bills are overextended and also i think too with america being so like so consumption heavy and celebrity worshipped on the shit you have, a lot of people can get upside down on a car payment because they're like I'm not buying a used car. I want the charger with rims. And it's like, but I work at Panera Bread.

And you're like, hey, easy now. Let's spend within our means. But yeah, I think it's definitely a sign that at the very least people are having are stretched a bit thin. You know, that's, just go with something sensible. Nothing wrong with a used car. A few days of Postmates that gets going ahead of you, I can see how those car payments aren't getting made. Exactly.

Irresponsible. Not talking about me. Yeah, but hey, look, that Rolls Royce Wraith that you have is that you have sick as fuck yo that shit is tight thank you it's uh the most important thing in my life yeah what's your what's your monthly payment again yeah you said six grand fuck it you know all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now.

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And we're back. And we're back. And while President Deals has been negotiating his way into $1.4 billion of wall funding, or $1.6 billion, I forget how many. But it's exactly what was offered at the outset. $1.375 billion. Okay, my bad, my bad. Right. I think the first deal was like around $1.6 billion, $1.7 billion. Then they fucked around.

It was like, well, now you're getting 1.3. So he got a worse deal than he started with ahead of the shutdown. Yeah. You know, just basically pulling the nuclear option. And also, look, baby, you know, he just the debt is what, 22 trillion? Right. Okay. You know, President deals that got our back. But what he didn't realize at that time is that the wall is already mostly built

and he only has to like, you know, sure up a few spots. Finish the wall now. So he's down in Texas right now. Drudge is saying he started with six miles of wall, even though the whole idea was to build a wall from sea to shining sea. But he, you know, when he gets tired

of having all this success and doing all these things that are saving America, he has a new plan for killing some time at the office. And by the way, this is fair game that we're looking at how he spends his free time. The right is meanwhile obsessing about how the apartment building that AOC lives in. They're like, does she live in a luxury building? It's like, wait, she's not allowed to live in a nice apartment building? I'm sorry, what?

Yeah, that's a headline right there. Is she living in a home? Right, but she's supposed to be a socialist. Right. Anyways, Trump, since he spends most of his free time in executive time, which is just unstructured free play time, like a preschool, He has gotten a new golf simulator for the Oval Office. Oh, but you know, not to shade him because Obama had one put in, but Trump was like, it's not good enough. And plus it doesn't let you into golf clubs I could get into because a black man

couldn't get into some of these clubs. So I've got a better one. Yeah. It's like, I think $50,000 golf simulator that the white house like he's paying for it out of his own pocket okay but it's just one of those things that has like the screen and you just hit the fucking ball at it and it uh you can apparently play in like just the most storied golf courses right from around the world yeah and it'll like probably adjust the lay so that you can liket on actual contoured greens and shit. Oh, yeah, I wonder. But, I mean, at the very least, what the funny thing was,

I think they also made a statement. But he hasn't been using it in executive time. Uh-huh. Right. Yeah, no, for sure. Just tweeting. Yeah, yeah. He's just doing tweets and watching TV.

Just on his phone. Literally, for the last few weeks, he's tried to see if he could actually swallow a Big Mac whole. But, yeah. but no golf sim that is literally the only thing i respect about him is how hard he rides for mcdonald's yeah are you big mcdonald's fan i love mcdonald's i only um eat it like i don't eat that much because it makes you feel bad but i also think that like in my mind i make it so that the breakfast isn't unhealthy. Yeah, that's breakfast. Yeah, like breakfast

doesn't count. It's only like if you get nasty with some chicken nugs and two cheeseburger combo. Now you're a filthy disgusting person. But if you get

that double stack. That breakfast orange juice though is like crack. I swear to God. So much sugar. It's so good. It's just like

straight to your bloodstream. I only drink it when I'm like hungover but oh it's so fucking good. And it just turns your mouth much sugar. It's so good. It's just like straight to your bloodstream. I only drink it when I'm hungover, but it's so fucking good. And it just turns your mouth inside out because it's so sweet. It's so good. Okay, you believe us? I believe you. I just got a text. Oh. Okay.

You listening, Dad? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever, kid. Three o'clock. Three o'clock. Three o'clock? What? Let's talk about measles. Oh, measles.

A fun, comfortable topic. Yeah. You know. Why are we talking about measles? Because. I thought it was. I thought we declared it eliminated in 2000. Is this stuff you missed in history class?

Yeah. No, because there is a outbreak of measles in the Pacific Northwest in a community that has one of the lowest rates of vaccination. I think 78% is the vaccination rate there versus like 90%. That is not enough for herd immunity. And the reason that so few people are being vaccinated there is not because it's like a, you know, poor place or like, you know,

they don't have the funding. It is a place where parents tend to have beliefs about like vaccination choice is like how, how they're terming it. And it's basically this whole anti-vaxxer campaign that has, that started with a 80s 1980s like study funded by a british doctor that has since been retracted but it was uh published in like a respected paper it's a british journal medicine or something like that right it was i

think it's called the lancet or something like. But they've since retracted it. And it also didn't say that these vaccinations caused autism. It just associated like one type of vaccination with a stomach problem that coincided with autism in some cases. And this doctor realized he could make tons and tons of money by gassing parents up who have children with autism. And he was also, I think, connected to a vaccine, an alternative vaccine to MMR vaccines that he would have profited off of by tearing that one down. Yeah, because I think it's in Clark County, Washington. But yeah, they have like laws where you can just basically say, oh, I'm not vaccinating for non-religious personal philosophical beliefs.

Right. And I think Oregon and Idaho are also places where you can basically make that decision. It's not a law that your child has to be vaccinated if you have personal beliefs. to this guy's paper that kind of fucked the country over. It has also been exacerbated, this anti-vaxxer movement, by the internet. And specifically, Russia and the Internet Research Agency is specifically focused on trying to get anti-vaxxer messaging out there because they just want to see the United States burn. Yeah, well, it's a good wedge issue. They love wedge issues. And this has been a thing that slowly has gained traction because the scientifically illiterate are just listening to hot takes or infographics they see that they're saying, oh, this equals this. And they would love

to see nothing more than a once eradicated disease begin to spread in the United States again. Not that this is all because of Russia, but it's just another element that Russia has identified as a weak point in American society of being like, oh, wow, some of these people don't believe science. Okay, let's fuck with that a little bit. Yeah, and you don't have to be stupid to believe this stuff because there is so much data and information out there for both sides. That's the thing that they've done is they've both sidesed it. So they will put out studies that are saying that vaccines do cause autism, and they'll be like, but there's other people who claim they don't and we're open to both sides. When I just put vaccine into YouTube, the top video is pro-vaccine versus anti-vaccine. Should your kids get vaccinated? That's not even a question. Right.

Yeah. And it's two groups of parents arguing back and forth and it doesn't come down on one side or the other. It's like, you know, well, that's your opinion, but here's our opinion. or the other. It's like, you know, well, that's your opinion, but here's our opinion. And like, these are two okay sides of a like reasonable debate. Just like that Jaboukie tweet. He's like, if my child dies because I didn't want to vaccinate it, that's my opinion. Right. Exactly. You know what I mean? And that's the, that's what's dangerous is because there's so much information out there, misinformation, it keeps people off level footing about what the science is. When a lot of the websites too, when you look at like Facebook too, those, the groups where

parents, like where a lot of anti-vaxxers gather, they're just disseminating like junk science. Yes. And there's never anything that is from a real reputable medical source. And I think because of that one study was that's one, that's like sort of the origin myth that they hang on to despite repeated things be like yo this guy is a quack we have we had to kick him the fuck out right this is not real uh this was a dangerous thing and it caused this this uh this little bit of uh uncertainty among people that allowed this kind of thinking to proliferate and i think when you look at, you know, the numbers, right? Measles on a continuum is much more dangerous than vaccines are when you, if you contract the measles versus like the possibility of some kind of vaccine injury.

And I think they point to these small cases because millions of people get vaccinated. Right. And you can point because of the number, the size of the group, you're like, well, look at all these injuries.

Right. Or this is our perceived injuries. Yeah. That's like Scient scientology like uh claims they have like millions of people in their congregation when they actually only have like 200 000 right they like go like totally lie about all the numbers it's scary though about vaccination like i'm from orange county and when i go back there you look at this as like something that's a total common sense issue and like i said something like i was like at a party and um a lot of my brothers who are a little older than me like everyone has babies and i was like dude who would

not vaccinate a kid like that's the worst thing you could ever do how could you not know that and my brother was like blair there's like plenty of here there's like people here that don't vaccinate their kids and i was like how is that even possible and now people do it on the low too like there's actually like to think like people i know that aren't like vaccinating their kids in orange county like that's not like uh well Well, it's just like I think, you know, a lot of people, because again, there are a lot of scary examples that that just speak to the fear in people that allows people to be like, oh, I don't it's the it's the perceived potential for harm. That is an important thing that I didn't really realize until I started doing research

on this, that, you know, there are cases where getting a vaccine, it's like one in 2,000 times a kid will have a negative reaction to a vaccine. They won't have autism or something like that, but they'll have some negative reaction. And so the absolute 100% safest way to go about things for your kid is have everybody else be vaccinated and your kid doesn't get vaccinated because they're missing out on that one out of 2000 chance that they have a negative reaction and everybody else is vaccinated so you don't need to but that is the most selfish fucking thing you can do because then that doesn't work if everybody does that yeah there are people posting people posting like secretly pulling posts from Facebook

of parents who are anti-vaxxers who have basically ended up getting sick or their kids are. And there's a lot of people like it almost seems common sense. They're like, oh, I didn't vaccinate my child, and now we both have like pertussis. It's like I feel so guilty. What do I do? You missed your opportunity to do something about it but again it's just a really weird thing to me because

it really takes this distrust of science for you to have to take this first step into being like no i'm fucking with this right i feel like a lot of those people are just a little nutty too i'm sorry like they don't like don't believe in climate change or just like wacky shit. That's like, but they are the type of people who will believe in climate change, but they won't.

It's a weird because it's a lot of like people to the very far left who don't vaccinate and very far to the right. But there's also people on the far left who are like,

who are like, you know, I believe in alternative medicine and medicine and i you know like the sorts of people who you encounter in like venice or santa monica when i lived there and i had the same issue where i was like talking about anti-vaxxers being crazy and this mom was like well i'm not an anti-vaxxer but i do believe that we should be able to space the vaccinations out which is like anti-vaxxer light yeah yeah but it's still like because we don't know what doing them bundling them all together does there's like a doctor who is in the southern california area who specializes in teaching people how to do safe vaccines because he knows that there's this fear out there. And so, yeah, it's like anti-vaxxer.

I hate that. It's so sad and bums me out about humanity to think of so many people in the medical profession profiting off of people's fear, concerns, and health. It's so sad. I mean, it can be very confusing. There's a lot of information out there. If you can watch a video about vaccination and it'll be like scientists from Johns Hopkins University Medical School. And, you know, they're first of all, the video that I found is of them describing it is they're they're not good at communicating their message. It's like reading a scientific paper. But they're talking about this study on vaccination. The comments are full of people being like, how dare you? You've sold your soul for profit and stuff like that. And then one of the up next videos is the anti-vaxxers versus people who believe in vaccines videos. But it can be very confusing. There's all the both sides-ism. But here's just an easy test, guys. If the internet research agency from Russia is backing your side, is lying to people, is seeding the internet with your point of view, you need to take a deeper look at your point of view it's not it's probably

not good for the country right russian spies have been like oh here's a way to fuck with somebody like we're gonna take someone's uneven footing on uh something that most people agree are factors has some kind of factual basis and we're gonna exploit it right so yeah good rule of thumb let's talk about something like anti-Semitism. Oh, okay. Wow. And accusations thereof. From anti-vaxxers to anti-Semitism.

Yeah. Semitisms. Anti-Semitism. So there's been a controversy with Representative Ilhan Omar basically being taken to task over a tweet where her language seemed to call to mind some standard anti-Semitic tropes when she said that the politicians' support for Israel is all about the Benjamins. And that kind of ties in with a longstanding anti-Semitic trope about- Like Zionist money. Zionist money.

Controlling government. Yeah. Yeah. She's talking about AIPAC. Right. She's talking about AIP right she's talking about apac and the american israel public affairs committee right and they are a very powerful lobbying group somebody was like uh i'd like to see who you think is paying these politicians uh and she was like oh apac like she just straight up was like this is who i. But this is a thing that is being like, Jeremy Corbyn has been attacked for being anti-Semitic. He's the Labour Party leader who won a surprising election in

England last year. And then because AOC talked to Jeremy Corbyn and had like a public forum conversation with him, she's being like asked asked about whether she should be doing that and whether she is anti-Semitic. So it's a way that people on the right are attacking people on the left. And center left too. And people on the center left are also attacking people on the left. Well, because this whole thing is around conflating criticism of Israel's policies with being hatred towards Jewish people. Right. And that's not the case.

When you're talking about the actions of Israel and the apartheid there and the blockade in Gaza and all this other things, the settlements, just those policies that are costing people their lives, it's a criticism of those policies, not, oh, all Jews are this or that, some kind of weird problematic stereotype. Right. And I think a lot of people don't realize that AIPAC was born out of a need to begin to spin the actions of Israel in the United States, because in the small town of Kibia, there was a massacre that occurred where Israeli soldiers, there was a very disproportionate, what some people describe as a casual mass murder in response to an Israeli woman and child being killed by a Palestinian. And they realized that the outcry in the United States was like, what is going on here? We're supporting this. A few people were like, I think we need to figure

out a way to begin to create a united front in the United States and connecting American Jews to support the actions of Israel and to kind of basically inoculate the United States people to sort of not have a negative look at these kinds of actions. Yeah. And Israel, like for context, Israel is at its most far right. Like it is being controlled by its equivalent of the Trump administration or, you know, the George W. Bush administration. It is like, has been controlled and is being controlled by the like furthest right. So that's why you see a lot of people on the right now taking up this idea of, well, if you criticize them, you're anti-Semitic because then, you know,

that allows them and their ally to get away with enforcing some very, very conservative and war-like policies. Well, I think that's why when you look at this, younger people look at the whole issue a little more holistically. Right. Because support for Israel for young people is, I think, an economist poll from 2018. It found people 18 to 29, only about a quarter of respondents considered Israel even an ally. Right.

And when you go from there, too, like you said, the current government with Netanyahu, it runs in conflict with American Jews who tend to be very liberal and secular. So there's also already like even Jews, they said there was a, another poll about American Jews who are voting. I think only about 4% said that that factors into who they vote for. Right. So there's a, we're starting to see, I mean, look, Ilhan Omar caught a lot of heat and the all about the Benjamin's thing, this, this, right. You're opening yourself up to somebody to be able to mischaracterize what

you're trying to say. I think that could have been described a little bit better, but what this has done though, it's brought a pack in the idea of like, we're now having to have a conversation of like, is there a way to actually, in an open-eyed, open-hearted way, begin to discuss the actions of Israel in a way that isn't immediately going to be spun into anti-Semitism? Right. Yeah. And I mean, there has to be. I think it's a reasonable objection to be like, look, we don't want Israel or the Israeli people or, you know, Jewish people to be accused of like having some secret conspiracy where they control the media. We don't want it to be like made into like you have to be able to acknowledge that there's money involved in that lobbying exists.

But to just like blindly be like, well, we know what it's really motivated by. It can be a little bit, you, you just can't be glib when talking about like Israel and Israel's motivation. You have to be like detailed and specific. And again, Trump was like, and Pence were like,

Oh, she should resign. Or Pence was like, well, she should be taken off the foreign affairs committee or whatever. And she clapped back. She was like, I, she should resign. Or Pence was like, well, she should be taken off the Foreign Affairs Committee or whatever. Right. And she clapped back. She was like, I'm sorry, President Trump. You deal in all kinds of racist bigotry all the time.

You even say shit about Jewish people. Yes. That it could be seen as dealing with anti-Semitic, deeply anti-Semitic tropes. Right. He has been associated with very... He's literally only anti-hate when it serves his agenda. Yeah. He's literally only anti-hate when it serves his agenda. Yeah, and he is, like, on the flip side of that, he is unwilling to dissociate himself with, like,

legitimate anti-Semites who are, like, think Jewish people should be killed. Like, that's a big chunk of his supporters. Hey, good people on both sides. Right, exactly. So their anti-Semitism is a real thing. It's an incredibly dangerous thing. Hey, good people on both sides. by the Israeli state is probably, that's not good for Jewish people in general, and it's not good for the way that we have this conversation. I'm curious for the people who immediately jumped to the conclusion that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, is there anything that they can

honestly say, concede a point that is a real criticism of their policy? Would those people ever say anything? Because I don't think a lot of politicians who immediately jump to those conclusions can say things that would actually be like a, you know, like I said, an even-handed criticism or objective analysis of the foreign policy. And with AIPAC, right, when they talk about the money, it's not that they're paying politicians to say, oh, you love Israel, here's your money. Here's your little fee. It's about like any lobbying organization, like the NRA or fossil fuels. If you're out here talking spicy about their industry, they will put money into campaigns that are going to be against you.

They will spend money against you. And if you're supportive, they will fund operations that will support you. So it's not that the money moves and like, let me cut you a check for saying this. It's that the force is because of how lobbying works, that if you stick your head out of the trenches and have a hot take criticizing Israel, it's like, oh, well, you will notice very quickly that money will be poured into opponent or some kind of other campaign or opposition research to try and begin to destabilize your seat in office or whatever. So, you know, I think, again, these are the kinds of conversations that need to beginabilize your seat in office or whatever. So, you know, I think, again, these are the kinds of conversations

that need to begin happening because I think in general, young people have a different view on what is happening in the region than much older conservatives do. Right. And even older people who are center left. Yeah, exactly.

And as we discussed, I think it's important to realize that you can't talk about AIPAC and Israel the same way you would talk about the NRA. You would want to be more careful and think about historic tropes because like we said, antisemitism is a real thing.

So you just have to be more specific and more kind of cogent of all of the history that exists. Yeah. Right. All right. Well, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. So the Wisconsin GOP has voted to remove Colin Kaepernick's name from a Black History Month resolution. Yeah, all because they were looking at that and they go, OK, who are the people we're recognizing? Wait, hold on. Colin NFL Kneeler Kaepernick? Right.

And a politician, the Republican Assembly Speaker said, just to justify their actions, I think it's important to recognize the contributions of literally thousands and thousands of African-Americans to our state's history, but also trying to find people who, again, bring us together, not look at people who draw some sort of vitriol from either side. Uh-huh. Oh, okay. Good. So you just, like, make everybody friends, like that guy MLK or whatever. I mean, he was all about just loving your neighbor and, like, be nice to racists, and eventually they'll be chill.

Yeah, and let's also just support, like, the best organization. Right. The NFL is what we should stand behind. Yeah. They're the ones that need our support with, like, the most benevolent intentions. League, yeah. I mean, so many players after retirement are thriving.

Yeah, and all those wives who have been hit, you know what I mean? We should just keep going for those NFL owners. They need us. To be fair, they do punish those guys until the story's out of the headphones. Yeah, and didn't that dude from the Chiefs just get signed to the Browns? By the Browns, yeah. Who kicked his wife on camera or some shit? In Cleveland, yeah.

What the fuck? It wasn't even his wife. It was just... Oh, just a partner? Wow. Oh, just like randomly? I don't... I think she might have been a girlfriend or something.

Okay, got you. Oh, good. Huge get for that. Yeah. But yeah, I mean like, you know, Colin Kaepernick, he's from Milwaukee, and the only reason they included him on this, it wasn't because they were like, oh, his work for trying to show the fuckery of the nfl should be recognized it should right but it was because he donated like a like a good

amount of money to a non-profit organization that works in urban areas uh like in the state right and they're like this is great this is someone contributing uh to this state and helping like we should recognize uh african americans from our state who are doing good but again you want to flex your white privilege on them and be like, well, let me completely obscure everything about what's going on here. And let's just make this about some other thing rather than, you know, the actual issue at hand that might be uncomfortable to talk about. Yeah. Or like police brutality in the country. That's a major issue. But yeah, let's recognize some other people and remove this person who had everything to lose. Yeah. And still gives.

Right. Yeah. For a state just being a random northern Midwestern state, I know way too much about corrupt politicians and corrupt local people from Wisconsin. Like just from making a murder, or who's that police chief who is- Talking about Manitowoc County? Yes. Who's the-

Oh, David Clark? Yeah, David Clark. Sheriff David Clark. Yeah, let's get your shit together, Wisconsin. Yeah, but if you're a Zeitgang in Wisconsin, you'll help out, bro. Do something. I doubt anyone is Zeitgang in Wisconsin who is a local politician who is corrupt and Republican.

But if you are, shout out to us. Also, yeah, if you're a Wisconsin Zeitgang, bring some receipts out so we can talk about it. If you know something, hit us up. Let's talk Howard Schultz. Because everybody else is for some reason. Let's talk Howard Schultz because everybody else is for some reason. He got a town hall on CNN because CNN has learned their lesson from the 2016 election. And they're just like, well, people are talking about him.

So let's give him a town hall. A town hall for someone who has not even said he is actually running yet. Right. How the fuck do you need it? What do you need a town hall for, sir? And you have, you know, again, we're talking about people with weird takes on race. Yes. Howard Stoltz to the rescue. So at this town hall, a woman asked who was a I don't know if it's relevant.

She's an owner of a coffee shop, African-American woman. She was saying, you know, at one of your stores in Philadelphia, two black men were arrested because they were just in the fucking store. They didn't even interact with people. The manager was like, I don't know. These guys seem suspicious. Right. And the cops handcuffed him and everything. And they said, and then you had an unconscious bias sensitivity, racial sensitivity training for all of your employees.

Do you think that solved the problem? And he was like, I'm so glad you asked that. Just meandering on and on about how unconscious bias affects this and that. Then he said, he gave the million dollar line that all white people, oh, if you ever catch yourself saying this, you're wrong. Or you need to be able to explain yourself a little bit more. But here we go. This is Howard Schultz's answer after he's sort of, you know, humming and hawing about whether or not that anti-racism sensitivity training worked. humming and hawing about whether or not that anti-racism sensitivity training worked. I would just say, as somebody who grew up in a very diverse background as a young boy in the projects, I didn't see color as a young boy. And I honestly don't see color now.

Honestly. So for somebody who had just got done talking about unconscious bias to then be like, I don't see color. It's like, well, then you're really letting your unconscious bias to then be like i don't see color it's like well then you're really letting your unconscious bias just take the fuck over if you really honestly believe that you don't see color you're just you're blind to it your brain just doesn't process different races like that's i i think you're giving yourself way too much credit and you're way too ignorant of your own unconscious bias. What I would say is, okay, look,

if you don't see color, do you see a systemic racism? Do you see invisible barriers that are work as systems of oppression for people of color in the country, even though you don't see color, right? Can you see those things? Cause those,

those fucking things exist. He seems like the sort of person who would say, yes, I do. And then would also argue against taxing billionaires any more than they're already. Yes, I do. But I grew up in a Bayview Canarsie housing. So, I do, and then would also argue against taxing billionaires any more than they're already taxing. Yes, I do, but I grew up in Bayview Canarsie housing, so, you know, gang gang. Right.

Yeah. Seriously. But, yeah, again, I don't know what CNN is doing. This man has no chance. There's not even any polling data that's like, hey, we should keep our eye on this Howard Schultz guy. Nope. He's not moving the needle. If anything, he's going to have some kind of third-party effect in the worst-case scenario and help, you know, Fat Orange win.

Right. Fat Orange. There is polling saying that he would actually pull more votes from Trump, but it's just not even worth having that. Yeah. It's funny. There's even studies about how that like colorblind argument like is actual nonsense too like the idea like people who like deal in this kind of wishful thinking it's it's very interesting yeah i mean no there's ways to test that just like and you

know when you test people who claim to be colorblind but but you do that. Uh, there's like a instant reaction test that they give people where you basically have to react to pictures of people of different race faster than your mind can process the thought, like can consciously decide what you want to do. And like, that proves that you still have it, even if you don't want to admit it. Right.

Right. Right. You still have that inherent bias. Yeah. Hey, hook howard schultz to all those censors right and have them walk through canarsie right uh i would love to see someone like hey my man my man my man running at him and see if his if his shit just stays level and zen right oh no right i mean but i don't see color right i just see green baby that's like that's like people's way of trying to say, hey, I am not racist. But me? Yeah.

I don't see color. Yeah. I see scary people and white people. Right. Saying that just, that's also saying like, yeah, I don't acknowledge anyone's oppression or any issues that other people besides me may face. Yeah. So vote for me.

Yep. Boom. All right. Saki 2020. There it is. Saki bombing. Let's talk real quick about why I am now for the first time excited about the Avatar sequels. Because James Cameron is talking shit about the Aquaman movies and he saw the exact same

thing I did in the Aquaman movie trailer. Yeah, the underwater shit? Yeah, the underwater shit looks stupid. It just looks like people are flying around. But not the most important thing. Okay, all the Aquaman fans came for me. Okay. I get it.

Okay, it might have been fun. But I'm talking straight up what I saw, the depiction of underwater, whatever. Because he said, this is a quote, he goes, I could have never made that film because it requires this total dreamlike disconnect from any sense of physics or reality. It exists somewhere between a Greek mythic landscape and a fairytale landscape. And people just kind of zoom around underwater because they propel themselves mentally, I guess. Verbatim was his quote.

Now, all that to say is he's like, I spent thousands of hours under the water. He's been in the lab, man. Because apparently the new Avatar movies... Which are very believable. Right. Well, but it's wild. All the assumptions they ask you to make are insane,

but then he spends a lot of time on the visuals to make it so your brain just like accepts it. So that's what he's been doing. Apparently a lot of the avatar sequels take place underwater and he's like, that's not what underwater looks like. Yeah. And he's been just grinding in the lab, trying to find a way because he's like,

he says it has to look like it's actually shot underwater with like the way that everything's moving. So sure. I guess that's an interesting you know weird flex but okay weird flex but like i get it totally respect you're like well just you know that's because i'm having a way more realistic underwater movie where people's ponytails fuck right and that's how they get down this is also the dude who like almost killed uh ed harris during the making of the abyss because he was just like so

dedicated to like shooting people underwater, like making it like, Oh, right, right, right. Yeah. He,

he is very hard to work for when it comes to being underwater. So a shout out to anybody working on the avatar sequel, your life is going to suck. Yeah. I will. And possibly end. We don't know. I think,

you know what, to your point though, even though avatar, like on its face, you're like, yeah, okay, bro. Yes. Like, unobtainium or whatever the fuck it was. Right.

Like, whatever. It was because, like, a lot of the landscapes were based on things that, like, he found in China, like those floating mountains and things like that. He tries to make things as believable in, like, the environmental sense as possible, so I'll give him that because if you remember after Avatar came out, there were people who had like Pandora based depression who were like, I've seen the movie 40 times. I just need to live in Pandora. Like it seems like that's the place I need to be. Right. They're homesick for Pandora because of the sensory experience. Yeah. I think Avatar is, I think really unique as a cultural like zeitgeist experience because

it was the most like popular and zeitgeist defining thing that just immediately disappeared from our memories nobody like nobody gives a shit about Avatar it was the best reproduction of Ferngully that I've ever seen out there on the market

a lot of fun to look at and it's intellectually just meaningless. Another criticism he had about Aquaman is that, again, you know, because it was like an environmental aspect to Avatar. He's like, I mean, they didn't even help us understand. Again, it says the film doesn't help us with our issues of actually understanding the ocean and exploring the ocean and preserving the ocean. It's like, OK. Look, James Cameron is a noted asshole, apparently, but the dude, he can do no wrong,

as far as I'm concerned, after Terminator 2. Everyone shits on Avatar. Like, that's another Anne Hathaway, you know? Yeah. And I actually, I saw it when it first came out in 3D, and I was like, this is so cool. I loved it. Yeah, it was an experience.

I haven't seen Aquaman, but like all these girls are seeing it just because of- Jason Momoa? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The universal truth. Yeah, all these girls are into him. Girls.

Wait, is Aquaman out yet? Yeah. It's been out. Exactly. I don't care about it. I probably won't see it, but I am really looking forward to Avatar sequels. Yeah.

Now, I remember watching Avatar that my eyes were getting dry because I wasn't blinking because I was so like, holy shit. Oh. Just amazed by everything. My eyes were dry, too. Yeah. They were red. Really red.

Right. Whoa. Yeah. I think it's just, yeah, it was one of those things, again, it's an in-theater experience. It's not a thing you go, man, that's a fucking film that you need to see because a lot of like the story was like whatever but yeah as if as a a moment in cinema you're like holy shit i also like when people get creatively competitive like what does aquaman even have to do with you like nothing you're like hey I'm like this creator of a huge cultural movie, but I just want to say how much this water movie sucks. Because it's done so well.

Yeah, and because so many of his movies do, like he has dedicated his, like Titanic. He made Titanic, shot it in like a big giant bathtub movie set. And also in mexico but then yeah in mexico but then he explored underwater like explored the titanic in underwater right like he's obsessed with like and the abyss is like all like shot underwater so he's like i like literally almost killed a great actor to shoot underwater and these assholes are just like hey if he killed that harris i'd be so fucking pissed i love ed harris i mean he's just salty because aquaman is doing like just doing boffo box office

numbers at the same time i don't think he's ever had a movie that was as unsuccessful as aquaman like yeah but also this is a classic madonna lady gaga situation yeah Yeah. You know? Absolutely. Just be happy for the younger people coming up. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Make room. It doesn't age you well. Yeah. And I'm sure, I'm actually wrong about the Aquaman thing.

It's doing better than I'm sure some of his movies. Yeah, I know. It's so good. Hey, what do you guys think about that Beatles movie before we go? Yesterday. What? There's a Beatles movie coming out? About the Beatles?

No, it's- Like a biopic? It's by the dude who wrote Love Actually. It's directed by Danny Boyle, the director of Slumdog Millionaire. And it's about this dude. Or train spotting. It's about this dude who gets hit by a car. And he's a musician.

And he can't find people to listen to his music. Gets hit by a car. And when he wakes up, he plays a Beatles song and everyone's like, that's amazing. You wrote that? He's like, no, that's a Beatles song. And nobody knows what the Beatles are in this world after he got hit by a car. It's a kind of a convoluted high concept thing, but it's also like wish fulfilled. Have you ever had that wish where you're like, and then I perform this song and everybody's like, damn, like that's your song.

Wait. So it takes place in a world where guys hit by a car and then the rest of the world, but he got hit by the car. He got hit by the car. But the rest of the world is fucked up now. Yeah, exactly. I'm having trouble with that. Oh, I'm going to be frustrated in line.

That sounds great. I love fucked up convoluted. That would be great for like as a comedian who's like, can I just do all the washed material from the 90s? I can remember. Have you ever had that like- Airline food. Yeah.

What? Go on, talk that shit, Blake. Airline food what? But like, yeah, I've had that like it. Well, if I was in Back to the Future, I would, you know- Oh, sure, sure. I would have an invented rock and roll, but installed that invention. Wait, so he the Future, I would, you know, he went back and invented rock and roll, but stole that invention from Chuck Berry.

Wait, so he, okay, so then he goes out, he starts playing Beatles songs, and people are just being like, this guy's a genius. Yeah, he becomes a huge star, and then who the fuck knows what happens. Why do I hear James Corden's voice in the trailer? Because he goes on the James Corden show. Because he's so famous.

He goes on as himself. And he's front, like, he's fucking John, Paul, George, and Ringo all mixed together. He wrote all of their songs. That's so funny. They have all of their songs in the movie, which I was like, wait, how did they get all the Beatles songs? And then I realized that one of my son's favorite shows is The Beat Bugs, which is just bugs singing Beatles songs.

I was like, oh, the Beatles are cashing in. Beat Bugs. Beat Bugs. You know, this is one of the most predictable outcomes, though. How it's going to end. Yeah. He's going to get found out. He's going to have to tell the truth.

And then there will be something redemptive about him. Right. Right. Yeah. With his own music. Right. Right. His own music.

Sorry to all the listeners worldwide. Right. For the spoiler alert. Just using- He has to start over and he's just at a college party. Deductive reasoning. Right. He's at a college party with an acoustic guitar and just starts playing Blackbird.

And people are like, wait, what's that? Right. I don't know. What the fuck is that? I mean, I guess this sounds like a good- It just sounds like a script a very frustrated, failed musician wrote. Yeah. It was like, damn, bro.

Like, if I was back then, I could have thought of songs like that. Yeah, exactly. They're getting by on it. Just like when you look at like 80s comedy scripts and you're like, how the fuck did someone think that? Okay. The bar was in a different place that night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Blair, it's been such a pleasure having you back.

I love to be here. Where can people find you? You can find me online at Blair Saki, B-L-A-I-R-S-O-C-C-I, on Instagram and Twitter. And I have a show, The Blair and Greta Show, every Tuesday at Gingas Cohen in West Hollywood. All right. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying?

Oh, yeah. Okay, this girl, Maddie Smith, and she's at SoMaddieSmith. I think she's such a funny joke writer, but one tweet that I really like that she said, had sex with a dude who couldn't say hard, so I asked him to explain Reddit and IPAs to me, which helped. Yeah, man. Oh, didn't you tweet something about dudes like not being able to fuck because of porn or something yeah yeah was that was that because you were thinking about this oh no i had to go back and look this was from a while ago oh oh can i say one more of hers yeah yeah

uh one time a doctor told me i should be dead after i told him how much i drink so i turned my life around and stopped telling him the truth about how much I drink. Right. Turned my life around. Nobody tells the truth about how much they drink to their doctor. I think that's the – there's this study that this dude who like basically was an archaeologist of modern America and he would dig into like garbage heaps and like he found that people underestimate their drinking by a factor of two to three. When they're talking to doctors or answering.

We just lie about how much they drink. The only people who are honest about how much they drink are college students. Are college age men. Yo dude, I fucking pounded a fifth in three hours dog. Even back then I lied about it because I was like, that was too much.

Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. But before I get to my tweets, I just want to let people know TeePublic is having a flash sale. So if you need a last minute Valentine's Day gift for that Zeit gang member in your life, please head to tpublic.com slash dailyzeitgeist. Just search for our merch on there because they're doing a sale, and they'll hook you up with some low, low prices today. A couple tweets I like.

One is from Jake Wiseman. It says, I've said it before, and I'm saying it again now. El Chapo would crush at the Moth. I love Jake. And then another one, because actually this reminded me of you, Blair, El Chapo would crush at the moth. I love Jake. And then another one, because actually this reminded me of you, Blair, because you brought it up. Jaboukie, at Jaboukie tweeted, do couples who sit on the same side of the table deserve rights? I saw that.

I almost wrote back to him. Do y'all deserve rights? Yeah, because, you know. Y'all are people too. Yeah, and also it just shows that I don't care what everyone else thinks because I'm in love, babe. I didn't realize that was like a taboo. Well, I don't even think of it as a thing you do with somebody you really like. I just think of it as a thing you do at a restaurant where like one person's staring at the wall

and the other person has a view of like a good restaurant. Oh, courteous manners. It's like I want to sit on that side. So it's about view equality. Yeah, view equality. If I see a couple sitting on the same side of a table, I know they fuck. Right, for sure.

Or it's like the saddest best friend zone type thing. Oh, shit. It's like, no, it'll be easier for me for us to share this food. Yeah. Oh, no. One more tweet I like is from Chelsea Peretti who quote tweeted an AP science tweet at Associated Press, not the class, about the Mars rover because, you know, they've lost contact.

But it says, NASA is giving silent Mars rover one last opportunity to respond before declaring it dead after 15 years. And then she puts, why does this feel so sad and romantic? I know, it really is. One last opportunity to respond before declaring it. Got one last chance. Well written. Great rom-com.

Better headline writing than from the... Insider. The Insider. Yeah, that sounds like Nicholas Sparks' story. I know. A couple tweets I've been enjoying. Eileen Cutright tweeted on TV, no man can tie a necktie, but all women can,

and there's no backstory to explain it. Sean O'Neill tweeted, I wake up in a world where the Beatles never existed. Me. Check out this song I just wrote. I begin playing Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da without having first built up years of goodwill. Crowd of people, wow, this sucks ass.

And you can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song we ride out on. What's that going to be today, Myles?

Let's do a song from the new James Blake album. Yeah. Not the Andre 3000 one that everyone was going wild over, but another one featuring Travis Scott and Metro Boomin called Mile High. And it just shows you what James Blake, when he's producing Travis Scott's sing-rapping, how good the melodic lines can be. So this is Mile High featuring Travis Scott and Metro Boomin by James Blake. And you were saying James Blake is dating Jamila Jamal. What a power couple.

I want to hang out with that power couple in that I want them to be friends with me. Oh, yeah. And he's like, James, play the piano. Jamila, just give me your takes on everything. Still got my favorite Drake song. His remix has come through. All right. We're going to ride out on that.

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