The Daily Zeitgeist - Mixed Mail Messages, Drunk Parents = Yeesh 8.24.20

Episode Date: August 24, 2020

In episode 700, Jack and Miles are joined by White Homework's Tori Williams Douglass to discuss Republicans encouraging their parties to vote-by-mail, the Postmaster General continuing to screw over the USPS, Facebook having meetings about misinformation spreading for the upcoming election on their social media site, Drunk Parents, Project Power, movie theaters re-opening, and more!FOOTNOTES: North Carolina, Arizona Republican parties are encouraging their voters to cast ballots by mail Internal email tells postal workers to not reconnect or reinstall sorting machines: report Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results Movie theaters are starting to reopen. Will anyone go? AMC's reopened theaters sold out almost everywhere, CEO says Please don’t go to a movie theater: “It’s just about the last thing I’d do right now,” says expert ‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Grandly Entertaining, Time-Slipping Spectacle Is a Futuristic Throwback Tenet review: Christopher Nolan's thriller is a palindromic dud ‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Long-Anticipated Time Caper Is a Humorless Disappointment WATCH: Sángo - Preto e Dourado Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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joined in our third seat by the brilliant and talented Tori Williams Douglas hey to be joined in our third seat by the brilliant and talented tori williams douglas hey what's up y'all welcome welcome welcome thank you how how is portland all things considered you know adjusted for pandemic and adjusted for is it day six of the protest i don't we're we're getting real close to four months now um it's pretty good honestly yeah i fucking love this city i was born and raised here it's amazing um it's raining which we needed because it was like fire season you know um well we've heard obviously obviously you know um yeah oh yeah we're clearly we're being

admonished by the president because we didn't do enough yard work like because is he doing that again oh god i'm pretty sure he's in the process of threatening uh disaster funds because remember last time that famous thing with gavin newsom he's like you see all these leaves here like you got to get that shit out that's what the fire is starting it on it's like okay thanks but yeah i do yeah yeah we have that too does it look hazy outside your window how yeah yeah yeah the air quality is not good i don't think for most of california i mean especially up north uh but yeah up north it's real ugly yeah um i mean it's wild when like you're like the advice is like wear an n95 mask but also cover up the the like the plug like if you're gonna have to be outside like

in certain areas where there's so much like particulate matter coming down so yeah 2020 baby i mean that one's just gonna keep getting worse yeah that one is a ever present for sure yeah um unless i mean it's uh it's silly for me to even say this but unless we uh do something about climate change but i mean that's a that's ridiculous well well hold on that's interesting how much you thinking that's gonna cost here this whole time let's put a dollar amount on that first spreadsheet yeah what are we talking here a couple bucks 50 bucks a month or something How much are you thinking that's going to cost here, this whole plan? Let's put a dollar amount on that first. Where does that fit on the spreadsheet? Yeah. What are we talking here?

A couple bucks, 50 bucks a month or something? In the federal government? What do I got to do? Can we just talk about the cost-benefit analysis, though? Because we don't have a backup plan yet. Well, how much? But yeah, but the cost is important because that's the first part of this whole thing. I can't see the benefits if I don't know the cost.

You know what I mean? I also need the benefits to affect me in the next couple of months in the next yeah at my next shareholder call right exactly uh is that gonna be a q3 problem what are we talking here q4 i can you imagine those early discussions at those fucking petroleum companies when they're like okay so those scientists are saying like we're fucking the whole thing up but like when they're like well no no no no no the scientists weren't saying they were the first to know about it they mean but they did their own analysis i mean clearly i guess they hired mr exxon mobile went out there and was like yo you're not gonna believe what i just saw they went out and did the research and found out it

was a problem and then we're like all right so we gotta get a we gotta get ahead of this thing by not solving the problem yeah we got 30 years to really fuck this planet up before somebody hits up our ass about it oh thank god i'm 60 uh and i and i drink a lot so i probably won't see that okay great full steam ahead tory how's the uh air quality up in portland beautiful you know it's it's the other day was pretty smoky pretty hazy but i think the rains the rains cleared it out a little bit so shout out to the rain love the northwest another town you know we did when we did our pre-pandemic live tour uh great show we had in portland what a show i still think about

that burger i had before really good right yeah mississippi studios whatever attacks next door and the fries fries yeah yeah my brother works there well overall he's a bouncer at when they have events so pre pre-pandemic times bc before coronavirus he might have been in our show must have been i mean it was it was so rowdy you know you know live podcast shows yeah it's it gets wild just got a distant look in my eye yeah you're like that way that man undid an umbrella for me during the rain was by the wildest i've ever seen a show yeah i do anytime i'm uh on tour demand that somebody uh hold an umbrella over my head i do not hold my

own umbrellas fuck that but but do you know how to do you know how to collapse the umbrella back down when you're done with it that's the real what's the real question people from southern california don't we're just like ah what do with this? Yeah, whenever we have umbrellas, we start doing tricks with them. We're like, ooh, look, I'm hypnotizing you by spinning it. You're like... Just throw it to the side. Just leave it on the street open. Yeah, this is like the weirdest pogo stick I've ever seen.

Yeah. I miss rain. Yeah, we miss a lot of things. I miss sandwiches that were made by another person yeah alright Tori we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment

sorry it's the end of the week for us for the listeners it's the beginning of the week but you get a little little bit of the silliness up top at the top of your week uh but you get a little little bit of the silliness up top at the top of your week guys uh but first we want to tell our listeners what we're talking about uh ballot fuckery 2020 continues full tilt basically still usps going down arizona north carolina all that we're going to cover that that we're going to talk about Facebook's plans

for a Trump smash and grab Facebook is acknowledging the possibility that he's just going to try and invalidate the election if he loses so they have some wildly inadequate

plans for what they'll do we're going to talk about Sturgis good news out of Sturgis folks They have some wildly inadequate plans for what they'll do. We're going to talk about Sturgis. Good news out of Sturgis, folks. And then we're going to talk about the Netflix content. Some Flix tent that we watched from the top 10. Miles, you watched Drunk Parents. Holy shit. And I watched Project Power.

And I think we had wildly different experiences. So we'll talk about that. Tori, did you watch either? Yep. Yep. I've seen both. Oh, you have? Oh, okay.

Oh, both. Wow. Did you already see Project Power when it came out last week? Yeah. Yeah. I was fascinated. But we can get into it later. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I'm excited. Before we get into any of that shit, though, Tori, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are, where you are, who we are, any of it? Yeah, I was Googling y'all before I jumped on the call.

Just kidding. Who we specifically. We as a zeitgeist. Nothing came up for me. Absolutely not. No, yeah, nothing came up. I'm a 60-year-old theater director, it turns out. Yeah.

Right now, my search history is broadly books I'm reading, I'm trying to read eight books this month. Doing great. I'm on six right now. So I'm killing it actually. Um, audio books. That is the key. Yeah. Time speed.

Uh, and back to school guidance for my kids. How many kids do you have? I have two, two littles and, yeah ages uh eight and five wow so yeah kinder kindergarten and third grade and um i i know that this is privileged as fuck but i'm our district is not going back to school like in person at least they're going to take it quarter by quarter and i'm just i'm really grateful for that like because of the safety that they're considering the the health of the students they're considering the health of the teachers primarily yeah of course you know because i mean

like there's this anyway kids don't get it as often they don't get it as hard or whatever which isn't true we're finding out now they get you know, sent to the ICU just as frequently as adults do. But yeah, I'm really, I'm really grateful that our school district actually gives a fuck about the teachers. Yeah. Like that means a lot to me.

Right. But you know, but the corporate overlords demand that we put the, you know, the wage slaves daycare centers must open again or else they can't go to work, which is like you see just like this very cynical push for it when it's purely to be like, well, the thing is if there's kids at home, then I can't get the most out of the workers that I'm employing. So if they get there, maybe we can start. It's just so cynical to see, especially when we're playing with people's

actual lives. What's a good book you've read in the past month? Oh, boy. This is so hard to choose. I'm going to go with Marriage, A History. I think her last name is Stephanie Kuntz. I don't want to mispronounce that. I apologize, Stephanie, for listening. I was so fascinated by it because she kind of goes back to,

you know, and like examines all of these different societies over time, you know, for as far back as we have recorded history about like marriage and families and whatever else. And she just does this really kind of thorough analysis because, and I was fascinated by it because I am really frustrated by this whole nuclear family narrative that has kind of been pushed down our throats. And she's like, yeah, that wasn't a thing until the fifties, like at all for anybody.

So I appreciated that a lot. Nice. Having grown up evangelical and told that all people always, it was one man and one woman from the jump. Yeah. God said so. Right. These look like a bunch of business transactions.

They invented at the same time as the engagement ring. It's all part of big diamond just to get, just to get people right to beers and bed to the nuclear family. What is something you think is overrated? Oh boy. Overrated. I think that American classics are overrated. I'm not a fan.

The hamburger, the hot dog. We can circle back to that. I'm talking about like the top 100, like top 100 books, top 100 American films or whatever. And I'm like, these are all racist and sexist. And I cannot stomach them at all. And so I'm trying to read one of them right now. What is it? The Last of the Mohicans. James Fenway, whatever his name is.

Cooper. James Fenway Cooper. Yeah. And just because it created so much of the myth of America, right? From this particular text. It's been in print literally since like the 1820s or something. And I think that, yeah, being really informed about like this historical narrative that we've created for ourselves to convince ourselves that like we're the good guys. good guys. Yeah. That's a lot of that.

A lot of, you know, I always say that America has the best PR, man, the best marketing be like, we can spin the fuck out of anything. Even things that look that are genocide on paper. We're going to make that look like a dinner.

We can make that look like a really delicious dinner. Dinner. Where the sides are lit. Yeah. Oh, thanks for the corn. Cool. Like, oh my God yeah exactly oh y'all are cold hold on i think i got some blankets back there it's like what the fuck i mean yeah it really is

so cynical and i think that's just you know learning learning your history is some of the more most powerful shit you can do uh like to expand your worldview because it really it almost gives yourself an opportunity to feel a little more empathy to be like oh wow if if this is the case then maybe i do need to like expand open myself up a little bit more to like what the what what suffering could look like and does look like in this country last of the mohicans uh i only know from the Michael Mann movie, but the central character is a white guy, right? Like an adopted white guy who's got the last samurai vibes where it's like, yeah, you want to find out about this culture,

but it's got to be a white guy who does it. Even though he's fully been raised as a Mohican, but you know he's white, it's cool like right it's like wait what yeah uh but i do love that movie um sorry didn't it win an academy award wasn't it like were people loving the fuck out of that movie uh i don't think it won an academy award okay it did have Daniel Day-Lewis in it, so the fact that it didn't win an Academy Award is basically a negative. They might as well give it a Razzie.

If you have Daniel Day-Lewis in your movie and you don't win an Academy Award, what the fuck are you even doing? That is your application for consideration. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated?

Getting ready for your day and just not going anywhere. Get up. Get dressed. Do your makeup. Hello. Yeah. Look cute and then show up to your desk,

which is right next to your bed. There you go. You just rotate in your chair you're like yep i'm ready for work there's my commute just a quick rotation my commute is a 90 degree turn yeah it was nice i i mean i started putting on clothes i haven't worn on in months just for like little things i'm like what? I'm going to show out at the gas station today. I don't care. Like this,

I'm surprised this shirt has been sitting here for so long. And then I also did this thing where I just retired a bunch of clothing where I'm like, well, I'm not going to be wearing a collared shirt in public for a while. So I'm going to put this in a bag that goes in the garage now just so I can, I don't know. But yeah,

there is something to giving ourselves those little moments. Like I can, I don't know. But yeah, there is something to giving ourselves those little moments. Like I'm realizing how much the clothing or presentational aspect of dimension is coming into like, just giving myself a little bit of pep in my step when I go out versus before. I'm like, look, man, it's a pandemic, dude. Like, yeah, my pants are, I'm wearing Ewok print, you know, pajama pants. But that's just, it is what it is. I feel like there's like a sleep and this is definitely not scientifically accurate,

but I wake up so much more if I take a shower. If I don't take a shower, I feel like sleep is like still clinging to my skin and like I'm just like froggy the whole day. I really need that. I need that. How hot is your studio?

Hot shower? Cold shower? It doesn't matter. Yeah. But you know, some people are like, I need burns when I go in there. I need neither. I need it to just be, there's actually a setting on our shower that is like, if you press a button, you can go hotter.

But like, that's, you know, my wife really yeah my my wife goes like scorched earth on the shower but i just go right at that middle point not too hot not too cold uh and it's uh it's appropriate for both my two-year-old and for me. That's how you know it's pretty... The heat tolerance of a two-year-old. I have the pain tolerance of a two-year-old. I do start crying if it's a little too hot. My wife has to come in and adjust it down.

I do use no-tear shampoo. Go ahead. You're like, because it stings i'm sorry my eye's gonna be red all day now i don't want ice on it sarah's doing a zoom call with a patient and i come in out of the shower with just like slather all over there i can't see no have you, did you like, did you go from not doing your shower, your routine to suddenly being like, okay, I'm going to begin implementing this?

Or did you stay pretty consistent since the last day? No, I stayed pretty consistent. I added a cold shower because yeah, it's really hard to like get going. So I do, I do this thing where I'll like put on a couple of songs, like super,, super loud and put the water as cold as it will go. Then I'm just in there for two songs, whatever it takes. What are those songs? Well, obviously, Wet Ass Pussy right now. There you go.

Nice. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I mean, it's just whatever. Beyonce, Jidenna, whatever I feel like listening to that morning right i just wasn't sure if like there's a very specific vibe when you're like i'm about to go into the frigid water i need like to just but yeah you just need something you can like vibe to a little dance too yeah because you gotta keep you gotta keep it moving a little bit otherwise you you're just gonna jump out interesting because in my see i'm preparing

for just all-out battle so i'm thinking like okay i'm gonna listen to dmx's first album it's dark and hell's hot and i'm just gonna be like you know what i mean like just trying to like deal with it but i like your strategy is more like use that energy and redirect it to motion yeah i like it very philosophical so that's that's what i've that's what i've been doing but yeah i never i never really like switched to the like you know yoga pants all day all night kind of thing i mean i did that when my kids were little and you know sometimes it's a necessity but like my kids are bigger now so i can get dressed and look presentable even if i'm just walking to my zoom call yeah well i'm still a baby so pants will never die

uh finally what is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false okay so this is kind of my this is kind of my job so this was really hard for me to to think about because they're they're just they're just so so many but um let's see i think one that really bugs me is um i think the myth that like racism of the past, right? So like Jim Crow or slavery or, or,

you know, land theft or whatever, like that doesn't affect the present. I think that's, that's really the myth that bugs me a lot. And I don't know. It's, it's just like,

no, we, we have data on this shit. Like, come on guys, get, get it together facts don't care about your feelings is one mr dap likes to say so um did you see that meme of ben shapiro and his wife and it said like it was his wife underneath it said the levy and then with

ben shapiro it said chevy or my Chevy. I took my Chevy to the left. But the levy was dry. I was like, wow, that's a deep cut meme. Well, you got to have your overlook for those lyrics. But I'm like, this material is never ending. But yeah, I think the whole, you know, like, but I didn't own slaves or, you know, that same argument is just all these like shields that a lot of people still try and put up to absolve themselves of either thinking that the whole debate is about like hey you white person take stand and deliver

and take accountability for the slave owning class of the antebellum south versus it being like can you acknowledge that the deck was so fucked up when it was shuffled and stacked in the complete opposite direction that now as a country we have an obligation to unfuck it and it's not that we're saying you specifically sir from this region get on you know come bring your 40 acres in your mule asap it's about just the first step is just being able to acknowledge it but i think it's so hard for so many people to like look at the ugly history and how that reverberates into the present yeah i mean and like the thing is you know my dad was born in the 50s like he had to use the colored water fountain this is not ancient history right he didn't his parents didn't

have the right to vote until they were in their 30s um yeah and people people just act like it's so long ago and it's like no it it really was it really wasn't i keep using this comparison but it's really like like like seeing narnia like some people just don't believe it till they've seen it or experience it and aren't willing to just take people's you know testimony they've done research on this that white people are actually like significantly less empathetic towards black people specifically like they they're like empathy neurons like your mirror neurons like don't fire for white people frequently like unless you have really really

close like good relationships with black people or indigenous people or you know non-white hispanic people whatever the case is right yeah the majority of white people because we're like we live in a country that's like self-segregated now as opposed to like you know enforced segregation that like yeah like white people's mirror neurons frequently just don't come on when they see and how could you blame them based on the media diet people are basically fed from the the moment they can open their eyes it's from the womb yeah yeah so it's like fed from the the moment they can open their eyes from the womb yeah yeah so it's like yeah i know i know it's like and it's not to say that like that can't be okay i'm sorry for going all the way in on this no no that's what the show is about before i did this before i did

anti-racism work like as an educator i worked in a neuroscience lab so i get really fired up about this shit oh great even better it is like it doesn't have to be that way like you can go out and develop really good relationships with people of color and like fix that right but like that's probably the default in your brain because that's just how neurons work right like yeah like oh that's different or just immediately that's not me that's not my right exactly exactly but we have this we you know neuroscientists say like neurons that fire together, wire together. When you see a black face, it's usually like football or a mugshot on the news or like

some super racist movie from the 90s. And that's what, that's the associations that you're making because you don't have like, your teacher wasn't black. You don't think like dad. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Whereas like me, I'm like, oh, that's my dad.

Right. So obviously like, I'm like more that's my dad right so obviously like i'm like more empathetic because that's what i see like i see that humanity and i see that struggle well that's our privilege though you know that's what i'm gonna say that's your that's your guy's privilege that you have empathy privilege i'm like i don't know because i didn't choose to be black and eight i don't know this is how it ended up but yeah like there is there's a responsibility right yeah you were raised in a situation that was just like segregated by default or however your situation ended up where you just grew up in the suburbs and there just weren't a lot of people of color around like i think if you are a person of goodwill as dr king said like you have a moral

obligation to try to like fix that in your brain and make good solid loving kind empathetic relationships with people of color i will now get off of my soapbox thank you no this i don't this show is one big soapbox i don't think you realized that when he was logging into Zoom call. Yeah. But that's, I feel like, specifically designed that way. Like, by the culture that thrives on white supremacy. It's an entire, like, social order that is designed that way and so you have to actively uh unlearn a bunch of shit and learn a bunch of new shit in order to not be uh i mean yeah and if you find yourself saying like this kind of mirrors my upbringing look at it like this you're in the movie the village okay and yes they had you acting like you don't look up there i don't know what that plane is but come out outside the village it's pretty chill you're gonna learn a lot you'll expand your whole worldview and

then you realize you were taught a lot of dumb shit along the way that you don't need anymore and in fact it's much less scary than you were told in the village because that's the whole thing is like the ability to other people and negate their human experience is the only way you can act cruel towards them is like it's i don't know it's so abstract to me i see this black person begging for their life in the street but i just can't it just doesn't click and that's and that really truly is it's the very dark cynical by design way of a lot of how the media messages work on our brains so yeah absolutely come on out the village y'all it's pretty cool it's pretty good better at the end of 13th uh that's people always say that's so crazy if i was living at that time i would never have tolerated anything like that and the truth is we are living in this time we are

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to have a proper election a proper practice of democracy and uh we're not going to have a fully functional postal service yeah i mean as of right now when we record this the postmaster general is uh testifying in front of the senate so i'm not sure what lies he's saying there but we know last week it was a lot of bullshit he like had a letter it's like oh don't worry i'm gonna not holding off on those changes till after the election. And then when asked about what about all this shit you just did? He's like, I don't know. So I got to go.

So thank you so much for being here. And now we're seeing, you know, their internal emails are showing that the Postal Service is telling employees to keep the sorting machines that were being dismantled like as is in their completely state of fucked uh so this is something from this email says quote please message out to your respective maintenance managers tonight this is a director of maintenance operations they are not to reconnect slash reinstall machines that have been previously disconnected without approval from hq maintenance no matter what direction they are getting from their plant manager i mean jesus that's just straight up being like yeah keep them sabotaged yes don't even think about like even then like don't reconnect or reinstall this thing and there's a lot of footage of uh like some of the dismantled machines in mich Michigan that were just like chilling in a parking lot. And you're like, it's it. Yeah, it's all there in your face. They are doing every little thing to

try and gum up the works to not get a proper vote count or whatever narrative they're going to need to spin to seize the election or whatever they think they can do. And meanwhile, the state Republican parties in Arizona, Pennsylvania pennsylvania and north carolina major swing states uh they're all encouraging their voters to consider mail-in ballots like on in mailers that registered republicans are getting in arizona they got one that had a quote from the trump uh from the trump from the trump quote from the trump uh that read what are people historically going to refer to him as? The Trump?

Yeah, I don't know. Like, what the fuck? Might as well. I don't know what they're going to call it. Like, yeah, Trump con, whatever. So he says, I will be an absentee voter. We have a lot of absentee voters. It works.

So we are in favor of absentee. That's plastered on a mailer to Republicans. Well, publicly, he's like, you know, the mail-in stuff. It's just a complete con job. You don't know what's going to Republicans. While publicly he's like, you know the mail-in stuff, it's just a complete con job. You don't know what's going to happen. Then in North Carolina, another state that Trump won in 2016, very narrowly, there is

very similar mailer, different quote. This one says absentee ballots are fine because you have to go through a precise process to get your voting privilege. Privilege. It's a privilege, not a that's that's sort of the way this country sort of built turning rights into privileges and be like what are you talking about man that was a privilege that was a right i don't know i think you're wrong about that right

so yeah the whole thing is very it's like this is the sloppiest voter suppression you know like they're even sending their like their mixed messaging on everything is it just shows how like hollow these attacks are yet how much they're also like but please also use that because all your votes count too but also we need to just right publicly they're trying to make it seem like mail-in doesn't work make people as cynical as possible so they don't use mail-in but they're privately telling Republicans to use it. It seems to be the way it's going. I mean, that scans based on...

Huh, okay. Yeah, I've never voted in person in my life. Oregon has had mail-in only for decades, my entire adulthood. Oregon has had mail-in only for decades, my entire adulthood. So, yeah, and there's not a lot of fraud. I know Jake likes to say that there's a lot of fraud. And I had someone jump in my mentions on Twitter the other day, and they were just like, well, obviously, there's going to be fraud because they just take the ballots and they just dump them in a place and anyone can come and grab one and you don't have to be registered or anything.

And like, no, they like, they give you a specific barcode. Like it has your full name and address printed on it. Like if your signature doesn't match, they toss it out. Yeah.

These aren't like blank sheets that you just come up with. Like here's 50,000 votes. I just feel that it's like when you're, you're voting for the NBA all-star game, like in the nineties, when you just go to McDonald's and buy the fat ass stack you're like nick van axel for everything like that's just not how this shit works no it's not at all but i mean i get i get that there's misinformation out there and disinformation like people don't know how how mail-in ballots work it's kind of nice because you can just sit on your couch and

watch netflix and google all the candidates and all the issues yeah um as opposed to having to be like oh there's 50 people behind me like i gotta rush through this um well that's why you just gotta bring your cheat sheet if you're if you do the i always i always when i it's always funny when you go to vote and you see the person who's doing all the googling and the at the ballot box and you're like oh come on come on you didn't know all right well whatever at least you box. And you're like, oh, come on. Come on. You didn't know. All right, well, whatever. At least you're here.

Shout out to you for doing the work. But like, come on, man. We need to keep this line going. Oh, my gosh. Can Democrats send out little mailers that say, hey, go to the whitest district that you can drive to and vote there? Because I don't know how actually voting in person works. Like, can you go to any spot in the state?

It depends on state to state, county to county. I have no idea. LA now is sort of like, you can go to just any polling place. Wherever, yeah. Before it used to be specific to your precinct. Wow. Yeah. That's wild.

Which made it a little difficult in the primary. I was like, that line was very, very long. Like, depending on what time of day you went but whatever yeah i've never i've never like waited less than 30 minutes to vote ever in my life so i'm always like ready to be there for an hour or so but you can't miss work that's the important thing like we were talking about with schools you can't miss work because then you'll you won't be able to eat and it's an existential uh threat whoa whoa whoa pal where are you going it's election day yeah okay and right you already took your union 15 i'm like what i gotta i'm sorry i'm gonna go yeah it's it's it's very it's dark times dark times but yeah that's why i think

everyone has to be as encouraged as possible to to ensure that whatever you know get your vote in there if you're trying to again you could flatten the curve as we say with the postal service who's saying like please don't send if you're gonna send it in don't send it in the fucking week before because then it just causes a massive backlog and that does affect our ability to process everything in times like if you got them now send them in now you might as well do it because that'll help just keep things steady and then we'll be we can still run a capacity but even then i think there's also a very group of people now or defined group of people who are engaged with the news and almost like fuck do i just go to the polling place even though i can just so i can feel like the tangible like

there you go but either way the votes have to get in um just gotta figure out the best way to do that our only saving grace is the people that are trying to hijack all of this are like deeply incompetent at almost everything so maybe we'll pull this off well this is the thing with any trump fuckery scandal it's always like there's like this is the part you see. And then two weeks later, three weeks later, it's like, oh, and then there's all this other shit that they were,

that's even sloppier and darker, but they couldn't keep under wraps. And now we're finding out about it. So, I mean, again, I think like everyone, we just have to brace ourselves to just react as quickly and be as

malleable as possible. So we don't, you know, have our votes completely discounted. Yeah. But I mean, as a party they're like that is their entire modus operandi like they're on debt rez on debt they they can't exist without uh without this yeah so like that's i think they're probably getting pretty good at it. So it's, it's a real threat.

I mean, so I went to like a local Republican meeting. Like someone just took me to one. This was in 2009, 2010 in Washington state. It was, I guess it's not a rural County. It was Thurston County GOP.

Like they were just having a meeting. And yeah, their whole thing was like, okay, so we're going to get these issues on the ballot. The non-election year is because we know that Democrats are less likely to turn out those years, so we won't have to fight as hard to get this stuff passed. They're like gun legislation and whatever else they were trying to do. And they just admit it out loud.

It's like, yeah, we just got to set this that you know we get the fewest people to turn out because that automatically puts the odds in our favor yeah yep um yeah there there is an insurgency mentality because they are not like they it's a democracy and they don't have the votes so they have to their whole uh reason for existing or continued existence depends on them finding finding these loopholes um so facebook i don't know i feel like a lot of people do you remember that uh video of the Thai tsunami, the 2004 tsunami where there's a guy just like standing there watching the wave come like on the beach. I feel like that's kind of, I keep being reminded of that as I think about this election,

like that I'm just like standing there and there's nothing really to do, but you know, like it's just about to be, everything's about to be upside down. Like, so Facebook, I guess, is having meetings daily now to be like, okay, so these are all the things that are probably going to go wrong. Like, what do we do? And all their solutions are wildly inadequate uh as they typically are but it's revealing their first solution i don't know just just let it just let it go i don't know it's not our problem it's kill switch miles kill switch so kill switch engage sound sound sounds like a big deal it's like damn they're they're willing to go there uh that's a kill switch on

all political ads so like the day after the election so the day of the election if trump tries some fuckery then they're gonna stop allowing uh misinformation uh on their on their platform after the fact it's like cool you should be willing to shut down facebook that might be uh an adequate like partial response but that's like that your house is burning down like oh should we put it out you're like nah man when it gets too close we'll just leave it's like we gotta what that's not a fucking what okay i mean the conversations they're having are the conversations every media outlet needs to be having right now like what is going to happen when trump tries to invalidate like the election results or when he tries to declare victory early when you know there there's evidence

of foreign interaction or foreign interference or, like, all the different ways that the Trump administration can fuck with the results. Like, that needs to just assume those are going to happen because he's not going to let anything that has him leaving office happen without some sort of just trying to completely fuck everything up just i don't know like i don't know like i said you know it's it's it's this is like a very big moment for the status quo in this country i mean every every election is but like it this could go in so many

different directions it's really hard to like wrap your head around like what version is the good version, you know, like you like with Biden wins. And what does that presidency look like? And then will all the cries of the downtrodden people be heard or will they not penetrate the White House again? You know, like what's going to happen? Or do we just get like in your face, just boot stomping on, you know, like, like we're seeing already now. Uh, yeah, but I, it's, it seems like an easy thing for a lot of the people, like, especially in mainstream media, like they're just in a different socioeconomic existence where they're like, I don't know, that would be really chaotic. Wouldn't it tell me more Katie Couric. Right.

And it's like, I don't know a poor i could name a poor person to save my life but i have a feeling it's gonna be uh pretty pretty pretty bad you know i think the the real stakes i feel like are just not being communicated to people because this is really okay this shit could go in a lot of bad a lot of bad places and like if you're not stealing yourself to understand like what the messaging could be around it or what the tact or the, the strategy is going to be of, of the Republican party to try and justify it, like you're left with many, you're like sort of defenseless, uh, in certain aspects. So. Cause Facebook's whole argument or defense every time

their platform is used to cause mass casualties or an ethnic cleansing. They're always like, we're just a platform. We can't do anything to stop this. But it's interesting that they are basically acknowledging. I don't think Facebook is going to be... Even if you shut down Facebook and Trump is trying to like stage a false flag or like do whatever he needs to do to keep power i don't think shutting down facebook is going to do anything uh necessarily but it is interesting that they are acknowledging yeah we got to be careful uh because i mean another another 2016 you just look at i mean, if they were worth a fuck, they'd look at all the pages that are all interconnected

and are used to create these gaming the algorithm to get news stories to start popping and shit and really looking at that properly and be like, is this story about George Soros funding Black Lives Matter real?

Nope. No. So get it the fuck off. Rather than being like, well, you know, to some people, it might mean... No, dude. For some people, it's just racist turbo fuel. The Q stuff is really... I don't think people should underestimate how that group... how like how that group like it's literally a death cult that thinks donald trump is the only line between the fall of civilization and all their children being kidnapped and they think that if he loses like i just don't know what's going to happen i think i think it could get

really really bad and it's much more widespread than we realize there's a story from a week before last this woman in texas who was drunk driving her car and smashing it into other people chasing a woman and her daughter because she got red pilled on the q anon shit and was saying like i gotta save this little girl and was chasing a mother and daughter and then like when she lost track of them found another car and just started ramming this guy in his truck was saying like, when the cops got there, she was telling them like, I had to save this little girl from trafficking. And she was under the influence and had a history of some other things too. But there was an article written in right wing watch about her sort of path there, how she started, you know, like not really that engaged in politics or anything like that.

But a friend of hers was like, Oh my God, have this q stuff and she it just can it just clicked and she started getting more and more into it and then she started like getting down on her friend she's like you showed me this and now you're saying it's like you don't believe in it see then you're you're with them and sort of how immediately this she had this narrative she was operating within very quickly and it's yes this whole idea of the satanic cannibal pedophiles who are eating people and a lot of this stuff overlaps with real life events so it's you know it's just got enough depending on how you need to make sense of the world that you can just use this to start causing massive amounts of chaos and just danger for

people. I think that also the right, like they really put a pretty similar like play into motion with abortion because there was this kind of, I mean, there was a lot of talk about like, oh, we need to start bombing abortion clinics. Like these people are murdering babies. Like we need to have serious discussions about what it looks like to stop these people not obviously as we know like many doctors who performed abortions have been assassinated by these people um you know there wasn't the internet back then so it was a little bit harder for them to organize but i feel i see a lot of parallels

just with that and like how i was i was straight up brainwashed into that like I was watching anti-abortion propaganda films before I could read so like there's a lot of people that are deep deep into that shit and are trying to like also brainwash their children but like yeah I can't tell up from down anymore because they're so they're so deep into it and now we just have the internet which you know compounds the problem and our you know our needs for narrative like jack you were saying like how as humans like we need this like narrative structure to make sense of most shit like sometimes it's not enough to just look at data or history and be like oh okay i understand like it's awful but like it's almost like okay but why is there 5g because there has to be a bad guy okay and he's in a lair. Okay. And that's, and that's, um, that's Bill Gates and he's using five. Yes. Okay. And then the 5G, you know,

like rather than just being like, I'm living in a world that is completely rotten from the inside with greed and a lack of humanity. And these people who have a lot more money can continue to operate without any empathy or humanity because they're not as connected to the world as the rest of the working people. And unfortunately they have more influence that no no that's too much who's the bad guy and who's the good guy okay and who's sauron and who is fucking gandalf that's what i need to know is donald donald trump is gandalf okay and george soros is sauron easy okay then that makes uh fucking stephen Stephen Miller Bilbo Baggins like whatever the fuck they it's just

is that how you pronounce Gandalf or is that a Gandalf Alf crossover that you were just describing oh I just I respect the hard A's I'm sorry when you were saying that I'm a Tolkien disrespecter

with Alf in the gandalf role that has to be a meme right already where it's alf as uh look as you know you know the internet already did that but um yeah but we really do need it's it's this really just human need to also simplify these things in the same way that someone who doesn't want to actually cast a you know a clear eye and conscience to the problem of white supremacy in this country it's easy to be like uh this jewish guy's paying the blacks to complain like what yeah that's really easier for something like i'd rather do that than be like this country's built on white supremacy and like and i and I've benefited from it.

I didn't know I did, but people are trying to tell me that. I don't want to hear that. So tell me about George Soros again. Yeah. I have a hard time. We all suffer from recency bias. uh but there i think there's also that the opposite of that where we are so steeped in something so steeped in all these stories that we don't realize how profoundly fucked the situation is and the fact that we have the fastest growing cult in the country maybe the history of the country in Q, their leader is the president of

the United States. And he is owning their adulate. He's like, yeah, I hear they like me. That's great. These are people who are the most armed people in the history of our country, the most armed private citizenry. And then underlying that, we have the pandemic, we have the uprisings, we have all these different things. I really think we're in one of the most dangerous situations in the history of the country, and it's just hard to fully grasp how dangerous the Q situation really is. Well, and it's also because, again, the lack of explanation for things,

and it does translate to people's real life day-to-day lives, where it's like even liberal, progressive, QAnon, whatever, you might be affected financially, economically in this exact same way, but you're going to have different explanations for that and what's the the shitty part is the people that are responsible are in charge for the messaging and are never going to tell you it's actually on us yeah you know i mean like we should actually get the fuck out of here because we completely fuck this up that's not gonna happen so now we have you know we're we're getting to this point where people need answers and some are you know retreating to these conspiracy theories because it's easier to wrap their heads around

and other people are getting in the streets and it's you know everyone's looking at it in different ways and that's what i think that's the biggest issue is like when the president could just be like you know to be honest the q people i understand what you're saying the reason the economy shot down isn't because the pandemic was planned. It's because I had completely removed the social safety net and emphasized this economy for more of a casino-style economy with Wall Street, in which we're not actually considering what the lived experiences of working people as we ship jobs away from the country so the upper crust can make even more money. Like, even then, they'd be like, I don't know, man. Maybe you're, you know, it's even hard to even imagine.

They would take the color of his tie as a symbol that the opposite of what he's saying is true. Like he wore a yellow tie to a thing and they were like, well, that means that he's saying that the pandemic isn't real because yellow is the shipping uh signal for all clear so therefore like it's just it's impossible it's literally i can't imagine a scenario where this doesn't go really really badly yeah and that's uh that's scary uh all right let's talk about uh netflix top 10 when we come back

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We basically are bookending the Netflix top 10 list from the end of last week because Project Power was number one. Drunk Parents was number 10. Miles, why don't we start with number 10, Drunk Parents. What is this movie about? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what it's about. I don't know i don't know i don't know what it's about i don't know who this is supposed to appeal to i don't know what the whole all my first thought is what a

fucking disaster every movie we've reviewed i've been like hey man when you're locked down every movie is like an airplane movie you know what i mean like where it's like yeah it's just good enough i you know what i'm just gonna cut to it alec baldwin does this fucked up charlie chan asian accent multiple times in the film pretending to be like asian to dodge bill collectors and i'm like this is so fucked up like he's he's about to win the razzie for like most cancelable role uh because it's like his like characters like you know just doing all just these care asian caricatures and they kind of like how you see that i don't have to pay my bills now and it's this story i have absolutely no empathy like sympathy for these characters

they're two rich people who just overextended themselves on some kind of like biotech gamble and they don't want to tell their daughter they're broke now and then it devolves into a bunch of terrible comedy scenes wait are they uh why are they drunk daughter they're broke now. And then it devolves into a bunch of terrible comedy scenes. Wait, are they, uh, why are they drunk? Cause they're trying to like,

man, they're because they realize that like, they've got all these bill collectors coming. Like there's someone coming to take their car. There's someone coming to like lock them out of their house and like take all their furniture and whatever. And so they're just like, well, shit,

what are we going to do? So they just end up like getting drunk and then essentially staying drunk for the entirety of the film. Yeah. But they're not even- For the reason that alcoholics drink to escape their problems? I don't- It's so weird. That was so strange to me because I was like, I don't really understand.

Yeah. Obviously, substance abuse is a problem. So what are you trying? I don't know what you're trying to communicate here that, like, it was very weird. They make fun of someone who's using a wheelchair. There's, like, Will Ferrell and Colin Quinn have the most inexplicable cameos in it where their names are Will and Colin, respectively. It's, the thing is, like like it was so hard to follow like i couldn't i don't know if the bit was sort of like you know logic the drunken logic is really hard to follow therefore we will

apply that to the entire plotting out of this like script but it's just like you don't understand their solutions to certain problems or like they're stealing shit. And next time they take something else and it's not clear like what that, you know, most scripts tell you like what the stakes are and like they must achieve this thing by this time. And it's sort of like, yo, they're broken, sloppy. And Salma Hayek's going to do a lot of improv. So I don't know it was it was it was it was so strangely written too because it's like you have this one kind of pivotal scene that's like two minutes long essentially and like just kind of resolves itself and then they're walking along the highway like what okay did you understand the people who kidnapped them and were accusing them of being like, like pedophiles or something. Right. I mean, I got that,

but then it was like, okay. And we're walking home now. Yeah. What? And are they blackmailing? There are so many things. Like it really felt, there were like also these like lines of dialogue

that were clearly like just these like shock jock sort of lines where like Selma Hayek's like trying to describe a place like, imagine they're Oompa Loompas on speed, like guarding this i'm like that's what is that as a joke and like i don't even know what you're describing you just like to say the words oompa loompas on speed and a lot of like the dialogue just fell flat or was like really offensive or just didn't make sense so the whole time i was like am i too like high to watch this? I don't know, but it still doesn't make sense. So I was so high recommend it doesn't,

it didn't make any sense. So, so don't worry about it. Yeah. I have to say like, do not honestly shame on everybody involved with this film. Cause this was not in, not even in the closest bit redeeming.

I cannot believe like i just don't understand how these two performers got wrangled into this project because it they couldn't have read the script and been like this is a fucking genius are you kidding me these irresponsible wealthy people who are just like on a bender that the, and the dialogue is just like racy and like provocative. What's the drunk movie from the eighties, Arthur, is that it? Where the guy's like charmingly drunk the whole time.

So maybe they were just trying to do like the updated version of that. There was nothing charming about the characters. Like there was nothing that made you go like, Oh, like I kind of, I empathize with their struggle, even though I've never been wealthy, like, you know, being broke sucks. Like there was, there was nothing that made you go like oh like i kind of i empathize with their struggle even though i've never been wealthy like you know being broke sucks like there was there was there was none of that and then there was like this jim gaffigan character who is on like the sex predator watch list yeah or whatever because he tried to save some kids from a shark

and then but then he like pivots and decides to try to like assault some high x character i don't even yeah there's so many things you don't it's so it's so bizarre and then she traps him right and it's like reverse it's like aha i got your ass you're like how did you i didn't even understand what the dynamic was a second ago but now you're supposed to be happening here it's it's truly one of the more frustrating things i've ever seen that was described as a comedy so if you want a pure rage watch like watch it because you're going to be like this is fucking just this is a waste of my human being time uh you cannot exist as a human while watching this without getting a flood of emotions and yeah the other thing that was uh who was the other there was just like these bits that didn't make sense there's like this

whole drawn out bit where alec baldwin errantly smokes a spider and then like a bunch of then like salma hayek in a later scene got she's covered in a bunch of cg spiders because of something he smoked it's i don't know i as i describe this i feel like i'm losing my spiders were like the the spiders got laid in the wig by the mama spider. And then she's wearing the wig. And then like they descend hatch. And then they're like crawling all down her face and whatever. But like, yeah, I didn't understand.

Like, how do you smoke? Like, there's a spider on your cigarette. Like, yeah, just like you smoked a spider. It's not even a thing that can happen. Like, I don't understand. Okay. Full disclosure. I have smoked a spider.

This is local lore. And I had to text my friends because I was like, yo, I'm watching this movie. There's a scene where Alec Baldwin smokes a spider. My friend, no bullshit, he texted me back. He's like, yo, they stole your IP. Because in high school, I remember I found a dried out daddy long legs corpse. And I put it in a bowl. And I thought,

you know, I was just 16 and you know, you're watching jackass and then nothing happened. So that actually explained a lot about you. Yeah. Yeah. So guys, uh, look forward to the rest of the daily.

It's like, I guess I'll no longer be a co-host. I was just going to say, it explains your long legs, daddy. Okay. You know, you know, I'm sensitive no he's he's shading me because i always talk about my short legs do what do you i didn't know you just don't hear me jack um all right well what about power project project power project power so it starts out

very like b movie the premise is very b movie it's like what if there was a pill that gave you animal superpowers but then jamie fox shows up and within five minutes i was writing the note this movie fucking rules i jamie fox is so awesome in this and this movie knows what's cool and like lovable about Jamie Foxx so well that it just makes it work uh I I really enjoyed it they do a goodish job like some of it's cheesy but it's set in New Orleans and they like really so I don't know this is gonna be a wild idea but New Orleans is almost like a second character in the movie um I don't know this is going to be a wild idea but new orleans is almost like a second character in the movie um i don't know if you've ever heard anyone describe that uh in a woody allen movie say

but uh okay no they want they want you to be like new orleans is really a character in this movie uh and there are some really dope settings uh and uh it feels like it works some of the time which is good enough because it's such a absurd over the top like supernatural uh premise that you need it to be like grounded in reality kind of it like it basically functions uh the way that what's the movie where it's like all found footage of superheroes chronicle yeah yeah they're trying to do like like you need a sort of chronicle situation to uh ground it and like they try and use new orleans to do that and it kind of works what'd you think tori i i really enjoyed it i thought it was funny because i thought that the jamie fox character art slash the major i think that

yeah i thought it was really funny because yeah it was like it kind of started out i'm like okay this feels this feels a little cheesy like i'm i'm interested but but it feels a little cheesy and then jamie fox rolls in and it's like you couldn't make this guy not look like a rock star like he's so cool right he's and i'm like he's supposed. He's so cool. Right. He's driving this shitty beat up truck and he's not necessarily wearing super flashy clothes or whatever. His clothes suck.

I don't know. There's just this charisma that radiates off of him. Yeah. Is that what the pill does that he takes? No, because he doesn't take it. Until the end. Spoilers. By the way,

speaking of stealing IP, the screenwriter of this owes Cracked.com a nod because we wrote a movie like 15 years ago called Coolest Animal Superpowers and all of the superpowers in this are animal superpowers we

talked about in that article oh my god including the number one is the one that jamie foxx has and like reveals at the end all right so zeit gang if you are a lawyer dealing in intellectual property law please contact us because between my spider smoking in uh drunk parents and the cracked article i mean who wants to make some money here um up to y'all the cases are just waiting it does have like some of the like bad action movie they're just like it's only the best action movies that get it right where like you don't feel like the person's just going like doing wildly reckless things and then miraculously surviving and like that happens like a bunch of times in this to the point that you feel like you're watching somebody just get extremely extraordinarily lucky like jamie foxx and

his sidekick is played by dominique fishback and she's really great but they keep like putting themselves into these scenarios where there's no way they would survive but like because they're cool like they get through um joseph gordon levitt also in it in a supporting role uh fine it's doing a southern accent that's like 40 convincing but that's about all as convincing as you need it to be. Um, but yeah, it's like, it could use a little bit,

it could have used a, another rewrite where they were like, okay, there's, there's no reason he should think that he would survive this scenario. Like, like John Wick gets that right in the sense that they just give him like the skillset that he can do those things.

Like that's the whole point of the movie. Uh, and like die hard and like other action movies where it's like, you believe that the person is vulnerable to death. Whereas this, it just feels like they're putting themselves in this scenario knowing that they're in a movie and therefore have to survive. Um, but yeah, I thought thought i thought it was really cool i was pleasantly surprised uh i i'm so curious that both you

and tori immediately go yeah like it started off then jamie fox shows up like what's this is there like is it the scene is it that manner in which because it sounds like you're responding or just merely once his character enters like it helps give the the film the texture i was trying okay so the first the first image that you see of jamie foxx this is ashy ass ashy ass that's hard to say hand like in his in his dumpy little pickup truck and i was like oh okay they're gonna make him you know look kind of rough and i feel like they kind of tried to make it like he i was like oh he's probably gonna have like shitty facial hair or shitty haircut or something like he's not gonna look super sharp and trim right i don't i don't know there's something about jamie foxx where he

looks like a movie star all the time and he's a movie star like he is like he mark walberg that movie uh spencer, like kind of, uh, floats on the fact that he's a movie star, but this like fully floats on like Jamie Foxx is a better movie star than Mark Walt. Like Jamie Foxx is a great movie star based on what, what happens in this.

Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like he really, well, so I don't, I don't, I didn't feel like he necessarily carried the film like they didn't necessarily put all of it on him which i felt like was good um and uh i felt like the riley

character like she was such a gem and like so convincing as a 16 year old i was like oh my god this little girl is like 12 years old she's not she's 22 like the actress is 22 right right I'm just like I can't believe that he's doing this start like I was like she I feel like she really rocked it in in the film um and was was really pretty convincing um personally and I felt like her character uh made it so that you were a little bit more emotionally involved. Yeah. At least for me. The two of them definitely like carry it fully. Right. Yeah.

And the whole like, where she kind of has to choose between like the major and Joseph Gordon Levitt's character. It suffers from like bad, bad guy. Like the bad, the evil characters are over the top and not convincing. And it's just like, yeah.

Like there's one speech about Henrietta Lacks that is like really. Oh my gosh. Shut the fuck up. So vomity. So vomit inducing. Yeah. They try and like compare. It's whack.

They don't need to do all that. Just keep it to the pill that gives you cool animal powers. Right. But it's dope overall like i i definitely recommend it and uh i think they might be doing a sequel uh and i would watch the shit out of that all right well so it sounds like if you want to get angry watch drunk parents and for a good time watch project power yeah yeah seriously um otherwise movie theaters are opening i think uh around america like soft launch of movie theaters where you can watch as jm mcnabb our writer pointed out you can go watch classic movies

like jaws and jurassic park two stories about the perils of ignoring deadly disasters but i think ten is tenant coming out like in limited release because the reviews are in for tenant i don't know so we'll see i don't know i can't that's like another thing i'm like i don't know i can't let that thing draw me out of hibernation. I heard the reviews are like, it's decent, but not like... I wonder if it does have a thing, like that effect on reviewers, because people are just kind of like, whatever, I don't know. Yeah, sure, it's fine, dude. It sounds like it has the Nolan thing where it's like,

it treats a moderately smart- idea. Like it's like, Whoa. Uh, but that, that usually works on me. So I, uh, I'm excited to watch it.

It's like the Seinfeld of sort of like action film concepts where it's like, it's like this observation. A lot of like, but like, really, let me blow this out. What if you could go in a dream though? What if you could,

and we'd share it. Um, but anyways, so don't go to movie theaters. Please don't go to movie theaters. Yeah, no matter how cheap AMC is setting the ticket prices. No, don't do it. It's not worth it. Come on, guys. Stay home.

Yeah. You can watch The Mayor from Jaws at home home you don't have to be the mayor from jaws tori it has been so wonderful having you on the daily zeitgeist it's been awesome i had fun where can people find you and follow you uh i am on the internet from time to time um i'm on twitter and instagram at tori glass tori with an i um and my podcast is called white homework so you can find me on twitter and instagram also at white homework if that is easier for you to remember um yeah websites at tori glass it's all pretty straightforward so that's me. Is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying?

Some of the work, honestly, like the meme. Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Miles, the meme that you were talking about with the little girl sitting at the computer. That was like, that was so great. I'm getting I'm getting a lot of mileage out of the ben shapiro dap everything it's just yeah it's like the hand wrestling one yeah it's like the black guys like arizona the white guys ben shapiro and it's like it's a dry heat i can't deal with it okay yeah what do you think is going on at that house oh my god because like in a way like you know if the if he truly is trying to delay this at the like feet of his wife partner who's a doctor yeah doctor wife is he like the kids at school are saying that's not true mom like you know like is or is he does he like are they eating dinner and like he did googling on his own it's like no like in a state of arousal like it there will be wetness and he's like you know honey i

was doing some reading about no no that's not true that's wrong okay that's not a thing that happens to anyone go to the doctor if you're that happens to anyone. Go to the doctor. If you're wet, go to the doctor. Go to the doctor. Also, don't touch me, Ben, please. Well, I assume that's a daily occurrence, but. Yeah, it's just, I think that's where I'm getting a lot of the mileage. It's like, I'm creating these really interesting comedy scenes at home where he's like wrestling with it.

I'm like, you fool. No. I don't think that he wrestles with things like the other day he tweeted that like that um ibram kendi's like how to be an anti-racist book was was a conspiracy theory and i was like he literally says in the book that black people are capable of committing racism which is the argument that you were going for you were saying that black people are capable of committing racism, which is the argument that you were going for. You were saying that black people are racist against you, which. He didn't read the book. No, that's my point. He didn't actually read the book because if he had, he would have been like, oh, this guy's kind of on my team a little bit. Like for this argument, like I'm going to take this and run with it.

But no, he's like, no, it's just a conspiracy theory. The same as QAnon. Don't worry about it. Okay. Same thing with like wet ass pussiesies too. It's just all conspiracies. It's all conspiracies. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying?

You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Grey. Also the other podcast 420 Day Fiance. Just talking about 90 Day Fiance. So come stop by for that one. Nice little salve to put on your reality wounds that is our world we're in um okay some tweets i like i think hold on let me i'm just gonna hold up my camera or my

phone to the screen because this is a picture one and i really enjoy it this first one is a meme uh and it shows like a cat like wearing like a mask like it's you know clearly masked up during the pandemic so it's just interesting to see this cat it has eye holes cut out but the entire face mask is wrapped around the cat looks like a luchador yeah and then uh at mtv cell says homie on his ninth life he ain't taking no chances but the way it looks it really does feel like that uh and then another one is from April at Autogine Files. Hopefully I didn't completely mispronounce it.

It said, muttering, he's not going to fuck you, angrily under my breath when my competitor gets a question right on Jeopardy. It's not like he's going to fuck you. He's not going he's gonna fuck you he's not gonna fuck you that's so funny oh shit that would be amazing and just see the like

yeah or the person the other person hearing it like wait what huh who is makctezuma? It's correct. Fuck you. Fuck you. Jesus. I love that. Petty Jeopardy. Petty Jeopardy. I do wonder, that'd be great, like, behind the scenes where they talk about,

like, the best shit talkers in the history of Jeopardy. Like, things that were, like, fully cut from the show. Yeah.

They're like, oh, there's this guy, Gary Maddock. We couldn't air his episodes. Yeah. Well, I mean, we all know Alex Schmitty the Clam, and he won, I think, three, four in a row, and that guy's the meanest, the meanest when he wants to be.

Holy shit. It'll take a bite out of your soul uh anyways a couple tweets i've been enjoying uh dana donnelly tweeted really sucks that every time you start dating a new guy you're basically signing up to take a film theory 101 class of his making you know how many guys you know how many guys named matt have given me an hour-long lecture on goodfellas and then another one of the funniest people on the internet eliza skinner replied once in the midst of a lecture on diploma i tried to make it a conversation and mentioned a couple of diploma films my date didn't know his reaction was not so much a record scratch as it was, you have pushed

the entire turntable onto the floor and I'm trying not to cry about it. Oh, shit. Guys. Don't do that. Do better. Do better, y'all. You can do better. Especially not now.

I mean, shit, I didn't have an excuse in the early aughts uh when i was just like in college i'm like what do you mean you haven't seen city of god that was before i was like yeah then i was like yeah you know what everyone's actually need to ask my wife now whether she was pretending like she gave a shit about my movie takes when we first started dating yes yes you need to ask she was you're like yes she was you don't even have to ask her uh also hype at the hype tweeted white people love saying we're back in business when they get back on the road after getting gas oh my gosh oh my gosh that we do my friend well it's like it's like the keys one like you forget your keys on the counters not getting far without these

again for the second time yep yep white people they have some funny sayings i'll give them that much yeah uh all right well you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. We're like off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,

as well as the song we write out on miles what are we writing out on today uh do a little new track from sango one of my favorite beat makers producers uh this is called preto edurado and it is a like mashup of you know he has a lot of he loves brazilian rhythms uh in his work uh and so this is kind of a mashup of like a little bit of samba but like slightly more hip-hoppy but also there are like some really nice like dub elements like reggae like there's some like naya bingy drumming in it and some fat bass lines so it's just it's like very i don't know like you're taking a trip to the southern hemisphere uh with a lot of good rhythms so check out this track you know, get your week started with some rhythm. All right.

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