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Episode Date: August 31, 2022

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 252 episode 3 of the production of iheart radio this is a podcast where we take a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it's wednesday august 31st 2022 miles what does it mean what does it all mean miles jack you know it's the last day of august which means we only celebrate one thing it's actually there's so much first it's national diatomaceous earth day if you've ever had problems like fleas or bugs uh you've maybe bought this to remedy uh like a pest problem diatomaceous earth uh also national eat outside day national matchmaker day national south carolina day

national trail mix so the first two kind of go together. A lot of these go together. Trail Mix, usually outside. Something to keep the fleas and ticks away. Dude, the Palmetto State, obviously. When I think South Carolina, I think Trail Mix also. That's another association. Might not be the right one, but I have it.

Well, my name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Yo Jack Horseman. Wow. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Weird-ass Christians thought their time had come But they don't know that they're the only ones to say No game Where they going, what they looking for If Jesus saw y'all, he would say

No more with you He's through Cause you picked fascism. What's your price for rights? Even Christ like this ain't right. Just please fuck off tonight. All right. That was me in the shower this morning.

I was just thinking of Sister Christian and I turned into weird ass christians and there we go and aka for you deep political bro exactly man jesus would be like what the fuck is this really well miles we are thrilled speaking of political we are thrilled to be joined by the hosts of one of the funniest uh podcasts it's not very political not called true romance but the act of listening and recording it is a political statement in many ways um it's my favorite actually we are women we are women which means that our bodies are political property thank you our bodies are political battlegrounds there it is And we are actually the first women to have a podcast. I didn't see that on my Wikipedia book. Also, just a great place to get recaps of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.

Even if you don't watch those shows, I do feel like I'm watching it with you guys when you recap the show. Thank you. It's not like a Bachelor podcast, though. There's plenty of other good shit please welcome the hilarious and talented carolina barlow and devin leary thank you so much for having us on you guys it's so great to have you like we needed that ego boost and isn't it crazy that women weren't allowed to have podcasts until or ego boosts or ego boosts until very recently it was actually 20 uh 20 that was the i was trying

to think about when our podcast started and you guys are gonna go now now that you got the ego boost you said you were just gonna you're out we jumped We put our names in. Put it in my pocket. And we really wanted to just, yeah, get that information out there because a lot of people think that, you know, women have had podcasts forever. No, not true. Not true. Those are all men. And Devin said when I, you know, pitched her the idea of True Romance, she said, do you think they'll let women have a podcast? And I said, I guess we'll find out. We're women. Women can't have podcasts. Women can't have podcasts. What are you thinking? She said, do you think they'll let women have a podcast? And I said, I guess we'll find out. You're not alone.

We're women. Women can't have podcasts. Women can't have podcasts. What are you thinking? All we can do is shop. That is so true. We were shopping at the time. Okay, this is all making more sense for me now. We were getting our nails, hairs done, and shopping at the same time.

We were getting our hairs done, and we were thinking with our damn noggins for the first time. We were getting our hairs done and we were thinking with our damn noggins for the first time in our goddamn lives. This is great. This is an amazing origin story that will no doubt be made into a film one day. Yes. It's actually Nicole Kidman's

attached. Nicole Kidman's attached to play me. I think me because you know what she has a deviated septum and so do i okay so you guys have both lied about that great great great great great no no it's honest no no no no well it's like well while you're at it i guess we can do some stuff since i do have that deviated septum when dev Devon got her nose job, she told her dad to tell people she was in a car accident. I didn't. Yes, you did. These are lies.

I'm open about the plastic surgery. I'm not like a Kardashian. I know everybody's asking. Everybody's wondering how she looks so perfect all the time. Guess what? That was actually my first question on this talk. You did say it was contouring. I said it's makeup. No, it's not makeup.

But it also wasn't a car accident. didn't you tell your dad to tell his assistant that it was a car accident at one point i told him to say some sort of accident i didn't first of all and second of all the septum was deviated even before then oh i just don't want you to appropriate my culture. That's all I ask. What? You have a TV? My car accident culture. You think you've been through something? You've been sick. You've had

an illness. Don't get even Devin started on her acid reflux because we don't have the time. We'll turn it into a fundraiser. Alright, I'm crossing off the first two questions because my first was, how does she look so perfect? Second was, talk about your acid reflux. So we're, okay.

We've got those knocked out. We're going to get to know you guys 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 get a little update from the Minneapolis Police Department. We're going to get a little update. Not as defuncted as you think yeah turns out we're gonna get an update from the magazine

we are gonna get an update on inflation a lot of updates a lot of updates folks all that plenty more but first devin carolina we like to ask our guests yeah what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are well i think last time i was on the podcast or maybe the first time i was on this podcast i did say that i google ivanka regularly googled her this morning i hate her i think she's the bane of my existence she represents to me the how is she still the Bane, though? Like, what's she doing now? I just want to see her comeuppance. I want to see her and Jared arrested in jail. She also had a deviated septum. She had a serious...

Actually, I've heard from a source, aka a makeup artist, she can't breathe through her nose because she's had so many nose jobs. Oh, wow. Oh. She has a completely different head than when I went to college with her. Than when you guys used head than when i went to college with her and then

when you guys went to college with her yeah we we saw each other for a little bit it was nothing serious right but it was more of a situation ship i think is what you said oh my god that's what the kids were calling it but a totally different head like everything yeah it's very strange she really went through it um she will be in court one day saying they took out her frontal cortex and that's why she made the decisions she did my search history so ivanka's always in there but i also i did the other day want to check in on the bachelor in paradise couples because i saw that joe and serena had an engagement party i'm really happy for them i do think they're in love and so i just want to check in on a few others to make sure they were okay. Wait, Grocery Store Joe?

Grocery Store Joe and Serena. Wow. And Serena was the one from Canada, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, they stuck together? They stuck together. They're living together. They are getting married. They had an engagement party and did a post about the color scheme

for it. And that was news that I read. And then I i said let's check them on some other ones becca proposed to tommy thomas um who was a villain oh really he sucked i just think he's a con artist and um also i hate when women are like i'm proposing to him it's an act of something like i'm like no you just want to get married. You're undercutting yourself by tying it to marriage. You know what I mean? Right.

It's brave and feminism. Devin, what is something from your search history? Okay, what I pulled for you guys out of all the options is a search for Demi Lovato's hair in 2012. Carolina, you just fully scratched your speaker on your computer and deafened all of us. Oh, I'm sorry.

That was definitely a passive-aggressive. Devin just wants to get out from surgery. Right during my turn to speak, Devin just wants pointy ears, and she's going to say it's because I injured them. He's like, oh no,, I had to get healthier. I had a terrible accident hearing.

OK, because of because I wasn't going to go here, but I will sometimes when we have actual. Sometimes when we have actual guests on our podcast, Zoom, Carolina will try to pretend like she's playing it, paying attention, but she'll start typing and she doesn't realize that we can hear it and so she's just loudly typing in a deafening tone as well and she's like that sounds interesting and it couldn't be more obvious history that's happening right now the revisionist history is hurting my soul i once when a podcast was over we were on a great bachelorette podcast the podcast had ended the interview had ended i was responding to a text on my computer. Okay, I'm thinking of a more recent time. And I think you actually lied and said that it was a work email.

But you just blew your cover. Wow. You know what? This is better than a J-6 conversation in here. You're such a bitch. I'm so mad at you. Our guests are listening right now thinking that I shit all over them. Yeah, I do.

I don't think they are. Yeah, I do. If they were famous, they're probably listening. I know. Yeah. We have the most famous listenership. Michelle Obama, please turn off your headphones. It was famously when Michelle Obama came on True Romance.

Meghan Markle also followed her. We're trying to arrange times at work on her end. You're texting back and forth you like you buy what megan's saying we compete with one another to have the famous the most famous uh listener base so this is cool this is like we're you know bearing the hatchet a little bit because there is tension between the two shows oh definitely all right but what i'm sorry what was the search history i searched for hair Demi Lovato's hair in 2012. It looked amazing then, but I was just

trying to tell if it was extensions because her hair looks so bad now, and I can say her because she's back to she-her instead of they. But her hair looks her whole look right now is terrible, so I just wanted to go back to the old days. And it was 2012 was the peak. She had like huge

extensions, dark brown hair with like a maroon highlight. and it was 2012 was the peak. She had like huge extensions dark brown hair with like a maroon highlight. Beautiful. Was that cool for the summer? No. Oh my god. 2012. Free Wilmer. It was with Wilmer. No it was unbroken. Unbroken.

I'm not a Demi Lovato historian liar well you guys can see the picture array behind me but the listeners can't so please just go with me on this

yeah you have the name Demetria tattooed on your bicep too that's beautiful. A lot of people don't know. It's a real name. Yeah, Skyscraper tattooed on his hand. What's something you guys think is overrated?

Carolina looks stumped, so let me jump in. No, no. I think data privacy is overrated. I completely completely agree with devon but i have my own because this is just like carolina carolina will famously go to a restaurant wait for me to order and then order the exact same thing and but and not even comment on it just as if she also wanted that right wow like not say i'll have the same but like order it like you haven't just ordered it she's just coming up with it this may have happened once and the only reason devon's mad is because she likes to eat everything and doesn't want us to get the same meal so she can

have a bite of whatever i'm having okay this is some early 2000s era insults um devon's just actually likes to eat everything no that's not what i meant i once took devon out to a dinner with will ferrell and she whispered to me before dinner started that she was nervous because it was we're eating tapa style and she was like i can't share so i had to announce at the table as if i were her mother like by the way devon's gonna get her own plate and she's gonna eat it by herself and devon just nodded silently and you're not allowed to look at her while she does so yeah exactly and also tapas tapas are overrated no offense to anyone wow but i think i think data privacy is overrated because think back to the days when you had to go to a store and human beings would come up to you, disgusting, obnoxious human beings would come up to you and say, why don't you try this? What do you think of that? Try this on. This would look good. What are you looking for? What are you shopping for today? And what our lack of data privacy has done has made it possible.

The Internet boom, when we didn't know that we were losing all our rights to privacy, made it possible for us to skip that step. Everything we want just gets shown to us. Right. Like the wedding singer when I don't know what to watch on a Saturday afternoon. And now people all just want to be like i want they're gonna take your alexa's listening to you first of all are you doing anything that anyone would even care about if not then you're just getting more convenience and what's the problem i like this like you sound like an ethicist who works at amazon it's like what's the fucking deal you get

this but so what we've mapped the interior of your home with a fucking roomba and you know made your life better right yeah i like that version like pushing you around like oh what you oh you care about data privacy now oh okay so you're gonna shop in the store i don't think so that's exactly how i feel say that about when you know how people cover their cameras on top of with like piece of tape they'll cover their cameras cover their whatever microphone i am always like i've never heard of that if someone and literally mark zuckerberg does it like you there's been a picture of him oh so people so a lot of normal people okay sounds good i use that sample because it's so common that it's so well known that they're insecure that even people who are super high tech do it. Yeah. And also, he has billions of dollars.

So he has a reason to worry about being hacked to blackmail. He does seem to actually watch his cookies. I accept all cookies because I... Can I actually get more cookies? Do you guys have an option for extra cookies? You could put a gun to my head and say, what are cookies? And I would say, just shoot me. Just end it, please.

Just get it over with. Also, very interesting gunman who's like, what are cookies? I know. What situation is this? I don't know. I don't know. Joke's on me, isn't it? Also, I'm like, if the NSA wants to watch me watch uh southern charm on my computer

while i'm spilling peanut butter on my chest and then eating it off my shirt that's on them that's their problem i don't need i'm not worried about it watch me do whatever what i think is overrated is any kind of food that you have to wait in line for. So once in a while, you'll be driving through restaurants anywhere and you'll see a line outside of a restaurant or a food truck. And your thought is that must be really good. My immediate thought is what suckers? Because you can walk down the street and you're waiting in line and thus your experience already sucks for whatever you're doing. So Stumptown Coffee in Newark 10 years ago, because, you know, like I'm a wise old lady, 10, 10, yeah, 10, 12 years ago in Newark, this was considered like incredible rare coffee.

People would wait down the street from the Ace Hotel. And I was like like i'm not going to wait in line for coffee what is that this my time matters i'm not gonna wait in line for i remember my friends once made me wait in line for um what's the burger place that's everywhere now devin smash burger shake shot what's your problem? Shake Shack. I remember when there was a line through Union Square and I waited on it for hours. I remember that too.

Now it's ridiculous. So there's no such food that is that good that I will wait for it. The croissant donuts that were in New York, that was a line. People would wake up at like 5 a.m. to get them. I enjoy good things i like food i'm not gonna wait in line for anything right for you it sounds for both of you sounds

like immediate gratification is definitely like number one sure do not delay and yes i don't fuck with delays even if they cost me my fucking privacy data privacy i actually think about it a lot when i'm getting lifts because uh you know a faster car sometimes costs more money and i think i have to think about it like okay would i rather wait 20 minutes or would i rather pay ten dollars more and be out of here right now just get away from this awkward conversation at this yeah i get away from my plastic surgeon's office so yeah yeah all right what's uh what's something you guys think is underrated okay i was Yeah, I get away from my plastic surgeon's office. So, yeah. Yeah.

All right. What's something you guys think is underrated? Okay. I was just reminded of something that I think is really underrated, which is me on Uber.com. Because my rating on Uber has been horrible for years. And just, okay, listeners, just when you think that's a red flag, it's not. Because I have a 5.0 rating on lyft meaning i'm a good person but i actually took an uber and the guy said wow your rating's so low but you actually seem like a good person i was like i am a good

actually like i am a good person what do you mean but i don't know where this comes from but i think it's actually i think it's actually the patriarchy because I think one person gave me a bad rating. I think this happened in Cleveland, Ohio in 2016 when I was there because the Ubers. I was there for the RNC, the Ubers, just to attend, by the way. No, I was working there. She was working at on... She's Mike Huckabee's assistant slash girlfriend. No, she was there to cover the daily show.

I feel like adding more context because Devin doesn't know. Okay, that's good. Yeah, yeah. Mom, thanks. That is helpful context. Devin's like, I mean, not to attend, to work there. To work there. To hand out pamphlets.

Yeah. To tell women what their abortion was going to look like. We're losing our christian nation and the christian babies i wanted to show women that their one uh one second old fetus uh already learned how to read right and that therefore their one second fetus was smarter than me drum roll please okay um no so i i was there and the ubers were so talkative like the people were so talkative that i just had to start being rude because i was like i just don't want to talk to this person about like what are you in town for what are you all doing here like i just couldn't do it and then

also like i kept canceling them because they would take so long because it was ohio i think so like i would be trying to get to work and they would be like circling the block it was 10 minutes away i just had to cancel so i think my my rating went down there okay then i start then i come back to my life in new york i start getting in the ubers and what are these ubers driven by men and what do they see low rating and then what do they see also a woman and they think oh she must be what's that four letter word a bitch that's what they thought i was i was gonna say another one and they exactly so they thought oh self-fulfilling prophecy you know what she's a bitch she probably doesn't even like be nice to men she's probably rejects me just like sarah swankins in middle school did i'm gonna give her a three star rating and it doesn't matter what i

do i'm so nice i, try to make conversation. You do smoke, though. You smoke in their cars with the windows up. I smoke cigars. A lot of details missing. And I eat onions. But aside from that, I'm really nice. Like an apple.

She eats Philly cheesesteaks at 9 a.m. On her way to work. Spilling it all over the place. With a tuna topper. So, I don't know what to do about this, but it is what it is. Yeah, I had a, like, low-ish rating. i don't know what i don't know what to do about this but it is what it is yeah i had a like lowish rating i don't know when we were first working together miles do you remember this i we would like didn't the driver say like yo your rating's low i i think so and also like we kept like i kept getting dropped like they would just cancel on me repeatedly and so i finally like checked my score and it was like in

the it wasn't that low but then from that point forward i've been like pressing like just stressed out by every interaction with an uber driver and like being too friendly which i think also isn't good i'm like yeah yeah so yeah i'm. On Uber, it's bad. It's bad for me. Fuck Uber. What about you, Caroline? We don't like Uber. I agree. I actually have a perfect Lyft rating.

One of the drivers said he had never seen one like mine. He laughed. He was like, you have a perfect rating. You must have hacked the app. He and I said, oh, really, do I? I think I'm just a polite person. I said, but you will not believe what my friend does in these cars. Yeah.

I'm at 4.88 on Uber now, by the way. So all the hard work paid off. What's up? Okay, it must be nice. And I won't be sharing mine on here because I have a reputation to protect. There you go. That's so true. Fair, fair.

Carolina, do you have an underrated or? My underrated is Never Have I Ever on Netflix. you have an underrated or my underrated is never have i ever on netflix that's not underrated it's like number three on the trending sorry definitely destroys my life you just okay talk about reputation you are first of all one to share mine she comes in she comes in with another scratch on the speakers she's like at this point we're just ignoring it i don't know what scratches you're talking about i know that's how we know you're the one who can't hear it you're the only one who's not wincing when they have all you it's been you it It's actually bad. I'm such a boomer. Okay, go ahead. Okay, so you were going to recommend Friends?

You were going to recommend Friends on a sitcom about a bunch of friends? I talk about tension. You can cut this with a knife. You think you're underrated? Me and a friendship. Yeah. Me as a friend. Me as a podcast guest.

Me as a friend me as a podcast guest me as a technological person who did you like between who did you like between ben and paxton ben you like ben paxton looks like he's 100 years old paxton is 31 years old the men that are cast on this show have need to go to see dr jessica woo and beverly hills who gives them my they need to not be cast in high school shit it's like when you look at like that guy darren barnett yeah yeah i'm like this motherfucker 31 and i'm like he looks like a guy who is like cruising a high school for exactly exactly oh man it's stressing me out this is the mindy kaling show yeah yeah yeah okay some people don't know it, Devin.

Oh, come on. When I say underrated, I want to get a little bit into this because I feel like someone attacked my character, as they say on the show Bachelorette. Right. She attacked my character. And when I say underrated, I mean that the show Schitt's Creek was rated very well. And it was rated just as I mean, it got awards, awards. awards right and I think that Never Have I Ever should be up there I think it's a classic right now I think a lot of the younger generation the Gen Zers when I think it should be a millennial even boomers I believe will like this show so you okay I I actually had lumped it in this is a helpful underrated for me i'd lumped it in with

like shows that i'm too old to watch and care about and like that it would be weird for me to watch never have i ever said i'm glad this is a beneficial experience i feel like the way you're saying that is to you know quit the tension that's developing between me and devin this is actually really good for me uh devin exactly i think we should just respect Carolina's picks. Exactly. If I can get the green square for one more second, just to say one last thing. I didn't know, and I'm taking note of,

the fact that the definition of underrated is actually as compared to Schitt's Creek. I wasn't aware. I thought she was going to say something, and then she turns up. She's the same Devin. Don't expect

me to change. I've already tried. Alright. We're going to let you just marinate on that one. We're just going to take a break, I guess. That seems like a Real Housewives tagline. From a woman who is like Elisa Bar like whoever whichever the the housewives almost gets arrested for fraud oh jen shaw that's jen shaw yeah jen shaw been arrested though all right let's take a quick

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I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically Black. I love her.

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Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore. The story of one strange and violent summer. This is Rip Current. Available now with new episodes every Thursday. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. police have been really good at dealing with criticism and historically yes historically have you did you guys watch we own the city no i watched the pilot and then i was like this is so heavy i classic classic white privilege thing to say i was like this is so heavy i have to put this aside for later i'll learn about this later it's it's based on it's a lot of same, like people being bad cops repeatedly, which is a criticism I heard.

I find it pretty entertaining. But like one of the big plot points is that after the Freddie Gray protests, the police just like stopped policing and stopped even leaving their squad cars like when they came to a crime. So that's that's one example of how they responded to... It reminds me of when the NYPD went on strike and crime went down. I was like, you're kidding. Right. The irony.

But yeah, I mean, like in Minneapolis specifically, you know, there was a lot of like attention on the Minneapolis Police Department because there was like a lot of calls of like defunding the police there. And people were like, yeah, there was a lot of momentum to that. But the biggest bite that was actually sort of taken out of their policing budget was

like about $8 million, despite what cop humpers across the political spectrum were saying. And the city also like eventually voted to like not reform the police department as like a department for public safety. So the blue line, you you know survived in that instance but by this year now like in 2022 their budgets are actually higher than they were pre-george floyd so all's well that ends well for them but there's like so there's like this mounting crisis with the the city because the police are basically just draining the fucking city budget with all their shit. So to start off, there's been an exodus of police officers who have left because their feelings were just hurt by the protests.

Nearly 300 officers. This is from this piece of Mother Jones saying that nearly 300 officers left the department since Floyd's murder. That's a third of the force. And 200 of them have left with workers comp settlement checks and lucrative disability pensions based on their claims that the policing at the protests of 2020 gave them PTSD. Hurt their feelings. And so now they are getting huge checks to not even fucking work anymore. And the city is estimated to pay about 35 million in these disability claims. Normal. And these like workers comp settlements like since 2020 continue yeah and and like and these are cops that have like

some of these cops have like extensive records of misconduct like leading to killings and just all kinds of just shitty behavior so this is slowly creating this like fiscal omni crisis and that's just sort of one dimension of it, because here's the other huge number. The city has paid out 111 million dollars in settlements to people that were fucking brutalized by the Minneapolis police in the first 15 days after George Floyd's murder. They're saying all the misconduct from the first to the 15th day in response to that murder has turned into $111 million in settlements. So city officials are now like kind of in a bind because on one hand, they're like, well, this is fucking too much. Like they're just taking off with all this money

for reasons like we're not totally aligned with. But also if they go to court and try and fight it, they could end up paying even more. So, you know, they're in a bit of a bind just being like, end up paying even more so you know they're in a bit of a bind just being like so we raise taxes and then cut back other programs to offset the cost of just having to deal with the police in our city it's just a very it's a very fucked up situation as you look at it because even if you you know as they even ideated around it turns out it's they like the cops basically play like a uno reverse card on the city right i would love to read a quick quote by miriam caba she's an amazing abolitionist and i think it goes into what you guys said but she said if we say anything about the impunity with which they harm people this is going to hurt their feelings and hurt feelings equals massive

crime it sounds ridiculous if you actually think about it but it is convincing to vast swaths of the country. What other profession do we say that because they have low morale, we have to suffer violence as a result? So it's this idea that like, we need to fucking get Blue Lives Matter tattooed on our bodies to show police their support or else someone's gonna murder us.

It's this crazy idea and it's completely mythical and i think it's also much more influenced hate to say it because i was a huge fan of the show and it got me through college dick wolf's law and order i think it's plagues the nation more than we even know and it's given us this collective story that they are here. They work all the time to solve crime when really they're just writing parking tickets. Yeah. Or killing people over a disputed $20 bill. Or, you know, like recently happened, pulling over a pregnant black mother with her children in the car and pulling their gun on her. her her entire pop culture like of you know my favorite pop culture was like 80s movies where like die hard was my favorite movie right most of my life i'm like that's just like a

no-nonsense cop who like is just there and using violence like at his own discretion and like yeah i mean the whole the whole thing is like built on that i'm like that i feel like that is a large part of like it's not necessarily even the bureaucratic stuff as much as it's just like how deeply ingrained culturally so much of this shit is that like our ideas around safety right this is something we talked about with our guest yesterday seth about like being able to break out of just like this sort of reflexive thinking where people hear most people say they hear defund the police. That means no police. That means violent dystopia.

And that's the only that's the only conclusion from that term, from that phrase, rather than can we sit down and actually understand what the root causes of crime was or crime are? You wonder why people who are wealthy typically aren't the ones shoplifting or stealing cars because they have the means to. These aren't they don't commit survival crime. A lot of time we're just being like, this is how people are surviving because they're excluded from the traditional economy. So that's what this looks like rather than, yo, man, they need fucking, you guns and shit and you know bigger trucks and all this other shit and we kind of fall in this absurd problem solving mode when really it seems like the thing is public safety how do we keep the public safe and who does that and there's probably there's so there's so much nuance to it

that not everything has to be responded to with aggro person that's armed to the fucking hill. Well, think about when you call the police. You don't call the police before violence has occurred. You don't call the police before property theft. You call the police after. How can we say then they prevent anything like that? just this weird backwards way of thinking about life in terms of punishment rather than a social network that gives people more options than to resort to petty theft or which is you know most of what the police are doing right now for instance there was something so it would be

funny if it wasn't so fucking tragic there was a picture of a black woman from a 7-eleven camera and the police released it saying she was wanted for stealing a slim jim the resources alone going into that are fucking ridiculous when a woman is stealing food yeah it makes me insane it makes me really sad and i think it's like the biggest this mold on our country i think that's like the biggest mold on our country. I think that's like the thing that when you feel that frustration is like really having to encourage people around you to be like the option isn't a dystopia not the version where cops are like solving certain crimes kinds of crime while also like supporting human beings to try and elevate them out of situations that cause them to do what you know the police call extra legal activity or whatever so i just think that if white children if white children of white people were being affected this way if a white 15 year old foster

child had been tased or shot this conversation would not be radical at all and the fact that it's radical just speaks directly to race and i i think you know when people were ever you know anyone with a working brain and heart was so horrified but what was going on in the summer of 2020 even though it's what goes on all the time. But the fact that when you mentioned abolition, people are defunding the police, people were acting like that was a radical reaction, meant that they were not looking at these people like their own. They were looking at these people like, not my problem. It's a thing that has to be corralled and controlled. Yeah. It's already a dystopia for someone, you know, for a dystopia for someone.

It's a normal reaction to someone saying like, yeah, this isn't a safe world. You know, this isn't a protection to me at all. Yeah. Mariam Kaba talks about abolition is not it is about building something rather than removing something it's about building social networks not about just removing one part of the country yeah which is our militarized police right we talk about alex karekatsan is i think another like kind of huge part of the edifice of like this pro-police like can't can't possibly imagine a reality without police is the way that the, like, local media especially, but, I mean, definitely the New York Times and, you know, national media as well, just use the police as an unquestioning, the only source on, like, most things. It's pretty fucking crazy.

So go follow Alec Karakatsanis. Oh, yeah. It's pretty fucking crazy. So go follow Eric, Alec Karakatsanis. He just spends all his time and energy just going one news story after another, just being like, all right, so here's another one. On top of all the legal work he does. Yeah. Yeah. And he's also like runs a huge fund that helps fight human caging. So there's another story that I think kind of reminded me of this problem. So it's completely different, but it's another one of these like institutions that is unquestionably

just given carte blanche to like do whatever the fuck it wants. And that's like corporations and just like corporations acting within a market. There is this article from over the weekend where the Wall Street Journal published the thing, Disney's new pricing magic, more profit from fewer park visitors. And they're just like amazed. speaking approvingly in economic terms about how the company has raised some prices and eliminated or started charging for other services and features that used to be free and calling it like pricing magic and that like the new york times as if mickey mouse was the one who came up with it genius and the new york times had another thing that was like, well, with Biden forgiving student debt, like colleges are just going to charge more because now they can just like bake in that $10,000 into the price and that money goes to them and they don't have to like worry. They don't have to worry about it basically and like that's just how they're like in both cases it's companies doing what is objectively like evil you know just like bad bad shit like taking advantage

of the of the pandemic to like discriminate against magic yeah like using the magic of the pandemic i'm sorry to discriminate against like the lower earning part of your consumer base. And then on the college front, it's like exacerbating a problem that we're already acknowledging is like a huge, massive problem in the country. But in both cases, it's not treated as like a normative thing. It's like they just treat it as like an objective fact that this is what corporations do. This is like smart business. And it's, I don't know, it's just very frustrating. And again, it feels like the sort of thing that we've just lost the ability to imagine, or I don't know, it's not like these damn people like we've lost our imagination.

It's that we've like never been given an opportunity to imagine anything other than a world that is ruled by corporations and, you know, market forces. No, they're definitely they're in charge of the narrative. I mean, you're talking about Disney, which is a storyteller, you know, like it sounds paranoid, but it's or, you know, like a conspiracy theory. But no, these are people who literally build the stories. It reminds me of Ivanka Trump saying that she knew more about working people than AOC and that she thought that that she knew that Americans want to work for their money. Right. And I was wild. that she knew that Americans want to work for their money. Right. And I was wild.

I was like, that is the craziest thing I've ever fucking heard. As if like the problem is like, I want to work more like a woman, you know, a mother of five who works at the Walmart cash register. Like actually her problem is that she hates tax cuts because she loves working there. Well,

I, I, Ivanka is, I actually have a bunch of ivanka quotes that i was gonna pull but it sounds like oh yeah what's today's quote yeah no no actually carolina's here we'll actually do it after they leave that's probably yeah i know she's one of my favorite american philosophers yeah she's incredible oh yeah the descartes there's Thoreau there's um Ivanka there's the Kushner yeah the Kush well Carolina Devin truly a pleasure having both of you on the Daily Zeitgeist I know you have to bounce a little bit early where can people find you follow you all that good stuff

uh again we want to blame our early absence on the comedian will ferrell yeah oh that's right we didn't blame we didn't blame him we didn't blame him up top monster famously cruel person a cruel person just kidding he's a truly an angel on earth yeah unbelievable he wore a t-shirt during the pandemic that said pay teachers more because he was getting pepped all the time outside of his house and you can please listen to us on true romance that is on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast and iheart radio it's production produced by iheart big money players will farrell's podcast network and funny story one of the first people we pitched it to was jack o'brien you are a co-host who um kicked us out of the room and he said that's disgusting no one's going to want to hear about your failures and romance so who's it going to be hosted by though that's what

i don't understand what are the two fellas you're going to bring in to uh yeah no i remember that too when you're like my life is actually stranger than if i even wrote it as fiction and that yeah that was enough i think for like this they got stories i guess yeah we do have okay so let me just please step in for a second carolina let me get my green square also you can follow us on instagram at true romance pod on twitter at true romance pod also i have a new instagram because i had to go through a breakup and then I had to delete my whole Instagram. It was really traumatic. Sorry to hear that. And so please follow me on at Devin underscore Hunter underscore Leary. It's the same thing as before,

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and we are doing act three. Yeah. Just the boys. Or it feels kind of like a lot of... The boys are back in town. Oh, shit. You're energized. It feels like...

Or like podcasts that do like an interview package and then they have raps on either side. They come back like, that was a great interview, huh? Yeah. That was fantastic. That was interesting. And one thing that Carolina said to me that I thought was so interesting before we started recording, that's like the NPR format of how they.

I thought it was fascinating that their dynamic felt that they were actually in conflict, but that was, it was just playful banter the whole time. The rest is just us analyzing the part that just happened is so NPR. That is a great show, though. Like, it's like listening to them talk about their dating lives is like better than any rom-com I've seen in a number of years. It's hard to compare. It has this very unique quality to it where you're like, they're not lying. And it's like Desus and Mero. It is.

What Desus and Mero was like, this is not bullshit. And I love hearing it. It's one of my favorite podcasts, even though it's on our network. It feels like I'm lying. But it is really good. All right. Let's talk about where MAGA is at. Where MAGA is at.

The MAGA freakouts continue. They will continue. There's a lot of, look, the latest thing was Donald Trump got a new lawyer who used to be the former Solicitor General in the state of Florida. If you followed anything, he filed this motion to have a special... What the fuck is it?

A special... Hold on. Motion? A special master. That's why I forgot it, because fuck that word. What? He was looking for a special master to oversee

the Mar-a-Lago document search review. Basically trying to sort things out that might be privileged information that isn't relevant. They filed this over two weeks after the raid had happened. The DOJ's like, we've already been through everything. Sure, go ahead.

And so they're like, ah, fuck! Like, we've got fucking nothing here. We're fucking two weeks So what the fuck? Sure. Go ahead. And so they're like, God, fuck. Nothing here. We're fucking two weeks behind on fucking everything. And then on top of it, the RNC is still like, we are not paying your fucking legal bills. That's on you. This has been the situation for the RNC has been saying that.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We can't fucking, you're not going to bleed us dry with your fucking money also they're also kind of concerned trump might just fuck off with all the money he's raised like for the republicans and then they'd be like that was for the fucking

elections he's like i don't give a fuck so look things are chaotic as usual but first up i just want to check in with some of the people in his orbit uh the first is bianca garcia maybe you've heard of her maybe you've seen her before she is the head of latinos for trump uh she is fucking pissed no longer for trump dude she's like this guy turned his back on christ um and she's coming at it as like a whole thing of like look at the chaos he's in more of like trying to be like you see what happens when you fuck with god kind of thing of like, look at the chaos he's in. More of like trying to be like, you see what happens when you fuck with God? Kind of thing of like, he stopped talking to us. He stopped trying to like, I've stopped seeing evangelicals go visit him.

So that's probably what's going on. So I just want to just want to play her clip because she's now basically saying like, it's a mess over there and it's a wrap for me. And we're going to a clip where she's being interviewed by Don Johnson. This is her basically being like, man, what Trump needs to do is get God back in his life. So because that's the X factor for all this MAGA stuff. The G was for God. Obviously, I'm doing something wrong. I need my spiritual leaders back in here.

Spiritual leaders need to come back in here. We need to figure this out. We need to pray. We need strategy. I don't know what else to do. You need to go in your prayer closet because let me tell you something. You don't want to put me in front of Trump. The first thing I'd say to him is, sir, first of all, I ain't even going to talk to you because you need to go in a prayer closet. You need to find a closet. You better

go get on your knees and you better pray and repent for whatever it is because you've offended the Lord. You were chosen to lead this country and you've offended him in some big way. And that's why you're not in the White House right now. It is interesting. She does seem to be like there's a guy on a split screen with her and somebody interviewing her and he appears to be a fantasy football expert.

He just couldn't look less like he belongs in this thing. Like a fantasy football expert on his way out to the club for the night wait what makes him i mean i just like that as a slur in general just to be like you fantasy football expert i don't know but he's got a pinstripe suit pinstripe jacket like his face and hair make me think fantasy football and his like unshavenness yeah pushed

back hair not yeah back quite but definitely pushed back. But my, you know, she's, she's been sort of, I think, really trying to connect this thing of like, he's, he's turned his back on evangelicals. Like we're feeling some type of way. This, this is why he's, he's not an office. So this is like the kind of stuff that's, there's like a lot of debate as to why is Trump experiencing this negative streak right now, I think is kind of what people are wrapping their heads around. Then there's Trump himself. He's having a fucking real normal one on Payless Twitter, aka Truth Social. On Tuesday morning, he was shitposting, shitposted like 60 times of all kinds of stuff. We're talking QAnon drops to fucking election theft memes, fucking 1984 memes where like, ironically, it's like, bro, in this meme, you are the fascist overlord based on like this George Orwell quote. I don't know if you're connecting, but I guess your listener or followers don't know about that either. Then even throwing out theories about January 6th that it was Antifa and the FBI who stormed the Capitol. that it was antifa and the fbi who stormed the capital so it's like the pace of it the stuff that he was like retruthing whatever the fuck it's called it was just all copium like it was

the kind of shit that he's like yeah see this person is saying this whacked out shit that that also helps me feel like i am not in the wrong and the sort of pace it which he was doing it it honestly felt like he really believed that if he reposts this bullshit enough it will somehow get him out of trouble right like by amplifying like being like you see this person even thinks it's orwellian incorrectly i mean this so like he he only really seems to be comfortable when he is in conflict this is as much conflict as he's ever been in and it feels like because like it not to i don't give a fuck i fine i'll psychoanalyze i'm like that that's fine he's pretty easy to psychoanalyze yeah we're not on fucking nbc news

yeah and he's pretty easy like he is a pathological narcissist who has always felt inadequate, won't let that inadequacy rise to the level of conscious thought. And so he is just desperately filling that sucking hole where self-esteem usually goes for other people with accomplishments and conflict and words. And this just feels like, I don't know, it's what he's always been. and this just feels like i don't know it's what he's always been like this is how he's always lived his life is just constantly arguing with people that he's the shit even though he you know is outwardly and evidently a con artist and so it's like this is not gonna stop until he's gone so like the like the worse it gets the more in his element he's going to be yeah and i think but this is why it's it's just sort of getting out of control though now because the republic like fox news wasn't they didn't say shit about his claim it's like that they

need to redo the election and proclaim him god king like they didn't even touch that shit because they're like this like it's bad in ben shapiro was even like they have to get rid of him the rnc cannot do this with trump like the democrats want him on the ballot right and and independents are splitting four democrats at a four to one rate because trump is on the ballot they have to get rid of him he's even being like logical about it now which is like yeah you can't even like the elect the electoral politics like it doesn't work but i'm sure he'll he'll come right back because i'm sure a plurality of MAGA people will be screaming at him but just to go on along with all that trump was calling for like these uprisings to continue like i don't we kind of touched on it

on the trending episode but he's telling the f FBI to fucking rise up now against the Department of Justice. He said on Truth Social, quote, one of the great agents and others in the FBI going to say we aren't going to take it anymore. Much as they did when James Comey read off a list of all crooked Hillary Clinton's crimes, only to say that no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute. The wonderful people of the FBI went absolutely nuts. So Comey had to backtrack and do a fake investigation in order to keep them at bay. I don't remember this, really. This was all in the lead up to the investigation. To the 2016 election?

2016, yeah, yeah. Comey first was like, man, there's nothing to see here. Then there was the Anthony Weiner laptop thing 11 days before the election. He said that was the time they reopened the investigation. here then there was like the anthony weiner laptop thing 11 days before the election he said they reopened the event that was the time they reopened the investigation like i don't remember the narrative that it was actually fbi rank and file who like caused that was that this is just maybe like what he's hearing or is that like a story that's been told if anything it was more like there were there was more to say that like people who were sympathetic to Rudy Giuliani were pushing for the reopening of the investigation to make it seem like there was

something there when ultimately Comey came back and was like after like look if there was a crime we could tell you what it was but it was just it's just more of like sloppiness versus like willfully taking sensitive documents away it's like she shouldn't have had a fucking email server, etc. So like we're having trouble finding a crime that aligns with that. We're like, yeah, we need to enforce this, which is sort of why that fizzled out. And I think that's why now, incorrectly, a lot of Republicans are saying, well, this was a thing about mishandling documents and she wasn't prosecuted. So therefore, the precedent is that you don't prosecute these like mishandled documents cases but they're not even comparable when you look at the statutes

that are involved so whatever that's that's just sort of like because also when you ask them plenty of people will you know hypothesize what trump may be doing with these documents right right heard it we're like we've remember there was in 2017 a cia asset had to be like fucking extracted very quickly because the kremlin was like looking for them the numbers are way up on cia assets like getting got yeah exactly yeah since he took office there's that they're like he could it could be this it could be nuclear stuff with hillary all they kept saying was she has these emails like they yeah nobody has like a specific go a step further but what's the fucking crime like what is it and i think that's

another thing that sort of shows the sort of difference in it is that they can only take their argument as close to well she had these emails right and and again i'm not trying to say like i'm siding with anyone but i'm like they're just on as an argument. This doesn't look right. So and if it wasn't getting worse for Trump, he's also telling people that he might sue Ron DeSantis for like fucking ripping off his whole style. Which is true. Ron DeSantis. It's interesting. how like one influential person can like influence unspoken like just weird things that like everybody is now doing a trump impression in very in small little ways like that make them feel

powerful like we saw we saw ted cruz trying to bite his like devil make hair like i don't give a fuck right attitude where he was like well i'm ted cruz and my pronouns are kiss my ass and but like he had his like body language ready to go and it just felt like it was just like yo i thought he's about to be like let's fucking go right after that punchline let's go but yeah he it's from this rolling stone article quote when trump has seen video clips of desantis speaking at public events over the past year and a half the former president has scornfully mocked the ascendant florida republican for appearing to imitate trump's body language movements and even at times speaking rhythm one of the other sources recalls trump joking at a

dinner uh that he ought to sue him for copyright infringement. OK, well, I used to think that DeSantis was a real threat to Trump. I do not think that anymore. I actually think that if Trump runs, which the only thing that's going to stop him is death, he's going to kick DeSantis. The only threat that he poses that he's probably not bound for any kind of legal trouble. Right. And that by virtue of that may just leave him at top of the pile yeah last man standing because his numbers were going up but the second the mar-a-lago thing happened everybody fell right back they're like yeah actually i'm fucking with trump again i'm fucking with trump again forgot about that we're victims we're victims forgot about that

god so i know it sounds like everything like hooray, everything's going well, but it isn't because Newsmax is doing their best to keep the fucking voter base motivated. Because that's been another huge thing is like we're going to get fucking rinsed in the midterms is what Republicans are saying to each other. Newsmax, the anchor there created like a mnemonic device to try and like keep viewers engaged and to like actually ignore all the Mar-a-Lago stuff, like trying to find a way to reconnect Newsmax viewers and the Republican base, like with their outrage to motivate them to vote. And I just want to play this because it's like fascist Sesame Street. And I'm just going to play this. This guy throws up a whole phrase and it breaks down like as a fucking mnemonic device. Focus on especially as the midterms approach. OK, wag Joe chaos Biden. All right, let's start. Wag stands for wag woke stuff, Afghanistan and gas prices. OK, let's not forget those things. We're not going to.

But remember, these are the issues, not Mar-a-Lago. Next. Wow. Okay. Not Mar-a-Lago. Wag Joe Chaos Biden. Got that, folks? Wag woke Afghanistan gas prices.

Who is he talking to? Like, this seems like a speech for like republican interns or something this is just like the foot soldiers this is so revealing that this is the way in which they're trying to do it too let's go jack we only got to one part let's go to joe damn joe mara joe what does that stand for jail uh justice department oppresses enemies. Thank you. This is happening long before Mar-a-Lago. People like Paul Manafort. Yes. The two people who just got busted for, I guess, reading Ashley Biden's diary.

Are you serious? Right? This is the stuff that Joe Biden's Justice Department is doing. So justice oppresses enemies. Next, chaos. What does the chaos stand for? Let's try crime. Hunter. Yeah, Hunter shenanigans. Next, chaos. What does the chaos stand for? Let's try crime. Hunter.

Yeah, Hunter shenanigans. The approval rating. Yeah, it's terrible. Obscenity and the supply chain. We know about this. What is obscenity? Obscenity for me is thrusting upon children. Talk about gender, transgender, all this hyper sexualization of children.

That should not be happening. And Joe, in large part, is responsible. He's doing nothing to push back. Who knows? Maybe he'll. OK, well, let's get to Biden because we got chaos. This is Biden borders. We have none.

Inflation, of course, disunity. Our energy is gone and no one respects us around the world everybody has like the so this is like a type of like for for whatever reason and like i've struggled with mental illness and i've been around a lot of people who struggle with mental illness and like this is a thing that people who are struggling love to do is the acronyms and be like energy good orderly energy uh direction n you know just like and like it doesn't totally make sense and sometimes they will claim that that's actually where the word comes from but yes it's a mess not a great time yeah it's so desperate that you've now in whatever newsroom said, clearly, right, if you do this, you can reverse engineer the discussion that was happened.

Because the thrust of this was we have to connect the fucking base to why they don't like Joe Biden. Because there are a lot of them are actually really worried about the student loan debt forgiveness. We're like that affects people that aren't just voting democrat and their talking points as they go on tv are being like these lazy fucking baristas with their basket weaving degrees and people are like hey asshole i'm not i'm i got a degree for whatever i'm not i'm not i don't fall like this is made up i got a degree to better myself and now you're telling me i'm a degenerate that isn't working well so they they're like we need something that is going to make them realize biden bad we don't like byron so now it's fucking wag woke afghanistan gas prices as like as much as msnbc like cnn like places like that have been in the bag for the

mainstream like democratic party like you can't possibly imagine them doing a infomercial like here are your talking points like training video like what that was that's wild oh jesus yeah so they're having a normal one damn man and i think it's just like they're still figuring out what to do like everyone's pulling in many different directions some republicans are silent others are going pedal to the metal defending him. Lindsey Graham. Yeah. And others are merely just coming up with good acronyms. All right. Well, miles,

as always such a pleasure working with you, where can people find you and what is the tweet you've been enjoying? Oh man, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray. Also check me out on miles and jack got mad boosties. Yeah. Yeah. That's a clever name.

And also for 20 days, fiance, some tweets that I like, oh man, out on miles and jack got mad boosties yeah with jack that's a clever name and also 420 day fiance some tweets that i like oh man there's some good ones uh first one well well well this is from at uh hexenbrenner2 h3xenbrenner2 tweeted well well well look who's come crawling back if it isn't my one-year-old son i accidentally left at the park brow at brow tweeting tweeted boss you have to take a drug test me knows all the drugs no problem and then uh brandon dale at a tweeted, me before having kids, I'm never going to lie to my children, me today to my toddler. They don't have hot dogs in Colorado. That really resonated with me. I've told many crazy lies.

I mean, is that why the fucking Odenkirk, I think you should leave ice cream, got doubles of everything sketch resonates so hard? Yeah, you tell like a lie that seems harmless, but then like the guy just like doubles triples down and like kids actually do that shit sometimes too where they'll just like follow the logic train on your ass and you're just like oh god damn it all right never mind let's see some tweets I've been enjoying is Sarah Lebow tweeted Madison is such a beautiful name for a square garden. I just appreciated that. And Human Aaron tweeted, Why are self-checkouts ever closed?

Am I on break? And then I had the Colorado one. 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? Oh, I think you're gonna enjoy this track. Wait. And I just lost it. Oh, yes. Okay. This is gonna be, we're gonna enjoy this track wait and i just lost it oh yes okay this is gonna be we're gonna go out on more pachiman i love pachiman p-a-c-h-y-m-a-n uh he's a artist

who plays like really dope reggae tracks but it sounds like they are like he's been rummaging through vinyl but that's him recording everything the tape playing all the instruments it's really good this is another track called Towards the Mountain, which I just like the title of that because it just reminds me of progress. Just keep the mountain in front of you, and if you walk towards it, you'll get there eventually. So, yeah, Pachima, Towards the Mountain. All right.

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