The Daily Zeitgeist - New Barney Drug Regimen, Florida Bans MOST Books 02.16.23

Episode Date: February 16, 2023

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apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hello the internet and welcome to this uh season 275 episode 4 of goodirt Daily Zeitgeist! It's a production of iHeartRadio. I've been fucking up the parts that would seem to be unfuckable of late. The parts that I've said thousands of times at this point. And I'm still fucking it up. Well, this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. In case you were curious.

It is Thursday, February 16th, 2023. Podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. In case you were curious. It is Thursday, February 16th, 2023. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. And got no melanin? Pronounce the T, my friend. Just a reminder when you are a Caucasian. He sings the songs about a party on your birthday. He sings a song that doesn't care what fits your birthday. Oh, Curtis J.

Curtis J. Curtis J. It's 50 Cent. It's never 50 Cent. No matter how uncool you think that sounds. It's 50 Cent. It's never 50 Cent. No matter how uncool you think that sounds.

That is Curtis J. Scotty Magoo. In reference to the new rule. If you're, if you're a white person, don't, don't pronounce it 50 cents. Okay.

Just, just don't ever do it. It's 50 to you. And I good friends, the plural sense. Yes. 50 cents. It is 50 cents.

Exactly. Just make it incomprehensible, interchangeable with a unit of money. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined in the second seat by one of our very favorite co-host guests,

a hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer. He's standing up. He's thinking about standing up for this AKA. You know him from Yo's This Racist. It's standing up. He's thinking about standing up for this AK. You know him from Yo's This Racist. It's Andrew T! We're gonna pod

while Andrew T is here! Oh my god. I couldn't get the high note. Andrew T is here! Wow! Yeah, we're gonna pod while Andrew T is here. T is here. Wow. Yeah, we're going to pod. Well, Andrew T is here. I debated standing for this.

I should have done it. I committed, but not enough. I've never stood for an AKA. And I think that's probably at least part of my problem is that I don't put my full body into it. I don't have the diaphragm control, it turns out, or the breath control, or the voice, or the range. I haven't got the rage oh it's i i love having a new guest on and singing or an old guest and just appalled the appalled look on their face when i i'm just belting out something that like is indistinguishable from

like any other like they don't know what song it is it's a great way to start a podcast that we're trying to like you know reach an audience with is to just alienate everyone and humiliate yourself but i thought yours was beautiful and you know the lost faith lost breath but it's still it's all it was all that i could do i left it all on the floor i gotta take that's right and that's all we could ask from our podcast athletes so thank you andrew andrew we are thrilled to be joined by a creative and political activist who hosts beyond the pale on wbai in new york is a caucus member of jews for racial and economic justice and co-founder of its electoral arm the jewish vote please welcome back to the show rafael shimano happy to be back how are you doing man wait you're coming to us from new york what was

happening in the future back there we're you know we're we're dealing with the our amazing cop mayor yes uh just what the world needs right now. We can't find him anywhere. He has been following on Twitter. You've been kind of hunting him at his favorite restaurants. Oh, yeah. Handing out Valentine's Day. Yeah, we're handing out our people. We're handing out Valentine's cards, looking for him, asking him to stop taking money from our schools and giving it to police.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's something about schools. These Republicans really seem keen on fucking up the lives of our children. They're trying to educate. They need it. Yeah, they do. Cut of their whole thing. That's what they require for their version of society to proliferate.

He's getting a ticket from the city for just uncontrollable rats coming out of his private property. Oh, man. You have to work so hard to stand out in the city of New York for rats?

Yeah, in the city where there's crossing guards for rats between homes. Does he just float around on a bed of rats? I'm trying to imagine what somebody would have to do to stand out like that. Just moving around, just floating like a rat Dracula. Just two inches off the ground. Walls made out of pizza crust everywhere.

Rat coat. Little neon sign. Made of live rats that are just swarming. Why is your coat moving? Ah, that is terrifying, sir. It's weird how New York mayors just always find the perfect metaphor for themselves. That's right.

It's incredible. All right. Raphael, 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 that we're talking about. Nikki Haley, the sensible conservative option, the moderate Republican option for president, just came out as very like just wild came out swinging baby with uh the ends uh we'll talk about the event but it involved her expressing the most profound support for somebody who once claimed that hitler was sent by god so we'll talk about that we're going to talk about florida schools you know so some of the folks in our Discord, some Zeitgang, were mentioning that they live in a place where there are, I believe, 250 approved books for all of K through 12.

yeah like the the library the school library shelves are are empty in these schools and it's something that i think i was vaguely aware of but then you just like see like there there's a there's a new yorker article that's like talking to this person as though they're like a source and a journalist and then you like go they like like off to his twitter account and this fool's name is like jags fan brian on Twitter he's just like a just a dude man these are just like this is happening to like people who are just like yeah I sent my kid to like the local public school and like the they had to they got the book their book taken away from them that they were reading for school because it wasn't approved oh my god yeah so we're gonna talk about that we're gonna talk about subway being up for sale perhaps

mayhaps so we'll talk about that we'll talk about barney returning with a facelift that like looks like he has gone he's been on tb12 you know like his he looks like he lost all of his like buccal fat yeah he got the surgery yeah i got the eye you know what whatever makes them feel good yeah barney used to have like some heavy lids for a cartoon you know well we know we know why yeah barney was lift you know barney barney was smoking and that this barney looks like he has switched over to cocaine or, you know, crystal meth. He's staying with the times. No, I really love you.

I really love you. Like 48 hours in a row. We'll love you for 48 hours in a row. Proof of the gateway drug. Yeah, I think that's right. All of that, plenty more. Before we get to any of that bullshit, Raphael, we like to ask our guests,

what is something from your search history? So the last thing, I was listening to another podcast, I think New York Times. We don't acknowledge that those exist. Yeah, it doesn't exist anymore. It's gone, actually. The last thing from my Google search

was ironically about Bing. Oh, yes, Bing. They're teaming up. It's clawed its way Oh, yes. Bing. So they're teaming up. Just clawed its way back to relevance. Yeah. With a partnership. With that creepy chat GPT, the one that can write those college essays.

Yeah. I was like down that rabbit hole. And it's scary because, you know, we watched Google make smart people smarter and kind of ignorant people more ignorant. Yeah. And now we're going to come upon a new society where they can't even accidentally come across the right information. It's just going to, the search engine is going to tell them what the answer is.

In sentence form, but also maybe, yeah, if you don't know how to use it, you might draw the wrong conclusions. Yeah, it's got controlled by billionaire monopolies and AI itself. Still racist. What if the feeling lucky button on Google was wordy? That's what they've decided to go with here i'm a little nervous i'm feeling lucky and i will not shut up my favorite type of people just constantly feeling lucky regardless of you know outward indications of or results and just can't can't shut the fuck up so what would you learn what would you have you did you see any of the results i think i saw some results where somebody was like where is the

avatar showing and it wound up with them like down a very strange path what what i do is i i don't have the it's like private access to test it out right now but i test out other AIs. I work with a group called Athena Coalition, and we oppose Amazon, and they are authors of their own AI stuff and facial rec stuff and things that they sell to governments to oppress their people. And it's really scary what's out there. If you ask it basic questions, a lot of these AIs,

you could see what they call guardrails, but really, you could see what they call guardrails, but really, they actually, like, you could see it censoring results. You could see it, you know, saying, like, no, you don't, like, if you ask about armed revolution, you'll see them always responding, you know, like,

yes, the most successful ways historically to change oppressive systems have been violent revolutions, but, however... Not for you, not anymore! No, no, no. Here's one very carefully selected sentence from the

I Have a Dream speech. I just also love AI is like, even the uncensored version of it, it's just like, this whole thing is educated on number one, the totality of the internet taken credulously,

and number two, people who love AI. That's who interacts with it most, and guess what? People who love AI are fucking creeps. So like, on the whole, any

listeners who love it, but you know what I mean? It's just like, yeah, of course it's a fucking creep. It'll just be whatever Andrew Yang would reply with. Yeah. Oh, God, that fucker. He's ruining being Andrew at about my age and Chinese.

Oh no. He fucked it up for me. On the one hand, but on the other hand, the same hand, but I'll just pretend like it's another hand. I forgot. What is something that you think is overrated? You know, Valentine's Day

just passed and it's really the truffles. The truffles for you. It's the truffles for me, dog. Overrated. Overrated. I can't taste the difference between things with them, without them. The price difference is clear.

I don't know what the hell people are talking about. Either my tongue is dead or these truffles seem like a scam. It's a scam. Yeah, I think that's right.les seem like a scam. Like, they just, it's a scam. And it's, yeah. Yeah, I think that's right. All luxury is a scam. I just like, I like the little shavy thing. But like,

how do they even, they find it with these, they have these elaborate things with pigs and they go through the forest and they find it and like, when did we start trusting the animal that eats maggots from roots and maybe caterpillars that are too weak to run away from a pig?

Like what a luxury food item is. It's just, I don't understand. Charlotte's Web is an op. I've been saying that from day one. Charlotte's Web is a fucking op. You're just trying to upsell us truffles. I think that's what you pay for you pay for the fact that like the process is so steampunk and like fucking 12th century like any it's like it's

like getting like you know like boots made by entirely one person or something it's like right they're not better they're just expensive single expensive. Because it was annoying to make. Right. That's a good, yeah. So everything's a power trip, basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Amazing. I feel like truffles are the most expensive food on a per ounce basis. It has to be, right?

It has to be. Because it's like... When you see what the shavings cost. Yeah. And maybe you are paying for the experience the shavings cost. Yeah. And maybe you are paying for the experience a little bit. Yeah. You just have to be entertained.

You have to be entertained by it. I'm happy to get some Parmesan grated over my shit or some fresh ground pepper. That's good. That's the move. I don't need the... Yeah. I have enjoyed a truffle here and there, but never...

It's kind of like buttery, but it's hard to explain. It doesn't really taste like anything else, and it kind of tastes bad. There's like a buttery, but like... Yeah. It's like any mushroom. I love mushrooms.

Yeah, I love mushrooms. Maybe I didn love mushrooms. Yeah, I love mushrooms. But I don't. Maybe I didn't have enough. Maybe I'm not rich enough to have had enough truffles in my mouth to even send. Bro, bro, bro. Bro, you just need more. You just need to take more. You just need to have enough.

Bro, bro, bro. No, it's going to hit you really hard. It's going to hit you really hard. Yeah. Barney. Barney talked to you about truffles. Barney post-truffle. Yeah.

What is something you think is underrated? I mean, this is hard to make a case for because everyone loves it, but chicken. I still think it's still underrated. It's so fucking good. Everyone loves chicken. It's so good. Even vegans love chicken for other reasons, but everyone loves chicken. But it's still not enough like we still

have to rub it in how good it is how amazing it is but i think that's also a power trip because i feel like you know i do my own research as well so i realized you know these were dinosaurs that used to hunt us yeah and now we've overcome them in such a way where we're just trolling them. We turn them into these little things and then we're just like clowning them. We even billboards of them eating themselves. Like it's just horrendous. It's offensive and I hope they rise up. Yeah, I'd like to see that.

It would be one of the most hilarious ways that we could go out as a species, I believe. Weak enough for chickens to take us out. Yeah, we deserve it. What's the billboard with them eating themselves? You know, it's just like all the advertisements for chicken places are always like a comic of a chicken eating chicken. Or like Eminem.

We're just clowning them at this point. I thought it was like a PETA thing. Like, these chickens are forced to eat themselves. That's probably true too. Like some like cruel foie gras type shit. Chicken is really good. Chicken is just about the

best. It doesn't give me bad dreams like red meat does. It's just... We need to dig deeper, Jack... Do you guys not get bad dreams from beef? If you eat beef? Sometimes beef really fucks me up. Do you think you're inheriting

the memories of the cow? I think so, yeah. There's something evil about it. I don't know. I had a wonderful stress dream nightmare last night. I woke up at like five in the morning and I realized I've been trying to rewrite

this movie and I've been stuck on the first scene and I woke up in a panic that my car had been towed and then I was like, Eureka! I could fix this first scene. Oh, really? Yeah, I was like... By just having the character have their car towed? No, no, it was unrelated.

I went from unbelievable stress to like, oh my God, I think I fixed this thing. That's amazing. I need more bad dreams. That's a great example of this country where even in our dreams we're working. Yes. Celebrating that we worked in our dreams.

A stress dream that also is not that consequential but i woke up so upset right my car got towed that was my stress dream yeah yeah yeah i mean they've solved science problems in their dreams we talked about that a lot earlier like a couple months back like the answers that people have come up with in their dreams are pretty cool and it's always like through some weird visual metaphor like they were trying to figure out what the molecular structure of something was and like they were thinking of it as like linear that it had to be linear and then they dreamt of a snake eating its tail and woke up and were like oh it's a fucking ring sounds like you need more beef nightmares.

Sounds like you need to eat more beef. There's just a piece of steak stuck in some part of their stomach that was sending the weird messages. Look, I'm not a scientist, okay? Do I? No, you sound like you're a magician. This is even better.

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is that a lot of us are actually looking for a way to disagree and still be in relationships with each other. All that on the Happiness Lab. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And we're back. and we're back and this is this is early in the week for me to just be like i don't fucking know like haley i guess but that that's where we're at folks three eps and four eps and i'm like uh but yeah so just a day after haley was being heralded by some conservatives as the more moderate Republican hope, she held a campaign launch event where she was introed by Pastor John Hagee. After he was done, she said to Pastor Hagee, I still say I want to be you when I grow up.

And for context, this man claimed that Hitler was sent by God to help create Israel eventually. So way to go, God. Nailed it. His reputation was so extreme that he endorsed John McCain. And not only did John McCain not make it a cornerstone of his campaign to launch his campaign, he publicly had to reject his endorsement in 2008. So we've come a long way, you guys, a mere 15 years later, and we're like, hell yeah, this is my guy. This is who I need to hitch my wagon to. I mean, the reason you don't Nikki Haley screwed is because the trend my entire lifetime, and I'm an old man, has been Republicans will nominate the most bigoted person they can get away with.

That is just simply the rule. And she just, she don't got it. Right. But she's trying. She's trying to like, you know, strengthen up her bona fides. She's playing the game. Does she even appear moderate alongside Trump?

Like at all? Does she appear moderate next to him? To some people, maybe? Is that the play? Yeah, yeah. I think that's the play. They've extended the window so far. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. It's unbelievably to the right now. She's only a sort of Nazi. Right. And that makes her a moderate. Yeah. But, Raph, you. And that makes her a moderate. Yeah. But, Raph, you were saying that you had a message for Nikki that you wanted to just... Oh, yeah.

I'm from Queens. I'll take my headphones off while you do this. This is just Raph to Nikki. I'm from Queens, maybe the most diverse area, especially with Asians and South Asians like Nikki. And I want a message. I want a one-on-one message to Nikki. I hope you're listening. I know you're listening.

She's a fan. She is a fan. Because there's no other podcast. Yeah. It's only the only show. Hi, I'm Rafael Shimonov, Central Asian from Uzbekistan in Queens. I know your real name, Nimrata Randhawa. And all of us Asians in Queens, especially Punjabi homies and also me, all our AAPI homies,

I don't know why Hawaii's in there, but it's chill. We're good. But all of us, almost all of us, most of us, probably a slight majority of us, mostly renters, we look down on you. You're a sellout. You're one of those immigrants who close the door behind you and marry some prep school white kid who went on to occupy Afghanistan. I mean, you literally married a wealthy prep school white kid who went on to occupy Afghanistan and kill and rob Afghan people for their sweet opium. And you know what? Shame on you, Nimi. shame on you nimi shame on you thank you am i allowed to put my headphones back on yeah it seems like you're done

okay all right uh i'm back let's talk about florida that better news no No, not quite. Not quite. So the good cop side of this act is real rough. Yeah. Well, I think she was supposed to be, she was being set up by the media as the good cop, right? Like they were like, well, and here she comes to be the moderate side because she's, you know. I know. I had a job at the UN. You'd want to bring her home to your parents, right? She worked at the UN.

That's a cool-sounding middle-of-the-road job. But here we go with—it really seems like a race to the right, a.k.a. the bottom. So DeSantis this year has moved his fight beyond K-12 to AP and college courses, and Republicans across the country are taking their lead from him because he had such a most successful most recent election. But it's like it's just wildly racist. Anything that teaches that America has been racist in its history, he wants out of there. Truly just dystopian. His laws against the teaching of race,

sexual orientation, and gender have led to strict book bans in various school districts. In higher education, the governor is rolling back diversity. This is from a Vox article. Equity and inclusion initiatives, reducing tenure protections, moving school leaders to review core courses to make sure they're free of quote liberal indoctrination all of this has ramifications beyond de santism and like a lot of the shit that he's like worried about like there there were math books like most of the math books were getting rejected as too liberal and yeah i mean at a certain point and that point was probably about four years ago like the rest of the country has to like start considering like a high school diploma from someplace like florida not valid right like like why would someone who graduated from the school

system be allowed to go to college outside of florida public colleges yeah although they might be the most eager readers to ever like appear as freshmen as at a as freshmen in college like yo instead of being like we can drink they're like we can read books and also i things i feel like i said that in such a bootlicking, accepting way of the whole rest of our country, but you get the general idea. Well, so Duval County is currently working off a list of 350 books that have been approved at this point for K-12.

And it's not like, I've read somewhere people being like, well, they're trying to prove a point. They're like, this is how bad it's gotten. No, I think they're genuinely afraid of being sued that and like take all the books off the shelf. I'm just saying like that it is a consequence of policy. It's not it's not, you know, performative like or or it doesn't cancel politics. Yeah, it has to say whether it's like malicious compliance to prove a point or fear. It's still proving the same point, which is those rules are horrifying. I know we had recently some guests on the WBI show, and they were the students from this county in Jacksonville, Florida, in high school, who got their play banned.

It was called Indecent. banned. It was called Indecent. And it's actually a play about a play that's being banned in New York, a Yiddish queer play that was banned in the 20s in New York for having the first lesbian scene or something like that. And then these high school kids were about to do the production in Jacksonville in a high school. And it's a famous playwright, Paula Vogel. And they got canceled. And the theory is actually that these MAGA people joined the school board, infiltrated the school board, and made it cancel this play. So now, right now, Paula Vogel and all these kids, Madeline Scotti, these actors, are fighting to reintroduce the play, to get it unbanned.

reintroduce the play to get it unbanned. And that was part of a concerted strategy by Steve Bannon a couple years back, starting a couple years back. They were just like, all right, this is the future of the thing. In the past, we went with gamer forums, and now we're going with the PTA. I remember when that was a story and just be like, man, that seems like that's going to be really bad for the future of the country. And it, here we are, it is bad for the future of the, of the country. When you're in 12th grade, you're working with a list of 22 books that you are allowed to read. Jesus. And it it's yeah i don't know it's just wild to

like you know when the new yorker covered this they interviewed this guy he's like their source and he's going in like he picks up his daughter and she she's in second grade and she's just like i did you hear what happened at school today and you know we had this like read to achieve at school today and you know we had this like read to achieve like program where we were like talking about getting to read these books and like her older brother like they had to like take one the book that he was reading away and he like so he like went in and asked what was happening and they had like papered over the bookshelves to because they're like, well, we can't have these on display because otherwise, you know, somebody could come in like one of these mega PTA people and I get fired and then I don't have health care in this country when it comes to employment like that's what it's it's just really fucking dangerous and i think america has always been a little closer to authoritarianism and totalitarianism than we've been willing to give credit give it credit for but like this

you know like people are going to fall in line quickly because their ability to continue to survive is on the line. There's a Brooklyn library, actually. There's a program called Books Unbanned. And anyone in any state who needs a book that's banned in their library, they'll send you the book. It's kind of an incredible program nationally. They'll send these books nationally. Yeah.

Well, good. nationally they'll send these books nationally yeah well good it really is like the tiny sliver of hope is some version of look maybe the kids aren't reading physical books that much these days like right the teeniest tiniest sliver of hope is like i guess some kind of ebook version of this or or you know i mean with the reproductive health ban it's like you know i i actually don't even know but i know people were like talking about or i don't know the result of how this worked out but it's like you know these days you can order drugs from other places um legally or quasi-legally or illegally but relatively safely to get the health care you need i don't know i mean maybe the internet is our savior uh but obviously it's probably not yeah it's never worked before for

us and the internet yeah but i know that's like the tiny sliver of hope though which is probably not a good one to hang on to yeah i don't know. I mean, my sliver of hope is just that, like, these are extremists who are, like, infiltrating the PTA, and it will continue to alienate, like, the majority of the country the way that we saw with the abortion ban and the midterms, but...

But we also are, like, so far behind, because it's like, now it's like you gotta fucking get a normal person to run for school board or pta and like that's gonna be at minimum a year if not more to like even get someone to run yeah that's that's like the key reason why the wage fights the union fights the health fights, the college debt fights are so important because those are all the things that kind of shackle folks from the time they need and the drive and will they need to go and do civic things like that.

But then whoever's left is someone who's just like fine and can just like dedicate in New York right now. There's people literally at every freaking drag queen story hour. It's the same people who are coming to disrupt it. They just don't have any issues with needing money or paying the rent. They're just there to do this kind of thing. And when we call on regular folks to come out and defend it, there's a lot of great response. But it could be even more if we weren't all so worried about the price of things

you know that that's just so obviously now engineered from from the top yeah anyway shout out to the zeitgang on the discord for bringing this to our attention that this is something that's like impacting you and your life and shout out to jags fan brian on twitter because that was like for whatever reason that really like drove it home to me like oh this isn't like this is not just a political thing happening back and forth between political people this is the this person just wants to be a fan of the jacksonville jaguars, the NFL team in Jacksonville, and is like, are you fucking really?

I have to go into my kid's school and take a video of all the empty bookshelves? I want to talk about Trevor Lawrence and how cool his hair is or whatever the fuck Jaguars fans talk about. Well, it's also like that the other tiny sliver of hope is like i guess radicalizing people that are mostly interested in you know other shit like if the jags is your main thing then it's pretty telling that you went online and did this i mean something's gonna happen like the just the the amount of like industrial accidents and train derailments and all of these consequences of out of control, top down, just profit at the cost of any human safety and comfort like that that is alienating people i just worry that our government and our media

apparatus like the mainstream media apparatus is so completely allergic to socialism that eventually it's just going to be like well i guess fascism then yeah like that's the only thing that is responding to this that we'll get away with covering. That's the only thing that ABC, NBC, CBS, I don't know, seem to at least even be able to see. Everything else feels like it's invisible to them. Any socialist action is just invisible. Any socialist action is just invisible. We lost a rhetorical war to the fucking least articulate human beings on Earth. And there's an argument we deserve what we get.

Yeah. How the fuck did we let them tar the word socialism in this way? And yet they could just straight up be fascist. Yeah. And I feel like they lost sight of it for long enough that like most young people are now like yeah i'm a socialist what the fuck are you talking about of course i am but like it's still there's just an unspoken rule or like something with the political and media like the political body and the media central nervous system that is just like, those words don't make sound in our brain.

They don't, they don't, we don't have what they have, which is like this game of brinksmanship that they have when they pull things to the right, the extreme right, and then fascism seems reasonable. What's our, like, what's left of socialism

that we could use to scare the hell out of them that, you know, other than eating the rich, maybe occasionally we'll throw out, you know, like, what's our thing? What could we, we the hell out of them that you know other than eating the rich maybe occasionally we'll throw out you know like what's our thing what could we we could put out there that could make socialism seem like okay that's that's like the same game they put it really is like like i was i think i can't remember if i tweeted this the other day like not the other day what months and months and months ago but like it was a day that was so it was another day the the idea that like us even just like thinking of our congress like

the fact that i quote safe seat like drives you to be more polar it's like i'm represented by fucking okay but mostly mealy-mouthed adam schiff who has like the safest quote-unquote democratic well i guess there's probably some place in new york but it's like if if he's supposed to be the analog to like a marjorie taylor green he should be out there calling for like privatizing the oil like industry and executing the ceos yes like that is the analog yes but he has to have dinner with those ceos yeah it's not it's not close and they're paying for it and they're paying for his campaign That is the analog. Yes. But he has to have dinner with those CEOs. Yeah. It's not close. And they're paying for it.

And they're paying for his campaign. Yeah. It's like, yeah, so there's no version of this. Like, look, yeah. It's like someone needs to take that position to be negotiated down to a sensible one. Right. We're like, we go, it's like we're going into a car dealership.

Like, here's how much money I have. Yeah. Right. And that's like, that going into a car dealership. Here's how much money I have. Yeah. That's it. I'm not supposed to spend this, but I will. We're bad at negotiating. I think mostly because we like each other and enjoy things and have hope in each other for some reason. I think that maybe gives us this false sense of hope, maybe.

We also don't have a political apparatus like the the republicans are doing the will of the people that they represent and they're like gassing each other up the democrats are just there to pretend to give lip service to what we're doing but they're actually representative of big corporations so it's just yeah it's it's not happening oh we're fucked yeah i don't know something big has to change but it feels like and it does feel like if it's either something big changes and or we get fascism at some point in like the more near-term future that people recognize sooner than you want yeah yeah but i don't know and it is like it's like i don't have the imagination having grown up in america i don't have the imagination for like what it is general like what that looks like yeah it really does need to be like a general fucking strike we're not going to get to a hundred years before another global fascist superpower right no we're literally we're literally not

going to make it yeah yeah to the late 30s come on yeah fuck out of here how long did it take actually it was i guess mussolini was first yeah still what was that early 30s i i was i was thinking from the end i guess from the end we have till 20 20 you know mid 40s okay yeah that would be what i'm just saying not a chance we're not gonna make that we're definitely we're definitely not definitely not going to make a century of not having most of the globe ruled by fascism. All right. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. and we're back and so is barney and that is what we need to be paying attention to right now the redesign was released in the past week and instead of the costume that was basically like a 70 pound sauna death trap i can't of the worst-looking things to be wearing that I can imagine. Like, Big Bird looks hard, but Barney just, I don't know. It looks like it's all made of, like, a really warm foam. Like, there's no looseness to it. There's no bagginess. Extra insulation.

Like there's no looseness to it. There's no bagginess. It's just... Extra insulation. Yeah. From my own experience, having to dress up as the Toys R Us giraffe when I was younger. What?

You what? Yeah, I was... You were Jeffrey? I was Jeffrey. That rules so hard. In Douglas and Queens, I was Jeffrey. Is it super tall?

Yeah. How tall are we talking? It's pretty tall. I couldn't get out of the doors without going forward. Wait, so it was a one-person operation? One-person operation. There was a fan inside that didn't work.

And it was extreme because I switched shifts from someone. So it was summer and I just basically had to put it on while it's like still wet from this person. From the last person. From the last person. It was horrible. And then the kids were really horrible.

And the parents were really horrible. You know, though. Yeah. When it's summer in Queens, what you need is insulation. Yes. Oh, my God. How bad? I mean, I can. Yes. Oh, my God. How bad?

I mean, I can't imagine. Like, I don't even want to. Well, they would like. One thing that was funny was thinking about, like, how the different types of people who would decide where my balls must be. So, like, they would, like, look at where to find my eye. Like, the smart people would try to find my eyes first, then know where to kick me in my balls or try to kick me. There was no way. It was completely steel hard in that encasement. But they tried

and it was just interesting to see what people would come up with, including the adults. Wait, the adults went for your balls too? Oh, yeah. There is something innate in children of a certain age that they're just going for the balls. Yeah, there were some adults that would give their kids pointers on how to go after Jeffrey.

That's mad Queens. Do better. Do better, Queens. So, Douglas and Queens is this area where we're like right on the border of Long Island. Yeah. Hell yeah. So, there's a lot of like, you know. So, you got commuters coming in to kick in the police.

Yeah, you got a lot of some meatheads coming in. And like someone's like, oh, they're beating up Jeffrey. Call the police. And then the parent says to kick in the police. Yeah, you got a lot of some meatheads coming in. Someone's like, oh, they're beating up Jeffrey. Call the police. And then the parent says, I am the police. So technically, I was beaten by a cop, I think, in Toys R Us. Future cop, for sure. Definitely.

All right. So Barney's back. They're going to do a cartoon character animated series. He looks just so wide awake, I guess would be the way I would describe it, not referring to drugs. But yeah, they're going to be releasing Barney movies, YouTube content, toys, plus apparel and accessories for adult fans, which I think means we'll get the original barney on on some t-shirts and shit but i don't know is it's always tough to say like is this something that is happening

is this something they're trying to make happen i feel like seen any indication that they're barney hunger thirst out there i feel like with kids ip it's like always a slam dunk because it's like no offense to any fucking two-year-olds listening to the show right now but like they're not two-year-old they're not very discerning and so it's really just like the only thing is like whatever parents can handle and there's probably enough parents that are like have fond enough memories of Barney. Yeah. Compared to your baseline non-previous IP pitch for children's content, you know,

he's enough of a shape. Yeah. The songs are fine. The songs are catchy. Bangers. Two-year-old bangers. Toddler bangers.

Daniel Kaluuya, we've talked about did come out like i think a couple years back and was just like yeah i am making a barney movie and everyone was like what do you mean by that why why are you doing that and his answer was not satisfying he was like oh well you know well, you know, I love you. You love me. Won't you say you love me too? That's one of the first songs I remember. And what happens when that isn't true? I thought that was really heartbreaking.

It's like, yeah, man, that is fucking dark. Now let's go back to the question of what is this movie about, my friend? What you just described is a child finding out that they are not loved yeah yeah that's that feels like up his alley yeah that really hit me i need a moment i feel like skinnamarink like kind of already did something with this like that so like my ideal version of what it was gonna be i haven't seen skinnamarink but like what i've heard of like the promise of skinnamarink i feel like is what i had in mind for this from him but i don't know i think you know just barney it's just do a sort of barney

versus velociraptors yeah time yeah time. It's time. Drop them in. Yeah. And it's not fluff in there. Because when I first picture that I'm like, oh, the Velociraptors are biting him and there's just like stuffing coming out. But no. No. He's a real ass. Yeah. And it's not just purple all the way down either.

There's flesh in there, friends. Oh, yeah. It's dark. It's dark, but it's ultimately uplifting. Yeah. He's got to be along for the ride. Follows the same plot as Jurassic Park, where Barney comes in and starts snapping necks at the end. With the Velociraptor.

We should have turned him into a chicken. Yeah, yeah. Kids are up for that. That's basically what they did to transformers just like yeah let's just make these toys murderers but you can't have barney on jurassic park because barney boy dinosaur and it's all women and as we know barney is fucking console so like that would be a problem. You know? Nature will find a way especially if Barney's out here.

Half Barney dinosaurs. Especially this new Barney that is clearly on crystal meth. You're going to have a population control problem on that island. It's a perfect sequel. Just like purple otherwise

lifelike rendered velociraptors for the sequel. Yeah. How'd they get there? I mean, they were blue in the Jurassic World one, I think. Blue versus purple. This is great. Yeah. Whoever wins.

Actually, we just kind of hope Barney wins. Yeah. Not Chris Pratt's dinosaur. Chris Pratt's blue, back-the-blue-ass Velociraptor. Yeah. ACAB includes that Velociraptor. ACAB definitely includes Chris Pratt's blue Velociraptor. Hell yeah.

Well, the sandwich chain equivalent of Barney the dinosaur subway is up for sale yes yeah also like made from a fluffy plastic uh plastic synthetic component but you know just the rubberiest sandwiches like i'm still kind of down i'll fuck fuck with a Wonder Bread. It can't be worse than a McDonald's bun. Or, you know, I don't know. No, yeah, it just doesn't wow my senses enough for me to ignore that I'm eating something that barely qualifies as food. Whereas McDonald's just has so much. That's true. It's so good.

It's so good. And like they, whatever chemicals they've that like we're on that Ohio train on the way to be delivered to McDonald's headquarters to like trick my senses into believing that like this was fine dining. Yeah. Subway just like they do have something. Because when you walk by a Subway and smell the bread,

the quote, bread baking, it does trick you into being like, that smells like food. That smells like food that I want to eat. But anyways, not much to say about them except that they may be up for sale. Rough. Yeah. So so if any buyers out there I feel like I got enough

punch I got enough stamps saved up I think I'm good for I think I'm good for at least 80% if I dig in my glove glove compartment I think I can come up with like a good proportion. These subway tokens cannot be redeemable for subways. Majority owner.

So, I just need a little bit of capital. What would be the first thing you change with your new ownership? Oh my god, nothing. Well, I gotta stop giving out those stamps because I don't want to get deposed. You're a hostile takeover. That's right. I'm pulling the ladder up behind me.

Just like Nicky, man. I'm so disappointed in you. That's right. And you would get a bag of Lay's and a stale chocolate chip cookie with your purchase. Sun chips, baby. Yeah. Baked Lay's. I don't know why I did it to myself.

But when I was eating at Subway, I was like, all right, might as well go whole hog and just not enjoy this meal at all and eat baked lays. a lot and it's not like healthy but right more vegetables yeah i think it is like it it just wings off enough of the margin of like this is better it is indisputably better than other fast food for you yeah doesn't mean it's good it doesn't mean it's terrible whatever you would you want but i think that's it i think it's it it like lets people live the lie that they want to live. And that is probably why it's in business. I think I'm mad because I, what like my go-to for like most of my teen years was the meatball sub. And then that was the one that when the information came out about like what, what was unhealthy about subway,

they were like, yo, I don't think we need to tell was unhealthy about subway. They were like, yo, I don't think we need to tell you guys this. And I was like, what? And the other one was the tuna, which that was my miles. Gray loves still rides for the tuna,

which they were like, it's actually not tuna. There's turtle in there. What? Yeah. I don't know, man turtle in there. What? Yeah. I don't know, man. Re-evaluate. I mean, come on. It's a tuna sandwich for like $3.

Of course there's a turtle in there. That's a delicacy in some places. You should be glad you're getting turtle. Come on. Yeah, the turtle's the truffle of the sea. That's right. Yeah, it turtle's the truffle of the sea. That's right. Yeah, it's true.

I never really taste any turtle. All right. Ralph, it's been a pleasure having you on The Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? We have a new New York City radio show on WBAI 99.5 FM. We're also streaming on WBAI.org and on all the socials under Beyond the Pale FM.

And it's not your average show. It's a show of radical left Jews in that perspective. And sometimes people come to me and it makes sense, you know, like that Jewish play was banned or there was, you know, any kind of issue around

like Palestinians and Israelis and stuff like that. It's easy. But then people come to me with really interesting topics and I don't know how to make them Jewish. So it's fun to watch

how I put a square thing in a round hole. But that's where you find me, beyond the pale, FMs on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. There you go. And is there a work of media that you've been enjoying,

tweet or otherwise? Well, there's two. There's one real quick one is at Athena Coalition. We published a Super Bowl ad. We took an ad and we remixed it. So look out for that at Athena for All. Yeah.

On social media. The Scarlett Johansson, Colin, Colin? Yeah, Colin, yeah, Colin Joust or something. Right now we're on the anniversary of New York kicking out Amazon from Queens. And he was one of the people who during Saturday Night Live kind of attacked us for saying that we like parroted the right wing talking points about losing jobs, which was complete bullshit. Did he really?

Yeah. I mean, they're all. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. He's one of those Harvard ass VC funded. Like if there's a if there's a human being who is. He almost married Nicky, for sure. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And then the other one is this Busta Rhymes. I don't have the link or anything, but it's like Trevor Noah bumps into Busta Rhymes somewhere, and it's just beautiful.

And they just go into Busta's verses, and it's just amazing. And people, please find it. It'll heal your soul right amazing Andrew where can people find you and what is some media you've been enjoying podcast is yo is this racist I regrettably

more back on Twitter since the last time we spoke just because I don't know I'm a fucking doofus but it's it is okay because it looks like Elon is edging towards getting rid of blocking people. And that will definitively be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I checked. I have over 40,000 blocks personally done in my head. Oh my God. You've blocked 40,000 people?

Yeah. Let me see what I just posted. Amazing. Congratulations. I will say the changes Elon's made have made it easier to identify people that need to be blocked. So like, any,

any Twitter blue folks, anyone who's like in his mentions given the cry laughing emoji, it's just such an easy instant block. It's unbelievable.

Anyway, so, good job, I guess. So anyway, my media I've been enjoying is a tweet from friend of the show if you want away he does a thing where for black history month he usually makes these lists this month i don't know if he does it every year he's doing cartoon characters

that are in his mind canonically black and i just want to say my enjoyment of this is definitely cancelable so i guess it is what it is but he for for day 14 he said uh day 14 hong kong phooey is canonically black hong kong phooey walks so that dragonfly jones could run and truly i don't know why that actually fixes that racist ass character for me right it's so terrible but that was my absolute gut reaction and i don't know i have to live with myself so yeah i have it worse than everyone else i apologize but it did make me laugh amazing it's media i've been enjoying i finally saw triangle sadness i really enjoyed that enjoyed a tweet from the kid marrow super bowl ads just, just visual DJ Khaled songs.

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oh yeah yeah it is this is this is a track yeah, yeah. I was playing this at the beginning. The whole crew was kind of vibing out to it. So I figured I'd suggest it today. This is a track called Cardi by Troy Boy. It's got like a Latin sort of style at the beginning of it. And then it just goes into this really big bass vibe. It's amazing. It'll definitely boost you up in your day.

So this is Card by troy boy and you can find that song in the footnotes footnotes is it i i also like that wait if miles is playing a song when we like all come on the zoom and like everybody's vibing to it he'll do it that day he'll he'll make that the footnote song but super producer justin's like nah fuck that gonna make you wait yeah which i which, yeah. Which I like. Gotta leave him wanting more, man. That's right. All right.

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