The Daily Zeitgeist - One Last Fraud, Vasectomania! 10.24.22

Episode Date: October 24, 2022

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 260, episode one of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness, and my windows are open, and I just realized that means that the scream that my wife has to plan her day around, can't be having, you doing telemedicine in the in the house when i do the scream or like has to you know go to a closet and surround herself with coats well that just

happened to my whole neighborhood so we'll see how that goes maybe what we have to do is just make it a German German yeah maybe i don't know yeah i think it helps me energetically remember when i tried to like step back from it and then I was like the walking dead for a whole episode? You lost. Lost my whole mojo. Anyways, it's Monday, October 24th, 2022, which of course means we are a week. Celebrating. Sorry?

A week away from Halloween. Oh, yeah. That too. That too. That too. Yeah. It's also National Bologna Day. World Meningitis Day. World

Tripe Day. United Nations Day. National Food Day. Shout out Tripe. You know, shout out Awful. I feel like Bologna and Tripe Day are kind of redundant because if Bologna isn't assholes, then I don't know what's

what anymore. My name's not Jack O'Brien. I guess tripe is an asshole. It's intestines, right? Yeah. You just got to clean it good. Once it's cleaned well, it tastes great. I mean, it still tastes a little gnarly, but I fuck with it and the right Koreans too.

I will. Yeah, you got to have it in the right context. I'm telling you, it's delicious. Well, anyways, my name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Look at this photograph was probably taken by miles's dad wish i had some mc hammer pants to cover my milky thighs when i dance that is courtesy of fighter of the night man little nickelback photograph appreciate

people you know targeting my favorite song for AKs. Yeah. Yeah. Just one of the greats. Absolutely. Should be immediately added to the American Songbook, along with This Land is Your Land. Oh, shit.

Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Yes, Miles Gray. Just getting back into town from an East Coast trip. Thank you so much for having me in a place that had fall. I just want to say I might have been in D.C.,

but I am firmly in the valley. So thank you. But it's also just a trip again for, you know, coming from like the desert drought hellscape that's L.A. where fall is more like oh look at the leaves turning you're like no that tree's dead to like actually seeing like the fall

colors yeah pretty beautiful not a lie yeah that's it there there are so many leaves it's wild on the east coast anywhere that's not la what do you do with all the fucking leaves i'm sorry i'm showing my fucking like ignorance as somebody who like lives in a forever one note place but i saw these leaves i was like yo what the fuck y'all doing these leaves just leave them up put them in a pile and jump in them it's a whole thing it's a whole tradition of fall but then people are saying well you know you're not going to be using your yard because it's getting cold so it's not going to keep your yard in check but i don't know if that was like a lazy take from somebody who's just sort of like and they're this biodegradable trash yeah yeah i mean not everybody rakes them up sometimes you just have a thing of dark damp leaves yeah everywhere

you go it gets slippery too so watch out oh hell yeah very slippery well anyways miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a hilarious and brilliant stand-up comedian, writer, actor, improviser, and biomedical engineer. You can catch her on stages across the country. Please welcome one of the funniest humans anywhere doing it. It's Paula Vegan-Olin! Hey! What up? What up, what up? How are you?

I feel like they should have, like, you know, like they should have like you know like they should have a fall leaf exchange program you know what i mean send their leaves to less fortunate miles across the country it's like a play in them like yeah you're like i've always dreamed of this wait where'd you grow up polyv I grew up in Utah that's all four seasons baby okay yeah so what's what do you do with the lead is there a thing to leaving them or like you wait till they all fall and then you like now rake them shits up because they all now they've all fallen down are you are you asking if it all falls down like well not like the not like the problematic artist of our time um no we just you know you rake them as you go it depends

on like how many trees you have it It depends on the type of tree. You got to make some deciduous decisions. Look at that. Spoken like somebody who has been around the seasons. I know trees. I know words for trees. That's crazy. What's good? How have you been? I've been good. I was in India over the summer.

And then, sorry if there's noise, there's roof work happening. They've been working on my roof for, I think, since all of the time I've been here. So, like, those people might just live up there. I have idea um they're like we're almost done almost done yeah yeah they're just like you know the um the work work work that music video where it's just like uh who i forget who it is but they're just like they're using like a wrench on like a on like one of those big like jack not jackhammers but like one of those big like pipes cranes or whatever yeah they're just like hitting nothing i feel like they're doing that they're shooting a music video up there non-stop right right yeah yeah so i was in india over the summer and then i was just in

new york i got back yesterday oh shit okay just like working and living life you know and when you say work and like you were performatively using big tool like big wrenches. Yeah. Yeah. I'm performatively using big tools. That's how I would describe most comedy. Yeah. Well, if you're in our king and savior carrot tops form of comedy, then yeah.

I mean, yeah. Big tools. Big tools. All right. Well, Pallavi, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners just a couple of the things we might be talking about today. We will check into the midterms. We will check in on the delivery robots that we've been promised for so long.

I have encountered a few of them on the street. They are unimpressive, wildly unimpressive. So we'll talk about that, how the future might not look completely the way we all feared a couple of years ago when Amazon was like, there's going to be drones just flying through the air like mosquitoes. I don't know why I'm pronouncing things weird today, but we'll go with mosquitoes. And then we might even get into vasectomy mania. Vasectomy mania. Yeah.

It's a big professional wrestling event coming up. Okay. I'm listening. But before we get to any of that, P you would like to ask our guest what is something from your search history the last thing i looked up was famous people from lubbock because i because i was born there and my uber driver was like jamie foxx from there and we found out he was from torrell texas which is six and a half hours away. But you know who was from Lubbock? Buddy Holly. Buddy Holly was from

Lubbock. Oh, okay. Soon to be you on there, you think? You'll be on that name of notable... Yeah. What do you call someone from Lubbock? A Lubbockian? That's got to be it. A Lubbocker? That has to be. There's no other choice. It's got to be a Lubbockian. And if it's not, Lubbock,

get at us. We have some notes for you. We's got to be Lubbockian. If it's not, Lubbock, get at us. We have some notes for you. We got to keep it Lubbock. Let's keep it Lubbock over here. I hate myself. Oh, Lubbockite. Lubbockite? That's like boring. Lubbockian sounds fun.

It's like swashbuckler-y. You know what I mean? Yeah. How long were you in lubbock before you i was my parents lived there for a long time but i was three and a half almost four when we moved to utah got you got you yeah but we we go back we have like family and family friends there you know okay okay so still still something you visit yeah yeah and you have you have family there like i have a similar

relationship to philadelphia where like my whole family's from there but i didn't like really i don't have any like formative memories there but i think just through osmosis i get a lot of yeah i have that i do have like some of my first memories there so i do have like that a little bit but yeah some of it's like just going back and hanging out you know yeah what is your first okay i hate to just kind of go there with it like a stone's thought but do you can you actually think back to what your first memory is yeah so my first not moving memory just like an image my parents i think this is what it is from my parents' stories, but it's like me alone and I'm seeing like a wall of like fluorescent flashing lights. And I think it's from when my dad and my uncle

like changed my diaper at the mall and they both left me because they thought I was going with the other one. And then I got lost in the mall when I was two years old. Damn. Some lady. You went on a big baby genius adventure, I'm sure. It was like night at the museum, but at the mall. No, some lady, on a big baby genius uh adventure it was like night at the museum but at the mall right no some lady my mom was like oh yeah some some lady like white lady like found you

and she saw that we looked the same because we had like similar like noses and they saw like whatever and i was like are you just saying that lady was racist mom and that's how that's how i was saved by a race by racism that's wild my i think it's so funny that my one of the most vivid first memories i have is being lost in central park my dad was with me and then he turned around but i just took off like at three or something oh my god and on my memory is of is of me just crying in Central Park and like a cop comes up to me. And I was like, don't fucking touch me, bro. Three.

Yeah, three. I was I was with the shit. No, I think I was like, hey, like, what's going on? I was like, I don't know where my dad is. And at the time, this is the first time they said, what does he look like? I had no concept of race. So I was like, oh, and I pointed at another black dude i was like he's like him and they're like all right we got a black man and they brought a guy first another black

dude lost his kid the guy was like no this ain't my son the guy was like i'm not taking this kid home yeah and then my dad came he was like oh shit he's like yo i thought how many men are wandering around malls and parks losing their children i don't know i don't know but it's i think it makes sense that that's like my first like real yeah because you were scared right yeah for sure i was like i don't have any fear associated with it i was just like window shopping you know right right you're like walking yeah it's like the beginning of saturday night fever yeah i this is why i'm a huge advocate for kid leashes i'm totally for it i'm like hell yeah dude put them on a leash you know and a choke collar too to make sure that

they stop pulling on that shit little muzzle so they stop eating everything yeah yeah stop eating that i just gotta say though i mean it racism and the nypPD were the heroes of those two first memory stories. It was a different time, man. But that's what they want you to think, okay? That was copaganda. I think that, yeah. Our vital memories were copaganda. You know what?

All this reminiscing has reminded me of a little song that goes, Look at this photograph. Oh, my God. It was probably taken by miles's dad yeah probably like this is my son have you seen him he's in the photograph i'm actually a good dad for real well my first memory is just boring but it's wheeling west virginia and i just went back to the home where i had my first memory over the summer and it was cool what is something you think is overrated okay i just started

becoming vegan right and unfortunately it's working like i feel much better but i'm like i'm bad at it so i am hungry a lot but i am like oh like humans were not meant to eat dairy so i think dairy is overrated like every race is like my race is lactose intolerant because of this and it's like we're all lactose intolerant none of us were meant to do this to ourselves it's so true i think like the germans are the only people who aren't lactose intolerant and everyone else yeah like my wife is lactose intolerant being married to her made me realize oh yeah i is lactose intolerant. Being married to her made me realize, oh, yeah, I'm lactose intolerant. I just had no concept of my body. So I was just like, man, that was gnarly in there. Yeah.

We just think that we're meant to be in physical pain when we're eating. And it's like, no. What are we doing? Yeah. I don't know how I got. I don't have that. I have like whatever the opposite is and my body's like yeah you like that here's some endorphins from cheese like keep going because i definitely

don't like like you said it's so funny like any ethnic group would be like yeah you know a lot of asian people don't eat dairy or like a lot of black people don't eat dairy or whatever i'm just over here like i got the other half of it you got the recessive i don't know what it is but it's true like when i don't eat meat that's the biggest thing i noticed from not having to digest my body having to break down meat is like it's almost like i had an energy drink when i don't have to digest weird yeah it's just like oh you're not bogged down from this biological process my favorite part of this is that i was like every race can't you know eat dairy and then jack was like actually the germans are the superior race that is what i said yeah one moment foul line well everyone except the germans

they got everything i just want to shout out my german accent because i did not know how that would go thank you you kind of nailed it he just got a jump you know he just got a jump yeah we had a guest yesterday was covering up his german accent so yeah what is something you think is underrated the block button oh I love blocking a bitch. Let's do it. I block people and then fully forgotten they existed. I like was so mad. And then I was like block. And then like a year later, I'm like, oh, I had used to have whole interactions with that person.

And now my life is better without them. You know, it's great. But what if they're talking shit about you and literally one person is paying attention? Yeah, that's always my fear. And it's probably stupid. I find people who have me blocked all the time on Twitter. And I'm like, oh, I wonder why they have me blocked. And then I'm like, good for them for keeping boundaries. You know what I mean? Like, I'm kind of proud of them. I'm like, live your best life without me in it. You know? Yeah yeah when someone blocks you the only thing they're missing is you complimenting them on their boundaries and yeah mental health practices

yeah yeah yeah wow so you go block over mute i'll do mute if i feel like it will cause more drama to block you know what i mean in like the friend group or the industry or whatever but if i can just block if they're like a shitty dude or if i think they're racist or i just like sometimes i preemptively block because i know that there are people who like harass women online and i'm like i don't even want my tweet to get in their sphere you know what i mean right right right i'll be like oh preemptive block on this bitch and then i can just like live in peace you know we weren't meant to interact with everyone we were meant to like you know know like the six people in our office and then just say hello to strangers on the street without knowing anything about their lives or their porn likes you know what i mean

like we weren't we weren't meant to know this much about people right we're just getting back to the old days with a good block yeah just got it late it's it's it's it's a great great way to keep yourself uh you know healthy yeah you gotta block the dairy and block the people that's what you gotta do block bad vibes block lactose yeah the mute button hasn't failed me yet i i guess like the the down the downside with the mute button is lack of satisfaction like it doesn't feel satisfying you're not being like blocked yeah yeah but also they might still think you're hearing what they're saying like so it's just it's more of a dishonest way to block someone i guess but they can and they can also like see your stuff if i don't want them saying

any of my shit got it well it's just a complete severance of yeah any either direction of communication yeah got it how is uh tiktok with all the with all the blockage? I don't know anything about TikTok. Twitter is my main thing. That's the thing. I use it in a way. It's like nobody even knows I'm here. It's like YouTube for me. You just go in there and leave no trace.

Like a real creep. Go in there, leave my mouth just agape for about 45 minutes straight or until the friendly person's like hey hey hey been scrolling for a while maybe stop and i'm like shut the fuck up and keep giving me my dance instruction videos that's why they like instituted the hey man like this isn't good yeah they're like even we know this is bad because it usually takes like facebook you need to like you know threaten to just take them off the fucking stock market to get them to do anything that will like slightly diminish their user engagement so it's interesting i guess maybe it's just like tiktok came of age when facebook was being such an asshole i wonder if it's like reverse psychology and

they're actually getting longer views because of it right you know what i mean i wonder if people are like fuck you i know oh right or like the person who's just like hey you've been scrolling for a while they make it look like someone that could potentially be your parent so you have like this instinct to be like fuck you dad they actually like get our actual parents and we're like how do they do that? They're begging us. They're like, no, please, son. I've been calling you for three weeks. You haven't answered. You're just scrolling, man. I miss you.

This is the only way to connect. I know recently they announced that on Instagram and stuff, they've really talked about how much the nudging, or they say that they've been nudging users before they comment or DM somebody like a creator account for the first time. Hey, asshole, just so you know, it's people that you're talking to.

Yeah. And they say that they found like somewhat of a success rate with people like being like, oh, right. That's good. That's good. That is good. It feels like they. We're like suspicious. Well, yeah, I am suspicious.

So this came up. They came up with this in the Facebook lab. That's weird. They did something good. Right. Huh. And I feel like they're doing that at the moment where somebody's about to post something just horrifying. So they're letting the person be more and more radicalized and like watch long Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan.

Yeah. Just don't comment comedy jams. And then like once the person's ready to, you know, show how just how poisoned their, their brain has become. They're like, Hey,

I think the world's ready for a status report on what I got kicking around up here. And then they go to post and Facebook's like, Hey, just so you know, be cool to be cool to people who are part of the joe rogan jordan peterson comedy jam yes i want them to bring back def jam but just with those guys oh god you get to watch jordan peterson cry about non-specific things he's the closer too

yeah yeah with a close-up I've got Jordan Peterson coming out. He will sob openly for 45 minutes. Why is he so sad if he's living his best life? According to him? I don't know. It's a great question. Yeah. It's just,

it's all too much. Seems to be the general. It's classic. Yeah. Just the classic. I'm actually everything. I I'm living the antithesis of what I'm saying out loud. Right.

Everything is so great he's like why do the women look sexy to me and like whatever the fuck is like daily rant is didn't his daughter try and kill him oh my god there was like a whole bunch of things but you know what she was like dating andrew tater or whatever so very alpha of her to try to kill her father no what was she no was she didn't she like have an affair with andrew tate or whatever so very alpha of her to try to kill her father no what was she no was she didn't she like have an affair with andrew tate oh that's real i have no idea just i don't know if it's real i don't know if it's real but i know that they at least like spoke their pictures of them together there's like rumors that they had an affair but i don't know i don't think there

was like attempted first degree homicide i think that she was like doing something weird with like giving him like strange medical treatments that were not anyways. Our listeners. Wow. Yeah. He was dating her. I don't know if they're still, but yeah,

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Yeah. Freaky, freaky times ahead. Yeah. Bad, bad country we live in. But yeah, they're going to be very consequential this year, as they will be probably for the next hundred years until something unfucks. for the next hundred years until something unfucks all the white supremacy, Christofascist, homophobic election denier damage that has been done over the past eight years, basically. I'm sorry, but I just thought of a horror movie of like all these people running for Congress, but it's like something follows, but it's like something unfucks.

Something unfucks. Something unfucks. Something unfucks. Unfucks. But yeah, I mean, again, like you're saying, it's on the right, you got all these real wacky characters running for office,

to put it very lightly. And the Republicans are going all in on all their manufactured freakouts. You got the fentanyl killing your kids with their candy boxes. You know, I saw this on the I turned on I tried to turn on the Sixers game for like five minutes yesterday. And the local news was on whatever channel. And they had the fentanyl like that popped up, like turned on the TV. And they were give it they were warning me about fentanyl coming in and candy boxes. And they did the thing where they're like, it's not,

they're not giving out the fentanyl in candy boxes. And then so, and the interview subject one Alex Villanueva, LA sheriff nightmare, go listen to a tradition of violence. Yeah. Google LASD gangs. go listen to Tradition of Violence. Yeah, Google LASD gangs. Yes. So he was like, yeah, they're probably not giving out Skittles packages full of fentanyl. But then they quickly turned in there like,

what about parents who are worried about this? He's like, bring your candy to the sheriff's department. We'll check it for you. And it's like, so, okay. So you're telling people that they need to bring their trick-or-t then they also told a story about like they bring the candy and he just shoots it or they pass out they're like yeah this happened all over it right right and then they also talked about like so something that is horrifying that happens all the time is like drug addicted parents leave drugs around and their kids get

into it get into the drugs and like have to be saved by narcan and taken away jack they were smuggling fentanyl in a box of whoppers which by that logic means they are trying to sell that as candy to a child to get them hooked off 7 000 fent fentanyl pills. If there's one thing children know, it's what candy looks like. And the fact that it was in a Whopper's box. Kids ain't fucking with Whoppers. Yeah. Kids aren't fucking with Whoppers and they also know that it's not little rainbow-colored pills.

Right. Also, Whoppers, not vegan, that's the most dangerous part of it, okay? There it is. Not the fentanyl. Yeah. Are Starbursts vegan? I don't know the most dangerous part of it. Okay. There it is. Not the fentanyl. Yeah. Are starbursts vegan? I don't know, but I know like sour patch kids are.

Because you need that little bit of gelatin or whatever in it. No, they don't have that. The sour patch kids are the Swedish fish. Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah. Good to know. See, look, we're learning every day.

And Oreos, vegan. Yeah. Let them know. Which scares me a little bit. Hey, come on now. Let's look. We have to embrace our chemicals. We have to embrace our chemicals

yeah exactly wherever we can get them but yeah the fentanyl thing there's no fucking like that was a a dea agent quote that just went to the stratospheres of like panic media then you then or else republicans are saying there's a massive crime wave we need law and order despite a total lack of evidence there we've talked about how the gaps in crime reporting data aren't indicating anything like that. And then you also have the fear of like, well, they're the drag queen groomers, despite having candidates themselves that are masturbating 200 or 200 feet from a preschool. doing a lot to really make things seem very very freaky that's their platform meanwhile the democrats have the 8d 8d chess brain strategy of again just describing the republicans and hoping that works i think the like the whole the nationwide feed into like that crime narrative is really like advantageous locally in specific like races right like for example like mandela barnes was doing like pretty well against ron johnson in wisconsin and then they like just hit him over and over

again with ads about how he's like soft on crime and like these criminals are going to be out in the streets because of like the work he did as a lieutenant governor to like make sure the parole board met even you know what i mean like basic human rights were met so i think like it all they're like they know exactly what they're churning out and it feeds into their narrative at every single level with like actual like i was thinking about it and i was like i wouldn't fall for this crime ad against mandela barnes or whatever but the average person like if you see i mean advertising works it's what our world is run on right so if you see it enough times it's of course gonna like

imprint on you it's very dangerous a very dangerous narrative well i mean it plays right into you know most like ingratiated white supremacist thinking that most people have just passively from existing in American culture. You could just raise the specter of like, you know, creepy criminals and Mandela Barnes, a black man, he sides with them. And that's enough to be like, oh God, oh shit. Right. Right. All my, like my real ability to think and critical thinking skills have gone out the window. But you know, like in the patterns of midterms, history indicates that the president's party is usually one taking the L's. But for just due to the utter depravity of the Dobbs decision, it's made a lot of these races competitive. And right now, all of like the polling and analysis, you know, around voter enthusiasm is at a level that's comparable to 2018 when having Trump in office meant a lot of people were coming out. I don't

think there's no need to like I don't think we need to talk about the actual percentages because, you know, we've who the fuck knows with polling. But when it comes to like actual real life outcomes, the one thing you can say fairly confident is that when people are enthusiastic and are telling people like I'm going to vote, there's typically some uptick in the voting. Now, who's voting? Who's more motivated? TBD. But for example, in Georgia, their early voted starting last week and the turnout is twice of what it was for 2018 midterms. Oh, wow. They had 70,000 ballots in 2018. They had over 143,000 in 2022. It actually is even outpacing the presidential election by about 7,000 ballots.

Okay, Stacey. Okay, Ms. Abrams. Now, who knows? You never know. You never know which way it can go. But again, I think Republicans clearly know that they have to do everything in their power to fuck people over to try and prevent them from voting

because voter suppression bullshit is like at an all-time high we've there's like a report in arizona of someone saying like they were being filmed when they dropped their ballot off at like a drop box in maricopa county and someone was taping them being like what are you a mule like accusing them of being like a ballot mule and saying like you're stealing the election and then like following them around jesus christ yeah you know the stuff they see on tv this is like i'm sorry i was just at the airport yesterday and i saw through tsa it was like there were all these signs that were like verbal abuse will not stand

like verbal and physical yeah they have to put that everywhere they have to because like right now everybody's just like off in public places. We're in a bad place as a country. We're in the bad place. Mentally bad place right now. So yeah, I do feel for anybody on the front lines of customer service. That's got to be fucking brutal. And air travel too.

People travel for a myriad of reasons. It's not like you're the gre you're the greeter on like the disney cruise or something you know it's like some people like yeah my fucking i'm dealing with this dark shit i gotta go here or whatever anyway i do want to point out that you know while there's all this talk of like making sure people get out the vote and stuff like that there's a lot of energy going into the poll watcher fucking business right now on the right. Right now, General Mike QAnon Flynn has a group that is actively recruiting military vets, police and other emergency workers to be fucking poll watchers. And it's funded by him, his brother and Mr. Swedish meatballs himself. Patrick Byrne, the former ceo of overstock.com if you remember or don't there is some testimony from the january 6 commission where we found out that there was like this meeting at the

white house where this guy patrick burn somehow got into the white house and as he was just housing housing as it was described housing swedish meatballs they gotta stop making these dudes so relatable okay right i know i'm like fuck man were they tell me they were from ikea yeah if they were then let him go yeah let him go you know i'm sorry he's with the definition of like acting like you've not been there before you just like get around the food that they have in the white house you're just like just beeline for the buffet you can't oh my god these are better than i know that 100 feels like he's definitely been there before and do you ever go to like a really like

like incredible place like that and you're just like i only care about the buffet yeah yeah no total yeah just privilege but he probably never was there yeah just shows you a quick hack he's like go straight for the meatballs man when you're here they're the best always go straight for the meatballs but this group again they're going like they're they're trying to recruit people who they say we're not there to intimidate we just want to help people who feel uneasy about voter fraud and other malarkey that they can feel safe that these fucking intimidating dudes are standing around at the fucking polling places this former green i'll just read a quote from travis wilson uh former green ber former green

beret turned supplement company owner yes said quote this is just an opportunity for those guys to continue the mission in protecting the integrity of our constitution one thing i want to bring up you know what this fucking group calls themselves? They're called one more mission. Wow. Okay. Like the fucking cliche action movie plot about dudes that have nothing to fucking live for and are going to bet their lives for some uncertain outcome.

Yeah. You know, like that ends when you're like, when you're the main character okay that works out okay and i guess they're all the main character in their own narratives what they don't realize is they're actually the henchmen and in those one more missions the henchmen never do so well so no and yeah or like a gang of them die you know what i mean yeah yeah or sometimes they all die in the one more mission one anyway you know you know, check out space. Cowboys who don't like POC.

They really interact with us a lot. You don't have to do this. You don't have to be there. You could be at home. You could learn knitting. You could do anything else with your time. That would be less harmful to society. You know what I mean?

Yeah. I want to show, I want to show you guys like one of the fucking recruiting videos for this group because it i i'm just gonna play it for you it's fucking why it's out of fucking control that this is again they're like we're not looking for people that are like aggressive or like militant or anything we just want to help people feel safe this is one of the recruiting videos for one more mission. More than 1,600 cases of dead people casting a ballot in 2020. Just news clips right now.

The majority of those were people who voted absentee. It says, beat the cheat. And it's all this like news clips before. Now we have wartime footage. It says, America call to arms. America's call to arms. Iwo Jima flag raising. It says America call to arms. America's called arms. Iwo Jima flag raising. It says your country needs you.

Listen to this fucking music. Meanwhile, party watchers are observing the election to report any irregularities. It goes on. What the fuck is this? What? It says once again, your country needs you this shit goes it's it's like a fucking like do you know like when they gave lsd to housewives in the 50s that's what that felt that felt like that yes exactly yeah like bad trip music videos like that that that's that is yeah here's a

jingoistic fever dream to feast your eyes upon and then be like hey you want to just protect voter integrity so yeah it's uh you know more enthusiasm i can only imagine there'd be equal amounts of attempts they literally are just like their message for all these people is like no matter what the task that they want them to complete they're like you're going to war you're like fighting for the country and it's like they're literally just like at a polling place right yeah yeah they're not like a school or like a church you know what i mean like they're just at a community center like geared up to fight they so desperately want for their their as they would say for the situation to become kinetic so like you're oh you're having armed people at a like voting place

just looking for any excuse to you could just fuck people up it's do a tough mutter dude like calm down yeah that's right like this is what what they have instead of like Tough Mudder. Get that energy out. Yeah, bro. You need like a good run. But I mean, yeah, for all there's so much. I mean, at a minimum, if you're if you plan on voting, make sure you're still on these the rolls.

Yeah. Depending on your state, there could be any number of ways that they're trying to disqualify your vote or make sure you know about early voting and how to do that i'm sure we will probably talk about that this next week because it seems to be very useful information this time of year yeah they're also taking advantage of the fact that they're allowed to like that they all probably look like those dudes who walked into a state house building with like ars and you know assault weapons and were just like kindly ushered out you know like that right they're they're generally treated with much much more forgiveness when they show up somewhere they're not supposed to be with a gun than when a person

of color shows up anywhere without a gun so yeah yeah or to even vote yeah so yeah uh check your eye out on one more mission it doesn't based on like what they're saying it sounds like they only started like a like a few weeks ago so it seems like a kind of last like it doesn't seem like a very organized thing but again you give a bunch of fucking weird people a terrible reason to get together and fucking of fucking weird people a terrible reason to get together and fucking it's like if you give a mouse a cookie but it's like if you give a neck beard an ar-15 yeah yeah then he'll probably ask to control democracy in the whole yeah you know not these things are never well organized though if you think about the the robbery in the town That was a one last job deal. Wait, what was that?

The town, the movie, The Town, where they're like, we're robbing the cathedral, Fenway Park. Fenway Park. Nobody calls it the cathedral in Boston, but all right. Or, you know, Unforgiven or Space Cowboys or The Mule.

All Clint Eastwood. What's with Clint Eastwood? He's always one. He's Mr. One More Job. Yeah. Also, so Fast and Furious films, as you pointed out, all one last job. Pretty much all some version of like, that's behind me, man. Yeah.

But we need you this one last time. All right. For the eighth time. And then you end up in a Mazda driving up to a satellite in space. Exactly. All right. That actually just got me excited for the next Fast and the Furious movie. Take a Mazda straight to space.

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And we're back. And we wanted to check in briefly with delivery robots. Because as we all know, they are the future of, oh wait, they actually suck. It turns out. Oh. Delivery robots, not suck. It turns out. Oh. Delivery robots, not very good at their job. Oh. So in 2019, FedEx announced that they were testing a fancy new delivery robot called

Roxo, which is aggressive, that could traverse urban landscapes on the road or on sidewalks and even climb stairs right up to your front door. They have a neat little five-wheel apparatus under it. It looks like one of those gasoline canisters. Or like a propane tank or something. Yeah. Yeah, at which point it would presumably just deliver your package and not become self-aware and murder you.

But they apparently were designed to autonomously navigate around cars and pedestrians using cameras and what they call lidar sensors yeah just like just action ranging right just an editorial note when naming a sensor that is supposed to be able to prevent us from getting run over by an autonomous robot or like, you know, crashing our car or, you know, steering to avoid one of these things and like crashing into a playground or whatever the fuck. Like, don't take the well-known and trusted sensory technology of radar and just replace the first syllable with lie. I feel like that's... Scientists not quite known for their branding ability yeah they're like sorry we're just reach out quite literally describing what it does yes how about fibdar yeah we'll call it a bullshit detector i don't know what's best but so we just learned though so this was all back in 2019 when we just had autonomous robotic delivery devices in our eyes and, you know, hope in our hearts. Recently, FedEx has reportedly announced they're stopping development on Rock. So to focus on nearer term opportunities. Oh, shit. Which. So that's a nice way of being like,

yo, that shit is fuck, that's trash, man. We're not going to be able to figure this out for a while. Yeah. That came less than a month after Amazon announced that Scout, their delivery robot, that could, judging from the promo photo, deliver mysterious packages to toddlers in public parks.

That appears to be what's happening. Like if you look at it, this one looks more like a cooler that you like a a cooler you could wheel on the beach like it has like six wheels but it would drive right up to your kid and open its contents to him according to this picture that sounds like a threat i know it's like that well that's what happens if you startle the the scout uh it has to make itself big to uh you know let you know that it means business well so amazon recently announced operation on scout is not shutting down exactly but as amazon claimed they are pivoting and reimagining which involves all of the team members disbanding and being assigned new roles within the company.

Okay. I was trying to find this video, but I can't find it of my dog, like freaking out about one of those security robots near Kaiser. You know what I mean? Like the one I was going to talk about, because that's the one that is like, they seem to really be pushing hard on that on

that yeah my dog was like what the fuck is this and was like trying to fight it play fight it it was just like the robot was like inner like moving and then stopping and i was like are you guys like what is happening here wait what do those ones look like definitely like the siren on top i'd say they're about 5'2". That sounds way more precise. They could be, like, 4' tall, but they're tall. They're kind of like R2-D2 shaped, like a little bit 2B at the top, and then they go down like a portable air conditioner sort of thing.

And they have lights, and they beep a little bit. And how do they provide security exactly? I have no idea. I feel like they probably have like a camera or something. But I literally saw one of them right next to an actual security guard. And the security guard just looked pissed that this new kid was taking his job. You know what I mean? So is that what it's for?

I thought it was for delivering things between the pharmacies. It says security on it. Wow. Okay. And I don't see any capability for delivery. I don't know. It just seemed like it was kind of patrolling when I saw it. Yeah.

Every time I've seen it. It does have a very uncanny, unsettling security on patrol. And also unsettling because it is the slowest thing i've ever seen move it is so slow but then it like the way it starts and stops is really weird do you remember like in uh black was it black mirror where they had the robot dogs was that uh no that was reality i think i think that was boston scientific no but there was one where there were like robot dogs and they were like chasing forever and like trying to kill somebody oh yeah metalhead oh okay okay yeah i was like i was like we're not there yet but i don't like how slow this one's moving because like yeah it makes me feel like it doesn't need to move slow

which means that it has like more nefarious weapons right it's it reminds me of like friday the 13th like the scariest thing about jason to me was always that he always walked so slowly. Yeah. Like you could run away from him and he was just taking his time. And it was like, well, that's weird. Why are you so confident? Yeah. So confident.

I'm from hell. Yeah. I'm from hell. Same with Jason or Michael Myers become so much less scary if you picture them like break into a jog. Yeah. Like, OK, hey, man, don't don't wear yourself out. Just untie your shoes. Like Jason would be like 80 years old now.

Yeah, he would definitely pull a muscle. Yeah. Yeah. But it's just I don't know know it feels like we're not there yet and people they're not they're not paying off on the promise of like these motherfuckers be zipping around town you don't they're like they don't need any supervision i've seen there's like on i feel like i had uh like melrose and fuckingland, I regularly see one of these robots taking so damn long to cross the fucking street. To the point where sometimes you see people helping the shit.

Yeah, I know. I literally was going to be like, if you see a robot that needs help crossing the street. Yeah, find a police officer and start trying to find their father. Find a police officer and say that, yeah, that robot is talking about Black Lives Matter and then just see what happens to the robot then. It's like wild because, I mean, you could see people now, it's like, I raised you better than to not help that robot cross the street. I expect so much more out of you.

But I don't know, like most things that are automated, right, these things are not actually, like, they're not actually automated. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess what they, the level of technology has gotten to the point where you don't need a person who is watching them at all time. You can have a person who is watching two of them at all times basically trying to you know catching catching if if they get caught like not being able to cross the street or like one one of the food delivery

bots got caught up at a like yellow caution tape crime scene in in la unfortunately they just didn't know how to deal with that and just walked right into the crime scene and fucked everything up for the police. Yeah. That's like that robot was like ACAB. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm kidding. It's probably robot privilege where they're like, the cops have always been nice to me.

So, yeah, you know, I've never heard of any problems here. My cousin is a cop. You know, there's probably all sorts of robotic technologies that are working my cousin is that kaiser robot my cousin is robocop but yeah it's like one in the uk a food delivery thing like just wandered into the streets and caused somebody to like have to do an emergency stop. It's a mess. And like there is, anytime you see one of those and you're like, wow, they're really just sending

that thing out there. It's actually somebody controlling it and doing the work, which is good because you want people to have jobs. It's bad because the end game here is just finding more and more efficient ways

to make it so that one corporation can suck all the profits directly up to you know the board or you know the shareholders and not pay anybody along the way which has been more and more what our what we've used technology for in the western world is just more and more the technology is used to take humans out so you don't have to pay them and we're yeah we're it's gonna go in a bad direction yeah i feel like automation is fine as long as you invest in the communities like around it like as long as you invest in the changing like landscape of employment you know what i mean and provide the skill sets that allow people to like you know expand their knowledge to be able to like do those things

to control the robots or to provide like infrastructure for them but it just seems like people just want robots to play with right now right the amazing thing is that the big problem that these delivery bots is running into is that cities have major infrastructure problems that make it impossible to be a pedestrian so yeah they're like inaccessible for people with wheelchairs i bet you they're gonna like because amazon will be like we need a ramp here they're gonna do it you know what i mean for the robots and for like amazon or whatever the fuck all these these companies. Rather than the people who live in the fucking cities.

But this is how you have to provide a walkable city that people can navigate from wheelchair because they need to make it more navigable for the delivery bot. Robots

are like, I love the Grove. Right. So flat. Also, not as many unhoused people. Vote Caruso if you want it to look like this. Beep boop boop. I mean, beep boop boop boop. Karen Bass, too woke.

What? Yeah, robots start complaining about woke culture. Yeah. Honestly, this city really went to crap like what but i think i do want to add though right because probably to your point about like automation works if you are actually considering what the effects are going to be to the people who are previously doing the work because if you read any like internal research document that circulates around the companies that fucking use this shit they are it's like a fucking the for the profit

horny like this is a wet dream to talk about these robots like there's one that says according to analysis quote sidewalk robots could deliver food orders as little as six cents per mile 20 times less than the cost of human delivery if every household in the u.s were to use robot delivery for groceries today's average of 1.6 trips per week per household would translate into a four billion dollar market opportunity moreover the cost and convenience could encourage customers to order groceries in smaller batches at higher frequency like that's what it all like that's what they're all it's not about like and then that money whatever they're like nah motherfucker this is four bills on the table they also said they go

on to say this says that additional use cases for robot delivery that will extend past groceries dominoes would create a 500 million dollar opportunity for example if robots were to deliver its pizzas because of all the money saved. Oh, because they don't need benefits. They don't need gas. They don't need dignity. Yeah. They need like oil care, right?

They need like health care for their nuts and bolts, right? Yeah. Yeah. Health care. They have health care costs. But health care is provided by Jiffy Lube, which is significantly cheaper than. I like that they're electric motors.

The Tin Man dreamt this for his generations after. I am my ancestor's wildest dreams and it's Tin Man. Who knows? We got to find his early poetry and see what it looks like to get in his head yeah but roxo definitely has a heart so that's that's something that the tin man couldn't compete with i i know earlier in the in the like in this article i think it was you or jam was talking about like what like what happened in pneumatic tubes and shit yeah i was flying around i always think about that because when i was a kid, I always wanted to have a tube and then I could change like Batman or whatever.

Pneumatic tubes are so dope. Yeah. So dope. Like that. Yeah. That's yeah. When I thought that the Kaiser things were delivering. And I think like that might be part of it because they do seem to be like sometimes just roving around the whole Kaiser campus.

Like Kaiser's our big health care provider in california like just going on errands from one building to another like that that used to be like our dreams of pneumatic tubes like the you know just a world where every every house had a pneumatic tube and you just like dropped something in there and it was just instantly whisked away like that was even that was what the future was supposed to look like yeah apartment buildings should have like trash and laundry shoots you know what i mean like what are we doing come on shoot technology let's get on it more shoots less robots yeah yeah and i got it. It's like almost, I wonder if there's a study that said like, if you improved people's ability to travel very easily, not using cars, how much that would generate business for you

too. Right. You know what I mean? Like if we lived in spaces that were easier to be, to walk around, to bike around or like to have public transit, how much better it is for the car. It's like almost like, no, let's fucking put all of that money or emphasis on the fucking robots

rather than... How about you could also make it easier for customers to get to you, too, if you want to be super thinking about your bottom line and shit, because, yeah, it's always funny that we're solving the weird problem and not the simple ones. Yeah, these robots, but the roads are fucked. What if you provided a place where people just like liked to be because

their kids could walk around and like not feel like they were going to get run over by a car or a autonomous delivery bot like what right and you know that and then businesses were there and people just wanted to like hang out there and take these golf courses i'm sorry we don't have the technology available for that and in fact uh i'm double booked right now so i'm i need to leave this zoom meeting yeah get the fuck out of my face there is that does not make any sense for real well from something that doesn't make any sense let's move on to something that makes sense of vasectomy mania sweeping america or is it i mean in in it's definitely more than we've ever seen for sure like the uh you guys are watching it watching vasectomies we're watching vasectomy right now okay okay it's uh oh okay the nutcracker just checked in so that's actually a thing that like the

even the provisectomy things like there's like the nutcracker mobile that provides like portable or mobile vasectomies but it's like nutcracker really makes it sound like much more violent and uncomfortable than it needs to be. I feel like dudes have to masculinize it. You know what I mean? Because it's so tied to identity. So they're like, yeah, I got my nuts crushed, bro. Fuck yeah, dude.

What you doing later? Well, you know, like, I don't really want Linda to like have to take like hormonal birth control or or anything like that i just think like probably the most equitable solution here is get my fucking balls rocked brad like pull i'm sorry is that what they do actually nah nah they're just like they're just like sealing tubes and shit actually where like sperm goes it's not actually easily reversible and it's not that bad but i mean we knew that from the office because Michael Scott, snip, snap, snip, snap, obviously. Snip, snap. But yeah, I mean, it's not like a nationally coordinated marketing campaign, but there's like fun stuff. That's the latest TikTok trend is just dudes getting vasectomy.

It truly is. Yeah. Wow. I mean, there's a hot dog restaurant which offers free milkshakes with proof of vasectomy that truly is yeah wow i mean there's a hot dog restaurant which offers free milkshakes with proof of vasectomy there's a doctor with the uh the nutcracker as mentioned his mobile clinic but yeah some dudes are like live streaming their vasectomies on social media yeah and there's some weird etsy stuff like vasectomies prevent abortions and like that that's a t-shirt that was kind of going viral this summer because abortions people were losing the right to their own reproductive health care

oh shit yeah you weren't here this summer oh no i'm like uh who was i'm like jared leto coming back from a desert trip being like what's the pandemic what's roe v wade got to do with it right but this is very necessary because as of 2021 just three percent of women under the age of 30 in the u.s rely on a partner's vasectomy as a contraceptive and there's a lot of like bullshit claims that vasectomies cause psychological stress and possess a risk that vasectomized men could be cuckolded that are whoa for free are you kidding yo hold on now normally i get i gotta pay top dollar to get cucked right you're saying i can be a responsible partner and get cucked for okay okay wow they're like no that's not what we mean sir oh that is so funny that they that's like

the whole blue balls thing they're like it's a real issue right can you believe it it's like i don't know anything about like a woman's body but like you gotta believe that if i get horny like it'll be bad for me it hurts i i like yeah i have a couple friends who got vasectomies i and it's okay bragging they got their shit rocked okay it was fucking sick but it is interesting how much like i went from being like yo a vasectomy and then someone's like yeah man it's like it's real quick and it's like i just i was like slightly uncomfortable for a little bit. And I was like, oh, oh, okay. Oh, okay. That's good to know.

Yeah. And then you watch like the TikTok video. Like the dude is kind of uncomfortable, but not nearly the discomfort you would have from, you know, the chaos of an unwanted pregnancy or just, you know, generally not being a considerate partner. But yeah, I was like, oh yeah. Okay. That helps. People who are live streaming it. I don't know't i don't know

if they're playing it up to be like to get sympathy or whatever but they're like oh they're cracking them it's also interesting like the culture around it like there's a doctor in florida who has billboards everywhere and refers to himself as florida's vasectomy king like he's like a real estate broker or something the vasectomy king but He's like a real estate broker or something. The vasectomy king. But his billboards are so omnipresent that people put it. There's one where it's like low cost, no cost, vasectomy. And then right under it, someone put up a rum billboard that was like,

ouch, looks like you could use wicked dolphin rum. And the dolphin's grabbing its balls or like presumably yeah i don't know how i missed that oh i'm always so funny i love the idea of like an ad on a bench like a real estate ad but like it's just like censored by the bench right well palavi as always truly a pleasure having you back on the daily zeitgeist where can people find you follow you all that good stuff um palavi ganalan p-a-l-l-a-v-i-g-u-n-a-l-a-n on twitter on instagram on facebook you guys i realized i started a podcast that's like kind of like similar to this in that it's called city

council but it's spelled c-o-u-n-s-e-l like getting a council or or whatever but uh it's uh I release it every Wednesday and it's a comedy politics podcast and we talk about we have like a trivia game at the top and then we talk about some headlines and it's focused more on like local issues local politics but yeah I was like oh my god there's overlap here um so i've been doing that i've been i have my patreon so i can help pay for my labor over here but yeah that's where you can find me and i'm doing shows all over la again so nice i'm back baby and is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying yes and if there's any way you can play this hold on i have to share this okay so matt lieb on twitter i don't know do you guys know matt lieb yeah he's never heard of us he's

yeah we love matt he's really funny i love his videos he put up this video there's it's a two-parter because it's so long and i think the second half is funnier than the first half i mean it's all great but it's a taylor swift song redone to be about the sopranos i don't know if you guys could play a clip it's like the opening of the soprano I can see you staring, honey. Creeping on the firemen buddies. Treating everyone in this town like a fool. Oh, Johnny Cakes. That's the Johnny Cakes story. I can feel you waking, Vito.

Like a fat Dago, Wap Guido. Hungry for much more than some gabagool. It goes on for several minutes, and the last part becomes really meta, where he brings in a female voice, and she's like, who's this song for? It just gets dumber and dumber,

and it's so funny. And I love Matt Leib's videos. He's really good. His joke songs are fantastic. Amazing. Yeah. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Matt Leib's videos. He's really good. His joke songs are fantastic. Amazing. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram

at Miles of Gray. You can also find Jack and I on our other podcast, Miles and Jack Got Mad Boosties. We're talking about basketball because the NBA season has started. Wow, what a treat. Our teams are a collective 0-4. I need to talk to you guys about this random thing,

but I need recommendations from you guys on basketball documentaries because I don't know shit about basketball, but I always watch documentaries that come out because it's the only thing that hypes me up in my life. I'm like, oh, let's fucking go when I watch any basketball. I don't know

i don't pay attention to shit you know what i mean like okay yeah we'll give you some before you go but i watched redeem team recently and now i was gonna say that's the new one there's another i literally as soon as a new doc comes out i'm like oh i got a a lot time to watch this and it's like the weirdest thing about about my personality but i'm like i love that i need new basketball documentary you're like we're getting that chip man we're getting that chip fuck yeah what okay and also find me and sophie alexandra on a 420 day fiance uh let's see man there's been so many fucking good tweets first up i do want to shout out our

guest paula vegan allen i don't remember what it is but i can almost i can recite the tweet because i think you said i don't want to make this a haunted house i'm trying oh no this it is me proposing this is from at paula vegan on me proposing i'm trying to turn this haunted house into a haunted home uh which just felt right. Love that, love that. Let's see, there are so many. Okay, this one is also really good. This was, this is from Ben Phillips, at BenPhillips76. It says, German TV news on what is happening

in British politics is amazing. No need to understand German, just watch to the end. And here is this German news broadcast talking about what is happening in the UK. Woraufhin dann der stellvertretende Fraktionschef des Parlaments mit den Worten verließ,

I'm fucking furious and I don't fucking care anymore. What? How did that happen? I don't know. I don't know, but I love it. Next up, at Ernie Lies tweeted,

Beetlejuice is a horror movie about what if you knew a guy who wouldn't stop doing bits yeah that was fine and then finally uh drew burrs at buddy underscore ferrara uh tweeted i don't know if this is a pic from like lord of the rings show or something but it just says my house plant watching me pour water in my bong and it's like clearly this like dude who's like decomposing that's from that's from house of dragons that's like oh it's a house of dragons okay yeah there it is like at the end of his life like dying oh man things don't go well for him huh oh hey all good i in my first thing was like, damn, my plants. Fuck. Alright.

A tweet I've been enjoying is the Beetlejuice one. And also, NoPaparazzi tweeted, Nathan Fielder is Borat for people who are lactose intolerant. Oh, God. So everyone except the Germans, basically. Except for us Germans.

For non-Germans. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.

Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy today? This track, i think this is like a french house pop group uh it's called miel de montagne uh i think that means honey from the mountain i don't know i know miel is honey and i think that what they're talking about is mountain anyway i think this track is hard oh no that's what we say that's what a ballet dancers say before we go on stage we say mirrored because we can't we can't say break a leg oh interesting well shit here we go and this is called let tutto and it's like really playful track it felt like it felt like i like i don't know why this is a very vivid image but like i found a home video and i popped it in it was like

some french family's vacation. I'm like, oh, this is whimsical. That's the energy of this track. It's got a good upbeat feeling with the French lyrics I don't understand. Could be talking about some fucked up shit, but it feels cool. So this is Le Tuto. Check it out. Do they just break into American swear words in the middle of it?

Yeah, they're like, I'm fucking furious. I'm fucking furious. I'm not going to take it anymore. Alright, well, the Daily Zeitgeist is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is going to do it for us this morning.

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