The Daily Zeitgeist - Nerf’s New Spokes-Demon, Texas To Secede … Again 06.22.22

Episode Date: June 22, 2022

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 242 episode 2 of your daily zeitgeist so many twos it's a production of iheart radio and a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it's wednesday june 22nd 2022 wow i mean i, I am overwhelmed with twos. I know. Which, of course, means June 22nd is, of course. The combination. These are four national days I can get behind. National Chocolate Eclair Day.

National HVAC Tech Day. National Onion Rings Day. National Kissing Day. Ooh, I love kissing. What do you like of those four? Kissing, chocolate eclairs, HVAC, or onion rings? I like to cram down some chocolate eclairs that have been

pushed through some onion rings. Through an air duct? And then, yeah, afterwards, kiss a HVAC tech. Yeah. That's always been what I do on June 22nd. And it's surprising to me that now the rest of the nation is just catching up

and they haven't even recognized my contributions at the forefront of this. June 22nd, like, oh, my AC is broken. I need somebody to come fix it. And then you butter them up with eclairs and onion rings. And you're like, how about a little kiss? If you want to. And by butter them up, I'm talking about these lips. There you go.

Anyway, shout out air conditioning. Because in our increasingly hostile natural environment, it's kind of a necessity. It's all palm spring. Because I think there's a thing, right? 100 million Americans this week will be exposed to triple digit heat. Oh, is that right? Yeah, big week. Big week for big heat. Big week for big climate change. Falling off

of American society. Well, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. And I think it's gonna be a long, long time till late year stops taking up all my mind. It's just an actor actor not the toy we know oh no no no it's an actor man should have planned to do this with the actual hero uh that is courtesy of

christy amaguchi main just giving people a little glimpse into what is happening inside my brain at any given moment over the past couple weeks as I just wrestle with the existence of the movie Lightyear. That's a really good word to wrestle with that. You've definitely been grappling with that concept. Just the consequences, the metaphysics of it all. Metaphysics of what? the metaphysics of it all. Metaphysics of what? It's confusing, but I do appreciate Christy Yamaguchi, man. Also, at Wobble House, just a great follow

on Twitter for anybody who's just catching up. He's becoming a power Twitter account. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, like daily. Get out his way. Yeah. That's all I'm saying. Get in or get out. Follow him, strap on for the ride like a rocket man. Yeah. Well, I'm saying. Get in or get out. Follow him, strap on for the ride like a rocket man.

Yeah. Well, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! June 21 was the longest day. Longest day, longest day, longest day, longest day, longest day, longest day. It was the longest day longest day longest day it was the longest day shout out to the solstice that happened yesterday june 21 uh love that point of like the summer when you're like oh this is gonna this is the most light we get baby yeah drink it in my favorite my favorite feeling of the summer is just how long the days are and shout out to people who are people who are like higher up on the globe at higher.

What is that? Latitudes or longitudes, whatever. Latitude. Yeah. You get the real fucking wild ass days when it's like 930 in the sun setting and you're like, love it, love it, love it. So anyway, shout out to the long days. Well, Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian, podcaster who co-founded what the AV Club called one of the best podcast networks, Small Beans, where you can find he and a bunch of the most talented people we worked with-upsmanship which is a new podcast on our network an old

podcast from the small beans days but it's a great podcast that everybody needs to go check out immediately ep'd by dj danil yeah if you need any extra reason to check it out he is the brilliant the talented the kind michael swaim, brought the most important epithet last, the kind Michael Swaim, a.k.a. Quick Michael Swaim. They're right outside our yard. Here's Michael Swaim. Go call the Roman God. No, wait.

We need a more permanent solution to this, Michael. I just wanted to see if I could go low today. That's what that was about. That was beautiful. And that was by Michael Swaim at Swaim underscore Corp. A decent follow on Twitter. Not bad.

Yeah, like an okay, pretty okay follow on Twitter. Good to see you, fellas. Good to see you, man. Good to see you, man. Thank you for that kind ass intro. Yeah, man. Well, big fan, as always. Big fan.

What's new with you? All. I mean, I'm excited to be here, mainly so I can talk about one-upsmanship. So I'm going to immediately launch into that. I'm just thrilled to be part of iHeart, man. Back under the Jack O'Brien umbrella, you know? Yeah. It's one step shy of stealing your identity. That's on the horizon. But we'll get there. Oh, man. Back under the Jack O'Brien umbrella, you know? Yeah, that's right. One step shy of stealing your identity. That's on the horizon, but we'll get there.

Oh, yeah. For now, just under the same brand umbrella is good enough. Yeah. You invited me to a party called Operation Dickie Greenleaf. I didn't know exactly what that was about. That's actually part of a scam on my co-host, Adam Ganser. It's like the old switcheroo. That's a long time. I got it. But yeah, me and Adam just taking one-upsmanship weekly,

which has meant in my life, what am I doing right now? Playing video games at all times. Nonstop. Yeah, it used to be a monthly show. Now it's weekly. So I basically upped my video game intake so I can stay abreast of everything. Neon White's good. Neon White's all right.

You three-uppedmanshiped it. Yeah. Yeah. It'll be five up by this time next summer. game intake so I can stay abreast of everything. Neon White's good. Neon White's good. Yeah. It'll be five up by this time next summer. That's what we're working toward. How is the video game landscape right now? How are you feeling? Spoken like someone who knows very little about the video game landscape. How's a video game?

Are you winning, son? That's the second time. What's your record in video i think we went two days where i hit him with are you winning sons i mean retro's triumphant right now shredder's revenge is tearing it up everyone i know is talking about that and uh the game i just mentioned in the babble neon white super fun uh it's a good time to own a switch which i don't usually say so i don't know without your switches if you're listening to this today now the 22nd the shadow run trilogy just came to consoles and you can get great nuggets like that over at one upsmanship or by googling video game release dates but we don't get don't give away the whole show

it's true that's what it is it's basically just an overview of release dates. Yeah, that's our thing. No, it's actually very fun and hilarious and enjoyable, entertaining to listen to, even if you don't play the video games, which in some cases, like there are rare episodes where I don't know the game you're talking about, i enjoy rare episodes yeah very rare very rare very you got that switch jack how are you living as a switch owner oh man yeah you know because i remember you put on me i keep that shit on me you sent me a gif from the let me ride music video from the chronic album i was like what the fuck is this and you're like because i'm hitting switches right now right and i was like what yeah multiple i have multiple switch switches like okay my man ah i just gotta gotta keep one in every room even though that's by design not what you're supposed to use the switch for switch for multiple switches all right, Michael, we're going to get to know you

a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. I want to talk about how the results for the Democratic primaries in Los Angeles were reported. Or not, I guess, not reported. There was a report the morning after in the New York Times that was like progressive Democrats got put on their ass and they're on the defensive because everybody's afraid of crime and siding with the police, which is like a standard narrative. I mean, that was like the headline on the top of Drudge Report heading into the election. So like the mainstream media knew what they wanted to say about the election. And it turns out the results were not that. The New York Times even should have known at the time they published their article, but the results were surprisingly progressive,

like shockingly progressive if you had just been reading the mainstream media accounts of like what voter sentiment was in Los Angeles. So we're going to talk about what the actual results were and how the New York Times got it exactly wrong. I guess we don't know exactly how they got it exactly wrong, but what that strategy is all about, getting things exactly wrong when it comes to energy for progressive Solutions. We're going to talk about the Texas GOP and their weekend. And of course, we will talk about MRF, which is an anthropomorphic amalgam of 10,000 Nerf darts with the ability to run and shoot a Nerf gun that Nerf is about to introduce as their spokes being. introduce as their spokes being and it's it's a it's wild it's weird and yeah so we'll talk about we'll talk about murph but before we get to any of that uh michael we do like to ask our guests

what is something from your search history well jack this time there was one clear winner and it's not crap, which I thought in my ignorance meant night shits. I was like looking up. I'm like shitting way. I'm waking up to shit way more night now than I did as a younger man. And I was looking at him. I don't know. I think I was composing some kind of joke for Twitter about it. And I'm like, I need the German. And I assumed it's Nachtkrab, but it's not. So I ended up learning about something much, much scarier, which is the Night Raven, a mythical Austrian and southern German bugbear like creature that is a flying bone demon raven with a hollow cavity in its chest. And if your kids don't go to sleep out on time, the knocked crab comes and stuffs them in its bony chest cavity and carries them back to its nest and devours them. So it's one of those classic Grimm's fairy tales we used to use in addition to hitting our kids. We like hit them and say, a demon bird's going to eat you now. Leave me alone.

Behave. Good system. And here's a nice bedtime story to get you relaxed. And my partner and I are just considering having our first child now. So I need to start learning this kind of shit. This is the crucial information. Yeah. Start with Grimm's and just go darker from there. Holy shit. I'm just waiting for the Adam Scott movie like Krampus where they just completely retconned knocked crop. And now he's like a really funny, you know, banking jokes off knocked crop. It's going to happen.

saw Krampus. Is that kind of the idea with Krampus? Is they took it in a funny direction? But it's still sort of a horror movie. Well, it's still like grotesque horror, but I don't think you're supposed to take it seriously as such, if you know what I mean. It's got a bit of a wink. It's like Leprechaun in the Hood, but they know what they're doing.

Which kind of loses some of the magic for me. I like people to be completely not self-aware if they're going gonna whiff that hard i think right did you guys have anything like that growing up like a like boogeyman or a story or you know a warning that you like really stuck with you i think i've talked on here before i had like this imaginary blonde haired guy with like raccoon eyes who, but I think that was like, nobody told me that my,

my subconscious just produced him. Wow. And that, that just kept me up at night. But did you have any, anything like cultural handed down to you? Nope. Just the neighbor that my parents always told me,

if you fuck around in that neighbor's yard, he's going to pull a shotgun on you. And we did. And he did. That's right right that was probably the scariest thing i think from childhood yeah yeah i guess i had the catholic church that was that was basically i i thought that i was going to hell because i said swear words in my mind right until the age of like 32 no until like the age of seven or eight. I was like, well, that's it. I'm, I'm fucked.

Yeah. I've already sworn so much on this podcast. I think they demoted me another circle. The one for the swearers and cursors. What is something, Michael, do you think is overrated? Well, first and foremost, the knocked crap. I mean, everyone's talking about it. And it's, you know, like it's the essence of the zeitgeist. And I think it's a little, dare I say, not good, like not healthy. Everyone's discovering it the same way, too.

They're crapping a lot at night. That's right. Doing a rough German translation. The pathway toward knocked crap radicalization right there. Yeah, we got to dismantle that pipeline. I'm going to say going viral, like off of a hit joke on Twitter. If you haven't gathered,

Twitter's my only social media thing, and I've like honed it to a fine point, right? I care a lot about Twitter. And I think I, well, I use it as like a writer's room. One of my favorite things that cracked was, and this can be brutal. There's a lot of bad things about this, but I enjoyed the cutthroat writer's room with a dozen

comedy writers who are all like shouting their joke over each other. Like, I think this will be, or I'm the loudest and take up the most space, or society raises me up to a point where you'll listen to my punchline. Whatever the math, however the mathematics break down, I do really like like a raucous writer's room. And I think that instinct followed me to Twitter where I always want that joke to break through and blow up. And I finally got over it because when it does happen, doesn't lead to new followers, first off.

But second of all, I realized, man, I'm having so much more fun with my Small Beans community, which has sort of been this new experience for me where we go a lot deeper with our community. Like I know a lot more of the users by name and stuff about their lives, not in a way where it becomes unhealthy, but just the parasocial friendly way. And like our Discord server, you know, over at patreon.com slash small beans is super vibrant. And I love like having a cozy. It feels like doing a live show for like 25 people instead of a thousand. And I think there's something really special about that.

So I'm enjoying that lately. Yeah. Yeah. I think that is like one of the gifts of the Internet that shouldn't be underrated is definitely like the small communities that bloom up. Yes. It's I used to think you sort of had to hit B4 quadrant and make it big in this world. And now I think you really just have to find your people, right? You have to find your audience fragments and you can leverage that. It doesn't have to be that big of a group to make it as an artist, which is super cool. So I turned overrated into a positive. I hope that's okay.

Yeah, no, I love it. What's something that you think is underrated? Well, there's this podcast, One Upsmanship, on the iHeartRadio app, and we're really trying to get it to blow up and go viral. So go check it out. If that could blow up, man, it would. Ooh, the catharsis I would feel. I saw it go viral, but actually the authorship was completely changed and it was a 19-year-old in Texas. Oh, I'll take it. That's good. Yeah. That's good. Anyways. Lil Nas X can tweet it out without accreditation and I'll be like, we made it! Even if he's dunking on us, I don't care. Radical self-acceptance, which is specifically in this case, I'm talking about work-life balance. Because man, I've spent so many years trying to work really hard because I have very specific

career goals and I want projects to come to life. But also thinking all the time, this stress is going to kill me, man. This is not good work-life balance. You're a workaholic. This is bad. And I had a great therapist who started telling me that there's no right path. And one thing you could try is thinking, what if you're not a workaholic? You just kick ass and are very highly accomplished. And man, that's changed a lot for me and has not negated my quest to attain more work-life balance like I thought it would, if that makes sense. So be kind to yourself, you know,

like accept yourself for what you are, try and spin it in a positive light. And I think you'll be able to see, like you can make changes more easily in your life. I'll have funny stuff to say later, sorry. No, no, no, but that's something like, I think is very important that I'm also just learning is like that I when I go into therapy specifically, I tend to like pathologize things and be like, well, I'm sad and therefore I'm depressed. like it's not it's not always like the case that it's a pathology sometimes you're just a person doing your best and yeah i i do like the radical self-acceptance of like this is i i it's easy for me to just strip the humanity from myself for like as recently as like 10 minutes ago where i'm just

like well what was i thinking that idiot it is like, no, that was you. You were doing your best. You're continuing to do your best. Yeah. Just remind yourself that there's no one way to navigate life. Yeah. So it doesn't matter if like your path is normal. It's your path. That's fine.

Yeah. I think we get. Yeah. I mean, I think the biggest thing you got to learn when you start therapy, too, is just to stop comparing yourself to other people or comparing your path to others because that's the most like the most violent act you can commit to your individuality is to be like, why aren't I like this person that I am not? And I will torture myself with this notion versus saying I am one of every single person is doing something in their own way. Not everyone's paths are going to look that way and to begin to put judgment on it yeah it's it can be a slippery slope and i think yeah that's that was the biggest thing i had to accept over the years of like trying to you know get into

like working in media and just shit like that of thinking like well at this point you need to be here or at this point you need to be doing this when completely not realizing like my path here like had a lot of winding like turns and things but they all literally add up to this moment actually because i thought being a lobbyist was a waste of time and now it's helped build like a foundation for a lot of like my perspective even as a podcast host so you never know where life's going to take you just embrace it yeah yeah look at chris the yamaguchi man 10 years so they'll be our all our boss yeah yeah have to get wopple house tatted i think one of the biggest misconceptions like just looking back on the last 20 years of my life like one of the biggest misconceptions is that it's like too late to do anything or that like it's worth it to like compare yourself to other people and be like well this you know

like at this age this yeah at this age i'm too late to like branch out into this thing and it's like no it's it's not true yeah plenty of people switch careers like midlife or you know when you hear 20 like 27 year olds be like i'm so old old. I can't like, it's too late. Like, you're just like, yo, man, you're like, oh, you feel bad. Then I should have been the most depressed asshole. If you think you should have been doing all this shit at 27, because I was not. Yeah, exactly. All right. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And I saw a couple headlines about this, but Miles, you dug in a little bit more. The Texas state GOP met for their convention. Yeah. And then like had a, you know, family meeting and decided we're going to be the worst. As a family, let's come together at this summit and just truly embody everything that is wrong with this country. We want to make this our platform. And they, I mean, this, their new party platform that they just ratified, it looks like a MAGA value menu. It's like, it's all kinds of

nonsense. One of the first things, like a lot of things got headlines, but we'll get to the thing that I'm probably, that I imagine most people are like, I think this is more about this other point. But a lot of things got headlines because it was the most homophobic, gun loving, ridiculous, backwards shit ever. First, they want to set a requirement for Texas students to, quote, learn about the humanity of the preborn child, including teaching that life begins at fertilization and requiring kids listen to live ultrasounds of gestating fetuses. Let's see they also want to remove the legislature's power to quote regulate the wearing of arms with a view to prevent crime okay so don't try and control the guns because if we just have more loose guns out there the better i'd imagine is what they're saying there also this is this is one that got a lot of headlines it'sing homosexuality as, quote, an abnormal lifestyle choice.

This isn't anything that has been in the platform in 2018, this is new. Because it seemed like at a certain point they had at least been like, alright, we lost that battle. There's no point trying to keep pushing back, but as we've seen, homophobia is back and

kicking. Then also deeming gender identity disorder quote a genuine and extremely rare mental health conditions and then trying to obviously punish people who are you know trying to attain gender affirming surgery or helping people seek that another one is the ensuring quote freedom to travel by opposing biden's clean energy plan and California-style anti-driver policies, which basically says you're not going to turn a traffic lane into something pedestrians or cyclists or mass transit can use. These big-ass roads are for our trucks.

Dooley. Yeah, get the Dooley. They want to also, look, every job is essential business because that's a pushback against COVID-19 mandates, abolishing the Federal Reserve, the nation's central bank and guaranteeing their right to use alternatives to cash, including crypto currencies just for good measure. Wow. Yeah. They really hit all the. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. yeah and this is all like in a way that this goes on the fact that they said biden is also not the legitimate president that they would vote on secession in 2023 and you know i'm that's always i mean texas always loves to talk about secession until their fucking privatized electrical grid takes a shit and then they're like please federal money so this is this is like a pretty normal back and forth flow of dumb ideas but when you look at all this stuff it's so like it's provocative hateful shit that a lot of people are like i think it may be the part where they buried it the trying to repeal the voting rights act of 1965 that might be the thing they're looking for really that's what they're more most interested in as a party because then they can fully just discriminate against

whoever the fuck they want to to negate votes and fully have a lock on that process so i think with all that stuff it's like most bills that you see the gop put forward they put together the most fucked up version just to dial it back to 50 percent fucked up but even then that's like most bills that you see the GOP put forward, they put together the most fucked up version just to dial it back to 50% fucked up. But even then, that's like breaking barriers of like cruelty that we've not seen before. So it looks like that's a little bit of what's happening with this new GOP platform. But yeah, it's getting tense over there in Texas. Just like making children listen to ultrasounds live ultrasounds of fetuses like it is i don't know it really has like some clockwork orange mixed with i don't know like a terror camp

you know like just a extremist training like ground i don't know it's very very uh like i i'm just having a hard time picturing like the people who are like, yep, that is the country I want to live in. Other than like very, very angry people who would get over that and maybe five minutes later and be like, OK, well, like that wouldn't actually be a good a good place to live. Right. The whole thing is that it's all of this stuff is said to reinforce their worldview which is we can do whatever we want and we can treat whoever we want however the fuck we want to you're not going to mandate like basic levels of treatment for other people that's not we like we have this worldview it's not about freedom it's really the freedom to discriminate so that's really what they're marching towards constantly.

And I get that most people are like, do I want to live in a place where you're saying like execute the parents of LGBTQ youth? Right. That's you want to see that shit go down in your neighborhood? Who knows? But the idea is to say this kind of incendiary shit and be like, yeah, because that's what we're about. We make other people panic. this kind of incendiary shit and be like, yeah, because that's what we're about. We make other people panic. We're not panicked about our dwindling, maybe efficacy or potency as a white people in the United States, because we can now just sort of mandate all this other cruelty

with a smile on our face and say, well, that's not that doesn't touch us. We just want to fuck their party up. We want to make their time as difficult as possible. And they put it under the freedom of speech umbrella always. It feels like freedom of speech is now such a broad brush that it's painted as like my ability to, you know, I don't want to give them cake. Now I want them rounded up. I'm just talking. That's my freedom of speech. And it's like a completely flexible definition. It's just interesting that it is always a strategy play, right? Well, I mean, that's the heartening bit is you're like in straight polls. And if you just ask the average American, I mean, do you want parents of LGBTQ youth to be like criminalized? They in a landslide,

it's no, it doesn't largely affect me, but everything's a strategy play. They have so much leverage. There's this system that's allowed for the ability of an extremist minority to hold everyone else hostage. And we just sort of watch the train barrel out of control and go like, I wonder if the checks and balances will kick in at some point here. No. Yeah. It's going to get worse before it gets better.

And I think we're all like waiting to see, is this the last gasp of these hateful dinosaur people and and we just survive it and they die off or something or is this the new normal like is this an intransigent intransigent like intractable thing yeah i think like we always say like extremism is always going to exist where inequality just remains rampant because it it offers a very tidy perspective or worldview as to like why you may be experiencing a lack that you might not be able to articulate, but you know, is there. And based on everybody else who looks like you and your community is like kind of like sort of marching to this other beat. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's that it's that it's that it's a,

it's drag Queens in the libraries. And because we're trained to value like or to measure our achievement by like financial status and compare ourselves to others. You always have that deep down feeling where it's like, well, it's got to be some other category of people are fucking me up. Like my my privileges are diminishing. That has to mean something. Someone else is, you know, when realistically they should just. look at the billionaire class it's like yeah the reason your wages they stole all your money they they have your your house all the money is in a big bag over there they made everybody a bag holder i don't know maybe okay you're into crypto you get crypt you remember bag holders yeah so that's what they're doing to everybody.

And we're over here pointing fingers at the wrong fucking people because that's the biggest fear is that they realize the people who control all the capital are going to be like, they're going to realize we're the architects of their suffering and not immigrants or the rights of gay people. Right. And the billionaires have massive amounts of money to spend on branding right so like that's i think why like in in the mainstream like that is like it it's become clearer and clearer to me and like this kind of ties into the next story but that that the mainstream media is like complicit in this right like they're funding 100 i mean they yeah you know you think of like the companies that move mountains of money like even like black rock and they have their hands in media too so yeah they're gonna start turning up on like like what the real issues are

no that's just for it like not on the real tv Like Crystal Ball was on Bill Maher this weekend and she was trying to be like, man, you guys are talking a bunch of weird infat like fallacy type shit. And like he got so pissed that like. Bill Maher did. Yeah, of course. Because she's like, man, you're really going to blame inflation on like supporting poor people. It's like, yeah, because Biden decided to make all this money. And it's like him and this other tired ass like conservative. And you could just tell that it was like it was wearing him down and like there's a lot of tweets about it where like past guests i've felt have been said like when you go

on that show do not push back against bill maher because he doesn't like when people are you know thinking for themselves out loud on that show but just to give you a little bit of insight into like the tone of this gop little get together in texas just so you know okay it's we've fully come to the clowns have taken over the circus tent like point obviously because the moment they you know the gop embraced donald trump it's like okay there's no turning back from this now because you have fully opened the gates um john cornyn who gave like some closing remarks at this thing who normally says some of the dumbest shit you've ever heard that would delight maga people he got fucking booed when he was giving his closing remarks you want to know

why because he kind of half said yeah i might support that very tepid gun control bill because of the horrific mass shooting that happened in my state. I just want you to hear him try and speak and him getting shouted at. So let's take our country back, starting with Congress in November. Thank you. God bless you. And may God continue to bless our great state of Texas. of west our great state of texas that's john cornyn okay you're senator and then you know they weren't even feeling fucking when poor ted cruz is just behind went up there they were also he was getting smoked dan crenshaw was getting fucking harassed by proud boys i guess so now

you know it's completely they're you're starting to see them lose control and they go get become further and further extreme and the fucked up part in all of this now is that like as this is happening democrats are pouring money into races to elevate the extremist maga candidates because they think it's going to be easier for them to win but what they're doing is just they're just further entrenching this shit into the GOP by by even like by spending money to even mention these people on TV because their whole thing's like well we're not going to challenge our own beliefs on governance so just be like yo platform the the fucking undesirables and then we don't have to do nothing.

And it's a very, like you said, very messy road to this this midterm and 2024 when you look at everything combined. the frustration with like the mainstream like the mainstream democrats the biden administration like recognizing that there is no energy for that there's no future for that solution but also being like scared of this shit and yeah i i don't know it i i would say it like feels like a false dichotomy but like we we saw in the last election that things are so stacked in the favor of the mainstream Democratic answer that it doesn't feel like there's a short-term fix where suddenly people are...

It feels like it's the mainstream Democratic Party or this super far- right extremist option, which is more well-developed than the left, more realistic option that I think would have more energy if the mainstream media was willing to acknowledge it. But that kind of ties into the next story, which like based on the mainstream media news coverage after the L.A. Democratic primary a couple of weeks back, you would have thought the population of L.A. had just like gone all the way to the right from The New York Times, the quote paper of record. Progressive Democrats were knocked on the defensive in their own party over crime and

homelessness on Wednesday after voters in two high-profile California races delivered a stark warning about the potency of law and order as a political message in 2022. And they were talking about the Caruso, like, you know, they had basically called that election for Caruso. Like, they, I think, acknowledged it was going to be a runoff, but they were like, he won out. And, you know, it's just generally like a movement to the right of voters in Los Angeles. progressive candidates that I voted for that I know people were supporting or just people who I saw on billboards like around Los Angeles who like put up things like here's what the budget's actually like this is an actual billboard uh on Crenshaw in LA it's like here's what budgets actually look like and you know it's just a bar graph with police spending, and it shows how massive police spending is compared to all these other priorities. Just one piece of truth that could reach people directly. not what the New York Times assumed was going to happen, but actual results. And it is wildly successful for progressive candidates, like the people who were putting out that information and

just doubling down on funding the police is not the answer. Those people had surprisingly a lot of success. It's basically the exact opposite of what the New York Times article has said. And that's not coming out in the New York Times. That came out in a column in the Los Angeles Times that was like, is L.A. more progressive than San Francisco now? Like they that was the angle they had to give it to make it like an opinion piece. But it's the only place in the mainstream where i was seeing coverage of these facts like i'll just read directly from it in an election year supposedly defined by the public's anxiety over rising crime and diminishing law

enforcement los angeles is on the verge of electing its first abolitionist city council member it's it's all part of what theyear-old community activist calls a tidal wave of progressiveness that's washing over LA. Elsewhere on the east side, labor organizer Hugo Soto-Martinez, who campaigned on having fewer cops and repealing the law that allows the city to remove homeless encampmentsments has pulled ahead of incumbent city councilman Mitch O'Farrell in District 13. And Karen Bass just pulled ahead of Caruso, the person that everybody was like fawning over and was like, this is proof that the Democrats are fucked in the 2024 election and 2022 midterms. So it's basically the exact opposite of the story that the mainstream media was telling

in the run-up to the election and the immediate aftermath. But now they have just stopped talking about it. It's like, you know, this is, I think, us running into again the most insidious but also like effective way that progressive energy and politics are opposed which is depriving them of any oxygen in any of the mainstream sources uh that we're taught are like both um the only option for fact-checked information and also we're taught that they are like left-leaning um and like liberal and like not neither of those are the case. But that really puts us in a precarious position where we have this one option that is kind of well-founded that we heard from in Texas, or well-formed, I guess, where they have all the talking points, they have ways of getting the information out they have like these national figures who have all you know have ways of reaching people um who are saying fuck the

mainstream and like the way that this country has been run and then we have these candidates who are to the left of what the mainstream has been and like the, you know, complicity and all the Wall Street thievery and bullshit that has gone on. And they are not allowed to like they they will not be acknowledged in the mainstream conversation. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's it's a tidy way of keeping people from having multiple forms of analyzing what's happening. There's a, I feel like isn't it a new Republic or the Atlantic today? I forget one of the two. There's like this article that was like, liberals are actually ignoring these crime waves.

And it was like another thing trying to pop up those fucked up New York times articles where they're like, these are like the sourcing, although there is some like editorial, like editorializing happening are like're well-sourced. You're not even questioning the fact that they're like, according to my cop friend who hates the poor. It's just a very interesting thing to even watch, to even see now the media come out to push back against a thing that they've been hearing it's like i hear people are taking shots at like uh the the the idea that maybe the police and look local news are really amplifying this

crime thing and they're like but that's they're they created some term for like like it's not anecdotal but anick research i don't know some nonsense thing um all to say that it's like but yeah here's the deal it's really bad and uh you know the da larry krasner in philly i mean he's he's cantankerous oh you can't use a strong word like that without backup you know backing it up with lots of stats so yeah well but and i but i guess it it does reveal this whole thing where it's like it sounded like the thrust of the piece is like yeah and those da's were bad so it is a DAs were bad. So it is an odd place we find ourselves in constantly as we grapple with many kinds of messaging around what is or is not actually happening around us. And what is or is not even claimed by each team.

Like it's wild to me that the mask mandate is even in the plant. I mean, I understand why it is, because I'm in the pot like a frog being boiled, and I get it. Like, I've been around, but I'm just imagining someone dropping to the sky from, like, the 1800s and trying to explain, why are you wearing a mask? Oh, there's a disease, like the plague, if you're familiar with from your time. Oh, okay. Well, I'll wear a mask too. Oh, so you're like a liberal type of peasant from the medieval times. You know, like it's wild to me that that even indicates that. comes the year 2022 and see all this miraculous technology and see that when someone like goes against social mores we still break out chains and cages and weapons and that's we haven't thought of anything better that's just wild to me yeah yeah well it's good good pr for the chains cages and weapons crowd yeah yeah chain weapon uh big chain is yeah they're crushing uh in the messaging department and i think that's why because we're we consume just

non-stop propaganda all day uh throughout most of our lives in the united states and then you're like how come like we can't come up with a actual good solution to problems well and it's the physical instantiation of the internet uh interaction that everyone hates most which is when someone says some something truly hateful or despicable and you actually reveal that you've been upset and they go oh are you mad you've lost the argument like we as a society are doing that to our people. We send in, like, this person who's trained to and equipped to escalate a situation. Situations get out of control. And then we cite those stats as why we need those people. It makes, it's never made sense. And it still doesn't. Yeah, it's just a cycle that has to be broken. Right. We've talked about there. There's this thing idea in this essay, I can tolerate anything except the out group that talks about how like each class is only aware of the class directly above them and the class directly below them.

And they're taught to like hate both of them for like different reasons. So the class, the group directly above them is like, you know, holding them down and the group directly below them, like you're allowed to look down on. And therefore by, by extension, nobody really hates or like picks up any animus towards the people who are

actually billionaires and are actually like, you know, controlling things. Like we, they are essentially mythical figures to us. They're insulated by the very fact

that you can't even comprehend how much money they have. Exactly. But I think like this, the way that the media is covering this guy spending, how much did Caruso spend on his election million like

yeah so like so many millions of dollars to run and come in like a distant second for for mayor um in los angeles and the media is covering it as like a wake-up call and not covering any of the actual like populist energy on the ground for um you know things that are outside of like the moneyed interests and the way the way the money uh moneyed interests prefer politics around like that it it feels like a fixable problem it doesn't feel like it's a limit of human imagination it does feel like it's a limit of our media and how our media has always been viable you know like you can like jeff bezos like the richest human maybe in the history of the world owns the washington post um you know uh elon musk is on the verge of acquiring twitter like that

and that i i think one of uh when we had, some kind of centrist progressives on there, we're like, that's always been the case. Like, there's always been really wealthy people. And it's like, yeah, but that's a bad thing because they are controlling how things are messaged. to like get past this inability to like see how things actually run and like not be crabs in a bucket who are you know always just pulling like fighting amongst ourselves if we don't have like an actual honest media that isn't that isn't you know owned by wealthy interests or funded exclusively by wealthy interests make your family listen to the daily zeitgeist. This is what I'm saying, Michael. Thank you for the one.

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And we're back. And let's talk about, what's the MRF? MRF. It's time. It's time. It's time to talk MRF. What are we talking about? What's that?

So we accept clowns, sentient doughmen, you know, fake military officers who were racists and, you know, as brand mascots. I'm talking about like that. Animals happily eating themselves like a pig cooking bacon. We're fine with that. I mean, we practically demand it. Make us feel okay about eating bacon. But people seem to be pretty unnerved by a new... Unnerved?

They're upset. They're unnerved by MRF. The new nerf spokes being. Yeah. So it's a anthropomorphic amalgam of 10,000 nerf darts with the ability to run and shoot a nerf gun, despite a lack of anything resembling a face or eyes or any sensory inputs. Yeah. He looks like a,

like a, like those videos you see of like poodles that came in off the street and their hair was so matted they couldn't even see. That's what Murph looks like, a matted dog who can't even see or one of those sheep that needed a proper treatment. You got to shave Murph down badly for Murph's own good. Oh, God. We didn't reveal the true hideous nature of Murph underneath those Nerf parts.

Murph is gritty underneath. That's the worst part. You shave a Murph, you just get gritty. Yeah, gritty is who it made me think of. I'd like to see a combination, like one big gritty eye, patches of fur in between the poof dongs. Coming out the Nerf darts right yeah point of order those are not darts right they're just nerf are they darts do they have tips oh they have suction cup tips that's even that's how they're stuck right because i'm a man no the

tips face out it looks like oh no so like if he touches you you're getting the it's not nerfy it's like octopus oh yeah he could get stuck to you yeah you're getting, it's not Nerfy, it's like Octopussy. Oh, yeah, he could get stuck to you. Yeah, you're getting suction cupped, bro. I'm not a fan. You just find Nerf stuck to like some piece of glass somewhere in a city, just being like, kill me. Nerf uses

your bathroom and there's just like 30 darts stuck to the porcelain lid. Yeah, but since 1969, Nerf has never had a mascot and they're like, we're doing it. That tradition ends now. They unveiled Nerf. People, like some of the headlines,

sorry Nerf, but your new mascot is terrifying. Nerf unveils a mascot made of 10,000 Nerf darts and people are terrified and then quote a social media post that says kill it. Nerf's new mascot, Nerf darts and people are terrified and then quote a social media post that says kill it. Nerf's new mascot, Murph, will stalk your nightmares. So they've also announced that

Murph uses they them pronouns, which I do think this is... Frankly cheapens the whole thing. Yeah, it completely cheapens it. This is another way that progressive values... What's that yeah right no it makes sense unveiled during pride you're like you're you're like fuck uh that could

look selfish as a company make them non-binary yeah the whole way that like progressive ideas get adopted by like marketers like probably almost definitely like white guys in their 40s and 50s who are just parroting back. Grossly overpaid to come up with MRF also. You know this was a huge deal for many fiscal quarters. Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on MRF. And it's just some outsider know, loose, bad misunderstanding of the intention of those values. But like when they're made into like and Murph uses they them pronouns, it becomes a meme and it becomes like a thing, an easy thing for kids and then conservatives to just dismiss. Right. And also an easy thing to make Joe Biden feel good

about the job he's doing. As we saw on one of the Jimmy's, Kimmel I think it was. He was like, why are you so fucking optimistic, Joe Biden? And he's like, come on man. You see Murph? Did you see them in that commercial? like jesus joe

and this also comes at a time when many people in the lgbtq community are wondering what the fuck are democrats even doing right now this has been a full-on assault from the right and well we got murph that's it where's the fucking where's the department of education having some kind of like real like forceful opinion on what's happening or anything like that a lot of the times people like all we get is just like empty platitudes and you know these new fucking sports or these toy mascots being like and here's a little crumb for this community because imagine if murph came out in 20 the summer or fall of 2020 could you imagine could you imagine like his his his nerf darts make like dreadlocks or some shit oh right he's like

yeah because that was like it's the same same lack of awareness of just people just thinking progress means I just put a sticker on something or a logo on something or I change the appearance of my logo rather than there is there's there are groups of people experiencing untold levels of oppression. and I'm here to stand directly beside them saying I am an ally in this fight rather than being like, hey man, if you buy this, we get it enough that we will just outwardly say we're on the right side of the conversation. Other than that, we really don't give a fuck because we just know it sells more shit.

That's basically the message, yeah. Murph looks like if you frightened him, he'd shoot darts in all directions. Right. Or if he climaxed or they climaxed yeah yeah yeah that's true i'm sorry to misgender murph yeah

don't get into the murph porn now it's that's our problem up on like mini dolly already that ai thing also that effect is a complete ripoff incidentally of a fabulous major laser music video light it up so it's a failure on every level well we've talked before about how militarized nerf guns have become

they're essentially candy colored like replica firearms which gun manufacturers in the nra are like off the record but have been quoted as like, we are eager to see these in the hands of kids to wean them into gun ownership. Really? Oh, I didn't know it was that conscious. Yeah. Nerf guns are actually used in school shooting drills for teachers, not by any like mandate, but because yeah, they're the closest safe alternative and it's. So you're basically saying it's a practice gun right the whole idea now of like you know when i i was a kid i played cops and robbers with guns and fake guns and like cap guns and shit the whole idea now of giving kids toy guns is becoming weirder and weirder and more

morbid and perverse like oh yeah it's wild, it's wild. Man, I had one of my classmates, their mom was an epidemiologist. And like this was an elementary school. Her whole work was devoted to getting toy guns out of kids hands because of like even in like the 80s and there were people like people mistaking kids are having guns being real guns and getting shot and things like that. And just generally like what it does to like further this thing. And I remember at the time we were like, man, you know, his mom doesn't let him play with any of the cool shit. Right.

And you're like, your mom is from the future. Well, and I'm not even saying fucking warn us because I'm a big like violent video games are fine by me. And I can like get into the details of that. But totally. I'm just saying not even from the's perspective, believe me, I love Nerf war. Like every birthday party when I was seven, eight, nine was Nerf war. And I get the thrill and the fun of like paintball and all these things. It's just, I'm just saying as an adult now, like if I had a birthday party and saw all my kids and their friends shooting Nerf guns at each other, there's no way I'm not excusing myself to the bathroom but like cry like there's only one thing that makes me

think of right now it's just disturbing our our like equivalent like the most lit thing you could have is what maybe a super soaker like 250 yeah like the pole pump like wasn't the the og like neon green one that we all had where you drink the water out of it tastes terrible or the backpack that shoots a thousand balls and then you gotta pack it up for like there was ball zooka i remember we had ball zooka and that shit wasn't like launching it like it was basically as strong as you were you could get the ball zooka to shoot shit out but the ultimator could concuss you yeah well yeah see I missed the ultimator by about three years. And now I see videos of like dads who are like dressed up, who are like military guys who are dressed up in tack gear, like playing with their like nerf guns. Like there's this one video on Reddit of this dad who's clearly some kind of like, you know, military operator comes in and clears like clears the room like tactically with a nerf gun like throws in like a nerf grin flash bang and then crosses into the tips of the darts with a knife he's no he's

like cutting the pie like by coming in at an angle like by like his entry point he's like double tapping his kid in the chest and like his other kid and you're like what the fuck is that's actually the origin story of murph is murph was one of the children that was taken down in that raid and has come back as an uh uber being a vengeance yeah like vekna of the nerf world be rolled out in the coming years i mean but it does feel like that that queasiness is there constantly for all parents in America. And I'd be surprised if it is a complete coincidence, and we'll never see this because the documents around a marketing campaign are typically protected like the you know jfk assassination documents but like there's no way it's a complete coincidence that as things become weirder and weirder and as the idea of giving children like candy colored ars to like run around and play with becomes more just overtly strange they are making a change to like a cuddly spokes being that is made of bullets is made of like soft fun bullets instead of you know right i mean when you put it that way

yeah that's like imagine a character made of like fucking, you know, 762 rounds. And you're just like, hey. Right. And you're like, what the fuck is this? And they're all pointed outward. Okay. Yeah. As if to say fire wildly in all directions. That's our method.

Right. It looks from a distance. Murph looks like they're made of like koosh material. I thought it was a koosh mascot, not a Nerf mascot. Yeah. Yeah, I did too. Also, why is Nerf Murph got to have that? Why they got to have that like big chain on like they're a rapper?

Yeah, there is one shot. Yeah, there's one with a gold chain. It's odd. Like a big Nerf plate. Big Nerf piece, chest piece. Okay, I'll keep my eye on you, Nerf. Mm-hmm. All right. big nerf piece chest piece thing okay let's not keep my eye on you nerf all right well you know keep your eyes peeled for uh our new future overlord overload yeah i mean the the murph memes that are going to be killing baby peanut and all that yeah right baby peanut was one that

i should have mentioned up top of like the thing spokes mascots were willing to get on board with because it's like, you know, in an overtly like Christian America, like, you know, where the mainstream is like that dies and immediately reproduces as a baby that it looks like the previous one so like very very strange uh metaphysical ideas being presented and we're like yeah okay it's super bowl commercial it's fun all good all good but not but fuck this murph stuff michael sw, truly a pleasure as always having you. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Oh, well, I made sure to be extra plug heavy this time, but in case you missed it,

I'm at Swaim underscore corp on Twitter. And my new show, if you like video games at all, with At The Real Gans as my co-host, we do a little show called One Upsmanship. That's One UPS men's ship. And I sincerely hope you'll check it out. Yeah, that's great. Is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying?

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I got two tweets. I got one from daddy at gritsy Ross who says I barely play video games, but I like at Swain corp and at the real gans from their crack days so i checked out one upsmanship pod just to see and it's phenomenal there it is and that's my last plug i swear uh a tweet that's funny that i like is from at the nate wolf who wrote do you think i reference dinosaurs too much when i write i asked

she was silent like the p in pterodactyl, but it said everything. I enjoyed that quite a bit. That's so good. Miles, where can people find you? What is a tweet you've been enjoying? Find me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. Check out the new podcast,

Lords of Soccer, a show I helped produce on iHeart, talking about the corruption at FIFA, the governing body of Soccer, a show I helped produce on iHeart, talking about the corruption at FIFA, the governing body of global soccer. The reason why we're not watching the World Cup right now is because FIFA just sells the tournament to the highest bidder. And so it's a really wonderful show that just came out, so I encourage you to check that out.

Obviously, Mad Boosties, where the next episode, Jack and I will finally be talking about the i guess the finals concluding on our thoughts on that and 420 day fiance uh the other podcast see let's see a tweet that i like first one is from divine at she love yari y-a-r-i-i it said first two drinks don't count if you have anxiety they just turn you into a normal person and that tweet was blowing up over the weekend that was good yeah i used to take a few real big stress gulps at the beginning of a social affair and then another one sarah lazarus sarah lazarus at sarah c lazarus tweeted did i quote kill a plant or did the plant not have what it takes to thrive in this fast-paced environment and i think that's a very good way to look at it.

Instant classics. Yeah. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien and on Mad Boosties, which is an official NBA podcast where they have officially endorsed that even taking into account all the great basketball players that they employ, they can officially endorse that Miles and I have mad boosties. We can jump very high. I used to be able to get net.

I think that's all you need to know. Oh, man, I tried grabbing rim. I think I blew my index finger. I haven't been on a basketball court in like five years. I grossly overestimated what I could do with these things. That has been a calculated decision, by the way. I just don't want to go. We got to go live on IG and just do a quick gym shoot around for people to see.

Just to see what that shit looks like. Trying to be like, oh, you guys need to settle it on the court. Yeah. It'll be like when Cory Booker went on Desus and Mero. I didn't see that one. Never watch people play basketball. You're not used to seeing him play basketball tweet i've been enjoying lan yard again tweeted love the deli papers on the doctor's table i'm a sick little sandwich and then uh this one i don't i didn't want to like start beef

but pizza bitch tweeted my boyfriend's always talking about how the world needs a larger bean that can be sliced like a steak i i don't know michael i think any number of looney tunes would beg to disagree i mean you can already slice beans transparently thin if you want it bad enough like if you're really hungry. I'd urge this person to just focus more on beans. Work beans into their lifestyle. Get to know beans and get back to me. Subscribe to many

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So I think they were kind of describing themselves like if you like eric being a rock kim and krungbin and like a few other bands i'm like these are all great things to say you're influenced by it's just really kind of like this you know like look into the past with modern eyes which is one of my favorite genres i love to see people kind of playing with all the different textures so check check this song out, Tombola 94 by Dina Oga or Ergon. Well, go check that out. The Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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