The Daily Zeitgeist - Piss Bottle Nation, Gutfeld = Comedy GOLD 4.7.21

Episode Date: April 7, 2021

In episode 852, Jack and Miles are joined by writer and We Live In A (Film) Society co-host Sharilyn Vera to discuss peeing in bottles at Amazon, Matt Gaetz fighting for revenge porn, a sociologist just now learning about white supremacy, Texas and their packed baseball stadiums, the death of Yahoo Answers, Greg Gutfeld's new late-night show, and more!FOOTNOTES: Our recent response to Representative Pocan Amazon apologizes for lying about pee — and attempts to shift the blame Former lawmaker says Gaetz fought ‘revenge porn’ law: ‘He thought that any picture was his to use as he wanted’ That Time Matt Gaetz Stood Up For Floridians' Sacred Right To Revenge Porn Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds Check Out the Stands as the Texas Rangers Play Their Home Opener in Front of a Packed Stadium RIP Yahoo Answers: It Died As It Lived, Needlessly And Stupidly 29 Strangely Hilarious Yahoo Answer Questions That'll Make You Giggle Greg Gutfeld promises he'll cancel 'cancel culture' in 'subversive' new late-night Fox News show WATCH: Greg Gutfeld gives sneak peak of new show LISTEN: Flying Lotus - kingmidas 'Lost' Remix Instrumental Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We all know something is wrong in our culture, in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can do better. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 179, episode 3 of your daily zeitgeist. A production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it's wednesday april 7th 2021 my name is jack o'brien aka the british coal gas buddy aka my pillow my pillow wherever trump goes he's gotta go my pillow my pillow white supremacy uh That is courtesy of Christy Yamaguchi-Maine Both the nickname and

The My Pillow song And I'm thrilled to be joined as always By my co-host Mr. Miles Gray Y'all been eating long enough now Stop being greedy Just keep it real partner Give to the needy Ribs is touching

So don't make me wait. Fuck around and I'm going to bite you. Snatch the plate. Okay, so that's just a straight up DMX lyric where he's just addressing. We all know that song. You know what I mean? He can get that flow. You know he's with that, yo.

And, you know, that was Christy Yamaguchi made. He's saying, I was going to try and write a DMX, a.k.a. And then I just looked at the lyrics, and it already fits the show. So, yeah, they have been eating long enough now. Stop being Greek. Give to the needy. See? All right.

It also kind of sounds like a Weird Al-like version of a DMX song because it's about food. Ribs is touching, so it'll make you wait. Yeah, I mean, whatever. Hey, whatever. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented Cheryl and Vera! Okay. Oh, hi.

Hi, hi. What's up? Oh, just here. Just got off my motorcycle, as you might have heard. Yeah, you did. Yeah, that was wild. You just, like, pulled into the frame, tire smoking. Yeah. Yeah.

Pulled up in that Suzuki street bike. You know what I mean? Like a Rough Riders video. We loved it. Yeah. That was me in the video. Just doing an endo in a chrome hat, a chrome helmet. There we go.

The atmosphere in some of those early Rough Riders videos were so wild. Like just 40 shirtless dudes like not just like goons like lifting an atv over their head as a workout exactly it was just there's uh if you follow that um photographer mel cole mel d cole um was a brilliant photographer on he was he was at the white plains hospital the other day where dmx is and he was just like sending up stories but of all the rough riders that have just like inundated the street like doing all kinds just took over and playing his music but

yeah it's a whole whole thing Sherilyn we were gonna say what's new but we this is your first time on the show so what what's your life story give it to us right now okay life story seconds or less okay born and raised in orlando florida i currently now live in los angeles california um i like

documentaries i like comedy there is oh that's about five seconds uh there's an airplane flying over my apartment right now so you live underneath a flight path yeah you grew up in orlando and you like documentaries i think we've i figured it out yeah so that's the gist of me uh one of our uh favorite one one of the very faces on the outside lacie mosley oh yeah goddess yeah i have been researching on scam goddess for the past two two years since the inception of the show. And more than that, and also for the lore of the show, you also used to work with Her Majesty, my partner. So, you know, that's very interesting. Yes.

The world is small. You know, the world gets smaller and smaller. It's a little itty bitty place. It's a little itty bitty world. We were just in Orlando in 2019 in the summer for a podcast movement. We unfortunately didn't get to really do much outside of like doing the convention but I was as a local like someone who grew up there what's a thing that you feel that is only in Orlando okay I also like Disney yeah there's this place there's like a theme and This guy, well, he's not

a guy. He's a mouse. It's so crazy. He has like the biggest hands. Yeah. No. Okay. Keep some gloves so you don't have to see what's going on. The fingernails are disgusting. The fingernails. Badly burned. Super COVID conscious.

Okay. Something in Orlando that's only in Orlando. Also something that I realized, like I never had Florida shame until I moved to LA. And I was like, ooh, Florida. And I'm like, yeah, what's wrong with Florida? And, you know, you don't realize it's a crazy place until you leave. But then it's like a bunch of other people who came from other states because they moved to LA. I'm like, oh, where are you from?

Milwaukee? Yeah. Sorry. They're oh, where are you from? Milwaukee? Yeah. Sorry. They're like, where are you from? Like Montana. And you're like, white fish Montana. You're like, where are all the white supremacists from? Have you ever seen someone eat someone else's face?

I don't think so. Yeah, that's true. Was that a Milwaukee reference or a Florida reference? Wasn't that Florida, the zombie bath salts? Yeah, there was somebody bath salts. But then there was also Jeffrey Dahmer who ate a lot of people's faces. Oh, right. Oh, yeah.

Where's he from? Milwaukee. Yeah. Oh, so wow. Damn it. Going head to head with Milwaukee. That's a battle. Orlando versus Milwaukee.

Also a great matchup in the NBA. But more to say, what's a food? Because that's the thing. I love food. And I always like to hear from people from a locality. Oh, yeah. They're like, oh, yeah, yeah. When I go home, I have to have this.

Okay. There's so much Puerto Rico. I'm Puerto Rican. And there's so much good Puerto Rican and just Caribbean food in general. It's very hard to find. I'm on like a hunt for good empanadas out here in LA. I recently found a good like Filipino empanada. That was pretty good.

But I want like an authentic Puerto Rican empanada. What about like, how's the, I know a mofongo place that I go to out here. I'd be curious to get your take on that. Oh yeah. There's like one mofongo place or maybe two yeah in all of la yeah and have you had them have how do they how do they rate i haven't had one of the place i'm so embarrassing i haven't been to mofongos i think that's it's called

right and then there's one food truck just called the rico i think it's the reekins food something like that yeah can I look it up real quick I want to give them I just looked up Mofongo's is the first google result yeah Reekins food yeah yeah the Reekins food and they have they have really really good like what is Mofongo for uh the the listeners who don't know not you Jack you know you got the boricua tattoo on your back you know what i mean of course well for miles then um what was i eating yeah mofongo is fried plantain kind of like mashed together in in this like put like not as not the feeling of a potato i don't know why i said feeling not the same like density of a like a little denser than a potato and it's got like it's formed like a bowl plate thing i'm not doing it justice and then it's got like different meats in it so you can do a mofongo with pork a mofongo

with shrimp a mofongo with just veggies um it's like a mash it's like a mash it's fried so it's like not very healthy but it's so good sticks to your ribs and then sometimes you get it with the stew and then the stew will absorb the the plantain and is delicious oh i love yeah last time i went to florida i there was i just forget how many puerto ricans are there and i was shocked to just see all the different options for food. Also, last time I went to Florida was a shit ton of Puerto Ricans have immigrated to Florida.

So it's evolving. We'll come bring that love out here because we only have two places apparently and one truck is by default the greatest by default. Yeah. That's on there. By default, we're the

greatest because the only. And you can't argue with that. Nobody can argue or we'll fight you. All right, Sherilyn. 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 the things we're talking about. We're going to dive into Piss a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about.

We're going to dive into Piss Bottle Nation. That's what we are as a nation. Yum. We're just going to catch up with the Amazon publicity campaign. They're nailing it as their employees think about unionizing. They are just kind of panicking a little bit yeah yeah uh so we'll talk about that we'll talk about matt gates we'll talk is it gets or gates i never but i don't know it's weird because there was a a triple jumper

at my high school with the last name it's spelled like that and everyone her name was gets but everyone says gates on the news right so whatever uh we'll talk about yeah we don't he doesn't deserve the proper pronunciation yeah we'll talk about something the cdc is calling vaccine theater uh we'll talk about what fueled those capital rioters you're never gonna believe it this sociologist was surprised so i guess we should be too um we'll talk about uh crowds at these major league baseball games we'll say rip to yahoo answers uh we'll talk about greg gutfeld's new show on fox all of that plenty more but first cheryl and we like to ask our guests what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are my search history uh okay so honestly

i ever since i started like a year into working on scam goddess i started using a different web browser and not saving my search history because i was like i'm looking up some sketchy stuff all the time i'm on like all these f like fbi the sketchiest things. So, but I just got a new phone. So I do have my search history on the phone. And I've been looking into Northern Italy, specifically the Piedmont region, because apparently you can buy a house there for like $95,000 US dollars. And it's like a dope house. Like like it's like a call me by your name house you can get like 3200 square feet i don't know if it's square feet or i don't know

you can get a big nice house up it meters 3 000 meters yes and i don't know i'm just kind of curious i really love italy and i'm like i could buy me not right now but at some point if i play my cards right i can be a homeowner in italy yeah whimsical homeowner in you know what i would say is one of the most magical places on earth i would have to agree to this day i long for you know to walk the streets of firenze with a lampre d'otto in my hand uh maybe uh porchetta i don't know but i i long for those days much like many others do what part of what's your favorite here miles has been to italy once i have been once and i will make that and i'm fucked up off of it still. Are you Italian?

The way you said that. I just like to respect. If I can put some effort into a pronunciation, I'm going to do it. Yeah. Appreciate that. I'm not Italian, but I appreciate it. Yeah. And when I say that, people are like, okay, sir, please, here's your sandwich.

Now leave. We speak English also. Actually, it's Firenze. And I'm like, oh, yeah. They're like, boo this man. which now leave we speak english actually it's fierenza and i'm like oh yeah they're like boo this man uh the northern italy is like very mountainous it feels like because it's like right next to switzerland it feels it feels like you're in switzerland yeah it's the alps you got southern france right there i've never been to, well, I've been to like Milan once, but I didn't really get to explore the region.

Miles, are you going to tell her how it's normally said? No, no, no. Milano. After I was thoroughly- Milano. Milano, si. Oh, you've been to Milano. Ah, yes.

My favorite, the Nerorossi, the AC Milan team. I love them. I thought you were going to say your favorite, Pepperidge Farm cookie. Also, no, facts, though, one of my favorites. Those are good. That was like the step up from an Oreo that my mom wouldn't let me because she liked to eat that with her coffee. And so I could never touch those.

She was like, you can't fuck with these. Flassy lady. Yeah, and when she would go out, if she left for a couple of days or something or even for work, I would eat three and then it would be a whole thing. And for whatever reason. How do you stop at three? Because I would. Oh, yo, it would be a problem.

You'd be scared. If there were too many. It was like going into like someone's like weed satchel and they're like, yo, yo, this is a little light. What the fuck happened? Right. It's because it comes like, don't they come in a little pack of three so you eat all three and then it's just like one you got a whole layer disappeared but it's like maybe she won't notice i'm trying to eat around

the edges of a bag full of reese's easter eggs right now without like it being obvious that i that the bag is entirely gone to my kids. Very sad. What is something you think is overrated? Those mirrors that you can see like every stupid little pore on your stupid little face. I don't think that those are necessary. Who made that?

Oh, like the ones like, it's like one mirror on one side and then you could flip it and it's like surprise motherfucker. it's like one mirror on one side and then you could flip it and it's like surprise motherfucker it's like exactly yeah i don't like that shit it makes me it makes me oh my god it i think it encourages another level of self like superficial analysis or yeah i'll try to keep it you know neutral for the moment and then yes from there you can be like why is my pore so big i might i could dunk my milano cookies in my pores if i wanted to exactly yeah my nose is an adventure there's there's a lot going on there that i had no idea and it's yeah and i guess you know it's interesting we don't get to see ourselves that close yeah but maybe it's for a

reason you know yeah yeah that mirror specifically is you know and almost mirrors in general but you know some mirrors are great for decor and like magic tricks and stuff but yes that's the only reason i have mine yeah it's who's it look if you're you know, esthetician or a dermatologist, do we need that much fucking zoom on the mirror? I don't. It can just. I'm good enough just seeing what. Maybe they should have those. Yeah.

If you're doing extractions or whatever, you're doing a facial, then like, yeah, toss on the loop or whatever so you can get in there. But I don't. I damn sure don't need that level of clarity on my own face. Yeah. I don't need that level of clarity on my own face yeah i don't need it yeah um it's it's helpful for contouring i've found right um yeah and i your contour looks great yeah but thank you oh what about the blending by the neck it's just what about the blending miles that's what i just said it does it it defeats the purpose if you're not blending properly jack yeah okay and we're doing a turtleneck seed that's the cheap move because we see it it gets all over your white turtlenecks that's the thing yeah my masks you always know it's my mask like here's jack's mask because he still thinks he's that shade of Fenty that he is not. Yeah. What is something

that you think is underrated? Underrated is... Okay. You already know that I'm into looking at property on Italy. I'm not rich, by the way. That sounds like a rich person thing. I'm just trying

to find a way. Just trying to find a house that isn't $1 million. Yeah. Okay. So, Pimsleur, something i'm just trying to find a way just trying to find a house that is out of l.a million dollars yeah okay so pimsleur have you heard of it the learning it's a language learning thing yeah this is so nerdy but i'm into language learning and a lot of people like duolingo and i like duolingo it's fun i. I love the owl. It's quirky. However, it's just good for vocab. Pimsleur is going to teach you how to say the right things and you'll learn in a better way. And yeah, I feel like they should maybe give you money

because I'm talking about them. What language are you? I mean, officially, I think we've done, I think Babbel in the past. Okay. Which is like definitely a step up from Duolingo because that one just feels like, yeah, it's like I'm on the toilet and I learned how to say the boy is running. And that's not going to help me. But like, yeah, I think it all depends on how robust the program is.

But what are you learning on Pimsleur? I'm learning Italian. Oh. And then i speak spanish but sometimes i don't i don't like i grew up in florida my parents speak spanish and and i grew up speaking spanish first but now i'm like forgetting it and i don't get that much time to practice so i do need to brush up on my spanish. And I don't know, eventually, like I want to learn, I might be going to Japan later this year and I got to pick up some phrases.

I got you, you know, I'll trade. If you teach me Spanish, I'll teach you Japanese. Oh my God, I'm so down. I would love that. So yeah. Italy, Italian overlaps a little bit with Spanish, right? Oh yeah. Are there efficiencies that you're finding as you're trying to learn um yeah so god damn now i can't think of a single word

words are hard words are hard i don't know i don't bother learning any of these fucking languages i'll tell you something about like the accent real quick so like mother and in spanish is madre and mother in italian is also madre but in italian you really like have to pronounce the d so it's like madre instead of when in spanish you're like a little looser you're like mi madre it's almost like a th sound so gotta hit that to hit that. Hit it hard. Got it. Hit the D hard. Hit that D hard. Okay, that was weird. Isn't Pimsleur the one that the State Department used? What was the one that everyone was saying?

Yeah, the government used it. Pimsleur, right? Like CIA. I am people. And I'm like, well, fuck it. I mean, did a pretty good job. Oh, it's like an open source thing that people were using and they were like using the data?

No, it's $15 a month. Yeah. But the method is like you know blessed yeah yeah the blessed method uh all right let's take a quick break and we will be right back to talk about amazon In a galaxy far, far away. No, babe, that's taken. We're in our own world, remember? Right, in our own world.

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wouldn't send somebody even though people were like, there's somebody trespassing. They're like, is it your yard? Are they in your house? Then sorry. They stopped snitching on the prowler. then sorry like the lapd has become an existential threat to like all people who live in la it's a pretty wild story i'm sure that story i'm sure that's the same many police departments but i think in la too i mean it's like a lot of people

fled big cities in general you know yeah when they had the ability to say like oh i'm not tethered i was only tethered to this geography for my job you know when that sort of vanished i think a lot of people got more in touch like you know what i'd rather be able to throw a ball as far as i can and not hit something right i go on like my little daily walks and i realized yesterday I was like I'm like kind of on edge every time I go on a walk like I'm just like looking down making sure I'm not stepping on dog

poo and then I'm like looking around making sure like no one's gonna come at me making sure no one's gonna throw dog poo at me that's why I take nature walk you don't take a nature walk you just have to watch your back yeah yeah coyotes and the like yeah oh yeah all right let's talk about uh speaking of poo uh i want to talk about amazon this has sort of been in the ether for the past

like week and a half but just to sort of officially get up to speed on where we're at in the whole Amazon publicity campaign, trying to defend how they treat their employees, trying to be like unions. Why would you unionize? I don't we people are happy. Look at these people. We paid a tweet on our behalf. People are happy. Look at these people we pay to tweet on our behalf. We've got one tweet that I thought was pretty interesting from them.

Wednesday last week, at Amazon News Twitter account, tweeted the following. So this representative, Mark Pocan, tweeted, Paying workers $15 per hour doesn't make you a progressive workplace when you union bust and make workers urinate in water bottles. And Amazon replied, you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us. The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do and have a great wages and health care from day one. And they eventually had to apologize for that tweet. They said, this was an own goal. We're unhappy about it. And we owe an apology to Representative Pocan. So I really like that they are apologizing to the person that they corrected about it like

creating abusive work conditions for their employees and not apologizing to their employees it's just a very yeah don't admit like it's a slippery slope what are they going to do admit that was true you know what i mean so like the easy they did this weird splitting the difference thing of just being like a say that was a goof but not what part because we're not don't say it where the the goof is that we're exploiting the worker say the goof was that we questioned uh representative pocan and then we're like sorry about that like it's so fucking it's just a weird line they're walking also that tweet sounds like who let amazon tweet that it sounds like a 12 year old tweeted it like you don't actually believe this rumor do you right right terrible defense from a guilty person

you don't really believe that we're locking up uyghurs in concentration camps do you from the satellite imagery really there's a whole like level of attitude that has come along with this amazon like offensive yeah and it's like confidence it's also like sort of it reminds me of a lot of like i don't know big d democrat like type people like how they which makes sense because uh the dude who is in charge of amazon's publicity is the dude from the obama administration uh jay carney i think his name is and it just all it's like got this smugness to it. For some reason, being like, this was an own goal.

We're unhappy about it. And we owe an apology to Representative Pocan. So that means they are just reaming out whoever tweeted that, even though it was probably approved at the highest level, like it had to have been. They probably either fired that one person. Apparently, no matter what level you're at, Amazon is a terrifying place to work. I've heard stories of people who are at the executive level being like, yeah, everybody

cries at least once a day. It's brutal. Everyone is so mean. The expectations are so high. Everyone is like so mean. The expectations are so high. And so the answer, it turns out, is that all of their employees have to pee in bottles. Their apology was like, yeah, some of our drivers, when they're out in the country and can't find a place to use the restroom, they might pee in a bottle. But the others are probably just real creeps you know into real stuff yeah but it turns out that like this is a constant yeah point of like something that they have to monitor all the time is uh drivers having to pee and not having the time to do it and the same with people at fulfillment centers.

There's a quote from Motherboard where they interviewed one of the Amazon employees who said, you're sitting there and you have to take a piss, but you don't want to rack up time off task. So off task, that's how they monitor you, like how much time you're spending on task or off task. And they're basically treating you like a robot. That's who you're competing with. human bodily functions such as going to the bathroom or god forbid resting uh you are deemed off task and they track every second that you spend off task it's like being inside the head

of like just somebody who has crippling anxiety they're creating the the conditions of just being in being wildly unhappy yeah like i mean it's a machine that's built to exploit human beings for every ounce of human energy they have but not considering that they're humans it's like oh yeah these like organisms they'll drive the trucks and throw the boxes and fill the boxes but stuff like p e rest no no no no so what we've done is we've created an algorithm where we can say a driver can if they don't stop at all hit all of these homes and we can still say we will prime we'll get you that shit in 20 seconds and they're and all of these drivers and fulfillment center workers are also saying you have to at the very least begin to build in like the humanity of your

workers into these schedules because you're asking people to perform at a level that is not humane and now leads to relieving yourself in a bottle to then have the attitude of like that's an own goal it's just so insidious on top of it because they're already treating this whole situation as a thing that is like the fucking Kylie Jenner Pepsi commercial. It's not right. It's you're being people are putting the fucking lens on you because of your pattern of exploitation and just obscene profits.

And there seems to be no any any sort of inkling to begin paying back the workers who's off their backs. You're making these massive, massive profits off of. Yeah, they think they can just optimize anything. Right. Right. And so they're like that. That isn't like us dealing with a fundamental flaw in our approach to existing as a company. That is a less than optimal response to this situation.

There was a way we could have responded that would have been better. And we have fired that employee who took the less than optimal approach. And it's just so like at every level, it's just so thoroughly built into the DNA that it just reminds you that there's no version of this where they regulate themselves. It has to come from outside for this to end up as anything other than completely dystopian. So yeah, it's worth keeping an eye on because they are. So one of the reasons they're so freaked out is because this fulfillment center in Alabama is in an area that is typically very right-wing, would not be expected to be very sympathetic to unionizing, and they're making

a lot of progress towards unionizing there. And so they are... Amazon's approach to that is basically the US government's approach to vietnam they're like well if this domino falls then what's next where else are we gonna sell coca-cola right so they're going after bernie sanders they're like uh actually the only difference between you and us is we actually got people paid 15 an hour you didn't it's like you guys have you guys make more money than most countries he is a single politician i can think of like a million different ways that amazon can make this situation slightly better like just giving them a longer break amazon has so much money they could build bathrooms like they can build luxury bathrooms in every corner or like make deals with like coffee shops and i or how about this just

reduce the hours one person has to work and you can create more jobs by hiring more people who work less you know what i mean like if the whole thing is about optimizing like well this person has to be able to do process this many packages in in eight hours then say okay then make that shit in six and a half and whatever you're missing like whatever you need to fill in hire other people but don't don't make it like all right fine you still need the most out of you but this is what that's why i like this union vote is so important because it's going to set at least some like guardrails about what can be expected from a human being in a workday there's um there's this book called good to great that's about like how businesses stay successful like even after they are like change leadership they stay successful in the

marketplace and like one of the like may it's the book is kind of full of shit and it gives these companies credits for doing things that you know are just luck of the draw like one of the companies that they give a lot of credit to is fannie mae like right before the financial crash but they they do have this idea that like so the idea is that like every every company has this one thing that they're better at than any other company in the world and that's how you like you just like find a way to keep doing that and keep uh making money off of that one thing and i really think that am the reason amazon can't fix this is because their one thing is exploiting employees yeah getting the most value out of that is their secret sauce is exploiting and abusing employees like getting

like the the thing about uh the like downtime or whatever time off task like that I think I believe if you like looked at their internal documents, they would say like that is like our DNA. That is the thing that makes us better than other companies. And that's why they would never change it on their own. They would never decide to give people extra time to go to the bathroom because they think, well, the one thing that keeps us like better than ups is that we have this like cameras on our employees and we don't account for humanity in our projections that's the secret yeah it's also wild that i don't know if you guys saw nomadland but like nomadland has these scenes that take place in amazon fulfillment center where it's like very surreal and there's like robots rushing around and it is you know kind of dystopian but like it turns out that is

way too generous a depiction of amazon because they like get time off and there is like camaraderie there like amazon might have paid them for that. Like Top Gun, like the Department of Defense is like, yeah, yeah. You want to use a battleship here? Let's pretend this is what the Air Force looks like. Yeah.

Also, I can't stop thinking about like, what if you're a person with a vagina and you are delivering Amazon packages and you have to take a piss? It's not easy to piss in a bottle. There's also bag pooping that takes place. I might have skipped over that detail. Yeah, you missed that.

I'm familiar with that as a four-year-old. But yeah, we hope, you know, I know the results of the vote are still being like tabulated and could take a little bit longer because a lot were mailed in but you know i think we we wait to see what happens with that vote yeah but the the rules around unionization in america is like they're absurd you can't say anything pro union but you can be like uh so yeah you can unionize if you want to join the mafia and get paid less.

Let's talk about Matt Gaetz. There it is. Yay. Fellow Floridian. Yeah. Oh, my God. So proud. Oh, man.

One of the greats. We talked about last week, just as this scandal was taking all kinds of weird forms and distractions and offshoots and tangents that he was like the sole no vote in an anti revenge porn video. Actually, it was it was one other person who turned out to be his roommate who he shared a condo with, who was also in the state legislature. So two people, but they were buddies when he was in the florida ledge and now we're like kind of hearing why as like some of the people who were the sponsors of the bill are recalling like what the discussions were around like his opposition to this so just for some context there's already stories about how gates has been showing other members of congress nude photos on his phone to them on the house floor at the capitol that's that that's where his depravity it's like everything is uh

the frat house and how he would basically just be like oh like isn't like look at this one oh this is like sick and people like what the fuck is this guy going on about i'm sure other people were like in in the moment and found a time to be like, actually, yeah, I remember when he showed me that it was really disgusting. But the revenge porn thing. So when he was in the Florida legislature, he opposed this bill that was basically saying it's going to, you know, attach punishment, make punitive damages for people who are sharing sexually explicit images of ex lovers. People who are sharing sexually explicit images of ex-lovers. But his sort of rationale was that he believed that the recipients of those images had a right to share them. That's why he was against them.

Wait, the recipients? So the person who saw the image. You sent me this picture. This is mine now. This was art. Oh, the recipient. Yeah. So it's my right now. To do as I please with it because I am now the owner my this was art oh the recipient yeah it's an artwork my right now to do what as i

please with it because i am now the owner of this image um the one of the sponsors of the bill uh rep tom goodson elaborated on that and said quote matt was absolutely against it he thought the picture was his to do with what he wanted he thought that any picture was his to use as he wanted to as an expression of his rights. This is where that rights shit comes up again. It's just so low. Yeah. What's just like this toxic word that's bandied about to just justify your utter lack of consideration for anything under the guise of it's my right.

It's my right to fucking kill someone. It's my right to fucking exploit someone. It's my right to violate somebody right to fucking kill someone it's my right to fucking uh exploit someone it's my right to violate somebody like no it isn't it is not and um unfortunately this is only one of many such stories where gates like whether it's been in the united states congress or in the state legislature of florida where he has been hanging around and showing other men like all the naked women that he hangs out with and then like talking about oh just look at this one like i got and and he'll say uh that other guy who we talked about who got who was the seminal county tax collector whose

investigation is the one that brought the attention on gates is he would say like oh yeah he hooked me up with like these three or whatever so it's just part and parcel of this pattern of behavior where he clearly has no idea what consent or laws or decency are like at every turn. Like we're just getting more and more information about this. Consent is a violation of his rights, though. You have to understand. I mean, are you? That's where that would go on some point he's like well at a certain point you have to understand that like to even get to a like a a certain point of like a physical

interaction there was there would be consent so at that point like that's my right to explore that again he sounds like a teenager like debating like in a shitty debate class. Right. Also, why do legislators have roommates? It's not that expensive to live in Florida. Why are you living with so many dudes? I mean, I get it if... I don't know. I don't get it, actually. You know, they're just a bunch of gross fucking dudes.

It's like a frat house. It's not... You know, it's like, we'll do fucking blow and trade nude photos and play guitar hero. And then we'll go stomp all over people's rights because our daddies are rich enough to buy us by, you know, by our seat in the legislature. Yeah. I just picture Bradley Cooper's character from Wedding Crashers like that is right. Everybody in that household.

Right. Exactly. We're like he's like like he has a private investigator that he calls all the time to deploy to dig up like yeah truly like bradley cooper in wedding crashers um uh cool and also a timely reference uh wedding crashers a new movie that everybody's thinking when did they shake them 2006 they take him? 2006? Shit, he's 15 years old. So fucking old. And doesn't hold up either,

so I'm glad that I'm referencing him. Who'd have thought? I mean, Vince Vaughn, he hasn't held up really well either, has he? Yeah, how about that? Let's talk about kind of a related topic. So this sociologist, Robert Pape, has looked into the 800 people who've been arrested for storming the Capitol on January 6th, and he wanted to find out, like, what was unique about these people. to see uh lingering effects of the 2008 great recession like that sort of new york times washington post narrative that this is like economic anxiety just white uh robert my my

hypothesis going into this it's probably something to do with the great recession from tooth okay save me robert yes but instead he found something very different. Most of the people who took part in the assault came from places, his polling and demographic data showed, that were awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture. I'm so shocked. It's shocking. It is shocking. Everyone saw that from, I don don't know for many years now

before this yeah we knew what was at the underneath all of this it was all middle class to upper middle class whites who are worried that as social changes occur around them they will see a decline in their status in the future this is exactly what they wanted them to think, that giving people of color a little bit of equality is going to make their lives less important. Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, you can't blame them because they have a pretty good example

to see how this country treats people of color. So they're like, oh, I don't want that for myself at all. Is that what's going to happen? Is the thing we're doing to them? Is it going to happen to us now? Like on some level, there's a that's that's registering. And we talked sort of about this even over the summer with all the, you know, people understanding what white supremacy is, that the whole thing is just it tricks you into thinking that you somehow have this superiority that you do not and on some level you begin to come into contact with the reality that you've just been huffing fucking paint this whole time yes and it's and then you

look in your fucking bag filled with metallic spray paint you're like shit this wasn't real the whole time oh fuck but that's why you know and i think that's why it's so convenient for many people to just continue to bury their head in a world where like they don't have to consider these things because the other side of it is to have to really examine some shit and if your whole thing is built on i'm superior to brown black whatever non-white people or whatever the group is, then eventually that is going to, you know, consume you. Yeah. At some level, they recognize they have an unfair advantage, have had an unfair advantage because the things that they're seeing are just people being able to

exist at the same level as them. Like, I don't think they're stupid i think they recognize what is happening they recognize that they are living a lie and that is what terrifies them that's what that's what the white supremacy is is the the threat uh like their knowledge that they that white supremacy is a lie and so like that that's what terrifies them. And seeing that happen around them when it's not when the unfair advantage isn't just hitting other people over the head every day like that terrifies them because they know that they're they've gotten to live a lie. And also like even people of color internalize that, too. And we live a lie to a certain extent of getting this feedback societally that we are less than and internalizing that too and we live a lie to a certain extent of getting this feedback societally

that we are less than and internalizing that and it takes a lot of time to fucking even within yourself to try and decolonize your own fucking mind to realize like you're like oh shit i was fed a steady diet of white supremacist bullshit and even though i'm not white to think that that's not affecting me on some level is an absolute like that's just a total misstep. Like you have to also be aware of what that does to every single person, because that just culturally, foundationally, it's all on built on this stupid house of toothpicks called white supremacy. So stupid. so stupid he said in the shorter term he added the study would appear to connect january 6th not only to the once fringe right-wing theory called the great replacement uh which holds that minorities and immigrants are seeking to take over the country but also to events and

hold on to your seats guys this is going to surprise you but also to events like the far right rally in charlottesville virginia in 2017 that i those two robert pay events please just eat a fucking just a bucket of shit whole bag what the fuck like i mean whatever wait what i'm so confused why is this guy elevated like because you could have asked any person who has a little bit of lived experience with white supremacy or racism and be like oh yeah you know exactly what it is it they're afraid that they are going to become the people that they were oppressing or that that no longer works anymore for them that they can't conveniently cry you know their white tears to a police officer to get someone arrested or killed, and that they will have to just exist with everyone else normally. Times and the Washington Post that the remaining 90% of the rioters, so not the ones who were already members of the Oath Keepers or the Proud Boys, which is about 10% of the people who've

been arrested, but what people have termed the ordinary rioters, are part of a still congealing mass movement on the right that has shown itself willing to put violence as its core i think a lot of people assume that this investigation is like dealing with the problem and i i think that is i think we're gonna see this frequently pop up oh yeah there's an interesting article on wired i was reading that i was just talking about how we have such a misplaced emphasis on uh polarization you know like the technical. What about the polarization that's happening? It's partisan.

And it's really just inequality. It's all that is. And they're like to not actually put the weight of like these social media companies or whatever. We're like, whoops, because, you know, 2016 was sort of like polarization. What do we do here? It's really that they need to be putting their energy into how to fix racial inequality, racial justice, income inequality, because those are the things that are truly at the root of all of this.

Hopefully, we'll begin to pivot to that discussion as well, because there's a lot to really think about that as well, because it's easy for someone who is lacking to look at another group that might be doing well and immediately be like i hate them because the reason they have is because i don't have rather than yeah everybody being supported to eliminate that kind of lack within them and to be able to focus on other things because right now the utter lack that people experience is able to be manipulated in so many different ways that to just focus on like, I don't know, like you hate you love McConnell, but you hate Pelosi. It's no. People are broke. People are not being understand that the foundations of this country and the world were built on slavery. And like, that's how you that's how we started our society. So it's pretty fucking rotten as the foundation. And we just need to start with understanding that and uh move forward i don't want to understand that though and that's my right is where we're at in this evolution i don't want to think about it it makes me sad like why are you so woke you're asking me to think about that

oh here come the woke police because they're gonna make me actually have to address or have a reckoning with even if it's personally with what this country is and is not you shout out to robert pape though yeah i mean like you're being thorough and stuff like that but you know you could ask any person of color they could have they could have saved you some paper yeah i mean but like some of academia is obviously like making the saying the obvious thing out loud and like finding the data to prove it. But it's it's funny the way The New York Times is covering this as a surprising finding. Yeah. Maybe that's just what he needed to be able to process that information.

And maybe a bunch of people learned something. He was. Yeah. He was like, he's one of those people. He was like, I just have to scientifically prove it's racism for me to accept this and then i will okay i guess that's what it is everyone uh all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some bullshit when you think of mexican culture you think of avocado, mariachi, delicious cuisine, and of course, lucha libre. It doesn't get more Mexican than this. Lucha libre is known globally because it is much more than just a sport and much more than just entertainment. Lucha libre is a type of storytelling.

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And don't worry, we promise to avoid any black holes. Most of the time. And we're back. And take me out to the icu uh america's pastime is back baby yeah oh and it's full cap not even no it's full capacity in text at least at globe life field for the rangers opening day the photos 38 thou photos you thought this shit was taken you know uh in 2019 yeah what is this 2018 because like barely like you gotta really squint your eyes like who's got a mask on a lot

of people with some chin masks you got a couple people with masks other people who are like i'm off this shit and you know apparently at the at the field they were saying like no like obviously we're telling fans to wear masks to keep to keep it safe we're not going and obviously we're gonna go they're ignoring the fuck we'll pack 38 000 people in here and some of them will wear masks i don't know some won't but what does it matter governor abbott said it's all g honey so come through to the rangers game right now the state is about 16 17 fully vaccinated and over a quarter have a little just over 25 percent have gotten their first shot. But these are not the kinds of numbers that would make an epidemiologist say play ball because at this point, I don't know what it is.

I think people are just desensitized to the risk as because if they've gotten this far in your mind, you're like, I know if i got if i was gonna get it i probably would have got it so i'm probably good anyway and right also i think just many people have just like even if they acknowledge the pandemic they've just personally prioritized this feeling of getting back to like normal and as look i'll say this it's definitely safer than an indoor arena but when you consider a lot of other ballparks have been operating and not even close to full capacity like 40 or 50 percent this is like it's a little eerie to think about because you we look at countries in europe they've started to reopen and we're starting to see it trend upward again so you know money though we've got sponsors money sponsors but money and also make sure you get these ashes in the seats and also there seems to be a cultural

like a certain cultural milieu where like being the first to reopen is like uh hell yeah that's what i'm talking about brother uh type thing it'd be so shitty to get COVID like after, you know, there's the vaccines available. People are getting vaccinated. Like now would be a horrible. I mean, it's always a horrible time to lose somebody, but it's just. Oh, yeah. How are more likely, you know, catch a baseball game, be asymptomatic, bring it home to your elderly relative who you know only has their first dose and kill them or get them right or has their first dose the day the next day you know

right yeah yeah i started getting a little confident after my first shot i was like okay i might go to like a coffee shop yeah right coffee to go you're like i might eat at this hometown buffet demand that they open yeah i uh when i was on spring break on miami beach uh the other day with my family uh i took my kids on vacation uh for spring break and we i witnessed a thing that made me like really uh feel for any parents of teenage kids where like this teenager was like wearing his mask around his neck and his mom was like what are you doing like stop do you want to kill us and he was just like yeah i do i do i want to kill grandma i want to kill it was just like oh no like entitled teenage white kid like but just like teen shithead i was yeah

okay i'm sorry okay you can go do you want a ps5 well i know the dad the dad was like just stop both of you because the mom was like really taking it there and like you know there were people around it was it was pretty wild it was uh it was like getting a front row seat to a live action familial meltdown on on par with uh force mayor i'm telling you the the youtube clips are gonna be popping when we enter society again motherfuckers don't know how to act and a lot of people are stressed and a lot of you know it's the same thing that's the same phenomenon why so many fights happen to chucky cheese and shit at kids birthday places like oh i didn't know that oh yeah because it's like a combination of like stressed

parents who want to do well for their kids but it's sort of like but also like you might yeah but so like it and like some place have alcohol so tensions like boil over because there's like a ton of group parties on top of it so like the energy can just be weird everyone's anxious especially like if people have weird family situations is another layer of complexity that you're bringing into then if one person errantly bumps into you it's like what now so yeah i've imagined i will see a lot of like couples fights family fights uh i've been telling myself like for the opening reopening of the world i keep like telling myself in my head i'm like it's gonna be okay like you don't have to go anywhere right away don't worry about fomo like just take

your time ease your way and like i am just telling myself that over and over because uh do you think that'll be that'll be a big like you'll be fighting your fear of missing out alongside like re-entry anxiety i mean i'm comfortable like i'm fine in my house right right right but but yeah i think part of me is like i don't want to miss the roaring 20s but also also part of me is like, it's fine. We're safe in here. Sure, sure. Yeah. Don't worry. We eventually have to switch gears at some point,

but yeah. Yeah. All at our own pace. Exactly. That part of my brain, I think, never formed the FOMO part. Like, I think I'm,

like, that's. I got FOGO, fear of going out. FOGO to chow over out. I think that's just called social anxiety. I was like, huh? That's weird. I don't know why I don't have FOMO.

It's like, Oh, because I get nervous and uncomfortable. I'm as, as like outspoken and gregarious and, you know, uh, you know, energetic as I am certain times. I'mious and, you know, uh, you know,

energetic as I am certain times, I'm really not fucking like before the pandemic, there are situations where I don't want to blindly go to just some, like some random get together of people like her, her messy will be like, Oh, so-and-so's birthday. I'm like,

I don't know. Who's that? Like, Oh, I used to work on this project with them. I'm like, well, I know anybody there.

She's like, no, but it'll be fun. And I'm like, shit cut to me in the fucking corner Like hi and being like Do you smoke no alright I'm like nobody smokes here What the fuck It's a bris

I didn't know that We want to say a quick Ado to Yahoo answers. What? One of the greatest to ever do it. Uh, how has Babby forums? Yeah.

Maybe, uh, the best thing that anybody ever found on the internet. Apparently that was found by, uh, at fart on Twitter. Uh, John Hedren.

Wow. For an article that he was writing for something awful, which Katie, uh, Natopolis from uh buzzfeed pointed that out in her article uh in her obit on uh yahoo answers but that's just i feel like we should do more internet sourcing of like people who started memes and like the fact that that was i don't know he should win a peabody for finding that yahoo answers yeah it's vital to our our modern day internet vocabulary yeah wait so does that mean greg is also was greg from that or was that from quora uh i think it might have been but the so all of yahoo is going to be wiped uh all of yahoo answers are going to be wiped. All of Yahoo answers is going to be wiped from the internet. Oh, come on.

Somebody turn it into something quick. Somebody preserve it on Tumblr. The Library of Congress has like every tweet ever. No, you know, no. Am I pregnant? Shout out to the realest one is Yahoo answers. Am I pregnant? Help.

You know, is there a possibility that i'm pegrant yeah there's some there's some great ones you know just looking through i can't see myself on google earth question mark is one of them oh no really they thought it's a there's that Google Earth? Oh, no. Really? There's that? Okay, I like that. I really like what this person thought Google Earth was, and I appreciate them. I like that, too. It's so whimsical. They're like, go outside

anywhere. Okay, I'm going to tell my cousin to go outside right now in France. Yeah. There's just a lot of great ones out there uh but unfortunately we have to move on to uh i think a coming attraction that a lot of people have on their calendar the the late night game is about to fucking change you guys uh fox has entered the game greg gutfeld in fact uh one of the great wits of our time shittiest guy from the five the guy from the five yeah yeah it was they're like you know i hate music what happened uh i like radio head is garbage what are you gonna do i think i think four non-blondes is also trash linda perry is a terrible songwriter okay fool um wait is that really no but that's like how that's where his

takes are he like says something that is so like just like like you're like your take actually indicates you don't know anything about what you're talking about you just decided to go just to be contrarian and then just like dig in but yes he's just a hater he is getting actually in fact his show has already premiered it it premiered monday the greg gutfeld show is going to be i guess his own fucking late night show to go toe-to-toe with like actual fucking late night shows you know the ones that have like fucking writers rooms filled with like talented comedians and shit um and so this is as he's saying uh it's a it's a talk show on a cable news network and it's run by somebody who's not a

typical newscaster i'm not like any of the competing hosts i'm not a comedian who just so you know he's a best-selling author who came to fox in 2007 after a career as a writer and editor including the uk edition of maxim and his uh billboard is awesome it's actually if you know la like on hollywood boulevard that's where jimmy kimmel uh has tapes his show and right there on hollywood boulevard they put up their billboard behind the roosevelt and it says cancel culture just got canceled. Gutfeld weeknights at eight. Gutfeld exclamation point.

It is good that his show title is Gutfeld exclamation point. It's also written in Garfield font for some reason. Right. No, I think that's because that is the most influential comedian in the. I mean, considering how many letters it shares, Garfield and Gutfeld. I think that's because that is the most influential comedian in the Fox or comedy radio. Considering how many letters it shares, Garfield and Gutfeld, maybe it was a very easy decision for a very unimaginative graphic person who unfortunately had to work there. They just took it and just copied and pasted it around. They're like, it's done.

Yeah, it was easy. This person's a genius man they always come through the sickest graphics and like they're fucking dumb um so what kind of racism and vitriol can we expect on the show well i just wanted just looking back at some of the things he talked about in the last month on the five this is what they're saying recent topics have included former president bill clinton participating in a women's empowerment talk and he said like having woody allen direct the teen choice awards uh the quote woke implosion at teen vogue i think that was from the alexi mccammon fallout from her racist tweets he said a magazine and a planet are being run by people with adolescent mentalities and the race-related controversies on the bachelor and the talk in which he said

uh quote one can only move forward if another is canceled it seems wow so i want to play a couple quick clips so those are all just uh like saying the exact same thing like he has one take that he's just yeah yeah it's just to be like oh this person's bad and so what they say is stupid and also like we're not racist guys let's remember that let's all keep saying that we're not racist even though we are because if we said we are that has its own set of consequences that we're not willing to deal with by being chest out racists so when he was promoting the show i'll play two clips this one is when he was promoting the show and comic genius former congressperson trey gowdy from the benghazi hearings has to just get his take you

know as a comedian or non-comedian wants to see like what's the show going to be like so just to get an idea of how he was talking about the show go trey go ahead trey yeah well greg just one serious question the funniest people i know are often introverts and it's much harder to be funny than people think is that true in your own life i mean it's much harder to be funny than people think. Is that true in your own life? I mean, it's hard to be funny all the time. I don't, I, all I do is I just speak what's running through my brain. So oftentimes it's not funny, but it's the whole point of comedy is taking risks. So every time you open your mouth, you're basically jumping off a cliff and you never know where it's going to go. That's why cancel culture is so damaging to people who are comedians, people who go out on stage.

I'm not one of those people. I've never done stand-up. I've always been in. Okay, just shut up. Just shut up. Just shut up, Greg. If anyone out there is slightly smarter than him, just go out there, follow your dreams, because they're letting anyone do whatever they want. And there's a chance that you can get your own show.

But also, please do not look at comedy as just, I'm going to take the filter off and yell shit on stage. And hey, it's like jumping out of a plane. No, saying garbage shit on stage is jumping out of a plane because there are risks involved. But if you're actually a comedian,

you'll make people laugh and it might feel quite comfortable. You may feel good about it at the end. But anyway. So this is, I was just Googling trying to find out what the ratings have been like so far. And I found Fox's Greg Gutfeld show tops Colbert, Fallon,

Kimmel and late night ratings race. But that is from 2020 that is a different show that they tried to launch hosted by Greg Gutfeld so this is that they were like you know what the problem was with the Greg Gutfeld show was the Greg and the show and the

lack of exclamation point so we're gonna give it another shot as Gutfeld screaming fuck alright yeah just be loud yeah so then Monday he had the debut So we're going to give it another shot as Gutfeld. Screaming as fuck. All right. Yeah, just be louder. Yeah. So then Monday, he had the debut. And look, we like comedy here.

We've all worked with very hilarious people and do that for a living. Let's check out our man's opening monologue. Just to get a sense of how he's coming out swinging. All right, here we are again. A brand new show and a brand new Greg. I'm as giddy as Kamala Harris explaining kids in cages. Or Woody Allen hearing about kids in cages. If you've been watching the GG show on Saturdays, welcome.

If you love The Five and felt the need for more Gigi, that's awesome. If you ended up here because you thought your TV was the microwave oven, it's good to see you, Mr. President. Your pizza will be warm in two minutes. And Hunter, he brought the extra cheese. Yeah. Wait, how many people were in the audience? Was there like three? I'm pretty sure that was, who knows? Are they doing a, like, the soup type thing where the studio audience is just the camera guy? No, for that whole thing,

it was just him sitting on his backdrop and the sycophants just giggled off camera. Ha ha! It sounded identical every single time. And you know they had to rehearse the laughter too. Oh yeah. And they're not even jokes. What are these?

Jokes? I mean the Mr. President one was the closest thing to a joke. I'll give them that. Yeah. That's definitely been used. it's because they only they only say the same shit and unfortunately like you need a bit of empathy to to be humorous on some level like you kind of need to be able to be a little bit more open about what it means to be human or like like what a mistake is or understanding irony takes a little bit more self-awareness than some guys like if you want

more gg because yeah who refers to himself by his own initials and the third person yeah yeah do you ever watch really bad comedy and it just makes you sad because you're like wow not only did he find he think that this was good and funny, but like a few people were laughing at this, too. And that means that they all have no empathy as well. That just made me a little sad. I just want to play one. There's like a character bit they did where they brought in like a fake. Hold on.

A fake like, I don't know what this is supposed to be just you sir are a racist racist racist white male racist you're the racist to kimmel is dea holter a crowdsourced version of a hit piece. I don't know. I mean, it's really hard to hear, but my favorite is underneath this one tweet that the Gutfeld show tweeted out. Many of our past guests have just been dunking on it

in the tweet replies. Cody Johnson, great job, great points, very funny and well executed. I also appreciate that this Fox News show wants to stand up to people in the media who are trying to scare us look for looking forward to more uh alex edelman lol this is the worst monologue i've ever seen it's actually kind of sublime greg you hosted a show that had on two comedians a night for 10 years you couldn't hire one of them to write a monologue joke slash teach you how to deliver one yeah it's damn it's just all bad so it's

really bad it was actually worse than i expected honestly i think huckabee is better i expected it to be very bad yeah huckabee is definitely better because huckabee has a very specific voice that it doesn't make sense but it's almost like poetry because it's a character of like a like an old boomer who has no idea what he looks like to the rest of the world and he's just living in a theater of his own mind where he is the star and like the funniest person right so it has this like surreal energy of like absurdist humor to his delivery right gutfeld yeah very surreal because you're inside the mind of somebody who like doesn't know how jokes work but like you start to get a sense of like how they think jokes work and so you're like really it's like a very a much more specific experience

than an asshole like at your college coffee shop who's eventually who's about to get coffee thrown on them look he or even just find his voice he's just searching for his voice yeah he's only had 20 years at fox then you have people who are encouraging him this one user in this tweet said first episode you get a pass get better writers and learn how to actually deliver jokes and you may be on to something i'm curious to see i'm curious to see someone from the rain actually be funny but i think you can do it it's like a half jabby like someone who i think kind of realizes the stakes here it's like we're getting owned in the comedy stuff man it's like someone who like all right man so all right let's you know that that was

you know shooters don't even think about their misses so we're just gonna move right on from that comedy writers would be good uh learning how to deliver a joke would be good we can do it we can do this guys we can do this it's like someone who like really loves like their college team and they know like we just need a new coach man we just need a new coach right we'll be able to bang with the other schools because they're and like you're objective enough to know we're not doing it so we need a new coach but i know we can do it that's how like conservatives feel like when they're trying to cheer on their own comments like yeah yeah bad show bad writing bad performance but you know just keep at it let's go but the idea the idea i don't want to uh is there right so rather than being like so nobody's ever been funny and conservative at the same time

and you are already bad at being a comedian like so you would be uniquely ill-suited to approach that there's like someone's got to do it like it's probably going to be you you're probably going to get to get there sharilyn it has been such a pleasure having you uh on the show where can people find you and follow you thank you i've had a great time uh people can find me on the internet uh sharilyn underscore vera on instagram and on twitter without the underscore there it is hey i got an extra underscore in my uh my instagram nice uh yeah so you know same uh is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying uh yes i found a tweet that i liked by roy wood jr he said you posted that vaccine card now all them vaccinated people you don't really want to hang with are hitting you

up to go out should have kept your mouth closed now you had a socially distanced bowling on wednesday night and uh you know just relatable content relatable content is what we love here uh we recently launched a show with him roy's job fair uh produced by nick stump and it's a it's a winner folks go check it out uh but he's like one of just genuinely non-stop funny human beings uh just genuinely non-stop funny human beings uh miles where can people find you follow you oh you can find me uh on twitter instagram at miles of gray also on the other podcast 420 day fiance um and some tweets that i like uh actually both related to stories we talked about today henno at jr hennessey did a quote tweet that basically said yahoo answers will be shut down forever on may 4th and he tweets the burning of the library of alexandria

and it feels like that and then one more from andrew t at andrew t i uh says conservative comedy is about being principled and that principle is conserving the same, like eight jokes to reuse for decades. And that's what we saw right there. Yep. Couldn't be more true. I want to read a, a little thread. Oh,

riffing from, uh, this person who, so it starts with a, it's basically lyrics from the song. I'm a bitch, uh, mixed with movie posters. Um, so it's basically lyrics from the song i'm a bitch uh mixed with movie posters um so it's i'm a bitch i'm a lover robin williams disney's flubber and so you responded to that with

i'm a sinner i'm a saint what's eating gilbert grape uh and then I'm your hell. I'm your dream. I'm Hubie Halloween. And they use the actual posters for it. And it's great. The first one is Chauncey Sugar Sweets. The second is Brad Carter. And the third is Taryn Ariana.

Great tweets. Shout out to Year of the Ant MFC Erickson, for forwarding that one to me. 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. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as a song that we think you should go check out right now miles what's the song that you think people should go check out the song to ride out on today just just just more remixery but actually not remixery more stuff they can only find on soundcloud because i was just thinking the other day about uh concerts and going back and live music and there's a song that

flying lotus used to always play like or not always like if you saw him live around 2009 2010 there was this track called king midas that he would play in his sets and i found it on soundcloud and i was just i had so many just like sweaty festival flashbacks um and it made gave me great joy and look and if y'all aren't really ground up on flying lotus get into it uh so this is called king midas lost remix instrumental and it will be in the footnotes you can only get on soundcloud uh all right well go listen to that. The Daily Zeitgeist, the production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That's going to do it for this morning.

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