The Daily Zeitgeist - My Dark Twisted Election, Big Fence Energy 8.14.20

Episode Date: August 14, 2020

In episode 694, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and 420 Day Fiance co-host and Private Parts Unknown co-host Sofiya Alexandra to discuss Kanye West being used by the Trump administration, Trump trying to ruin the USPS, Uber continuing to screw over their drivers, Cheetos Mac-n-cheese, what we're watching, and more!FOOTNOTES: Group working to get Kanye West on state ballot to 'help Trump' Inside Kanye West’s “Almost Daily” Chats With Jared Kushner Trump admits he's refusing to fund the US Postal Service to sabotage mail-in voting Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019 How much it would cost Uber and Lyft if drivers were employees Uber CEO threatens to halt service in California until November election Cheetos Mac 'n Cheese, a union that was meant to be WATCH: Ego Ella May - How Far Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Season 146, Episode 5 of Der Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially off the top, fuck the Koch brothers, fuck Fox News, fuck Rush Limbaugh, fuck Bob Saxton,

fuck Ben Shapiro, fuck Tucker Carlson, fuck American fascism. It's Friday, August 13th, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Don't come closer anti-masker. I know that

you don't see it my way but you may be asymptomatic have you checked the CDC today? That is Curse of Malicious Dish and my beautiful pipes

and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray Fuck the GOP I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Fuck the GOP. I don't care, it's all side for me. Fuck the GOP. Mitch looks like a turtle to me. All right. So shout out to Lex Lugie and Mr. Lugubrious for that wonderful Sister Sledge-inspired, a.k.a.

We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented, the wonderful Sophia Alexandra! Thank you so much for having me. How are you? Since yesterday? I see you all the time. It's like having my good neighbor on.

I feel like I'm the third wheel today. Yeah, anyway. No, Jack, you never could be. Don't mind him. So anyway, remember what we were talking about earlier? I know, he did wear that shirt. Sucker. Sucker?

I'm wearing the shirt? No, she i love your head anyway inside joke jack sorry we i just take a lot of time hey dude so here so what are you guys talking about just walking laughing remember sofia uh-oh spaghettios SpaghettiOs? Yeah, yeah. That was a good time. Anyway. Really wish that Jack was there. Yeah, no, I wasn't. Cool. Anyway, so what's up, Jack? Nothing SpaghettiOs.

All right. It's still funny, even though he doesn't know what he's doing. No, I get it. Well, don he's doing. No, I get it. I think I get it. Don't encourage it. He took a risk on that one. Just let him feel that one. Anyways, I'm going to get

to know you a little bit better in a moment. I don't think Miles can get to know you any better. You guys are best friends. We actually constantly learn more about each other on our other podcast, 420 Day Fiance. Never heard of it. I actually constantly learn more about each other on our other podcast, 420 Day Fiancé, a production of White Heart Radio. I actually suspect a lot of that gang doesn't know I do another podcast

because when I mention it, it's at the end of the show when I do AKA or the Twitters and stuff. Anyway, if you don't know, now you know. If you don't know, now you know. Yeah, no big deal, but if you love 90 Day Fiancé. Yeah, just hop in.

And if you like really good Seinfeld impressions. It's actually, the show is very heavy on Miles doing all kinds of impressions. Really weird impressions. It's just become the Miles Gray impression hour, slowly but surely. I mean, that sounds really good to me. The setting is also the Daily Zeitgeist now that I found my inner Ben Shapiro. Sophia, before we get to know you even better better we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about uh we're going to talk about all around fuckery coming from the

trump uh re-election the creep committee to re-elect the president yeah we're going to talk about it's like dumb creep because creep was the name of the nixon thing that uh got him in trouble this is like dumb dumb oh i thought it was a tlc ref i was like that sounds tight and for me i'm radiohead so right everything's radiohead nowadays wow you must be a real radiohead if you know creep oh yeah their deepest cut oh yeah there's that one and that's probably like they're the one the best song i mean i like all their songs but i think that's probably the best one yeah yeah that i can name the car police one i love that oh yeah yeah and then the sucking lemons one yeah i like that one too love the sucking lemons one uh we're gonna to talk about... What about Double Rainbow? You guys love that one?

Oh, yeah. In Double Rainbows? Yep. Sounds like a good... That sounds like such a great idea for viral content from the early aughts. For all the... Double Rainbow guy mixed in rainbows.

For people who love water sports, there's that anthem, dude. Spear fishing. Oh, my gosh. Spear fishing. Oh, my gosh. Spear fishing. Yeah, I love that one, man. My boys in Montauk. Dude, love banging that one.

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or watching for the first time. We're going to talk about Cheetos, mac and cheese, all of that, plenty more. But first, Sofia, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? So I was talking about Russian food yesterday and telling someone about this dish called gogal mogal,

which is like a little thing that your mom would make you that was like a sweet dessert. And it's just like egg yolks that you would just beat with like a fork or whatever and some sugar and like vanilla. And you can throw some other stuff in there depending what you like. But you would just have that and it was such a little treat. And then when I told people in America, they were like, you eat raw eggs?

I was like, all right, I'm not going to like it here. I'm not going to like it here. I'm not going to like it here. Calm down, refrigeration gang over here. So yeah, Gogol Mogol is fucking delicious. Wait, how do you spell that? G-O-G-O-L, like Gogol. Like Gogol Bordello? Yes, and then M-O-G-O-L.

Oh, great. Gogol Mogol. And have you made it as an adult? Because I recently started making stuff. Now that I realize I'm an adult with cooking skills, I'm like, yeah, wait, why don't I make my favorite hanjuku egg, like a super soft boiled egg with soy sauce, like my simple child breakfast.

Have you made it recently? No, I haven't. When I was talking about yesterday, the reason I looked it up is I was like, I should make an adult version. Because they were saying you could put brandy and shit in it when I was Googling it. And I obviously, as a child,

my grandpa just gave me vodka straight. So I never had it in science. How much vodka? A shot. A shot? Just to like bedtime? Just like he would say wake up in the morning he would say la pitita which is like for your appetite so with like dinner oh and uh recently my mom just found that out she's like when was this i was like i don't know me and my cousin were like six she's like what damn is that is that normal though to hit the vodka early like at six i mean or like your grandpa was kind of lit he was like our culture is full

of alcoholics right so who can tell yeah that sounds really good the thank you it's delicious and it's so easy to make yeah you're just, sugar, and I could do that right now. Yeah, do it right now. Okay, hold on. I'll be right back. Okay, see you. And how would you, would it be in a bowl that you would eat with a spoon? Would it be like something you just drank? In a mug. In a mug. Okay, right, right, right. With a spoon? No spoon? Sip?

With a spoon, yes. Yeah, yeah. Our treats were cheese flats, I've talked talked about with a tortilla and cheese on top wait what are cheese slats cheese flats that's what our family named them we had a naming ceremony and uh that that got voted basically half a quesadilla yeah exactly and then uh but you put it in the oven so it crisps up. It's pretty good. And then cinnamon toast was... Oh, I love cinnamon toast.

The easiest thing. Oh, you just like a little butter, sugar. Butter, sugar, cinnamon. Boom. Cheerios with a scoop of sugar also really like... Oh, yeah. Kix, I remember... Because remember Kix cereal?

They didn't used to have really that much sugar and I used to get in trouble getting caught. I would actually, because my parents wouldn't let me put sugar on the cereal i would i would lift sugar packets from diners as a kid and have that shit oh my god and i'll be like yeah i'm gonna eat in my room and like low-key i'm like putting all those like sweet and low and shit and they're like what's wrong with you i'm sorry mom this shit tastes like shit without the sugar it's just coming out of your shirt cuff yeah right what's that movie where they're doing that when the baseball game is oh yeah yeah yeah or whatever yeah that like when your mom finds condoms in your room as a kid but the condoms are actually sugar packets and she's even more disappointed oh my god uh what is something

you think is overrated okay so i've just really been annoyed with leftist twitter after the vp announcement i'm just like i'm sorry uh that nothing is perfect in the entire world but can we stop talking about oh i don't want to vote for the lesser of two evils that's literally what it is to make a choice between two things which thing is less bad right and i'm sorry like if you didn't understand from the last election till now that actually uh the two evils were pretty different then i don't know what to tell you and like look no one's getting what they want it's fucking politics just be an adult right i think yeah i mean i think the i feel the criticisms are valid but i understand too like if it's there's no

like point and then also just saying like well i'm gonna remove myself from this thing and allow like just the the fascist party to just get a full head of steam going into the next four years i think that's like that's that's pretty reckless because that's the one of the only ways that we can stave that off very narrowly in the context of this election but also like i think the frustration is just generally for people like to your point the idea that no one can get what they want i think should be really upsetting to people because there are so many people seeking equality. And to just have this idea that nobody is going to get what they want is just such a it's a it's hard to like stomach that. And I think that's the thing. No, I just mean it in a large way.

Not not like we can't perfect candidate for the thing. No, I just mean it in a large way. Not like we can't. Like the perfect candidate for each single person? Yeah, that's all I mean. I don't mean it in like, oh, we can't get what we want in terms of like workers' rights or rights for black people. Like, of course I think that that is non-negotiable and that we will get that.

Like, I think that we tend toward progress in the long run. But if we haven't noticed how much worse things became from trump being in office then like i don't know what we're doing and also it discounts and shits on a lot of people like i come kamala harris wasn't somebody that i was that interested in you know i don't really care if someone makes someone cry on television like i like that she did that like that's great that brett kavanaugh was crying but i'm not gonna elect somebody for that and and she's a cop and that is my problem and that's a lot of people's

problem but yeah it's not to the point where like all right end it all just pack it up i mean i think i didn't want to tweet any shitty and like sarcastic stuff because uh i also saw a woman post a tweet about like a 93 year old black woman that she was canvassing on the phone with um was crying when she found out that harris was the vp and she was talking about picking cotton and shit and like having the fucking wish that she could tell her grandmother that this is something that's happening. And I don't think we should take everything away from the people to whom it means something by just being so shitty and callous. You can definitely tweet an argument and be like, this is what I don't like about this. But to do the thing where

you just completely negate and shit on the entire thing that's a disservice the reason republicans have fucking been able to get their agenda across because they would rather swallow the giant shit that is trump than abandon their party and it's not honorable but that is how they've gotten more shit done yeah Yeah. No, for sure. I mean, the Republicans are an insurgency. They're like a smaller portion of the population. They're more willing to just all take their marching orders and get behind it. And that is definitely an advantage that they have. It's just like anytime I get angry about this kind of shit i'm like okay that's more

time i need to be putting into local politics that's more time i need to be putting into like candidates that can make a big difference in like where i live instead of hoping that everything in the world is going to get changed when i elect the president right i think you're going to find more people in line with whatever your political ideologies are, the more local you get. At the federal level, it's just hard to do that. So that's why you get these candidates who's like, it's like the architect of mass incarceration plus California's top cop is the ticket. But that's just what it is because you don't get there

being super hardline with your ideals or else typically those people fall into activism and not politics and i think that's what you're seeing now is more on the local level people moving from different spaces into politics and i think that's why we see more of these candidates like at least from congress like from the house of representatives down you see a lot more people that are like oh shit like this is somebody who's really kind of like on that wave uh so i hope that oh shit, like this is somebody who's really kind of like on that wave. So I hope that definitely keeps going.

Yeah, that's the trend I think that is good because I think people, if the frustration isn't directed into like putting action into your local, like local politics, local government, then that frustration is really useless. And, that is what the other quote-unquote side wants. Like, it'd be great for fascists if we stopped engaging in the election process. In all politics in general. Yeah, in everything. Right. What is something you think is underrated?

I think that the movie Heartbreakers with Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt is underrated. Wow. That movie's really fun. I saw that in the theater. I've seen it a lot. I really, I was a huge Jennifer Love Hewitt fan Who wasn't?

Are you kidding me? She also like She like grew up Like in the valley too In like Toluca Lake So like I remember people Like she used to be like a legend Like Jennifer Love Hewitt

Was at Bob's on Riverside Wow Oh my god Her? JLH? I would have never left Bob's Cause she's so fine But yeah that movie really was

remind me again are they like a mother and daughter con artist team yes so it's like a remake of an older movie where it was starring two men i think uh and they were they conned women out of their money got it and so this movie is like a mother and daughter duo who con like millionaires out of money or whatever and it starts with like uh sigourney weaver being married or getting married to ray leota which is so fun right right right and then uh gene hackman is the guy that Sigourney Weaver tries to seduce, and he's like a disgusting cigarette-like smoker. Right, right. And it's delightful. I thought you were going to say like cigarette salesman or executive.

Yeah, I think he's like an owner of the, I mean, he's really committed to the cigarettes. Got it. Not just like casual. But yeah, and then you know how like you watch a lot of movies that you still love or like older movies back and you're like this is so unacceptable like feminism wise or rape culture wise like this is like i i shudder this movie has only like the tiniest bit oh only four percent problematic yes know what I mean? So the rest of it is pretty enjoyable.

It's interesting, like, everybody that was in that movie, like, Galifianakis is in it. Sarah Silverman's in it. This cast is incredible. Jason Lee is the love interest for Jennifer Love Hewitt. It's a fucking great movie. Yeah, I don't...

Anne Bancroft, it's got everything. It's got something for everybody. Anything with Hackman, I feel bancroft it's it's got everything he's got something for everybody anything with hackman i feel like now it's like we kind of took him for granted and then he retired but yeah i i'm going to watch this movie and watching him hack his lungs out and keep thinking that his name is hackman yeah that really just did everything for me. Yeah. And yeah, it's funny because that movie came on at a very innocent time in America, March 23rd, 2001. Wow. Wow.

What happened? Just a pre-9-11 world, huh? Yeah. Yeah. It's just fun. Yeah. I miss watching movies that were, when you realize, oh, this is pre-9-11. There's a different sort of carefree attitude of like the characters I feel that like are just kind of

absent after that yeah and that's why we love friends so much it all takes place in a even the episodes that come out after 9-11 take place in a pre-9-11 world like let's not do that Sigourney Weaver is so fine in that movie

like I know we all expect Jennifer Love Hewitt to be hot, but Sigourney Weaver brings it in this movie. Oh, she's underrated. Fucking all lace, fucking unitard bodysuit things. She isn't. She's fucking fire in it. It's Sigourney. Ripley.

Finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false um i just like have been wearing this um red bandana thing you wear it well i was gonna compliment you on it you look great and yes um it looks like i'm in the blood so that's a myth no uh the myth was that people keep saying that i look like rosie the riveter or just will always say the rosie the riveter thing and like rosie the riveter is such a bummer fake feminism thing and like i don't know if a lot of people know about it but rosie the riveter uh was just like um a concept to make housewives go to work to help the war effort when Americans were in World War II. And then basically afterwards, they were like, okay, now you go back to the house.

So it was very much like, this is temporary. So Rosie the Riveter isn't like this feminist symbol that like we have now made her out to be. It's just more of like a con where it was like, okay, ladies, you can do it. You can do it. We don't need you to do it anymore. All right. The men are back. The men are back.

Yeah, exactly. And yeah. And they had to go to like lower paid positions um and stuff and like the workforce the women in the workforce percentage decreased a lot and like they had to take shittier work if they did stay and like less money yay rosie the riveter uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll be right back i've been thinking about you i want you back in my life it's too late for that i have a proposal for you come up here and document my project all you need to do is record everything like you always do. One session.

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political mode of saying the thing that we were all speculating that was like his secret motive out loud. Yeah. He admitted that without the Postal Service funding that he is actively blocking, the election won't happen or will be very difficult to happen. Because it's all fraud. That's the deal. So he's fucking the election on purpose.

If they do the mail-in voting, then it's going to be a fraud. So that's why I got to block it. And then they won't be a fraud. So out loud, he says, therefore, they don't have the money to do the universal mail-in voting. So therefore, they can't do it. How are they going to do it if they don't have the money to do it? Okay, asshole.

Right. So now we're i mean like this is just it's getting so much more more like louder and in your face of like i'm i'm not fucking leaving like i'm gonna fucking tear the whole thing down like i'm the postal service they're treating it like a business now where they're like it costs this much billion to run the postal service it's not a motherfucking revenue generating business right you know what i mean it's not like service they don't talk about other budgets like education like or the military like that i mean like they

still find ways to cut education funding but not the military at least not the military you know what i mean right um in the same way that they're like sort of at like juxtaposing these arguments about it and the postmaster general that's in there is already tearing shit down from the inside like at the at such an aggressive pace it's it's unbelievable they have their uh postal workers i think in oh i somewhere in the midwest that we're saying some of the sorting machines were being removed from certain post office hubs. So that means like sorting the mail becomes even more difficult because they're actively removing the technologies to do that, to create even more of a like a backlog. It's so, so.

There's also a medications thing that's pretty fucked up. Right. So like people, a lot of people get their medications mail ordered so um and the way that the refills work is like they get activated at the right time to get mailed out to you before you run out but now um there a lot of places are not doing like local sorting where like the things that's going to like eight miles to you or six miles to you, it doesn't go in a separate place now. They reroute it to a central facility, and then it gets to go to the person. So it's been causing delays in people getting their medications, which is super fucked up.

I mean, again, this is all to create the perception that the postal service is like inefficient it sucks uh we don't you know it has like a 91 approval or something astronomically high with people and like this is all part of a campaign to try and bring those numbers down and eventually like most of how these processes work in this country especially then privatize it and then just be like all right so who wants to take over this thing you can make a lot of money let's just do that rather than putting taxpayer dollars into like a fantastic service that is like one of the best parts of the one of the good things that runs and employs a ton of people this is one of those times when

it's impossible for me to conceive of a way of covering this story from Fox's point of view. And so I went to Fox News dot com and their big headline. New hope for Mideast peace. Trump announces historic diplomatic breakthrough between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. So that's what's going on here they're trying to make him look like the peacemaker in chief rather than rat fucker in chief uh they're trying to mobilize the jewish vote sure i mean it's it's always so so fucking manipulative it's to get the old jews who like already don't know which media to listen to to be like hey you know what he is the

savior you know what if there's one thing that he's done is secure israel that's worth voting for right the the actual i'm i'm really surprised though too how i don't know like i feel like every single person needs to have their hair on fire about this right you know to for him to out loud i mean we've i'm not that this is the first time but it's just so craven and it is so cynical and then we just have like the like only democrats signing a letter being like please please fund the postal service. Where the fuck, what is, I'm like, what is going on? But yeah, this is what, I'm always finding myself, I felt like every time I think like,

I can't be more shocked, we find a way to go for like deeper. And so frequently the people that voted for him are getting fucked the most because like a lot of the people who live in rural places, for for them like the post office and mail is like a huge lifeline and again they're gonna get fucked more than other people that's we'll see i mean again if maybe congress can do the right thing we'll see if this is pure it we may just see really this full-on tampering with dismantling of the postal service there are so many postal workers and carriers like who work for the

service that are like asking people that please pay more attention because part of the whole like pride that they have is that like they are able to sort all the mail in a day and deliver everything on time like that's the that's the the pride that they get out of it and the morale is so low now and it's all it's just really really hard to watch because like if you've been in any job where like the vibes have been good and then some new boss comes in and fucks it all up and you're like oh man like this is so wrong this is so bad it's it's like in a worse scale, and it's actually going to be a really legitimate threat to voting, which is now it's like, okay, well then now,

if you can vote in person, maybe you have to. Yeah, I've been seeing stories like that, where they're like, yeah, no, you can't really do mail-in voting now. You really need to go in person if you want Biden to win, because otherwise trump is going to claim that he won on the night of the election right and then we won't be able to get him out and then it's like off that claim that's really our own and then it's like more of uh just jarring when you're like that's our only recourse right yeah like, that's it. You can't. Anyway, so we. And it's a fucking catch 22 because they're going to make it hard to vote in person, closing down polling stations as always, and like disenfranchising voters based on like IDs and all that stuff. So it's like, oh, well, you can't do it in person. You can't do it in person. You can't do it by mail. Yeah, I mean, this is open authoritarianism, fascism.

They're just trying to use their power to stay in power. They've been telling us that's what they're going to do from the start. I don't know what the answer is. I mean, look at Belarus. What's happening in Belarus? Do you have somebody be like, nah, I just made what the answer is. I mean, look at Belarus. What's happening in Belarus? You know, you have somebody be like, nah, I just made up the election results. People go on the streets.

They're getting brutalized. Now we're seeing these like propaganda video of like them having like these protesters that look visibly beaten and being like, oh, you're going to start trying to start another revolution now? And they're like, no, no. Like, it's just like, it's very dark.

But this is, I mean, like you, just like it's very dark but this is i mean like you if when you're looking at someone who's saying i refuse to let go of my power it's it doesn't end with them being like ah you know what i'm tired of it okay i guess i'll be held accountable i guess i'll start paying these bills and maybe i'll answer to some legal uh cases that i'm facing i don't think that's going to happen and when you look at even now the every dimension that they are trying to manipulate this election is so so dark and cynical to like even the whole jared kushner and kanye thing is so alarming okay because we're like okay kanye's running for president that's what he wants to do and then it's like who's helping him i'm like oh god it's all these republicans and we're like okay so he's there to because the republicans think uh all black people

will just vote for the rapper and that'll help siphon votes away from biden you know kind of even knew like in a interview with forbes he was essentially acknowledging that he knew what would happen but at this point he's under such just he's under such severe distress at the moment that it's hard to know what he's aware he's doing, what if he knows if he's being manipulated. Because in this Forbes article, they talk about how him and Jared Kushner talk almost daily. And he's using like reverse psychology on Kanye West to keep him in the race for president. Kanye West to keep him in the race for president. Most people are saying like, you know, like when you look at the States, you can even be on the ballot. You don't really have a path to actually becoming president. Uh, it's going to be very difficult. And that like sort of got him a little bit disheartened. And then like on Twitter, he's like, no, my, my whole thing is to win.

And when you read this article, people are saying, this is from the Forbes article quote, and that seems to be the message that Kushner has been feeding him. Talk about Kanye, quote, Jared scared and doesn't want me to run because he knows that I can win. West has told numerous associates after his conversations with the president's son in law. So Jared Kushner is getting him on the phone, gassing him up, not even saying like, oh, don't worry about where you're on in the ballot, man. Like you people, people like are feeling you so much. But like it worries us a little bit, too, man man, because you know, like you got the people's ear. And so again, from this article, they say that message, the sources close to West acknowledge

is the exact one that will embolden West to stay in the race. This is a direct quote from somebody says, if one of you, if you know him for more than 20 minutes, you know, that will work. He's just like a kid. The more you tell him he can't do a thing the more he'll do it he has a tremendous drive to prove people wrong and that's being out just right in front of our faces just manipulated it's so sad to have uh somebody being exploited by people that ultimately hate him and look down upon him and it is so many dimensions so tragic so tragic if if someone did that to me like whatever i'm bipolar and if when i was at my worst someone was like you know would be coolest to just fuck with sophia it's pretty easy yeah that it would be

and cruel and not the the really fucked up thing, too, is right. It seems subtle, like, hey, you know, like you've got the vision, man, the easy 2020 vision like this could this could really be something. While they're saying that to him, these operatives who are out here gathering signatures to get him on ballots, specifically in Montana, where, you know, the local journalists were like questioning some of these people who are grabbing signatures. Is there framing it like this quote, you want to help Trump? We're trying to take votes away from from creepy Uncle Joe. And then they go to it. They went to another like a park where they saw more organizers to fair goers. Same exact approach is sort of like, hey, help trump by signing the petition to get kanye west on the ballot therefore joe biden will probably have less votes that's all like it's it's

just there that's how it's being laid out to trump supporters yeah let's exploit this man of color and whatever state he's in for just a vile cynical aim of just trying to split some votes and it's not i don't even know how effective that's gonna be it's just so fucking oh i feel like we need a new like word for super cynicism like the like compounded cynicism because it's just and to exploit someone's like superpower and i don't mean his mental illness. I mean the fact that Kanye has gotten so successful precisely because he didn't let people tell him that he couldn't achieve his dreams. And to use that incredible driving force that made him such a successful artist. It's so evil to use that against him. Yeah.

Yeah. It's truly some. Some. I don't know what we call this. Deeply unethical, fucked up, multiple levels of. Hades level fucked up. I don't know. Pennsylvania is not bad enough for these people.

Not even. So I don't even know. But it's. But this is where they're at. And. I mean, you know, as we as we go forward, we still see that the foreign interference is happening, like whether it's Ted Cruz, like parroting misinformation or like a fake Antifa website that conservative media picked up that was actually, you know registered uh to like a russian domain like it's all they're doing every single thing they can and you can even see it with the like overt just disgusting even racist attacks on kamala harris out the gates like just she's a mad woman and these people these people are crazy like just out there for y'all to be like this is

how we're gonna win we're just gonna just bring the fucking worst out and just see what happens and i'm afraid doing that in the process man causes so we're already so damaged as a country like no matter what the outcome like this this election is going to put us through. We thought 2016 was bad. This is, I, ugh. Oh, yeah. Prepare thyself. It's, yeah, it's going to take a long time, this election. Oh, yeah. I mean.

People are like, it's not going to be decided on election night. It's not going to be decided in November, I don't think. Yeah, who knows. And then this year is so unpredictable, you could all see Trump is just like, I'm taking a trip to Russia and he's like, and I won't come back. Sorry y'all. Trump out. That would be the dream. Just on election

prognosticating, there's like 538 open their pick and they have Biden winning at the exact same percentage that Clinton had Clinton winning at the exact same percentage that clinton they had clinton winning on the night before the uh oh no everything 71 which if you have a free throw shooter going to the line at the end of the game shooting 71 you feel like shit no you want mark price pulling up right you want 90 90s, and that's just

not going to happen. Who was the best free throw shooter back then? Back then? Probably Price. Okay. Yeah. I mean, Steve Nash was one of the greats. Curry, I think, is the best of all time. You know that thing about free throws that's fascinating is that it's a lot more accurate if you do it with two hands

from between your legs, but because it doesn't look masculine, basketball players won't do it right right isn't like the record holders that has doing it grand because we even call it grand style yeah exactly it's to be like look at us problematic you know i mean just yeah better is gross it's women's work not just women's work old women's work we need someone to fully disrupt the game with like, yo, that shooting technique is fucked up, but they cannot miss. And it's all the rage. I mean, that's what happened.

If he was brave enough, this would be his next thing. Rick Barry shot from between his legs, granny style, 89.3% career free throw shooting, topped out at 94.7 in the 78-79 season. He got Wilt Chamberlain to start shooting that way.

And then people made fun of him. For one season, his free throw shooting percentage went up 30 percentage points. He became a solid free throw shooter, which made him the most unstoppable person in the history of basketball.

And then, yeah, he thought he looked whack. So he changed back to shooting horribly. And he's like, and I have sex 900 times a day. I mean, was he compensating for the free throw shooting? I was just going to say that. Oh, they want to talk shit about my free throws. Why? I'm like, quick, suck my dick.

Quick. Do it right now. Validate me. All right. We're just talking about the election? Damn. Yeah. We needed a break, guys.

Oh, we were talking about free thrift shooting because of the- Wow. Look at us. Look at us, huh? Yes, 31%. There's also the guy who I was feeling, like I'm just trying to, you know, this is not stuff that I put any stock in.

This is just a temporary way for me to get to sleep at night because I don't drink anymore. Like looking at these polls and being like, okay, well, maybe like Biden will win. There's also the guy who's predicted every single presidential election from 81 like okay well maybe like biden will win uh there's also the guy who who's predicted every single presidential election from 81 when he started putting this like thing together forward he's correctly predicted them all including trump winning he has biden winning but then when you look

at his methodology it's like based on him saying that trump isn't charismatic which is like a totally subjective uh distinction and i don't know this is the thing you gotta vote man every single and we just that's all we can keep saying in regards to this election specifically that's the all you like you have to act like the guy is trying to steal the election, which he is. So therefore please act accordingly. Uh, and you know, well, as we get closer and closer,

see what else has to be done. Yeah. Well, speaking of things that, uh, us people can do in, in the face of like protest, yes.

Horrifying, uh, abuse of power. so there, one, one of the really effective tactics of the uprising after george floyd's lynching was like taking the protest to the neighborhoods where mayors live where governors live right uh taking it to the governor's mansion. Right. So South Dakota is doing something that I think might become a trend where they are building a $400,000 fence

around the residence of the state governor. Yep. You know, I mean, Kristi Noem has made a fucking mess of things over there. She constantly is parroting the president, whatever he's like yeah whatever he says cool so like let's just do that butting heads with tribal leaders the meatpacking

industry teachers anybody um so yeah i think it was natural that people are with all the economic fallout the societal fallout they are displeased and they're just saying like yeah man there's like i guess she's got some threats so let's just put up this wall um and you know i don't they still don't know how they're going to pay for it they don't know who the taxpayers pay for it is there going to be some private funding like do is that really do we do taxpayers need to be paying for something like that but it's interesting to just see like we, we've gone from having, like, already our very well-made metaphorical fences that we've put up in our perceptions, like, as Americans to, like, avoid actually interacting with the dark reality of the country. And now it's like, oh, now we're crossing into, yeah, we also need the physical barriers to keep angry people that we are disenfranchising just far away enough that their sounds don't disrupt my existence as i bury my head further into the sand this is such monarchy shit it's like it's straight up french revolution

shit it's like oh no we won't make the excess and the fucked upness of our government like change instead we'll just ignore it we gotta knuckle up yeah exactly it's so gross what just shows that they're like that's their posture is well we're not going to change so if you're going to keep this up then we need to figure out how to deal with y'all um and that's really just like okay that's uh that's one way to solve it and not to actually lead. And then just kind of in the same vein, because all of this is in the same vein of just the, the powerful abusing the everybody else Uber. So a California court has determined that Uber needs to treat its employees

like employees. Well, yeah. Yeah. That was a big deal. They're independent contractors. That's why we can treat them like shit because if they're employees, then we have to give them shit.

That is literally Uber's entire business model. Yeah. In 2018, I think it was the California Supreme Court, or there was a Supreme Court decision in 2018 saying, yeah, here's the deal. Like if they meet these requirements, then they are an independent contractor. But based on this methodology, these are employees. Therefore, you need to figure out how to transition to this employee model where your drivers are now actually employed by you, Uber. your drivers are now actually employed by you, Uber. And it's, if you know anyone who drives Uber,

if you've driven Uber, you know, it's difficult. You know, it's not easy. You know, the amount of hours you have to spend to make it worth your while is a lot. I mean, people who are traveling from like outlying counties to drive Uber in LA, because there's more, the possibility of rides is higher, but like they're driving like nearly two hours to get here. And to think of that as your commute and then how you have no time after that to even have with your family and just have enough to cover your gas and make a little bit more. It's a really, really,

really difficult way to sustain yourself. And by not having the like benefits, like an employee would like contributions to your social security fucking sick leave a fucking minimum wage you know what i mean because their whole thing is well if anybody's the customer it's the driver that was one of the legal arguments they said is like because what we're doing is actually providing a service for the driver to interact with a customer that so they can make money that way um and it's just a really uh it's it's getting darker and darker now and i keep this has been the theme of this episode right

um because right now uh people like uber even doordash and lyft they're putting money into ballot proposition in california called prop 22 and you know some states have this bank out you know there's when you have ballot initiatives, rich people can just get together and be like, we can put something on the ballot and hopefully make it a law to protect our business. And in this one, they're putting a ballot initiative that will be up to the voters in November. That's essentially, they're like, we want to maintain our ability to keep exploiting our drivers as independent contractors. But we get that it's kind of fucked up.

So we'll make like a wage floor. So there's like a kind of a minimum, but don't ask like minimum wage. And that is like their new tactic to the point where the CEO of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, is saying, I will fucking pull the service of uber in the state of california until the voters decide if you're gonna make us treat these people like employees so they're gonna essentially they're threatening the people who even use this for their livelihood to be like give us a stay until we can sort this out with a ballot proposition and if it doesn't like we're gonna have to really think it's fucked up yeah yeah it's it's weird it's like the capital is going on strike or like has the ability to like basically strike against

the workers well you you have wages low enough that they become dependent on the job then it's you've completely inverted the like Not that this is an inversion of the balance of power. That's what the balance of power is. That's why people have to accept these really terrible working conditions. Yeah. No, it's like all the protections that are in place in a healthy balance between labor and capital are like on the side of like all those powers belong to capital now. Well, and Uber, you know, they're still not profitable and, but they believe they've been telling people like, they'll probably be profitable by the end of this year. Um, and so, you know, but treating human beings like with dignity is going to cost us money. And like,

that's one of the, the real arguments, right? It's like, well, doing that, not exploiting them is going to be too expensive and it's going to make rates higher for, for the passengers because they're going to pass that on to the consumer rather than do it themselves. When a lot of people did the breakdown, it would cost them $3,625 per driver to like transition them to actual like an employee structure, which would be a half billion dollars annually. That's nothing compared to like the actual revenue that's generated by that business. It's nothing. But that's what we're talking about because at the end of the day, the God that like, you know, dictates how we treat workers is this idea of shareholder value and how much profit you're making.

And by suddenly being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what happened? What happened? We just lost a half million dollars. What happened? What's going on? Oh, we had to give people sick leave, make sure that they have some kind of social security we're paying into, things like that. Oh, well, why are we doing that? Now we just went from 18 billion to 17 and a half. No, no, we're not doing that. And if that's the case, then we might have to have a vote and maybe get a new CEO. Like, it's just so again, like we were saying in the last episode, the purpose is just for all people to be able to to make a living normally, not have to really whittle the hours of their day down, just toiling. the hours of their day down just toiling so some other person can enjoy the fruits of that labor,

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Let's talk about Cheetos, Mac and cheese. This has been, it's been, you know, a dorm room staple, like something that people have been sort of MacGyvering on their own with the homemade mac and cheese and just putting Doritos in there. A little blue box with some orange bag.

But now they are making it official, and Cheetos is partnering with another food company to actually make Cheetos mac and cheese. They've even got like the Flamin'. That's the only thing I give a shit about. Yeah. Bold and cheesy, Flamin' Hot and cheesy jalapeno. Do you put hot sauce in your regular Kraft mac and cheese?

Always. You do? Yes. What do you put in it? Tabasco or Cholula. Oh, shit. What about you, Sophia? I don't really eat mac and cheese oh yeah are you lactose intolerant no i it's just like not really a russian thing so i didn't grow up eating it growing up on it yeah so i don't have that like me either but i'm making up for

lost time i'm like get the spirals this time what i like is there's this place that had street corn with hot Cheetos on it. Oh, hot Cheetos. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mexican street corn. And it was fucking delicious. Yeah, elote. That sounds amazing. I know they were like, I remember a couple years ago, right kind of by our office, there was like a Cheetos pop-up restaurant that was going down where they were messing around with these flavors.

Cheetos pop-up restaurant that was going down where they were messing around with these flavors. But to see it now be the thing, it's really enticing. And I like that it spirals, too, from the images I'm looking at. Because that's just a little more surface area for the cheese to stick to. It grabs the sauce real nice. Yeah, thank you so much. Is that fusilli? What's it called?

Rotini. Yeah, or I guess rotini. Yeah. I'll take it. It looks great. I do love... Even if you are lactose intolerant, you don't have to worry about it because real cheese has never touched

any of these ingredients. They say the takeout, which is the garbage food blog, not the blog being garbage, the food being garbage, says it's actually pretty good. They gave it a, the sauce is

actually creamy, which is an unexpected bonus. I like that. That's where their expectations were. You have to turn up your box mac and cheese. You add a little half and half, just a little butter. A little whipping cream. Just to get a little, just give it that little, a little zhuzh.

Always. Yeah, but I am down. I'm going to give this a shot. We should all, I mean, maybe we could do that for an episode. We'll, everyone will do a taste test. Just eat on air. Yeah, simultaneously. We'll do a rewatch.

They have microwave cups. Like, so, you know, you can do like the quick version. Although, I like the box version. I was never really a fan like when they made it streamlined it to do a microwave i'm like it's a little too much energy into that one because i like to keep my mac and cheese al dente uh and that's harder with you mean crunchy yeah oh my god man just mix the powder in your mouth with the dry shells and kind of does does the same thing. It's much faster that way, I've found. But your teeth are a mess. They're all chipped

and shit from just chewing all that dry macronutrient. My lips are all cut up. Alright, let's also talk about what we are re-watching this weekend. Let's read off the Netflix top 10 at the moment as we are recording this. Number one is

The Lost Husband. What is that? Where'd he go? I don't know. Dude, where's my husband? Where is my husband? I don't know what that is, but it's number one. Yeah, what that means. Hot damn. Umbrella

Academy, have you caught up on this? He's uh umbrella academy you you have you he's usually the last place you look he's usually oh it's josh girl check your pussy what oh it's josh uh you mean p word excuse me i'm sorry we don't say that here and it's it should be dry for the record according to my wife uh Jack likes his pussy how he likes his mac and cheese. That's right. Dry and in my mouth. And spicy. The whole thing with Lost Husband is Josh DeMellis is looking to start anew.

A widow retreats with her children to her aunt's goat farm where the ranch's manager helps her navigate country life and loss. Is that a comedy? This sounds... Okay. I'm going gonna put a pin in that one okay that sounds like such an absurd proposition already like why are why is that in the the pitch like and why is the title the lost husband like she lost her husband let's call it the lost husband well i'm sure josh demel uh is like sexy goat herder uh who comes comes in and you know it's based on katherine center's 2013 novel okay so okay well have we found our new uh nicholas sparks is this our new nicholas sparks i have no idea it says as of july 22 58 of the 19 interviews compiled on rotten tomatoes

are positive okay the average score is 6.11 out of 10 oh that's not bad okay on metacritic that's not bad at all on rotten tomatoes okay yeah rotten tomatoes uh started doing the metacritic thing brian tellerico of roger ebert.com ordered the film two and a half stars. Okay, so that, I mean, it's predictable. That feels about right. Wait, hold on. What B-TAC say? All right.

Two and a half? Good. Brian Tallarico, all respect to him and his opinions. Have you caught up on Umbrella Academy? That's number two. I'm on episode three. Of this season?

Of this season, yeah. Okay. Do you want to talk about that? I haven't watched it. I want to watch it all the way because it's all kinds of fucked up already oh really i'm like what jack you're gonna love it actually did you watch the first season is it good oh yeah i really enjoyed the first season it's like easy to watch i forgot most of it because it wasn't like the the best

thing i'd seen but it was easy to watch but now in this one like they're they get thrown back in time and shit it's not a spoiler but in this second season like they're dealing with intersecting with the kennedy assassination and like the different permutations of what could happen if they intervene um so it's interesting and like right now i don't even know which way it's going like some it's all there's so much time travel and all this other shit but it's you definitely cannot it's not one of those things you can watch like while being on your phone because i think a lot of people you could watch something kind of check your phone be in and out this shit you will lose the thread so damn quick so uh you got to respect the material watch it i'm big on uh schitt's creek and crossword

puzzles these days those oh together yeah background music um world's most wanted keeps hanging around the top 10 and i don't know it just seems like it's a docu-series about like criminals yeah but people i've had two people i know text me and ask me if i've watched it really which is interesting and i don't know if they're asking me because they feel like it's up my alley but they're like you watch it yet or like have you seen what's most wanted so i don't know put a pin in that because i have no idea what that is uh the seven deadly sins which appears to be manga manga manga manga manga manga man yeah this is called mangoes a couple mangoes um got the mang's on deck yeah that's probably a series right yeah that's a series that's a long i think the other one i would watch is that one work it which looks like a weird dance

movie because i love uh i love dance dance films um i just re-watched stomp the yard the other day oh you did i did so it turns out that is in that movie. That's a type of movie that is very popular on Netflix, like streaming. It's like I think one of those types of movies that they've figured out, oh, people actually really like this more than we realized because

they're making them as original programming. And also like when you look at the top 10 shows of the summer, Last Dance was number four, i think um but that's not oh okay we're not talking about dancing specifically right okay wait what is the last dance oh shit i'm gonna bro what i'm so done i was like jack actually hasn't watched the last dance he was lying when we were doing those recaps every week. He's just getting lucky, I guess.

Isn't there a dance movie called something similar to Last Dance? Save the Last Dance. Save the Last Dance. That's what I was thinking. But this one has the most, again, aggressively formulaic sort of plot. A brilliant but clumsy high school senior vows to get into her late father's alma mater by transforming herself in a misfit squad into dance champions i mean hell yeah yes sign me up so yeah okay so they're dancing i mean i think yeah especially with like tiktok and stuff like

kind of mainstreaming like even if you can't dance just dance which i think is great because not everybody has to be able to throw it you know democratization of dancing and singing those are the things we're seeing uh not everybody can sing like me but they can try you know but hey look if you're having trouble crying maybe dance a little bit if that helps get your emotions out like that's that's a gateway to fully expressing yourself down the road uh yeah so we got working we got shameless we got selling sunset dennis the menace i already watched that whole thing. Selling Sunset? Yep. Me and Jamie Loftus, we stay in that show in a really bad way. We're like, why do we do this to ourselves?

Yeah, I've been seeing a lot of actually comedians tweeting about loving it. I think it's because you're watching human beings exist in a reality reality that like most people will just don't understand or will know of like these like real estate people who are just doing making massive amounts of money and like everything that's important to them it's just so weird they're like so glamorous and everything's just money and you're like oh my god but then part of you is like a broke person you're like damn that would be sick though but i would still vote for your taxes to be way the fuck higher. Don't get me fucked up. Don't they like not sell anything the whole time?

There's one house that's like so expensive that it just ends up hanging over the entire season and it like doesn't even matter. Like it's really never about the house. It's like, but it does really- It's about the trash people. It's like one of those things. It's like a Netflix show where they get

how to thread that needle of people house-flipping shows or seeing nice houses, but also you want the messy tea of a bunch of people with Birkin bags and Botox talking shit. So it's got it all. But it's really...

It's probably the least redeeming shit you could watch right now. Yeah. I might have to spend a week with the missus watching that. Oh, yeah. Dennis the Menace, Wizards, Tales of Arcadia, and Mr. Peabody and Sherman. Yeah, Dennis the Menace being so popular and having legs is really surprising to me. Yeah.

Do you remember that one, Sophia? I don't even know what that is. The 90s live action Dennis the Menace? Christopher Lloyd as a drifter bad guy? No, I never saw that. He's eating a can of beans or something. There's a big fart scene, I feel like, when they're eaten by a campfire.

Oh, yeah. Anyway. I didn't ever see that. That kid now who played him, Mason Gamble, is a marine biologist. Hell yeah. Shout out to him. And then we have an updated top 10 movies of the summer.

I think we talked about the fact that The Lorax and 365 Days and Old Guard were one, two, and three. But now Kissing Booth 2 has broken into the top five. Desperados is like a rom-com. Maybe I'll do that. Desperados. Oh yeah. That's the one with Nassim.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I started watching that. Nassim Badrat. I love her. Yeah. Yeah.

Other than that, how do you know? It's got a very, it's got a very aggressive premise, but, but what comedy film doesn't? You need that to kind of get everything going. Sorry, the movie that I was talking about that I confused the last dance with is Feel the Beat.

Ah, yes. Yeah, yeah. Which is the dance movie, right? Right, that's the dance movie. Oh, wait, what's Feel the Beat? There's Feel the Beat and Work It? Oh, come on now. See, now we're doing too much feel but what is feel the beat about oh that's another netflix film right oh shit i'm like looking and i'm like i i was watching it i'm like you would

you like to resume oh shit yeah i got i was i Okay, I was twisted when I watched this. You were in it. Look, let's be real. It's a TV G-rated Netflix movie. I remember this shit now. It's so bad. This shit is so bad. Oh, it's G-rated?

Yes. I don't know what the... Look, don't worry about me. Don't worry about me. Maybe I need to watch that so I can watch it with my kids and also get into the dance movie craze. Yeah.

Yeah, because that is... Yeah, that's the point I was trying to make is that they seem to be doing really well with dance stuff. Yeah. All right, so it's just a very dancey thing. I guess you'll do Feel the Beat. Yeah. And then what was the one I said?

I forget the name already. Work that one. Work it. Work it. I need a glass of water. Okay. Um, actually I'm going to stick with that.

I'm going to stick with desperados because, uh, I don't want, I don't want it to be too dancey. Okay. Ted dancing. All right. So let's keep it to,

so the desperado assignment desperados, or I already forgot what the fuck was it called Work It It's a bad song Yeah cause that name is so bad It's just so generic Yeah Alright

Alright That's gonna do it for the week Sophia It's been great having you as always. Where can people find you and follow you? Well, you can find me on my other podcast, 420 Day Fiance with Miles Gray. And on Twitter and Instagram at the Sophia, S-O-F-I-Y-A. Also, listen to my album, Father's Day.

Oh, yeah. Miles did it. I did, and for the longest time, I was being like, yo, everybody listen to it on 420 Day Fiance, and she was like, have you actually listened to it at the time I had it? And I was like, no. I'm going to be straight up with you. Then I listened to it right away, and it's...

You shouldn't be surprised. Sophia comes with the goods every time, and it's hilarious. So check that album out for sure. Thanks. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying yes or some other work is screenshoted i like this tweet from steph uh underscore mcca where we add on student loan forgiveness btw i didn't mean to go to college. It was an accident. And then this one from Personally Rich, and it says, credit scores are astrology for landlords.

Miles, where can people find you, follow you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, the app Miles of Grey. Also also where else uh playstation network uh and sophia said for 20 day fiance uh production of iheart radio where and also a production of uh many blunts and watching a ton of reality tv uh where you can hear some of the most aggressive impressions and impersonations you have ever heard. Okay. Let's see a tweet that I like.

I actually did like that same one about the astrology for landlords thing. And this one is a very comedy insider tweet. But if you know who Eliza skinner is uh you'll appreciate this she's a very gifted comedian uh is nice with the rap skills she used to do like an improv rap show at ucb she's also like does that rap battle show she's like the head writer for that she's just like a fantastic she's the most talented fucking rapper and writer yeah so, so Adeliza Skater tweeted, Sweet Jesus, my 25-year-old neighbor is outside talking about how good she is at musical improv. This is a circle of hell.

That's amazing. Somebody tweeted that clip. Did you see the clip where Cardi and Megan from the WAP video are replaced by biden and kamala like their face their faces are grafted on there uh it's like really well done and therefore wildly uh depressing and upsetting uh and at shart week tweeted i'm not even looking both ways before i cross the street anymore if god

wills it let him take me from this place in response to that uh harry charles uh zeitgang tweeted a little story about the lead singer smash mouth uh that i think is just illustrative uh smash mouth played brat fest here in madison they stayed at a downtown hotel my friend is a bartender at the lead singer harassed her the whole time to come up to his room when she refused he left a zero tip on their $500 tip so shout out to

the lead singer you should get smashed in the mouth am I right then sorry there's one more oh and then Ryan O'Flanagan tweeted smashed in the mouth. Am I right? Then... Sorry, there's one more. Oh, and then Ryan O. Flanagan tweeted, If I were a professional basketball player,

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She is from London. She has got that like soulful vibe. If you like the Jill Scott, Erykah Badu thing, if you just want to hear a wonderful voice and some really, really wonderful instrumentation behind it, this is it. So this is just like, okay, it's going to the weekend with some relaxing vibrations this track is called how far by ego lma check her out uh awesome we are gonna ride out on that the daily zeitgeist is a production of iheart radio for more podcasts from iheart radio visit the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows uh that's gonna do it for this morning we'll be back this afternoon to tell you what's trending

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