The Daily Zeitgeist - Racism COVID Spike, Zombies R Back? 3.8.21

Episode Date: March 8, 2021

In episode 826, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Tamara Yajia to discuss Greg Abbott's racist accusations while withholding testing funds, Joe Biden's relief bill, more info coming out about Andrew Cuomo, zombies in South Korea, the new USPS truck, and more!FOOTNOTES: With the pandemic far from over, Texas leaders blame immigrants for spreading the virus Texas Gov. Abbott stalled federal offer to test migrants then blamed them for spreading Covid Democrats Might Make Sane Political Decision, Move to Spare Millions of Americans From Surprise Tax Bills Biden's relief bill isn't getting bipartisan support like previous stimulus bills. What do Republicans dislike so much? 25-Year-Old Cuomo Accuser: Governor 'Was Trying to Sleep With Me' Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll Zombies are everywhere in South Korea, feeding on fears and anxieties Giving the USPS truck even more Pixar vibes US Postal Service's new mail truck delivers mixed bag of responses USPS unveils next-generation mail truck with electric drivetrain option Losing Bid for Postal Contract Proves Costly for Electric-Vehicle Maker WATCH: Tropa Magica - Come As You Are Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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a deep dive into america's shared consciousness it is monday uh march 8th 2021 2021. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I heard there was a tasty code. The color red the label showed. The carbonated caffeine goes right through ya. And it goes like this. The fourth, the fifth. You drink one more and that's the sixth. Now palpitations, jitters, and insomnia

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Two O's and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray with all your favorite tweets are gone

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And then I'm going to hit a bong. Thank you to Hannah Soltis, the one and only for that all-American rejects inspired AKA. Beautiful. And you did do the hand motion for hitting a bong. Yeah, I just had to. People couldn't appreciate that. You know, it's stagecraft. Yeah.

Maybe we can add a sound effect. Let's not, though. Theater of the mind. Miles, we are so lucky to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious, the talented Tam Yahia!

Sup? Sup? What's good hey guys good good I'm I'm great love to hear it so good to hear it's been I was like when are we gonna have Tam yeah it's been

is this only your second time on it's only my second but what a great first time it was such a wonderful experience to hang out with you guys and your beautiful faces oh you're so sweet or whatever there was something about farts or something you said off the rip but in like the moments that we met each other that first time and i was like yeah poco tam she's my people oh yeah it was miles you smell like farts oh she's so cool multiple farts uh

tam so this is the first time we're talking to you uh because the first time we recorded was in person yeah remember those days uh what what's new with you? What has your life been like in the last year? Good. Really good. I've been super productive. I wrote on a show. I sold a show. Damn.

Oh, congrats. Right? Isn't that amazing? Look at you. I mean, I'm not amazed. I'm not surprised because you are a super hilarious and talented writer. But that's great. That's hell yeah. I'm still like three years ago, I was working at a hospital, you know, so it's pretty wild for me. It's like imposter syndrome sets in constantly you know yeah don't let but now it's too late because you're there so you are no imposter you are no imposter you gotta embrace that no i have to like

act the part now and it's just like pretty i don't know oh i'm being is it is it that you have to act the part or that you have to let go of those critical voices in your head. That's it. It's not that you have to act differently. It's that you just have to change your mindset and ignore that fucking nonsense that's always been like, you sure? Could it be funnier? Is this the funniest thing? You know what I mean?

It's like, no, no, no. I'm done because I'm here and it's validated. So you are useless now. None of us are surprised, Tam. None of us are surprised. Yeah, hit me up. Hit me up. I'll do this.

I'll do this shit. I give this shit for free on the daily. You know what I mean? Yeah. Please. I was going to start therapy. I'll just save the money. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, save the money. Don't waste your money. Miles is great for this. I get at least an hour and a half of this every morning just to get out of bed. And it's me dragging jack out of bed um that's amazing are you how do you feel about the world opening back up do you have any trepidation about that eventually happening in the next year i really do i wish we could stay at an in between where we get all the perks of being at home and then all the perks of not being at home i think we should just take them i think i don't think

we should let people uh force us back into the before times when we felt pressured to go outside and that's my biggest worry is like you know miles doesn't go anywhere anymore because of the pandemic like he found that he could be a under rock dwelling podcaster and he's ticking all of his boxes uh need wise but yeah i don't know i like will you will you guys go back i mean you're you'll eventually go back to being in a studio but do you want to yeah on some level but also like i think of how much i've been able to like get a better balance of my time from not having to commute that i'm like i don't know i feel like everybody's done a good job learning how to just talk to each other over a microphone from very far away at this point.

But yeah. Yeah. It'll be nice to like go outside. I still I still notice myself like it being like a big event when I like break up just like your sensory input or like my sensory input. So that like I actually am not just seeing the same five things like the same five rooms only for my entire life. Right. But yeah, I will definitely not enjoy the extra time that's devoted to, you know, being in traffic or whatever. I started taking walks every morning, like,

and it's changed everything. I go to the park when there's no one around. I take my nose out of the mask and I breathe in fresh air. Get it in. So I recommend. Yeah, no walks for sure. And you'd like to Jack's point of like seeing the same four rooms every day, I'm telling you, just go

to a different supermarket. Go to a different... I'm serious. Just switch one weird thing or drive a different way to the same place you go or walk a different way to your park or whatever. It's these little things you try and do to kind of optimize the like different ways of stimulation you used to get from like driving and being like hey you motherfucker like screaming in your car because like we don't have that shit anymore so i'm trying to make up for that by

like walking down another place that my street that my dog doesn't like because the pit bulls always try and kill him but you know i just do a silly walk in between the same four rooms and that's what breaks it up for me it's silly walk day a river dance to the bathroom alright Tam we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're going to tell our listeners a couple of things that we're talking about we're going to talk our listeners a couple of the things that we're talking about uh we're going to talk about this greg abbott motherfucker uh just i i don't want to ever have to say his name again

but i guess we have to we're going to talk about uh the relief bill and some of the things some of the allowances that are being made uh that are pretty cool uh and i also want to talk about uh how the mainstream media i i checked out msn.com today guys oh god uh and it is uh it's wild they're they're doing the holding biden to a standard of bipartisanship uh that is pretty startling and seems disingenuous at best. We'll talk about Cuomo. We'll talk about Philly. We'll talk about the new postal trucks, maybe some zombies, all of that, plenty more.

But first, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? This one made me crack up because it was from last night and I don't remember it because I got super drunk. I googled mole cancer because I have this mole right here and I used to not have it. But it's like, what was i thinking was it gonna give me like a search on my particular scanning like a website where they're like well let me see let me see just mole can't not even like do moles like can they have cancer right yeah that was i guess

i black out and i uh where is that answer yeah or maybe you saw something about a mole the animal and heard about you know the cancer like cancer ridden moles and you're like oh god is there a foundation who what are we doing about mole cancer right oh my god wait and i have to tell you the one before that is anaconda curled up because I was this one that you're also finding out about this morning or, you know, this one was I remember it because I I wanted to I took a crap that looked like an anaconda that was, you know, curled up. And I wanted to send my friend a picture of the crap and i wasn't gonna do that because that's gross right so instead i sent him a picture of an

anaconda that's gross a picture of a turd i can't i have i have one friend who i won't name who he's shameless with uh the turd picks but it's always like a bit where he's like oh man do you uh you got any you know anybody that's a plumber and i'm like whoa what the fuck's going on and then hit me with like the wild shit pick or be like oh dude i just you know just it's always some stupid setup and then the worst shit pick. But I always laugh. And so it'll never stop. But I'm always like,

yeah, I didn't need to see this. Or like, sometimes I get the text and I'm around people who don't know me. And they'll be like, yo, this motherfucker looking at straight shit pics. But yeah, it's a dangerous game.

I had a long time ago when I worked at the hospital i sent my boss a picture by mistake like the tiniest turd that's actually yeah usually people send like big ones but like the tiniest is pretty yeah just like a little speck like a little pebble yeah like a little rabbit poop yeah yeah yeah that's whimsical you know what i mean versus like what you're saying is fucking coiled anaconda that's like i couldn't do that like i couldn't get to that level of taking a I couldn't do that.

Like I couldn't get to that level of taking a huge pick, huge pick. Yeah. Well, the other thing is like in, in poop taking culture, it's like, you got to take the photo before you wipe. You know what I mean?

Cause you don't want to sully the frame with the toilet paper. There's a lot of things you have to think of in shit, pick sending culture. I didn't think about that. And that's so true. Yeah. You can't, you can't cover it up with toilet paper or it's like yeah yeah you don't want it or you don't want to see used for whatever in

my i've done this before because i'm like oh he wants to battle huh with shit pics i got something for him get ready you thought i was john voight in anaconda the way i'm about to hit you with this pic but the i really have those moments like oh, that's too gross to see the used toilet paper versus the actual extra. Forget it. Right. That's true. That seems grosser somehow, even though that shouldn't be. It's excrement photo.

Right. It's like excrement on paper, though? Oh, no. That evokes too many things. What's wrong with us? It makes it real yeah right right right versus like something that was potentially an illustration subconscious i'm in tears well that's what that's what's happening anyway yeah shit photographers phone in uh do you sully

the frame how do you compose your poop pics because i look i just know like for dudes it's just a stupid thing we have as i've talked about this before as a kid uh like when i was six on uh christmas my dad got a camcorder the first video clip that's on there is me filming myself taking a shit and like other anecdotally my friends who have young sons like they one of one was like potty training at a like their friend their other little friend was over and the friend was like oh i want to watch him take a poo yeah he was just like all up in it being like oh so that's how you poo in the thing huh and they're like three but i'm like yeah there's something about this you know i'm we're on to something as people yeah my four-year-old is like it takes six

seven flushes to get his poops down because he's like so far up on the seat that it's just like in the front it's just a pile in the front it doesn't even hit the water in the front yeah pile up front yeah front piler yeah yeah front loader i've been doing. Yeah, front piler. Yeah, front loader. I've been doing a lot of front piling during COVID. Yeah. Not front, but the ones that just sit. Yeah, just sit there. Yeah. Yeah.

You look like you're in a gravel mill. Just coming off the belt, piling up. All right. coming off the belt piling up all right our our listeners this is the best since the blippy uh episode we spent like a half hour talking about blippy shitting on his friend's chest and his ass on his naked ass that's what it was naked ass that's right uh written in an article i love it buzzfeed shout out to buzzfeed uh tam what is something you think is overrated overrated linen sheets you know how they're in style now or whatever like organic linen sheets that cost so much like i got a pair and they gave me a chappy ass yeah oh really yeah they're burlap sack kind of yeah fuck linen i mean personally i like it in

the i've had it in the summer yeah shout out to my friend who allowed me to sample uh some sheets in sample i just mean gave me a pair that are a sheet set that wasn't being used, but it felt the first time was cool. I think just because it's so different than like the really smooth sheets were used to. So that little bit of texture, I think in the beginning is cool, but then like when you,

it's not as, it's not as cool. Like, I feel like it's not as cool. It, people describe it as cool, but like, because it's rough because there's texture there,

you don't get that. Like, but I think you and i are the same jack we run hot so i don't know what i don't know what we could have covering a mattress that wouldn't make me like this shit is too hot yeah i just need absorbent because i'm sweating through that shit one way or another. Cause. Towels. A sheet made of towel. What kind of sheet do you like? Well, you know, now I'm thinking about it after the story you told. Mine weren't good quality.

Mine were from Target. So I think mine were just like fake linen. And that's why they gave me a chappy ass. Okay. Do you like, before this, did you ever like the synthetic like uh like those you know straight up polyester like those synthetic ones that were like ridiculously soft but like so plastic that if you got a match nearly would melt yeah yeah i love them shits do you they come out of the sides and they piss me off oh yeah well i. Well, I mean, I think it's just a – Well, actually, now that I think about it, I have the same set microfiber.

Yes. Thank you, Superbruders. Santa Jose. Microfiber or like micro-sheen. Like a ShamWow? No, not like – No. That we clean our monitors with?

Yeah. No, but I think I had – You know what it is? I've had the same – I can't say sheet set Sheet set since like My college years and I remember Her Majesty wouldn't allow me to buy a newer version

Because like you already got your cheap ass Sheets that you like What are they, a t-shirt kind? They're like almost, but like It's in between like that one and like a Unitar you'd wear But like micro jersey, you know what I mean, it's in between like that one and like a unitard you'd wear. Yeah. But like micro jersey. You know what I mean?

Yeah. No, it's like a t-shirt. It's like they made my sheets out of a t-shirt, dude. It's amazing. So like you're naked, but it's also like what you'd wear anyway. Right. I love those, you know? Oh, yeah.

Like actually, those might be my favorite. Those jersey cotton sheets that are so bad. I mean, what's, I mean, at the end of the day, what's good or what's bad, you know,

like it's all about what we want on our skin. So if you want to, if you want the, if you want the pile of gauze to absorb your sweat, then do that. There he is making me feel better again. Yeah. What the fuck?

We're on the same page. Taking nasty shit pics. you know what i mean fucking imposter syndrome fucking i do like cheap sheets like they're they have all these like microfibers and like you know uh human created like poly blends and shit that it like will make it so if you spill water on your sheets like the water will just like fall right off and shit but like i feel like i feel like there's a direction they can go like the combination of you know we need a we need a steve jobs of sheets who can like just come up with the coolest most comfortable sheet like i i feel like right we're leaving it up to scientists and all they can do is be like, look,

it doesn't absorb water. But they don't bring the human aspect. We need somebody who is going to figure out the best, the coolest, the softest sheets possible. I love the idea of the water slipping

like not being absorbed. Then cum wouldn't be absorbed either right yeah it's great just have pebbles of cum sitting on your sheets until you wipe it off yeah beating everywhere on the sheets in different places because it's so it's so hydrophobic i'm always getting mad at my husband for for like staining our new sheets with cum and that would really solve the marital we should just say well if not then it's going to be back on top of garbage bags like it used to be that's right if you can't fuck like an adult we're fucking on those black construction bags again that's great okay uh and what is something you think is underrated

looking like shit is underrated like what's up with like on instagram like all these things to make you look better and stuff like i had a week last week of looking like shit and I was so fucking happy and giggly and it was just- Giggly? Like looking in the mirror like, ooh, I look like shit today? God damn.

Who's that? I just got this haircut, which is kind of a mullet which is cool when i like you know yeah it looks good that's punky i like it yeah but if i don't put product and stuff it just sticks straight up i look like eileen warnos type like. Wait, who's Eileen Wuornos again? Oh man, please. Charlize Theron played her in Monster. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

She looks a disaster. Give me the Wuornos. Yeah. Yeah. I looked like that for an entire week and that was my giggly week. And my husband was like, yeah, you know, you don't like, you're not trying but but you're happy like i can't look at you but but it was great it was my favorite week in a long time yeah uh it's empowering that's why i think yeah i mean i feel like i'm hoping that there's something about fashion that changes as a result of us like taking, you know, a year plus of not having to dress to impress that.

Like if there's another like a movement that comes out of it called like shit wave, like, oh, shit wave. I mean, that's what norm core is, isn't it? Like that's when I went to Berlin, it was like people try to look like shit right yeah but now i think it's gonna be like it's more it's like jazz baby like there's no rhyme or reason to it like you gotta come out just feeling playing your own comfort first yeah just out with a comforter around exactly yeah just wrapped around your head or like if it's raining you wear one of those translucent like uh bags your sheet sets come in just on top of your head like that's your umbrella you're like

oh man look at that shit wave umbrella you got uh i love you guys i mean are people are people to be wearing, like, uncomfortable clothes again? I can't imagine, like, wearing a, like, I mean, I guess there's still people who are wearing suits to work and shit right now. Which is insane. Yeah. Who wears, I don't know. I mean, is there, I mean, personally, is there anything that you've looked at your own clothing and said, you know what, now that i'm never wearing that again i don't think i have i dress so i dress so comfortably in general it's more like i'm only gonna wear like these three hoodies now forever not the uh not the scratchy hoodie yeah yeah exactly not long ago it was my sister's birthday and I don't know what happened to me but I bought her this like vinyl dress and when she opened it I saw it in her face and I said why the fuck did I buy

I was like you're never gonna wear that and she was like, you're never gonna wear that. And she was like, never. That's amazing. Like latex. Yeah. And the worst one, I also fought her to wear with the latex dress. This like heavy gold chain. You just have a very specific vision for your sister that she hasn't quite realized for herself yet i but like i feel that like when you're giving a gift like it's like watching a movie that you recommended with someone you can't fully appreciate like like you you start feeling like

insecure about it and like that's when you really have an idea of it like i feel like a gift i don't fully like understand how good or bad the gift is until the person's about to open it and then i'm like oh shit they're gonna fucking hate this just so nervous too we're like you're kind of putting it together at the zero hour you're like oh actually no fuck that oh man you're oh wait fuck that to your gift yeah yeah actually don't open it don't open it no it's it's so true though i got my friend we had a gift exchange for christmas and i got him a set of fraggle rock stuffed animals i I mean, that sounds good to me.

It does, but it's like he just moved into a new nice apartment and they were like large and it was all the Fraggle Rocks and I was like... You're going to need a room for this. Yeah, like what are you going to do? You're going to need a Fraggle room. That's amazing. They're bringing Fraggle room. That's amazing.

They're bringing Fraggle Rock back for, I think, HBO. Exciting times. I'm into it. Not into reboots, but this one I think they're going to do right. I think when they bring the Muppets back or the Fraggles, it's usually fine.

We're pro-Fraggle. We're pro-Fraggle over here. It's usually fine. Yeah. Yeah. Fine to go. We're pro-fraggle. Yeah. We're pro-fraggle over here. We're pro-gobble-fraggle here. All right. Let's take a quick break, and then we'll come back and talk about some bullshit.

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governor abbott every time you've relaxed mandates cases spiked without fail it's like it's almost like the mandates help keep the numbers down because of science and when you or forget it we're explaining too much to him anyway so you know i think one can only imagine what potentially hospitals could look like in a few weeks as people start like i've seen photos people already mask off bar hopping uh and it's an interesting site um but again before before the blame could get to him for his decision the real culprit is here we go quote the biden administration has been releasing immigrants in south texas that have been exposing texans to covid some of these people him that's a quote from him some of these people have been put on buses taking that covid to other states in the united states that is neanderthal type approach

to dealing with the covid situation end quote so racism is the defense again because they just want to go full you know it's the literal nazi finger pointing and that like it's the sick outsiders who are trying to sully our good state and nation and not because you know he's the governor um one other interesting thing about that for all the talk about immigrants first of all the infection rates are even lower for uh groups of migrants that they've released and have been testing because ngos have been testing because here's the other thing there has been uh dhs federal money that was earmarked for texas to conduct testing on migrants because of that's just covet protocol the thing is when he says oh they've just been releasing people what he doesn't tell you is that uh governor abbott has refused to release the federal funds that he has received to test migrants and just folded that into his narrative like oh yeah see like they're just

they're not testing them and then they're putting them on us and blah blah without saying i'm withholding the money right i'm the one not doing this and i'm not going to tell people either because i need this narrative to blame others rather than the decisions of myself as governor i could smash something i could i feel a rage a burning fucking rage and one weird thing i read today is michael moore tweet. I don't know if you guys saw it about this whole thing saying withhold vaccines from Texans, all of Texans because of this. Like, so it's just like every it's all infuriating. Yeah, people are are absolutely losing their sense of humanity here, like on every side, because it's like on one. People are like not knowing how to process their shit depending on your idea ideological bet right and now it's like well

this guy did it every texan punished um well no that's that's not that's not actually a good policy in general uh to lump people together as this monolith and on top of it too there's this other a lot of the experts are pointing out that, you know, I know we're talking about herd immunity and vaccines are coming out. And that's another thing that's coming, like working into the logic of reopening. But the efficacy trials, those are based on society's worlds where people are wearing masks, respecting social distancing. All of those figure into how those models play out. Not, oh, if you got this, let it rip. It's like, no, no, no.

Those efficacy numbers are based on other people also doing the right thing. So if you just do this, you're not going to see the same effectiveness or you'll probably just because we're seeing more cases and that allows the virus to mutate even more, people who could be vaccinated and also getting severe cases of covid themselves so it's there's nothing good about any of it yeah it's a it's and this is period yeah there was this article on the front page of msn where i get all my news uh and they just like aggregate shit from like usa today and this headline is biden covid stimulus bill why relief legislation is so partisan like basically asking like why aren't republicans

supporting this like it's just recovering politics like it's 1986 and like that the republican party hasn't you know outed itself as a complete death cult um it starts from the assumption that the republicans have like valid reasons for objecting to the relief bill and like not being able to get a single republican vote is like based on something and they they're like what happened biden like ran as the uniter in chief like just the idea that you would you would still treat like unity as a goal with the republican party when they are yeah they're just straight up like there's no good faith argument anymore yeah they're just being evil out in the open there's not one thing that they've there's not one counter proposal

that has made anyone be like oh that's an interesting way to help people it's all like oh that's a real creative way to fuck people over that's all it is and like even the way this article starts republican senators have described president joe Joe Biden's COVID-19 stimulus plan as a, quote, clunker, quote, bad politics and, quote, wildly expensive. Like, don't take that as being like those are good descriptions. That's just fucking lame ass cover for them to say they don't want to help fucking anyone. And are using these like, yeah, like this wonky terminology to just be like wildly expensive how about i'm fine you know knowing people will die without aid yeah if the bill makes it through this is a quote if the bill makes it through congress with only democratic support it would

stand out from the covet relief plans congress passed over the last year uh when it's like they're using the Republicans are using the humanity of the other side against them as a weapon. And this article is just like, I don't know why. I don't know what's going on with these Democrats. They can't get the Republicans on board. Yeah. Yeah. It's fucked up. And this is, again, when if you're someone who's not as engaged with the news and

then you let's say you just go oh what's what's this regular website i go to telling me they're going to if you're not thinking very critically you're going to be like oh man they just can't get along man like why can't the republicans meet with the democrats on this and vice versa versus being like republicans have shown themselves to be obstructionists of all progress for decades now this is part and parcel and that's an objective observation right but that's where things i think because by doing that people like it's so partisan now it's like well i think you've everyone's just kind of lost their ability to try and look at is this helping or harming and going from there versus left or right or red or blue yeah it's wild. I was reading an article about COVID

and it was like CNN or something like that. And the title was COVID vaccines cause symptoms of breast cancer. And it's like, that's the fucking title. So it's clickbait clearly because when you read the article, it says like it can basically it can if you get a mammogram like right after getting a vaccine, it kind of like replicates. But it doesn't it's not real. It just like replicates what the symptom, you know, exactly. I can't describe it well, but it's like it wasn't true.

And so a person will just scroll through that and be like well i'm not getting the vaccine right so like just for clickbait you know the way this was described yeah and one of the ways that like those uh article titles are generated is they'll like put 50 into 50 different titles for the same article into like an algorithm and then just see like which one is getting the most clicks uh and that will be the title that they go with and yeah so that's like i see that all the time with articles where the implication is something that's actually not in the article but clearly it is like the one of 20 uh article titles that was like getting the most heat, the most people to click on it.

And so, yeah, it's just engineered to make you click. It has nothing to do with conveying information. Almost as if capitalism is a, is a bad way to organize news. Huh? Almost as if,

I mean, I feel like miles, don't you have some sort of solution yeah miles what uh i mean look earlier i'm talking about whether or not you put used toilet paper in your shit picks um well let's start there and maybe build our way to how we correct the third estate um i don't know i mean honestly it's the the issue is just like we just have a real problem with the the people who are at the levers and the gates of mainstream media are just of an elite class who are unable to convey clearly what is happening uh from a perspective that isn't just intrinsically tied with like their existence of being elites, because it cannot, it can never be too critical or else it's like, it's like a

snail, like putting salt on themselves, you know, like it's just, it's not going to happen because I think to really report the news the way it could, it could, or should be right now, because they'd have to put the magnifying glass on themselves more. And since that isn't going to happen, just keep on with business as usual. And business as usual is like, look, now we just have to cater to two groups of consumers, consumers on the right and consumers on the left. And then those are the two versions of news. And yeah, it really helps no one in the end. And it forces people to start like searching on their own or others not to search at all.

And then just get caught into this like really lame narrative that the mainstream media puts out where like nothing can really change. And like, you shouldn't really be that angry too, because the tone of all these articles is like, I don't know, guys, like so much partisanship rather than like, look at the violent wealth inequality here and ways that we could tackle this as a country you know or yeah but that's too radical it honestly helps to hear someone just like break it down yeah sure it helps with my rage at least yeah i feel you i it is someone who deals in rage on a daily basis like it's hard to keep looking at this shit and be like when are we gonna figure it out when are people gonna figure it out but i mean i the hope that i do have is that it seems that we're further along uh with the sort of class consciousness that i didn't think was going to exist at this point but it's still like are we at that tipping point i mean i know

there's good signs about like amazon warehouses and like the unionization efforts starting to really kind of catch steam all over the place at a pace that even like i was like oh what are we gonna do um but yeah i don't it's we'll see i mean because if we keep having articles like this people are going to go to the polls in the midterms without any real sense of why the why the country is the way it is and they're going to be like fucking democrats biffed it right and then they're going to vote for fascists oh and i mean that's the shit that like democrats read is the mainstream media like that i feel like democrats and the mainstream media are inside the same like kind of worldview so they are So that's the poison that they're being fed.

It's like, we've got to be bipartisan. We've got to come around and get the Republicans on board. And it's like watching somebody whose dad is never going to... Who's just got the most toxic relationship with somebody and is just dying to get their approval. It's just never the most toxic relationship with somebody and it's just dying to get their approval it's just never never going to happen like by design they are withholding their approval there is one positive little sliver of news about the uh relief bill right stimulus democrats listened to something although my guys probably yeah and i mean like economists just just very

narrowly and i'll just because we could go through the whole bill and cry our eyes out. But the a lot of economists have been warning, hey, if you don't add some kind of tax relief measure to this next stimulus bill, millions of people are going to face like a real significant tax bill for the unemployment benefits they received in 2020. benefits they received in 2020. And they're like, well, we don't know. And they're like, hold on, you're going to force these people to pay taxes on top of being out of the job? This is ridiculous. Luckily, there is now a new provision being added that would forgive taxes on the first $10,200 of unemployment, which is better than actually forcing people to pay taxes on it. And also it would also keep the federal unemployment benefits at 300. Although most people were like, can we get four?

That doesn't seem like a lot more. And also extend the program through October 4th. I think the idea with the 300 is again, Joe Manchin's fucking dumb ass, the bell of the fuckery ball, uh, is able to fuck around and be like, well,

I don't know if I'll vote for it. And again, Democrats rolling over, I guess, so they can avoid having him side with Republicans in a floor vote. And yeah, so at least, uh,

they're, they've done that, but just keep building on momentum of like you know democrats here's a tip just keep front of mind help people that'll that's like that'll that'll get votes help what now help um never mind help people help uh people huh joe manchin's daughter is the one who's like a pharmaceutical exec right right? Oh, is it him? I believe so, yeah. What state is he from?

West Virginia. Yeah. I hate that guy's face so much. Yeah. And he's all, I mean, he himself is just an absolute scum lord as well. Like, it's just, he's

also been, he's had his own time uh doing all kinds of things but yeah it's this is again when we have situations where you have like like these dino type senators who are yeah democrats like when you're filling out your application but like what you're again you're voting with republicans on this because he wants to stay in office and that's just what it is so yeah she is the ceo of netherlands-based pharmaceutical company myelin this is just something that i in reading about michael tubbs the uh mayor of stockton who got the uh universal basic income experiment passed through and then lost his re-election,

even though he should have won it easily. It was just very frustrating. It's like anybody who is in power as a Democrat, like Michael Tubbs went to Stanford and is good friends with all these tech ceos and like joe mansion's daughter is like a ceo i just feel like there's this way that all the people in power for the democrats are insulated from the people you know they just have that uh joe biden happens to become the nominee and he's like the credit card company's

favorite politician of all time it's just like um that i that that seems to be just like the way that like when we talk about uh capitalism being an ai that protects itself i feel like that's one of the ways that a million different paper cuts get in there and find a way to make sure that these people are absorbing the ideology of, you know, that class of people protecting themselves and protecting their wealth. you know on some level like it's so intertwined with each other and yeah just by going just by knowing someone who is a ceo they're like all right well if you know a ceo then you can't then you're not you're not on some rah rah commie share fest bullshit right yeah just having dinner with a ceo is gonna make you you know you're gonna hear their point of view for sure all right let's take a another break and we'll be right back. In a galaxy far, far away.

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Great moment there. I was like, I will be on my mind. I was like, well, I just damn Daniel Baggett. Oh, Andrew Cuomo. Oh, Cuomo. Got it. Andrew Cuomo. Got it.

Wait, what is his name now? I feel crazy. It's damn Daniel Cuomo. also damn daniel is not a cool reference like not not not cool at all uh anyways uh one of his former aides charlotte bennett is accusing him of sexual harassment and and we're getting like a lot of detail and it's sexual harassment and and we're getting like a lot of detail and it's basically textbook grooming predator shit he first of all is like a rage monster around the office but then will be like very kind and sensitive to her and then when they were alone after like a year of him being like you know playing favorites and being really polite and nice to her he started asking her

about her sex life asked if she was monogamous asked if she'd ever had sex with an older man um and then he told her in a follow-up meeting that he's lonely and then when she was like well your daughters are around like trying to you know yeah yeah it doesn't take that message it's like yeah his response yeah but i want a girlfriend and then he had a follow-up meeting with her where he was like yeah how are we doing on the girlfriend front you find me a girlfriend um oh my god yeah and then another way that his aides are in the news a new york times report at the end of last week found uh that his aides literally rewrote a report to cover up 9 250 nursing home deaths at the beginning of the pandemic uh and the way he

and his uh team have tried to explain away the you know mischaracterization of the number of deaths and like high covering up deaths which never good when you're covering up a single death that's usually uh the behavior of someone who's uh not nailing it in the whole not killing people hey jacks how many how many deaths have you have to cover up uh definitely under 9 000 okay i would say cam would be my guess just one okay which is also like if you just look at it as just covering up just one death is like oh you're a murderer yeah right obviously uh it's weird because the numbers are so mind-blowing right exactly right okay i'm sorry but go on but um so they had always been like, yeah, but we were doing it because Trump wouldn't give us funding if he like found out the full numbers.

Well, this was happening well before the federal government was even talking about being involved or asking for state level data. It was omitted from reports being circulated within the state uh so that goes out the window and again these are people this is not uh could not there's no possible like explanation for this that like oh we didn't want people to panic these are people who are like hidden away from view who are dying while being hidden away from you and you're trying to hide their deaths from people like it's yeah just i mean like i think just a thought experiment imagine if andrew cuomo tried to cover up the fact that one of your loved ones died like that yeah right you know what i mean and you'd be like what the fuck is this mother and on, just a quick number crunch. You talk about even one, covering up one murder, one death,

is some wildly problematic, yeah, fucked up murderer type shit. Imagine if Andrew Cuomo had to cover up one death a day from this 9,250. He would be covering up a death every day for 25 years to get to that number. Yeah. That's exhausting but you do it in one go because it's all about being the fucking you know covid goat uh you know in the early part of the the pandemic um i watched his press conference this week and when he announced it i was like oh shit is he gonna resign and then obviously didn't resign. And I was like, I'm so stupid.

He didn't even talk about it. He didn't want to talk about it because there was an investigation going on and he was just like, oh, you know. Yeah, my lawyers told me I shouldn't even be saying this to you right now. But what do they know? I'm a lawyer too, uh charlotte bennett also

said that she felt like he became more emboldened once he became like started getting national attention for how well he was handling the covid thing and also he wrote a book about how well he was covering the covid thing uh doing the covid uh thing like while the pandemic was still happening which is one of all time all time dickhead uh moves well if you ask my mom she would say i love him oh really yeah well you know she's just like 60s, obviously like Democrat. And she's just like finds him to be super handsome and like doesn't do, you know, doesn't read more than, you know, and just loves it. Yeah. Yeah. I think when you just look at like because I think most people look at politicians as like movie characters that only exist in the reality of what they're saying in that moment on tv rather than like who is this andrew cuomo person right you know because i think and that's why people have these like really interesting parasocial relationships with politicians too because

like on some level it's like it's that thing that i like that i'm sure that on some level the politics maybe resonate with you that give you a connection but then on another it's like yo hold on these are let's not let's be real most of these people should not be in office if we're talking about running a country or state or municipality humanely um but yeah i think there was one person i felt like on twitter that was sort of like i'm sorry i was so regret just like standing you know cuomo at the beginning of the pandemic like in hindsight i realized just fucking stockholm syndrome right um right but yeah there was that whole wave of

people like oh my god the governor bay right i mean our whole our whole culture right now is designed to like you know build up like make people choose sides and then have like a figure head who's like our guy their guy's trump our guy's cuomo or fauci or you know whoever like that's just yeah i don't know i don't blame the people as much as you know it's a just a fuck no not at all but i think most people i've credit to someone who can like sort of look back and be like oh that's what yeah what was going on with me. And then, yeah, there are other people like I'm sure my mom, if I asked like, hey, what do you think? They're like, he's bad.

And I'm like, are you watching CNN? Yes. He does look like a actual movie villain. Like he would be a perfect. He looks like the if they photoshopped when Dorian puts the mask on in the mask to like, like less green and like, what do we think of his brother? Fredo.

Fredo. That's a racial slur. What is his name? I'm Chris. Christopher. Yeah. Christopher. He's a fucking hack too. Yeah. He's a frat fratty jackass. I, Christopher. He's a fucking hack, too.

Yeah, he's a fratty jackass. I'm sorry. The second you say calling me Fredo is a racial slur, I'm like, okay, I'm going to put you to the side, sir. Don't ever need to hear anything out your mouth again. If that's your critical thought in that moment is like, yo, referencing a Godfather character is like a racial slur, fam. Yeah. I'm like, oh, referencing a Godfather character is like a racial slur, fam. Yeah. I'm like, oh, how delicate your ego is, sir. Please tell us.

Please tell us critically. Report critically about what's happening in your brother's state. Yeah. But definitely a hottie, right? Well, that's. Yeah. My mom wants to suck and fuck him for sure. Oh, Mo. Chris Cuomo. mom wants to suck and fuck him for sure. Old Mo?

Chris Cuomo? I think she would both. Yeah, oh wow. Both bros. Are there only two brothers? I don't know. No, actually, yeah. Those videos of them fighting is my favorite thing ever, though.

Wait, of them fighting? About who loves their mother more, like on CNN. Oh, yeah. Oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah. You shut your mouth. I love our mother more. Yeah.

Oh, my God. Let's change gears and talk about, there was an article in the Herald Media last week about how zombie movies are taking over in Korea right now or have been, I guess, for the past couple of decades. And they're basically predicting that it's coming back in America. There's a remake of Train to Busan comingllywood that's going to they're predicting might kick off the next wave of zombie movies um which that we've talked before about how like when a republican is in office there's a uptick in zombie movies because zombies like just the mindless groaning hordes is how Democrats view the Republicans.

And then when there's a Democrat in office, there's an uptick in vampire movies because like Euro, like sexual accented deviance is how Republicans view Democrats. Um, but I feel like, I don't know. I feel like now that we are now that trump happened like all bets are off it's like we don't need a republican to be in office to be afraid of of the people around us i mean dude fucking the january 6th looked like fucking world war z in a

way you know what i mean we just saw this fucking flow of bodies just like what the fuck is going on here it's yeah actual zombies like all of like those viral videos of people like banging on doors like let me in without a mask or whatever like yeah right full-on zombies yeah i'm actually kind of surprised like this article made me surprised that zombie movies haven't like started blowing up even more like more haven't been coming out in the past like first of all it's just ahead of the game right always yeah because i've seen kingdom on netflix that series no yo this shit is dope it's like a It's like a period thriller piece where it's like old school Korea, but then there's zombies on top of that shit. That shit is wild. But yeah, check that out on Netflix.

I'm only through the first couple episodes. But yeah, there's something I think, yeah, that they're sensing something, clearly. I think, yeah, that they're sensing something clearly that, cause I feel like, yeah, the more we look at like our news, I'm also finding myself like interested in zombie content again. Yeah. Like I was like trying to like find this game. I just play left for dead where you, it's like four people fighting a bunch of zombies. I'm like, oh, that's just tight. And yeah, I think, cause I feel, yeah, there's on some level, there's like this feeling of like, is it me and a few other people and then a lot of nonsense around?

Right. Right. But also like they're starting to be so realistic, like the zombies in movies, like they seem so much like people that I feel like they're going to have to give them something like they're going to have to like start flying or something, you know? Right. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. them something like they're gonna have to like start flying or something you know right oh right yeah yeah yeah some other power that to differentiate them from real people the ability to cancel anyone oh my god don't go there miles oh my god on top of fearing that they're the four people fearing that they're gonna get eaten fearing that they're going to get eaten by zombies. They also fear that the zombies will cancel. Yeah. Like what's worse. They're like, no, but they might eat you. Like they can cancel you though. Well, hold on. That's, that's a less of a threat to you maybe.

Yeah. To you, but. Like there's only four of us left. Yeah. Still, still. Like there's only four of us left. Still, still. Well, I'm not going to wear this Blue Lives Matter shirt around them because I don't know what's going to happen. What?

They might tell their others. I don't know. You don't know. Oh, my God. Well, let's get work. Let's start working on this. Yeah, I think it's funnier. I think it's funnier to just sort of lambast liberal politics with this, then it would be the other way.

I think it's just way, in my mind, there's way more, there's, there's way more to mine through like liberal thinking than just being like, we get it. It's ignorance or whatever. This like high, like a high minded idiot zombie who's going to cancel you.

It's like, what the fuck? Get out of my face. Yeah. And just the we're all ground into mindless automatons by by capitalism so that's how we'll bring the country together through our zombie show that makes fun of liberals that liberals

like oh yeah there's something there and then for people like on their rights like yeah fuck yeah this shit's fucking great I like that you even added a little bit of chaw into the person's mouth who you were just impersonating a fucking horseshoe down here uh all right let's talk about the new postal trucks before we go uh i didn't even know we were i didn't know they were being redesigned let alone being redesigned by pixar but these things look adorable uh they're they've got like they don't look like

normal cars they i don't know it looks like a cartoon or like yeah something out of a pixar movie yeah they look like ducks they look like like a doll duck. Yeah, yeah. Like big old windshield. And then like just a little front part. I think they're being some of the ones that were proposed. So they did the open competition, open pitch sesh where like people could pitch different models. pitch uh different models and there was uh one company that pitched like basically making the whole fleet electric and of course the usps did not go with that one we will be 10 electric uh starting in the year 2023 let's just edge let's just edge you know combating combating climate

change edge isn't the goal like all the way like what we have to get rid of these like a couple years after they're put into circulation because aren't there like laws being put into place there will be like some kind of federal mandate about like what the makeup is of the fleet or whatever but you know that's all that takes is some other fucking just loser to come in and be like, fuck that. All gas, everything. Fuck the last guy. Like, it's just I mean, I'd hope we can maintain that course, but shit can change so easily.

Yeah. I would be embarrassed to be seen in one of those cute little trucks. Yeah. Or maybe I would embrace it. Is there like what's the idea? Like they had to do it because what? Because they used to be in those nasty box Jeep type. Yeah. Or maybe I would embrace it. Is there like, what's the idea? Like they had to do it. Cause what? Cause they used to be in those nasty box Jeep type.

Yeah. So those things don't have air conditioning, don't have like any rear, like are just a death trap and like incredibly dangerous for anybody around them because you can't see behind the mail truck at all. So that's the idea behind that. And I think one of them caught on fire just spontaneously. Nice.

Which I don't think they're supposed to do. No. Yeah. So that's why they were getting rid of them. Those things already look like they should be like from the 1960s like right they're all like straight lines and corners and shit um yeah they look like if you just touch it it would cut you right yeah exactly yeah a lot of sharp corners and it's true like now that you say that because i feel like every time my uh mail carrier like in my neighborhood growing up

because in the valley shit is hot as fuck like in the summer my my idea my memories of uh the mail carrier is coming out that truck and she looked she was just drip she's like my god yeah fucking truck and then you see like the the seat looked like it's had a bunch of springs shooting out of it and stuff like oh my god what the yeah i don't know what they're doing with those old things but they're gonna give somebody tetanus the oh yeah like once they're out of circulation like whatever yard they put them in are these new trucks like objectively better though like yeah i mean they're definitely better but they're of the ones they could have gone with there was a kind of young upstart called Workhorse that was specifically pitching electric trucks for the entire USPS field.

And then this company, Oshkosh, and their trucks are equipped with either fuel-efficient gasoline engines or electric batteries. And they went with Oshkosh, baby. Because, yeah. Why not? They claim the cost of the electric would have been three or four extra billion dollars, but we know...

We don't have that here. Right. And also, we need every billion we can get for our killing machine, Pentagon, as much. We have to keep feeding it billions because I don't know where that goes, but cool. Just a couple billion and you could do this other thing. Well, you know, good luck to that truck. It's only a matter of time till the kids start doing graffiti on it like we did the old ones. I mean, any country that wanted to attack us, if they just looked at what we do with our infrastructure, like the shit that happened in Texas, the shit that happened in the capital. It doesn't matter how much we say we have billions in like defense. Yeah, exactly. We look and we look like shit.

You know, I would be like, attack know i would be like attack we'll be great we'll win it's art i don't know where we're almost like please attack to like sort of validate that this country is worth attacking again oh the guy's like nah man have you seen what the fuck happened over there like that somebody fucked that place over yeah like attack there uh tim it has been such a pleasure having you uh on The Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you and follow you? I'm on Twitter at danceswithtammy's, the worst fucking name. I think we had this conversation before.

Incorrect. Great name. Thank you. And I am tamyahia on Instagram. Awesome. And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh, man, I saw the funniest thing. Space Jam, this is by Pixelated Boat.

Space Jam director reworks Elmer Fudd to be less sexual in reboot, says. End of Fudd's enormous penis will no longer hang out of his basketball short because they're making Lola bunny less hot yeah yeah yeah if anybody hasn't seen that is it little donnie the ucb uh special oh yeah for matt bester has like just criminally long penis that hangs out of his shorts and it's like the little donnie foundation. Yeah. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? It's like a scene where he's painting.

His penis is getting in the paint. Wait, what is this? This is my friend Tuvok, and his dick's just dragging in the paint while he's trying to paint on an easel. It's a half hour long one joke sketch that is the last episode of season one of the Comedy Central Upright Citizens Brigade series. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's fucking it's absurd. Just so fuck that whole anyway. Yeah.

Who is that? What is that? Me? You ask me? You, you, you, you. Yes, sir. Oh, shit. Yeah, find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey.

Also on the fucking PlayStation Network. Also Miles of Grey. Hit me up there. Also Twitch and the other podcast, 420 Day Fiance. We're talking 90 Day. If you like that show, come check us out over there. Some tweets that I like. This one is from Camilla Blackett at Camillard tweeting.

Okay, so we gaslit men into baking bread by making it a competitive arts and craft. Nice. Very successful. Now on to phase two. I'm thinking artisanal ironing and small batch. Tell me how much you earn. artisanal ironing and small batch. Tell me how much you earn.

And then another one is from Olivia Messer at Olivia Messer. Just says, tell me a man wrote this article without telling me a man wrote this article. And it's a little excerpt. And I will read this excerpt for you here. Deep fried Oreos are the Megan Fox of deep fried products at the rodeo. At once decadent and comely, they are in the end filthy and shameful. Oh my God. Hell yeah.

Was that in Maxim? What the fuck was that? It makes my skin crawl. Is this 06? Holy shit. A tweet I've been enjoying. Trash Jones tweeted, me as a lawyer. So true, your honor.

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 today, as well as the song that Miles recommends. Miles, what is today's recommendation?

Oh, man. We are going to do this cover of some Nirvana, but like but with the cumbia you know what i mean just some vibes some vibrations so this is there's a band from east la uh called uh tropa and they do like their third sick ass band shout out to east east los um and yeah they have a song baby ven como eres come as you are uh but the cumbia version and this shit fucking go. So get that shit wherever you can find it. And if you like Nirvana, you're going to love it. If you don't even know what cumbia is, you fucking start bumping it.

Because this is what you want to start your week. The best. I had a cumbia band playing at my wedding. Hell yeah. Yeah, it was the best. Argentinian cumbia, which is like a kind of different style.

Okay. Hell yeah. So yeah. So for all the fans of all types of music, this is just a great Venn diagram where the overlap is just solid music.

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